skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm implying you are painting the wrong picture about Lebanon. This is a story of a state which was established as a safe haven for Christians being taken over by force and ethnic cleansing of Christians and Jews. I'm not saying the Christians didn't have their share of bad actions (by western standards) but if I had to pick who are the good guys I'd still pick them.

"In the 1960s Lebanon was relatively calm, but this soon changed. Fatah and other Palestinian Liberation Organization factions had long been active among the 400,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanese camps. Throughout the 1960s, the center for armed Palestinian activities had been in Jordan. They were forced to relocate after being evicted by King Hussein during the 1970 Black September in Jordan. Fatah and other Palestinian groups attempted to mount a coup in Jordan by incentivizing a split in the Jordanian army, something that the ANM had attempted to do a decade earlier by Nasser's bidding. Jordan responded, and expelled the Palestinian forces into Lebanon. When they arrived, they created "a State within the State". This action was not welcomed by the Lebanese government, and this shook Lebanon's fragile sectarian balance.

Solidarity with the Palestinians was expressed by the Lebanese Sunni Muslims, with the aim to change the political system from one of consensus amongst different sects, towards one where their power share would increase. Certain groups in the Lebanese National Movement wished to bring about a more secular and democratic order, but as this group increasingly included Islamist groups, encouraged to join by the PLO, the more progressive demands of the initial agenda was dropped by January 1976. Islamists did not support a secular order in Lebanon and wished to bring about rule by Muslim clerics. " - Wikipedia

"During the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), an estimated 120,000 people were killed, and almost a million people fled Lebanon, with Christian casualties being a significant part of that total." -> Gemini (some estimates put the number at 150,000)

A million people were displaced, again mostly Christians. 2/3rd of the population.

You'd think the Muslim Lebanese could just have easily moved to Syria, or to Turkey, or other Muslim or Arab countries. I don't see how the argument that the Christians just left because it was "easy" for them to get asylum in western countries holds water.

Hezbollah didn't exist for most (or all) of the civil war in Lebanon. Not sure why we're talking about Hezbollah. The PLO wasn't really an "islamist terror organization" either.
This also means google should not give away for free any of their gmail service, youtube?, chrome, maps or any such thing. All of these are funded by the ad money
Hi Nirav! Long time admirer.

Gen 4 x4 or gen 5 x4? I saw that gen 5 x4 results in maybe a 3% decrease in 5090 performance compared to gen 5 x16.
Funnily enough the example given of good “L” and “T” kerning in the word SALTY is badly kerned, the letters are kerned too close to each other. The classic trick is to look at 3-letter groups at a time, one word at a time.
Back then, computers didn't really do kerning as well as they do now, and desktop publishing wasn't as common or affordable. Today, publishing tools are so easy to use, and the default kerning is usually good enough that most people won't notice a problem, or if they do, they often don't know it can be fixed.
Pilot Signal
Cool :) but reminds me that all energy storage is scary and an accident waiting to happen.

Flows > stocks, overhead wire for the win!
Minus 173° C. The US does use Fahrenheit, but not for science.
I’m well aware. Read my other comments in this thread.
If I remember correctly, some documents that appear in season 1 have addresses that say "Kier, PA"
Yes, they are meaningful.
For example:
Adjective + some natural phenomena + some flower = girl name.
My experience with Plasma is that it has lots of little visual bugs and glitches that you can usually ignore or work past. Compared to GNOME where the bugs are rare but usually disastrous.
Are they worried that their project is going to be called "cooch"? It seems likely to severely inhibit uptake.
It’s fast. Doesn’t take much memory or energy.
pi_digits_official: IG Showcasing 1k Digits of Pi as a Seamless Color Gradient
> main restrictions: 1) Email aliases are receive-only, meaning you cannot send or reply to emails from your aliases

this part is a bummer but i do understand why; i feel it would be a huge improvement being able to do this if i were to self-host; especially if the headers make no use of "alias" or "sent on behalf of user X". (ive never been a fan of email addresses being 1:1 with usernames for public domains, a system that allows interchangeability on both would be a pretty big win, coupled with aliases, imo)
Good point. A lot of people don’t know this.

If the company makes it - the venture can be in legal jeopardy.
Enough people pay for Nebula and Kagi and Fastmail to make them profitable, even though YouTube and Google and Gmail are free. You don't need to get everyone in the world who uses the free service to be willing to pay, just enough of them to fund your project.

There's actually an advantage to the paid business model vs ads in that you don't have to appeal to N million people in order to pay the bills: you only have to appeal to `expenses / subscriptionPrice` people. This means you can cater to those people more aggressively and turn them into fans rather than just users, while also saving time on the features they don't need (reducing `expenses`).

(I'm a happy subscriber to all three above-mentioned services and would immediately sign on for a paid Firefox fork like OP suggests.)
Well, that's why I said "ATM", it's not a sustained rate, all the time. And yes, there's a bunch of DELETEs too.
In theory stoicism's precepts are not bad, in practice, however, I've rarely seen them amount to little more than an excuse for obstinacy and ignorance toward legitimate problems and one's own inadequacies. The modern day capitalist tech-bro peddled variant of "stoicism" especially is often just used to justify a retreat inward, and a failure to recognize one's own relationships to others and one's own responsibility. Worse, it is a wholly uncritical "philosophy" that encourages people to accept the status quo rather than endeavor to make it better and change it.
Seems less sketchy to use uBlock Origin with bypass-paywalls-clean-filters... at least then you're not directly adding executable code, though I'm not sure if uBO filter lists can be exploited.
Klarna F-1
Are the sky cranes of Mars viable without an atmosphere?
About half of the US was too checked out to vote in the last election. They won't be boycotting anything on any kind of principle, but they may join a boycott if there is enough social pressure to do so.

It's odd that most discussion I've see about boycotts recently (including this article) has framed them as a solitary choice, rather than part of a social movement. It's important to embrace and pay attention to the social aspects of how one pushes for change. This is the real secret sauce in politics.
I had a similar concern when I used a random app for TOTP on my garmin watch, but was relieved when I considered the point I raised. To add codes to the watch you have to paste a seed into an app, and it couldn't be triggered from a QR code. I didn't realize the scan for 2fa had so much info.
Personally, I've considered the problem to be a long term one and fixing it as a possible silver lining. I have to admit that I'm a bit of a pessimist about the integrity of the American people. I was wrong about what would happen with the first Black President, I was sure the racism was going to have a silver lining of cutting down the POTUS and not allowing a show like this. But the POTUS office is still the reason the US will kill itself at a minimum. (Nothing good can go unpunished?)
My grandparents live near those hills. The funny thing is, they’re uphill both ways.
Yet, as you note, still different.

I'll take a chance on a hardware update if the forums say "soft brick." If people are saying "brick," then I'm only moving forward if I'm prepared to write off the device.

edit: HN headline has been corrected
Yes, Caesar was an invader.

But it's important to understand that all of Gaul was tribal. The was no unified country. These tribes were invading each other's land constantly to loot, rape, kill, take hostages, enslave, and extract tribute.

Gallic tribes had famously sacked Rome, and if Rome hadn't become so powerful they would have happily done it again. German tribes had successfully invaded Roman territory as recently as around the time Caesar was born. They were a legitimate threat, especially to the Roman province, although it's also true Caesar's had other motivations.

Again, it's just much more complicated than when for example Hitler and Stalin jointly invaded the entirely peaceful country of Poland. Or when Putin invaded the entirely peaceful country of Ukraine.
Don't know if you're caught up with the new season, so, spoilers, she's not a high level exec.
What I don't understand is why pi is two taus stuck together but tau is 2*pi rather than the other way around.
I’m skeptical the tariffs were mean to shield US interests rather than just being intended to do exactly what they’re achieving: isolating the US by driving investment and allies away, while contributing to a recession where oligarchs can further consolidate power and wealth.

If you look at them as an attack on the US, everything makes a lot more sense.
The judge can request that the lawyers involved lose their admission to practice in federal court for serious ethical violations like the ones here.

However, this very rarely happens except in the most egregious cases where the lawyer is usually also disbarred for their conduct (i.e., Guiliani) so it's not a meaningful disciplinary measure.
https://archive.is/G6I98 (for those not wanting to enable JavaScript)
No worries. It's early days, the code and docs are just a few months in the making. I'm happy to keep you updated on the progress. If you want, send your contact info to hi@pgdog.dev.

- Lev
> there's a huge difference between making a foreigner leave, and sentencing a citizen

The White House has shown open contempt for the judicial and legislative branches. Why do you think they'd stop, simply because the person they've chosen to make an example of is a citizen?

But fine, he's a foreigner. What's so hard about the human right of due process, here? Serve the warrant. Appear in court. Argue the case that is, according to those in favor of yeeting this guy out the country, so blindingly obvious.
> Yes, but I need some practice
> being hungry after years of stuffing
> my face whenever I felt like it.

Why do you need such practice?

I'd honestly rather suffer an hour doing unpleasant cardio to burn off carbs than spending all day feeling miserable and shaky from hunger. Particularly on jobs or tasks where mental focus is essential.
it's true. I never in a million years could have imagined that I would be paying for a search engine. now you can pry Kagi out of my cold dead hands.
That’s a really interesting thought. I think the key part (as a consumer of AI tools) would be identifying the things that are guesses vs deductions vs complete accurate based on the training data. I would happily look up or think about the output parts that are possibly hallucinated myself but we don’t currently get that kind of feedback. Whereas a human could list things out that they know, and then highlight the things they making educated guesses about, which makes it easier to build upon.
Only about 7500 or so Green Cards are issued every year to Indians in each employment based category (capped due to the per-country cap that's applied to India, China, Mexico) in each of the few employment based categories. The number of people who have applied for these categories in the last 10-15 years is much more than 7500 a year, typically almost 10x, so the line moves at a glacial pace, usually moving a month every year.

The line for EB-2 and EB-3 (where most Indians are) is currently servicing those who applied in Summer 2012. So if your colleague got in the line in say Summer 2015, that's 36 months away. At the current pace it could easily be 20-40 years before their turn comes.

Also remember that there was a massive tech boom in the 2014 to 2019 period, so a LOT more people applied during that time so the movement of the line will slow down even beyond the current 1 month per year rate. If your colleagues applied in 2016 or beyond they are unlikely to get it in their lifetime unless the per-country caps are removed.

Finally, you'll sometimes hear the word "retrogression". That refers to the line actually moving "back". This happens because the date that the USCIS announces as the "pointer" to who is being issued cards is an estimate based on the recent green card issue rate.

Sometimes it can move back if they had to issue more green cards than they expected to (since people can apply for spouse and kids together when their turn comes).

Sometimes it moves forward faster if the number of people they expected to apply for the final processing stage turns out lower than their estimation.
I see you're getting downvoted (wrongly, because you're discussing in good faith), but I agree with the sentiment. 5% is a bit harsh, but having been on multiple iOS teams where AutoLayout is essential, it has always been a challenge to get people to understand what's going on, do the correct thing, and write code that doesn't barf constraint conflict warnings to the console. Seasoned iOS engineers have learned to do the right thing, but it's easy for one person to introduce a new conflict that nobody notices until months later when it's tedious to debug.

A shorter way of saying this is that the ergonomics of the most broadly-deployed constraint solving UI layout system—AutoLayout for iOS—still cause pain. It's not better pain than the massive complexity of CSS, it's just different pain. And it's also not sufficient; Apple themselves introduced collection views and stack views, each of which has its own special behavior. Their new framework, SwiftUI, does not use AutoLayout. Even the maintainers don't consider AutoLayout "superior" enough to adopt in a fresh UI framework.

It's a shame, because there is elegance in having a layout system you can explain in one or two pages, with enough power to almost support an entire OS and ecosystem of apps. It's just not quite across the finish line for developer experience and education.
They can take all of Florida.
I got 100 actuations has 1 chance in 10,000, which is unlikely, but not maybe not as unlikely as it seemed at first glance.

1 actuation has 1 chance in 1e6
1e2 actuations has 1e2 chances in 1e6
1e2 actuations has 1 chance in 1e4
> Apple Vision APIs

Can we even OCR pdfs using Apple Vision APIs
Very ahead of the times for 2014.

> GSS was created by Dan Tocchini, leader of the TheGrid, the first AI website platform.
And that organization would be bought off by Big Food quickly
it's one of many little things that add up to "oh your poster looks much nicer than the others" - but they can't put their finger on what exactly makes it nice.
More important to you
Right. The attack is:

1. You intend to log into an (evil) website using your Yubikey U2F token.

2. A popup appears that looks like this: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/usb#get_acces... saying the website wants to connect to your Yubikey.

3. You click 'allow' because you do want the website to access your Yubikey. Then you press the button on the Yubikey when the light starts flashing, because that's what you do.

4. Your unphishable credential just got phished.
Fascinating how Strix Halo feels like AMD's spiritual successor to their ATI merger dreams - finally delivering desktop-class graphics and CPU power in a genuinely portable form factor. Can't wait to see where it pushes laptop capabilities.
I don’t know anyone who would say Marcus Aurelius was the greatest emperor. He was the last of the “Five Good Emperors”, which correctly implies that he was the one who dropped the ball on succession planning. He was a good emperor aside from that, but even out of the Five Good Emperors you could make a case for any of the other four ahead of him. And none of those guys come close to Augustus, Domitian, or Constantine.

That having been said, Marcus Aurelius was definitely one of the better emperors. Leagues ahead of guys like Nero or Caligula or Elagabalus or uh, Commodus (who was his son). It’s been said that the reign of Marcus Aurelius was the high point of the Roman Empire as a whole, but that’s a double edged statement about the emperor himself.
What's the use case? I'm assuming one is trying to send a message to someone far away so it seems like the alternatives wouldn't necessarily help.
One might even argue that a Turing Machine (computers) is really one dimensional.
Why? Because Oil Companies are lobbying for inefficient hydrogen to delay a green revolution:

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/carbon-notes-5-green-hydrog...

> The members of the hydrogen coalition are all obviously incumbent fossil fuel and petrochemical interests looking for a bridge to the new era. If realized, their ambitious hydrogen projects may overload the available supply of green power, for little real benefit. By diverting badly needed clean power, green hydrogen vanity projects may even slow down the energy transition. And the subsidy regimes that are being put in place could become self-perpetuating. As Gernot Wagner and Danny Cullenward recently warned, “hydrogen could become the next corn ethanol”, a ruinously inefficient and environmentally damaging creature of subsidies that are too big to kill.
IIRC, the app isn't actively involved in bluetooth audio negotiations, but it does allow you to change settings within the headphones around what codecs it will advertise support for and prefer to use. Those settings have reasonable defaults and any changes you make persist on the headphones even if you uninstall the app.
You can disable that with a single button press.
A moving barge with a known flat surface of a known hardness and stability is a whole different category of difficult than doing the same thing on naturally occurring terrain with unknown voids, hardness, roughness and consistency.
> out-of-order cores which dynamically schedule at runtime.

OOO architectures don't reschedule dynamically - that's impossible - they just have multiple instruction buffers that can issue the instructions. So scheduling is still important for OOO it's just at the level of DDG instead of literally linear order in the binary.

Edit: just want to emphasize

> It's only going to be useful if you're writing code for some machine that doesn't do that

There is no architecture for which instruction scheduling isn't crucial.
I'm on grapheneOS on my daily driver, and that ROM officially passes basicIntegrity compliance without spoofing, but it lacks SafetyNet compliance (and fundamentally won't ever be able to get it officially) and the project refuses to fake/spoof it.

This is enough for absolutely everything except Google Wallet/Pay.

I'm fine with that.
Chinese Towers and American Blocks
It absolutely was. In the event that breakthroughs happened and it became viable faster than expected, the backup plan was to get the hydrogen from fossil fuels to make sure the industry would still get its cut.
FinderFix to fix Finder size. https://github.com/synappser/FinderFix
I didn't say it was top-heavy. I answered the question, "Why does everyone think it is top heavy?"
There's a bit of interesting work that's done re: introducing cloned organisms from decades past (from a time when biodiversity wasn't as strained), e.g. https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2024-11/advancements-black...

One could also imagine releasing a virus which reprogrammed wildlife genomes for resistance against some toxin that we had previously introduced into the environment (ideally we would also stop introducing the toxin...).

But none of these things come down to "heres a tool for you to use". Golly I wish I could come up with some technology that would help the woodpeckers better hunt invasive pine beetles--the forests around me are looking pretty rough--but that's a bit too fantastical to hope for.
Modern bad guys kill heroes in the womb.

We need a safe harbor outside of the WWW for things that actually need nothing more than HTML 1.0. And be prepared to do without the wonderful services and contents that are "offered" by big corps "for free".
AI #107: The Misplaced Hype Machine
Because it's been shelved.
The Memory Game Rulebook
The whole point of ATProto is personal ownership of content. The current degree of centralization is an undesirable but (arguably) necessary feature of bootstrapping a new platform.
You’d probably wanna make sure that’s the problem area first.

Considering the altimeter failed, that seems unlikely to be the case.
Did you mean to post a "subscriber link" that enables public access to articles at LWN? As it is now, it's members only until 20th of March...
At least you specifically see what each charge is costing you.
Great quote; I'll reuse this.
That is the joke in the community ;) See also

https://www.ironicsans.com/2008/02/idea_a_new_typography_ter...

https://fuckyeahkeming.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/keming/
Yeah that part is maddenning. I've been using a side-swippable cursor thing to reach the bar at the top.
Go is played on a 19x19 board. At the beginning of the game the first player has 361 possible moves. The second player then has 360 possible moves. There is always a finite and relatively “small” number of options.

I think you are thinking of the fact that it had to be approached in a different way than Minimax in chess because a brute force decision tree grows way too fast to perform well. So they had to learn models for actions and values.

In any case, Go is a perfect information game, which as I mentioned before, is not the same as problems in the real world.
Good points.

Thanks for sharing the link. Yikes! It looks like all of part 9 is in play. Ie one had better be absolutely truthful - or self decline, who would ever do that?

Also, the problem with the legal definition of “a disqualification requirement” is it can be vague and subject to change.

Would I be correct in saying that a strict adherence to USA law is mandatory?
It varies. In recent years (last decade or so) YVR has been pretty good. Historically there were ups and downs.

I doubt a few immigration officers with handguns (can't say for sure they even carry them or carry them out of the airport) are going to take over BC.
I'm guessing there are surveillance features (I don't know) and companies put up with it for that reason.
Ah complete total ignorance. Figures
It's one of those traps where the people who need the philosophy the least are most drawn to it.

If you're really emotionally disconnected, stoicism has an intuitive appeal because it justifies what you already do. Although, there a distinction people miss here, observing an emotion and letting it pass is far different from denying the emotion in the first place.

On the opposite side, people who go through life dumping and blaming their emotions on others are very quick to label stoicism as toxic, when it's the philosophy that could help them the most.

It's just one of those things, by definition we can't see our own blindspots.
I know that CICO has been debunked, but I've never seen such a wonderfully clear example as in your last sentence. Thank you!
Highlights from Git 2.49
Lol they just hide it very well - go to chrome://apps and check what's there :)
It's BS. Random tourists aren't being "disappeared for no good reason". A "tourist" that overstayed by 2 years without applying for a Visa and/or started working here are being deported back to their home nation - in accordance with the law.

There's a tremendous amount of scaremongering, fearmongering, and misinformation being thrown about currently. Majority of it is very much over stated hyperbole.