nahumfarchi (u/nahumfarchi)

nahumfarchi commented on We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM mendral.com/blog/llms-are... · Posted by u/shad42

NewsaHackO · 13 days ago

What does O(10) mean?

nahumfarchi · 13 days ago

Mathematically, it means that the number of lines read is bounded by 10*M, where M is some constant. So it's basically equivalent to saying that it's O(1).

I'm guessing that intention was to say "around 10 lines", though it kind of stretches the definition if we're being picky.

nahumfarchi commented on Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

FirmwareBurner · 7 months ago

>You only stop war by having the best technology and by scaring the bejabers — I’m trying to be nice here — out of our adversaries.

That's haunting indeed to the naive minds who imagine the world must run on political correctness, rainbows and unicorns, but that's not how the real world works or has ever worked, and nobody can say that he's wrong though just because he's not sugar coating it. You only have peace if everyone is scared of you. Why do only small guys get bullied and not the tall muscular jocks? Why does Russia bully the EU and not the US?

Being pacifist doesn't assure you any peace if you're weak, as eventually, inevitably, someone hungry and greedy will build their strength to come for your lunch and you'll have to defend it if you want to keep it, as per human history in the last infinity years. Ask Belgium or NL how their pacifism worked out in WW2 in face of the Nazi army.

He should have just said: "Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war" if he wanted something that sounds nicer.

nahumfarchi · 7 months ago

I don't get HN anymore. This comment reflects a legitimate stance that's articulated just fine. Why is it grayed out?

nahumfarchi commented on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/_shadi

adhamsalama · 7 months ago

Defending? You mean colonizing. And Israel literally did terrorist attacks on Jews in Arab countries to make them flee to the newly occupied land.

nahumfarchi · 7 months ago

Sources?

nahumfarchi commented on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/simonw

Cthulhu_ · 8 months ago

All of your morally indefensible points can still happen in a democracy; democracy doesn't equate morally good, it means that the morally reprehensible acts have a majority support from the population.

Which is one reason why Israelites get so much hate nowadays.

nahumfarchi · 8 months ago

The current government is in power by a small majority, meaning that it is strongly contested by about 50% of Israelis (on most matters). That means against settlements, for ending the war, and largely liberal views. But no, we won't put out head on a platter thank you very much.

nahumfarchi commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) · Posted by u/david927

nahumfarchi · 9 months ago

A geometry processing library in the Odin language - https://github.com/nahumfarchi/odin-geometry.

Not much yet, it includes a basic half-edge implementation and a couple of small examples.

nahumfarchi commented on Interview with gwern dwarkeshpatel.com/p/gwern... · Posted by u/synthmeat

empiricus · a year ago

Minor: if n is finite, then a^nb^n becomes regular?

nahumfarchi · a year ago

Yes, all finite languages are regular.

Specifically, you can construct a finite automata to represent it.

nahumfarchi commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains

mempko · a year ago

I don't believe those children who died care about definitions. In fact they don't care much about anything anymore since they are dead.

nahumfarchi · a year ago

Their death is tragic, but such is war unfortunately... Lebanon is participating in this one whether they like to or not.

That aside, these definitions were written for a reason, even if they have no appeal to the current victims.

nahumfarchi commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains

lm28469 · a year ago

> It's downvoted because it's the definition of proportional.

Two wrongs don't make a right... are we really at that level of brain activity on HN of all places ? this is schoolyard level

You can have proportional terrorism, proportional war crimes, proportional crimes against humanity. Proportionality doesn't tell you much, it certainly doesn't tell you anything about it being indiscriminate or not

> Certainly not "indiscriminate".

Cool, go tell that to the two kids who died: https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0918/1470609-hezbollah-israel/

Also feel free to read the actual texts defining these things, detonating explosives in supermarkets is indiscriminate by nature, there is just no way around it if you're in good faith : https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule12

Both sides are clearly operating out of the boundaries we defined for conventional wars, is it really that hard to accept ? They're not even trying to hide it really... such a strange allergic reaction to these basic facts

nahumfarchi · a year ago

Proportionality is at the center of defining a war crime.

"The principle of proportionality (Article 51(5) (b) API) states that even if there is a clear military target it is not possible to attack it if the expected harm to civilians, or civilian property, is excessive in relation to the expected military advantage."

https://www.diakonia.se/ihl/resources/international-humanita...

So, the case that Israel has to make here is that the expected millitary advantage from the operation exceeds the collateral damage. The fact that civilians died doesn't automatically make it a war crime from an international law point of view.

nahumfarchi commented on How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019) twobithistory.org/2019/11... · Posted by u/davikr

HillRat · 2 years ago

What's really remarkable is that so much of the last decade or so of research has been grounded in work done in the 1970s and 1980s, when computational boundaries were narrow enough that the work was often largely speculative or significantly restricted in application, so it's only now that we're really seeing that work bear fruit. It's a pleasure reading old comp-sci papers, and I wish more developers took the time.

nahumfarchi · 2 years ago

I would love to see a list of "oldies but goldies" in various fields. Wonder if you're aware of such a thing?