skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Intercept is being sloppy with its rhetoric, as usual.

However the idea that this was a precisely targeted operation is pure fiction. Mossad understands perfectly well that Hezbollah is a "horizontal" organization, widely permeated in Lebanese society. And though the pagers themselves seem to have wound up in mostly in the intended hands, Mossad knew also that, at the time of their detonation, they would be located would be be wherever the operatives were: in homes, taxis, grocery stores, cafes, hospitals, on street corners, and apparently (per news reports) at at least one funeral.

That's how we ended up with a large if not yet precisely known proportion of civilian deaths and maimings (the latter category being vastly larger of course -- including a staggering 300 cases of persons losing one or both eyes).
Unfortunately we're still lacking in reliable reports, as world attention has moved onto other atrocities. But according to the Lebanese Health Ministry the deaths included 2 children and 4 health workers (one Hezbollah-affiliated), among some 42 total. From this it seems reasonable to extrapolate a "non-affiliated" ratio of at least 20 percent, likely higher.

None of which would have been accidental from Mossad's point of view. If anything, we can be entirely sure these numbers (and the fact that they would surely include children), along with all the horrifying scenes reported in hospital rooms in the immediate aftermath, are in close agreement with the thoughtful, meticulous predictions they made when they decided to sit down and press the buttons for these attacks.

Finally:

I don't believe anyone can name a more targeted military operation.

This is just silly of course, as every large war (including the current one in Ukraine) includes countless incidents of military installations being precisely targeted with 100+ entirely military KIA, and so forth.
Until you want your gateway to handle some complex auth or routing rules and don’t want to learn a whole new programming language to implement that.
It doesn’t make them more relevant, but it does prove they’re not irrelevant, as GP suggested.

Idk, not many people can sell tens or hundreds of thousands of pricy tickets to see them do their thing for 90 minutes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think that's exactly the point I was getting it. Who decides what efficient is, and what do they measure. You might care about vision algorithms, and I might care about hamburgers.

From the economics perspective, something being Monopoly doesn't mean it's inefficient.

Depending on the situation, they can be far more efficient then diverse companies, or much less
This is a nice trend, here's a couple other text-only mainstream news sites:

https://lite.cnn.com/

https://text.npr.org/
Right now it says "Temporarily Offline"
Yes. If someone said they had been to all the states I’d expect they had been to Alaska and Hawaii. On the other hand McDs all across the country I’d interpret as having been to a lot of McDs in different states with a wide geographical distribution.
It's not that hard we just have the original not-for profit and then a non-profit llc, and then 503c, all of that gets grouped under a Hybrid profit holding, which funds the PBS but has no ownership relationship. Meanwhile a sister L3C invests in the original NFP without profit motives, but retains call stock options WITH voting rights (only if the option is NOT executed). The for profit LLC is just a holder of the stock and IP in Ireland, nothing suspicious about it, do not concern yourself with this entity.

Source: I made it up
That's obviously a lie. And one of his lawyers - the fool that he is - literally confirmed it earlier today in another thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784343

"Despite our sometimes fervent wishes, lawyers don't control clients. We are not puppeteers"
Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to verify attestation" error
You can if you can convince others to protect it for you.
I’ve been very happy and impressed with the Framework AMD edition. I’d steer clear of their Core Ultra Intel edition since that’s Meteor Lake. I use mine for open source development things I do on my own time.

If work supplied me with one of them I’d happily use it. Support has been great and they live up to their upgradable promise.
And even much later under feudalism, property as we know it didn't really exist. Land (essentially the only productive asset that existed) was owned by the government, but the government was a loose network of aristocrats instead of a faceless state.
Yes, it's annoying. I share your optimism. This is how the JavaScript (and now TypeScript) community figures things out.

Note that TypeScript had competitors, too. It got better. Zod has an early lead and is good enough in a lot of ways, but I'm not sure it will be the one.

Perhaps someday there will be a bun/deno-like platform with TypeScript++ that has validation merged in, but it's probably good that it's not standardized yet.
Yep. And the value they have is _your data_. It'd be a similar situation if Zuckerberg was playing "fealty games" with who could and couldn't get an API key.
Months Before Ethiopian Crash, Boeing Turned Aside Carrier's Questions
brew deps eza --tree prints:

eza

└── libgit2

├── libssh2

│ └── openssl@3

│ └── ca-certificates

└── openssl@3

└── ca-certificates
"I'm often thwarted by the fact that for anything requiring remotely decent speeds, python most of the time already delegates to C extensions and so any rewrite is not as useful"

Be sure you verify this is the case for whatever you think it is, though. Pure Python is so much slower than compiled languages (not just Rust) that you don't have to do much percentage-wise in pure Python before you've badly fallen behind in performance versus the pure-compiled alternatives.

I think this is asserted a lot more often then it is benchmarked. I am reminded of the way people for a long time asserted that the performance of web languages doesn't matter because you spend all your time waiting for the database, so it never mattered. People would just whip this argument out reflexively. It turns out that if you take a non-trivial codebase written in such a language and actually benchmark it, it is often not true, because as applications grow they tend to rapidly outgrow "all my code is just running a SELECT and slamming the results with minimal processing out to the web stream". I hear this a lot less often than I used to, probably through the slow-but-effective process of a lot of individuals learning the hard way this isn't true.

I've seen a lot of Python code. Very little of it that was not "data science" was just a bit of scripting around lots of large C-based objects, such that Python wasn't doing much actual work. And even some of that "data science" was falling back to pure Python without realizing because NumPy actually makes that shockingly easy.
You don't need to use pytz, you can use the following on all Python 3:
tz_UTC = datetime.timezone.utc
We really did! :) Though, there were some unfun challenges around that, like getting distribution to work without having to get people to go through the pains of installing the JDK. Thankfully, since our UI is just a web browser, we did not have to go down the path of JavaFX or anything like that; our UI is just plain JS/HTML making API requests to a propped up server on localhost:31000 (for the curious).
“WP Engine is free to offer their hacked up, bastardized simulacra of WordPress’s GPL code to their customers, and they can experience WordPress as WP Engine envisions it"

Does anyone know what the context about this is? What did WP-Engine change which Matt disliked?

As I understand they were disabling page revision history (but would enable it if you asked) and only because they had some other proprietary to wp-engine method of versioning and rollbacks but this seems like a massive overreaction to that.
TypeScript 5.7 Beta
fantastic! most of these come down to diet and exercise. fast, eat less, eat anti inflammatory, take some supplements/vitamins. exercise well, sleep well, get some sunlight and meditate.
I love these tools. A few more I like are:
eget - good for getting these little tools (https://github.com/zyedidia/eget)
dust - fd is to find as dust is to du (https://github.com/bootandy/dust)
yank - nice to quickly copy things from the command line (https://github.com/mptre/yank)
A lesson from my days in the Mod Wars in one of Twitch's more busy channels
What makes you think they're a team?
This has to take the cake for "most spurious correlation."
The most coherent reading is "places which report more homocide data are correlated with reporting more left-handedness"
Governments can not compete on infra with trillion dollar computer companies.
Does these directories also cost extra to list you?
Here is a quick 30 second trailer of what's on the site, from Green Day's YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziZ8SLooNx8
In my experience those specific sets of constraints come sooner or later. Someone is going to ask for some complex auth or routing rules and it’s easier to just write it in go than it is to learn a whole new DSL or lua to implement it.
Core War: Tournament Weekend 2024 (Celebrating 40 years)
“There's nothing wrong with caring for your child. The cause of this situation is insufficient paternal leaves, not having and raising children.”

Tell me you’ve never been a working parent, without telling me…
Smaller companies are also soul-draining in many cases. Why to exclude only faangs? Let's exclude banks, insurance etc
> Golden hashbrowns, gravy-smothered biscuits and crispy waffles with a hearty helping of maple syrup are among the classic Southern comfort foods

There are a lot of foods I associate with the south, but maple syrup is definitely not one of them.
> ends up at the same point as a completed folding simulation.

Well, that's the hope, at least.

> Or more representative sequences and enough variants by additional metagenomic surveys, for example. Of course, this might not be easily achievable.

For sure, but for ostensibly profit-generating enterprises, it's pretty much out of the picture.

I think the reason an actual computational solution for folding is interesting is that the existing set of experimentally verified protein structures are for proteins we could isolate and crystalize (which is also the training set for AlphaFold, so that's pretty much the area its predictions are strongest, and even within that, it's only catching certain conformations of the proteins) - even if you can get a large set of metagenomic surveys and a large sample of protein sequences, the limitations on the methods for experimentally verifying the protein structure means we're restricted to a certain section of the protein landscape. A general purpose computationally tractable method for simulating protein folding under various conditions could be a solution for those cases where we can't actually physically "observe" the structure directly.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41792500
That isn't really the main concern. It's really a question of alienability.

If your great grandfather invested in something a hundred years ago and now 99% of its value is appreciation (or inflation), you may or may not want to continue investing in it. If you do, the step up in basis doesn't really matter because you're not going to sell it anyway.

But if you now think it's a mediocre investment, you may be inclined to sell it and invest in something else. Except that you won't if you'd lose a significant proportion of its value to taxes. This is a problem with capital gains taxes in general, but it's especially a problem for anything held intergenerationally (i.e. for a very long time) because not only will the appreciation be large, the inflation by itself would represent most of the value of the "gain". So the step-up in basis is a stupid hack to avoid this and let children make different choices than their parents and grandparents without being punished by the tax code.

There are probably better ways to handle this, but "delete it and replace it with nothing" is not one of them.
Kim Dotcom Fends Off Arrest Before Conspiracy Theories and Reality Collide
Letting the public trips be visible would make the most sense. I'll create an account when I'd like to make my own trip.
>Given that most billionaires have their billions as imaginary ownership of gigantic corporations, how exactly would someone steal their shares from them such that government needs to enforce their property rights?

You have it backwards. "imaginary ownership of gigantic corporations" doesn't exist without government. The government doesn't "protect" Zuckerbergs shares, the government is the vehicle that gives Zuckerbergs shares value. Without the government Zuckerberg's billions is worthless.

In this fairytale world where Zuckerberg is somehow made a persona non grata, then all his shares would become worthless as he wouldn't be able to sell them, nor would he be able to enforce Facebook (the entity) to do anything on his behalf.
Nice one Demis & Chums!
It was definitely horrible, but given how pervasive Flash was on the web then, I think a more reasonable takeaway is to say that no mobile device had first-class browser support until HTML5 <video> became prevalent. To me, "first class" implies "I can visit any popular website and expect it to work", which was decidedly not the case for iPhone at introduction.
No. Nobody is going read those (because most people won't even know that some unsafe is buried 5 layers of dependencies below what they work with). The author should make reasonable effort to prove the code is working correctly (and cannot be abused) by other means if possible. It might be a domain issue, so far all my apps are 100% safe (not counting libraries).
Is there an API available to access recipes for use outside the application, eg in another application?

My specific use case is associating (usually liquid) media recipes with microbial cultures
A Tomato Recognition and Rapid Sorting System Based on Improved YOLOv10
> [A]ccording Chris McManus, the researchers made a "very subtle error"...

> Halpern and Coren took a list of the people who had recently died and contacted their families, asking whether or not their relative had been right- or left-handed.

> Looking at 2,000 cases, they saw that the average age at death of the left-handers was about nine years younger than of the right-handers.

> On that basis, they concluded that left-handers died earlier.

> At first glance, that seems persuasive. What did the researchers do wrong?

> "Their mistake was that they only looked at the dead," Chris McManus explains.

> The point is that left-handers are more common now than they used to be, so - at least at the time the research was published - left-handers were on average younger than right-handers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23988352
Geoffrey Hinton had an excellent series on neural networks from 2011 for Coursera available here https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRl3Ht4JOcdU872GhiYWf6... detailing the fundamentals of machine learning. The series was later wholesale replaced by another led by Andrew Ng of Google. I really adored Geoffrey’s lectures and recommend it to anyone looking to get into the space. It ends with him hinting at the idea of attention networks, but sadly I can’t find any later lectures from him on the topic.
Because most of those are dependencies required to build the actual dependencies.

There's (generally) 4 types of dependencies:

- Toolchains (frameworks, compilers)
- Build (headers and libraries)
- Runtime (libraries)
- Test (frameworks, headers, libraries)

And those dependencies all bring their own dependencies...
I'm left handed and play the piano.

I think if I had a learned on a reversed piano - it would not transfer to a regular piano - I would be able to play better.

What which hand is responsible for (melody, accompaniment/rhythm) have very different dexterity requirements. Learning melody on the dominate hand would be preferable to me, in hindsight.

With an electronic keyboard, reversing the tones should be easy enough to do. However, I have not noticed that feature.
This article is contrary to my understanding of the WHI. Waffle House doesn't know any more about a coming storm than FEMA, but how quickly (and fully) the Waffle Houses open after a storm is a good indicator of how much damage was done and how quickly the area is bouncing back.
Looks like the word "denounce" is not used in the right sense here, at least based on what I know, and on a quick google, although it may have another meaning that matches what was intended by the writer of the article.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/denounce
Most proteins don't fold to their global energy minimum- they fold to a collection of kinetically accessible states. Many proteins fail to reach the global minimum because of intermediate barriers from states that are easily reached from the unfolded state.

Attempting to predict structures using mechanism that simulate the physical folding process waste immense amount of energy and time sampling very uninteresting areas of space.

You don't want to use a supercomputer to simulate folding; it can be done with a large collection of embarassingly parallel machines much more cheaply and effectively. I proposed a number of approaches on supercomputers and was repeatedly told no because the codes didn't scale to the full supercomputer, and supercomputers are designed and built for codes that scale really well on non-embarassingly parallel problems. This is the reason I left academia for google- to use their idle cycles to simulate folding (and do protein design, which also works best using embarassingly parallel processing).

As far as I can tell, only extremely small and simple proteins (like ribonuclease) fold to somewhere close to their global energy minimum.
levels.fyi has been of good use for the industry at providing tools to navigate the incosistencies with leveling across companies. Somewhat similar to what Leetcode did as well (not saying Im happy with the standard).

There's a lot more refinement that's needed for levels.fyi data:

1. Data goes stale pretty quickly. Salaries are on a downtrend now and many averages don't reflect it yet.

2. Data is overreported in the few popular reigons and companies. Bay area/FAANGetc

3. Values are inflated with stocks that aren't public companies.

4. Lots of companies are following weird vesting schedule now and that calculation isn't the simplified 4 year average of stock value.
Great insights and a truly informative read.

Shame it didn't get more traction, possibly because it was so long. Would have loved to see where the comments would have taken it.
Their second paragraph made it clear they were asking about the style of post, not the contents of that particular post.
Sure, and now that their threat model includes devastating landslides they will probably make different choices.
Starlink's Hurricane relief offer is not quite as free as advertised
Related submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41792614
It's a thought experiment. And my end goal would be to save lives in the long run.
Elon Musk Owes You $100 • Cards Against Humanity Saves America Day 7
I'm one of those lefties who have been forced to write using my right hand too.

It cost me grades throughout my whole time at school and university. This is why I write with my right hand. It's ugly, but most of the time I can read it. Luckily, we have devices today which make handwriting not so necessary anymore.

It was a blessing when I learned spreading butter on bread with my left hand...in my late 20s. Those many times I just ripped through the bread. Also forced upon me on some church vacation where me doing it with my left hand was just uncomfortable for my table neighbor and why I had to stop it according to the adult watching us.

Yeah...it is more than "a bit annoying" in this right-handed world sometimes.

Get those lefty scissors. They are such a blessing!
You in bozo too?
Does that come with infinite resources?

Build a monument of brutalism unlike anything this world has yet seen (and I’m well aware of what that covers.)
If you're looking for more or new tools, we have lots at Terminal Trove and continuously add new ones.

https://terminaltrove.com/new/

https://terminaltrove.com/tool-of-the-week/

Every tool added has images/gifs and a quick way to install it.

We love this list and sponsored the development of fd which we heavily use ourselves!
It’s not been ruined by “AI”
This guy gets it!
>My guess would be that a lot of non-Indians at these companies are rejected on the basis of "vibes"

Are you sure it's not just money ? You can pay Indians on H1B less and keep them tied to you. At a place like Cognizant, you aren't trying to get the best talent. You want the cheapest talent that gets the job done.
This whole bit of drama really makes me glad I never invested time/energy in WordPress. It's like Real Housewives of Computer Nerds level of whining, and feels just as fake. Regardless of right/wrong, the whole thing has just turned into a 80s made for TV type of situation. There was a much better way at handling this, but somebody had access to social media and the wheels promptly fell off.
Archive.org is now down. Could anyone explain what it used to show?
Build techno-forward sound systems and share them.
One could argue that writing a timestamp as a string which then has to be parsed is silly and instead it should be delta-of-delta encoded and packed into variable width integers, but even then double integrating and constructing a datetime for each one would still be expensive in python, only less so.
Only issue I can forsee is that every loan, except a credit card, personal loan, and student loan, is typically loaned against an asset. I guess you could make carve outs for mortgages and auto loans.
The axe element will be the same each time, but you can do that without any AI shenanigans - just run it in a normal Playwright test.

My question was really about the page interactions and the assertions being driven by AI: if they are going to be generating different code every time the test runs, how can you have any confidence in the test not having false positives and false negatives at least some of the time, unless you read the generated script each time?

That sounds like a lot more work than just writing the test once in the traditional way (codegen or manually) and tweaking it only when there's a breaking change to the page.

If people are genuinely using this approach then there must be something I'm missing.
The value in BLAST wasn't in its (very fast) alignment implementation but in the scoring function, which produced calibrated E-values that could be used directly to decide whether matches were significant or not. As a postdoc I did an extremely careful comparison of E-values to true, known similarities, and the E-values were spot on. Apparently, NIH ran a ton of evolution simulations to calibrate those parameters.

For the curious, BLAST is very much like pairwise alignment but uses an index to speed up by avoiding attempting to align poorly scoring regions.
It looks like it is running the service that was part of the supply chain attacker earlier this year. https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/...
Going Between Finder and the Terminal
This was my first thought when checking out their website and other projects. Just more digital than physical.

https://brain.wtf
Just need to find someone with ~220pb of storage and the ability to increase that by approximately 50% annually forever more.
i know what you're saying, but really now, you know what i mean. some scribbles on a pancard or some fish monger shouting above the crowd, it's not the same as the mass media ads that find you everywhere willingly and unwillingy, 24/7. so before 1900, why not, to make it easy. let's go back there.
How Video (Playback/Delivery/Processing) Works
Internet Archive Hacked (Probably)