skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a legal perspective, are there any regulations on these kinds of attacks? Meaning, are they allowed? Are they considered a war crime or maybe this is still a gray area?
if the most common social media platforms (e.g. facebook, twitter) would count downvotes (does not have to be 1-1), then the most outrageous posts would not get to the top. Pretty easy actually. Also, I do not believe that "rage" really makes a platform better in the long term (or necessarily more profitable).

Of course that is only one aspect but it would help a lot wrt online culture and propaganda.
Back in the day we did plenty of "real world professional projects" with jQuery.

I don't see why you couldn't with Alpine.

Yeah at some point you may need a more sophisticated solution but plenty of projects don't need React. This very forum you're using is just a very simple vanilla js file.
You can fight the good fight in social situations too, you just have to come at it sideways and make people laugh rather than engaging in head-on pedantry.
...but this does sound like it would make a hilarious Family Guy episode.
You've been using HN primarily to post about this topic. That sort of single-agenda account is not allowed here—see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for why.

I've therefore banned this as well as what appears to be a different account you've been using to do the same thing. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with—it will eventually get your main account banned as well.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I suppose I need to add that this has nothing to do with your views on the underlying topic. Plenty of other HN users share your views while remaining within the site guidelines. It's when an account crosses into using HN primarily for this purpose that a moderation line is crossed.
I don't think it takes much to 'flood' a hospital in Lebanon though. They country has been a mess since the big explosion. They barely have power.
If one has the proclivity, then: One can get into rather far into troubleshooting and (and ultimately repairing) common modern automotive electronics with an Autel rig that, adjusted for inflation, costs less than an Atari 2600 did.
Why not?
When was anything Israeli-made involved in any funny business?
I mean officially Israeli-made, not... this.
If it were a modern book we wouldn't talk about it in terms of story, we'd talk about it in terms of world building. A world where gods and goddesses exists and directly influence humanity. A world with great heroes and kings and warriors and battles. A world where everyone is pretty flawed and its frankly pretty hilarious - Achilles pouting and kicking his heels is one of the funniest plots in western literature.

Any story anywhere can be stripped to 'x does y and then z'.
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>Amazon engineering is 80%+ h1bs.

That sounds staggering. Is there a way to verify this?
>You've just injured and identified most of your enemies, incapacitated them, completely broken their communication network and effectively given you weeks of disarray to do whatever you want to further disrupt them.

And affected their recruitment. Because of how pagers are worn, a significant number of injuries are going to be genital injuries.

Given, that your primary recruits are young men, that is important.

In that demographic, the young men may actually fear non-lethal genital injuries more than they actually fear death.
Watching the grocery store security video, I think a multi-directional shaped charge is plausible with pressure evident in two directions. But very hard to draw any conclusions.
Which one more specifically?
Mossad said - "Explain to me why it is more noble to kill 10,000 men in battle than a dozen at dinner."
The way I understand it, autism is no a disease. Both in that there is no single cause, but a collection of traits. And in that some people have autism don't view it as something that needs to be cured.

Happy to be corrected by someone with more expertise.

Let's hope the research will further improve our understanding and can provide help where needed.
I've even had this discussion with people in at least adjacent roles to mine. We could put together ten very serviceable conference submittals tomorrow that we could spend a week turning into very competent conference presentations within a week. They wouldn't be brilliant but they'd be "good" relative to the norm. It's just one of the things we can crank out like we crank out blogs/columns.
...in mice!
Is it? Why spend so much time learning PHP when you can just use JS?
Extraordinarily low effort list of random crap. I'm sure if we tried we could extend this a lot farther than ancient fork bombs, chmod, and a mkfs command that wouldn't even do anything on my nvme-containing system.
A report in The Globe and Mail indicated that the buyer was re-imbursed for most of the purchase cost. So very likely Sotheby's insurance provider is ultimately on the hook.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-italian-who...
I run a forum, so there is a higher chance of spam attempts.

We confirm emails before creating an account. Visitors fill out a form with their email address and receive an email containing a URL with a hash of their salted email, which is the actual registration form.

Emails will not be sent to temporary email addresses, which we check using the DeBounce API. We also don't send emails if the IP address is a proxy, which is checked against another API. We also check the StopForumSpam API.

The request and registration forms are protected with Cloudflare Turnstile.

We also block registrations from a list of countries that are not a focus of our content.

I used to have Google reCaptcha v3, which returns a score. Scores above a specific value were rejected. I stopped using Google's service when they unveiled plans to charge with a low threshold for the free tier.

If you want to use the forum, you will register. If not, good.
Everytime you say Israel you must insert US, just as you must insert Iran every time you mention Palestine. These are who the war is between. Hamas or Hezbollah by itself is nothing and so is a <10 million population fighting several adversaries. And the US will always win in escalation which is exactly what they have aimed to achieve and why Iran never gave a 'proper' response to the assassination of Haniyeh.
> attacks against Israel receive far less attention in the news than do Israeli retaliations.

I think retaliations are pretty fruitless anyway. Both sides have been lobbing missiles at each other for decades. This eye for an eye thing keeps going even though both sides have run out of eyes a long time ago.

Maybe talking might be an idea? Just saying...
How did Israel make pagers in Lebanon?
I like the idea of resizing and moving the windows to replicate the experience of pan and zoom. Pretty creative hack!
I couldn't agree more. I bet the guys doing this don't even get their shoes shined or a proper haircut. People who do things differently from us deserve to get railroaded by the system. Reminds me of a passage in an op-ed in the SF Chronicle several decades ago:

"It's hard to empathize with the people engaging in homosexuality. It's an inherently careless and risky thing to do, and meeting up in gay-friendly districts is very obviously (and ironically) done to avoid public decency orders and legitimate family formation."

A man ahead of his time, if you ask me. We need to ensure that those who fail to lick the boot hard enough should be separated from their tongues.
The camera and photos.app has ocr as well.

Whenever im wanting to copy text on an app that hijacks the clipboard (LinkedIn/Slack) I take a screenshot, highlight the text, and copy as you would normally.
Some sources are saying that some medics have been victims. Pagers are apparently a very useful resource for emergencies/medics (see motorola website).

The pagers were not secure at all also.
It's not just the synthesis, it's the bench work itself that is an underlying bottleneck.

There's a similarity to analytical work where for a couple decades now, if you can sit down at a computer and make any progress at all, you've got a lifetime of digital work ahead of you if you are willing to accept it. The bench was already backed-up like this before computers but you didn't get to sit down very much, and it was usually more toxic in one way or another.

Those who understand the chemical processes and procedures best are going to get the most out of software that goes along with it. Whether they are writing the software or users of established packages.

The macro trend of having so many promising natural science students being diverted into computer science instead, that I've seen over the decades, is similar to a sub-trend of chemists being attracted away from bench work.

Sometimes you've got your choice between going over the lifetimes of past data (that have surely not yet yielded everything they might be good for), or you can get off your butt and belly up to the bench and come up with some new data your own self. All real progress originated at the bench in some way by somebody at some time. Any time you can do both sensibly I think you should find your own happy medium. I lean toward uniquely-equipped facilities where you want to take as much advantage of what's on the bench while you can. If cashiers and waiters can stand up and rotate stations all day I don't see why I couldn't do it.

It's always been like that where there needs to be a good balance between the bench workers and the data crunchers. But it's more of a 20th century problem where the imbalance in dedication, facilities, and skills has gotten to be not just a bottleneck but a show-stopper.
I worked at a company where data scientists wrote python code using pandas and we had port it to java and a library called keanu that was very useful but soon became unmaintained.

Of course this was very time consuming and unrewarding, all because only java applications could be deployed to production due to a stupid top-down decision.

This GraalPy sounds like something I wish existed back then.
The BBC's bias has been clearly established for decades now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Israeli%E...

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

It's not their fault that you're uninformed and refuse to see it.
And think of how many man centuries we could have saved if we were okay with a page refresh
> I happened to leave my mouse briefly over one of the drop-caps, and it turns out there's an entire page dedicated to _generating drop-caps_ with AI

I'm very pleased to read that! I pushed Achmiz to implement that - "can we make all the dropcaps instances popup the https://gwern.net/dropcap page? "uh, probably, but why would you want to do that?" "because someone might be interested in one of the dropcaps and hover over it and otherwise they'll never know!" - and this is the first I've seen anyone mention it, but it sounds like it worked. It is one of the many touches few will ever notice, but I hope the ones who do will love it.
I might just be burned out but does anybody actually have time at work to do the "better" solution shown in the article? Never mind if it is actually better or not, but adding interfaces to abstract my DB package and actively decoupling everything seems like what was taught during my software engineering classes but rarely ever put in practice.
Knocking out one key gene leads to traits that have some similarity to autistic traits; in mice, namely less vocalization and socialization, more hyperactive and repetitive behaviors.

so, we're talking about at a very zoomed out level, but the gene responsible is already "implicated" in human neurodevelopmental conditions in the cerebellum.
it is a mixed bag. I think distribution for new artists is easier today with social media etc. Go on Spotify, there is such a huge spectrum of music available. There is literally something for everyone.
Were they part of a protected class? Otherwise, what protection did they have that would get them a settlement for being fired?
His thing has collisions, so it answers none of the questions.

Also they already did follow the link. That's why they said "they don’t actually store the keys, so the quote is misleading", which you responded to with a laugh and nothing else. And that happened many hours before you made this new comment.
Two distinct expressions that happen to share words. Is how I thought of it. Certainly in the context of the OP it seems he is not presenting an either or but a change course.
> what specifically would you or I do different, apart from having less training data?

Create things that are not in the training data. I could coin a new phrase that uses "bridge", I doubt an LLM can or would have any motivation to. Because LLMs understand data and patterns, but they don't understand the meaning behind them. They can't be imaginative.

For example, an LLM can recite Shakespeare and can even write new works in Shakespeare's style. But it cannot be a new Shakespeare, the is one level above it. An image generator might be able to make a painting is Picasso's style, but it cannot be a new Picasso - that is, create a style never before seen and explain why they did it and what emotions it conveys.
When did EKS costs change?
Been using Swift since the pre-release announcement that it existed.

O'Leary's Law of Swift Comments on HN, much like Betteridge's Law of Headlines, says the answer to Swift speculation on HN is always no.

If there is any global aim, it is to migrate internal teams still working in ObjC/C++ to Swift.

If this sounds close-minded, it's worth talking with an iOS developer 1:1 and get info on the day-to-day experience of SwiftUI 5 years in, and concurrency/actors 3 years in. They have a lot of fires to fight to keep the house standing.
Simulation resolution needs to be higher than display resolution. Simulating physics at only 120Hz can lead to jank. This is similarly true in the spacial dimensions, where even old games would run the game simulation at more than 640x480 for fidelity.
this is why i do like to try and parse shit myself for my own tools, not that thats without risk but i dont share my.code so its untargeted. however, to support a wide variety like this the tools are ok. most code honestly in a pdf will not target pdftotext , i think. i think it would target the thing people open pdfs with like browsers and maybe a few readers like adobe and foxit reader. pdftotext seems more like an 'academic target', like a nice exersize but not very fruitful in an actual attack. i might be wrong tho.
Seconding this. It's one of the best resources I've seen and easily worth the money.

frontendmasters.com and LinkedIn Leaning also have good video courses.

Also see MUI.com as a nice way to structure a component framework.

Beyond that, work with a good designer, make Figmas before you code, test out the flows, iterate it, and then throw everything away and do it again 2 years later when fashions change (sigh).

A lot of what we see as good/modern design is just fashion cycles of designers stealing from each other. For a while everything looked like Yahoo, then everything looked like Google, then everything looked like Bootstrap, and now everything looks like Tailwind/Vercel. It's the designer equivalent of Stackoverflow.
Something like this? https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot

> SwiftGodot can be used to either build an extension that can be added to an existing Godot project, where your code is providing services to the game engine, or it can be used as an API with SwiftGodotKit which embeds Godot as an application that is driven directly from Swift.

Miguel de Icaza gave a great talk on Swift + Godot (among other things) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzt36EGKEZo
Booby traps and indiscriminate targeting.
> How do we quit being suckers? How do we stop others from amplifying the lies/propaganda that they're producing?

I think the crucial step is to raise awareness of this problem.

The message should be straightforward: there are covert groups of people looking to undermine and destroy what Western societies built, including our way of living - and they're doing so by passing as one of us.

They're sowing discord, they believe we're dumb, predictable, and easy to manipulate, and they want us to be in chaos fighting each other.

But the main issue is that some political actors see value in this, and prefer to leverage this dissent for the illusion of political gain, at the cost of destroying the social fabric - and this is the part I struggle to understand.

How can personal gain surpass the common good? Who knows.

One thing is internal political discord, it's part of democracy. But how do people welcome others to attack their peers?

It's like brothers who fight at home, but at school, they have each other's back against bullies.

Currently, one of the brothers is siding with the bullies.

For this to be successful it would need to be part of a political union, or else one side will agree with the propaganda bots stating this is the "old false boogeyman hunt, it is all fabrication of the deep state/CIA/etc". Then you have massive podcasts that love to entertain people with this stuff, once again for personal gain.

So without political union against it, it will only get worse.

Other things:

- social media profiles with more than X amount of followers would need to have id verified;

- social media personalities with X amount of views/reach would need to disclose their income statements;
> Even the mere act of walking out to one's "car", opening the door, getting in, and zooming away could be an act of adventure.

It's incredible how much screen time is dedicated to the opening/closing of car doors and the the driving of cars into/out of parking lots or driveways. Tho I guess this somewhat reflects life in America.
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Sure, but can you get 1,000 of them to explode simultaneously that way? You'd think there'd be some variation in the time of explosion, at least by tens of minutes or hours, maybe even by days.
iOS can connect to SMB and scan documents out of the box with the built in files app.
You can insure anything.
The download sizes are quite large. 775 MB for swift-6.0-RELEASE-ubuntu22.04.tar.gz ~500MB for windows.

Is this shipping an entire copy of LLVM? What could possibly make this so large?
It's not indiscriminate, they were targeting Hezbollah members as precisely as hardly any conventional weapon would be able to.
How did they make sure that only pagers carried by the armed wing of Hezbollah exploded, and not say an MP, nor one of their media workers, nor a manager in one of their hospitals? How did they know that no civilians were dangerously close when they exploded?

They didn’t. They put explosions in all the pagers which were distributed to all members of Hezbollah, military or not, and indiscriminately exploded them all at the same time, regardless of who was near the pager at the time.
The new Iridium pagers are two-way as far as I've heard. Only the old ones were one-way.

I think the service is finally being decommissioned due to the Iridium Next satellites not supporting it anymore. It has been supported for more than a decade without onboarding new customers though.
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Feels like https://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/ come to life
I know what Hezbollah is, I’m surprised they maintain stand-alone pager infrastructure apart from the system in use by the rest of thecpeolle
Where can I watch the video mentioned (or just fansied by the author) in the first paragraph?
Elon was forced to buy Twitter because he made agreement to buy it and then tried to back out. He made the offer freely and signed the agreement. He could have put in clauses that let him back out.
> but I know from experience that it's impossible to reliably differentiate bots from humans over a network

While this might be true in theory, it doesn't stop them from trying! And believe me, it's getting to a point where the WAF settings on some websites are even annoying the majority of the real users! Some of the issues I am hinting at however are fundemental issues you run into when automating the web using any mainstream browser that hasn't had some source code patches, I'm curious to see if a solution to that will be part of your service if you decide to tackle it.
Actions speak much louder than words here. If it quacks like a duck, it's probably not an accident that aid workers following all the proper procedures to make sure they don't get blown up, do get blown up.
i am between cyberangle and supplychain. on one hand to target so specific ud think it was cyber angle. some exploit in the protocol to dial the page maybe. on the otherhand... do lithium batteries really explode so violently??
Those thin coin cells can't output enough currents to replace most use cases. I've once tried to run ESP32 with couple CR2032, the ESP just browns out.
How do you make modifications to code once it is generated? This is the most interesting part to me - you say there is a chat assistant that can make changes? Does it rewrite the whole file, or how does that work? Do you use git diffs?
> some people have autism don't view it as something that needs to be cured.

Some of us do. I'm glad for any research in this field.
I tried GameInput, sadly it doesn't solve this issue.

You still need legacy input for Window interactions, and the message queue still gets flooded by fast-polling mice.
And then if someone does have a blocker, talking about it needs to be "taken offline", so you already have to do an external sync-up anyway.
Good point. I'm kind of a dumb-dumb when it comes to present-day pager tech. I haven't even seen one in decades.

Let me rephrase the question then: if any measure was made to target just the pagers that were in the hands of Hezbollah, how was that accomplished?
It's an interesting follow-up, though I will say that addressing this or pretty much any other counterpoint pushes me over the three sentence limit that was requested :)

To your point directly: successful contract negotiation almost exclusively depends on what leverage you have relative to the counterparty; your skill as a negotiator matters very little if your employer isn't incentivized to come to the table (ex. imagine even an extraordinarily persuasive Amazon SWE trying to get themselves exempted from the RTO mandate in the OP). IDK what your employment situation is, but in my experience isolated employees typically have very little leverage, and therefore very little basis to successfully negotiate a better contract, a more favorable RTO policy, etc. Regardless of whether the upside risk is guaranteed or not (and I disagree that it is guaranteed), its magnitude is likely quite small if you are negotiating alone (maybe during the hiring phase you can pick up an extra 10K salary or get classified as remote, but good luck repeating that success year-over-year). The idea of bargaining as a large group (ie. as a union), rather than individually, is that you have far more leverage together than apart, and that's the most relevant factor when dealing with a big corporation like a FAANG. It's less a question of upside vs downside risk and more a question of opportunity cost: what can you get for yourself alone, vs. what can you get for everybody if you all stand together. Looking at the data, standing together is generally the more profitable approach: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/20/union-workers-wealth-compar...
I revisited a summery, carefree 90s hit last year, and I immediately exclaimed, "these guys are ON DRUGS!"

https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Len/Steal-My-Sunshine

Confirmed by promo video footage