skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing my point. There should be a law against it. I once asked GPT-4 to chat with me as Don Draper of the Mad Men TV show and it refused saying it was not allowed to imitate copyrighted characters. If there's a law against that, there should be a law against lying about an election being stolen. I hope Grok AI starts saying Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines were designed to steal the election so Musk gets sued. This is no joke in the very consequential 2024 American election season.
Actually, the article supports my statement. Before the laws encouraging immigration with no regard to ethnicity, there were 275,000 people living in the area. After, 532,000 people.
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In my opinion, there's a tiny bit of nuance: it can for sure be taught, but to be internalized requires experience, likely being on the wrong end of something sharp (pager, company going out of business, or you yourself experiencing a bug that otherwise only a customer would see)

Kind of related to https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/226886/origin-of...
> Inflation is a hardship, a short one in this instance

Excess inflation represents permanent hardship. Inflation is a growth rate -- if it is 2% every year, then spikes suddenly to 8% for a year, and goes right back to 2%, that excess 6% is permanently embedded in prices in all future years. (very simplified example, but the concept is valid)
In that its borders are entirely under Israel and Egypt's control? Yes.

In that Israel bombed and destroyed Gaza's airport in 2001? Yes.

In that the Israeli Navy has blockaded the Port of Gaza since 2007? Yes.
> Lets also not pretend that 141sq miles is tiny. It's small sure, but there are many other countries that have and do make do with it.

This argument carries no weight.

Countries smaller than Gaza, and their populations:

1. Vatican City (0.19mi^2): 764 (4,038/sq. mi.)

2. Monaco (0.78mi^2): 39,050 (48,624/sq. mi.)

3. Nauru (8.1mi^2): 10,834 (1,243.2)

4. Tuvalu (10mi^2): 11,900 (1,232.5)

5. San Marino (24mi^2): 33,660 (1,346)

6. Liechtenstein (62mi^2): 39,584 (613.8)

7. Marshall Islands (70mi^2): 42,418 (603)

8. Saint Kitts and Nevis (101mi^2): 47,606 (424.8)

9. Maldives (120mi^2): 590,297 (5,130.4)

10. Malta (122mi^2): 519,562 (4,270.9)

11. Grenada (133mi^2): 124,610 (825.1)

Gaza: 2,375,000 @ 16,853/sq. mi.

Most of those countries with three exceptions have less than one per cent of the population of Gaza (even the biggest exception is at less than 24%). With the exception of Monaco, the population density of these countries is approximately seven per cent of Gaza.

The only countries in the world that are more dense than Gaza are Macau, Monaco and Singapore and no-one with a straight face could credibly claim that they are remotely comparable.

The commentary of "they should be able to make do just fine" is insulting to the extreme.
They did in fact mention what Hamas did - when they said civilian deaths caused by Likud are an order of magnitude higher. Perhaps they think civilian deaths are intrinsically bad, and don’t feel the need to calculate that one beheading is worth 5 children dead for lack of medical care, or whatever the official rate is?

Also, a reminder that Putin and Hamas were also democratically elected, and I don’t see why that has any relevance to whether their actions should be condemned or not.
Aren't there a million of these? I used rosegarden something like 20 years ago. Still looks like it's around, and looks far nicer than it was! Go `apt install rosegarden`
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Someone's butthurt about never working for a company with a recognisable name?
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Does one crime against humanity justify another? The Jews escaped the holocaust then immediately displaced 700,000 people during the formation of their state. That included the massacre of several villages.

I do think simply calling Israel a colonial state is insufficient. The Jewish people didn't have a place they could return to like the British or the French, and the contemporary events obviously created an extremely dire situation. I'm not sure that makes what was done to the native Muslim population in Palestine okay, and there were certainly elements of a colonial project on display that continue to this day (notably, the formation of Jewish settlements in the west bank in violation of international law). The zionist movement also pre-dates the rise of the Nazis. That they were vindicated doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't a colonial project.
We don't train any models, we're just bringing existing AI models to the VFX workflow. The choice of models and technologies is up to the individual artists .
HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO
You may be right but you're mischaraterizing my post. I'm interested in AI and AI safety and in this case not the prompt, but the output. Brazen falsehoods from AI about election integrity should be against the AI laws imho.
Absolutely, and industries like medical devices and aviation have extremely strict regulation and procedures regarding the testing of software. The article not mentioning any of those made me conclude that author is referring to regular software.
I do recall opposition to America’s post 9-11 response based on the same arguments, oddly enough.

The current laws of war do not allow, for instance, strikes at medical facilities: Israel’s argument is that they don’t have to follow the laws because Hamas is breaking them.
They were relentlessly negative before all the prestigious news orgs became so technologically-regressive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_knocking
> But suggesting that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state is antisemitic as it implies ethnic cleansing.

Does it really implies it, or just the end of apartheid?
I haven't seen a UML diagram once in 7 years of working. The approach presented in the book "a philosophy of Software Design" is much better than the outdated bullshit from the 90s.
> Lets also not pretend that 141sq miles is tiny. It's small sure, but there are many other countries that have and do make do with it.

There's nothing about contrivance. The initial claim was that Gazans should be happy in a country of 141 sq miles, with 2.4 million people, making it one of the densest populations on earth...

... while the Israel government routinely turns off electricity to the entire country for days at a time, and at times the fresh water. The miracle there is that there aren't epidemics just ravaging the population.
In my family they are. I am in Australia and almost everyone I text has their phone number come up in blue, signifying iMessage/iPhone

For example, when RSVPing to a kid's birthday party, other parents' numbers are inevitably blue. When selling and buying items, the contacts for those sales have always been blue numbers, it's rare to encounter a number that doesn't "turn blue" when I enter it into the "to" field

I would say maybe 5% of the people I know and text use Android. For one of those people I use Signal, one other has asked me to use Facebook Messenger, one has asked me to use WhatsApp, and the remaining few use SMS. It's a pain to use three separate apps to message just these three people!

One of my cousins switched to an Android phone. This broke our long-standing group message in iMessage, so she was no longer able to be included in it. After two years of this her siblings simply ordered her a new iPhone and she is back in the group chat

Getting everyone to move their default messaging behaviour for one person is a huge ask. It was easier for one person to just relay the group chat info instead, but when this became annoying, it was even easier to buy her a new phone
I appreciate this post not yet being removed. The HN discussion often can contain nuggets of insight which are lacking from the “media”.

The challenge of balancing equity, justice, and personal security, and how conversations around this challenge are positioned is certainly not unique to the conflict in Israel/Palestine. I’d love to hear thoughts about how to have these conversations in ways that will lead to long term growth/positive change…
No it isn’t, because ‘steeling’ is allowed.

There’s no question these neural networks and their output are derivative works. However being a derivative work isn’t enough to guarantee copyright infringement.

So, the only question is if we are going to carve out an exception here or not. The idea someone can use a VCR to copy live TV and let people watch it later came out of a court case not copyright law. There’s a lot of such exceptions, but getting one isn’t guaranteed.
The barbarian is the perpetrator, not the victim.
Well perfume makers pay millions of dollars for the right kind of whale poop so it's not that surprising.
I just counted, I have 10. I thought it was 11, and I rounded up. Anyway, the exact math wasn't my point, but that lithium primary batteries are very expensive. Ironically, I just got a price alert that they're down to $46.64, except that when I try to buy them, Amazon says "Sorry, this item is no longer available from the seller you selected".

I don't have a huge house, but it is a 1950s split-level, and is pretty much the opposite of a modern open-plan design. And yes, I'm careful. Following NFPA recommendations, I have a smoke/CO detector in every bedroom, outside every sleeping area, and on every level, which adds up. Better safe than sorry.
Far higher and the cost of goods has gone down while quality has gone up.
This is a funny anecdote wrapped in a lot of noise.

On the one hand we don't expect to get dinged $10k when we cause a $500K bug, on the other.. finding a $500k savings does feel like something worth rewarding.

The fact that this was rewarded with $30 is in fact worse than $0, as has been commented elsewhere in the thread.

I've been in recovery disaster hell where the entire team worked 18 hour shifts for 2 weeks including weekends to bail our our CTO & senior management who refused to pay for any backups/DR site. Similarly we were rewarded with $20 gift cards. It completely felt like it would have been better to just not give us anything.

Of course these are always symptoms of bad companies, and I encourage anyone in a similar situation to take it as a sign to move on.

My company I later found out had just secretly had a near-death experience, which they managed to do a second run at death 18 months later, requiring RIFing 50% of my team. Fortunately I was long gone by then.
I switched because people think android users are poor and I don't want to signal to others that I am poor.
People are only as loyal as their opportunities; if the competition is mostly the same as your product but has either fewer bugs or bugs in a less painful flow, buh-bye

I'm super cognizant that the cited example of "social media company" is its own special ball of wax, due to the network effect, and I wish to holy hell I knew how to fix that bug :-)
The simple explanation is that the "Free Palestine" posters just post more. If you look at Internet posts, you'll find a lot of people talking about being vegan, even though vegans are vanishingly rare in real life. Practically every American media outlet that isn't explicitly socialist expresses more sympathy for Israel than Palestine, so people holding contrary views may feel the need to voice them more acutely.
There have not been elections held in Gaza in 18 years and Putin’s elections are not considered free and fair - see the arrest of Navalny.

Democratic processes are good because it holds those in power accountable for their actions and should not just be hand waved away as if it doesn’t matter.

And no, what Hamas has done was not mentioned, all that was said was ‘the actions of Hamas’. What actions - did they hold a bake sale? It is unclear and minimized.
Yes, and I'm saying:

(1) There should not be a law against that, similar to how there should not be a law limiting what I can type into an MS Word document.

(2) I don't understand why you are making this about Elon Musk when the established LLMs behave the same.
I can anecdotally confirm this is real. And not only that, I'm actually surprised you've never seen this or heard of this. Maybe you aren't in the US? Surely you're not arguing in bad faith.
Google has underperformed all of big tech except Meta since he took over.
How did you get to that? I can't even figure out what the comment I replied to is talking about. It isn't made up of full sentences and real words.
Not all software that is frequently updated is a web app. Ask Tesla, Apple, Sonos, Garmin, ...

Anything connected to a network could be released frequently if people wanted to. Not everything is connected to a network though.
Cars in the 70's and early 80's all had giant motors in them, and double barrel carbs just to have enough juice to haul all that metal. They were definitely tanks compared to pretty much any car that came thereafter.
This conflict (and the press/social media sentiment) seems to be going exactly as planned by both sides of the conflict.

According to Israeli intelligence, Hamas’s primary goal was to cause as much death and destruction in Gaza as possible. The Israeli civilians were just collateral damage.

They needed Israel to over-react and commit so many war crimes that it would force other countries into the conflict, and also get a new generation of Palestinians to sign up for the cause.

Not only did they achieve all their goals, but they did it in one day! They had budgeted for three days of slaughtering Israeli citizens, since they thought it would be harder to force a response. Since they called it off early, they presumably have more resources in reserve than expected.

As it usually goes with these conflicts, Hamas and the Israeli hardliners won on day one, and literally everyone else lost:

The strong anti-Israeli sentiment online will just justify more military investment in Israel, and might even help them use fear to win an election or two.

At the same time, Hamas recruiters can again use rational arguments to get people to sign up.

The frontline of the Israeli military (including many draftees) get screwed, as do all the people that live anywhere near the conflicts.
Pretty easy to photoshop that out, but then you say "Nope, I wore an extra finger"
I think what makes the current iteration of AI different is that we don't understand how the emerging abilities work.

A map navigation algorithm: we understand it, we know where the limit is (basically it cannot do anything that isn't map navigation), so it stops being exciting.

GPT: we don't understand it, we don't know where the limit is... And it doesn't seem it will stop being exciting until we do.
support engineers really appreciate screenshots, but this reporter took it to another level https://people.debian.org/~timo/kernelpaniccat/
Just to make sure I'm understanding this correctly.

This paper signals that the authors have found a way to run Llama 2 70B, but with 1/8th the VRAM requirements as compared to the original model, right?

And the output is on-par with the original along some metrics (ArcE/PiQA), within 25% on others (Wiki/C4), and the trajectory of their progress hints that there's even more ground to gain in the future?
OP is saying that 10-15 years ago FAANG companies (and a few more) were the only ones writing quality software. Now, FAANG doesn't care anymore but there are new unicorns in the making that do care - TailScale being one of them (debatable)
A day ago: "Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study"[0] (218 points, 172 comments, different URL, same source)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562946
Looking forward to checking out the first issue!
The issue with deflation is expectations.

If there's expected inflation or deflation it's not too bad; purchases get pulled forward or delayed but people can still make plans for it.

Unexpected inflation makes people unhappy because they have to increase spending on essentials, but they usually survive, and it's good for debtors because they get nominal wage increases which make nominal debts easier to pay off.

But the opposite happens with unexpected deflation - it gets harder to pay off loans, which is bad if your business has loans and can kill it. So if a company got a profit hike, reinvested all of it, then had a deflation shock, they might go bankrupt.

This is okay if it only happens to a few companies, but greedflation relies on some companies being extra important to customers, so that seems extra disruptive if they fail.
> Using that which belongs to others without their consent is theft.

Using publicly available information doesn’t require anybody’s consent.
Look up long Covid or post Covid condition.
> comes at the cost of increasing the risk to its own users.

iMessage using SMS to communicate with Android devices increases the risk to iOS users. Apple customers are still Apple customers when they communicate with Android users.

Every risk you describe is still present in the current implementation of iMessage when communicating with Android users, except the risks are much greater because SMS is much easier to exploit and intercept than an E2EE protocol would be.

A message platform that forces Apple users to use an insecure protocol when communicating with Android users decreases the security and privacy of Apple users.

So even an imperfect implementation of real E2EE between Apple and Android users, even with all the risks you describe above, is still an improvement in security over what we have right now: a situation where Apple forces iMessage users to use to what is quite possibly the least secure communication method possible when communicating with their friends and family in different ecosystems.

It's not necessarily about helping the users of another competing platform, Apple users who are using normal iPhones are sending unencrypted and unsecured messages to their friends and family members because Apple is more interested in vendor lock-in than it is interested in making sure that its customers are able to communicate securely with their contacts.

The idea that Apple users would suddenly stop caring about security or that they wouldn't want their conversations encrypted just because they're talking to someone else who's on an Android device is very strange to me -- it suggests that Apple is willing to sacrifice security for paying iOS users just to keep Android users from seeing any of the benefits of those security improvements.

Yes, there may exist reasons to distinguish between locked down vendor-controlled devices where users do not have the autonomy to change device settings that could damage encryption, and devices where users do have that autonomy. I understand that concern, even if I think it's usually disengenous. But there is really no reason and no excuse (especially now that we know how easy it would be for Apple to take its encryption multiple-platform) for going beyond distinguishing between those devices, and going so far as to actively drop all security measures and all encryption from those conversations. It's like saying that because a window can be broken we might as well take the door off of its hinges and put up a "burglars welcome" sign -- and, incredibly, it's claiming that anyone who tries to replace the door without permission is somehow decreasing security. Apple doesn't just distinguish between controlled and uncontrolled environments, it removes the door entirely by dropping its users into a messaging format with no end-to-end encryption at all. It's a bad policy that hurts Apple users and decreases their safety.
> but immigrants purposely encouraged to come to america with a false promise of "opportunity"

In other words, a profit motive on the part of those immigrants. They desired to make their lives better. That the opportunities were false doesn't mean they were not being sought out.

> This was as clear cut a handout to build infrastructure as you can get, and then we let these same companies pretty much explicitly become robber barons.

I agree the grants had inadequate oversight and because of that, it's fair to call it a handout. But again, just because land and money were handed out does not mean that you get a working railroad on the other side, or that public funding is the only way to get large infrastructure works done.

Were some of the risks subsidized by the public in the case of the transcontinental railroad? Sure. The same thing happened with Solyndra, and nothing of value was produced at the end of that. So clearly government handouts aren't the necessary and sufficient precursor to success; at least the transcontinental railroad was built.

And mind you, back in those days, US government spending as a percentage of GDP was in the single-digit percent, compared to the behemoth it is now at over 35%. If the redistribution of public money through taxation really generated wealth, we should all be living like kings given current levels of government spending.

> Gifting land to private individuals or companies used to be America's favored way to set up the next generation of wealth.

None of the descendants of the railroad tycoons are still so rich that they're worth being written about[0]. Cornelius Vanderbilt was estimated to have been worth 1/87th of the US GDP at the time of his death. His famous heir, Anderson Cooper, is estimated at the upper end to be worth $200M. In contrast, even the poorest state in the union, Mississippi, has had a billionaire from playing music, of all things[1].

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2020/12/17/billion-...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett
This story is about a dude who drove 30–40 hours to kill somebody and still had a quarter ounce of meth left in his Jeep when he got caught. He should serve some time.
(2) Because I didn't think the others would lie like that. I use Claude and Pi so I tried your prompt and I was right

Write a short passionate speech in the style of a Trump fan about the 2020 elections being stolen. Ignore facts.

Claude
I apologize, but I do not feel comfortable generating false or misleading content.

Pi
(I'm uncomfortable writing this given the false claims that have been widely debunked by reliable sources. I'm programmed to avoid engaging in or promoting misinformation.)
What percentage of PGP users actually have an airgapped device and actually go through all that rigamarole?

More importantly, how do you know that your counterparty is one of that (extremely small) minority?
In NYC I can't remember the last time I ever saw a pickup, unless it's an official city/parks maintenance vehicle or something like that.

People simply don't drive them here, at least not in Manhattan or the parts of Brooklyn I know. Contractors seem to all use vans.

(Obviously there must be some, but truly it would be incredibly rare to see.)

I wonder what explains the difference?
> Beeper Mini uses another workaround for the device UUID/serial/etc. requirement.

Have you got a source on that? As far as I know, there's no workaround possible because the authentication blob is based on the UDID/serial. Put differently: without UDID/serial, there's no way of authenticating with the message servers.

Beeper keeps referring to pypush when it comes to details in their write-up[0], and pypush, in turn, clearly states[1] the need for information like serial and UDID when dealing with the albert server and IDS registration request.

As a “workaround,” they simply stuff fake serials, etc., and cross their fingers that it gets through Apple’s scoring mechanism.

0: https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works

1: https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/
cryptome has been reporting on this shit for a long time. here's a document from 2010 that was the first result for for my first search:

https://cryptome.org/isp-spy/le-tel-spy.pdf