skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So this can happen regardless of whether you're using Israeli supply chains or not.

The point is, would allies trust if it were China that pulled this off? Huawei/TikTok were thrown under the bus for way less.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link to a gory video, but there is commonly circulating video of a pager detonating in a grocery store. There are a few people around the man but only the man appears to be impacted, all bystanders seem OK.

Media is reporting that most casualties are caused by the pager detonating while driving. Obviously because it would impact other drivers that happen to be around the now incapacitated driver.
That's not reason, that's post-facto rationalization.

The two are often conflated, to the detriment of us all.
Considering the tech industry of Israel and the bottomless military/security budget, this is very plausible.

Also considering that a plan like that must have taken many months/years start-to-end, this just makes me wonder what else is booby-trapped(?), fridges? laptops? microwave ovens? the next door flat? flower pots?

Stuff like that take the paranoia levels all the way to 11.
Yeah, I had a similar sentiment as I read the last sentence: "You're not the best at everything, and you don't have to be."

It really does get harder to internalize this when it starts to involve real, tangible outcomes like money and job security. No one would reasonably argue that what she said wasn't true on some spiritual or personal level, but it feels like a nothing-burger when people are clearly in a competitive environment, a competitive program, a competitive job, etc.
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No, this is simply not true. If you change "example-1.2.3.js" to "example-1.2.4.js" in the response to `/{resource}/{id}`, it does not change the underlying resource. The included script is simply a part of the representation of the resource, but it's not the resource itself. The representation of the resource can change without the resource itself changing.

https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#rfc.section.3.2

You can change "index.html" as much as you want to, as long as the resource it represents stays the same.

"index.html" is not a resource, it's a representation of a resource. If you still disagree, please explain how "index.html" and "index.json" can be representations of the same resource.
Most pagers do, yes. They are also usually unencrypted. And due to the one way nature, even if they are encrypted, PFS (perfect forward security) is impossible. Meaning that if someone captures the encrypted messages they can decrypt them all the way back when the encryption key is obtained.

But the impossibility of any kind of location tracking is definitely a plus of one-way pagers. Not just for terrorists. I'd get one if there were still a network where I live. It'd be really nice to be reachable and not be tracked 24/7 for once.
Came here to say the same. I wonder how this app compares. One perk this app provides is you have a button to press from your home screen. With the native feature, you could set up an Apple shortcut to start scanning a document and create a button on your home screen.
> I have the stable releases of each browser installed: Chrome 128 and Safari 17.6.

Safari 18.0 just came out like two days after this was posted. If someone could re-run a benchmark that would be great.
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Interesting - I would expect the arugula and cilantro would disintegrate completely into the broth using this approach
Nothing in that particular report says anything about the pagers exploding individually. It may of been a box, labelled as containing pagers, delivered to a group of people and detonated in one location.
You are being crude about it, even though you have a good point. The problem with this perspective that I used to also share is that either advantages are largely in the process of collapsing at the moment, i.e., more money in the US and more quality of life in Europe.

Inflation from money printing and immigration is eating away higher salaries and lower costs that made suffering the corporate hell tolerable for many people; and in Europe money printing and immigration is going to collapse the social welfare and quality of life fabric of society.
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Pagers are receive-only

This has not been true for some time. Pagers attach to a network in the same way a cell phone does. It is true they are more reliable in the receive only sense, as they can receive the broadcast message in the area they last attached to and the acknowledgment is not required to see the message but they do indeed transmit.
You have a point: the best engineers do tend to have an underdeveloped social life. On the other hand, the ones that love to suck up are the ones with the great social skills.

Again, sample of one, so take with the grain of salt, do not draw generic conclusions, etc.
You moved the goalpost from "cloud is definitely more expensive" to "well it isn't but maybe it will be for you someday" and alluding to vendor lock-in.

Vendor lock-in is a concern with cloud platforms but doesn't relate to the app in the submission.
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Wouldn't a shaped charge be pointed in a specific direction, and hence could miss depending on the device's position in target's pocket?
How many GPU servers are we talking about here exactly?
Hezbollah has been escalating their armed attacks against Israel for almost an entire year, parallel with the war in Gaza. Every day tens of rockets hit Israel, almost the entire north of Israel is evacuated of civilians.

I realize that this is not widely known, attacks against Israel receive far less attention in the news than do Israeli retaliations.
What about text rendering?

Apart from native a11y, hackability/"DX" and affordances like text selection, I feel that text rendering is a big moat of classic web technologies.
Check out michigan. They implemented legal weed without corruption and the prices are great. Every dealer immediately got out of weed there because there are stores in every town selling high quality ounces for $50, and those stores regularly have sales for $35 ounces. Meanwhile here in Illinois the state went the corruption route and the entirety of Chicago has 5 stores which all charge monopoly prices.
It was Balboa who led the first European expedition across isthmus of Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean and claimed it (yes,the whole Ocean) for Spain. Cortez to my knowledge never set foot in Panama.

The Scottish colony was much later.
It looks like a command structure attack. There’s now 98,000 people with no orders.
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There are videos on twitter and NY Times article explains more

Pagers people had on their pants exploded
Amazingly enough, the concept of hacking personal communications devices to explode was explored recently in the "phone strike" scene in Jackpot!, an Amazon MGM Studios movie released a month ago.

https://x.com/obdmpod/status/1836087414290284588
No ACLs in front. I don’t know how much that could be done, but at least IP filtering.
here is how they did it (supposedly):

https://x.com/Osint613/status/1836111109742354507
We bought 21. This is just a start.
https://archive.ph/RGQis
People in general rightfully believe that sexual passion is a powerful force that can be creative or destructive. Just like electricity it must be approached with caution. Queer or whatever culture works because a few bare wires won't start a fire so long as all other wires are isolated, but if the rest of society adopts this mindset, a major fire will be a matter of time.
Would be great to hear from someone actually in the space industry: is this reasonable? Given it's related to Elon Musk, everyone (including me) has a knee jerk opinion.
The New York Times does not agree with you:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-h...
That's a qualitatively different kind of security topic, though. On the one hand, we have a bug in a tool that reads a passive format with complete accuracy. On the other we have the need to sacrifice some amount of accuracy to avoid executing embedded code in a dynamic file format.
You can't solve what you can't measure.
I agree on both points and it's worth noting the cell phone in everyone's pocket has a lot more battery in it than a pager does.

IF this was truly done to unmodified pagers, then we ALL probably need to reconsider how we use and carry our phones and what the mAh rating on our batteries implies in the context of a similar attack.
Amir Tsarfati on Telegram:
The updated numbers:

4000 wounded of which 400 in critical conditions

Al Jazeera from a Lebanese security source:

The pagers were brought to Lebanon 5 months ago.
They were boobytrapped in advance.
Each device contained an explosive weighing no more than 20 grams.
The rest of his articles are also hilarious. Every time I come across them again, I make sure to re-read a few. Here's a collection of his articles: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens

Here's my favorite: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatc...
You could've labeled it terrorism had Lebanon and Israel weren't at war with each other over the past 12 months, and had the people carrying those devices were random uninvolved civilians.

If you were to consider the fact that Hezbollah has been shelling Israeli cities and civilians on a daily basis for the past 12 months (killing many, also children, and driving hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes), with the UN peacekeeping force failing to keep Hezbollah north of the Litani river - then perhaps you would understand that this is likely as close as you can get to a "precision strike" on an enemy you're at war with.

This may in-fact be the most precise military strike on an enemy paramilitary group in the history of modern warfare.

You either have a very unrealistic idea of what a war actually looks like (0% civilians casualties or injuries), or an agenda.
Have you seen two “prototypes” of standard for LLM telemetry? One is openllmetry, maintained by the folks at TraceLoop. Seems the more popular. The other one is openinference IIRC, by Arize AI.
They'd probably take a dependency, slice out the quarter they actually use, and somehow turn it into a cleverly-encoded lookup table or two?
is it embarrassing when your peers are getting paid to post and you aren’t

I find that concept fascinating and wonder how genuine opinions are on these topics and how that feels to actually harbor opinions that rely on moral superiority, something that the rest of us don’t feel is a useful or relevant distinction for any sovereign in that region
Your information on Breonna is incorrect.

The police did not announce themselves. Breonna and her boyfriend WERE in bed and woken up. Neither Breonna nor her boyfriend committed any crimes - the warrant was based off of out-of-date information.

The warrant should've never been issued, but because it was issued, the police decided to perform a no-knock warrant. That's not just a name, that's literally what they do.

Her boyfriend DID fire a warning shot, as his house was broken into in the middle of the night. Any gun owner would in that situation, you included. Breonna was unfortunately shot and killed while she was in bed (bullets go through walls).
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As long as a suburb of Beirut exists? I'm sorry, I don't follow any of this.
Leaked internal documents from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda center
It is always more expensive. I haven’t moved any goalposts. What I am trying to show is that you don’t need a tool - indeed you don’t need to look at a single price of anything - to know why. It can be both more expensive and a better value though! If you can’t recruit people or what you do is boring or if you want to operate a business that loses money in the long run: those are some common reasons it can look cheaper when it’s not.
Amir Tsarfati:
The updated numbers:

4000 wounded of which 400 in critical conditions

Al Jazeera from a Lebanese security source:

The pagers were brought to Lebanon 5 months ago.
They were boobytrapped in advance.
Each device contained an explosive weighing no more than 20 grams.
In the colonial era they were mostly colonizing already populated areas. The land was mostly more hospitable than the ship because

* Humans evolved to live on Earth

* In many cases there were people to trade with or steal already tended land from

We could look at Arctic expeditions I guess. They mostly didn’t colonize for some reason (despite the region being wildly more hospitable than anywhere off Earth).
If I sold equipment like that, it would probably include such modems by default and I would change support prices and warranty if I had to leave it out for a customer. They are too useful for diagnosing customer issues and a small price to add for something costing many thousands of dollars, so I can only imagine how much more valuable for something in the millions.
Let's just say, I don't believe war is a cover for terrorism against any peoples, be it in the West or East, Arab or Caucasian.
And Kingsman: The Secret Service from 2014.
I'm of 2 minds on this. Not everyone can compete remotely and some jobs genuinely require in person collaboration, but whether or not this is a good idea really depends on Amazon's strategy, which most of us might not be privy to. We can assume a company of this size and this portfolio should be able to compete with remote workers, but that might only be true for a certain period of time.
The same way anyone could make a judgment call before the attack was carried out? We are capable of abstract reasoning about the consequences of our actions.
Use Recoll for that; check the recommended dependencies from your package manager. Synaptic it's good for this with a click from the right mouse button on the package.

EDIT: For instance, under Trisquel/Ubuntu/Debian and derivatives, click on 'recollcmd', and with the right click button mark all the dependencies.

Install RecollGUI for a nice UI.

Now you will have something like Google Search but libre in your own desktop.
The Google:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/The_Goog...
Added a part about tests as well.
> As shown by the many posts on ‘FIRE’ or investing Reddit communities of salaried people making millions–it is indeed possible to get rich working for someone else. These are young and middle-aged people on Reddit who have homes, nest eggs, a good work-life balance, and a high standard of living despite working for someone else, yet are somehow ‘doing it wrong’ or are struggling or miserable according to the Twitter or hustle-culture narrative. Hell, even Steve Balmer became richer than Bill Gates despite working for him.

The last sentence in this paragraph doesn't make sense.

Isn't Bill Gates less rich because he's actively giving it away through philanthropy?
It might feel that way, but I think it's really worth asking : is it?

If I put humility aside for a moment, I'm awfully good in my field, and academia is hyper competitive, and yet I know people who are better at everything that I do -- and just like the secretary in that example, I know some people who I think could do everything that I can better than I do.

But that really is okay, the world has room for all of us and more, and is much better off for having several of us applying our skills and abilities. We are not short on important problems to solve, we are short on solutions and solvers!
>People often say to that “just get hobbies”. Well, hobbies are often done with friends or are introduced to by friends.

Not even close. Hobbies are done in groups, which can be stood up in your local area. This shit was figured out in the 1700s FFS, with no internet, with no online message boards to coordinate preferences, with no real choice in WHO they interacted with.

We invented "third places" like coffee shops, where average people could show up, buy a coffee, and chat with literal strangers, where you would often get into discussions about philosophy, politics, this newfangled "science" stuff, and all sorts of topics, usually involving people guessing about things they didn't even have a right answer to. But that didn't matter because the point was to interact with strangers.

The scientific method was literally a bunch of wealthy people exploring a brand new hobby by finding each other in "journals" (basically hobby magazines), sending each other snail mail, and chatting about their different experiments.

Companies have decided they can just stop supporting an open environment, and charge you for the right to exist, and now we don't have a third place in the US, because nobody has the time or money or energy to socialize after work, because work takes so goddamned much out of us.

So no, please do not force me, who has a perfectly functional social life and several great friend groups for life, just because you don't know any other way to meet people. That's not my problem and forcing me into the office so you can take advantage of the requirement that I am there to socialize with me is not an okay solution.

Work doesn't pay me to be your friend.
In a comment by _alphanerd_ in this subthread he points out that problematic states such as Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Australia are in the Eurovision.

Maybe Israel's neighbors object to that?

Or maybe they can't find bad enough musicians to get an entry together and are afraid of losing?
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got my website roasted, loved the results, a bit verbose but got useful pointers

wasn't expecting to see site performance analytics in the end, that was a nice addition

well done!
In humans this happens. Isolated clans of non-socialized children (like the result of some disaster, or in a very neglected orphanage) have demonstrated spontaneous generation of novel language for collaboration amongst themselves.
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I made this with the Metal APIs in VisionOS 2.0. It now gives access to low-level mesh features and buffers directly, meaning lots more particles are possible (around 5-10x)! The hand-tracking also seems much, much smoother.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pagers-drones-how-...
All of them would be great, but if not, the most common ones IME are:

\c
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And the variants (e.g. \dti+)
That's why the agreement fell through. We started one then reneged on it.
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How do you mean? I am trying to understand what you're saying, it seems you mean that people on HN only _think_ they understand how battery technology works saying this is impossible, but in reality they have no idea, and it's trivial to make an explosive device like out of pager batteries?
Yep! You are agreeing with me. The tool measures a bunch of noise, essentially, since it cannot predict Amazon’s pricing roadmap. Whereas the Kubernetes ecosystem has plenty of valid forecasting tools, such as one which forecasts compute usage, that are valuable.
I don't know what it is that you think that article says, but nobody disputes that neither side has invaded the other. The funny thing to do would be to read your preceding comment and then Google something like [nasrallah israel]. I, uh, think Hezbollah's foot soldiers have been given sufficient notice at this point.
It really is striking when you stop to enumerate it just how many edutainment shows were running in the 90's. Do those still exist to the same degree?
Also, the songs definitely make me stronger. Or you're not listening to the right music.
20 grams that's wild. You could only produce these kinds of effects from a 'military grade' explosive like CL-20 or similar.
Layoffs are bad for the public image, stockholders, etc.

If people quit themselves, they can get rid of a lot of workforce without having to lay them off.

They lose the chance to choose who stays and who goes, but if your bonuses are tied to quarterly results, it doesn't really matter for a quarter or two.
So they missed incapacitating a hospital, which changed to smart phones. Are you sure it was Mossad?
Thanks a ton!

Also, that performance analytics is just an API call to pagespeed insights’s API lol
Again, a false dichotomy. The state of many animals is already well known enough, and the problems they face is well known enough. The debate isn't whether to measure or not, but how much measurement occurs and how it reflects the poor state of how conservation works -- which is not the fault of conservationists of course.
Iran/Hezbollah are more known for constantly announcing they're about to do everything they can, and then not doing it. Safer that way.
So I haven't been fined or in trouble with the FAA so I don't know how harsh they do things. This could be normal. That said, my understanding of government fines is they are usually reserved for willful deceit or negligence. This sounds like there was 40 different forms to fill out, and the FAA doesn't have their T-2 poll because SpaceX thought it wasn't part of the launch procedure anymore. A T-2 poll is done 2 minutes before launch to check and make sure everything is in order, but there is also a T-2 and T-4 hours check, plus a T-60, T-10, and T-0 poll, in addition to unofficial checks.

IMO what should have (or what usually would happen) is after the first launch, someone would have said "where's the T-2 minute poll?", then they would have realized the FAA didn't approve the T-2, and this would have been resolved. What instead happened was a number of launches occurred, and nobody cared because it wasn't important. Then someone in the FAA saw they didn't have the approval form, and decided to move to a fine. This could be normal, but it seems like this should have been an email.
Python implementations naturally don't have any GIL in regards to JVM or CLR variants, there is no such thing on those platforms.

YAML and JSON have both tried to replicate the XML tooling experience, only worse.

Schemas, comments, parsing and schema conversions tools.
Unfortunately not everything. For example, no xbox 360 controller support: https://github.com/microsoft/GDK/issues/39
What's equallt bad these days is the fact that the calibration UI is hidden in the third or fourth level of nested dialog windows recent versions of the Control Panel. Even finding it is a hunting game.

Many, but not all recent game controllers come with accurate and stable enough calibration so that you don't need to do this very often or at all. It's mostly older hardware that needs to go through the process. Most 10 year old controllers (sticks/wheels etc.) can still be perfectly usable today after calibration!
Weren't those surgical implants, though? A bit different, not an innocuous everyday gadget turned deadly. More of a Laputan Machine.
do you realize that nurses in hospital, civil servants workers are among people carrying this device? That not all, not even majority of Hizbollah personnel have no military responsibility whatsoever?
I can’t stand working in office so much that I’m sticking to my low 55K salary with 3 days of WFH.
You can be of 2 minds but fortunately employees have a choice and companies too. I will never work for a company that requires me to come to their (probably open-plan) office, period. Those who insist, lose senior staff, period.
This is nothing new. Israel has done attacks like this since the 60s.