skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
kids struggle with grammar, pronunciation, pragmatics, vocabulary, etc. they do so naturally, and maybe you've forgotten your own struggles, but they're very real

i think we can do better than we are doing at math education, much better, but there is no way to learn math, or anything else, without diligent effort. it won't happen by passive absorption. you can listen to people speaking spanish all day every day for years without learning more than a few words of spanish if you don't make any effort

curiosity is one possible motivation for making that effort, but the immediate result of the effort is, at first, failure. that's true of language, it's true of playing the guitar, it's true of programming, it's true of throwing clay on a potter's wheel. that failure feels like being clumsy, weak, or stupid, depending on the form it takes

and that's what the article is talking about. trying to do things that are beyond your mental ability makes you aware of, and frustrated with, that mental ability. that's not curiosity, it's feeling stupid. it's also how you increase your mental ability!
even if Google had, it would have been of little value, since running Google, even back then, required a lot of computers and a lot of humans.

which is rather like Mistral - running large models is expensive, and hosting lets you amortise that across lots of users who individually use the model very little.
There's only hard evidence that WFH is more productive. They would be plastering the productivity of in office work if there was any.
> But that's not it works in the real world.

Of course it does - at least wherever unions exist.

> Perks aren't just gonna fall out of the sky for the working class, ever.

That's defeatist. There are ways beyond violence and you're allowed to negotiate the terms of your employment.

I occasionally got perks from my employers because I was the only person who asked.

Also there's the less popular route - voting. Where I'm from actually helped over the years.
The IRGC itself has clearly and spectacularly infiltrated; read the details of the Haniyeh attack. So, yeah, at this point I don't think anyone in the IRGC network can trust anybody else. The messaging here is pretty intense.
JPMorgan in talks with Apple to take over its credit card program, WSJ reports
> Do you need a tool to tell you that the cloud is more expensive?

Yes. If you want to make an argument for change in a business environment you need numbers.
Announcing SurrealDB 2.0
Which could end up being beneficial if the EU decides that it wants to have a European Foundation Model.

Like the French having nukes is also beneficial for them.
> Then wrap it in some nichrome wire and have a micro run some power through it.

Presumably some software that triggers this?
Based on the video shared by Reuters, I'm not seeing anything that would focus the attack to the pager's carrier. Anyone standing next to the target would also risk severe injury or death.

ETA: I should perhaps clarify: focus the attack exclusively on the pager's carrier. It does appear to be modestly shaped in some way (in that we're not seeing the pagers go up in a 2-meter-radius fireball), but it's also not contained exclusively to the carrier, has no verification that the carrier is holding the device, etc. Whether one considers that "focused" is left as an exercise for the reader. Certainly more focused than a rocket; a bit less focused than poison.
Advice for anyone reading the Iliad: read Simone Weil's essay "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" first [1]. The essay was a profound experience on its own for me, in a way that came as a great relief in a world which seemed to lack all moral gravity. (Note, it was written in 1945.)

And it conveys better than anything why the epic was composed, why it survived to be written down (the Bronze Age Collapse and a whole dark age separated the era of the Trojan War from the era of Homer!) and why people have been reading it for almost three thousand years.

[1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/simone-weil-the-ilia...
SpaceX is the new Boeing.
> elder Millennial

For your amusement and/or relatable-angst, a comic: https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/boomer-shooters
"No, Mom! I wanted a Commodore 64 for my birthday, not a Core 64!"

Neat, although I really want something with 4096 bits for storing my ed25519 private key.
> Lebanon has been shooting rockets at Israel for a while now.

Correction: Israel and Lebanon have been firing across the border for a while. More Israeli attacks on Lebanon than the other way around and more Lebanese dead too.

Details:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/27/mapping-7400-cross-...

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/bfa9/live/320f24...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2gj544x65o

And lots more details here:

"Between 21 October 2023 and 20 February 2024 the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) recorded an estimated 7,948 incidents of artillery fire from the south of the Blue Line (from Israel to Lebanon) and 978 incidents of artillery fire from the north side (from Lebanon to Israel)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Hezbollah_conflict_(202...
I don't have any books specific to MLOps, just because they weren't out when I was building that system. All of the good practices from building resilient distributed systems apply. Designing Data-Intensive Applications is always a great read.

Some things that have were notable:

Model pipelines tend to be flakier than other pipelines you have. They are much more complicated, and it can be easy to hit a resource limit if you aren't careful, or have a unhandled exception accidentally kill a pipeline 10hrs into it.

Avoiding those outright is obviously the best path, but that can be easier said than done.

One thing that we found really helpful was creating an error record in a database for every piece of data that failed to get processed, where it failed in the pipeline, etc. Retries, and alters were easy to tack on after that.
I probably don't want to know about the performance implications
This isn't an "odious joke". This is a call for violence.

Nobody believes it's a question, any more than we believe that Henry II was merely inquiring why no one would rid him of that turbulent priest.

It likely doesn't rise to the level of a criminal act. But it's the kind of thing that earns one a stern talking to from the Secret Service. And if somebody actually does take him up on it, there may yet be charges.
> I came up in coding in the early 00's.

almost twenty years have passed since the early 00's. the industry is completely different and so is java.
How do we know only a tiny fraction were Hezbollah? (I don't think we know either way who owned these pagers)
> It's so easy to blame this phenomenon on rose-tinted glasses and older people like us thinking all old things are better than modern, but when the world wasn't decided by "data scientists" and corporate committees, there was more variety, more volatility. Lower lows but higher highs as well.

There's a trend of thinking that our age is the most accepting and inclusive and the past was rigid and conformist but in many regards it's the opposite. Through all the metrics and quantification and SEO-like data analysis-based incentives and judgments we are being "snapped to grid". The risk averseness is growing. There's only a narrow path and people must tick many boxes or get disqualified.
Just as movie producers make the nth superhero movie and everything is a sequel of old IP, science is similarly turned into a formulaic churn.

Just think about how Peter Higgs said he couldn't fit the mold of today's academia and the pressure of producing a stream of consistent (and hence typically consistently mediocre - like the consistent taste of a BigMac) output.

The other day I watched this interview with a pioneer of artifical neural networks Warren McCulloch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawMjJUCMVw). I wonder if today we're letting such personalities thrive in academia. He was originally headed to the Christian ministry and learned a lot of theology then got drawn rather to math, and his pondering of abstractions, understanding, humans and theology moved him to study neurology and to use math to model logic expressed as neural networks. Nowadays, you must specialize early and grind for tests, no "forgiveness" if you go off-track, you must be single-mindedly focus on optimizing your path towards tenure for it to be realistic. Can't even get a PhD position without having published several of your original research papers beforehand.
While hiring committees say they reward well-roundedness and try to avoid a monoculture, what that becomes in practice is checking if your parents sent you to one of these trendy types of extracurriculars or foreign "volunteer" programs, and whether you later were engaged with some shortlist of trendy buzzword issues.

This breeds conformity, uniformity and bland predictability.
This is awesome! Love seeing the creative uses and how fast the responses are
I don't really understand the reasoning between implementing E2EE for video and audio but not for chats in themselves. I feel like for those things, its either all or nothing, otherwise its mostly useless.
There were even recordings of it, though they couldn't be played back at the time:

http://www.tvdawn.com/
Apart from being clunky Apple's Notes app has some just... odd limitations. E.g. you can only scan 24 pages in a note, because reasons?
They have about 100'000 members, and this attack has killed about a dozen, and injured about 2000. Only one recent shipment of pagers was affected. I don't think they are unable to respond.
It’s a very small place
Although it's about wire transmission of photography - which, as pointed out, television is not - it's still well worth watching this 1937 newsreel explaining how it works, mostly because 1) they devote a LOT of time towards explaining the concept of scanning/rastering, which was clearly not widely intuited at the time, and 2) they do it with a brilliant physical analogy, with the incredible pedagogical clarity typical of such 1930s educational videos.

https://youtu.be/cLUD_NGE370?
> Places like Amazon won't let engineers use highly-skilled techniques anyway.

I’m curious what you mean by this.
As I understand it, WARN requires either two months of notice or two months of severance, to include benefits during that period (based on https://lipskylowe.com/what-is-the-worker-adjustment-and-ret...). It's not nearly as much as companies tend to provide, but that additional severance usually comes with strings attached (such as a non-disparagement clause).
This is amazing, thanks for sharing. Looking at his other videos, the unbearable pain of working on friday is also great.

Something I'd have never been introduced to without your comment, thank you.
Who said the injured are all Hezbollah members? From the above Guardian coverage:

"Among those killed is an eight-year-old girl from Bekka Valley, Abiad said, according to Al Jazeera."

This CCTV footage shows one of the devices exploding in a busy supermarket:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-m...

Terrorizing your opponents is one thing, but indiscriminately detonating bombs in public spaces is just plain terrorism.
All the media reports say that these were the pagers distributed by Hezbollah to its members.

Objectively this is therefore targeted, not indiscriminate...
An undesired level of condescendence for a message against it, no? My first impression...
re- in this case is probably an intensive prefix rather than indicating repetition. this is an uncommon re- in english, but does occur, for example in 'refried beans', a calque from spanish where intensive re- is still a productive prefix

so it probably means 'search really hard' rather than 'search again'
> unless one was so foolish

Making decisions is not foolish, even if they disagree with your idea of how they should be made. I quit my previous job over RTO, leaving a great team at a cool company. It was a conscious decision with pros and cons carefully weighed.
> ... if we don’t feel stupid it means we’re not really trying.

> Science involves confronting our 'absolute stupidity'.

I understand where the author is coming from, but these are just useless statements. Stupidity and knowing that you don't know stuff are not the same thing. The former involves an inability to understand or learn, whereas the latter involves an acknowledgment of our current state of ignorance and that we can do better.

I don't believe one can be successful in science by constantly feeling stupid and getting used to it. You have to be comfortable with not knowing stuff, but with the drive and self-confidence that you can discover new things and expand your knowledge, which is of course not easy either.
Research is wholly about the transfer of knowledge, both before and after any associated experimentation. Sometimes there is discovery in between, but not always; survey papers and meta analyses are research, a very important part of research. Experiments that don’t research previous work and don’t communicate the results aren’t research and usually don’t result in the discovery of new knowledge. Can’t know it’s new unless you research what’s already known.
Competition?

I've never had AWS "increase the price." Is there some reason to suspect this is a thing to actually worry about?
100%.

When I was young, ALL plasticware like this was called "Tupperware". If someone left a container with you because they brought over a dish for dinner, you were getting phone calls until it was returned.
Seems okay at image descriptions, I suppose. Still a 12B model though, and doesn't always get OCR anywhere near correct. I tried it on Le Chat, and waiting for it to be on Ollama.
I'm in a AI/ML masters and it is pretty cheap.

While it takes time to do, it has really held me accountable to actually go learn the things I really ought to be learning rather than being stagnant.

I'm a staff PM at a big tech company and I came to realize that nobody knew this stuff, not even the people we are hiring to implement it. Therefore I decided to go out and learn it as my skillset needed a refresh (I come from the mobile dev boom)
Looks pretty discriminate to me, only the pager holder was affected. I've seen multiple videos with very close bystanders completely unharmed. And whoever holds a pager from Hezbollah is a member of an armed terrorist group officially at war with Israel.
There are now over two thousand injuries and at least one nine year old girl dead. This was a reckless attack, a war crime, and a blatant disregard of international law.

You’re not targeting pacemakers embedded only in the chest cavities of known Hezbollah militants but devices often left around family and children. Hezbollah is a massive political entity with probably more non-combatants than combatants. The pagers are used by accountants, doctors, civil salarymen, it workers, and others that are not legal targets under IHL.

EDIT:

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/17/middle-ea...

> Among those killed is an eight-year-old girl from Bekka Valley, Abiad said, according to Al Jazeera.

> At least 2,800 people have been wounded, he added, and more than 200 are in critical condition.
A bunch of explosives strapped to pagers wouldn't have succeeded in the way this attack did; it'd have been way too obvious. It'll be interesting to find out (if we ever do) how they modified the pagers to hide the payload.
For a non-infantry massed attack on a military asset, the ratio of military to civilian casualties here is probably going to end up being unprecedented in the history of modern warfare; this will probably end up being an extraordinarily surgical attack by any military standard. Civilians are routinely killed in targeted strikes, because targeted strikes are almost always conducted by air. This attack may end up being distinguished by how few civilians were harmed.

Neither Israel nor Hezbollah is mobilized for all-out war here. Hezbollah is depleted from its disastrous efforts in Syria; Israel is fully committed to combat operations in Gaza. The north of Israel has been evacuated for months because of indiscriminate rocket attacks from Hezbollah. Hezbollah is an arm of the IRGC, which is more or less at open war with Israel. If either side could have launched an all-out assault (or, I mean, a more conventional all-out assault than this one), they would have done so already.
Explosions are essentially about extremely rapid expansion of gasses. I don’t see how a battery, even one that is rigged to fail, can explode in an instant. Shorting out, overheating, and ultimately exploding because the battery compartment can no longer contain the expansion has got to be too slow by many orders of magnitude. Your theory makes no sense to me.
Before or after VW?
Also interesting is the electromechanical "tone wheel generator" used in the Hammond Organs:

https://forums.musicplayer.com/topic/155607-a-look-inside-a-...

91 metal wheels with lobes spinning past something like electric guitar pickups to produce sine waves. Their goal was to produce pure sine waves and then combine them via "drawbars" to produce an adjustable sound. 12 different gear ratios and different number of lobes (powers of two) to produce all the frequencies.

The rotating "Leslie" speaker was also cool, as is the electromechanical "vibrato scanner" on later models.
And you thought "Key Escrow" or "Chat Control" was bad!

Future maximum-security states may just require every mobile phone to have an explosive charge pre-installed, with the detonation-codes only available to the authorities, of course.

Then when they detect a device in active use by a [terrorist|child-pornographer|subversive|tax-evader], ka-blewie! Problem solved at the press of a button.

See also: 'Black Mirror' s3e6, 'Hated in the Nation'
If it's available, I'd love a link.
In general I'm not convinced that these "no Javacript" frameworks will last, and to some extend you going to have to re-learn a lot. That's not to say that the idea isn't interesting.

While I have no idea how this would work, I think it would be more useful to have tools like this as a sort of template language for something like Django or Flask. So you get the mature frameworks on the backend and something like Rio to generate the backend, within the context of Django/Flask/Bottle/whatever.

Some modern web applications do need VueJS, React, something like that. CRUD apps mostly don't, but we are way past CRUD apps for a lot of thing. You can maybe get away with calling Asana and Jira CRUD apps, but you can't do Figma with just Django.
Right now one of the fastest growing companies is the Israel cybersecurity company Wiz, founded by founders and investors from Israel's Unit 8200, their secretive cyber hacking group. Seems to me a massive security risk for any US company to be relying on critical security to a non American founded companies.
It’s not quantum mechanics. They put bombs inside pagers and pressed a button.
> You SHOULD be using the legacy input events for games, not raw input.

The author claims that this generates an overwhelming number of events for a high-performance mouse. Is this not the case?
For shooter games, raw input is preferred. You want the same amount of mouse movement to move your camera the same amount every time.

In those type of games, you aren’t controlling a cursor, so there’s no “expected behavior”.
Cost to repair has grown while cost for new has reduced.

If you can repair things yourself, and you can find the parts you need to repair things, then sure. But if it's something I've got to pay for someone's experience and wisdom, that's pretty expensive these days, at least where I'm living, and it's just plain hard to find people who repair things too; lots of signs for TV repair outside empty shops.

Thankfully I'm semi-retired, and am on a salary for part time work, so my marginal time has no dollar cost, so I can take a day to try to repair a dishwasher, and then another day to install a new one when it rebreaks a couple days later. A professional installer probably would have had the new one installed in an hour instead of my all day, but I didn't have to wait for scheduling, at least.
All the terrorist market suddenly boycotting them, I'm sure they're losing sleep over it.
Yahya Ayyash was a bombmaker for Hamas, not Hezbollah.
It does not make a whole lot of sense to distinguish the explosives packed into the warhead of an AGM-114 Hellfire missile from those of an explosive vest or a compromised pager. What distinguishes terrorism from military action is target selection, not weapons choice.
Maybe if you don't consider CPU architecture, but most would expect to be able to do loops over Arrays that don't incur in a lot of cache misses, and Python Lists don't do that, since they're actually arrays of pointers to heap memory.
ironic since one of their LPs is Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility

> We must be humble and thoughtful about even the secondary effects of our actions. Our local communities, planet, and future generations need us to be better every day.

https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...:
I'd argue it's because there's a lot of problematic content that gets shared in text that just isn't really much of an issue (or isn't viable to detect) in audio/video.
Just curious, is it possible to program the pins so that it triggers by wireless or satellite command? With that scale I don't think wireless is possible though.
Not sure how this compares to the scanner in the native Files app?
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/scan-documents-ios-files-ap...
Yes, there was a link about it in the article.
The explosive here could be perhaps just 8mm x 8mm x 8mm to do the sort of blasts you see in the videos. Thats fairly small, and could easily be hidden in a device.

Inside the battery is perhaps the best hidden, but you'd need to own a bunch of battery manufacturing facilities (expensive). Cheaper would be to simply remove some other component (eg. one of two speakers) and replace it.
Which is the reason for the h1b fraud, but this also begs the question of why amazon has been able to get away with this strategy for so long.
There's also plenty of bystanders who are being impacted by an explosion happening in the pocket of the person next to them.

I don't think whoever approved this was worried about innocent people getting hurt.
It is a free source of, like, some amount of gravity. But we don’t know how our biology will respond to the wrong amount. Meanwhile an orbital habitat can be spun to get us the right amount.

In order to get to a planet in the first place, you’ll have to have a ship that can fly through space without the occupants getting irradiated. The biggest problem will be convincing them to get off the ship I think.
I mean Israel is behind Pegasus, so it's not exactly a secret that they can get into any cellphone. Israel didn't need to infiltrate Hezbollah, they just needed publicity.
https://archive.ph/2SdKH
I admire the clarity of your moral compass. But consequently if that is ok, then targeting reservists is also ok, right? And since almost everyone in Israel is a reservist there are really no civilians in Israel only military targets, right? So, Hamas an Hezbollah blindly firing rockets are actually striking military targets with surgical precision
Well that but with WebGPU just might work without turning your app into lagtown central, in a year or five when it's widely supported anyway.
An Analysis of SpaceX's Eva Suit
This is an indictment of all of modern warfare. Which, fair enough, but "war is bad" isn't an especially interesting argument.
That does sound like spy novel stuff but it seems plausible enough? Dude was turned, and he wanted money and an escape to somewhere safe in exchange for cooperation.
Scale? Given the demand for batches and the rate of successes they have PMF sufficient to justify more investments.
You can actually directly scan in the Files app from the triple dots menu in the upper right corner, this will allow you to directly scan as a PDF file.