skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has never been a war in history where one side stops because they killed enough people. War ends when the enemy surrenders.

The Japanese killed a few dozen civilians in Pearl Harbor. America killed 10,000x as many during their bombings of Japan. Had they not surrendered, they likely would have killed an order of magnitude more. The only alternative would have been for the US to completely blockade Japan indefinitely to prevent them from rebuilding their military. Actually, they wouldn't be able to do that either because that would make Japan an "open air prison."
> Israel admits defeat and gives Hamas everything it wants. How does this remove Hamas from power?

Obviously it does not. There is a difference, however, between giving Hamas everything they want and giving Palestinians absolutely nothing, ever. Pulling back settlements and occupation from the Fatah-dominated West Bank would be a start.
>Can you explain why?

Well, the key servers are useless because they are susceptible to that poisoning attack from a few years ago, and they happily send you fraudulent or revoked keys.

And the web of trust doesn't scale. The trust ratings mean different things to different people, the propagation of revocation certs and signatures is slow, and rotating keys is onerous.

>For example, if I'm communicating with an open source dev, having their known-authentic PGP key allows me to simultaneously verify the authenticity of their software updates, verify the authenticity of the email they send me, and encrypt my emails to them. Is there anything outside of PGP that accomplishes this?

How often do you check the fingerprints of that key? Do you verify out of band when the developer rotates their key? (Haha just kidding, PGP users essentially never rotate keys)

If you care enough to encrypt your emails, then what is the virtue of verifying less frequently that you're talking to the correct persons?

Why wouldn't you want separate keys for all those things?

Why would you want an adversary to be able to compromise a single key and have the ability to forge commits, emails, and whatever else?
> given the lack of crumple zones

Source?
Many things will happen within 10 years. I think the article refers to current times.
> Letting the structure emerge requires people thinking in depth about the underlying principles of what the code does or should do.

Right, yes, but those principles are often still very much in flux in the early days of a feature. Once a feature is more mature, it’s easier to confidently say what the code should do, and so that becomes a good time to refactor. Early on in the development lifecycle I think it’s rarely a good idea to worry about code duplication, underabstraction, etc.

And yes I agree with you that classes are an organizational concept with parallels in functional languages. Modularity is very important, but as you say there’s no reason that modularity implies classes. Sometimes I find classes to be ergonomic, and when they are using them makes sense, but plenty of other times a struct will do, as long as there’s some type of module system to keep different things different.
Commercial illustrators are the first that come to mind.
no doesn't work that way. experts can change per token so for interactive speeds you need all in memory unless you want to wait for model swaps between tokens.
I don’t work for TailScale, I don’t hold shares.

Just a fan.
No; a chance to be full citizens in the same state, removing discrimination of "Arabs" or "Jewish", refounding the country on the basis of a modern state: separation of church and state, freedom of religion, equality for everyone before the law. Open a process to discuss reconciliation and reparations for expropriation of land (which Israel can easily afford). Give Palestinians the chance to regain their dignity and hope, in exchange for long-term peace and security.

Or do something else, I don't care; at this point one has to try anything but this slow-motion ethnic cleansing and "two states" bantustans.
E.U. reaches deal on landmark AI bill, racing ahead of U.S.
> Does anyone know if changing the drug would require a new FDA approval for the entire regimen, or could the protocol be easily changed?

The FDA-approved prescribing information will recommend a particular chemotherapy regimen, but clinicians will be free to substitute alternatives if they believe those are clinically superior. They won't need permission from the FDA or the manufacturer to do that; clinicians deviate from the FDA-approved manufacturer recommendations all the time ("off-label prescribing").

If the manufacturer wants to update the official recommendations in the prescribing information, then they'll need FDA approval for that. But it is possible for clinicians to publish their own treatment guidelines (e.g. in medical journal articles), independent of the manufacturer, and the FDA has no control over those.
Yep. That is the question. Anyone that immediately comes back with “it’s stealing!”, especially those that were confidently saying it when this first became an issue, long before they would’ve had any time to contemplate it deeply, are just proving that techies’ sense of transferable expertise is completely unfounded.
Why would Google announce a software release, without releasing it? There are many answers to that question, but "because it works as advertised" is not one of them.

I didn't even bother reading their announcement once I saw an HN comment pointing out that nobody can use the thing yet.

It's an LLM. If it works like they say, let me talk to it and see for myself. Otherwise, it's pretty obvious why they don't want me to do that...
> But we can't. There won't be a one-state solution that satisfies everyone, and the earlier we understand it, the better.

South Africa managed to pull it, and end apartheid. Why wouldn't it work for Israel?
I've been using Backblaze since CGP Grey recommended it more than 5 years ago. It saved my bacon more than once.

Do check the default exclusions though, it doesn't backup movie files by default... 8(
Mine as well—and not only paper but writing implements as well. I don’t use pens or pencils much anymore, but I still get a kick out of browsing and trying out the vast selection in large stationery stores in Japan. (I live in Yokohama.)

Japanese book printing and binding have long been top-level, too. I used to help edit dictionaries for Japanese publishers, and I ended up collecting several hundred paper dictionaries from around the world. The Japanese dictionaries had the clearest printing, the thinnest and most opaque paper, and the strongest and most flexible bindings.
I worked for mDesign for and we owned m.design for a while. We used it for our corporate email addresses (aaron@m.design for example) but the majority of non-tech employees and vendors just couldn’t get used to it and tried things like aaron@m.design.com or etc so it got scrapped.
No one is surprised at all by this, right?
Oh boy. First, most Israeli Jews are of middle eastern origins, expelled from their homes in the surrounding Arab states. Second, like someone else noted, possession is 9/10th of the law, i.e., the world belongs to the living. Third, the Jewish people are the indigenous people of Israel - there is evidence of Hebrew being the language of the region 4500 years ago.
"How do you honestly support people who elected Hamas"

Speaking against mass destruction of key societal institutions and infrastructure, mass murder and attrocities, and starvation of Gazans by Israel's government policy in its current military operation against Gaza, is not a high mental bar for giving "support". It's easy to support that.

I don't have anything against Jews. But I can see that people in Gaza, being under siege by Israel for almost two decades, and under direct occupation before that, and being displaced or having ancestors displaced from their original homes, by Israel before the occupation, may dislike Israel or Jews. (easy to conflate the two, given that that's the Isreal's media policy) And I'll not judge them for that.

If this is insane, fine...
The 2020 riots were nowhere close to October 7th. You think that if a native american separatist group committed a 9/11 level attack the US response would be "hand off"?
Kid Pix memories unlocked!
Hm, interesting. I don't know much about crypto math. I just typed 'gpg --version' on the command line, and it looks like my gpg has support for various public key schemes including elliptic curves. Are they all based on the same variant of the hidden subgroup problem?

Even if the math itself is bulletproof -- as you stated, there could be an implementation flaw in either the Signal code or the GPG code that effectively bypasses the math, right? See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard#Vulnerabilit...

>They’re much bigger fans of exploits and implants, which they are absolutely not wasting on “ordinary” criminals.

The ASCII-armor scheme I described could be helpful here too. Run Signal in a VM (e.g. with Qubes -- endorsed by Snowden). Copy/paste ciphertext in and out of the VM to GPG. Should be fairly idiotproof because ciphertext doesn't look like plaintext. Now even if the NSA sends you a Signal message that owns the VM, they still need some sort of VM escape/CPU sidechannel, or else knowledge of a vulnerability in GPG's encryption.

>The Rule of Two is a data security principle from the NSA's Commercial Solutions for Classified Program (CSfC).[3] It specifies two completely independent layers of cryptography to protect data. For example, data could be protected by both hardware encryption at its lowest level and software encryption at the application layer. It could mean using two FIPS-validated software cryptomodules from different vendors to en/decrypt data.

>The importance of vendor and/or model diversity between the layers of components centers around removing the possibility that the manufacturers or models will share a vulnerability. This way if one components is compromised there is still an entire layer of encryption protecting the information at rest or in transit. The CSfC Program offers solutions to achieve diversity in two ways. "The first is to implement each layer using components produced by different manufacturers. The second is to use components from the same manufacturer, where that manufacturer has provided NSA with sufficient evidence that the implementations of the two components are independent of one another."[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_encryption

As for implants, that's going to require physical or root access as a prerequisite, no?
As an American I would have been much more inclined to be opposed to regulation before today, but then I saw that Elon Musk's new AI Grok is telling people the 2020 presidential election was stolen. We have to have some rule to prevent this sort of thing:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/18duaoi/elon_musks...
It's a Rorschach test. If it appears garishly stupid to you, there's a high probability that you had a pre-existing dislike for Elon Musk and that this condition has interacted with your perception of the Cybertruck.
> Either because they just don’t care enough to install another browser

The way this is written implies to me you think they should install something else, but obviously they just don’t care.

Whenever there are discussions about Safari on hacker news they tend to be a lot of people who seem to have the opinion it should die and that anyone with a brain uses chrome.

Between your word choice and that seemingly common sentiment here that’s what I thought you were saying. I’m sorry if I misunderstood.
I wrote the OP :) I agree with you. What I was trying to highlight is that many of the people the person who originally responded to me was concerned about have the exact disease! And we need continued development with initial high costs to hopefully bring the costs down.
The laws actually seem reasonable. The amount of spin in the article is unbelievable, I almost fell for it myself as the false narrative presented fits neatly with EU's reputation of being anti-innovation which also aligns with my general position on the EU (having lived there for a few years, I can say there is some truth to it).

That said, as a libertarian I generally oppose such laws that restrict freedom in such a specific way. I think there should be simpler and more general laws centered around harm. If some action results in individual harm and it does not yield a net social benefit (for society as a whole) then the victims should be able to obtain damages from the perpetrator.
Might There Be No Quantum Gravity After All?
Not only is there such a thing as a distinction between relatively soft and particularly dangerous parts of a car for a human skull to hit, but there have in fact been some cars made (one example is this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_C6 ) where the bonnet is rigged to explode upwards in a pedestrian collision so that it meets the impact earlier and does a better job of keeping their skull away from the engine block.
That’s something that Microsoft would do in the 90s.

Apple’s MO clearly is breaking something and refusing to elaborate further.
They certainly got that aesthetic right; the only thing that stands out (but might be a necessity) is using real names instead of handles.
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In the other thread I found out about chat.google.com, what a product. Growing up I looked up on google products, their simplicity, efficiency and engineering seemed amazing and I strive for those qualities in my software. Google Chat has none of these qualities, it's slow (really slow), complicated and buggy. What's happening to Google?
Investors are reading balance sheets, not HN comments. Look at Google's stock price since Pichai took over and you will understand how he still has a job.
I am a complete layman in the world of complex computer graphics programming and research, but I have an interest in it as someone who enjoys playing computer games.

I really enjoyed this succinct YouTube video on the topic, for those interested in a primer: https://youtu.be/HVv_IQKlafQ?si=y9gdS-1UkmdTX2Ik
It’s quite clear that you haven’t read anything about this and are arguing strictly from your ideological priors. For starters, the end of Feudalism led to workers being forced from rural settings into concentrated urban ones, which was accompanied by an increase in widespread disease outbreaks and malnutrition. In countries like England, this had an immediate disastrous impact on health and lifespans relative to fairly stable trend under feudalism. Likewise, having been dispossessed of lands they were previously free to exist and work on for many generations, many adult and child were, in effect, kidnapped, as the only other choice was starvation and death. The rest of your comment is more of the “draw the rest of the owl” history that I alluded to in my comment, unless you somehow think the formation of the Labour Party in England was unrelated to these developments.
>nobody will immediately make friends after a massacre and mass rape

Certainly, Israel has seen to it that it will be much more difficult. Which would be my point.

>Quiet reminder that there are 1B followers of Islam and there has always been a wish (especially from Iran) to end the existence of Israel: the Palestinian people are unfortunately a pawn in that game.

As a black American, I understand the Israeli hypersensitivity to even the whiff of anti-Semitic violence as the harbinger of a possible repeat of history that should never be repeated. I also understand that lashing out at every perceived slight as the harbinger of a possible repeat of history that should never be repeated is a great way to make allies unsympathetic, as they get caught in the crossfire. The real enemy is the war you want.

I would like Israel to reach a state where it doesn't constantly fear for its existence. The road there passes through, "Not doing another Nakba."
Airphone 4 Review (Fake iPhone 4) (2010) [video]
> separate country with borders.

Gaza does not have borders it controls, Israel controls Gaza's air and sea borders.
Why don't they just buy an island like other billionaires?
They're just helping OpenAI be a non-profit by taking on the burden of profits.
I really like safari and have used it ever since the day it was released. It’s my favorite browser.

There’s a very common sentiment on HN and other technical places that safari is a serious problem that needs to be removed from the web so that things can be “better”.

That’s why I’m insulted. Not because someone is insulting Apple, do that all you want if they deserve it. Because I’m tired of people implying that the browser I like is shit because it’s not chrome and its only used because people have no choice or can’t figure out how to switch.
Companies don't consider seeking additional profits to be "immoral." Nor did they change behavior, not radically, at least. Companies saw fear, chaos and a lack of resistance from the buying public regarding pricing, and adjusted accordingly.

Personally I don't consider this "greedflation," but post-pandemic economics exposed that the equilibrium between producers and consumers was vulnerable to a major shift (in favor of the producers), and they took advantage of that.
It's not just America. Everyone is fixated on the Jews (for or against). There's plenty of ethno-religious conflicts all around the world but the world only cares about one of them.

Also, "lobbying" is a boogeyman here. Americans support Israel for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with lobbying. Israel is a settler society, it's a country of immigrants, much like the US. Israel has a rule of law, it's a democracy, much like the US. Israel has long existed within a sea of hostile Arab nations, none of which are democracies (okay minus Lebanon, kind of) and none which particularly resemble of the US. People are starting to look at the Israelis as bullies today but for most of the 20th century, they were viewed as the underdog. And finally there's a religious element: Americans are fairly Christian and feel a fellowship with Jews and view Israel as a custodian of the Holy Land. As a result of these factors and more, there's a strong affinity between Americans and Israel.
I actually thought that Apple might not care for now and that they’d just wait and see what happens.
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceBI
Reminds me of Nikola...
I know about this incident.

This was not a calendar. The first day was Oct 7th. It had the operation's name as the title "Al Aqsa Flood". https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1724245759174791626

It's true that Hagari incorrectly said it was a "roster". But it's not a calendar. It was a mistake, not a lie. He shouldn't have done that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/17zu5x8/di...
Nope, relies on the ECU to communicate over the OBDII port the emissions status.

There are visual inspections, but, they're not terribly thorough, and they don't disassemble anything.

That's for normal cars mind, for diesel semis/lori's they also have a measure of how much smoke comes out of the stacks at a given load, and how long it lingers in the air, so even if the ECU reads clean, if it's running dirty like that it'll still fail.
Eat meat. Cut carbs. That's how you outcompete tooth decay.
I have been happy so far with iCloud but mainly because I have a colocated Mac that I can also use to mount the iCloud directory over SSH to any local Linux machine (and also have local Macs).

I started using iCloud for git as well due to needing some extra storage that GitHub would have charged me several times more for... unconventional use case where I need a lot of git LFS storage.
Are you seriously asking why someone would trust Apple over a small generally unknown Android-only app company?
So we ignore the elders working then, no?

After all, the expanding Baby Boomers are backstopped and excluded from UE by the virtue of their Social Security payouts; we still have a UE formula problem.
This was often NOT done in many transgenic experiments 20 to 30 years ago. In mice transgenic insertions and inadvertent disruption of genes near the transgene insertion are only occasionally disruptive. The reelin gene disruption is a good example.

This work was started long before cheap whole genome sequencing.

However, comments are right—it was never too hard to examine the flanking sequence around the insertion site.

Just offered to help the team with telomere-to-telomere of the few rare wild American chestnut survivors. There are not that many.
I disagree slightly; I think there’s an important thing here which was a little bit glossed over in the article.

The original code established a pattern and left space for where and how to add code to handle edge cases, when they arose, whereas the clean code solution was implemented as though it was the complete and final solution.

A first draft is often incomplete, and in an oversimplified first draft, it’s easy to pull out patterns and remove “duplication” which is a result of the simplification, not an inherent feature of the problem being solved.
It's been on my list to do a proper shootout of all the various new quant formats floating around (my list here: https://llm-tracker.info/books/llms/page/quantization-overvi...) but a lot of them don't have very good production code yet (eg, a few months ago, when I tried OmniQuant, some of the important bits of code wasn't even included and had to be gotten directly from the authors: https://llm-tracker.info/books/llms/page/omniquant).

If you're looking for the best widely deployed quant format atm, it's probably ExLlamaV2's EXL2 - it supports arbitrary bpw w/ a calibration file, and also 8-bit kvcache support. I haven't tested EXL2 much at lower bpws though.

Note, both llama.cpp and AirLLM allow layer offloading to system memory (or in AirLLM's case, even to disk?!).

r/LocalLlama probably is the best place to search for if you're looking for people's experiences w/ quants. I know some people have been testing, like: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/17klaa5/tested_...
There was a war, you lost. There is no right to return for you anymore than I have a right to return to nowadays Polish Silesia. We had a term for these people in Germany - the "forever refugees", there aren't many left because even then people rightly realized to break the chain of violence is to build your life in the circumstances you found yourself in.

(And guess what, now I can go to Polish Silesia anytime I want! Not that I ever would, because my connection to that place is as tenuous as yours to Israeli land)
I believe that software-related college degrees are mainly there to get the horrible first few tens of thousands of lines of code out of people before they go into industry.
Cybertruck weighs 1000 pounds more than an F150, and has extreme levels of low end torque.
>How often do you check the fingerprints of that key? Do you verify out of band when the developer rotates their key?

I'm almost certain PGP best practice is to have a single master key, kept on an airgapped device, that's used to sign subkeys for various purposes like email, commit signing, etc. So I only have to verify out of band once, unless the airgapped device gets compromised or the master key encryption is broken.
Quick wikipedia check:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaz...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_e...

Fatah had more support in elections (yellow) in areas with former Israel settlements.
I went to a STEM school and exactly 0 of the professors had been in industry ever or at least in the last 30 years. The only guy with some experience was an underpaid lecturer. He was also the only good lecturer.

A lot of professors just want to do research and mentor students onto the PHD track to self replicate. My mandated faculty advisor was basically like "go to the career center" when I asked about, you know, getting a job of some sort with my degree.

So yes, it is a real problem. CMU may stand out by actually having courses in the space, but it is not the norm by any means.