skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out Mariupol, Ukraine before and after the Russia invasion https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/28/mariupol-befor...

Then check out Beijing giving Moscow "very substantial" help to beef up its war machine, and in return Russia is handing over its closely guarded military tech on submarines and missiles, in 2024 https://www.politico.eu/article/united-states-accuse-china-h...

Do you think Dictatorships care about any well being of anyone besides the ruling class?
I check the profile when I read crazy comments like the GP's. It looks like a busy life.
This is reaching. How would this mechanism even work? If the enemy has control of a communications device then (1) they've had it and you didn't know for some time and (2) they already know how it works. There's no benefit to putting a self-destruct mechanism into such a thing, since if you know it's compromised then you just stop messaging it.

The self-destruct is pointless, because you can't even verify that it was successful and you have no actual technology to protect (unlike say, US military drones which self-destruct to protect technological details of their construction - and the US would still prefer to commit a mission to bombing a crash site to be sure if they can).

Basically you answer your own problem: the most likely outcome of a self-destruct mechanism is that it goes off accidentally against your own forces, or gets exploited - while it would deliver no actual benefit to you.

Which is to say: when analyzing an adversaries likely actions you don't start by assuming they're stupid or irrational (which is different from whether or not their overall goals might be stupid or irrational).
GF is 14/12 nm. Not really cutting edge anymore
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Why would employees of Hezbollah carry Hezbollah communication devices? That doesn't seem like the question you're trying to ask, in which case, what is a 'military' pager and how is it different from a 'civilian' pager? How are you able to tell apart a 'military' pager from a 'civilian' pager with such confidence as to present it as an unquestioned assumption?

I've spent quite some time looking, and I cannot find such a thing as a military pager. The only pagers I can find mentioned in a military setting are no different from the pagers that civilians would use, for example, the use of commercial pagers in US military hospitals.
Surely there are some boots you can lick elsewhere…
Intel 4 was the initial internal-only version of that process. The version available to external fab customers is Intel 3, which is in production in Oregon and Ireland. See https://www.trendforce.com/news/2024/06/20/news-intel-claims...
I'm playing a bit of both sides here. I do think it's interesting that we so automatically feel like the cases are different. I used something old because I think we understand it well and I do think in the elevator case our instincts are pretty justified. The fact that we can add sensors and get near 100% reliability is a big part of why in that case it isn't very reasonable, but ML is statistical. It's not the kind of thing that you fix by adding one more sensor or one more if statement. I think some anti ML people use that to mean it's unworkable, but I'd hate to hold off on replacing drivers for example just because the kind of errors that a robo taxi makes feel more like in theory they would have been avoidable with better training while we just go and forgive drivers for letting their mind wander for a second
90k USD per yr should do it. I don’t have the skills/inclination/bullshit tolerance to deal with any kind of SBIR or VC, tho i did briefly explore the SBIR route with the encouragement of a brave collaborator (we visited DARPA together)
It's not that it takes more space, it's that it has to read memory more often. Not all memory pages have the same cost to read.

Most memory swapping on most people's home computers is from web browsers for this reason; it's part that everyone uses them, but it's also because they're running JavaScript. And they're pretty well tuned, too.
The question is where are these chips packaged? Potentially the wafers are shipped to the east for packaging, assembly and test.
How is it different from using wget or curl or webmirror tool for downloading pages or website?
The feeling of misunderstanding is mutual! I agree that there was more profit to be made elsewhere. But I'm arguing that those profits were short-term profits which may well have come at long-term expense. If you follow the local gradient of profitability, you'll always find great short-term returns selling off your seed corn. Unlike what Econ 101 asserts about maximizing comparative advantage being the most profitable strategy, there is absolutely no guarantee that following a locally-optimal comparative-advantage strategy is globally optimal over a long-term window, where advantages are path-dependent.

Manufacturing is the core example of path-dependent advantages, because (unlike what any econ 101 textbook teaches), marginal costs decline with increasing production quantity in the manufacturing sector. This means the more you make, the better you are at making more things!
> Literally China/Russia are more trustworthy.

Only in the sense that, as a US citizen who has no desire to travel to China or Russia, I don't feel all that worried that either country is going to do anything bad to me directly.

But if I lived in either one of those places... whooooa boy. I'd have to be a different person to not get in trouble. And I wouldn't call myself much of an activist or pot-stirrer, really. I feel bad for people who want to show public dissent of their government in China or Russia but can't (or do, and end up in jail), and for people in marginalized groups that the government doesn't like.
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Reportedly, the 2025 iPhone SE will use an A18-family SoC (same as this year’s iPhone 16 models).
The problem for your “argument” comes when you apply the harsh light of actual fact to it. Israel has 169,500 active personnel and 465,000 reservists. This represents 6.6% of their population. Furthermore, those age 18-40 can be called up in a national emergency just as most countries can call up a draft. This is not the same as reservists and still represents a fraction of the population.

Attempting to pass off as fact that everyone in Israel is a reservist and are therefore legitimate targets is simple disinformation. You already knew that, though. But hey - you had a point to make, right?
I'm certainly no fan of civil forfeiture but I eould argue that it's fundamentally different from taxation.

Taxes are impersonal. The rules apply to "everyone" [1]. They are written up, voted on (by congress) and so on.

Civil forfeiture is a random event made by a random cop on a targeted individual. It is the very definition of unfair.

Equally you can define taxation as "stealing" hut it's really not. (CF is stealing in my book). It was different in the past, but today taxation is used to pay for things - it doesn't just go to the bank account of a person.

-some- govt and govt services are necessary for society to function. (A quick look at places without govt demonstrate that.) And yes, one can argue about the priority of one service over another. But fundamentally govt serves the society and taxes is just the way that gets paid for.

The scale, priorities, spending of govt is obviously up for debate, but funding it is necessary, and so I don't consider taxes to be theft.

Incidentally, if you feel that all govt is bad and we should exist without one I recommend trying to live in a place where the govt is non-functioning. Thats when you discover where all that spending goes and what it achieves.

[1] for some definition of "everyone" - the system has flaws.
That's a real issue. Especially if this escalates to smartphones.

Technical questions:

- Was the explosive in the pager detectable by the normal tests used at airports?

- Who gets to skip those tests? Are all devices carried by airline pilots examined with explosive tests?

- This is selective. Only the addressed devices blow up. That has implications for devices which know too much about their owners.
I wouldn’t count it as a good produced though. It’s just a commodity pulled out of the ground and processed elsewhere (largely in the US). It requires no ingenuity or hard work, just the luck of being on top of oil fields due to geographic peculiarity.
It is not hard to understand if you flood your student body with underachievers thus risking institutional reputation.

For me, I no longer pick medical specialists who graduated from Harvard since 2017. Others at various later date. And I felt vindicated after reading

https://casetext.com/case/hernandez-v-yale-medical-group
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I don't teach economics 101 nor taken a class. What about the other corporate departments that are being outsource?

The company I previously worked for not only outsourced product manufacturing to South Korea with assembly in the USA, after I left. They also outsourced customer service (CSR) to south Asia. Texas VCs bought the company and are trying to maximize all returns on their investment.

Companies like American, that produce branded products, have a whole department that helps their sales reps with moving customer support, be it email, physical letter, and or phone, to south Asia to reduce office management costs in the USA. They also could just be outsourcing invoicing while CSR is a local provider.

Manufacturing is a simple concept that is heavily politically pushed. The other departments that are needed to support products seem to be ignored. ML has a great likelihood of perpetuating this with real-time vocal transitioning. The CSR in India can sound like some person from New Jersey and break the accent barrier. This would put the customer at ease when sharing the same vocal tones. Consumers would be none the wiser.
> it's that it has to read memory more often

Wait until you learn about "reads become writes with ARC" :)

ARC as implemented by Swift, on top of ObjCs retain and release, is design that has an advantage in being more simple, but at the same time worse at other key aspects like throughput, contention, memory traffic and sometimes even memory efficiency. Originally, Swift was meant to use GC, but this failed because Apple could not integrate it well enough with existing Objective-C code, leading to a very crash-prone solution.

Also, JavaScript has nothing to do with the lower in abstraction languages discussed in this chain of comments.
Some CPUs are good at it, but most aren't. (Apple's are.)

But that's not the actual issue; the issue is that pointers are big (8 bytes) and indexes are smaller, so now you can fit more in the cache. It would also help GC because it doesn't have to trace them.

Also, I don't recommend intrusive structures merely because they'd be better for language games. I think they're better in general ;)
The safety concerns sound circular in an almost Kafkaesque manner. From what I can tell, a strain of the bacteria was found in the wild that created less acid and seemed to lead to less carries. So people thought it needed to be safer, so they instead created a genetically modified version of the bacteria. But now it couldn’t even be tested in the wild because the “safer” version had so many unknowns that even letting people experiment with it would be dangerous, since it could potentially escape into the general population and hurt people (possibly escape through activities like kissing, the article states). But the earlier strain has been out there spreading in the population for decades/centuries already.

Why not just let people experiment on their own with the original low acid bacteria if they want? It’s already there in the wild. You’re already “painting your teeth” with different bacteria when you kiss people, so why not at least let some people pick which naturally occurring bacteria they can expose themselves to instead of letting it happen by random chance?

A lot of the hype about Lumina seemed to be goofy, but the hand wringing over “painting your mouth with bacteria!” is just as bad if not worse.
It is a stretch to call a pager a military equipment and the use of one a “military operation”.

No, Israel rigged consumer electronics used by people during their civilian lives off the battlefield as they posed no threat to anybody. There is no definition of terrorism which doesn’t encapsulate this act.

And no, this act is not justified even if every targeted victim of this attack was a Hezbollah member. As I said before, there are more members of this organization than fighters and generals.
hunting for easter eggs, I found that https://www.saasiroth.com is an actual site and it contains the full manifesto. crazy.
> What's extremely insulting is believing that all forms of autism are just societal misunderstandings that need no therapeutic interventions for the individual with ASD.

I’d very much like to hear what your definitions of “autism” are, for the classroom to see, because I’m sure it’d be illuminating. also no one is really presenting the argument you’re arguing against here, but cool. The terms and language you’re using here at best suggests you’re extremely ignorant and at worst suggests that you clearly hate or hold a lot of stigma against “autistic” people (not the preferred nomenclature) and see them as a societal ill. That’s what a lot of people are pushing back against.
No, it's 5 return trips just to get the materials there. That's like... the least problematic part of assembling and running an arctic style base. Especially given that the Arctic has quite a lot of water and oxygen available. And it takes less than a day to send a rescue mission over. The moon has none of that.
Swift was designed around emojis it seems. First page in the manual shows how you can use emojis as variable names. I get why Apple wants to be clear how there are different ways to index into strings (even if this is motivated 99% by emojis like "family: man woman boy boy skintone B"), but still, the API didn't have to be this confusing or have so many breaking changes after GA.

About structs and pointers, I'm familiar with them in C/C++ where the syntax is clear and consistent. It's not consistent in Swift. And arrays don't even act like regular structs, I forgot: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24450284/conflicting-def...
According to Apple, the upcoming “Apple Intelligence” features are exclusive to devices with A17 Pro, A18, or M-series chips.
Yes, it’s definitely an ongoing process for me!
Uses for LLMs and Neural Nets in general include: Searching documents in discovery, sentiment analysis, summarization, flushing out ideas, 1st level support, writing code, doing speech->text, text->speech, translation.

There are many things we can do now that were previously expensive or cost prohibitive.

This is about the same as the computerization of records. No longer to we have to pay people to keep rooms full of files in order to aid retrieval and long term record storage.

--- but I see you're asking about non-cost things

We can now read documents that are translated from other languages, lowering those barriers to learning about other cultures. It's now easier to interact with the information available to all via the internet.

It also makes some evil things easier, but that comes with every technology.
really? any proof?
They don’t. I was unclear. What I meant to say was that our tightening of sanctions against China has harmed their economy greatly. It is an act of economic war against their acts of economic war.
Yes it should. I am excited for it, the big of swift on Linux that I've done, I have enjoyed and look forward to it getting better and better.
It’s called propaganda of which HN isn’t immune to
Would Henry “to be an enemy is dangerous, but to be friend fatal” Kissinger not agree to the immigration of skilled labour? Do you mean that, as a first order effect, both sides implicitly understand that imported skills would not survive generation 1?
>"Almost every major website you visit today pops up a banner to warn you that it uses “cookies.” This is not legally required in the U.S. or in most places, and where it is, the vast majority of sites do not comply with legal requirements."
I’d love this but from the yt home page and search results page. That would let me ask chatgpt if the video really contains the info its thumbnail/title suggest it does without having to leave the current browser tab.

I’ve done this by manually copy/pasting a yt transcript into chatgpt (and later streamlining it into a bash function), and it was quite effective, allowing me to dodge a couple of click bait time wasters. (videos that looked important but really were just fluffing up unimportant nonsense).
Everyone seems to be celebrating this as a victory for the US, but I can’t help but think of David Ricardo’s Law of Comparative advantage. National security concerns aside for a second, what high tech sectors will the US necessarily be investing in less now that we are putting those valuable resources into chip-making? Are these sectors more or less valuable/profitable than chip-making? I don’t have an answer, but this is the framework that needs to be used to address the question. The US can’t do everything, especially with current immigration restrictions on high tech workers.
This triggers my "don't overwhelm your correspondent" watchdog.

I'm occasionally prone to self-indulgence in written correspondence.

... (There, I said it.)

I hope that my coworkers are blissfully unaware of this tendency. Sometimes I must write dense things which they must read, because a formal record is required and technology is complicated. But I hope they perceive me as a crisp and clear communicator who makes copious but appropriate use of sentence fragments in bullet point form (not too deeply-nested). With judicious and limited use of humor, and only of the sort that is adequately subtle to be overlooked by any who would not readily accept it.

I would especially hesitate to attempt anything but the most simplifed and direct version of my message in a request for help!

Although I guess when you're emailing a consumer product corp c-suite, you have a greater expectation of patience for customer communications, and of general literacy.

In truth, the exec's mail-tenders are likely relieved to receive anything not written in a hostile tone, and perhaps delighted by anything in complete sentences. All the more so, if they are able to help.

Thank you. May every minor wickedness find its appreciative audience.
Anne's plan from the very beginning was to capitalize on the value of the human genome in drug development and medical testing. Frankly everything you need to know about the idea behind the company before its various pitfalls and pivots is here (2007): https://web.archive.org/web/20140312001152/http://www.wired....

(sorry, it takes a while to load but wired has killed most of their long-term links)

IMHO she and Avey were just naive about the actual science and business of using genomic information for drug discovery. Remember, around the time the company started, the human genome had only recently been sequenced and Craig Venter was trying to capitalize on that, and lots of folks figured it would quickly turn into a multi-billion dollar market.

On the other hand, the product is quite good at finding relatives (identity by descent) and to be honest I wish they'd run 23&me as just that service, without the medical angle. My father did 23&Me mainly to figure out more about his ancestry, but also it helped a number of children conceived via IVF (he had provided a sample for fertility testing many years before) identify and contact him (I can't even imagine what the experience was like; to me, it's just a bunch of half-siblings I didn't know about)
This is (only a few years later than the rest of the world's) state-of-the-art manufacturing, built only with the expertise of a Taiwanese company, that relies on the technology of a Dutch company, that in turn purchased (and has since monopolized) its IP from another US company, twenty years ago, and only then because a number of other companies (notably Canon and Nikon, both in Japan) were excluded from using it.

It is not something to be celebrated. What TSMC and ASML are doing is amazing, but we could be so much further ahead.
These weren’t sold at a Best Buy.

They were purchased by a known terrorist organizations that any westerner would go to jail for having a financial relationship with .

The types of people they deal with to buy anything at all - including black market weapons and machinery - are dubious

The US does these exact same things to infiltrate Mexican cartels