skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more discriminate than bombs, but like poisoning food and hoping it gets to the right target I think anything where you don't actually see the person before choosing to detonate isn't that surgical either. They couldn't actually check if the pagers were on the targets at the time or etc.
>English names already have an allocated space in my brain. Fake names that follow the pattern of English names are usually easy to slot into the existing system.

I often 'round' them to the nearest English name or just see a long string of letters and mentally think 'the guy with the S name'. It gets confusing when there are additional weird names all starting with S though. Even relatively short names, if they are weird, I'll notice halfway through the book that I've been mentally pronouncing them as if 2 of the letters were swapped in a way to feels more natural.
Hang on, you've jumped on my response without the context. I'm specifically responding to someone who stated there isn't law or customs of war surrounding this, when infact there clearly are.

Beyond that, you are projecting a view or thing I haven't done.

EDIT:
You've ninja edited your comment to something very different now.

Originally it said,

> This is wild to me. Wars are fought in cities all the time, by countries across the globe, with civilians killed by the thousands. But when Israel chooses to take a different path and attacks Hezbollah with small explosives hidden in devices known to have been sold to Hezbollah members people start citing the Geneva convention.
The Geneva Convention calls for the use of "all feasible precautions" to be taken in protecting civilians, but does not requirer perfection. How else would you advise a nation to defend itself without violating this principle?
One point that's always lost in all the back and forth WFH/RTO discussion is that due to tech hiring patterns over the last 4 years very few teams all work in the same location anymore. Before Covid if you scheduled a meeting ~everyone on the invite would physically be in the same room. The fabled hallway/watercooler conversations could happen because entire business units and cross-functional teams were in the same section on the same floor. There was real value in everyone coming together.

Today the vast majority of tech employees I know who have ben mandated to go back to the office do exactly what they do at home – join Zoom meetings and talk to teammates in other offices/homes, just with lots of added inconvenience like commuting, not being able to find an open desk or meeting room and working in a loud environment.
This doesn't sound like the academics', or even administrators' fault- this is being imposed by the state university system. Reading between the lines the change is a response to political pressure to reduce costs and impose restrictions on curricula.
Yes, they solved it. I forget what they did in that case, but IIRC it was like, that night or early next morning the piano showed up. And I got a phone call from someone in JB's office.

Even last week I had a similar experience:

Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:24:04 -1000

Subject: the journey of the thermometer

From: Breck Yunits <breck7@gmail.com>

To: jeff@amazon.com

ORDER NUMBER
112-0027370-6957065

Please don't ask me to explain. Look at the shipping history. The package
has travelled from Hawaii to California. I am in Hawaii. WTF?? October
deliver for an amazon prime 2 day?!!!!

please fix.

thanks lov ya bye!

------

Within hours I got a voicemail:

"Hi, this is Heidi calling from the Amazon executive customer department calling you regarding to the email you sent to Andy Jesse"

And Amazon identified and fixed the problem and gave me a $30 gift card.

----

I tell all the startups I invest in: if the CEO of $1T Amazon with 1.6 million employees can intelligently handle receiving constructive customer emails over a $10 purchase, why can't you?
Show HN: AI spelling and grammar checker for docs
Hey HN! Spellcaster is a Python-based CLI tool for running spelling and grammar checks across documentation files.

LLMs are great proofreaders, and while rule-based spellcheckers exist, we noticed there wasn’t a good CLI tool that leveraged AI agents. So we built one! Spellcaster came together over a weekend at the Mintlify AI DevTools hackathon in San Francisco[0], where it won the Best Demo Award.

We ran Spellcaster against several large open source projects and identified hundreds of readability issues in their docs. Some popular ones:

* Cursor: 116 errors

* Mintlify 245

* Vercel: 1053 (My favorite was Vercel spelling "Lorem ipsum" wrong in one of their pages).

Spellcaster uses LiteLLM for easy model swapping and AgentOps for cost and error tracking.

[0] https://x.com/AlexReibman/status/1834524984183767276
I don't know who invested in this particular fund. But obviously, hedge funds losing money would be bad for institutional investors.
Tek would have cost reduced that gear and it was in progress when it was all torn down. Tek would have also continued to make more great gear. That spirit stopped.

Tek was also getting nice returns on several of the more successful startups.

Vollum was no fool.

Snark mode = 1

You mean traded our future for baubles and trinkets today?

Yeah, I agree!

Snark mode = 0

I will ask again:

Where does our next generation of skilled labor come from?

And don't tell me we won't need it because automation. I have automated many things and will do so again, but I never managed to find a robot looking for a good meal, or a home, etc...

At some point we need to look at this in terms of our own, or we will be living in even more of a dystopia than the already growing one threatens to be.

If we do not ask and answer the question, "how do our future leaders and builders, mechanics make it?", they won't. And the cost on that is a lot higher than many will admit it is.
That's also risky because of the potential for hot spots. I microwave things regularly, but in glazed ceramic.
> > There was no capital investment, because why pay to have a huge line that isn't being used.

I was specifically talking about war materiel. The US is not doing great at making things like low-tech artillery shells, because we've not had a large line running for them for quite some time. In retrospect, it would have been better to have a bigger stockpile and to be paying for more line capacity.

Things are steadily ramping, but it's taken a good year and a half to get to the quantities we now want.

> > Military are terrible customers ... You spend a lot of effort and business just evaporates.

> This only applies to companies that lack vision, that seem to only be able to keep stamping out the same widget as 20 years ago.

Nah, vision or not: political winds change and projects get killed. Being involved in an early program is exceptionally high risk: you need to start ramping to do the whole thing and you may get a good return on capital or a pittance.

> Seems like a lack of leadership, instead of an existential proof that Tek can't compete.

The overwhelming majority of the test equipment marketplace has commoditized out. This is a problem if you're still mostly a test equipment vendor. It would be even worse if Tek had higher costs.

> This actually sounds like the kind of visionary leadership that Tek or the larger Portland metro needs.

In those sentences, I'm not talking about Tek: I'm saying the United States has, as elementary economics predicted, specialized in areas where it has a comparative advantage over other countries. It is not possible to have a comparative advantage in "everything."
Cobb doesn't sell full emissions delete. They sell performance maps which, yes, increases emissions slightly, not 300x. These aren't the devices you buy to roll coal. And its mostly 1-1 sales.

750k F-150s getting sub 20MPG is the bigger problem than the niche tuner market.
I’ve posted four comments here on Microsoft in the last 30 days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41499957

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41408124

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41335757

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41327379

None of which fit your description of “neckbeardy tropes about their products being garbage spyware, switch to Linux, they're stealing your data, the OS is trash”.

And it isn’t just me, because if you look at those comments, I was talking to other people who weren’t invoking those “neckbeardy tropes” either
Depending on the target and the severity of the vulnerability the vendor might consider fixing the vulnerability even if EOL.

If the target is an IOT device the vulnerability will likely be mass exploited to create a botnet.

The U.S. government recently ‘took control’ of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers made of 260,000 Internet of Things devices... (Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/u-s-government-took-contro...)
Terrorism, by definition, is directed against civilians. Hezbollah militants are not civilians. Hezbollah is recognized as a terrorist organization by US, EU, Canada and League of Arab States among others. The declared goal of Hezbollah is to fight US and Israel.

Pagers and radios are used for their communication. That means that it is a military equipment.
You are right it is much better, but it's not automatically helpful. Bottled beers have been shown to still have phthalates:

https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5637/9/2/125#:~:text=Especially%20....

>The lowest minimal total phthalates were found in glass bottles (7.07 µg/L), whereas the highest were determined to be in cans, at 101.60 µg/L.

Even though they are significantly better than plastic and aluminum (lined with plastic) containers, they still contain phthalates.

Also worth noting that the FDA has explicitly denied petitions to ban them in food:

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-and-gras-ingredients....

>On May 19, 2022, the FDA denied this petition.

>the petition also did not demonstrate the proposed class of phthalates is no longer safe for the approved food additive uses.

This despite a mountain of evidence, going back 10+ years, showing that phthalates are endocrine disrupting chemicals.
You are dead on
> 81k tuners which can each flash any number of trucks

Cobb hardware has a 1:1 "marriage" system with a given vehicle.

> a full emissions delete on a diesel pickup emits ~300x the pollution of an unmodified vehicle

This is gasoline tuning.

I agree that diesel defeat tuning is awful and should be aggressively destroyed. This isn't that. The calculus for gas tuning is dramatically different from diesel; the fundamental reason is basically that the operating range for a gas engine is tighter and they simply can't be made as dirty as a diesel (plus, the engines are generally physically smaller and just can't pump as much pollutant out no matter how hard you try).
No info, yet. Still curious how they went from supply chain to the end targets. It's not like Hezbollah leaders met with a guy in a trenchcoat and were told "only hand this out to your top guys, these pagers/walkies are really good!"
2nd Gen Starlink Has 30x RF Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations
I've been trying to extract historycommons.org from wayback and it is an uphill battle, even to grab the ~198 pages it says it collected. Even back in the days after 9/11 when it rose to prominence I was shuddering at the site's dynamically served implementation. These were the days of Java and they loaded down the server side with CPU time when it'd rather be serving static items... from REAL directories. With REAL If-Modified-Since: virtual support file attributes set from the combined database update times ... which seems to have gone by the wayside on the Internet completely.

Everything everywhere is now Last-Modified today, now, just for YOU! Even if it hasn't changed. Doesn't that make you happy? Do you have a PROBLEM with that??

Everything unique at the site was after the ? and there was more than one way to get 'there', there being anywhere.

I suspect that many tried to whack the site then finally gave up. I got a near-successful whack once after lots of experimenting, but said to myself then "This thing will go away, and it's sad".

That treasure is not reliably archived.

Suggestion: Even if the whole site is spawned from a database, choose a view that presents everything once and only once, and present to the world a group of pages that completely divulge the content with slash-separators only /x/y/z/xxx.(html|jpg|etc) with no duplicitous tangents IF the crawler ignores everything after the ? ... and place actual static items in a hierarchy. The most satisfying crawl is one where you can do this, knowing that the archive will be complete and relevant and there is no need to 'attack' the server side with processes-spawning.
painted pottery produced in large, centralized workshops; bronze knives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majiayao_culture

pottery wheels; ultra-thin polished black "egg-shell" pottery; silk; indoor plumbing; dagger-axes; elaborately carved jade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longshan_culture

lacquerware and tin bronze knives and pots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Xiajiadian_culture
Neuralink gets FDA's breakthrough device tag for 'Blindsight' implant
here's the prior HN post about that tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21224209
You can't automate it. You have to look at the data and charts to figure out the specifics you want and then you plug and chug. I haven't looked deeply at this though but whenever researchers use relative risk and it shows a profound effect, I always calculate the absolute risk to make sure that the intervention is effective.

Many researchers go to relative risk because it shows better results!
You're assuming that the employee wants that exception made and doesn't see the writing on the wall.
A $600M Anti-Chesterton Fence that nobody knows why it’s there and everyone’s scared to touch.
I'm generally a Hanlon’s razor advocate. Never attribute to malice what can be sufficiently explained by incompetence.

With that said this example strains even my ability to justify the incompetence angle.
> It's funny to think that there are members of Hezbollah here on HN.

It's worth remembering that Hezbollah as a whole is more than just the paramilitary branch which is commonly referred to as a terrorist organization. Some entities (like the EU) only considers the paramilitary arm of Hezbollah as a terrorist group, while the rest is a proper political organization.

Like always, things aren't quite as black and white as many want it to be.
And the person complaining will say "unless you can guarantee a greater than 50% chance of that happening in the period we're budgeting for, we're not going to bother with all of that work."
The car headlight forums seem to expose the weakness of small web though, in that a lot of the forums that show up in search are "sponsored" by one or two major brands and any open discussion or validation of off-brand solutions, AliExpress parts, etc are quickly shunned or banned.
Flagged: The linked article doesn't provide anything beyond a headline and a video showing unrelated headlines.
mosquito eels with diseases
This is title seems to be quite the overstatement of the facts.
In capitalism thats a wanted and necessary feature, under a socialist system thats an unfortunate accident. I gotta admit, it very likely happened because workers republics had to do what needed to be done to survive relentless attacks of western oligarchies.
so if it's

1> in the systemd repo

2> if it's written and maintained by the same people who write systemd

3> if systemd is in the NAME

I don't really know what more is needed to say it a
is part of systemd
Infect is the wrong word. Implant is better. I’m certain we’ll find that high explosives were inserted into the affected devices en-route.
Or the vendor might want to warn users about the vulnerability. It is a different story to stay “there might be vulnerabilities, consider updating to some other gizmo” vs “there is a vulnerability, you have to abandon the gizmo”.
Yes, this is the actual domain that ABC news uses for some reason.

ABC news is an extremely well known US news organization. For a random example it was just the host of the US presidential debate a few days ago.
I can see the full article, still no "Hungary".
Reminds me of a modern macOS version of “Everything” for windows. Love the concept!

It would be interesting if there was an option to add additional devices, such as a MacBook or iPhone, and search across all of them at once.

Alternatively if you want to preserve isolation perhaps a mobile app would suffice.

If you built an interface that we could plug other platforms into, I could see that being helpful, akin to what raycast has done with their extensions.
Everything you say explains why R is a great language in academia, and why people in research will stay away from "software engineering"-oriented languages like Java and JavaScript. Researchers already have too much to worry about.
So, when the page now says "$6.51/hr // $4,752/mo", that's really just presenting the same actual cost you'd have to pay, across two different time metrics? As in, you pay $6.51/hr, or you pay $4,752/mo, same thing, but not both?

I think you need to consider: Your competitors (e.g. AWS) generally structure annual commitments as an upfront (or monthly) payment + a reduced cost per hour/minute for the resource being reserved; that's the lens through which most people viewing this page will be thinking. If that is not how you structure annual commitments, then that should be made very clear.

If my first paragraph is correct (and again, the page is still confusing, its not obvious to me that this interpretation is correct): You should list one price, and give a dropdown at the top to change the computation of that price across whatever timeframe the user wants ($/hr, $/day, $/month, etc). That would also free up some space in-line to put a chip that says something like "-15% discount!".
Erlang is a secret weapon.
Even if brands have died, companies admitting it is somewhat novel.
Oh yes, I'm not blaming this on China in any way. Rather, this has crystallized the risk of having all manufacturing outsourced, one way or the other - out of control of "trusted allies", whatever that means. Somehow, things we 100% know can happen are much scarier once they actually happen.
The retirement payment is based on the employee's work history, age, and earnings, rather than on investment returns.
I assume you are correct but how can we know rather than assume? I am not sure we can, so why get worked up about "internet died in 2021" when many would claim with similar conviction that it's been dead since 2012, or 2007, or ...
UOH!
I've used both and NATS is definitely what I'd pick starting out. RabbitMQ is great too, but its heavier and harder to configure. Federation is the killer feature of RabbitMQ that NATS doesn't really have (afaik?).
Love it, such a straightforward formulation.
But they didn’t arbitrarily poison food and hope it got to their target, poisoning all sorts of civilians along the way. That is a strawman.

These devices were not used by non-militants. These devices were used for communications, by militants. No civilian was “playing with” or using these devices, as they were issued by Hezbollah to their operatives. It would be no different from targeting specific guns used by Hezbollah and booby-trapping them to shoot backwards. That is a targeted attack.
Standardized/commoditized cost data has been a big win and makes public cloud feel a little less dirty. I give these guys credit for opencost + finops focus
It is a partisan fight for the government to build and offer tax software. Huge uphill battle to build out infrastructure code projects.
SiFive Introduces Intelligence XM Series for AI Workload Acceleration
Nobody is going to be able to answer that question immediately.

With the pagers and radios, it's pretty clear that it was limited to Hezbollah according to Hezbollah's own statements.
This just underscores the fact (IMHO) we need a "cash for clunkers" program for obsolete and unsupported devices. I mean I'd love to see more moonshot programs like DARPA's Tractor but in the meantime why not create incentives to get insecure equipment off the net?
Gotta protect our military base in the Middle Ea- oops, I meant our "greatest ally" in the Middle East!
I know everyone hates "I asked ChatGPT" comments but...I feel it's relevant here.

It came to roughly the same conclusion as the gp comment when provided with the study PDF.

https://chatgpt.com/share/66eb09e3-7a74-8008-afa8-3b60161d24...

(Though obviously this approach still requires you to go and look at the PDF yourself to make sure it isn't making anything up)
Set 10% of all electric car batteries on fire at the same time and we're in trouble. Or half of mobile phones.
Governments aren't able to manage their way out of a wet paper bag unless it threatens their existence.
With papermill you can parametrize a notebook and run it on different inputs to check that it is not raising uncaught exceptions. This can be wrapped to be part of a pytest test suite, possibly via a some ad-hoc pytest fixture or plugin.

If the notebooks themselves contain assertions to check that expectations on the outputs are met, then you have an automated way to check that the notebooks behave the way you want on some test inputs. For long notebooks, this is more like integration/functional tests rather than unit tests, but I think this is already an improvement over manually run notebooks.

Note sure about strict types: you mean running mypy on a notebook? Maybe this can be helpful:

- https://pypi.org/project/nb-mypy/

About linters, you can install `jupyterlab-lsp` and `python-lsp-ruff` together for instance.
Back to the old web scrapping you go.
> It's interesting that you are only seeing it on the "left".

One explanation is that now things have switched round, and people with left-wings beliefs, sometimes extremely life-wing beliefs, control a lot of institutions and structures. People who are my age (too old) grew up with the right being in that position, but I don't think that's a contemporary instinct to possess.
I don't understand the 'lie' part here. How is what I stated false? The rest of what you said doesn't invalidate my points.
The day to day toxicity is highly dependent on your team, manager, and skip. My current team is great, my manager is halfway decent, and my skip is basically invisible to my team in a day to day sense. I've seen a few other teams where it's very clear there's cutthroat politics going on and they're all miserable.

Organizational toxicity, like the original 3 day RTO and now 5 day RTO change, is the bigger problem. My L8 and L10 both learned of the 5 day RTO change at the same time as everyone else, meaning the S-Team made a decision and didn't give a heads up to anyone - probably because they don't care about feedback or data. Organizational toxicity also takes the form of stack ranking, URA metrics, and changes to promotion requirements over the last year to make them more difficult at all levels.

I'm coming up on my 2 year mark and more than ready to find something else, but it seems like fully remote security roles are pretty competitive right now.
Both of you have me a good laugh. Love it!
So how about NATS compared to RabbitMQ? If building from scratch, what would drive a design or team towards NATS?
There must be some other ostensible purpose for a brand than "to make money". People who would buy the hypothetical Disney phone would have other reasons than "to give Disney money". Nobody has that as a goal when buying stuff.
This is so cool =]