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> In May 2023, SpaceX submitted a request to revise its communications plan related to its license to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The proposed revisions included adding a new launch control room at Hangar X and removing the T-2 hour readiness poll from its procedures. On June 18, 2023, SpaceX used the unapproved launch control room for the PSN SATRIA mission and did not conduct the required T-2 hour poll. The FAA is proposing $350,000 in civil penalties ($175,000 for each alleged violation).

> In July 2023, SpaceX submitted a request to revise its explosive site plan related to its license to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The proposed revision reflected a newly constructed rocket propellant farm. On July 28, 2023, SpaceX used the unapproved rocket propellant farm for the EchoStar XXIV/Jupiter mission. The FAA is proposing a $283,009 civil penalty.

> SpaceX has 30 days to respond to the FAA after receiving the agency’s enforcement letters.

These are routine Falcon 9 launches, not starship.
> Where in the world can you get half a million with nothing but an idea to show for it

In Silicon Valley. You can actually get a lot more than 500K.

> and only have to give up 7%+uncapped?

It is actually 7% for 125K and 325K uncapped, but at the best possible terms offered to other seed investors. So it might end up becoming ~10% for 500K, which is a lot of dilution.
Well high pressure to deliver is sort of a poor culture isn't it? I agree we should be forgiving of others mistakes, but I also think we ought to strive to develop better solutions that lead to fewer bugs at any given velocity.
> prevent performance collapse by just not processing more than N message queue events per frame. N=5

Why is this an issue? Your mouse is sending raw input 80,000 times per second to a screen that can only display 120 pictures per second.

Kinda sounds like an arbitrary problem that people who believe 8k mouses are necessary would worry about.
Except that most explorers didn't go because they cared about geology; they explored because they wanted to colonize/conquer. We evolved in Africa and literally colonized (almost) every continent on Earth before we had invented writing, much less science.

The explorers that will go out into the solar system, like Jared Isaacman, will go for glory, fame, and/or profit, none of which can be gained by probes, no matter how sophisticated.
One of the main changes in my habits that was absolutely necessary in order to lose weight, then maintain it at the desired level, was that previously I was eating whenever I felt the need and until I felt completely satiated, while since then I make every day a plan with when to eat, what to eat and how much to eat and then I stick to the plan, I never eat anything more than previously planned and outside the planned meals I do not eat or drink anything else, e.g. snacks or juices, except for drinking water.

Obviously during all the time when I was losing weight and even some time after that I was feeling hungry all the time, so I had to make some efforts to not eat beyond what I had planned. Nevertheless, if you work or do anything else that occupies your attention, the feeling of hunger disappears for some time, even if it reappears after some hours.

So having to cope with hunger is unavoidable for this goal. However, eventually my body became accustomed with a much lower food intake and the hunger disappeared. Now, when I eat food that I cook myself, I may not eat again for an entire day without becoming hungry. I have experimented and I have eaten again some industrially-produced food, like I was eating in the past, and with that I have become hungry just a couple of hours after eating it, exactly like before losing weight, so I believe that switching to self cooking is also a necessary condition for avoiding hunger when eating little.
You do know that those Hezbollah members have been firing hundreds of rockets daily for a year into Israel, right? The fact that those rockets killed limited number of people is a matter of skill, not will.
> When theres money on the table you don't have any friends.

That's taking it way too far.

I think the important factor is the kind of relationship involved, specifically how does a modern corporation like Amazon view its relationship with you. I'd argue that it's fundamentally sociopathic and exploitative, so it doesn't deserve anything better than what it gives.

Individuals and different kinds of organizations can be deserving of your integrity.
We completely agree. I would redefine it a bit.

We combine static analysis + LLMs to do better detection, triaging and auto-fixing because static analysis alone is broken in many ways.

We've been able to reduce ~30% of tickets for customers with false positive detection, and now be able to detect classes of vulnerabilities in business and code logic that were previously undetectable.
These aren't normal retail pagers, like the world uses (or used to use) for pager-duty? And Hezbollah maintains its own network infrastructure?
That's right. Any evaluation or discussion of this needs to take account of the fact that it makes the perpetrator culpable of an illegal act of war in which the lives of innocent children are disregarded. There are all sorts of "clever" but reprehensible things warring parties could do, but are considered to be beyond the pale. So, this is a stupid action by a reckless, immoral party which will continue to have consequences for all of us -- especially if we don't deal with anything that we control.
Yes it's the unions that are greedy, not anyone else.
IIRC patient anecdotes of people reducing their cravings, so healthy alternatives wont appeal to them.
That's overly harsh IMO.

Python is not perfect—no language is—but it arguably has the lowest barrier to entry for new programmers, with far fewer "wats" than languages of its kind and era (certainly less than JS). Sure, its reference implementation is not the most performant, but it easily interoperates with C/C++, and alternative implementations like PyPy are also relatively easy to switch to, so it can be performant when it needs to. Dynamic typing is not great for maintaining large codebases, but with the advent of gradual typing, this shouldn't be a major hindrance anymore. It has a great standard library, and a huge ecosystem. My only major gripe with it is the packaging and the insane amount of tooling around it, which I doubt will ever be resolved at this point. But Python is not so bad overall.
> leaving money on the table

This one phrase summarizes everything that has gone wrong with capitalism, in my opinion. The notion that "leaving money on the table" is always a bad thing allows for most of the abuses companies inflict on people.
"These devices don't appear to be designed to be lethal.[..] They are, for the most part, low charge so not packing enough to actually kill somebody.[..] Let's not forget that this comes on the same day that Israel has extended its war aims to including expelling Hezbollah basically from the border."
-- BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNEb-dY3tRY
If that were the case, Israel wouldn't be intricately planting bombs in Hezbollah pagers.
I'm ready to believe you but the impression I have from your comment is that it would take quite a bit to convince you to take a step back from your personal beliefs and re-evaluate.

It doesn't even matter what you believe, based on what you wrote, my impression is that you are here to convince others that your viewpoint is correct, not necessarily to gain a new one.
And yet they let Hezbollah operate there.
can’t hear the music
https://reflex.dev/ is all made in Reflex and has raised a seed round! There are also a few YC companies using Reflex that have raised seed rounds too.
Well... Wernher von Braun wrote a SF novel in which the first mission to Mars discovers native Martians. These live underground and use hyperloop-like tunnels for transportation, and their leader is called the "elon"...
Well, now that everyone knows it's feasible to hide a small bomb inside a pager, what's to stop people from checking their pagers for tiny explosives before using them?
That's a great suggestion! Essentially a cron job to check for website changes before your automation runs and possibly breaks.

What does this check look like for you? Do you just diff the html to see if there are any changes?
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Do you think Hezbollah was buying stuff from Israel, or otherwise using Israeli supply chains?

I think it's far more likely that Mossad has infiltrated whatever foreign (non-Israeli) supply chain they were using.

So this can happen regardless of whether you're using Israeli supply chains or not.
Yes. Hezbollah is essentially the armed forces of Lebanon (there is an official Lebanese army, but it is smaller than Hezbollah).
Compared to Stuxnet it's also a first where this kind of attack was done at scale. Regardless of the particular target it's of course the question whether this is a desirable practice in cyber warfare. For such a new field there are very few ethical guidelines yet, like we do have for more conventional warfare.
Yeah, agreed. Also agreeing with the sibling posters that the videos that emerge look nothing like batteries catching fire but rather like actual detonations. Nothing an untampered pager should be able to do.
We know absolutely zero about how the pagers were distributed.
I'm among those who often despairs that HN cannot address trenchant political issues, or aspects of stories. I really wish it could do better.

That said, if you do want to discuss those issues, the best way is to do so with an extreme awareness of HN's comment guidelines and provide a highly constructive example for others to follow. Complaining about others generally doesn't have that effect. Responding to complaints of others, even constructively, is at best marginally effective as well, of course.

I'll be the first to admit that the politics of the Middle East is exceedingly complex, most hats are at best grey, and I find myself often critical, occasionally impressed and supportive of, various parties.

One factor which might help is distinguishing direct beligerants and forces (regular or irregular) and political factions on the one hand from the civilian populations at large on the other (both sides face a high degree of risk, whether as collateral damage or as direct targets).

I'd also strongly urge all to downvote and flag clear agitation and of course nationalistic flamewars, as dang so very often admonishes: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>.
If it's a child sitting on the lap with her father, and her father is related to Hezbollah (and as such carrying a pager), this stuff could happen, I think.

All in all horrible to be honest ...
When you drop a bomb you at least know where it's going, here you have no idea.

Look at what's going on in Ukraine, if you can't tell a good from a bad shit you have to get your eyes checked. Hitting a column of tank isn't the same as targeting a civilian building

Wars are always bad and there will always be war crimes on all sides, it doesn't mean that everything is equal
That's not what I said, though.

What I said was the lifestyles are not actual that different and to stop segregating and splintering into smaller and smaller tribes.
These pagers were 100% a supply chain attack. Intercepted and modified with small explosives embedded in them or swapped the entire shipment out with ones with a small explosives in them.

There is no possibility these explosions are from battery overloads via an exploit or firmware hack.
While a clever attack it's also highly likely there was collateral damage to nonviolent or noninvolved bystanders.
They killed an 8 year old girl with this attack. I'm sure there was already a huge amount of collateral damage from 2000+ eyes-off-taret explosions.
I think the "clever show" was the point. The physical damage may not actually justify the investment here. You need the resultant paranoia and suspicion from Hezbollah or it wasn't worth putting resources into.
I guess if your only exposure to spying is through spy novels you probably would feel that way? Nothing about this seems out of line to me.
Simple Messaging Increases YIMBY/Housing Supply Support
DEF Con 19 – Charlie Miller – Battery Firmware Hacking [video]
We do support sentry. Finic projects are poetry scripts so you can `poetry add` any observability library you need.
Incorrect, as you have no leverage as an individual employee. The less resources you pool together, the less negotiation power you have.

What you're describing is an idealized free labor market. In actuality, you are not in fair competition with other laborers because the labor market isn't a free market.
I know, it’s the Daily Mail, but it’s the best explanation I could find about how it could have been done.
itching to get into deep tech

What actions have you taken so far? Are you working through any books or online courses with actual homework problems?

For all the things you mentioned, a good start might be studying calculus. Even if you studied it in high school, you're probably rusty.

If I were in your shoes, I would sign up for mathacademy.com ($50/month) and commit 2 hours per day (14 hours per week) to studying math. This would both help you develop a study habit, and ensure you have a good mathematical foundation for the other things you want to do.

In my experience, trying to study things that require some math foundation (like all the things you've listed) can be really hard and demotivating if you're missing those prerequisites. It can feel like you're not smart enough.
Gladys Assistant
This isn't necessarily true -- language, cultural, and timezone barriers do exist and will come up, which makes it still advantageous to keep WFH employees domestic
What are these places? How is productivity being measured?

All this talk of data and I have yet to see _anything_.
> "I want this button to be bigger", formalizing it can't be a formal process.

while (!is_button_big_enough()) {
button.scaleUp(1.1);
}

This is one trivial way to do it, and seems like it would be formalizable. is_button_big_enough is simply an input to whatever process is responsible for judging such a thing, whether that be a design specification or perhaps input from a person.
> Because I expect significant improvement from Orion

Could you share the scientific basis for this expectation? Something other than pure hype from OpenAI would be good.
No company is going to publicly admit that its productivity has been bad. It'd also destroy morale more than it does. And the PR backlash. And what kind of data would they release? Data for productivity will always be imperfect. People will scrutinize it. Disagree with it. Competitors might be able to use it to their advantage.

Low reward, high risk.
Ahh so a simple supply chain attack. I was thinking it might have leveraged the built in batteries. But it was always unlikely, especially in a receive-only device.

Still, if you have the capability of such a supply chain attack, I would imagine the rewards of silent surveillance (tracking, audio) would be of much higher value than this kind of attack where 3 out of 1000s targets were killed.
WonderWorld: Interactive 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image
> most likely answer is that a shipment of pagers was intercepted and implanted with explosives

I agree, there are photos and videos of extensive damage to furniture and injuries that go way beyond what a small lithium battery would NORMALLY do.

Also, all the CCTV footage I've seen indicates explosions and not fire.

It can be explosives planted, However it can be batteries modified to explode instead of burn&outgas. I recall a video of someone losing their lives when their vape battery exploded. IIRC the vape's metal structure acted as a container that enabled pressure build up and eventual sudden release.

There are many stories about vapes exploding, some causing serious damage similar to these:

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/vape-explod...

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/e-cig-vape-pen-explosion/

Kind of makes sense to modify the battery because since they still need a functioning battery anyway and the space is limited.
The Māori's main criticism was the use of the word "Tohunga", which in Māori means something like "respected expert", but in Bionicle meant "funny little guy who is constantly getting into trouble".

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/31/andrewosborn

> The Maoris protested that the word Tohunga - the name Lego gave to the cowed inhabitants of the island - was the Polynesian word for spiritual healer and that using it in such a trivial context was offensive.

Lego changed that term to "Matoran", and modified a few other terms/spellings slightly, and the Māori were happy.
Dark Wire by Joseph Cox came out this earlier in the summer that covers the 2010s version of this with an Android phone company being stood up as a replacement for Blackberries

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59644256-dark-wire
I am very lucky that Win+spacebar switches, so it's low drama to execute, just some drama to remember. Insult to injury, and likely very related to the article's points: if I remember after launching the game, Win+spacebar is 50/50 on whether the game notices and thus I usually just pay the startup cost again if I forget rather than having things be in limbo
Both sides of the RTO bell curve (the abusers and the hyper dedicated) are taking a hit here.

For an example of the latter, it's the people who can stomach a long commute three days a week but not five.
Maybe future iterations of this attack will include facial recognition to determine user age > ~18?
> Sure, let's look at processes, outcomes and efficiencies. So far we have 1 dead 10-year old girl and some other civilians.

Unreliable number of terrorists aside, by more than a few reports the Lebanese ambassador to Iran [1]... not good looks for a government constantly claiming to have no relationship with Hezbollah.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/irans-ambassador-lebanon-injured-...
Do you need a tool to tell you that the cloud is more expensive?

Do you need a tool to tell you that your company underpays or is bad at recruiting? Or maybe that you do something boring that people don't want to work for?

IMO Keda is the more important product in this space, because it translates business requirements like max queue wait time into compute resources.

If you are operating in a way where small cost differences decide if you are break even if you have already failed, no amount of "FinOps" will stop your trend from going to zero. It is delaying the inevitable.
> When SWE management’s no longer a thing

You just said developers will be gone in 2-3 years. There won't be any humans to manage. Did you mean you'll be a SWE manager of LLMs?
Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone
A lot of companies aren't trying to hire the "best" programmers. Places like Amazon won't let engineers use highly-skilled techniques anyway.

The high-profile RTO places tend to hire in bulk for programmers that will do as product tells them. Weeding out people who value quality over conformity is a goal.
I ended up solving the problem as `c c c c c`, which reminded me of a fun fact I once derived about repeated applications of that composition operator. If we call this sort of expression of `n` chained composition operators `n`-fold composition, then for `n >= 6` (i.e. starting at `c c c c c c`), `n`-fold composition has the same type and semantics as `n+4`-fold composition. Not a particularly deep insight, but neat!
What I mean is that epiphany you went through is extremely common, and everyone goes through more or less at the same 5-10 years of experience. The difference is the people who didn’t spend that time focusing on technique before becoming seniors tend to be terrible engineers, invariably
somewhere the line got blurry
I don’t disagree with that. When I did keto for about 10 months, I was very similar. The challenge with this was, of course, maintaining it - I’m an extrovert, and being social often meant being around people at dinner, drinking, etc. Even if I abstained (which I did), you still felt a bit “out of place.”

As for hunger - you’re right. I was able to curb hunger simply by eating better. But I was never able to curb the “food noise” that was constantly in my head in a sustainable way.

Moreover, my body does really attempt to retain weight. Unless I’m absolutely perfect, I will gain weight fast and take it off extremely slowly. That is now how everybody’s body works. Many people struggle to put on weight. That is not the case for me.

I do not disagree that lifestyle changes matter, and that Ozempic is not sustainable without them.
Just to put some numbers on that, ToI are presently reporting 9 deaths and 2,800 injuries (those numbers are of course preliminary and very much in flux), which taking the 2nd value as a denominator would be a <1% lethality rate. The BBC's characterisation does seem to be accurate.

<https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-september-17-2024/>
> Companies forget this.

they don't care about your commute at all. "if [c-level exec] can make it to the office every day, so can you" not to mention that, said exec does not in fact make it to the office every day
Neat idea. Agree with the below suggestion for screenshots. A video would also go a long way on the homepage for how to use.

Integrating google sign in might lower friction.

Small error in that there are no frequently asked questions in the FAQ section of https://waulog.com/guide#faq
Though what a spectacular way to draw such a program to a close.

I mean that in the sense of spectacle, of gruesome theatricality, not to glorify maiming people.
> The vast majority of (early stage) deals I've seen started at 2-3x preference

That's a very bold claim. Any citations?
It seems somewhat plausible that Israel somehow managed to sabotage a pallet of pagers they knew were going to be distributed to people involved terrorism. If so the number of bystanders injured might be relatively low and the number of legitimate targets injured or killed could be quite high.

Having said that it also seems quite plausible that Israel just knew that some particular brand of pagers in some region of Lebanon was used by their targets, and so they just sabotaged thousands of them in the vague hope that they would get a hit.

I suspect we will never get enough info about how this attack was carried out to know.
Was this pager attack worse than October 7th?
I wonder if this is possible in devices that actually use a small asic to handle all aspects of battery control. They're even more complex than a BMS, for instance macbook batteries have had these for around 20 years [0]. They're even common in vapes and vape batteries. I have to wonder if these asics can be bypassed with malware?

Seems like the cells in these pagers were massively over-discharged and then allowed to be over charged? Potentially a capacitor used to drive the vibration motor was then used to cause the battery to catastrophically explode?

0 - https://squidgeefish.com/projects/a1175-battery-hacking/
Yes, we would have referred them to the proper channels to discuss the morals and ethics of it all. Those subjects inevitably lead to bitter arguments. Keeping politics out is the only way to keep this platform sane.
Meta showcases RISC-V cores that will power recommendations
OP was most likely concerned about Israeli businesses that supply (or ship) non-explosive components/products no longer being trusted.
Probably yes but we just built it to be cheaper. AM5 is on the costlier side and we don't plan to upgrade these machines. Our calculation is we can retire them by the end of 3 years.
Where’s a good place to learn about the web components aspect? I’ve tried a few times (and the shoelace docs) but it doesn’t stick.