skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Functional markets require a strong mechanism for protection of property rights. The fact that we have some historical systems where that has taken a different form than a conventional government doesn't negate that the only practical mechanism that we have to protect property rights and support markets is a government.

Even if we grant that argument, that's at most an argument in favour of a minimalist nightwatchmen state. Not the full blown Leviathan.

> And then, there's lots of situations where externalities exist. If I poop in the river and you're downstream, it costs me nothing; I have no reason to stop.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
And very possibly in violation of the Geneva Convention's prohibition of "indiscriminate" attacks:

Rule 12. Indiscriminate attacks are those:
(a) which are not directed at a specific military objective;
(b) which employ a method or means of combat which cannot be directed at a specific military objective; or
(c) which employ a method or means of combat the effects of which cannot be limited as required by international humanitarian law; and consequently, in each such case, are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction.
Can something like this happen in the EU with its stronger worker protection laws? Can a company fire you after telling you that you're allowed to relocate then force you RTO?
True, it's a republic.
Nothing else worked for what? What is the policy goal being pursued with this attack?
Sure, there's bad actors everywhere, but there's really no incentive to do it here so I don't think it's a problem in the same way it is on the open internet, where slop is actively rewarded.
IME anything that looks vaguely like a cost center often has something vaguely resembling an acceptable service/quality level and people typically aim to achieve that with the lowest cost. It’s not at all uncommon to cut budgets/headcount when that goal is exceeded noticeably.
But that is the tactic, and it has been for the whole time. Just like Hamas puts its centers in and under hospitals, so civilians act like a shield. And very convenient for propaganda if hospitals gets under attack.
These things weren't made in Israel nor by Israeli companies.

If a state wants you dead you're cooked anyways
An advanced case of "In Their Defence"
> relies on a true free market, which healthcare definitely isn't.

I think this is the part that people miss the most. When a purchasing decision is made based on something like "who has the best quality shoes in price range X", competition can occur.

When the buying decision is "will I live or die", there's not really any choice made there. Couple that with the complete lack of transparency for how much a give procedure will cost, and you've strayed so far away from a free market that it's not even recognizable.

I mean, even the hospital can't even remotely accurately tell you how much something will cost before you actually get a bill...
Essentially, it depends on workplace integration, i.e. how much effort it takes to discover the alert trigger. From personal experience, I'd say the upper limit of inconvenience is 'click the alert' on mobile, and 'move mouse on alert label to see tooltip' on desktop. Anything more will be quickly discarded, especially if it involves a popup or opens a new window.
> We don't talk about it much because the attack failed, but Iran launched a mass drone assault against Israel a few months back.

Note that this was a retaliatory strike, announced in advance, to Israel's illegal bombing of Iran's consulate in Damascus, Syria.
The third wave.. so.. we have mainly three parts that can be used by hisbola to be independent:

communication, power and food processing and production.

The next thing is the food. Keep fingers off tomatoes.
I believe you are mistaken. Please find any source that defines it in a way that isn't victim-triggered. Every single one I've checked includes similar language.
If there are identity having classes (reference/pointer) that may be mutable, and value types that are always immutable, then I think it can be an “implementation detail”, part of the type, not changing semantics.

If you can’t change a struct’s field, only the whole struct, then I believe it’s fine - and the compiler may decide to copy it or change in-place depending on its available context, is it not the case?
If that were better or as good, they'd already be doing it. It's pretty obvious that would massively disrupt them.
Facebook has full time remote, Airbnb too.
There's a fixed supply of money (ish, the real life stuff money represents is actually scarce). If wealth disparity is great that means that less money is available for working people. You can't really gain a dollar here without losing a dollar there.

The problem here is working people ARE the economy. If they no longer have the power of consumption everything crumples. Of course it's a sliding scale, but even just a bit less consumerism can be catastrophic for some industries.
Common programming problems will be solved because they can be approached in a probabilistic fashion by the very nature that they are common problems. I would expect harder problems to be much harder.

I am a non-software engineer, I work for a small company that we could do whatever we want with language models in terms of the business. The issue though is all of our business problems are stacks of one off problems that the current models offer us basically no help on. Even if the models could help us we would basically have to rebuild the business from the ground up around the models to really benefit much.

Like the dotcom bubble, there is a large amount of time it will take for culture , business and society to leverage the technology. Between then and now I suspect sits an absolutely brutal AI winter that is brought on by nothing more than a good old recession.
I thought the header image was a symbol of AI slop contamination because it looked really off-putting
What does "geopolitical independence" mean? The ability to disregard international law? The ability to make war without worrying about the target being a trading partner?
Try taking the matter into their own hands by bringing the illegal west bank settlers to trial. Tried that yet?
The problem with those ascii values is editors don't display them and there are no keyboard keys to type them.

The reason csv exists is because you can actually see and type all parts of it, on anything, any platform, any hardware, any software, any age, even a mechanical typewriter, even a pencil. That is not merely nice, it's essntially priceless, infinitely, incalculably valuable. The utility outweighs the problems as big as they absolutely are. Actually the same is true for json, yaml, xml...
How can we qualify atomic bombing of Japan during WW2 under this definition?
I really dislike how AI is used for everything. To me, AI means a dumb LLM spewing out half-truth and whole lies.

But in this instant, it's machine learning in the form of regression analysis: Multivariate adaptive regression spline
I'm pretty sure you could run an entire household on nothing but Samsung at this point.

Phone? Check. Watch? Check. TV? check. Washer? Dryer? Fridge? Dishwasher? All there. Laptop? Well, they at least used to make those, not sure if they still do.
So if somebody turned the phones of all members of X army (say IDF) into bombs, and exploded them at mass when a lot of them would be off duty with their families, would that be ok? This is what happened here.
More white rat than desert mouse, I was disappointed. The mouse is also featured in the source material - the books :)
> Doesn't seem like a good idea for extensions to be accessing local resources though.

To the best of my knowledge all localhost connections are exempt from CORS and that's in fact how the 1Password extension communicates with the desktop app. I'd bet Bitwarden and KeePassXC behave similarly
> When I get asked if the person in a video is real, I still feel pretty confident to answer

I don't. I mean, I can identify the bad ones, sure, but how do I know I'm not getting fooled by the good ones?
The militant/civilian fatality ratio was 11/2 yesterday.
Or you know, the couple of languages people speak that are not using ASCII…
It is interesting and relevant, but does not address the questions as stated (which was not accidental).

I doubt many people would notice that, which is a big part of why it's so easy to herd Normies.
You hit the nail on the head. You are free to set up your own server and say what you want. No platform is required to give you exposure.
They didn't compromise anything that looked Israeli, and targeted other companies.
Yes and yes and yes.

I have worked remotely in all of those positions.
Gradle files are less verbose than the equivalent Maven pom.xml but Gradle tends to have other issues like: complex builds that are hard to maintain, not running on the latest JVM version without some wait time, and constantly breaking because Gradle makes breaking changes every release. I'm hoping the declarative Gradle experiment [0] helps with this.

Additionally if XML isn't your thing Maven is making a push for other formats in Maven 4 like HOCON [1].

[0] https://blog.gradle.org/declarative-gradle-first-eap
[1] https://github.com/apache/maven-hocon-extension
I feel like there's a minimum "due diligence" bar to meet though before asking, otherwise it comes across as "I'm too lazy to google the reference and connect the dots myself, but can someone just go ahead and distill a nice summary for me"
From Wikipedia:

"Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants."

There's a lot of disagreement about the international definition of terrorism, but most seem to agree that it is specifically violence against non-combatants and outside the context of a declared military action.
The purpose is to injure enemy combatants
Its not a personal judgement to say private equity buying up hospitals has shifted the priorities of the hospitals from care to profit.

"Depending on the individual" here means, depending if you're a share holder, or the patient dying on the cot.
This post links to some good documentation about sniffer related options: https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Offloading#checksum-...

The sysctls are net.link.generic.system.hwcksum_tx and net.link.generic.system.hwcksum_rx on macos.
Don't all agencies spy on each other? Few years the BND (Germany) collaborated with the CIA (America) to spy on other nations
It gets funnier if you consider the meme that Elon Musk is an alien who is building rockets just to go back to his home planet. :)
Absolutely! Being dyslexic, Grammarly is much more than the AI tool that was recently added, which is great, too.
You should start by outlining the definition of terrorism, but by that point it would be obvious it isn't terrorism and such a post would have been unnecessary.
>The college vote has little to do with population.

You do realize the majority of electors are allocated by population, right?

Specifically, the Electoral College mirrors the allocation of Congress with D.C. added at the same allocation as the smallest State as a special bonus.
Yaesu radio explodes when I throw it at the wall because the UI is so frustrating.
You Don't Want to Tell Yourself Stories
This is a straw man argument. I designate you as a banana! There, the word banana is now meaningless.

It is quite well defined.
Congrats on the launch!

We're definitely looking for something like this as we're looking to transition from Azure's (expensive) GPUs. I'm curious how you stack against something like Runpod's serverless offering (which seems quite a bit cheaper). Do you offer faster cold starts? How long would a ~30GB model load takes?
Sounds like the problem (for a platform like this) is that they have "business goals" in the first place. Freedom of speech shouldn't be up for sale, especially when it comes to discussing sensitive topics and creating a for-profit business around that would do just that.
I think that in order to really have free speech, you need to own the platform. Because your freedom of speech doesn't mean that anyone else is obligated to listen to it or provide you a platform.

In that light, I think that peer to peer technologies seem really promising because it eliminates the technical know how and costs required for self-hosting.

Jami, Briar, and others come to mind. Retroshare. I feel like p2p is still in its infancy though, and the true easy, reliable, and private isn't quite there yet.
I haven't found a replacement yet, because it shut down after being bought a few months ago, but my team really enjoyed using Multi which is your run of the mill webcam/screenshare team app (like slack huddle) except it had rooms that stayed open and people could hop in and out.

We had a room for my team, and other teams, and we did a lot more "sit beside one another" type work/conversations with that.

If anyone knows another app with the rooms, and hopefully that lets multiple people screenshare at the same time please let me know.
Firing 50 employees with skillsets you don't need to hire 50 employees with the skillsets you actually need will very much help redirect your resources. It's pretty tough to transmute an accountant into an engineer.
The difference is that the USA is going to get dragged into a regional war it has no business being in.
What would you call Russians killing Ukrainian soldiers and IDF killing Lebanese civilians then?
Preparation. Surprise attacks work… once. Then, you have to wait for a few years when the enemy side lowers their readiness again.
Demoralization of the enemy. Every single Hezbollah member is now paranoid that every single surface they touch is either listening to them or trying to kill them.
News reports say that Israel had copies of the Oct 7 plans but found it impossible to believe and were convinced hamas didn’t want all out war.

Similar to Pearl Harbor where we also had intelligence of the attack I suppose…
These weren't Israeli products. If I were Mossad, I'd compromise anything except an Israeli or Jewish-owned product.
Terrorism targets civilian populations. This operation, as described, targets Hezbollah militants.

That feels like an oversimplification to me. Some of those devices have surely injured civilians. I think the question is how many. Broadly it's the same question that's plagued Israel's actions since last October: there will always be civilian casualties as a result of military action, but how many is too many?
This is basically X's position – they will enforce countries speech laws, no more, no less.

But OP says:

> Other places such as x/twitter, has some liberty but not very much. Real subjects are not getting through.

So I'm not sure if they're saying that isn't what X is doing, or that they're criticising X for not going beyond the law (illegally), or that perhaps they feel that some legal speech is not treated equally?
Ok I'll give you that. My 818 is horrid.
> You want a place that allows all speech, but is moderated?

Freedom of speech != "all speech".

A platform with heavy moderation is required to actually enable the highest degree of freedom when it comes to speech, otherwise you allow people to impede others freedom for speech.
> and only available from pre-war / pre-atomic sources.

From the same wiki you linked:

"Since the end of atmospheric nuclear testing, background radiation has decreased to very near natural levels, making special low-background steel no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive uses, as brand-new steel now has a low enough radioactive signature"

and

"For the most demanding items even low-background steel can be too radioactive and other materials like high-purity copper may be used"
"According to Sky News Arabia; Mossad was able to Inject a Compound of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) into the Batteries of the New Encrypted Pagers that Hezbollah began using around February, before they even arrived in the Hands of Hezbollah Members, allowing them to Remotely Overheat and Detonate the Lithium Battery within the Device."
Yes, that's why I talked about Zuse's earlier work. And IBM also had plenty of private business (and would have had more).

> But I think there's general academic consensus that computing, aerospace, and biotech all progressed at rates beyond their equivalent private sector capacity due to government investment, and that the resulting progress was "worth it" in terms of returned economic and social value.

It depends on your counterfactual. If government had taxed the same funds, but spent it on something else, yes, we would have had less progress in these specific sectors.

If they had taxed and intervened less, perhaps we would have had more?

And, of course, we picked these sectors out after the fact. There's plenty more examples of failed government investments.
You are making excuses, Israel is a Jewish supremacist state practicing apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Your arguments seem obsessive and misdirected, and whether intentionally or inadvertently acting as if the situation began on October 7th 2023 which it did not.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Social media companies are private companies. You can set up your own servers and no government will interfere with you as long as you aren’t doing something illegal

If I start spewing political speech on HN, you will soon be banned and dang and company have every right to do so.
In America, the First Amendment guarantee of 'freedom of speech' only protects you from the government restricting your speech. It doesn't oblige any other entity to provide you with a platform, and it doesn't free you from the consequences of your speech. You can (and should!) host your own servers, but unless you buy ads on a search platform they are not obliged to prioritize, or even index, your content.
For instance, when Apollo Gold lisenced their pagers to a little known hungarian company, having their brand used as a bomb delivery device in the middle-east was not something they would have had on their list of potential brand risks.

So now companies engaged in international business not only have to consider exposure to the usual fraud, but also if their counterpart is actively malicious.

It's also likely going to make nation states start thinking about supply chains they maybe didn't before. How do you know someone didn't put explosives in your mice, keyboards, monitors, headsets and various other things that were probably manufactured in china?
The Fed's Global Put: Part I
Depends on which side you are on.
It's an intentional construct that benefits Hezbollah and Iran. Their Iranian funding has made them bigger and stronger than most nation-state armies but they can continue pretending to be a civilian Lebanese NGO with a strong political lobby in Brussels and Paris.
Fun bit of trivia (though depressing) from the wiki

The term "MARS" is trademarked and licensed to Salford Systems. In order to avoid trademark infringements, many open-source implementations of MARS are called "Earth".
Generally agree, though Mathematica is for physics, I rarely saw it used by mathematicians, especially compared with MATLAB, which was closer to the programming language of choice. That or Julia were both more common.

> I think that Python is what you get when you have real programmers (^TM) try to create the programming equivalent of something like MATLAB, Mathematica, and R.

I think this is a better description of Julia tbh, at least relative to MATLAB.
This is a blatant lie. For example, as part of operation Rubikon Germany and the US spied on Spain, a NATO ally, among other targets. It's commonplace to spy on each other.
IIRC less than half of all deployments are on Java 8. Most of the community has moved past it.
Good luck on your launch! Your loom drops audio after 4m25s.
Is the Electron version supposed to be available on Linux? I see only mentions of Windows on the website.
Very interesting, indeed! I deliberate over this far too much for my own mental health. Feedback loops on feedback loops.

My life experience has been such that... I'll worry about the things these guards are supposed to be here for if/when it happens. It won't, and if it does, I know how to handle myself. It probably won't be the first, second, or third time. I consider anyone with a weapon a liability. Including me... but especially 'not me'.

The cameras are so gross. Please don't subscribe to surveillance, talk to your neighbors! If only community were really so easy...
It is in fact illegal until the user opts into it. The company has to assume no as an answer until then.
Day one, blow up the pagers. Everyone stops using pagers.

Day two, blow up the backup device that Hezbollah had fallen back to using.

Perhaps on day three, now that Hezbollah has no effective communication and coordination and might even fall back to mobile phones, start ground ops?
I don’t think it’s impossible with proper caches to smaller dimension versions (that supposedly Apple already generates/has access to - like they are doing a bunch of processing, like object recognition, etc).
It is terrorism. If Reuters is not calling it terrorism, it does not make it not terrorism.
The US Federal government uses the following definition:

the term "terrorism" means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:22%20section:...
I don't think so. My personal and very unpopular belief is that RTO is largely based on tax breaks that cities give to companies for their buildings being a percentage occupied and thus bringing more tax revenue to local businesses.
The self-hosted to DevOps engineer pipeline
But content prioritization has nothing to do with the right of free speech. The right is about speech, not about being heard. If it's not censored, then you've still "spoken".

The platforms manipulating what speech gets shown is in a way their own form of speech. I think this can be dangerous, but that's more a condemnation of how we use those private services than the services themselves.
I think it is considered terrorism. Whoever did it, nobody would say that this attack makes military sense, lebanon is not at war, and civilians have died. But since IDF didn't do it, we ll never know who the terrorists are.
As a Japanese-American, please stop saying I'm a crayon.
It's interesting that both targets have been against non-cellular forms of communication.

I suspect for Israel they have advanced ways of intercepting text and calls and (probably) even MITM encrypted communications over cellular networks. And this could just as easily be about seeding fear about using anything besides a cell phone.
Infiltration: Toronto Union Station (1999)
> and sometimes retirement equals a purge

That's just dictatorships man, you gotta keep playing the game well or you end up tortured to death in a salt mine.
Netanyahu has long supported Hamas, to his own political ends.

For the downvoters:

‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
"Netflix subscribed to Israel" became a common meme during the eventful last year.
They are dealing with it...

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-cla...
When I was a kid, they still allowed us to play with Mercury with our bare hands in elementary school.
Simple, it has no power to stop them. So allowing is not the right word here, accepting what they cannot change is more fitting.
It seems like the purpose was to disable enemy combatants, and prevent those combatants from striking Israel; which would be a legitimate and targeted strike. Your phrasing makes it seems like the explosives were targeted at damaging the restaurants and stores (along with, perhaps all the occupants), which would not be a legitimate and targeted strike.