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There's more than one "government," that's what I mean by decentralization. There are thousands of courts throughout the country. I don't want some federal agency to be responsible for verifying the legitimacy of every warrant sent from every court.
> "Software hasn't changed in the last 10 years". It instantly devalued the entire program for me.

As opposed to maths, physics, philosophy, civil engineering, classical studies which have gone through complete revolutions in their topics, problems and study methods in the last 10 years?
No, thank you.

When the EU forced that implementation, it was already behind the ball.

It all but ensured Chrome’s dominance by killing Firefox’s momentum and proved unsuccessful, which is why the browser selection screen got killed.
> You are simply cherry picking.

Am I? Show me the rotten cherries, then. Accusations of cherry picking I could throw at the anti-Israeli crowd all day.

> Israel, last time I checked, had 19 laws which give preferential treatment of Jewish citizens of Israel over non-Jewish citizens of Israel (not talking about Palestinians in W. Bank / Gaza).

If this is true, I would like more information.

> Palestinians are not permitted to repair their homes or even their mosques. Go up on the roof and make a repair, and you risk having your home bulldozed by the Israelis.

Where did you get this from? I am genuinely interested. Of all the accusations I've seen directed at the Jewish state, this one is new to me.

> I once hitch hiked on a Jewish only road in Israel. Jewish only really means not Palestinian.

What road was that? This is a commonly-disbunked slander.

> What exists in the W. Bank and Gaza, is much worse than apartheid. Israel has turned Gaza into an open-air prison-- a concentration camp, if you will.

Actually, that was Egypt in 1949-1956 that turned Gaza into the overcrowded, unable-to-sustain-itself mess that it is today. Israel administered the area for some decades, but the UN was already condemning the overcrowded conditions in Gaza since 1955.

> Israel controls all water, food, fuel, electricity, and people entering and exiting from Gaza[1].

You mean that Israel _provides_ the water and electricity flowing into Gaza. You phrase it poorly.

> And, their carpet bombing of the civilian captives has turned this concentration camp into a death camp.

I think that you do not know what carpet bombing is, or you do not know the bombing strategies of the IDF. Well, I don't know the bombing strategies of the IDF either, but despite the terrifying destruction in some parts of Gaza, the Gaza strip is not being subject to carpet bombing as a whole.
> Palestinians did not reject a one state solution. Most Israelis don't want that. I.e. annex the West Bank and Gaza and have a single country, let's call it "Israel-Palestine".

Hardliners in the current Israeli government (e.g Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, Amichai Eliyahu) want to "annex Judaea and Samaria". There seems to be a bit of ambiguity about whether they mean only Area C, or the whole of the West Bank (or even annex Area C now as a precursor to annexing A and B later.)

If they did that, what would happen to the Palestinians living in those areas – would they become Israeli Arabs? Would they first have to request Israeli citizenship? Would they be entitled to it, or would it be up to the Israeli government to decide whether to extend it to them?

"One state solution" is an idea primarily associated with Israel's peacenik far left, but maybe the best way to achieve it might (paradoxically) be to let the Israeli far right get a big chunk of what it wants?

> If you want more radical ideas then if all Palestinian Arabs convert to Judaism we can also solve the problem pretty quickly...

Speaking of radical ideas, I find the "cantonization" proposals [0] for the future of Israel rather fascinating. Basically convert it into a federation of different "cantons" representing the different sectors of Israeli society (secular, religious, Haredi, Arab). These cantons might be partially geographical and partially personal – i.e. every citizen belongs to a canton personally, the canton also controls the territory where its members are a majority, but has to protect the rights of minorities from other cantons in its territory; individuals will receive some government services from the canton of residence (e.g. public utilities), others might be provided by their personal canton (e.g. education, family law)

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-05/ty-article-ma...
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KG-RAG infuses domain knowledge to LLM, empowering it to generate text grounded in established knowledge, accompanied by clear provenance.
Water worlds intrigue me. All the elements and heat vents you might need for life.

But how do you develop the technology for an escape velocity civilization in a medium so corrosive and viscous?

Super Earths are a likely source of water worlds, since the same percentage of water volume (~ to radius^3) results in much deeper oceans at the surface (~ to radius^2). The greater gravity would create even more hurdles. How do you hit escape velocity if your fuel to orbit is to heavy to lift itself? First orbital vehicle might have to be nuclear.

Problem 1: Develop a civilization with a sustained technology runway in a medium that corrodes, relentlessly saps temperature gradients, creates immense pressure at its solid floor, etc.

Problem 2: Create floating platforms and colonize their ocean surface.

Problem 3: Develop atmospheric flight, from their bobbing surface colonies, with heavy water filled planes.

Problem 4: Develop orbital flight with water filled space craft.

Problem 5: Develop sustainable water filled living environments off planet, as first step to going beyond.

And do this before their star or other cause finishes them off!
What if they create a version of Beeper Mini that spoofs an apple device you own? For example: I don't want to own an iPhone, but I do have a MacBook. So rather than use a randomly generated device that tricks Apple's servers to allow me to connect, I can just use a device a legitimately own (and just trick apple to think my phone is my laptop).

I know this won't work for everyone (especially folks that don't have an Apple device). But this might be better than losing the app all together ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(PS - I don't know much about how Beeper Mini's reverse engineering worked. Just going off what I believe I understood)
I’m not sure how all this can be said with a straight face; that you are “pro-israel” you just think the borders should be set back over 50 years and that a democratically elected government’s actions is worse than those of a terrorist organization.

Not once did you mention what atrocities were committed on Hamas’s side and instead you spent all your effort justifying Hamas by arguing how you think Lukid is worse.

What actions in your opinion would be an appropriate response for people (& government) of Israel to respond to the targeted rape, murder, beheadings of the elderly, men, women, and children, which was filmed by Hamas and sometimes live-streamed on the social media accounts of their victims to show off what they have achieved?

I’m not sure you can claim to be in the middle or support ‘both sides / both peoples’ when you only have bad things to say about one of them.
For any side of conflict which is playing zero-sum, there can be no negotiations which are beneficial to both. Only one side has to commit to this strategy to condemn the other side to this path. Authoritarianism is an awful method of government which often ensures the minimum amount of people necessary will contribute to a solution for that nation which will benefit only the most privileged. All these countries mentioned are prime examples, and Israel is not exempt from criticism given Bibi's actions over the past few years.
I do think there's a different emotional response to accidental pain and pain deliberately inflicted by a (previously) trusted person, even for little children.

If a child falls off his bunk bed and needs staples in his head, there's no relational harm from the incident. If anything, a caring parental response makes the child feel safer, knowing someone will intervene on their behalf to take care of them when dangerous things happen.
There was a paper from the Allen institute from around 2017 successfully using 1 bit quantization but I can’t find it right now. We started using it where I was working at the time but I’m no longer there so I don’t know how it all turned out.
What is your justification for AI training not being theft?
Apple has 56% of the US market compared to just 36% in the EU, afaik the number gets even higher as you go younger so the clique-iness is a lot stronger.
A couple of my colleagues are VCs who are in active combat in Gaza as we speak. Another VC I knew lost his daughter in the Nova massacre (or is a hostage - they don't know yet). This VC was very active in the peace process and lobbied a very large tech company we all know to open a large development office in West Bank and Gaza and pay pretty high salaries. I also know a lot of line level engineers and PMs from my previous jobs who are drafted, knew people drafted, or knew people at Nova. You can and should oppose war crimes, but at the end of the day, Hamas, PIJ, and other Gazan jihadi groups did unspeakable actions on 10/7. And honestly, I've seen and heard of Afghans fighting back against the Taliban, but I haven't seen Gazans fighting back against Hamas.
I think what's relevant is that people see a genocide happening and it's common sense to condemn the people committing it.
That's the least bad solution available IMO, since the Internet and DNS is the closest thing to decentralized we have available to us. But it requires a special TLD available exclusively to courts, which would make the TLD registry a centralized authority. What if a political activist refuses to validate the TLD of a court in the middle of Texas because of a disagreement with a ruling?
I guess it's worth pointing out that this isn't thd only model of car that Morgan makes.

Clearly, since their whole USP is to have the car look like some classic from the 30s or earlier, its going to inherit the safety limitations of those body shapes.

And yeah, driving them on US roads where everything else is so much bigger is likely to end badly if you're not paying attention.

So while your point is completely valid, its not like you're thinking to get this or a Toyota sedan, for your next purchase. It's a special vehicle aimed at a specific market.

If your main goal is safety (or comfort, or practicality or price) then Morgan should not be your target vehicle. (Then again one could say the same thing about motorbikes, yet they sell well because there can be other goals as well.)
Sparsity-preserving differentially private training
This argument completely ignores both the cultural distinctions between the different areas of the former Ottoman empire, and the fact that a person's home is not interchangeable with any other place. Nobody would expect a Polish person in 1939 to say "well, we Slavs have the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia so I guess it's fine that German settlers took my farm at gunpoint and forced me to leave".

The implicit assumption is that any place with a majority of "Arabs" would ethnically cleanse all the Jews or become an Islamic theocracy, so we must view everything through the lens of competing ethno-states. It's important to challenge this assumption. Ethno-states are inherently violent because every population is a mixture of different ethnicities, and an ethno-state needs to maintain a majority of a certain population. If the "wrong" group's population grows in an ethno-state, it becomes a "demographic problem" that the government needs to "solve". This is why carving up the world into such states is never a lasting solution for peace.

Aside: "Arab" and "Jew" are not mutually exclusive. You can be an Arab Jew in the same way you can be a Hispanic Jew - Arab is a distinction based on one's mother language not one's religion. This is why the Arab League includes countries in north Africa where most people aren't descended from ancestral Arabians. The history of and literature of Judeo-Arabic is an interesting rabbit hole:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Jews
At least a single person understands LLMs in here.

Is HN getting dumber? What's with all these threads where people basically assume the "AI" we currently have is some kind of superintelligence?
I would like general purpose open source AI models to be legal, even if it is possible to use them for harmful purposes. Just like open source cryptography, open source operating systems, et cetera.

If a product's primary purpose is crime, fine, ban it. But AI models should be treated just like other technologies, from email to the web to the computer itself.
Gruber is a shill, bribed with special access for his blog.

Everything you said is correct.
People always seem to engage in such manipulative behaviors when seeking to “call out” Elon Musk.

For example, Media Matters hiding their methodology of following racist accounts and refreshing the page until an incredibly rare event of a major company ad showing up next to the racist content they intentionally sought out — and then pretending this is anything but a rare, manipulated event.

Or your example, of showing a radical GPT response while hiding the prompt.

What is it about Elon Musk that triggers people so badly, they engaged in underhanded or manipulative tactics to “go after” him?
Company culture changes all day, every day, in reaction to thousands of factors, any one of which could prove to be significant.

It seems absurd to me to expect company culture not to change much over 10-15 years.
> The idea here is that Stable Diffusion "memorised" the Getty logo, and could place it on outputs on demand.

> This is no longer possible as far as I can tell.

? Why would it no longer be possible?

Stability has exactly zero way of updating the weights once they have made them public. Is the suggestion that this was only possible on 1.4 and 1.5 and XL don't have the issue?

...or somehow what the model was previously capable of doing is now no longer possible?

That seems like enormously unsubstantiated speculation.

We have proof from multiple independent studies that these models in general memorize a small percentage of their training data to the degree that reasonable reconstructions of the original training images can be recovered from the model.

There is, to my knowledge, no mitigation of this that has been implemented, or even conceptualized by either stability or anyone else.

Interesting read regarding the actual ruling the judge made, but this is some "opinion here" commentary, which seem out of place; what the court actually rules is the interesting part of this.
When I'm specifically discussing their culture, and I find aspects pretty much uniform between the Sabuaia Beduins and the Arabs of Haifa (where I lived for a few years), then I generalize. I haven't been to Haifa for quite a while, which is why I mentioned the Beduins specifically.
This is an interview Drew DeVault did on The Changelog to talk about the programming language he’s writing.

He’s the founder of SourceHut and author of the Sway window manager, the Helios microkernel and many, many other open source projects.
From your own source:

> In the lead-up to the elections, on 26 September 2005 Israel launched a campaign of arrests against PLC members. 450 members of Hamas were detained, mostly those involved in the 2006 PLC elections. The majority of them were kept in administrative detention for different periods.[19] In the election period, 15 PLC members were captured and held as prisoners.[20]

> On 21 December 2005 Israeli officials stated their intention to prevent voting in East Jerusalem, which, unlike most of the Palestinian-inhabited areas that were planned to participate in the election, was under Israeli civil and military control.

> On the day of the election, the ballot boxes were held in Israeli Post Offices inside Jerusalem. Israeli police officers were present to monitor the proceedings of the election. At the end of the day the Israeli authorities transferred the ballot boxes to the Palestinian Authority.[19]

Question: How is withdrawing from Gaza interfering with the election while these actual examples of interference aren’t?

It seems to me if your narration of history were true (which I’m not sure it is) then withdrawing from Gaza but not the West Bank was merely a dumb move, not interference.

EDIT: To be clear, I don’t believe—as did observers at the time—that these interference efforts had a significant impact on the results. I believe these elections were fair and accurate despite some inference efforts by Israel. Whatever politics Israel conducted before the election was just that, politics. Every participant or stakeholder in election which holds any amount of power over the electorate does these politics before and during elections.
They say in the blog post those instances are charged a very reduced value when idle. IIRC something in the order of 20-30% of the original one.
100 years ago people founded cities all the time. Why is it so unpopular today?
At some point in the last 25 years I learned "perl -pi -e" and "for x in [whatever]; do [something] $x; done" and I type those without thinking when I'm working in the shell. I haven't written any perl in probably 12 years, but I still use it for file manipulation.
On the one hand it's easy to see this as a "screw the rich billionaires upsetting these poor locals"

However, another part of me thinks that if a city was built from the ground up in a thoughtful way it could be so much better than America's best cities. Also more cities would create more housing supply. Plus it feels nice just to root for the optimistic outcome sometime rather than reflexively be bitter.

Though my biggest concern is - and we see this in so many online platforms - a lot of tech/ceo types have a very... different... idea of what "optimal" looks like.
> or of metrics that are just gamed (is test code coverage > 80%?)

The rebuttal to your implied Goodhart's Law <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law> that was offered by my manager was "tension metrics" <https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/IT_Service_Management/Contin...>

If I understand his theory correctly, in your case there would be a competing metric to the "test coverage" one that said for any changeset, a test cannot itself change by more than 20% in the same changeset as non-test code. So you can change the code such that it still passes the existing tests, or you can change the test to adapt to new requirements, but you cannot rewrite the tests to match your newly changed code

I'm acutely aware this is a terrible example, the devil's in the details, and (in my experience) each company's metrics are designed to drive down their own organizational risk <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law>, combined with "you're always fighting the last war" :-D
Congratulations to the EU on regulating other countries technological advances!
I skimmed it. I don’t think carve-outs and exemptions for government use are a great idea and seem more likely to keep the public ignorant. The structure of the AI board seems pretty messed up—it gives some people in national governments discretion over peer agencies and seems designed to divide-and-conquer. The whole thing feels shady and I’d be concerned if I lived there. More generally, I’m not from the EU but the whole concept of the government granting rights to citizens naturally implies the government can grant rights to itself. I’m just not a fan.
I suspect in-ear buds worsened this. The risks need to be told to people multiple times through childhood.

Also, imo, ear-plugs should be offered at the door at live shows for free. Any stigma against self protection in social circumstances should be removed.
Ask HN: What's your favorite UI library?
I'll start with mine: DaisyUI. As a CSS-only framework built on TailwindCSS, it's compatible with any web framework. Plus it looks good.
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Adding a larger population that doesn't serve in the army isn't going to help IMO — the non-religious Jews are already very mad about the carveouts for Haredim not serving in the army. An "equal state" where a Jewish minority are forced into the military or else imprisoned, and the non-Jews aren't, is not going to go well.

Two states are much better than one in my opinion, and the PA-led pseudo-state is much better than Hamas-controlled Gaza. Israel and Palestine need a manageable divorce, not a forced and unhappy marriage.

Regardless, the PA does not advocate for one state, Hamas does not advocate for one state, and the vast majority of Israelis do not want one state, so I think this is kind of a moot point.
Then you tell me how the Arabs view themselves. Because Arabs that I've spoken with from Palestine, Lebanon, Tunis, and Iraq all mention that they see themselves as a common culture and brotherhood. Interestingly, Moroccans don't seem to share this view from what I've gathered.

My samples mostly come from people that I've met abroad or the HelloTalk app which is designed to connect people learning each others' languages. So my sample might be biased, but I don't see how that selection would bias this particular issue.
Wait until this State Department official finds all the weapons sold to Saudi Arabia
“How can people get into my locked door if I don’t tape a key to it for them to use?”

If the private key is public, it does nothing by definition and it may as well not exist!

Just use plain text, HTTP, or whatever and stop fooling yourself.

It’s like calling an open field a “secure facility”.

The name is not the thing, the map is not the territory.

Private keys are only private if they’re not public.
His first sentence about privacy and security is nonsense, but his second sentence hits the nail on the head.

If the richest company in the world wanted their chat app to run on Android, it would by now.

It's strange Apple doesn't sell an iMessage Android app, but I'm sure they've had somebody do the math and found out that it's more money for Apple in the long run if they don't.
Firstly, this is a technology test bed, not a car that will be produced.

Secondly, Morgans are all about the styling. And 30s styling is not aero-effecient. I think we can safely predict that when an electric Morgan does appear it will have poor effeciency. But that won't matter. No-one buys a Morgan for range effeciency.
And there was major hubris from the makers. They were arguing that because it was all totally above board Apple wouldn’t be able to block the service without impairing iMessage entirely.

Wrong
Was Gizmodo ever great? Sad to see them chase the negative angle.
Sure, but space maximizing cost efficiency isn’t a major priority in most homes as otherwise they would all end up as boxes with simple roof lines and uniform exteriors. Clearly modern subdivisions simply don’t look like that.
In Toronto, which is a metropolis, pickup trucks are everywhere. Is it different in other cities? Most of them get used like regular cars with nary a usage bump or scratch in the back in their lack of use, which is baffling (everyone has their theories), but they are very much not a rarity here.
My slightly-informed opinion? Two cooperating factors.

1. The extraordinary effective Hamas organization. Hamas has set itself up to benefit from atrocities committed upon the people of Gaza. Every civilian death is a point for Hamas, the more so the better publicized it is. A point for Hamas is obviously not a point for regular people in Gaza. And Hamas provoked Israel as much as it could manage, and continues to provoke Israel by engaging in military operations from civilian sites, leading to:

2. Israel doesn’t understand this, and is entirely willing to play right into Hamas’ hands, in the name of its own security. And it looks really, really bad.