skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no chance for peace with the current Israeli regime, at least as long as it has unshakable support from the US; Hamas is a symptom of the problem (one actively fostered to both divide Palestinian opposition and provide a less Western-sympathetic opposition by Israel when they weren't in their momentary orientation toward peace), not its source.

I wouldn't call Hamas a symptom of the problem, because the majority of Israelis have only the goal of security in mind. An extremist minority, that is unfortunately gaining-in-size-and-power, wants to conquer all the land, but they are still a small minority of the population. The majority of Israelis were historically totally on board with peace and a two-state solution, except for the security risk, which Hamas is one huge part of. (Hamas's actions were specifically targeted at destroying the peace process in the 90s, and are a big part of the reason for the dissolution of the Israeli left.)

> Peace always requires parties compromising on their goals, largely because they recognize that they are unattainable at acceptable cost. Why both Fatah, Hamas, or the numerous other Palestinian factions might do so is...fairly obvious. Israel, whose goal is no more the destruction of the Palestinian people entirely than Hamas’s is destruction of Israel, has bottomless US support, little effective (though plenty of symbolic) international opposition, and continues to progress (slow over the long term, quite rapid recently) progress towards its goal

Unfortunately, I agree with most of this. The current government is a disaster on many levels for Israel, and is not only not interested in peace, but is actively furthering that in many ways. I think this has been true for many years.

The opposition to the government comes from many places, but most of it is ineffective. Worse, the part of the opposition that comes from a pro-peace "trying-to-arrive-at-a-deal" place within Israel is severely weakened, since in Israeli's experience, that approach has always led to security disasters. So the Israeli left is tiny, and even if we were to get a new government, it is unlikely to pursue peace any more than the current government is. (Though the important silver lining - it will hopefully be a centrist-right government, not an right-extreme right government, which is making everything much, much worse.)

This makes it all the more obvious that the main way to arrive at peace will be for the Palestinians themselves to stop the violence and start making steps towards peace from their side. If the Israeli populace were ever convinced there's an actual partner for peace, the Israeli left and pro-peace camps will actually have something to work with.

I hope the one thing that comes out of this disaster that was October 7th and is the Gaza war, is a renewed boldness for peace activists pushing both sides to actually work towards a peaceful resolution.
People often assume that code is knowledge. They want "self explanatory" or "well documented code". Companies and managers often treat developers as interchangeable. But therein lies the mistake.

Knowledge exists in mental models and team structures. Small components and systems can be understood by a person, but team structure also embodies knowledge of larger systems. People will need complementary mental models to understand a large system together.

That's why adding manpower to a late project makes it later. That's why maintenance is hard and handover is harder. That's why systems devolve into big balls of mud. Because companies and managers do not respect the fact that you need people and teams who have good mental models and that mental models take time to build and share.

No amount or quality of code can make up for this fact. And simulacra of ownership - having "product owners" or whatever - won't cut it. You need people to own their systems, understand them deeply. Moving people around, churn, treating developers as interchangeable, substituting rituals for deep work, accumulating 'technical debt' (deferred work as in ship now and think later) etc are all detrimental to building and sharing sound mental models.
I have been using LLMs to restore some of my very rusty Russian reading skills. I give them a text in Russian and ask them to explain it word by word and sentence by sentence, and I ask follow-up questions about parts I am still unsure of. It works quite well, and I haven’t noticed any mistakes yet.

I just tried the same thing with the linked Latin text and Gemini Experimental 1206. The results appear below. Perhaps someone who knows Latin can tell us how accurate the glosses, translations, and grammatical explanations are.

https://www.gally.net/temp/20250102interlinearlatin.html
Probably one... the stock messaging app? In the US, most people send and receive SMS text messages like it's still 1999.
You can use CodeMirror with Wails I think, it's still web technologies but with a thinner layer compared to electron.

https://wails.io/docs/howdoesitwork
I don't know what to read or interpret from this. This is very very generic and almost same in any Big Tech companies
On land, most biomass is in trees.

In the oceans, it's mostly in arthropods and fish! (Bacteria aside, that is...)

Biomass distribution of Earth estimates: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115

Trees outweigh everything else, and:

A worldwide census of the total number of trees (32), as well as a comparison of actual and potential plant biomass (17), has suggested that the total plant biomass (and, by proxy, the total biomass on Earth) has declined approximately twofold relative to its value before the start of human civilization. The total biomass of crops cultivated by humans is estimated at ≈10 Gt C, which accounts for only ≈2% of the extant total plant biomass (17).

Humans haven't yet put such a dent into fish biomass, but we're getting there.
The purpose of DOGE is just to constantly keep Elon Musk in the news to satisfy his narcissism
If that worked it'd have been done over a decade ago.

The remote server is handshaking cryptographically with the GPU itself, which identifies itself using certificates and keys tied at the factory. You can't emulate such a GPU unless you find a way to steal the keys.
I’m a sucker for “Krankenhaus!”
Most likely an effort to boost the DAU numbers. I quit facebook over a decade ago because I truly felt that it was pointless. At the time I was convincing myself that it's a way to stay in touch with a certain number of people I would otherwise have no way of contacting. Then a friend said something that changed my mind: "If someone is not actively a part of your life, chances are there's a good reason they are not". And he was right: I deleted it, knowing full well that I'd have no other way to connect to hundreds of people. Over a decade later I haven't had the reason to try and contact either one of them. At this point, I don't even know what facebook looks like but all this AI-generated crap is just as pointless as the ads that would get shoved down my throat if I didn't have a very aggressive ad blocker. As much as I was strongly against ad blockers 10 years ago, since many sites and blogs used only that to get some reward for their effort, we are at a point where the internet is unusable without an ad blocker. All major platforms are flooded by AI-generated crap. And I mean Facebook, Medium, StackExchange, hell, I'm willing to bet a good chunk of papers coming out these days are mostly ai-generated. And don't even get me started on musk's shithole that is Twitter. No, I am not saying that AI is not useful or helpful - it is, but it should be a supplement, not the primary ingredient, let alone the sole ingredient.

The true value of the internet used to be the collective knowledge, and not mass-produced regurgitated set of tokens and pixel values. Personally I've gone to the even pre-rss days and have a list of personal blogs I scroll through for things I find interesting and avoid large platforms altogether. Interestingly enough, I've been finding more and more motivation to start writing myself though I rarely get the chance to push it through the end and in most cases I get stuck at 95% for many months until I get to find the time to do the remaining 5% of the work. That's how many I have lined up so far:

git status . | wc -l
59
It could also fall foul of a Scunthorpe filter - refusing to accept names with some subset of characters, and the company name got added to the filter to avoid "samsungsuxbawls@gmail.com" or similar
No, TPM isn't involved with PAVP at any point. Matthew is correct about how it works. This is a typical case where social activists are light years behind the curve and don't really know what they're talking about at all.
>Because Zuckerberg has a generally weasely reputation and also I don't see the other platforms being nearly as scummy as Facebook has been

Have you not looked at Musk recently? Or is supporting AfD (the German far-right party) and adopting the persona of "kekius maximus" (a right wing meme) somehow less scummy than whatever it is Zuckerberg is doing?

Mind you, Zuck pulls some fucked up crap -and some of it may well be worse. But my point remains ...he's not alone. All of the Social Media platforms are corrupt and toxic and in many cases...Musk, Spez..their owners are as well.
Disclaimer: I'm an active adblocker and avoid all social media besides HN, IANAL

> The defence so many influencers employ when advertisers turn out to be doing shady things is "You can't hold me responsible! It's not my fault, how can I know what my advertisers are doing?" but as soon as an advertiser does something that harms the influencer, it's a problem?

Yes, if the damage is directed towards you then that's a case for a defence.

Inluencers are just providing advertisement space like any other media platform (TV, websites etc.). So if a sponsor bought this advertisement space and turns out to be shady, why should influencers, TVs, websites etc. be held accountable? Hasn't their reputation been damaged as well? They usually just don't go after it because it's a tough case to quantify and any legal trouble can be exceedingly tiresome.

> If Influencer A includes an affiliate link for "Expensive Camera" and Influencer B includes an affiliate link for "Cheap Toy" and you click on "Expensive Camera" then click on "Cheap Toy" and then buy the expensive camera, Influencer B is getting paid for that purchase expensive camera purchase, despite Influencer A influencing you to buy it.

It's the last click, yes. There's a difference between [A] you actively clicking an affiliate button to land on a product page and [B] you being tricked into a last button click right before checkout with the (void) promise of free coupons. You stated it perfectly, yet you don't understand the difference?

As for "Expensive Camera - Cheap Toy": What get attributes how is a technical challenge and cookie domains seem to be the solution that gets picked by the affiliate stores. I think there could be a more fine-grained solution that wouldn't be so difficult to implement, agree, but it seems like there's no work being done in this space?
Our current knowledge points to the first planets appearing around one billion years after the big bang (heavy elements need to be bred in stars in sufficient quantities first and be ejected in super novae), and evolution taking another billion years to produce eucaryotic life, then another three billion for plants to form.

So while obviously we can't say for sure, I stand by my original statement when speaking in terms of orders of magnitudes. I think it's a sensible argument.
This is how we don’t do papers.

Even though my pal did a full Gouraud shading in pure assembly using registers only (including the SP and a dummy stack segment) - absolute breakthrough back in 1997.

We did a 4 server p3 farm seeding 40mbits of outward traffic in 1999. Myself did a complete Perl-based binary stream unpacking - before protobuf was a thing. Still live handling POS terminals.

Discovered a much more effective teaching methodology which almost doubled effectiveness. Time-series compression with grammars,… And many more as we keep doing new r&d.

None of it is going to be published as papers on time (if ever), because we really don’t want to suffer this process which brings very little value afterwards for someone outside academia or even for people in academia unless they peruse PHD and similar positions.

I’m struggling to force myself to write an article on text2sql which is already checked and confirmed to contain a novel approach to RAG which works, but do I want to suffer such rejection humiliation? Not really…

It seems this paper ground is reserved for academics and mathematics in a certain ‘sectarian modus operandi’, and everyone else is a sucker. Sadly after a while the code is also lost…
I am in two minds. All discussion about old old AutoCAD versions is more clutter than value. But discussions about profiles or lisp routines are not.
NHTSA permits automakers to make recalls and not alerting all affected vehicle owners. NHTSA was sued for it.

When there is no safety risk it's called TSB (Technical Service Bulletin) https://www.tsbsearch.com/Tesla

If there is a safety risk and NHTSA does not know about it, it's called shady business.
> Read what you want for whatever reason you want, would be my recommendation.

My minor counter here is "don't let the reason you read [something] be because someone has made you feel like you should"?

I (personally) observe pushing through a thing you actively don't enjoy for external validation etc will just demotivate and bleed into the entire activity. That's not to say you should not try a book because somebody suggests/recommends it. But try, don't feel obliged in order to gain approval.

In the same vein, don't avoid reading "trash" for fun because people are asses. Be it young adult swashbuckling, adult romance or elves and wizards - don't let anyone make you feel bad about your preferences.
Exactly as I would expect from garbage articles like this. Thank you.
The artist who stacked 2 vacuum cleaners in glass cases "doesn't want to be lazy" ?

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81090
Marvin has quite a few multi-modal examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036670

PedanticAI can do multi-modal, too:

https://dev.to/stephenc222/how-to-use-pydanticai-for-structu...
Ten cool science stories we almost missed
Which one is superior for explaining topics and going through practice problems related to the SAT test: Claude 3.5 or ChatGPt 4o?
Probably a dumb question but if my web app uses graphql, how would I go about with the swagger generation?(since its just one endpoint)

Thank you for sharing this though, I was looking for a tool like this :)
> On a more meta level it is tragic that we wont be able to use our computer online without being signed in to an online and be verified.

Fully agreed! Again, for most people this is the way of life. They type in Google in search bar to go to google Google and then search...

> If the site being visited get info about whom that specific user

My understanding is that you only get to know user is legit without knowing anything about them.
I believe IBM pay its UK workers on the 6th because at one point they wanted to move pay day to as early as possible without paying more than 12 times in a tax year. This means that the day lots of people get paid in 2025 has been set by a deliberate simplification Julius Ceasar made in 46BC. That's technical debt that lasted a long time.
Thank you, and also I'd like to know how they'd even evaluate the results to begin with...

I hope to GOD they're holding on to the originals so they can go back and redo this in 20,30 years when tools have improved.
If I remember correctly, Dropbox was one of the first big tech companies to publish its career framework openly, a lot of organizations (especially smaller ones) based their careers on the Dropbox’s one
I find it bewildering that it wouldn’t, actually. I would have expected one of the earliest things in the review process happening would be to black out the submitters name and university, only to be revealed after the review is closed.
Antarctic Krill are the biggest single biomass!
You are very brave to call or not call something AI, but it is precisely generative grammars (a stochastic ones) who were initially considered AI - as a linguist you should know this better than myself.
Yea, I should have been more emphatic that I was specifically thinking about apps. Although I didn't mean the question to be explicitly about undue influence over a population, it is what I was wondering, e.g. how many (centralized) privately owned businesses would it take to get a message in front of an entire country. I was worried it would sound more conspiratorial than I wanted it to
Have they all reached the same conclusion independently or are they just copying each other's homework?
It’s like passing data around in a list or tuple, versus key-value objects or dictionaries.
Now we can wonder how many quantified comparison were either done, and how many categories of quantified comparison we could produce out of it.
Right, and more to the point there's nothing special about a TPM design-wise. It's actually a very odd kind of chip that only really exists due to the unique political and market requirements of the PC industry. If you look at vertically integrated platforms like Apple's, or the games consoles, or smartphones, there's no TPM. There are subsystems that do similar things, but none of them follow the TPM design specs.

Even Intel abandoned it when designing SGX. SGX doesn't involve a TPM at any point.

So for a GPU vendor there's no reason to introduce the additional complexity of handshaking with a TPM. Blowing a private key into some eFuses at the factory is relatively easy, add a RAM encryption engine on top and you're already providing better security than what a TPM provides.
GPS car data was used to find a crossbow killer in the UK few years ago.

The killer torched the car but the car had already uploaded GPS and black box data.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65985341

I recommend the referenced podcast there, the whole story is crazy.
I was thinking of doing something similar, especially since work mostly insists on running Windows. Do you use conferencing software or such from the VM? If so, how's the performance?
Saw the title and thought, nothing unusual in that really, then saw the domain was maths based, it's not Terrence Tao is it?! It was Terrence Tao. If one of the greats can get rejected then there's no shame in you getting rejected.
> a personal website with the latest and greatest tech from 20 years ago renders like garbage in a modern browser

The irony being that one without the "latest and greatest" tech would still render fine - tbh, even in 2005, some of this "latest" tech was recognised as not the "greatest".

Examples? I don't think daringfireball.net has changed that much since 2002, neither blog.codinghorror.com since 2004.
Not in Italy.

Back in the days I used to help (for free, I was ~13 and nobody asked) moderating a big free-hosting Italian service.

It had a pretty smart business model: hosting was free, but any ads the webmaster wanted to show had to come from the hosting provider and the ad revenue would be shared between the webmaster and the hosting provider.

One of the terms of service was no porn. As you can imagine one of the webmasters made this very successful website, with ads, showing pictures of women and a lot of people thought it was indeed porn.

When the hosting provider closed his account the webmaster brought in lawyers to dispute his ban, and just like that we discovered that in Italy the rule is (ish) that there needs to be penetration to qualify, so the ban had to be reverted.
About 1.9% ($4.706 billion) of Microsoft's FY 2024 revenue was from devices "including Surface, HoloLens, and PC accessories" (and not including Xbox hardware).

About 9.5% ($23.244 billion) was from Windows "including Windows OEM licensing and other non-volume licensing of the Windows operating system; Windows Commercial, comprising volume licensing of the Windows operating system, Windows cloud services, and other Windows commercial offerings; patent licensing; and Windows Internet of Things."

Compared to FY 2023, devices revenue decreased 15% and Windows revenue increased 8%.

Source: https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar24/
No one (well almost no one) in Norway would call that luxurious, it's what you paint the cowshed or other agricultural buoldings with. Almost no one here would paint a residential building that colour not even a hytte (cabin) in the mountains. It's one of the few class related behaviours that I can think of in Norway. Once white paint became available wooden residential buildings (that's most residential buildings) of any quality would be painted white and south of Drammen mostly still are. Cabins are normally beiset (originally a kind of two component grey or brown stain, now more properly a varnish).
This CAPTCHA requires some serious cheating (IDDQD / IDKFA) to solve.
Given my search criteria, the optimal magic number turns out to be: 0x7ef311c2

Initial approximation:
Good bits min: 4
Good bits avg: 5.242649912834
Error max: 0.0505102872849 (4.30728 bits)
Error avg: 0.0327344845327 (4.93304 bits)

1 NR step:
Good bits min: 8
Good bits avg: 10.642581939697
Error max: 0.00255139507338 (8.61450 bits)
Error avg: 0.00132373889641 (9.56117 bits)

2 NR steps:
Good bits min: 17
Good bits avg: 19.922843217850
Error max: 6.62494557693e-06 (17.20366 bits)
Error avg: 2.62858584054e-06 (18.53728 bits)

3 NR steps:
Good bits min: 23
Good bits avg: 23.674004554749
Error max: 1.19249960972e-07 (22.99951 bits)
Error avg: 3.44158509521e-08 (24.79235 bits)

Here, "good bits" is 24 minus the number of trailing non-zero-bits in the integer difference between the approximation and the correct value, looking at the IEEE 754 binary representation (if that makes sense).

Also, for the NR steps I used double precision for the inner (2.0 - x * y) part, then rounded to single precision, to simulate FMA, but single precision for the outer multiplication.
At the end of the day the decision is made on personal level. “I like you” or “I don’t like you”. Such frameworks are just the limits how a manager can show liking/disliking someone. The thing is, that measuring someone’s performance is very hard. It’s not standardized multiple choice written exam. And maybe the company does not need more than quick&dirty, but easy to explain solution.
Depends on the age of the tool. We work with a lot of legacy systems that actually want us to integrate with them but don’t have the dev resources to build a proper API surface. As a result, we end up doing a lot of painful reverse engineering. These tools look promising for purposes like this.
> We can't stop drug importation. What makes you think that we can stop guns?

Hello, I'm British.

Better solutions don't have to be perfect, as the country of my birth demonstrates: still has drugs smuggled in, sometimes even has firearms, even a few mass shootings.

But firearms are banned so effectively that even the police don't routinely carry them — the handful of officers I've ever seen armed in the UK, in person, were all in airports.

The four nations of the UK combined had around 700 homicides in total in each recent year, which is about the same as Philidelphia plus half of Baltimore. It's not just because the US is more populous, the per-capita homicide rate in the UK is about 80% lower in the UK than in the US.

I know the UK is unusual — I'm in Berlin now, and the cops here have what looks like a pistol, not that I'd be able to distinguish it in the holster from a taser or a pistol shaped pepper spray — but there's a whole world of other ways to do things than what each of us takes for granted, and we can learn from each other if we don't shut out the possibility.