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> You can set up your own servers and no government will interfere with you as long as you aren’t doing something illegal

Might have been true in the past but no longer. Once your platform gets a large enough audience, governments will try to artificially sway public opinion on the platform. This has been true for every single large social platform so far.
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> I am fully remote and I'll admit that it would probably be better if I was at the office once or twice a week.

Yeah, probably. The thing is, why should a remote worker care? Even if in office is somewhat more productive, how does that benefit the workers? Why should they care? Maybe the stock price goes up a bit? But my impression is it’s way more impacted by market forces or exec decisions than anything a measly IC peon does.

So, if you add “for the company” after “better”… yes. But is it better for the worker? Not really?
October 7th happened exactly because Israel was over-focusing on Iranian proxies like Hezbollah and underestimated Hamas.
I’m struggling to believe that a qualified accountant said that. Tax avoidance is completely legal, if it becomes illegal, then that’s called tax evasion.

Avoidance and “minimisation” are the same thing, evasion is a crime.
Have "good" small webs EVER prevailed?

Every content system seems to get polluted by noise once it hits mainstream usage: IRC, Usenet, reddit, Facebook, geocities, Yahoo, webrings, etc. Once-small curated selections eventually grow big enough to become victims of their own successes and taken over by spam.

It's always an arms race of quality vs quantity, and eventually the curators can't keep up with the sheer volume anymore.
The EPA maintain that converting an on-road vehicle to off-road use is illegal, however, by decree rather than legislation. The EPA's interpretation of the Clean Air Act is that any alteration to an emissions control system is illegal - that it's the act of modification, and not the result, that's breaking the law.

https://www.performanceracing.com/magazine/industry-news/08-... . I'm not a lawyer but the Chevron decision probably changes the playing field here a little bit.

This is a double edged sword for tuning companies as the "CARB approval makes the device EPA legal" loophole is also "just" an EPA enforcement order, rather than legislated.
You realize these went off in supermarkets, right? In hospitals? In homes where children were near by? There has already been reporting on at least two dead children.
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I mean regardless of which side you're on, you still wouldn't want to end up with a product that has a bomb in it by accident, even if it wasn't targeted against you.
Have you heard of Severance? This has a vibe extremely similar to that show.
No, my argument isn't that this wouldn't be used, it is that by using it there will be overage in quality of care above 'good enough' for the same or similar cost. That will result in the most expensive resources being reduced until quality of care is back to 'good enough' at less cost. It isn't a stretch to imagine that a tool like this would lead to a reduction in nursing staff since they can make rounds more effective and now don't need as many people to get the same level of quality job done.
It’s not only about living or dying. Care work is fundamentally about treating humans with dignity and respect, and just shouldn’t be regarded as a free market playfield.
My phrasing says exactly what it says - that this was indiscriminate. Do you think the IDF considered whether civilians would be harmed, or have a good possibility of being harmed? Surely blowing up thousands of devices in a major urban area would fall somewhere under this consideration.
Attacking millitatns while they are in the middle of civilians, especially when they are not doing that as part of some hostage/human shield operation, is not OK.
Lets not mention about the many shuriken in the American flag.
Pretty sure silicone will release compounds into the air when microwaving just like plastic does.
Because this wasn't just an app. They were selling secure devices with remote wiping.
Not just Lebanon. We should all be afraid, and assume any consumer device or software that has transited through Israel or countries hosting agents from Israel, to be compromised and potentially dangerous.
I think you've got the first claim wrong - for a church numeral N, (N b g f) appears to give the composition of g and f with f taking N arguments.

2 b = (λf x.f (f x)) b
~> λx.b(b x)
= λx.(λgfy.(g (f y))) (λabc.(a (b c)) x)
~> λx.(λfy.(λabc.(a (b c)) x) (f y))
~> λxfy.(λbc.(x (b c))) (f y)
~> λxfy.(λc.(x ((f y) c)))
= λxfyc.(x (f y c))

(3 b) ~> λihgfx.i (h g f x)
Israel is only Israel's ally.
CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)
Yeah 100%. I found it immensely frustrating to be using tools with no community (except internally), so-so documentation, and features that were clearly broken in a way that would be unacceptable for a regular consumer product. If you have a question or error not covered by an internal search or documentation, good luck, you'll need it. Literally part of the reason I left the company.
Anything before 2021 is not this company at least according to the Hungarian corporate registry.

Also, https://web.archive.org/web/20211210194900/https://www.bacco... this is interesting, it's 2021 Dec and yet, it has AI on the front page.
It would be terrorism if they celebrated the civilian casualties and wished there were more.

If they could have executed this without a single civilian injury they definitely would have. I guess intent is what makes it terrorism vs war in my mind.
This is a tech site, where >50% of us are programmers who have achieved greater productivity thanks to LLM advances.

And yet we're filled to the gills with Luddite sentiments and AI content fearmongering.

Imagine the hysteria and the skull-vibrating noise of the non-HN rabble when they come to understand where all of this is going. They're going to do their darndest to stop us from achieving post-economy.
It's pretty easy to make a limited case that should convince you, though not very amusing, I'm afraid.

> [The Jones Act] requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on ships that have been constructed in the United States and that fly the U.S. flag, are owned by U.S. citizens, and are crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.

Repeal all provisions save for the requirement of having to be constructed in the US.

It's not what I would suggest (an outright repeal would be better), but it's easy to see how this partial repeal would strengthen the US shipbuilding industry: you are making their products more useful and cheaper to operate.

For comparison, you can have a look at eg German shipbuilding. Germany isn't exactly a low-cost country, has no equivalent of the Jones Act, and is doing some shipbuilding. (They aren't the biggest player in building whole ships, but the world loves to import German Diesel engines. Division of labour and all that.)
What are you referring to by this? Were Yahoo's working conditions particularly bad?
I tried this, many years ago, but it did not take long before I gave it up. Code is full of skinny punctuation characters whose meaning is critical to understanding, and allowing a proportional font to squish down the screen area they occupy does not improve readability. This can easily be seen in the author's own screenshots.
>We the humans

Nice try

If it’s not clear, I’m joking.
Fortunately for its members, the IDF is not an amateur terrorist organization and they do check their hardware. Also the exploding hardware attack did occur on a national holiday, but during business hours on a weekday.
Didn't search for it, but there was a young man (backed by his parents) who regularly got eye irritation while staring at a screen. So that guy just pulled the backlight and started to sell it on the webz as eye friendly screen. Guess, didn't start off like a rocket. It's been one or two years ago here on hackernews.
Ask HN: What daily puzzles do you play?
Current list for me is:

- NYT Connections https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

- NYT Strands https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

- Betweenle https://betweenle.com/

- Symbl https://www.symble.app/

- Mazele https://mazele.io/

- Hidden Mirrors https://www.hidden-mirrors.com/
Well, that seems safe enough. It’s the smallest planet, after all.
The difference between DI and port injection is only which thing is escaping the catalytic converter. With port injection the engine is rich after lifting off the throttle, and hydrocarbons escape. With direct injection the engine leans out, and NOx escapes. In both cases the rev hang exists to keep the emissions system in its effective air/fuel ratio range. Every hanging MT car I ever owned was DI.
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> If the US military gives you a laptop, you don't give it to your kids for schoolwork.

And how does the US army relate to the hezbollah ?
> As middle eastern societies proof unable to create complex institutions and states

Pretty sure history proves that to be vastly incorrect. And the modern state of Middle Eastern countries is inseparable from the actions outside (both western and not) powers have undertaken there.
My point is that countries designate groups of people as "terrorists" all the time for political reasons. Here's another example: "Venezuela: UN experts condemn use of counter-terrorism laws to convict trade unionists and labour leaders"

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/08/venezuela-un...
>“It's deeply embarrassing that the US must suffer poltical rule of its economy along with the double embarrassment of seeing other nations do it so much more effectively.”

The Chinese Communist Party exerts far, far more control over all sectors of their economy than US politicians do over the US economy.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/xi-jinping-china-capitalism-60-...
Aware, of course, they're aware of it now.

But the best that they can realistically do, once they've found out about the shenanigans, is to cancel the licensing deal with the Hungarian manufacturer. Which they probably will. Maybe sue them in a Hungarian court, if there's anybody left to sue.
I wasn't asking you to condemn it, I was using it as an example of my claim that Israel doesn't care about international law or norms, even in cases where you can't possibly use "but our enemy violates them too" as a justification.
It's really not about the jobs, it's about national security. The US needs the ability to fabricate chips on its own soil where the threat of China invading Taiwan isnt a concern.
From Taipei to Budapest: the mysterious trail of exploding pagers
https://truthout.org/video/un-experts-condemn-western-compli...
> likely makes war more likely

Maybe, but it also makes the impact of war much less. Because if Taiwan DOES get absorbed, you're not 100% screwed.
Working through the microcorruption.com challenges left me really liking msp430 assembly
just to our ears and sometimes eyes during lgbt parade season, at least by this new definition of violence where the only requirement for it to be violence is for someone to make the claim that it is.......

In all seriousness though why even engage this line of argument at this point? very few brain cells are required to understand the solar system sized gap between the standards used for a western country to label something terrorist and for Russia (or Iran, or China, etc...). The argument is either being made in bad faith or in fanaticism driven ignorance, neither of which words on the internet will change. The correct and only action for this level of argument is ridicule.
For the same reason we disallow severe product dumping - it's a ploy to build marketshare in an attempt to become hostile to consumers down the road. We don't let companies dump products for a reason.
You’re assuming bad actors don’t already know about these zero days. You have to assume any possible vulnerability is already being exploited. Publishing zero days in EOL devices reduces the information asymmetry.
What's the country of Hezbollah? There's clearly not one. It's Lebanon. Hezbollah is a group inside a State not a State.

There are a bunch of very good reasons why groups doing that are outside the law.
I don't know about that. When Al Quaeda attacked the USS Cole, a purely military vessel without a single civilian casualty, the US administration and the entire US military called it an act of terrorrism.
> broken glass isn't recyclable

Super curious as to why that might be the case. Isn't breaking glass the first part of recycling? Perhaps it's a safety issue?
> that it's used to summon you personally...

Man you sure know a lot about hezbollah internal processes... either that or you're full of shit
This might be a naive question but what's to stop a company from telling a city or municipality that they meet the percentage? Not like there's any way the city can verify.
Some reports are saying the Icom-V82 devices were bought by Hezbollah 5 months ago, close to the time yesterday's beeper were purchased. However, the exploding part was the battery, imported to Lebanon only 2 weeks ago.

I wonder if this operation had two sides - implanting something in the devices that will allow remotely triggering the explosion, and then also tampering with the batteries to include explosive material.
Yes, and his point is that "terrorism" is still a meaningful term for groups like Hamas.

But we know you understand this.
If it was a real company that would be the case. However from what I've read the journalists looking into BAC Consulting has found it to be a company in name only with no actual offices or hungarian employees.

It makes me slightly curious which company Israel convinced to actually produce these pagers and radios.
Nitpick, I know, but

> but with a country acting as the monopolist and therefore being exempt from antitrust enforcement.

This is the US. what antitrust enforcement?
But OPEC is not a military organization. It is just minor countries trying to agree on a fair and just price of oil.
Any kids killed were accidental as opposed to the Hezbollah rockets shot at northern Israel. When those rockets killed 12 kids playing soccer those deaths were intentional.
War crime. Same as Coventry, Dresden and Leningrad.
On each side they think the others are the terrorists but the fact is that they're terrorizing each other and have lots of non-military casualties. I think of them as terrorists on both sides.
Completely agree. Similar things are happening in Egypt, Turkey and other places..
Ah, this is an article about parody of sci-if slop.

I had way too much trouble realizing the article wasn’t just machine generated nonsense. Poe’s law strikes again.
Because they are doing so to erode your manufacturing base through unfair competition.

From a national security standpoint this can be deadly in a hot conflict.

From an industrial strategy standpoint, it’s the same as any other monopolist practice - they will erode your base, take over your market, then raise prices to fleece your population’s wealth while increasing their own.

Industrial bases are economic strongholds that shouldn’t be lost, particularly not to great power competitors.
Not really...

The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank...
Most of the "random" bot content pre-2021 was low-quality Markov-generated text. If anything, these genitive AI tools would improve the accuracy of scraping large corpora of text from the web.
Ohhh right, right, I had them mixed up! Thanks for the clarification.
I can’t think of a more targeted attack than through items carried exclusively by combatants. Even an in-person special ops team would likely cause more collateral damage, let alone something like R9X.
I have not seen that implication anywhere and most reporting cites 1 or 2 killed children. On the other hand, 5000 (per reports) of these pagers were purchased by Hezbollah because they were afraid cell phones could be implanted with bombs (there's precedent) and so the users would be predominantly Hezbollah members.

Despite this, there are a few persistent comments here that thousands of civilians were injured. That statement seems near to willfully wrong or intended to be misleading given the circumstances and lack of any more specific information about the people injured.
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@dang — I found a better link which appears to be a revised version of the current one: https://psc-cuny.org/clarion/2013/may/cunyfirst-users-last/

---

This is a post by Prof. David Arnow on the blog of the Brooklyn College’s professors’ union about CUNYfirst, a PeopleSoft-based course registration and HR system sold by Oracle. Posting because the system recently got some attention on Twitter: https://x.com/ChocolateyCrepe/status/1836171439965446441
Multivariate adaptive regression spline saw the hype and pivoted to AI
I suppose parking lot occupancy would give it away for the big businesses that have their own parking. One could probably cheat this by getting car fleet purchasing power and storing vehicles in said lots but I think that may be obvious and getting caught would be quite the scandal.
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I would feel far more concerned that an arbitrary application that decided to do its own DNS resolution would be doing so for nefarious reasons, or might mess up the process (such as not supporting encrypted DNS in this case).

If you genuinely cannot trust the OS vendor, you don't try to tinker around in user space but you stay off their platform. Personally, this is why I don't have any machines with a Microsoft OS, and why I don't have a Playstation.
Terrorism is just a label to describe attacks by people that powerful governments don't like. If you have enough military power, you're a legitimate government conducting a war (even if you're lobbing hundreds of missiles and drones into civilian targets like Russia is). If not, you're a terrorist org or government.
Supermicro never happened. Zero evidence. The reporters and the paper (Bloomberg?) have never retracted it, which is a reflection of their crappy reporting.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/02/12/bloomberg-big-c...
I stand corrected, DDR5 has on-die, not in-band ECC.
I assume by "many countries" you mean the US and its allies? Is that it then? Your definition of "terrorist" is whoever the West designates a terrorist? Ergo Nelson Mandela was a terrorist.
Congrats on the v8 release. It's super interesting to see that Heroku now uses Valkey instead of Redis [0], with no notes re: compatibility yet.

Yet another project to add to the books of successful forks re: rug-pull?

[0]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-redis
Government always tries to sway opinion. They are made of politicians. I’m not in love with Musk by any means. But do you think the Biden administration could have convinced Musk to change his moderation policy!

unless they are some local jack booted thugs…

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/13/mari...
I read this thinking it was a contest for suicide booths.
It’s a terrible thing.

De industrialisation in the UK led to the annihilation of the middle class.
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> Both really dont care what and if people voted

They kind of do. The reason various Asian companies pulled ahead in their own respective industries is top-down leadership and support. You dump money into them, tell them what to do, and lower the overhead of competition and you can create a world-class company.

We, in the US, can't really do that. We try a little bit, but we don't fully commit so it doesn't work out.
https://archive.today/pByzu
It seems like these attacks happened multiple times in succession, a day apart from eachother. Yesterday pagers exploded, today walkie takies and solar panels. What's next to come?
There is no law or custom of war that prohibits fighting in urban areas.
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As attacks go, this is far more targeted than most dropped bombs.

The purpose is to disable the communication infrastructure. That's a valid military target.

To be clear, I'm not saying this is a good thing. It does seem to fit within the rules of war though.
> gravitational waves do not have any stress-energy

Wait, what? Of course, they do!

It's just not localized, like in regular classic EM waves.
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No worries. Also definitely not something to call yourself stupid over in your edit :)
> The more we use AI, the more we integrate LLMs and other tools into our life, the more their output will influence us

Hmm I don’t disagree but I think it will be valuable skill going forward to write text that doesn’t read like it was written by an LLM

This is an arms race that I’m not sure we can win though. It’s almost like a GAN.
Were the children militants? What about hospital staff? And, how do you know who these people are? You don't, but you're all over this thread running cover for a terrorist attack. I've already seen plenty of reporting that many of these targeted people were not, in fact, militants, but simply political members of Hezbollah. Would you be running the same cover if Hezbollah, or Iran had targeted Knesset staff? Disgusting stuff man, truly odious.
The author nails it here:

> It is 2024, and I say it is time we revisited some of the fundamental joys of setting up our own systems.

Self-hosting really is joyful. It's that combination of learning, challenge, and utility.

+1 to Actual Budget

+1 to Changedetection.io

-1 for not mentioning threat modeling / security. The author uses HTTPS but leaves their websites open to the public internet. First-timers should host LAN-only or lock their stuff way down. I guess that's tricky with shared hosting without some kind of IP restriction or tunneling, though. No idea if uberspace offers something like that.

For folks getting past the initial stages of self-hosting, I'd really recommend something like Docker to run more and more different apps side by side. Bundled dependencies FTW. Shameless plug for my book, which covers the Docker method: https://selfhostbook.com
If by "cookie policy" you mean GDPR, then it absolutely applies to general tracking, not just cookies. The actual technical means used for tracking has absolutely no bearing on legality.
A tax "break" by a city to businesses for requiring their employees to work in an office building in the city would be public information, available on any city's website. Do you have any links?
https://archive.ph/9y1M1
Econ 101 is mostly nonsense. Read up Steve Keen.
Mostly terrorists are dead and this killed far less civilians than the alternative ways of waging war (ground invasion or bombing campaign). This is the level of surgical operation that everyone was calling for since Hezbollah declared war on Israel on October 8th, and now that Israel is delivering that level of precision there's still some people complaining, it's unbelievable how naive some people are.
the amount of explosives would be about the size of a pencil eraser, easily concealable imo. Reports are that they could have modified the existing batteries and put them inside there.
Because that provides international legitimacy for retaliation by Hezbollah, even though everyone knows who did what. Same as the assassination of Ismail Hanyeh in Tehran.
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Why would TSMC ever agree to such a deal?
> less than 1% targets dead

By now. The final value will be higher.
> Have "good" small webs EVER prevailed?

You ask on HN, one of the highest quality sites I've ever visited in any age of the Internet.

IRC is still alive and well among pretty much the same audience as always. I'm not sure it's fair to compare that with the others.