skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The composition of the population is less important to this calculus than the composition of Israel's political leadership. It was already known that Netanyahi/Likud allowed Hamas to grow stronger to prevent unification of Gaza and the West Bank. Allowing the Oct. 7 attack gave him every excuse to prosecute total war on the Gazans, while maintaining a great deal of moral and financial support, especially from the US and Britain. Allowing your enemy to take first blood in order to justify annihilating them is a ploy as old as time.

Note also that there is a distinction between Hamas and Gaza. Prior to the invasion, Hamas had weak support among Gazans - I think in part because they understood that their extremism was to blame for the blockade and ongoing hardships in the region. It may also be because Hamas systematically embedded its military infrastructure in civilian areas, and they knew what this would mean for them if war broke out. So its particularly evil that Netanyahu propped up a weak Hamas and then invaded with the intention of wiping it out. He prevented the Gazans from voting out the extremists and saving themselves the experience of this atrocity.

FWIW Netanyahu (or Israel, as a state) has never spoken once about wiping out "Arabs". Whereas Hamas' stated goal, as with Iran, is to wipe out Jews (and the West).
Looks like op staff were overwelmed by oncall duty false alarms.

Yeah the best way to fix errors is to ... just ignore them.

I think any sophisticated system that requires a bureaucratic staff to operate is doomed to fail.
Gruber has always been an Apple fanboy, but in the past few months it's taken a turn into ragebait territory, and i'm this close to stopping reading it
I feel like a trillion dollar company and a group like Mozilla could fix that very easily.
> If it's a credit card or digital wallet, the transaction passes through the credit card or debit card networks, and your info is logged and, depending on laws, potentially re-sold.

The reliance on credit card networks is part of the problem. There's no way to avoid them. And they're all from the US. This causes privacy issues but also moral problems because they tend to block sexually oriented products and services. In Europe a lot of countries are way more progressive than the US.

I was hoping bitcoin would become this system but obviously it's been completely hijacked by speculators and its original purpose of control of ones own money has been perverted.

There really should be a digital alternative for cash though. It's really silly that we still have to drag around pieces of linen and metal.

And no, I don't trust Google for anything at all. I don't want them making money off of me. I also block a lot of ads of course.
Hard line right wing Israelis started funding Hamas because towards the end of the leadership of Arafat, Palestine was much more willing to adopt a two state solution, and it would have been awkward for Israel to be asked “if these ‘terrorists’ are willing to compromise, why aren’t you?”

So they helped Hamas rise.

People like to point to “from the river (Jordan) to the (Red) sea” as “evidence” that Palestinians hate the Jewish people, but that ignores that that phrase was literally the election campaign for Likud (Netanyahu) in the 1970s and formed the back bone of the Israeli rights policy to this day.

Also, Hamas is less than 40,000 people in a country of 3 million, so generalizations aren’t helpful.
Historically, Amex always required a separate retailer relationship and to act as its own acquirer. I don't know how true that is any more. They've just always been the awkward one, with higher fees and special relationships. Also they used to use ANSI standards on some stuff where everyone else used ISO... but that's going back 20 years!
> where space heaters are use

There are space heater sized heat pumps? I could definitely use some. We've got a few cold areas of the house that don't get enough heat in winter but a remodel isn't going to happen any time soon.
Figure out something complicated that people do in Excel. Make a chatbot do it.
i agree but you discuss verbosity and not complexity
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) made significant strides in its space program today with the successful landing of its Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), named ‘Pushpak.’ The landing took place at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) in Challakere, Karnataka, at approximately 7:00 am.
Thanks!

I chose it because I wanted to learn more about passkeys and I liked the idea that I wouldn’t have to deal with private credentials themselves; just save a public key to my database. I use both KeePassXC and Bitwarden and they’re slowly getting support for passkeys (currently only on desktop).

I briefly had the ability to add a new passkey to the same account but wanted to keep it simple for my friends and not confuse them more. If that’s something that could help I’d be open to adding it in again.
No, but I'm not talking about Phil. People here are claiming no one can work that much. You can, but it's not healthy or sustainable.
> It’s just something old white guys said in the 1960s without support, like Jungian archetypes and things like that.

It is that, but it's not just that; the concept is attested farther back.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola#Disputed

> Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.

If Voltaire invented it from whole cloth, that's still the 18th century.

Though on your topic, Piaget is an amazing example of someone just inventing a completely ridiculous theory, doing experiments that fail to support it, and getting it enshrined as wisdom anyway.
is it me or the washington post making money off obituaries kinda weird?
You can spiral a football.
Well, if you include the cost of decontaminating the Hanford site, amongst others, the numbers grow rapidly. Once the B-29 was done, it was done.
At this point it's a cliché to share this article, as much as I love gwern lol.
I am a window seat fan not because I can look out the window (although I generally do on ascent/descent) but because when I pass out in economy I don't end up resting my head on my seat mate's shoulder :)
I bought 2 new retail boxed WOF 7402's in 2020 for $734.54 USD each. 96 threads and 256 MiB L3 total, decent single- and multi-core performance. So I can't currently justify upgrading to (used) 7742/7702/7H12, much less any form of Milan or later chips. I also looked into upgrading to 1, 2, or 4 TiB of RAM, but the costs still remain absurd.

I guess I'll take my type-1 virtualized, 2 Romes, 0.5 TiB DDR4-3200 RDRAM, 32 TiB NVMe SSDs, and ~150 TiB net RAID10 of Ultrastar HDD until the wheels fall off, because it's more than I'll need for almost any purpose. Whenever I need more temporarily, I rent it rather than sink personal $ into excess metal.

PS: During the pandemicfest, I shoehorned the H11DSi-NT into a Core V71 TGE with a bit of Dremeling and tapping holes. The case is rammed with enormous Noctua fans, an AX1600i PSU, and USB distribution for a TRNG and an HSM.
I will never pass up an opportunity to heap scorn on Gradle. I agree with everything said so far, except I would argue Ant was easier to use.

Every single Gradle build system I have encountered in the wilds of GitHub has been broken on Fedora. I eventually realised it works if I run it in an Ubuntu container (using "toolbox"). So it's only portable if you bundle up the OS with your build system.

Now it should be portable. It's written in a JVM language and every Gradle project I have seen commits a copy of the Gradle JAR to its GitHub repo, which gives me those arbitrary code execution heebie-jeebies.
I'll bite, who's forcing you to "pay for the BBC a fee for a service" you don't use?
I was looking for the dimensions of different sports balls for a trivia question[0] and found this website that contains renderings, dimensions, 3d models, and even just general wikipedia-like information on a ton of various objects. I love random sites like this that contain very specific information (like https://www.thistothat.com/ that tells you how to glue two materials together), but was particularly interested in how well-designed and polished this one was visually.

No affiliation (just now noticed there's paid tiers, I just used it for free for dimensions), just thought this was cool.

[0]: https://playdisorderly.com/puzzle/4z3W7e/ - Mentioned trivia question (disclaimer: my site)
The article links to another article[0] (way down in the final paragraph) about how some transit upgrades were put on hold because they were 50% funded by the congestion pricing:

> The MTA said money from congestion pricing makes up more than 50% of funding for the agency’s capital program

Presumably, those specific things can now get back underway:

> Projects that rely on the funding include modern signaling on the A train to Far Rockaway, more ADA-accessible stations and phase two of the Second Avenue subway.

[0] https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/transit/2024/02/16/mta-halt...
Eh, the USA’s history seems to confirm it. I’m not really sure about others, but I’d be surprised if countries that are dependent upon one another were at war with one another.
What's the point though of working so much you have no time left to live your life? Making money is just a means to be able to live IMO.
We had our first kid when I was about 37, and our second when I was about 43.

The part that's harder is that particularly with #2, I'm just a bit more tired, and he needs a lot of energy. It's not drastic, but I notice it.

The part that's emotionally harder is that I'm sad I won't be there when my kids are approximately my age. I'd love to be around longer to help if they have kids, etc., but statistically, I don't think it's too likely. I lost my own mom two years ago and that was very hard. Barring some advances in health care, my kids are likely to lose me in their 30s-40s as well. Losing a parent is never easy, but I think it would be easier a little later. My kids only have one grandparent left and I wish they still had two.

The part that's easier is exactly what you note: Life is pretty stable. We're financially sound. We've had years of growth and therapy to learn to communicate well and have a healthy relationship with each other and our kids. We can afford to support our kids well, be that with high quality daycare when they were young, or an emergency mid-year school shift (that was interesting), or medically, or whatnot.

Lots of tradeoffs. I plan to make the most of my time with them while they're still young. There's no clear answer on the balance other than doing one's best.
> only the rich remain driving around

Think about what it means to be rich. It isn't simply having more money. What it really means is having more options.

Because the rich have more options, they are the ones who can fly on a private jet, or first class, or sail on a yacht, or have a full-time car chauffeur.

America has essentially made it a societal goal to allow 100% of the adult population to drive. What a disaster this has been. Maybe cars should revert to being toys of the rich once again.
And that's how you tax the poor and the middle-class, and restrict their mobility by not investing in affordable public transportation. (Don't forget that in the US, you are forced to own a vehicle due to the lack of affordable and good public transportation). Taxes aren't meant just for building infrastructures but are also a mean to reduce income inequality and provide opportunities for those neglected or exploited by the society. Taxing the poor or the middle class too much works against this principle. But I guess that's too "socialist" for most Americans.
It seems that the R2 free tier is "Available on Workers Paid plan" which is being replaced by the "Standard plan" [1].

I interpret this as saying that you can't get R2 literally for free. Looks like Cloudflare KV could work, with values that go up to a bit over 25MB.

$5 per month is very reasonable if you're using it for real, though.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-pricing-scale-to-zero/
A Guide to Open-Source Image Generation Models
1. Open source is a well-defined model and I reasonably expect Databricks to be aware of this due to their use of open source models in their other projects.

2. The stated licensing terms are clearly and decisively not open source.

3. It is reasonable to conclude that this model is dual licensed, under this restrictive proprietary license, and an undisclosed open source license.

4. Just use this Model under the open source license with the assumption that they will release the open source license later.

I jest. In all seriousness, you should just disregard their licensing terms entirely as copyright does not apply to weight. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39847147
For context, MST or magnetic secure transmission, allows a phone to transmit an EM signal that emulates the physical action of swiping a magstripe based card. As in, it works with all the legacy "card swipe" terminals. Samsung phones up to like the S20(?) supported this, allowing them to technically work basically everywhere with no integration needed.
as an owner of my softbound copy of TF&S I was surprised there wasn't one here already. (I saw the WSJ article drop the minute it posted, as a subscriber.) RIP, Prof. K.
You make it sound like they have no alternative. A literal majority of the city uses the trains regularly. The person you're describing can just live within walking distance of a station. The $20k they arent paying for the car and tolls should be just about enough for the rent on a 1 bedroom.
It's not even clear that the dual process system 1/system 2 metaphor is accurate at all, so it may not be possible to redeem a book whose thesis is that the dual process model is correct.

It's not just that individual studies have failed to replicate. The whole field was in question at least a decade before the book was written, and since then many of the foundational results have failed to replicate. The book was in a sense the last hurrah of a theory that was on its way out, and the replication crisis administered the coup de grace IMO.
The difference is that you can be reasonably sure that an email will be delivered to the user's address that they specified, and there is a common understanding that sharing your email credentials will result in immediate financial loss. The communication is out-of-band, as SMTP is not an authentication protocol, so the user must perform some affirmative action (such as clicking a link in the email) to authenticate the request.

With SSO, the claim that a user is authentic lies completely with the provider. If there is a bug in the implementation, a user could be authenticated when they should not be, and the actual account owner may never even be notified that such an authentication occurred.
These patches are allowed to leak exactly 0 bits of meaningful non-public information about the payload.
I feel like the incentives are already aligned, and Apple doesn't need Mozilla to discontinue Firefox in order to make a more competitive browser.
Phone calls / text messages
I independently arrived at the same conclusion and implemented the excess tv_nsec proposal to Chrono [1] back when I first designed it. This decision remains controversial to this day for several good reasons, unfortunately [2].

[1] https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/naive/struct.NaiveTime....

[2] https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/954
I drafted an entry for Lil: https://fll.presidentbeef.com/lang/lil
LocalChannels
LocalChannels ->

I wanted to explore a few technical areas, particularly packaging with Homebrew and using Rust as a CLI tool. Additionally, I am eager to give back to a community that has brought me joy over the past 10 years.

So, to be frank (though that's not my name), I grew tired of paying for ngrok for a basic use case: routing public -> local tunneling during development, with a persistent configuration I could start and stop as required.

LocalChannels is about the millionth public to local tunnel tool posted here. It's not groundbreaking; it uses SSE to route the requests to your local machine.

The platform is limited to 1000 "tenants" to maintain performance, and up to three persistent channels per tenant - so once it's full, it's full. I hope someone finds it useful :)
Aragorn II did.
They probably won’t do that in the current antitrust climate. I hope the DOJ and the EU continue probing the big companies because I’m sick and tired of my non-ecosystem device choices not working well together.
Something that's missing from all of these discussions is that transactions on Apple Pay (and all similar wallets like Google Pay, Samsung Pay etc.) are now just as trackable as those done using the underlying card number.

While the DPAN is unique to a given device, the merchant's payment service provider these days can receive a unique identifier called PAR in the authorization response from the card network. That identifier is consistent across all DPANs for the same card (and aspirationally even across card number changes on the same underlying account).

The PAR can't be charged by any merchant, so this is not a security problem, but don't expect your digital wallet payments to be any more private than those done using your regular card or card number.

https://wcapra.com/payment-account-reference-capraplus-your-...

https://www.securetechalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/EMVCo-...
i expected this to be something incendiary to be flagged. instead i think it is well said. from the concluding paragraphs:

But can one truly be so ignorant as to advocate widespread violence in the name of peace?
When the world is rendered in black-and-white—portrayed as a simple fight between colonizer and colonized—the answer is yes.
Solutions, by this logic, are absolute: Israel or Palestine, nothing in between.
Either you support liberation of the oppressed or you support genocide.
Either Stanford is all good or all bad; all in favor of free speech or all authoritarian; all anti-Semitic or all Islamophobic.

it's not unusual (understatement) to see this HN crowd fall into the black-and-white-with-nothing-in-between trap and it's a trap that particularly afflicts the smartest of people. we should work hard to recognize and avoid it.
The Windows Problem: How I added Window's self-escalation to ZVM
Put a social link button to every single social media website even if you have to put 20 buttons and share some stats on 1) how many times a person reading the article clicked on one of the buttons 2) which were the top 3 buttons clicked?
This site makes me glad to have a 49" wide monitor. (Click around to the various projections: maps, statistics, etc. Very interesting!)
Meta-studies seem to indicate that the preponderance of the evidence is against, not for, scary side effects. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481923/
A special class of robbers for sure. Some may even call it parasitism and it wouldnt be easy to disagree unless looked at it from an awkward distorted angle where it could look justified..
Except in lower Manhattan those bus lanes are taken over by clueless tourists or entitled folks driving around. Pretty much an everyday occasion near Union square.
This is not boilerplate, otherwise every cloud provider would have this and they do not. This problem can be solved by much less broad terms.
How do you do an in-place merge in linear time (i.e. without blowing up the time complexity)? I've been chasing that for many years with no solution. https://www.nayuki.io/page/is-there-an-ideal-comparison-sort
>> we didn’t pay for the track in most cases

> Could you elaborate?

I presume this is a reference to the fact that over 70% of the track used by Amtrak is owned by freight companies.

https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
This is just putting them on a similar model (user pays). Currently, a train ticket has to cover the capital and operating costs of both the vehicle (train, driver) and tracks. For driving, the driver pays the operating and capital cost of the vehicle only - the road budget comes out of general revenue (of the city, state, etc).

Your suggestion of dropping the cost just means the transit agency would have to make up the cost elsewhere - any suggestions? General revenues backed by a tax hike? Shifting burden of track construction and maintenance fully to tax-funded?
No Americans from elite universities here at Fly.io (W20).
Good on you for trying to clean up the internet. Btw, also consider https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s... which would open the native system share UI (which may actually include any native client apps the user has installed).
You are making the same point I am without realizing.

For the rich, it's a negligible expense. For the poor, it's a major inconvenience (scenario you described) or cost.

So mainly the city expects it'll get free money out of the people who will still drive in. The only folks who will contribute to decreased congestion are the ones for whom $15/d is meaningful.
Does that automate login to a captive portal?
Free street side parking, I imagine? I would like to see that.
Color me unsurprised. The VA business has only gotten more competitive as time has progressed - the majority of VA work is surprisingly just close to the natural sounding voice of the VA themselves. (Rarely is a cartoonish or outlandish voice required).

TTS systems like ElevenLabs, etc. are going to heavily disrupt the industry in the next few years particularly with voice-to-voice mapping, e.g. regular John Doe quickly records the line in an angry voice, "THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY!", then maps the emotion/inflection onto the desired TTS voice model.

VA licensing will also become a thing but plenty of major studios that would require hundreds of voices for video games and other things don't have to license known voices at all, they can just create generate brand new ones and pay zero licensing fees.
Once had a teller deposit in my account 1,000,000 instead of 10,000.00.

Noticed as I was leaving. They kind of nervously laughed and fixed it.
But you're not building that AI server from the chip level, you're buying it.

If most of the money is made from renting servers, the manufacturers will only rent servers. They have nothing to gain by cutting themselves out of the revenue stream and introducing a secondary market.
The hassle of "opting out" might be the force referred to:

The cat detector van can pinpoint a purr at 500 yards.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
Exactly this. I don’t know many lower income folks affording on call doctors, and those who can afford it can also afford an extra $15 charge on their bill, god knows how much they’re paying already anyway.
I would never expect anything to get more private ever again short of acts of government.
I’ve seen it previous benchmarks that seem aimed at M2, but to me this doesn’t compare favorably against M2 MacBook Air which seems happy to run BG3 at 30fps @ 1440p. but to really compare we need to know the MSRP of these configurations.
Yeah it’s definitely not like 2021 here in Seattle but it’s not as bad as what the poster is describing.
Do you like making money and lots of money, big houses, cheap cars, and the ability to make even more money?
Then move to America.

Do you like having a higher quality of life, cool walkable cities, exotic med vacation spots that are honestly better than the carribbean, and several different cultures and languages 1 to 3 hours way?
Then move to Europe.

Don't get me wrong, I've lived in Europe and it's very nice but I would rather make lots of money in America. European countries have a different set of problems that offset the many benefits they have.

My European friends have asked me how much I make and they've all consistently say I make as much money as a veteran senior executive.
I had a similar experience. After it was released in the US, I took a trip to the Netherlands. I had a lot of “how did you do that?” reactions from merchants when I paid for things with my phone.