skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The idea that Netanyahu is responsible for Hamas' popularity is false.

The claim was that Netanyahu preferred Hamas "to ensure there was never a 2 state solution", which is true.

And so far it that seems to be working out. Mass starvation, infectious diseases, day 7 of the internet blackout in Gaza, the university in Gaza was just blown up with wired explosives, the Israeli government (even Mossad on Twitter, heh) proudly show it off.

Hamas doesn't explain all that, the expansionist goals do, including why one would have preferred Hamas. There was never a realistic threat of Hamas "destroying all of Israel" from Gaza, regardless of what Hamas might have wished they were capable of, but the destruction of all of Gaza, and the people in it, is going on with a speed and ferocity we haven't seen before.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/jan/11/palest...

Allegedly, the count of bombs dropped on Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, half the population being minors, now surpassed the amount of bombs dropped in the second Iraq war by US and UK combined in ~8 years, that number being 29,199 bombs according to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombings_during_the_Ir...

Here's an older (this all moves so quickly) article also discussing the 2000lbs bombs: https://edition.cnn.com/gaza-israel-big-bombs/index.html

> A man sits on debris as Palestinians conduct a search and rescue operation in Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza City, on November 1

Were there tunnels under the refugee camp? I don't know, and I don't care. One cannot hide the elephant of the violent excesses, the genocidal language and the settlers who seem to have their every whims catered for, completely behind the fig leaf of Hamas and the actors that support them.
'Stablecoins' Enabled $40B in Crypto Crime Since 2022
Capitalist or not this is still true.

Capitalism is a relatively recent invention with a narrower definition that what most people think.

In any case, wealth and power distribution is highly related to network effects. Regardless of skills, being a servant of kings will give you more wealth and power than being a free individual in the desert.
Browsing into my 'Dead Bookmarks' folder, most of the links were either websites without enough funding to keep the servers online, acquired startups, or streaming services that were killed off by the giants' lawyers. Bash.org is the latest to experience the drag and drop of death.
The only company I know of that is "doing it right" is Valve. Keeping themselves private really has paid off for them and has started to better the overall gaming community with their services, I think their cut might be a little high, but you do get a ton of value add as a dev.
Yeah I am going off some "headshot" generated pics my girlfriend showed me from ~6 months or so back after discussing this thread.

I haven't actually used their app, can only attest to the results.
> I love self-checkout, honestly.

Not me. I really loathe it a lot, unless I'm buying just a single item and I'm in a hurry.

Increasingly, the self-checkout lines tend to be the really long ones anyway, so using them isn't even any faster. Just more work.
I'm pretty sure everyone made a version of that. Makes me think, if it would be useful to open source that hodgepodge of scripts
Fond memories of writing software with Allegro on DOS. Playing around with little games.

Definitely made getting into C/C++ on Linux easier to have started with this tool chain.
Jeff Bezos – Take Bold Bets [video]
Not sure, but Google could end up hosting AI content themselves and earning money on it… the incentives are worse for them, I am afraid.
Show us a link to a Facebook advertising API which can give me bidstream data which includes a user's demographic info? The links describe "Modern programmatic advertising" including "Patternz" but have not shown that Facebook is an implementor.

For the record every time I have advertised on both Google and Facebook, it works in reverse: I give them my ad, audience info, and how much I'm willing to bid, and they run an auction per impression (of which I don't get to participate in knowing the details directly). I get no user data, only the bill. If I did get user data (presumably with user consent) I would start my own direct-marketing mailing or email list and stop paying the ad-tech companies each time (who act as gate-keepers).
IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points
Everyone replying seems to be assuming this time is all for standups and status meetings, but in practice it’s probably about half an hour a week for status updates for us to. The rest of the time is a mix of reserved time for synchronous technical collaboration (e.g. reserved time for pairing, time to talk about technical architecture at a higher level and for people to opt in to presenting some of their work for feedback)

My team skews a bit junior right now, and I generally expect a pretty high degree of autonomy. We’re not a feature factory and people aren’t pulling tickets from a backlog mindlessly- I expect them to understand what they are building, why, talk to users, take ownership of a problem and exercise sound judgement. That requires some coordination. More senior people can handle that with less structure. For a highly competent but less experienced engineer I’ve found asking them to work mostly asynchronously was setting them up for failure. Giving the a bit of structure, making them available to one another to help themselves grow, and giving me more opportunities to recognize when I needed to intervene early has been successful.

For some teams it might feel like too many meetings, but that’s why I said that you need to pick what works for the specific team. Don’t cargo cult process and structure, but don’t be afraid of it when it can help either.
Perf Is Not Enough
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Why do we need to have two formats that each excel at one task and quite miserably fail at the other?

I don't think it would be impossible to e.g. extend a variant of HTML (and ePub already supports this to some extent, I believe) to have a more stable print output (e.g. fixed pagination and page number hints) for when it's required, while still allowing reflowing, proper text search.

That's actually another pain point: PDFs is really a vector graphics format, so any text search is by necessity some more or less horrible heuristic layered on that. I work with a certain large company's PDF specifications every day, and they literally can't be searched in most PDF viewers, since the spaces between words seem to be done in a way not accessible to the heuristics of the readers, so everything is one large string to them.
Prompted by comments foreshadowing the end of search engines being useful, I wonder if we'll see a return to pre-search engine practices given that in the hypothetical we would come full loop from low signal to noise back to low signal to noise.
A couple of examples:

Using RAG on a set of docs for a project it's possible to get good answers to specific questions (and ask follow ups, etc) - really speeds up understanding, like having someone who knows their stuff answering questions for you all the time.

Making meeting notes, summarizing discussions - frees the note taker and produces a nice record of what happened.
We havent had an ability to tell whats real and whats not for a long time. Photos have been able to be doctored since well before photoshop, writing style imitated, signatures forged etc. This is a change of degree, thats all.

I for one am somewhat glad we are going to be forced out of our shell when it comes to the nature of truth in media. All it means is that people are going to have to have a higher standard for what they believe. Many wont, just as many today think infowars or Joe Rogan are telling them the truth, but we shouldnt cater our society to the lowest common denominator. Instead we should create a society where the more informed people can do their best to guide and educate the people more easily fooled to develop the skills to be more discriminating in what they believe.
Ha! Granted. I took it as understood there’d be snow.
As a thought experiment: if I were to use AI to generate a video of a famous person describing how much they love green beans, and how they’ll do anything to get their hands on a can of delicious green beans, and I post it publicly have I committed a crime?
Actually we were the first to tell Russians to piss off [0]. But just like I wouldn't die for Russians, I wouldnt die for people that have a pathological hatred of them.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split
AlphaGeometry works, in simplified terms, in two stages:

1. Heuristically add a candidate construction using an NN (a transformer)

2. Brute force search through all possible deductions from the current set of constructions using a symbolic solver

If you don't find a solution after step 2, repeat. There may be some backtracking involved to try a different set of constructions as well.

This approach only works because, in geometry, the set of possible deductions from a given construction is actually quite small.

Also, note that this approach overall is essentially an optimization, not amazing new capabilities. Replacing step 1 with a random construction still solves 10 problems on average in the given time, compared to 30 with the new approach. The existing algorithm, relying mostly on brute force search, is probably able to solve all of the geometry problems if given, say, 10 times as much time as the olympiad students (so not some absurd amount of time).
You make a good point.

I was wrong to say that it's already not viable.

There are some examples of small/medium companies making it happen on the OSX platform.
Time travellers go home.
One twist on your idea: why not give the employers some incentives to spread out more? For example, if they want you to live in a city center Monday through Friday, they should have to pay for your city housing. (If you want to own a house and go there on weekends, you can buy one independent of the employer.) This would cause employers to rethink the idea that they should be locating themselves in places like San Francisco or New York.
Huge fan of engineering solutions like this to try and learn to manipulate and 'deal with' our planet, as opposed to the 'social approach' which is currently popular.

We'll forever be battling nature. Far better to try these things, and to pay people to get outside and experiment, than to wear ribbons, change avatars and make 'ultra serious' short video clips.

The Qattara Depression project is another interesting project, which claims it could decrease sea levels by filling in the Qatarra Depression in Egypt, while generating shitloads of energy and potentially greening parts of the Sahara.

The world is going to be different in 100 years time. We must accept it. But if we stacked projects like this, we might buy ourselves enough time and knowledge to have a far more comfortable adaptation which doesn't result in civilizational collapse, and which sets us in better standing for 'the next big looming threat'.
Ahah... it was long ago the last time I typed a command like this...

copy /b file1+file2 output
You need to get out of your bubble. After having traveled to more than 60 countries on all the continents (except Antarctica), I can assure you that a majority of humans do not have good reliable public transport. It is a luxury that only some parts of the world have.

Just as an example, right now I am in an Indian city where there is some minimal public transport but a majority of people need their own vehicle to commute for most of their journeys. And it is not an unusual scenario for India, which contains more population than Europe and North America combined.
Seems like a really great way to play more passive longer-running kinds of study music/sounds like coffeeshop noise or lofi-hiphop!
> In short: There is ozone depletion over Antarctica? No surprise since for ~6 months of the year, Antarctica gets nearly no sunlight.

You cannot seriously think that this is something unaccounted for by the scientists, and it's barely a moment's work to find https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/meteorology/SH.html which says:

> The ozone hole begins to grow in August and reaches its largest area in depth from the middle of September to early October.

And also https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/meteorology/annual_data.htm... which has, among other data, "The mean ozone hole size for 07 September–13 October and the minimum of Southern Hemisphere mean ozone for 21 September–16 October for each year.".

And furthermore https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/Ozone with an animated plot of ozone concentrations. Please note the dates at each step, and how they correspond to the "Minimum Ozone / Minimum Daily" chart on the page I linked to in my previous paragraph.

> I am unsure about such careful, difficult science.

That's fine, and in general a pretty good policy. In this case seems to me that your reasoning is something like "this sounds complicated, my ideological enemies are endorsing the result, therefore it must be fundamentally flawed or irrelevant," That's a common enough stance, but in general I don't think it's particularly wise.
Usually office coffee sucks though. Do you have real manual espresso machine in the office and a person who is responsible for operating and regularly cleaning it? The automatic kind with "americano" and "espresso" buttons can't really make a good coffee.
> Reddit is perhaps the web's best example of enshittification. I've never seen such a level of self-sabotage before as seen with the old -> new reddit UX change

Browsing (new) reddit on a phone (or at least Safari on my device) is truly incredible:

- On first page load, the whole screen is obstructed by an obnoxious inducement to download the app.

- On subsequent page loads, a similar modal nags me to log in with a Google account.

- Routing is simply broken. Pressing back or refreshing a page rarely gets the desired effect.

- Most interactive UI elements – the dropdowns that sort posts, embedded video players, image galleries, expand/collapse toggles – either don't work at all, or have major visual bugs.

- Most times I view a post, comment vote counts are broken, showing 1 on every comment.

That's aside from the actual visual design (which I find terrible) and the state of Reddit's front page and communities, which (here echoing most other commenters here) seem more and more dominated by stupid, inflammatory political trash and other crap. This may be overdramatic, but seeing changes Reddit has made in the lead up to this IPO (and knowing how representative these changes are of general enshittification trends) have made me demoralized and almost ashamed to be a web developer.

Mostly I keep using it because I enjoy r/nba. Not exactly highbrow stuff, and not really exempt from the general Reddit community rot, but still mostly a fun way to follow the news of the NBA and share in the excitement of its goings on. I do wish there was a good alternative to it.
That bothers you, but Stallman's decades of advocacy for sex with minors and the numerous accusations of harrassment against him don't?

I'm not saying it should, but it seems you're either unaware of, or don't consider relevant, the most actually troublesome aspects of the man.
There are no "global cloud seeding" projects. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/28/fac... anything like that would be trivially observed by layperson scientists.

(Also cloud seeding = more rain, drought = less rain)
> This is not as easy for small companies with smaller brand footprints.

Yes, distribution and discoverability is the value of the iOS App Store, and well worth small companies paying 15% for. On Mac, it's just another way to buy software, and developers can easily avoid it if they don't think the ROI is high enough.
When I write a review, I write several paragraphs to pages pointing out strengths and weaknesses, asking for clarification, new approaches, etc. I then send that to the editor who packages all the reviews together in the form of a letter to the authors. The authors in turn respond to that letter point by point in their own letter. Its more like email than a publication.

In terms of whether reviews should be public, there are pros and cons to anonymous review. The cons are easy to see. When I read a paper I don't know whether the reviewers asked a question and gotten a response about a concern I have about the paper. Often clarifying results in response to a reviewer's inquiry can be shared in the letter but never make it into the paper. I always ask for a brief sentence describing those additional checks to be put into the paper briefly or in supplemental, but that is me.

The pros of anonymous unpublished reviews are slightly more nuanced. Sometimes stupid but innocent mistakes happen, and these can be embarrassing. Part of the value of review is having the chance to have fresh eyes on it, but doing so in public view can push people to get grounded in their position as a matter of reputation. Another issue is that criticizing a paper from a well known research is a bit harder when it will be published, and especially when it isn't anonymous.
Leading tech company upgraded their customer loyalty program with Tanzania trip
nah. far easier to be offended. that'll show 'em.
Also absurd that smelling marijuana, either by human LEO's or K-9's, is still considered strong enough evidence to search. And finding anything that appears to be marijuana or a THC product is enough to arrest someone.

The reason this is absurd is because Delta-8 THC, THC-A, and CBD marijuana is legal as long as they have low enough levels of delta-9 THC. The bud will look and smell exactly the same as marijuana flower with high levels of illegal Delta-9 THC. So the observation of marijuana (sight or smell) shouldn't be considered to "probably" be the illegal version today. If anything, in states where delta-9 THC is illegal, a bag of marijuana flower is far more likely to be one of these legal versions, because they're for sale at every fucking vape shop. It blows my mind to see QP's of marijuana just sitting in jars on the counter at every vape shop in Texas.

Which also means that K-9's should have to be replaced with new K-9's that aren't trained to smell or "indicate" on marijuana because they can't distinguish between legal THC-A weed vs. illegal delta-9 weed. So their "indication" can't be considered a reliable piece of evidence when they still indicate on legal material.

But as you said, courts are very very hesitant to limit the powers of the police.

Also the idea that due to the "Farm Bill", vape shops can legally sell packages containing many grams of delta-9 THC in the form of gummies/etc but still can't sell plain old delta-9 marijuana, is completely and utterly absurd. I'm glad that prohibition is easing up, but the inconsistencies in the current transitory phase are beyond ridiculous.
Saying that citations will save us, is very naïve. No one checks sources today.
I have a different perspective.

Most media has been coercive throughout my lifetime through the capture of distribution channels. If you control the distribution of where people consume their content, you can sway public opinion/sentiment.

For example, you might set a "narrative target" for your news outlet to report "Tech = Bad" this quarter.

Or you might purge all rural content from your network, like in the Rural Purge.

The internet has blown that wide open. Many people, especially younger demographics, are curating their own content now. Instead of "news networks," many of my younger friends talk about individual citizen journalists. Those journalists go by many names, vloggers, podcasters, youtubers, etc.

I've noticed that, in the past few years, the people proclaiming the loudest that "Journalism is Dead!" are doing so because they've ignored where the craft of journalism has migrated to: the internet. They look at the hollow dying husks of organizations that were built around capturing distribution channels, husks that have burned their credibility over years of blatantly coercive reporting, and somehow feel nostalgia for those husks.

The legacy distribution channels have, by-in-large, lost. The only metrics they appear to be relevant in are the ones that conveniently exclude the distribution channel they've lost to: the internet.

With the rise of OSS AI, I'm _extremely_ bullish on personalized moderation and curation.

In the next few years, I want a personal AI that automatically mines all of my social media feeds, email, text messages, calendars, subscribed channels, podcasts, etc. and gives me a personalized curated view.

I want that AI to be highly-biased, and highly-aligned. But the measure of bias and alignment is _me_. I want it to have my bias. I want it to have my alignment. I want it to be fine-tuned on me. And I want it to go churn through a lifetime of content daily and bubble up the most valuable/meaningful content for me.

I think we are moving into a period where the ability for people to be coercive by controlling media distribution channels is coming to an end. The rise of personalized AI will kill it.

And this is before I get into generative AI disrupting the larger entertainment industry for the better!
They are (somewhat) people in regards of the law. Business entities are granted certain rights that are also granted to (real) individuals.

Labelling businesses as (artificial) persons is probably to put the emphasis that (with regards to the law) they will be treated the same as persons. With regards to certain rights given they granted them the same.

Imagine when the concept was introduced, some may have been against it but for sure many did not even comprehend what it meant. "How can a business be the same as a person" asked the layman, "not the same as, an artificial person" said the legislator.

Only speculating, and trying to find reasons for not seeing more than some weirdness that put into historical perspective may not be so suspicious.

As an example of things not changing, we are now calling those prompts spitting back highly probable statistical predictions of correctness in the output "artificial intelligence".

There isn't any intelligence in LLMs. Just adoption of how neurons are connected in our brain. Nodes aren't neurons in those algorthms, they are artificial neurons, connections between nodes are nothing like the actual links between neurons. Not even close. They are like what a rough map is to a territory, to make a parallel with what's on the wikipedia page the cousin post mentions.

Artificial neural network mimicing binary graphs would be a more appropriate naming. People would not have a clue what that means. Here, layman, it's artificial intelligence, see, it writes, talks and even answer questions better than most university teachers.
Thank you for writing this. I lost a family member recently too (not a child thankfully, but someone who’d lived a long and full life).
This is a good time to check how your code performs in beta vs stable. This particular case is new in beta and it would be interesting to catch regressions before they land.

Someone already filed this as a bug: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/120091
This is something that gets trotted out every time this topic comes up. It's got little to do with the actual conversation, and it only relevant to some companies.

Basically, some companies own buildings that need to be leased out and some companies have long leases which would mean money "down the drain" if they're not utilised. That's wrapped up to equate being told to come into the office as a profit driven thing, rather than a productivity driven thing. As a blanket statement it's not true as not all companies care about it, and when we're talking just about productivity, it's irrelevant as it's not actually a consideration.

If we're talking about motivations for coming back into the office, then sure, it's a very relevant topic there.