skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Avoiding Traffic Tickets with Ghost Plates [video]
Even in Poland the median household disposable income (the metric I am using for China) comes out to around $600/mo [0] and is comparable to Thailand.

Polish boosterism is almost as annoying as Indian boosterism tbh - both seem to come from a place of insecurity and heavily play up some positives while ignoring the negatives. If you listen to Polish or Indian nationalists, you'd think Poland or India are major superpowers already and have been for decades.

Is this a side effect of PiS's hypernationalist media in the 2010s? Or is this some weird alt-right Catholic White Nationalism fetish?

[0] - https://stat.gov.pl/files/gfx/portalinformacyjny/pl/defaulta...
Darwin Turing Dawkins (Leonard Adleman) [pdf]
You forgot an 'l' to Mozilla
> We don't call Deno the new "true Node"

We don't? Maybe we should.
Vandalism on snakeyaml open source master branch
vandalism in README.md
Ridiculous fantasizing - there is simply no way that IBM would be able to build something as good as that.
And now we have 14 standards.
I believe that they should be roughly the same in a photography corpus density at quality 60. Consider filing an issue if some image is worse with jpegli.
Some have. Most of the IDFs current critics haven't. They get the news and conclude reasonably that the IDF deserves criticism over how it's conducting itself.

For example: "The army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians"

When a computer generates a target list of thousands, that's how tens of thousands of innocent people die.
You can always ship a better one next time!

I know I’m being a bit harsh, but the value prop of the product is extremely intriguing to me. It just feels like your team might forgetting that everyone else needs to know what your building in order to know what your building.
at 1:49 it's amazing
The Digital Planet
> And so much of traffic is now encrypted and served from a small number of CDNs, the ability of ISPs to shape traffic has been dramatically reduced.

Pointing to lasting effects from previous net neutrality violations as evidence that neutrality regulations are unnecessary doesn't seem like a very strong argument to me.

Or do you have an explanation for the dearth of p2p traffic (especially for voice and video conferencing) that isn't rooted in ISPs providing only a very locked-down "internet" service that barely permits anything other than www?
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There is a great reason for doing it: nothing else has worked.

Unilateral withdrawal from Gaza led to the tripling of rocket attacks. Multiple peace offers have been rejected. Limited Israeli retaliation and extensive international aid has meant the Palestinian civilian population is sufficiently insulated from the violence that they have no incentive to demand peace from their leaders.

When Palestine was sending children as suicide bombers, Israel decided to play defense and built walls that dramatically lowered the efficacy of suicide bombings. So the Palestinians switched to rockets. So Israel again played defense and built the iron dome. So Hamas switched to Oct. 7th. Do you think they should play defense again?

Tell me: what peace offer do you think Israel could make the Palestinians that would lead to a lasting peace? Tell me: if Israel surrendered unconditionally to the Palestinians, would the Israelis live in peace?
From my perspective, the main issue it causes (besides flood risks) is an overlapping state dependency that can process-bind large areas of fragmented memory.

So, if you try to unroll naive recursive code, than one wins n-many issues instead of 1 predictably separable one. Sure one could pass in a mutex etc., but it is back to using a global again and a single-core bounded context.

Best of luck, =)
Yeah it's hosted on Vercel + AWS for the backend
I was speaking in the context of JSON, where all numbers are decimal.
This is from the same team as JPEG XL, and there is no lock-in or overlay. It’s just exploiting the existing mechanics better by not doing unnecessary truncation. The new APIs are only required because the existing APIs receive and return 8-bit buffers.
> bombing hospitals and bombing aid workers

Yes on aid workers. The hospitals, unfortunately, appear to have been used for military purposes by Hamas. That makes them valid targets.
Is for all genre of things :)
> Carbon neutral is a useful feature but doesn’t solve that problem.

Uh... yes it does? A fossil-fuel free fuel production process that loses 2% to the atmosphere is still fifty times lower-impact (when considering output energy -- obviously production costs are different) than one that pulls 100% out of the ground.
The law has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge though, and will likely be overturned entirely on appeal.
How would it appear large in the sky though? Gravitational waves are out, maybe solar wind and light pressure were supposed to be keeping the planet orbiting higher? Or is the point that the planet was always close, but only cooled down enough for life after the star started cooling down?
Notifications on iOS are awful. I really want certain kinds of notifications (specifically calendar appointments) to bug me until I acknowledge them. Instead, they trigger once, and if I happen to be off in deep concentration on a programming issue, I miss them entirely. Everything else I tend to disable, but it's a huge disconnect between how I think something should work and what actually happens in the real world.

Meanwhile I get a notification right after paying for something using NFC. Why??? This makes no sense.
100m isn't especially big. Significantly less than turning radius for most ships, and laughably small compared to stopping distance.

Having said that, maneuvering is only one problem among many.
Discussions with lots of comments are routinely pushed down the stack. dang has commented on that a few times I think. Anyway it's not the subject, just the raw numbers of the activity.
Let me quote from the article:

> Lavender learns to identify characteristics of known Hamas and PIJ operatives, whose information was fed to the machine as training data, and then to locate these same characteristics — also called “features” — among the general population, the sources explained. An individual found to have several different incriminating features will reach a high rating, and thus automatically becomes a potential target for assassination.

It literally says that they use data from known Hamas members (we don't know what this data contains) as training data which is a recipe for making biased predictions. Hamas members represent a minority in Gaza (the total population is over 2 million people) and thus the real data is heavily imbalanced[0] and unless addressed leads to bad models.

On top of that, if you know anything about Machine Learning then you should be aware of models finding spurious correlations[1] in the data that make its predictions accurate on the available training and validation data and not so much once deployed and used with real data.

[0] https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/data-prep/con...

[1] https://thegradient.pub/shortcuts-neural-networks-love-to-ch...
Review of

Gaia’s Web: How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth

and

Environmentalism from Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet

https://archive.ph/KCh5V
any anyone who understands how capitalism works would understand this will never change under capitalism
If this Saima character is being shaken down by law enforcement in Pakistan, well... my heart truly bleeds for him.
That's not exactly a prediction. It was was standard operating procedure for Warsaw Pact nations. They used human intel which was possibly even worse because it could manipulated out of malice.
I'd bet there is a human in the loop, but the human isn't informed. Ie. "Your job is to press this button whenever that red light comes on".
Can I set the tuning to A=432Hz ?
More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924387
Some of Terraform's production will leak, the most of it will be burned, so the real outcome is a little more methane in athmosphere.
If it was just a matter of building up a large enough training set and corresponding model do you really think Amazon would be abandoning a technology they spent so much time, money and resources on, in a somewhat embarassing manner?
The Humans Behind Amazon's Just Walk Out Technology Are All over AI
Some people (and one particularly prominent American) do these two things simultaneously.
Roblox Accused of Concocting Illegal Gambling Ring for Minors
What on earth does that even mean?

(Besides "a foolish VC and his money are soon parted".)
Would you say the same about Solomon Islands?
Parsing untrusted input on a machine where failure could affect someone other than the person who provided the input is definitely a known case to be mindful of.

You'll want to cap the maximum allowed nesting depth. Even if not using recursion, you probably don't want untrusted input to be able to make your stack data structure allocate arbitrary amounts of memory.

If you do put a nesting limit in, you can do that equally well using an actual stack or recursion. (For example, I believe v8 still uses recursive descent for parsing JSON and JavaScript. It detects and handles stack overflows to ensure that untrusted input can't blow the stack and crash. I'm not sure if it's using a hardcoded nesting limit or actually trapping the stack/heap collision somehow.)
My father has a small orchard in Maine and he gifted me several trees including a clone of a "lost" variety called the "Canadian Strawberry".

https://fedcoseeds.com/trees/canadian-strawberry-apple-112

This tree is growing robustly alongside my numerous pawpaw trees and I look forward to getting some fruit in the next year or so. He makes cider every year from the apples he collects from all the feral trees in his area. It is always amazing to appreciate the difference in flavor from the different varieties he harvests.
Capitalists choose the laws
Sometimes the children really are wrong.
They probably just cribbed off the US algorithm for droning people in the tribal areas and Afghanistan.
Whenever you see the word "value," the critical question is "who's value." In the case of capitalism, it is wealth-weighted-people. In order to understand how the world works, picture a random sample of 10 wealth-weighted-people and ask yourself whether or not (screwball action) benefits them.
It converts to more CO2, and is also worse than CO2 during the short time
Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialog with AI
Wonder if that 30% include the cases where someone walks in, strolls around, and walks out without buying something? Which I see people do all the time, interested in the concept.
Wow, I didn't know about "Hermes 2 Pro - Mistral 7B", cheers!
I'm still seeing the normal AS714 prefixes in my table, both over direct IX peering sessions and via transit. If it's BGP, it's not an issue with their external announcements.
I’ve taken an excellent graduate class in thermodynamics, and I’ve never seen a definition of enthalpy that is both coherent and involves Legendre transforms.

Here’s my definition: the internal energy of the stuff in a box is a useful quantity, and one can call it E. But E is the energy needed to assemble the stuff in the box if you start with an empty box of the appropriate volume. This makes physical sense, and it’s perfectly fine for calculating things related to, say, anything that happens in a vacuum. Or anything that happens in a rigid box.

But we live in a very large atmosphere, we mostly do experiments at constant pressure. If you take a flexible baggy and assemble its contents, you need the energy to make the contents (that’s E) and also some extra energy to displace air to make room for the contents, and the latter part requires extra energy equal to P (the constant atmospheric pressure) times V (the volume of the bag).

So we give E + PV the fancy name “enthalpy”, and it turns out to be useful. Maybe there’s a Legendre transform somewhere, but I’ve never seen any use for it other than to try, poorly, to convince someone of its existence. And it’s genuinely awkward — energy and enthalpy are fairly general physical quantities that one could, in principle, measure, and one already needs to start constraining the system to think of them as functions of anything sensible.

And then the HVAC industry seems to have borrowed the term “enthalpy” to mean, roughly, “temperature and humidity”. And “energy” means “temperature” or maybe “heat” but probably actually means “enthalpy, but only the thermal part and not the chemical part”. You’ll be lucky to find any math at all, let alone a Legendre transformation. Don’t get me started on “pressure”.
This has been done. Pitcairners were relocated to Tahiti (they hated it and all came back to Pitcairn after just 6 months) and then later to Norfolk Island (most of them stayed, but around 40 of them moved back to Pitcairn after a couple years).
With respect, "Yes, so?" to the moderation problem is like standing next to Everest and saying "Yes, so?" It's far and away the single biggest concern.

Policy is everything. Lots of engineers don't understand this, as engineers we concern ourselves mostly with the "mechanism" side of the "mechanism vs policy" duality. We think about doing things, moving forward, confronting problems as we go. In reality, we live in a bubble. The real issues are policy domain. Policy is mostly about what not to do.

Non-corrupt government operating a platform requiring moderation involves so, so many "do not do that, you lose" nodes on the decision tree as we presently understand it that there is no winning strategy. The only way to win is to not play that game. Don't get into the business of moderation if you are a non-corrupt government.

> Why couldn't it be structured in a way similar to how PBS operates?

Well, for a few reasons. The main one is that government in general and the US government in particular is extremely powerful. That power attracts attention. Everyone with an interest impacted by the government- which is everyone- needs to attend to that power. The President "favoring" a platform will attract many many parties to that platform, who wish to carry influence or have an impact. Many of these parties have their own immense powers, both technical and policy/informational.

PBS is in literal terms a TINY operator. $700M in revenues last year. A staff of a couple thousand people. As an organization it doesn't have any of the capabilities to operate a real time two way communication platform requiring it to act as a real time moderator against the myriad actions that a China or Russia not to mention countless other actors could throw against it. Of course, many would argue neither does Facebook. But with 100,000 staff and hundred billion+ revenue- it has more of a chance.

Could such an organization be stood up? The policy questions again are- who funds it, to what end? What problem would it solve? There are no good reasons for a govt to spend the $Bs it would require and no good solutions to the first amendment problems it would create.

I appreciate that there is a notion of the "public interest" that one would think everyone agrees on, which is what one imagines governments should be about. There can be a sufficiently common shared understanding of "public interest" in small communities, even scaling to homogeneous states (say, single digit millions of citizens). But "public interest" breaks down pretty quickly with sufficient community heterogeneity.

> Yeah, communication via Twitter or Facebook was was never considered official.

Well, in fact, it was. Prior to Musk, many government agencies had "official" voices/presence on twitter. And much work went into- from a policy perspective- ensuring what was communicated was suitable. Occasionally policy was "made" or announced first on twitter. You will now see those presences increasingly quiet (or loud) quit, due precisely to Musk's failure at the moderation problem.
The rice is also an example of some disingenious comparisons used, where he switched from a $25 / 50 pound bag of Long Grain rice to Jasmine rice at $42. Duh, Jasmine is a more premium rice. Don't use that as an inflation indicator unless you're comparing the same product.
Yeah the AI is probably the most ethical part of this operation. The human leadership decided that no amount of collateral damage was too much.
Not surprising? It's virtually impossible to be a dollar billionaire under 30 without inheritance. Heck, the average 30-year-old doesn't even have close to $10 million.

Only an extremely small number of people have done that, e.g., Palmer Luckey and Kylie Jenner.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting might be a counter example to your “states-only” comment about corporate registration — except that congress incorporated it; it did not incorporate itself.

There are also federally chartered banks, although that’s not exactly the same thing.

(Now I’m starting to wonder why my BizOrgs casebook was so short…)
Looks like 6 core services are off, seems that rolls up to 11 products: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/
Wow, this is phenomenal! I can't wait to dig in. This is almost exactly the application I've been envisioning for my own workflow. I'm excited to contribute!
Others have already answered, but yes, I'm referring to China. Check out Google maps in any Chinese city; I've never seen one without the offsets. You can read about the general spec for the obfuscation and also about fines and arrests for illegal mapping.
Congrats on the launch. Can you please compare and contrast Plandex features with another similar solution like aider[1] which also helps solve similar problem.

[1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
The accuracy point is a provocative and interesting question. I'm used to it in the context of ex. medical imaging or autonomous vehicles. In the context of picking bomb targets (where even a "positive" classification is kind of ambiguous [0]) I think it's probably above my pay-grade, so I'm going to set it aside.

> whoever uses it knows it's merely a fig leaf for shooting random people

I think this is the problem, but needs a little more unpacking, because IMO it goes beyond a pure 'fig leaf'. From what I understand it's not just a way to ID who is a combatant: it actively plans bomb targets. The difference is that a fig leaf provides purely pretense, and as you point out that's nothing new: we've had automated ways of ID'ing someone as a criminal or terrorist forever. But this not only provides the pretense of ID'ing someone as a combatant, it also loads the gun and aims it for you. So to me it's more than just someone saying "oh these people were all flagged, so let's plan an attack on them", it's actually the machine drawing up the full plan and just asking you "I found combatants should I kill then [Y]/N?". Both are bad (IMO), but the second one seems like a new evolution in the automation of warfare that I find uniquely concerning.

[0] Expanding on this point a little: combatant status seems ambiguous to me because it's not really a physically measurable variable. A car crashing or an image containing a tumor are all things that can be objectively verified, but the legal worthiness of killing someone for participation in a war is a far more ambiguous concept I think. Is someone who quarters enemy troops a worthy combatant? Someone who provides logistical support? I see lots of room for ambiguity that would be ugly to encode in data.
I always thought that these outages were relatively benign from a user perspective, but after the last major WhatsApp outage a few weeks back I somehow got logged out of my main phone as I tried to "log in" to my 2nd device (and later failed to log back in to the main device that has all data). It appears such edge cases aren't really thoroughly tested, which seems disappointing but also surprising to me.
No? FAFSA also takes into account assets, not just income.
NASA needs to get out of the launch business. They have proven that they cannot do it anymore.

Sell off the ISS as well.

Get back to deep space research, communications research, telescopes, and regulations/launch licenses.

There are a TON of really smart people at NASA (a good friend of mine being one of them). But they are hampered by politics and bureaucracy.

This bureaucracy is not built to launch, it’s built to please a set of senators & Congressmen. And that’s sad.
What part of the constitution? Not American, don’t know how to find out, but quite intrigued.
To be fair, it's not really a breakdown of the trolley problem. It's the point of the trolley problem. Setting the value of a human life to infinity basically gives you deontology, in that both outcomes are approximately equally bad, and thus your choosing to get involved at all is unethical.
Have you looked at the Wikipedia article? According to it, the UN said the Hezbollah position was 150m away from the UNIFIL Khiyam base; the Israelis claim the distance was <40m.

>"According to an interview on CBC radio and multiple print sources, retired Canadian Major General Lewis MacKenzie, referring to an email he had received a few days previously from the now deceased Canadian peacekeeper Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, stated that "...what he was telling us was Hezbollah fighters were all over his position and the IDF were (sic) targeting them and that's a favorite trick by people who don't have representation in the UN. They use the UN as shields knowing that they can't be punished for it.""

>"UNIFIL maintained that Hezbollah fighters were not allowed into any of its bases. However, they reported more than 20 instances of rockets being fired from less than 500m from their positions, as well as a number of cases of small arms and mortar fire from within 100m. Additionally, UNIFIL reported several instances of their positions and vehicles being hit by Hezbollah mortars, small arms fire, or rockets."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_incidents_during...
Expression of a recipe, such as the written instructions, photographs, and other creative elements, may be protected by copyright.

Ingredients list and weights fall outside protection as they are considered facts.
I am not asking you if human progress is speeding along and accelerating. That's an obvious yes.
I am asking you: are we speeding into a brick wall? If so, can we steer the car? Who steers the car? Does ANYONE steer the car? Or do market forces just decide where we go.

How do we ant colony our way out of this bitch before we all die?
A much more concise list could be made of members of Congress that don't want to send money towards offensive weapons in Israel.

It's a vanishingly small list. Virtually everyone wearing a (D) or (R) hat is extremely interested in sending our tax money towards this purpose, which fund programs exactly like in this article.
I can explain the idea of a prime to a first grader. I can explain addition to them to. But the Goldbach conjecture no one knows.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861338
You add fillers to the ground product.