skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect part of the friction here is the difference between teaching math to people who will not go on to study it at an advanced level, versus teaching it to people who will.

In that case, what is being taught is actually different, it's the similar in some senses to the difference between teaching someone to operate a machine, versus teaching them how to maintain, fix, and possibly improve said machine.

I've said for a long time that if only we could identify early the students who will not go on to study mathematics at an advanced level then we could better benefit them by having a substantially different curriculum taught in a completely different style.

But even then, the willingness to be confused by something, and resilience in the face of being made to feel stupid not by the teacher[0] but by the current (temporary!) lack of understanding, is really, really powerful.

[0] Teachers who unnecessarily make students feel stupid should be prevented from ever, ever going near students again. Ever.

> If we get the chance some time, it would be super fun to discuss math & education over coffee!

Where are you based? I travel a lot ... my email is in my profile, and you could always register with my "Meet With Me" system to get a heads-up if I'm going to be in the area.
No, because half their premium features are dependent on them controlling the client. Even excluding relatively new things like client theming, a custom client could enable custom emojis everywhere, or make it easy to offload storage to another site to avoid paying for nitro. As long as a service is free(-to-play), there will always be a somewhat adversarial relationship between the user and the company.
QuickScan looks great and has loads of features, but it might be more accurately described as "nagware" since a donation request is shown on every export until a donation is made (after which point it can be disabled via Settings > Other settings > "Do not show donation request"). Nothing wrong with that; if I were a user I'd certainly donate, just wanted to let other potential users know.
> Hezbollah fighters clearly aren’t doing this

What do you mean? I am not in any way supporting Hezbollah but their soldiers are definitely "wearing uniforms and carrying their weapons openly." Hamas and Hezbollah are not the same. Hamas is more decentralized though so that doesn't happen as often in that case. Hezbollah soldiers are also salaried and more properly equipped by Iran/Syria.

The biggest difference between Hezbollah and Hamas is that in Hezbollah's case, their soldiers are more motivated by money rather than ideology. They treat it more like a "professional" job, work for promotions, and dress accordingly. It's a significantly more top-down structure too.
Probably not so much, no.
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There are also tools like CrossOver[1] or even free tools like Wine that work reasonably well, 2D games should not have an issue. People have played TF2 in Wine on Apple Silicon. So while half your Steam library won't run directly, it's not like it's gone forever. Parallels is also an option.

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover
it is my understanding that the devices had been delivered recently
You’re just complaining that the average person doesn’t like what you like, which seems silly. I’m sure the average person thinks what you like is garbage. Who gets to be the judge?
Looks like Lebanese civilians have indeed been injured/maimed; but it appears cool to some since it is an "impressive supply-chain hack", so let's leave it at that and not call it terrorism.
One of my happiest days of my life was when I quit my office job and got a new job where I could work from home with a boss that trusted me to do work at the time that's best for me. Since then, life is much better.
But who really knows what excellence (hence mediocrity) is in any but historical contexts? I don’t — I struggle with immense uncertainty about choices in hope of realizing real value.
The answer isn't straight forward. 1980s invasion of Lebanon by Israel and it's withdrawal in 2000 was what made Hezbollah into the force that it is today.

The conflict has been simmering for decades
Ooh this is fun trivia - originally dragons had a hard time with human names, so it became a tradition for dragon riders (particularly males) to adopt the dragon’s pronunciation as an honorific. So “Simon” becomes “S’mon.”

You say it with a bit of a slur - suhMON or fuhLAX - where the first syllable is not only unemphasized but uttered as quickly as possible then slurred into the next. F’lar really is just “fuhLAR”
Pardon me but this is a stupid argument. If OP is working at amazon they’ve already been going three days a week. If they did not like going three days a week why should they like going five days a week?
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Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409
New Mistral 22B open weights model (non-commercial license).
Dennis Duffy finally got a big commercial order and now that customer isn't going to use him again. That's no way to impress Liz Lemon.
The source is also updated.
Ok so they have incapacitated a large swath of the organisations leadership. Are they planning to roll in now ?
That's not the difference. The difference is that you have to have an HDHP to use an HSA. My employer pays for me to have a very good low-deductible policy. I did the math and it would almost certainly cost me more out of pocket to have an HDHP than what I have now. If you are young, single, and healthy, the equation may look different. If you're older and have a spouse and kids, it's shockingly easy to hit the deductible and OOP max year after year.

I could imagine a case where I'd start an FSA. An HSA did not work out well for me a few years ago when I tried it, and would be even less likely to be a win for me now.
> plausible deniability

Insanity would probably be an effective defense.

There's an analog to the film The Man From Earth where a similar claim tiptoes on the line of credibility and insanity, with the audience never truly knowing.
it has four, going on five, esoteric proper nouns in one sentence. it's not hard to parse, but it isn't something I love reading either.

I'm reminded of the Illuminatus Trilogy, which at times is barely more than proper nouns arranged into sentences at random. like Finnegan's Wake but with more flower power
If this can happen then there no way the TSA and other groups would be able to detect it.
What does that get Israel? I can tell you where most of Hezbollah's operatives and command staff are right now: they're in Dahieh.
Pagers are one-way, not bidirectional like cell networks. That's their whole point. Their HQ can broadcast a message and you won't find out who is the receiver, because pagers don't transmit, only listen.
How are they not brought up on charges for this?
> I bet you could use a CR1216 battery (1.6mm thin, 30mAh, instead if 34mm long and 1500mAh) instead and have quite a good deal of spare volume in the battery for an explosive.

I'd be fascinated if that was the physical vector...

However, tainting a component pre-integration seems a lot more likely than simply packing explosive in the case.

Israel inserts the compromised components upstream in the supply chain, they're duly assembled into pagers, which then make their way to Hezbollah, where they're inspected, look normal, and work normally, and are then distributed.

That would still require a firmware hack to presumably trigger though (incoming message stack to component trigger).
There's enough depth in the stock market to make company market caps pretty real. If you had a big chunk of a company, you could sell it for close to the trading price. I'd be shocked if you couldn't get half, as a nice round example number.

I would not be shocked if trying to sell $200B in bitcoin gets you far less than half.
I believe LEGO (unsuccessfully) tried to trademark several Maori words as well, which certainly is a bit of an attack.
They are words out of their context and humans love to make meaning. Think how surreal things will get now that time has sped up from Chandler’s time.

As mysteries they are powerful. So far there was only 1 commenter that knew of Barney Google. The knowledge spreads the mystery dies.

I knew nothing of the passage before this thread and when I was reading through the comments. I thought this was recent sci-fi that was being posted at a site called tv tropes.

The Google reference was obviously a future form factor for Google services.
TypeScript is one of the few languages (Rust being another) that should be a target of LLM-generated code, just because the static analysis is so strict you'd actually catch a lot of bugs before runtime.
This is related: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1fiw84a/open_st...

The idea is not silly in my view, I did something similar here: https://github.com/pseudotensor/open-strawberry

The idea is that data generation is required first, to make the reasoning traces. ToT etc. are not required.
Yes, they have.
Is there a reason why Fedora can't just add a feature in the installer like Debian where you just select which DE you want? They can put it behind an advanced button or something so the default is just Gnome.
I think this is something that many people may not grasp about Lebanon.

The "There's Your Problem" podcast did an episode on the fertilizer explosion that leveled Beirut's port in 2020. The amount of breakdown that had to occur for that outcome was both astonishing... And utterly predictable given Lebanon's governmental structure, which is barely functional. It's less a government and more a power detente that hard-codes sectarian differences in the culture into the power structure, like trying to build a government out of a band of feuding warlords with no particular underlying agreement amongst the warlords to leave each other alone. Among other things, this makes their foreign policy heterogeneous; a given faction can just wage war without the government's consent, and the government lacks top-level power to do anything about it.

(Ironically, one of the things that minimized the potential damage in the fertilizer blast is that much of the material had been stolen and shipped away before the explosion. Likely by actors with the tacit support of high-level government functionaries looking the other way and refusing to do enforcement).
site is down for me as well, but it's not reflected on https://status.nodejs.org/ ... (is that page automatic or manually controlled?)
I've been working on browser agent the last week[1]. So this is very exciting.
There are also browser agent implementations like Skyvern[2] (Also YC backed) ,or Tarsier[3]
Seems like, finic is providing a way to scale/schedule these agents? If that's the case what's the advantage over something like airflow or windmill ?

If I remember correctly, Skyvern also has an implementation of scaling these browser tasks built in.

ps. Is it not called Robotic Process Automation? First time I'm hearing it as Remote process Automation.

[1]https://github.com/ProductLoft/arachne

[2]https://www.skyvern.com/

[3]https://github.com/reworkd/tarsier
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Hey folks -- I was recently on a Subreddit of my hometown (/r/toronto) and saw the stark difference between the Metro System of our city compared to other places in the world; some of which had projects started much later than in Toronto. I was curious and wanted to see other places around the world. Thought it might be interesting for folks here.
Exactly.
But this buyer is not a regular buyer, he is not getting a tracking number and refreshing some random website to see where it's shipment is.
The buyer must have been with the goods from a point before it reached its destinated country.
There are so many plays that had to play here in order to orcestrate this.
Should make a really good heist movie, just with a different prize at the end.
Sounds like a TTRPG Live Play.

"such and such would narratively be the best thing to do here"

"natural one"

"well fuck"
> The electronics could be the size of the smallest wristwatch

Swatch actually used to sell a wristwatch that includes a pager! Battery life was pretty bad though; it came with a keychain accessoire to store a spare CR2032 and a battery swapping tool.
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Do you think Hezbollah was buying stuff from Israel, or otherwise using Israeli supply chains?

The modern supply chain is vastly deep. Iran can buy something from (IDK) India which might use software or hardware from Israel. As a further example, unless there's viable phone OS I don't know about, even Hezbollah will be using Android or iOS (and so buying from the US). etc.

I think it's far more likely that Mossad has infiltrated whatever foreign (non-Israeli)

Maybe that is more likely. But I don't think my or your guesses matter so much as public perception. IE, it would change the situation that a given customer may look skeptically at an Israeli software or hardware product. Or they may not given that price and features trumps security and quality for nearly everything these days.
> the overwhelming majority of which cannot write original software

Usually a client or employer does not want write original software. I can code in C++/Rust/$LANGUAGE and am able to write you a high performance backend for some very specific, custom use case, but in 99% of the cases that isn't necessary because the underlying business is either 1) too generic or small to need something like this or 2) doesn't want the hassle of having to maintain something in-house.

Most companies that hire typical web/full stack devs value speed over anything else for the nth crud app they churn out. But I also don't see the value in these companies either.
Face saving. It's easier to put a PR spin on something only a few people actually saw. It's going to be hard to convince their rank-and-file this isn't a bit deal and deserving of retribution.
this gives me an idea...
There's unimaginable and there's physically and mathematically impossible.
I wonder how much of this is that LLMs are worse than human developers (they are much more error prone right now) and how much of this is that we want someone to blame. When the elevator operator closes a door on someone fingers that's an honest mistake and/or we can fire them, but when the automated elevator bruises some 12 year olds finger that's a big problem that needs fixed
> ...failing everything else, there is always a god handy to advise him to be unreasonable.

Even after a change of pantheon, the same pattern recurs: "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius."

> How soon this will happen is another question.

On the greek calends?
GT Pantheon a new typeface from Grilli Type
Time right for a meshtastic pager with a BOM with no bombs.
Took a little digging to find that it targets 3.11. Didn’t see anything about a GIL. If you’re a Python person, don’t click the quick start link unless you want to look at some xml.
Cool, thanks for suggesting this.
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hamas is the governing body of gaza, so any government workers would technically be hamas.

don't confuse post office workers for military personnel just cuz they work for the government.
How difficult is it to add authentication in this framework? How many lines of code? How secure?

None of the python->web projects have this.
Who the hell uses water on a lithium fire? Who installs water sprinklers in a datacenter instead of using FM200 etc?

Clowns.
Tailscale, Caddy.
Voted for it at one point. Most of Netanyahu's recent actions are because he knows he'd be voted out in an election called today.
It’s the simultaneous timing thats a giveaway for me. Maybe you could have a few batteries explode but 2000 of them? It’s too clean to be just batteries imo.
I'm seeing Cloudflare issues on my $dayjob sites. node.js.org seems to be using CF, so likely related.
In a sense, I spend most of my time on material after quals because it's so much harder to understand.
Confluent jacks up Warpstream costs post acquisition
Today's pricing page shows (https://www.warpstream.com/pricing):

Write Throughput (uncompressed)
$0.01 - $0.0055 / GiB

Storage (uncompressed)
$0.01 / GiB-month

Cluster Minutes
$0.0345 / 15 min

In July the prices were (https://web.archive.org/web/20240718115744/https://www.warpstream.com/pricing):

Write Throughput (uncompressed)
$0.01 - $0.0024 / GiB

Storage (uncompressed)
$0.002 / GiB-month

Cluster Minutes
$0.0345 / 15 min
I think the answer is fairly straightforward if you limit it to the current round in the conflict

Not to mention that Israel is no longer in Lebanon and Hezbollah can just stop firing rockets and the situation will go back to relative peace.

So sure the history is complicated, but current events are fairly straightfoward, you had relatively peaceful status que until Hezbollah broke it.
People still use pagers for specialty purposes, like being on call in disaster zones, or serving as a parallel armed forces in a country with a hostile neighbor who has infiltrated your cell phone network.

I've said this like 5 times on this thread and feel bad for continuing to repeat myself, but: Hezbollah operates its own telecommunications network. The Hezbollah pagers probably do not work on the normal Lebanese telecoms systems. This in addition to the fact that Hezbollah procures pagers for its service members; it does not go to the Cricket Wireless store at the corner of Mousa al Sadr and Kouds and pick them up retail a couple at a time.
07734 58008 means "Boobs, hello". That does not seems serious.
I think generally the benefit of cloud is either where your demands are very elastic, or if you are essentially a fractional user - a single server or GPU would be overkill.

Once you have heavy and/or unconventional compute needs, it's likely cheaper to self-host or colo purchased hardware.
This is great and overcomes my previous view that "Accounting is arithmetic made difficult."
The pagers were likely one way with a codebook for the purpose of minimizing tracking and information exposure.
Tailscale :) We, fortunately, don't need these exposed to the internet so Tailscale works beautifully.
I don't have an iPhone but thinking of switching from Android and my work flows. Can this sync saving to a SMB network folder so paperless-ngx imports it?
Price is supposed to cut in half every 3-4 years, if it isn't it is largely because cloud vendors can't bear to take less and hope there really is that much more volume of half as valuable computing to do.

The things they sell as an average CPU performance, etc are basically the average when their cloud began.
The value was in the organization of the research, marketing, sales and distribution which had been built over decades to maximize the profit from the factory.

You could look at it like chicken & egg, was the product more expensive because it was being sold through a direct network? (A network which grew to become more valuable than the factory even though the factory started out as their only hard asset.) Or was it really a research company, where it took so much to build a product which was noticeably superior, that it had to be sold at a premium in the most premium way possible, very direct-touch sales?

Looks like the latter to me.

In Wikipedia:

>Earl Tupper (1907–1983) asked for pure polyethylene pellets from DuPont to build Tupperware products in 1938.[4] He developed the first product in 1946

Eight years of research before launch, that's pretty good for chemically-oriented things.

I can only imagine there was enough momentum built up over a few decades after that to withstand cutting back on research without reversing the company fortunes for a few more decades.

Maybe that time has come.
Hezbollah is a political org, part of the government. Many hospitals, nurses were carrying those pagers.

And, the only well-known fake child death scandal was the one fabricated by Israel aka 40 beheaded babies, babies baked in oven etc- scandals used to justify the real mass killing of over 10,000 palestinian children by now. Can you point to any well known, well-distributed "Pallywood" incident involving children?
> Withered technology

At the time of its release the Nintendo Switch’s CPU was only a single generation behind the latest offering by ARM; and its GPU was by far the most powerful mobile GPU available. It doesn’t hold true for Switch.

What happened is that mobile compute has advanced tremendously since 2017 and Switch is stuck on technology that was leading in early 2017.
Also note that it's not necessarily safe to read these documents even if you don't intend on executing embedded code. For example, reading from pdfs uses poppler, which has had a few CVEs that could result in arbitrary code execution, mostly around image decoding. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=poppler

(No shade to poppler intended, just the first tool on the list I looked at.)
Having seen some of the aftermath I find it extremely hard to believe this was the result of overloading batteries. It looks like small grenades exploded in their hands. If lithium batteries can indeed explode like this I would suspect no one would ever carry one again after this. They should certainly be illegal to have on planes for example.
> But one of the big problems with math education is that we force students to struggle to a far greater degree than other subjects, under a belief that personal struggle, the “trying”, is the only way to truly get it.

I disagree. In fact, I found that often the better and more didactically streamlined the exposition is in a book, the less deeply I end up learning the material. It is precisely the personal struggle, having to make my own sketches and derivations, starting out with a misconception because of bad phrasing in the book and having to explore that misconception until I find what I misunderstood etc. makes the knowledge stick much better because it now feels my own, like an intimate friend.

Spoonfeeding may get people quicker to the point of solving the standardized quiz at the end of the chapter but that's not the same as learning and understanding. Another instance of metric-chasing in action.

It's a bit like how I learned MS Office or Photoshop by trial and error as a kid, or programming by mucking around trying to make a website do what I want. And you bet it was a struggle. Struggle but with reward at the end. Compare that with a handholding tutorial where you do learn how to do whatever the tutorial makers had in mind, but it won't generalize as much. Sounds totally dry. I loved computers, but hated school lessons that tried to teach us MS Office in the handholding spoonfeeding way. It's the death of the subject.

It's a safari in a safe car, looking at the animals through binoculars vs running around in the jungle in your own adventure amongst the beasts.
You can't insure it. It is actual terrorism, pure and simple.

"American University of Beirut withdrew the pagers from the medical staff this morning under the pretext of updating the system".
I am very comfortable disagreeing with all of this and leaving it at that.
exactly. they are (and have been since their founding) too big to fail. the eu needs a domestic ai company. mistral is the only option
Killing is one thing, but wounded soldiers/operatives are a much larger drain on resources than killing.

The wounded people need care, medicine, rehab, therapy, and feeding during their recovery.

This occupies significant resources of your enemy.

I’m not commenting on this specific attack, but talking in general.
Several sites using cloudflare are partially down since just after 18:00Z.
AO3_Status reports it's Cloudflare routing issues for IPv4 traffic. (but the Cloudflare status page reports nothing useful)
For those who don't know, "EncroChat was a Europe-based communications network and service provider that offered modified smartphones allowing encrypted communication among subscribers. It was used primarily by organized crime members to plan criminal activities."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat