skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe because I read a lot of scifi and fantasy, despite not having read any Anne McCaffrey, but that doesn't seem particularly hard to parse or understand.
Hezbollah is not Gaza, and they are not Hamas. This is not the same conflict.
Business for pagers is not going great anyway...
news reports suggest 1000+ of these devices exploded.

In a country where lots of people would happily crack open the lid of a device to replace the battery or otherwise tinker, the explosives must have been well hidden, not just tucked into the case.
I have a better idea. Every politician has a bomb collar tied to their approval rating. ;)
How much would it cost to do it again in the same exact way though ?

It basically amounted to a trash can with an apple watch on top of a V2 rocket
On top of enabling indexing, it reduces the amount of data lost in the event of data corruption — something you get for free with block-based compression algorithms like BWT-based bzip2 but is most of the time missing from dictionary-based algorithms like LZ-based gzip.

I don't think many people use that last property or are even aware of it, which is a shame. I wrote a tool (bamrescue) to easily recover data from uncorrupted blocks of corrupted BAM files while dropping the corrupted blocks and it works great, but I'd be surprised if such tools were frequently used.
Absolutely worth reading, even if you have no intention of reading Homer.
Mind sharing the link to the masters you're taking?
What if we're expanding because we are in a black hole that is being fed by a collapsing star or other object in a many orders of magnitude larger scale universe?

Of course these kinds of things are probably 100% untestable.
We live in a world where iPhones get shipped directly from China. I know this is pretty much conspiratorial but if China wanted to hack a bunch of iPhones in the hands of government officials, there’s nothing to stop them. This episode made me realize how loose security is around supply chains.
State of Nevada v. $0.69 USD

"Nice." — LVPD, probably.
> Your personal integrity should not depend on the integrity of who/whatever it is you're dealing with

I disagree, because sometimes your integrity might justify their behavior. People do bad things because they think they're good, and they think they're good because people tell them via their actions.

Being a good employee tells amazon their employment policies are fair, and they should continue them. Therefore, IMO, you not only should be a bad employee - you have a duty to be a bad employee.
Probably not but the average person can buy a pager with a replaceable battery and buy a new one over the counter.
How do you judge that likely? It seems just as possible if not more that it was a single lot purchased by Hezbollah for Hezbollah.
I agree with this. Businesses aren't big on spending for overhead and that's exactly how software and R&D gets taxed in 2024. If you spend 200k on software and only break even you get taxed on 200k (meaning you're fucked).

https://leyton.com/us/insights/articles/senate-blocks-tax-re...

This tool may be the solution for businesses struggling with 174...Replace developers with calculus and machine learning.
You're right. Still, if anyone were to ask for my opinion I'd tell them that you only ever get one "first read", and that might as well be the book itself. If you can't make heads or tails of it (in this case that'll be rare), then sure, look at some secondary sources.

Even if you don't struggle, the secondary sources are great to read through after the fact. Stuff that'll help you get even more out of it on a second reading.

Thinking abo
Any government can invite anyone anywhere they deem necessary. There are no tours for mortals.
Welcome to what made Flash took off in first place.
Looks like a hardware supply chain attack: https://goachronicle.com/hezbollah-members-pagers-exploded-i...

>>GoaChronicle through its intelligence network has learned that Israeli intelligence successfully intercepted a shipment of pager batteries that had been ordered from B&H Photo. The order was placed from Lebanon. Acting on a confirmed tip, the intelligence agency seized the shipment and covertly modified the batteries. Small, undetectable explosives known as Kiska 3 were inserted into the battery casings and connected to the battery wires via a discreet chip. The pager model was Rugged Pager AR924 IP67. The operation code word was ‘Below the Belt’.
I use winit, which is a Rust crate for dealing with windows (lower case) and keyboard/mouse events. It supports Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux/X11, Linux/Wayland, Android, web browsers, and Redox OS. Trying to abstract over all of those works, almost.

Reading keyboard arrows or WASD has timing problems. Although the program gets key code up/down events, the key repeat software seems to interfere with the timing of the events and slows them down. Software repeats can be ignored, but still cause problems.
Holding down a repeating key for long periods can cause lost events. X11 is especially bad, but there seem to be some problems with Windows, too.

Another thing nobody has fixed in the Rust game dev ecosystem yet because the developer base is tiny. Rust needs one good first person shooter project with enough push behind it to wring out the performance problems in interactive 3D.
These pagers probably had puch cells - those catch fire violently, but don't explode because the film can't contain much pressure.
And the "critical failure during combat causes accidental self-injury" rule quickly turns any combat-heavy campaign into slapstick comedy.
For software engineering, I have heard stories from all around about the PIP culture due to an 8-12% mandatory URA quota. This results in gaslighting and forced firings to engineers that have a history of performing well.

I personally know a SDM looking to leave now because he said he was basically told to fire one of his reports who was performing fine, or he would be the one fired. I've read stories of "hire to fire" where they hire ICs with the intention of letting them go in 6-12 months so another member of their team doesn't have to.

Culture is self-serving, hunger games style. Management is cut-throat and not empathetic at all.

The NYTimes did a big expose about the toxic culture of working at Amazon, and Bezos' public response was literally along the lines of "we move fast and know that our competitive culture is not for everyone. Our employees are up for the challenge and we are proud of what we accomplish."

In fact, during the hiring boom in 2020-2022 their reputation of SWE ICs was so bad that they were having trouble hiring. Many (myself included) would receive 1-2 emails from different recruiters desperately trying to get us to apply. We all knew to stay away.

The sad part is that many of the toxic managers and even ICs have infiltrated much more of FAANG (and big tech) and with the economic recession especially in tech, Amazon's cut-throat management styles like "performance culture" and PIP quotas have been happening in many other places now.
Starlink provides time synchronization, an NTP server with GPS time
New feature. Starlink's dish already has a GPS receiver, they're now publishing GPS time at stratum 1 on an NTP server available on the LAN. Really amazing, suddenly 2.7M more sites have easy access to GPS time.
C++ has them on the standard library, I would make a clear split with C in this regard.
It's not meant to put them out of business, it's meant to show them that actions have consequences and to improve. FAA generally appreciates what SpaceX does.
Even though I personally doubt this statement, care to explain how that would possibly be enough?
If an explosion happens, everyone in range is hit.
> If you cannot suggest any way its output would look different to how it looks now and instead have to resort to changing the subject, shouldn't you retract that claim?

For one thing, I expect we’d not see so many cases of them chasing (if you will) the prompt and request into silliness. The code attempts to satisfy prompts in a transparently mechanical fashion, which is part of why they so gleefully (if you will) mislead. There’s no understanding. You can ask them to correct and they might, but they can also be induced to correct the already-correct, so that means nothing. To the extent we fix that, it’s not by adding any factor that might represent understanding, it’s further prompting that amounts to “follow these patterns slightly differently”. The fix isn’t, so far, “teaching” them to understand. Maybe we’ll get there! But we don’t appear to be anywhere near that yet.

> Then you must say a human doesn't understand. For what else is there in a human brain except a finite amount of learned behavioural rules for signal inputs and outputs? Learned over a billion years of evolution in the structure, and filled in by a lifetime of nurture.

The thing about the Chinese Room is that we comprehend the entire process, and there’s no room for some unknown factor affecting the output—or for a known factor that might be processing something like what we mean by understanding (let alone consciousness, say).

Every single part of what an LLM does can be replicated with big books of lookup tables, dice, and a list of rules. There’s nowhere for anything to do the understanding to exist. It’s not that we have to be confused by part of it for that to be there—I’m not saying mystery is a necessary component—just that this process doesn’t have a place for that to be.
"I self-taught myself Martial Arts (JKD, Karate, Taijiquan) from books when i was young."

This is very interesting and impressive. How common would you think a complete self-study of martial arts actually is? I've always thought this cannot be done alone -- or, it would be extremely easy to get lost or head to some wrong direction, eventually harming yourself mentally or physically. Akin to how a common suggestion about yoga or meditation (I used to exercise vipassana daily for quite a while) is that the first, basic principles should be taught by a good master. Possibly due to personality type, I've always wanted to challenge this assumption, though.

While learning martial arts on your own, what did you do to overcome more serious mental blocks or standstills (provided you had any)? Did you ever feel that "books are not enough"?
The secret of the Apollo program was that they weren't all that safety concious; even after Apollo 1. Beating the soviets was more important.

They were very lucky they only had 2 mission failures and 3 lives lost.
How do you fit an explosive into a pager and still have the pager work? Like, aren't they already optimized to have everything for inside super tight?
> With a half decent IDE you do not need it.

I agree.

> It is inexcusable.

I think it can be quite easily excused on grounds of triviality, though whether that's appropriate may depend on context.
Hezbollah has been warning its members not to use cell phones because they get targeted by using them too. Seems like the pagers were supposed to be the workaround for that.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sya00qlswa
The problem is literal vested interests in commercial real estate. Not just in the sense that the company itself owns their offices, but many of the local businesses around those offices are popular investments for upper management. (Amazon in particular isn’t a free-lunch workplace, so at least when I was there, there were tons of lunch spots scattered amidst the Amazon campus.) If people don’t RTO, a lot of money stands to be lost, especially since Amazon was investing heavily in both their expanded Seattle campus in the Denny Triangle and HQ2 when COVID hit.
You should check out any of the books written by Ben Macintyre, especially "The Spy and the Traitor". It turns out a lot of spy novels aren't that far off from reality.
> if the pager network was compromised, thus burns the compromised network

I wouldn't necessarily call this type of attack a network compromise. All it takes is knowing the target phone numbers and sending a specific message, which is a paging network working exactly as designed. Phone detonated bombs have been a thing for a long time too.

Calling it a hardware supply chain attack seems more accurate.
Which is what NPR is saying, that Harris was being misleading by relying on technical terms that don't match people's real-life understanding of the words. Would you have been confident enough to call that out when even NPR after the fact can't get a definitive answer to whether her literal words were correct? They only checked like three things the whole debate that were unambiguously false.
LiPos used today burn because they have vent slits. Remove the vents and it’s far more likely to explode. In any case, we’ll probably find out in a couple weeks.
It's only superficially relevant here, but I love the poem, so I'll share it anyway:

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, John Keats

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
2000? The article speaks of dozens at best, and no 9 year old girl.
Perhaps, but this isn't about non-developers or developers in general. This is targeting "full stack" developers, the overwhelming majority of which cannot write original software. If a tool provides a business the ability to replace a developer that cannot solve problems on their own, without some tech stack and colossal framework, it pays for itself immediately. That's why it is inevitable.
FWIW, AP is reporting over 2800 injured, 200 seriously, with only 8 dead.
That's a very good point - if the goal was to disable comms and incapacitate as many targets as possible, then collateral damage numbers are much lower.

It's unknown how many were family members of targeted individuals, and whatever the number actually is, it'll be misreported.
Surprising nobody has yet posted the make/model.

Really shows that the HN community and the victims have very little overlap.
Good grief, Gwern is a treasure. Every time I stumble across a link to something they've written, it's chock-full of side quest links to things that are _absolutely amazing_. I happened to leave my mouse briefly over one of the drop-caps, and it turns out there's an entire page dedicated to _generating drop-caps_ with AI, as well as showcasing all sorts of stuff.

"Thank you for making such awesome stuff" seems so pedestrian of a reaction. This is like looking at a fractal cathedral made by one person, where every time I look at it it's a hologram of something amazing and beautiful that I didn't even know was possible.
Not a dupe. This article focuses on how it could have been done. Note article title “How…”.
Express-style, because it's very easy to work with my response asynchronously (before returning from my handler function) - e.g. respond with 200 immediately and then process the received data, or stream my response during processing.
I want to see a video of this compared to explosives.
I have family that to this day call all plastic ware "Tupperware".
To be slightly more precise - it's puberty, not a specific age.
I'm old enough to remember making admins with Adobe Flex. I unironically kind of miss it.
Agreed! And indeed we are still considering switching Rio to a Canvas + WebGL/WebGPU. The reason we've decided against it for now is accessibility, and weird edge cases such as Copy & Pasting.
>So it seems pretty clear he meant it, and expected the reader to take it, as a silly last name.

A lot of these 'mysteries' that get brought up over and over online tend to have very easy to figure out answers, but people would rather be confused for some reason.
Does anyone know if there are variants of this that output voxels? It feels like a more concrete representation of the space versus Gaussian splats.
A branchless quicksort partition algorithm (2023)
Questionable opsec is almost always the culprit. Even all these online black markets, it wasn’t some sophisticated operation to catch them. Many times, they use the same username on another website and now there’s a link. Hell, one of them used to send email verification for their black market using their personal email.

It doesn’t just stop there. A 49ers wide receiver got shot a couple weeks back because he posted on Instagram about buying a Rolex and he was lucky to survive. That’s also questionable opsec.
I'd argue that linear camera movement with mouse _is_ the expected behavior for FPS these days.
How Reliable Is America's Electrical Grid?
If you're a deeptech founder Y Combinator is not for you.

Recommend something like an NSF Activate grant instead. Commercialization of hardware takes an average of 15 years. If you can't get dilution free funding for the first 5 or so, you'll end up giving up so much equity that you'll be an employee of your own company.

Most successful hardware founders have deep pockets or huge grant supports.
As a dog owner for 15 years I can honestly say I have never felt the need to track any of this. I'm curious, why would you need to? Do people forget to take their dogs for walks? Most dogs come with builtin alarms consisting of wagging, slobbering and pouty faces. Mine even runs back and forth between me and the bowl when he's hungry, hard to not notice the hint.
It's ok, it's only been in development for 16 years. Rome wasn't built in a day!
>but then do you seem like a creep if you try to inveigle yourself in with them?

Are you asking if you seem like a creep when you talk to women? I guess it depends on what you say. I lead group rides for a prominent cycling brand in a major US city for years and no one thought it was creepy to talk to anyone.
I must have missed the comment related to quantum mechanics. If not, you're twisting the conversation. The discussion I've seen so far has been to speculate whether someone put bombs inside pagers or if stock devices were manipulated to make them explode. The comment I replied to implied that only "expert killers" should be having this discussion, whatever that means.

Edit: The reason the difference is worth discussion is because one is a targeted supply chain attack and the other is a vulnerability that could be exploited to cause even more harm.
I see some reports claiming that the trigger message was “07734 58008” but hard to tell if all these accounts are serious.

My guess would be that not only the battery but also the main board was modified to initiate the action.

edit: why do you think I'm not sure if they are serious? Calculator jokes are not a niche humor :)
Is it chapter 7 or 11? I didn’t see that before the paywall break.
Yes, hence the "there are now" part. I updated my comment with a source.

I mixed up "nine fatalities" with "eight year old girl" to get "nine year old girl". Mea culpa.
> because nobody will do it for you

That's not true - you just talked about OSHA. What did they do before that? They did what you advocate - they left, or maybe lost a hand or two. Then we got this codified and boom! Now somebody else does it for you (thank god).

It's not just about like/dislike. There are real impacts. Thousands of tons of CO2, lives lost in car accidents, countless human lifespans wasted on a commute. These are real impact that you, yes YOU, will face head on.
Huh? No, the article says the stonemason chose a star because nobody would be able to tell that a 17-gon isn't a circle. I have heard this story repeated before in Gaussian biographies, but I'm surprised I can't find a single picture online that shows that this did or did not happen.
>builders there regularly paid off our corrupt mayor to avoid the rules.

I stopped being an electrical sub-contractor after a local mansion builder told me to "stop worrying about the other trades[†], I have insurance for a reason."

†: floor-heat guy wanted to run his 35A through my 16A circuit, "don't make this harder than it needs to be."
Feynman did some mechanical artillery range computer design. Read "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman". He has a few things to say about it.
True. Mea culpa!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41566155
I would ordinarily have thought the same, but what immediately came to mind was the TOS update that they "generally do not store the contents of video or voice calls"[0]. (I've since forgotten what it looked like before that but remember a big reaction in the userbase.)

I wonder if those terms would be practically nullified in any way if the E2EE is enabled.

Though, maybe they would attempt to implement something like Apple's offline CSAM policing that almost (IIRC?) came to be. There is also the Whatsapp method (albeit for text-based messages) that the app client of the user reporting you will send decrypted messages to Facebook.

[0]: https://discord.com/privacy
When we go skiing, for example, we all change from jeans into Winter clothes outside the car after parking at the resort. I've seen most of my friends in their undies, regardless of gender. It's not sexual, it's just convenient.

I have no idea how common these types of situations are elsewhere.
Which is dumb, because pagers are just as trackable as phones.
> Citing openly anti-israeli sources like BBC and Al-Jazeera is not a way to prove your point.

Are you saying that their numbers are incorrect? If so share another link you trust more.
> please provide a single sane scenario where you need to send cash instead of a bank transfer that is not about avoiding laws/taxes.

What if I really want this Chevy Suburban for $11,950 where the seller is strictly saying 'cash only'? Sure maybe buying that particular vehicle with a quarter million miles on it doesn't qualify as "sane", but it doesn't appear to be illegal.

https://austin.craigslist.org/cto/d/houston-2018-chevy-subur...
>sounds more like it's just some guy

That should be apparent to anyone that can read, I think people just like to pretend to be dense for some reason.
It is the UT Austin program. It is a bit more theory heavy akin to early Andrew Ng courses at Stanford.
Let's be fair. This is probably the communication channel for grunts that command doesn't give a shit about and they're using E2EE apps for command and this for grunts.
I also enjoy the non-standard punctuation, e.g. F'lax -- how would you pronounce that?
I listened to this for a bit. I can agree the ideas are similar. Ramana Maharishi is another person to look into who is a bit more direct.
slint is more declarative, supports Rust and Python
How is this not intentionally drawing a person?

If we write code that intentionally takes into consideration our own experience, why is it mesmerizing when it behaves as expected?

It isn’t spontaneously forming society if it’s weighted to do so in its initial states given the intentional implementation choices of the makers.

This is like watching a farmer farm and saying the carrots magically grew.
Certainly newbie-friendliness is a good attribute (and I'd argue ROS isn't that particularly, even apart from all the bad habits it teaches, there's just a lot of tutorials for it), but it would be nice to have an alternative that's good for professional use, regardless of whether academia uses it.
The question is who started shooting rockets at the territory of the other. I would be surprised if it was Israel.