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Posts on all sides of this topic get flagged quickly (by users), and mods turn off the flags on limited occasions—mostly when some significant new information arises and there's at least some chance of a substantive discussion about it.

It's pretty important that most stories about this conflict and similar current affairs get flagged, because otherwise HN's front page would consist of little else, and that's not the purpose of the site. But it's also important that the topics not be ignored completely, even though they're painful. There's no happy medium here, unfortunately.

Here are some links to previous explanations. If you (or anyone, of course) have a look at these and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418881 (May 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39920732 (April 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618973 (March 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435324 (Feb 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435024 (Feb 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237176 (Feb 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39161344 (Jan 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947003 (Jan 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38749162 (Dec 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657527 (Dec 2023)
> This ruling essentially says: "Big Mac" is only protected for selling beef sandwiches...that's fine.

No it's not.

What happens if I create a fake meat burger (Impossible burger, etc) and call it Big Mac?

That's one of the problems with this ruling.
Sure, as long as we fully subsidize relocation the millions of vulnerable people who would like to leave, and who will otherwise be forced into slave labor for the likes of Paxton and the other criminals running the show.
Yeah, these things are almost never as simple as they are supposed to be.

Poland has PESEL numbers since 70s. It was supposed to be unique, only apply to Polish citizens, never change, and have a checksum digit. Every Polish citizen gets one at 18 when they get their national ID document, and you can request it earlier if you want to.

Turns out there are duplicated PESEL numbers. A LOT of non-Polish citizens have them assigned (mostly Ukrainian refuges but not only). The checksums are sometimes wrong. And some people have several PESEL numbers.

If you used PESEL as database key you're fucked.

The system works perfectly, but it interfaces with external world through computer-human-paper-human-computer interface. And at some point the mistake propagates so far that it becomes the truth assumptions be damned.
That's really impressive. Can you share which embedding models you are using for this? Also, is Phi-3 or Phi-3 Vision involved?
In this case, it's the HN headline that's terrible (overstated to the point of being wrong), not the AP News article headline, which is "Big Mac battle: McDonald’s loses European Union trademark fight with Irish rival Supermac’s"
Perhaps they are trying to achieve parity with the propaganda of their adversaries, Russia, China, and Qatar.
Very cheap by who's wages? US? Switzerland?
The tables I've seen with one goalie have raised corners so that the ball doesn't get stuck there. You see it more on budget tables in my experience.
“Cross Apply” has entered the room.
Sure, but can it play with French rules?

You'd need quite the robotic arm for repêche.
It does sound like a good system since it gives the homeowner more flexibility. But call options aren’t free, so I wonder if it also makes getting a mortgage a little more expensive?

The mortgage becomes a bond that’s less valuable to the investor, so they would want a higher interest rate up front to make up for it.
… so it did blink?
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> Doesn't that make you not want to buy property in the first place?

If it was a common problem, then yes. But it's relatively uncommon, and to be honest, I'd rather have the existing system in place where people can legally occupy unused buildings, because there is a lot of them around here. And lots of property owners just keep them empty for years until their "investment" gives them the returns they want, which to me is a bigger problem than okupas.
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"Prove me wrong?" That's not how this works. Your implicit claim here is that human cognition and LLM functioning are fundamentally similar. That claim requires substantiation.
It was a new system, never went live in prod at the time. It was deployed to the integration environment where the API client implementations written by third parties would be tested against this new system. All that happened was a schema change. It made no sense to make it so complicated for the people the system was build for.
Protecting children is literally "boring stuff" to cops it seems
They didn't give me gpx files a few years ago either. I seem to remember it being a json or a csv, I can't remember which right now. Was easy to parse it to get the information I was after.
>I recently spent some time in Portugal (and Spain), and I would not consider it a horror situation. I cannot speak to Ireland.

Sorry, misused the word you used.

>Decline of economic growth is inevitable with fertility rates rapidly declining globally.

Well, not exactly. If you're germany, uk, usa, or canada with extreme immigration numbers to never decline. Then there will be no economic decline for us. In fact, each of those immigrants is presumed without any debt and starting over. Very quickly starts contributing to our community.

That's what's going to make this population decline and aging situation much worse for them.

>The world is getting old, people will need to be taken care of, and there will simply be less juice to squeeze (which only existed for the last several decades because of the global population boom from lack of family planning access and cohorts of women who weren’t empowered).

Are robot butlers going to be in time is the question. Wealthy retirees needing discrete help is going to have a huge budget. But so does factory work and labour in general.

We are going to rapidly move from a doing things culture to a service and creation culture. There's also 4 key countries with high education and are already service and creation.
This document explains the Danish system in some detail: https://finansdanmark.dk/media/raim0hhz/den-klassiske-realkr....

Toward the end of the document, there is a discussion of how the Danish mortgage system has fared in the various financial crises of the past 50 years starting with the twin oil shocks of the 1970s. Evidently it has been much more stable than the US system during that era. If for no other reason, the US should look at this system seriously.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2651728-war-thunder-military...
> For example, the order of query params is free to change but it's still the same URL.

Are you sure that's guaranteed by any spec? I thought an end-point would be free to treat `?a=1&b=2` and `?b=2&a=1` differently. I mean, it would be a nightmarish implementation, but I don't think it would be non-conforming?
I wonder if this effort to add Vulcan to Linux and then translate DirectX in Asahi Linux would impact Apple's dream of landing AAA games on Apple Silicon.

Apple would like AAA developers to port their AAA games over to Metal so that the game has one code base but can run on iPhones, iPads, Macs, and the Vision Pro.

Perhaps Mac gamers will install Asahi Linux in order to play AAA PC titles.
Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40526068 - May 2024 (70 comments)
IMO that's an odd choice for a micro. It initially looked like it could translate the custom SD card writing to FAT in SW, but with only 64K of flash that's not great. Some STM HAL irqs are almost that size. My recommendation is to find 1 micro that can do low power and USB, and maybe put external FRAM/QSPI for more code storage is needed.
Vulkan would likely not really have helped macOS gaming in any form. I consider it a red herring that people point to.

The number of games that run natively on Vulkan is negligible. The number of games that run on Metal by comparison (natively) is orders of magnitude higher.

If we're ONLY talking about the ability to use Proton, Apple does now have Game Porting Toolkit that does effectively the same thing with comparable performance characteristics if you take out the other contributing overhead elements.
Instead of the complexity of issuing these bonds, would it not be a lot simpler to just allow borrowers to buy back their mortgage at its current value, which is what any other buyer of that loan would do. Mortgage loans are bought and sold all the time, for their current value. Just allow the original borrower be able to do that.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40526068.
Honestly every time I see someone use MMLU as a benchmark I am wondering what they are trying to prove. MMLU is a simple multiple choice test with the answers being available.

Simply picking answers at random should give you 25 points. Knowing 50% of the answers and picking the rest randomly gives you 62.5%, which is very close to the scores of SOTA LLMs. The benchmarks that supposedly show reasoning are pretty bad and have very little to do with reasoning. A lot of the questions can be answered through memorization.

I agree with you. The benchmarks are garbage. I thought about building my own benchmarks, but this would require building a complex benchmarking framework first and I just don't have the time for preparatory work like that.
> try to claim that genuine tenants are squatters

This, exactly. These kinds of slanted articles that only state the issue from the perspective of negligent absentee landlords, whether written by ChatGPT or otherwise, all have the same problem: that's not how property disputes are resolved. The first thing that a court would have to establish is that the person trying to remove another person from a given place would be whether the first person has any right to the place, and to what extent. And the next thing would be the question of whether the second person has a stake in the place, and the nature and extent of that interest. Then they have to balance interests.

I know Spain is not America and doesn't share America's uniquely bad system of estates, but we see this all the time in America where a self-described landlord wants the county sheriff to immediately taser some old lady, but they can't even sufficiently demonstrate that they own the home.
It's not just for the politicians, but the people around them, the companies researching the mood, the normal citizen who will carry the mood to others. It not simply to quantify the effect of this type of social engineering.
Study shows banning false info traffickers online can improve public discourse
The easy fix here is to require property contracts in writing and to be filed with the government and educate everyone on that point. We already do this for property sales to avoid these very issues on ownership. The same thing for leasing would provide better protections for both parties.
Didn’t we almost go to war against Russia for doing precisely that?
Can someone explain how this relates to MoltenVK? This just removes the need for it as it's a native driver?
> As a thought experiment replace Israeli with Russian citizenship for the Israeli dual citizens in Congress and replace AIPAC with a hypothetical Russian ARPAC

Is Russia the main American ally in the region that contributes enormously to American intelligence and R&D, while also supporting American military operations?
The 787 was not even a figment of the imagination in 2003. Boeing had JUST cancelled the Sonic Cruiser at the very end of 2002. The 787 was not launched until mid 2004, a partially complete airframe was rolled out on 07/08/2007, then it was rolled right back in to be completed. First flight was in 2009, first delivery was 2011.

Also note that the 737 MAX launched in 2011. So Boeing was just coming off an airplane program that was completed 4 years late and 14 Billion dollars over budget, and a lot of engineering staff was still busy certifying the derivative (stretch) versions. So Boeing had neither the budget or the staff to launch an all new aircraft, and instead chose to do a quick-and-dirty re-engineing of an existing airframe. The poor quality of the design and manufacturing of the 737 MAX is directly attributable to a failure to execute the 787 program, leading to the MAX being under-resourced.

And let me tell you, the 787 was developed with just as many heritage Mcdonnell-Douglas personnel as Boeing personnel. John Hart-Smith, the Tech Fellow engineer who wrote the famous white paper decrying the level of outsourcing on the 787, always gets described as a "Boeing Engineer." He was at McDonnell-Douglass for nearly 30 years prior to getting a badge with a Boeing logo.
> I'm genuinely confused as to how McDonald's could have lost this.

I have an opinion - the EU really doesn't like dominating American companies. The history pattern here is very clear.
> The rocket used to launch Starliner today is an Atlas V which first flew in 2002. I.e. it's a 24 year old rocket system.

Are you posting from 2026?
Because the ones saying it ARE the bad apples. It's important to realize millions of Americans see a cop pull a gun and shoot a black guy in a traffic stop after he informs the cop he owns a firearm LIKE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO and just go on with their day.

It does not bother them.
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As always, there are always multiple sides to any issue. Another commentator put it better than I could:

> The reasoning behind this is that some shady landlords might try to claim that genuine tenants are squatters in order to get rid of them. There are plenty of desperate people who'd accept a verbal contract and payment in cash, after all. Not that hard of a choice when the alternative is being homeless. Oh, but you paid your rent a day late? Sorry, you're now a "squatter", so we're cooking you alive until you leave.

> Making it too easy to get rid of squatters would expose the most vulnerable people in society to even more abuse, and making it trickier for absentee landlords to get rid of real squatters is considered a fair price to prevent this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40586929

It's not a black & white issue where one side is obviously right and the other one is obviously wrong.
No such problem in a browser. Perhaps the weird choice is creating, or using, an app for a web site in the first place.
I questioned where there idea that there are people on an Internet forum comes from. I don't see any people, only the output of software.

There was nothing about the quality of that output or an attempt to insult the software. By what mechanism could software even be insulted?
You can't ship Game Porting Toolkit with your game, though. DXVK doesn't have this limitation, and developers use it all the time. In effect, this means the number of games you get with native Vulkan coverage is a magnitude higher than the total sum of all Metal-native desktop titles.
It's generally reasoning better than me, so using them I do less mistakes than if I did my own logic.
You clearly know more about this than I do. I have a generally low opinion of "modern" approaches that care more about "equity" than "truth." So maybe we should just stop here.
Try @Ninurta_Urbex for urban exploration/abandoned places.
Well, yeah. It's impossible to do Agile right. Why would a practice that's impossible to execute correctly have anything other than a higher failure rate? It's Agile's fault and it shows.
what if you travelled out of country for 10 days for whatever normal reason? can you do the "fast track" online or in person only?
> Using a natural PK -inside- your own database can still be a lot more pleasant to work with

Until you need to do anything like described above. The advantage of artificial keys is that they have no semantic content. Anything with semantic content carries the risk that the role that semantic content plays in your system can change and cause problems. Having a non-semantic identifier protects you from that.

This is not to say that you should never use a semantic identifier as a key. However, you should always have a non-semantic artificial key as the identifier and use the semantic identifiers only when necessary.
Think the main reason is that sea-recoveries are expensive compared to ones on land. I imagine there's at least some extra risk to a sea recovery as well (one of the Mercury capsules sank during recovery, though happily not with its astronaut inside).
While LLMs have incredible potential, and are even downright useful in their current format, they have the rather nasty tendency to confidently present bullshit that passes the smell test for most people. When it's wrong, it's not just wrong, by design, it's wrong but sounds plausible. Considering most people with subject matter expertise aren't going to consult such a bot for their own areas of expertise, that means most people will not be able to detect it intuitively.

Good example: I sunk probably an hour into trying to get Gemini Advanced to help me integrate it with a personal Google Calendar account. I kept asking it things and going crazy because nothing lined up with the way things worked. Finally, it referred to itself as Bard and I realized it was giving me information for a different product. As soon as I asked "are you giving me instructions for Gemini Advanced or Bard?" it was like "OH LOL WOOPS!! YOU GOT ME BRO! XD I CAN'T DO ANY OF THAT! LOL." Which, honestly, is great. Being able to evaluate its answers to realize it's wrong is really neat. Unfortunately, it was neat too late and too manually to stop me from wasting a ton of time.

I have decades of experience working in software-- imagine some rando that didn't know what the hell Bard was or even imagine this thing with "Advanced" in the name couldn't even distinguish between its own and other products' documentation.
That’s pretty cool, but I think you’re going to have to build out the other side too to fully remove the human from the equation
Are experts evaluating "precision" differently from laypeople?

Like, from a layman's perspective, getting the forecasted high and low within 5 degrees and accurately predicting if it's going to rain (and if so, when) are probably the factors we're evaluating. We don't really notice or care if something like the atmospheric pressure forecast is right or wrong. We care about whether we're well-prepared for the temperature and whether we get wet, and we know from constant experience that the forecast 14 days out can change by 10+ degrees (F) and/or more than 50% chance of rain by the time it becomes tomorrow's forecast, so from our perspective, the forecast is "usually wrong" when it's more than a couple days out.

Are we really, en masse, that wrong about what seems to be constant and universal experience? Or is "precision" measured very differently by professionals than what laypeople mean when they talk about "whether the weather forecast is right or wrong"?
> would impact Apple's dream of landing AAA games on Apple Silicon

Apple's dream is not to have AAA games land on Apple Silicon - they can do this with Proton-like layer, like they did with GPTK. Apple's wet dream is to have AAA games land in the Apple App Store - not on Steam or Epic Game store. That is why the GPTK effort is only have assed (and the license prevents Valve integrating it into steam directly).
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It's certainly striking that the quality of the propaganda is very much on par with that of Russia. It's clumsy, it often espouses political views (eg, the faux-anarchist stuff) which are incoherent in America or really anywhere in the West.
Being raised in a Jewish household.

Not a PR expert...but I don't see how spinning that up would have helped Zuck.
Who is it? And no, Texans just shrugged.
Well, the article I posted directly tackles your hypothesis and argues, rather persuasively, that high labour costs lead those in power to consider industrialization. Therefore, high cost of labour is an input to industrialization efforts, not an output. The machine only becomes worth pursuing when the total lifecycle cost is lower than the cost of sourcing and consuming human labour.
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I'm 99% sure the article was originally written in Spanish and then (either by human or machine), translated to English, as Idealista is a Spanish company.

Jumping to the conclusion that a LLM has written it, when you don't even seem to understand the context, seems really rash. But then this is HN, so you're forgiven.
You've listed all the ways to make sure no new houses are built.

Update:

> And also, if you’re gonna buy property please do so to actually live there yourself or to house a business that you own and actually operate.

This means that I can't rent. But as a person who lives somewhere, or a person who operates a business, I'd rather rent than own — I don't want to have all the headache of owning the property, and I don't want to be committed to one place so much, I want to be able to move easily when my circumstances change. Even if I had enough money to buy a house, I would put that money into a bank or investment fund that buys thousands of different homes and rents it out so I'm not that exposed to risks of owning any single piece of property.
Yes, it can reboost the station. Dragon can't. Cygnus, Dreamchaser, and Soyuz can reboost. This matters because the station can't boost itself.
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That makes perfect sense. Thanks for clarifying.
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Maybe, but symbolic thought can get pretty far away from what we generally call "language." I bet you can reason 1+3x=22 pretty easily without any words whatsoever, or the sound of one ascending octave after another, or the approximate G-force induced on your body if you take the next turn without applying the brakes.

All of these forms of reasoning are true and useful calculations: when we talk about "intuition" what we usually mean is that we have a lot of experience and internal reasoning about a subject, but we struggle to translate it to and from the "language" part of our brain. Nonetheless, any social dancer will tell you that a dialog is possible just by receiving and inducing g-forces alone. You can reason this way about abstract concepts like orbits without ever touching a single word or concrete symbol.

Edit: the key aspect of reasoning, imho, is the ability to make predictions and introspect them against a database of other predictions, using an adversarial heuristic to weight the most plausibly useful results. Perhaps our pattern matching AIs of today just lack sufficient "experience" to do what we call reasoning.
> Just waiting for a random US future president to create an "Internet" branch of the military. Maybe that's already happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command is the closest thing that we have today. It's not a formal branch, though, but rather a joint effort across the existing branches.
That does not and will not include the latest breach [0] because "[HIBP is] just not equipped for this level of parsing" [1].

[0]: https://www.troyhunt.com/telegram-combolists-and-361m-email-...

[1]: https://www.troyhunt.com/telegram-combolists-and-361m-email-...
Ah, thank you! It wasn't clear to me that dragging was part of the touch UI at all. I thought it was "tap square, tap letter to put in square." And then I couldn't find anything to tap to remove a letter from a square.