skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am just out of the gate, but the videos show sharp percussive explosions and no lithium evidence. So C4 or RDX in the devices on a 'mod board' with the explosive disguised as a big capacitor or something. It had to be put into the devices. In order to justify an operation like this the explosions had to be near-simultaneous so the mod board had to have its own clock, which would be as accurate as the crystal in the clock circuit provides, maybe drift of +/- a few seconds since installation.

The broadcast pager network does not offer this level of time precision for a detonation message so as ugly as it sounds, I believe at the moment that 9/17/2024@3:30pm (or whatever) was preloaded into the 'mod boards'.

Perhaps the 'mod board' had the capability for the future time to be set with a broadcast message, but that introduces such complexity! It requires the page system itself to be compromised. The victims' paranoia served them badly in this case, a recent warning about cell devices and a lower tech 'solution' is rolled out and they would only trust one source, so all you'd have to do was get an explody batch into the supply chain with (reasonable) assurance that only Hezbollah members would get them.

In the coming days I'd look for clues in: The simultaneity of the explosions with times to the second // were any duds found and disassembled? // is there a separate radio receiver on the mod board (to set future detonation time) // when did the 'rollout' of the devices begin? // How many pager carrying non-members were injured and what were the circumstances ('medics' being one group) // Will suspicious broadcasts be discovered from logs or logged radio intercepts?

Given the people we are dealing with (I mean both sides) I am thinking that the operation avoided ANY covert channels at all and was a simple date-time bomb.
> Not sending money to Ukraine means people die.

Yes, and lose their freedom, and it greatly increases the risk that many more will die and lose their freedom.
There's two-way pagers which transmit, but receive only pagers can be broadcast reception only; there's no check-in / message acknowledgement, although messages may be rebroadcast to help ensure reception in case of bad signal conditions.

You'd probably get some small amount of RF emissions though, most receivers radiate something as a result of using superheterodyne signal processing.
Understanding how the attack was carried out is the first step to identifying the vulnerability/risk/threat so it can be prevented. You don't have to be an expert or defer to experts in everything to be allowed to talk about it.
Often times websites won't load the HTML without executing the JavaScript. or uses JavaScript running client side to generate the entire page.
Someone was there to take video and put up the balloons.
I can't say how it compares to other translations, but A. S. Kline's translations of both are available for free online and, I found, easy and fun to read: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odhome.php.
Your emacs doesn't run on your server!? You can ssh or vnc or even use gtk's web backend.
So you're advocating for properly compensating career paths according to their contributions to society? Tally ho!
And Hezbollah? Firing rockets at civilian targets is at least as much a violation of that as firing pagers at off-duty personnel is.
Advice on fundraising from 12 founders who raised $9B in VC. Including Figma, Notion, Linear, Vanta, and Instacart.
It would be interesting to add a decoder for image outputs, similar to GPT-4o (that feature hasn't been talked about much, or released...).
Who cares about NPR? We were talking about ABC's "live fact-checking".

Every American (and most of the rest of the world, too) who doesn't live under a rock (especially "journalists") knows that the US has had active duty military in combat zones since at least 2003—you don't need to call up the Department of Defense to fact-check that information.
I think the value is in knowing the network and cross-reference against it. Innocent bystanders or people who happened to just go to the hospital today will probably fall off during this process. Not to mention that you can filter out by the type of injury to get a more accurate list.
Not exactly. From first principles, it could only possibly work if the project was very well-known/trodden ground already. So of course mistakes were either fixed when discovered or the project failed.

(Yes, some govt projects pretended to follow a strict process. What’s new?)

But even Brooks’ original MMM (1975) encouraged iteration as a way to validate assumptions.
It got flagged because it is a duplicate. In order to focus discussion into one submission [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567573
For me the real lesson is that simple is hard.
Mistral's business model is to take advantage of French National Pride and be state funded.
Exactly! We've seen from personal experience just how many people are currently working on AI/datascience projects and would love to create UIs for them, but just can't. That's exactly who Rio is for - people who are experts in one field, and don't want to invest hours and hours into other languages just to create interfaces for what they're working on.
I've personally always had at least an hour each way. What are commutes like where you are?
google didn't give the world free access to their crawler database, though -- which i'd say is equivalent to what mixtral is doing.
Why would I want to dedicate time to learning Django when I can just use a simple React framework?
How do you ensure they all blow up at once?
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Hi Jeff, Big fan.
I'm 40+ and I've just handed in my dissertation for a BSc in computer science. I've also just started an MSc in cyber security.

My advice. If you want to get a job just do courses that are going to teach you the practical things you need to know/are interested in. Academia is a waste of time unless you're going into academia, or an industry that requires academic skills.

All the stuff I can do is self taught, though these course have taught me the fundamentals.

If I knew then what I know now I would have gone a different way.
Yeah that’s true, instead of small diameter wide rollers, you could have large diameter narrow rollers, like for example bicycle wheels or scooter wheels. Actually you could even use tracks for the rollers, which might be an interesting innovation. That would increase friction and reduce battery life, but there may be some advantages. Of course it would be very complex mechanically!

But something made with scooter wheels could be used to navigate around a city for example. That might be interesting.
Link to the video (which AFAICT contains no gore, but is obviously not pleasant):

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/world/video/hezbollah-pagers-...
And you do? You’re a lot smarter than Amazon execs it seems. /s
https://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html
Finding intersection points of a circle with a line is equivalent to solving a system of equations, where one equation is that of a circle, (x-a)^2 + (y-b)^2 = r^2, and the second is that of a line, Ax + By = C. To solve it, you’ll be taking square roots, and not other roots. Similarly, to find intersection of two circles, you’ll be taking square roots, and not other roots.
Why was this dinged?

Is the information wrong?
Rio dev here. I 100% agree with you. We aren't expecting for JS developers to flock to rio en-masse. Instead, we're targeting the many, many Python devs that have been completely left out in the web revolution and are still stuck construcing user-interfaces using tkinter and similar.
Seems low enough to become a cost of doing business rather than a deterrent.
Thanks so much for crafting and sharing this app. Was just chatting with a friend about scanning via Notes[1], which is a little clunky for quickly and seamlessly sharing a scan.

A few feature suggestions:

* Allow setting default color mode (having to switch manually to B&W every time adds another step)

* Allow setting setting type (PDF, JPG, TXT) and size (Original, Medium, Small) in Sharing Options à la Scanner Pro[2]

* Allow sharing immediately after scanning rather than first having to tap Save then opening the image again

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/108963

[2] https://readdle.com/scannerpro
Full blown color NTSC managed with 6mhz channels! Digital broadcasts have a terrible user experience: Instead of providing the same channel they always did, but to vastly more receivers in much more marginal conditions using advances in digital signal processing and encoding power and methodology, broadcasters were allowed to cut up their frequency into 6 "subchannels", so they crunch the streams to the shittiest quality they can (as low as 3mb/s, DVD is 10!) legally get away with, provide almost zero redundancy in the broadcast, so now TVs that were well in the broadcast area of analog signals are straining to get every last bit out of the digital stream so it can hope to recover a picture.

They did this because 6 channels that most people cannot actually receive over the air gives them more advertisement slots than the 1 previous channel. Good old enshittification.
You're right, I was thinking about compounding pharmacies.

> It's not like you can just buy semaglutide or the derivatives anywhere. It would have to come from the pharmaceutical company.

Pharmaceutical companies don't make those on their own either, they're contracting it off to drug manufacturing plants. The thing I read the other day said that compounding pharmacies order the same stuff from the same factories directly.

EDIT: found the article I read: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-compounding-loophole.
Not really: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-h...

They just didn't realize how real this particular plan was. It's quite likely Hamas is regularly bluffing similar attacks in many potentially-compromised channels. If they then see Israel react, they've received info about Israel's capabilities & tactics – and maybe even ways to misdirect Israeli forces with future feints. And any real plans may stay hidden amongst dozens/hundreds of other "false alarms".
Streamlit seems to be doing ok.
> Could be wrong, but the JEP feels like it goes a bit deeper than `async/await` in C#. It feels like a hybrid between Task and Channels but operating at a lower level.

Reading the proposal again, it's difficult to agree with this. The proposal talks about concepts that occur naturally when writing asynchronous code with C# (or F#, which has its own pros and cons, but mostly nicer combinators).
For example:

Response handle() throws ExecutionException, InterruptedException {
try (var scope = new StructuredTaskScope.ShutdownOnFailure()) {
Supplier<String> user = scope.fork(() -> findUser());
Supplier<Integer> order = scope.fork(() -> fetchOrder());

scope.join() // Join both subtasks
.throwIfFailed(); // ... and propagate errors

// Here, both subtasks have succeeded, so compose their results
return new Response(user.get(), order.get());
}
}

becomes the following in C#

async Task<Response> Handle()
{
var user = FindUser();
var order = FindOrder();
return new(await user, await order);
}

For the happy path, the difference can be more drastic

<T> List<T> runAll(List<Callable<T>> tasks)
throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException {
try (var scope = new StructuredTaskScope.ShutdownOnFailure()) {
List<? extends Supplier<T>> suppliers = tasks.stream().map(scope::fork).toList();
scope.join()
.throwIfFailed(); // Propagate exception if any subtask fails
// Here, all tasks have succeeded, so compose their results
return suppliers.stream().map(Supplier::get).toList();
}

turns into

var results = await Task.WhenAll(tasks);

// Or, assuming .GetUser returns Task<GitHubUser>
var names = new[] { "java", "dotnet", "golang", "rust-lang", "python" };
var repos = await Task.WhenAll(
names.Select(n => GitHubApi.GetUser(n));

And so on and so forth. You can mix and match more complicated flows with CancellationToken and its CancellationTokenSource, TaskCompletionSource, Task.WhenAll/Any/Each (the last one transforms a collection of tasks into an asynchronous sequence of results). Apply exception handling at per-task or task collection level for additional customization. All of this occurs by composing the building blocks, rather than needing complex and bespoke API.
Part of the context is that they use a different communication network which is probably why they were targeted in that specific way...

Overcharging batteries would be the hack....not suggesting someone do this but said strategy works with both acid based and lithium batteries...
List access is O(1), which effectively makes them arrays :)
This is really cool, guys!

One use case that occurs to me is to build personal SaaS apps. It's the sort of thing a lot of people use spreadsheets or Notion for.

I just made a simple little app with Marblism to help me keep track of whether I took my medication on a given day.

I couldn't tell you why, but I prefer this to little mobile apps and it's less upkeep than the spreadsheets I've tried to make in the past.
I only provided a reasonable caveat to your suggestion that anyone in Lebanon with a pager can be assumed "guilty".
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> dissertation for a BSc in computer science

Wait, dissertation? What country are you in?
Definitely not. Hez has showed footages of UAVs inside of IL so potentially they could do some damage. They can also up their missile attacks. And there are other players such as the Houthis. Maybe they just don't want to do it because they figured it's of no good to them at the moment, but maybe the climate changes in the future and they decide to do it anyway.
I supported those parentheses in the TXR Lisp pic macro:

1> (pic "##.#" 42)
"42.0"
2> (pic "(##.#)" 42)
" 42.0 "
3> (pic "(##.#)" -42)
"(42.0)"

The ### notation, may be imediately preceded by a parens, which must be matched by a closing one. Both parentheses become spaces for a non-negative value, or are rendered for a negative one.

The notation is mutually exlusive with the + for requesting an explicit positive sign:

4> (pic "(+#.#)" -42)
"(-42.0)"
5> (pic "(+#.#)" 42)
"(+42.0)"

:)

The parens have become just literal text.
> there's only one, maybe two or three cities in the US with good public transportation.

NYC's is, as you say, old and decrepit, but its coverage is pretty good. I don't think it's the best system in the US, however. I lived in Boston for some time; the T was better than NYC's system. I have visited Portland, and at least when I visited, its system was better than NYC's.

> Many European cities have decent systems

I have visited both London and Paris, and both of their systems were comparable to the T in Boston when I lived there in terms of coverage and usability.

I have not visited any cities in East Asia, but I can easily see their systems being better since those countries have made huge investments in that kind of infrastructure.

> You say that Americans have the ability to choose, but that's really not true

By your logic nobody has the ability to choose. Nobody has access to all of the possibilities. So using that as the standard for "ability to choose", which is what you are doing, is pointless.

I could just as well say you don't have the ability to choose anything but a city with public transportation, because that's all that even appears to be on your radar.

> The infrastructure that exists

Is, at least in America, determined by the choices of ordinary people in the past. And choices ordinary people make now will end up causing changes in the infrastructure that exists.

Sure, maybe nowhere in America meets your personal standard for "good public transportation", but why should I care? I have a reasonable spectrum of alternatives open to me and I choose the one that suits me best. I don't waste time agonizing over alternatives that might exist elsewhere but are not accessible to me. Most Americans are the same way. So, I suspect, are most people everywhere, even if what alternatives are reasonably available can vary widely in different parts of the world. Maybe that's a problem for you, but it's not a problem for me, and I suspect it's not a problem for most people everywhere, and I don't see why it should be.
In the list of companies who squandered a massive market advantage, Tupperware is in the top 10.
Norovirus sickens dozens on Hawaii hiking trail, forcing site's closure
I used the word "guilty" (in quotes) because the parent comment did.
No, a mass terror attack would indiscriminately target victims. This is almost entirely opposite -- an organization widely recognized as a terrorist group (1) is narrowly targeted.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_g...
Hezbollah has more than 100,000 fighters, so this would be what, one or two percent injured.

Everyone has cell phones that they can use in addition to the pager, so I don't think it's very accurate to say the communications are hosed either
https://archive.ph/o3x9v
Homes have surge protectors though that are out of band of the smart plugs.
The autogenerated app in their demo video comes with fake reviews and falsely claims you can make lists private when they're actually all public. Of course there's also zero GDPR/CCPA compliance on the generated app, there is no privacy policy (not that an AI could really read your mind about what you wanna with user data), no privacy contact and no account deletion, just a faceless AI-generated website. Security-wise I would place no confidence, it even failed to add a check to stop two people from having the same username. Legally this should be treated more like a toy for personal entertainment than anything
The empire never ended.
-- Horselover Fat
Krylov (the guy the subspaces are named after) was a naval engineer. Cholesky was an artillery officer.
It's a deterrent, as repeated violations can result in a lawsuit with court ordered restraints on activites
Most languages have arrays that grow automatically. I'd say C/C++ is the exception there.

When I said array, I specifically meant O(1) access, which is in contrast to linked lists, which the name "list" would seem to imply.
J*sus. I fully plan to stop going around with my iphone everywhere (until this is fully explained). We could all be 1 glitch (think CrowdStrike) away from getting lithium exploded mysteriously.
They’ll usually tell you what critical edition the translation is based on.

Translators almost always work off of critical editions rather than manuscript themselves, at least where we’re talking about popular stuff like Homer or whatnot.
Sovereign AI. France can afford supporting a shop that makes one.
Request/Response APIs in JavaScript web frameworks
Out of curiosity, in web frameworks, what style of passing requests and responses to a handler you prefer: express-js style with non-standard req/res objects or hono/elysia style with standard web Request and Response objects? and why?
The universal approximation theorem has no practical relevance.
A closer look at how data is transmitted using light
So, if the method was to substitute the batteries for ones containing explosives, then how were they triggered simultaneously?

Wouldn't this also require some additional HW/SW in the pagers to trigger the devices? Otherwise, if it was just battery terminals connecting to the battery, how would a remote signal trigger them?

Or maybe it's as simple as the adulterated batteries containing timers and thus not needing external triggering?
The KDE Fedora website already calls it an Edition

The Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition is a powerful Fedora-based operating system utilizing the KDE Plasma Desktop as the main user interface.

https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde/
You've never had lasting relationships with co-workers?

A significant percentage of my social circle is former coworkers. I still meet up with some that I haven't worked with for over a decade. Or even several decades if you count pre-career jobs.

It'd be pretty weird for me to assume those interactions have to be token interactions.
Funny enough the Apollo pagers website appears to be down.
Nah, it's like how the existence of Star Trek influences future development of technology. Did Mickens call it, or did the Mossad get the idea from Mickens?
I have some insight based on working at Amazon and being part of RTO/WFH-related discussions.

That being said, you shouldn't confuse your personal hallucinations as the opinions of Amazon execs.
Maybe people are not aware of it? My previous two submissions regarding this initiative were quickly flagged, while this submission (which only mentions the initiative) was demoted.

Taxing great wealth to finance the ecological and social transition https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/20...
I've not seen news reports of either claim (thousands, or tiny fraction belonging to Hezbollah), but I suppose it's still early.
While it's true they don't have a standing ground segment simulator, you'd be very wrong to think they didn't fly the craft in simulation before launch.

As opposed to many other modern missions this craft is just flying for distance. It doesn't have to land anywhere or perform any complicated maneuvers. So a standing ground test platform wouldn't be particularly useful. The shuttle, our landers, and probes are obviously a different story.
It seems pretty plausible that the actual supply chain attack here would have been Israel subbing out whole shipping crates of pagers for sabotaged devices Israel manufactured itself, which would allow for arbitrary complex designs.
This book from 1931 deserves a mention as well:

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

it includes verses like:

The sun is setting –
Can't you hear
A *something* in the distance
Howl!!?
I wonder if it's –
Yes!! it *is*
That horrid Google
On the prowl!!!

I own a copy of the 1979 edition and the illustrations are just wonderful.
Tbh I only use the word stereotypes because speaking in absolutes here leads to really grimy political discussions with under the guise of semantic or technical discussions. Anyone with eyes can see that Israel acts with protection of the US military and has no reason to be specific with their targets, even while being scolded by that military
Lovely concept. Just gotta wait until its released for Firefox.
> These are a bunch of comments about what you believe Israel wants to do, not what it's capable of.

In this article from yesterday, you can clearly see Gallant and Netanyahu both support an invasion of Southern Lebanon, only that Gallant doesn't want to do it now.

The reporter says clearly: "the Israeli military and security cabinet have been ramping up preparations for a war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which they hope would allow tens of thousands of displaced Israelis to return home"

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/16/israel-netanyahu-lebanon-he...

> You wrote, elsewhere on the thread, that Israel was set to take southern Lebanon in the near term. Israel is not mobilized to do anything like that.

Israeli newspaper are clearly saying that many in Israel are advocating for an invasion of Southern Lebanon because now is a good time. Here is a JNS article from today:

"IDF Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin has reportedly argued behind closed doors that current conditions are favorable for the IDF to swiftly implement such a move."

https://www.jns.org/idf-northern-chief-floats-israeli-buffer...