skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> as far as I can make out ... there has been a total of 7,500 children killed

I said 10,000 for this year, which is lower than the amount coming from Gaza. You low balled it much further. Hamas might be accused for inflating numbers, but Israeli apologists are actively deflating that number. Regardless, the numbers are staggering.

> I'm certain that you would prefer no intervention ...

Firstly, you don't know me but have immediately filled in who you believe I am based on your expectations. You should reflect on that (and how much you are creating your own world), because those prejudices are exactly what motivate the hate that drives these conflicts.

I would like to see intervention in Gaza. Number one, would be to stop the indiscriminate bombing of children. Number two, would be to provide relief to all of the people who have lost their homes and livelihood, who have been maimed and are starving. Number three, would be to resolve the displacement of the Palestinians in a just manner. Number four, would be judicial proceedings against anyone (Palestinian or Israeli) who committed war crimes.

Israel cannot be bombing civilians. It is a war crime. Gaza is not a sovereign state, but a displaced people living in Israel. If Israel is too weak to go in and arrest criminals who commit heinous crimes, then it needs to contend with the problem and take a different approach to how it deals with the Palestinian people.
As long as it doesn’t say “made in Hungary”

And on a more serious note. Hizbolla is a blacklisted terrorist org, they can’t just order stuff from regular factories. Buying from an anonymous white label factory in Hungary with no address and little information is probably pretty normal from them - because anyone doing business with them in the EU will go to jail

As long as you’re not buying electronics from shady factories with no known owners you’ll be fine
Anyone know how these devices may have been triggered that would be different from pagers? I imagine these radios would have to be modified to listen to multiple channels in case a radio was on a different channel than planned.
Preaching to the choir, yes and:

> ...supply chains matter.

A corollary (?) is that competency matters too.

The outsourcing mania forfeited vertical integration to please Wall St. Collateral damage included knowledge, culture, and ability to innovate.

> ...not likely to be an efficient strategy

Per principle of no free lunch, greater efficiency at the expense of resiliency.

> ...tariffs and similar policy levers...

Yup. The Rudyard Kipling School of Economics doesn't acknowledge realpolitik, will to power, balance of trade, finance, labor relations, foreign interests, etc.

The Econ 101 glasses give a very myopic view of the world. It's just an introductory model for a very complicated system.
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Most likely coincidence. From what I’ve read, Israel had to pull the trigger on the pagers early because some people (whom they were monitoring) had gotten suspicious that something was up.
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Any time someone seriously asserts "there are two kinds of people...", they're wrong. I take it as a signal that I need to be extra skeptical about anything else they have to say.

That said... "There are only two kinds of people in the world: those who divide people into two kinds, and those who don't."
How hard it is copy , paste and run the note book code within proper http server?
> The point is that they do not limit them sufficiently, clearly.

I agree. The law should’ve been stronger. But we work now with the hand we have.

> People who complain about the popups want to blame the businesses

Not in my experience. There’s a split between people blaming the business and blaming the EU.

> but the business are doing in compliance with the law.

Most aren’t. The GDPR says explicitly that withdrawing consent must be at least as easy as giving it. Yet most popular websites make it incredibly simple to accept but obtuse to refuse.

However, you may have noticed that’s starting to get better. More and more websites have a clear way to reject now. Meta (Facebook / Instagram) in particular are now way clearer than at the start. We have to thank organisations such as noyb¹ for that. They have been tireless in that fight and won a number of high-profile cases.

¹ https://noyb.eu/
Gas pumps at the local grocer play beeps when you hit a key (consumer loyalty # entry), but with a random delay. It's maddening how much harder this makes typing. OTOH, these pumps don't have video ads yet.
> Drug use is usually seen as a poverty problem, and on this platform we are constantly reminded that the US has GDP figures that dwarf the European.

The US is loaded with systems that pressure resources and means upward. I spent the 2010s in hunger-level poverty, with minor children. My kids were a few of the millions, who got to experience getting their only-regular-meals in schools.
Product Development, R&D, etc is absolutely fungible and outsourced, even by some ostensibly big names.

If C-level could be outsourced while keeping shareholder returns, it would be
Medicine isn't science because science is not as advanced as many would think. The lack of workplace integration is also a big factor.

I don't think we discourage second opinions, except maybe in some for-profit structures. The bad idea is to have multiple people making decisions in parallel. I'm not in the US, though.

Regarding advocacy, I don't think it's so crazy. It's very good to have a valid interlocutor when the patient is diminished. Also, hospitals are big systems with limited personalization. If someone's there to call out the system when it's trying to shoehorn too hard, it's also very good.
#TIL: “Cap Code” stands for Channel Access Protocol code, which is the unique ID code assigned to a particular pager.
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Terrorism directed at terrorists…I’m in full support.
Google has those problems because the company's revenue source (Ads) and the thing that puts it on the map (Search) are fundamentally at odds with one another.

A useful Search would ideally send a user to the site with the most signal and the fewest noise. Meanwhile, ads are inherently noise; they're extra pieces of information inserted into a webpage that at best tangentially correlate to the subject of a page.

Up until ~5 years ago, Google was able to strike a balance on keeping these two stable; you'd get results with some Ads but the signal generally outweighed the noise. Unfortunately from what I can tell from anecdotes and courtroom documents, the Ad team at Google has essentially hijacked every other aspect of the company by threatening that yearly bonuses won't be given out if they don't kowtow to the Ad teams wishes to optimize ad revenue somewhere in 2018-2019 and has no sign of stopping since there's no effective competition to Google. (There's like, Bing and Kagi? Nobody uses Bing though and Kagi is only used by tech enthusiasts. The problem with Google is that to copy it, you need a ton of computing resources upfront and are going up against a company with infinitely more money and ability to ensure users don't leave their ecosystem; go ahead and abandon Search, but good luck convincing others to give up say, their Gmail account, which keeps them locked to Google and Search will be there, enticing the average user.)

Google has absolutely zero incentive to filter out generative AI junk from their search results outside the amount of it that's damaging their PR since most of the SEO spam is also running Google Ads (since unless you're hosting adult content, Google's ad network is practically the only option). Their solution therefore isn't to remove the AI junk, but to instead reduce it enough to the degree where a user will not get the same type of AI junk twice.
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These were devices purchased by Hezbollah for their internal communications. There are cell phones in Lebanon and they are cheap, people use these devices to avoid Israeli tracking. Otherwise you would use a cell phone. Explosions were very localized so in terms of civilian casualties this was probably very low.
I think the spec is supposed to be one ball per second, but I guess that's not really adhered to.

Tangentially, I think it'd be interesting to use something like this to explain the networking concepts of throughout, latency, jitter, baud vs bits per second, symbol rate and bits per symbol.

You can find analogous examples in the main video to compare to all of those concepts.
Israel has shown us (again) that we cannot trust any device whose full supply chain hasn't been properly audited. Which you can't really do at this scale.

So yeah, literally anything you buy can apparently just be stuffed full of explosives waiting to kill you and anyone near you.
True, that's why Israel army is in Gaza right now fighting Hamas instead of burning down the entire strip.
I mean obviously not, even if the radios were exclusively in possession of Hezbollah fighters or apparatchiks, they don't live in isolation. They go to coffee shops and restaurants and have dinner with their families.
You'll never get mega corp to stop using them because you will never get regular people to stop wanting them.

Convenience is king, and humans simply aren't really programmed care about long term consequences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_translation
According to Routers, they were bought at the same time as the pagers 5 months ago. So I would bet on it being the same supply chain operation that targeted both devices and maybe other devices that were bought at the same time.
>sounds like what you want is just a different content policy

This could always be the heart of the matter.

Whether strictly moderated or casually self-adjusting, once an extreme or somewhat non-mainstream "groupthink" starts to dominate, numerically or some other way, then any opposite viewpoints will be repressed to an increasing degree.

The best you can probably do is to engage where you are compatible with the content as it has already devolved.

As I implied in my other comment, probably the only time there is any chance for nothing to have devolved in terms of free speech, is if you get in at the very beginning. Or with greater certainty, it does seem intuitive, hosting it your dang self.
> The positions in this war are not equal.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. Israel is one of the most powerful nations on Earth, Hezbollah is not even close. I don't think genocide is an appropriate response to the hatred of a much, much weaker enemy.
> That doesn't really matter for discussing how correct code _should_ be written.

It absolutely does when you're talking about the semantics of virtually every program on earth

> It's equivalent to "if you call malloc(), you should call free()" -- you shouldn't demand that functions you invoke will call free() on your pointer. Same for open files.

There are many cases where the one calling malloc cannot be the one calling free and must explicitly document to callers/callees who is responsible for memory deallocation. This is a good example of where no convention exists and it's contextual.

But open files aren't memory and one cannot rely on file descriptors being closed without errors in practice, so people don't, and you can't just repave decades of infrastructure for no benefit out of ideological purity.
Were clay pots fine? How would we know it wasn’t helping with the 50% child mortality rate?

I object to the idea that the old-times ways were better when we know even in the short history people were prescribe cigarettes and brushed their teeth with radioactive toothpaste.
> ... He rests his whole argument on the premise that the operator is illiterate in Chinese, or at least has no access to the semantics of the material stored in the Room.

...and yet outputs semantically correct responses.

> That's plainly not the case with ChatGPT, or it couldn't review its previous answers to find and fix its mistakes.

Which is another way of saying, ChatGPT couldn't produce semantically correct output without understanding the input. Disagreeing with which is the whole point of the Chinese Room argument.

Why cannot the semantic understanding be implicitly encoded in the model? That is, why cannot the program I (as the Chinese Room automaton) am following be of sufficient complexity that my output appears to be that of an intelligent being with semantic understanding and the ability to review my answers? That, in my understanding, is where the genius of ChatGPT lies - it's a masterpiece of preprocessing and information encoding. I don't think it needs to be anything else to achieve the results it achieves.

A different example of this is the work of Yusuke Endoh, whom you may know for his famous quines. https://esoteric.codes/blog/the-128-language-quine-relay is to me one of the most astonishing feats of software engineering I've ever seen, and little short of magic - but at its heart it's 'just' very clever encoding. Each subsequent program understands nothing and yet encodes every subsequent program including itself. Another example is DNA; how on Earth does a dumb molecule create a body plan? I'm sure there are lots of examples of systems that exhibit such apparently intelligent and subtly discriminative behaviour entirely automatically. Ant colonies!

> And you certainly would not get a different response, much less a better one, from the operator of a Chinese Room simply by adding "Think carefully step by step" to the request you hand him.

Again, why not? It has access to everything that has gone before; the next token is f(all the previous ones). As for asking it to "think carefully", would you feel differently if the magic phrase was "octopus lemon wheat door handle"? Because it doesn't matter what the words mean to a human - it's just responding to the symbols it's been fed; the fact that you type something meaningful to you just obscures that fact and lends subconscious credence to the idea that it understands you.

> It's just a vacuous argument from square one,
and it annoys me to an entirely-unreasonable extent every time someone brings it up. Add it to my "Stochastic Parrot" and "Infinite Monkeys" trigger phrases, I guess.

With no intent to annoy, I hope you at least understand where I'm coming from, and why I think those labels are not just apt, but useful ways to dispel the magical thinking that some (not you specifically) exhibit when discussing these things. We're engineers and scientists and although it's fine to dream, I think it's also fine to continue trying to shoot down the balloons that we send up, so we're not blinded by the miracle of flight.
Symmetrical warfare is still the preferred method of response. I think this qualifies as such.
The laws are known a priori.

There are also no laws against exposing crimes by the government. You’re just not allowed to break other laws just because you’re doing so.

People very frequently successfully expose corruption and abuse by governments in the US. It just doesn’t make significant news unless it’s a major national politician, and that happens multiple times a year.
Why would they do this? Knowing that any bugs found won't be patched since EOL, and will just be used for mass exploitation and harm??

Why is the cyber industry so desperately stupid for attention?
Ha, maybe this will be the turning point for international corporations becoming national-only? Or maybe make the big brands like Apple/Samsung the only trusted device manufacturers and completely wipe out the small ones?

No iPhones exploded so far but I wouldn't be surprised if the paranoia takes over everywhere and local supply chains and local producers become a thing. "Foreign social media platforms" was already a concern but this is "foreign hardware is booby trapped as you can see". Another nail for the globalized world, united humanity, citizens of the world etc. If a big brand has a supply chain is infiltrated too, then its all over.

Also, are those people blind? Don't they see that booby trapping large number of devices rhymes with poisoning the well? It wouldn't help with antisemitism but that's another discussion.
And now there's a second set of explosions, this time using handheld radios.

I'm hopeful that this won't escalate, but I'm very anxious that it will.
While using water is one interesting point of the actual paper(from which this article is written), I would say, to a lay person, water volume makes more sense than arbitrary values like KiloJoules or KiloWatts, because I can imagine what a 20mL water would look like, but can't imagine what 20mJ or 20mW looks like.
I am not sure we should trust a site contaminated by AI graphics. /s
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There is some utility in seeing the code and the output right below it.
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The mechanism of action is unclear at this time. I’ve seen it written that the explosives were part of PCBs with electronics that mimicked the original.
That indeed happened in yesterday's attack. Not to take away from linking him to Hezbollah, however.
sel4 is more suited for tasks with very limited but also very sensitive functionality. For example, something like a secure element.

Technically, you _can_ add rich OS functionality (such as GUI) on top of sel4 but development will be slow and painful and the performance will be bad. And when done you haven't really improved security that much since most your assets are now outside the tiny kernel.
call me cynical, but this feels like the sort of idea that Amazon would purposefully disseminate. Announce an unpopular measure, then seed the idea "but don't worry, we don't actually mean it" to shift the balance of power back to them (i.e. employees who might otherwise immediately start seeking other employment will instead 'wait and see')
This sentence contains two diametrically opposed hypothesis.

LLM's and accuracy in one sentence in the context of quantifying thresholds is stunning.

LLM's don't have a concept of numerical accuracy.
Or maybe you let the kids have a little fun and don't worry about it.
"their white blood cell count was high"

that's just an alert, not ai
I see people tagging him as @dang, not sure if there's some backend logic to notify him but here goes nothing.

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You can work and play, if the playing is your work.

But you're right. You can't do it same time. If concentration is needed, one can't do other things except to concentrate. Otherwise, no concentration.

In my experience, alternating playing while working helps a lot to refocus. It's the same when learning things. one just have a timespan of round about 12 minutes of full concentration. after that a short break doing completely other stuff help to refresh the concentration tank.

But, keep in mind, the work progress and understanding of things need to be reread and reunderstood, having a break once. That was my problem. Every 20 minutes a cig and a break for 5 mins. While break talking about the problems fosters creativity. But then, 5 mins are needed to get back into topic. So actually, this was bad :)

So I stopped smoking in an experiment. Guess what. I've finished all the work in 2 days without breaking, while being on it for weeks.

My boss didn't want to pay me more, so I quit quitting smoking. Haha.
I see your point, and the Electoral College may need some updating (there’s also gerrymandering, which is problematic). However, I’d argue that the “popular vote” is not the best approach.

For huge countries where people’s lives are very varied, I think you need something to equate regions to others. The ancient Greeks tried direct democracy, and it didn’t work. The Founding Fathers knew this and called direct democracy “anarchy.” Not far off from the truth if you ask me, and the Greeks are a great cautionary tale on this.

Representative democracy, strongly coupled with local representation and a two-party system (yes, yes, I know) is where it’s at. The two-party system forces local reps to align with the bloc that most represents their interests ahead of the election. If you look at Europe, many citizens vote for a party only to see them make alliances and concessions with other minority parties that they wouldn’t have approved (e.g., Spain with independence parties).

Many things need updating, but I think it’s a mistake to forget history and assume that the U.S. political system was just randomly put together. There’s a lot of interesting history to dig into there (for example, the Federalist Papers).
I think so, yes. It's certainly not the only thing that defines them, and they aren't the only company that can be so defined, but it's their primary characteristic and the reason they're in business. Everything they do is aimed toward that end.
They have the support of a state 30x their size. In a unique way few others do, almost in a parent child undying and asymmetrical way.

This is 9/11 but the US backed by an entire alien planet, unafraid to go in the direction of scorched earth even when totally surrounded because the aliens will bail them out.
To be honest, the way they are damaging their brand/products/OS just to make a bit more money is enough to be pessimistic about Apple.

But it's very true that the state of the language can be felt in their native apps, that tend to suck pretty bad recently. I still can't get over the nightmare that is the split up of iTunes; at least we knew that it was clunky because of old age, the new stuff is just bad.
Imagine if the Russians managed to do something like this in the US...
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X-Ray image compared to known X-Ray of the exact same model

Bomb sniffing dog or chemical test of surfaces
Why are you putting ‘just good enough’ in quotation marks?

Even declaring that is the case doesn’t change that it’s still clearly a personal judgement depending on the individual.
As I understand, Hezbollah reactively replacing their phones was the exact thing that made yesterday's attack possible.
yeah except it's first year at school -- not the next 5-10 years of your life, or longer