skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't the modern equivalent be scientific materialists who believe it is determined by luck? The ancient greeks believed that fate and consequence were determined by divine act, but not necessarily decided by them. You could after all find yourself a pawn in a power struggle between gods, or by being favored by one be used as a weapon against them by a rival or enemy. This is a really different conception of divine interference than what modern abrahamic religious people believe.

The abrahamic religions all more or less believe god is benevolent and acting in our best interest within the constraint of allowing us also to act freely. This seems fairly different both from what ancient greeks believed about fate and modern secular beliefs about luck and coincidence.
As a random line manager of a small team, you can't meaningfully push back against a company-wide mandate. Hell, even directors can't do that. That decision is being made by the CEO. You either enforce it or suffer the consequences.

> see in the example you’ve given, you’ve still placed the employee second over the business

I mean yes, this is how businesses work. Of course the business is of primary importance over any individual employee, especially employees who are in violation of prioritized corporate mandates. Anytime someone is fired, for pretty much any reason including poor performance, that's prioritizing the business's needs over the individual's. But that's literally just what everyone signed up for; the business is a mission and profit-driven organization, and it puts its needs above those of any individual cog in the machine.
It is not me.
Isn’t this a war crime?
Have you considered purchasing clothes that fit?
Their most recent press announcement around Android Wear seemed to imply that they don't license the tech outside of selling their own biosensors.

https://investor.masimo.com/news/news-details/2024/Masimo-Pa...
Data scientists trapped in bureaucracy?
Compare with the first sentence of The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien:

> There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.
It isn’t released yet, but the thing akin to this that Roblox is working on (to be open-weights) most likely is voxel-based.
That’s what I am thinking. These were not sent to a few thousand random guys, but almost certainly the highest level targets that could be identified.
If you don't have a thermal camera, you can also paint rubbing alcohol onto the board and watch where it evaporates the quickest. Obviously, this only works for low voltage stuff...
a first step is to be more skeptical ourselves

It's not a solution 'to be more skeptical'. The sorriest propaganda victims are skeptical to a paranoid degree.

We should be more skeptical when a situation warrants skepticism, and trusting when a situation warrants trust.

Which is to say: everyone should quickly become wiser and worldlier. Sadly, that's not a realistic plan!

What we truly need is higher regulation of social media. With too much internet freedom, the world becomes increasingly unhinged. That's a bummer, but look around: the web we have now is failing us.
Right. But 60 years ago, putting a human on the moon was universally seen as "advancing human achievement". I would argue that right now, where we are not actually about to build a moon or Mars base, putting people out there is not widely seen as "advancing human achievement".

Sending someone to Mars without them dying (and maybe bringing them back) will be a huge step. There's so much we can do on and around Mars, however, without anyone being out there, and some of them are also likely to be huge advancements.

Similarly for the asteroid belt. Yes, it will probably need humans out there eventually, but there's a massive, massive task of mapping and exploring it that can and almost certainly will be done without launching humans into space.
per a calculator on unsaferguard.org 20g of RDX

Injury/Fatality to Personnel Range (m)
Fatal Distance 0.64
Lung Damage 1.02
Eardrum Rupture 2.63
Minecraft Mods can only be written in Java and I want my kid to learn python.

Jython is still 2.x and it'd be nice to let my kid write a minecraft mod in python. Not a business use case but a use case.
This wouldn't work for me because I don't listen to anything when I'm working. You're making the assumption that everyone is just constantly listening to music, but I focus best with silence and with my ears unencumbered. I suppose it would be doable with desktop speakers that would only play something when remotely triggered, but then there's the secondary issue that I'm not always at my desk, vs in the office people can obviously see who's there and who's listening in (and easily go grab someone else to join in as necessary). There's just way less friction to conversations when people are in the same room.
There is a significant evidence that these specifically targeted pagers were used by Hezbollah only.
I don't think there is much reason for Israel to blatantly blow up random pagers. Israel isn't fighting the Lebanese people, but specifically fighting against Hezbollah
> It's easy to sit online and make bold and vague claims like there will be armed escalation in retaliation.

I mean, that's the pretty standard response in this conflict. Permanent tit-for-tat, back-and-forth, for decades/millennia depending on how broadly you count things. For a concrete example, Iran's April strikes.

> What do you think constitutes a major escalation?

Terror attacks on Israeli assets abroad - I'd be keeping embassies/consulates on alert - and rocket strikes against Israel. At least enough to try to save face, although the Iranian strikes offer a "good luck" for that.

> I would happily bet against a ground invasion.

By Hezbollah? Well, yeah.
You might prefer a shaped charge to reduce the likelihood of injuring bystanders and to ensure that what little explosive you can fit in there can kill whoever is using it.
> what pager numbers

This is where it gets confusing. We all remember the pagers running on cellular/2G networks but it seems that nowadays most pagers are HF devices and mostly broadcast receivers. Quite unclear which one are involved.
Yes, it says so in the link you provided
So you are saying that if hezbollah exploded weapons on off-duty military walking around in malls and hospitals in the US it would not be terrorism? Because that's exactly what happened here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfBeo4nI2A
Is there a way to embed Python 3 into Swift like this?
I am assuming - With this, JVMs needing integration with LLMs can embed LLMs in JVM instead of making outbound API calls. If my assumption is right - wouldn't this improve performance of consumer applications?
Kuzco: Enhance your Terraform configurations powered by local LLMs
If it helps...
https://spatialpixel.com/procession/

We were very inspired by Dynamicland. We're aiming to build a kit that uses more natural language inputs, gesture, and higher level programming. We're building this up as an open environment/kit so people will be able to make their own programmable spaces.

Please reach out if you know of folks building similar spaces or efforts.
"Facehugger" is a lot more familiar a term, and yeah, I didn't even realize there was a difference because a facehugger leads to bursting-chests, at least in what I remember of the 3 Alien movies I watched. (I also keep thinking of 'facehuggers' thanks to the AI startup Hugging Face. Every time I see their logo+name, I think again to myself, 'what a bizarre brand, it looks like _Alien_, like the poor emoji guy is about have his chest burst from the face-hugging alien'.)

But since the term is apparently not technically correct (which as we all know, is the best - indeed, only - kind of correctness), I have changed it.
It's truly a gem of a channel ! This clock was particularly mesmerizing : https://youtu.be/GUdlSYC1cCE

The railway system series is also great, you'll see the step by step construction of the system and later on its use in a GBC event.
When American corporations have an endless amount of applications from China and India, American workers have no bargaining power. Which makes working conditions worse
Do you have a cite? Otherwise I think every study conducted in the last few decades have found that attacks against Israel is over-reported whereas attacks against Palestinians are under-reported. See f.e: https://theconversation.com/bias-hiding-in-plain-sight-decad..., https://theintercept.com/2024/01/09/newspapers-israel-palest..., https://lab.imedd.org/en/dead-versus-killed-a-closer-look-at...
A family member of mine has been working with research teams to try and understand this disorder. I truly think we're at the point where a cure might be feasible - years ago, I remember them talking about trying to detect autism in the womb!
What I do is remind myself that I can be fooled. We all can be. It'd easy to think that because I have a stem degree that I'm above it all - to read about propaganda and think "that's terrible, what can we do to keep _other_ people from falling for propaganda".

That's the first trap and it often engulfs us. Everyone is guilty sometimes of sit in a happy bubbles of confirmation bias and rejecting anything that doesn't feel right. Look at yourself first, look at the information you get and if it gives you a happy validated feeling then double-check it, because that might be all its supposed to do.

Start with skepticism of your own beliefs, when you talk to other people talk with the acknowledgement that we just don't know what is happening sometimes.

And teach - I tell my kids the same thing. You can be fooled, you can be scammed, don't trick yourself into believing you're too smart for it because that's what they want you to believe.
In WW2 20% of US bombs fell within 1000 feet of their target, which were often in densely populated areas. Its only modern technology that lets us know where its really going
“Need Salesfroce access ASAP for client meeting”

“Coffee machine in back kitchen wont connect to internet”

(On an unrelated note, TIL that you can highlight text to copy/translate etc directly from a YouTube video on an iPhone. I knew you could do that from pictures but never thought to try videos until now.)
Moore’s law came to an end about a decade ago. Since the clouds began a vcpu then is largely the same as a vcpu today.
Theory: A prismatic battery with an explosive core and an electronic fuse swapped to trigger the explosive instead of disconnect the battery. Firmware change to short the battery. No visible signs of tampering even in iFixit like conditions.
Does anyone have more in-depth technical details on these trackers? I assume they are UHF transmitters that require directional scanners?
New experiment is Hainan Free Trade Port FTZ but that's not really vs silicon valley. IMO software/services downstream of hardware/silicon, and geopolitically, PRC competing on that would really spook US. But medium term, need to be done, especially via industrial policy vs US encumbants whose been around for decades. I think once PRC gets a whiff that entire domestic semi supply chain secure they're going to push hard on 5 year plans for software... i.e. go after microsoft, adobe, autodesk... the productivity suites that run the world, and everything else in between, if only as jobs program for stupid amount of software engineers they'll churning out.

Also HK won't won't work because it's been tried and failed. HK existed for 20 years post handover and continued to double down on being financialization with very little technical/innovation relative to her resources. There were explicit efforts to try to build out HK tech / silicon valley and they failed. IMO liberal economic freedoms is also why HK has some of the worst tertiary enrollement stats relative to OECD... it's a city of to be blunt, lazy kids (referring to new gens under liberal education vs their mainland immigrant parents). At least relative to east asia. Propped up by importing foreign and mainland talent. If it sounds like I just described the state of America education and the various indigenous problems this report covers, then bingo.
From Manager to Multiplier: Elevate Your Team with SOPA
Haa, yes, the scary "vendor lock-in" !

I challenge you : give me a single product that cannot be moved away, given some (cost or time).

At the same time, I again challenge you : give me a single product that you can move between providers with no cost nor time.

To that last one, you can actually find stuff. For instance, you could setup your nginx in instances, without any kind of interactions with the hosting provider. In which case, you limit yourself with what everybody can do, leaving all opportunities to only use the base minimal.

But wait .. are you not locked-in with nginx (or to use a better example: with redis) ?

Vendor lock-in is a scam to increase your bills. Because, in itself, everything is vendor locking. And it does not matter. Think your architecture, design your code, and act when necessary.
Python DataService
Hi everyone,

I have just released my first Python library today, called DataService.

You can install from pip with:

pip install python-dataservice

It's primarily a web scraping library but it can be used for general data gathering purposes.

I worked on it entirely by myself and would love to get some feedback.

Also, feel free to reach out if you want to collaborate on an open source project.

Source code:
https://github.com/lucaromagnoli/dataservice

Docs:
https://dataservice.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Understanding and performing Allan variance measurements
Source on Roblox working on something like this?
You're pulling this out of thin air. You do not know this.
bathroom in every house > Voyager
For 17, Gauss noticed that cos(360°/17) can be written only with elementary operations, see https://www.heise.de/imgs/18/2/1/2/3/3/6/4/siebzehneck-b95b5...

Later he proved that all n-gons with $n=2^k*p_1…*p_r$ where the p_i are Fermat-primes (2^(2^m)+1 prime, today we only know of 3, 5, 17, 257, 65537) are constructible. The opposite direction, i.e. all other n are not constructible, was only a few years later proved. Look up "Theorem of Gauss-Wantzel". I only skimmed the proof, but it seems to generalize the concept of constructing the cos of the angle with "Galois-Theory".

(edit: or see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible_polygon)
It wouldn't, it will get enshittified too (see GP's issues with GitHub too), you have to go look beyound platforms.

(Well, I guess Hacker News remains an exception for now, due to a very specific model and circumstances I guess ?)
My biggest regret is not staying with my first job out of college. I loved it, and had I stayed my options at the age of 26 would be worth over $10m now. I left that job for a woman. I feel so stupid about it. I am good at math and bad at life. I should have stayed with that job. I was recruited out of university by men like me, who looked out for us.

I have found my peace, but large company nerd divisions are great for brilliant wierdo's.
Good point. I must have donated at some point because I use it often and don't remember seeing that.
Bill Gates lived 15 minutes from his office. That’s at rush hour. Today that drive would take a lot longer.
I can't read the story, but I've noticed that there's a lot of vague terminology in these discussions. Does back to office mean an open office? Does it mean all day where others can bother you? Does it mean the boss can tell you to have a meeting in their office in ten minutes? Does it mean you have to ask permission to take the afternoon off to visit the dentist (and wouldn't you have to do that with WFH)?
Why would it mean anything for clojure?
yeah that looks stupid. I just said that this theory exists. It's related to the fact that "we dont know what the Luga was for". As often, when people dont know exactly, they imagine things. That's all. I'm amused ;)
There were probably a bunch of civilian casualties, but I imagine most Hezbollah operative wear their pagers since their main purpose is to always receive messages, so it was probably a low percentage.
Jeez :/
I've gotten that feedback before.

When it came with specific book recommendations, it was extremely helpful in some cases (and in a few others, I didn't have time to read the books, so I shut up until such time will come).

It's less then helpful generically.
yeah, thats what i meant, just to make clear "how" I am thinking it: It's just iterating through integers from n to k and calculating secp256k1, sha-256 and ripemd. So:

>> Puzzle #10 has 9 bits to guess, because it's between 10_0000_0000 and 11_1111_1111

means that I don't have to start at 0000 0000 0000 ... everytime, I can actually start at 2^5 and look up to 2^6 - 1, for example for the 6th address.
There's a video of one that detonated inside a dresser, in someone's room. If there were thousands of those explosive devices some of them are inevitably, statistically speaking, not going to be with the intended target.
30 years from now, maybe.
It's always situational. If you live in a city and want to get away from people for 40minutes+ on the daily, it's not that practical to drive far away until there's no traffic. If you live in San Francisco, it's relatively easy to reach low traffic roads on bike in the morning, or find less crowded paths by running there.

Of course if you're rich and and feel like it, you can get a nice crashpad in Napa for weekends and drive your Koenigsegg downtown for a morning coffee.
Well, the Moon is an entire world.

We're still doing science on the planet Earth, because there's still plenty to learn, and we actually live here with billions of people.

We've only sent a handful of folks to the Moon so far. We've literally barely scratched the surface, and only a few tiny patches of it as that.

Exploring new places has always lead to all sorts of interesting new discoveries. No reason to think a whole new world mightn't hold a few interesting (and/or potentially lucrative) surprises.
Does this address whether the payload was basically PepsiCo shipping bags of chips which are the lowest density items they have and was definitely what they had limited the Tesla semis to at least in the beginning?
The executives would never deign to enter the offices that house our unwashed technical worker selves.
This is a strange comparison. It is a humorous throwaway line about SF, where the actual 'subject' is not SF at all. (It's nonfiction writing.) That aside, your Kirk/Spock comparison is also wrong: the difference between Kirk and Spock is not a minor terminological quibble over a monster's name (which was not even the most important monster of that movie). The relationship of Kirk/Spock is the heart of _Star Trek_, the dramatic core, as they oppose and support each other. Even I, a non-Star Trek fan, know that!
Swift 6 is a major leap forward for cross-platform batteries-including development IMHO. Foundation is the big win here, because it provides so much out of the box.

Swift 6 is the first version with enough low-level improvements and cross-platform capabilities to make me curious if the Swift team is trying to aim for long-term replacing C, C++, Rust, Zig, etc.
If you don't like a particular post or the comments on it, just don't read it. Sheesh, no need for the melodrama. Plenty of other great articles and posts on here.
Every time I read about swift it seems like a nice language, but it's a shame its ecosystem is so limited. It's great to see it supporting more platforms now. Is the ecosystem in the package manager/index also heading the same direction?
Explained to a layman, how nice is this release? Is more platforms support gonna make Swift a first class langage?
Is it really? Because for my 401k I mostly favor long term sustainable growth. Likewise as a consumer I prefer having a good product at a fair price. So I am not convinced that these short term squeezes are that popular with voters.
It seems like they actually installed small bombs in the devices.
I’m honestly not usually that interested in feature lists for languages I don’t use, but this really does look quite compelling. Ownership semantics and C++ integration? Sign me up.

I’d be interested to know how good this integration is in practice e.g. could it be used to integrate with Godot directly?
This is true of both sides.

Also important to remember is that Israel evacuated the civilian population in the north of the country due to Hezbollah currently indiscriminately shelling/bombing that area for the past months.
Ghidra embeds Python scripting via Jython, which is stuck on Python 2. Switching to GraalPy would allow Python 3 scripting.

Any other Java programs that want a scripting engine could use it as well.
2024 Lebanon Pager Explosions
except for 'Arda', every new word is defined/clarified.

I'm a huge LOTR fan and a moderate Silmarillion fan, and I can see how maybe Tolkien is guilty of this 'new words for familiar things' problem.. I guess when Tolkien does it, I'm enchanted, e.g. the first non-introduction line in _Fellowship_:

> When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

To me this immediately evokes: we're in a foreign land, but it's going to be vaguely small-town England in its manners and interests.
I don't know, I've played with o1 and it seems obvious that it has the same issues as any other CoT - it has to be custom tailored to the task to work effectively, which quickly turns into whack-a-mole (even CoT generators like Self-Discover still have the same limitation).

Starting from the strawberry example: it counts 3 "r"s in "strawbery", because the training makes it ignore grammatical errors if they're not relevant to the conversation (which makes sense in an instruction-tuned model) and their CoT doesn't catch it because it's not specialized enough. Will this scale with more compute thrown at it? I'm not sure I believe their scaling numbers. The proof should be in the pudding.

I've also had mixed results with coding in Python, it's barely better than Sonnet in my experience, but wastes a lot more tokens, which are a lot more expensive.

They might have improved things and made a SotA CoT that works in tandem with their training method, but that is definitely not what they were originally hyping (some architecture-level mechanism, or at least something qualitatively different). It also pretty obviously still has limited compute time per token and has to fit into the context (which is also still suffering from the lost-in-the-middle issue by the way). This puts the hard limit on the expressivity and task complexity.
In general, when you're storing a list of numbers, there are many situations where you can go below 1 bit per number.

The easiest one to think about is storing the deltas between each number. Let's say 80% of your deltas are 5. If you use arithmetic encoding, then storing a 5 only takes about 1/3 of a bit. It's not hard to come up with probability distributions where the average amount of bits per entry is less than 1.

Also, back in the realm of perfect hashes, once you're more than half full it becomes more efficient to store the missing numbers. If your perfect hash has 100,003,000 possible outputs, then your worst case is around 50k unique entries. By the time you encounter 100k unique entries you only need to keep track of the 3000 you haven't seen yet.
Companies know the tech job market is awful right now, there simply aren't the number of jobs there used to be pre-pandemic or even a year into the pandemic. Hell I haven't even had a raise in 3 years, and while that kind of sucks, I don't have much leverage because my boss knows the job market sucks. I've been WFH for almost 5 years now, and thankfully I don't work for a company that wants us to return to the office.
A quick google search reveals multiple battery manufacturing facilities in Israel, including domestic and foreign owned corporations. A special order of batteries seems very plausible.