skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took this to #judaism on a Slack I'm on (I'm not Jewish; I'm Irish/Slavic Catholic) and got an earful about how complex the history is here:

* The people of the Old Yishuv spoke Yiddish and Ladino, European languages, as well as Israeli Arabic; European language influence long predates Zionism.

* The European character you're imputing to Modern Hebrew is its pronunciation, but Hebrew itself is the common character of all those languages, Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Arabic.

* Jewish people in the Middle Eastern diaspora generally spoke Hebrew-inflected dialects of the regional languages (as you noted with the Judeo-Arabic page).

* Israel is a melting pot of influences from the Jewish diaspora; for instance, Morrocan Jewish people determined the way Passover is celebrated (with Mimouna). Everything cuts in every direction.

I'm not doing all this stuff justice (in case anyone from that Slack is reading this comment); just to say, all of this stuff is super complicated.

What I'd like to understand better is: the comment you were responding to was defending the proposition that significant numbers (a plurality, I think?) of Israelis are indigenous MENA people. I get that there was probably cultural pressure to adopt Hebrew, and that modern Hebrew is associated with the Zionist cause. The Mizrahim generally arrived in Israel after the Nakba (in a series of counter-Nakbas), and were poorer, more rural, and less privileged than the Israelis who met them there. Sure, that rings true.

But what difference does that make to the point the parent commenter was making? I'm just trying to understand the argument.

(This I guess is a second reason I pop up on these threads: to get an excuse to get my head blown off with historical and linguistic facts from friends on Slacks).
Oo! An opp to share a project I built! Please check out ottomusic.ai or the original demo I built at demo.ottmomusic.ai. We were one of the first AI-powered, prompt-based music recommendation service, and I still think far better than Spotify or Amazon’s recent drops.

(For users of the demo site, you can get a Spotify link to the generated playlist in the console. Shhh.)
I had to ponder this for a minute :)

I picked up dark chocolate as a snack in early 2020, which I chose very specifically to avoid carbs. I also use cocoa powder to make low-carb ice cream for the same reason.

I guess I've used it this way for long enough now that I've broken my default association between chocolate and sugar.
lol. congrats on working a sermon into a post about red lobster but... this is exceedingly poor argumentation if your goal is to actually convince anybody.

it's spot-on if you just want to feel good about yourself though. you start off with a whopper of a false dichotomy and strawman, and don't improve from there.
This product is a scam.
The issue was more that Rabbit was pretending it wasn’t just an app… and when it clearly was they denied it.

Otherwise if they just said it outright I don’t think it would be seen as a criticism.
I can't see it's possible to grow a useful amount of wheat for a single family without a decent sized plot and a large amount of labour. Most modern varieties rely on a lot of fertiliser as well. Wheat is more or less useless for the home gardener and has been for 200 years.
When I had thrush but didn't know it, I craved yogurt and garlic, both of which would be excellent in restoring floral balance. I don't know how bodies know these things, but they do! It's fascinating.
It can still happen sometimes, but it's very rare that it crashes and even more rare that it corrupts as well. The good news, the chances of it corrupting your data silently was basically zero, then and now.

However back then MySQL seemed like it went out of it's way to corrupt your data. The only "bonus" is, it did it all silently, so nobody ever noticed until they went looking. With MariaDB(the successor) it's pretty rare that it silently corrupts your data these days.
In the same way the Apple Watch doesn’t do anything better than an iPhone

Wearables are not supposed to be an app or beat the iPhones processor. They’re supposed to be small and always on

Would you wear an iPhone pro max on your lapel?
And vivianite can sometimes be found together with another phosphate and iron mineral called childrenite... named after a John George Children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrenite
Like all aircraft-carriers in today's world this one is obsolete too, just like all battleships became obsolete in 1941.

In today's world, all of the Navies should have lots of small ships with lots of big missiles.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work as traffic is proxied through CloudFlare. i.e. all the traffic reaching my machine comes from CloudFlare IPs. The only way to know the real IP is at web-server level (e.g. Nginx).

Usually, I can block similar traffic at CloudFlare level; however, that's somehow not the case with that IP.
> Yeah I have no doubt this serves as a message for future whistleblowers

I hope not because that’s exactly the risk in entertaining baseless conspiracy theories. If whistleblowers are disincentivized by conspiracy theories then why does Boeing need to go to the trouble of actually pulling off a conspiracy?
The standard has been reverse engineered before: https://github.com/googollee/eviltransform

I honestly don't know why companies simply don't implement it. It's not really "secret" -- or if it is, it's an "open secret".
This thread is a great survey of why the passkey roll out is so controversial. Even without the inevitable “but what if Google/Apple permabans me?” thread, we have confusion about whether QR codes are sufficient, biometrics are necessary, and a baffling UI that maybe means to say “debug the bluetooth stacks on whatever devices are nearby”.
Because that's why we invented blogs? Blogs is short for web logs which were personal journals on the web. Sharing your personal story, including things like changing jobs, is totally reasonable activity for a web based journal, wouldn't you say?
> generic repetitive flamewars

Yes, it is a bit old.

> in threads about other things

Literally the second item in the article is about systemd and spends a significant part of that complaining about sysv.
That doesn't make any sense. You're calling someone ignorant for favoring evidence over hearsay and hysteria. That's the exact opposite of witch trials, where the whole concept is finding guilt without evidence.
Yeah, just what we need. Scams on tinder based off LLMs + fake/stolen profile pics.
select "Month Mentor" and use promo code "HACKERNEWS" to use if for free for the first month
Yeah, this tendency of ours (and life in general- look how invasive species can flourish without much predation) to take what we can has gotten us in trouble now that we have so many resources available to us.
Unpopular and I'm not sure how unethical, and likely dead on arrival in congress, but rrgulating the extraction of resources, including and especially petroleum, is one way. Needs to go hand in hand with culture shift to be effective, though; enough of us have to realize the harm we're doing and opt for a better (as in, more respectful of the future of diverse life on earth) way to live.
> Liquidity provides a great service, if we need long market hours.

If Jane Street is so critical to the normal functioning of markets that their significance between "exists" and "don't exist" is a major change in liqudity, then they are a systemic risk.

They probably don't want to be viewed as a systemic risk to the financial system.

But when you are siphoning this much money out of the financial systems worldwide (to the point your employee equity looks to be going almost logarithmic), how much further can this go until "providing liquidity!" isn't good enough any more?

That's been the go-to answer since forever, anytime anyone questions what value is being added to the economy.
Home computers didn't need multi-user capability or much in the way of security (other than anti-virus) back then. I'd argue they still don't. I don't think these two things were the problem.

I can take or leave shared libraries. They seem to cause a lot of trouble, but so do statics, so I'm on the fence there. But in the context of when this was released it's a non-issue.

I'll give you the CLI thing though. If the CLI couldn't be full-featured in a window that was an oversight.
>It bifurcates platforms in two

It won't. If Youtube had no moderation, it would have no ad revenue. This would effectively kill every single website where users can publish content without having to go through a publishing contract first.

Youtube, Medium, Newsgrounds, every single comments section on news articles, all web forums, Discord, reviews on Amazon, Steam. I'm not even sure websites like buy me a coffee and patreon would be able to survive, because if they can't moderate their posts, that doesn't mean mastercard can't ban them, as mastercard isn't subject to publishing laws.
What else would you expect from anti-user malware. Players run such garbage at their own risk.
Can vouch it does in most cases
childish is a good way to describe how he and many people think when it comes to companies. the smartest people will just refuse to use any logical thinking and display extreme bias.
Nobody should be forced to move due to their home increasing in value outside their control.
As someone whose job is to inference on the edge. No one is getting a mass product consistently inferencing on the edge for $199 not today and not next year (and I’d bet not in 2026)

Your impression was spot on
Oh, I thought it was less like a Playstation DRM and more like something that would be harder to do. Tho I guess that makes sense. Probably companies don't want to run afoul of Chinese law which is fair.
Ask HN: Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax Biz?
Ended up filling a whole bunch of forms and finally got it. Apple is not very user friendly.
Because I'm old and I'm sick to death of everything being a web app. Because I hate web app programming so it limits my employment options :-)
Why are they discarded?
When money is expensive to borrow, give it to yourself !!
The US having a dedicated intelligence agency for maps seems to defeat most of the military value of this system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligen...
What does gradle mean? I always thought it was a portmanteau of "cradle to grave"
Could be; but it never happened to me with MySQL! Maybe it depends on on how far back in the day you go...? :)
If it's on the Cloud, you don't own it.

If you must own it yourself, you need to store it on your own servers.
Yes. Knowing how the language is transformed into running code helps your mental model for simulating the process as thoughts.

You still have to read and validate the code that an LLM emits, and some code will be faster for you to type than it is to prompt,wait,correct,test,adapt etc. It may even help in describing the problem to the LLM, as knowledge of the appropriate language terms will guide the context along the right lines.

And it's also fulfilling to design programming languages, whether general purpose or DSLs, at least in my opinion.
I think that ship sailed when websites started having to ask users consent for cookies. Now it's no longer "accessing a website" it's "interacting with a service." If they have to ask for consent to set a cookie, you have to abide by their ToS to connect to their servers.
That sounds very much like a disposable cog job. The lower the requirements, the more easily the workers are replaced.
I know. My question was rhetorical to draw attention to their misleading language
Autocratic governments can be surprisingly inefficient / bad at things.
Selling shares trades dilution for cash.

Buying shares trades cash for dilution.

These are simply inverse operations.

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MyCorp has 10 million shares, valued at $10 each, for a market cap of $100m.

Next year, its market cap grows by $15m, resulting in a per-share valuation of $11.50.

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But suppose MyCorp had first done a $5m buyback. Then it would have 9.5 million shares, valued at $10 each, for a market cap of $95m.*

Next year, its market cap grows by $15m, resulting in a per-share valuation of $11.58.

The shareholders' "bet" is that MyCorp would increase its market cap, even it gives up $5m of cash. In this case, the bet paid off.

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* Note that buybacks (and fundraising) change the capitalization but do not immediately raise or lower the value of the stock, in a perfect market. It if it did, it would be hard to buy/sell the stock. Rather, it increases shareholders exposure to rewards/losses later (i.e. the opposite of dilution).
This matches our experience too. Out of curiosity, do you use email as the identifier? And if so, do you verify during the initial signup flow?
This is kind of a confusing perspective considering VCs are giving you money to pay for the operations of your business. Money is money no matter how stupid the giver is, their money won’t leech value from your company itself.

As for founders ending up with nothing, in those cases their investors ended up with much much less than they were hoping to too. Plus there’s plenty of other cases where founders get rich off a worthless company because of the beneficence of VCs.
> Place your recordings on a 3D device like a phone or laptop

What does this mean?
Corporate and government bonds have many venues and have for decades and in my opinion they are public in the sense that any qualifying participant can get access to them. Can an individual with a $10k in a 401k, no, but US treasury cash bonds have had published prints and quotes since 1970s. I personally remember corporates and converts prices and trades on my early Bloomberg terminal.

Now perhaps you call them private because they were and still mostly are for institutional traders however they are published prices and/or RFQ systems or there are continuously published two sided quotes. Yes big trades happened on phones and Jane Street is still involved in it.

When I think of a private market it means a market where prices and transactions are not published. So our terminology is different.

Fundamentally we disagree on the role of dealers and market makers. In my personal extensive market experience they are foundational and always have been. They carry inventory and manage risk. This has happened literally for 1000s of years and even in early NYSE and in the earlier stock markets in London and Amsterdam they were the key players in the price discovery process.

What you claim, that markets can even function with time restrictions and without two sided quoted dealers/makers in my world is absurd. I have nothing more to say. I don’t believe you have real world extensive market knowledge and if you do, you must he significantly younger than me. Goodnight.
The Rabbit R1 is not a wearable device; you might be thinking of the Humane AI Pin.
The court has since ordered the company to auction off the warrants it held in more than 1,000 of the startups that went through the accelerator program.

Why should the startups be punished? I think in this case the interests of startup ecosystem should out do those of creditors. Is there no protection for that?? Seems nond to gut startups when an accelerator failed, agains the entire purpose.

Seems a great way to destroy economic value. Tho to be brutal a bag of startups is basically economic destruction anyway, on average as most of them fail...but I mean. In this case it's like precrime, they're killing them before they even have a chance. Not fair, not good!
Browser-based robot dog simulator: walking controller
> the Chinese guqin

actually reminds me quite a bit of the sitar!
No!

Whatever you do, do not go cold turkey on you anti-depressants. The withdrawal can kill you.

Also, everyone reacts differently to each SSRI and it takes time for them to settle in. You may have had one that didn’t jive with you, but that doesn’t mean a different one wouldn’t jive.
Not sure about the expensive lease angle. The red lobster in my home town has had the same physical location longer than I’ve been alive. I assume many other red lobster locations are in the same situation.
I want to know why Google hasn’t corrected their map overlays. The shift in the roads makes it frustrating to look at.
When you have an absolutely massive amount of cash, like Apple, there are near term and long term benefits to a buy back.

Near term, buy backs stabilize your share price. Share price is a major driver of many incentives inside Apple as well as perceptions without.

Long term, Apple is betting their shares will increase in value.

Investors are not rational or accurate in their assessments of a company’s performance (why market “expectations” is the bar, not performance), stock markets are not perfect information systems, and most finance professionals regard stock price as the final say on a company’s performance & value.

Put together, this means a company’s best defense (when as successful as Apple) against being under-priced in the stock market is to buy back their own stock. To do that, you need a massive cash war chest or sources of cash like PE/hedge funds/etc. so far only companies with the first option live very long.
Well, the hardware isn’t actually too severe as it’s paid upfront for very long time periods. The real cost isn’t even the salary. One system professional might be 150k, so let’s say employees are going to cost 500k for the system. I imagine that the annual cost for 365 for a single governmental department would be $2 million or more. I think that the biggest cost would be the transition and potential data loss.
Mastercard et al are able to act as censors of the internet because websites have discretionary moderation policies. If, when mastercard demanded policy changes, websites could only respond with "sorry, it's out of our hands", then mastercard would give it up pretty quick. If they didn't, then bitcoin would become temporarily quite popular until they did. People want to be able to pay for things online, and credit cards are able to boss websites around only insofar as they don't push the envelope too far.
Not sure about the latter statement. Our dog is very interested in any keyword verbalised by us that may relate to receiving food or a walk or a ride in the car (from pretty much any corner of the house). She appears to be permanently listening to every sound we make.
Yes! This was the best part of the main documentary for me. Mr. Armstrong was killing it on those pipes (the aulos).

Seriously, thank you for posting this link. I hope your comment doesn't get buried.
Would it not be best if Passkey authorization was implemented as a service, so that not everybody have to re-implement the same thing?
Sorry about that. I have a mental illness which can sometimes make clear exposition difficult for me.

I think the point I am trying to make is that the referenced AI-written articles are basically fluff pieces that don’t solve any real world problems. In general, those operating at the frontier of new knowledge can’t make use of AI because AI is incapable of producing anytime “new”.

Does that make sense?
My first thought on reading this was of Tim Minchin's epic beat poem 'Storm' [0] - jump to 3:05 if you want to hear the bit that specifically deals with this.

(Warning: some language NSFW)

[0] https://youtu.be/HhGuXCuDb1U?si=zDhsb_llkkzbMEiB
What would be the context of signing one's name to support something like Polanski that would make it excusable? It's not random shit I went looking for, I was educating myself on a writer I hadn't heard of and came across that action, which I find to be reprehensible.
The author recommends either Arch or Fedora. I prefer Fedora because if you use that then like 90% of this stuff is set up for you. I know that a lot of articles like this tend to attract comments about like "wow I need to learn all this just to get a desktop going?" but for Fedora at least all this is already set up and just works.
Can you have an android app always running?
Both California and the federal government are already heavily subsidizing EV charging networks. Just a few months ago CA approved another $1.9 billion of what will be several billion spent on charging facilities. The national government has dedicated about $7 billion. Tesla's total spend so far on charging is probably $2-3 billion so we're talking about 3-4 times the Tesla investment coming from one state and the national government.
And how popular ad blockers are, and how much effort some people are willing to put into skipping YouTube ads, yes.

Even a couple more % of the market would be an unbelievable increase in Linux users.
Yea, Spinoza effectively argues that the Commandments were necessitated by practical utility to control the unruly and uneducated masses and have since become even more bastardized by sectarian religions that wield these appeals to control people and actually prevent them to fully getting to know "God", which he finds entirely possible through reason alone.

And humorously, the latter of each of GP's respective points map pretty well to the destructive effects of what Nietzsche most feared of what he sensed was impending nihilism. Tho the difference, among many, is that "belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable".
Terribly sorry!
I charge as much as the second lowest bidder.

Second lowest because sustainable value extraction is important to me.
If that’s your interpretation of the article, I will gladly take it lol
Ask HN: For HMs, how open are you to hiring vendors
I want to ask hiring managers, how often would you consider hiring vendors for your project? What are things you consider before hiring? And what are the concerns that you have?
I wonder do Androids dream of electric sheep?

I mean seriously if dreams do a necessary function for the human brain, doesn't it mean that AI and LLMs should benefit from dreaming as well?
I turned down an interview with Rabbit. While I was looking into the company, I watched a product demo of theirs featuring the CEO who didn’t use the scroll wheel on the device (instead used the touch screen) and it seemed as if multiple features shown were not actually in a functional state. Kind of a weird tech stack, too, based on the job description.
If you have access to the query log, aka "who makes which query in what context"), you can use see which queries are "close" to others in context.

For example, with session, you can detect manual query rewriting, and use this as a signal to see which queries are close to others in the time context. You can do various fancy things from just that.

Nowadays, a simple way to start would be to use SOTA LLMs to generate synonyms offline, and use this for query expansion at query time. At least in a context where queries are small, that should give decent results. This has however diminishing returns because of cost (the more synonyms the more expensive querying the index), and also you lose precision with diminishing returns on increased recall.

Ofc, for complex search like google, I am sure it is much more complicated
as it stands Llama3 cant even produce sensible responses approaching its quoted max context, but if this increases the window we have before nonsense begins, then that is awesome!
Ok. Cool, but the title makes it clear which one it's talking about. Usually when a date is added to the title it's in order to clarify when the article was published, not necessarily when the object of the article began to exist.
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My gut instinctively knows I need chocolate and then not eat dinner
Judge Grills U.S. and Google on Antitrust Claims