skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the short term, it's a smart strategy for Israel, but they've likely opened Pandora's box in the process.

Is the short term here a few days or maybe just hours? For the reasons you pointed out and more this is likely a strategic failure for a very short term military gain. The economics you pointed out. Politically this will not help them with any but their most extreme allies while enraging their enemies and giving them the moral high-ground with their peoples and the international community. Militarily this likely did little to actual readiness since the people wearing the pagers were probably mid to upper level people so they will heal and go back to desk jobs they were doing before. So an economic, political and military strategic fail. It would have been far better for Israel had this fizzled out or been found out before it triggered. Plausible deniability would have been easier and international outrage would have been minimal all while the C&C of their enemies would have gotten the intended message that they had deep capabilities that could cause disruption. Instead they actually pulled it off and now they get all the bad consequences with very few good ones. This was a bad idea executed, unfortunately, well.
> This sets a dangerous precedent for attacking unsuspecting army personnel, even when they're off-duty.

Warzones don't have a day shift and a night shift...
We are the "meh" generation -- I'm happy we're overlooked.
There was one at BrickCon in Bellevue, WA last week! It’s my favorite part of the show. Always reminds me of queueing theory and distributed systems.
Th article just confirms my suspicion that the worst thing is I could be out $500
Law enforcement bypasses Tor anonymization
As of: 18.09.2024, 06:01 AM
The Tor network is considered the most important tool for moving anonymously on the internet. Authorities have started to infiltrate it to unmask criminals. In at least one case, they were successful.
I wonder if this affects iOS, too
Up until recently we all naively believed 'a rising tide lifts all ships' meant we'd all choose to get along and everyone would benefit.
No, that's not what the reporting says. Hezbollah operates its own military networks for these things, procures these pagers specifically for military purchases, and issues them to Hezbollah fighters.

"Off the battlefield" doesn't mean anything here: if they're members of the armed wing of Hezbollah, they are black-letter IHL combatants whether or not they're actively engaged in combat, the same way everybody aboard a naval vessel is a combatant if you sink it, including the cook.

Put it this way: if it turns out that these pagers were widely used by non-military personnel, like school teachers, I'll absolutely say I was wrong, and that this attack was probably hard to justify. If reporting firms up that these pagers exclusively carried by military personnel, does that change things for you?
The US would call this terrorism if it occurred in the exact same fashion to itself or allies. The hypocrisy is blindingly clear. It's hypocrisy because they don't complain. Your logic is completely backward.
A Learning Map (2018)
The image is from this video: https://x.com/babaktaghvaee1/status/1836074863032701208?s=12
They don't tell you you can put anything with an @ and a . in that field.
So cool, it reminded me a book I once found and never seen again on building analog computers at home with a few bits of magnetic-core memory. That magazine even shows Osram tubes, I didn't know that brand had such long history. One of my desktop toys is a $5 Osram Tungsten bulb that I bought to "watch" the highest melting-point element emitting light.
The problem with PyPy is that it doesn't support the C-API, which is required for all those other high performance libraries.

So you gain the perf of a JIT, while losing out on most everything else high-performance in the Python ecosystem.
Not accurate: https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-...

Examples of Extraterritorial killings and abuses listed (edited for more relevant source)
I recently replaced mine and ruled out a bunch of others based on just two rules:

- the zero must have a mark
- the base of the lower case L must go to the right and not the left, for better distinction from the number one
The Google IME is waaaay better. With both I have some bug though where the browser will just freeze for a few seconds while switching the IME - happens in both Chrome and Firefox. Also happens on macOS with the native IME so there seems to be some bug there...
got it. The confusion then is spawning(no pun) from the assumption that pid 1 script forks while it doesn't. It calls a program and wait for it to exit. Only then pid 1 exits and the system shuts down.
> in fact, it forms less than 2% of all the bacteria that cause caries

The word “cause” seemed to be doing a lot of lifting
Fastify v5 is Now Officially Released
The "clear uprights" feature is something I've been shouting about for a long time. It's inexcusable that commonly-used fonts like Verdana (right here on HN) can't distinguish between l and I.
I was in the pilot for this last year. It was a nice and easy experience. No post office trip and done within 3 weeks without having to pay any rush fees.
Apparently they were branded Gold Apollo but not made by Gold Apollo:

Gold Apollo said on Wednesday the pagers that were used in the detonations in Lebanon on Tuesday were not made by it but by a company called BAC which has a licence to use its brand.

…

The company said in a statement that the AR-924 model was produced and sold by BAC.

"We only provide brand trademark authorization and have no involvement in the design or manufacturing of this product," the statement said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gold-apollo-says-i...
I bike to work every day (40 min one way) and drop off my kid at school on the way to work. Ironically my commute is about the best part of my day (and I learned during the pandemic that it's hard for me to establish that kind of habit without a forcing function).

I totally get that folks don't want to back to the office, but my advice is that, if you have to, try to turn it into something enjoyable (noting that I specifically moved to an area that's bike friendly).
If I paid for QKEDs I want QLEDs, not some regular LEDs with beefed up brightness using higher voltage that would fail prematurely.
Too true. In fact, none of the author's other writings in quant-ph on Arxiv have been cited by any scientific work of anyone other than the author. Still, I don't think it's an objective reason to be dismissive.
Loved it. I'd love to use something like "right-click, fix grammar" under iOS—not just rewrite. I want to keep my own voice, just with minimal conformant grammar as a second-language speaker.
> You have to understand that developers are a cost center and not sales people

What definition of cost center are you using? If a developer makes a widget that generates my company more money, they’re not a cost center.

> Starting about a year or two after I started doing full time JavaScript programming in the corporate space employers started looking at solutions to turn developers into commodities because they were spending too much on hiring with disappointing results

This has been the case in tech since…forever? What can be automated is, with the end result being more tech work for a broader market. If the market is finally at capacity (or AI is capable of doing everything a human dev does, but then most white collar jobs are gone) then dev jobs are gone. Otherwise, it’s just new tools that enable more work to get done.
It was in public, and there are videos of the public explosions. There are videos of hospitals with many doctors laying around bloodied.
I've been on Apple silicon since they've been out, I'd love a similar intro but based on this architecture.
Or, just use oil pulling with coconut oil. simple, natural and easiest way to reverse and prevent cavities. keeping the oil in the mouth for 20 minutes (before spitting out into the sink) is also a great way to maintain silence, and develop awareness of oral process, as you can't swallow.

More generally, am highly skeptical of this whole genetic modification drive for replacement of undesirable creatures like mosquitos and screw worms and now bacteria. Sure, sounds like a great idea and may work for the advertised benefits, but look who's funding it and how keen they are on developing vectors to human blood and what other tampering may occur that would be undetectable to anyone without millions of dollars of sequencing equipment. It fits in with the biosynthetic technology drive towards transhumanism alongside nanotechnology, worth researching before jumping on the "Homo Deus" bandwagon that paints us as 'hackable animals' whose soul is due to be extinct (quoting the top transhuman posterchild N. Harari). Worth deeply investigating the other side of the story, most clearly outlined by Prof. Anita Baxas, but also see Dr. Edward Group, Dr Ana Mihalchea, Karen Kingston and Dr. David Nixon.
this is wonderful news. at the same time i hope this doesn't weaken the security posture of Taiwan
> TSMC is ahead because it adopted ASML's EUV

Depends what you mean by "adopted".
Pretty sure Intel had EUV prototypes before TSMC (or at least very close), but it was slower to transition its high volume production to it due to execution issues.

> The real tech breakthroughs came from ASML

I know this how the media portrays it now a days but there's so much more to semiconductor manufacturing than lithography, especially since the serious slowdown of lithography scaling with around 193 and 193i litho.

Great example is GlobalFoundry which sent its EUV machine back because it realized it could not compete on the R&D needed to keep up with the other foundries.
There doesn't seem to be anything new feature-wise according to the post. Just cleaning up a lot of old APIs from prior versions.
did the employees come out ok equity-wise from the spac merger?
If branching is real, then the perception we have is of "not branching".
The People Who Rage Against the Machine
If you allow distros it's going to lead to diversity. Even Solaris has multiple incompatible distos since they hired Ian Murdock.
Thierry Breton: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240916-france-s-bret...

Von der Leyen hates Breton so she pressured the French government to replace him.
It’s sad to imagine, though how the cutting edge of TV technology was always of the reach of homebrewers - especially after the consensus dismissed mechanical scanning in favor of electron gun-based scanning (developed almost simultaneously).
They wouldn't show it. Zero reason to show it. PR backlash. Employee backlash. Distraction from main business. Mainstream media is very pro-WFH.

No company wants to show confidential metrics on employee productivity to the world. Yet, many companies have recalled employees. Maybe you think every single of these companies are incompetent and stupid? Or the HN go-to conspiracy theory that executives own real estate and want it to recover?
There is something that happens though when you’re in the same space day after day. You feel a deeper level of connection and bonding. Like being at school and seeing your classmates everyday. It defies logic.
> This is targeting "full stack" developers, the overwhelming majority of which cannot write original software

Does this mean they just copy paste solutions? Otherwise I’m not sure how they’re writing anything but (albeit it might be very similar to code written at some other point in time, but do that often enough and you turn into an AWS service).
> The government should be able to disolve the company and give the money to the victims

I feel you, but my understanding is without clear monetary impact, its hard to collect any amount of money from these companies. Even if you experience identity theft, whose to say this vs one of the other data leaks was the issue.
I use it full time, I’d say if you’re targeting iOS17+ you’re probably good. On macOS it’s completely busted still and I wouldn’t bother with it. The future of mac apps looks even bleaker than it did before.
But I don't percieve any branching. Do you?
> Let's not forget that this comes on the same day that Israel has extended its war aims to including expelling Hezbollah basically from the border.

Also in the anniversary of WWII hero Folke Bernadotte assassination by Zionists. See https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-...
Grammarly grammar checking predates modern LLMs by many years, so I assume they’re actually using some kind of rule-based engine internally.
Exactly what does “manufacturing in America” mean? It could be as little as final assembly with most of the work still being done in Taiwan. Like Cook said Mac Pros were “being made in America”.
> What if the dude if hugging is kid/wife/mom ?

Then they also die/get injured. Being in close contact with a terrorist is a dangerous pass-time, and armies targeting foreign threats need to accept some level of collateral damage. In this case, we have thousands of injured terrorists, with hundreds dead, and an additional fraction of those numbers being non-military targets (civilians). It's certainly unfortunate and unpleasant, but this is an excellent ratio.
You assume the muslim-aligned countries wouldn't be compromised. There's the potential for supply chain attacks from a domestic manufacturing partner.
> US learned from its mistake, and doesn't allow chip manufacturing to go offshore to that degree again

I don't think USA made any mistake. It was always heavily invested in South Korea and Taiwan. Neither of them would even exist today without USA's investment, interest, and stewardship.

Intel is the one that made the mistake.
I am not sure if Taiwan has any real leverage. If Taiwan is destroyed or otherwise compromised by China, the US would probably seize the American branch of TSMC, force the sale of the American branch to a western company, or force TSMC America become an independent company.
Isn't the ask here contradictory? They're asking for affirmative action but in their direction.
If you’re targeting newer OSs you can try the @Observable macro instead of ObservableObject. It fixes a lot of the weird problems with the latter (although does introduce some new, weird edge cases).
If you’re a Verdana fan, you might appreciate this write up I did on it some years back: https://neosmart.net/blog/tahoma-vs-verdana/

It backs what you say!
LightTracker: LoRa and LoRaWAN Tracker for high altitude balloons and drones
Less adtech and crypto? Fewer gamified dating apps?

I can think of a lot of negative/zero sum things that have next to no return or longer term advantage than monopoly seeking or greater foolism. They already got plenty of investment when interest rates were near zero.

If there hadn't already been a significant semiconductor industry, or if there was some similar employment for those employees/grads to go maybe it would be different. If there wasn't large local demand for the product (and I'm including the packaging which is another issue) it would be different. Given what the US has it makes long term sense to put some 4nm and even 2nm Fabs in the US. Creating geopolitical risk by outsourcing ALL supply is sort of silly, quarterly profits be damned. (even $50B is <0.2% of annual GDP).
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I think it is more telling you made that assumption.
> > 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.

I sort of get this PoV, but on the other hand…

If China had any information about you that was valuable for any purpose whatsoever (trade an intelligence tip to a corrupt businessman in a mafia state?) its government could do so with no legal or political safeguards.

The US government has legal safeguards against this, and would face _massive_ potential political risk for doing so against one of its own citizens.
> by granting to Putin permanent sovereignty over whatever territories he happened to be sitting on at the time

I think the one thing I can agree with is that it’s debatable whether it’s ultimately worth it. Is Putin’s Russia so much worse that it’s worth 80k deaths to prevent it becoming reality in those regions currently occupied?
in the dropdown there is the toggle line

but every n-th line sounds cool, too
Arrests across Australia police target "Ghost" app allegedly used by criminals
“Gold Apollo said on Wednesday the pagers that were used in the detonations in Lebanon on Tuesday were not made by it but by a company called BAC which has a licence to use its brand.”

They spun up a whole company
Isn't it that ASML has to for continued access to the USA IP that they acquired?
Practically, compatibility matters too, and it's hard to beat gzip there.
There's not actually that much uncertainty about what a TSMC chip fab does.
Arguably, it's off-topic, though I agree with the point. Lebanon has been struck by poverty, and as a result, they might have far fewer choices when it comes to providers in general. Manufacturing within Lebanon or trading with neighboring countries might not be affordable for them.

It’s important to take a step back before generalizing an economic or political statement that may not be applicable in other contexts. There are little chances that the supply chain in Lebanon is in the same state as Europe countries' ones, for instance. Thus, this is not another example.
> wouldn’t compare any stock to DJT. MAGA voters value signaling, institutional investors playing games, foreign governments laundering money to the campaign, primary shareholder prepping for exit

You’re right for the wrong reasons. (EDIT: I'm wrong for no reason.)

Dow Jones is obsolete [1]. Its value is in its brand, i.e. other people look at it.

The other factors you mention are noise. Relevant to a trader or market maker with infintessimal time horizons. But irrelevant to an investor thinking even in months. The American markets are simply too deep. The totality of dollars at work by MAGA voters, game-playing hedge funds and money launderers--through the stock market--is negligible. (Lots of political tea-leave reading funds have been attempted. Zero prevail.)

[1] https://retirementresearcher.com/why-the-dow-doesnt-work/
S6 and really all skarnet code is kind of "djb c" which makes reasoning about it a bit convoluted.
Yeah this reminds me of those super sketchy "Browse Anonymously" websites which would act as a proxy between you and the internet.
I don't know the first thing wrt how 23andMe has its governance and voting setup, but the letter seems to imply the CEO has majority power or, at least, a large enough plurality that it is a one-person-show:

> Because of that difference and because of your concentrated voting power, we believe that it is in the best interests of the Company’s shareholders that we resign

EDIT: But that brings up a different question: If you have majority voting power, why try to take the company private (as it has been suggested by others here)?
Thanks for sharing, this is great work! I will say that their analysis is severely handicapped by seemingly being non experts in AI, leading to them missing the big picture issue here that the “Small is Beautiful” cybernetic framework can bring to LLMs: purpose-built democratic FOSS models like Llama vs. massive corporate ones like GPT. It also leads to them making some silly mistakes, like this paragraph;

we only propose to offer a speculative encounter with ChatGPT and DALL-E systems. Although they remain early versions or betas, they have been chosen as they are structured to be infrastructural technologies for cultural production.

A) they’re definitely not in beta, and B) DALLE3 had been out for 6 months by the time this was released.

That’s pretty understandable tho, and the framework remains useful. I’m looking forward to citing this!
>Journalism is at least as much about providing entertainment as about 'problems'.

I disagree and would call this public relations, not journalism which I do agree there should be a space for in media but it's not 'journalism' and I'm kind of tired of public relations being treated as news.
No, that looks pretty bad to me.
I think the one thing that I think completely turns me off this logic is that it’s only proponents seem to be the ones that feel like it’s fine for Russia to keep what it’s unlawfully taken.

Sure, there’s a bunch of drone footage of Ukraine dropping shit on barely moving Russian soldiers, but I’m not sure if that’s an indictment of Russia or Ukraine.
This should turn into Extinctthob from Oryx and Crake
Israeli war in Gaza is the bloodiest happening right now.

These bombs went off right in front of civilian population with no regards to children or women.

Close to 3000 wounded. Wounded include children losing limbs.
I’m sort of in two minds. On paper, I think for greenfield projects data-race safety checking looks great. If I switch to thinking about my day job, I know we will likely never adopt Swift 6 for some of our components because they’d need to basically be rewritten, at which point we’d probably consider something more cross platform like Rust or Kotlin. So despite liking the feature on paper, I feel like the overhead it introduces in practice is kind of pushing me away from the language.

It’s hard to say at this point though, adoption might get a lot easier with subsequent point releases.
(A month ago)
Stardust: Iridium pivots to 5G IoT direct-to-device satellite services
I think that stupidity is the perfect word. It is how people actually feel, and the word that they are overwhelmingly likely to use. Therefore using language that connects with the experience means that you're saying something which is accessible in the difficult moments that need to be dealt with.

Curiosity is a tool for dealing with it. But it's but one tool. And we need a whole toolkit.
It's called aphasia, my brain just sometimes mixes up words as I'm typing and I don't catch it when I re-read my comments. My brain just fills in the gaps.
It takes blank wafers in and produces finished wafers just like all other fabs. I would expect test and packaging are performed elsewhere.
Japan's Building Footprints
> data-breaches could carry the death penalty for companies

One, corporate death penalties are nonsense. They’re a distraction from fines.

Two, what would America pay for its adversaries to enact such a policy. Automatic self destruct for the entire data sector.
Disagree. In most cases, the difference between excellence and mediocrity is clear in the context of the same kind of work. You can immediately tell a great guitarist from a mediocre one, and a great salesman from a mediocre one.
> It's absolutely a bathtub.

I endeavour to convince you that you are teaching your students a falsehood. Natural resource industries have bathtub-shaped average costs. Average costs fall strictly monotonically for manufacturing, and marginal costs either fall or remain constant. Constant marginal costs are what you get if you don't even bother to solve coordination problems, and just copy-and-paste your whole assembly line instead (except even then you can't help but gain economies of scale, if only from your tooling suppliers). The misconception that it's a bathtub does not come from the study of manufactured goods, it comes from thought experiments about manufactured goods done by people who never managed quote requests at a real factory. Empirical studies done on actual firms almost never show rising marginal costs at any quantity.

That this error has permeated introductory economics is a very, very big problem.
It has recently become harder to order novamin versions of sensadyne in the US through Amazon, so I'm hoping something gets onto the shelves soon.