skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume the query from Apple to the phone is not "are these (potentially spoofed) coordinates X trusted", but rather "is your current location trusted". The later doesn't seem like it would leak any useful information to law enforcement, as well as being harder for an attacker to forge during the password-change process. The easier software update for Apple, technically speaking, then would probably just be to have a particular phone by a particular user continuously report its particular location. It seems doubtful Apple would currently add such a backdoor though.

However, the radio towers need to triangulate your location to be able to communicate with you, which is not questionable, since that is their purpose. But then storing that information for any non-trivial length of time seems fairly questionable to me too.
I'm curious what's the biggest table you've tested on? Things start to get really interesting in Salesforce when your object has a million rows.
Notably, we don't need to bring 100 tonnes to the surface of the moon. Or golf clubs. Stable hypergolic fuel would be useful, but there are no plans for that.
Twitter XSS Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
it can't and it shouldn't IF IOMMUs were properly used
Starlink satellites are a couple orders of magnitude closer to Earth than legacy satellite internet. If you are in a remote area Starlink could actually be faster than ground connections because it’s one hop to the base station which is likely to be near your desired servers.
I watched the SmarterEveryDay lecture last night, so I was primed for this story. He mentioned fuel transfer being a huge unknown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU

The other thing he mentioned was the Apollo success playbook (SP-287), "What Made Apollo a Success?"

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720005243/downloads/19...

Link to EPUB version https://old.reddit.com/r/SmarterEveryDay/comments/18aw4ca/i_...
> Ideology may have been used as an excuse but it played no role in the actual decision making.

The primary driver for Russia's invasion of Ukraine is Putin's fantasy of a restored Russian empire:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/05/russia-ukraine-empire-i...

He wanted to be the one what got Ukraine. He wanted it to be his legacy. Putin's legacy instead will be the man who made Russia poorer, weaker, more isolated, and more dependent on China.

> it makes perfect sense that in 2014 Russia would try to seize Crimea and support separatists in the east - it prevents Ukraine from joining NATO, it secures Sevastopol, it drives a wedge between Europe and the US

Putin's actions have had the direct consequence of strengthening and expanding NATO. It has also guaranteed that Ukraine will join the EU and eventually NATO.

The only "wedge" that exists between the US and Europe is someone like Donald Trump. If Trump is reelected he will do everything he can think of to leave NATO:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-2...

And so Putin will do everything he can think of to get Trump reelected.
That's probably 50% or more of the yearly cost of those workers.
Looks like Canonical also messed up the licensing in their package: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/incorrect-license-information-f...
> If Palestinians leave Gaza to Egypt, then Egypt will be complicit with Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

But at least it guarantees that there are Palestinians who can seek redress, e.g. at the ICJ. But I suppose when there's the "Palestinian cause", Palestinian lives cease to matter.

(let's ignore West Bank for a moment since Al-Sisi and you both did)
aw, you beat me to typing this out. I've only read them once so I suspect a massive wave of nostalgia.
Full moon energy concentrated on a small dot that has 100,000x smaller angular area might be able to damage your eye? I don't know, I didn't do the math
Why do you think people are entitled to have genome data on you? The morality is flipped. Privacy is recognized as a core, natural right. Others have to prove their onus for wanting your biological data. Trusting others is a moral and character weakness, because you have no guarantees as to how that data will be used. Or more specifically, what new ways to analyze and take advantage of that data will become.

I think actuaries will care an awful lot about this data and could use it to negatively influence your risk factor, and thus insurance premiums.
My biggest issue is that there’s not really competition for internet providers in many locations. I’ve only had Comcast not because they are good, but because they are the only provider that has the speeds I want. For example, in one area Comcast’s speed was 100/25, but AT&T had 25/10 for the same price. It felt like they were just there to say there were options, when really they colluded to split the city up.
Friends (1994) is still going strong
Fantasy land: it'd be cool if something like this got upstreamed into stdlib/libc repos as like "fast_memcpy" (I'm guessing it's too not-backwards-compatible enough to make it the default) so large powerful big players don't all have their own "slighty-non-standard" way of doing this?
I think an even bigger driver of terrorism than conflict is the fact that most people in Palestine have lived their entire lives in a state wholly governed by terrorists. From birth, children constantly hear how murdering Jewish civilians is one of life's holy accomplishments, how Jews are all racist liars, how Israel shouldn't exist, how Hamas is their rightful glorious leaders, etc. You shouldn't underestimate the impact of decades of racist, nationalist propaganda on young minds. In reality, war and terrorism are awful, and I wonder if the reality of it doesn't disillusion people of its glory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/world/middleeast/to-shape...
There's like 7 startups already from the 'co-authors of the transformer paper'.
Starting today sounds like being awfully late.
that recipe for "Herring with pickled beets and sour cream-horseradish sauce" came outta no-where
thanks for sharing - we'll check it out
Major? Probably not many; once you're a major developer, you'll go wherever there's money to be made. That doesn't mean it isn't possible to skip iOS—but unless you have some philosophical objection to it, there's no reason why you would.

But anyway, you said "As a developer..." not "As a major developer...".
Is Israel being held to a highest standards though? I think the US wars are a great point of comparison. US got totally dragged through the gutter for, frankly, all of its Middle Eastern interventions: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria. Libya is maybe the odd one out - maybe.

To be clear, I'm staying clear of any assessment of moral ground of either side. I'm making a limited argument about expected standards.
These guys are in a pickle.

Wild revenue swings, declining profit, high leverage of 70% (although that's in line with competitors Funko and Jakks who are at 62% and 73%). And through it all, they're paying a 5.7% dividend yield. They simply don't have the business to support that. [https://valustox.com/HAS, https://valustox.com/FNKO, https://valustox.com/JAKK]

Even Mattel is barely breaking even on a wild upward swing in revenue [https://valustox.com/MAT]
I've been reading this site for 5+ years at this point and I hope that this experiment/exercise does not continue. This is an issue where those demanding commentary are generally not doing so in good faith, and acknowledging the reality of the situation is something that is best not done in polite company. There are plenty of places where you can discuss this content as much as you'd like, and nobody's life will be improved by this becoming yet another one of them.
I just went through this and I tried applying to all the open roles I could find that fit but what actually worked was taking the opposite approach.

Find companies you think are doing something useful and reach out on LinkedIn directly to relevant team leads with a quick intro to you and why you are interested/potentially useful for them. Even if they don't have headcount they might know another team that could use you or a role that isn't advertised yet etc. Obviously be respectful and don't spam but I think most people aren't offended by doing this.
Same here for 6809 and OS-9. I remember talking to friends writing 6502 assembly and comparing notes and it made me pretty happy I was working on the 6809 due to various operations and addressing modes.
~$37M for the execs listed, vs 1100 workers laid off - probably mostly making under $100k.

This is one of the rare cases in the layoff discussions where the exec salaries do seem quite excessive.

Hasbro had been averaging profits of around ~$250M for the last several years.

Paying ~5 people >10% of your profits is INSANE. Continuing to reward them handsomely as your profits drop from ~$250M to -$500M is REALLY INSANE.

Fire them. The new hires should be making 1/5th that or less.

And, yes, you can get someone competent to run Hasbro for $1M.

It's not a fusion reactor...
> It's Not Just Ukraine and Gaza: War Is on the Rise Everywhere

To quote a line from a nice movie: "The decline of the American empire, continues".

The American empire expanded too much in the last 30 years and, just like the Roman empire, it ignores its citizens. The greed and the lust for glory already started to take their toll.
The funiest part is, that it is the US which is pushing hard for those wars, like they learned nothing from Vietnam, Irak or Afganistan.
There's valid reasoning why a company wouldn't let another company make a movie or TV series. It cheapens the IP if the movie/series goes bad.

It's hard to describe the effect. Essentially this is what happened with LOTR.

Also take for instance the recent D&D movie which was just ok/slightly good. The movie cheapens the D&D IP, while something like Baldurs Gate builds on it.

Maybe from a business perspective it's the most profitable move but for the original subject the IP was centered around, whether it was books, games loses the charm if the movie sucks and Hollywood churns out shit movies for a quick buck really fast.

It's not always bad though. While Marvel did well, DC did not.

It's weirdly irrational but that's just how people behave.
I agree that it's weird to see the discussion open with this timing (late) and this topic (a weird side-note compared to the terrorist attack and bombin) and this source (state source from Qatar, which is Hamas-friendly.)
This is disgusting. You want people knowing the maladies they got treated, and how?

There's the old saying of knowledge being power. If you want this information about people being spread, then you're advocating having power over these people over that information.

It takes very little imagination to see how humans would misuse this data.
Congrats on launching! This initiative looks awesome, and I'd definitely love to take you up on that and chat about it for a bit to understand the vision and what kind of engineering culture you're hoping to build. Sent a friend request on Discord!
i'd like to see toy companies go out of business. esp ones that create unsustainable plastic crap made in china. support local artisans.
But does it have a consciousness?
If they are so low quality, then let them in and let them fail in the marketplace. I don't think they are so bad. Fleet buses are basically a completely different business btw, that has really nothing to do with private car quality, and besides that, I have a hard time believing BYD buses can be so bad. Probably the SoCal place got an early generation but with the volume they are doing world wide, it's just nonsensical to think it's all garbage.
Agreed. It's stunning how quickly I went from paying $100+ to Comcast for 250Mbps down / 20 up (or whatever), to $80 to AT&T for symmetric gigabit, to $50 to Sonic for symmetric 10gig. And presumably they're still making money!

Comcast has insane economies of scale, the rip they must make every single month on customers who are stuck with them is just sick.
Neat. I once wrote a Salesforce to Oracle sync app. I think the goal was to bulk pull data out of Salesforce for processing in Oracle to avoid Salesforce API costs. This was years ago. It was a fun and aggravating project.
It is incredibly hard and a giant overhead on each of these SaaS startups to do marketing and enterprise sales which shows up in pricing (30-70%!) These solutions still need to be vendored in and integrated at each client.

Rolling up all the YC single-feature SaaS business into a single sales org and providing an a la carte set of solutions to partners would make a ton of sense.

I guess that is the theory behind SaaS.group and its ilk.
Nice project, any plans to make it work with local LLMs rather than "open"AI?
Might I suggest the Withings watch. I love mine. I also wanted something rather simple without all the bells and whistles of an Apple Watch. It’s a hybrid smart/dumb watch. It looks like a classic watch but tracks HR, sleep, fitness, etc and you can receive notifications on it if you want as well (you can’t respond however). If you don’t have your phone on you, you can sync the data later on, battery lasts a month or more and it’s waterproof.

I got the sapphire glass model so I don’t have to worry about the watch face getting scratched up.

Edit: Got my watch a few years ago so I have an older model . Don’t think they carry my model anymore (Sapphire Steel HR) but their newest models look pretty comparable and probably checks all the same boxes.

Edit 2: my bad, didn’t see you’re requirement about not wanting to know the time of day. The Withings watch looks like a classic analog watch, so might not actually be what you’re looking for after all. Maybe try the Oura ring.
Their ancestors lost their homes when they needlessly started, and then lost, a war against people who owned land outright and others who moved onto the land only after the UN divided it and gave a vast proportion of it to Jordan, and part to Israel… ancestors who also abandoned their land after the war defeat on the advice of their warlike leaders. The ones who stayed behind became Israeli (Arab muslims, Christians, etc.) and kept their land as long as they held valid documented title to it, and many of those who made that move (or whose parents did) say they would prefer to live under Israeli rule versus PA rule. The Youtuber TravelinIsrael has some good videos on history about this.

Obviously there are also modern alleged losses of land and homes but each case has its own details. In some, Israelis (often settlers) are clearly in the wrong, but in others, it is less clear and more disputed than common rhetoric about “oppression” and “occupation” would imply.
If you're from Indiana, Carmel equals money. If you're a rich person in a rich city, of course it's great..
And yet no where near as many people are crying and protesting against Turkey. Maybe people are just critical, but they refuse to take the same actions. How many people support BDS against Israel? How many support it against Turkey?
The permanently imperfect reality of hybrid work
Guess you’re not in an HOA? There would certainly be complaints in my neighborhood if extension cords were running everywhere. Maybe there will be EV charging built infrastructure on day but not for now or the near term.
Based on their landing page, it seems they still haven’t figured out exactly what they are building yet
As much as I enjoyed The Road Chose Me, let's not kid ourselves: Hunter-Gatherers, the true ones, don't have the luxury to pull into a town with internet to do some contractor work, see a doctor or buy some food if the last hunt didn't go too well.

Edit: Nor do they have sponsors and the financial means to build multiple overland jeeps and go travelling around the world for fun.
Qatar is an authoritarian monarchy. Journalists based there can't just publish what they want.

The US is connected to the Middle East, but journalists there do have freedom.
The Hamas charter literally says that Israel will exist:

>It advocated for a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders, describing this as a "formula of national consensus".

1967 borders means two state.
OP’s company is based in the UK, so I was curious if the UK had stronger mechanisms for renouncing copyright. According to this source[1], they do not: “Under United Kingdom law, the availability of [copyright] abandonment is far from clear, and statements purporting to abandon copyright may be interpreted as mere revocable licenses.”

(I don’t mean to suggest that OP’s company is doing anything wrong. I assume they’re up to speed on the legal environment and are doing the right things to ensure their works are perpetually available. I just thought this was interesting).

[1] https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
10-100k RPS is throughput, not latency. There is a well-known latency-throughput tradeoff. For example, Erlang’s BEAM VM is optimized for low latency, while JVM is optimized for high throughput.
24M in Europe says wiki
It was decades ago, but now it's where Googlers live, and the apartment prices have gone up to match. I lived in an garden apartment complex built in the 1960s but recently renovated, with rents therefore somewhat elevated. The apartments nearby were of the same vintage but not remodeled, so were a little cheaper but much more run down and overcrowded by people trying not to be forced to move far away. This was the period where Mountain View implemented rent stabilization.
As a fellow Australian here in South Australia, I can say with certainty that I've never had it that bad!

I can measure the difference between US, Singapore and Sydney based DCs, but it's milliseconds.

10 seconds is abnormal and would indicate to me that something isn't functioning as expected!
That looks ridiculous. You could've paid someone 1/10th that to lay off people, and then had to lay off a lot fewer people.
> Hasbro needed to, and failed to (imo), transition into selling higher-end luxury toys for adults with nostalgia - and focus less on kids.

Isn't Pulse/HasLab that? For example they have a $300 Ghost Trap and P.K.E. Meter.

[1] https://hasbropulse.com/collections/haslab/products/ghostbus...
> Israel was inches away from just having to give the Palestinians their own state.

I follow that situation pretty closely and my understanding is that it was the opposite: The Palestinians' supporters were about to make deals with Israel - deals they refused to make while Palestinian territory was occupied - and leave the Palestinians mostly in the cold. Interview with Hamas leaders after the attack, iirc, said the same - they were going to be forgotten and needed to put the Palestinians back at the center of the issue. For years before the attack, Israel had openly disparaged and abandoned the two-state solution, and expended settlements in the West Bank (which is supposed to be Palestinian territory under the two-state solution).

Do you have anything that says a two-state solution was imminent?

> don't act like it's about Israel not being a nice neighbour

Could it be both? Hamas did something horrible. Murdering civilians isn't justified (why do I need to type that?) but history didn't start that day.
Maybe? We are trusting Hamas' numbers on the number of people in Palestine who died. Not exactly the most objective source...
That price decline is absolutely wild. Competition working it's magic.
This is unfortunate. The writing was on the wall already with vSphere+, but I can't really commit to a subscription for VM infrastructure. Broadcom would be able to hold the whole company hostage with price increases.

I’m not sure yet where we'll end up, but the small cluster of 8 machines of ours will not run vSphere in 2025.
Yeah. That type of people have existed since forever. Today they just have more power than ever or just don’t try to hide it anymore.
It's really interesting how the IDF claims to be doing targeted strikes and operations while at the same time there is the general "we can't tell who is civilian vs. militants".

It all codes to attitude of "there is no such thing as a non-combatant Palestinian" which leads to collective punishment which is a war crime according to the Geneva convention.

I can't imagine Israelis haven't thought this through - so it seems premeditated.
> Being addictive doesn't mean that that literally everyone who uses it will become addicted

Not everyone, sure, but a majority. People can get addicted to anything; yet we don't just call any activity addictive -- only those where most people have a hard time controlling their behavior.

I don't think watching youtube qualifies (not just being on your phone, or watching tv).
That's your defense? You asked for actual risks and when shown real, plausible ones recede into XKCD quotes. Clearly just a spoiler.
No. The pyramids of Egypt are relative new (5000 years). And the climate has helped preserve them.

The Mayan pyramids were not so lucky, (or the cambodgian temples)
It has to do that because upstream software won't have Alpine-specific build pipelines. (Though I expect a lot more do nowadays.) Meanwhile everyone tests on Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu so if it isn't in the distribution repository, or the version isn't up-to-date, it's as simple as having your Dockerfile fetch and build from upstream.
Huh...I go to Vegas for DEFCON each year and have always found traffic to be a breeze and the security line never takes me more than 15 minutes.

As for the food...meh? I don't go to an airport for their Michelin-starred restaurants.
A close friend of mine lived in Israel for a long time, and I got the sense that your feelings are echoed by many.

It's too easy for people in America and Europe to sit at their desks and repost propaganda on social media in favor of "their side".
As a Jew, I have quite a few qualms with the comparison to Warsaw. I'm not denying the suffering in Gaza in any way, but it's far fetched to put this on the same grounds as Warsaw, in which an estimated 300-400k Jews were murdered, and which was just one of an industrial system of mass murder.

I agree that the settlements are an obstacle to peace, no argument there. But there are solid reasons why the border between Israel and Gaza has been closed (putting aside the fact that we're not obligated to open our borders, especially when the other side isn't exactly friendly). Note that they also have a border with Egypt, how come that's pretty much closed as well? (I'll give you a hint - Gaza is ruled by what is basically a fanatic death cult, and Eygpt wants nothing to do with it).

Your proposed solution is "end occupation and oppression". I'll ignore the one-sided phrasing and just say we've tried that with the Oslo accords, the disengagement from Gaza, and numerous negotiations, all leading to this point in time. So again, what would you do?
>I type stupid questions into Google all the time and get good answers.

I type questions into Google and frequently get misleading or outright incorrect answers directly in their BS summaries.
I'm sure you're aware of the indefinite blockade? And what Hamas did before that? etc. Let's not have another debate that brings out the facts piecemeal; it's polarizing, for one thing, and it's also misleading to bring them out in isolation. Many following the issue know them by now.
I think most of the post fell wide of the mark and as much as I hate to be cynical, I feel like the completely tangential Erlang piece is just there to game HN because HN lately can't get enough of Erlang and Elixir.

I don't think there was much to take away from this article except that the author should perhaps spend less time paying attention to the opinion of randos on Twitter.
Ubuntu Linux Evaluating x86-64-v3 Based Build – AVX and Newer Intel/AMD CPUs
I don't speak Italian so can't do that but regardless of you have to find a former ambassador to Italy then you're scratching around, he was looking out of his post before any strategy of this war was fought and Israel was using the containment strategy re Gaza/Hamas prior to Oct 7