skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel has not overreacted to Oct 7, they have just applied the same policy that they have used for many decades "at least ten of theirs for each one of ours".

This policy is an effective deterrent against enemies, but it should be obvious that with such a policy it will never be possible to end any conflict unless absolutely all enemies and all their relatives or friends are killed.

There have been times when the relations between the parties in this conflict had improved a lot and there was some hope for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. Nevertheless on both sides, but especially in Israel, there are people who benefit a lot from the existence of the conflict, so any opponents have been removed by any means possible, including assassination, until the mutual relationships have become as bad as today, when no hope for any kind of peace remains.

Most people in Israel are quite nice, but they are deeply scared by the thought that that at any time someone coming from the neighbors of Israel could come and cut their throats, so they work continuously very hard at their jobs, believing that they must provide thus their individual contributions so that Israel will maintain its military and economic dominance over their enemies, in order to ensure their safety. The workers of Israel have worked all the time since WWII pretty much as hard as those of USA during its short participation to WWII.

Workers from other countries would be very unlikely to work willingly so hard as those of Israel. This is very profitable for the upper class of Israel, for whom an end of the conflict would have caused serious losses, when the workers could not have been motivated any more by patriotic slogans.
Though global populations show a larger anti-Israel sentiment, Western media and internet forums don't reflect this balance.

Western media often aligns with Israeli perspectives due to strategic alliances, lobbying influence, and media ownership dynamics, framing Israel’s actions as defensive while sidelining broader Arab or Palestinian views.

Online, pro-Israel narratives are reinforced by organized digital campaigns and moderation practices that shape public discourse. Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian voices lack comparable resources and organization in Western spaces, limiting their visibility. This creates a media and digital environment where Western audiences are exposed to narratives that don’t fully represent the global spectrum of perspectives.
They still handled the situation in a serious and responsible manner, clearly communicating what had happened and why. They then followed up later when the problem was fixed. To me it seems clear that they understood the seriousness of the situation, and why people were initially pissed.

I think this is the correct way of handling a rugpull scare, bug or not.
What is one supposed to experience or feel? Maybe my computer is too slow or my monitor is too small? I used to collect gifs that were similar to this just because they had a neat visual effect but neither those nor this image gives me any kind of experience. If I could find a private business that has an MRI I would pay cash to get a full body scan and then just a brain scan as I have always wanted one but hospitals around me want me to go through their process and give me strange looks when I just want to pay cash and be scanned. I think it would be interesting to see what effect assorted images have. There was another type of scanner, I forgot what it was called ... that would show a 3D image of the brain during activity and would show when parts of the brain that should be responding are not. In that study it was used primarily on kids/teens that were prone to crime. I can not remember what it was called. This was quite some time ago. The patient would have many wires attached to their head. It would effectively show animated holes so to speak when part of a persons brain was not functioning correctly due to physical trauma, drugs, etc...
Some SGI engineeers did build only a prototype of an O2 laptop — with an ergonomic keyboard.

However, there was a company called CRI that remade SGI Indy into thick-boy "laptops" for the military.
> Unfortunately, I no longer recommend Bitwarden for normal people because the built-in password manager in Firefox is too good.

I don't doubt the quality of Firefox's password manager, or your honesty.

But normal people just don't use Firefox.
Wow, I had no idea something like that would work out in the deep forests of north sweden, With live updating times! Thankyou!

So much better than the official app, it directly shows exactly what is most needed, closest bus-stop with live times for next busses.
Some Clarity on Linux Kernel "Compliance Requirements" Around Russian Sanctions
> Tons of Israeli military bases and weapons manufacturing his placed directly under or very close to civilian domiciles.

This is nonsense propaganda that keeps getting repeated.

Israel has some army bases in or close to civilian areas, as do most countries - e.g. the Pentagon. The reason is that some army bases are used for intelligence, software development or other administrative tasks, which usually involves older officers and many civilians, so it makes sense to have these be in cities.

But note key differences between this and what Hamas is accused of doing:

1. These are administrative buildings. These are not weapons storage facilities, combat factilities, etc. And it's especially not where missile launch sites or things of a similar nature are located.

Shooting missiles from within houses, as e.g. Hezbollah does, or from under refugee camps, as Hamas does, is a different thing entirely - because to stop the actual rockets being shot at Israel, Israel has to shoot at them, which kills civilians. That is not what Israel does with those bases.

2. Israeli bases are not built under civilian buildings. Yes, the same army HQ or intelligence etc bases that are built in cities have sections underground, for obvious reasons - but under the bases, not under people's houses!
Cigarettes for breakfast ....

That definitely were different times.
Great, clear guide on SSH reverse tunneling for secure remote access!
Less dumb than caring about exterior. I am the one using car - it’s better be comfortable and fit for purpose rather than meet someone’s elses expectations.

I agree we should actually limit top speed and acceleration so people don’t use them as weapons so much.

In a way - nerf and desex the cars.
Even within Volvo's own lineup, my C40, built in China, has had far fewer quality issues than my previous S60 had, which was built in the USA.
Chrome on Android doesn't have any significant competition. There's no need for Google to spend a lot of time and money implementing a feature that won't benefit them corporately.
Ports are generally great, but you are running multiple apps and communicating between them using STDIN/STDOUT etc. There are certain corner cases where they might not be suitable. I had been using an OPCUA library where the logging had to be turned off because otherwise it was sending the logs back to our Elixir app and we were expecting Elixir terms. Also the shutdown of the remote end of a port can stop the data getting back to Elixir. There are ways around all of this but it's slightly annoying. In general though, ports work 80% of the time and are really convenient.
Show HN: Personalized AI-powered health insurance recommendations
Wouldn't this mean we have to power cycle the whole internet at the same time? Instead of supporting both which means no IPv6 in the near future
There are just too many worrying signs from Boeing in the last years.

I have no idea about these things at all but some of the issues seem almost unforgivable to me.

They should work very hard for the industry, and the ultimate end users to regain confidence in them again. I'm not sure they are doing this.
I do relatively niche stuff (mostly game development with unity) and I've found it very capable, even for relatively complex tasks that I under-explain with short prompts.

I'm using Claude sonnet 3.5 with cursor. This week I got it to:

- Modify a messy and very big file which managed a tree structure of in-game platforms. I got it to convert the tree to a linked list. In one attempt it found all the places in the code that needed editing and made the necessary changes.

- I had a player character which used a thruster based movement system (hold a key down to go up continuously). I asked the ai to convert it to a jump based system (press the key for a much shorter amount of time to quickly integrate a powerful upward physics force). The existing code was total spaghetti, but it was able to interpret the nuances of my prompt and implement it correctly in one attempt

- Generate multiple semi-complex shader lab shaders. It was able to correctly interpret and implement instructions like "tile this sprite in a cascading grid pattern across the screen and apply a rainbow color to it based on the screen x position and time".

- generating debug menus and systems from scratch. I can say things like "add a button to this menu which gives the player all perks and makes them invincible". More often then not it immediately knows which global systems it has to call and how to set things up to make it work first go. If it doesn't work first attempt, the generated code is generally not far off

- generating perks themselves - I can say things like "give me a list of possible abilities for this game and attempt implementing them". 80% of its perk ideas were stupid, but some were plausible and fit within the existing game design. It was able to do about 50%-70% of the work required to implement the perk on its own.

- in general, the auto complete functionality when writing code is very good. 90% of the time I just have to press tab and cursor will vomit up the exact chunk of code I was about to type.
@hwayne, thanks for the explanation.

Can you explain how a time-step without a transaction is handled by the final TLA+ code?

My confusion stems from:

Next ==
AliceToBob
\/ BobToAlice

...so does it matter which "pathway is taken"? This reminds me of context free grammars / PEG grammars.
Not sure. Maybe higher pressure or corrosion means beefier gear.
Wow, that is wild. I never would have thought that simply watching images would trigger something in the lymphatic system. This could have huge implications for multiple diseases.
Israel hasn't blown up a hospital.
Data Oriented Design: A Way of Thinking
That rather depends. Compile time certainly wouldn't scale linearly with the size of a function, you could well reach a scenario where adding in a line to a function results in a year being added to the compile time.
Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader
Hey HN,

Recently, a friend introduced me to the Bluesky platform, and I found it intriguing—especially its focus on decentralization. I believe it has the potential to become the next Twitter, and it already has over 13 million users.

Today, as I was browsing the platform, I came across a video in one of the posts that I found really interesting and wanted to download to my local drive. However, after searching for a while, I couldn’t find a suitable tool for this purpose.

So, I thought, why not create a tool to meet this need? All it should require is the link to a post, and it would allow users to download the embedded video directly to their local storage.

With Cursor’s help, I managed to complete this tool in just one day. It’s now fully functional and can download videos from Bluesky posts.

I'm thrilled to share this tool with everyone, and I hope you find it useful.

would love your feedback pls

Charles
Every build tool was obscure at some point. A common monetization plan for these is cloud services (promising faster builds and such) with usage-based plans. A few enterprises may use these services over time; for one project I'm at they're considering e.g. Expo and its cloud / CI offerings, because spinning up and configuring your own Mac machines in the cloud is painful and expensive.
I don't think this is actually true - the actual volume of the sphere grows, but the volume of one grows even faster.
No "mob rule" is a direct democracy system that is effectively tyranny of the majority. That system does not and cannot work. All forms of practical democracy are some measure away from that, to varying degrees.

Secondly, the electoral college does not give the GOP disproportionate political power. That's a misunderstanding of how it works.
Friends mom said her mother and father in law would wake up at 2am to smoke and go back to sleep. Neither one made it to 65.
Have they benchmarked against similar sized GGUF quants? How is it compared to them?
Orion browser on iOS supports chrome extensions.
Russia reportedly paid Florida cop to pump out anti-Harris deepfakes
> How can anyone verify that all the code paths append to the log?

davidczech has already explained it quite well, but I'll try explaining it a different way.

Consider the verification of a signed software update. The verifier, e.g. apt-get, rpm, macOS Update, Microsoft Update or whatever OS you're running. They all have some trust policy that contains a public key. The verifier only trusts software signed by the public key.

Now imagine a verifier with a trust policy that mandates that all signed software must also be discoverable in a transparency log. Such a trust policy would need to include:

- a pubkey trusted to make the claim "I am your trusted software publisher and this software is authentic", i.e. it is from Debian / Apple / Microsoft or whomever is the software publisher.

- a pubkey trusted to make the claim "I am your trusted transparency log and this software, or rather the publisher's signature, has been included in my log and is therefore discoverable"

The verifier would therefore require the following in order to trust a software update:

- the software (and its hash)
- a signature over the software's hash, done by the software publisher's key
- an inclusion proof from the transparency log

There is another layer that could be added called witness cosigning, which reduces the amount of trust you need to place in the transparency log. For more on that see my other comments in this thread.
Comment utiliser le FTP en ligne de commande
Lots and lots of money sounds better than easy money
uint64 insert_zero_bit(uint64 value, int pos) {
uint64 top_mask = ~0u64 << pos;
return value + (value & top_mask);
}

> It only works for inserting exactly 1 bit

But is easily generalized to inserting k bits:

return value + ((1<<k)-1) * (value & top_mask);
> never met that person.

Hello! Now you have.

In many cities certain parts of the transit network follow a star / hub-and-spoke layout. The station nearest to my house is on a spoke, and has trains going south and those going north. So for me, an in-home train display only really needs to show the next train in each direction.

And a lot of transit decisions are conditional on things the planning app doesn't know. Am I comfortable riding a hire bike, appropriately dressed, and carrying a helmet? Do I already have a return ticket for the light rail making it the obvious choice? Am I the kind of person who enjoys a brisk 20 minute walk?

Combine that with the fact that the multimodal transit apps don't understand fares, and I find it's simpler to just start the taxi app if you need a taxi.
Sadly I cancelled my Rider subscription this year because AFAICT they've stopped supporting F#, it hasn't worked well for at least two years and has only gotten worse: crawling performance, lots of erroneous red squiggles, no IDE support for later .NET features. Maybe Visual Studio is better than it was a few years ago, but these days I just use emacs, and the MS F# team seems to prefer VSC over VS.
I wasn’t expecting your response to be “the truth is unknowable”, but was hoping for something of more substance to discuss.
how do you get the .ply file to load into it? which software do you use to generate those files?
Huh, it seems to have mostly been a thing in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. That'd explain why I've never heard of it, in the US we only had the compartment.
Except those kind of annotations already exist, but have proven not to be enough withough language semantic changes, SAL is a requirement in Microsoft's own code since Windows XP SP2.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/code-quality/understan...
Show HN: Fast shoot'em up game in browser
Works on desktop or handheld devices
Choose Your Coding Font
If they were made in Constantinople, they're Byzantine(as we tend to call the empire) or Roman(as they would have called themselves), not really Greek, right? Just because they spoke Greek doesn't make them Greeks. Or had they been taken from Greece to Constantinopole before being looted in the crusades?
Your second type of investor has exactly the same opportunity cost for not renting out as everyone else, don't they? Conversely, your first type of investor has exactly the same problems with bad renters? So why does anyone rent anything out?

It looks like the problem of the occasional bad tenant can (and is) solved in practice via diversification. You buy a REIT instead of an individual property.

In my earlier nomenclature, I would classify your 'second investor' as a personal union between an investor and a 'weird' tenant. A 'weird' owner-occupier, who's never home.

> The second type of investor is obviously really bad for housing affordability, but it also only happens when construction is restricted from increasing supply to meet demand, because otherwise the property itself wouldn't appreciate faster than inflation and would make a poor investment in the absence of rental income.

Well, a land value tax would presumable also help here. But again, the opportunity costs for renting out vs not renting out are exactly the same.
Honestly, while it's an interesting article, I'm not sure why one would even give the nonsense it's addressing the dignity of a reply.

Hadn't realised Higgs' boson denialism was really a thing.
That only uses wg for DNS queries. Everything else remains untunneled.
Yes, you can pre-fill the assistant's response with "```json {" or even "{" and that should increase the likelihood of getting a proper JSON in the response, but it's still not guaranteed. It's not nearly reliable enough for a production use case, even on a bigger (8B) model.

I could recommend using ollama or VLLm inference servers. They support a `response_format="json"` parameter (by implementing grammars on top of the base model). It makes it reliable for a production use, but in my experience the quality of the response decreases slightly when a grammar is applied.
On the other hand, it would arguably have been more interesting had they not.
2FA via TOTP implies two things: 1) you know a password; 2) you know the seed. This is why people criticize that approach. In practice, knowing a password and having a file (seed) seem different enough, and work against some phishing threats.

Logging in through a password manager requires that you know a password (your master password), and have a file (your vault).
no, it expects a zip file with already aligned images (for training) or the pointcloud itself (for viewing)
The keyboard layout is really a variation of the Atari ST desktop layout. Backspace and Delete are in the exact same locations as on there.
I expect you could mitigate 9 out of 10 breeches by staff not giving out their teams shared admin password (which is password123) over the phone to someone who says they are Jim from the CEOs office who needs to check some numbers for the big presentation tomorrow.
I still have my minidisc player. It can even record. It's an awesome little machine.
I agree with you that xenophobia and racism have no place here.

However, we have to endeavor to exercise good faith. Sometimes it's enough to simply let another's words speak for themselves, and by quoting alone, you have done the community a boon. The site isn't for public shaming, it's for thoughtful discussion. I would rather show respect for others by my response and hope to have a real human interaction that can show someone my true colors rather than tell someone else who or what they are or aren't.

I guess I care about people, even if I don't like their behavior or speech, because I want to understand them and their experiences. People make sweeping statements or unfair generalizations, and that's an opportunity to ask people how they came to believe or say such things. Sometimes, people don't even have specific things they can point to, and they may be more amenable to reason than you realize. It just takes willingness to meet people where they are, not where we'd rather they be.
Wild that you think devs read docs.
> Apple Passwords allows export to simple CSV

Not of passkeys, to my knowledge.

> What I dislike about Apple Passwords is how tightly coupled everything is.

That’s definitely also discouraging me as well.
Most C++ devs don't care that much either way I'd say, it's a vocal minority that does. I really don't understand the nay-sayers though, been a C++ dev for over 15 years, I'd give an arm and a leg for 1. faster language evolution (cries in pattern matching) and 2. a way to enforce safe code. Having to use std::variant when I want to use a sum type in 2024 is just so backwards it's hard to express. Still love the language though :p
The places that specialize in full body scans will do it for cash. I think technically you need a script for any MRI, so you may still need to speak with a doctor ar their facility first. My understanding is it's more streamlined there and will be way cheaper than any hospital. If you talk to your primary or can get a telemedicine appointment online then they might be willing to write you the script and you can go to a local MRI. I would avoid the hospital as they are 5x higher in cost than my local outpatient imaging facility.
Not long after the initial discovery, we had enough data for everyone at the experiments to simply run a basic invariant-mass calculation and see the mass peak popping up.

Once I could "see" the peak, without having to conduct statistical tests against expected background, it was "real" to me.

In these cynical times, it may be that everything is relative and "post-modern subjective p-hacking", but sufficient data usually ends these discussions. The real trouble is that we have a culture that is addicted to progress theater, and can't wait for the data to get in.
you could also use Metashape
Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques
> Lions were initially introduced to the Han court by emissaries from Persia

I wonder when "showing up with a weird animal" went out, as a form of diplomacy. It definitely seems to have been A Thing for a while.

I mean, I suppose there's pandas.
Not if offered as a service. That's why they introduced the AGPL, that one has the service restriction too. In terms of a service offering, GPL software is free for the taking, and the restrictions don't apply as the distribution clause doesn't trigger.