skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those who embrace this view fail, however, to explain how it aligns with the inherent right of self-defense

That's quite a rich comment in light of the Dahiya doctrine. It's times like these that I'm glad HN won't let you delete comments for posterity's purpose.

> what scope of military action is necessary to secure the safety of the Israeli population from the Hamas (and Palestinian Islamic Jihad) threat emanating from Gaza?

When you define it like that, literally any military action, up to and including the destruction of all of Israel and it's inhabitants (a-la Samson option) is excusable. The "we have to go to their country and kill them all to protect our way of life" mindset is the fascistic seed of genocide.

Nobody is going to play by that definition. You're delusional if you think the scope of a perceived threat justifies the intensity of an actualized retaliation - it's a misunderstanding of strike warfare. The laser-focus on total war has impaired the IDF's ability to respond to precision threats in a dignified way. It's impossible to argue that Hamas hasn't exploited this obsession, and it's destroying foreign support at an unprecedented rate. You can only massacre so many Qibyas before your government's long-term strategy comes into question.

> Indeed, it is likely that historians will question whether Israel exercised unnecessary restraint up to this point

Here's a thought-exercise for you; how does the world look at America for developing the nuclear bomb? Do you think they love us, for subjugating the world under the ironclad-rule of a nuclear age? Do you think historians criticize America for showing too much restraint in Nagasaki?

Food for thought, may it nourish your starving soul.
Related:

Making messaging interoperability with third parties safe for users in Europe

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/06/security/whatsapp-mess...
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39614085)
There absolutely was third-party content and software on iPhone, at launch. The web browser was one of the biggest selling-points when it was announced, alongside the phone and music-player functionality.

> On another note they managed to create a luxurious market although the other platform also allows 3rd party apps.

Many proven monopolies seemingly "improve" their user experience to get users to defend it. Famously, Bell Telephones had imposed a severely-limiting monopoly on phone hardware, but made long-distance calling free as a consolation to users. Bell's new "luxurious market" didn't excuse their prior market abuses, though.

> it’s undeniable that 3rd party devs bring something on the table, but so does Apple

I'm trying to say the opposite. If Apple was providing first-class support to any of their hardware-products, then they wouldn't need to impose anticompetitive limitations on third-parties. What Apple brings to the table is deliberately gimped to manipulate software margins and reduce user choice as a consequence. Third party devs are the only ones bringing things to the table; Apple is charging them for the privilege.

Again - if you want to test this, ask around and see how many people would buy an iPhone with just first-party content. Nobody would, and the clear and eminent reason is that Apple does not provide a superior experience by removing user choice.
Seems like a terrible idea on latency grounds alone.
I feel a bit of history is slipping away. Linux forced a lot of companies and individuals to keep stuff together in a way that uniquely unified industry against Windows and custom embedded software stacks.

Without the Linux kernel we’d have a bunch of competing proprietary forks bickering at every turn.

You could have forgotten video drivers from major vendors like NVidia. Even with Linux it was an anomaly.
I doubted what I'm asking for exists, yet. Basically a "hands on" experience in the latest simulations we know. Always fun to see others are already there working on a lot of this.
I would imagine this was a joint venture between the Mongolian and American governments, but you’re right.
The software world is larger and more diverse than you think.

Maybe on HN 99% of people work on web.

In reality probably like 70%
Yeah, Nix's fetchGit just calls out to git; which is great for seamlessly handling weird SSH setups and the like.

Nix itself has a plugin mechanism, but its rarely used (since it can harm reproducibility; and TBH that seems to be the only reason to use it, for those very rare situations that it's desirable)
Call their bluff. It’s just porn, they’ll look a lot worse for throwing a hissy fit over scamming and blackmailing you than you will for allegedly watching gay porn. Scamming attempts over the internet is a well-known phenomenon- no one’s going to hold it against you if someone attempts to blackmail you, and you refuse to let them.
It isn’t impossible, you just install a lintel at the top of the opening. There are plenty of 3D printed houses out there.
By "these algorithms", do you mean the ones that currently exist, or the ones that will exist next month, next year, or in 2034?
This is just something you might learn during history lessons in school, no online-ness is needed.
yeah, as I said, they weren't entirely unsuccessful....which also means they were mostly unsuccessful, alas.

This does, however, mean that the opportunity still exists for anybody who want to try it.

The problem is there's just too much of a "bump" in inconvenience going from charging nothing to charging even fractions of a cent. In fact, the amount of pain necessary (dealing with banks, regulators, taxes, 50 individual states with different sales tax, not to mention every country earth, etc) is pretty much the same whether you are charging a thousandth of a cent or a thousand dollars.

What can't be done individually, retail, can sometimes be done collectively, wholesale. The government could just collect a tax-per-megabyte of data sucked from the web, and distribute the receipts according to how much each provider of that data sent the data. Or it could be a progressive tax, just factored into your income tax.

Even though that could be implemented with very low marginal overhead (we already have an IRS, which is already set up to take money from people, and distribute money to people as refunds), the political difficulties in such a scheme are obvious.

This leaves either ads (which incentivizes "news" sources to print florid opinions instead of fact) or pay for no adds (like YouTube premium) which incentiizes spamming so many adds that the users will pay to stop the pain.

But yeah, the need is still out there. Someday some financial genius will figure out a way to do it and will be as rich as Rockafellers.
"Victim", as understood by most people, implies that someone did something wrong to them. There's nothing wrong with seeing someone's profile online, so your analogy doesn't apply.

Thought exercise: Am I being a "victim" of you, because you posted a comment disagreeing with me?
I'm playing stupid now: I believe that if I ask the LLM to "display Harry Potter Book 1" and it does, word-by-word, then you're 100% right, it's copyright infringement. But, if I ask the LLM to "give me an analysis of the "Professor Severus Snape's" character and it gives me one, then I don't see the problem.

So in that sense I understand the response that "they don't violate copyright" by studying the material. Again, I don't pretend to be a lawyer, and not every law has to follow my logic.
> WHY does Apple, parading around as a pompous paragon of privacy, even allow this crap?

Good alliteration.

Apple doesn’t enforce what the app does with app data. Apple makes sure that if the app uses a platform API that is sensitive, it gets your opt-in (or prohibits the use of the API altogether). Apple makes sure that the app publishes a privacy nutrition label. But what the app does inside with whatever data you choose to give it, that’s up to the app.

If you voluntarily choose to give data to the app, what the app does with it is your problem. Apple just tries to make sure the app can’t take data that you haven’t chosen to give it.
no, she didn’t reject the claim that training on copyrighted work is infringement, merely that the outputs are not infringing simply by bearing similarity to the texts
I am pretty sure if the authors were trying to license their works for this purpose we would just not use them at all; it is difficult to see under what circumstances they would stand to profit from this other than by suing people after the fact over it.
I noticed there are some GitHub Repos actively working on enabling UVM on Verilator:

https://github.com/MikeCovrado/GettingVerilatorStartedWithUV...

It would be an amazing leap to enable UVM fully on Verilator. Looking forward to it.
Multiplication is pretty much needed in cordic! And is far from obsolete! It works perfectly fine, and dont have any of the problems said in the article.
We have citizens that can't afford a houses. Policy like this is really out of touch imo.
This reads like a "I got funding but my original research didn't pan out and I need to publish something."
Models are not information archives. The size of the final model is orders of magnitude smaller than the size of the training data.

Somehow people are just not able to get this through their heads. Stable diffusion is like 12GB or something and you have people convinced it's a tool that is cutting and pasting copyrighted works from an enormous image archive.
How big are the matrixes in some modern training pipelines? We always talk of absurdly large parameter spaces.
It doesn't necessarily work like that. Vegitation can cause more rain rather than just taking water from elsewhere. A striking example is the Loess plateau, in China which went from dessert to green. Article mentioning it:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/20/our-bigg...
I don’t see how you can say it is meaningless if it gives anyone who downloads the pile access to countless copyrighted books. Unless you believe that copyright in general is meaningless, in which case we have nothing further to discuss.
This works particularly well on the Internet, just say "okay"
More active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39633053
It's great for hardware implementations, because it's simple and you get good/excellent accuracy. I wouldn't be surprised if that's still how modern x86-64 CPUs compute sin, cos, etc.

That said, last time I had to do that in software, I used Taylor series. Might not have been an optimal solution.

EDIT:

AMD's Zen 4 takes 50-200 cycles (latency) to compute sine. I think that strongly suggests AMD uses CORDIC. https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf page 130.

Same for Intel, Tiger Lake (Intel gen 11) has 60-120 cycles of latency. Page 353.

I'd guess usually ~50 cycles for Zen 4 (and ~60 for Intel) for float32, float64/float80 datatype. Denormals might also cost more cycles.
Really. US' *biggest* fear is a strong Germany. Really.
Haven't asked it for any fiction reviews, but ChatGPT is nothing less than a superpower for math-related questions. (If the last time you tried it was a year ago, try it again before posting something snarky in response.)

Google definitely isn't needed for that.
Maybe it's some deep-seated Volvo 245 childhood conditioning, but I'm loving that form factor. I realize developing a new car model takes time, but 2026 is still a bummer. A lot can happen in 2 years.
A few more: Swedish:"tabberas"(eat everything) from Latin:"tabula rasa"(clean slate) <=> Japanese: "taberu"(eat).

Swedish:"må" <=> Japanese:"mo". "allowed to" Pronounced the same.

Expression: Swedish:"det går inte"(not possible, not allowed to), literally "that does not go" <=> Japanese:"ikemasen"(not allowed to), literally "can not go".
There is no indication whatsoever that an app will leave behind an Eternal Cookie on my device, nor am I given a chance to prevent it.
Have you seen: https://www.nextplatform.com ?
How does Eloquent JavaScript compare with Horstmann‘s JavaScript for the Impatient?
No CarPlay is very sad
GitHub Copilot First Impressions
Rooster Teeth Is Shutting Down After 21 Years
Can a binary even be gpl?
Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in
Right, but you settled on the answer as well. You must communicate the password via a different medium, which is impossible with links.
That's not an indicator of support, look at Lukashenko, dictator of Belarus.
Deliberate Abstraction
That is 64 iterations for a double, that is nothing!
Also, it would allow bad actors to just opt out of malware scans - the main vector whereby these insecure URLs were leaked.
While cloud computing services is one of the categories where a gatekeeper can be designated, none were. Presumably none met the threshold requirements. If neither AWS, nor Azure, nor Google Cloud could reach that level, Cloudflare is gonna be nowhere close.
As a fellow fp enjoyer, I will point out that I believe the fp's CDNG support avoids patent issues by only supporting output to USB drive. RAW video to internal media is where Nikon ran into trouble. It's also a bit of a bummer how terrible the fp's h264 encoder is, but the CDNG makes up for it, I suppose.
The argument I read from upset developers was that the WSA was so much better than other methods.
It wasn't super obvious from the original link but unlike the typical web adaptations of old games - cross-compilation and emulation, this one was reverse engineered and the logic re-created from scratch. The code looks commented with more details, e.g. :

https://github.com/gorisanson/pikachu-volleyball/blob/main/s...
What if he did want it published, and this is just marketing?
individuals and small teams are going to build the next generation of games, not these mutual funds.
Clearly they have been just letting homelessness be an issue if they're able to pull all this as of recently to freely house random people for political brownie points.
The point is that people who buy furniture drive to the store. The store might deliver or they might take it themselves (if they have a truck they will save the delivery fee). It isn't just furniture - that is just an example. The bike lane is about alcohol and ice cream: nothing else! No clothing, groceries, restaurants, paint, golf simulation, gymnastics, dance, or dollar store gets customers from the bike lane. (I'm thinking of a specific strip mall in my town) Even the local bike store gets most customers by car!
Some countries do ban Facebook, and many others place censorship requirements on it, with which it complies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Facebook
Using AWS as a VPS provider will likely always be expensive; but, as you learned, that level of abstraction makes it easy to move to an actual VPS provider.
> In contrast, when communicating with an OS or engineering a mechanical device, ambiguity is a negative and it's crucial to use language that is deterministic.

Very much a historical artifact. Modern systems (LLMs, for example) can in principle handle ambiguous inputs.
Is there another state in the world that extends programs like these to "Undocumented" (i.e. people who have overstayed their visa or snuck over a border to get in)?

I genuinely don't know if it's net-good or net-bad to go this route. But I've never heard of anywhere else doing this.

The closest I've seen are amnesty periods, where you get to declare yourself an illegal alien and be processed out via the airport without the usual fine or re-entry ban.
The phenomenon of bad taste or smell is explained by the mechanism of volatile substances, released from saline when injected into the bloodstream and then eliminated by the respiratory system and thus detected by the patients in the air expired by the olfactory system.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2806387/#:~:tex....
Hey, thanks!

CI is one component of our platform. Most other CI tools are pretty agnostic about how tests are structured, though. We also integrate a way to structure your tests into groups so you can control when each test is called. For example, if one test out of 500 fails, it's super easy to rerun that one test with verbose logging and wave dumping enabled. We then also track test pass/fails over time, have tools to leave comments for coworkers on waveforms and logs in the browser like in Google Docs, etc.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "Smaller companies get help from larger companies in development and verification"?
I also use zsh for years and did not know that. What I like this: Actually having completions shown in the screen and being able to navigate them with tabs. I think that is not a default behavior, but that is what oh-my-zsh does for you in its default setup. Does someone have more insight on that?

I did not know about this, but I use https://github.com/wting/autojump, so I am not super sad that I missed something that hold me back severely. But good to know.
> It's crazy to me, because when you look critically at what dog you personally have in this race, like of course you want the status quo where The Pile exists, and you and the only agitators in all of this - authors' guild authors - gain nothing from nearly every dead-on-arrival framework like "Compensation, Credit and Consent" or whatever, BESIDES meaningless psychological satisfaction of winning social media arguments and flexing the favorability of authors over programmers.

Do you really expect anyone to engage with you in good faith if you feel this way?

Copyright law isn't perfect, but most of the great creative works from the last few centuries wouldn't exist if their authors didn't have legal protections allowing them to monetize their work. Redistributing existing media without worrying about copyright might be great in the short term, but the next century of art will probably look pretty barren if that becomes the status quo.

Maybe we'll reach a point where the benefits of training AI outweigh the benefits of all human creative output. But you don't need to be a stooge of some author's guild to not feel like we're there today.
Terry Pratchett had a plan for things he was working on at the time of his death:

> Pratchett told Neil Gaiman that anything that he had been working on at the time of his death should be destroyed by a steamroller. On 25 August 2017, his assistant Rob Wilkins fulfilled this wish by crushing Pratchett's hard drive under a steamroller at the Great Dorset Steam Fair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett#Unfinished_tex...
There is huge number of 64bit floats and huge portion of those are between 0..pi/2.
Keep in mind 75B is over 4 years the GDP numbers cited is for a single year .

The fact it is such a large portion of the GDP is one reason why these scam compounds are able to operate without getting shutdown , there is indirect support from government officials.

John Oliver mentioned it is as much as 50% of the GDP in Cambodia in a recent segment.

Romance scams are not new, but this has grown so quickly because of COVID , all these countries had sudden loss of tourism revenue, the gangs exploited desperate people to run these scams .

A vast majority of people scammed like this do not report to the authorities. They are too embarrassed to be scammed this way.

If victims don’t report then nothing gets labeled as fraud.

Also remember these scammers run exchange apps (fake-ish ones ) to fool people in losing more money by showing their investments going up and try to make you pay more as “tax” when you finally try to withdraw and so on .

The scam is crypto based, but the transactions don’t necessarily always happen in crypto at all, so analysis of chain alone is not sufficient to know the scale .
> In practice, the Chevron deference undermined the Court's independence, since it forced courts to just accept executive branch interpretations in many tough cases.

> The doctrine also creates perverse incentives for the other two branches. For example, by giving deference to agencies in ambiguous cases, it gave executive branch regulators incentive to hunt for ambiguities in order to expand their own power. This led to decades of executive overreach, as administrations used convoluted readings of statutes to pursue agendas Congress never imagined.

Reaction I: Does Reason magazine consider a corporation to be a citizen?

Reaction II: Do they envision Congress feeling any inclination to write less-ambiguous laws, to preserve their own power?*

Reaction III: With the size of the Federal law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...), and the massive overhead of deciding even trivial matters via the Federal Courts - just how many hundred hours per week is Reason thinking that the average Federal Judge should be working, to keep up?

*Yes, part of me says "The only power that Congress cares about is their ability to extract political donations. And so long as the last donation check has clear the bank before the first legal challenge to the Incomprehensible Blather Act of 2024 is heard by a judge..."
> “the Ukraine”; the latter term was used in Soviet times to diminish its autonomy by implying it was just a region of the USSR.

Source ?
Because there's a thing called "the public domain" and they didn't opt for that.
Macbooks are the only devices I've seen return from sleep properly. Windows and linux devices all seem to be filled with issues. I'd sooner blame the actual hardware than wayland.
> If I had trillions like google does, I'd invest in hiring a whole bunch of humans to curate a search index that is actually useful.

The temptation for a for-profit company to corrupt that index would be too great to resist forever.

What modern capitalism really seems to do is produce cycles of improvement to gain marketshare followed by enshittification to cash in. The average of the cycle leans more towards the enshittified state than the improved state.
You've got it backwards. The judge in Silverman et al dismissed the claims asserting that OpenAIs output is copyright infringement. The claims for copyright infringement in the training data are still going forward, that will directly test whether it is "fair use" or not.

From the ruling:

> Assuming the truth of Plaintiffs’ allegations - that Defendants used Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works to train their language models for commercial profit - the Court concludes that Defendants’ conduct may constitute an unfair practice.6 Therefore, this portion of the UCL claim may proceed.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-n-d-cal/1158180...
then you have chosen the wrong platform. Just be grateful that the mighty apple even deems you worthy of having files