skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your last question I think I know a fair bit. But it's true the average Israeli does not. The average Israeli also doesn't go around telling South Korea what to do or campaigning for the North Koreans or making judgments on which side of Korea is "occupied" by whom or saying that North Korea is a prison and pressuring their local politicians about the plight of the North Koreans.

I think what's going on is partly "Jews Are News". In other words antisemitism. You have to be willingly blind not to see that the coverage of Israel and public outcry is disproportionate to other conflicts and that the focus inevitably seems to be on Israel in a bad way. Maybe another factor is influence in terms of money and effort by those seeking to weaken the west. Internal politics in various countries also have an impact.

Should we then take the position that Israel is above criticism, can do whatever it wants, and face no repercussion? No. Part of my difficulty, as a pro-Israeli, is that there's no doubt that Israel has been drifting in a bad direction. The current government is a disgrace in my opinion. There are many things Israel is doing that are not ok. If you look e.g. at what the Biden administration is saying they are trying to strike this balance of saying "Israel has the right to self defense", "Israel is justified in trying to eliminate Hamas" but at the same time saying things like "Settlements in the west bank are illegal", "Settler violence against Palestinians in the west bank won't be tolerated", "Even though you were dehumanized on Oct 7th you can't dehumanize the other side", "You need to think about the longer term solution". This to me is a measured approach given the existing focus on Israel (if there was no focus then we wouldn't even be talking about these topics).

In terms of being critical I would say what matters is your motivation. If it's coming from a place of genuinely caring about the well being of all people involved, and ideally if you know the facts/history/cultures/geography etc., have at it. The road to hell can still be paved with good intentions but it's much harder to argue with people with good intentions. My problem is with the people that knowingly or not are wanting to see harm come to Israelis (or Jews). Some are outright calling for it (e.g. supporting Oct 7th and general use of indiscriminate violence against random Israelis) and some don't realize that's a consequence of what they're saying (from the river to the sea or stuff like that).
Isn’t it hubris to think that someone who flew across the world to try to help you isn’t worth listening to?
It's worth noting that most of these models have a similar price-per-1M-tokens, so differentiation is mostly whether the model output has the right "vibe" for your use case, which can't easily be represented in most benchmarks.

Competition will encourage a price race to the bottom (marginal cost = marginal revenue), but I question whether some of these companies will be able to maintain it long-term without lots and lots of venture capital.
Curiously, this is a big facet in our dev/ops re-organization.

For example, we in infra-operations are responsible to store data customers upload into your systems. This data has to be considered not reproducible, especially if it's older than a few days. If we lose it, we lose it for good and then people are disappointed and turn angry.

As such, large scale data wipes are handled very carefully with manual approvals from several different teams. The full deletion of a customer goes through us, account management, contract and us again. And this is fine. Even with the GDPR and such, it is entirely fine that deleting a customer takes 1-2 weeks. Especially because the process has caught errors in other internal processes, and errors in our customers processes. Suddenly you're the hero vendor if the customer goes "Oh fuck, noooooo".

On the other hand, stateless code updates without persistence changes are supposed to be able to move as fast as the build server gives. If it goes wrong, just deploy a fix with the next build or roll back. And sure you can construct situations in which code changes cause big, persistent, stateful issues, but these tend to be rare with a decent dev-team.

We as infra-ops and central services need to be robust and reliable and are fine shedding speed (outside of standard requests) for this. A dev-team with a good understanding of stateful and stateless changes should totally be able to run into a wall at full speed since they can stand back up just as quickly. We're easily looking at hours of backup restore for hosed databases. And no there is no way to speed it up without hardware changes.
If you're ever wondering why something in the U.S. can't be made better, the answer is often that the existing rent-collectors must be allowed to continue collecting their rent at all costs. This is why we can't have the government file taxes on our behalf: because Intuit would no longer be collecting rent, and rent-collecting must be protected at all costs. This is why we can't have a single-payer healthcare system: because insurance companies must keep collecting their rent. This is why the TSA is here to stay: it collects rent from the taxpayers, the airports, and the passengers.

Any modification to the system must include ways for the rent-collectors to continue collecting rent from someone. TSA Precheck is a way for you to say: it's fine, TSA, I'll pay rent directly to you, so that I can avoid the worst parts of your services. It, of course, has nothing to do with actually pre-checking that certain passenger are low-risk -- it's just a solution to the problem of "but if we made the system more efficient, how would we still collect rent?" Collect it directly from the passengers themselves, for the privilege of avoiding the worst parts of dealing with you.
I've seen it mentionned on hn before and was intrigued as a replacement/simpler solution to a home pfsense setup. It seems there are issues with it though:
https://old.reddit.com/r/firewalla/comments/18wvlqa/steer_cl...

The software is open source apparently?
https://github.com/firewalla/firewalla
Anyone running this on their own hardware? Or in a VM homelab :) ?
Immigration is a federal responsibility. Housing is a free-market responsibility with limits imposed at the municipal level (where it is strictly restricted to anywhere but my backyard).

That's why the two are unrelated.
For what it's worth, we're just starting to get to where enterprise stuff that cares about power usage is coming off-lease. Some of the newest stuff actually sips power relatively when not under load.

My biggest (current) problem is finding something that supports a ton of SATA drives and still is low power (though at some point even the power usage of spinning rust can become noticeable).

I live in the icy wilderness, so excess power to heat isn't a problem for most of the year.
A reduction in security theater may have a dependency on reduction in democracy theater. :(
A long time ago, I was once charged for being browbeaten into entering a social security number on a keypad by a belligerent ER security guard at a hospital. Didn't even see anyone, but still charged.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

The LLM arena shows the performance of GPT-4 compared to Claude 3 and Mistral-large. (GPT-4 is still on top)
Yeah, I'm all for applying Hanlon's Razor, but in this case this seems like a clear case of "they had an incentive to say whatever made them look best and they sure followed it". "Weaponized incompetence" isn't a bad word for it.
Was going to say, latency doesn't need to be in there.
That is basically scenario #2 (which is common), but for whatever reason they haven’t been very successful at pushing back against some of the changes that cause these issues. I don’t have much insight to offer there since I’m not at the negotiating table there.
No one values this work, and so it’s an identity and status issue. “Soldiers” vs janitors and people who keep the lights on. (“Support our troops”, “back the blue”, etc).
Understood properly, Luddites are an early precursor to what would become the labor movement later in the century, as well as the broader philosophical school of personalism that congealed around the same timeframe. All together they were (and are) voices dissatisfied with the injustices and dehumanization of both unchecked capitalism and socialism both. A central idea is the basic fact that, quoting William Morris, “Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.”

Or more simply: people first.

There is a surprisingly rich vein of thought that relates here from the Vatican from perhaps 30 years after the Luddites, on to the present day:

... This circumstance constitutes in itself the most eloquent "Gospel of work", showing that the basis for determining the value of human work is not primarily the kind of work being done but the fact that the one who is doing it is a person. The sources of the dignity of work are to be sought primarily in the subjective dimension, not in the objective one.

Such a concept practically does away with the very basis of the ancient differentiation of people into classes according to the kind of work done. This does not mean that, from the objective point of view, human work cannot and must not be rated and qualified in any way. It only means that the primary basis of the value of work is Man himself, who is its subject. This leads immediately to a very important conclusion of an ethical nature: however true it may be that man is destined for work and called to it, in the first place work is "for man" and not man "for work". Through this conclusion one rightly comes to recognize the pre-eminence of the subjective meaning of work over the objective one. Given this way of understanding things, and presupposing that different sorts of work that people do can have greater or lesser objective value, let us try nevertheless to show that each sort is judged above all by the measure of the dignity of the subject of work, that is to say the person, the individual who carries it out. On the other hand: independently of the work that every man does, and presupposing that this work constitutes a purpose-at times a very demanding one-of his activity, this purpose does not possess a definitive meaning in itself. In fact, in the final analysis it is always man who is the purpose of the work, whatever work it is that is done by man-even if the common scale of values rates it as the merest "service", as the most monotonous even the most alienating work.
(laborem execrens, 1981)

Pratchett fans may notice that personalist thinking sounds Weatherwaxian, and you'd be right!

"There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know
that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including
yourself. That's what sin is."

Or from MLK:

"...to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I it" relationship for an "I thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things."
Well one candidate has you covered. He wants to dismantle the DHS. Unfortunately his platform comes with a certain amount of other baggage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Sure, but, in such an extreme housing crisis it might be wise to adjust priorities so people have housing.

The town also has a massive NIMBY problem.
For all the problems that Nature (and science in general) has, and while I'm sure this incident will be used by some as "evidence" that we shouldn't trust in science, ultimately this incident was another win for science. It should have happened much much sooner, but in the end, the truth was found and the record corrected. That's exactly the result we want.

I appreciate that Nature's news team is willing to publish information about Nature's massively embarrassing failure to do their job reviewing the paper, and I hope they mean it when they say “We are looking at this case carefully to see what lessons can be learnt for the future.”
it sucks and I hate it, but it's the winning formula to increase engagement/$$
Tim Cook managed to be cool calm and diplomatic when dealing with Trump and his trade war with China. Why is Tim Cook suddenly acting irrational and child-like when dealing with EU? This behaviour we're seeing from Apple recently is happening in front on investors and everyone else's eyes because Tim Cook is personally green-lighting this behaviour. What's going on inside Apple? Is it because none of their hardware is growing anymore and they don't have an AI strategy to offset their stock which is currently in free fall and is about to be bypassesed by nVidia?
It sounds like you’re confirming the parents point.
I'm not convinced the TSA is needed to stop terrorism, but it probably helps a good deal with protecting passengers from ordinary psychotic Americans, of which there seem to be a significant increase over the last 20 or so years.
I've seen these benchmarks over and over and I wonder how they work. Seems to me you would need something close to a test or exam like in schools to properly rate a model. How useful are these metrics?
I use one of these. For a system that’s honestly mostly idle, it’s plenty for proxmox with Plex and pihole and whatever else, and it’s good on power and heat and noise.

I made the mistake of getting Seagate 10TB rock tumblers, but they’re the only source of real noise. WD would probably have been quieter.

I have this and my switches and a ham radio base station all racked up on top of the cabinets in my laundry/utility room, out of the way but not hidden away, so I can still notice if the fans are too loud or the wrong lights are blinking or not blinking or there’s weird smells etc.
Subnetting Practice Game
Very often unfortunately. But even when it doesn't I use `reset` to clear the scrollback history so it's easier to get to the start of a command.

I'd really like terminal emulators to support marking the default top of the scrollback so I don't lose the earlier history but still get the benefit of being able to easily find the start of a command, but I'm not aware of any terminal emulators having any features that do anything like that. So `reset` is the next best thing.
I am a 100% in agreement with that statement, and I speak from experience, seeing how I used and have rented out an apartment in the past.

But in actual reality, very specifically, airbnb has destroyed the character of entire neighborhoods, pushed up prices locally (if not regionally), all the while having completely acceptable alternatives for the majority of its use (ie. tourism).

So, yes, there is a spectrum in how housing is deployed, but there is also a very clear negative impact of airbnb, very specifically, in that frictionless, low risk model of renting out housing. I think that needs to be addressed, not from first principles wrt what is the nature of housing etc. etc., but very pragmatically, the gig-economy airbnb, how to channel that correctly.
Why not? Are you afraid of riding a train, since none of the passengers have been screened?
Because we don't have death panels like in countries with government-run plans. Your insurance carrier won't deny you a bone marrow transplant because you're 85 (it costs over $1m). Other countries will deny it, because you're 85 and have had a good life.

The UK's death panel is called NICE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_...

We should have something similar in the US. 80% of all healthcare spending is consumed by people in the last 3 years of their life.
I wrote a long comment but basically it boils down to: 1) "backend" developers have always devalued front end to try to protect their (sometimes easier) cushy jobs and salaries involving slower-evolving technologies from often younger "frontend" developers, 2) "frontend" and "backend" without a lot of context are basically meaningless at this point, and 3) if someone is really good at CSS and wants a title with the word "Engineer" in it, I think they deserve it.
99 percent of people can easily be pre-screened as not a threat.
My wife is a PCP and she does care and is endlessly frustrated by the BS. There’s just not anything she can do about it.
What exactly do you want to say? Is it a real photo, or is it an AI created image? Not really getting the point you want to get across.
If you try against all failures and are persistent and you finally get lucky.

Versus giving up after first or second failure.

Is it still luck that is most important?
Slight tangent, but have you been around older people or younger people lately?

I'm taking some classes at the local community college right now, despite being nearly 40 years old, and it's amazing to be surrounded by young people passionate about everything. The campus is just buzzing with energy and activity all the time, whether in class or extracurricular events, etc.

Similarly, one of our music classes went to perform at a local nursing home. We were pretty terrible and didn't practice enough lol but the old folks there were so so appreciative of us being there. We were the highlight of their week (or maybe month!).

There's still a lot of excitement out there!
Being negatively predisposed to bad things is both normal and healthy behavior.

Also, using heuristics to make judgments about situations is how intelligence works.
Tourism jobs are generally low-wage menial work, and tourists also have the effect of driving local prices up. Particularly the kind of tourism that would benefit from high AirBnB availability.

Last I checked, locals have the right to vote, and tourists do not.
> even the middle and upper class are forced to live in a world where they are absolutely dependent on the upper tech elite for basic things,

paradoxically, we are all super dependent on the poor and low-income earners as well. If everyone was as well-off as the average HN poster, things would get expensive and services would become scarce. I don't say this to disagree with you, but rather to support the fact that we need to have a middle and lower class for our economy to function. the cost increases in basic goods (including books and entertainment), but especially housing, is destroying the middle and lower class. why would someone participate in an economy where the lowest-paying jobs don't even pay enough for a place to live?

> it should not just be those who can pay who should have access to knowledge and ideas.

I've thought a lot about this and particularly for prisons, where by definition there isn't a market for them to buy much of anything. They should make prisons, and perhaps hospitals, copyright-free zones because even if they brazenly "steal" content, its not really possible for the consumers to pay for it anyway. And prisons could use premium IP materials as an incentive to reward good behavior or placate them, without technically stealing anything.
My elderly disabled mom on a fixed income is being billed for an ambulance ride from a hospital to a long-term care facility because Medicare deemed it "unnecessary" even though the shuttle couldn't take her.
I am not against AI, per se, but I am against giving unfettered access to my data implicitly for who knows the purpose.

In many cases it isn't even my data to grant access to.
That's what I do at work, it works quite well.
What do you mean? Class D amps are essentially PWM driven amplifiers. Essentially any speaker in existence offers enough low pass filtering to be directly wired to the amplifier, as well.
Six people each bring 50ml tooth paste on a plane, after take off, they combine it to 300ml. What are you gonna do.
Security was handled (owned) by airports since the dawn of time. Airports with high risk (JFK) had higher security, airports with lower security (SAT). Airports hired typical staff from the local community and you would go through a metal detector and someone would X-Ray your luggage to make sure there were no obvious bombs in there. Your family could meet you at the gate.

Originally when the TSA was invented, airports were allowed to do their own security, TSA was optional. Now, airports that already have TSA are not allowed to provide their own security, it is mandatory they hire federal union employees.

WHY is it necessary for municipal airports to hire federal union employees? Airports know their own local risk factor and can adequately manage those employees. Airports want their passengers to have a good experience, so that they come back. This is why they pay big bucks for rennovations, why they have the bad-ok-good-better-best colored buttons in the restrooms and everything else.

The airport has virtually no control over the staff running security. They can't overschedule employees for busy times and holidays, they're beholden to what the TSA does.

And yeah, they do regular tests of the TSA to see how much contraband they can slip past security. TSA regularly fails these tests/audits.

The rest of the world does not deal with the level of security as american airports, and nobody else is having problems. US airports are still running at/above 9/11 security levels... why? In most countries you aren't required to take off your shoes or walk through anything more invasive than a simple metal detector.

1. Abolish the TSA. Allow local airports to hire and manage their own staff (currently not allowed)
2. Adjust minimum standards up and down based on current thread level (don't force people wearing flip flops to take off their shoes)

TSA was a huge mistake and is absolutely security theater. Every other country in the world does a better job of managing risk at airports than the US.
People in the industry think that doctoral advisors are something like bosses in companies. They aren't. A Ph.D. is an all-or-nothing experience. When leaving on bad terms, you not only lose a few years of your life, but it is likely to ruin your career. With very competitive hires, an anti-recommendation might be a kiss of death.

Sometimes, this power balance pushes people over the edge. There is a case of a PhD student who, after a struggle with his PI wanting him to publish fraudulent results, had a breakdown and took his own life. https://huixiangvoice.medium.com/the-hidden-story-behind-the...
Hardware (and sourcing) is harder than software. So I would heavily weight which OS is supported for the kind of devices you need, from reliable manufacturers with long support times. Always have multiple sources for the type of hardware used.

You also need to consider who is responsible for monitoring, maintaining and updating the devices OS and software, and whether it is a pull or push type update model. If it is you, then the fact that customers IT department knows Windows is not a benefit (on the contrary, they might cause problems).

When it comes to language and GUI framework, pick based on availability of skills. Having people that know X is more important than what X is.
I would try to find a way to solve the modification issue which does not limit your choice of tech. Not being able to use JavaScript/web for UI is a huge limitation wrt access to skills. Tamper protect/detection using cryptography.
"Researchers confirm their own biases using poor quality study"
Wasn't Trump just upset NATO members weren't paying their dues? What am I missing here?
Well we haven't ever had global policy enforcing CO2 reduction so I don't think we can conclude it doesn't work.

But it's also not a fair comparison, reducing shark bycatch and reducing human CO2 output are completely different problems with different scale.

I don't think giving up is acceptable either.
If a machine can do something a human can, a human should no longer do it.