skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#1 - The China claims are not a lie, e.g.:
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/un-body-rejects-historic...

You don't get to say "I Googled it and it's a lie". How many security council resolutions and UN general assembly resolutions are there condemning China vs. how many condemning Israel? If you say it's a lie let's have those numbers.

The best I can find Googling is: "Joint Statement on Behalf of 50 countries in the UN General Assembly" which is very different than the criticism Israel is getting from the UN.

#2 - This is not the argument at all. I'm not even debating "human rights abuses" though I think there's plenty to debate there. Even under the lies propagated by Israel's critics Israel is receiving unfair treatment.

#3 - Show me the proof. Don't say "Googleable lies". How are human rights abuses by Palestinians in the west bank and Gaza enforced by the UN? In Syria? Saudi Arabia? Iran? I mean the list is endless. Give me some measurable criteria that supports your ridiculous claim that equal standards are applied to Israel. Again, without even debating the validity of the claims against Israel, many of which are debatable.

#4 - "We" get attacked by the world for using force to defend "our" citizens. The offense in question is daring to do what other countries have done and what international law allows countries to do to defend themselves. Wars are not a sterile matter. The US and the UK e.g. had many questionable incidents in their various endeavours to guy fight random bad guys around the world. Israel is far from perfect and we can ask for a much better government than the bunch of morons running it and we can be critical of many things, but what we're seeing isn't legitimate criticism, what we're seeing is a political lynch mob.

#5 - So we should have handed it to Syria, without a peace agreement, so we can have Iran's militias on the high ground above Israel's north and more cities in rocket range? Or we should have kept it as "occupied" territory where people would say "Apartheid", how can you not give those guys rights? Make up your mind, either Israel is "Apartheid" for not giving e.g. Palestinians voting rights, or those are occupied territories that are waiting for a peace agreement? And that ignoring the legal debate about the precise status of those territories.
Not to down play StarLink, but actually... this amazing impressive reliable video stream is capable from any orbiting satelite. What's different here is that Starship is so massively huge, something like several meters in diameter, like maybe 7~9 meters, or something like that. Anyhoo, that the interference from the plasma envelope... does not fully envelope the whole rocket. There is a bunch of surface on the backside of the rocket not subject to the plasma, which is something liek fire made of electrons stripped from their atomic nuclus, and so causes elctromagnetic effects. Since the plasma doesn't go all around, any satelite can communicate, not just Starlink.
To put this in context so you see why the threshold is important

> payrolls might have grown about 60,000 less per month on average last year than the roughly 250,000 run-rate derived from the agency’s monthly employment report.

So net they grew 190k per month. You might think to yourself "well that's nearly the same and still pretty good right?". Not really.

200k per month is the magic number that traders are looking for when they trade the NFP[1] number. If the economy doesn't grow by 200k jobs then the unemployment is rising because US population growth is about 200k per month so you need that many new jobs per month for the unemployment rate to stay flat.

So not only does this make it less on an absolute basis, because it goes below that threshold it indicates that the economy was shrinking, not growing.

[1] Non-farm payroll https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nonfarmpayroll.asp
so.. cotton threads?
Srht (Sourcehut) is a github-like service well-covered by HN.
Where Is the Hermes of iPhones?
Why do Taylor Swift and I have the same phone? We don’t wear the same clothes: she wears custom designer clothes and I wear Costco specials. We don’t eat the same food: she eats organic hand-picked arugula and I eat frozen meals. We don’t travel the same way: she flies in a private jet and I take the subway with two hundred strangers. Yet, we both have an iPhone. In fact, a lot of rich people seem to have iPhones. It is weird that rich people aren’t using a more luxurious version of the iPhone. Why hasn’t someone started a company that caters to this underserved market? I have a few guesses, ordered from least convincing to most:

1. No one wants a luxury phone. Maybe the standard iPhone is so good that it is its own luxury version. It already has everything a rich person could possibly want.

2. A luxury phone company would have trouble hiring people. Engineers are a pretty egalitarian bunch. They hate wearing fancy clothes, they play ping pong at work with their boss, and they contribute free code to open-source projects. They will not enjoy spending years building a tool only for rich people to use. (PornHub manages to hire engineers though, so why couldn’t a fancypants phone company?)

3. A luxury phone wouldn’t be good enough. Making a new phone is pretty hard. You have to get right a million little things: the privacy policy and the charging cable and the calculator app. And a luxury tech company can’t just get these things right, it has to get them perfect. Rich people who are spending thousands of dollars on a phone want a phone that is absolutely magical. They want the privacy policy to be written by Zadie Smith and the calculator app to explain the mean value theorem to them. Maybe building something that perfect is impossible.

4. A luxury phone would cost too much. To make a phone from scratch, you need to hire a few software engineers, a few hardware engineers, a designer or two, some testers, and so on. Hiring all these people will cost, let’s make up a number, $10 million. Apple can split this cost across the millions of phones it sells, so each phone is relatively affordable. However, a luxury tech company would only sell, say, a thousand phones. Each phone would need to cost $10k just to cover its R&D costs. Maybe that’s just too expensive, even for rich people. (Billionaires do spend a lot of money on weird shit though, so I’m not fully convinced by this.)
Archibald Prize 2024 won by Laura Jones for portrait of author Tim Winton
According to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off.
How the Fourier Transform Works: Abstract Concepts Made Simple
If you are looking for an alternative that’s even more async than Threads, check out https://twist.com/

We (Doist) have been developing it since 2015.
>We don't need to turn all pathologies into a positive trait

well, since a pathology is a negative, there's little chance they'll become positive. We shouldn't pathologize all differences.
True, Dan Gackle should be rewarded with equity / in kind from so many of the people helped by this platform. The "capture the value you create" really applies here, and the model where that doesn't happen is wrong.
How to build a DOA product: Humane AI Pin founders banned internal criticism
I mean… it’s fake, obviously. Seeing visions of dead saints and being wounded and unable to heal until a shrine was built is all made up. None of that is real, that’s medieval superstition.
https://archive.ph/jSlBu
You are right that geometry suggests a volume(heat generation) to surface area(heat dissipation) issue arising. You clearly don't want to build a sphere of pure compute layers.

But with the ability to stack compute layers AND non-compute layers of varying thickness you now can have most any 3D shape you like. There will be adverse effects that distance will have on spacing things out of course.

Maybe stack a bunch of compute rings to form a hollow tube with liquid cooling though the middle and outside?

Or reverse that and have multiple compute sticks hanging off a baseboard dipping into your cooling vat like some reactor homage.

I think liquid cooling will become more commonplace.

Early days yet and brighter minds than mine will make things work but I am optimistic for the future!
> But if you’re right things get interesting.

In what way? If the current bubble/wave turns out to be right doesn't that mean we're all out of a job? Unless by betting on it you mean buying Nvidia stock?
I find this absolutely nothing like delegating to an intern personally. Interns usually do their best because they will be held accountable if they don't.

Copilot doesn't give a shit about that.
Is anyone else weirded out that they do not acknowledge Anthropic at all?
Come on, say it for everyone.
Gravitational waves would "wiggle" all of you the same way, so not sure how they would do something different for one part of your body, so you could hear it.
What is wrong with building up? It's the right thing to do environmentally. Should Oklahoma City just become another Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio where suburban sprawl is the name of the game?
Let's do a thought experiment. Please give this a honest consideration.

If the Uyghurs had 40,000 combatants. And if they were dug in tunnels under Uyghur cities. And fires 10's of thousands of rockets into Chinese cities. And killed thousands of people with hundreds of suicide bombings. Their cities were mined and booby trapped. Their combatants were well trained, armed with RPGs, sniper rifles, machine guns.

Then the Uyghurs raided some Chinese city, killing 1200 people, taking hundreds of hostages.

What do you think China would do?

China isn't bombing them because it doesn't need to bomb them.

Uyghurs have less people that care about them in the international community, for sure. I'm not sure they're not suffering a lot more than the Palestinians are.
Microsoft have consistently pushed the idea that they own your computer, and are merely leasing it to you, for decades.
Shipowners cautioned on stranded asset risks linked to energy transition
> "Listen to this episode with a free 7-day trial"

Hanania is overvaluing himself. If he wants to get his message out, this sort of behaviour has to stop. Also: listen? Who got time fo' dat? Give me text.

To the content of the piece, sub-replacement fertility is an Outside Context Problem. Governments cannot understand it[1] or in many cases even see it, so they'll never be able to begin to solve it.

1. They notice a "labour shortage", which they propose to solve with immigration. That turns out to be life-threatening for a culture, while not addressing sub-replacement fertility at all. That continues as before. Or a "baby shortage", to which they respond with payments and subsidies, as if low fertility is purely a problem of not enough money or services (such as daycare). Yeah, no. As I said, an outside context problem.
And they changed it under pressure and as a PR manoeuvre. They never really changed their views.
What has been holding you back so far? It seems strange to me that so many normally quite pro-privacy, pro-FOSS, Google-sceptical people are still using Chrome to this point.
Retro reto retro hugos lolo yolos

>In 2019, the novel was nominated for the 1944 Retrospective Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Apologies for the rest, but in return for not not not expressing incuriosity* to your questions, may I suggest the use of poisk-fu to uncover the (anholocratic) Bourbaki "leader"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40595575

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafiltration_(kidney)

*second take at the Gr ineq?
No, “fish” in Greek is ιχθυς, which was used as an acrostic for Iesous Christos Theou Huios Soter, Jesus Christ, Son of God, savior. I vaguely recall seeing somewhere that during the persecutions, one Christian would draw one line of the two-line symbol as a shibboleth for another to complete to show that they too were Christian.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580354
I have one on my shelf.
I'm glad people voted with their wallets, here. This is a good reminder that not every junk idea needs to be built. Sheesh.
I don't know if targeted advertising can ever be ethical, and even if it can, I doubt we'll see Meta doing it any time soon.

But just to play devil's advocate... are we sure that for-profit colleges aren't disproportionally targeting black people? Meta may just be the messenger here.
A key thing to consider is that there's nothing innately unsafe about casting a pointer to a number. It's when you go the other way around that problems crop up.

As long as dereferencing a raw pointer is considered unsafe, you're fine. Casting it has no actual effect at the machine level.
Thanks for sharing! Perfect game until Level 6, died on level 7 with 21,150 points.
Chinese EV build quality is less than desirable, with dubious after sales service. Youtube is littered with horror stories of air bags malfunctions, axles get knocked out of place on a minor fender bender, spontaneous battery combustions, etc. Proceed with caution.
The boosters never achieve close to orbital velocity though, less than half if my memory is correct.
Lectures on the Fourier Transforms and Its Applications [pdf]
You are using development version of React for your production site!?
Good. AI is a hype machine and I want nothing to do with it.
erm, US IDs generally have no digital authentication methods, so there is nothing to be revoked. They generally consist of your picture and your identifying information, including an identifying number the state assigns because (name, birthday) wouldn't be a good database key. The authentication process is performed by examining the physical document and judging whether it seems counterfeit, and whether the picture looks similar to the person claiming to be the listed person.

This hasn't stopped a lot of negligent businesses from performing a fake authentication process that skips actually verifying the physical document and having people enter various fields from the ID card for some kind of dog and pony show, but the point remains there is still nothing to revoke.
Not related (at least as far as I can see), but I read a lot of startup materials translated from Portugal Portuguese to English and often was quite confused about what it said, indeed sentences like the gp here. Then I learned Portugal Portuguese proper and found out its sayings and humor that doesn't translate. Mostly because it's not funny (to me, which makes it hard to translate) but also because there is nothing useful to translate it to in English (sometimes there is in Scottish and Irish but often not in England or US english).
Those aren't graphics libraries.
You can’t just rip off Tim Powers and Alan Moore like that.
It’s definitely not a superpower, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an adaptation that is well suited for certain niches. For example, it appears that individuals with ADHD are particularly adept at foraging.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38378153/
iPhone is the Hermes of iPhone. That's the trick; make people rationalize it as a fashion accessory/cultural virtue signal and with good enough marketing people will buy it.

Whether or not it is the apex of luxury, it really doesn't matter. The point is that it gets marketed as such, so you feel less insecure paying for it.
I just learned today that one of the "core values" at ASML is that you should "challenge" things.

This makes for a nice comparison.
That sounds bad.
Contemporary mainstream bourgeois ideology in the West glorifies the ruthless pursuit of self-interest and consequently holds any kind of altruism in utmost contempt. So, even if I actually were to gain high status for giving my invention away for cheap I would be compensated in a currency that is worthless in today's world. You can easily prove this to yourself by compiling from memory(!) a list of even just 10 people who performed altruistic tasks of great impact and how they benefited from the resulting high status. You will probably not be able to name even just 5 without searching around. "Ingratitude is the world's reward" is still one of the truest proverbs.

What makes matters worse is that exactly those kinds of people in the climate-change-denying investor class would be the ones to benefit the most from my invention, and I simply can't let that happen without at least being luxuriously compensated.
Jesus it even mentions Instagram Threads in it
In Go it’s not uncommon to use code generation to recreate boilerplate code, especially before the introduction of generics. No human looks at this usually. And if they do, they find the code they’re looking for contained in a few files. I personally found this pattern pretty good and easy to reason about.
Interesting! I've added them to my queue, thanks :)
> Lisp is more like an idea (or set of ideas) rather than a concrete tool

Indeed, there is no language that is just "Lisp" any more. There once was, of course.

There is a legend that he requested that no new language be called Lisp (and nothing else) so that there is no confusion.

SBCL, Racket, Gauche Scheme, TXR ... are examples of concrete tools for specific tasks.
Don't know if I'd call this social media. Do people consider it as such?

Wikipedia says:

> Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.

I guess it is, huh, what do you know. I'm so used to thinking of social media as facebook/twitter/instagram/tiktok, where people have individual feeds.
> with different diplomatic choices they probably could have gotten Japan to surrender before the USSR attacked.

Such as?
About landing the Super Heavy booster, Wiki[1] says:

> [S]hortly before landing,[67] it ignites its engines to slow sufficiently to be caught by two mechanical arms attached to the tower.

Does anyone know the reason to choose "two mechanical arms", instead of landing like the Falcon 9? And has SpaceX announced any plans to test these arms? In my mind, it sounds more wild to try to "catch" the landing booster with arms, rather than land on a pan. Anyone else?
Chicken milk?
I love twist.

It’s so underrated. More should check it out.

Note: I’m not affiliated in any way.
Senior/Lead Front end engineer here. The Front end position isn't listed on the career site any longer. Did you already find someone?
Literally the only condition was that the emperor was preserved.
RISC Zero
This is kind of like answering “which software engineers are excited about Stack Overflow?” with “mediocre to bad ones”. It’s A) insulting, but more importantly B) wrong — if I’m, say, a web developer who is trying to learn graphics programming, of course I’ll need help as I build a mental model of the domain.
You mean dealer?
Discussion [0] (26 points, 16 days ago, 46 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40442490
It would be trivial to check the proportion of for-profit HBCUs to nonprofit HBCUs but given the title of the website, I sense that they may not have checked on purpose.
Yeah, I read that thinking it was Instagram Threads... and was confused to the cheery tone of the announcement.
Umm, this is outstanding. Tom7 reminds me a little of what I imagine would happen if Fabrice Belard took a bunch of mushrooms, encountered ego-death, and came back realizing not much mattered.

Now I'm going to go spend a long time wondering what other things could be hooked up to the badness metric in TeX algorithm land.
> Consider laws restricting how many houses a person can own, or maybe an increasing property tax on each unit. These are good solutions.

So they set up a company and buy the property using the company. Pressure is always the answer, whichever tactics are used.

I understand the issue in Mallorca after visiting Mabella. Also the locals don't have to live on a holiday island, but they can elect pressure the speculators and their clients. Somehow this doesn't happen in Greece.
Why is any targeted advertising unethical? I don’t like advertising, but I see no ethical problem whatsoever with it.
Some official advice in https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

An easy trick is to find stories about a topic you know and look for comment that has questions, and then try to answer those questions.

You can also add questions or an interesting anecdote or remark, but it's little harder to know when it is a good question or remark. Try to avoid very short comments, they should have two ore three sentences at least.
Britain was absolutely not prepared for war at the start of WWII. If they had lost the Battle of Britain it is unlikely they would have survived a land invasion.
CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year
I'm originally from Israel. No Israeli that I know thinks that Palestinians are inferior. Famously the ex-Israeli Prime Minister Barak said that if he were a Palestinian he might have become a terrorist himself. I'm not saying it's not a thing in certain right wing circles but painting all of Israel with this brush is not right. If anything there's a tiny minority in Israel that would consider Palestinians inferior to Israelis (or Muslims inferior to Jews or whatever). Plenty of right wing nazis everywhere in the world.

You're also wrong on the Palestinians willing to move forward. They had plenty of chances. They absolutely do want domination. For the most part the story that land was unjustly stolen is factually wrong. Land was bought by Jews during Ottoman times legally. Palestinians never had a country so that couldn't have been stolen from them either. Palestinians were displaced during 1948, in a war Arabs started against the new state of Israel. Read Israel's declaration of independence to see how Israel would have preferred that play out. Palestinians, and the Arab countries, have inflicted plenty of harm on Jews in the middle east. Jews were ethnically cleansed from most Arab countries and more land was stolen from Jews in the middle east than the entire area of Israel. But sure, the topic of harm and reparations can be discussed once Palestinians decide to stop using violence to pursue their goals (of domination). This is not about reparations anyways.

This fairy tale you're telling yourself here is some westernized story that has nothing to do with the reality on the ground. Sorry if I'm sounding patronizing.

EDIT: and by the way we can totally reverse Canada and New Zealand for example? Let's use those as test cases for your anti-colonialism fix the world sentiment and see how it goes? Those guys have zero claim of any sorts to the land they're on. Israel at least has something.
Adobe responds to vocal uproar over new Terms of Service language
I don't think this will ever happen as it seems that most of Windows team is busy with putting Copilot in every nook and corner of Windows and others are busy migrating every GUI to WinUI3.
I like it enough to put on the list of things I might borrow inspiration from.
> Who cares?

If all you are ever going to tow is a couple of jet skis, then your jeep would be the better vehicle (if evaluating solely on towing distance).

If you own a trailer like this one and are deciding if you need the Cybertruck to tow it, you have the data.

Knowing capabilities and data helps make better choices.
A Study of Bernhard Riemann's 1859 Paper
> were basically peasants in their lifetimes, not grand or interesting people

What are you saying - the lives of ordinary people are the holy grail in archaeology and history as they are more difficult to investigate and construct. A king's remains and belongings tell you little about the actual society.
The most common reference is the book 1177bc that discusses ancient trade routes and how bronze age collapse disrupted them. It has been mentioned here in HN and the author has a good somewhat academic presentation on youtube
Microsoft launches the first AI-based weather forecasting system Aurora