skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like the discussion, so far, has landed on a summary article:[0](36 points, 3 hours ago, 19 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087933
You're right, I'm confident in my analysis that this is genocide but it's an emotional and difficult argument.

Rather than get bogged in semantics, I'll settle for ethnic cleansing and argue from there: Israel has systematically displaced Palestinians with their own population for decades against international law. Israel has placed civilians in a conflict zone to occupy land.

This is not a controversial set of facts and I encourage you to follow it up. Israel is absolutely breaking international law: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/03/un-human-rig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement

Israel has used civilians for military objectives in occupied land. The civilians comprise part of Israel's hostile, occupying force against the owners of the land, no?

The narrative that Hamas attacked simple peaceloving people and deserves to be crushed mercilessly is an oversimplification which ignores all context.

Despite insightful sounding statements like yours, there's nothing added to the conversation by saying 'its complicated'. You muddy the mud.
Great teacher, great writer. I took one of his undergrad classes, and one day I went in to his office hours to chat - I still remember how relieved he was that I wasn't there to try to debate with him about God, that I wanted to talk about something else! I think that happened to him quite a lot due to his reputation.
Hypothetically if lots of players ran those kind of filters, a team could gain a benefit by including slurs in all their communications I guess, which would be an odd result.
There's a difference between survivorship bias and just straight up reducing the quantity/quality of materials for cost savings.

I lived in a (rental) house that was built incredibly cheaply. The handle on the sliding glass door broke, and I just ordered a replacement handle. It was the same brand as the original handle on the door, cost me about $30 for the whole replacement handle assembly. The replacement handle had about twice as much steel in it as the original one. They clearly still make the old part, they just sell the cheap ass easy to break one for cost savings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem - The banality of evil, evil requires people to 'just do their jobs'.

The thing is, if you were a palestinian male you would likely be bombed in your home with your family once you got there. I'd be pretty pissed off about that too, and feel obliged to inform the people working on the system that killed you that they are doing some plainly evil shit.

I refer to this: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Edit: The flagged of truth. :P
one example
on openwrt
http://www.openmptcprouter.com/
Tesla uses new state law to shed Austin's environmental oversight of its factory
https://archive.ph/HvD2N
You just discovered what a corporation is. Corporations have "boards" that decide what is "good" and can invest in those things to develop them and sell them or give them away with approval from this board. The corporation receives funding from customers and investors to keep going.
> then we just disagree on this and history will see who is right

That’s not how science works.

Epigenetic age prediction is an area of active research for general diagnostic and treatment vectors [1]. There are peer-reviewed studies on the stuff. You claimed “really a marketing tool for bespoke medicine”. That appears to be false.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34415665/
If it is, then Open Source has won, right? And we can disband the OSI, right?

I suspect that's not the message they intended to send.

(I read the article, btw.)

As the author of source available software, this article merely seems to be screeching from big players that they can't exploit some software anymore.
Thanks! :)

I am working to really improve the accuracy of genres & topics, and adding themes. I am hoping I can tackle that in 3 months or so...
Many beetles are predators, and they can fly. And they also go through metamorphosis. Not simple at all.
yet the sanctions are doing little to change the outcome in the battlefield

Russia is clearing pulling out ahead and its delusional to think that Ukraine even had a chance to begin with

Quantity always wins over quality.
I expect this type of system to be implemented in my lifetime. It will allow whistleblowers and investigative sources to be discredited or tracked down and persecuted.
> current-best explanation

Many-worlds is by far not accepted to be the "current-best explanation".

It's a candidate. It's not clear it's right.
It’s quite easy to use in other app - it’s there in the basics. We were quite amazed to find our voip app to be quite robust in 2011 :D
> I think degen is the common term that used here.

Sir, I think you mixed up your HN account with 4Chan...
I like this blog post, and like other commenters I agree. It's also interesting that it doesn't so much distinguish between external and internal 'achievement' so much.

For a very different take on the topic... I too was interested in the question of "measuring personal growth." So much so that I enrolled in graduate school and am now getting a Ph.D. researching personality development / change in "individual differences" over time. Another way to conceptualize / measure personal growth could be via decreases in one's level of Neuroticism over time.
Probably more like a summer breeze
The average person is locked into multiple walled gardens where ad blocking doesn't work, and the "feed" is curated specifically for maximum advertising exposure and lowered attention span.
This honestly makes sense to me. Philosophy basically teaches you how to think about things really well. When talking about STEM folks, however, you're already dealing with extremely analytical people, but to them, analytical thinking is just intuitive.

Spending a bunch of time figuring out why something that seems obvious is obvious probably seems like a waste of time to a lot of people, but it can certainly help in the long run. We can't see our own blindspots, so even if something seems obvious, I think it's useful to understand it.
Except Patreon banned a lot of Ukranian vloggers and did not ban Russian propaganda.

For example, WarGonzo is still on it (just checked) and Ayder Muzhdabayev and Serhii Sternenko are not. Check https://youtu.be/91US4DNcBGw as well.

This made me delete my Patreon.
I disagree on the tamper proof assessment. I set some limits for myself with it, got bored and wanted to go on a blocked site. It took me all of 90 seconds to guess at what it was doing and manually turn it off by undoing what it did.

I won’t tell you what that is, since it’s working for you.
If that is really the reason then this is insane and everyone involved should put their keyboards down and stop what they are doing.

This would be as if we invented and sold nuclear weapons to dig out quarry mines faster. The inconvenience it saves us quickly disappears into the overwhelming shadow of the enormous harm now enabled.
Some people like 12 hour shifts? You make more money and your commuting expense per hour of work goes down.

The alternative is that someone who wants to make more money takes a second job somewhere else. Then they're working 16 hours a day and have two commutes. What does 16 hours of work and 6 hours of sleep do for quality?
I posit that its due to hardship - not to suggest all Australians are super hard off, but it is certainly true that acronyms/shortened words are more common in rural (think high intensity physical labor) or speed-sensitive contexts (think Wall Street, engineering jargon in a engineering context, such as software, or SMS text-messaging).

Given their origins as a prison labor camp, coupled with a legitimately difficult environment (hot, arid, isolated by thousands of miles of ocean, fairly wild/aggressive wildlife such as crocodiles, snakes, kangaroos), their propensity to shortened, almost mono or duo-syllabic words makes plenty of sense in that context.
That's not the page's title ("itty-time") and it looks like you're posting your own library, perhaps better as a "Show HN" or a blog post?
Imagine being the CEO and you just grab your salary and options, go home, sit in the hot tub while one of the interns carefully prompts GPT and VASE how you are giving a speech online about strategic directions. /s
If anything, "Israel can get cloud services anywhere" is an argument that Google should be even less inclined to take their money. If they have alternatives, it's not even as much money as it would be if they don't.
Lots of beetles, but almost certainly even more wasps! Parasitoid wasps attack pretty much every known insect species, even other parasitoid wasps. If there's not a known parasitoid for a given insect species, you usually just haven't looked hard enough. Given that parasitoids tend to be specialists, attacking one or only a few other species, the math works out to there being more parasitoids than anything else around. Great paper on the topic here: https://bmcecol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12898-01...
> If any middlebox in between does not support it, the returned SYN+ACK packet will not contain MPTCP options in the TCP option field.

That sounds .. quite restrictive. Is the only requirement on a middlebox to just forward the MPTCP options as-is?
the thing about "basic income" is that it's basic. It's unconditional. It's a an efficient way for a government to guarantee a minimum quality of life for its citizens. As soon as you tie it to producing "good content" or something, the whole thing becomes about meeting that criteria.

Ad views are a gameable target. So are upvotes. So is board approval.
What about kids? They don't seem to start with any neuroticism until they learn it or maybe the more neurotic parts of the brain start to mature/engage
> Checked exceptions in java also have that property

No they don't. How many times have you seen code like

try { //whatever } catch (Exception e) { //now we're catching ALL exceptions, yay }

or, worse

try { //whatever } catch (Error e) { //lol }

re syntax, I guess some folks like more syntax but the point is if the syntax is being added to solve a problem that's solved in a way that's strictly objectively better in another way, it's pointless (and we're not talking about just complex syntax and all the foot guns and complexity that comes with hierarchies with exceptions, differences between checked and unchecked etc etc, we're talking about actual execution - try catch is at the end of the day a JVM hack that slows down execution and does something weird which could be easily avoided by just returning plain objects
no it's called antisemitism. it's a long tradition of the western world washing its guilt by pointing their finger at their scapegoat the jew.

This time, they try to wash the sin of the holocaust by comparing a small-scale local war to a continent-wide genocide
> The mystery to me is why this group of early web pioneers thought it could be any different.

It's obvious now that bringing the world to the net would make the net a lot more like the world, but you see, those of us who came up in the pre-Canter & Siegel days had actually hoped that it would make the world more like the (in the before times) net.
I am sorry that I did not know about him but mentioning of "Consciousness" in the linked article made me to google about his books. One of the book is "Consciousness Explained", I wonder whether it is for layman like me who do not know much about it?
I’m imagining something like this: a rich guy who likes art takes a million dollars and makes an organization that funds people writing about art, paying them $1,000 a month. (Exact amounts don’t matter.)

He sets up a list of values and rules that are broad enough to not be limiting and specific enough to get what he wants.

He personally picks the first 100 people involved, and then all further decision making involves him + those 100 people + new entrants. The specific setup could be debated but the basic idea is just that the group funds things that match its values.
Surely that's a reference to the biologist mentioned in another comment, who said God had "an inordinate fondness of beetles".

Pratchetts's books are full of that kind of reference.
Dynalist. For todo lists, notes, prose, everything really.
For that example my exposure is shocking when first exposed to this line of argument. Is sq root of 2 is rational? Assume it is … Never heard of his example. But that is better as it involves no maths.
> It's not mystical nonsense, it's a logical consequence of the mathematics of quantum mechanics.

Aren't the various interpretations of QM all empirically indistinguishable from within the universe, which is why they are interpretations and not, say, hypotheses?
I guess? But clearly this corporate model isn’t really being used to make the kind of content people wish existed.
Full details at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/
>How could we think that making this major change to Earth's climate system wouldn't have huge effects?

ppm. Parts per million. 0.0421%
> just as many a priori truths of chmess as there are of chess (an infinity)

I guess Mr Dennett never came across the ideas of Mr Cantor.

[Yes, yes… I know they’re both countable.]
What a great game. The "mega monkey" difficulty had me attempting every possible combination with my inventory items.
All of the major labs are experimenting with incorporating classic reinforcement learning into their architectures. If it works things will become very, interesting, very quickly.
I mean, FWIW, yes: internally and externally, people compared Project Maven to IBM doing business with Nazi Germany. There was significant concern among engineers that Google was going down a path of repeating the mistakes of a prior generation.
Anyone have any good ideas for how we're going to do politics now?

Today a big ML model can do this and it's somewhat regulate-able, tomorrow people can do this on their contact-lens supercomputers and anyone can generate a video of anything.

Is going back to personally knowing your local representative the only way? How will we vote for national candidates if nobody knows what they think or say?
> it is a longstanding problem with Java

it's, along with null pointers, probably the no 1 biggest foot gun in the language, responsible for countless bugs in pretty much every app ever written in the language, and it's treated as some unaddressed elephant in the room we don't talk about or consider alternatives to
counterpoint: we don't need any more legislation
Ah yes, of course. I stand corrected!
I just took my car in and there were 4 active recalls to address (Hyundai). This is hardly unique to Tesla.
Seems like detecting "hey, I'm in a car wash..." would be substantially easier for AI than full self-driving.
I'm a bit confused about the question and how this relates to the topic.

I don't know how many journalists are lurking non-front page HN stories, so you'll probably get a non-journalist answer to the question (if anyone ventures, I'll try).

I think you may be trying to ask a question about structuralist/realist theories of international relations, vs constructivist theories of international relations. Basically "sure there's some structuralist arguments, re: Thucydides, that the US should be expected to agitate for conflict, but what about democracy vs non-democracy - can't that better or equally explain sources of conflict?"

If that's what you mean you could look at the many places in the world where authoritarianism is recognized, accepted, even partnered with the United States (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, ...). In these cases you'll find the US partners with these allies, emboldens and arms them, due to shared structural/realist interests.

As far as the naming of people's titles around the world. I very often read glib/vitriolic denigrations of the specific people you've mentioned in US press. These articles tend to be intended more for domestic catharsis/rallying than it is to be accurate/analytical, although sometimes the articles are very good and I assume the editors make those changes based on guidelines/policy.

To learn more about governments around the world I would point to the CIA World Fact Book, which uses a taxonomic approach to classifying various systems. The CIA considers Russia to be a "semi-presidential federation" and indeed Putin is elected and extremely popular. (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/russia/#gov...). The CIA considers China to be a "communist party-led state" and indeed Jinping is the factually elected president of the single communist party. (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/china/#gove...).

Learning more about other leaders in these countries - their parliaments, their ministries, their election processes, their legislation drafting processes, etc - can help to abate some of the instincts to assume that political systems, because they aren't understood, are hostage/authoritarian situations. A good exercise is to learn at least ten other important officials from a given country and their roles for leading that country. I think trying this exercise yourself could help you answer your question above.
True, an image, audio clip, or video is not enough evidence to establish truth.

We still need a way to establish truth. It's important for security cameras, for politics, and for public figures. Here are some things we could start looking into.

* Cameras that sign their output. Yes, this camera caught this video, and it hasn't been modified. This is a must for recordings being used in court evidence IMO. Otherwise framing a crime is as easy as a few deep fakes and planting some DNA or fingerprints at the scene of the crime.

* People digitally signing pictures/audio/videos of them. Even if they digitally modified the data it shows that they consent to having their image associated with that message. It reduces the strength of the attack vector of deep fake videos for reputation sabotage.

* Malicious content source detection and flagging. Think email spam filter type tagging of fake content. Community notes on X would be another good example.

* Digital manipulation detection. I'm less than hopeful this will be the way in the long term, but could be used to disprove some fraud.
>There is also a second bias of the depletion of natural materials older houses were made of

This affects not just homes but like absolutely every consumer product thats been cheapened. Take furniture. It used to be even cheap furniture was solid wood. Now the cheap stuff, even the mid tier stuff, is all glued sawdust. Its hard to find good snags of furniture on the side of the road because that glued stuff dissolves like paper mache in like one day of rain. You chip a corner and it looks like hell and starts flaking and falling apart at that busted seam. Old stuff made from real wood can take quite a bit of abuse, get resanded, restained, and look like its worth some $$$ after an afternoon of elbow grease put into it.
>Russia can't sustain autarky on their own, and especially not with their demographics

Do you think Ukraine's demographics are doing any better?

I live in western Europe and every day I hear Ukrainian on the streets . Wherever you go in Europe, Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, etc. it's full of Ukrainians (mostly women and youngsters). How do you think Ukraine's chances of success look like when all their women and youngsters are living abroad? Those are you future and they're not where they're needed most but building up other countries future and economies.

Ukraine is dying the slow death. If Russia doesn't do it, their demographics will. Even if they "win", the victory gained will be bombed out land hosting mostly scarred men and elderly pensioners. How is that a victory?
As an animator for 40 plus years, I can tell you that in-betweening is a very difficult job. The fact that it's often cheaply outsourced is more of a factor that the people paying for the animation simply don't care about the quality. The results are seldom good.

As to how much poor quality in-betweening hurts the performance to the audience is a complicated discussion. Animation that is _very_ bad can often be well accepted if other factors compensate (voice acting, design, direction, etc.)

A good in-betweener is not simply interpolating between the keys. For hand drawn animation at least, there's a lot more going on than that.

We'll leave out any discussion of breakdowns here. For one it's a difficult concept, much more difficult than 'tweening to explain. The other is that different animators will give different opinions on what a breakdown is or does.

I will say, though, I think that properly tagged breakdown drawings could significantly improve the performance of ai generated in-betweens.

Anyone who is seriously interested in the process should read the late, great Richard William's book, _The Animator's Survival Kit_. This is especially true for those who want to "augment" the process with machine learning. The book is very readable, even for non-artists. And he gets into the nitty gritty of what makes a good performance, and the mechanics behind it.

Edit: Another good resource, and relevant to 3D animation as well, is Raf Anzovin's _Just To Do Something Bad_ blog. He has many posts on what he calls "ephemeral rigging" that are absolutely fascinating. Be aware that the information is diffused through out the blog and not presented in a form for teaching. His opinions are fairly controversial in the field. But I think he is onto something. (https://www.justtodosomethingbad.com/)
I mean epigenetic clocks are extremely unreliable and have enormous error bars. It is not surprising that they are easily influenced by additional variables.
With books, I really don't view anyone as a competitor; the goal should be to help readers find books, as they are the closest thing we have to magic.

Five Books is doing great work, as is https://hardcover.app/ and https://app.thestorygraph.com/. The more book websites we have in the world, the better the world; each one is doing things uniquely.

I am super lucky to have a small part-time team that helps make the publishing process work -> https://forauthors.shepherd.com/team

The publishing process works like this:
-> We talk over email to see if they are a good fit and interested
-> They fill out a Word doc and return it to us
-> Bella & Joy add it to our system and start setting up the books/author profiles
-> I screen each list personally for quality and fit (I learned a lot in the first year)
-> Our fantastic editors, Frances and Lauren, edit and tweak everything.
-> The author gets a preview, and we tweak and adjust as they see fit
-> We schedule publishing once they are happy

So, ya, not a video or audio interview, but we do a lot.
Because the text for this is only a slight variation of the tech for a broad range of legitimate applications?

Because even this precise tech has legitimate use cases?

> The only purpose of this technology I can think of is getting spies to abuse others.

Can you really not think of any other use cases?
I think a better solution would be to bring back strong career security.

Allowing companies to increase their profits by laying off workers is a policy choice. As is allowing companies to outsource jobs to cheaper jurisdictions. There is no law of nature that says that the US has to allow free trade to impoverish and dispossess its middle class so that its upper class can get even wealthier.