skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel probably knows from the number of pagers ordered (and probably from spying on their pages' contents, since if you're going to mount this sophisticated a supply-chain attack to plant bombs in a device, you might as well also plant spyware) just how many active members Hezbollah has [or had, since many of them are now inactive members].
didn't surprise me to see this backed by notorious piketti
So the US doesn't care about Taiwan, it cares about China. Taiwan is just a tool.
How china would secure semico advantage by invading Taiwan? Those fabs would be damaged or destroyed
I am a Grammarly user and I just installed Scramble to try it out. However, it does not seem to work. When I click on any of the options, nothing happens. I use Ubuntu 22.04.

Also, to provide some feedback, it would be awesome to make it automatically appear on the text areas and highlight errors like Grammarly does, it creates a much better UX.
Your parents probably weren't brushing with fluoride toothpaste when they were young, since it only became near-universal in the late 60s in UK.
Cybersecurity industry? More like voluntary malware industry.
For a more accurate anology involving Britain, imagine that British secret services decided to detonate pagers belonging to Sinn Fein party members in the territory of the Republic of Ireland.
To me the content archived consulting page looks very much like something a large language model would generate. Impressive, but doesn't make any sense considering the size of this company. Probably good enough to fool Hezbollah anyway.
Is there a specific policy angle here that has you concerned?
UK tap water isn't fluoridated
Yes. If China detonated several thousand bombs in Idaho civilian locations on the premise they were targeting militias, some of whom fought in Syria and/or against Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, this would absolutely be an act of mass terrorism.
ASML makes tools for only a small part of the semiconductor production process. It's true that EUV lithography is the big limiting factor right now, and that it is a field dominated by one manufacturer. So it's reasonable to credit ASML "as much as" TSMC for the current dominance of their high end nodes.

Nonetheless if it was as simple as buying ASML boxes there would be more than one fab at the top of the heap, and there isn't. TSMC absolutely "contributes" to their own dominance, arguing otherwise is silly.
Group buying for hosting, for cheaper large company pricing
Robots Are Almost Everywhere – IEEE Transmitter
Scholars in support of the Moraes Brazil decision against X
I think you are missing context. 10 years of civil war and many more decades of animositiy and of strife, are not reversed overnight , even due to an event like this. For example, Israël has lobbed missiles before, and that had its collateral damage, but also didnt change a thing or win new allies to Hizbullah.

Even some druze (historically neutral sectl were kidnapped and killed in the Oct 7th events.

Now, for the 1st time in 100 years, every single rival of hizbullah is able to instantly recognize enemies, in the open.

Obe thing im certain of, Israel has managed to reset the board in its conflict with Hezbollah.
The "Refined Hacker News" extension for Chrome [0] and Firefox [1] adds something similar (among other things) to the bottom of every thread.

[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/refined-hacker-news...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refined-hacke...
Sorry, I should have picked a clearer term. There is broad agreement among economists that _regulating_ markets is needed to have an optimal outcome for society. I was referring to government subsidies specifically, in that case the distortion is rarely beneficial. Especially when taking into account that the money could have been applied elsewhere with bigger gains to society.
Chamberlain would be proud of you.
Personally I’m all for Israel’s security. I find it devastating how hard long term peace in the region seems to be, and how it keeps getting further and further away.
We kind of had an explosion of wrapper companies around chatGPT. It seems, by far, text -> images -> code are the only things they are capable of and in diminishing returns order. I can't really imagine them being useful to something else because the ability to reason shouldn't be scoped to one particular field. If they can reason in math, they should be able to reason in programming or medicine too.
I think it’s what somebody else just submitted. My idea was on the top of that page for a while after I submitted it.
> The tone of the article is for some reason very dismissive and derisive of alternatives to plain dental hygiene.

Yeah, emphasis on "plain". It's proposed as an addition, not an alternative, to conventonal tooth brushing.

Streptococcus salivarius M18 seems also interesting, but its results in preventing caries are much more limited, from what I can tell. It also has be taken continuously (once per day), instead being a one-time application like BCS3-L1.
I haven't been following closely the last few weeks, but you can check the issues in this repo, for example: https://github.com/distubejs/ytdl-core
Show HN: See if a tracker or fixed rate mortgage works for you (UK)
I made a tool to calculate if you would be better off using a tracker mortgage or fixed rated mortgage based on where you think interest rates are going.
Do we know approximately how many terrorists were killed and how many civilians were killed? Do we know what steps Israel took—if any—to prevent the target pagers from falling into civilian hands?
'Ghost Jobs' and Shrinking Consultant Salaries Spell Trouble for Other Workers
From the FAQ

> In Belgium, for example, we propose that anyone with 1.25 million euros in assets in addition to their main home and business assets should qualify as "ultra-rich".

Uh. That’s a very low bar. I was expecting something above 50 to 100 million euros.

As a software engineer, I think (I hope) to reach that number before retirement… and I wouldn’t consider myself “ultra-rich”. I can only imagine the bar is even lower in other countries.
And why would the employer or employee give two shits about prodividing value to the customer? You understand that employees and employers don't act out of a sense of compassion for customers? They both want to "provide value" so the customer parts with his money. They want him to part with his money since the employer wants to reproduce their capital, and the employee wants to sustain himself. How is your premise in any way a more natural framing? To the contrary it seems extremely contrived in essentially restating what I did but keeping the actual material dynamics implicit.
And again who is actually providing value, the employer that recieves the revenue by virtue of owning the cafe or factory or tools, or the employee who actually valorises whatever good or service is being put on the market by virtue of his labor? What appeal to emotion are you talking about, I fail to see any.
The bigger picture is the "democratization" of data science [1], not as an academic pursuit by white coat researchers (which was the main early use case for R) but embedded in day-to-day operations in organizations of all sizes. "Apps" (web or mobile) is how this embedding is done. Reactivity is an important consideration when deploying a complex screen with many visible data elements and visualizations.

The problem is how to increase the efficiency with which back-end developments (by technical people) get rolled-out to the end-user base. There are countless ways to do this of-course. The more technical resources one has available (e.g. knowledge of different stacks etc.), the more options. But when resources are scarce one is tempted to look for the (possibly only perceived) efficiency of a "full stack" approach.

[1] a loose term which nevertheless reflects something very real: the widespread use of data in society for all sorts of purposes
To what extent do you agree with the following? https://i0.wp.com/mathwithbaddrawings.com/wp-content/uploads...

(User23, to what extent can Claude help with finding either door or tree?)
Kubesafe: Never run Kubernetes commands on the wrong cluster again
> It is not a terrorist attack, it was an reaction of Hezbollah indiscriminately firing rockets into Israel

It was literally a terrorist attack - it was designed to cause terror. If Hezbollah had done this to the Israeli government or even IDF reservists, I've no doubt that you would call it a terror attack.

And why might Hezbollah be firing rockets onto Lebanese land illegally occupied by militant Israeli settlers, I wonder? Could it also have something to do with Israel launching unprovoked airstrikes in Lebanon?[0] Israel is the occupier, Israel is the aggressor - Israel needs to stop.

> Something UN troops are supposed to stop

That's ironic, given how many UN staff Israel has murdered since last October.

> And no, Israel doesn't not murder, rape and torture, that is purely projection.

I'm sorry, but you're either incredibly misinformed, or an that's an outright lie - even the UN says Israel has institutionalised the use of abuse, torture, sexual abuse and rape[1][2]. Even B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, agrees with this![3]

I've read countless reports of Israel torturing Palestinian hostages - they are doing it on a huge scale, and in mind-bendingly evil ways.

Israel is a sick, apartheid regime that must be stopped.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/25/israel-launches-att...

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/08/israels-esca...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-rights-gro...
I did come to think of how a US ambulance ride could be more costly than being evacuated...
https://archive.ph/iO0AQ

* Consultant job posts with no hiring activity hit two-year high
* Salary increases expected to shrink for third straight year

> Consultant job posts with no hiring activity hit two-year high
Salary increases expected to shrink for third straight year

> “I don’t care for automated rejection letters, but would prefer that, just to have closure,” she said.
Agree - I want to improve the UX, this was just a quick attempt at it. Thanks for the feedback!
Whats funny is this exempts business assets lol.

Just increase the tax on dividends and capital gains in a progressive manner. And be prepared if the economy slows as a result (not up to date on what economists report there). Spain has a wealth tax and their economy is not doing so well. Everyone in Spain shields it by putting it in real estate and putting a business around it. And nobody can sell their business as that opens them to the wealth tax, so you get wage stagnation, and a general economic malaise as zombie companies limp along.

Nice flashy website though.
Are those jet engines the only option for China or are they just the best option. Because if you require state of the art tech then everyone still relies on Taiwan (TSMC).
Funny enough few months ago I was thinking how would Wikipedia written by AI look like. Imagine automating writing of knowledge so humans don't have to crawl the Web , books and papers to write knowledge articles.
> if you're sick you shouldn't work at all, you should be focusing on getting well.

Most people could work perfectly well with a bit of a cold. Then covid turned it into a virtue signal to slack off for something trivial.
According to the article they link[1], the 1% richest is defined as earning more than $109,000 in 2015. So basically, they want to tax the people who already pay the most taxes. Actually rich people having the means to avoid paying taxes altogether, it's the educated middle class that's once again expected to pay for opaque, poorly managed, and unaccountable government programs.

Glad I live in Switzerland.

[1] https://www.oxfam.org/fr/communiques-presse/les-1-les-plus-r....
How would that work? Do you only access a really small/known set of IPs? Or would you program the firewall to only allow connections to an arbitrary IP if it had seen a DNS query to your preferred servers go out and return that IP within a few seconds prior?

In the latter case, would you have to aggressively disable local DNS caching on devices to make the behavior work (is that even possible on some devices)? How would encrypted DNS fit into this scheme?
The proposal is to give the Commission the power to enact a direct wealth tax and fund green things? No numbers? Really?

So presumably, every EU nation’s tax office would furnish some EU commissar with everyone’s wealth? Which they would be in charge of measuring? (Presumably everyone. Because if it’s only everyone above a certain wealth, there are games to be played with how wealth is counted and who does the counting at the national level.)

Also, is this subject to any single nation vetoing it?

EDIT: Never mind, this exempts business assets, it’s a total farce.
Lawyers are expensive. Most people can't afford one for even one encounter with the police, let alone multiple.
Appstoreconnect automatically fills in all countries new version
Hey fellow iOS developers! Yesterday, I took some time to build a Chrome extension that automatically fills in the “What’s New in This Version” section for all regions . It’s saved me so much time—no more clicking through dozens of countries to manually enter new version info! The extension is already up on the Chrome Web Store, and it’s completely free to use. If this sounds like something you need, feel free to give it a try! I’ll keep adding more features based on feedback.

You can see a video of the plugin working here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LTS8GjrGk
Agree, wording could be improved. I'm gonna add local LLM support.
It also means if you do it the 'Apple' way they might choose to intercept or modify responses. That seem in line with Apple's practices as a company even if they are not doing it yet. I feel anything they might do like that might be less likely to extend to what the article refers to as a legacy API.
Tesla also said the cybertruck can win a 1/4 mile drag race that turned out to be a 1/8 mile drag race and even dubious at that.
I don't think the point here should be the cost, but the fact that you are sending everything you write to OpenAI to train their models on your information. The option of a local model allows you to preserve the privacy of what you write.
I like that.
If you own your home outright plus have 1.25 M€ in assets you would be considered very well off in all of Europe. I don't exactly know about "ultra-rich" though.
Then there's the whole principal-agent problem and whatever is the equivalent of that for "corporation" (or team) as an entity vs. "corporation" (or team) as people at its helm. Outsourcing could look good financially, but be disastrous long-term because of quality and reliability issues; some decision makers benefit from the short-term outcomes, but many care about long-term too - but then, corporation as an entity sees "shit but profitable" as a long-term gain, so its own incentives are structurally misaligned with that of humans that make it. Etc.
I wonder, do the "relatives" know and agree that their information is sent to other person?
> Maybe stop doing stupid shit that will legally require you to inform users that you're about to sell/share everything you know about them to 3rd parties?

Why? It's legal and extremely lucrative.

If it's really an issue, maybe the EU could actually limit these activities instead of just forcing sites to put a notification that they are attempting to engage in those activities?
Show HN: Recitube.com
I like to cook recipes off youtube, but usually experience a lot of friction when it comes to buying the ingredients.

To solve this problem, I created my first LLM-based webapp "recitube" (stupid name, I know). It fetches the youtube transcript for a given video and uses Llama3-8b to extract the ingredient names. I get valid json from the model about 9/10 times :D

At this time it simply displays search links to Walmart & Amazon, but I want to further simplify things by offering a single-click "add-to-cart" option. It appears as if I'd need to become Walmart/Amazon affiliate to gain API access that would allow me to do that :/

https://github.com/martinmeinke/recitube.com
> the 1% richest is defined as earning more than $109,000 in 2015

Why are they using a global threshold? What fraction of Europeans does this cover? (How is that distributed?)
This is just wrong. You can buy junk in China and you can buy very quality products in China. They launch rovers to the literal Moon. They produce 7nm chips. This is not junk, this is state of art.
What was the reply? Give us the gist if you don't want to share the whole thing.
> E.g. any misuse of invasive technologies would result in whole government (senate, congress, president, supreme court) goes to prison for 25 years minimum w/o pardon.

You have to factor in misuse of the misuse legalisation too. It would certainly be tempting for some types to false flag a misuse.
> as we're their benefactor, and I don't think I'm alone in how I feel.

It's undoubtedly true the US supports Israel generally, but Israel is more capable of its own.
I believe that is his point. You (and most of us here) might think that this behavior is bad... But those people believe it is right. Who makes the decisions about what is right and what is wrong? There are Muslim women right now that march in Britain in the name of Sharia. Surely they should want more freedom and rights, and yet there they are, dressed in all black garb marching for their "oppressors"

They do so because they believe it is right.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics … unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

This passes both tests.
Some (most?) countries first wait for FDA’s decision before performing their own (lighter) reviews.
SPARC has delay slots. Here's some code. The clr %o3 and restore %o0 are in the delay slots.

10082410 9de3bf98 save %sp, 0xffffff98, %sp
10082414 90102001 mov 1, %o0
10082418 92100018 mov %i0, %o1
1008241c 94100019 mov %i1, %o2
10082420 7fffff17 call dirList
10082424 96102000 clr %o3
10082428 81c7e008 ret
1008242c 91e80008 restore %o0
I'd say 'Yoda speak' makes translating from Intel syntax to English a lot easier.

mov rax rbx

Into rax, copy the contents of rbx.
As much as Israel likes to spread that narrative, religious fundamentalism had nothing to do with October 7th. And the number of innocents murdered, the amount of destruction wrought, the land stolen by Israel in Gaza since then has completely eclipsed the relative few killed by Hamas. Or are Israeli lives worth more?
Should be possible to fix automatically though? Something like https://github.com/PyCQA/modernize, but for type hints.

Edit: there is pyupgrade which can do this: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade#pep-585-typing-rewrite...
> Where do you draw the line between "it's the employees fault for not wanting to live next to work in an industrial office park adjacent to a homeless encampment" and "it's the employers fault for insisting people commute in when they can achieve just as much from home without?"

There is no line. You are responsible for your choices.

> Do you expect people who change jobs to only work at employers they're proximate to - or to sell their homes each time? What if moving means the kids have to change schools? Or a married couple, do they both have to change jobs?

I expect people to take actions that make sense for them. Everybody’s different. I don’t like the idea of a long commute so I chose to live in a dense city and look for work near where I live. I’d be willing to move for the right job but I wouldn’t be willing to commute an hour for it. If I can’t make that work, it’s not the right job.

If you absolutely detest the idea of a long commute then you will only look for jobs close to where you live or you’ll move when you get a job that requires a long commute (in this case, renting probably makes more sense than buying).

If you think, “I’d never move to be closer to work, that’s nuts,” then it turns out you don’t detest long commutes as much as you thought you did.
Montaigne's Essays Teach Us to Live: Lessons from Sarah Bakewell's Biography
You are simply incorrect. “Rate” is a ratio, not an absolute number.

But to your point, Israel’s ratio in Gaza was as high as 100 civilians to 1 soldier in the shopping mall (or more accurately, refugee family shelters).
> I think it was a big case of corporate welfare that will result in somewhat increased chip production in the US.

I see two issues with this:

One, this is the same kind of subsidies and meddling with the markets that we accuse China of doing. If we are adopting state-led approach, it can be done in a serious manner without being hypocrites. But that would also require admission of some mistakes.

Two - why is it seen as okay to give tax breaks to an engineering company, why not give tax breaks to engineers themselves instead? Companies are imaginary, people are real, why not give incentives to individuals?

At least that money won’t be squirrelled away in tax heavens.
The line between "tolerates abuse" and "persevered through legitimately hard challenges at work" is quite blurry, and the latter is a good signal on your resume.
>Uh. That’s a very low bar.

I think that's the intended feature, not a bug.

For example in Austria the bands of the progressive income tax haven't been updated to keep up with inflation so it's pretty easy to reach the highest income tax levels as a middle class worker.
Norway has a wealth tax too, and the wealth tax applies to your shares as well, so wrapping a business around your holdings at best gives you a discount.
I don't see how wanting to tax the rich is an interesting new phenomenon.
Systemd SEGV when reloading – Ubuntu 24.04
any ideas on how to resolve this?
Why not just ask for a more progressive tax system instead of trying to instill class warfare? Sounds commie to me.
For these people, there will never be an attack good enough, targeted enough, or proper enough

It's because they're not motivated by fairness but a pre existing idea of who is good or bad
> Where is the line between war and terrorism ?

Easy. When it is you or your allies committing an act, it is war and collateral damage. When it is someone else, it is terrorism.

It is often a difficult topic to discuss because both sides tend to be in the wrong. It ends up being asymmetrical warfare. The stronger side accuses the weaker of hiding behind civilians while the weaker side accuses the stronger of human rights violations.

As sad as this case is, I find it pretty interesting since it is clearly an extrajudicial act of violence carried out in a foreign land. The west will likely celebrate this, but I personally find this much worse than the Indian assassination that took place in Canada "recently" and didn't have significant collateral damage, yet the west was up in arms about.
Classic caviar left proposal. They want to use all the money for climate change as well, instead of supporting the poor or helping with the current mess of homelessness created by rapid immigration without proper housing. Probably making the new age argument of "doesn't matter if everyone is dead" as well.
Training Models at Scale Using Jax
Funny you picked 80 years. It's been roughly 80 years since members of a certain ethnic group were hunted down, corralled, and murdered because of their lineage and genetics.

And their murderers mostly only had census data and people willing to snitch on their neighbors to go on. A DNA database? Oof.