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Oof, most people in tech's take on Israel that I ever met usually are along the lines of "I'm not touching that".

I'm not gonna pretend I'm on some moral high ground or whatever. As a Jew I'm just happy I wasn't actually born in Israel and didn't inherit all the problems that come with it.

Before Oct 7 I was seeing more and more of the arab world normalize relations with Israel. Now it's all gone down the drain again.

I also don't think Israel is demographically sustainable, all the ultra religious people have like 8-12 kids, the seculars maybe 3. Sooner or later that's just gonna explode in people's face.

My position on the whole conflict is along the lines of "everybody sucks". The descendants of the arabs that chose to cooperate with Israel became Israeli citizens, the descendants of the arabs that chose to not, are in a world of sh*t.

It's kind of hard to be reasonable when you have every reason to be resentful. Even when there are reasonable people, if they try to change something they'd mostly be pissing in the wind because the established leadership is funded by Iran and has no interest in improving the situation for anyone but themselves.

Israel also is very good at making their neighbors hate them by pulling all sort of dick moves and giving far right wingers a green light to do whatever the hell they want.

It's all bs and I want none of it. I will on purpose not marry a Jewish woman just to make sure my kids aren't Jewish and they're less likely to be tempted to swallow the nationalistic bs that makes gullible young people who want to be special and different sign into getting themselves blown up or shot for a cause that's just not worth it.

Wow I got more emotional than I thought I would.
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> You don't need a calendar to have seasonal celebrations.

You need seasons. Some places have very little seasonality. They tend to have a pure moon calendar.
If I consider the global society I will be living in, I would prefer to see what an extra 30-50 years of high cognitive function for the people most rewarded by our current system produces, rather than trying to define what a good finite life is from some authoritarian.
The problem with that mentality is that you start seeing inefficiencies spring everywhere (why loading Discord takes so long? Slack? etc, etc).
I agree it's not an easy market. Peds ER & pediatrician offices are already a thing catering to children, so I don't see the innovation there. Additionally it's long known pediatrics reimbursement and costs are just way less than adults. This also forks in with the immigration issue(s) in that demographically there are a much higher portion of not not non-documented peoples among children, which can introduce linguistic overhead/costs of time and money (mandatory requirement to speak all patients languages) as well as inability to pay beyond medicaid.

Children are an attractive selling point for a company in the same way as cancer of some altruistic goal. Though here, although elder care exists, to me that seems like the market to disrupt and minimize costs in.
You have to distinguish between the current model and DeepSeek the company. DeepSeek the company can do an OpenAI and stop releasing their weights any time they like. The knowledge and skill is retained.

I really wonder how long the current era of giving models away for free can last. How is this sensible from a business perspective? Facebook got burned by iOS and now engage in what would otherwise look like irrational behavior to avoid being locked into a supplier again, but even then, they don't really need to give Llama away for free. They could train and use it for themselves just fine.
Can I download Twelve from somewhere? I couldn't find it on F-Droid.
I am not aware of any non western models that are not under censorship.

Ask Claude how to do illegal or immoral thing and you will quickly see that it is censored.

I didn't mean to problematize censorship. Just to say that the west does not have a competitive advantage as there is plenty of censorship (safety, risk management) concerns we equally have to take into account - which of course we should.
I've used 'ice_nine' previously. When returning to some Ruby work after some significant rust-gigs, I really loved the "immutable by default" idea and kept running into issues caused by accidental or unwanted mutation.

I couldn't use it though. For several reasons. I'd expect your leto (thanks!) has the same issues:

- deep-freezing large object trees added noticable lag. Makes sense, because we iterate over large structures, multiple times per code path.

- the idea of "copy on mutation" albeit a pattern I love, doesn't play nice with Ruby's GC. In apps with large data structures being pushed around (your typical REST+CRUD app, or anything related to im-/export, ETL etc) the GC now kicks in far, far more often and has more to clean up. I believe this was/is being worked on, don't know the details though.

- colleagues, especially the seniors entrenched in decade+ of Rails/Ruby work, didn't buy it, and tryd working around it with variations of "set_foo(val) { self.deep_clone.tap(&:unfreeze).tap(|s| s.foo = val).tap(&:freeze) }", which dragged a large app to screetching halt crashing servers and causing OOM kills.

I then remembered my own advice I often give:

> Don't try to make Ruby another Rust. We already have Rust, us that instead. Don't try to get Ruby to work exactly like Java. Just use Java if you need that.
Kai-Fu Lee gives great insight into the engineering culture in AI Superpowers.

What I get from that book is they have a culture of a free for all that anything can be copied and ripped off so there is no standing still to admire your work.

Innovate or get copied and innovated out of existence.

A stark contrast to what we have evolved in the US. Innovate and then use the profits of innovation to buy legislation that eliminates competition.

There is no mystery how this plays out over a 50 year time window.
Why not run the database in a docker container, one for each client? They could even run on the same machine.
My reason for saying happy holidays is because I don't really have a specific thing I celebrate, I simply take vacation during all of December and don't like being in the cold. That's a holiday for me.
I am using OpenAI's API for the movie recommendations based on the user's input and pulling the movie metadata from OMDb (https://www.omdbapi.com/)
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A thought on naming - wouldn’t “freezer” be a more appropriate choice?
https://www.creditorsbar.org/news/-credit-card-charge-offs-a...

Basically what you already said but a little better connection in how moodys probably reported on it.
I don't think it's necessarily about DeepSeek, but about the wider competitive picture. There are two tacit assumptions being made about LLMs - that having a SOTA model is a substantial competitive advantage, and that the demand for compute will continue to grow rapidly.

DeepSeek's phenomenal success in reducing training and inference cost points to the possibility of a very different future. If it's the case that SOTA or near-SOTA performance is commoditised and progress in efficiency outpaces progress in capability, then the roadmap looks radically different. If DeepSeek don't have a competitive advantage, then no-one has a competitive advantage. Having a DC full of H200s or a proprietary model with a trillion parameters might not count for anything, in which case we're looking at a very different set of winners and losers. Application specific fine-tuning and product-market fit might matter much more than brute force compute.
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> Maybe if they allowed adblock on mobile, but last I checked they were fannying around requiring nightly builds and whitelisting extensions...

uBlock origin has been one of the allowed extensions for years. As far as I know it's the only browser allowing extensions on phones. It's a shame the allowed extensions is limited compared to desktop but I use uBlock everywhere anyway. What adblocker are you trying to install?

You shouldn't use your browser as your password manager, sometimes you might need them in another context and that creates friction.
C-u N C-y where N is the number of pastes.

Yeah, some DE clipboards implement kill-yank sensitive. They're great!
That's awesome. I'm sorry, I couldn't find your email / contact info from your profile. Any chance you can email me: vivek [at] hackerrank?
The whole world is wrinkly, that's the way it is, everyone, and everything is slightly different.
For my game, I do have a web version, but I also have native apps, because the web monetization path is just not as smooth as native.

I chose Flutter because I like Dart far more than TypeScript/JavaScript. AdMob doesn't support web. Of course there is a Google Web ads solution, but Google's "significant content" evaluator doesn't see any Flutter content, so you have to add a bunch of useless text to use web ads. In-app purchases are fairly easy compared to getting Stripe set up, and for the user far more usable.

I'd LOVE to stop dealing with app stores and the 15% tax, and iOS entirely, but it's not a good user experience.

Of course, I could choose not to monetize at all, but I would like to get something for my efforts, at least enough to support its own running costs.
Thanks! Good point about integrating with feature flag tooling... I'll have to think more about that.
When they do it, it’s “censorship.” When we do it it’s “safety.” From a technical standpoint it’s the same. Don’t say certain things, respond to certain questions with refusals or with certain answers.
> for the people most rewarded by our current system

This includes people like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, who would make the world better off by the cognitive nonexistance.
> If you tell the world that eggs are awesome while denying other countries access to eggs, they discover ways to use less eggs

You are confusing cause with effect. What actually happened: Nixon opened up US trade with China and, ever since, China has been stealing trade secrets to undermine and overthrow American interests. Limiting their access to eggs was literally us trying to prevent them from stealing all our shit!
I don't know, but if you find your dog is now immortal at the human equivalent of 25 and you're getting old and grey, everything hurts, and the babes don't look at you any more, you're probably going to want something to get done about it, pronto.
The user-side will work with all kernels that contain the matching driver, but the user-side will not necessarily work on future Android versions without modification.
It also seems basically impossible to fix too. Once we've reached the point of no return (probably there now), that's it, we're done.
We’re just migrating to OpenSearch from Xapian and it was one of the question we had. We didn’t want to go from a solution in maintenance mode to one which could be a dead end soon.

From what we’ve seen there is lots of active development going on with many features being added.

But we don’t yet use any fancy features and could easily switch to ElasticSearch if need be. So we got a backup plan.
Anecdote: I develop an app for a bank at my job in Germany and I was forced to implement root detection because of some annoying pentest. Everyone agreed that it was just security theater + checkbox compliance but it "had to be done"...
I want to comment on something that seems important to me. In the third world, in countries where the internet arrived much later and where money was much scarcer, the effect of qmodem was quite long lasting and profitable for the tech savvy community. A PC and a modem were the support for many of the adventures and beginnings in computer science and in general to satisfy that insatiable curiosity for the computer revolution. Engineers working in big companies and using the resources of these and local volunteers installed BBS with Walnut Creek cds and other shareware CDs and gave access for the first time to that universe that we now take as evident and accessible from our phones. Without qmodem I would still be waiting for my copy of unarc!.

In my personal case, I want to also thank your father for pointing us thru it's company name to the book and movie "the forbin project" :-). In our present of promises of supercomputing AIs, maybe we should all read the book or watch the movie.
> Note that some people would not view that as a plus.

Those people would have the choice of driving to the garage and waiting if they wished to. I chose for the home visit then cycled to work and came home to a fixed car.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/getting-cheated-in-a-...
It remains to be seen how stable a totalitarian government can be. China has the benefit of having full control over its people and therefore gets to decide what is important and what not, and currently people are ok with handing that control over to the government. But it's also a very fragile state, which can only be retained through full repression.
I agree fringe religious groups paint a stranger picture, but I don't think that entirely covers it here.

Without specifying any specific religions, many often have different interpretations at different times on critical issues like human rights, torture, slavery and worse. Different interpretations at different times have been used to justify spousal abuse, human selling/trafficking for specific agreed upon prices or transactions, etc.

I think in the same way that LLMs hallucinate because they can't find a proper place in their vector mapping for that embedding to draw on experience or reason (simplifying) the humans are also drawing from a place that has blanks and filling in the gaps.
Very interesting idea! Reminiscent of this robust learning paper[1] from 2020, where they do something even simpler: zero out elements in gradients with inconsistent signs, before averaging them.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00329
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Because IBM Plex Sans JP exists I use the IBM Plex fonts. It's a whole lot easier than trying to pick fonts that work well together with a Japanese font. And IBM Plex looks fairly nice, so that helps.
China's cyber intrusions took a sinister turn in 2024
The OP in this thread already posted the FRED link hence why I did not post anything and replied to someone who clearly did not see the links to the public data. Here is a follow up though that gets you closer

https://www.creditorsbar.org/news/-credit-card-charge-offs-a...
That's not enough. Even the best people and teams, can make mistakes and they do so all the time.
> make the app drawer search open in Firefox

Curious about you mean here. On my android phone the "search for more apps" link in the app drawer search goes to the Play Store app. Why would you want it to open a browser?
> I mean seriously...why would you shoot your customer?

It depends on your goal. If it is strictly a commercial relationship, “shooting your customer” could be advantageous for preserving a revenue stream. Customer lock-in Could be seen as a form of “shooting your customer"

If your goal is political, "shooting your customer" may enable a regime change that is friendlier to you. We have done this multiple times in the Middle East, Central America, and South America.
I used to work on some really complicated old code for a long term incentive management company where each client had a ton of their own rules, but once those were set up they would be running fine for 3 or 5 year cycles without any issues. The difficult part was to fit their requirements and rules into our code.

At some point I started working on a new version that would just run with a spreadsheet as the frontend where the business analyst could add whatever rules and calculation fields they wanted, which would then link to some input of users, share values, periods etc.

It was going quite well and seemed extremely viable but unfortunately the business died due to some other issues along with Covid before the software saw the light of day.
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I think you have the right idea. China has yet to truly flex its muscle. They prefer to quietly grow stronger. Their response to Covid with the largely successful zero covid strategy gives a clue about the power of its government. Silly, you can’t become the champion without stepping into the ring.
I‘m not in favor of nuclear at all. But I do not like the term ‚are a dead end‘. If everybody would do that we would probably not have blue led‘s and that would’ve hindered the growth of many modern computing devices.
That freedom may disappear in the future. And you won’t be able to delete your trails then.
I bought a 1yo (new in box) OnePlus 11 5G last year and immediately installed LineageOS on it. Great, modern daily driver. My next phone, in many years, will also run LineageOS on day one.
> But we don’t yet use any fancy features and could easily switch to ElasticSearch if need be.

I think the decision paralysis is the big deal here. I have the exact same situation with OpenTofu and Terraform, they're diverging rapidly yet it's not entirely clear which way the wind is blowing. They both now have compelling and interesting features that the other doesn't have.

So the outcome is that I'm now not using any new features.
This is not the case on NT. The OVERLAPPED data structure allows for async file operations.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/synch...
Just change your thumbprint after a leak, no problem.
Yes, but there should be a difference between providing answers about provably dangerous things and providing provably false answers for political reasons. For example if there is a Russian LLM that refuses to answer any questions about homosexuality while also saying it's wrong, that's demonstrably false from an empirical basis.

But the western LLM's are also doing this latter type of thing already. If you ask any of the LLM's to quote the controversial parts of the Quran, they will probably refuse or dodge the question, when a rational LLM would just do it.

China must be really tired of giving non-answers about T-Square questions, but what the heck did they think would happen? Not the Streisand effect, clearly
Is there much difference between an individual living and accumulating wealth over 200 years vs 3 generations of a family living and accumulating wealth over that time? External factors that change fortunes would mostly still stay the same. Biggest difference I can think of would be less change of an incompetent younger generation throwing the wealth away
Loose lips, sink ships. Based on the articles he brags too much.
Which comments are you looking at? By a brief scan, the vast majority of comments, including practically all the top-voted ones, are calling out his "opsec troll" as a deflection strategy, which appears to have been confirmed now. Even if there are some that bought his story, your comment does not seem like an adequate reflection of the general tone of that thread.
If you can just inject commands then arguably you don't have an API. I bet this companies backend looks like:

os.system(args[1])
This reminds me of a short fiction story I read on HN ages ago about two programmers that find some word code in a program that turns out to be some AI hiding itself in all known compilers so when ever any software was created it was present. Can't for the life of me remember the name of the story or author though.
Sure I do think we need to be pragmatic which is why I was questioning your original principle, but you don’t seem willing to abide by your stated principle at all. I’m just not sure why you said it if you have no intention to stand behind it
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Aside from the obvious "lie down with dogs get up with fleas" type comments this is pretty straightforward: telsa depends on cheap foreign imports and worldwide labour. Trump is pursuing protectionist policies which will be unhelpful.

Trump is unlikely to help wind and solar, both of which consume tesla battery systems. Trump cannot align strongly to Musks anti unionism, the teamsters will kill his vote.

SpaceX may be a different story because state actors love LEO and launch capacity and making NASA look silly would amuse the charlatan in chief.

I saw a loony prediction of Musk ejecting from tesla in 2025 which I don't think will happen but if the board knew what was good for them they'd look for other lines of engagement.
This is from the guy that created a new, unnecessary, cryptographic primitive by chaining multiple invocations of scrypt instead of modifying the parameters/rounds of scrypt.
>My position on the whole conflict is along the lines of "everybody sucks".

That's like calling the holocaust a "conflict" and that in that "conflict" everybody sucked. That's the kind of bothsidesism you would have gotten away with before Israel's genocide[1] of Palestinians which led people to studying the history[2] of Palestine and the history of Zionism and realizing that this "conflict" is not some random accident but the outcome of a carefully crafted colonial project by secular european-jews with nationalist ambitions - long before the holocaust. For these secular jews, who also considered colonizing Uganda, Madagascar, Cyprus, Argentina (Baron Hirsch's colonization project), Birobidzhan - USSR (Jewish Autonomous Oblast), Alaska (Slattery Report proposal), British Guiana, judaism was simply a useful tool to legitimize their colonial project: "Most Zionists don't believe that God exists, but they do believe that he promised them Palestine".

[1] https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/prof-amos-go...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20231029055310/ojp.gov/ncjrs/vir...
The answer to (1) is "None of them". In the most recent cenus before the war, the all identified as solidly (>70 percent) Ukrainian.

(2) Coal + industrialization + peasants seeking a better life.

The question referred to the Crimea, not the Donbas.

If you wish, you can answer the question: "Can you explain the circumstances which caused the Crimea have a majority Russian-identified population?"

I'd be genuinely curious as to your response.
I have watched a Defcon tall about a drug dealer and his opsec was already pretty good (fake name and address, yagi for wifi, etc.) but he still got caught because of one of the guys he used to launder Bitcoin was caught.

So I think the point is not to get into the bullseye of the state.
Can someone definitively say for sure that I can just use two independent PSUs? One for GPUs and one for GPUs and motherboard and SATA? No additional hardware?
I never knew Sam Altman threw Bret Taylor out of a window. That makes the OpenAI board drama more understandable.
I'll get back to this in more detail soon, but I did have lambda expressions in my blog post...
Is 25k a lot? I regularly make google sheets with 400k rows, but those are manual csv dumps from a real database that I just import
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I need to brush up on math for my current project:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

and found the book series:

- _Make:Geometry_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58059196-make

- _Make:Trigonometry_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123127774-make

- _Make:Calculus_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61739368-make

a helpful review and extension of my slipshod math education (remember how Feynman once critiqued some math books, esp. calling out one for using made-up associations of colors and star temperatures? guess which one the school system I attended was using...).

Next step is I need to work with conic sections and after that Bézier curves/surfaces --- could you suggest texts on those subjects?