skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it is true, then we need intervention as the death toll is approaching what one would expect in war zone.

In the West, it's only relevant if it is claimed that Jews were involved, whether or not the number is realistic.
also incident response is a nightmare, and having to patch shit over a satcom is litterally slower than a powerpoint presentation with a broken clicker :( that i do habe experience in :').... make sure stuffs up to date and working ... before the patch misses to boat lol

a lot of sec tools these days need a cloud connection. that also suffers from latency/bandwidth and connection issues. u'll want to control the content updates nicely etc. and maybe even disable file uploads for unknowns on the edr. depending on ur lines
> Could you explain why you believe that the war in Gaza is a genocide?

My formal answer: https://zionismlite.com/blog/2024-09-09-is-israel-committing...

> I think Israel is showing a lot of restraint and is mitigating civilian deaths as best it can

Unicef this week say: "The entire Palestinian population in North Gaza, especially children, is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine, and the ongoing bombardments." https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-unicef-execu...

If you don't like Unicef, try Peace Now, a major Israeli/Jewish group that supports a 2 state solution - it is ethnic cleansing/starvation/expulsion:

https://x.com/peacenowisrael/status/1853441295974375518

Many genocides are actually happen once an attempt at ethnic cleansing is frustrated. Or done in concert with ethnic cleansing.

I would say that it is >90% likely that the ICJ rules that this is a genocide at this point.

> their proxies have embedded their fighters within the civilian population and aid organizations to an extent that makes minimizing civilian casualties extremely challenging.

This is no longer a war against Hamas nor it is about getting back the hostages. The first is achieved and the second Netanyahu doesn't care about because it would mean ending the war.

Instead because many in the Israeli government dream of Israeli settlements (https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-ministers-call-for-...), they do not want any rebuilding and do not want a day after plan that involves Palestinians staying in Gaza. This is what the war is about now: Israeli settlements in an ethnically cleansed Northern Gaza.

Netanyahu is also scared that any moderate government that emerges in Gaza led by Palestinians could lead to a two-state solution. He is against that no matter what: https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-boasts-of-thwarting-... https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-rejected-palestinian-state-as-...

So what will happen now? Israel continues ethnically cleansing/genocide and in return becomes more and more of a pariah state. If Harris wins, she may get tough with Israel, whereas with Trump, he probably lets Israel do what it wants.
Even then you can MITM if you have elevated access to the platform and can tinker with the certificate store.

Games like Pokemon Go use a highly obfuscated algorithm to sign requests which makes it much harder to actually use the key if you can retrieve it
You're not wrong. Based on all available evidence, it unfortunately looks like you can get away with a whole bunch of lying without consequences in the current simulation.
Wouldn’t your identity documents required to open a bank account show a residential address?
Historically a storeroom for provisions in monasteries, in Oxford colleges it is where students get their food. Edit: To clarify, it is pretty much the cafeteria kitchen.
Brushing your teeth is the opposite of an "if everyone would just" problem. You do it for yourself, you benefit from it, and you aren't affected much by whether everyone else is doing it or not.
Rd-TableBench – Accurately evaluating table extraction
Hey HN!

A ton of document parsing solutions have been coming out lately, each claiming SOTA with little evidence. A lot of these turned out to be LLM or LVM wrappers that hallucinate frequently on complex tables.

We just released RD-TableBench, an open benchmark to help teams evaluate extraction performance for complex tables. The benchmark includes a variety of challenging scenarios including scanned tables, handwriting, language detection, merged cells, and more.

We employed an independent team of PhD-level human labelers who manually annotated 1000 complex table images from a diverse set of publicly available documents.

Alongside this, we also release a new bioinformatics inspired algorithm for grading table similarity. Would love to hear any feedback!

-Raunak
Any theorem was a conjecture before its formal proof was accepted by the community. Thus the importance of conjectures is a proxy to the importance of theorems: they are proto-theorems.

The fact that the human mind is capable of searching for new mathematical theorems specifically here instead of there, is quite interesting. It's as if a skilled mathematician has knowledge that is bigger than math itself.

Penrose used this as argument for the special nature of consciousness, wrongly - it probably makes more sense to remember how the way the human mind is not exact and produces errors all the time plays a huge role in a creative process. And luckily we can amend the human mind by social processes that help eliminating errors again.

This way, a conjecture can be thought of as a claim to truth in a competitive environment and that would explain why proving the truth is regarded so much higher.
Looks interesting! We used quick-cache [1] for that purpose right now, might be interesting to add comparison with those types of Key-Value caching crates.

[1] https://github.com/arthurprs/quick-cache
What obfuscation? Do you think that is happening automatically? If you compile literals into your program they are sitting in the data section of your binary verbatim so they can be read directly once the binary itself is memory mapped.
What impresses me is how you dismiss the usefulness to other people because you can't imagine it possibly being useful to someone because it's not useful to you
Ohhh the memory of their atrocious and extortive services still raises my adrenaline. The French bought the position of monopolist in the telecom market. That's (and similar privatization frauds) how the only true Russian-style oligarch in Poland was created - Jan Kulczyk. Thanks, French!
Just s/Sales/Management, because sales actually can't wag the development process. But yeah.
> oh so messy and built by trial and error

Not only built by trial and error, but also continuously adapted in near real time to deal with new sources of error.

The most complicated aspects of semiconductor manufacturing utilize statistical process control to determine the best course of action by relying on large sample sizes. You probably couldn't start up a modern manufacturing line without already having a manufacturing line due to this. Finding viable "hyperparameters" for a photo tool makes training an LLM look like a tutorial. Bootstrapping all of this required direct human involvement with ever-so-careful incremental offloading of these concerns to automation over a period of decades.
> Under the hood, a Cargo project will be generated and built (with the Cargo output hidden unless compilation fails or the -c/--cargo-output option is used). The first invocation of the script will be slower as the script is compiled - subsequent invocations of unmodified scripts will be fast as the built executable is cached.

I was expecting something like TCC. Boo!
Easy to remove tag could make mRNA synthesis for vaccines quicker and cheaper
https://archive.ph/AzYBC
+ artificial selection by robots, could be a way to generate environment adapted organisms.
Huh, regardless of the definition of "free" and whether the rest of the "free market" stuff is true or religion, I wasn't talking about "free." I was talking about whether there's a market. And a market with a sole provider isn't a market in my books, and is in fact kind of the antithesis of a market.

That's why we have anti-monopoly laws, so that we can have markets. In recent decades, the interpretation of anti-monopoly has transitioned a bit to focus more on consumerism rather than markets, and the definition of monopoly has shifted from "is there a sole provider" to "is the dominant market player causing consumer harm."

But originally, before that shift, anti-monopoly laws were in favor of markets.
My perspective is that your typical business does not incentivize, or care to allow their engineers to do "proper" software engineering, which is effectively a proper abstraction of the requirements and its implementation from scratch (to a great extent), in order to maximize the extensibility and control of the software. Most orgs love to use some kind of existing framework or library that comes with heavy constraints on how you need to implement requirements (typically everything above the database layer).

If business domains are properly abstracted, most of the time extending the software with changes is something close to adding some configuration or using existing functions with different parameters. But the hesitation to create things from scratch comes at the cost of training and also transparency, two of the highest priorities for managers and stakeholders who not only want to hire people with minimal overhead to begin contributing, but also want to understand as much as possible what the engineer is doing and how they are doing it.

Software is incredibly maleable and has unlimited potential, yet somehow most places i've worked at get constantly bottle-necked by recurring problems that are very easy to solve with proper abstractions.
I think all key roles should have a LLM as a double-check. The CEO LLM recommends what the CEO should do and its another data point. Overtime, if the CEO does what the LLM recommends 99% of the time... you can replace the CEO.

We should do the same for courts and judges
Good point, thanks! I'll look into adding that crate to the benchmarks.
I had an older version that used simplified HTML, and it got to decent performance with GPT-4o and Gemini but at the cost of 10x token usage. You are right, identifying the interactable elements and pulling out their values into a prompt structure to explicitly allow the next actions can boost performance, especially if done with grammar like structured outputs or guidance-llm. However, I saw that Claude had similar levels of performance with pure vision, and I felt that vision + more training would beat a specialized DOM algorithm due to "the bitter lesson".

BTW I really like your handling of browser tabs, I think it's really clever.
Roth 401(k)’s are actually worse here. Unlike 401k’s it use post tax deposit so there’s zero tax advantage upfront. You also need to both pay taxes and a 10% penalty on early withdrawal of any gains, so it’s a significant risk with minimal upside considering the low rates of capital gains.

There’s nuances around things like divorce, but people overlook just how tax advantaged traditional investments currently are.
I would hope that my employer had a postmortem culture that encouraged looking into every point of failure and identifying process changes that will prevent a repeat of the incident. Instead of pointing the finger at Team X who messed up and/or just "blaming hackers" and continuing on with your defective processes.
You can absolutely buy a phone with all of those features.
Probably it’s technically impossible for the customer support to do it.
Pretty cool. So it greedily constructs an ensemble of trees from scratch. At each step, it takes the one decision that reduces the loss the most. That's a nice approximation for the most compact tree ensemble.
Ask HN: How to Fund Preclinical Studies for a New Drug Modality?
Hi HN,

I'm a computational systems biologist researching a new drug modality. After extensive in silico simulations and mathematical modeling, I've established some promising theoretical results. I'm ready to advance to preclinical studies to get some experimental validation to see if the approach works in vitro and in animal models.

My question is: What are the best funding options or strategies for securing early-stage capital for these preclinical studies? I need 200k to prove my approach works. Any advice or pointers to resources, networks, or specific funds would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!
No More Nanometers It's Time for New Node Naming
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And now we're back to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42039273

There are things that systemd does better than SysV and other things it does worse and you can want it to stop doing the things that are worse while still doing the things that are better.
Not surprised that this is getting downvoted, though I am disappointed especially given the OP's use of the phrase "unparalleled destruction" which seems beyond hyperbole.
Honesty the biggest what could go wrong is things like vegetables will stop producing the useful large fruits we eat if we're trying to grow things for food.
>Poor fanfic long predates the "Backrooms" phenomenon. Its not harmful, or unique to our culture; its just cringe.

It is unique, it is harmful, and your bias of "cringe" indicates something you are too cowardly to admit.

Why is it cringe? Think about my post again, consider my points in good faith.

There is fanfic, then there is parasitic bread-tube perverted incentives being so systematic they endanger our society via literal intellectual retardation.

>Calling it a "memetic virus" is SCP-like fanfic in and of itself.

I'd say "Q.E.D" but I'll let you pause on the irony of this context.
AMD got down under $2. INTC is at $23 and the company is worth $100B.
I bet there’s a r/MaliciousCompliance in Spanish out there somewhere about how UCF cancelled existing maintenance contracts and hired new companies to keep an eye on the equipment, and did it so rudely that the old company didn’t hand over important warnings like this.

Discontinuity could explain problems like this readily.
I wouldn't say "hysterics", but more that it says about the war effort. North Korea didn't send troops two years ago when the war started. Russia believed it was an easy victory, and continue to believe that victory was close.

They have lost a vast number of troops, and have been having trouble recruiting more. There are still plenty of people available, but they mostly wanted to recruit prisoners and others that nobody would really miss. Going to North Korea can be read as an admission that they are running out of options.

As you say, it's not that many people. It won't change the situation on the ground. It just preserves the status quo, temporarily.

Which is all that's needed. The US is having an election which could have enormous consequences. There is a serious possibility that the US could cease to give aid to Ukraine, dramatically altering the balance of power.

If that doesn't happen, the outcome is murkier. It may be that they use the North Korean troops to give the best bargaining position for negotiation. Or they may fight until the new troops are gone, and then find more from somewhere.

Either way, it's a significant development, even though it does not in itself change the situation on the ground right now.
There are a bunch of challenges to growing stuff on the Moon. The low gravity, the lack of defense from ioizing radiation that we have on Earth and, perhaps most importantly, the day/night cycle.

The Moon is tidally locked with EArth so the da/night cycle is 28 days. Anywhere other than the poles and you'll have ~2 weeks of darkness every month. This affects how you can potentially generate power (ie it complicates solar power generation) but also plant growth. Ideally you want the plants to grow with passive light (ie light from the Sun) because that's "free". So any experiment should try and find out how plants do if they get 14 days of straight sunlight followed by 14 days of straight darkness.

There are some plants you could grow in 14 days of sunlight even if nothing useful can survive the darkness (which, I believe, is unknown). You can spend energy to create light or you can use fiber optic cables to essentially passively pipe light around. I don't know if you can get the right wavelengths you need this way or if it's economically viable.

As for radiation, it's less of an issue for plants but could still be an issue. It's worth finding out. But there are ways you can reduce this. You're going to need something transparent to get sunlight in. You can filter UV rays out to some degree depending on your material. You can even put water between the plants and the sun (ie a water tank between the plants and the Sun).

Or if you can pipe sunlight around fiber optic cables you don't put your plaants on the surface at all. Your pressurize lava tubes instead.

Or if energy becomes so ridiculously cheap that none of these are any problem at all.
Tencent Hunyuan-Large
- 389 billion parameters and 52 billion activation parameters, capable of handling up to 256K tokens.
- outperforms LLama3.1-70B and exhibits comparable performance when compared to the significantly larger LLama3.1-405B model.
downvotes without replies mean you agree and are too cowardly too admit either defeat or to cognitively dissonant to respond
It has OpenSearch, RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL
>I'm under the impression an executable binary shouldn't be easily read to find such credentials

It's hard but not impossible. It's more annoying than trying to extract strings out of a minified js file, but far from impossible. There are tools for it (eg. IDA), so you're not searching for credentials amongst anything that vaguely looks like a string.

>and I don't know what else a game dev is supposed to do if their executable needs to authenticate itself with a remote server.

The problem isn't that that the binary has hardcoded credentials, it's that the credentials are privileged.
Apple Dev account problem taking 2 months to resolve?
I've had an Apple developer account since March 2024.

Everything was working fine and our team was developing an app, until one day in August when developer.apple.com starting showing "Join the Apple Developer Program" and the "Enroll today" button.

That being said, when i visited appstoreconnect.apple.com, I had full access to all the resources.

When I tried to "Enroll today" button, I got this wonderful message "
Sorry, you can’t enroll at this time. Your Apple ID is already associated with the Account Holder of a membership."

So, fast forward to today, 2+ months later, after 15+ emails back and forths, 10+ phone calls, new tickets there is no progress.

Plenty of my emails have not received any replies, but I have these:

August 27:
It’s my understanding that you are having issues with accessing your membership details. I have reached out to my internal team in regards to your account. Once I get a reply, I will be in contact with you.

August 30:
To assist you, I have notified our operations team of the details of the case, and when there is an update, I will follow up with you directly.

September 4:
Our operations team does not have an update at this time. However, they are aware of the urgency, and when there is an update, I will reach out to you directly.

September 26:
We understand you are requesting access to your Apple Developer Program membership. We'll contact you when an update is available.

October 29:
My name is Katie, I am a senior Advisor with Developer Support. I understand that you called in today to request an update on your account access issue. I'm happy to look into this with you. Your ticket is still open and is under review by the appropriate teams. We will follow up with you when an update is available.

I've even asked to close the account and I'll rejoin from scratch.

On September 18, I submitted feedback through Apple Feedback Assistant for Developers, complaining that it was over 3 weeks for anything, and their input was to "follow-up via the dialogue i've already started for Case Id xxxxx".

My dev team is on standby and I'm at a loss. Frankly I'm pretty stunned that Apple can't solve something like this in less than 2 months...

Anyone experience anything similar, or insight on how I can get someone at Apple to help?

Cheers.
Probably easier to hire them on as a consultant than "give them money"
I feel there is only so much you can squeeze out of a compiler

IMHO we need to accept profile-based compiling or dynamic JIT to keep making progress on performance

EDIT: of course there is still lots of low hanging fruit for exploiting specific instruction sets or memory architectures
Soft-story buildings are the most dangerous buildings in earthquakes in California, and they are all low-rise. In the article:

>Soft-story failure was responsible for nearly half of all homes that became uninhabitable in California's Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 and was projected to cause severe damage and possible destruction of 160,000 homes in the event of a more significant earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area

There are special warnings about soft-story buildings for home buyers, apartment renters, etc. in California. There are not such warnings for high-rises.

I don't know much about Turkey's buildings, but if there were less than 5 stories then they were all low-rise too. And I doubt that they would meet California code if they collapsed in a 7.8 earthquake.
What if they are all wrong also assumes reality has this property of an observer being able to characterize things as right and wrong.
In itself is a substantial matter -- but you aren't using it that way.

And again, it's a matter for Ukrainians to decide. To a first order approximation, I think we can trust that as a society, they know what they're fighting for, and why.

If you disagree, and you think you know better than they do in this regard -- then my heartfelt recommendation (and closing words on this particular subtopic) for you is/are: go ahead, talk with them (directly, as live human beings) -- and "let them speak".
If you make it a policy to give money to addicted strangers because they're addicts then you're taking part in a crowdfunded effort to enable their addition. Saying that it's not enabling because you don't know them personally is special pleading. There's no reason to accept that exception to the definition.
Then you would be in favor of only taxing retained profits. Corporations keep piles of money for future use. It would make sense to allow deductions for dividends distributed to shareholders. But could also fix the stock buyback loophole by not allow deduction.
No I wasn't?
Humans Glow in the Dark (2009)
That's a cool idea with private AI, it's rather interesting if it can store some metadata about previous searches for the next results being more accurate.
Pre WWII?! That's loong time ago. Many countries live by their pre-WWII, or even pre-WWI "glory days".