skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool! I asked it to create an article on the topic of my thesis and it was very good, but it lacked nuance and second order thinking i.e. here's the thing, what are the consequences of it and potential mitigations. It was able to pull existing thinking on a topic but not really synthesise a novel insight.

Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval
and Multi-perspective Question Asking.

From the paper it seems like this is only marginally better than the benchmark approach they used to compare against:

>Outline-driven RAG (oRAG), which is identical to RAG in outline creation, but

>further searches additional information with section titles to generate the article section by section

It seems like the key ingredients are:

- generating questions

- addressing the topic from multiple perspectives

- querying similar wikipedia articles (A high quality RAG source for facts)

- breaking the problem down by first writing an outline.

Which we can all do at home and swap out the wikipedia articles with our own data sets.
Disagree partly - once there is monetary alignment to said risk - lets say something like the insurance policy of a Surgeon, there will be a quick alignment. All this indirection is due to lack of actuarial involvement.
Build what users want with requstory
i’d argue the US is too business friendly relative to pretty much everywhere for us to get worse at a pace faster than EU, which means relatively, we’re always doing pretty good. until another global superpower comes along
You just gave me flashbacks to 1.0 in 2019
Because they said it did. I don't like being lied to. If I don't know what type of TV it is I can't assess all those factors you mentioned in the first place.

If they say it's a quantum dot TV, I'm going to look up how long quantum dot TVs last. If I've been lied to I'll make a decision based on incorrect information.

If their claims don't matter, why do they make them?
The header image on that site seems to show two font variants (slashed-zero and non-slashed) in a single display. This puzzles me!
How hard is it to build an HTTP server?

(Yeah, this is a dumb question but I'm asking anyway)
You do know this so-called war didn't start on Oct. 7th, right?

This world needs to be mandated to watch all of the actual evidence, and just propaganda by those who mostly control the mainstream-social media channels.
According to Reddit [1], you can use the existing rg.el package, and just point it to the rga binary instead of the rg binary, and it is supposed to just work.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1eghspj/comment/lg6q...
Yes, but it's a huge strain on senior workforce. A summer intern becomes a curse where no work gets done because you're trying to actively include digitally what's being done for free via office osmosis.
Quantinuum Accelerates the Path to Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
I haven't seen images of the damage, but the difference in damage between an exploding lithium ion battery and 10-15 grams of RDX explosives is going to be "night and day", as they say.

Edit: OK, I've seen some videos. Looks like much less than 10-15g of RDX levels of explosions.
Were the autofilled DNS servers in RFC1918 private space (10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, etc.)? I had issues after the upgrade with Google Chrome being unable to access hosts in these ranges, and fixed it by going to System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Local Network and toggling Google Chrome off and on again.
They're using Little Snitch as an OS-level DNS proxy, which should intercept all DNS requests from any app and encrypt them. But, depending on what API the app uses for its DNS lookups, some DNS requests do not go via the proxy. Presumably Firefox, in its default configuration with DNS encryption set to OFF ("Use your default DNS resolver"), uses one the affected APIs.
I personally am.

Because people are often overtaxed due to high tax elusion/avoidance/evasion.

E.g. in Italy, around 10 to 15% taxes are evaded in many ways. That bill is then paid by regular taxpayers.

If even more people avoided taxes that would just make the issue worse.
I like this idea, but for most companies, they've already decided on their fonts and many corporations already have strict guidelines on what fonts to use and many are either variants of popular fonts, or changed in some way that aligns with their branding.

I still think its a good step forward.
same way you do it in the iphone simulator - you hold the option key and the mouse button, and move the mouse up or down to simulate pinch to zoom.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1696762?sortBy=rank
Most sophisticated-best funded military in the world doesn't have automatic alert systems in place, redundancies, etc, eh?

You probably also don't believe that the Hannibal Directive was deployed on Oct. 7th as well, even though Israel is known to have done the same as early as 1986.

P.S. There are IDF intelligence agents who are whistleblowers that say that this had to have been allowed.
What Is Entropy? – John Baez
Aside from the death and injury, what concerns me about this is why now?

There is little doubt in my mind that the Prime Minister of Israel is highly motivated to engage in a wider war and drag the US along.

This mass bombing could well be in preparation for imminent further action - such as an invasion of Lebanon. Regardless, the escalation this represents is extremely concerning.
Yeah there are two ways I know of to achieve atomization using ultrasonic transducers.
1. Blast water with ultrasonic waves such that the top of the waves break off into droplets. This is well studied in the literature, but you need a decent amount of power to make it work.
2. Metal mesh piezo atomization. This uses the planar vibrational modes of a piezo disc to rapidly shove liquid through tiny holes.
See also:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9P1IVMv5IZI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
https://live.arstechnica.com/apples-wwdc-2014-keynote/images...
war waged without collateral damage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Using AI to Replace an Actor Is Now Against the Law in California
Of course there's mentoring 2-3 times per week. The rest of the time they're just staring at their screens trying to figure out wtf is going on.

People don't feel confident jumping in to a chat stream. In real life you see a newbie standing around and a normal human tries to actively include them and explain things. Nobody looks at the thousands of idle chat handles and tries to explain what's going on to all of them.
Apologies she was not convicted but was jailed - I misremembered and it was rather hard to find but as I see it should be this story:

https://reason.com/2021/05/13/the-police-dog-who-cried-drugs...
The current post title suggests it's done when they do lie about their ages.
My go-to is Verdana based on previous empirical tests. It's bigger at the same pt size compared to other fonts, but if you size it down about 1/12th it is just as legible but at a higher characters per inch, which is good for trying to squeeze text into an interface, especially when that interface may be viewed by a group on a projector or screen share.

I just tried to half-ass a similar test by editing the Google Font explorer UI to put them next to each other. Atkinson beats out Verdana for width, by about 4% (eyeballed and envelope math), however it's also 1 pixel taller per line at that size. So it's a more rectangular font. I'd have to think about how I'd want to use it, if I care more about lines per page or characters per column.
Why Ultra-Processed Foods Cause Weight Gain [video]
Well, apart from medicine, irrigation,
health, roads, cheese and education,
baths and the Circus Maximus,
what have the Romans ever done for us?
> Plus, you know, I actually learn how jq works

What's wrong with the docs? Relatedly, do you actually look up every filter and argument used in your AI-generated sample code in the jq docs?
not sure of band allocations around israel, but in the US pagers were long wavelength devices and, as such, could receive signals much further inside buildings than pre-wifi cellular bands could reach. again, band / frequency (wavelength) allocation dependent. but if similar there, pagers might get signals in tunnels whereas cellular bands may not, for one plausible conjecture.
This is correct. Traces are made up of spans that can be created within the same process, different processes, different machines, etc. and all emitted asynchronously.
That it goes in the opposite direction of your cited project (run modern-ish python from within the JVM), and almost certainly has a much, much better JIT story than yours
As a consumer, it doesn't feel over. It won't feel like it's over until these other streaming companies cut their losses and license content over to Netflix (or whoever "wins), so content isn't spread across a dozen different services.

> Netflix would start cracking down on customers who shared their passwords with friends or relatives, an idea he had opposed in the past.

I've been reading articles about this for a couple years it feels like. They've yet to crack down on me. Maybe the usage is low enough that they don't care. I looked at the activity and the person I'm sharing with hasn't used it since July, and before that it wasn't much; 20 minutes every couple days. It could be that Netflix has a rank ordered list by time watched, assuming that the big watchers are more likely to sign up, while the infrequent watchers would be more likely to simply watch nothing, and it would simply be bad PR. Crackdown on those likely to sign up, while leaving the others alone, moving down the list as more money is required. I only shared it after Hastings said people should, and I shared it with family that would never spend the money on it.

I'd be curious to know the real story, as it doesn't seem like the universal crackdown I was expecting.
AFAICT, science with actual human scientists requires every piece of equipment and then some that would be on a probe.

So the cost with actual human scientists is never going to be below a probe and will realistically be significantly higher.

That means that the actual human scientists need to bring significant value to the endeavour for it to make sense.
Even just experience with `man`-pages, "/<term>", show that it is a suboptimal strategy that leaves querying an understanding reader engine to be desired.
The only times I hear about consistent experiences from a health system is when it's consistently poor. Ones where you can get good quality service are universally inconsistent.

IMHO, Kaiser is usually (but not always!) adequate, and I'd rather have good enough and easy to access than have to deal with non-integrated health care. My most recent health care experience was going to a Pediatric office (Nurse Practitioner), getting a prescription for a asthma control inhaler, where the NP was aware that insurance coverage was very selective so they picked the most likely covered. Then going to the pharmacy after waiting a customary amount of time, being told the specific one wasn't covered but they would tell the NP which one is covered and I should be able to get it by the end of the day. Call the NP office and leave a voice mail, check in with the pharmacy near close of business and no new prescription. I ended up paying for the non-covered one the next day (Saturday) because I wanted to get the kiddo's asthma under control 2 days sooner than if I waited for Monday.

This would have never happened in an integrated system --- at Kaiser, often my prescription would be ready to pick up by the time I walked within the building from the doctor to the pharmacy. In an integrated system, the prescriber always knows what's covered, and usually what's available at the pharmacy when they write the prescription. I've definitely heard things like 'they want you to try this one first, and if it doesn't work, let me know and I can write you the other one', which can be frustrating, but it's better to hear it from the MD or NP than from the Pharmacist. Sometimes, specialists have huge backlogs in an integrated system, and that's not great either, unless it's really bad, you can't get care outside the system unless you pay full fare, and many injuries have worse results with untimely aftercare. With a non-integrated system, you can at least call around and maybe find an appointment with a specialist that's a little bit farther away.

Unfortunately, I moved out of the area of Kaiser. They have been purchasing some health groups around me, but they don't control any local hospitals, and the nearest office is not really close due to local geography; choosing to live on an island is on me, but I still need to have coverage for doctors on that island.
I am old enough to be taken aback by the first few words: what has happened to the Tcl/Tk language??
And the US CIA ran the "Swiss" firm Crypto AG, which sold cable-encryption (as in telegraphic / telex coms) equipment with pre-installed back-doors:

<https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812499752/uncovering-the-cias...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG>
Hmm it didn’t work that way for me, first I asked it to summarise a video, then I simply posted the link to the video assuming it would give the transcript, in both cases it summarised the transcript.

But if I start a new session and simply paste the link to the video it gives the transcript. I’m not sure an llm is the best solution to getting full transcripts.
absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
In that euphemism, the party doing or not doing the regretting is the employer, not the employee.
Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated
I don't see how changing the age limit would have any effect on how effective enforcement would be.
> Nvidia is using very powerful ARM cores in their Grace CPU today

I'm not sure Neoverse is particularly (or at all) suitable for gaming consoles. Having 60+ cores wouldn't be particularly useful and their single core performance is pretty horrible (by design).

> which are very likely good enough for modern consoles

Are they? Cortex-X4 has barely caught up with Apple's M1 (from 2020)? What other options are there? ARM just doesen't seem to care that much about the laptop/desktop market at all.
indeed: https://opensource.apple.com/source/Libinfo/Libinfo-222.1/lo...
I'm terrified of all chlorinated solvents after meeting someone with a horror story.

I very rarely will use shoe goo or E6000 since there's no replacement, but I'll use ventilation, hold my breath, and run as soon as I can.
I’m a deeply technical well-motivated person who works with stuff like DNS and VPNs for a job and I find it quite challenging, despite physical access to the devices and the users.
And thus the answer to “why not just build trains”: because we can do both. They’re not antagonistic.
Do you think Lebanon will escalate by capturing prisoners? I agree that that could be an escalation given the context and history. That said, I don't know what a path to peace with Hezbollah looks like. It's hard to imagine Israel tolerating it imperfect ceasefire while Hezbollah continues to arm, given how that worked out with Hamas

I think that netanyahu would be very happy to see a de-escalation on the northern border and it would be a big win for his cabinet.
I’ve always used it to mean that I don’t care about your hypothetical edge case.
you should copy and paste a youtube url and that's it
I’m 18 months into my FIRE and I STILL struggle with not being that high achiever and taking it easy.
No, they weren't local. I have no idea where they came from. I couldn't even delete them, but when I added the Google servers, they autofilled ones were automatically deleted.
Same here - especially since the capitalisation in the HN headline is Tcl not TCL!
Let me add some certainty back to it: both Reuters and the NYT are reporting these are pagers specifically procured by Hezbollah, directly from a manufacturer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-h...
Yeah, everyone talking about shaped charges or (micro-) explosively formed penetrators seems to overlook the fact that, compared to just a regular bomb, they'd be less strictly effective for situations where you can't control the alignment of the charge to the target.

Don't overthink it - just a bit of RDX and a detonator does wonders.
I agree with you, and I'll put it slightly stronger. Ruby is a better language than Python in every way except the very most important two:

- Imports in Ruby seriously suck compared to Python. Everything requires into a global scope and an ecosystem like bundler which encourages centralizing all imports for your entire codebase into one file.

- Python has docstrings encouraging in code documentation.

Add common ecosystem things like the Ruby community encouraging generated methods, magical "do what I mean" parameters, and REPL poke-driven development, and this leads to the effect that Python codebases are almost always well documented and easy to understand. You can tell where every symbol comes from, and you can usually find a documentation entry for every single method. It's not uncommon for a Ruby library, even a popular one, to be documented solely through a scattering of sparsely-explained examples with literally no real API documentation. Inheriting a long-lived Ruby project can be a serious ordeal just to discover where all the code that's running is running, why it's running, where things are preloaded into a builtin class, and with Rails and Railties, a Gem can auto insert behavior and Middleware just by existing, without ever being explicitly mentioned in any code or configs other than the Gemfile. It's an absolute headache.

My dream language would be Ruby with Python-style imports and docstrings.
I really despise some of these anarcho capitalist arguments.

A society that isn't lifted by redistributing wealth through taxes creates nothing but a more inequal and dangerous society for everyone.

We can all argue about inefficiencies, what is the right amount of spending and funding, but redistributing taxes by creating socially needed projects, from roads that you use, to ports through your shipments to policing streets so your daughter is safer when she goes out with friends. The list is so long.

People don't even realize how much wealth and prosperity has been created by redistributing wealth through taxes.
Further reporting, corroborating a (vaguer) claim by Reuters; the NYT reports these are pagers procured directly by Hezbollah from a manufacturer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-h...
My home router even seems to inspect any UDP/53 traffic and redact any responses containing local/private A entries, so not even switching to a public resolver bypasses the protection.

I agree that it’s usually the right behavior.
You are describing something that violates system setting for it's own benefit instead of the end user.

You are describing malware. Benign malware is still malicious, even if it does no active harm. Intent (of how the software operates) matters.
> I also don't ever see anyone applying that slippery slope argument to, say, blindness research

I don't see it in blindness research, but I do see it in deafness research, where it is sometimes claimed that curing deafness will lead to a form of cultural genocide.
because they are alowed to invest in the market they are supposed to regulate.

why do you thin icahn at the time trashed online ad companies he had stake in? sinking that money on number 3-5 whan you own much more return on consolidatig 1 and 2?
> just like when you hear gates saying a banana cost 10$

When was that?
Dr1v3n Wild, A 13 kilobyte driving game inspired by OutRun
Howdy, I am excited to share my new 13k game with you all. This build is identical to the 13K version with extra support for touch and gamepads.

Everything was written from scratch this time including a custom Webgl2 rendering pipeline. The graphics are all created procedurally when the game starts including trees, rocks, signs, and even the track itself!

The code is up on GitHub for people to learn from, I may clean up the source and release with an open source license if enough people are interested. I hope you like it.
If you like that, i highly reccomend his talk on ai risks. https://youtu.be/ajGX7odA87k?si=-NMySaJzBdx5wlf2 . Half serious talk half stand up commedy routine.
Please, 120 Hz monitors and "high end" mice are the PC gaming equivalent of audiophile equipment. Provides no actual benefit other than the user believing in it.
Is there any peer-reviewed studies about this or are those claims unsubstantiated?
They should be, but the default browser styling is terrible.
Well, in fairness to them, one of the two books in the list spells it all caps right there on the cover.
Quite good point, which really just highlights the 'hypocrisy' here. (That might not be the best word, but it's the only one I can think of.)
Chat is broken. We're fixing it
I was able to mimic this in GPT with out the RAG component with this custom instruction prompt, it does indeed write decent content, better than other writing prompts I have seen.

PROMPT:
create 3 diverse personas who would know about the user prompt
generate 5 questions that each persona would ask or clarify
use the questions to create a document outline, write the document with $your_role as the intended audience.
It says that teens will but put into "private accounts that can be messaged, tagged or mentioned only by people they already follow".

Is there a way that I, too, can have a private account that can only be messaged, tagged, or mentioned by people that I already follow? I am not a teen and don't want to be falsely classified as a teen but I would very much like to have that kind of account.
The right number? Zero. An acceptable number to help stop Hezbollah from routinely firing rockets at your northern towns and villages? That’s a harder question. Unfortunately, the hard question is the one that’s relevant.
The sad reality is that people simply do not give a damn/are so weak willed that they will buy the game regardless. I wish it weren't the case, but unfortunately it is.
> Israel has been restraining itself. Not for much longer.

If this is what a restrained Israel looks like, the god help us all.
Sure, but then why call it medieval at all? The term only fits if you define "medieval" as unspecified "olden times" (or circularly, "what D&D calls medieval").

The point, as I understand it, is that there are other terms that would fit the setting somewhat, and medieval does not fit the setting at all (save for in terms of technology). So if you're going to call it something, why medieval as opposed to Renaissance or post-feudal or wild west or Middle Ages anarchy or "the time of the murder hobos"?
You actually think that a Swift developer, developing against Cocoa APIs, targeting Mac and iOS devices cares about a portable API.

Because not sure if you know this but the entire software industry is built on high level libraries on top of largely portable code. For example this Swift library wraps c-ares a portable API.
I agree with you. I think it's a bit wasteful and dumb, I just don't find it either sick or confusing.
> No, it isn't. There's already reports of murdered children, and people as far away as Syria getting injured. The Iranian ambassador to Beirut was reportedly injured, meaning this could precipitate nuclear war.

Why would Israel fire nuclear weapons at Lebanon and Iran, two non-nuclear states?
Thank you. My 3rd grader knows basic python so I'd prefer to stick with that or Scratch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41568861 (“HN: One Million Are Now Dead or Injured in the Russia-Ukraine War”)

https://www.wsj.com/world/one-million-are-now-dead-or-injure... (“WSJ: One Million Are Now Dead or Injured in the Russia-Ukraine War“)