skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those pagers were purchased by Hezbollah, for Hezbollah. They were distributed by Hezbollah, to Hezbollah. I have extremely little doubt that Israel had intel telling them this, and that these weren’t used by hospitals by doctors and nurses.

Hezbollah actually runs hospitals and employs doctors and nurses in them, so, "they were purchased by Hezbollah, for Hezbollah" is not, even if one assumes it is true, even remote support for "these weren't used by doctors and nurses".

In addition to being a political party, and having an armed wing, Hezbollah operates a fairly extensive set of social services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah_social_services
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Doesn't matter. If they're talking to you say you need your lawyer present -- that will end the interrogation, and you might never need a lawyer. But if you don't say that you might end up convicted.
MANY piracy websites and even 4chan use Cloudflare. That’s nothing compared to X/Twitter.
I like the idea of this! But is there any reason to be concerned about walled gardens in this case, like how Apple does with its iOS ecosystem? For example, what if access to model weights could be revoked.

There is a lot of interest in regulating open source AI, but many sources of criticism miss the point that open source AI helps democratize access to technologies. It worries me that Meta is proposing an open source and decentralized future because how does that serve their company? Or is there some hope of creating a captive audience? I hate to be a pessimist or cynic, but just wondering out loud, haha. I am happy to be proven wrong.
It does, there is even a study on it. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9321534/

Smokers also help keep pension/social security costs down since they pay into it but don't collect out of it or do for much shorter period.
> dead-simple idiot-proof

Recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41440855#41460999

> network management to safely poke a head out on public IP from home

For remote access to private services, would Tailscale/Wireguard be an option? It can even use Apple TV as an exit node.

> secure peer-to-peer connections

Which protocols would you consider secure for P2P use, e.g. which solutions have you tried previously which failed to converge?
>This isn't a very good argument for the validity of an idea.

Indeed it is not in terms of a convincing argument, however is is more than sufficiently compelling for others to think about, perhaps ask "why?" In this, they often will entertain more conversation that has real advocacy potential and that is just fine, intended.
Dev here.

Cognitive security vulnerabilities like this are the thing I'm most concerned about. I think it's right to be very upfront about risks like these, and I'm even considering if we want to walk back the fully public thing and make it private / invite-only instead.
I've been at it for over a decade. Home router has firewall exceptions for SSH (not port 22 though), TLS IRC, and 80/443, which are forwarded to my home server with fail2ban.

I run SSH (requires PKI outside local network), IRC, nextcloud, and ampache (though don't really use ampache anymore :( ).

Home server is encrypted RAID6 Arch Linux. If I had to do it again I'd forego rolling releases and use something more stable, like Debian.

Encrypted backups are done to backblaze once a month. I also have a backup drive that I plug in on occasion, encrypted of course.

Which reminds me my RAID6 drives are getting old now... I'm tempted to move to a VPS.
No, $5M / 250,000 is $20. (I updated my comment to add a clause about $5M, to reduce confusion.)
Continuous monitoring will always be better than manual checks. Also this is not an LLM and uses less power than your email software.
if you look at all the specs the choice probably boils down to (A) getting something damn bright in 1080p or WUXGA or (B) something in 4K that isn't as bright. And by that point personally I would ask why or whether 4k is really needed for the application.

More brightness/better contrast is probably the more important feature for university applications as it allows you to see stuff better even if we are not in a black-walled darkened cinema space.

Everything in 4k with decent colors and high brightness costs a fortune.

But a DCI conform 4k Laser projector is really a view to behold. If only it wasn't so damn expensive.
They are doing a show & tell in a few days:
https://discord.gg/vaHd6rtE?event=1283643773724917832
Fine. The point is that Israel is at war with Hezbollah. Hezbollah operatives were the targets. That is who was targeted and who was hit.
There are other issues with the terminology as well. The self hosting community (centered at /r/selfhosted) has a very technical vibe. These people enjoy tinkering with computers. They're like kit car builders.

But there's a whole market of people who could benefit from self hosting, but shouldn't be required to understand all the details.

For example, you can get many of these benefits by using a managed service with your own domain. Things like data ownership, open source software, provider competition, etc.

I think we need a broader term. I've been using "indie hosting" lately.
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, https://driveelectric.gov/news/new-cfi-funding-released

> This funding opportunity is made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s signature EV charging investments: the $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program and funds from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program that are set aside for strategic grants to states and local governments to deploy EV chargers.

It seems like Tesla's behavior has been much better in Europe, and I'm not sure what explains the discrepancy.
Indeed, if you got the impression from my comment that I didn't think a debate on WG vs. TS was fine, then I apologize. I think it's a great (and important) thing to debate. My opinion is as stated. I think it's a different cost-benefit analysis for each person depending on time and/or knowledge.
The top 1% is very different from the top 0.1%. You are still likely a W2 earner earning < 1M and paying 40%-50% tax rates if you are in this range; lawyers, doctors, well paid engineers, etc.

I don't know why the article mentions "billionaires", who are in the top 0.1% and are the ones paying almost zero tax because they just borrow against their investments.
Not Vietnam though...
> Sue me

Or read an HN thread on "true self-hosting", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41440855#41460999
No licensing fees to use the connector but do we know they didn't pay any fees for access to Tesla's chargers?

EDIT - at least in Ford's case they've stated that they aren't https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/29/ford-tesla-supercharging-par...
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"Is it just about having minimal boilerplate"

That's a lot of it, but I think people don't realize how every keystroke counts with shell.

There's only a handful of languages where the "apply function" operator is space. Shell is one of them. (Haskell & Forth are the other two I know off the top of my head, possibly Factor (concatenative in general tends this way).) Most new shells that are successful copy this. I don't think that's a coincidence. Lisp's abundance of parens is something that people will have trouble with, even Lisp programmers, because this is not the usual whining about a foreign language paradigm and not being used to reading parens... this is literally about the effort required to physically enter them with a keyboard.
Great feedback Jack, thank you for taking the time to review and write this! We'll address these points on the site as well. For folks following this thread, this is me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityawasudeo/

On monetization, it's still early days but one thing we're clear about is not building an advertising product or adopting any business models which rely on accessing or trading user data. Our philosophy is more on the lines that we'd rather not have any access to user data or identity to avoid legal/regulatory complexity!

Our ambition is to incrementally tackle the various time sinks knowledge workers face at work (finding information, paperwork, meeting hell etc.) - basically the same nonsense we personally endured for years in Big Tech! If we do that competently I'm optimistic that companies and people will value the productivity gains enough for us to make a half decent living.
What are you even talking about? Do you think a country of 9 million that's existed for 70 years doesn't have any unique identity?

There's Israeli writing, Israeli music, Israeli theatre, Israeli dance... some of these are internationally famous. There's Israeli cuisine, a lot of which is based on other cuisines imported from countries that Jews fled from or were kicked out of.

And of course, there's all flavor of Israeli technology and other innovations, from agriculture to food to, of course, software and high tech.

What do you think Israelis are doing on a daily basis, sitting around worrying about existential threats on their life?
The company doing well is a lovely outcome. However, at what point do they care about me doing well? Or do they just want to do the bare minimum to keep me alive and in my seat?
Yep, my kid is into making very detailed little animal sculpts that endure. Playdough fails on both of those dimensions. We've switched to air dry clay (Crayola Model Magic), which is closer to the polymer clay, but still doesn't work quite as well for fine-detail, and is far less durable.
Any tips or links for tuning? zsh has a powerful engine and lots of great work out there, but when I've tried cooking my own it's all just too dense to get "comfortable" for long.
> In the US that is, not in metric counties that use the SI system by default.

India which metricated in the late 1950s is still a big (ab)user of poor SI symbolism. A lot of the 'cms', 'gms', 'cc', 'kgs', etc come from Indian writers and Indian publications (case in point: the article in this thread).

> The other notable system that's still in use is the cgs (centimetre–gram–second) system.

> 'cgs units' are still used in some areas notably physics as they can make calculations easier, there they're called Gaussian-cgs units.

I'm not sure they're used all that much—I was under the impression most CGS units fell out of favour as MKS and eventually SI took over. I was an RA at my physics department for a while and we used SI as much as we could. Some specialisations use a certain form of natural units (like geometrised units in general relativity), but by and large SI dominated.
Oh have you? Interesting.

If you lived in a low-performing socialist country, I guess it's tough to blame you. But keep in mind that socialism, like any democratic experiment, is different based on the country's initial historic and material conditions.

One can pin point at China, a high performing democratic experiment and say they are doing fairly well, "despite" being a socialist Republic.

However I'm curious what you refer as "horrors" of communism.
>our latest large-scale dataset, encompassing up to 18 trillion tokens

I remember when GPT-3 was trained on 300B tokens.
>> I'd bet huge that there is a layer of managers who don't see themselves as being accountable for domain competence in anything they manage as that's what the consultants are for.

Ah the old "management is a generic function" argument. A CEO from Coke is qualified to run GM or Intel. Just have the executive team give me all the information and spell out what results in the biggest $$$ and I'll "make the decision". I thought that silly notion was sunset some time ago...
Where this could go was covered by (among others) Michael Chrichton's last novel Next [1] which games this out in some detail (as far as I am aware it's his only novel with endnotes).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(Crichton_novel)
1) The victims of yesterday's attack were overwhelmingly terrorist soldiers and mid-level management which fits the definition of surgical. If the results of this operation are as good as suggested by all the early reports, they just carved a major hole in the upper ranks of the organization (not even including the major damage they've caused over the last six months with surgical strikes on leaders).*

2) We don't have confirmation that's it's them (but it likely is), and we know far more than that: we know that it incapacitated thousands of members of a designated terrorist organization with minimal impact outside of them.*

"We know for sure this was super-surgical and ONLY killed the 'bad guy club', and since they are in the 'bad guy club' it was done by good guys clearly. Also we don't actually know if it was the 'good guy club', but we know without a doubt they are surgical." -- as if the Hannibal Directive, ethnic cleansing, and colonization are all so super-surgical and precise. Preposterous.

*3) Well, that's just your opinion, man.*

Well it sure seems like the International Criminal Court, UN, and other world bodies are starting to open their eyes.

This isn't the 50's anymore -- media is not controllable in the same way. israels crimes against all of humanity are coming to light.

That's like, a matter of historical record man. With 'allies' like these, who needs enemies?

There is absolutely no way you can argue 'anti-bds' laws are not in violation of the first amendment and be serious. Especially given that for many government jobs you MUST sign them to get hired.

A foreign government that flatly refuses to registrer it's influence organization under FARA has taken away one of the most important rights of all Americans, whether they realize it or not.
Forgot that. Fixed now
you can pick existing pretrained foundational model from corp (google, MS, Meta) and then finetune it(much cheaper) with your innovative ideas.
Are they themselves large, dysfunctional organizations?
That seems crazy on its face

Does it? (Hint: Not really). You're buying something(s) to get the "free" shipping. Furthermore, Amazon was in a position to test this to see what happens. Prime was not something that always existed.

The same can not be said for going to the movies. Presuming MoviePass has to pay the theater for every ticket used, and can't get back say some percentage of the concessions because how are you going to track that, it doesn't take much common financial sense to see that $9.95 isn't going to get you very far.

It can be a short term marketing-friendly loss leader, but beyond that only the naive would see a sustainable business model.
Except Hezbollah combatants are not exclusively "who was hit", and your entire argument that this was reasonably narrowly targeted on legitimate targets and not an indiscriminate attack rested on literally not understanding what Hezbollah is.
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The reports say that these devices were specifically part of shipments that went specifically to Hezbollah.

Which makes sense - I don't think the US Army is using the same walkies that a random hospital in the US uses, for example.
This would’ve enriched shareholders at the detriment of taxpayers, while also causing pensioners to take a cut on their pensions.
We use Cerebrium for our Mixpanel for Voice AI product (https://voice.canonical.chat). Great product. So much easier to set up and more robust than other model hosting providers we've tried (especially AWS!). Really nice people on the the team, too.
Nit: SUNY and CUNY are surprisingly unrelated.

I had to look it up, and I live upstate.
I very clearly did not assert that your identity had to be shared publicly or shared with the people you are interacting with. I only said that the entity operating the centralized social network had to have a strong and confident sense of each users' identity. The purpose of this is to ensure that everyone interacting within the walled garden is human, and to ensure that blocked people cannot just go create an alt account to get around being blocked. Whether it is "@JimJohnson" or "@ButtDestroyer420" you're interacting with isn't relevant.

I understand the anonymity argument, even from the perspective that sometimes you don't want even the service operator to know who you are. I'll be blunt on my take on this: I think this is millenial/genx idealism, tossing coins into a wishing well for an internet that does not exist anymore and will never again. Generative AI is out of the bag, and social network service providers can either grow up and recognize that their Paramount Number 1 service they can offer is some reasonable guarantee of protection against generative AI, or they can stay addicted to their juiced engagement numbers and play dumb when it comes out that 99% of tweets are from bots trying to build rapport, sell products, and influence elections (bye bye advertisers!). Its their call. Twitter is making the wrong one. Meta is up next. Traditionally they've all done bot detection; this doesn't work. Bots are indistinguishable from humans now. You need human-detection; KYC, meat-space verification. If you don't like the anti-privacy angle, then don't participate; no one is forcing you, and you're welcome to start your own mastodon server out in the generative AI wildlands (and, by the way, you should always have that right; i'm not prescribing how the world should be ran, just how e.g. Threads should be).
You're welcome! And thanks again for the feedback!
Stop releasing your models under a non FOSS license.
>The main thing you can do is support companies and groups who are releasing open source models. They are usually using their own data.

Alternatively we could create standardized open source training data like wikipedia, wikimedia as well as public domain literature and open courseware. I'm sure that there are many other such free and legal sources of data.
I think you have either intentionally or unintentionally missed my point, and you're talking past me now. War never has any guarantees. You do the best you can, and you do the best the intel suggests, and you minimize and avoid civilian casualties as best you can.

Israel exploited an opportunity here to strike Hezbollah's communications network and leadership surgically; they did just that. No, there are never any guarantees there will be no collateral damage.

I'm done explaining that, as I think I have been very clear.
> The problem with those ascii values is editors don't display them and there are no keyboard keys to type them.

Did you read my post? Like, every word of it? Being able to type a control sequence is not particularly useful for ephemeral data in a message-passing between programs context. It's absolutely important for persistent, editable data. It seems like more of a feature to me to use these special characters for special contexts and not have escaping typeable characters be load-bearing.

Further, my editor seems to print control characters just fine, though entering them would be a bit of a pain and the behavior is likely configurable.
There’s a “live by the sword, die by the sword” reaction that I have to this.

I think we expect better of democracies, which is why these kinds of attacks shock us. But it is interesting that we are unsurprised when Lebanon/Hezbollah uses terror tactics but it quickly becomes a news event when Israel responds in kind.

Ironic because drone bombings like we did in Afghanistan would probably have a much more terrible collateral damage effect but be less newsworthy. But somehow boobytrapping radios and pagers pricks our conscience. Maybe because it feels more personal, intimate, and therefore retributive?
> UN Resolution: Done

Well, not exactly. The recent actions of Hezbollah are connected to Palestinian cause. If Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, what does it leave to Hezbollah? It may not collapse, but Palestine becomes a major political factor. That’s the reason I mentioned Camp-David and „something new“. If statehood of Palestine is secured and adequate solution for refugees is offered, it will be the key to resolution of many conflicts in that region.
Even when they have free, independant elections with international observers (cough cough Venezuela cough cough), they are dictatorships because American Elites say so. Interesting how the world works. It's like there is propaganda in the western world targeted at westerners or something.
We really need to avoid a future where censorship is regarded as a virtue and monopolized transit providers are "cancelled" or shamed into being the judge/jury/executioner.

The far better solution is just to ignore stuff you don't agree with, go outside, and move on with life.
It's literally a one party state. "You can vote for anyone you like so long as it's the guy from the CPC," ain't exactly a choice.
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This is probably a common; lisp/scheme type of thought. Dan Friedman
also said something about how he only likes code that he can hold in his head to think about in the shower. I forgot the source, but it's in one of the talks. I think Sussman has also said something similar.
> We don't really know yet if the 401k experiment is going to be successful.

Wouldn't there have been some segment of the population with about 25 years of 401k by 2008? It should be possible to compare them retiring during the downturn to people living off their pensions.
It's crazy to attribute the downfall of the web/search to Google. What does Google have to do with all the genuine open web content, Google's source of wealth, getting starved by (increasingly) walled gardens like Facebook, Reddit, Discord?

I don't see how Google's SEO rules being written or unwritten has any bearing. Spammers will always find a way.
NATS can do traffic shaping

https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/subject_mapping#for-traff...
Good luck fighting countries, if Brazil is serious about this, it will be blocked again.
Now that's a... difficult company name.

Certainly one of the names of all times.
I always try to base my judgments on the actual numbers rather than qualitative anecdotal evidence since the latter is relatively worthless (for statistical reasons alone). The problem is also that you can always find some people who support some narrative. Often these people don't know the numbers themselves.
What to do with the myth of Polyvagal theory?
Agriculture is one of the most technological and oil-intensive things that modern civilization does. Combine harvesters are intricate devices which cost millions, and the US happens to be one of the countries with the best relative advantage in growing food due to our climate. For reference, the USSR industrialized to near capability parity in the 60's, but never closed the agriculture gap.

Growing a little grain is possible with ancient technology, but a lot of people starved back then, as they do now when agriculture is practiced without oil, pesticides, herbicides and advanced (keeping in step with population growth) machinery.
This seems to be one of the core lessons behind John Ousterhout's _A Philosophy of Software Design_

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of...

and I find that the mechanism of "Literate Programming":

https://literateprogramming.com/

is a useful one for doing this since it allows one to write about both how the low level details are implements in a function, _and_ how the written function is used in a way which allows the twain to support each other.
Then maybe don't use their plight to boast about how tough your are.

Or to complain about the significant monetary penalties you'd have to pay, when it's surely easier to pay those on your salary than theirs.
I don't know why / how messages should be ordered. NSQ is a message queue and not a log. Some messages take longer to process than others, and some messages need to be re-queued and re-tried out of order, and that is a very common use-case.

I would love to be able to use a distributed log like Kafka/Redpanda since it's HA out of the box, but it simply does not fit that use-case.