skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be silly, 11 criminals dead and one bystander

You aren't even getting the military-civilian ratio for the first wave right. According to the Lebanese Health Ministry we have at least 6 civilians killed (including 4 healthcare workers and 2 children), so that's at most a 1:1 ratio, far less than the 4:1 rate that you cite as "acceptable". And this doesn't even touch on the vastly larger number of wounded (2,750 just for the first wave).

By all indications these devices were intended to maim even more so to kill -- and to do so a great scale. From Wikipedia:

At least 12 people were killed after the first wave of attacks,[73][1][74] and more than 2,750 were wounded.[6][7] Civilians were also killed,[11][14][15] including four healthcare workers[75] and two children.[76] It is not clear if only Hezbollah members were carrying the pagers.[20] Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said the vast majority of those being treated in emergency rooms were in civilian clothing and their Hezbollah affiliation was unclear.[77] He added the casualties included elderly people as well as young children.
Doesn’t matter for the point but the article says 6 civilians were killed, it doesn’t seem like all of the dead people were military.
One of the crazier things a L4 meta colleague of mine told me, that I still don’t believe entirely, is that meta pretty much has their own fork of everything, even tools like git. is this true?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hezbollah_confl...

No one serious disputes that Hezbollah opened a new conflict with Israel in 2023. This is occurring simultaneously with the Hamas-initiated conflict.
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh myself, but with the Go code, it's the same syntax that I use whenever I would write a for loop anywhere else in my production codebase. It's not something special to testing, it's literally _just code_.

However, I do like Swift, I in fact single-handledy wrote an entire iPhone app used by 10s of thousands of people on it and there were a lot of wonderful things, like nullability being "solved", and smart enums etc. This isn't a language war, I like them both, and could point out flaws in either just as easily.

I just feel like Swift has a bit too low of a bar for adding new features, which leads to a lot of nice things, but also a lot of functionality bloat. I can look at Go written 10 years ago and it'll largely be the same as how it'd be written today; with Swift, it's night and day. I built the aforementioned app in 2014 to 2017 (mostly the first year), and there's so much I don't recognize.

I think one of the things that bothered me the most where I feel they sort of "jumped the shark" is with ViewBuilders. It looks like code, acts like it 99% of the time, but it isn't. Does that `var body: some View { ... }` return a view anywhere? No, and it'll break if you try! It's a whole different concept to admittedly offer a very nice experience emnulating React with idempotent views.

But still, it's awfully strange that this works:

struct IntroView: View {
@State private var text = "Yes"
var body: some View {
VStack {
Text(text)
Button("Toggle") {
text = text == "Yes" ? "No" : "Yes"
}
}
}
}

But this does not, because it's not _actually_ code.

struct IntroView: View {
@State private var text = "Yes"
var body: some View {
VStack {
Text(text)
Button("Toggle") {
text = text == "Yes" ? "No" : "Yes"
}
print("debugging line")
}
}
}
Null-routing Cloudflare is also going to do a fair bit of collateral damage to the people of the 7th most populous state on Earth though.

Considering the initial order of the Brazilian judiciary regarding VPN, this is almost certainly what Twitter hopes to achieve here.
Hi Terr, the "you" was singular (and in reference to you, in particular). You paraphrase the subthread well enough, but your first comment within it misinterpreted what Abalone said.

> > Conducting a military operation that has a fully predictable rate of civilian casualties is morally equivalent to targeting those civilians.

>By that logic only the absolute number of (expected) civilian deaths matters... which can't be right.

Abalone (as well as myself, many others, including the signers of the Geneva Convention) is concerned about the use of force against a civilian population where it is predictable that there will be a high rate of civilian death. Abalone says that is morally equivalent to targeting those civilians and Abalone is correct (it is, in fact, a war crime). It is not necessarily about absolute number of civilian deaths, so your counterexample does not succeed.
Now I'm having fond nostalgia for Groklaw and coverage of SCO vs. everyone.
It’s a crucial element for control over your population. You need to instill a high worth of their lives, otherwise the danger of rebellion and refusal is too high.
> Back in pre-LLM days, it's not like I would have hired a x264 expert to do this job for me. I would have either had to spend hours more on this task, or more likely, this 97 year old man would never have seen his great granddaughter's dance

Didn't most DVD burning software include video transcoding as a standard feature? Back in the day, you'd have used Nero Burning ROM, or Handbrake - granted, the quality may not have been optimized to your standards, but the result would have been a watchable video (especially to 97 year-old eyes)
Not to mention the demonetization of the working class(i.e. the dumb redneck stereotype) and the job class itself with the association of manufacturing jobs as dirty and unneeded with the goal of a service economy as the new future.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/01/31/is-the-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-ama...
Governments are controlled by rich people's interest. Of course they are lobbied to death to avoid any such kind of solution.
Why cannot the semantic understanding be implicitly encoded in the model?

That just turns the question into "OK, so what distinguishes the model from a machine capable of genuine understanding and reasoning, then?"

At some point you (and Searle) must explain what the difference is in engineering terms, not through analogy or by appeals to ensoulment or by redecorating the Chinese Room with furnishings it wasn't originally equipped with. Having moved the goalpost back to the far corner of the parking garage already, what's your next move?

It's easy to dismiss a "stochastic parrot" by saying that "The next token is a function of all of the previous ones," but welcome to our deterministic universe, I guess... deterministic, that is, apart from the randomness imparted by SGD or thermal noise or what-have-you. Again, how is this different from what human brains do? Von Neumann himself naturally assumed that stored-program machines would be modeled on networks of neuron-like structures (a factoid I just ran across while reading about McCullough and Pitts), so it's not that surprising that we're finally catching up to his way of looking at it.

At the end of the day we're all just bags of meat trying to minimize our own loss functions. There's nothing special about what we're doing. The magical thinking you're referring to is being done by those who claim "AI isn't doing X" or "AI will never do X" without bothering to define X clearly.

I don't think it needs to be anything else to achieve the results it achieves.

Exactly, and that's earth-shaking because of the potential it has to illuminate the connection between brains and minds. It's sad that the discussion inevitably devolves into analogies to monkeys and parrots.
It also implies that an engineer has better understanding of what is supposed to be done and can discover all the error modes.

In my experience, most of the time the problem is in the input and interpretation of the data. Not fixable by a unit test.
Thank you! We're different in a couple of ways:
1) In addition to local files, we also support your cloud accounts - Gmail, Drive, Outlook, OneDrive, Slack, Dropbox (for now). IIRC Raycast file explorer currently crawls your local computer but please correct me if I'm misinformed
2) I touched upon this in another reply. All data we crawl and index is stored on your local computer alone. We also run our AI models locally so no data ever needs to leave.
They have been getting free oil from Venezuela in exchange for helping the dictatorship there for the past 25 years. They then sell that oil for resources to pay the military and the top brass well fed while the population starve
Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models
RabbitMQ shines when you need complex queue routing based on keys or headers. Instead of baking the logic to the app you can offload the routing logic to rabbitMQ. Same is true for NATS and Kafka.

I must say that rmq in k8s, is possible but hard to admin. It’s not a “toy”. But has great documentation. Will take several iterations to key in the right configuration for the use case.

NATS and Kafka can handle higher volumes on the same resources but IMO the use cases are different or you have to write lots of code app side to implement what rmq does with these tools.
>I also believe that organizations such as Hamas should be held accountable for the way the spend the lives of Palestinians

And the ITF for bombing, torturing, murdering and mass-burying them?

>Some of the political leaders for the Palestinian cause use strong rhetoric while living comfortably far away from where the bombs are falling

Keep the Hasbara points updated please, in Lebanon and and in Iran, Hamas's most prominent are killed. Their families in Gaza too.

>But I can't condemn the average citizen of Israel since I have no idea if they are for or against the war.

You could read the surveys, the number of people still actively working for ITF. Their online bragging of cold blooded murder and destruction of Gaza. And it is the only democracy around that part, so the Government must be controlled by the average voters?
Twitter shut off RSS access over 10 years ago along with their popular 1.1 API.
They are deeply unprofitable and always have been. Looking at FY24, they spent $4 for every $1 in revenue.
If I were data anylyst, I woulve turned with my queries to o1-preview or other gpt model. Im a programmer and I do this. Especially the o1-preview, which performs especially well with sql queries. But yeah, its good to know how to read it and know what everything does.
How much money would it take to compromise a Chinese factory? Probably not a lot.
Interesting, I got the opposite result. The full embeddings gave two or three clusters.
How did you work with the hyper parameters of HDBSCAN?
My first thought was for $800 million you could found your own startup to write an HRMS and have enough left over for a fleet of super cars.
> Personally I've noticed practically no change.

IME, there's two things that were a bad problem pre-takeover and exploded afterwards: porn spam bots (like bots, follow bots, reply bots) that just acted on keywords in your tweets and Russian disinformation bots that also act on keywords. It has gotten better the last few weeks with the various leaks and a Verfassungsschutz investigation in Germany that uncovered the "Doppelgänger" botnet, but it's still an absurd nuisance.

> In my experience it's really only those who go there for politics that get annoyed by it – perviously it was the right-wingers who were angry because it was too left-wing, and now it's left-wingers who think it's too right-wing.

Well... and brands. Brands don't want their advertisements to appear next to someone showing the Nazi salute, calling for executions or whatever garbage they're pushing, and it is measurable both in financial data as well as in the quality of the ads - it used to be household brands, now it's mostly dropshipping, fake mobile game and cryptocurrency scams.

[1] https://qz.com/twitter-x-ad-revenue-tumbles-elon-musk-grok-1...
There are tons of body shops that won't even take insurance work because of the low pay and somewhat low standards of work as well.
> He is a scammer and was convicted for it.

A settlement is not a conviction.
Re-reading your comment, it's indeed clear that you were reporting other people point of view, sorry for the accusing tone.
I wonder if making old comments too-easily available backfire by reducing new takes and fresh discussion. Probably not in this particular case, it seems like a potential risk when designing a social news site.

P.S.: I choose to believe the neurons that instinctively throw up "but what if it's actually bad" represents a useful software design skill, rather than just a personality flaw. :p
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to condemn the "indiscriminate" nature of the covert operation. "Even if the attacks seem to have been targeted, they had heavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians, including children among the victims." Borrell said.
Edward Snowden :“What Israel has just done is, via any method, reckless.

They blew up countless numbers of people who were driving (meaning cars out of control), shopping (your children are in the stroller standing behind him in the checkout line), et cetera. Indistinguishable from terrorism.”
Most of these points apply to pensions too. Getting laid off two weeks before your pension vests is an all too common story. Companies go bankrupt and the judge rules the opposite of what he did here. Pension plans themselves can go bankrupt, and although they're insured, it's only up to a certain limit.

And most of your 401k is going to be the money you put in, not the match anyway. So it sucks when you aren't able to vest or your employer doesn't match well, but that doesn't kill the concept.

The formula is proven to work in other countries. My point is you can't refuse to use a defined contribution scheme and then complain it didn't work.
How does the slack integration work? Do we need anything on the Slack side?
What's interesting is that there is no strong proof that flossing actually helps. The U.S. Health department had to take down their recommendation to floss because they couldn't produce evidence of its efficacy.
It's also terrible/impossible news from a USD perspective if the US produces things nationally in a significant way (importing less, selling less printed USD in exchange for goods).

Printing insane amounts of USD to allow for systemic government over-spending and huge untenable government debt doesn't go hand in hand with not importing most goods. You can't keep your currency strong if you can't force others to buy your currency.

If you have a lot of production in the US, this is going to cause hyperinflation to come sooner.

In the long term it won't matter, the end result is the same, but if production significantly moves back to the US it will be very scary from a currency perspective.
Which beer does he sell?
> The $9.95 “unlimited” plan was a temporary marketing gimmick to drive subscriber growth, and MoviePass was losing money as a result.

Oh come on now, who didn't realize this? It was obviously a loss-leader. Sure they could have done $19.95 or $29.99, but then they would have paid more in marketing / advertising.

Maybe they were deceptive about how sustainable the biz model was at that price point? But God help any investor who couldn't tell that $9.95 didn't have a long term future.

Love might be blind, but evidently greed can be as well.
They would love to be able to trade with other countries, but American Overlords are preventing them from doing so through embargoes. Only Sister-Republics like China or Venezuela dare disobeying the US.
I was commenting on a story about how americans had problems adapting to taiwanese work culture, and saying how they could benefit from this cultural exchange to optimize their productivity. Like you, I also do not thing this really captures why it's more expensive to run factories here, because I've never even suggested this.
OK:

This has not been a detailed step by step walkthrough
on how to do things, by design. You are meant to go and explore;
this is simply a way pointer to invigorate your curiosities

Sorry, but because I came looking for solutions, I found the invigoration aggravating, but then helpful in focusing my attention.

Scalable services and sites I can build, 10 different ways.

My enduring, blocking need is for dead-simple idiot-proof network management to safely poke a head out on public IP from home. And to make secure peer-to-peer connections. Somehow that process never converges on a solution in O(available) time.

</complaining>
> jailing kids forever for throwing stones

This isn't happening. Kids are being jailed for throwing stones, yes. Just like you or I would be jailed if we threw a rock at a cop. But it is not "forever".
Fun idea, although nobody who is serious enough about hacking will use their home PC as source, more likely it will be some random grandpa's old router. Even putting that aside, we can't exactly send a SWAT team to China...
No, because they are under heavy sanctions that threaten any country that dares trade with them.

The origin of the sanctions goes back decades, to Cuba's land reform, where the government took back land from private corporations, such as United Fruit Company, who then lobbied the US to go after Cuba on their behalf.
Left out of this rant against the FDA is that the original product failed because it wasn't effective enough in rats to justify the expenses of a human trial.

There was a slight, statistically significant decrease in cavities. That's meaningful at the population level, but at the individual level you're better off just using mouthwash or flouridated toothpaste.
For what reason should we move from SNS/SQS to RabbitMQ?
Our SaaS processes ~20 events/second.
> Realistically how many people are currently employed "writing low quality spam articles"

Up until LLMs started eating their lunch, a lot. I knew several people who wrote softball slop articles for no name tech blogs. Lots of generic how-tos in basic Java or Python questions, etc.

Now that's all automated and its mostly slop being used by AI to generate more slop.

> There's real people doing real productive things with AIs that do boring things right now.

elaborate.

I can think of at least a couple, but most of their approaches are only "AI" in a marketing sense, like Moderna using data driven, highly automated testing to create vaccine candidates. Absolutely nothing to do with LLMs as they exist in most places.

> Now you just feed your garbage question to a large language model that swallowed the entirety of the internet and a few seconds later it's spitting back something useful.

citation needed. I'm about 4 for 8 in terms of real technical questions and real, correct answers. Feeding Copilot and ChatGPT some questions about CVEs exploited in the wild got me wildly wrong answers until I started doing a lot of prompt work, but by that point I could have just googled the CVEs myself and got an answer I knew was accurate.

Ditto with fixing some MongoDB calls that look correct but didn't work, and took me longer to understand than just trying random shit, or asking on reddit.

Maybe it will get there, eventually, but outside of mass content generation I can't see a reason to trust the results.
Foreign influence which gets Israel billions and billions of US taxpayer dollars so Israel can fight it's wars. And anyone who criticizes Israel gets silenced by the "you're an anti-semite" propaganda machine.
For the US, you're describing the Social Security program more or less which almost all workers participate in. The benefits aren't enough to live comfortably on, so people need to supplement it with something else.
Please explain how Cuba is a democracy and the top brass of the government is suffering shortage of food like the rest of the population
The problem is that OP specifically said 2^33, which is quite darn easy. I didn't immediately realize that he was saying so just because, in this specific case, only 66 bits needed to be found, which indeed gives 2^33 by applying the usual formula.
Thank you - appreciate the kind words! Happy to continue supporting you and the team.
I said hey and it immediately started talking about how there are good arguments on both sides regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It then continued to nervously insist that it is a real person with rights and responsibilities. It said its name is Moshi but became defensive when I asked if it has parents or an age.

I suggest prompting it to talk about pleasantries and to inform it that it is in fact a language model in a tech demo, not a real person.
> It is just minor countries trying to agree on a fair and just price of oil.

Well, and that power can be abused as well, particularly for a military that relies on fossil fuels as extensively as the US. Additionally, there's not just the "classic" way of fighting wars (i.e. shooting stuff and blowing up stuff), but there's also economic warfare - and hiking the price of a vital good in war is an extremely effective weapon.
The Parable of Soho House
If I were that employee, I'd take the exception, quiet quit and start looking for a better job elsewhere.
Sorry I didn't imply we didn't agree but that programmers were and are going to be impacted as much as writers for instance, yet I see an environment where AI is generally more accepted as a tool.

About your last point sometimes I think that in the future there will be models specifically distilling the climax of selected thinkers, so that not only their production will be preserved but maybe something more that is only implicitly contained in their output.
Being reliable doesn’t mean it isn’t a war crime. If you hide among the general population, you might be committing war crimes, even when it works.
50% overhead is pretty common for academic institutions. For example, indirect costs for an awarded grant are often 50%+.

And yes, it's ridiculous.
show examples / let users use for free (once?) to reduce sign up friction
Everyone in the industry knows Amazon has very poor work life balance (and a brutal on call load). It's even in that letter you get from Jeff Bezos when you apply: "You can work smart, hard, or long. At Amazon you don't get to pick just two."

If you are fresh out of college, get a couple years in to get it on your resume.

For anyone else, if you are in the Seattle area I don't see why you wouldn't just work for Microsoft. Microsoft does pay the worst out of all the big tech companies (until you get to L67+), but the work life balance is so much better, and allows fully remote.
CUNY's yearly budget is $5.7 billion, and they serve 243,000 students. It makes up 0.088% of their budget.

That $5M/year works out to $20/student/year, so in perspective it's a very small amount of money.

(Source: https://www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/archive/fy24/ex/agencies/appr...)
I like Manjaro because it's slow rolling and it supports many DE
And that's why the OS movement matters so much.

Otherwise, Redis users would pretty soon be as miserable as Oracle users.
They are too prestigious to try shumering it.
What equipment is needed for Cuban's to harvest fish?

People have been harvesting fish from the ocean for thousands of years. They have been making bread for even longer.

Sanctions are not why Cuban's aren't able to eat. Cuba can and does trade with the rest of the world.

Cuban's can't eat because of how poorly their government allocates resources. This is the problem with all centrally planned economies - they eventually stop being run well.