skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the executives approaching the board was previously reported by Time: https://time.com/6342827/ceo-of-the-year-2023-sam-altman/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38550240

This adds some additional material, like blaming internal chaos on Altman inconsistencies, which seems consistent with what the Atlantic was hinting at: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-a... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38341399

(It also seems consistent with the reporting on Altman's firing from YC, which suggested that it wasn't any single smoking gun or crossed redline, just a pattern of behavior which eventually led to his ouster and some internal YC reforms: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-alt... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38378216 )
I live in the states and dropped Chrome for Safari
Pick your poison.
The human brain has a dizzying array of mystery cells
"How do I avoid Vim?"- the real question.
I knew that was going to happen, it's become a status symbol of like good vs. bad, the blue vs. green.

Its become like a racial slur the blue vs. green, and that's exactly what Apple wants to sell cellphones. You can't contact the cool kids until you have a blue bubble, that means you're like, cool or something. You can message me if you can afford an iphone apparently.
> 2. Since Apple has no control over the Beeper mini client, they would not consider it safe, it could easily be spying on users without their knowledge.

Since I have no control over iMessage, I would not consider it safe. It could easily be spying on me without my knowledge.
> Not necessarily, it depends on the kinds of contracts that are legally enforceable.

Who are you to decide how capitalism works? Sure, people disagree axiomatically, but instead of basing everything off a best-effort preference-utilitarianism you've decided to base it off of consent, without accounting for how reality, and especially capitalism, are inherently coercive. Why does consent matter if you can coerse someone into giving it?
HP printer app is installing on PCs whether they have HP printers or not
No state will tolerate a hostile army near its borders. But if representatives of Gaza/West Bank recognized Israel and made a peace agreement with delineated borders - they would have their army like any other government.

Today it sounds highly hypothetical, but was definitely possible at many points in Israel's history.
This is cool! I quite like it, I've thought about implementing something similar with activitypub, so each post would be visible on mastodon and you'd be able to comment directly on the post and it would show up as comment. Might be a cool way to extend it.
I just played with 7b version. It really feels different than anything I tried before. It could explain a docker compose file. It generated a simple vue application component.

I asked around a bit about the example and it was strangely coherent and focused across the whole conversation. It was really well detecting, where I'm starting a new thread (without clearing a context) or referring to things before.

It caught me off guard as well with this:

> me: What does following mean [content of the docker compose]

> cybertron-7b: In the provided YAML configuration, "following" refers to specifying dependencies

I've never seen any model using my exact wording in quotes in conversation like that.
I'm around there and am interested in adding new trees to my yard. If you're serious, drop me an email.
No problem, apologies for my response based on a misunderstanding.

> The idea being that even if the NSA can break Signal's crypto, they might fail to also break whatever crypto you select with PGP.

This is an intuitive idea, but I’ll also hazard that it’s probably security theater: at a “building blocks” level, a theoretical NSA that breaks Signal’s crypto has broken the finite subgroup problem that underpins all of PGP’s cryptography as well.

(The reality is that the NSA doesn’t crack this kind of cryptography, at least not when it’s done correctly. They’re much bigger fans of exploits and implants, which they are absolutely not wasting on “ordinary” criminals.)
quantization makes it hard to have exactly one answer -- I'd make a q0 joke, except that's real now -- i.e. reduce the 3.4 * 10^38 range of float 32 to 2, a boolean.

it's not very good, at all, but now we can claim some pretty massive speedups.

I can't find anything for llama 2 70B on 4090 after 10 minutes of poking around, 13B is about 30 tkn/s. it looks like people generally don't run 70B unless they have multiple 4090s.
The Israeli government literally funds Hamas: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

This is because Netanyahu and Hamas both oppose a peaceful resolution.

Hamas =/= Palestinian people. However, if your family's home is taken from you by Israel and your family members are killed by Israeli forces, you will vote for anyone most capable of fighting back, and Israel's funding means Hamas is most capable.

>Just be sure you enjoy it when you no longer have a vote that counts

I am from the US. My vote is useless. No party or candidate representing my interests can run, much less win.
It looks really nice! I have some relatives that struggle with tremor and I hope we will see such devices soon that can filter out the rapid shaking and make it easier for them to take notes
> Change tools every 3-5 years like the industry does, so by the time any given instructor actually has a grasp on a particular tool or paradigm, its already obsolete (or at least fallen out of fashion) too?

I mean, yeah. Seeing that wave happen over the course of their college career would probably be better prep for a career than most CS classes.
I tried to do the same thing using the free matterport app for iOS, but it failed terribly at stitching everything together before the drywall was up. I think it got confused by all the wide open spaces and lack of walls.

Ended up just taking a video as I walked throughout every room of the house which has generally proven to be helpful a number of times. In retrospect I probably should have looked into picking up a 360 degree camera.
Sen. Wyden: DOJ is spying on Apple, Google users via push notifications
This is a wake-up call. It's high time we demand open-source messaging standards across all platforms. Imagine a world where communication isn't dictated by corporate interests but by user needs and innovation.
You suspect that my point is to weaken the voices of those who aren't anti-Semetic but question the actions of Israel?

And not that perhaps my point is to highlight the opposite effect, by which the continued rhetoric of anti-Zionism as distinct from anti-Semetism weakens the voices of those experiencing a documented rise in genuine anti-Semitism by dismissing it as mislabeling?

Polarization around the human tendency for tribalism and side picking has led to increases in both anti-Muslim and antisemitism - people have been stabbed, had homes invaded, attacked, etc because of both those identities as rhetoric has become increasingly inflamed.

As I said - the times that I tend to see good faith discussion on this topic typically correlate with the voices that recognize the humanity of the civilians on both sides of the conflict, with the voices unilaterally humanizing one side while dismissing the suffering of the other side far more often tending to extend significantly greater underlying biases.

Denying the rise of antisemitism and trying to label it all as simply Zionism upset it isn't in favor has its own impact of conversation weakening I'd encourage you to consider.

To me, it seems pretty easy to both recognize that there's been a marked increase in antisemitism and anti-Muslim rhetoric tied to this topic without impacting my ability to both recognize and condemn actions of people in power in this conflict when targeting civilians or not taking internationally recognized measures to prevent civilian harm.
According to StatCounter, Safari has a 13% browser market share on desktops. (Similarweb shows 11% on desktops, so not terribly different.)

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...
I never understood what the point of comments like this is. You know what you’re describing is never going to happen. So is it just philosophical musing about what the ideal society would look like?
That's like getting upset after getting bad dating advice from a vending machine.
Common wisdom in most industries is to release bad PR announcements on a Friday and good ones towards the start of the week. It's interesting how the advent of twitter communication has shifted the ML ecosystem to publishing work whenever it's ready versus trying to find an optimal weekday. Or maybe they're optimizing for the weekend hackers that will take improvements released late in the week and put them into practice on Saturdays and Sundays.
Yes. Hence regulated public utilities, public roads, and railroad regulation.
In a prior life, I did a lot of work with SS7. I was dumbfounded by how insecure it is.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

I'm not sure the source of the English, if it's an official English version or was translated by a third party.

Among other things, it calls for the "obliteration" of Israel by Islam, asserts that "death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of [the Islamic Resistance's] wishes", and cites noted anti-semitic text "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" among other conspiracy theories. It also says:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."
There is little ethics in politics and geopolitics.

In US politics there are the Jews, the pro-Israel Lobby, and also part of the Evangelical Christian who strongly support Israel for religious reason (while sometime being a bit antisemitic). More generally American people strongly support Israel - even if some are criticizing decision made by Israel. Electorally all that is important.

Election aside, everybody have his own interest, but for many decade Israel had been a solid ally of the USA in the middle East - which is/was a key region. And the coming decades it is hard to see how it can change as both have interest to work with each other

Muslims that are unhappy with the current situation with Israel, were probably not huge fan of the USA and Israel in the first place... This did not prevent leaders of many Muslim countries to work closely with the USA and growingly more with Israel : national interest first. Of course the current event increase the pressure of the street over their leader to not work with Israel on the short term...

If USA were dropping big time a key ally in a key situation for this ally, this would send a very very bad signal to all allies. But we see that Biden is much more critical about Israel than USA used to be. While still being an ally.
I think that forcing this dichotomy is part of the deliberate pro-Israel media strategy - if you despise Hamas inhumane acts, then of course you need to be pro-Israel. They want you to focus on Hamas to steer away your attention from what Israel has been doing. (this is also one of the reasons why Hamas has historically been an asset for the Israeli right)
What if it's caused by random reboots lasting up to 1h? :)

Of course I'm half joking, but I wouldn't be surprised if software problems contributed to the delays (which tend to chain, as trains need to wait for each other, etc).
> It tries to be less wordy. :)

Cool. Now halve the number of words again. :)
I'm not a fan of this graph. It's not immediately obvious what things like the size of the colored state represents. It's certainly not the percentage of rural people. What is it?
Better wait at the very least 20 years for the patents to expire, so I would bet good money on 50 years.

It's not a silver bullet anyway, but "become generic" is doing some extremely heavy lifting.
Won't spammers just continue using the macos bridged other services instead of the direct to Apple way ?
To quote Donald Knuth, "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
> What uni Teaches You
> blablabla

So I'm gonna need to see dome data here. How many universities has this guy surveyed to make a claim like that?

My university did teach me design patterns, architecture and all. My professors did give me projects where requirements would change mid way and the software had to adapt without being completely rewritten. They did teache to write unit tests, to use a build tool to generate docs, reports, etc.

Was I battle tested for my first job? No, but it really wasn't as bad as what's described here.
There's a bunch of reasons why this is unlikely to be tortious interference, but one of the obvious ones is the contractual Terms & Conditions that apply between Apple and its users; I doubt Beeper is liable here, but if interference was a thing, my bet (not a lawyer!) is that the liability would point the other direction.
Common case of people seeing that something is common in Western Europe and Latin America and then claiming “the U.S. is the only country that doesn’t do X”. Happens all the time.
Yes, I'm sure that there is at least one person who uses iMessage in all of Europe.
Beeper doesn't give you iMessage. It just makes you appear as a "blue bubble" to people who are on iMessage.
Even if your definition here of Anti-Zionism was correct (it's not [1]), that is categorically different than what antisemitism is: a hatred of Jews, a belief in a global Jewish conspiracy, belief that Jews control capitalism / created communism, etc., belief that Jews are racially inferior, etc. Sure, people that are antisemitic can also be Anti-Zionist (e.g., the Ku Klux Clan). But so too can people be proudly Jewish and Anti-Zionist (e.g., most Orthodox Jews). People can also be antisemitic and Zionist (e.g., many evangelical Christians, Donald Trump, John Hagee, etc.).

Anti-Zionism and antisemitism are orthogonal ideas. Conflation of them is pure propaganda.

[1] "Although anti-Zionism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, all its proponents agree that the creation of the modern State of Israel, and the movement to create a sovereign Jewish state in the region of Palestine—the biblical Land of Israel—was flawed or unjust in some way." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism
You're really not understanding this. That's got nothing to do with the insurance model. That's just a regulatory thing. All those choices do is change the specific population that gets insured in a single pool, such that their specific computed premiums are different. But for ANY such population, the total premiums paid == the total loss outflow + a reasonable profit. And you can tell that's true because the accounting for those companies appears in their SEC filings.

In practice, car insurers are allowed to partition their customers this way because it's felt to be "fair" and because it encourages safe driving. Trying to partition health insurance customers like that feels "unfair", and has minimal net benefit as health expenses aren't as controllable-by-the-subscriber as car accidents are. So we pass laws about how the partitioning gets done.

But again, "insurance" as a business model (and mathematical model) works EXACTLY THE SAME WAY. The only difference is how you draw the lines around who gets insured at what rate.
Click baity - they are ceasing distribution of blight resistant seeds that died more frequently than expected. It’s not viable in wild so no go.

This headline would have you thinking they’re holding back progress or something. But it’s clear they are the opposite, cutting their losses and investing elsewhere.
Right in the center of the tenderloin area.
I'd love some lab space to really get into this. All the old high performance stuff used to be designed basically by hand — that takes money and true craft.

I spend most of my time in theoretical work of some kind, but get a real urge to build...
I know a few people who use safari on Mac. Either because they just don’t care enough to install another browser, or because they prefer the more “native Mac” look and feel.
> Keep in mind that the vast majority of the area was uninhabited swamps until the 1940s

Citation needed.
Nearly 2M people called Palestine their home in the 1940s, the majority Muslim.

We also know that the Palestinian villages bulldozed by the Israeli European Jewish settler colonialists over the last 75 years had existed for many hundreds of years-- many of the parks in Israel are built on top of the ruins of these destroyed Palestinian villages, to hide these crimes from the world. We know that the Palestinian olive orchards bulldozed by the Israelis were filled with trees that were hundreds of years old. Gaza itself, was a prosperous ancient city that once stood upon a crossroads of trade. Besides the 10s of thousands of civilians majority women and children murdered by Israel (war crimes) in this latest massacre of the many massacres by the Israelis, the Israelis are destroying all the buildings and civilian infrastructure in Gaza (war crimes), there may be no more Gaza when the Israelis are finished.

Short version, you are spreading falsehoods in defense of genocidal behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palesti...
Here's a fix for the git blame part:

GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Czeslaw GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=czeslaw@januszex.com git commit

(obviously, just kidding)
DNSSEC isn’t dead; the graph of its deployment is what you’d want for any emerging technology: high and to the right [1].

The problem is DNSSEC is complicated to deploy for large organizations like Microsoft with hundreds of domains (and subdomains).

Meanwhile, many domain registrars make it close to trivial to deploy DNSSEC for small and medium sized companies.

[1]: https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/#/?top=dane&trend_tab=0
> Israel left Gaza and then blockaded it, and has carried out major bombing campaigns against Gaza and ground invasions several times.

The blockade is for fear of Hamas gaining even more weapons, a fear that seems incredibly justified given what Hamas did. The bombing campaigns were mostly responses to Hamas firing rocket attacks at Israel.

> The conflict is not limited to Gaza. In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Israel continues to build its illegal settlements, to subject the Palestinian population to a humiliating and brutal military occupation, and to kill Palestinians regularly (several hundred in the West Bank this year).

Yes, I completely agree that Israel's actions in the West Bank, the settlement program and the resultant military rule are terrible and should be condemned.

> The Palestinians have tried every way to obtain their freedom: protest, negotiation, armed resistance. Nothing works. Israel is, by far, the stronger party, and it does what it wants to the Palestinians with no consequences.

I'm sorry, but this is a misread of history. The Palestinians have been offered a state multiple times, and have walked away from the negotiations every time. Israel has successfully negotiated a peace with historic enemies like Egypt, given back huge amounts of land in the process, these peace agreements have lasted for 40 years now.

Only with the Palestinians this negotiation has not worked, despite Israel having offered between 95% and 99% of the land Palestinians claimed they wanted.

Though to be clear, Hamas's official position, near as I can tell, remains that Israel itself must be completely destroyed and all the land given "back" to Palestinians.

The backdrop of most Israeli's having "given up" on the idea of a peace agreement was the failure of multiple attempts at reaching a deal, attempts that the Palestinians walked away from, and that resulted in terror attacks killing Israeli citizens.

That all said, Israel has more-or-less checked out of the peace process for the last 15 years, if not actively undermined it by weakening any serious leader that could've helped achieve peace. And given that Israel is the stronger party, I think it's not morally justified to "give up", Israel must keep striving for peace, and trying to make conditions on the ground that will allow for an eventual peace agreement.
I'm aware almost no one uses iMessage in Europe. Most would choose WhatsApp in Europe. And if we had the choice most would choose iMessage in the US.

But it gives normal users a choice if they want it. Maybe it would get some to think oh maybe I should try Signal. That's how some people found out about Firefox - unimaginable I know.
The basic assumption here is trusting Apple, provided that numerous security researchers have access to the platform. If you don't trust Apple, don't buy their products.
Given that Threads' purpose was to pull the rug under the feet from Twitter, while the Elon takeover saga was ongoing, Threads has failed achieving that objective.

Long term, we'll see how serious Meta is in _growing_ Threads. There is opportunity but as r721 posted, Threads is less than 10% of what Twitter/X is today.
I don't know a single country - including Israel's closest allies - that says that occupation of West Bank is acceptable.
Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2024 – Accepted Papers
Thank you!

React Native still has some sharp corners. The expo tooling is pretty rad, but I could never get the Android version to build.

Hopefully LiveView Native has a path around some of those issues. I agree it’d be pretty cool to have one language end to end.
Are the EC codes such that any alteration from 1 to 0 in the message results in at least one flip from 0 to 1 in the (correct) EC code?

If not, then you "just" have to find the right spots where such a simultaneous alteration of the payload and the EC code is possible, and which also happens to result in a desirable behavior change.
Even if these numbers are true, you have to look at them within the lens of colonial warfare. How many black South African supported the ANC against the Apartheid regime? How many Kenyans supported the Mau Mau against the British imperial army? How many Vietnamese supported the Viet Cong against the American army?

Today these are considered liberators, but during the colonial wars they were all considered terrorists who conducted inhumane acts. Perhaps people knew that but still supported their fight, simply because they considered the oppression inflected by their colonizers worth fighting against.
"they would not consider it safe" is from Apple's perspective, which is the only thing that matters when Apple is the steward of legally and technically enforcing who can use their APIs.
This is clear: the Palestinians have now suffered tremendously more over the last month than the Israelis. But differential _suffering_ is not a valid basis for moral analysis. And _harm_ is not the same thing as _crime_.
Not sure that's worth much congratulation. Is there anyone that didn't think the exact same thing as soon as they saw the story?
Rhapsodies in Blue: Anna Atkins' Cyanotypes
Even when dug out at some point, following a long and painful agony people crushed under collapsed buildings almost always die. Particularly in Gaza where medical supplies are now non-existent.

Lots of innocents are dying; there is IMO absolutely no amount of reasoning that can justify it, under any circumstances. It's just wrong. It must stop, period.
Few times, it's made me have those weird panic moments when presenting a screen to a large group of people. Immediately mute myself, close the video and be like "sorry guys, something weird happened, I'll brb.'
It’s actually 4 millions: https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/private-sector-for-ref...