skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You absolutely can. It's highly likely to be in the targeted person's pocket.

This seems intentionally avoiding the point. Duh, it's a pager. The real question is can the person donating the explosive tell if the pocket is completely isolated from innocents or if it's standing in a crowded line sitting very near to a childs head.

I do believe that Israel _tried_ to discriminate but its an explosive, you can only aim those to a point. Israel wasn't deliberately trying to kill children/harm innocents, Isreal did knowingly engage in a set of actions where it was possible outcome.

I want to be clear i am not trying to choose a side. These are actions of war in the 21st century.
Yes. It's so bad where I work now that IT delegated approvals back to the managers. So now whenever you hire a new engineer, you have to click approve on all the systems they need access to do their job, because apparently RBAC doesn't scale to FAANG. And then they need to re-apply, and you need to re-approve, every year because virtually no accounts are 'forever' approved.

And since many of these are "per-seat" licensing, finance is always cajoling IT into aggressively culling unused accounts. Which makes it to these poor bastards's DMs early in the screen, and the corresponding IT ticket hell of people requesting their access back.

The punchline at the end is basically just hubris: you've solved the megacorp RBAC problem in your head, but trip over the BS logistics of it all. Probably because your application doesn't have network permissions or some other ironic problem.
> "These waves start near the southern U.S. border in July and August, when the weather is hottest and the humidity is high—factors that usually tamp down the spread of respiratory viruses. We don't have a good explanation for why COVID-19 rates should increase in both the warmest and coolest times of the year."

The heat forces people indoors which increases proximity and spread of COVID, thought this was known?
> How do I know it runs the test for each item in the arguments array?

At the risk of coming across a bit rudely: this feels analogous to asking “how do I know `for _, tt := range tests` loops over every element in the array?” Both are language/syntactic constructs you have to learn.
This is genius... very awesome.

sql-api-engine would be an insanely powerful tool for business apps, I really hope you keep working at this!

I really appreciate slonik for e2e data integrity across the stack backed by zod at every step. It has many advantages over other tools in the ecosystem.

I'd love to see your PoC examples. Poking around the sql-api-engine codebase there's much to appreciate and respect. Great work!
Wait til you learn about this place called Tibet.
Exploring pre-1990 versions of wc(1) (2023)
Most of the flight would be out of range and I’m not even sure that explosion would take out a plane. Plus it would probably be powered off because Hezbollah is serious about flight safety.
From the man pages:

"Additionally, systemd-resolved provides a local DNS stub
listener on the IP addresses 127.0.0.53 and 127.0.0.54 on the
local loopback interface"

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/systemd-resolved.s...

> Was there some OTHER burning compelling use-case that makes you want to use 127.0.0.1:53 for some other purpose?

The problem is... by default... resolvd routes ALL DNS REQUESTS to this stub by over writing resolv.conf with ONLY that socket and forcing you to configure resolvers elsewhere. And you have to manually reconfigure this if you want to change it and it forces you to get in the weeds way to much when all you want to do is add a DNS resolver.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/systemd-resolved.s...

The confusing thing is why the heck is SYSTEMD an init system writing DNS resolvers? Seems out of it's scope in my opinion.

I was surprised resolvd existed when I was trying to troubleshoot a DNS error caused by it.
> After all, people usually don't hand their phones to random strangers or leave them lying around - and those pagers aren't even mere personal devices used for private purposes. Why would any of those devices end up anywhere else but the pocket of the person using it?

I leave my phone all the time, my kids are actually playing games on it. Also, I can be on public transportation, I can be driving, near a flammable object, or boarding a plane. As demonstrated an 8-year-old girl died, it's enough proof that an innocent died.
> Any tips or tricks to get motivated?

Find one user. I discovered that someone interested in using something I produce makes me very likely to actually work on it.
> Oh, you want Wi-Fi? Well, that's not really the job of the networking stack, the job of the networking stack is to connect PDP-11s together...

WiFi absolutely should be a separate component; the unix philosophy is an excellent defense against servers in a datacenter trying to install a WiFi stack.
Unless you are a slave there, or from Tibet, or say anything wrong.
So which party denies science? The big scandal on this site most recently was the Zuckerberg letter where the whitehouse administration asked Facebook to censor posts relating to Covid they didn’t approve. This staffer is now apparently a deputy campaign official. Previous to that this site discussed the lab leak coverup facilitated by the government. The journals themselves assisted in these operations. Then there was tons of misinformation from the government on vaccine efficacy such as “it prevents transmission” claims though this was never proven and in fact now seems obviously limited if true.
I agree, this is one of the rare occasions one has an abundance of samples and content to work with. No generative ai required to have a lot of fun. Good job.
Non-fiction
FWIW, that answer (to the second link, after edit) is really old, and you can do string.firstRange(of: substring) since Swift 5.7.

The top answer to your third question gives a pretty good explanation of why Swift string indices work the way they do (as well as showing nicer ways to spell a lot of the operations on them), which mostly addresses the first and third questions. It really seems that your last link is just asking for the `inout` modifier; I'm not sure why that one is especially confusing.

Obviously, there's always stuff that can be further improved, but none of these are especially onerous (once you get past the "string indices are not just integers" step, at least--for people who really just want to pretend the world uses ASCII or work with UTF8 bytes directly, string.utf8 may be an nicer interface to use).
2][3 I have caught Feynman expositing in bad faith (second-][third-handedly)
I applaud your empathy but I don't think this number of active military adversaries have been taken out in cities with so little civilian casualties ever in history. We should probably be applauding this action over say the standard targeted bombing of the Hezbollah militants homes which is pretty much the previous 'least casualties' method used.
And you don’t mention Iran
This is probably the historical lowest civilian casualty count ever for taking out this large a number of adversaries in an urban environment.
> It's basically an integrated redesign of all the low-level userspace of a Linux system

Yes, and that's okay. Whatever it is that came before it sucked so much I don't even remember what life was like before systemd.

Also, it's amazing that we even get to redesign Linux user space like that. That's something special. Not a single other operating system allows you to do this. You could boot Linux straight into your program if you want, without any user space at all. Linux is such a solid foundation it lets you swap out the entire user space, you can trash systemd and even the entire GNU stuff and just do your own thing. It's inspired me to start working on a redesign of my own.
So trigger some kind of process to cause the batteries to overheat + detonate the blasting cap after a short delay? I'd be interested to know how it was packaged if it was done in a way that wouldn't look suspicious if someone looked inside the pager. The bomb-in-the- battery theory is a good one.
California's 5 new AI laws crack down on election deepfakes and actor clones
I wouldn’t compare any stock to DJT. MAGA voters value signaling, institutional investors playing games, foreign governments laundering money to the campaign, primary shareholder prepping for exit.

The companies actual revenue has zero impact and never will. Treat DJT like a NFT and it makes a ton of sense.
I find this bid for cross-platform recognition somewhat schizoid given that Swift isn't even backwards compatible on Mac OS. I has to upgrade to Ventura a while back just to get Swift regexen working.
So why does no other country in the world do it then?
I really like this, and I think others will too. Please be judicious with feature requests - so far the simplicity and ease of use is what I like most about it!
Dr. Hologram will see you now: Virtual specialists visit cancer patients
They're going bankrupt because they're almost out of cash [1]. The CEO is holding public investors hostage with the low ball take private offer LarsDu88 mentioned. The stock, NASDAQ: ME, currently trades at 29 cents/share [2] and will be delisted shortly [3]. Their failure to secure their customer DNA data with MFA cost them a $30M fine they must pay [4].

My comment you replied to was attempting to communicate that, because the CEO holds most of the control over the company, it is preferable to let it slip into bankruptcy (where equity and their control will be wiped out) vs continuing allowing them the control they have, which is not leading to a favorable outcome for the enterprise. This is potentially superior to recapitalizing the existing enterprise and continuing to allow the CEO to light capital on fire.

[1] https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/news-release-det... (draw your attention to quarterly burn rate and cash on hand)

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ME/

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-10/strugglin... |https://archive.today/yTo01

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41536494
Apple halts iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pro after bricking reports
The factor you have identified is invariant across disease, and yet this one particular one still behaves Oddly.

If it’s known, what’s the explanation why other viruses do not have this pattern as well?
> Why is Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel?

Hezbollah states that their aims include destroying Israel, instilling a Muslim government in the land, and converting the people to Islam.

They have explicitly said that they will never coexist peacefully.
Kind of a non-sequitur, but what is actually the point of systemd (and other similar tools)? Like compared to just spawning a bash processes that run a critical commands in a loop.

I can come up with a couple functions, but none of them seem like core things, more like tangential benefits:

- Startup ordering means you don't get log spam with "can't connect to X" until X starts

- Certain dependencies like mounts look the same whether they're "running" or not, so not starting before the mount is important. Or like, if a program enumerates interfaces or something, making sure all the interfaces exist first (via a dependency). Of course, a program could do its own checks and possibly be more stateless about it.

- As a standard, for packaging - you can distribute a service/socket file with your program and most distros can just plug it in and expect it to work (also thanks to having standard targets and directories).

Otherwise it seems like an ugly declarative DSL for gluing programs together, which you could do in bash or python or whatever other language too. Is reducing log spam really the point? FWIW I do think systemd is better than the alternatives ATM...
on mulling/marveling:

a) FPD read the Glass Bead Game, and instead of fixating on the game itself as I have done, noticed how the conversations tended toward an ideal (also, IIRC, recommended in the NE): https://franklin.dyer.me/post/123

b) etymologically, companions eat bread together, and symposia involve drinking. Maybe a problem with digital fora is that although we may have moved on from grooming and nitpicking, we still require at least a minial amount of analogue ingestion and imbibing for conviviality? (in the dating context, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=910852 )

EDIT: Re: "barely bottled in-game insanity", either someone needs to tell Stross that Series Landys don't have ignition buttons, or I need to accept the foreshadowing and realise that detail was an early in-story clue of power of eldritch horrors* to transmute and pervert even the most solid basis of innate rural goodness.

* in the world of the Laundry; in our world it was Tata who added the buttons
I'd call it the lowest number of civilians casualties ever for this large scale of an attack on ones military adversaries embedded within an urban environment.
It's the same thing they did with Metal. Portable OpenGL is now "legacy." Straight from the 90s Microsoft playbook.
To that point, I believe it's possible to buy spend futures now in cloud costs and if you're doing that then technically it is possible to predict Amazon's pricing roadmap. I know for sure if Amazon themselves didn't (they do) third parties would (they do, DoIT is an example of one I know that does this but there are quite a few of these compute resellers out there).

But sometimes people are not near enough the spend or product support level where it makes sense to do that. I would gander, though, if you're running cloud cost tooling you probably are one of those people.
- symlinks - systemd took the "accepted" idea of symlinks from /etc/init.d -> /etc/rc*.d and put symlinks all over the filesystem for all kinds of units. It is less understandable and manageable.

- mediocre config files - they decided that config files are declarative, which could be good, but it pushed simple (and visible) logic in /etc/init.d/* files into more complicated logic encoded in binaries. The simplistic config files seem to be more simple for systemd to implement, but harder to understand, maintain and use.

- binary log files. everything has to go through systemd to access them.

- responsibility creep - systemd started taking over more functions, and it doesn't seem to stop. Will systemd turn into busybox, with simpler poorer implementations of every single thing in the system? dnsmasq is similar. The thing is, busybox and dnsmasq are cut down implementations for smaller system that are alternatives to their full-featured brethren. systemd takes over the core of a system.
The source said 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives.
"SaaSiroth" seems to be an inside joke. Anyone know what it points to?

Also, please feel free to list other inside jokes in the video. I could see lots of potential ones, including the oil barrel.
Threat model: The Mossad doing Mossad things with your [change "email address" with "anything"]

Solution:

- Magical amulets?

- Fake your own death, move into a submarine?

- YOU'RE STILL GONNA BE
MOSSAD'ED UPON

I think that's it.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/08/mickens_on_se...

Full read here https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
Designers* will know all about how it is all supposed to work

*personally prefer the term “designists”, but YMMV on that one
you're looking at the wrong videos. I saw videos with people's hands blown off, massive holes in their bodies, etc. reportedly something like 15-20gr of Pentaerythritol tetranitrate. Massive wounds.
Just to concur (and I’ve run a similar number) - what I tell people that ask about my training schedule is that just running a marathon isn’t the hard part. With some training and mental effort, it can be done… but that will only get you so far.

For me, the real reason for training is so that when you’re done, you can still walk normally the next day… that you have a good experience… and that your body feels better for the effort. The training takes (a lot of) time and is hard work, but if you follow a solid training plan, your body can be well prepared for it. If you don’t train enough, you will not have a good experience. I’m about 8 weeks out from my next one and this is when the grind really starts for me. But I know that if I follow the plan, I’ll have a good experience on the day of the race (and after).

Oh, and for the record, I’m nowhere near a BQ time. :)
The birth of Islam did not cause a whole new race of people to spring from the ground, some of their ancestors lived in the region as well. And according to the Torah the Jewish people who came to that region with Moses during the exodus had to fight off the caananites and philistines before they could settle, so apparently itd been occupied for a while- not that I'd put too much stock in the ancient history thats come down to us, certainly not enough to enforce modern territorial claims
Then the C suite can just make coffee at home and stop eating avocado toast
Looking back, that self-study of Martial Arts has been the single most defining time period (I did this in the late 80s to early 90s in India) of my Life and has directly led to my Physical Health, Self-Confidence, Self-Reliance, Mental Fortitude and Persistence in the face of hardships today, all of which are fundamental to Life. I did the above along with a study of Yoga and to this day maintain a large collection of books (of Yoga/Martial Arts/Ayurveda/Siddha/TCM/Qigong/Acupuncture) dealing with both Physical Techniques and Mental Aspects/Theory behind them.

The key aspects in learning were Overwhelming Drive (the motivation was to learn to fight like Bruce Lee :-), daily practice of basic blocks/punches/kicks, slowly progressing through the movements of the shadow-boxing/Kata routines given in the books and no self-questioning/self-doubt/no-comparing with anybody else. I also had a good friend who was also very interested in Martial Arts (he eventually joined a Shotokan Karate school) and so we would practice/encourage each other. One defining lucky moment was coming across E.J.Harrison's "The Manual of Karate" (which was a translation of a Japanese text) where the author explicitly states Karate is useless without makiwara style training/conditioning. I took that to heart and made a canvas pillow with coconut-matting, tied that to a tree (a small one which could vibrate and absorb your hits) and would train with full power on it. This worked so well that my basic punches/kicks became more powerful than my Shotokan-training friend who only did non-contact practice. To this day i can generate very good power relative to my size. Reading Gichin Funakoshi's "Karate-Do : My way of Life" was also instrumental where he mentions his two teachers and their instructions; Master Azato would tell him to think of his limbs as swords so that he went through his opponents and Master Itosu would tell him to harden/condition his body so that he could absorb any blow. Next it was Miyamoto Musashi's "The Book of Five Rings" which led me to studying Martial Arts mindset/strategy/theory and validated my approach since he was also largely self-taught in many disciplines (the concept of "Hyoho/Heiho" acquired in the study of one discipline is internalized and then used to study other disciplines effectively/effortlessly).

Today you have far more resources and avenues open to study Martial Arts but the main points i mentioned above must be kept in mind even though many teachers may not teach you those. As mentioned in the quote above, Mastery is always dependent on "one's own incessant self-cultivation".
C++ gives you a garage full of tools and lets you decide what to do with them. Ultimately, it does this because the years have shown that different people need different tools for different use cases. Few people need or use them all at once. But when you do need a specific tool, C++ has it ready for you. Some consider that a con, I consider that a pro.

I find that a lot of the newlangs take the view that since most programming only uses 20% of the toolkit, they can just dispense with the remaining 80%. Which is great, until you discover that virtually every sophisticated project needed one of those things from that remaining 80%, and they all needed a different one. A nice language for writing 'Hello world's isn't going to cut it. And so either the language insists on its simplicity and stagnates, or it just reinvents all the complexity of C++.

At which point, you were better off just taking the garage full of tools that you already had, rather than going all in on some newlang, getting blocked, and stalking a github ticket for years waiting for the lang to get that feature you need. (If you spent the time in C++ instead, its full garage wouldn't look so imposing over time!)

What's the famous quote? 'There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.' :P

Re generics, aren't C++'s virtually the same as Rust's? Especially now that C++ has 'concepts'?
All available evidence suggests there's nothing "classified" or "wartime ready" about these - they were your basic, cheap, totally unencrypted POCSAG/Flex pager. The same as any other pager carried by doctors and all the other people who use them - aside from the hidden explosives, of course.
I saw Ann when she gave a talk at Google (that was when she was still married to Sergey). They had spit cups we could use if we wanted our DNA sequenced. I didn't.

Their business plan was straight out of South Park:

1. Collect lots of DNA

2. ??????

3. Profit!!
I don’t understand. It seems clear enough to me that Israel’s goal is to prevent Hezbollah from continuing to launch rockets at Israeli towns in the north. Killing is a means to that end. One may disagree with that choice of means, but I don’t see how you can claim that “Israel’s goals entirely revolve around killing people.”

That being said, you might think that killing is never an appropriate means of achieving anything. If so, fair enough. But I think that’s a tough position to maintain when you are actively under attack.
https://exercism.org/tracks/cpp
reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes, of Theranos fame. I wonder what will happen...How big or hyped up is 23andme?
That's assuming you can (and know how to) turn off the warnings.

And many browsers do warn for self-signed certificates even on local IPs. They may not warn for unencrypted connections -- which is a weird choice given that TLS with a self-signed certificate is still more secure (e.g. against passive eavesdroppers) than unencrypted HTTP -- but HTTP/3 doesn't support unencrypted connections or self-signed certificates.
Black text on dark grey background not the most ideal for main hero segment.

Also would love a way to try without google authentication
> probably in Hebrew, written up in Aramaic or Greek

It is generally agreed upon by scholars that Jesus’ primary language, like in Palestine generally, was Aramaic, not Hebrew, which was already well on its way to becoming a liturgical language (although Jesus probably knew Hebrew well, as he was called “rabbi”, and likely Greek as well): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_Jesus. Certainly for the context of this quote, it’s likely that he was speaking in Aramaic, given that in the chapter he was responding to questions from a variety of local people.
Responds: Airbnb, Stripe, Amazon, Apple, USAA, Microsoft, OpenAI, AngelList, Mercury, Coinbase, YCombinator (up to 2022) and more.

Didn't: 23andme, VLTA, Reddit, YCombinator (post 2022)
My most radical political opinion is that we need a right to privacy enshrined in a constitutional amendment.

And it needs to be robust enough to prevent the government from subpoenaing data collected by private companies.
Thanks! I wouldn't want to write it any other way. I think it helps convey just how much work it really was.
No one's alone in how they feel.
I suppose I should know this: who owns newspapers.com? What's the connection?
My oldest brother did so I'm already screwed