skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the source article: https://prospect.org/world/2024-03-14-aipac-talking-points-r...

It goes more in-depth into the talking points direct from AIPAC:

> The lobbying files promote the familiar though contested line that “Israel does not target civilians.” This has been questioned due to the sheer body count of Palestinian civilians, women and children, during the war, compared to members of Hamas, along with the stated intentions by several Israeli officials to “eliminate everything” in Gaza. The IDF has justified the high casualty numbers by saying that Hamas weaponizes civilians as human shields. Yet the IDF has authorized airstrikes on sites with dense civilian populations such as hospitals and refugee camps, most recently at the “Flour Massacre” at the end of February, when the IDF opened fire on civilians gathered around an aid truck delivery, killing over 100.

> But even more controversial is that AIPAC is telling members of Congress that “Israel is not blocking the delivery of aid to Gaza,” and that “reports that people are starving in Gaza are false.” Neither claim is supported by findings of international authorities, nor by recent actions undertaken by the United States government. Just last week, the U.S. air-dropped aid packages into Gaza, circumventing Israeli border officials, and at the State of the Union address President Biden announced intentions to set up a port for deliveries. These actions were only necessary because Israel has made it difficult to get aid through checkpoints, such as during one recent incident where the Israeli navy fired at an aid convoy. The EU’s foreign-policy chief last week said that starvation in Gaza is being used as a weapon of war.
I would also argue that Poland being culturally dominant in the union, and eventually translating it to political dominance (of e.g. Roman Catholics over Eastern Orthodox) severely diminished the original GDL multiculturalism, which was much more pluricentric and religiously tolerant.

And that, arguably, was one of the causes of its eventual demise - e.g. would Ukraine have rebelled if they didn't perceive themselves as second-class citizens in Rzeczpospolita? And if it didn't, would Russia be able to eventually take over half of Poland?
Please feel free to share what these amazing risk taking products are which Apple R&D have come up with.

As far as I can see its all the same thin, flat device with a screen, just different sizes.
Cut *any* thread pitch on a metal lathe [video]
Current-induced switching of a van der Waals ferromagnet at room temperature
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> The smart move for the NAR at this point would simply be to take the MLS private again.

I don't see that happening in a world with Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin, ...
it's so flexible that in a large enough code base, it becomes a mess. It's not a Scala-specific problem

it's not scala specific, but it is a function of the flexibility of a language.

scala and perl are the only two languages that i am aware of where this issue is a common complaint. other languages are either not popular enough for this issue to surface or they are not as flexible for it to be as big of an issue as it seems to be in scala and perl.
Ok 23 isn’t that far from teenager and I agree employers are at least partially (maybe largely) at fault, but that just backs up that Taylor is not selling lemons.
Or rather Nvidia is purposefully restricting VRAM to avoid gaming cards canibalizing their supremely profitable professional/server cards. AMD has no relevant server cards, so they have no reason to hold back on VRAM in consumer cards
The advice appears to be applicable at the time of closing, perhaps as part of closing instructions.
> Prisons exist to make money, not to rehab (or punish) inmates.

For-profit private prisons are the minority.
> Do berliner straight dislike any tourist no matter how they behave?

I think, no citizen of any larger city likes tourists and the way tourism shapes the city. It's mostly ugly, tasteless entertainment venues and ever the same groups of people standing in your way, the same questions asked. Don't expect anyone to be enthusiastic about your week long expedition through their lived reality. Do your own research.

You have to behave like a "tourist" to be noticeable as one. If you are disgustingly drunk and obviously in "don't be gentle, it's a rental" mode, you may not get into some clubs, tourist or not. Some legendary clubs are very sex/kink positive, and/or queer spaces, bouncers take their job serious and filter out people who may disturb the peace or don't fit the general vibe. It's not a zoo. As a "tourist", or really anyone not in the scene, you likely won't get the info on anything "underground" going on.

That said, Berlin's tourism really isn't that bad compared to e.g. Paris or Prague. The city feels very much like actual people are living there. Speaking English won't get you "flagged" per se and you won't have trouble communicating. Mind you, the "expat" type isn't exactly liked either...

My advice, to get an authentic feel for Berlin: Explore the city by bike! Rent or cheaply buy one for the time being there. Traffic is intimidating, but the city is much, much less overwhelming and exhausting on a bike. (Don't clog the bike lanes, tho!) Berlin is incredibly green and got several lakes (!) inside and around, where you can swim and hang-out. It's also very explorable, meaning you can discover nice, or odd places and things just by walking around, in many areas. Don't get too focused on certain locations.
Ultra-processed is very well defined and easy for even a layperson to understand.

Under the NOVA classification system there are 4 groups of food, from 1 to 4, with 1 being unprocessed and 4 being ultra-processed.

https://ecuphysicians.ecu.edu/wp-content/pv-uploads/sites/78...

>As far as I can tell, that kind of home cooking matches the definition of "ultra-processed".

It does not, except for the brandy. Distillation is by definition ultra-processing. However, adding a minute amount of brandy, or even a generous amount, does not instantly turn something into an ultra-processed nightmare especially if the ethanol evaporates and all you're left with are flavorings.

The bread may be ultra-processed if it includes high-fructose corn syrup or other mechanically/chemically-extracted ingredients, otherwise it is simply group 3 processed foods.
Hopefully this outlasts the harlem shake bookmarklet...
This is eliding most of the history of neural networks as a hot reasearch topics. Since the late 50's early 1960s they've had several resurgences in interest, e.g. 80s RNNs, 90s stuff around several centers. Hell people were doing interesting things with them commercially in the 90's. The late 90s and early 00's had a lot of other interest (kernel methods, SVMs) but NN folks kept plugging, and the hardware to hit the next level was just around the corner.

The resurgence you're noting are papers with a 10 year tail before them (hell, most of the deep concepts were initiated decades before but lacked both the data sources and efficient hardware to really work them out).

This stuff has a long and deeply connected history.
It's not for everyone but I've never been happier with OpenAudible [0] + Plex [1] + Prologue [2]

[0] https://openaudible.org/

[1] https://plex.tv/

[2] https://prologue.audio/
You need not a benevolent dictator for each language but a design/code guru for each system, who communicates clearly and builds standards into process.

Bad style is just confusion: noise, but not necessarily error.

The real problem is history and architecture.

E.g., Swift has new concurrency, and the old grand central dispatch, and thread-local's, and you can reach for atomics and even C-style locks, and each of these can be used in different ways. But your application will die unknowable deaths if you don't pick exactly one and stick with it.

The same is true for data modeling and liveness.

And given the (testing) cost of migrating legacy code, the best thing is often to keep doing things the same way.

So to my mind, the most valuable people are not language mavens or even the design theorist who can make a greenfield work of algorithmic art, but the person who can migrate a system, knowing both the old and new ways and the incremental steps that can be taken while the system is running.

Recent examples are moving from Google moving to Go, or Apple moving from x86 to Apple silicon, or C/Objective-C to Swift, and even Java iterating much faster these last few years. In many cases it's as much a people problem: getting stakeholders to be patient, oldsters to be flexible, and everyone to be happy with limited improvements.
The title implies that climate change is happening (not denialism), and that this record heat can't be explained by our current understanding of climate change.

The fact that significant change is occurring due to human causes does not mean that all change can or must be explained this way.

If current models do not explain this, it either means:

1) Current models are wrong (possible)

2) Something unrelated to our traditional notion of human-caused climate is happening (also possible)
This is already true in the US; there are multiple things called "MLS", some regional. MLS is a generic term, not a single organization. This is also visible as e.g. Zillow and Redfin sometimes having different listings for one area, because they talk to different MLSes.
Companies pay what people will accept and what they can offer for a job. It has nothing to do with welfare. In fact if there was no welfare do you think people would demand more or less to work? My guess is much less.
I was thinking about this the other day; it would be really interesting to have big corporations whose profits depend on public-domain data. We might actually see lobbying to decrease copyright terms, to counter companies like Disney trying to extend copyright until the end of time.
This is shocking to read. I tried the in store demo and my main take away was that the display wasn’t as crisp or sharp as I expected for a $4k device.
I grew up in the USSR, and while I don't remember this done with bread, prices were indeed routinely stamped on physical goods, even factory mass-produced ones (and those weren't stickers - it would often be literally engraved on the surface). Pretty much anything that already had any kind of label on it would have price embedded as part of that label, from appliances to matchboxes.
>This should only be flagged if it was found that this article was fraudulent and incorrect and he didn’t say that in my opinion.

Okay then it should be flagged by your reasoning, did you read the article?
Because there's no proof in it that he ever said it. A woman who refused to identify herself past a first name claims he said it.
Right, we know they're broken all of the time. However, the franchisees must have the machines to comply with their franchise agreement which grants them the ability to sell any McDonalds food.
most of the optimizations discussed are actually kind of obvious if you know how chess notation works in the first place. like the reason the starting move "Nf3" makes any sense is because only 1 knight of all 4 on the board can possibly move to f3 on the first move. what the OP is doing is trying to take that kind of information density and trying to represent it, first by assigning bits to each part of a possible move and then by paring it down where the space of legal moves excludes entire categories of possibilities. there's another article that goes much further into how much optimization is possible here: https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/developer-update-275-impr...
All joking aside, was there anything in the Epstein case to indicate foul play or is it just a meme? I can't find anything reputable.
Only if everyone agrees on a central rendering model & feature set, which simply isn't the case. 2D rendering is not a solved problem, there are many different takes on it. Insisting all GUIs on a given device use a single system is simply not realistic, which is why nobody actually uses any of the X rendering commands other than "draw pixmap" (aka, just be a dumb compositor)
The Small Software Business Alliance
It probably won't happen, but I'd love to see the concept of channel binding reach the web ecosystem. It allows you to securely verify the certificate, independent of any third party. However it only works when you and the server have a shared secret (which could be a password or something else). It therefore isn't really applicable to casual "anonymous" browsing. But for that kind of browsing, a third-party attestation (e.g. from a CA) is probably good enough anyway.

We use channel binding in the XMPP ecosystem and it's going well.
SCOTUS defines legalities of public officials blocking social media critics
So maybe not "life-saving" but certainly seemed to help. Fair enough.
You might want to read into data like this (1) to get a better view of how much housing stock those companies own as a proportion of the total market (it's very little). The data is kind of hard to get, because many small landlords have incorporated as LLCs/LLPs and they make up the bulk of "corporate" ownership.

But it's pretty clear that the big time owners like institutional investors/REITs/etc own less than 2% of all units.

(1) https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R47332.pdf
I'm thrilled to see support for RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT. I bought one of those for an outrageous amount during the post-covid shortage in hopes that I could use it for ML stuff, and thus far it hasn't been very successful, which is a shame because it's a beast of a card!

Many thanks to ollama project and llama.cpp!
if Boeing wasn't a major defense contractor -- then yeah. you could easily say suicide. but since they're in bed with 3 letter agencies.

it becomes a whole different game altogether. since there's a 3 letter agency that has nailed the assassination game to a T. whether on home soil or abroad.
I code in C# and use a ton of LINQ when writing business logic. It's FP-ish enough to avoid logic mistakes. The mediator design pattern, which is kind of bringing another FP paradigm to the OO world, also features heavily.
You can also add TOTP secrets to entries in KeePassXC and generate/copy codes there (Ctrl+T).
One thing you can do to pull out only the chroma like that in post is duplicate the background layer then go into the separate color channels. Adjust the levels on just the channel you want until you've got the definition of the shape you want. Wand select the white background and then invert your selection. Undo the level changes and go back to the composed duplicate layer and create a Reveal mask from your selection.

Everything outside the selection will be knocked out. Then you can adjust the levels on the composed image to get your desired brightness/color/contrast. Do the same for other output color layers like the yellow in this example. For the Luma convert the color space to HSL and copy the Luma layer then adjust to your desired definition.

This lets you create your "plates" for each separate color. Using masks instead of blend modes on the layers will get you the plate separation effect you want. Once you've got your "plates" knocked out apply the mask then you can add all your other effects on the layer like the halftone.

Switching color modes and level adjusting is also a good way to do knock outs with the want selection. For instance doing a selection and getting wispy components like strands of hair. Look through the color channels where there's the best definition and adjust levels to bring out the desired contrast. Select that and then apply it as a mask to the composed RGB layer. You can then paint into the mask to knock out extraneous bits outside the bounds of the subject.

Modern wand select tools have a lot of little features like adjustable sensitivity and sometimes can create masks directly. But the above method tends to work well in software with Photoshop 5 quality tools.

It's a bit easier to do all the work in post than with the camera. Obviously if you want to do the work optically ignore the above.
Money quotes:

> From 2021-23, FMS sales averaged $55.9 billion per year, a 21.9 percent increase over the 2020-22 average of $45.8 billion per year.

Followed by:

> Poland was the single largest FMS customer in fiscal 2023, with over $30 billion in transfers.

I wonder if the article boils down to "Poland bought $30B of military equipment all of a sudden".
Exactly. My friend was telling me that I was making a mistake for getting a 7900 XTX to run language models, when the fact of the matter is the cheapest NVIDIA card with 24 GB of VRAM is over 50% more expensive than the 7900 XTX. Running a high quality model at like 80 tps is way more important to me than running a way lower quality model at like 120 tps.
Meanwhile ...

https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-whistleblower-warning-n...
Worst may it be, AWS released each feature to address specific needs of their customers. Unfortunately it is hard to build a complex product with simple and consistent conceptual models as well as orthogonal product features. I'm saying this because my current company has been trying to build its own IAM system outside of cloud. Man, that is hard. So many options, so many scenarios, so many debates, and seemingly so much work. That perspective makes me appreciate how hard it is to build a flexible IAM system that supports multiple accounts, multiple roles, multiple services, multiple granularities, and multiple accessible models.
Švejk is pretty popular in Russia (in some circles, anyway), but FWIW I wouldn't say that the way it is interpreted is as "the true nature of what it means to be a Czech". I think that part is perhaps more for internal consumption?
My dad once worked for a pet supply company, I don't remember his exact title but he reported to the owner. He was introduced to an individual that worked for the mob, only went by his first name, and was introduced as the guy who can take care of whatever is needed.

He heard later (obviously hearsay at that point) that Big Mike had indeed killed a guy that was causing problems for the owner. There's no way of knowing for sure obviously, but my dad's read on both Big Mike and the story was that it was absolutely true.

If a small pet supply company has connections to clean up a mess, as it were, I can only assume a company the size of Boeing could as well.
Wildcard certificates are sub-optimal. I have a personal policy of not using them. They become very much like a "shared secret" which you have to properly manage. I know LANs don't need world class security, but as someone who works in security I like to play around with doing things right.
The reason we're talking about this is because the Emmy award-winning network executive/producer/writer/reporter Anne Emerson made it her biggest story on ABC4 today[0]. The YouTube video has almost a million views, which is a lot more than these HN threads will have. It's the top post on r/interestingasfuck today[1], tied for 2nd most popular this week. It's referenced in the top post of r/wallstreetbets today[2] (bullet point #2).

I inserted nuanced opinion to help steer discussion away from emotional knee-jerk responses with no substance, to something a bit more productive. I haven't seen a lot of that in these threads, so I'm happy they're getting de-ranked. I don't think it's fair to characterize me the way you are.

0: https://abcnews4.com/news/local/if-anything-happens-its-not-...

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/top/?t=day

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/top/?t=day
Also, Reading Mode in the sidebar of Chrome.

The days of square monitors and wall-to-wall text have been over for a while.
> sale by owner without a realtor is a thing (at least many places?)

Realtors are not allowed to help you buy FSBO properties. If you have a contract with a buying agent (which most will require) then you can't buy an FSBO. So basically you have to choose -- get access to the 97% of listings that are done by Realtors, or the 3% that are FSBO (and get no help with it).

You also can't buy a house listed by a Realtor without your own Realtor.

That is why it is a cartel. Because the monopolize the listings and then refuse to work with anyone not in their system.

And it's not that easy to get a Real Estate license.

To your restaurant analogy, imagine if you could only eat in a restaurant if also owned one and had a restaurant license. It would be similar to that.
It is not.

Both pasta and beet juice are group 1 unprocessed foods. Combining group 1 foods does not create a group 4 food.

WHERE IS ALL OF THIS COMING FROM? Is there some kind of food lobby front organization flooding social media with "your freshly baked bread is ultraprocessed according to GUBMINT NERDS" in order to defang the word?

Here is a good definition of ultra-processed:

>Ultra-processed foods are industrial formulations made entirely or mostly from substances extracted from foods (oils, fats, sugar, starch, and proteins), derived from food constituents (hydrogenated fats and modified starch), or synthesized in laboratories from food substrates or other organic sources (flavor enhancers, colors, and several food additives used to make the product hyper-palatable). Manufacturing techniques include extrusion, moulding and preprocessing by frying. Beverages may be ultra-processed. Group 1 foods are a small proportion of, or are even absent from, ultra-processed products.
> using a shared intermediate representation (something along the lines of an AST).

This is more of a past idea (e.g. sexpr) than a new one, fwiw. Whether or not it's due for revisiting is unclear.
Oh sorry, I wasn't trying to say it wasn't a scam. Just explaining why ice cream machines would be harder to maintain/install than something like a grill and why there might be limited options on who to go with.
"Cutting" isn't a normal diet. Weight lifters do track their macros more closely to make sure they're getting enough protein on a caloric deficit. It's very easy to starve yourself "the wrong way" while doing it. It's absolutely niche. Of 300 million Americans, during an obesity epidemic, how many do you think are cycling bulking and cutting?

It's ridiculously easy to get your recommended daily averages even as a vegetarian without thinking about it. Rice and beans? Complete amino acid profile. Same with bread and butter. But let's get into statistics and leave the anecdata behind us! Most Americans are consuming double their recommended protein intake, but half the fiber: https://www.deseret.com/2024/1/30/24055585/americans-eating-...
Just an FYI, there are some guidelines and a FAQ linked at the bottom of this page. A useful one:

> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put *asterisks* around it and it will get italicized.

In other words, don't SHOUT EVERYTHING. Just like when speaking with people in person, shouting is generally a rude thing to do. If you want to emphasize something, just use asterisks around it: *emphasize* becomes emphasize (double up the *'s like ** or use \* if you want to include an asterisk literally).
They're really not comparable standard libraries. For the most part, the "batteries included" features in the Go standard library are the idiomatically accepted versions of those features in the community, which is not something you can say about Python's standard library. It's a major difference. Using something other than net/http would be a code smell in Go code, but using urllib would maybe almost be a code smell in Python.