skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irony of banning the phrase, "From the river to the sea" is that in almost every Israeli school, there are maps on the wall that show Israel extending from the river to the sea.[0]

Greater Israel, extending from the river to the sea, with the Palestinians as stateless people with no rights, is a de facto reality, and has been for 56 years now.

0. This is a typical map. The only indication that there is any Palestinian territory at all is that the tiny "Area A" regions are in a different color. East Jerusalem and the vast majority of the West Bank are simply shown as belonging to Israel. https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-9fb3beb756529713386cc...
Remember to use code words next time, this is getting flagged.
Every company out there, from the smallest to the Fortune top-500 ones, could utilize a language model. You can use it for pretty much everything: marketing, sales, data analysis, customer support, market research, product development— you name it. Given a few years, it will become clearer what it can be used for, and their revenues could reach dozens of billions. Meanwhile, if they can manufacture their own chips, which is evidently their goal considering the significant investment, they could leave their competitors years behind.
In German, we use "sie" the German equivalent of "they".

Thus, to be polite, you address someone as many people that aren't part of the conversation.
As a bystander, what would the reasoning be for doing this? I would have assumed that they'd hash each file and use that as a key in a lookup table.
TikTok is not available in China, there is a different version under a different name with different content rules.
Second person pronouns are so fascinating!

Not only is "you" the formal, polite plural form, but calling someone "thou" was also seen as so informal as to be rude (in verb form, to "thou" someone). This has a modern equivalent in the term "tutoyer" in French.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/thou

An interesting counterpoint is the usage in Japanese of sarcastically polite forms like お前 and 貴様, where you use a pronoun with a surface meaning of extreme respect, as a form of insult.
My question is, what do you count as "doing"?

Imagine I win the lottery and hire really smart architects and tell them to make a revolutionary new building. They go on to make some amazing building that gets all sorts of awards and recognition. Is anyone really so naive as to suggest that I am deserving of any credit whatsoever? In the words of Urkel, "Did I do that?"

There are some leaders in the tech world who have clearly done something. John Carmack did something. Steve Wozniak did something. There are some questionable cases as well. As far as Altman goes, I put him firmly in the same camp as Musk. They haven't done jack shit. I give them no respect, recognition, or credit. They were just wealthy people spending money. I seriously question the people who look at them positively in any way whatsoever.
Well according to the article the entire firmware flashing process does happen over USB. The website is just a JS executable that uses WebUSB API to perform the flashing process via a browser.

As is also mentioned in the article, the author reverse engineered the site, and create a python script capable to performing the flashing process via standard OS APIs.

Really the flashing site isn’t really “a site”. It’s a hosted executable written in JS that pretty much runs entirely locally, apart from the bit where it downloads the new firmware to be flashed. It should be possible to extract the JS itself, plus firmware blobs, and run that completely offline for as long as browsers support WebUSB. Or you do what the author did and create a Python equivalent.
They’re both bad but foreign propaganda is worse.
I’m too far removed to be able to expand with much authority at the moment unfortunately. That said the notes and readings on this site should be helpful: https://introcontrol.mit.edu/fall21/extras
It isnt hateful in isolation. It could be hateful, it could also just represent a statement of solidarity with Palestinians or support for a two state solution.
I always have some game to play. Usually it's some multiplayer FPS shooter and doesn't require long term commitment or investment (CsGo2, Apex Legends, 20min matches). I'm in my mid 30s, but I'm still quite good at those games, so I have some passion for them, but I mostly play them as a method to disconnect my mind from work. When I'm not coding much at work, doing some ops stuff or whatever etc, games get replaced by coding at home, because it's just like wanting to go to a bathroom, it has to come out at some point. I sometimes even combine the two, recently started RE'ing or modding my childhood games, which is quite awesome as I picked up new skills along the way.

My other half on the other hand, has no such interests, and thinks that I'm wasting my life away, while sitting on the couch watching netflix.
This to me is intrusive and creepy. Glad I can block Hotjar easily and do not wish to have to check for self-hosted scripts doing it.
That’s more indicative of their relationship to power (largely subservient) than anything to do with the accuracy of their reporting or integrity.
Not the parent but I take it to mean speaking directly to the child versus the child being in the same room as people who are talking.
Brilliant and high agency people don’t shill for big companies. I am not trying to be a dick but agency == honesty.
Nuclear Power Comeback Update: Poland Authorizes Small Modular Reactors [video]
That seems like it would be a lot of duplication of effort. A vector format that also has its own raster codec (and having to deal with compression, different metadata, etc?). Seems like the worst of both worlds, vs just using Canvas to output programmable rasters. Different implementations/browsers already have enough trouble outputting SVG as it is, making it even more complex/powerful would be counterproductive, I think...

There are also specialist tools for dealing with web raster layers, like in GIS: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/raster.html

This just shouldn't be a job for SVG, IMO.
It is not the frontpage by definition anymore, if one has to click "next" ..
My read - wildly successful business person, bad human being. So long as SV values what you do over how you got there (with criminal conduct being the obvious red line in how), Sam A and Steve Jobs types will continue to rise generation after generation.
Between 1Blocker, consent-o-matic, and Lockdown Mode, I didn’t have any issues. I checked and lockdown mode isn’t the cause of the good experience this time, so it must be one of the extensions.
Nuclear is a bad idea, period. There are less than 20 new reactors in planning in the entire western world and their cost and timeline overruns show that nuclear is a losing ticket.

The quicker we transition to renewable + battery, the better. I am sorry that Germans (or should we say Putin's war?) caused higher prices for Swedes, but all studies I have seen show great benefits of the European unified grid for consumer prices.
I just have shorter price intervals - hourly instead of quarterly. What do you think should come of that?
Biodiversity does not directly benefit everyone, while global trade does.

Global trade killed bananas? Without it you would not know bananas exists.

Would you rather ban all unprocessed food imports and eat only local fruits and vegetables? Limited by season, soil, water and probably overpriced
That’s, wow, that’s exactly what all this is. Cults.

People obsessed with “X but in Y”, or “only use Z language everywhere” are just cult members.
You are showing terms of use, not an employement contract. The terms of use make it a condition on users to not use the OpenAI (for example) output to build services that compete with other OpenAI products. It does not prevent you from competing with OpenAI - only from competing BY using its own output in your competing product's training (just an example). You can even use OpenAI AND compete.
I like that. I'm in favor of a calendar that works that way. The spring equinox does make a lot of sense. It's when plants start growing again where most people live in the northern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere seasons being the opposite of the north actually makes an equinox more equitable choice for a global calendar start/end point than a solstice.
why is this not a james bond plot
Why lie? The author wrote nothing of the sort.
I have theory that folks who have established profiles and settings and following underestimate what it takes to go from zero to useful from scratch now as far as curation goes.
As a whole big companies don't. In my experience, unless the company has a skunkworks or a guerrilla team on something emergent you aren't going to find the culture that fosters innovative things with commitment. Problem is at some point (usually when something viable comes out) those teams get cannibalized or subsumed by management.
The best solution to TikTok would seem to be for the responsible parties, such as Google and Apple, to add a warning message to apps believed to be controlled by governments. The same way Google already does with YouTube channels.

And for journalists and the government to investigate suspected ties and announce their findings loudly, so that people can make an informed choice.

But actually banning the app, even though it would be a good thing for users, seems like a fraught choice for a free country.
That's bad too
People originally regarded spring as the start of a new cycle, and that comes a bit later. Like when the snow melts, frost thaws and new plants start shooting up. The first month was originally March. The names September, October, November and December refer to the seventh, eight, ninth and tenth months.
I told Bing to stop hallucinating. It got upset, told me to come back when I am ready to talk, and hung up. True story!
There are US services like Google's Voice, TextFree and TextPlus that has unlimited text messages, I used to use it before with friends without having cell networks for a few years.
TY. I might have to give them a spin again.
In the case of the Remote Execution/Cache API used by Bazel among others[1] at least, it's a bit more detailed. There's an "ActionCache" and an actual content-addressed cache that just stores blobs ("ContentAddressableStorage"). When you run a `gcc -O2 foo.c -o foo.o` command (locally or remotely; doesn't matter), you upload an "Action" into the action cache, which basically said "This command was run. As a result it had this stderr, stdout, error code, and these input files read and output files written." The input and output files are referenced by the hash of their contents, in this case, and they get uploaded into the CAS system.

Most importantly you can look up an action in the ActionCache without actually running it, provided you have the inputs at hand. So now when another person comes by and runs the same build command, they say "Has this Action, with these inputs, been run before?" and the server can say "Yes, and the output is a file identified by hash XYZ" where XYZ is the hash of foo.o, so you can just instantly download it from the CAS.

So there are a few more moving parts to make it all work. But the system really is ultimately content-addressed, for the most part.

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/remote-apis/blob/main/build/ba...
Shipmate is used to describe someone who you crew a ship with, such as in the navy, and is supposed to convey comradery.
E xcept in its real world use, where its the social equivalent of referring to someone as "s**head".
For anyone wanting to kick the tires on this be aware that

> • To trigger an update, modify the editor to the left.

is just false. If you want to see it in action, select everything below, but excluding, the "---" and paste in one of the two examples from https://github.com/tidyparse/tidyparse#usage (the good or bad one to see each outcome)

Merely editing the textarea using your regular old hands and keyboard does nothing and makes the demo appear like it's broken or that the viewer is not groking the novelty of what's being shown
Or to see how difficult it is, which is not difficult at all. Hitting the ground of course is trivial, but you can probably hit a skyscraper the first time you boot up a flight sim. It's hard to imagine anyone doing much "training" specifically for that.
There's one in every crowd.
Because hotjar and other such things are incredibly invasive?
Sometimes I think this concept is depressing because it increases the pressure to "do something" with your life. When you are presented with the finiteness of your life you feel pressure to fill each moment/cell with something "meaningful" or "worthwhile". When someone is enjoying a hobby they will lose track of time yet that hobby may be frivolous in the eyes of someone else. Do they want something like this to track how much time they "wasted"? To me there is this paradox of losing your sense of time with something you are passionate about (building a model, doing some hobby programming) and yet in trying to track it for some purpose of maximal utility will kill the passion.

[Edit] This post on the same page is related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741982
no way i won't live till 22° century T.T
You need to understand that the U.S. does not own the whole world and there are other countries besides the U.S. I know it may be shocking for you to hear, but those other countries have drawn the "freedom of speech line" differently than the U.S. Calling Muhammad a pedophile (even if factually correct) is not legal in many parts of the world. Because, as I said, it is faceless bureaucrats who are drawing the line on what can be said and what can't. And that's not a good thing. Why do you place so much faith in faceless bureaucrats?
Not sure why they’re reaching for SVG, but I don’t think there’s a built-in solution. This would be fairly simple to do by rendering to a canvas, and then doing the pixelation in JavaScript (or maybe WebGL). This would be expensive and won’t be super performant, so best as a one-time thing on static content, not something you want to do on top of an animated page.
I think that's a fair statement. Manipulative leader bends reality to achieve results, perpetuating a culture where we have self fulfilling prophecies.
Not having Windows as a dependency was almost like optimizing for future proofing and longevity, ironically. If Stadia were to last longer, so could the games that were made available on it. The game launcher experience was fully in their control to innovate on.

GeForce Now has Windows and various game stores as hard dependencies, which feels like in theory optimizing for the short term and limits how smooth the user experience can be made. But in practice it works fine, and the reduced overhead for individual games maybe is better at least for medium term too.
Pretty much acts like an enemy state since the 60s but maybe we are all hallucinating for decades.
Reposting my comment from the previous discussion that didn't get quite so active: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38736001

Their methodology (comparing hashtag counts) does not make sense for detecting whether content is systematically promoted and demoted to fit some agenda. I can make one video, have it artificially promoted to reach a million viewers, and that's a hashtag increment of 1. Or I can make ten videos that are all unfairly demoted and therefore barely get any views, and that's a hashtag increment of 10.

The discrepancy for Kashmir-related hashtags makes me think there are a lot of Pakistanis on TikTok who never use Instagram...
I hope OpenAI is going to build out custom chips. If you’re gonna raise that much money, better raise the petaflops/$/watt ceiling.

It’d be very said if those billions went into GPT-5 with a tiny increment to GPT-4 capabilities.

LLMs are also hyped. I hope we’re searching for newer architectures.
An almost next-gen dashboard with TypeScript integration
Dutch is similar with “U” being both singular and plural. Verb conjugation is the same for both cases.

This has been interesting as an English speaker learning Dutch! Luckily I never really latched on to sms-speak but I can imagine some cohorts of English speakers have to break the habit of reading “u” as shorthand for the the full word.
It's a cultural problem. Google fails to follow through after the initial shiny has worn off. In Google, you are rewarded for shipping not maintaining. That's why they have a gorillion messaging apps instead of one really good one. They weren't willing to commit the engineering time to implement those features because the interest wasn't there.
Am 62 and have a large Meccano set in storage. All metal pieces, no plastic, and no "kits", just booklets of projects you could build from a simple cart to a huge gantry crane. Looks like the 'new' Meccano is basically an assembly kit for a pre-designed model. Pish posh lol.

Fascinated by that toy growing up, I credit it to a large part with having a very good grasp of basic engineering. Levers, pulleys, wheels, axles, gear ratios, bracing, structural integrity, load dynamics... all learned by doing while still in elementary school. There aren't many toys that can teach those skills on a screen, not like building and testing actual equipment.

I will pass it on down to one of my grandkids some day and hope they grow up loving engineering and creating mechanical dreams like I did.
Who is making those batteries? Iron melts at 1500°C.
Ah, the duality! as some Advaitins would say ;)
Steve Jobs was a massive piece of shit; not a good figure to worship.
I would like to add one more thing, only because I care a lot about the product:

A shared song link should be a waveform print, and not change in any way in the future. Otherwise, how do I know what I am sharing?

I would imagine the the models may be changing, but now that you are public, you need to lock this aspect of the UX down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38754720
Yes. We think of "thee" and "thou" as being formal, because nowadays they are mainly found in religious texts. But they used to be informal, used when addressing friends and children. As the top answer explains, "thee" and "thou" eventually came to be considered rude.
>The biggest tragedy in america right now, one that fuels the apathy and national self-destruction is the lack of gratitude and appreciation of just how precious and priceless the peace, stability and prosperity we have now (not decades ago but today) is. Americans just simply don't know the levels of poverty and desperation much of the world has seen, it is just impossible here.

This sounds entirely ripped off from a Joe Rogan podcast. Sounds like you are in the WASP bubble. You likely haven't experienced living in the hood, having to be treated like a Muslim in the US, having to deal with MAGA people bitching about your existence as a Mexican migrant and many other scenarios. There is plenty to improve in the US and your mentality would have ensured that we never would have gotten things like the Civil Rights act, interracial marriage, or even the immense progress made in favor of LGBTQ rights.

Its not the people that are thankful to their country that enact change. Its the rebels who go against the mainstream and demand justice that eventually make history. They are always called ungrateful haters...at least until they win.
I think one of the most remarkable things about calendars is the endurance of ‘weeks’. For thousands of years, across civilizations, we’ve been counting off cycles of seven days, presumably successfully keeping in synch with one another, leading to the broad agreement across billions of humans that today is a Sunday.
No, it's "Sie", not "sie", and therefore not identical to third person.
I feel that this is precisely how not to distil the article.

Yes, it's low-hanging fruit takeaway, but I don't think there's any value in that shallow pass - and damaging to use such brutal simplification.
The worst offender for this I ever saw was a analytics company using their SDK on their blog. It was generating 1 request a second logging absolutely completely stupid metrics(for a blog) and my local DNS resolver was filled with >100k requests from a tab that was not even in the foreground!

Took a little bit of effort tracking down the tab generating this traffic and now they are banned from my local network forever.
Someone has to be skilled enough in fundraising to be able to raise the money to get the talent to do the thing. That alone is a difficult skill to master. It’s often harder to do than to be able to create great things. Carmack and Woz are legends for a reason.
> It is not a law of nature that real estate outperforms other assets.

It is, over long time windows. This is the core point I am making here.
This article speaks to me a lot. I played FF7 Remake when it released on PS+ in ‘21 thinking I didn’t enjoy JRPG’s.

From there i played the entire collection - the ps1 version, crisis core, advent children, and then remake again.

Those months were fantastic - either playing, listening to the soundtrack, thinking about materia combinations. And it’s likely to consume another 3 months of my life when Rebirth releases.
IMHO the original narration on The Martian by RC Bray is better than Wil's. I enjoyed Wil's work on Ernest Cline's books but RC Bray and Dennis E. Taylor are (for me) top of the mountain when it comes to SF narration.
Advent of Code is great but it requires you to:

- (a) be available at precisely midnight EST every day for an entire month. That would be 6am for me, not really feasible on working days for a full month.

- (b) be extremely good at a weird flavor of programming competition -- more often than not you don't win at AoC by writing better solutions, you just have to crank out a solution that you don't too long to type.

I like competitions, I really do, done them my entire life, but AoC is just not that interesting to me.

I'm just doing the problems every day ignoring the leaderboard, 48/50 stars, this year I'm on track to get 50/50 on Christmas day :)
It's not about a 'single madman', which surprised us. There were many warnings that the Russian regime was going in this direction and the German government ignored it. Even shortly before the Russian attack on the Ukraine, when the gas storage in Germany was (almost) empty and gas delivery was going down, our German government did not believe the warnings.

There is nothing rational about increasing dependency on an authoritarian Russian regime, which for example invaded Crimea almost ten years ago. The aggressive Russian politics was on display. It is also not rational to, at the same time, sell critical energy infrastructure to Russian companies, like Germany did with its gas network and storage systems. Similar it was not rational to build a gas pipeline together with the Russians to even further increase the Russian potential to blackmail us.
That's right, to a first degree, it just seems to be differences in user bases. There may well be nudging going on, but it's hard to discern and would require more complex econometric models.

Of course it's possible that users self-select: those who are pro-Tibet won't post on TikTok as they know that content won't work there.

Would be good to compare other western platforms: is there similar discrepancy between Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon? I'm sure there will be some discrepancies.
> “if you all dropped dead”, “you smarmy parasitic prick”

Dude. I hope you’re just having a bad day. If this is your normal mode of discourse you should get some counseling. I say this from a place of good will advice.
I think you might be right in the short term or considering the past, but it doesn't explain why a lot of money is pouring into renewables nevertheless and that there just isn't any other path forward than building another magnitude more in renewables (as TFA says: Germany is aiming to triple(!) solar by 2030). This will change massively change the markets.
The same is in italian “lei”, except during fascism where they introduced as a formal way to address someone as “voi” which would be the plural of “tu”/“voi”