skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it doesn't support your thesis.

The biggest problem with this bunch is that none of the 4 questions asks about pro-Russia sentiment directly. Rather, they are all proxy questions, and at best very loosely-fitting ones.

For example the question on media bias -- I someone answers that media coverage of Russia is 'zu negative berichtet', that doesn't mean its because they are sympathetic to Russia per se. While that could be the reason -- it seems more likely that the answer comes from a place of distrusting major media outlets, especially Western ones; and of being more skeptical about the Ukraine war in general (which they are, but again for a host of reasons, generally not having anything to do with their feelings about Russia as a country).

The other 3 questions have similar confounds. The one about sanctions can't be used at all in this analysis, really, as it refers directly to policy question with obvious impact on other spheres of life (in this case the effect of these sanctions on the Germany economy). You're just assuming it indicates ipso facto pro-Russia (as a country) sentiment, but that's far from a given in this case. In fact, given the degree to which people there talk about this particular facet of the sanctions debate (all the time), versus how much they talk about their fondness for Russia as a country (basically never) -- it would seem the economic tie-in (along with distrust of standard Wessi policy and narratives on anything) would be the far likely driver for the spread on the numbers here.

And lastly: what are these numbers actually telling us?

From the media bias poll -- even in the East, a solid majority among those who answered (45-33) consider the "establishment/Wessi" reporting on Russia to be "fair or too positive" -- meaning they basically agree with the overwhelmingly negative -- that is, "anti-Russia" spin of this reporting.

From one above it -- 77 percent agree that Russia is a threat to world security! There is a point spread here (Wessis are somewhat likelier to agree), but the main point here is -- to the extent that we agree that this poll can serve as a partial measurement of sentiment in regard to Russia, the actual content of sentiment expressed here is overhelmingly negative.

This is what I meant about why what matters is the context behind these questions, not the numbers in pure isolation.

Which again, brings us back to qualitative / interpretive analysis. And which of course we aren't going to come a unified position on, which is course perfectly fine.
Peewee never quite got there IMO, and it hasn't kept up with the times (modern asyncio, etc.)
Wow. Someone who ACTUALLY understands the Agile Manifesto. This is one of the best comments I've ever read on HN.

It's mind-boggling that people can be confident that they're building the right software for their users without ever actually talking to their users.
Many pagers are receive only. The tower has no idea who's listening; it just broadcasts out the messages that it's told to. Pagers are much less trackable than phones.
https://archive.today/VCDKV
To me it seems increasing throughput has long been a goal. For a batch processes, the options are larger batches or more frequent batches. YC has tried increasing batch size and later scaled it back (I have no idea where the current batch size sits in relation to the largest batch, they might be the same or different).

In other words, I suspect the change probably reflects changes at YC more than anything else.
What if the 20th century was the unusual time? How much "novel IP" was produced before, in the majority of human history and before? My impression is that inventing unique "3D" characters became common in the modern era.
In deep time, people told stories with their cast of characters from their mythology, legends and sages. Folk tales are often written about trope, archetypal characters that are flat and predictable by modern standards.

The expectation that new stories must be set in a freshly created "universe" with fully new characters is quite new. We may be returning to that old mode of storytelling where we repeat more. Just as people still play Shakespeare with new actors each time, why can't we retell a 20th century film with today's actors and technology? And why can't we make sequels about already beloved and known characters? Seems quite natural in fact.

We now have a new canon for this era, and it consists of superman, and Darth Vader etc.

The one (big) difference of course is that in the old times there was no concept of copyright and trademarks so people were free to recombine characters as they wished.
Wouldn't the investments then also spread thinner?
at two millihertz of bandwidth, you could transmit a 30-pixel line in only 7500 seconds, so you could transmit an entire 30×30 frame in 225 000 seconds, less than three days

but plausibly the millihertz notation was an error and megahertz was meant
Prob need a few dozens to build the frameworks and a few hundreds to glue them to the services that require them.
I think it's more like 10x. There were 400,000 working on Apollo and I doubt there's more than 40,000 working on Artemis.
That's right, but from the Greeks' point of view it was not luck: it was the diving fate, determined by the Gods. The modern equivalent is religious people who believe that everything is determined by the Jewish god.
thanks! true you could use it like that although I find notion and airtable to do a decent jobs if you really just want a todo list or a crm so unsure if we should dive into that segment
That's easier than just changing the key bindings in game?
A 'googly' is not a google, what is this nonsense hahaha. Seriously getting Baader-Meinhof from this website which I used to trust.
Do you honestly believe that "protocols and treaties" established "hundreds of years" ago have any bearing on modern conflict? Do you have any arguments that would be persuasive to those of us who believe them to be more or less irrelevant since the Franco-Prussian War? I'm an American. We firebombed Dresden and Tokyo, then got up the next day and made breakfast. Pick another major combatant nationality anywhere on the globe, and I'll tell you a similar story.

By the standards of modern warfare, what happened today was probably weirdly humane.
The apostrophe here most likely represents a glottal stop (as in Hawai'i).
Title should change from dozens to thousands (https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t). And there's no indication that all of them were Hezbollah members.
I added myself, I hope it catches on!
I agree with the sentiment, but:

To what level would the "source code" have to be published? Chip-level? Should I expect HDL code that allows me to reproduce the microcontroller?
If not, expect a bunch of gadget companies to pay cypress or whoever to make "custom" chips with their firmware burned in. After all, what's the difference at that point between HDL and firmware?

If yes, expect most companies to simply refuse, and not authorize their chips for sale in the US. International IP / licensing agreement would make it literally impossible for them to comply without being sued into oblivion by the Taiwanese company they licensed the IP from.

I think stuff like design files and source code should be held in escrow by the government. If you continue to provide replacement parts to customers, the information remains protected. Once you stop providing reasonably priced replacements ("reasonably priced" = less than the cost of the product), the information gets published so others can reproduce it.
I never understood why the spaceplane had an atmosphere with helium in it, though. Either Crichton messed up or got confused about the mixing issues there (as well as the massive logistics problems, the plane was huge).
This timing is for making queries after the index is created, so it’s only two API calls for embedding / re-ranking.
Overall, during testing Codebased took ~1 second to search the Linux kernel and ripgrep took ~2 seconds because it’s expensive to read gigabytes of text from disk.
It’s slower for small projects, but I’m working on that.
Not sure a wooden desk is equivalent to porcelain though. Porcelain cracks, just need a lot of pressure in a small spot to make a big break.

That said, .... Really glad I quit smoking anything after seeing the damage a vape did to those poor guys
A shape charge would be pointless because you can't guarantee how the device is worn- one news article mentioned most people carry them in their pockets, so a shape charge would be blowing most of the energy away from the target in 50% of the cases.
The title is egregiously bad
Anything in engineering that involves using parts or processes that are not officially approved (unless there is an exigent need to do so and the parties involved in the exigency accept the risk) should be severely punished. I don't care who you are. If anything, the fines should be percentage based on revenue (not profit, revenue) to deter deep pockets from fucking around (and hopefully for the safety of everybody involved) not finding out.

Secondarily, if the FAA didn't do this they would be roasted for playing favorites with SpaceX.
Did GPT-4 try to hire a human?
Yes as it stands it's propaganda. Expected given the source
Some kinds of receivers can be localized because they convert input frequencies to a standard internal frequency for more convenient processing. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheterodyne_receiver#Local...

It's how the TV detectors work in countries, such as the UK, that charge a license fee for TVs.

Military radios can't use this common technique because of the risk of detection.

I suspect pagers only receive on 1 or at most a few frequencies. If that's correct, they wouldn't need that technique.
I'm still building more AM4 machines than AM5 for clients, FWIW, even for folks that want relatively performant desktops. The price/performance just isn't better enough yet to do otherwise for most.
It's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need

They adapted a technique developed for translation, which had already been advancing a lot over the past decade or so.

"Attention" requires really big matrices, and they threw truly vast amounts of data at it. People had been developing techniques for managing that sheer amount of computation, including dedicated hardware and GPUs.

It's still remarkable that it got so good. It's as if there is some emergent phenomenon that appeared only when enough data was approached the right way. So it's not at all clear whether significant improvements will require another significant discovery, or if it's just a matter of evolution from here.
We should avoid using the name of the country as a proxy for its current government

I understand your point but synecdoche is the oil on the gears of discourse. This required a lot of people's involvement, from those issuing the orders to technicians at the bottom of the chain of command. It's not Netanyahu's cabinet that did the work of placing explosive charges in thousands of compact devices and then repackaged and shrinkwrapped them.

Obviously once could refer to the 'Netanyahu regime' or some other more specific term, but then someone else would complain that this was a mendacious mischaracterization of the country's political system or suchlike. To the extent that civilians there don't with to be identified with their political leadership or take on the moral responsibility for its decisions, they'd better step up their efforts to topple the government by means of a general strike or some other time-honored method.
> How do you make money selling API access to a model which anyone else can spin up an API for (license is Apache 2.0) on AWS or GCP

Uhhh.. easily. Don’t host it in AWS or GCP where everyone is hosting their infrastructure on proprietary infrastructure with a 10x markup? Don’t hire thousands of unnecessary employees? Don’t bank on outrageous valuations? Lots of ways to compete with big tech.
Reclaiming Privacy Rights: A Roadmap for Organizations Fighting Surveillance
It would be nice if you can add numbers, like what would be the cost in your cloud provider, what was the total investment made, how much are you saving, which other options did you have in mind and why were discarded
Still it was a nice post to read
Maybe? Piss Lebanon off to engage in a public fight, and then defend yourself on the US's dime until you occupy their land.
Site is down: https://www.gapollo.com.tw/rugged-pager-ar924/
> We however found that our co-working space - WeWork has an excellent server hosting solution. We could put the servers on the same floor as our office and they would provide redundant power supply, cooling and internet connection. This entire package is available at a much cheaper rate and we immediately jumped on this. Right now all servers are securely running in our office.

Nice! How much does this cost?
This sounds very likely.
B&H?!?! The giant store in Manhattan famously run by Orthodox Jews? If that's confirmed it's going to be protested into dust pretty soon.

EDIT: I see an addenda to the article that B&H are denying any involvement. We'll see how it plays out. True or not, the rumor will be flying.
I'd argue the opposite somewhat: there's a lot of problematic content that's an issue with audio/video, but like you said, it's not viable to detect at scale, so it's better to close the door.
I'm a huge fan of LLM-based tools, and I use them pretty much daily, but stuff like this concerns me a bit. In any dev process there needs to be a review step somewhere. Someone who understands code well needs to be looking at what the app is doing and making sure it's protecting my data. Someone needs to make sure there isn't a bug that loses the work I put in to creating records with a CRUD operation. They need to be making sure my privacy is respected in a legally compliant way. They need to make sure things are reasonably secure. None of that is guaranteed when you have a dev team, but it is a possibility at least.

Telling Joe Random "describe you app in a prompt and press deploy!" guarantees that isn't happening. This sort of service is great for non-dev people who want to launch something but it's a pretty big threat to my data.

I'm under no illusion that these services are going to be huge, and no doubt someone will sell an app built with one to a service that puts data about me into it. I suspect that means one day an attacker is going to learn something I'd rather they didn't. That sucks.
Most “Agile” process are agile in the same sense that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is democratic.
More than that, just as nowadays we can easily remember the lyrics of a famous song, the Greek remembered and recited parts of the Iliad and Odyssey. This is easier to do with poetry than with prose.
Nice bookend to the other link. “All I want is a 17 sided polygon on my tombstone… here’s a simple guide on how to draw it.”

“Best I can do is a star.”
Yesterday, right outside our community, there was an accident—a car caught fire. Within 3 to 4 minutes, the area was swarmed with police and firefighters, rescuing everyone without any injuries.
This prompted me to consider why businesses can't match firefighter response times. I did some research.
Here is what I found
In Finnish, the apostrophe marks a syllable break between instances of the same vowel, and sounds like a very short pause. Maybe they use Finnish spelling rules on this planet.

Example word: vaa'an — genetive of "vaaka" = "scale"
> The safety of the general public should trump all here

An SLA is not unreasonable nor counterproductive to that end. Courts do this all the time.
Had Nvidia put their hubris aside for a second (tough ask, I know) and worked to make Isaac into an open source project, it would have eaten ROS' lunch. The subgraph-based approach was much better, the node/component/channel approach is intuitive, and had it been improved upon with better DX, it would be wonderful to use. Plus it used Bazel instead of the godawful colcon. The only good part of ROS is IPC which Isaac sucks at. Sadly they decided to abandon it and repurpose their GEMs as ROS packages instead.
Cool, how about you let me use this with an open source client so I know the client isn't phoning the decrypted data home now.
At the same time, I don't think there's any reason to disbelieve accounts (and video footage) of children among the injured. Unless you're sending operatives with pistols and killing targets individually, I don't think there's a way to do a strike of this scale without killing innocents.
Militaries around the world have robust networks to infiltrate supply chains for sabotage. It’s kind of a basic part of the whole intelligence covert and clandestine operations capabilities expected of a “first world” nation.

Israel is one of the better countries at doing this undetected so, no surprises here.
It's extremely hard to tell if these accounts are, in fact, serious
It's an average imperative OO language that has a lot of devs, a lot of libraries, and world-class optimization of GC and method dispatch (Sun had acqui-hired the StrongTalk team).
Looks incredible! As someone preparing a large iPhone-based scanning project, this couldn’t have come at a better time. I’m a longtime CamScanner user, but will happily move to something open source if it delivers on its promises. Will try it out asap!

Re:the common “why not just use the native functionality” questions, I think the simple answer is scale. If I want to scan a random receipt I’d use Apple, but as we all know well, Apple rarely caters to power users — someone scanning multiple times a day or for hours at a time will almost definitely be better served by a dedicated app.

Side note: these (two!!) devs are killing it. Great communication (their privacy policy is top-notch), great styling, and they have a whole roster of neat apps lined up, including an Apple Vision release. Thanks for putting them on my radar, OP! https://pencilresearch.com/
Is the rio.dev website built with Rio?
Seems like it should break even around a year in
It's somewhat common to open source the core yet still monetize a version (browser vendors, SaaS, games). People will still pay for convenience, reliability, or for the best product.

> Why would I use their API?

To pay 15 cents per million tokens instead of $5.

> license is Apache 2.0

There are browser vendors that use Chromium despite "competing" with Chrome - even though it's the same kind of web browser product, there are some benefits if they allow the other options to exist. The same can be said of open source games and frienemy situations like Uber vs Lyft in the early days - it doesn't necessarily hurt to have others playing your game, especially if you have a common enemy (Firefox, other games, cabs, respectively).

I run mostly Mistral offline in Terminal (via ollama cli) but in the case where I need a text-to-text LLM for an app and users pay for access to the LLM-powered stuff, why not use Mistral's API? Then I could have a super cheap app setup on Vercel or whatever and do everything through an API key. The app would "be AI" and yet it runs on a calculator for cents.

The main thing that comes to mind regarding "just spin it up on AWS" is the considerable backend needs (GPU) and cost to train and run LLMs. In the same way you ask why use the LLM's cloud option when I could use AWS' cloud option? could also ask the inverse (or just host it yourself for free after initial setup if it's cost you're after).

If you need geo located instances and some other specific requirements use IaaS, but otherwise I think IaaS like AWS and GCP are a nightmare to manage - the awful IAM experience, all the vendor-specific jargon, navigating the hell that is Amazon.com. For something like an LLM "just spin it up on AWS" is just funny when you really consider what you're getting yourself into.
All four "mother languages" (FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL, LISP) predate ASCII and EBCDIC. All four of them use whitespace as a token separator.
I'm most interested how the product can do at iterating and making a better product overall. Building a website can be kinda hard, but building the *right* website for the market is very hard
The cynic in me agrees with you here - this is likely a way for them to go "oh no, we couldn't see that information, it's *encrypted* so we have no liability, legal or otherwise, to stop any sort of abuse on our platform since we can't see it"
Mind blown. Thanks for telling me about this gem.
Ok, good to know, I didn't get the memo! ;)
What you're doing here is establishing yourself as someone who believes a weirdly, ahistorically, spectacularly surgical attack on Hezbollah fighters is a "war crime". Which is fine, but people are going to point that out when you call other things a war crime, and you might care about that, because in those other instances you might actually be right (if it's Israel you're talking about, it's very likely you will be right), and the extra credibility might be helpful.

What I'm saying is that you're setting yourself up to be dismissed as someone who believes "a war crime is when Israel does war".
The goal is achieved. The founders are rich and fulfilled (and probably exhausted), early star employees have mostly cashed out. This is not at all surprising or hard to figure out. Larry Page tried to establish a corporate structure that would sustain innovation (Google -> Alphabet) but they were never able to recreate what they had in search.
That secretary is probably hard funded, makes more money than 75% of the scientists she supported, enjoys vacations, and will have a comfortable retirement.
Apparently the worst mistake was contacting his former girlfriend in Russia:

>Exactly how the killers found him has not been established, though two senior Ukrainian officials said he had reached out to a former girlfriend, still in Russia, and invited her to come see him in Spain.

>“This was a grave mistake,” one of the officials said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/world/europe/russian-defe...
> Israel is in the Eurovision

So is Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia until 2022, Turkey until 2012, and weirdly enough Australia.
Ah, the old "if you do not spent your time, effort an interest where I have chosen to spend them, then you are an inferior human being to me."

Everyone judges people who do less about subject X, Y, Z to be criminal, lazy slob, and everyone doing more to be inflexible annoying zealots.

Woe those who are not me and do things differently, for they are worthless.
Interestingly, we're looking at the same video. I'm seeing a person who's pocket explodes and the person standing nearest them happened to be lucky enough to not be in the direct path of the blast. I can easily see that detonation severely wounding a bystander if they'd been in the (un)lucky angle and height.
An increase in demand coming from investment in datacenters combined with an infrastructure change (potentially detrimental by reducing dependence on coal and natural gas) is not only bad for consumers, but also for national security.
I should have mentioned this part indeed. Finding a publisher and following their process is already a hard path. But if you decide to self-publish (which I did) then a whole new story begins. Being a good author is not what matters at this point. You'll need good communication skills and a strategy to get some visibility. You'll need to market your "product" and feel at ease with this. A self-published book can be amazingly written, but without a very good strategy it's a book no one will read, sadly (especially if your audience is very niche, like mine). It's the part I feel the least comfortable with, so I have to accept the very limited reach.
You might as well be arguing all cell phones are iPhones, because here's a model which is an iPhone. Sure, some are two-way pagers and do transmit, but most aren't.

Loads of pagers are passive, receive-only devices. There's a reason why there's a common distinction between "pager" and "two-way pager".