skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's not to understand about this? Airplanes are just super f'in safe and most people just think that nothing will ever happen to them, because rarely anything happens. Things do happen, but walking around the plane is cooler
We all have already. And not only our heads.
DarkDNS: Revisiting the Value of Rapid Zone Update
"...a remarkably high concentration of malicious activity is associated with domains that do not live long enough make it into these daily snapshots. Using public and private sources of newly observed domains to identify this activity, we discover that even with the best available data there is a considerable visibility gap. We find that the daily snapshots miss at least 1% of newly registered and short-lived domains, which are almost always registered with malicious intent. In reducing this critical visibility gap using public sources of data, we demonstrate how more timely access to TLD zone changes can help better prevent abuse..."
That by itself is not commingling. Money is fungible, and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_(money_supply) is a well established and widely used concept.
Don't worry, they'll eventually close that loophole by banning unapproved political parties and candidates, like in China.
Sorry to hear. Codes have bugs that evolve over time. I hope you try magit again some day. It is sometimes hard to remember to apply correct quoting in a shell, so if in Emacs you can also use dired for dealing with such errors in less risky ways.
I think the list is badly curated, as there's also the Skoda Eniaq missing, which is also VW, just like the listed Cupra.
> He joins us on this episode of the Ancient Greece Declassified podcast to explain why he thinks that the traditional image of Sparta as an egalitarian society of warrior badasses is a lie.

So I'm a bit confused, because, well, _is_ that the traditional image of them? Like, maybe if your only context on them is that one film, but even the traditional/old-fashioned _historical_ view of them wasn't _particularly_ complementary.
'Dr Wright presents himself as an extremely clever person,' the judge stated. 'However, in my judgment, he is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is. In both his written evidence and in days of oral evidence under cross-examination, I am entirely satisfied that Dr Wright lied to the court extensively and repeatedly.'

Pretty damning statement.
> The ICC document describes Israel as a "territory" and Palestine as a "State" (capitalised).

"...the territory of Israel and the State of Palestine" - the word and appears after the word territory. It means the territory of both. It is not just talking about the territory of Israel.

Also it refers to the names these countries use for themselves and which the UN uses as well. The official names of the countries are Israel and the State of Palestine. If Israel wants to be called the State of Israel as its official country name it would have to change its name to such, it has not.

> Among the G20, countries like China and Russia consider Palestine as a "state" but the UK, US, Germany, France, Canada and others do not.

143 countries recognize the State of Palestine. The State of Palestine is recognized by China and Russia along with other G20 members like Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey. Most of the countries in the world recognize the State of Palestine, the ones who don't are mainly in western Europe like the UK, Germany and France. As you say, make of that what you will.
Huh? My working assumption is “all clicks are click fraud” and whenever you see an advertising supported site where the content jiggles aloud (Anandtech) it is no accident that you were trying to click on a link and the ad moved to be right under your finger at the last moment.
I think the EU has been better in that regard than individual European countries. The Wikileaks diplomatic cables in particular showed US coercion on a country by country basis. In Sweden, Wikileaks showed US diplomats gave a list of laws and executive actions (at the time around IP - the Pirate Bay was based there), with veiled threats about getting gray-listed as a “partner” which can affect trade etc, and they said how high. Now to be fair, at least Sweden was unofficially a NATO/US intel/security collaborator. But EU is in a different position, mostly oriented around trade, and notably lacking in security and military bodies. But the EU has absolutely stood up against US interests, especially their predatory corporations.

However, if the EU is collaborating or even aligning with the US on intel gathering, it’s pretty far outside their openly stated mandate, afaik. Especially since the UK left, who were the most hawkish on mass surveillance, it’s creepy to think there are clandestine efforts to push for aggressive monitoring and even worse aligning with the US without oversight. If Mullvad is right, it’s also an absolute failure of MSM to not properly cover such geopolitically crucial issues.

> the EU population be damned

For sure it’s a concern, but overall many/most Europeans think the EU is a net positive today. Things have changed a lot since the crises of Greece etc. And with increasing geo-political tensions (Russia in the short term and China in the medium term), there’s an argument to establish stronger security and military efforts independent of US-led NATO, which have quite different goals.
I used to select the text as I read a web page. About 10y ago I began to think that selecting text is bad habit. About 5y ago I began to think that interacting with a web page in any way while I read, other than PgDn is a bad habit. This page proves that it's an extremely bad habit. I should stop using the mouse altogether while browsing, and maybe using a touchscreen to directly click links.
but it is important to point out their possible aspirations
Record low Antarctic sea ice 'unlikely' without climate change
You can keep it in the same orbit but spread the mass out along the orbit to the other side and that changes the combined CoG to be closer to Sun's CoG in turn changing Earth's orbit, albeit probably slightly
No, the question is why would you stay in your house if the power is out and it’s over 98 degrees? Just leave the immediate area. Whatever caused the power outage is likely dangerous enough to justify leaving as well.
The fact is that we are shockingly close to the world of 1984. Two minutes hate, newspeak, and our smartphones are telescreens on steroids. Orwell was frighteningly prophetic.
Surprised I had to scroll down this far and not see it mentioned in any of the other threads. It was likewise a case of a company being bought out in an all stock offer where the stock turned out to be worthless because of an accounting scandal. And the IB that handled it for Dragon (Goldman) disavowed responsibility for advising they take the stock deal and fought Baker in court for years.
>Isn't it entirely possible Alexander simply went with the flow of wiser, more experienced men telling him what to do?

Listening to "wiser, more experienced" men is part of being "unnaturally composed".

Especially if you're not just some unsure youngling who suddenly inherited a throne you can't handle, but a decisive king who expanded your father's kingdom 1000x.

In different examples, even the sons of the most wise and temperate emperors could turn into depraved bloodthirsty tyrants.

Not to mention Alexander as a kid studied with one of the most wise and educated men of his time (and the previous/next millenium or so).
Been using this for years. It is great.
> All Microsoft did was demonstrate that they believe the MacBook Air to be the best laptop on the market.

They also believe that Windows is secure. /s
I wouldn’t be shocked if Dan had a script/feature to let him quickly review comments where his handle is mentioned. But I thought the HN syntax was more often 'dang than @dang.
There was never an argument about whether what Weird Al was doing was legal or not. Parody has been 100% covered by fair use laws from day one, and getting permission was just the cherry on top. OpenAI exists on much murkier legal grounds.
If humans beings were perfectly rational at all times everywhere then the world would look a lot different (and much less exciting I presume)
We're not always in control when telemetry cannot be turned off, when informed consent cannot be given, when choices are repeatedly overridden. They've proven this time and time again, as well as being unable to keep their own house in order.
Curious to see whether more recent dithering approaches would produce better results. They don't even have to be more resource hungry than the classic Bayer or Floyd-Steinberg dithers!

Interleaved Gradient Noise[0][1][2] comes to mind as an alternative to Bayer, and it can even be approximated quite well with just 8-bit operations! Basically, use the following function to determine your threshold based on pixel position: (x, y) => (142 * x + 79 * y) & 255

And for error diffusion, there are the Ostromoukhov and Zhou-Fang dithering algorithms[3][4], which I also have an JavaScript implementation of on Observable, so you can try it live[5].

[0] http://www.iryoku.com/next-generation-post-processing-in-cal...

[1] https://bartwronski.com/2016/10/30/dithering-part-three-real...

[2] https://blog.demofox.org/2022/01/01/interleaved-gradient-noi...

[3] https://perso.liris.cnrs.fr/victor.ostromoukhov/publications...

[4] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1201775.882289

[5] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/variable-coefficient-di...
Start by telling us what do you use it for?
I commented that it's objectively the best case. The problem is most developers aren't willing to sacrifice what it takes to get it.
How is that relevant? Is OpenAI reselling the contests of books? If so, this is the first I have heard of it.
> I suppose my question is: How do you know this? Alexander was surrounded by hand-picked men his father had groomed for decades in some cases. Offering council on every part of war fighting, from tactics to strategy to logistics. Isn't it entirely possible Alexander simply went with the flow of wiser, more experienced men telling him what to do?

Alexander did inherit a superb army. However, while he was present the army enjoyed spectacular operational and battlefield success. Once Alexander was gone, the successes also stopped.
Rescheduling Marijuana Proposed Rule by DEA 05/21/24 comment period TIL 07/22/24
What they actually want is to lose that war. Very badly. Or, their sponsors do.
A New Rudras Font
Every time I switch off my bluetooth Plantronics headset Apple music starts. Why? Because Apple.

Another clear sign Apple doesn't really care about it's users, it really cares about the bottom line, and getting people to sign up for their services.
> The accusation isn't that they trained on ScarJos voice, it's that they paid a voice actor that sounds like her.

Johansson's accusation did not specify the method. OpenAI claimed they hired another actor and the similarity was unintentional. The 2nd claim seems unlikely. Some disbelieve both claims.
Other people’s keyboards are most of the time borderline disgusting so I can sympathise with _that guy_ to some extent
I know you meant to write pandemic instead of pandemonium but “the pandemonium” sounds like a fun future event.
I have integrated Kagi quite deeply into my workflow at this point. I have a decent list of account level filters with their raise / lower / pin / block system, and I have some custom lenses to filter down for specific sources that I find helpful for certain topics. For example, I have a lens for the mailing list archives, issue tracker, irc archives, and official manual of the GNU/Linux distribution that I use. This makes it very easy to know that searches I make will be relevant to any problems I have.
I’m presuming that was a reference to the “trust the science” that was used to silence any dissent against the official narrative during the COVID pandemic.
TL;DR: the little arrow that represents your car on Google Maps is descended from Space Wars.
https://x.com/jam3scampbell/status/1791338109709287511
Following your dreams is directly linked to your ability to obtain funding.

This world has major problems in grasping different perspectives of others than the ones we're born with. When I do speeches for younger audiences, I always remind them to consider perspectives other than the ones they were raised in. It's baffling how many people walk around thinking that their perspective is fair to impose on everyone.

I think a lot of our current problems, especially wealth inequality, racism, and wars are driven by dreamers that only see their own personal vision, while also being driven by total blindness to the other perspectives affected around them.

I personally learned over many years and setbacks to live like a fisherman, not investing fully into any one category, just casting my reel in different spots and seeing if anything "bites"... If success bites, I fish in that area more, hoping that I will find enough success.

So far, I've mostly found success in embracing all the things I don't enjoy doing in order to fund the things I do enjoy... From my experience, most people (those not born into wealth & priviledge) don't earn great money unless they dive into doing things they don't enjoy...

I think it's important to be practical about it all.
Yes, the article lists a few reasons, none of them convincing. Specifically:

> You have to get the propellant into space. This is going to take a large number of flights (~15) at a pace that has not been done before for a vehicle of that size (a launch every six days)

SpaceX has done 2 Falcon 9 launches in 1 day, and they would have done 3 if the third one had not have been scrubbed [1]. I really don't think that launching Starship is going to be any different, especially as it was specifically designed for reuse, unlike Falcon 9.

> You need to launch at pace because otherwise the propellant will boil off, which is another issue - you need to shade or insulate the propellant for a much longer period of time in much harsher conditions

First part is same argument as above. Second part (shading) - again, I don't see why it is harder than other hard things. Just add more insulation. Possibly do some passive or active cooling.

> There is no gravity: whereas on earth the propellant separates relatively cleanly into liquid and gas this isn't the case in space

Very similar problem to how you feed liquid propellant into a rocket engine when it relights in zero gravity. You use a small ullage thruster for this.

[1] https://news.satnews.com/2024/03/31/spacex-enjoys-two-out-of...
Descending 6000 feet in 3 minutes is by no means special, that's just journalists being bad. Planes regularly descend at a higher rate, and nobody gets injured. Also, you don't need that high of a fall to have people get injured, a few tens of meters is more than enough, if it happens very suddenly (seconds, not minutes), which is the case with turbulence.
Most non-disposible point and shoot film cameras are cheaper and have much better optics when bought used.

But for film companies this is a great product. They can sell their film with added plastic bits and a flash for a decent markup.
It could be much more concise though. No need to tell us the personal background of all the people.

I think many journalists really want to be novelists though, and it shows.
I've never seen turbulence like this. And until fairly recently I didn't know it was really possible.

So it's a bit like "why don't people wear a welding mask while cooking?" It was never even a risk that I had considered before.
Thanks, but the second paragraph begins:

> South African officials insisted the broad offer of immunity, issued in a government gazette, may not trump the ICC arrest warrant.

Which is exactly the same uncertainty I had before.
I have an aversion to life altering side effects.

For example, I got prescribed ketaconazol shampoo for my dandruff. Finally had dandruff free hair for the first time in 20 years of struggling with it.

Then I developed permanent and severe tinnitus and hearing loss - one of the side effects of ketaconazol.

I've lived with a piercing 11.5khz tone for 5 years now. For the first two years I frequently could not sleep, at times the ringing was so bad I was suicidal. In the last 3 years my life has changed thanks to working with red and brown noise, which I blast on speaker to let me sleep

I'll struggle with the hearing loss and tinnitus forever. And the dandruff is back, maybe forever. Today I treat the dandruff and the tinnitus like old friends and part of me, because thinking of them as enemies that have defeated me is too heartbreaking.

These weigh loss meds also have stories of life altering side effects. I think it's important to understand that the desire to avoid these effects is valid. I sincerely hope you don't need to experience a disabling or life threatening side effect from a seemingly innocuous drug. But every new drug you take carries are risk that it will irrevocably alter your life. It's worth having compassion for those reluctant to take meds, and acknowledge that there are risks that you are discounting.

With risky conditions like obesity, it's easy to judge people and assume the obesity rush is greater than taking some meds. But that fails to truly connect with the utter terror of trying to fix one body system, only to cause utterly permanent damage to some other system. It's one of the scariest things I've faced.

It's important to realize that is what we're asking others to face when we take meds side effects for granted. And it's human to acknowledge and support those for whom the risk feels too great.
Vision language models use various encoders to project the image into tokens. This is just a means of a unified encoder across modalities
Changing handles in busses/trains from metal to plastic probably killed more people than a lot of other common causes. Everyone is touching those things, they are dirtier than cash.
You should move around pretty often to reduce the risk of blood clots. It's probably a better risk trade-off than trying to stay seated (and buckled-up) at all times besides going to the bathroom.
Nudibranchs: The Slugs of the Sea
> Don't put the return type on a separate line.

Generally yes, but stuff like

ReturnType<SomeOther<S, TypeConstructor<Nested<S, T, U>, T>>, U, HmmLetsAdd<V, W>>

can be on a line of its own.
I just want to be reborn as a bird to do exactly this all day
>or to use a different term, "was lucky to be at/in the right place at the right time".

Very little luck is involved in winning battle after battle and expanding a city-state kingdom 1000x, with strategic decisions which are still studied and marvelled upon by millitary experts.
I miss the old UI pattern of right-click switching between tools and workspace. Even today I can't seem to get a screenful of tools without sacrificing the area dedicated to the project.
Choice is scary for Apple's Services Revenue.

Apple believes they own every device, and feel wronged whenever users spend money without Apple taking a cut.
Why I Decided to Leave Frontend Frameworks Behind
Very reasonable but, changing func name for sake of code style sounds like a step too far.

Also

(i = i ; i < 100 ; i++ )

Whoever does that do not change it, they are probably a psychopath. Dont risk your life correcting them.
> Despite the government’s narrative of a crackdown on darknet operations, the reality remains that many such markets continue to thrive

Good line, I still think it’s strange when people’s depth on this topic begins and ends with Silk Road, that small market that’s been gone since 2013, over a decade ago
That's camelCase. Uppercase would be PascalCase.
> ChatGPT is way better than to need stupid ripoffs than this

Of course it’s not. All of ChatGPT is a ripoff. That’s what training data (which they did not license) is.
Want affordable housing? Take the chassis off manufactured houses
the biggest difference is that existing multimodal models (eg GPT-4V and MM1) trained the text model first, and then added in the image component after text training was done ('late fusion'). MM1 learns a projection into the text space, not discrete tokens, and thus cannot generate images.

Other work allows the model during training to learn the 'tokenization' more explicitly. that's more similar to Adept's Fuyu architecture, which I am personally a fan of, but also does not enable generating images out.

You can generate images using late fusion as well, though I am not aware of other public work that discloses both early fusion and image generation.
Huh?

I am suggesting that just because its easy for you to survive does not mean its easy for others. Older people, families (especially those with young children). Areas with weather on either side of the spectrum. These are not just "edge cases".

If I had to replace every single item in my fridge I could see it easily being $500. If I lived in an area with annual outages I can see the benefit again.

A simple portable generator with a plug installed to your homes panel, probably $1500 all in. A whole house probably $10-20k. If I lived in an area that is prone to outages I can definitely see the possible benefit of installing the whole house generator. But I would say that the $1500 option is much much more common.
Nestle to launch frozen pizzas, other foods targeting users of weight-loss drugs
Joe Biden Tariffs Against China Just Backfired on the US Economy
BeardedSpice is the saviour.
I was once on a flight where my seatbelt refused to fasten and I said nothing because I didn't want to be moved away from my wife. Let me tell you, after reading this, that will never happen again.
Why do people focus on AI's failures?
You could get access to your Stasi file and work on getting yourself arranged with the State. It was not some secret algorithm like it is today.
> So it's a bit like "why don't people wear a welding mask while cooking?"

Your kitchen does not have staff telling you to make sure you are wearing a welding mask. It may also lack appropriate indicator lamps that tell you when it is a good time to wear your welding mask. It is also not standard practice in all kitchens.

It’s actually not like airplane seatbelts at all, where they are ubiquitous and the risks of not wearing them are fairly well-documented.
This brings up a tangential good point. Since the water left behind from reverse osmosis is so high in salt content why can’t they pull in fresh seawater to dilute it down before releasing it back into the ocean?
Despite the hostility, the people are still connected.
>efficient x86 CPUs

Oxymoron.
More Clear-Air Turbulence from Climate Change Raises Safety Concerns
The last two pictures are the most impactful.
Seems relatively constant according to this graph: https://icao.usmission.gov/air-carrier-turbulence-related-in...
> I simply don't understand some cabins that have cocktail bars in them

Some First Class Suites cabins even have actual showers in them!
Can't they just put back doors in our silicon and be done with it?
The Romans knew lead was toxic, but they seemed to think that it wasn't a big deal because slaves handlex most of the lead. Plot twist: they were wrong.

Seems like we've known about various problems with many plastics for a good while, but action has been slow and useless. Can we please realise that this is probably affecting everyone, and start taking appropriate measures already?
At what level of taxation, either relative or nominal, would a generic billionaire be paying their “fair share”?
That's known as crazy case.
Is this pronounced Wax-a-lot-l or Wax-o-lowt?
About 6000 people choke to death in the US every year.
A couple hundred died during turbulences in the last 20 years.

Data on olives/airline bars is inconclusive
Time to stash some paper notebooks and pencils while they are still not banned.
> Your speech is processed securely on device overnight while your device is charging and connected to Wi-Fi.

Neat