skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But my sense is that the line between Hezbollah's activities and normal government functions is much blurrier in Lebanon.
I'm frequently reminded how thankful I am to live in a country with a strong, positive international reputation. Even ignoring actual quality-of-life stuff associated with where I live - simply not being from a country with a "dodgy" reputation makes many things so much easier.

I don't have to think about blocked websites. Companies accept my payments. Couriers ship to me. With my passport, I walk straight to the front of the fast lane, past the large queue of people who didn't happen to be born somewhere rich, western and politically stable.

I don't take it for granted, and it makes me sad that this distinction exists.
Centralized production, decentralized consumption.
If you're not paying, you're the product.

If you're paying, you're also the product.
Me too! I did it so I wouldn't take the codebase I'm working on so seriously :)
If you are using the user attribution with OpenAI (as you should) then they will block that users id and the rest of your app will be fine.
React used to be licensed as BSD + recovable patents: https://engineering.fb.com/2017/08/18/open-source/explaining...
Its not, but Hezbollah is in control of the hot border in the south.

Its a govt within a govt.
As they say, the perfect time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
How does that work technically, if I am connecting with SSL?

The only thing I see is seeing which IP addresses are using Tor, when, and how much traffic exchanged, but mostly it will be a bunch of reused residential IPs? If you know who you are looking for anyway better to work with their ISP?

With the exit nodes, you know which IP addresses are being looked up. You might get an exit node IP when investigating a crime say. Raid that person, but can you find anything more?

This isn't an argument, but a question.
You can self-host Languagetool and use it as a Chrome/Firefox extension. The extension talks to a Languagetool server via HTTP, and takes its address as a configurable option. So you just run the local server, and pass localhost:8080 as the server address.
I thought this was outlawed at least in the states: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/success/severance-agreements-...
$200 on eBay will get you a used laptop with a Core i7, 16GB RAM and SSD; essentially the same specs as my year-old $1000+ laptop, other than having a newer generation CPU. It'll play many brand new games at 720p or better and acceptable framerates.

I still use an original Microsoft Surface Pro pretty often, and can barely tell the difference between using it and that year-old PC for web browsing, document editing, and tablet-style gaming. The Surface Pro came out in 2013.
Hey thanks, I appreciate that advice. I am in a really great place in my life now, and sure enough it was traveling that lead to this.

There's still stress and anxiety, but a change of culture helped give me perspective.
Do female monkeys go through menopause? Could be a confounding factor.
Why do you assume they had your sense of ethics? 10 was often considered the age of adulthood. Little men had no specific exception from work or war, or expectation of education outside specific classes. Being a regular troop was more often from 16, but plenty fought from 10 up or had other roles in battle.
Ask HN: Why aren't residential IP services a security risk?
It is MITM, but is it an attack? Literally the website owner hires Cloudflare explicity to decrypt and filter the traffic. Attack implies that it's unwanted behavior, yet the reality seems to imply that its wanted behavior by the site owner at a minimum, although continued use of the site by visitors also suggests that they want that behavior (or they'd go elsewhere).
Apologies accepted.
I’m fascinated by folks that, upon seeing something mundane like “fuck nazis”, are compelled to post “Ho ho! You must mean me then!”

Like, no? People online don’t know who you are or why you would feel targeted. Unless you know and care about the person making a point like that the post is literally just noise.
It is very service-dependent. If you are wanting to run a NAS for e.g. a media server, you may want to look into Cloudflare Tunnels or Tailscale.

I set up Jellyfin and Kavita, and those are internet-exposed, but also Nextcloud, and Portainer, and Calibre, and those are behind github SSO auth, via Cloudflare. Basically, before you can hit the nextcloud login page, you have to auth to github (as me) with 2FA first, so no one can sit there and try to brute-force my nextcloud login.
> Nobody has (still) never been fired for hiring IBM.

I'm pretty sure I came pretty damn close the one and only time I opted for IBM Cloud (which was called "Bluemix" back then). In fairness, running a PostgreSQL DB in a container wasn't the brightest idea on my part, and it was also my fault for not having backups in place, but when Bluemix ate our entire prod DB, and the multiple-weeks-long back-and-forth with IBM's support only yielded something along the lines of "whoops, that sucks, good luck building a new DB instance from scratch", we rather quickly jumped ship to AWS and never looked back.

I'm sure IBM Cloud is better these days, though it was a bit telling that during my brief time working for IBM my primary job was to build customers' stuff on AWS instead of IBM Cloud. Go figure.
There is also Comic Code by the same author: https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code. Feels like a more polished version of Comic Mono (but it is paid, too).
> you mean inferring the website based on packet traffic pattern if you are the guard?

Yeah, basically, but I was thinking that if you're analyzing a pattern going to the client, all you'd need is any point between the guard and the client (ie: an ISP).
Hezbollah device blasts: what do we know about how the attacks happened?
"so-and-so is crazy, so nothing they do can be explained" is right up there with intelligent design as a useless paradigm for understanding the world.
Sincere question. This was created with US government funding. Is there any reason to believe it is safe?
I'd love an EV, but no suitable vehicle yet exists in the market that can match the capability I have (and routinely use) now.

High clearance 4x4, 1200km range, ability to seat 4 reasonably comfortably, 700kg payload, 800mm fording depth, priced under $80k USD. Table stakes specs for a diesel 4WD but the electric market isn't there yet.
"Unsafe" is not enough data.

Safer or unsafer than ISP or VPN, is the question.

(I presume safe means private here)
Comic sans is great for dyslexia, b's and d's are not mirror images.

I have used Comic Code for years for this reason, and get the occasional giggle when pair programming.

https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
If this round of cutting manages to keep GDP stable or up, it would be the first time on record that the unemployment rate rose so much from its trough without a recession occurring soon after

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
For the first time ever since the beginning of conflict (pre-Hezbollah in fact) , native lebanese had been talking opening about partitioning the country into 2, and letting the Hezbollah group have their own fiefdom.
This is because Hezbollah is a defacto government in the south.

This was before these surprise IDF attacks - i wonder how the conversation evolves.
The problem is not the addition, is that the LLM has no way to know how many r's a token might have, because the LLM receives each token as an atomic entity.

For example, according to https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer, "strawberry" would be tokenized by the GPT-4o tokenizer as "st" "raw" "berry" (tokens don't have to make sense because they are based on byte-pair encoding, which boils down to n-gram frequency statistics, i.e. it doesn't use morphology, syllables, semantics or anything like that).

Those tokens are then converted to integer IDs using a dictionary, say maybe "st" is token ID 4663, "raw" is 2168 and "berry" is 487 (made up numbers).

Then when you give the model the word "strawberry", it is tokenized and the input the LLM receives is [4463, 2168, 487]. Nothing else. That's the kind of input it always gets (also during training). So the model has no way to know how those IDs map to characters.

As some other comments in the thread are saying, it's actually somewhat impressive that LLMs can get character counts right at least sometimes, but this is probably just because they get the answer from the training set. If the training set contains a website where some human wrote "the word strawberry has 3 r's", the model could use that to get the question right. Just like if you ask it what is the capital of France, it will know the answer because many websites say that it's Paris. Maybe, just maybe, if the model has both "the word straw has 1 r" and "the word berry has 2 r's" and the training set, it might be able to add them up and give the right answer for "strawberry" because it notices that it's being asked about [4463, 2168, 487] and it knows about [4463, 2168] and [487]. I'm not sure, but it's at least plausible that a good LLM could do that. But there is no way it can count characters in tokens, it just doesn't see them.
> there has never been an uptick in arrests

If it was effective, would there have been a down tick in arrests at some point?

Or if the arrest rate stayed the same, would that suggest it never “worked” to begin with?

It’s like the movie trope of the detective who finds out the truth via some questionable means which isn’t admissible in court. When you know the truth you can push harder and call every bluff until you get admissible evidence.
you gotta pay for them italics
The explosives were in devices whose only functionality and purpose is communication between terrorists and their leadership. With No civilian functionality. With tiny amount of explosives.
Singling out a group of people for individual behavior is racism.
All of the Monaspace fonts are really well done.

But Krypton is the best :P
Pixel Code Font
how do you protect yourself from botnets? lets say just monkrus release was infected and now N-thousand teens are running infested windows installations and software tools..
I was thinking of that exact strategy for two scraping problems I have. It would be a good way to gently scrape Berlin.de for appointments, and Immobilienscout24 for new flats.

From what I can tell, it would work fine so long as the user is actively looking at those pages.
Something I hope is legislated away in the future. Can you imagine if the norm was that you got a different price for gas at gas stations depending on who owns the gas station and who manufactured your car?
Thanks for the condescension, but I know how to do all of this. I've done it before. And because of that, I can first hand attest that it's way too complicated.

No non-sophisticated user is able to run their own local CA, and that's why their NAS, IoT setup etc. all run over HTTP only, which in turn has implications for available web APIs (thanks to "secure origin only" policies and no exemption for local IPs/zeroconf domains) and many other things.

It also doesn't work for at least modern Android apps, since Android no longer makes user-provided CA certificates available to (non-browser) apps anymore, I believe, unless they're compiled with a special debugging parameter. On iOS it's still possible, but I'm not sure how long it's going to stay that way.
OK, also don't stand near Hamas fighters when they flagrantly violate international law and fight from designated humanitarian zones.

(Obviously, voting in Hamas was a huge mistake, but Palestinians probably didn't expect Hamas to make that the last election. Unfortunately, you only need to elect a totalitarian government once.)
> what is the probability that someone randomly chooses three nodes that you own. The answer is less than 0.14%.

You calculated the probability that a specific person randomly chooses three nodes of the 1,000.

But that's not the scenario you're responding to.

>> I can't target a specific person, but eventually I can find someone who has all three bounces through tor nodes I control

Tor estimates that 2.5 million people use the network per day.

Let's assume that in a month, 10 million people use it.

Let's also assume that 80% of monthly users are not committing crimes, while the 20% who are criminals make an average of four Tor connections per month.

With those assumptions we could expect a malicious operator who controls 1,000 nodes could capture the sessions of 10,940 criminals in a given month.

Spending less than fifty cents per suspect is less than trivial.
I don't agree but also don't care to litigate this point; the only point I'm on this thread to make is that no professional who routinely carries a pager could have mistakenly been carrying a Hezbollah pager. Also: it is interesting that Hezbollah literally fought a war over phone systems in Lebanon! The rest: these are some of the most complicated conflicts in the world and we're not going to settle anything on HN. I don't begrudge you your take, I just had those two claims to make.
You can call Israel out on its bullshit while also doing the same with Hezbollah and Hamas, it's not mutually exclusive.
Nobody ever really believed this, the truth is rarely in vogue.
RA’ing people at the top of their band means that they’ve topped out skill-wise. These aren’t senior people; it’s people who will never get promoted past 7 or 8 (which are quite junior) but have been accruing comp adjustments for a long time. Most teams will lay off a 7 that is getting paid more than a 9 by virtue of being at the company for 20 years.
Asymmetric Stereo High Dynamic Range Imaging with Smartphone Cameras
CREATE INDEX modifies the table name case (2009)
I made Bread ingredient calculator
The "texture healing" feature is really clever, I hope that catches on in more mono fonts.
I agree with every point here, and they all make a lot of sense... yet most alcoholic beverages are shipped to the consumer in glass bottles, including even the cheapest beers.

I have seen some drinks shipped in plastic, so it is possible to do, I wonder if glass packaging is a 'premium' thing. Though, if they can do it for cheap beer, then I'm sure they can do it for non-alcoholic drinks on scale.
You have to consider the rarity of your use case vs the use case they're defending against.

How often do you think someone tries to connect their gamepad to a local server? Not never, but the total amount of users doing it is probably high tens or low hundreds at most

Compare that to how often gamepad users try to connect to a malicious website - probably hundreds or ever thousands of times a day.

Loosening certificate validation further expose the many less than competent users to risk, and the potential impact both on the customer base and on the product's reputation are significantly higher than the risks of making it cost a couple bucks a year to allow your gamepad to connect to a local server.

For something like a computer, there is a legitimate argument for allowing the user to bypass SSL/TLS restrictions (after some resistance) because laptops are used for development.

I can almost guarantee that the gamepad developers had an options for certificate validation bypass in it's developer options, but they're not gonna expose that needlessly when it offers no benefit, but exposes their customers to additional risk. Your gamepad is likely not a development device after all
No, not really. In contact with, certainly. Hezbollah holds ~12% of seats in the Lebanese parliament and its military wing is arguably as powerful as the Lebanese army. It would be surprising, arguably irresponsible, if cabinet ministers did not have a channel to communicate with them. Every government has back channels, even to straight up enemies. For example:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/mar/18/northernire...
Nowadays, with so much automation going around, Vietnam can afford to become the next China even without a comparable population. Not that I think it will, but see the story of the Four Asian Tigers to realize how smaller countries can suddenly have a much bigger importance to the world economy.
I am of the impression that Synology is pivoting away.

>Starting from this version, the processing of media files using HEVC (H.265), AVC (H.264), and VC-1 codecs will be transitioned from the server to end devices to reduce unnecessary resource usage on the system and enhance system efficiency.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/releaseNote/DSM

They say it's to "reduce unnecessary resource usage" and "enhance efficiency", I say it's the start of a race to the bottom of the barrel now that the market is saturated and BOMs start weighing heavier.
I'm curious to hear from anyone who actually pays for LinkedIn, did they fuck you over too?
Nice, has any one tried scaling this down to VGA and EGA sizes, yet?

I probably should.
Yeah no you are targeting somewhere specific even if you miss.

This was a large scale indiscriminate attack. Which is entirely forbidden in Geneva Conventions.
And yet, you haven't been fired
Why Elon didn't use the same strategy with China?
I think it’s fair to say that you can be both ‘the product’ and a customer at the same time.
> so in perspective it's a very small amount of money

$5M/year could pay for at least another 10-20 professors which is like an entirely new department. Let's also not forget the initial $600M spent which (assuming they'll use this software for the next 30 years) will be $20M/year bringing the total to $100/student/year which isn't negligible.

More broadly speaking, I have a gripe with people bringing up percentages of budgets when discussing how much value something brings. My college had a startup fair where students pitched some super innovative ideas. The grand prize was $5000. If we had $5M, we could give that grand prize to 1000 teams and imagine how much more valuable that would be for the school compared to another feature bloated, overpriced piece of software.
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I wasn't referring to marginal gains through the use of AI or automation, I'm referring to re-building everything from scratch so that things are actually efficient and effective. ie, see what Tesla did to the car industry and SpaceX to the space industry. We need something like that for health.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Airchat yet. It's already a social site where every post is a voice recording.
no, the GM-branded one that won't void my warrantee
A quick search suggests there's around 145,000 gas stations. This article mentions Tesla has 17,800 supercharger stations. I didn't care enough to look up the station counts for the other EV charging companies. But that Tesla figure is around 12% of the gas station total, so let's say the total number of EV charging stations is somewhere between 15% and 20% of the gas station total.

I could easily see EV charging stations approach the level of saturation of gas stations in the next 10 years.

Yes, today people are going to stop wherever there's a nearby charging station. But that's going to change, and fairly quickly.
So a crisis-level 50bps rate-cut at record highs for stocks and home prices, just two months ahead of the election is warranted because the "economy is in a good place."

Expect 30% on the price of everything.
Perhaps there is an opportunity here for the bully’s parents to go after the victim’s parents to dun some money and increase the loot haul.

“Okay Brad, now I want you to sure to target little Billy, because it seems like his parents would be the type of folks to file a claim.”

/s
Do you think it’s a good idea for employees to voluntarily ask for pay cuts so that they are on the low end of the pay scale for a job grade?
It was a large scale extremely discriminating attack, from all available reporting, right? The Geneva Conventions and ICRC documentation on IHL are online, and have been cited repeatedly on these threads; could you cite the claim you're making, just so we're all clear what it is? People might agree or disagree, but a lot of pointless flaming is driven by people that don't even agree on what they're arguing about.
I hate it. Absolutely amazing.
Not interested, but the name crowdwave is one of the most brandable I’ve ever run across
“Livestock culling”
Very interesting question actually
> Soon there will be no new low frequency ideas being removed from the data, only old low frequency ideas. Language's descriptive power is further eliminated and only the AIs seem able to produce anything that might represent the shadow of novelty. But it ends when the machines can only produce unintelligible pages of particles and articles, language is lost, civilization is lost when we no longer know what to call its downfall.

Or we'll be fine, because inbreeding isn't actually sustainable either economically nor technologically, and to most of the world the Silicon Valley "AI" crowd is more an obnoxious gang of socially stunted and predatory weirdos than some unstoppable omnipotent force.
What if the way for good to prevail is to reject technologies and beliefs that have become destructive?
Okay, so if you hire 10-20 more professors... who's going to build and maintain the system so students can sign up for those classes?
If he isn't elected prime minister, I nominate for president of the United States.
House Committee Advances Kids Online Safety Act
I wonder if there's a good middle ground where unix commands could opt into a structured output, and until they exist, you could shim via `ls -la | shim "ls -la" |> ".modified_time"`. Then one day it could be `ls -la |> ".modified_time"` when structured data is supported natively by the program or command. I feel every project ends up dying since it needs to support every command all at once to be useful.
X working again in Brazil as Elon Musk finds way around ban (using Cloudflare)
Someone filled in https://www.linkedin.com/not-applicable today on their job app, and I have to admit, that was clever. I don't personally like that we make that field required.
Data visualization! Web is the go-to format for interactive data visualizations nowadays. This package is targeted at other package developers looking to integrate the abundant wealth of React-based data viz libraries into R. Check out https://quarto.org/ for an example of a popular way users publish their data analyses as reports.

(This package isn't really meant to be used directly by the typical user)
I've been using Marimo along these lines recently. I'm fan. So so glad to not use Jupyter.
It might be cool if we eventually got some sort of a LinkedIn co-pilot to help with applying for jobs, but then again, who knows
The tidbyt display size is perfect! I don’t need the rest of their system just want to drive exactly that type of display directly from a python or C program.

Perhaps the display is solve separately somewhere.
You'd be surprised how much crime goes on in plain sight. There are literally people on Instagram making stories of themselves showing off their drugs and stacks of money.

Given that a lot of law enforcement doesn't even bother with the low hanging crimes, the chance of them prosecuting anyone using Tor is extremely low unless you get big enough or go far enough to warrant the attention.
> Even when chargers become more common in cities, there will always be some places like smaller villages or long roads where you only have one option; that option possibly being a Tesla charger.

Sure, and that's exactly the case for gas stations today, and I'm sure the lone gas station on the long stretch of road has more pricing power than the one in the middle of a city with competition.

And yet gas stations don't charge based on what kind of car you drive. Tesla shouldn't be permitted to do so either, as this market develops more.