skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they considered any Hezbollah member carrying one of these pagers to be a legitimate target. Why are senior administrators at hospitals and media workers carrying military command and control equipment?

If it turns out that large numbers of non-military personnel were carrying pagers that blew up, I'll be wrong about this, and I'll say so. My belief that this isn't the case isn't because I have any particular faith in Israel; it's because of the previous reporting about why Hezbollah had people carrying pagers: because it believed Israel was going to target these people through their cellphones. Pagers suck! I think people are carrying these things (or were; nobody's carrying any pagers anymore!) because they have to.

I don't know what "benefit of the doubt" means in this situation. Israel and Hezbollah are at war. War is ruthless.

Anyways all this is to say: Hezbollah is a military peer to Israel (I mean, I think Israel would win, but it wouldn't be easy). "Terrorism" has nothing to do with this. The conflict to me is fundamentally amoral, bilaterally, in a way that isn't the case with Gaza. Israel doesn't occupy Lebanon or control Hezbollah's supply lines. These are two opposing armies doing what armies do during hostilities.
One possibility is to replace part of the battery. The smaller battery can be designed to lie about its charge, or you can replace with a higher energy-density battery and use the space saved for a detonation system (perhaps even incorporating the battery itself into this) and a small quantity of high explosive, which is pretty stable and safe until detonated. Contrary to popular belief, high explosives are actually relatively safe, and usually even burn safely or are hard to ignite at all in some cases. Package it up into something that looks identical to an unmodified battery. Modify device firmware and battery control circuitry to detonate it on receipt of a specific signal and... boom.
That taxation exists and is widely regarded as necessary (evil) in the first place is a sobering reminder of the average IQ of the populace.
Rustpad is an efficient and minimal open-source collaborative text editor
> a simple hill climbing algorithm

Not at all. There is no such thing in a landscape that is changing on time scales that are visible to people, as our societies are. You can't stay stuck on a local maximum if the landscape changes it out from under you. You have to keep reconsidering things.

> you're happy to waste time arguing against them?

The (pretty limited) time I have spent posting in this discussion has not been wasted. I'm having fun.
Upon getting sequoia it asked if I wanted their new windows tiling or rectangle’s. Rectangle has been good to me, so I stuck with it
I saw that usage pattern, but then noticed that zeroes in times are slashed.

So, "slashed in strings even if non-alpha, but non-slashed in numerics, and times are strings"? Seems viable enough, but I'd choose consistency instead. :)
> A society that isn't lifted by redistributing wealth through taxes creates nothing but a more inequal and dangerous society for everyone.

I mean.... the government is taking tax money from the "poor" (so, normal workers, who cannot avoid paying taxes the way the article described, and whatever new way will be used after the changes), and giving them to a few friendly corporations who give back a percentage to politicians and normal peple usually get nothing.
If you are using getaddrinfo directly, you likely wouldn't bother to implement Happy Eyeballs, for example.
> I didn't. It's really going over your head here.

You think you didn't, but you did. Again: police don't just shoot people preemptively. They do so when there is a risk of injury or death.

You might not believe their threat assessment is reasonable; but you are not the one trained to understand these situations, and you have presumably not had to negotiate them yourself.

Nobody is saying that the police should be excused for shooting people because they're in a job where they could get shot at. They're saying the police should be excused for shooting people because they had a real reason to believe that the person who was shot would otherwise shoot them first. (Or charge at them with a knife from within 6 metres or so, etc.)

This is not done for the purpose of killing - that is just a frequent consequence of the standard practice to minimize the chance of being the victim. Anything else would be irresponsible.

> I just did, in two different ways.

No, you didn't. You described some forms of argument. You gave no reason to believe that anyone actually presents such arguments.

> I don't know why you're fighting me on this, to me this is painfully obvious.

Because to me, the opposite is painfully obvious. I can recall "literally infinite" examples of people telling me that the discourse worked the way you describe, me looking into it, and me promptly finding that the other person was simply mistaken.

> I was very careful not to mention any specific circumstances purely so we wouldn't go down this rabbit hole.

Which is another way to say that you did not provide evidence.

I tire of this.
It surely must be in violation of international law due to its potentially reckless/indiscriminate nature
The 0% above 2:55 makes sense at least since it's the BAA's new cutoff this year for males <35yo (the default on the calculator):https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/qualify
And how many of those wounded are totally unconnected bystanders, who just happened to be standing next to the individual in the grocery store or wherever?
Sony Joins a Crypto Push in Japan as Calls Grow for Looser Rules
I don't know if its overly harsh, but ill give you harsh.

The thing is Python deserves all the hate JS gets and more.

1. The foot guns are real and mean (look up Mutable Default Arguments)

2. The language pushes beginners towards some bad habits (Deep inheritance) and away from good ones (Functional)

3. The performance is very poor (both single and multi threaded)

4. There are no real safe guards, and unexpected type behaviour

5. The packaging story is archaic with no fix in site. (There exist no standard out of the box way to guarantee deterministic builds)

Sure its good at Data, but that is a cultural accident, not by design.
What you're asking for is a naked singularity. Nothing can produce that, not even another black hole.
Scalable data pre processing and curation toolkit for AI
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The difference is not linear but I switch between 60 and 144 Hz monitors, as well as ordinary and high-resolution mice, on a regular basis, and the difference is definitely noticeable.

Neither of these things are "high-end" anymore though. You can get decent high-res mice for $50 and 120 Hz monitors for $250.
I appreciate that an expert institution designed a font for low vision readers with actual research. Every time I run an app that has OpenDyslexic as a font choice I die a little inside. It's the worst sort of "pretend to be helping" option. It actually is worse for reading than ordinary fonts. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629233/
What do you qualify as a "modern mainstream Android device"?

I think the median Android device out there in the world today — just by sheer volume of them produced — is probably a "Welcome" phone with a MediaTek 6580 chipset and a faked-capacity SD card; i.e. hardware that couldn't possibly run any Android version made in the last six years.

(Such phones could in theory run Android Go... but they often don't, because these devices are often running non-Google-Play-Store AOSP derivatives — and there's no un-Googled version of Android Go.)
The desktop version of this processor will be announced in a month or so.

It will have proper cooling and a higher TDP.

Will be interesting to compare it for sure!
Artillery != rockets. And importantly artillery from Israel is much more targeted and predictable than unguided rockets. Hezbollah has launched about 14k rockets as of late June: https://www.newsweek.com/chart-shows-increae-hezbollah-rocke...

Just on its face, with Hezbollah launching sometimes hundreds of rockets per day, didn’t you suspect what you posted was misleading?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-h...

In a surprise to no one except you
I think the planners of the operation weren't your average terrorist: They outmatched the border barriers' design basis threat, they knew the default Israeli response and targeted critical c4i nodes to hinder it, and they had a bit of luck and a lot of audacity. Those added up to a black day for Israel.
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.” — Edsger Dijkstra
I seem to read more fiction now than I ever have, but much of it now slips through publishing (and editing)

So novels that start like that make me read uphill. Way better to plunge into the book.

The first few lines of books I recently liked...

"DEATH CAME FOR him through the trees."

"Gallegher played by ear, which would have been all right had he been a musician - but he was a scientist. A drunken and erratic one, but good."

“Like any good story, it began with a girl. It was supposed to end with a bullet."

"The level was at his top lip now. Even with his head pressed hard back against the stones of the cell wall his nose was only just above the surface. He wasn’t going to get his hands free in time; he was going to drown."

a little conflicted on this one:

"ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1988, the Jason Taverner Show ran thirty seconds short. A technician, watching through the plastic bubble of the control dome, froze the final credit on the video section, then pointed to Jason Taverner, who had started to leave the stage. The technician tapped his wrist, pointed to his mouth."

The books that made me read uphill in sentence 1 loosely correlate with the rest of the book.

Makes me think of the MrBeast pdf from yesterday wrt the first crucial seconds of a youtube video.
I agree frameworks like this are great to see. I wonder how it compares with https://nicegui.io which is something I've used to build several small web applications in pure python (and wrap one up with their included pyinstaller based packer into an executable).. Either way, also glad to see competition in the space.
Try adjusting the slider! Gives us hope.
I find the ending particularly funny, we have a small team where we're often building things in-house that we should probably just buy, or rely on manual processes for.

The fumbling with "oops, there's some test data in here" and the issues with the service worker hit a little close to home from some of our demos I've been a part of.
> Ridiculous, permanent, tech debt such as hardcoded compiler exceptions are permanently living in the compiler codebase.

A little search-engining didn’t surface info about this, could you point me in the right direction?
The biggest feature here in that regard is the static, Linux SDK and cross platform foundation library
I don't see this as a smart move (let alone strategy) in any time frame. As a third-party observer greatly removed from the conflict I used to view Israel as an island under attack from terrorists. Now I'm struggling to see the differences between their activities and blowing up airplanes or launching rockets from schools and hospitals. You can say I'm naive, and why would Israel care about how I feel, but as a country and a people they only exist as long as we're their benefactor, and I don't think I'm alone in how I feel.
You don't have to intercept a shipment and tamper at large scale with incredible speed if you're posing as the supplier.

That's what I believe happened. Specially likely if you consider that terrorist orgs are not exactly putting RFPs or doing large orders at legit vendors. That gives you the chance to pose as a helpful supplier that operates on the down low and accepts cash on delivery, etc.
They wouldn’t benefit from performance because as you say they are already blazing fast as is. And I know what you mean — I rewrote a pure (granted old pre-2.0) pandas transformation into duckdb and compute time dropped from nearly an hour to single digit minutes.

But having these in Graal would allow more types of applications to be deployed in JVM stacks. As sibling comments note, many data science models are in python but production stacks are in Java.
> I know that the first AI winter started by not getting enough funding.

Well.. not quite. The funding was government funding. The opponents got behind things like the lighthill report [1] and had the government funding cut.

IMNSHO this was the right thing to do. The claims were overblown and it was wasting national funds in research. But it was pretty political. People stopped talking to each other for decades. I was a 12 year old in this time, My dad was in the trenches in the opposition to AI funding camp so that's my bias. Nothing which has come since makes me re-consider this, I might say that modern-day private capital JV/VC funding has been a bit silly, but in the end it's private funds so it's their call.

[1] Lighthill, James (1973). "Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey" http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/reports/l...
It’s too slow. I can’t stand waiting for builds on what I would call a medium sized project.

I haven’t given 6.0 a full effort yet, but a couple test compiles without any tuning showed only incremental improvements.
I actually just finished making a service that does something similar, but it also transforms the transcripts to make them into polished written documents with complete sentences and nice markdown formatting. It also can generate interactive multiple choice quizzes. And it supports editing of the markdown files with revision history and one click hosting.

I'm still doing the last testing of the site, but might as well share it here since it's so relevant:

https://youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/

There might still be a few rough edges, so keep that in mind!
Interesting, but also irrelevant - because the sorts of tests in question certainly are meaningful; it's not obvious a priori that such a correlation should be expected between them; and the extracted correlate has demonstrable predictive power.
It's BrailleInstitute, an org catering to those with visual impairments. Understandably, their site is accommodating to their core audience.
An honorific. So much of this dynamic language performance improvement on the Graal JVM was proven out by Chris Seaton.

May he rest in peace.
Deterrence happened to be the stated purpose of the Lidice massacre. And it probably "deterred" the Czech resistance. That in and of itself did not legalize the attack. Here we have an Israeli attack involving indiscriminate maiming. You are claiming that "inspiring fear" and "deterrence" legitimizes this attack. The attack targeted pagers and anyone in vicinity of those pagers. That's exactly equivalent of dropping a bomb in a trashcan and saying you targeted soldiers that may or may not pass by as the bomb detonates.
macos may bypass LITTLE SNITCH'S encrypted dns proxy, more like it.
So, um, this website expects a nontrivial amount of their traffic to be sight impaired. It probably isn't designed this way for your benefit if this is your complaint.
*on all methods

And then in main:

try {
// whatever
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Oops!");
}
Gauß wasn’t jewish and it was a Christian cemetery. The gravestone insinuates the form of a cross and the David star just symbolizes the Old Testament.
I understood it more as "the individuals should be taxed the same (so, much lower amount) as corporations".

If company X can pay just <small percent> of their income as taxes (all together), why can't random bobby do the same?

The law requires you to have a fire extinguisher in your office? Sure, buy one, but since it's a cost of doing business, that money comes from the pre-tax pile and is not taxed extra. The law requires me to wear pants when I go out, why do i have to buy them from post-tax pile of money (so, after ~50% gone to the government), and still pay 9.5% VAT on them? I can buy those same black jeans as a company (eg. consider black jeans a work uniform), and avoid all those taxes). Rent? Pre-tax money for a comoany, post-tax for an individual. In some countries (eg. mine, slovenia) you have even bigger stupidities... you have a CO2 tax (and some other) on gasoline (and other fuels), and you pay VAT on top of that tax... the co2 tax included in the base to calculate the VAT... you literally pay taxes on taxes. Again, businesses don't have to pay that VAT (they deduct it) because well.. they need the company car to do business.
so the only types of videos this is suitable for, it doesnt work on
Question: assuming there were explosives inside the pager, what would happen if the owner of such device would try to board an airplane?
exactly. The most charitable way to look at this is Israel targeted a handful fewer bystanders than a terrorist attack. I can't imagine anyone thinking longer-term strategy thought thought this was a good idea.
I first used Excel on Windows 3.1 and over the decades since have opened countless CSV files with it. I have never observed this behavior.
Python 3 was a painful episode and I lingered on 2.7 and only ported over around 3.6.

But now 3.11 is fine again. Looking forward to faster releases.
> all things I don’t have the ability to verify at home.

It's really noticeable that any stuff on shady online marketplaces will lie about any parameter typical consumers have no ability to test at home...

Eg. the "200,000 mAh" USB battery banks... Actual testing showed it to be 7,000 mAh...
One of the testimonials implies that they've forced all websites to use this font, and it improved their experience significantly.

I suspect that would be true of Arial, even! This has been my goal for some time, but no browser has such an option. (You can change the default font, but almost no website leaves it set to default, so it does nothing.)
The implications of weaponising a lithium battery, which seems like what was done, are potentially really significant.

Lithium batteries are everywhere, most of them significantly larger than the one in a small pager. This includes secure environments like military/intelligence facilities and aircraft.

Proof that a lithium battery pack can be weaponised as a bomb, in a way that avoids easy detection, should be a significant concern to anyone who tries to maintain the security of those spaces.
Context for those not following running news, The Boston Marathon lowered qualifying times for most prospective runners for 2026 race [0]. Because the Boston Marathon has limited capacity, you can only run if you either:

1) raise $5k+ for a charity (limited spots)

2) run a full marathon below* a qualifying time

The reason it's below* is because even if you run under a qualifying time, there may be enough people even faster than you that fill up the available spots.

This results in some years where you needed to be many minutes faster than the posted qualifying time to guarantee a spot, and every few years, the BAA (group in charge of Boston Marathon) drops the qualifying times.

Note, even though the qualifying times have been dropping, they have been even faster in the past (see the 1980s)[1]

As someone that's done the Boston Marathon a few times, I am glad they are trying to find a good balance of reasonable qualifying times for the most participation without dramatically expanding the field. I'm also always surprised with how popular and well known this marathon is given the NYC marathon (and others) are harder to get into, only about 2 of the miles are actually in Boston [2], and the start/finish are so far away making participating a logistic headache. But that could be what gives it the charm and why I'm now thinking about doing 2026

[0] https://apnews.com/article/boston-marathon-qualifying-times-...

[1]https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/qualify/history-qu...

[2]https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-marathon-route-ma....
Completely disagree. I cannot think of a more successful, large scale, targeted attack in recent memory. The engineering behind this was incredible.
~ 450 miles per day
Oh, I'm certainly taking it with a giant pile of salt alright, because what you said was insulting nonsense pointed directly at remote workers. And you can't say don't draw generic conclusions when you tried to do exactly that.
That's because hardware has bent over backwards to maintain the illusion of the C memory model.
I said I already don't enjoy a 30-minute commute. Even if housing is free I would not choose a 90-minute commute.
I don't know - it would seem that the wars there don't end, it's just continuous with intermittent slow downs.
Agreed. Will be interesting if there is a teardown or not.
There is a clear legal distinction in fact between tax evasion and tax avoidance. Tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is not. Tax evasion means you are doing something illegal to not pay taxes, taxes that you would otherwise owe for example if the government had total knowledge of your financial records. Tax avoidance means you are staying within the letter of the law and that your actions taken in the process of doing everything you can to limit the taxes you owe are legal actions.

It's quite simply the difference between taking legal and illegal action. And if the IRS were to be fully aware of what you've done, whether you have broken the law or not. With tax avoidance you do everything you can to not actually break the law (you want to take max advantage without crossing the line). With tax evasion you are breaking the law.

The IRS will almost always try to nail you for tax evasion if they find out what you're doing. The IRS will rarely be able to get you for something related to tax avoidance if you're very careful / strict about it and stay within the letter of the law. Obviously this applies in the US context, however I find that very commonly when people discuss tax evasion vs tax avoidance, they're talking about the premise I'm talking about: one is about taking illegal actions, one is legal and narrowly walks the letter of the law to limit taxes.
I took out the word "even" (and other words) to make it fit. Sorry. That's the best I came up with without entirely making up my own title.
I think the problem many people have is that Israel's goals entirely revolve around killing people.

That is: If your goal is to murder someone, and you accidentally kill an innocent bystander in committing that murder, the number of civilians killed is infinitely too high. The number of acceptable total deaths is 0.

I understand this is idealistic. But it's the judgement many will choose to make. For the record, no I don't only think it's bad when Israel murders people.
The information we have is that an L7 and their manager believed the rewrite was valuable to the company
> Unless you can spin up your own fab

Huh, which fabs does Israel have?
Given the amount of foreign EVs already in this country, let's hope not.