skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak to the more military/combat aspects of this - I honestly know very little about it personally. I'm leaning on analyses done by people who do know, and have spoken about what Israel is doing.

Regarding your point of putting refugees inside of Israel - I don't know if there's any practical way to do this. It is impossible to tell apart Hamas militants and normal civilians. Even if you somehow made a vast area inside of Israel to house the refugees, you're all but guaranteeing thousands of Hamas operatives getting into Israel as well.

Do you similarly support the idea of letting the refugees into Egyp in a similar manner? Cause that seems like the obvious solution to the problem from my perspective (and is the "usual" solution in urban war situations). Except Egypt absolutely refused to allow this, and almost no one pushed them on this, often claiming it was an attempt at more ethnic cleansing from Israel. (Apparently sacrificing Palestinian lives to prevent ethnic cleansing, without asking them, is somehow moral?)
I like the idea of recipe-lang. Great you open sourced it!
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Why blame phones when you can simply blame cost? Everything is crazy expensive nowadays - from cars&insurance to movies & alcohol.
(Not the marketers). If this sort of logic held, health insurance wouldn't exist. I would love to be proven wrong, but I can't imagine it in U$A.
Well, don't keep us in suspense!
I found this paper which details how a charged particle falling into a black hole radiates. How is this possible when there is no acceleration on the particle?

https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1971PASP...83..633R

Title: Radiation from Particles Falling into Black-Holes

Authors: Ross, D. K.

Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 83, No.
495, p.633

Bibliographic Code: 1971PASP...83..633R
Hemingway committed suicide after having his brain fried with repeated ECT sessions (and back then, it was far more intense) and quite probably suffering from dementia, either environmental or inherited.
IIUC, most large ad providers allow you to see and tailor what they use in their algorithms (ex. [1]).

I think the big problem with "Should every human have the right to understand that an algorithm has classified them in a certain way" is just that they flat out can't. You cannot design a trash can that every human can understand but a bear can't. There is a level of complexity that your average person won't be able to follow.

[1]: https://myadcenter.google.com/controls
I link to it from the post, but all the code is open source! You can find the specific training script here: https://github.com/OpenPipe/best-hn/blob/main/stories_train_...

And all the graphs for the blog are from this notebook: https://github.com/OpenPipe/best-hn/blob/main/blog-figures.i...

Lots of other good stuff in that repo, although it's only organized to a "working researcher" standard I'm afraid.
When I was a kid, we stole a payphone.

Those bastards are tough. We whacked on it for an hour, with a 15-lb sledgehammer.

When it finally broke open, it yielded about $1.50.
>Then why are there so few? And containing such a small variety of goods?

Because if there are only a few with only few options you can charge the brands a lot more for the privilege of being available in your machine
We're talking iMac - so it's effectively permanent external storage.
If 5% of population (14M people) can afford an iPhone, it's already bigger than a lot of potential markets around the world. I'm sure they do a much more thorough analysis at Apple though.
My inbox was full of film related newsletters for special screenings in NYC so I decided to build an ai agent to track upcoming events and publish to a web and social media

https://filmspotlight.org

Now I don't need to read through all the emails, just check the occasional posts on upcoming events and book if interested
I bought an iMac in 2011 that I had for 12 years before it died. I replaced the HD with an SSD after a few years but otherwise it just kept on going.
Any idea why it's flagged? Is it false?
The moment it runs out of power isn't when you're you're taking a break, but while you're using it. You may change what you're doing and go take a break. But you also may be in the middle of a presentation.
Agree, it’s a functioning teapot. Definitely 418.

If the cup is empty, then a 518 teacup is empty error would be more appropriate but as long as there is piping hot tea - 418 for me.

/s
rakulang reddit has 1.5k members ... it's not Python or Rust yet ... but the community is very open and friendly and its great to rub shoulders with such knowledgable and committed folks
exactly.

control was amazing but had never really connected it to backrooms, but it makes sense. that final set piece synced up to the song was one of the best things i've experienced in a video game.

i didn't know it was explicitly inspired by that building, for some reason i kept thinking of this brutalist beauty that houses the FBI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover_Building)
This is not a new trend: https://usafacts.org/articles/is-teen-drug-and-alcohol-use-d...

Alcohol and other drug use, teen pregnancy, and sex in general have been declining in teens in the West for more than a decade.
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I think the issue is that a lightning cable and socket aren't physically designed to take the stresses of being plugged in and being used like a mouse at the same time.

I've not measured it, but I could believe there is probably quite a bit of repeated vertical and sideways stress on a wired mouse's cable where it joins to the mouse body.
I recommend the "build systems a la carte" paper for a good overview of the various problems build systems address
Not in the first couple of seconds, but by the time everything settles down it certainly will.
Really what people need is an accurate sense of their performance (where they are at), an alignment with a goal (where they want to be), and a concrete action plan on how to make up that delta (how to get better).

I think instead of asking “does criticism or praise produce better outcomes on average over the duration of training” (my interpretation of your comment) I would ask “how can we ensure our assessments of student performance are accurate and how can we make sure it is translated to the most effective feedback per individual student.”

If you HAD to generalize to only positive/negative feedback, my guess would be that people need both, so an ideal value would be a ratio rather than binary. Say: 2 positives to every 1 negative (for example). But as a sometimes educator it’s really hard to keep track of that ratio for each student (unless it’s written or formalized in some kind of way).
Wild billboards call attention to free-loading off open source projects
Thanks for the explanation. I never paid much attention in my stats lectures so I deserve to have missed out on that term-of-art. I think the physics lingo would be to call it "capped" or "bounded" or "constrained".
There are probably many/a combination of reasons. One thing I think that hasn't been brought up in this thread yet is a smaller amount of popular media portraying marijuana use in a tolerable light.

In terms of movies, how few and far between are big weed movies? Was the last one Pineapple Express, 15 years ago? Go back a few decades and there were a bunch of big movies, songs, etc. year after year about smoking weed.
People like novelty and engage on things they feel they can contribute an opinion on.

Been on many a demo in the past where all sorts of "magical" and complicated stuff is happening that ends up with "ooh I've never seen a date picker like that" or "wouldn't it be a lot better if it was blue and not red".

Often it's because they accept the other stuff is working or don't even fully remember what the demo is about.
I updated MacOS to 15.1 but it turns out that I need to be on some kind of waitlist to access the actual new Siri features. Kinda false advertising to call this "available today"...
Show HN: Filament winding simulation for advanced composites
Hi HN!

Filament winding is a manufacturing process in which reinforcement (like carbon fiber) is wound around a mandrel to make strong lightweight structures. Since leaving my previous startup in composite materials I have been working on a tool called CamyPro.

When you click "Find Patterns" the tool runs a wind simulation and finds optimal fiber paths on the geometry. You can view the coverage analysis of various patterns by clicking "Show Coverage".

I am steadily increasing the complexity of the geometry. Perhaps working up to shapes as complex as a bike frame in the future.

Hope this is of interest!
Could it be that the body adapts to an active lifestyle over time, and that's why _intense_ exercise acts as a shock that burns calories (it won't be intense anymore after you're used to it)?
yep, that's what I was thinking. A lot of filler can be written using llm.
>there are plenty of published objections and discussions about Langer's unexpected results, and Levitt should have reviewed that and brought that up

Is that expected of Freakonomics? I don't know how much rigor they do with their interview subjects, nor how much of a subect matter expert they are when it comes to pushing back.
Ok, I just tested three different mice (Keychron M1, Mighty Mouse, Razer DeathAdder V2) on two different Macs (M1 Mac Mini and M1 MacBook Pro) and all 6 combinations exhibit the same janky scrolling (mostly, it either scrolls too slow/not at all or too fast). For the Razer and Keychron mice, the experience is more "consistently bad" while only the Mighty Mouse experience is inconsistent enough to be "extremely erratic". It might just be going bad, though (it's probably a decade old at this point).

I don't have any Logitech mice anymore, but maybe they've learned how to speak to Macs or worked with Apple to make them better. I had Logitech mice in the past, ca. 2-3 years ago, and they had the same problems then. I did notice that plugging in a non-Apple mouse results in a "Setup Your Keyboard" prompt, which I just quit out of (it's not a keyboard...), but maybe that would install a driver if I followed through? Though, the Mighty Mouse is an Apple mouse, and it still sucks on macOS but not on Windows.
I cite CPython specifically as CPython both to indicate that I mean that specific interpreter, and that I mean Python code, not Python driving other languages.

While I fully believe that a Python program with a superior O()-complexity class can beat Java (or, indeed, any language), and that a simpler Python program can hypothetically beat a Java program that is just too complicated, it would also be the case that taking that faster Python program and then porting that into Java would then see order of magnitude+ speed increases. Python is slow. When comparing languages I generally add the caveat "with some non-zero and comparable amount of time dedicated to optimization" to try to build a reasonable comparison, because most programs that have had no effort done on optimization at all will have their performance dominated by something stupid that the programmer didn't even realize they wrote.

The speed increases aren't relevant if the old Java was "too slow" and the new Python is "fast enough". Every program I've ever written could be made faster... but they're all fast enough now.

Pure Python with some non-trivial optimization effort can not beat a Java program with some non-trivial optimization effort, and that's before the Java code starts using multiple CPUs, if the problem is amenable to that.

This is not cheerleading, dumping on Python, or promoting Java, as if anything my personal biases are in fact the other way (tbh I don't particularly like either at this point but I'd much rather be using Python). This is just engineering stuff that good engineers should know: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2024/not_about_python/
I think that no matter who makes an off-road vehicle that rusts when wet, people that are aware of that issue (there's many more, that's just the first one that comes to mind) are going to cast shade on the product.
Doesn't it tell you that the battery is low before it doesn't work anymore? When I used the Magic Mouse I never had any issues with the battery.
Sorry for all, I've mistaken.

I have taken careful view and see, they write in each square huge number of interference pictures - somewhere about 1M x 1M, and in calculation they consider 1Billion points with 4 colors in each, so just boolean true/false give close to 2^32 number of variants.

And there are 35,960 possible permutations, if use in each point 4 sources of light from 32 possible. These are reasonable considerations about possibilities of current technology.

This also not easy way, and I prefer to name it micro spectrogram.
Apologies, referring to the drift, I felt it was safe to assume you'd measure the force between the components. Not necessarily the distances.

My point is that to an earth bound observer, something in free fall to the surface of the earth is accelerating faster to earth until they hit terminal velocity. This is despite the accelerometer on the falling body showing zero.

Note that i don't think this adds any understanding to whether or not gravity is a force. But it does feel a lot like saying that, if you are in a river and able to stay still, that you aren't fighting the force of the river. Similarly, do we say that people standing on a moving sidewalk are stationary in the same way as someone standing on the sidewalk they are passing?
Humans love having something to be righteously indignant about.
Sometimes barrier to entry is good. For example, both npm and cargo struggle with package name squatting and malicious packages that are miss spellings of common packages.
A keyboard that is ergonomic without looking or feeling intimidating (https://github.com/cassiozen/fatbee).

The term "ergonomic" isn't regulated in the US, so the market is full of supposedly "ergonomic" keyboards that offer little real benefits—and in some cases, may actually cause harm.

My main gripe is with split keyboards. The traditional keyboard layout is wrong in so many ways (from the perspective of physiology and biomechanics) that just "splitting in the middle" isn't enough to avoid long-term injury.

Splitting is not wrong, but alone, it's not enough. You need to tackle it from multiple perspectives: Yes, Split the keys, so your wrists aren't bent outward, support the palms so they're not bent upward, and angle the middle part up (like a tent) to keep your forearms from twisting. That twisting is especially bad because it squeezes the carpal tunnel and can lead to nerve and tendon problems.

FatBee is my attempt to incorporate all these elements while creating something that doesn't feel too overwhelming to use.
People aren't excited because it's just been released stateside. Wait for the customer success stories to appear before determining desire.
"Clearly, it is the user who is wrong."
What use is the value of reading a journal if I cannot be certain that the material is reliably peer reviewed?

I'm not sure why the podcast author is being held to a standard that should be levied to other matter experts, that come way before he ever reaches out for an interview.
Call me old fashioned but I'm fine with a few AAA batteries.
Interesting. So rather than have newspapers that pretend to be neutral, we could instead have explicitly Republican newspapers and explicitly Democratic newspapers? I guess things have sort of been trending in that direction the last few years anyway...
I seem to remember part of TikTok’s allure being that it learned your tastes well from implicit feedback, no active feedback required. We around here probably tend to enjoy the idea of training our own recommenders, but it’s not clear to me that the bulk of users even want to be bothered with a simple thumbs-up/thumbs-down.
While it is a shame it was never brought back, at the time it was removed it was unavoidable since the bandwidth required for 5k was beyond what could be carried across a single display port cable.
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I might be wrong, but accelerometers measure the force between the body of an accelerometer and some inertial mass. For example, a seismometer is a big lump of heavy on springs, and when the Earth moves, there is a force between the heavy and the frame holding it. And indeed, at rest, there is a "force" pushing the heavy mass down (whatever you call it).

Drop the seismometer from space, both are falling at the same rate and there is no force and no recorded acceleration - fine.

But wouldn't that be true for any force that acts with the same strength per unit mass on both the heavy weight and its frame? If I rig it up so there's an electrical field pushing these in an empty space, and it just so happens the force is imparting equal acceleration on both the weight and its enclosure, and no acceleration will be recorded. Or indeed, set the whole thing in free space, make the heavy weight magnetic, and attach a magnet to the side. There is now a force being recorded, but no acceleration - the whole thing is a rigid body.

EDIT: in fact to simplify this even further, if I'm negatively charged, standing on some (non-gravitational) positively charged surface, I will feel a force just the same. If I charge the accelerometer, it will show an acceleration.
Except it's not when adjusted for wages: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3631317/
> Some proportion of people are likely to be convinced by an argument that they should do something because it would make things better if they did

"it would make things better if they did" is an incentive. As incentives go, it's a fairly weak one that doesn't tend to convince people

The problem with this sort of incentive in internet comment sections is that a lot of the nasty people don't tend to stick around long. They may just be doing a drive by nasty post. They may have even made a new burner account just to make one post.

If people are transient, then they will never see the outcome of "it would make things better", so they never reap any benefit from it

Anyways, my point was that argument is still trying to convince people of an incentive

Edit: I suppose what this is highlighting is that the "people will not just X" is really more "people will not just (spontaneously) X".

You need to give them reasons to X, if you want them to X.
Sorry for you losing your confidence over this. To be frank, the idea itself of creating a company is spammy.

I created my company, but I knew the market from inside (it wasn’t a public company so it wasn’t insider trading, but clearly I had unfair advantage at start). I’ve witnessed many people on the same market as I was, trying to find something to sell, and failing at it. Everyone here is told that they can do it and the good idea will arrive as they work, well, that is spam. Truth is there are enough businesses in the world.

It’s not exactly just luck. It’s also accurately knowing when you have a chance. I’ve also witnessed a dozen startups succeed in my area, to the point of about $50m revenue, so I could also have succeeded better.

But really, it wasn’t your skills or your confidence. It’s that you didn’t have a good edge at start, maybe your only flaw is not judging against your initial idea, early enough, and waiting for the next opportunity in your professional life. But your implementation skills are visibly excellent, so if you don’t feel like restarting on your own, go help someone and help him scale. You’ll be excellent at it.
Native image continues to be relegated to a “niche” scenario with very few accommodations from the wider Java ecosystem.

This contrasts significantly with effort and adoption of NativeAOT in .NET. Well, besides CLI, scenarios where it shines aren’t those which Go is capable of addressing properly in the first place like GUI applications.
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In my experience, it's slow to charge. I've been using the Magic Mouse for many years, because I otherwise like it. But charging it to last the rest of the day takes long enough that I lose track of whatever I was doing. And the low battery warning always comes so late that I must stop working immediately and plug in the cable.

It's probably just Apple's usual arrogance. They could have easily designed the mouse so that you can keep using it while it's charging, but the designer chose otherwise. And because this is a minor enough issue, Apple doesn't have to fix it and admit that they were wrong.
It's not an issue anymore now that they would use usb-c.
https://archive.ph/BJxD1
If a very expensive hobby is a lot of work are you working or retired?
I’ve been working on a free language learning app that uses a local AI model to translate words and sentences. You can read sentences, short stories, or watch YouTube videos with translatable captions. It mostly follows the principles of the comprehensible input theory. Think of it like LingQ, but free and with any language combination.

The main goal is for the app to run entirely on the client side and stay completely free.

Personally, I can’t stand Anki or Duolingo—I’d rather read actual sentences that are fine-tuned to my level.
Videos are actually quite good. Great job!
The market looks excited, the stock is almost 40% up since a few weeks before the announcement in May
Dementia 'superspreader' detected by Swiss researchers
in one phrase "skip silences" feature!
So long WordPress
Nobody knows your friend’s dad. How are we supposed to guess if he ended up happy? If we use Kerouac and F. Scott Fitzgerald as examples of people who did not end up happy, maybe he did. Or maybe he died totally miserable pining for a woman he met when he was 14. We don’t know and that’s the great mystery of strangers.

It doesn’t help your comment much to start off talking about amorphous constraints when you conclude with something even more amorphous.

And finally, I’m sure they’re talking about literary fiction.
We think this is the case, and the math very much says that it is, but in truth we have yet to observe it so we cannot be absolutely 100% certain. If it's not the case it would mean new physics. It happens due to quantum effects at the event horizon.
Sorry, I made correction comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974605
amazing! it sure is creative. found the online version gonna give it a try.
Very cool. Can you speak a little about how your products are differentiated from other similar ones?
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