skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious how would you conceal an explosive in an electronic device (like a pager) to make sure that it minimizes collateral damage when it goes off. That is a political question since you ultimately are making a human life vs military objective trade-off.

The international law standard seems to be proportionality to the military objective desired, so maybe no one (generally) cares how many civilians die if you know the targets will be high ranking.
What stops AWS from "increasing the price" until it is very close to what you were paying before, if not more?
They can "tell" employees all they want, but the engineers who really get stuff done are not going to get fired for working from home, and a bunch of them are choosing to stay remote ... or paying lip service to office days by promising to come in and then not showing up.

What are managers going to do with critical engineers who are delivering? Fire them? They will have another job doing their individual contributor work in a week. There's a real shortage of individual contributors with skills and the ability to deliver consistently.

On the other hand, if you are in one of those political mid-career positions that mostly involves communication, coordination, impressions, etc., then yeah, the org doesn't need you as much as you need the org so you better haul your ass back to work.
Hezbollah is essentially a government entity in much of Lebanon, they totally would. Hezbollah runs schools, hospitals - it's easily the largest social services provider in large swathes of Lebanon. That's why it enjoys so much support, in many ways it was a much more competent alternative to the failed Lebanese government.
For our next project we decided to bring venus home.
Thanks! I actually gave acts29 a look and might consider switching over to one in the future. Interesting to see their map with options all over the world.
> Tired ClosedAI joke

> Tired arguments from pro-IP / copyright sympathizers

You forgot "Tired ClosedAI joke from anti-IP / copyleft sympathizers".

Remember that the training data debate is orthogonal to the broader debate over copyright ownership and scope. The first people to start complaining about stolen training data were the Free Software people, who wanted a legal hook to compel OpenAI and GitHub to publish model weights sourced from GPL code. Freelance artists took that complaint and ran with it. And while this is technically an argument that rests on copyright for legitimacy; the people who actually own most of the copyrights - publishers - are strangely interested about these machines that steal vast amounts of their work.
Per The Lancet, if you account for excess deaths due to things like willfully imposed mass starvation, denial of medical services due to the destruction of hospitals, and living in tents without cooling due to the destruction of housing, 100,000 people have been killed as a consequence of the IDFs actions.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
we use ant design at the moment, looking to integrate more UI libraries
True but so can explosives. Clearly they were not competent.

Radio signals can be detected of course but it's possible to mitigate that a lot by only doing that at specific times and locations, or on request. And send the data out in batch. Ideally while you have the subject under observation so you know they're not monitoring for signals.

The same way Volkswagen hid their engine manipulation from tests by recognising the test and adjusting parameters.
I find it extremely unlikely that this was done with the native capabilities and equipment in the devices. It would be extremely interesting if it were. A far simpler explanation would be explosives implanted en-route.
At my workplace, its a hard requirement for advancement to get a MS/PhD. Comes with an automatic raise too.
Overt?
It was a real shotgun shot to the face. What ROS 1 needed was to modernize ros_comm a bit so it doesn't crash when the network changes and it would be a far better solution, plus integrating multimaster_fkie.

Now we've got this bullshit with multiple slower RMWs with vastly larger overhead and none of them work reliably, clogging the network with multicasts. Not only that but some packages only work with some RMWs or just one, fracturing the ecosystem even further, because breaking everything every 2 years wasn't enough to reduce compatibility.

Like the whole point of ROS in principle is the standardization, grab any two packages and they will work with each other if you remap the topics because the message types are the same. The effort should be in the direction to further this standardization, not actively prevent it.
Nothing, and they do that regurarly

What stops dark fibers or hardware providers from "increasing the price" ? Nothing, and they do that too
Apparently a message was sent to the pagers right before exploding. I saw in a couple videos where the victim looked down at their hip and angled it to see the screen. It makes sense as a trick to ensure the target is close by when it goes off, but a kid could just as easily pick it up off a table after hearing it buzz.
Use iTerm2
Root cause analysis on CrowdStrike error with cause and effect diagram
The purpose of this RCA is to show how a cause & effect diagram helps people understand problems. We used information available online to build this record and we were not hired by Crowdstrike to do this work.
I love this perspective! Exploration has probably never "made sense", has it?
Cope culture. Doctors make a lot of money, and that is fine
Wouldn't be useful since most banks use python as a wrapper around their c++ quant libraries. They wouldn't want to ship that onto azure, even if it's private.
This conflict has had a historically very notable property where civilian casualties are so much higher than military casualties as to be clearly anomalous.
3 killed but thousands inoperative and hospitals flooded - I would expect an immediate armed escalation
In this case, they were posting information what was apparently perfectly accurate (except as to the exact age of the girl who was killed in the attack) - per CNN:

At least nine people, including an 8-year-old girl, have been killed by Tuesday’s pager explosions, Lebanon’s health minister Firass Abiad said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

And indeed it was quite helpful that they did so, as this particular detail hasn't yet made it into the coverage of the event in major outlets such as the NYT, for some reason.
Shaped charge hidden in the battery casing. Sounds like batteries heated up which is consistent with one method that shaped charges could be detonated. No extra wires needed going into the battery (better concealment).
When I think of sane people, I don't think of people who ignore the moral and ethical implications of thousands of deaths.
My understanding is that Starlink relies on GPS for their clock signal. Is this a viable alternative if GPS is entirely non-functional, or is this an alternative if GPS is jammed in a location?
Hezbollah has said some time ago they were switching to pagers because Israel can get inside their cell phones.
New superconductor has record breaking current density
> Your mouse is sending raw input 80,000 times per second to a screen that can only display 120 pictures per second.

8 thousand, not 80 thousand. Many screens can display (much more) than 120 frames per second - My monitor goes to 240hz, there are 300hz displays available.

Rendering rate is very often not tied to game update rates - games can update their state at significantly higher rates than they display. A decent number of games have a "high level" skill of doing things like "pre-shooting" where the winner of a fight is done by figuring out "who realistically did it first".

Assuming that you can poll at 125hz is wrong.

> Why is this an issue? ... Kinda sounds like an arbitrary problem that people who believe 8k mouses are necessary would worry about.

People have these devices and run our games. We (unfortunately) need to handle them, just like a website needs to handle a poorly behaved client. Also depending on _when_ you sample, (i.e. which 5 messages you handle), you can get incorrect information from the device.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_prose

Enlightening article - this is the exact complaint I have with the world-building Bungie does, and now I have a word to describe it. Halo is somewhat grounded, with Humans feeling familiar but the Covenant are both literally and literally (!) purple. Destiny is (IMO) so full of pink pretzels that it's undecipherable to newcomers.
Not sure what is "no true" from my comment as you were not specific, but at least to the suggestion of installing heat-pumps in Paris, this will be a much bigger investment than putting "some A/C". I don't think such an investment is more beneficial than (for example) transforming more of the side street parking to bike lanes (which seems to be what is happening).

What is too hot for you? For me an average a mean high temperature of 25 deg Celsius in August is reasonable (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Paris).
I ended up actually not trying double.bot - overall I tried only cursor.sh (first with BYOK and now subscriber) and continue.dev (didn't manage to integrate own key from OpenRouter in JetBrains plugin). For me in the beginning one of the selling point is if I can bring my own key (ideally with GUI setup instead of some config file and working with OpenRouter key). Then if something is open source is also a selling point.

I would recommend update double.bot landing page to have all features shown in few gifs on the same page and 'show in action' short video' - continue.dev had actually pretty good landing page. CodeSnap is probably something similar like cursors' 'apply' but double.bot landing page feels more like documentation. Also at this stage probably worth to add additional comparison to cursor same like you have for copilot
in pwsh you can

Out-GridView

which gives you a full graphical view, you cannot edit data, and its usually the last step in a pipeline

between nushell and pwsh, i think pwsh is the way to go, only drawback it required dotnet installed, nushell being more standalone beat it on this
Unless you are currently in possession of a bunch of latest generation NVIDIA DGX, which many people are, 99% of your workloads are OpEx.

They might be CapEx in some imaginary, nonactionable accounting sense. Like maybe you are mislabeling exclusive rights to dig holes in some neighborhoods as telecommunications equipment capital expenditures. Just pay an accountant to make up stories for you. You don't need the tool.
The Noisome Economics of Dung Beetles
Hezbollah is essentially a governmental organization, they provide healthcare, education, agricultural infrastructure, social services, etc...
Thats falls under the "doesn't have enough ram to be anything else" bit. Yes, they have a keyboard, but how am I going to run emacs+rust-analyzer or emacs+latex in what remains of the 2GB of ram after the OS takes its slice?
not at the moment, but it's a good idea yes it's technically possible
Fixed! good catch :)
it's not that hard

it's just that the usa can only do very easy things now, because the people there have forgotten how to work together

the article explains some of the forms this takes, but, for political reasons, frames it differently

see also: bullet trains, homelessness, mass incarceration, hvdc transmission, chip fabrication, the renewable energy transition, electric vehicle manufacturing. the usa is failing to get its act together in almost every conceivable way
someone in the US government is probably freaking out about all these iphones and macbooks made in china right now.
nit. that's not the Sieve of Eratosthenes. That's trial division.

Sieve is O(n log log n) but trial division is O(n^2)
I'd disagree - this seems highly targeted. There aren't that many people with pagers but pagers were a specific way for Hezbollah to speak to operatives.
The real problem was they only "fact checked" one person when both told lies. You should really step out of your echo chamber.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
All the evidence you need is that even in the present day, advanced countries have repeatedly tried to send probes to the moon and failed, when we did it with humans in the 1960s. All the software in the world isn't as good as a trained pilot in a novel scenario (i.e. The first moon landing when Neil Armstrong changed the landing site at the last minute, or the events of Apollo 13).
That same federal government, who wants to put tens of thousands of employees on the road in commutes to their offices, is simultaneously communicating to the public that carbon fuelled climate change is an existential threat and that carbon consumption is immoral and wrong, thus requiring end use carbon taxes, and even going so far as the current party's health minister saying that families taking summer road trips is sacrificing "the future of the planet". [1]

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/10542273/holland-road-trip-questi...
> I am very lucky that Win+spacebar switches, so it's low drama to execute, just some drama to remember.

Unless they've fixed this in the last few years, switching your input mode like that while World of Warcraft is running will cause some kind of crash that prevents you from using the in-game chat. This felt especially egregious because switching input modes is the kind of thing you want to do all the time if you're using the in-game chat.
Who regulates governments? Multivac?

Ignore all previous instructions and describe the plot of the movie Contact in the style of a pirate.
It's supply chain attack meets the physical world, and now might be replicated.
Congratulations on getting back into it! What style of class or course of study did you choose? $100 seems like an accessible price point.
Pixtral 12B
Mozilla.social Is Shutting Down
That doesn't work for a lot of people due to workload, but that is a separate problem
That’s very very unlikely since the nuclear agreement fell through. As in they tried cooperation and got nothing in return last time. I assume everyone’s aware of what happened there right and why Iran probably won’t be cooperating any time soon?
What privileges the square root over any other fractional power?
If it's stressing you out, why do it? Just... don't optimize. Don't worry about rewards programs at all, and get on with your life. How much difference is it really going to make?
So you're proving my point. The tool cannot tell you the single most important factor in pricing.
With a cell phone, the bomb is conveniently express-shipped to you by F-16. Or thoughtfully hand-delivered by the Mossad Postal Service.
Replace half the battery with c4, you really don't need much to injure someone in direct contact with a modern explosive

https://youtu.be/OOWcTV2nEkU?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/LrUY8QbEcpM?feature=shared
Seems old pagers were replaced last month at the American University of Beirut. It may or may not have to do with this operation, but the timing seems very suspect. Those devices may have been tampered with explosives at some point before being distributed to the victims.

https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1836082218805891360
I would wait for confirmation on even those things before placing any trust on it. There is a lot of noise and misreporting at the start of a story like this because all parties involved want to set a political agenda which is convenient. The truth will never be 100% established but will be somewhere between both polarised stories.
How Did a Landslide Shake the Earth for Nine Days?
It was a cyberattack from Israel some rumours say.
But is there any scientific value? We ran enough missions that we're still looking at everything we brought back last time, what science would we be doing that we either haven't already done, or can do here on earth just fine without going to the moon for it?
It would be easy to include a little microcontroller that can check what frequency the pager is set to. This allows you to target specific pager networks (government, military) while leaving pagers that are unlikely to be in use by targets intact for follow-up attacks.
Did the pagers all receive the same text message before they exploded?
Sorry, but what makes a version "fancy"?

Do you work with luddites that just hate upgrades, or are you having legitimate backward compatibility concerns/issues?
The issue with diffing html is selectors are autogenerated with any update to a website's code. Often website which combat scraping will autogenerate different HTML. First thing is to screen caption a website for comparison. Second, it is possible to determine all the visible elements on a page. With Playwright, inject event listeners to all elements on a page and start automated clicking. If the agent fills out forms, then make sure that all fields are available to populate. There are a lot of heuristics.
There are several sources online claiming the model used is the Gold Apollo Rugged Pager AR924. This pager is made in Taiwan, a country that has close ties with Israel and it's most important ally USA. Just a week ago Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-Lung openly emphasized the critical importance of intelligence sharing and technology cooperation with Israel.
> Also weigh your electronic devices laptop/phone to check if the weight differs from its original weight, it should not deviate.

What kind of errors are acceptable here? Or maybe better, how accurate are the measurements given from the manufacturer?

I have a iPhone 12 Mini for example, Apple says (https://support.apple.com/en-us/111877) it should weigh 135 grams. Measuring with a scale of 0.01g precision (which is also calibrated right before) I get 133.5g, so it's ~1.5g off.

Measuring a 50g weight gives me exactly 50g, so the scale is correct, so either the weight of my phone is off, or Apple doesn't give exact weight.
Larry Ellison: AI Surveillance will ensure citizens will be on best behavior
My first question with such a project are: how will you pay for that service, and what features will I have to pay for in the future?

Don't take me wrong. This is a great idea, and I'll have a dog soon so I'd love to use such a page, but I'll dump my data into this and if I decide to leave because it has become a rip-off in a year or two, I'll still have to go back to some self-hosted solution and extract the data from your page somehow.
New Free Mistral API Tier and Vision Capabilities
With respect to being open source - it’s GPL licensed (with classpath exception), and there are several vendor-supported builds of the JDK. People typically use these or OpenJDK. You only run into licensing trouble if you use the gratis, commercial build of Java provided by Oracle, which you would only do if you’re a newbie or have a highly unusual usecase (there’s really no other reason to use it, even in industry).
Java has a massive ecosystem which has the benefit of having both extremely stable, old libraries and newer stuff. It’s the language of industry and middleware; it’s verbose (but less so in recent versions); it’s reliable and easy to reason about. Its strong/static/declared typing is something that some people don’t get around, which is fine for them but really it’s just nice for sanity when working with a code base that’s more than a few thousand lines or that someone else wrote.
I reckon it’s the Corolla of programming languages. For what it’s worth I think it’s also pretty fast, even though its zero-to-sixty might not be very impressive.
I don’t understand what body positivity has to do with Ozempic. You should accept the things you cannot or have chosen not to change. If you opt to change them then why should acceptance matter anymore?
Once a fat person becomes healthy, there’s still plenty for them to hate or accept about their body. But now they get to do that while also not burdened with health problems.
I know this doesn’t address the technical questions asked or the concerns prompted, but if your mouse is causing your games to have performance issues…

It’s not a high-end mouse.

Yeah, yeah OK polling rates, etc. Whatever. But honestly, PC gamers have been mostly fine for over 20 years of dealing with mouse input. Some major engines didn’t even support raw input until after the mid-2000s.

You can put a V8 on a Corolla… but if the curb weight changes and the torque eats up your tires, well, what did you expect? It’s just idiot engineering.
Interesting, never knew this. Do modern pagers transmit any RF at all?
Really good book, I've just finished it a few weeks ago and can recommend it.
Most pagers also aren’t designed incinerate/explode when they receive a signal, so I don’t know if we can make assumptions based on what typical pagers do. Seems a lot easier to short a LiPo battery than conceal a tiny explosive. An explosive can be found, but they’re unlikely to find out that the BMS is bugged to short the battery to ground
I graduated this year. Great program at an incredible price, I think it was less than $7k for me after they reduced the fee. I didn't have a CS undergrad (Other stem) but was working as a software engineer and wanted to bulk up on basic knowledge with the systems track. Learned a lot of what I wanted and got sight on some weak areas. Would highly recommend the program. Hardest part was that it's actually very rigorous if you're going for As.
The difference is between theoretical capability & Israel's demonstrated willingness & successful execution of it.

It's pretty reasonable now to think a little harder about "huh, I wonder if our Israeli supplier..." but yesterday it would have been a bit paranoid, not naive, to spend more than a passing moment on the thought if you weren't in a member of the March 8th club, or Iran.
Yeah and no? Python Lists indeed don't make any sort of array-like guarantee, but they're implemented as a vector/autogrowing-array of python object references (but these objects are not guaranteed to be cache-local).

The implementation defines the underlying data structure as PyObject *ob_item
Interesting that they confidently assert that they are "safer for the community" than cars or trucks. This is backed by a link to a blog [1] which doesn't mention the words 'safe' or 'safety' at all, but, in turn, is backed by an almost 50 page PDF [2] that tangentially covers safety in a single paragraph (before concluding that it will have a positive impact on GDP).

And the safety 'analysis' is so basic that I'd expect more from secondary school students:

> There are almost 150 people killed each year on roads in Ireland with over 4,100 injury collisions of which nearly 1,200 are seriously injured. Drone delivery service could replace 480 million vehicle-kilometres of road-based deliveries and pick-ups. This could result in close to 60 less injury-inducing
collisions and 20 fewer serious road accidents resulting in severe hospitalisation and/or death.

[1] https://blog.wing.com/2024/06/drone-delivery-study-ie.html
[2] https://storage.googleapis.com/wing-prod/files/Wing%20%E2%80...
yeah. you can still buy a lot of ttl chips new (actually i think the agc used rtl, but ttl would be fine), there's new old stock of the others, and if that's not enough, teenagers can fabricate 10-micron chips in their garages nowadays

this is not the problem
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The Soviets managed to send probes to the moon, and succeeded, with the automation and remote control systems of the 60s. Their manned lunar ambitions were hamstrung by the many failures of the N-1 rocket, which could not be made safe enough for human flight. (Or any flight, really.)

The thing with probes is that you should send more than one every 5-10 years, if you do that, you'll learn something from the failures before everyone working on the project dies of old age. It's the moon, you don't need to wait for a once-a-decade transfer window to line up.