skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So IBM/RH can't be big because the biggest makes more money...? We've had two exchanges and I'm still trying to understand why this matters.
This guy is lying SOO MUCH man. It's not even funny. Saying things like Jews escaped with their lives from Arab states and how Arab leaders wanted to expel/kill all Jews just because.
He conveniently forgot to mention the series of events that lead to the wars between Israel and Arab nations.
It's so funny that he's making it an Arabs vs Jews thing when...Jews actually thrived under Muslim/Arab rule. Jewish scholars like dean phillip bell say that Jews time under Islamic rule and how much they prospered was comparable to that of the golden age of Islam. Meaning because they were protected by the Muslims for such a long period from 638 AD - 1100 then 1300 - 1917 (over 1300 years). they were able to be prosperous. What an absolute joke and liar that guy is.
> It's long been a basic assumption of experts that Palestinian's higher population growth would result in them having a much larger population in Israel than Jews.

That may well be the case in future[1], but I don't think Hamas or even the considerably milder supporters of "Palestine will be free" are proposing those river and sea borders on the assumption that it will remain a predominantly Jewish state for a couple of generations. Perhaps not all of them have in mind Hamas' October approach to the demographic imbalance, but I don't think the solution they're imagining involves leadership being chosen by popular vote either.

Israel's right of course, aren't any more democratic in saying essentially the same thing (the slogan seems to have lost currency, but you'll hear them arguing tha Gaza is part of Israel and they're not saying that because they think everyone there should have a vote in the Knesset)

[1] the other problems with such predictions is that both groups have large diasporas but if votes occur along sectarian lines then only one of them controls passports, and perhaps less darkly there is the possibility that relative population growth is outpaced by younger people becoming less interested in historic conflict dynamics (which seems to be the case in Northern Ireland)
Last time I checked, Apple still used security questions any hacker can get answers to on Facebook.

Check again.

I recently reset a forgotten iTunes password. This required:

- An email verification

- An SMS verification

- A verification code sent to another device on the account

- A ten-day wait

- Another second device verification

That's 5FA authentication just to reset a password.

The days of answering personal trivia questions to reset passwords are long gone.
I tried as short as 10s and it still provides just something random. How short does the audio need to be? Text works fine but can’t get audio-to-audio to work.
It's funny because people scream "citation, citation" but these numbers are all over any wikipedia page covering the population and history of the region, with adequate citations. I've done little more beyond quote some pages.
The crazy thing is that the pro war machine talking heads keeps trying to make this about Iran, when it's really Qatar and Turkey financing Hamas, in part using illegal Oil sales from Syria. Nikki Haley was talking about "finishing them". It's also worth remembering that Hamas actively fought AGAINST Syria and it's allies(Iran) with the other Islamist rebels

The US has huge military presences in both countries, and if they really wanted to shut down funding to those institutions they could do it tomorrow.

We know that Netanyahu deliberated supported these groups to shut down opposition in Gaza by his own accord and that he has even recently asked to send more funding[1]. The talking heads also want you to believe that this is some sort of protection money out of goodwill for the poor civilians in Gaza.

I listened to some Palestinians on twitter spaces the other day and they told explained to people how the political landscape is actually a lot more complex than we are led to believe from media.

One person breaking down Hamas really well has been Brian Berletic from the new atlas[2]. Some people here might not like him, because he very much in favour of China, but I still urge everyone to take a look at his Palestine analysis.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-chief-top-general-visit...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPJaNoxtE20
None of these events are ones where American bombs, taxpayer funded, make up so much of the deadly weaponry.

None of them have higher civilian death rates per day.

None of them have so many murdered children, journalists, UN workers per capita per day (and often even in absolute terms).

None of them are so drastically David and Goliath, where one clear oppressor and occupier is killing so, so many more people.

Sudan, Libya, and Ethipoia aren't spending tens of millions of dollars funding propaganda to smear anyone who suggests they might stop genociding a people.

Even if these "events happening elsewhere" were as bad, or were as directly funded by the West, or were as one-sided - so what? What exactly is your point? What are you calling ignorant?
It’s wild that the primary way of validating an order was signed off by a judge is by looking at an easily forgeable signature.
But can dismantle the "board" when unhappy?

weird kind of "board"... anyways, we get the picture...
> similar to how a Human+Stockfish beats Stockfish^

> ^ I heard this to be true at some point, but cannot find any reference on it at the moment.

Known as centaur chess (amongst other things). It was certainly the case at one point. I strongly suspect that it isn't still the case, but it's hard to say for absolute certainty because it never developed a serious competitive community like engine and non-engine chess has. I can't find anyone listing any results post 2017 [1]. It was barely the case in 2017, and Stockfish has improved a lot since then [2].

[1] https://gwern.net/note/note#advanced-chess-obituary

[2] E.g. here's someone running stockfish 14 (current from July 2 2021 - April 18 2022) against stockfish 8 (current from November 1 2016 to February 1 2018). Stockfish 14 won 61 games and drew 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/oov714/64_game_match... (PS: They don't document time controls and I'm not sure how scientific this test was, but it matches with what I would expect, so eh)

Not to discourage you from your project with lean. At the very least I would expect there to be a transitional period, likely of decades, where computer+human is better than computer.
260 would be falling short to fall short of the island of stability
Reminder that BlueBubbles and AirMessage both are working and fairly robust. I've used them daily over a year. The downside being that they need a Mac and iPhone to run. But in the spirit of self hosting, you do run the server yourself and don't share your credentials. I don't see a more viable path in the near future.
If you have enough system RAM, you could make it into an AI server. This is more GPU VRAM bound more than anything else, but software like llama.cpp will let you run mixed inference across a GPU and your CPU. Check out /r/LocalLlama on Reddit if you would like to learn more.

Of course image generation models are also an option and generally need less VRAM.
If Europeans would continue having that train of thought they would still be fighting. Alas, someone had those same thoughts back in February 2022. And now it's a minefield.

Dwelling on the past is a recipe for disaster, having grandiose thoughts of conquest is very much the same (hint: Netanyahu's colonization efforts, I thought I should be fair and account for that too).
I use this sometimes and it's pretty nice: https://github.com/folke/zen-mode.nvim
So you're using percentages to make that dubious claim. Because Russia has certainly cause a lot more overall destruction and death. Where do you get the 60% of damaged or destroyed buildings? I've seen 25%.
Why does how many Muslims there are have to do with anything? Israel is not at war with the Muslim community they are at war with a single country which is not even all Muslim. Seems like shaky rhetoric.
Fun fact: you can get a cosmetically and operationally similar device (ie similar functionality, not similar build quality or military-grade radio communications) for under $100 if you buy the E110 by Eachine, a Chinese remote controlled aircraft manufacturer.
If a serial number of the mac mini is blacklisted by apple from registering for example with apple updates or any other apple connected services, then probably it's in datacenters' best interest to keep spammers out of them.
Less than 1% even.
Tolkien's elves have a very strong innate ability to resist what you might call "corruption" of the body and mind. They are basically minor demigods.

http://www.istad.org/tolkien/nestad.html

http://www.istad.org/tolkien/healingStudy.html
I remember another post that was very well-received where an individual hacker wrote his own homebrew iMessage client for his own personal purposes. HN really liked that!

I think HN exists at an intersection of individual hackerism and business. If a project is clearly by-hackers-for-hackers it gets a lot more leeway for unsustainable concepts / implementations. But this is building a business on adversarial interoperability, and many people who LOVE the concept and technical achievements will still post mostly critical things about the business model because it’s fairly clearly a very very challenging business model.
Let’s be clear here: Apple not yet implementing RCS aside, the experience is horrible because SMS/MMS are horrible.
Writing and Startups
> I am reasonably sure that their main driver is profit which really means exploitation of people;

What phone do you use that does not have the same issue?
The bar for 'tech journalist' is... none. There is no bar.
Which market forces in a monopoly>
A quarter of under 35s show early signs of hearing loss
yeah after writing this i looked more attentively as i walked by today and they are pretty fucked
I think a lot of Americans either consciously or subconciosuly see the similarity between Israel's situation and the US's with regards to the natives. If there was a native independence movement that resorted to terrorism the us would flatten every reservation in the country.
Star citizen has a very basic version of FoIP, it does help convey emotive state even if a little janky.

Add in stuff like head tracking and you get a very natural feeling to interacting. Give me haptics and I'll be super happy.

Hand gestures go a long way too
Gaussian explosion
> It's realpolitik. It's not about Israel

It is not at all. This funding is only occurring because of AIPAC and similar organizations including Christian groups who want to see the end times happen and supporting Israel is apparently important for that. Israel is not a counter balance to Russia at all. And Israel (specifically Netanyahu and AIPAC) undermined the Iran agreement that was going to see them stop their nuclear program.
You're ignoring Iran and Qatar's role. They fund and supply Hamas. Iran doesn't want Israel to have normalized relations with Saudi Arabia.
The only reason that an alternative iMessage client is newsworthy at all is because Apple uses iMessage as a moat to keep people using Apple devices.
The power of reason alone is generally insufficient to spur people into action. It's the impassioned, often irrational fervor that galvanizes movements and leads to significant change. Consider the impact of Erasmus, a paragon of rational thought, against that of Luther, a figure of intense passion and conviction. Initially, Erasmus garnered attention and respect, yet his logical approach failed to incite actionable change among the people. In stark contrast, Luther, with his fervent and somewhat radical beliefs, succeeded in mobilizing the masses.
Wow, just watched a bit of it; this is great. Will probably take me a week or two to get through it.

EDIT: Does he sound like an AI generated voice to anyone else?
> This is an appealing idea, but it comes at the expense of even further reducing taxes that are typically paid by wealthy people.

It is in theory, but in practice it's already avoided in a thousand ways. The first is, of course, by just not selling the shares in whatever you hold right now, which is the perverse incentive we're trying to fix. Then there are the outright avoidance strategies, like foreign holding companies in jurisdictions with different tax laws, and even the fully intentional ones, like tax-deferred retirement accounts.

> I think we'd need to bundle it with a serious revision of estate taxes and the various schemes people use to get around them.

Combining this with the removal of the step up in basis on inheritance would basically do it, and would remove a major justification for keeping that -- it exists in large part to allow the heirs to sell the asset instead of being coerced by tax incentives into investing into whatever their parents did, i.e. the same thing we're trying to fix here.

This way the heirs could sell the asset and buy another one without a taxable event, but don't get a basis reset. So if they want to spend the money, they have to pay the tax.

Of course, the even simpler version of this is to just eliminate income taxes in general and use a consumption tax, then make it progressive by adding a UBI. But maybe one step at a time.
“Border expansion” needs a really convenient definition for this to make sense. With the same logic USA is ceding territory any time they recognize a new Indian tribe with a new reservation, while also not gaining new territory when they partition up other reservations and move settlers into it, nor when they open up new military bases in foreign countries.

As for the Berlin wall, I only used it for dramatic effect, to convey how serious the blockade is. Also why did you put “blockade” in quotes? Are you under the impression that Israel is not imposing a “blockade” on Gaza?

But you got me. You are better at debating than me. Congratulations.
When Steve Jobs first announced iMessage on stage, he said it would later be open with a standard specification. Sadly, Apple never delivered on this promise.
Where's there a monopoly?
Is anyone genuinely surprised by this?

My mate and I had a bet on how long this would take (since the thread the other day), my guess of “3 weeks tops” was far too generous.
The troll toll?

> Just putting the thought out there.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
I like your product and I think VMs are a fine choice, but this representation seems somewhat inaccurate. For one: don't the VMs you launch have their own OS?

And also while containerd and potentially some Linux distro in a container are involved, they aren't really adding runtime overhead. containerd (via runc) instructs the Linux kernel to isolate the workload processes, but doesn't really sit in between them and the kernel. Further, the OS in the container doesn't have its own kernel and most of the time not even its own init. It's really just a set of libraries and binaries.

I believe that you run workloads faster than competitors relying on containers, but it doesn't seem to me that containers are the problem. If you installed Linux on the same baremetal host, I'm convinced you can get that same performance in a container that you can get in a VM on that host.
So was a CVE filed for this exploit? Or was it patched in time?
> There's a literal wall around 2M ppl with little agency, while most of them are refugees from the other side of the wall.

There is a really very simple solution for them to have all of the dignity, agency, independence, prosperity, peace, sovereignty, stability to raise children, etc that you and I want for the Palestinian people. They only have to - and hear me out - not kill Jews. It really is that simple. Don't kill Jews, not by rockets, nor suicide bomb, nor stabbing attacks, nor stealth attacks by terror tunnels, nor any of the varied and creative ways that Jews have been attacked in the region for more than a century.

Most people think that Free Palestine means independence and sovereignty. It does not. Sovereignty has been proffered many times in the last 75 years. So given that it decidedly does not mean what we Westerners expect it means when we hear Free Somewhere - "Free Tibet" "Free Donbas" or whatever - I would like my fellow Westerners to really meditate on the meaning of the term "free" in "Free Palestine". Really ruminate on what possible meaning that can have.

Then, when you are really ready to hear what it means, read the Hamas charter. Or read about the writings, life and times of al-Husseini, the architect and sire of the Free Palestine movement.

We Westerners, especially we Americans, really impose our own views on others. Let Palestinians speak for themselves. They are very clear what Free Palestine means. We just have to listen without preconception.
I think it's just him highlighting the rarity and value of something that would otherwise never be accessible to them. In the middle ages would an extremely high-end suit of armour cost less than a village? I don't know, but rarity was at a higher premium for elite goods back then.
Yeah, interested to compare this with optimized and properly cached GitHub Hosted Runner builds.
You're allowed to admire the technical implementation while denouncing the business model at the same time.
Getting someone to update their iPhone is a matter of them not actively dismissing iOS’s repeated attempts at updating itself. This isn’t a good-faith argument.
I mean his own sister is claiming he did a lot of really vile shit to her when she was a child. The idea that this person might also be genuinely “toxic” is hardly a stretch.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
The definition does not change from quarter to quarter or year to year. It is perfectly valid to compare this month's value with the past, but not with other countries who use different definition of "working population".
Are Palestinians not people? What rights should they have?
Noise induced hearing loss because people are not aware of the permanent damage that is done to the ears by listening to their headphones too loud or by doing noisey work for extended periods of time without taking measures to protect their ears.
I think dang made a mistake by allowing this topic onto HN. Nothing good is going to come out of that.

Begin is rolling in his grave as we speak. There is nothing between today's Likud and any historic version of that party. That's one thing.

The Likud (under the leadership of Sharon, who is also rolling in his grave) is also the party that withdrew from Gaza and handed it to the Palestinian Authority, dismantling settlements (by force). The Likud (under Begin's leadership) was the party that made peace with Egypt and gave Sinai back, also dismantling Israeli settlements (by force).

I don't think the history of the Irgun is really relevant here. At any rate, the views of the Likud shifted substantially and current party called "Likud" has really zero connection to the Likud at the time of Begin/Shamir/Sharon etc.
Thanks for sharing the link about Jane Elliot's classroom lessons. I only learned about this today.
Not disagreeing, but I do not think Beeper Mini used the binary method for registering accounts. I think that was the way to do it for non-mobile devices that couldn't receive SMS, but there is also a way to register an account using SMS which I believe Beeper Mini uses.
I know you're just sharing your personal experiences, but I got to say that this not only does not match my personal experience, but it also sounds very much like something you hear Israeli settlers say to justify settlement expansions and violence.
"Israel is going great lengths to protect civilians."

No they don't. They never did.
I'm sure there are. To be frank, that matters little. All large employers are part of an employer's union. They don't see things differently. They all need this particular contract law intact.

Vocal or not, no one will not be able to affect this semi-voluntary system unless they control bascially the entire economy. This is unlikely to ever be the case, until maybe some supranational EU agreement changes the rules entirely.
I love it when someone giving you some money is much, much worse than giving you nothing. This reminds me of Delta airlines apologizing for a four-hour delay with a $3 voucher. I've rarely been humiliated more than by being given those three dollars.
We now have a (experimental) working HF version here: https://huggingface.co/DiscoResearch/mixtral-7b-8expert
There’s a theory (I forget which) that morality of warfare rests on the agency of the warring parties to avoid civilian deaths. We didn’t have laser guided bombs in WW2 so it was more or less highly impractical (if not impossible) to just bomb the tank factory, rather than the tank factory and the surrounding 10 blocks. The US now has missiles without explosives that can accurately take out the driver of a sedan without killing the passenger (AGM-114R9X) and has an intelligence apparatus to know the passengers in the car are not the target, for example. Leading to scrutiny on civilian deaths where there wouldn’t have been in decades past, perhaps.

Something this essay points out is how many civilian deaths were strictly caused by soldiers, on the ground, who knew they were killing civilians. That’s knowledge I didn’t already have and was honestly shocking.
Hope they don't go after Beeper "cloud" version.
Except for oligopolies. Competitors match each others' price rises too sometimes. Why compete too hard when everyone can make more profit?
I suspect as with most things in education, they focus on small self contained problems because it's easier to teach and easier to grade. These toy problems end up being all students know and therefore are what employers select on.
Yes. And I'm saying, were this a live issue (I don't think it is), the graver liability might be for Beeper interfering with Apple's contracts with its users.
Corporations aren't people?
I would not recommend a thin client. They are very underpowered as they are designed to essentially boot to RDP and nothing else. Much better off with a mini as they are "real" desktops computers.
>” how Arab leaders wanted to expel/kill all Jews”

I quoted the Arab leader that orchestrated the assault in 1948 on that point. I can give more if you like. Here’s the then Prime Minister of Iraq Nuri al-Said: "We will crush the state with our guns and destroy any place in which the Jews seek shelter."

It’s true Jews and Arabs lived side by side for over a thousand years. Those Jewish populations in Arab regions were there in peace for a long time. It’s also true they were forcibly expelled after the Turks and Europeans left. That happened throughout the Arab world.
Just to be clear, are you saying this article is false propaganda? Which parts, and do you have sources? I'd like to know full picture before I send this link to people.
I'm not an expert on this but from watching the odd documentary I get the impression that 90%+ of Palestinians think similar to yourself but a minority, maybe 1% are into the hardline islam must defeat the jews type position which Hamas seems to adopt. And then while the others try to live somewhat peacefully the minority unfortunately do October 7 massacre type things which then of course causes retaliation. I'm not sure how this ends unless they drop that?
Sure, but this has never happened at the scale and speed that it will with AI. We're inventing technology that will be capable of doing every creative, intellectual and physical task better than any human. This will have a far greater impact than when the telephone, car, or even computer were invented.

Certain jobs have already been made obsolete practically overnight, and the writing is on the wall for many more. Society needs time to adjust, for new jobs to be created and people to be trained in them. We'll figure it out, but the transition period will be rough for many.