skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it makes me think the Israeli decision-makers are trying to leave Hezbollah no choice but to escalate into a larger war. I think Hezbollah has been trying to avoid escalation into all out war, responding in limited proportionate ways despite Israel continuing to escalate. (Can you imagine if Hezbollah had detonated thousands of such devices in Israel? I'd be scared of a nuclear response).

But Israeli leaders maybe decided Hezbollah's hesitation to escalate into all out war must mean that such a war must be good for us and bad for them? Let's try to really make em do it, so we can invade Lebanon again? Why Israeli government thinks it wants an invasion of Lebanon right now, I don't know, but it looks like that's where this goes to me and they must know it?
What? No one's mentioned how firms have been leveraging Malta as the new leg of the Double Irish / Dutch Sandwich? How disappointing.
Given that the pagers are for secret messages to be sent between militants, it would be highly unlikely for them to end up in the wrong hands unless the militant is being irresponsible.

Certainly you would not expect somebody in the military to leave a loaded gun around the house. But, also it should be obvious that they would not leave their radio device for transmitting top-secret information either due to the implications of having such information and how that would affect the safety of family members.

It is likely that nobody could have expected their pager to literally explode. But, military or merely involved in the "political" side, anybody who lets their family play with such a radio/pager is putting their family at risk.
Do you have a source for this? In the past when I've been told this, the statistics referenced where based on whether a company was classified as being in in the manufacturing sector, not based on which jobs were classified as manufacturing. This included companies that were classified that way due to historical inertia, or based on their global industry but actually had little to no manufacturing in the US. Based on that I have a hard time knowing what to believe, and would love to be pointed to more accurate information.
Those `goto`s between two different for loops is crazy.
They picked up the old Maxim fab in San Jose almost 10 years ago. Not sure what's happening in there now and I assume the people who do aren't likely to spill the beans :) unless its as shuttered I guess.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/14/apple-buys-former...
There are a lot of steps involved in making the chips - lithography is only one of them. You have to have the supply chains set up for massive amounts of silicon, you have to have a process for doping the silicon properly, you need quality control, you need to actually build a fab to house the lithography machines, I could go on.
https://archive.is/IW5XW
Their current government is basically run by extremists, with government ministers openly calling for a second Nakba https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231009-israel-mk-calls-f....

Calling for a second Nakba, in my opinion, is no different to the chants of "death to isreal" coming from the other side.

I would say they are about as democratic as the former south african apartheid government. Democratic yes, but only one group of people gets to vote.
you should really take a rigorous look into the history of early Israel and the ideologies of its founding members like Hertzl and Jabotinsky. They have always been terrorists.
The A16 could certainly run the AI with enough RAM
Was Swift really necessary? Would it really not have been possible to build iOS apps on something like JavaScript?
Intel actually did add ECC in their Atoms, see C3000 for example:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/proces...
Because we would visit ruin on them in response (and they to us, likely, were we to pull the same trick). Israel is exploiting Hezbollah's inability to do that given its present circumstances.
> This might be true, but the rust belt is called that for a reason.

> > as the actual manufacturing has moved towards higher value items and greater degrees of automation.

US manufacturing has moved away from things like primary metals, which the steel belt had focused on, and towards things further up the value chain.

https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/2800_x_2800_...

Manufacturing fell from 25% of GDP in 1947 to 12% in 2015... but real GDP increased by 10x. So, the value of manufacturing output went up by ~4x over that span.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2017/april/-/media...

What really went away were the jobs.
Considering the pricing in the EU it was already hard to consider the effort to value worthwhile but now we are officially getting a substandard product.

Before there were many stuffs like Apple News never making it but at least there was some pretense of working on it.

Since EU people are getting a less featureful product, they should get products priced accordingly.

Otherwise, Apple should just fuck off EU if it doesn't want to play ball, they started the whole thing by being consumer hostile and the greediest corporation ever, they make Microsoft look like the good guys.
How does this compare with ugrep? I know that does many of these things while sticking with C++.
Yeah I was surprised to hear this is already at a point where they can produce chips. From what I've heard it takes a really serious amount of effort and expertise to calibrate the machines, and get the water filtration and other chemistry working in a new location.
You’re missing the forest for the trees. The cause to celebrate is not that Apple chips are being made. It’s to celebrate that chips of such high calibre are being made.

It’s only a start, but it’s a huge deal in an economic, technological and geopolitical context.
This is just a bunch of non-sequiturs.
Do you mean he needs help in his day to day life (because we all do - no man is an island), or that he needs professional help so that he can lead a normal life?
This is another company that claims to fix all the poorly integrated tools we use already by forcing everyone to switch to their tool and use it for everything. Slack adds notes to try and be more like Confluence and to-do's to be more like Jira. Monday and Notion say, "we have that, too." Everyone's solution is just "move it all to us."

If you're brand new and have no tools and no data (and who would that be?), these kind of solutions might sound great. But try to migrate anything out of them later and you'll find the same impossibility of exporting anything and vendor lock-in that all the competitors have, too.
Wrong question. They'd still be buying Zeiss
One can only hope that the US learned from its mistake, and doesn't allow chip manufacturing to go offshore to that degree again in future peaceful times.
Would they be any good though, that remains to be seen.
I'd say most of the time it's a handful of times or less. Uniswap is a good example of a large OSS three-platform app that shares almost all the code, uses very few native dependencies, and has great UX. I maybe biased since I worked there and made the UI framework they use, though.

https://github.com/uniswap/interface
If this is representative of the quality of your emails, I would read every one that you published.
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On the topic of laughability, I would propose that "invoking a dead stranger's name in a self-significant ritual" is absurd to do, and also absurd to be offended by.

I hereby grant permission for my name to be invoked in all rituals, sacred and profane, by all current and future living persons. And I'll laugh at you in advance.
The course is deceptive.

The first couple of miles are downhill. You're also running with a very large densely-packed group who are just as fast as you. It's very easy to get sucked along to run much faster than you planned for the first few miles.

The Newton Hills, esp. Heartbreak Hill, are near where many people will hit the proverbial wall, distance-wise. Having to go up ever-steeper hills at the same time can be really taxing.

There are so many things that can go slightly wrong, and when you have to endure those slight inconveniences for 26.2 miles/2+ hours, it can feel like an aerobic Chinese water torture.

The year I ran, we had a tailwind, so I had an relatively easy time of it.

Great friendly crowds.
The claim is that carrying one of these pagers is dispositive evidence that you are an according-to-IHL combatant.
What is the quantity? Reports are the beepers were purchased directly by Hezbollah for their use.
ASML for those who don't know is a Dutch company, and supplies the EUV machines for both TSMC and Intel (It is not clear to me if Samsung uses EUV in its current process nodes). I believe they are the only EUV supplier in the world. There are certainly other suppliers other that ASML, since there is a lot of other equipment other than lithography, but that's a critical one for modern process nodes.
Not only that, but from reports, it sounds like they deliberately sent an alert several seconds before detonation to ensure that the user of the pager would be the direct target. Or perhaps that was just the time it took for the fuse to detonate the explosive? Either way, some of the videos out there show the incredible precision that the owner of the pager was taken down and people in the vicinity were unscathed.
Why are teachers carrying Hezbollah military pagers?
If I travel one half of the distance from where I am to the finishing line an infinite number of times, I reach the finishing line but still never finish the race.

With a Hilbert curve the entire plane becomes a limit.
A low level language that's ergonomically interoperable with objective-c was probably the best choice.
> My bet, is TSMC was given a “you build in the US or we wont give you defense contract work” in 2018-2020 timeframe lol

My bet is that TSMC recognizes they are a crazy geopolitical pawn. And is frankly playing their part.

Once China develops chip production abilities similar (but not necessarily better) to TSMC, they’re free to destroy Taiwan. Then they’ll be the sole cutting-edge producer, meaning that everyone will continue to do business with them despite their behavior.

TSMC and the US recognize this. If TSMC bring their tech to America, they’ll at least be safe to continue manufacturing (“for the shareholders”). It also is self-serving because it changes the geopolitical game. It increases the risks to China of an invasion, and favors to the US increase the odds of US intervention (good for their patriotism).

Finally, it’s pretty well established that the US defense industry prefers local factories for security purposes. They’re obviously interested in preserving this ability domestically, and most companies recognize that and accommodate.
Now introducing menthol cigarettes! "Part of this healthy lifestyle."
Could Scheme ever run on a GPU? I've seen a GPU REPL made with APL. I'm not sure what graphics primitive could map to linked lists but it would mean John McCarthy's AI on modern AI hardware.
I use a few things. First, I scrape from my home IP at very low rates. I drive either FF or Chrome using extension. Sometimes I have to start the session manually (not a robot) and then engage the crawler. Sometimes, site dependant, can run headless or puppeteer. But the extension in "normal" browser that goes slow has been working great for me.

It seems that some sites can determine when using headless or web-driver enabled profile.

Sometimes I'm through a VPN.

The automation is the easy part.
I agree that fonts should not differ too much in size and other important metrics, but if you select a condensed font for example expectations are that you can fit more letters into the same line.

Now of every font would do equal spacing (something that your spreadsheet software could just implement, btw.) what would the point be of having different fonts?

As you are running the system ypu could also just make a selection of particularily equal fonts and remove the rest, if that annoys you.
I skimmed their website and it doesn't seem like they're promising any sort of confidentiality. Maybe there's something buried in their privacy policy, but you'd think that privacy would be a pretty big selling point?
Yep. That happens. It’s war.
thank you! and noted :)
3 years is what we planned. Any extra time we get will be a plus.
ASML make fancy printers.

TSMC and other ASML customers build the designs that let those fancy printers create transistors and then logic gates, as well as a basic library of arrangements for those logic gates (PDK). They also provide all of the raw materials and processes and physics that go into said printers.

Apple and other design customers then compile RTL using that PDK to produce a design that can be manufactured using the fab’s process steps.

The printers are A hard part but far from The hard part. If you have an ASML machine it is useless to you unless you have also figured out how to build a 3D transistor in layers. Good luck!
The teens are there because Meta hooked them and brought them there. No credit to Meta at all.
I also get the treatment because why risk your teeth and health at the cost of basically $50? But am still curious to know more about its efficacy.
No shade, but do we need a tool just for that?

I've asked ChatGPT for help with git and never had any issues. It even knows about UIs like GitKraken and Gitlab hosted, so you can ask about those, too, and not just the terminal commands.
not sending a man to the moon means people will LIVE actually, I can't imagine what kind of hell that would bring if Boeing tried to make another moonrocket
The Republican party is not literally at war with Israel. Hezbollah is.
React is fully OSS as far as I know: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/LICENSE

I think the term you mentioned was there at the start but has since been removed and React is licensed pure MIT since 2017.
> Apple does not want you to do any resolving yourself

Which honestly sounds like a good reason to make sure you do do it yourself.
> But God forbid men be aware that we have breasts and that sometimes they dangle or have nipples.

They’re aware. What a strange comment. Are you mad?

Edit: you have more nipples than I do, and I’ve never felt compelled to talk about it until right now.
There's also the hit to the reputation of the manufacturers of these devices to consider (even though they were almost certainly intercepted some time after manufacture and modified in transit, or replaced with a different batch that had been ordered by the perpetrator and modified ahead of time for a quick swap). The perpetrator may have been spying on the pager network for some time, and if so then their cover is blown and their information source is gone.

The larger issue is that if shipments of pagers can be intercepted and modified in this manner, then any electronic device can be subjected to other hardware-based attacks - eavesdropping devices, keystroke loggers, etc. What if large numbers of countries with developing tech markets start looking at the suppliers involved the way the USA looks at China's Huawei?

In general this boosts the open-soure model for both software and hardware, so the expected hardware configuration that can be checked visually and with other user-available tools. If any phone, pager, tablet or laptop can be physically hijacked and modified, the user should be allowed access to all the information and tools needed to detect it. This assumes the factory itself is not the bad actor.

Hardware security consultant firms probably have a bright future. Also robots for assistance with inspection.
> US manufacturing capabilities regressing in other key aspects, such as machine tools, injection molding, shipbuilding, consumer goods, and so on.

But this is exactly what Econ 101 tells you to expect to happen (and I teach Econ 101 ;) . Countries specialize to maximize comparative advantage. If you are the US and can manufacture high value items at a lower opportunity cost (or high value services at a lower opportunity cost), you will, but this means giving up on doing other things you could use the resources for.

The net result is that US manufacturing output in real dollars has increased 4x, in the past 70 years. At the same time, its share of the economy has shrunk (because other sectors have outgrown it), and many lower value manufacturing subsectors have been largely abandoned.
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You think they'll make another SE? I thought that product line was being abandoned.
Can even one single person here articulate their specific fears of using 23andme, or is it all FUD?
I heard an econtalk pod a long time ago claiming that the long pole wasn't even dollar value, it was hedonic adjustments for Intel microchips that kept the graph of US manufacturing output looking like a tailspin since 2000.
> I'm thinking about all forms of "knowledge work" being impacted

It's the same story of "all forms" of white collar work.

The big bucks you make in Sales, IB, PE, Medicine, Accounting, Actuary, etc all come from reasoning, and we are still very far away from that level of "general intelligence".

The current market does suck for early career candidates, but that's not yet because of AI taking jobs - it's because of standard outsourcing and roll mergers due to margin pressures.

Fully autonomous reasoning that can truly pass the Turing test, but we aren't there yet.

It feels like a lot of people have fallen for the "Chinese Room trap" that John Searle brought up decades ago in Cognitive Science

Truly autonomous semantic modeling and generation is still very much far away - it basically took us 70 years to barely solve Syntactic modeling, and Pragmatics and Semiotics which are even deeper than Semantics are still at their infancy.

I do think semantic modeling will be cracked within the next decade, but it would still take a generation to solve the quantum leap in pragmatics and semiotics. If a model can reason both pragmatic and semiotic concepts at the same level comparable as indistinguishable as a domain expert, then AGI is de facto solved.
Maybe you should visit the rust belt/midwest before SV starts patting itself on the back for single-handedly re-invigorating the economy.

I get the spirit, but flyover country is not doing great. Unemployment is rising and there is a severe lack of decent paying jobs. Chips are great, but everything else is made in Asia. Increased automation is making a ton of jobs obsolete and there is no solution in sight yet. Chips ain't gonna do it.
The workers can walk away with whatever is in their heads
A strategic triumph for both the current and previous administrations. Both Trump and Biden handled the situation adroitly. These may not be the absolute bleeding edge tech but it’s a proof of concept that we can wean ourselves from Chinese tech if it becomes necessary.

It comes at the cost of many, many Chinese jobs in the midst of a devastating economic downturn there. They are victims of repeated local and geopolitical malpractice by the current emperor.

EDIT: User lotsofpulp pointed out that we don’t make any strategic chips in China. That is of course true. I meant that the game of economic chess played by the current and previous administrations has been highly effective in reducing China’s options.
Maybe, perhaps. Idk I don’t work at Apple.

I’m just telling you that if it follows past SE pattern it’ll be an A18. And they won’t skimp on the RAM because Apple Intelligence is clearly going to be rolled out across their entire product line.

2 + 2 = A18 with 8GB of RAM
I'm looking at pager teardowns and there's nothing even close to the volume of the battery in there. Big transistor and the speaker housing.

Which sort of leans back toward the theory that nobody checked the pagers at all.
Yep, I hope they work on something like that. Maybe we could get a chance for another competitive OS in the EU.

Sometimes I wish they tax the hell out of those US behemoth in a way that would open space for EU companies to become competitive.
The network effects are too big when it comes to IT, it's not very wise to let the US be the sole beneficiary of such an industry.
This is a really sharp summary. I hope it's correct, because it was fun to read.
I live in Vietnam and have the same problem I think. My city has diacritics in its name, but the query

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=B%E1%BA%AFc-...

works fine.

Unlike the parent post, it does not go to undefined, it just returns 404 when clicking on the map.

Some 404 examples:

https://meet.hn/city/vn-B%E1%BA%AFc-Ninh
https://meet.hn/city/vn-H%C3%A0-N%E1%BB%99i

Working examples in Vietnam

https://meet.hn/city/vn-Da-Nang
https://meet.hn/city/vn-Ho-Chi-Minh-City

(technically the last examples should be Đà Nẵng and Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, but I guess because they are internationally known cities, they use the English names?)
it would be great if support xlsx.
Isn't Python's functions are just objects with a __call__ method, and such objects has a syntax sugar allowed them to be called like a function.
So if you're not a performer it's fair game to use your likeness?
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I didn't mean to imply, if I have, that C++ is always and in all circumstances the best choice for any given software project.

The question was about the first compiled language someone should learn, and for that, C++ is great. It's going to cover most of the use cases for compiled languages, while providing relatively familiar abstractions and semantics.

C is fantastic when you need to eke out every single cycle of performance, which is why it's a great choice for Python and Postgres. But you do this by effectively writing assembly instructions, which is why it's a terrible choice for someone coming to compiled languages for the first time.

C++ gives you equivalent performance to C, for a fraction of the effort, in about 90% of the use cases. For the remaining use cases, C is a better (and often only) choice, but no one who is only learning compiled languages for the first time is anywhere near being able to write that kind of C code. (After a few years of C++ they'll be in a much better place to do so!)
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Just further evidence of the accelerating returns to capital. It just makes less and less sense for America to be engaged in highly wealth-distributive (i.e. labor intensive) activities, more sense for it to engage in capital-intensive ones which, by definition, accrue further benefit to the owners of that capital. Yikes!
Yeah, it really is a big deal. I wish politics weren’t hitting this topic so hard. This is monumental.
'Lets end affirmative action!'

'We are going to sue you for something that affirmative action helped avoid'

I know i'm likely oversimplifying it but I am trying to highlight the ridiculousness of it
TSMC improves the geopolitical situation of Taiwan by building here, too. China doesn't have the possibility of being "the best logic manufacturer left standing" after an invasion and TSMC being destroyed, if some of TSMC's world-class fabs are also located in North America.
You are completely correct. But the chips have immense strategic value. Not being able to manufacture them would be catastrophic in the event that China cut us off.
Apple never set out to create Swift. Chris partner worked on it for fun in his spare time, and when he realized it could go somewhere he went through the channels to get it turned into an official project. With that being said it was tailor made to address important issues for Apple developed. For example, it has great interop with Objective-C which was a requirement to get it adopted, first at Apple, and then with the wider community. It is also built with safety and security in mind removing lots of undefined behavior and adding null safety. It is also statically typed while JavaScript isn’t. There are a whole host of other goodies that it has that make it better for Apple developers than just adopting JavaScript. Chris partner has lots of talks where he goes over the reasonings
Long walk back to Taiwan.