skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"vassals" is a common phrase/tactic used by netizens in China to try to drive a wedge between US and rest of its allies. Nevermind that they never mention their allies like Russia or Brazil/Italy who seeks economic alignment as vassals.
what's your number? lol
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lebanons-offi...
> What would you call Russians killing Ukrainian soldiers

War.
It ran like shit in 4MB—I remember telling the IT boss that we’ll need 8MB on every W95 machine, unless we want to wait 5 seconds to open a menu or run only one app at a time. Still 8 is impressive for the functionality.
I wouldn't be asking this question unless you want to be on a list.
I'm not entirely sure it's about content (while HN is certainly tech-focused, politics, health, philosophy all come up with regularity) or even content moderation, although they both certainly play a part (particularly the moderation around here. Thanks, staff!)

I wonder if it is more to do with the community itself. HN users tend to have very intelligent discussions on pretty much anything, and discourages shitty, unnuanced, one-line takes. This, coupled with a healthy moderation system, makes it hard for the lower quality discussion to break in and override the good stuff.
You are correct. I am wrong. And good point about Apple Intelligence. I'm disappointed in myself for not seeing that.
Ah, this designation appears to be outdated -- it was rescinded a few months ago, according to https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-06-30/ty-article/ar...
> I think this is a win for national security.

I think that's largely the point. Obviously, it's a balancing act, but when market forces create a situation that is incompatible with national security it really is the governments job to address the situation even if, as in the case with Chinese EVs, it means a bit of pain for consumers.
Taskinfo was running fine on Win9x
Actual combat and conventional attacks on a guerilla force embedded in an urban civilian population is far more catastrophic and less surgical than the risk of being inside the ~0.5m lethal radius of these pagers.

It's a horrific attack with awful innocent deaths at the same time that any conventional attack that achieved the same impact on Hezbollah would have been even worse for those around them.
What fonts do you like?
Anyone can pick up a history book to see that I'm correct.
its so easy to solve this problem, not sure why anyone hasnt done it yet.

1. build a userbase, free product

2. once userbase get big enough, any new account requires a monthly fee, maybe $1

3. keep raising the fee higher and higher, until you get to the point that the userbase is manageable.

no ads, simple.
I’m aware

What is your preferred outcome?
Show HN: Chess Puzzle Bot - Puzzles vs Stockfish
I made a website where you can play chess puzzles against Stockfish, one of the strongest chess engines in the world.

When playing puzzles, neither Lichess nor Chess.com will accept a wrong move, which in my opinion spoils the resolution of the puzzle since only correct moves allow you to keep playing.

So, I had the idea for a website where you can play chess puzzles, but if you make the wrong move, the puzzle turns into a game against Stockfish. This opens the door to either find alternative solutions or fail miserably (at some point you realize you are not following the puzzle any more). I think its a more engaging way to play puzzles!

This is my first website, don't expect every div to be correctly centered. The mobile version may not be as polished but is still playable.

https://www.chesspuzzlebot.com/

Feedback is highly appreciated!
Some more information on this: https://x.com/Osint613/status/1836331854913225172
Try a different approach than engaging in war/apartheid. The practice of the IDF "mowing the grass" by harming civilians has been long established and commented on. Certain Israeli politicians also empowered Hamas, in order to divide and discredit the Palestinians, so that they would not be in a suitable position to negotiate an end to the conflict. Practices like that do not produce peace. I suggest Israel do its best to look at its role in this conflict (and not just Hamas's) and then act in good faith to bring about peace, so that there are no more terrorist attacks like Oct. 7.
Related:

Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41570981

Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558554
No one is competing on CPU though. Its like having the highest RPM lawnmower, no one cares, its not useful.

To make it worse, they arent even the best. Its getting mid tier, and in 2024, its nearly unreasonable to buy mid-tier when low-tier is good enough for everything.
It puts pressure on regulators to realize the shitty situation MBAs create when they EOL products that aren’t reaching revenue targets.
Peertube is another one of those projects I've been using more and more over the last months. It's mostly a matter of being finding interesting content over time.

Like many of the other open-source/libre alternatives to big platforms, there are few lock-in (aka network) effects, and so platform usage increase tends to be sloooow (aka organic). Extremely unsexy for 10x unicorn VC investment I guess. But for a user who wants to see interesting stuff it's great!

Before anyone interjects: yes, I'm aware that peertube won't work for all creators. NotJustBikes has been very clear that it would simply not be an option for them. Nebula (creator coop) seems to be the best compromise for them for now.

Anyhow, nice list of new features, much appreciated! <3
The Geneva "Recommendations" are pointless until someone wins decisively and has the ability to enforce them.
There may not be a direct metric, but there are a number of mechanisms that municipalities can use to track things:

* use of public transit

* use of roads / traffic measuring

* measuring counts of pedestrians

* anecdotes and actual data about the performance of businesses near offices

* water, electricity, and other utility metrics

* parking tax rates

These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head, and I am sure there are many others that are not obvious.

Those are just the things off the top of my head.
Given how indiscriminate the IED campaign in Lebanon is, it's quite reasonable to believe the parent poster is merely Lebanese and scared.
It absolutely wasn't enough to stop and mask it under ubuntu 22.04.
What Happened to Biodiesel? It's Complicated
Delves are a new thing in World of Warcraft released 9/10 this year. Delve is also an M365 product that has been around for some time and is being discontinued in December. So no, that has nothing to do with LLMs.
interesting that they make external articles about it
I thought the IBOS kernel leveraged L4 (Pistachio?)

I believe generally the push has been to better use the isolation feature in existing operating system environments - such as having separate processes for rendering and javascript execution per origin which also have unique sandboxed storage. From a platform vendor as browser vendor perspective, building what amounts to a new operating system running at the hypervisor layer is a huge effort that amounts to them now having one more internal OS to secure.

So I would instead expect this to be more of a research platform task, like perhaps something you would see on Genode.
>At least in Googles case, they're having so much difficulty keeping AI slop out of their search results that I don't have much faith in their ability to give it an appropriately low training weight.

I've noticed that lately. It used to be the top google result was almost always what you needed. Now at the top is an AI summary that is pretty consistently wrong, often in ways that aren't immediately obvious if you aren't familiar with the topic.
YouTube launches Communities, a Discord-like space for users to interact
The sources are just aggregated. The source doesn't change.

The new stuff generated does (and this is honestly already captured).

This author doesn't generate content. They analyze data from humans. That "from humans" is the part that can't be discerned enough and thus the project can't continue.

Their research and projects are great.
Before the Disney acquisition, go.com used to have a fun chat room service that I used in my teens. This was late 90s.
vscode jupyter uses the same extensions as vscode, so you can get a linter and scrict type checking. Not sure about tests though
A 30g explosive going off in a device that is owned by a militant? Yes, that is limited, by definition.

Once again, people in that grocery store who were standing near the militant mostly walked away - you can see that on nearly every video that has been released.

A non-targeted attack would have been a rocket hitting the grocery store. This was, by definition, a targeted attack. Even if a person had stood there and shot the militant directly, and there had been a civilian that caught a stray bullet, this would still have been a targeted attack.

As it is, eight Hezbollah militants have died, and the one civilian injury was a Hezbollah militant’s daughter; killing a child was clearly not the intent.

That’s a successful military operation.
Thanks for clarification - have retracted my original comment. Much appreciated.
It's very easy to say that during peacetime. But you can't depend on adversaries for cheap labor, period. The US federal government, communist or not, just spent billions ensuring that those manufacturing jobs aren't forfeited by our multi-trillion multinationals. Our strict adherence to capitalism is just about pushing us to USSR-collapse levels of market abuse. Our consumers are completely braindead; our manufacturers aren't being given reason to stay by the government; even US agencies like NASA and DARPA are getting outdone by Chinese state-run agencies.

Regardless of how you feel about it, the CHIPS act is a line in the sand the US has just crossed. We are heading back to cold-war style economics, because this is an economic cold war.
This is good news, as it means pensioners will receive their pensions while hedge fund investment goes to zero.
The part where you don't want to overheat it is the issue when it comes to food. We humans really like to heat our food.
Where is this all from?
looks nice, congrats on the launch.
maybe consider adding suggested keywords in the search tab to help guide search to toward the keywords you have results for.
no javascript resumes? how do I add my resume
Earth will get another moon this month – but not for long
We’ve seen this with a couple words and expressions, and I don’t doubt that AI is somewhat likely to “like” some phrases for whatever reason. Big eigenvaues of the latent space or whatever, hahaha (I don’t know AI).

But also, words and phrases do become popular among humans, right? It would be a shame if AI caused the language to get more stagnant, as keeping up with which phrases are popular get you labeled as an AI.
Amazon isn't really a growth company anymore, they don't need the highest talent individuals to maintain market dominance. To that end they probably don't care about the "best" talent leaving for other places anyway.
It just hasn't been likely.
> You never understand other people's code as well as your own. No matter how thoroughly you've read it, you've only read it, not written it.

There is certainly some truth to this. On the other hand, it's possible to become blinded to defects in code you've written yourself. You see what you intended for the code to do rather than what it actually does. Reading someone else's code, it can be easier to see what's really going on, since you just see what's there.
It was not unfortunate collateral damage in the sense of unknown unknown. Civilian casualties must have been anticipated and nothing has been done to prevent them. It is not „accepted“ rules of war, but normalized disregard of human life.
Because all of these commentators are ecstatic to use their Made In America M4 processor in 2026!

...wait, M4 will be 3 generations old by then? W-well, a little reliance on Taiwan never hurt anyone...
Was this content generated by AI?
Glib defeatism and the automatic surrender to any entity more powerful than you is sad, pitiable even.

The main way states exercise power is by making large enough shows of force that people behave exactly as you do, and roll over in submission. State powers may be able to silence, extort, or kill anyone, but they damn sure can't get everyone.
I wonder if it isn’t actually a switch to glass etc, but instead less home cooking and less leftovers. Many people get delivery or eat out several times a week, much more than prior generations.

We are heavy user of plastic storage; glass is too bulky and the lids are terrible unless you update. We get nicer brands like Snapware when we can; it’s generally PP plastic which is pretty inert, and we never microwave the plastics, just use a glass bowl or plate. But we are heavy home cookers.
To answer the question of the future of open source, I think it's important to consider why open source has existed for so long. Is it a matter of cost to develop closed-source systems? Or is it about the quality and efficiency enabled by open source development?
yeah I mean this isn't factorio...
I think they run those things until they break and then buy what they can still find. What’s “good” these days? I see expensive ones that I think most businesses would probably balk at buying. 1080p?
My point was that Redis' bet on cloud vendors paying them seems to be failing.
Good thing the US doesn’t spy on allies. What hypocrites they would be!
there's also going to be a bunch of plastic shrapnel either way. reports were saying that people's eyes were being hit, I think most likely by plastic shrapnel.
> This move absolutely will drive out some of their best talent

IMHO, from my personal insider experience, this is actually the goal in some places.

Best talent is often not the most cost effective talent, especially in parts of the business where the company has switched from innovating to maintaining.
Llama 3.1 Omni Model
> It’s like having a law mandating people are informed when there’s poison in their drink

Why does the European Parliament[0] and virtually[1] every EU website[2] feel the need to poison drinks?

> The label isn’t the problem!

The label is useless. See also, California's Prop 65: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_list...

1: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en

2: https://european-union.europa.eu/

3: https://gdpr.eu/
I'm probably wrong but I think I remember that part of the reason the Oct 7 attacks worked so well was due to Hamas' avoiding known signals intelligence gathering operations by using hand-carried notes and keeping it all low-tech. They planned and trained in the open but never let it slip on commonly monitored media that they were about to do anything.

That was Hamas, not Hezbollah so maybe the latter didn't learn the lesson and left themselves open to this type of attack or retribution, depending on your individual perspective.

This may push things back to pencil and paper and sneaker-nets. It'll probably be a brief adaptation though since the temptation of technology is very real.
I saw a video on YouTube of a Yellow employee of 30 years distraught that he wouldn’t receive pension that he was counting on (see https://youtu.be/kZyHlPMOCvw?t=105s) . It’s heartbreaking. I don’t really understand the pension model or how it is legal to just take it away randomly. Why isn’t the model just to pay employees more and let them save to a 401k that they control?

Anyways this outcome sounds like good news. Employees get what they were due.
How did they get started?
Half of that doesn't sound plausible at all.
Comments like this are why schools should make liberal arts education mandatory again in the STEM curriculum
In general? Roboto comes to mind. Hack for monospace.
Very exciting, although it was a bit disappointing to see that they're hitting just llama1 7b performance by quantizing llama3. but i'm sure the performance gap will close over time!
TSMC Fab 10 is in Shanghai. Probably not cutting-edge stuff coming out of there though.
Canadian hospitals have largely the same cost cutting and "efficiency" measures as their US equivalents. Departments have budgets that they have to fight for, feifdoms compete for scraps, and there is an enormous and perpetually growing admin/executive side that is taking more and more of the budget. Couple this with governments such as Ontario that "starve the beast", so to speak, forcing hospitals to squeeze further.

I don't think we should ever take any sort of superior position on this. The same motivations and outcomes occur.

Having said that, efficiency is good, especially with an aging population that will require more and more care. Resources are limited, so applying them in the most effective, efficient way possible is always a win.
Let me tell you a story:

Tektronix lifted the Portland Oregon region right up. Was called silicon forest.

At that time, Tek was funding startups its employees thought up after working for Tek, getting great education provided directly by the company as well as through college partnerships.

Tek also literally trained a workforce here by educating any of its employees and by doing programs with suppliers to do the same.

I am a product of that time.

A drive through this region in the 80's and early 90's was awesome! Shops of all kinds, Tek itself had COMTEK which could make damn near anything, and opportunities abounded!

Howard Vollem died and the MBA took over.

COMTEK was torn down, work was sent overseas, education stopped, startup funding stopped, and soon a drive through this region looked very different: hair nails and laundry.

While large scale manufacturing has grown, the rest has suffered huge!

Our military can't find the capacity it needs! And they, along with aerospace, are the best customers there are, with auto in some parts too.

The rest has been gutted.

That is what we need to fix. It matters.

If companies won't do what Tek did, and that is invest in the region and it's people, and they won't because getting max dollars at any cost matters more than sustainable business does, then we must have robust small to mid sized manufacturing.

Where else will our future skilled labor come from? And I left for higher end professional work and software. I can make anything I can draw, it was damn good at it too. Saw way too many places close and there's no way I can raise a family on that and I quit ... tons of us did.

The skills I have are rare and in high demand. Young people today can't get them like I did, and that adds right the hell up.

You think your arguments make sense. And you are not wrong. They do, but that is not the problem.

The problem is for your argument to make sense, a ton of people and manufacturing potential is lost and nobody seems to recognize the massive opportunity costs in all that.

And frankly if large companies aren't going to do it and get a return on that investment, then our government damn well should. We do really put our national security at risk doing otherwise.
Yeah, I'm no fan of Musk or Trump, but I think Twitter always was a spam-infested, hateful cesspool where people with online-addiction yelled at each other. There was nothing for Musk to ruin, because the whole concept was rotten from the start. Allowing only short messages doesn't promote intelligent discussion, it does the opposite.
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UFO 50 is the best retro-gaming homage I've ever played
Did you, by chance, fire a rocket into the Middle East recently? If not, I’d say chances are slim. But never zero!
I've been that person, and no it doesn't. It makes my life suck, if I have to include a notebook instead of an actual program in a larger program. Notebooks don't compose well, they are too dependent on the specifics of the environment in which they were launched, they have excessive source code that's also machine-generated and is hard to work with for humans.

As a stop-gap solution, for cases like a single presentation / proof-of-concept that doesn't need to live on and be reused -- it would work. Anything that doesn't match this description will accumulate technical debt very quickly.
Who is “we” here?

My more excitable Twitter-infected friends have been speaking about these scraps of news items in “we” terms too. Is it just that the theatricality of this whole thing has ginned up a good ol’-fashioned Twitter mob “investigation”?
I hide every single article about MS because it's filled with all the neckbeardy tropes about their products being garbage spyware, switch to Linux, they're stealing your data, the OS is trash etc. It's comments from people who have never managed large scale MS based environments comparing their Windows Home to the other 90% of the business ecosystem that has nothing to do with home users or MS's main cash cow, businesses, Azure/Entra and M365. I'm done wasting my breath on MS here.
Let's be real: this is about /pol/ and /b/. And yes, the "crap" is intentional. It is exactly intended to drive people away. Because the people who are being driven away aren't wanted. It's vital to the ongoing success, making these places still one of the most open-minded and helpful on the net.
They likely never started critically thinking, so they never had to get started on not doing so.

(If children are never taught to think critically, then...)
> Convenience is king

Price is king. Everyone knows glass containers are better and consumers prefer them. However, shipping glass containers has a considerably higher cost than plastic from both a weight perspective as well as a fragility/loss perspective. That doesn't even factor in the cost of the glass containers themselves.

If someone invented a glass that was as cheap and light as plastic food suppliers would switch to it in a heartbeat.

What the world needs is glass foam that's strong enough that it won't break while shipping and smooth on both the outside and inside. Think: Glass foam with a Gorilla glass-like surface on both the outside and inside.
Not even close, a lot of places are hybrid and there's a valid concern that we'll see more tech companies (large and small) follow in Amazon's lead just because Amazon did it first.

Currently trying to leave Amazon and it's been a slog to even get an interview for anything fully remote despite a decade of experience.
That's what I meant by this:

> other nations do it so much more effectively

China hsa an actual strategy, not just an attempt for politicians to pay lip service and win a few rust belt states.

Also, China had a policy for years of dramatically suppressing its economy, so of course a few small changes result in massive growth (once some of the suppression was removed).
"over time" is right - if TSMC's roadmap isn't getting the US onto 3nm before 2026, then Apple could buy cheaper/denser silicon from fucking Samsung if they wanted. You know, the fab Apple has avoided for density issues and concerns that they aren't competitive. Taiwan still has the golden goose, and unless Apple's products stop relying on node upgrades (they won't) then we're not going to manufacture the majority of Apple chips in America. We'll be lucky if American fabs yield high enough to make memory controllers, let alone entire SOCs.
No need to cakesplain, that was an example with three ingredients of the top of my head, very, very obviously the exact ingredients and bracket assignments vary depending on what you are making.

But for shortbread or fork biscuits those three could indeed all go in the bowl in one go (but that one admittedly doesn't really need a bracket because the recipe is "put in bowl, mix with hands, bake").
You do realize the (Official EU) website you linked to has a cookie banner, right?
Depends what you're cooking. I'd never sear meat on non-stick, but there are many other dishes that don't need high temperatures.
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