skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hamas has, for a very long time, refused to recognize that Israel has any right to exist anywhere in former Mandatory Palestine.

Why is this piece of misinformation so pervasive?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/hamas-new-char...
Can't help but think their brains have been poisoned by Rupert Murdoch and Conrad Black. See the same in Canada with people crying foul over the CBC being taxpayer funded. As if the state ceding 100% of news media to private, corporate interests would be for the betterment of society.
This is all fine for lower levels.

For executives, there are only a few paths:

- take over your boss’s job when they retire/get fired. (One can slowly go from individual contributor to vice president this way!)

- fit non-competence based corporate goals and have the polish to visibly demonstrate such (industry track record not required!). More about fluff than stuff…

- have strong corporate political alliances with higher leaders

None of this has anything to do with vision, ability, or merit.
It’s amazing how different the customs can be.

I’ve only received a check once in my life, in 2004 from a US company. I could not cash it with my regular (online) bank in Poland.
I had to open a foreign currency account with the national bank, just for this check, and go to their special customer service department in person, at their HQ. It was like bringing them an alien artifact.
Yeah the Israeli left has come to accept that the final solution is to push the Gazans into Sinai as exemplified by Benny Morris' opinion that he has stated repeatedly since October 7th.
Hi. Thanks for your comment! I wrote the post to show that adding a reranking step can actually help save memory from the perspective of someone working with databases. In many cases, there may not be a lot of vectors involved. By including a reranking step, you can significantly reduce the amount of memory needed for the index.

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This looks a lot like logic programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_programming
Did Tolkein somehow keep track of all this in his head, or did he draw family trees himself?

And are there any examples of mistakes in LOTR where he messes up the chronology or anything like that?
And why might this quote be related to the Boeing topic?

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/612389-the-three-most-harmf...

Skin in the Game!
There was an additional edit. I agree with that sentiment, I don't necessarily blame Mr. Stoll and I would probably do the same if I were in his shoes to be honest, but the exaggerations had a major developmental detriment to me. The god damned bottles are pretty amazing. The damn criminals were wrong, and it is good that he was able to bring justice. For all the things I have fault with, he increased visibility on a lot of issues.
I think it's just different math.

The 15 basis points Apple supposedly charges for with card payments from Apple Pay is meant to come from the fraud budget; that a biometric-based authentication is consider both more secure and easier to counter payment disputes. The rest comes from the convenience and hope that actually results in more card payments.

In the US where there's no PIN, fraud is high. Parts of the country are still heavily cash based, so there's a good margin to gain if added convenience results in more card payments.

For heavily credit card based markets with chip-and-pin, you have less fraud concerns and less to gain from convenience.

My take though is that even if apple opens up the NFC chip, they aren't opening up the Secure Enclave. So even if a bank app can take over the NFC chip, they still will have secrets in memory at some point without a new P-256 based payment protocol.

Unless this is a new app backed by a bank cartel, you'll also go from being able to use multiple cards to just one first-party card.

This all leads to my opinion of a pretty wonky situation - opening NFC up probably increases the value of Apple Pay, since it can now be compared to other software-based wallets by users, and Apple Pay support again becomes a differentiator for the payment card.
The merchant's payment service provider receives a unique identifier for the card these days, which was explicitly designed for loyalty and transit use cases: https://www.securetechalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/EMVCo-...

> Same for transit like OMNY in NYC. It tracks my virtual card enough to implement fare capping.

That's per DPAN, though. Capping doesn't work across devices (or people would just add their cards to friends' and family members' iPhones and split the capped fare).
>The problem is that it's nearly impossible to convey to a childless person how meaningful parenthood will be to their life.

Why does that even need to be conveyed? Whether you have kids or not is none of my business, and vice versa. If anything, the more I hear some variant of "maek keedz und haev famili" like some broken record the more I find the notion preposterous.

Just leave everyone to their devices. Those who want or are interested in kids will have them and those who don't won't, regardless what anyone feels obliged to tell them.

As for me personally? I consider the notion of romantic love a mental illness. I find the concept of marriage to be fundamental violations of an individual's human rights. I find the proposal of continuing my bloodline, and more broadly the human race, without value. I am happy to be single and without issue until my dying breath and I certainly couldn't care less what others do in their bedroom, so kindly take your high horse and please leave for greener pastures.
Olive Oil
Chocolate
and now maple syrup.

Feels like every niche product is having some random supply "issue" just to sock it to consumers.

Waiting for the cereral industry to blame the Key Bridge collapse for a rise in Captain Crunch prices.
George Marshall who was, among other things, Chief of Staff of the Army during WWII was lauded for his policy of yanking commanding generals if they didn't adapt to new positions quickly. But he lessened the stigma of being relieved by transferring them to other commands, still at flag rank. Several commanders early in '42 were removed from commanding infantry divisions, but were given commands of units in combat support or material support or training where they went on to deliver stellar service. So it was like finding the right guy (and it definitely was a guy back in those days) for the right job.

This is in contrast to continental armies with aristocratic baggage who found it difficult to fire flag grade commanders (looking at you, monty.)

But the political risk to his own career was enormous and the only way he got away with it was with the full support of FDR and his reputation earned partially as Pershing's Chief of Staff in WWI.

He is also the only person in the US Army to be considered for the rank of Field Marshall, mostly because FDR thought it would be funny to have Field Marshal Marshall.

Which is to say... you might be able to cheat the Peter Principal, but the amount of effort seems great and you would have to work very hard to sooth the egos of those demoted or reframe the demotion as a lateral xfer.
https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv...

> Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.

> Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Topkek. Stoll always struck me as nothing more than an opportunist with little actual technical acumen who happened to be in the right place (a university computer lab) at the right time (dark ages of computer security, and the last decade of the cold war). At best he was a siren, being one of the first to sound the alarm about the importance of security, but he could hardly do anything to actually prevent the unauthorized accesses he dramatized, and I wonder if he even would have discovered them had his adversaries cared more.
Is SpaceX running out of patience with slow, or near nonexistent growth of so-called launch market?
If the people paying the tolls work everyday in New York, then I think it would be reasonable to consider them to effectively be New Yorkers as much as they are New Jersiers (New Jersites?).

Like you say though, it's complicated. Especially when you have New York and Jersey City that in a lot of ways are almost one city that happens to be in two states.
Large retailers were doing this a decade ago.

Doesn't MAC randomization used by both Apple and Android devices make this redundant?
> What about the cost of a hospital bill after getting sucker punched in the face?

I'd be very surprised if the risk of an expensive injury wasn't significantly when higher driving vs. taking the train. Surely driving must be riskier? It's one of the riskiest things modern humans do. Maybe the NYC traffic is bad enough that you're never going a dangerous speed?
>>I'm not familiar with NYC…

All I needed to read
Wait. A computer matched her with him? I don't think so.
The video was replaced by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZEBkOrfUzM because of an error.
(1) Pension funds don't have LPs

(2) Pension funds often are LPs, and they're widely refereed to as "dumb money" because they would be the last entity to do anything remotely intelligent.

(3) Private companies often do not even produce the kind of information talked about here, let alone do they give it to their investors, let alone do those investors pass the information along.

If you are "willing to bet" on all those things, then I can see why casinos are so profitable.
Options are just a way of stating a view on a distribution, you can structure trades to cap risk in exchange for lower payoff and so on.
The subtitle is rather telling, when combined with the title:

How Big Tech is losing the wars of the future

The underlying assumption of the article is that we want AI to further centralize military power into the hands of fewer and fewer people.

Whenever that goal has been achieved in the past, it has been disastrous for human rights, scientific progress, and things like life expectancies and food security.

I’d rather Silicon Valley keep producing stuff like the printing press and gutenberg bible, and not work on reducing the costs of operating a new Spanish Inquisition or an S.S.-style surveillance apparatus.

Even if you trust the current Pentagon, there’s some other government that would misuse the technology. Also, you have no way of knowing who will control the Pentagon in 50-100 years.
"It feels like the very tool that was meant to liberate us instead made us beholden to its pings."

same as it ever was. email is still abused as an notification system, for example. chat was destined to repeat some of those mistakes.
FUD. Collecting randomised MAC addresses is hardly something I would worry about. And if you are paranoid you turn off the wifi.
> (and aspirationally even across card number changes on the same underlying account).

My local Australian bank (NAB) does this. I imagine it's pretty normal across most credit cards here.
I'd love to read these criticism sources. I guess I believe there was a holistic educational experience of the computer products of this kind that many modern vendors, for example, consider LLMs to foster, but I definitely agree with the idea that LLM benefits are a kind of illusion and harm.
The problem with patterns allowed to be expressions that simply evaluate to an object to be matched is that this gets in the way of doing potentially more useful things, like predicates, so it's kind of a waste:

TXR Lisp:

1> (match (@a @(= (+ a 1))) '(1 3) a)
** match: (@a @(= (+ a 1))) failed to match object (1 3)
1> (match (@a @(= (+ a 1))) '(1 2) a)
1

An expression is treated as a predicate. The object being matched, like 2, is inserted as a right argument into it: (= (+ a 1) <obj>).

If you try the following, you get a surprising result:

2> (match (@a @(+ a 1)) '(1 3) a)
1

It is more verbose, but we can do more. We don't have to test for exact equality; e.g. @(< a) will match something that is greater than the previously matched a.

Capture a b that is greater than previously captured a:

3> (match (@a @(< a @b)) '(1 3) (list a b))
(1 3)

Or fail trying:

4> (match (@a @(< a @b)) '(1 0) (list a b))
** match: (@a @(< a @b)) failed to match object (1 0)

We could treat certain functions differently; since + isn't a relational function producing a Boolean result, equality could be inserted implicitly to generate a predicate.

But, rather than that hack, there is a different one: user-defined patterns. We can have @(+ a 1) as a pattern by defining + as a pattern operator:

1> (defmatch + (. args) ^@(= (+ ,*args)))
+

Then:

2> (match (@a @(+ a 1)) '(1 2) a)
1
3> (match (@a @(+ a 1)) '(1 3) a)
** match: (@a @(+ a 1)) failed to match object (1 3)
If you define “goaded” as “put into a situation in which a different response wouldn’t have been possible”, then it’s the correct word. The Israelis could have decided to "end the back and forth once and for all" five years ago or five years from now, but they didn’t— they decided to do it now.
It is indeed a very weird way of talking, characteristic of prepared statements and forced apologies.
iOS404 – The missing web features of iOS (from caniuse data)
See the missing iOS caniuse features against Chrome for Android, Firefox for Android, and/or Safari Desktop.
Has anyone experimented with polyphasic sleep? There was a very interesting blog on "Uberman" sleep cycle (nap every 4 hours) in the 2000s, called Puredoxyk. The author tried it due to insomnia and found it very helpful. Later she developed Everyman (short "core sleep" plus several flexible naps), which works better with work and family.

I tried Uberman a few times but I seem quite nap resistant... I only ever have those catastrophic 5 hour naps, which isn't very helpful here.

I'd spend the first few days of adaptation completely sleep deprived, then finally pass out and sleep through all the alarms.

Steve Pavlina wrote about his experiences with Uberman. Says the most useful thing he got out of it was that now (back to normal sleep) he can instantly nap anytime he wants to.

Also related and fascinating: N24, zeitgebers, etc.
How does a randomized mac address or "ip address" provide demographic info? Either this is terrible tech journalism because they're making shit up or it's terrible tech journalism because the company is doing something much more concerning but they don't understand it and can't articulate it.
Supporting hardware features equivalent to a high-end graphics card of the mid 1990s

I see no one else has asked this question yet, so I will: How VGA-compatible is it? Would I be able to e.g. plug it into any PC with a PCIe slot, boot to DOS and play DOOM with it?
Are there aspects you miss in modern UIs?
The CPU emulator tries to be pretty accurate about timing, but the I/O is not throttled, so that might be unrealistically fast (depending on your Internet connection).
If they don’t convey information why would they bother collecting it?
> in chinese culture for example the young couple moves in with the husbands parents, and so grandparents are always around to give advice and help.

Same for Indians. And 90% of Indian dramas are about mother in laws butting heads with daughter in laws.

Obviously, a daughter in law that earns sufficient money herself is not going to give up her agency, and many in laws who are expecting the deference they had to give their in laws when they were young are going to have trouble meshing with the new power dynamic.
Sure, that would be true. I think people are more interested in talking about the AI we actually have today.
Murdered whistleblower*
There's a wiki page about inconsistencies: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Possible_inconsistencies_in_...
What's the best way to anonymously ruin their data?
The big difference between using an ID to buy alcohol and using your ID to access a site is data retention. I can get a drink by showing my ID, the person serving me doesn’t need to keep my information to keep an auditable record. Without an accountable third party auditing solution (some sort of accredited lab situation), I wouldn’t trust a website to take my ID and not save/redistribute that information for other purposes.

What is the result of this sort of regulation though? Now the sites which don’t operate in the US will simply skirt the regulation. What is Texas going to do, sue xHamster? Why would they bother to comply? Does Texas now start limiting the type of traffic allowed through the infrastructure within the state?
I do not see your verbiage on that page. Can you point me to it?

Edit: You seem to be referring to this quote of yours:

> Why else would someone get promoted "until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent" if one's competence increases with a promotion?

My response explained why your leaps in logic don't make sense. That line just means there's a point at which their skills won't apply. Not that every rung above results in reduced competence. You can be better and better and then worse and the Peter Principle would still be applicable.

The Peter Principle is just about the changing competencies as one rises and how one hits a wall.
funnily enough, every person i saw getting stopped by police and having their bag checked was wearing camo. it isn't illegal by any means but at least anecdotally it seems like police will profile you. have you noticed that too?
Even if the 3-4 step leap you've made here pans out, they basically said they'll keep the perpetual version alongside the cloud/subscription(/AI?) version. I think at this point you're just looking for things to be mad about.
Developing a new airframe is enormously expensive. This incentivizes reducing the risk of it as much as one can.

For example, when I worked on the 757 stab trim gearbox, my lead engineer suggested I do a design study on using a planetary gearbox rather than a differential gearbox. The former was significantly lighter.

The study went up a few levels of management, and was nixed because the differential box was a proven and well-understood design on other aircraft (747).
> Is it really that difficult to use discord for it’s original intended purpose?

In my experience, Discord is no more or less buggy than Teamspeak or Mumble
That still works for me. I've been telling people that LLMs are inherently gullible, and asking them how they are accounting for that in their software designs.

I agree: I don't think gullibility will be solved by LLMs alone. The key thing is that people building software on top of LLMs understand that and use that knowledge to avoid making bad design decisions.

See also: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/20/mitigate-prompt-inject...
An unusually heartfelt, insightful article on the fundamental challenges of what today is called Effective Altruism.

I started out in social entrepreneurship, motivated in a similar way.

What I have learned, in my personal, professional, and civic life is that “hero” is not a term to aspire to.

Dr. Karpman developed a theory of the “Villain, Victim, Hero” drama triangle. Among his many powerful observations, he noted that a Hero requires a Victim and a Villain.

I resisted this insight with all my being for a long time. In a world of Villains and Victims, I felt being a Hero was the right choice.

Now having spent a significant amount of time with NGOs, friends on the ground, researchers, and a lifetime of GuideStar data, it is very clear to me that a Hero is not what the world needs.

Instead, I recommend studying Transformative Action, which you can read about in a great book called ”Switch” and another “Diffusions of Innovation.”

The fundamental misstep of applying philosophy to other people’s lives is that it diminishes others to a 2D caricature of solveable problems.

The scarring and striking distance between good intentions & what actually happens on the ground is not a problem to fix. It is another unsolvable problem, aka Drama.

Thankfully, we do have real world solutions for bringing positive transformation, but they don’t fit the marketing engine that fuels today’s philanthropy.

It’s an open secret that non-profits are good at solving problems or raising money for them, not both.

What I now understand is that problem isn’t one of skills or technology. It’s that the fantasy of philanthropy is that wealthy, successful individuals can solve other people’s problems.

They almost never can.

The only way social problems are solved durably is by those who have experienced them, with support.

But as we can so clearly see with GiveWell and so many others, the need of a Hero to take credit (or make their donors feel like they deserve it) is greater than the desire or ability to empower.

It’s not a cycle worth repeating.
> Interestingly, living within our carbon budget scares you, but not climate change

No. What’s scares me is a bunch of people willing to resort to authoritarianism to impose their will and moralities on other people to get their way who ought to know better from literally the whole of human history. Your argument is the same tired shit I have heard for decades from various groups with an eye and agenda for control and power (evangelicals, fascists, elitists, now these leftist authoritarians) and its always the same lame excuse—“They are not educated and cannot be trusted”.
Im currently putting kids to bed and dead tired. So I will dig up stuff and post a better response tomorrow.

But tl,dr: most everything I did was SSH based for network. Otherwise document editing, pdf viewing etc worked fine. I had a turbo color 33mhz with 128mb of ram.

I also had a ton of custom compiled replacement libraries friends and I worked on and we managed to get newer openSSL working with omniweb etc. I was able to use html mode gmail even! :)
What will it cost to run said brains? But, much more intriguing, what is this source of infinite accuracy?
This only mildly feels like “Tech skills” to me:

I have set a goal for myself to walk 500 miles (tracked exercise) before going to a specific conference. So I built a spreadsheet that tracks my progress, estimates how many miles a day I need, how far ahead (or behind) I am, and the estimated date that I’ll finish. I just passed the first 100 miles threshold, and looking at my progress helps me stay focused and excited about the goal.
Because 4/5ths of the tech sector has been built on the back of absurdly low interest rates and gesturing to the future, shrugging your shoulders and saying "monetizing user data"?
I don’t think I follow.

Suppose I buy a share in a company specifically because I believe in their business and products.

I think that’s pretty clearly investing, but are you claiming it would cease to have been an investment if the company went bust?
VCs talking about other VCs to pretend VCs are important people