skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am simply disputing the original claim that "anti-Semitism as we know today is very much rooted in racial science (well, "science") of the 19th century. Before that it was an anti-religious thing: anti-Judaism, which was a markedly different and similar to Anti-Catholicism, anti-Protestantism, and things like that."

Antisemitism predates the 19th century, and not all hatred of Jews prior to the 19th century was "similar to Anti-Catholicism, anti-Protestantism, and things like that." While there is a term "anti-Judaism" used by historians to describe religious strife similar to anti-Catholicism, the term "antisemitism" isn't limited to the 19th century and later, and not all hatred and oppression of Jews prior to the 19th century was simply anti-Judaism.

For example, during the Black Death, Jews were blamed for outbreaks and were mass-murdered, with no attempts at conversion at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jews_during_the...
You might find it beneficial to do a series of drawings of natural objects (flowers, fruits, plants, stones, etc.) focusing on drawing the inner contour lines in order to convey their dimensional form to paper.
Maybe not, but the DW article includes more photos and video than the WP article, it provides a copy of the original employee letter + list of demands, and it also embeds some tweets from one of the protest's organisers. You can form your opinion from the primary sources.
I see this claimed all the time, but I don't understand why this is assumed to be the case.

GDP rises and falls with economic progress and innovation. If new LLM startups make a bunch of money, GDP goes up accordingly.

But government spending is primarily geared towards defense, infrastructure, and benefits/entitlements. What makes those costs go up proportionally to GDP? A fighter jet doesn't directly cost more because Amazon rolls out a new Alexa device, does it? America doesn't suddenly grow thousands of miles of new coastline because Google opens a data center in Iowa, right? If Rivian builds 10,000 new EV trucks, how much more interstate highway must be built?

I would expect government spending to ebb and flow as market prices fluctuate, and I get that they might be loosely correlated, but why is spending assumed to be so closely linked that we should expect it to be a function of GDP?

What's the intuition I'm missing?
Well, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free is indeed antisemitic... because Israel separates West Bank (the river) from Gaza (the sea). Wanting Palestine to be free from West Bank to Gaza means that Israeli state be broken up - which is antisemitic....

Denying someone employment because of their political views is not punishment...
"So we know who to get rid of"
In both cases the point is benefit the system at the expense of the child with the issues. One kid should not be allowed to ruin a class. My kids school has emotionally disturbed kids in the classroom making it impossible to have regular lessons.

When I was kid we had people that brought guns to school and were kicked out it seemed reasonable to me. I also think alternate school is a reasonable answer for kids who are violent or have been otherwise expelled. I was suspended for fighting and it seemed like an appropriate punishment.
I have a lot of astro users. But you need to use Ethernet for the connection between VirtualHere server and client and not wifi. A pi5 is very good for this.
Oh no! I am on ESR, so I guess I haven't gotten this change yet. How did you fix it?
Why no one praises cleaner air and soil and more longevity for the humanship?
No, you can't just occupy private property as a protest. Hence why they were arrested.
It works until people look at things like Temu, and figure out “why should I get from Amazon, when I can buy something for the same quality”. It’s just a battle of giants.
> "my family grew up poor and I figured it out! My dad came to this country with five dollars in his pocket etc etc."

People also drastically underestimate the negative changes in social mobility since 1980. You mentioned one with housing but access to good education is another aspect.

I know the situation in France more than the US but at least in France, there used to be a lot more upward mobility. I went to a very well ranked engineering school that was created in the 60s with the goal of giving access to higher education to everyone. When they opened, 30% of students had parents who were farmer or factory workers (65% of the population had those type of jobs back then). By 2005, 7% of students had those kind of background (compared 39% of the population did those kind of jobs). I was in the school administration concil back then and this was already seen as a big problem. I know for a fact that the students coming from less advantageous background has been further reduced.

It's a generalized trend, increasingly all the best schools mostly admit from a small selection of students that come from a select number of good schools.

There's a lot of factors that changed and, surprisingly, evolution of upward mobility is poorly studied. My mother always thought that she succeeded because she went to boarding school in middle school and high school. Back then it was normal for people living far in the countryside like her. She thinks that boarding school allowed her to get a rest from her stressful and toxic home environment. Thanks to it she was able to read, study in peace and able to succeed. She later became a teacher and she was saddened by some of the kids she saw that grew up in an adverse environment with no real way out.

> The psychological burden of a hopeless situation is enormous.

Fully agreed on the psychological burden of a hopeless situation. When you are perpetually stressed about money, it's hard to gather the required energy to do anything besides surviving.
Maybe they protested those things too? And maybe they have family that died or other connections to this topic? Or maybe they feel that there’s a better ROI on protesting this while the conflict is ongoing and the contract is newish versus protesting an American company doing business with America? Maybe they weren’t politically aware when those contracts were signed?

Just a few off the top
Terry Davis demos his SimStructure physics simulator [video]
For once I see a post that needs to be locked as all it is going to do is bring the worst out in HN crowd. I think we are quickly crossing into "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity."
I'm suggesting nothing of the sort, and it's disingenuous to suggest I did. I'm just saying that him being one of the purple group in his cohort doesn't in any way contradict the fact that that group is smaller than among people with easier childhoods.
I mean, nationality is obviously an enviromental factor, right? There's no 'german gene'. Ethnicities like 'French' don't actually exist in genes. So even if there is this nation-by-nation IQ variation, it shouldn't matter if you let people live where they want.
> the ICJ has found there is a possible case for this

This is not true, and is based on a misreading of the ICJ's judgement and of the relevant law.

https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/lawyers-letter-based-on-err...
I hope so, these protestors are accepting blood money every time a direct deposit from Google hits their bank account or their stocks vest! Surely they'd want to keep their moral integrity intact and quit if their demands are not met.
The Middle East has been in a state of perpetual war for millennia. That's not "fine", but trying to bring long term peace there is utterly futile. When a problem has no solution then it's not really a problem, just a fact to be accepted.
In the former (socialist) East German GDR it was illegal to change jobs. You would need state approval to change jobs. The state could mandate your job.

If you didn't work at all or didn't work the job you were assigned, you were sent to prison.

If you didn't work, the state could take away your children and offer them for adoption.

People don't know what un-freedom is, so they don't know what freedom is.
This is a very extreme take to something far more nuanced... It's possible for code to be complex and valuable without meeting the extremes of "is a literal rocket control system" and "is some buttons on a form".

When I say valuable, I mean provides value to a business. When I say complex, I mean not buttons on a form.
I can not find a ling to the source code for bios and everything. IMO no software longevity can be achieved if your software is proprietary.
You don’t even need to watch the review to deduce that the AI pin is an inherently flawed product for what it is trying to do; Which is to be the start of new a mobile computing paradigm. The problem with that plan is that we spent decades integrating cell phones into our lives, is there any real appetite to change that after putting in so much work?

Smartphones have become this immovable rock which our lives revolve around. I love that hu.ma.ne, the rabbit R1, or any other brand like them are trying to challenge the status quo, and I wish they can achieve some kind of success quickly; I say quickly because Apple will one day knock on the AI door, and when they do they will most likely slay the competition like they’ve done time and time again with Tablets, Watches, Wireless headphones, professional computing, smartphones, and the slew digital services that power them.
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 is amazing. I've set it as the default model of RecurseChat (a local AI chat app).

It works great, until recently WizardLM 2 came out and I tried it with local RAG. The difference is quite significant: https://twitter.com/chxy/status/1780101542311579942

Considering switching the default model after they put it back on HF.
That's like saying Occupy Wall Street should have protested in the Bronx, so they wouldn't disturb Wall Street.
Maybe because they think they could change it while inside? Like so many republican politicians hate big government but work for (Ie get elected to) said government, then try to change it to what they think is better.

Or maybe they want to quit and figured going out in a ball of fire would be more effective than resigning?
They didn't say anything about monthly subscriptions.
Yeah, some weird things. Eg. Folding the shirt already in his hands, ...

Like it can't pick it up with 2 hands?

Some other weird things in that video too
Why would you need to do that? Tarot readings are for fun, not for being accurate.
Panama plans "dry canal" to move cargo between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans
i always wondered, how much is 1 view/like/subscribe? everybody seems desperate to get one of those
Any recommendations for where we can learn about this approach, or recommended search terms? I'm struggling to find anything through Google that isn't about the Unity component system in specific. Is it this? [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
> A person can be authentic without being inappropriate.

In principle, yes. But when your work collides with your values, that stops being the case.
Yeah, that's what I personally got on my second reading of your comment. Though I did skim the first time.

The transition from explaining Vassallo's argument to explaining the problem with Vassallo's argument is a bit abrupt. It's not immediately clear whether you're referring to Vassallo or MKBHD at that point.

I think maybe a line break around "It is fundamentally", or switching the pronoun to a proper noun, might help it parse better. Overall I liked the way you worded it.
Congratulations to people with morals. There's always few of them in the present, but also few of them historically. But we remember them more then people looking the other way out of convenience.
You can see other free-speech-related court cases fought by Palestine Legal.

I personally don’t think the “from the river…” slogan should be outlawed, being speech, but it does indeed eliminate the country of Israel by referring to its land as “Palestine”.
Cant tell if sarcasm or...

All of those scams work perfectly fine, that's what they're still around. Money lost through scams is only increasing; it's a growth market.
It's a new Christian fundamentalism-backed ideological McCarthyism to erase the entire left with a new loyalist pledge... sort of like what totalitarian and communism regimes have required. "Separation of church and state be damned, you must believe X or you are un-American and forbidden to hold a job" is their modus operandi.
So IQ is a word used to describe the results of a bunch of tests first established by eugenicists in the late 19th century, and has no scientific extraction whatsoever. Genetics is a field of science, and you can identify groups that carry particular genes. However, the 'races' don't map to distinct genetic groups, which is very unsurprising: the 'races' or 'ethnicities' are just administrative or cultural groupings from the 19th century.
Oh please. USSR broke to pieces because of internal problems not because some Polish workers locked themselves up in a shipyard.
Let them be curious, encourage them to play and discover for themselves, and, most importantly, stop trying to live vicariously through whatever they achieve (which they’ll achieve independent of your input, not because of it).

Also, if you’re nice, maybe let them not achieve at all? At the end of their life it won’t be about what they pursued, it will be about who they met along the way and how much they loved and were loved. The rest is moot.
"Careful curation" is the part you lose when you use synthetic data. Subjecting models to "new information" isn't useful otherwise you could just feed it random 01s and hope to carefully curate it later

(also, how much time did the soup take? Can you wait that long?)
> They can do it indiscriminately, or they can do it by need, with realtime communications clearly being a higher priority than a large file upload for example. QoS is nothing new, and it's likely already done by your ISP.

I've not argued against QoS in general - of course the network has its limits. The thing I'm arguing against is that the power to discriminate between internet traffic based on its origin, not on the exact way the bandwidth is used in general. To my knowledge, the former isn't being done, yet.

> Then, I wonder, why it has not already been done? ISP's have been free to do this since day one of the internet. Why just now?

That's similar to asking why companies haven't implemented every anti-consumer practice imaginable to squeeze out the most money yet. <Major food producer> could've shrunken their product's packaging by 15% while retaining the same price two years ago, so why are they only doing it now? My guess is that, for one, this could be legally problematic in some countries. Also, if your competition isn't also switching to this model, your services would become a lot less desired. However, as the population of internet users nears 100% in first-world countries all while the ISPs require constantly increasing profits, I can easily foresee something like this coming in the future.

It would be a guaranteed money-maker - create more plans, where connection is throttled unless you're connecting to a Preferred Website, then ask companies to pay up to speed up their websites and upcharge users to get access to the full internet.

> It's not unreasonable for ISP's in general to charge people based on consumption.

Well, then they can do that. Consumption-based internet plans are extremely common - in some countries, even "unlimited" plans can even end up as "several terabytes of data and then severely throttled" plans. Still, I don't see where the ability to discriminate based on what website you're connecting to comes in.

Even then, it's very debatable that this is actually something that we need - given the present-day situation where internet usage is at an all-time high and ISPs seemingly have no issues building and supporting networks that make up for the average bandwidth that they can expect to use, limiting those services (barring a sudden explosion in average bandwidth use) would seem like price-gouging rather than rationing a limited service.
> We don't know that factorization is NP-complete.

Yes? No one ever said it was.

None of the common cryptographic problems are expected to be NP-complete, even if they aren't in P. That's because they are known to be in both NP and in co-NP, and it's expected that NP != co-NP.

> I think a better definition of NP is "only nonpoly algos can exist, no P algos can exist".

In what sense is that a 'better' definition than the standard definition? It sounds like what you are talking about is NP\P (where \ is set subtraction, ie 'NP minus P').
So then ban Facebook. Problem solved. Start advocating this in congress now.
It lacks the human part, but the MH format is another mbox alternative, and is already supported by several e-mail clients (At least mutt, sylpheed/claws, and evolution).

I still use maildir because I have multiple programs mutating the directory at once, and it's the only game in town for that, judging from this article, M2dir does not attempt to address that either.
They didn't have a choice. Nuclear weapons require significant investments to keep them working, Ukraine was a poor country back then. They also had incredible pressure from the other huge countries, so if they would keep them, they probably would be sanctioned like Iran.

I live in Kazakhstan which also gave up its USSR nuclear legacy and it was the only sane way to go.

What Ukraine should have done back then is get better guarantees for this deal. Not some sketchy "Memorandums" which bind to nothing.
High capital gains and dividend taxes mean that the only way for poor to accumulate capital is through employment which is already brutally taxed, and then capital will be funneled as soon as possible into real estate. See real estate markets in Ireland, Canada, UK which have high both capital gains and dividend taxes. The rich will trivially evade these two taxes anyway.
I’d like to sell you a car that costs $3k less than its market value. Just that I removed the seat belts and airbags. If you look at the statistics, lives lost per over total number miles driven in cars all over the world, the likelihood of an accident within the 30 miles of your drive is very low. So, why don’t you take the discount?

Sometimes crap is just crap.

One can always use statistics to convince themselves that crap is gold if you look a certain way.
>academic

there’s your problem, academia skews overwhelmingly leftist
In Germany we have Stiftung Warentest for that.
That seems like a very weak “law”. Is it meant as a joke? The supporting evidence is just numbers pulled apparently from nowhere (“let’s assume…”) and the conclusion is wildly off base. They seem to imply that if optimization improves the performance of much of the world’s software, by 4% each year, then it’s a waste of time.

Murphy’s law is the only comparison given. I wonder what the comparative expense is to develop faster and faster hardware, vs. to keep improving compilers. Depending on how the ROIs compare, (in dollars-per-percent gain, let’s say) maybe this “law” is worth some weight.

OTOH, the Postgres article in question seems to show diminishing returns from optimization, which belies the whole premise of the “law” which assumes the gain is consistent from year to year. And might prove Prorbstig’s implied point about optimization being a bad investment over the long term!
> Do you also assume everything the DoD contracts for is used by the U.S. Army?

tbh, I would expect most people assume that.
Congrats on the launch!

[Disclosure: I'm one of the co-founders of Aserto, the creators of Topaz].

The problem of data filtering is indeed a huge part of building an effective authorization system. Partial evaluation is one way of doing it, although with systems like OPA [0] it requires a lot of heavy lifting (parsing the returned AST and converting it into a WHERE clause). Looking forward to seeing how turnkey that can be with Oso.

With that said, there are applications where you really want the data close to the authorization engine. With a ReBAC model, you can easily find the objects that a user has access to, or the users that have access to an object, by walking the relationship graph. That's the approach we've taken with Topaz [1].

Funny timing - a few days ago we published a blog post on that very topic! [2]

[0] https://openpolicyagent.org

[1] https://topaz.sh

[2] https://www.aserto.com/blog/how-rebac-helps-solve-data-filte...
Unfortunately, Vivaldi is proprietary/closed-source... and of course, using it results in supporting the Chromium browser monopoly / Google Eco-system.
RSS handles syndication, but how would their deep-dives be discoverable if they had been posted to personal blog sites?

That's a missing piece of the puzzle for the distributed web; curation and recommendation are ad-hoc and don't scale.
OpenBSD – In -current, default write format for tar(1) changed to "pax"
Well there are limits. You can’t for example protest in my living room or by breaking into the Capitol building. Trespassing can be a form of protest but it’s still illegal.
You certainly can occupy private property as a protest, if you get arrested afterwards is immaterial to the fact that you can indeed do the as a protest.

People throw pies at politicians faces as a protest and they're often arrested afterwards for assault, but it doesn't mean they can't do it.
Really good suggestions, thanks. I suppose since I'm looking for work, it might not be a bad idea to do this externally as well, if any prospective companies' APIs are available, and use them as portfolio items.
I just keep everything up to date as often as possible.

It’s rarely a pain in the ass. When it is, it’s because we’ve chosen dependencies poorly and that’s a good signal to move on to something else. Occasionally major versions require a little more time and effort, but just eat the cost and do it.

What’s painful is updating rarely and calcifying. Do the hard thing often and it stops being hard.
What does it mean to "keep" the software? You can return the installation media, and say you erased the program, without having erased it.

I would say that if you work for Microsoft and they give you a program free in order to test, then it's not a form of income. The program doesn't represent monetary value in that situation. Microsoft, the copyright holder, is licensing you to have a copy of that program under terms which do not involve exchange of money.

This interpretation could be strengthened if the medium were marked as not for sale or resale.

Something given to you cannot count as income if you cannot resell it, or not legally.

The interpretation could be further strengthened if the gifted software is not entitled to any support.

Now let's think about dual licensing. Suppose you can obtain a proprietary version of a program for $100, or you can get it free under a copyleft license. It's exactly the same program, just packaged with different licenses. Have you received $100 worth of income? Or is it nothing, because the free one comes with no support?
Are you living in America? If so, how did you miss the 50% of the population that is the exact opposite of "new Christian fundamentalism-backed ideological McCarthyism"????
regardless of your original point, which I happen to agree with, that title is as clickbait as it gets. it is a title designed to make you click to find out what product he's talking about. pretending it's not clickbait is disingenuous.

I don't even care that it is clickbait. that's the game every YouTuber is playing. but, it is unashamed, by the book, clickbait.
Rule one of sales - are you talking to someone who can actually authorise the purchase? There’s a reason why cold callers ask kids if their mum or dad is available.
Permanent loan, type of thing. Also, they would likely give the stuff back, stuff being the installation discs. Not actually remove it from their PCs.