skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditional American elites are feeling increasingly insecure about their position as they face stronger and stronger academic/meritocratic competition every single year, giving rise to articles like these.

Traditional elites have been outcompeted out of the top unis for at least two decades now and the competition is increasingly coming for their stronghold schools like NYU and USC. It is no longer enough to be a relatively bright child of rich parents and that is causing a lot of anxiety.
> Would you, personally, accept punishment if (when) your government is found to have done something wrong? After all, you can vote.

Don't we? Governments revenue is mostly taxes. Government pays settlements from revenue.

Ergo, every individual pays when the government is found liable.
I mean, depends on your definition of "substantially", but yes, there was a big rightward shift, especially of Hispanic voters, in the RGV in 2020 compared to 2016, https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/texas/.

There was a ton of hand-wringing and speculation about why this happened. My best guess is because there was a ton of press near the end of the 2020 campaign about Biden saying he would "transition from the oil industry." It obviously has to happen eventually, but this was the case of "a gaffe is when you say the truth out loud". In the RGV many of the best jobs (if really the only good jobs for lots of people) are working in the oil industry and on offshore rigs.

Also, obviously, these folks have to deal with the brunt of the migration crisis.
> but it's worth noting that a rational policy person in Israel could look at Hamas as a distinct and unlikely form of militant nationalism: overtly Islamist, funded and trained by the IRGC, and led (since 2017) by a messianic lunatic.

Funded and trained by Mossad and others too, at times. In fact, Netanyahu was approving tens of millions a month to Hamas to stay militant and provide a more extremist opposition to Arafat and the PLO who were calming down and more peaceable in their old age.

This is the thing that really gets frustrating.

Israel's hard right is as opposed to a two state system as Hamas is. People point to "from the river to the sea" as "proof" of Hamas' genocidal intent (and I won't pretend they haven't said other things to that end, either), ignoring that it was literally Likud's platform slogan since the 1970s.
> It's a Prisoner's Dilemma problem

I think it's a Red Queen's Race problem. If everyone is running, you have to be running just to stay put (relatively). To out-compete, you gotta run faster.

But there's only so hard anyone can run. The real game is in finding or creating leverage. What can you (or your kids) do that nobody else can do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
LemonSqueezy was founded in 2020. Gumroad changed their pricing to a flat 10% on January 31, 2023, as stated in the article.

Yes, Paddle is also a competitor but my main point was that many people on social media thought Gumroad was too expensive yet it turns out no sellers in the real world actually cared. The benefits of Gumroad (apparently to them) outweigh the extra 5% they pay.
Great, now make one that takes in an autogenerated long form garbage like this book and summarizes it into a prompt so I don't have to waste time reading it.

A little more constructive: The difference between long form content like this and the 'medium' of interacting with a model is that a book is static while a model allows for a interactive consumption of content. I'd lean more into that that this.
It's a coordination problem (prisoners dilemma). It's a winning move only if no one plays (aka everyone hits cooperates). If you are the only one who defects you will be worse off.
> sometimes, kids don't want to do things because they aren't good at it. But they can't become proficient at anything without a lot of practice

You’re good parents. Learning to get over that hump is a huge deal. You come across kids who lack that capability. It’s particularly disheartening if they’re already in puberty, because a lot of evidence shows by that point it’s too late for most. (But never altogether too late. The relearning will just be traumatic.)
Amiga Walker
Without expressing opinion on the warrants:

A) I'm told warrant approval is almost always a rubberstamp.

B) There will be a discrediting campaign, but ICC's future is the least interesting thing to me.

C) I'm not sure this leads to a conviction, but actual trials will probably take years by which time Bibi and co will be out of office. Again not so interesting.

D) Bibi was already done for. But paradoxically this strengthens him domestically temporarily and massively strengths the Right next elections. I'll expand on this below since this is IMHO interesting.

E) It makes attacking Israel a bit more 'legitimate', but in the ME legitimacy for that was already sky-high. War with Lebanon was very high likelihood anyway.

F) Saudi normalization is DOA for this term (always was, but admin was blind to everyone's interests. Qatar would have had to be nuts not to put every possible roadblock here, and Biden admin could never see what was in front of its eyes).

G) Hamas has not so simple problems here. The various ideas for reintegration has hit serious roadblocks, and later on I believe this will cause them bigger problems than Israel which can always change leaders.

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D is not 'rally around the flag'. It has to do with the opposition is built: its deep links with the 'security state'. The security state is outraged and itself vulnerable to possible warrants. The same logic could have easily justified adding Gantz.

An Israeli Left opposition which can't claim the world likes them more (due to warrant risk) and loses its security credentials (security state links to pre and post Oct failures, warrant risk again) is dead in the water. Which means it needs more time before an election to find its footing again... But on the other hand, it wouldn't like possible ICC isolation either. So a temporary delay before losing in the elections.
I'm not sure "Salesforce" is the right comparison here?
> People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

Yes, they will. You just have to google "dumbphones" and you will come up with a number of options on the first page. If you go to Amazon, you will find even more, ranging from ~$25 to several hundred.

I have even seen phones geared towards very niche communities, such as ultraorthodox Jews, where uber and waze are acceptable, but instagram and facebook are not, so the phones enforce this at a relatively low level (making it hard for a somewhat savvy teen to circumvent)... just Google "kosher phones".

I have seen phones for the elderly, with oversized keys and a dedicated panic button. There's lots of existing stuff on the market, so this headline makes no sense.
The vast majority of colleges accept students just fine without any particular extracurricular activities.

So this isn’t about collage, just the artificial hoops that some colleges use to maintain their elite status. Elite schools offer a few real advantages, but far less than most people assume.
Exactly my experience using Steam Deck desktop mode
It's fairly easy to "enable" a "dumb mode" on a smart phone. iOS supports "guided access", where you can basically turn off everything, behind a passcode. There's also screen time, which lets you limit/disable anything, also behind a passcode.

But, this requires that someone else manages your phone.
No, I agree that touching grass is associated with being good for you, I just disagree that higher levels of UV exposure are what makes it good for you. Touching grass has been a confounding variable in every association study I've read which claims to be about sun exposure, and the phrase "sun exposure" is ambiguous enough that it's often misinterpreted as "UV exposure".
The iPhone tracks location but it is stored on the device
It is progress, but the progress doesn't come for free, as this article and associated discussion shows.

The progress now means that this is now a default expectation at the high school level, which means more work for high-schoolers to just stay afloat.
How can this be true while on the other spectrum I read that schools are lowering requirements and in general maths and physics are dumbed down - while there is a bloom of bs social science where required is showing up an that’s it.
>Those are clearly not the gamers I am talking about.

You specified gamers, you should have explicitly specified PC gamers if they are who you referred to.

Note that PC gamers are, as much as they deny it, a minority of out of all gamers as a whole. The vast majority of gamers play on mobile or consoles, and of those mobile far outnumbers consoles too.

Consoles can also switch processor architectures with the changing forces of the wind, they don't have to support backwards compatibility unlike x86 and Windows. If Windows ends up becoming more ARM dominant than x86, consoles will likely follow suit to make subsequent Windows ports (and then also mobile ports?) easier.

Going on a tangent, I find it very annoying that PC gamers despite being the minority somehow want to claim gamers aren't gamers. PC Master Race is a meme, not reality.

>Which unless I am mistaken the only one of those in the top list that actually runs on mobile is PUBG.

Stardew Valley at #10 also has mobile ports.[1][2]

>But the "hardcore" AAA gaming market still very much exists, and is firmly on x86 right now.

The games I cited are AAA games, FSVO AAA; they are developed and/or published by big, established studios and/or publishers. Frankly, I find the AAA moniker worthless these days, but I digress.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stardew-valley/id1406710800

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chucklefis...
While it is not fast in a single-thread, it is still 5x-7x faster than Node.js today for programs that are allocate a lot. If all you want is to run a program faster, and doesn't mind a bit more energy, Bend could be useful for you today.

And that's comparing a first-version interpreter against a SOTA runtime deployed in all browsers around the world and optimized by all major companies over 20+ years. If that's not useful to you, that's useful to me, which is why I wanted to share so it can be useful to more people.
Thanks! We've implemented a progress indicator, skeleton loaders, and object streaming using the Vercel AI SDK (see here: https://sdk.vercel.ai/docs/ai-sdk-core/generating-structured...). Especially the latter ensures that users start receiving content right away.
Power A5000
That is what is stated in the article, yes. Workers can take 0% to 80% of their compensation as equity, they are still paid at least 20% as cash.
An always-with-you terminal is nice. What we need is not replacing them. It's making them simpler. We're cramming features into these things that doesn't need to be there, and it's a pain to remove them. That's what make them so confusing. What I do when I'm seated in front of a computer is different from what I want to do on the go. That's why I like my single-use devices (like my kitchen timer), because they tend to do that one things well. The iPod classic was great in that regard.
Ya you're probably right. I think "common rail" injection is based on gas DI though.

And there are some engines that are indirect injection (called IDI). I've been on the hunt for a 90s 7.3l IDI. They're gutless without a turbo, but slap a pair of turbos on and it makes a heck of a towing machine. But I don't know as much about diesels, partly because they just never break the way a gas engine will. I've rebuilt a few gas engines, diesels just seem to be made of tougher stuff.
Okay, say Israel enters Rafah, do whatever they want in there. Say they do a whole another pass over Gaza.

Do you think the rest of the population just stands by? You can't treat people like Israel treats Palestinians and not have terrorism. It's really that simple. Any serious plan by Israel to achieve peace of any sort with Palestinians involves massive concessions compared to the actual state of things and I can't imagine for a second anything like that would happen.
United's new app update is a flop
Yeah a friend of mine married a lady who grew up in the Alaskan wilderness. The family was desperately poor yet still had an airplane, interestingly. They were the kind of people who don’t use the internet at all.
Can I click the Copilot button and ask the os to debloat himself?
The trouble with this is that you don't have any data for the alternative case, so you can't say if forcing her to do gymnastics was actually a good move. Maybe she would have loved piano even more and been performing at concerts now. Maybe she would have loved soccer and been on a path to the Olympics.

Personally, I think forcing kids to do an activity after they've tried it a few times and decided they hate it is generally a bad tactic. I'm a fan of giving kids options - they have to do something that gets them out of the house and off their phone / iPad, but not necessarily the thing I personally think they should do.
> not worth much

Interesting change of tone. Now it's already worth something, just not much. But previously you wrote:

> there is just no evidence (or at least I haven't seen any) ... personal experience is also valid evidence, and I have seen none of that either.

You went from total denial to already assigning worth.

This isn't "today's age of misinformation" stuff, by the way. These are literally thousands of years old historical records of eyewitness accounts. It is in fact "the human mind is just a meat computer" that is the modern day misinformation. It's leading you further away from the soul. So that demons can take over.
I live in Europe so most of my customers don't have English as a first language. Any questions are generally in pretty broken English. Honestly, reading through and making sense of what they're trying to say is a real mental challenge at times. I use LLMs to reformat and structure their message/ticket, which I paste into my notes. The accuracy is pretty good - certainly as good as me, although I do proof-read. I then ask it to pull out the pertinent information and bullet point it. I can turn those bullets into action items for me to investigate or respond to. It saves me about 15 minutes on each case, meaning I save maybe an hour every day in translating.

The next is for writing up beauracratic nonsense my organisation asks me to do. Monthly status reports, bandwidth allocation, deal-win summaries and the like. I write down what I've done at the end of each day, so I just feed that into an LLM and ask it to summarise the bulk bullet points into prose. It saves me god knows how many hour refactoring documents. I modify the prose when it's done, to match my personal style and storytelling methodology, but it gets me the barebones draft which is the most time consuming part.

I love LLMs personally, and am embracing them primarily as a scribe and editor.
That's not what proportionality means.
Note the original comment:

>Can HN moderators explain why and how the majority of anti Israel posts get flagged quickly ? If HN is pro israel, moderators should update the website guidelines to explicitly say that.

This is not about this story. It asserts that dang is "pro-Israel" and that HN has a group of Zionists that flag anything anti-Israel. dang stated why these stories get flagged and generally by whom, which had a banal answer. There's not a conspiracy against anti-Israel posts, there's a group of people that want certain hysterical people to stop polluting the commons with their off-topic divisive and histrionic screeds.
I don't know how productive I'm being but I'm using Llama3 via Ollama on a M1 Mac. It's as good as Copilot and Gemini for most things and I'll use those models if I need a little bit more. I prefer the privacy of the local models. I use it both through the command line and with the Open WebUI web interface. I use it for programming tips, learning, research, and writing. As a simple example, I wrote a (reusable) prompt for doing Chicago style title capitalization a few minutes ago. Normally I'd have to search for a web based tool and then manage through the crap. It's much quicker to ask a local LLM.
Despite people wanting to pretend otherwise, the SAT correlates pretty well with general intelligence.
A war only happens when the chances of winning or losing is indeterminate. Ukraine would have achieved a sane political outcome without loss of blood and treasure if the Russians managed to roll in their tanks and replaced the government with a Russian leaning one. This may sound unpalatable it would have restored status quo to the pre-western-funded coup against the Russian-friendly government that was in place.

Geopolitically, the NATO was heading towards obsolescence as Germany and Russian integrated their economies and achieve a lasting peace in the region. The US meddling in Ukraine weakens Europe and maintains the US status as the global hegemon.
Not OP, but I had a few warts. Tried cryotherapy for them, but they came back, just slightly to the side of where the original wart was.

The thing that managed to have them gone? Less stress.

Things were pretty stressful in my life when I got them and while I was stressed out, they were there. Once life got a bit less stressful, the warts just kinda went away.

There are other comments in this thread mentioning folk remedies too. It may just be a bit of a placebo effect at play too. You think it works, and due to the magic/madness that is 'biology', it somehow does. The placebo effect is a pretty strong remedy in a lot of cases un/fortunately.
Bad Blood? The Uncertainty Around Microclots and Long Covid Republish
> which means more work for high-schoolers to just stay afloat

I’m arguing this isn’t a given. It often is. But consider the pedagogical progress in just educational YouTube videos. Difficult concepts that took hours to understand can now be grasped in under an hour. (You still have to work at it.)
Agreed. As a lawyer who occasionally works in this area, my primary reaction to the post was: he should have gotten advice from a lawyer and not just "fellow bloggers." The "wink wink" going on in this post would really not work to his advantage if he is sued for defamation and any of his statements turn out to be false.
Components that would simplify this are (a) limiting and simplifying damage calculation & (b) requiring companies to admit fault as part of settlements.

Currently, 'the company admits no fault' (but pays a fine), helps head off shareholder lawsuits.

If prosecuting entities and companies were instead required to include admitting fault, then shareholder suits would be much simpler.

The company has already admitted liability -> process directly to negotiation over amounts.
Just because most gamers game on mobile and consoles do not make them any less of gamers. PC gamers are a minority, not the majority; PC Master Race is a meme and not reality.

If anyone wants to refer to PC gamers, refer as such. "Gamers" with no additional descriptors by definition is anyone who games, and that includes gamers who play on mobile and consoles.
After further thought, I wonder if the article is more about companies trying to sell 'premium'/hipster dumbphones for $300-700-ish, and being confused when people don't buy them over a <$100 phone?
This 100%. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
AI Will Take Time
The difficulty would be worse of course if you depend on anything proprietary from the cloud vendor.

But the main question is, once you do all of this work and spend time to be “cloud agnostic”, does it add business value?

In the case of Dropbox, it made sense to move from the cloud. In the case of Netflix, they decided to move to the cloud.

But you can’t stay completely “cloud agnostic”.

Let’s take a simple case of using Kubernetes and building the underlying infrastructure using Terraform.

The entire idea behind Kubernetes is to abstract your infrastructure - storage, load balancers, etc.

But eventually, you still have to deal with what’s underneath. I used AWS’s own Docker orchestration service for years - ECS. But I just learned Kubernetes last month.

I still had to know how to troubleshoot problems with IAM permissions, load balancers, view CloudTrail logs for permission issues, know how the underlying storage providers worked, make sure I had the right plug installed for K8s to work with AWS’s infrastructure etc.

Once I got all of that figured out, then I could go through the tutorials and mind map the difference between ECS and AWS’s Kubernetes implementation - EKS.

But I had years of experience with AWS. I could have never easily troubleshoot the same types of issues with Azure’s or GCP’s version of K8s. Now multiply that by an entire department.

Once everything is configured correctly, a developers experience would be the same across environments

Migrations at scale are always a pain from one system to another.

Source: I worked at AWS in the Professional Services department for three years. I’m mostly a developer and I dealt with the “modernization” side of “lift and shift and then modernize”.
Yeah the math on what, 300k in equity on a 100MM “valuation” by retail investors is… hey it ain’t nothing. 0.3% of 5MM dividends is 15K.

For a dude who’s only alive because his investors decided to walk away from their 8MM investment, that’s kinda tight. But freelancers just want the cash, so if he’s paying cash, this is just some weirdo being weird in tolerable ways.

The whole performance here is off putting to me though. You got gifted a huge amount of money and kept almost all of it for yourself. Alright man. You got the right. Everybody is a big boy and agreed to the deal.

But let’s not play around about how you got rich, or how much of the pie goes in your own pocket versus everybody else’s.
because users with enough reputation can flag things

And one hand sadly even now there are way to many people (e.g. politicians in the country I live) which prefer keep their simple black/white/good/evil world view wear blinders and label anything against Israel as anti driven by antisemitism. That Israel did so themself to doge criticism doesn't help here either. Nor does it help that a lot of antisemitic people do take advantage of this situation to spread their propaganda, sometimes hidden behind a layer of seemingly reasonable arguments.

On the other hand there are enough people which do have a mindset that because what Hamas did the actions by Israel might not be okay but tolerable. I mean especial in more fascist leaning circles you will find a lot of moralistically praising "acting with a iron fist" weather that's in child education, fighting crime or retaliatory military action.

Honestly the situation is a scary mess, with no good way to fix it and where right and wrong become increasingly meaningless in face of a potentially never ending cycle of violence.
You're forgetting Azure Active Directory Domain Services, which is presumably now named Entra AD Domain Services which is different from Azure AD/Entra AD because it's a managed domain controller in Azure...
Discussion [0] (55 points, 2 days ago, 27 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40399934
I just found out container queries are widely available, nice!

I should subscribe to some "new web features you can actually use now" newsletter. Any ideas?
Still waiting for them to catch up and join the revolution of sat streaming, boostagrams , and other Podcasting 2.0 features.
Still my app of choice (due to F-Droid availability and many years of playback history).
I think you want guided access: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111795
Or screen time, taking advantage of the content restrictions settings that let you disable most everything, including app install.
I guess that's true but you can't make a leap like Apple did with their transition to ARM every few years. So it's good to see the competition catch up. And I'm perfectly happy with Windows laptops trailing Apple by a close margin instead of a 4 year gap.
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Warrant Applications by the ICC