skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Had they agreed, there would be a peace in place today.

There was no meaningful "peace deal" because there were no meaningful concessions on the root cause: the settlement policy. And several Israeli politicians were sabotaging things by encouraging further settlements.

My case is very simple: there needs to be a significant compromise on the settlement policy first, and only then can any meaningful agreement be reached and violence be reduced. Any "peace negations" without that on the table are not really meaningful and just window dressing. "Please behave nicely according to our satisfaction until we maybe give you your due rights" is not a reasonable demand, especially not in the face of some of the people in government right now.

And "Hamas born" was not the right term. The point is they stepped up their game and became influential, which is not particularly controversial AFAIK. IIRC they also didn't do any suicide attacks before Goldstein, but I could be misremembering that.

> But this notion that there was never any real chance at peace, that Israel never even tried to negotiate, etc, is something that people have only started saying in the last couple of years, it's not what anyone at the time was saying.

Different zeitgeist. Post cold war 90s were very optimistic. Too optimistic probably.

Also less of a "second world war" hangover. Look, I grew up with stories from my grandparents about the occupation. Half my history lessons were about the war and Holocaust. I have great sympathy for the Jewish people and would even go so far to consider myself a Zionist, at least for some meanings of the concept.

But also, I'm young enough that as far as I'm concerned it's too long ago, and while some morally dubious actions from the past are at least understandable, it's no longer a reason. Even more so for people 20 years younger than me who never had grandparents who told them stories.

I mean, half of the US was on-board with "Satanic Ritual Abuse" during the 80s. Just because "people are the time" said X or thought Y doesn't mean it's correct.
> The scientific scrutiny that all of these items have been subjected to is insane, yet they continue to hold up.

I guess you could just read the linked article - I think it pretty convincingly gave multiple reasons why this is demonstrably fake, both scientific and historical.
you must not deal with compliance (and bless you for it)
Friction 1.0 Beta Released
I'm an Australian citizen running a bootstrapped startup (and would prefer to stay bootstrapped, but would raise if there was no other way of immigrating). What is the best way to immigrate to the US? I have a computer science degree from an Australian university.
These all look like an adult architect's idea of what kids should like, and not so much a kid's idea of what an appealing learning environment would look like.

They all have that blocky clean-lined repetitive modernist look. Quirky window placings and the odd splashes of colour don't hide the lack of variety, texture, or spontaneity. They're still very regimented spaces - all straight lines and grids. Some have some natural elements, but even those are very tightly controlled.

A few look like very small open plan startup offices.
And then there's Scheme, where there are no iterative loops; all looping is done with recursion. You can build pretty much everything other languages do with loops on top of that, though.
> a couple of different laptops

Just like with Mac and Windows, you should buy a laptop with preinstalled Linux to avoid hardware problems. Even suspend is flawless on my Librem 14.
Improving Spoken Language Modeling with Phoneme Classification
It's AMA, so here's something under the category of "anything" . . .

How has AI affected your work as a lawyer, if at all? Do you expect it to change your work or how you bill?
> Imagine the sorts of things that are going to be sold to whoever is buying.

Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society.

Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash: A Novel (pp. 140-141). Random House Worlds. Kindle Edition.
And they had a self-sustaining video game industry too... if only someone had had the wild thought of implementing perceptrons and tensor arithmetic on the same hardware!
From my perspective, this is a great outcome for a game-making attempt. There's no shortage of fun games coming out lately - far more than I have time to play. But these days they're largely made by amateur non-programmer indie devs tooling around in Unity or similar, and have no technical merit despite being very fun. What I'm lacking these days are fun technical accomplishments to read about in the gaming space, like a GBA raycaster.

No offense meant to the author at all, but I probably wouldn't have played this game even if it were fleshed out and finished. Very glad I got to read about some of the technical decisions that went into making it and poke through the code though.
I don’t know the US system but in the UK you have two basic routes to running a business: sole trader or LLC.

In the former, short of dying, it’s not possible to “disappear,” because you’re personally liable for everything. I’d guess that includes data breaches.

In the latter, it’s also not really possible because the company must be wound up if it goes bankrupt. In the worst case, the government appoints administrators to wind the company up, who would be responsible for handling the assets.

Now, if the processes aren’t up to scratch, maybe that’s a thing that needs to be fixed, but the structure is there to do it. At least in the UK.
you don't need to release to production for real value. I'm under intense pressure to scope out frothy AI features because just discussing them with prospects has a material impact on the costs of the sales funnel.
Considering Mozilla has already paid for their new ad company I'm guessing that even if PPA/IPA fails, Mozilla will just move to something else. They've made it clear that they are committed to generating profit by collecting people's browsing habits and putting that data into the hands of advertisers.
Right, if you're looking at from a surface-level view. Using such a surface-level view means I could, instead, buy a meal and choose not to eat it. Because the credit is only for food.

But that's worse, right? Okay, then the conclusion is that this basis doesn't work, and you need some leniency. Simply sticking to rules, especially if they're stupid, almost always backfires.

We have to do cost analysis. Is it really worth it spending 100,000+ dollars to rehire and knowledge transfer over a few bucks? Do we really want to set the precedent that we are anal dictators? What affects does that have on other employees in our company?

It's very tempting to be technically right, and then believe that means you can do whatever you want. I mean, you can, but as a company that can bite you. Being correct is not a hall pass from human perception. If you're an asshole, you will still be treated as such, regardless of how correct you may be. Naturally, I'm sure this move eroded much employer trust at Meta - almost all of it being in innocent employees. Collateral damage, but somehow, I doubt anybody sat down and did the cost analysis on if it's worth it.
More money for education doesn't necessarily mean more money for buildings- they often have to be floated by bonds separate from the main budget.

Schools have more features than 75 years ago- better hvac, higher power requirements, better comms.

Government construction has to follow all the regulations, including a bunch specific to the government to fight corruption or waste.
Why is this being downvoted? Makes a lot of sense to me.
Hangouts/Chat/Allo/Duo/...

https://capitalg.com/team/nick-fox/

"he was responsible for Google's communications products"
I admit this is a pretty cool technique, but what is missing is how accurate the data extraction was. Without knowing that it is not possible to judge how useful this technique is.
Groucho Marx for those that are interested.
> That's not my point. My point is: if they want to fork it, it will be expensive.

I specifically said it would not be easy. But as the difficulty factors go, WPEngine is in the best position to pull it off. They have an existing customer base, probably many of whom are concerned that their websites may be "updated" in undesirable ways. And for those unaware, the magical appearance of SCF in their install(s) will let them know. Beyond the pale IMO, messing with my website in a surprise way like that... Giving these folks a clean off-ramp is a no brainer, and they may well be able to charge extra for the peace of mind.

It's an easy idea to test. Do you actually work at a startup?

And you are overplaying the branding thing a bit IMO. I sit down the hall from a team of five guys that crank out a new brand in about 2-3 days. All the time. And their work is pretty damn good. And I mean all of it, graphics, brand names, websites and product renders. Videos do take longer.
Digital Yard Signs: Analysis of an AI Bot Political Influence Campaign on X
> This report details an ongoing social media influence campaign employing AI powered bots to influence political conversations in U.S. federal elections. This inauthentic network includes at least 686 accounts, and likely more. The campaign uses large language models to create organic seeming content in the replies of real users’ posts. Taking on conservative persona and perspectives, this campaign has targeted both Republican candidates (in primaries) and Democrats (in generals) in addition to advocating for specific issues. This report explores the network’s messaging, operations, and implications.
Have you seen any such advertising at all on the fediverse?
`do` is very straightforward and basic compared to the things that `loop` allows.
The attack on xz illustrates that even if the code is open source and the build is reproducible, well-designed attacks can still be executed.
Can't argue with that.. best I could do for now :)
There is no way to square this circle. If you take payments from the vendors you recommend, you will never be fair. Either you take their payments and don't promote them, then they'll stop paying. Or you take their payments and promote them, then you'll end up doing paid promotion.

If you want to make a "fair" recommendation site, you need to find some other way to monetize. One possibility would be to charge potential customers. I believe there are people out there who want fair recommendations, I'm just have no idea how to get them to pay.
Theft is a clear line and I wouldnt want to employ someone one who didnt respect.

I dont see how Meta has any moral obligation to prevent exploit. They should all have more such policies and monitor them to better weed out thieves.

>I can come up with infinite examples where thievery is not only excused, but the most moral choice.

Can you explain the moral justification for someone with a 400k salary to steal from their employer?
Like poutine, probably coming to a bar or pub near you.
I agree. I’ve often wondered, what could be the possible reason given Kagi is using google APIs behind the scenes?
Can you recommend any good books or journals about US immigration law?
I've been thinking about doing the same, seems much more cost effective. How much will you sell the VDS for?
Signals and Threads – The Uncertain Art of Accelerating ML Models
Ahh, and a look at Wikipedia would have told me the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code#Goals

It still has nothing to do with blockchain applied to a bill of lading, which was the implication in the linked-to piece.
I mean, the quick shift makes sense with vaccine deployments and the medical community figuring out how to deal with it all happening within a few months. We went from not being equipped to deal with the disease to being equipped in a pretty short window.

If governments were using covid as an excuse to control their population, then I would have expected them to hang on to the rules for as long as possible. Instead, we saw rules change as the context changed. That's generally not what totalitarian takeovers look like
The built-like-prison implies a sort of bad faith when other reasons could be viable, e.g., taxpayer resistance to extra expenditures, or the requirement to build a large number of schools, quickly, in the 1950-1970 period in response to the baby boom and the Civil Rights movement in the US.

I find these kinds of architectural pieces about as useful as browsing the concept cars at a motor show. Sure, pretty n all, but can you build them for a forty year lifespan? Can you build them cheaply enough to crank out dozens in the poorest parts of town, where the existing schools really are crumbling? Can you build them to adapt not just to what you see today but what you cant see tomorrow? Can you build for the fact that kids can be incredibly destructive, even on a good day?

I've lived through the 1930s school building with wooden desk era, the Brutalist era, the open-plan circle-time class layout era, the aluminum and glass (freezing in winter!) era, and all I can say is I wish these architects had to live with what they created.
Instantly thought of this as well. Loved that book.
> Is there any mechanism to provide feedback for false positives?

I think this could possibly be nice reward program, provided guardrails are in place to prevent abuse.
That's not stealing if the food is free. Don't want people taking free food? Don't make the food free.

You're describing exactly the problem. The company wants to appear generous, but they're not actually generous. A generous person doesn't care if that food is meant to feed a family.

This hurts the employees, but it also hurts the company. Naturally this erodes trust. If I worked at Meta, I would be scared to submit an expense report.

It's the same reason a lot of companies have "unlimited PTO" but the employees are shivering in their boots when they take off. Because they don't trust their employer. This strategy works, kind of, but the long-term effects is the erosion of culture and inevitably performance.

Either be nice, or don't be. There's nothing wrong with not being nice - companies aren't people, they have no concept of morals. So who cares.
My feeling exactly, doesn't sound like enjoyment screaming but like total hysteria
Reddit seems to do this to me (sometimes) when I use Zen browser. Switching over to Safari or Chrome and the site always works great.
Plenty of people of all political stripes were, are, and have been complaining about immigration. It was a key factor in Brexit.

Cooper's deliberate misreading of the Wannsee Conference is Nazi apologeticism.

"Well, they didn't really mean to commit genocide, they just whipped up public hatred, confiscated all their assets, and banned them from working! So of course they had to commit mass murder!"

Who are his sources, David fucking Irving?

And let's not get started on the pipelining of extremist views to people who would normally consider themselves moderate or centre-right and are now spouting insanity...
Why Is Elon Musk So F'ing Successful? And how do we do more of it?
Maybe I'm missing something, but those all sound like things that are display layer and shouldn't be dependent on KFX to be able to accomplish. I do know that that you can run preprocessing on epubs to adjust some of the layouting to your preference. The rest should just be determined by the reader application you are using and any shortfall in customization of those aspects would be addressed by improvements to that application.

Regardless, my point was that: A - most of the books already in the library were likely enjoyed/acquired without knowledge of hypothetical improvements from Amazon rolling out a new ebook format and DRM scheme. And B - even if there is some magic that Amazon had to include in KFX to support the improvements you listed and can't be reproduced without them; I personally would not consider those or most any improvements to be worth losing ownership of books that I purchase.
The most valuable part of an ebook is the text and ownership of a copy of that is what I'm paying for. It is fairly easy for me to be principaled on only buying ebooks that I know I can own a copy of due to the diverse distribution that exists for most titles. Even when I had an Oasis, I didn't purchase anything through Amazon and loaded all my books over USB.
Zero. Protected speech is protected from government intervention. You can run your own forum that bans people from discussing <thing you hate> without repercussions.
We're definitely going to make this open-source. But the code and especially the documentation is not ready for that yet
The more I learn about the SVG spec, the more I understand the rationale of some of the UI decisions inkscape made, and the more impressed I am by how they implemented advanced techniques like shape union and intersection, clipping and masking.
U.S. Army aims for final draft of software mega-contract
Remove Knowledge Silos from High Performance Product Engineering Teams
Hello Peter,
I married an american woman and me and my wife are not leaving in the states.
We are in the process ofp registering the kids since we are preparing a plan B.
We didn't got married in my country, but in Thailand.
I was told that in order to get a spouse Visa, I need to start the process in Thailand.
Is this true? Do i need to apply for everything in Thailand just because this is where we got married?
Thank you
> There are many things that the UK does better than Germany but trains they manage to do even worse

The trains are better in the UK than in Germany
this is a dumb feature, you should judge an image by your perception of it, not how it was created (ie machine or human made).

the anti ai-generated image crowd is a loud minority, they won't matter in the long term and spending dev time on this is questionable decision making at best.

now if you're a forensics company or that is the angle, then yeah it could be an interesting tool to have, might be even more profitable than this custom search as a service thing (obsoleted already by llm tech).
If it was a recruiter encouraging you to apply, chances are it was a mass campaign to fill the recruiting pipeline.

In my experience that’s how recruiters work and the only thing it indicates is that the company has open roles to fill.
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Part two here:

https://jacobrintamakiblog.substack.com/p/why-is-elon-musk-s...
Just don't search for "baby peacock". The AI filter is no match for the famous baby peacock, I say that because the AI pictures are actually now shown because they are part of articles discussing AI generated photos.
They are not even WP Engine alternatives. He listed 4 other hosts, of which 3 are owned by Automattic and the other is paying Automattic licensing rights.

It's a company town.
I’m an Australian PhD student graduating into the US job market. I’m considering an EB-2 NIW. How does that work with the E-3 visa? What’s a good resource or law firm with experience in this kind of arrangement to refer to?
PSA: Librewolf is a drop-in replacement for Firefox without the ad tracking.
Google has a lot of power over emojis, huh.
This seems more like Fermi estimation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem). And it is underrated and also it is really hard. I mean, it is easy for the author here to say "look I threw it into Google and it worked" but practically I have seen many people struggle with these sorts of problems - they get the wrong numbers, they divide instead of multiply, or whatever, and the units don't really help.
I had a conversation with a web site owner about this once. There apparently is such a feature, a way for sites to configure a "Please contact us here if you're having trouble reaching our site" page...usage of which I assume Cloudflare could track and then gain better insight into these issues. The problem? It requires a Premium Plan.
If I used Common Lisp more I'd probably have a go at copying Racket's `for` forms[1]; they're really nice because you can usally tell at a glance what they're going to return - `for/list` returns a list for example. No having to scan the body for a `collect`.

But in the meantime since discovering iterate I've barely used `loop`. It just feels so much more lispy and I find myself running to the documentation less often.

[1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/for.html
They have some docs on the security of their server hardware, which is one of the ways they can assure that their systems haven't been tampered with by local staff.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/anchoring-trust-a-hardware-secur...
For Google Images I've had success with filtering by date to exclude everything posted since about 2023.

That said this feature might still be useful, especially if it's extended to normal search results for sites with AI-generated articles etc.
And here I am wondering why Meta needs a 'government program' for it's employees
The article update links to a Google Doc in which Matt takes issue with the following remark from the article:
> he's a wealthy CEO of a for-profit corporation that is attacking a competitor

Matt responds:
> WP Engine is a “competitor”, but so is every other web host in the world. Automattic and WordPress.org have had good relations with all the others for 21 years. WordPress.org recommends a number of hosts.

It seems Matt is forgetting his "friendly" spat with GoDaddy a few years ago.

Matt continues:
> His criticism of certain practices focuses on maintaining the platform’s integrity and open-source commitment to ensure the community can grow further with sustainable investments.

Let's assume this is all true. It doesn't change the fact that he's attacking a direct competitor.

Matt continues:
> Silver Lake is far wealthier than Matt or Automattic.

This is how you know that Matt wrote the response. It's the same ego defending behavior that he used when responding to DHH.

Matt is very, very bad at PR. It's really time he learns that and lets others take over those roles. And it's time he learns to shut up. He hurts more than he helps.
One important people to keep in mind as they read this post, the linked Google Doc, and tweets from the past day where a bunch of people are receiving unsolicited DMs[1] from Automattic with grammar that matches Matt's:

- Matt, under various guises, is shifting blame to different entities that are effectively himself.

- Automattic is Matt. Matt is the CEO of Automattic.

- The WordPress Foundation is, effectively, Matt.

- The problem is Matt. Maybe he's right about WP Engine, but the way he has and continues to handle everything has been disastrous.

1. https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1846448485979107824
No, this doesn't solve the problem, because:

1. You're bleeding money. Saving a buck or two because you fire someone who bought toothpaste is nothing compared to rehiring and knowledge transfer.

2. You're eroding trust. If I was an innocent and honest employee, I would now be scared to submit an expense report. Please, don't bother with "you have nothing to fear" bullshit. You see someone get fired for an expense mistake and naturally you don't think it's worth it for a 10 dollar meal. Same reason a ton of employees don't take time off.

In actuality, they made the problem much worse. Objectively. If their goal was to save money they absolutely aren't doing that.
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