skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're unlikely to have a productive discussion anyways because we're so far apart and this is not a good medium to handle something like this topic. People that are entrenched in certain positions don't seem to want to give them up.

However I'm not claiming all criticism on Israel is because "the people behind this project are of Jewish ancestry". But certainly antisemitism plays a role. It plays a role in Arab views on Israel and that in turn plays a huge role in the world's take. That's just one of the ways it plays out. There are other factors including geopolitics. I would go so far to say that the majority of criticism of Israel is not in good faith, but sure, not all of it is because there are Jews involved. But certainly that accounts for some portion.

> Imagine a defense lawyer making the following argument: "Your honor, my client would never have broken into that house, and stolen that woman's necklace. It goes against everything he was raised to believe in. BTW it was never hers to begin with, so it couldn't have been stolen from her anyway."

I was going after this analogy which feels completely wrong.

> all strong critiques in regard to the founding of the State of Israel or its modern policies are basically the Dreyfuss Affair all over again.

I disagree with this statement. There's no problem with any critique of Israel in general. Where it becomes a problem is when Israel is singled out. E.g. if there is no critique of the founding of Jordan, which was given as a gift by the British to the Hashemites for helping them during the Arab revolt, then I think this is a problem. Then there is "critique" and there is stuff that's not critique. But for people that are interested in reopening the question of how various countries were founded in general in the 18th, 19th, and 20th century, sure we can have this discussion and include Israel in it for sure. For people whose main focus is simply attacking Israel by any means possible, I think that's a problem. I'm totally with John Lennon "Imagine" on a purely romantic idealistic way, but then there's reality.
Leica Lux
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot was the first webcam; there are zillions now.
A lot of people have asked them to stop using the name too. The devs seem very stuck in their ways.
I thought the 2022 remake war great and very close to the original.

At least I got the same feeling of senselessness and morbid callousness from the leadership while watching it.

Watching the remake made it clear that soldiers were literally seen as fodder on all sides and nobody in charge cared how many died.
The percentage is high enough that it’s difficult to enact free lunch programs.
Sounds like they just want to know what the impact is - and don’t want you to spend too long since it’s only 1 point. Just say you’re not sure it can be done easily if at all, and ask how much time they want you to spend on the task
Chasing Utopia, Startup Style
In the UK we had The Computer Programme [1] (with Kraftwerk - Computer Love as its theme) and Making the Most of the Micro [2]

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtimvwAoYtnCtLiLspq_Gnng...

[2] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtimvwAoYtlWZdX-MgnHrr-G...
Hardware math bugs, V8 issues, and nuclear bombs either...
They should call it non-translating-to-protein-but-probably-has-some-function DNA
I don’t really like how it’s presented in this article, as if the only people who are against the bill are the big evil corporations that you, the reader, are supposed to hate.
It would be very interesting to leverage this to edit documents as much as code. Obviously editor-dependent due to the language server.
Kinda interesting.

There are N! permutations in a shuffle (no duplicates) and there's an algorithm where you pick one random number between 1->N! and then bring up that permutation (though I don't know how to do it better than N log N with an order-statistic tree). I like this because it requires exactly one random number.

A trivial solution in functional programming (for those of us who find this swap stuff really unreadable and error-prone) would be something like:

[1,2,3,4,5,6].map(x => {return {value: x, order: Math.random()}}).sort((a,b) => (a.order - b.order)).map(x => x.value)

Of course this is N-Log-N, but personally I think it's easy to forget how small logN grows. Like log10(number of atoms in universe) = 82, so if your dataset is smaller than the number of atoms in the universe you could think of it as less than the constant 82.
as hypothetical product owner
given i heard about the benefits of minimising WIP to improve cashflow in manufacturing processes
and given i believe what is best in context A is also best in unrelated context B provided similar words are used
when i heard that our production CPUs use pipelining, which is a form of WIP instructions for the processor
then i wanted to disable it
so that we can unlock the cash trapped in our production server CPU instruction pipelines
I wasn’t too worried about the spiderbot legs since they had no impact on gameplay. The bots originally had four legs. Over time, triangles became a major part of the visual motif of the game, so I slowly changed all the squares to triangles and everything had to come in threes.
Or a metric ton of untreated fertilizer.

It's always good to have some optimism.
(Why) is the Accept button not disabled for some initial period? It shouldn't really be possible to consent to that in five milliseconds...

Alternatively: if Apple genuinely cares about its users' privacy, why doesn't it make it harder to share such data than just pressing a single button? How about typing "yes" into a box or something? If you're really benefiting from sharing your contacts, surely typing Yes isn't going to make you change your mind...
I don't know about other states but this brings up an unusual problem with Michigan law. I worked for a number of years in a small town that had a popular bar. The owner rarely drank at work even if people offered to buy him a drink.

But one night he sat drinking with old friends. After cleaning up and closing the bar up he got in his car to drive home. It was a cold Michigan winter night and as he sat there with the heat running full blast he came to the realization that he probably shouldn't drive home. So he climbed in the back seat and went to sleep.

An hour later he was awakened with flashlights shining in his face by local police. He explained himself but after a breath analyzer test he was arrested for drunk driving. He went to court and lost. The lesson the locals took was that you're better off trying to drive home than doing the prudent thing.

So if you're drunk and a remote driver is operating your car could you still be guilty of drunk driving? In Michigan at least I bet it will be tested in court.
Plastics production alone will doom climate goals
The most ridiculous and offensive thing about this was I got this pop-up while actually using Premiere, and it wouldn’t let me continue using the app until I agreed. Since I was in a rush and only using the free trial anyway, I just agreed, but promptly cancelled my trial after the project was done. I’m going to cancel all of my other Adobe subscriptions as well, and either start using alternatives, or maybe just pirate them out of spite.
> friend who has the same attitude towards personal finances and refuses any help

Funny, me too. Despite working in finance. (It’s quite common.) I outsource that task, too, in part because I don’t want to be day trading, in part because index funds are near bulletproof nowadays and in part to hide the money from myself.

Would note that there is a difference between hating a task and not doing it, and hating a task and managing it.
Wild. Well glad it works for you, but way too many headaches for when things go awry.

I note that my Ubuntu derived system idles at multiple gigs of ram
Whatever happened to RISCV, wasnt it the big new thing like AI and web3?
Tesla Pay Fight Gives Elon Musk Taste of Karma
https://www.stacktv.ca/ Has YTV (probably not older shows though) and Stack is a bit pricey in my opinion.
> Just see how many people think that when a scientist says "the universe" that they mean the entire universe and not, as scientists mean, the observable universe

We once pestered our physics professor to explain what’s outside the universe. He finally said that’s a dumb question, the universe is definitionally everything, if we find anything beyond the edge of the universe, we’ll just call that universe too.

Always liked that framing.
It's otherwise uninhabitable.

Aside from that what do you think our ancestors did with their waste?

People overestimate the impact of individuals on the planet. Which is a game corporations play so you underestimate the impact of their profits on the planet.
Climate Impact of Primary Plastic Production
The comment I replied to wasn't in good faith. I've been using this stuff for almost a decade and it just works. Maybe you've found a broken app—that's certainly possible. But that's a problem of the app, not "linux."
Ventoy – Bootable USB Solution
Air Gap: Protecting Privacy-Conscious Conversational Agents
Many taller buildings don't have a way for you to step outside in an outfit to see if it works for the weather. Or to step outside for a few minutes to try to manually gauge the temperature with our squishy body thermometers.

If you know the temperature, you don't need to do this exercise at all, you simply know based on experience, and it's more accurate, too. A few degrees difference can mean different clothes, different materials, different layering, etc.
For what it's worth that sounds a lot like what Max Tegmark classifies as the "level 1" multiverse.

https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html
You said that now we see it as more complex. You should read about the actual arguments that were being made for and against intervention at that time. There absolutely was not an obvious consensus in the US until Pearl Harbor.
I recall reading on HN that road wear (and therefore tire wear) is a fourth power of the weight on the axle. So a little bit more is a lot more.

Edit: I’m too late, already noted by Sparkle-san below
Microsoft wants you to switch from Local to Microsoft Account
I use it for interior design ideas and fashion ideas, and a lot of girls I talk to use it to build mood boards for themselves. It's actually a pretty big app.
Scientists Reinvent Chocolate with Secret Ingredient – It's Healthier
Virgin Galactic spaceplane takes tourists on flight
... are there actually only a finite number of ways matter can rearrange itself? Or are configuration spaces "actually" described by real (or complex) numbers (whether for things like distances or angles, or for things like the probability that a prepared quantum state will collapse to a given outcome)? If real (or complex) numbers are "real", then doesn't the fact that configuration states for some perceptually available region are described by R^(huge number) mean that merely traveling around in R^3 space, one _shouldn't_ expect to see repeats?
Exactly right, they do not have a concept of true and false as unsupervised learning simply makes them good at predicting the next token. But I think there is an over-confidence bias in the training data sample. On top of that, instruction tuning wants definitive answers, as you say. And finally, RLHF probably favors over-confident answers because people like that. From start to finish, over-confidence bias is everywhere — we both produce over-confident training data, and tune for over-confident answers.

Or, well... that's what I think. See, I've not trained an LLM, I have only read about it online, and very little in books I have on the topic. I did some machine learning exercises in university, and that's the extent of my practical knowledge. And as I say that, the impact of my words goes down, right? They are taken less seriously than if someone said all that stuff about LLMs but never said they don't have practical experience. And yet, this makes the information as it is presented more exact, the limitations are clear, so it is more useful.

More useful, but far less appealing... This is a really interesting topic.
>For instance, looking at the art from Minoan Crete, there's abundant examples of works where women are portrayed in the ways that in other cultures of the region were how the rulers were portrayed, but since we're assuming they were a patriarchy

Who assumes that? For over 40 years I've been reading conjectures about Minoan Crete being a matriarchy or substantially less patriarchical from all kinds of sources, it's quite a common theory. Even Wikipedia: "While historians and archaeologists have long been skeptical of an outright matriarchy, the predominance of female figures in authoritative roles over male ones seems to indicate that Minoan society was matriarchal, and among the most well-supported examples known."
> would likely be quickly noticed and fixed

Fixed as in fixing the exploit that TFA is reporting? Isn’t that the point of their report?
The thing that annoys me is that banks continue to allow payments even when the card numbers change. I am talking even when the payment method is a card and not bank info.

This happened to me with savethechildren.org before they allowed for easy cancelation. In the past you would have needed to call to cancel.
The English degree helps explain why word choice and order matter, giving you context and guidelines for software design.
It makes sense if you don’t think about it too much.
US lawmakers call for more scrutiny of news app NewsBreak over Chinese origins
> The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a single brain to spontaneously form in space, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did.

I don't think that's true though, I think it's more unlikely for a brain to form spontaneously, than a simple (simple compared to the brain) system of rules that then causes galaxies, planets and life with brains to form through interacting processes
It’s also in Safari and I’m guessing Edge as well. It’s not a big deal, I just get surprised by Firefox the first time I try to open a private window
New York lawmakers pass measure to protect youths on social media
> The lex Oppia was implemented to severely curb female expenditure on adornment and finery.

This explains that other laws had been repealed following the conclusion of war 20 years prior. Women took to the streets in protest and filled the senate. As a result the lex Oppia was revoked.

Interesting event. Let's not engage in presentism while we consider the implications of it today.
Yet another system activity monitor
Gates-backed startup creates brick that can store air pollution for centuries
So bloat-ware ?
It also delayed critical military aid from Ukraine, ceding European ground to a violent and despicable autocrat.

It is fascinating to see bent-reality arithmetic in real time:

“There is no isolationist strain”

“Okay yes there is but it’s ‘counterbalanced’ (whatever that means) through vigorous efforts by the opponents of that strain!”

That’s called there being an isolationist strain buddy.
On it's own probably not. Given the way that people hook npm into automated deployments it likely can rise to that level for some users. Given that some people may depend on this deployment strategy without even being aware of it, it does seem like an issue worth noticing.
Time to switch to Linux.
No that's not reasonable. It fucks people over that save their money and rewards people that waste it. You pay taxes, you get the same benefits as everybody else is a reasonable policy.
Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content from News Outlets
I think you’ve misunderstood the thought exercise. Reality doesn’t design levers. The lever is a metaphor for a human designed system, and the point is not to cast you as a simple lever operator.
My interest in Pinterest left with my chill on Farmville.
If you're only using Premiere for video editing and not for any After Effects integration, then even the free version of DaVinci Resolve is a great alternative. For a while Resolve's performance and relatively better stability made it a superior choice when Apple first switched to using their own silicon.
Start calculating digital carbon emissions in 5 minutes with CO2.js (2022)
The study in question appears to be "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2":

https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-throws-cold-water-cons...

Kristian G. Andersen, a researcher dependent on funding controlled by Fauci, published this after discussion directly with Fauci himself. In FOIA'd emails, Andersen had previously expressed concern that SARS-CoV-2 had arisen unnaturally, but he changed his public position after the discussion.

He says new scientific evidence changed his mind, but his arguments don't make any sense. David Relman (of Stanford) writes:

> Some [that's Andersen] have argued that a deliberate engineering scenario is unlikely because one would not have had the insight a priori to design the current pandemic virus. This argument fails to acknowledge the possibility that two or more as yet undisclosed ancestors i.e., more proximal ancestors than RaTG13 and RmYN02) had already been discovered and were being studied in a laboratory—for example, one with the SARS-CoV-2 backbone and spike protein receptor binding domain, and the other with the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site. It would have been a logical next step to wonder about the properties of a recombinant virus and then create it in the laboratory

https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2021133117

Even Andersen himself has since moved on to more sophisticated (but still flawed) arguments like Pekar's "The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2". But at the time, "Proximal origin" justified the false consensus that SARS-CoV-2 unquestionably arose naturally. So any speculation otherwise was a "conspiracy theory", derided in the press and banned from major social media platforms. Do you not find any of that objectionable?
> Well, yes, it's the very definition of a conspiracy theory

What is?

> That doesn't mean it's automatically false though.

No, just significantly less likely than the other going theories.

Note that I wouldn’t put it past Boeing (or actually, more likely, a Boeing investor) to kill. But without any evidence I’d refrain to make such accusations.
The article claims people are avoiding CVTs, is this true? I found some stuff on reddit, mostly about older nissans being troublesome and some people not liking how it changes the feel of acceleration, but a lot of people say they are fine.

I bought a 9 year old honda recently with a CVT and it seems fine to me, I like how it accelerates but I'm not a pedal stomper. I also like that it has a CD player (can still use the CDs transferred from my previous 27 year old car).
Minimalist touchscreen helps too, though its too old to show maps from my phone.
Glad i stopped using. Would be quite disturbed by such a forceful event.

It could be that you were seeing too many tweets. And they thought you were a bot scraper. They dont have time for False positives
Yeah, things like Conway's game of Life illustrate that simple rules can create complex interactions
The Uyghurs did not launch rockets on Beijing. As far as I can tell they did not blow up any buses or restaurants in Beijing either. To contrast suicide bombings in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem were a weekly affair during the early 2000's. And Palestinians fires 10's of thousands of rockets into Israeli cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Chronology_...

Ofcourse China is not justified in what they're doing to the Uyghurs. Israel also did not respond to the significantly larger attacks on its civilian population like China.

You've decided that Israel is engaged in racist human rights violation and not self-defense. I think that's the crux of the issue. I think Israel is engaging in self defense and during the course of the self-defense inevitably human rights are violated. This is true on a personal level and it's true on the level of a country. We violate the human rights of criminals we put in prison. If you're killing someone else to defend yourself as an individual you are "violating their human rights".

The world largely stands by as China genocides the Uyghurs. No campus encampments. No boycotts. No heated HN discussions. 10 million people effectively being wiped out.
Not a stall but it might've been loss of control due to aerodynamic forces and effects. There's two that come to mind when talking about leaving a loop too fast like what seems to be the case here.

There's control lockup, where the aircraft is flying so fast that the mass flow of air over the control surfaces is so high that the controls "lock in place" or "get stiff", meaning the force you can apply to your rudder stick in the cockpit isn't enough to overcome the forces acting upon the control surfaces.

Then there's control compression, where the airflow around the wing is so fast that the local airflow around the airfoil becomes supersonic (aircraft as a whole is still subsonic) and detaches after the point of maximum airfoil thickness, leaving no laminar flos for the control surfaces to work with. This will feel different in the cockpit, instead of the controls becoming stiff they get loose but no control authority is achieved because your control surfaces are in fully turbulent flow.

Both of these phenomenon were a big issue in WW2 during dive attacks, since enocuntering or even going beyond the max aircraft speed was common during dive attacks, you wouldn't be able to pull out of the dive and go straight into the ground at very high speed. Either of these could've been an issue for Anders.
The appeal court's decision is the right one. I'm guessing this will be going to the Supreme Court.
How the first Microsoft Office 2007 vulnerability was discovered
Perhaps, but it could also be fixed/mitigated by cycling the cache state and blocking bots. It might also be something that can be blocked in a web proxy.

It's interesting, but I share the thought that the impact is overstated.
Too bad you missed an awesome article.
All the vector stores are going hybrid; it's becoming a table stakes feature.
Why would you want to emulate an old crappy MIPS CPU using a relatively expensive FPGA? The whole idea of emulating old consoles is to be independent of the hardware so you can play your old games on your computer or phone.
It's fake news plus the hypocrisy on climate change, with folks willing to make it worse by spreading FUD about electric cars just because someone they don't like is associated with them. That's how my ideals on climate change changed, can't help folks that won't help themselves. It's not worth any sacrifices on my end. Not to mention promoting CCP companies over US ones for the same reason.
The backups being available only in enterprise version is nice touch.
They're not calling it junk as part of an effort to down play it or to cause the rest of the field to deprecate or ignore it.

They're calling it that because the result is baffling. It's meant to be a call to action, not an affront to reason.
Tesla objects to $5.6B payout for lawyers who voided Musk's pay
Civ 4 was the last serious iteration, 5 and 6 are both ezmode simplified browser games at their core.
I didn’t read the details of how they did it, but it would be cool if the Internet Archive exposed some kind of image hash / perceptual hash / similarity metric database, so that this task could have been a quick lookup in such a database.
I’m afraid to share them but at this point I can’t imagine being in my situation and not being able to yell for help.
What is the appeal of turn-based games like Civ, compared to other real-time strategy games like Age of Empires?
Economic Data Paint a Picture of Two Americas
D Language static assert: Catch errors at compile-time [video]