skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think that a 2000 of the devices are sitting in a warehouse as spares or waiting for distribution. These are relatively new devices.

> And why wouldn't they use these pagers? Doctors use pagers all of the time.

These devices were specifically ordered by Hezbollah. An army buys its own equipment not in order to hand it out to the civilian populace. They don't hand out guns to doctors who carry. Why would they hand out their internal communication device?

> Even if the doctors were all Hezbollah that doesn't make them all part of the militia wing of the party

It doesn't make them a great target but it does put them in the valid line of fire. The fact that someone works as a civilian doctor isn't relevant. If they have a Hezbollah beeper they are probably an army medic.

Hezbollah put the entire populace of Lebanon at risk without a second thought, people acting as their "beard" trying to legitimize a terrorist organization (that killed many Americans/French too) are part of it. This is a military communication device, the only case where a civilian has access to it is if they took it from a combatant.

The fact is that if there were significant civilian victims they would have been paraded in front of cameras repeatedly. There were some probably, but not many.
It's hard to say. Military deception is a bit of a grey area by definition. Faking as medics or burial staff is generally regarded as an absolute no-go, but deceptive use of uniforms and so on is sometimes excused. There is a fairly extensive history of this in naval operations, where practicality dictates a whole ship has to be disguised if a deception is to be effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship
AI

https://www.ycombinator.com/launches

Also they can process applications faster now!
Cloudflare agrees to block Twitter in Brazil
> he first assertion, that GR is not the whole story, is more or less a given knowing that GR returns non-physical infinities when trying to describe what's inside the BH.

Only at the singularity, but the singularity itself is not even part of the spacetime manifold in GR.

In cases like black holes, there are physical invariants that do increase without bound as the singularity is approached, i.e., still within the spacetime, but their values are still finite at every point within the spacetime.

It is true that most physicists believe that when those invariants reach some particular scale, such as the Planck scale, the GR description in terms of spacetime geometry will break down. But that scale is about twenty orders of magnitude away from what we can currently probe observationally, so this is another of those speculations that, however plausible it seems, is not going to be testable any time soon.
It's much easier to say "I'm going to make it impossible for us to have to worry about the Australian government filing a lawsuit against $my-state-agency, because legal said so" than "Well, if we allow Australian IPs to access this website, there's a 0.x% chance that we get sued by Australia, but it's worth it for the sake of the 0.00x% of American expats in Australia."

Here's a analogously real example from current US-Ukraine policy:

> For example, one current social goal in the U.S., given the geopolitical conflict with Russia, is to avoid facilitating activities that could aid the adversary. As Russia has invaded Ukraine, the U.S. has positioned itself in opposition to Russia but not Ukraine. Banks, therefore, need to align with these geopolitical stances, leading to decisions that might catch some individuals in the crossfire, even if they’re not directly involved.

> Financial institutions often interpret this as: if they're not deeply specialized in doing business in Ukraine, they should avoid it altogether. They fear they won’t be able to consistently ensure compliance with these complex directives from the government [especially because there's a chance those directives might change in a week, or a month, or 3 months].

> This creates a split-brain problem within U.S. decision-making. The government intends to say, "Please cut down on oligarch money laundering that supports Russia’s war effort." However, financial institutions hear this as, "Under no circumstances should you fund anything related to Ukraine," including, for example, scholarships for Ukrainian high schoolers—a slight exaggeration, but not far from the reality in some cases.

(source: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/true-crime-ba...)
There are clear trends even acknowledged among the most pro-American analysts that the coming world will see a reversal of good fortunes by many in the world. We are living in a environment propped up by many things that are going away. There are many risks that can contribute to that. Of course if I knew exactly what would happen down to the day, i'd be betting in the stock market so these are more general trends which is what I was referring to.

Poor leaning trends include:

1. The collapse of governments that were pushed to the end by the US and its partners: Pakistan(deposed leader), Iran(sanctions, deposed leader), Venezuela(sanction, attempted to depose leader in 22), and I guess you can now throw Ukraine and possibly Russia there as well(collapsed economy, massive population casualties + collapse level birth rates)

2. The US has essentially acted as a bully towards many countries in the global south and while many of them have had to just take it, they now have another bully (China) that they can play off of each other.

In the short term it will be painful as the US tries to keep people on their side through backhanded efforts (Pakistan, Bolivia) but in the end the countries know that the China is a unreliable ally that only wants to dump their manufacturing overflow and take resources back while the US is an unreliable ally that bullies everyone into positions that favor itself(4 years loudly and then the next 4 years quietly) so with no other hope, the best move to play is trying to extract as much as they can from both sides (Djibouti for example). Not sure if you can make the argument that "unprecedented global peace and prosperity" is coming to these countries, they are just trying to get by with what they can.

3. Lets not forget climate change: Overwhelming % of historical emissions caused mainly by the west and with the consequences to be dealt mainly to the third world. Where is the justice in that?
I mean have you met the competition? Microsoft is never NOT in the running for world's most evil corporation, and Sony made Morbius.
Sure, use some Pokémon as placeholders during development, but, No one even bothered to dedicate an employee to preventing those assets from getting shipped?? Gamers already had their fun, too bad for any investors that they didn’t cover their bases
The problem with this assumption, that all possible attacks have been narrowed down to expensive only attacks i.e nation station level. These are complex systems and its not possible to prove that the only form of attacks are within these overton Windows. There may be much simpler forms of attack that aren't expensive, but the experts aren't aware of them, and therefore not focusing on. This is one of the big reasons for provably secure systems like Sel4 and other functional programming paradigms. We can't prove that all the problems are in this expensive box we put ourselves in, and all it takes is a 12 year old to discover one of these cheap attacks with a tooth pick or kids toy undermine very expensive defence systems.

Take for example, John Draper who discovered in the 60's that a Captain Crunch whistle toy could be used to make free phone calls on the telephone systems. Or the discovery of Side Channel attacks by an engineer at Bell Telephone company who noticed that a Bell Telephone model 131-B2 would produce distinct spikes for each key pressed on the oscilloscope across the room. Therefore not requiring nation station level expense to break the encryption used by Navy and Army's encryption systems. Or during the Afghan war, the US was deploying armored vehicles that they assumed would provide good protection, and would be expensive to attack by the enemy. Turned out they could make IEDs from inverted copper cheaply and within locals kitchens. That proved very successful. Or the kid who discovered he could bypass the mint screensaver by smashing random keys on the keyboard (https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354). The list of these types of cheap attacks are throughout history.
Nintendo took so long to do this that I kind of assumed they didn’t actually care. The pal is kind of out of the ball at this point.
Fed unveils oversized rate cut as it gains 'greater confidence' about inflation
It's grammatically correct, but it's very awkward. Most people would say "We partner with technology companies to introduce their products to new markets in developing countries".

As it's written, it only mentions "a business" (singular) when it likely means multiple businesses. It also uses the word cooperation, which has different connotations than a partnership. Typically, business will say that they "cooperate" with governments, standards bodies, or trade restrictions. For friendly and mutually profitable agreements, they'll use the word "partner" to indicate that both parties benefit.
> both objects have a space cone that is overlapping

Again, I don't know what you mean by this, but it doesn't look like any actual physical model that I'm aware of.

> i was just pointing out cone versus cylinder

The cylinder I referred to is the outgoing side of the light cones at the horizon. The horizon itself is a lightlike surface. So the distinction you appear to be trying to draw here is simply invalid for a black hole horizon.
Fighting Enshittification
1) You need to start somewhere, 2) people don't realize how good we have it today and it's because of people like the founding fathers we can enjoy this reality, going back as far as plato and socrates.

There is a reason why you choose to live in a democratic society, because it's the absolute best system we've ever had, and probably will for some time.
It's more than just not spying on people. You have to be able to prove you don't spy on people. And any vendors or contractors you use also don't spy on people, and respond to requests from anyone about all the data you have on them. And delete all of the data you have for anyone who cancels their account. Sure in some cases, that isn't a huge burden, like if you have a website that doesn't handle any customer data. But if you have a non-trivial app where you need to handle a lot of customer data for your app to work, it is a significant burden. And deleting someone's data as soon as they cancel can be really bad if someone accidentally cancels, so you probably want some kind of delayed deletion.
Mine too. It does apply.

Seems to be a safe assumption you have a domain since you're receiving mail.

Go run something like certbot[0] on your mail server. It has plugins to integrate with various DNS providers. (This is who is hosting the zone where you map domains to IPs, not necessarily where you registered the domain.) If they don't have a plugin for your host, you could look at moving the zone (e.g., CloudFlare is free for something like this, Route53 is <$1/mo) or finding another tool that does support it[1].

No external IPs involved anywhere and you can get valid, trusted SSL certificates for your domain. Set up the auto-renewal (in essentially all cases, add something to crontab), and it'll periodically dump new certificates to disk for you so you never need to think about the certificates again.

If you don't even want anyone to know that there's a "imap.mmd45.com" in existence _somewhere_ in the world, you can issue a certificate for `*.mmd45.com` and it will cover any direct subdomains.

Now you actually need to _connect_ to your mailserver with some sort of hostname rather than IP. For desktop devices and stuff, you could just throw this in /etc/hosts if you wanted. Some VPN/VPN-adjacent tools have ways to push mappings like that. Basically all of them have a way to override the DNS server in use if you were willing to run your own DNS server on the same host that has your mailserver. You can also just create a public record mapping imap.mmd45.com to 10.1.2.3.

[0] https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[1] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/
> there's still two singularities until one falls into the other.

No, there aren't. There is just one, at the "waist" of the trousers. Again, the singularity is not a thing in space. It's a moment of time. A moment of time can't fall into anything.
Prepare to be flooded with trite aphorisms, vacuous top-10 lists, queeze-inducing personal announcements and 'acceptance' speeches, and other toxic positivity.
That rumor from when the game launched was debunked
Recent RubySaml contributor here. The problem in this issue is not only RubySaml, but actually much older code in a module called XmlSecurity.

Some major problems with SAML are 1) the user’s browser acts as a MITM between the SP and IdP on all requests (vector for this attack), and 2) it requires the IdP and SP to maintain their own certs, which is fine in theory, but humans at big corps are lazy, and the complexity causes people to be lax on security.
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When economics has come up I've been curious and asked my brother about some of the stuff in the more upvoted comments (he has his PhD in economics with a focus on labor specifically) his reaction has always been something like "that doesn't match my understanding of that" or "I think their analysis is a bit oversimplified".

My experience here is that it's pretty good for things outside of tech (at least better than the average internet) but definitely not great.
> Of course, they do!

No, they don't. Read what I said carefully. I did not say gravitational waves do not carry "energy". I said they do not have any "stress-energy". In other words, they are vacuum solutions of the Einstein Field Equation--their stress-energy tensor is zero. That is a true statement, and I contrasted it with EM waves, whose stress-energy tensor is not zero.

> It's just not localized

This is a consequence of the fact that their stress-energy tensor is zero, so there is no tensor that describes "energy carried by gravitational waves".
My commute is ~15 mins each way fwiw. I do pay a premium to live nearby, but that is what the high compensation is for. Not even close to all of the extra compensation is eaten up by rent increase though.
It's not the opposite of objective. It is a POV that says that something can best be understood and addressed as a whole rather than by its parts individually. Basically a "greater than sum of parts" thing.
Threaten to kill the president and the cops will arrive at your house for the words you say.
This history is tarnished by years of propaganda on both sides. We could have a deep discussion on how this is not the case in many aspects as well as how it may be true in some cases. If I haven't made it clear already in my other responses in this thread, in geopolitics nothing is black and white. But since you gave such a typical Republican/Corporate Dem answer before I dont think you are one of those people worth wasting time on so I bid you farewell.
Don't think you need to single out the US here. Gamification is effective against most human beings.
Almost no Teslas were manufactured pre-2019 vs post-2019.
Whatever you do, DO NOT enter your email and absolutely do not give them your phone number. Keyence famously will not leave you alone. They’re very aggressive.
I’m the same way. I bought 12 and 13 minis and stopped upgrading my phone since then. I’d love to have a mini version with a good optical zoom camera.
Too few people know about the US government’s own attempt to offer a better not-exactly-a-ranking system. It’s pretty good. https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
The microscope is from Keyence. An entry level model I believe. I have access to one with 3 lenses on an automated turret. They’re excellent for inspection and make for a ton of fun when you have anything small and interesting to look at.

They don’t have an API which is a big miss from my perspective. Every inspection requires a human operator to drive the thing.
The bomb was not a principal contributing factor. We're talking about fascist ideologues hellbent on every man, woman and child dying to stall an invasion of their homeland. Of course the thing they feared most weren't new types of bombs, which did not change their situation. The thing the feared most were those horrible communists.
Man if only we didn’t live in a global society where carrying electronic communication devices in non-combatant (aka civilian) settings was the norm, you’d maybe have a point here. Multiple children have been reported as killed. Do you think that may fall under the category of “indiscriminate?”
Don't know where you got that, until seeing this, I didn't know or care about Cobb, I'm certainly not jealous of them. I was just saying that the EPA is not trying to optimize the amount of money they get, they're just trying to punish without killing the company, that would be much harsher than what they're going for.
Negative exponents do look odd. I first saw it in RollerCoaster Tycoon like 25 years ago.

Units with negative exponents are non-existent in everyday discourse (articles for the general public, product labels, commercial catalogs, etc.) and even the vast majority of engineering.

It's when you get into science and analysis where you start seeing big compound units and negative exponents. Here are a few examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscosity#Units , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_permittivity , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis
They invest relatively little compared to the successes, to the point that they're even using SAFEs to double down. The thing is YC can't invest more; too much money is bad too for early stage. So it makes sense to invest into company with lower odds. They've also said that some of their best outcomes were just slightly above the bar, so there's probably a lot of potential unicorns slightly below the bar as well.
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4....
YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
Since 2009 Hezbollah's charter has been far more nationalist than religious (even endorsing democracy as the desirable form of polity). This isn't to say they're not influenced by their religious views, but nor do I think Islam has any monopoly on bad ideas. I am not a fan of monotheistic religions in general, as they all rest on the conceit that there is only One True Way to think about spiritual matters and such certitude is often used to excuse atrocities. More often, religious rhetoric is used as a common framework to organize participants in what is often a much more prosaic struggle over resources and geographic advantage.
It was never "patent everything you can see."

That committee I was talking about was to evaluate IDEAS for patents, so they were definitely beating the bushes. But not shooting everything that came out.
The incorrect api would be using GetXml and looking at the raw XmlElement and using select nodes or something vs using the GetIdElement on the SignedXML object itself, its not going to prevent you from looking at the xml document directly and do something incorrect but it gives you a correct helper method right next to CheckSignature to do the right thing.

I mean at some point you do have to understand the difference between xml and a specific schema of it and how its used in SAML, its not like xml elements are required to have a unique id attribute.

This isn't something you would call directly anyway unless you were writing your own SAML client, which isn't that hard but there are existing ones, here is a simple one that works well:

https://github.com/jitbit/AspNetSaml
No, we sure can go all the way back to 1948 and talk about how Israel gained territory in a series of defensive wars, Palestinians and their Arab allies getting their asses handed back to them every single time.

We'll sure find some occurrences of Israel chasing away Arab civilians early on, but that's beside the point. This attack, and the absolute majority of Israel attacks of the last decades, target enemy combatants, and civilians only ever suffer collaterally. Israel never mounted an attack on civilians, and went very far in reducing civilian casualties when attacking combatants - roof knocking and all that.
>4. So much drama. Pray that your server doesn't shut down, because you can't import your posts elsewhere.

I would have thought a well-designed decentralized system would allow you to, for instance, download/export all your posts, and then import them all to a new server, in case you have to move servers for some reason.
kingofthehill98 called it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583448
From webster - relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts

So it is more the opposite of specific than objective. I think your confusion comes from colleges using holistic to mean they looks at things beyond beyond objective measurements like test scores and GPA
Copying some textures wouldn't lead to a patent lawsuit.
I live in Russia and I've never experienced most of the things you're describing. And it's become so much worse after 24/02/2022. We even had Spotify for a year! It was starting to genuinely feel like a first-world country.

Now you have to open a bank account in a different country for foreign companies to consider taking your money at all. The internet is utterly broken. The government blocks quite a lot, AND some foreign services block Russian IPs from their side. I even made a thread about running into Cloudflare's "you're blocked" pages randomly throughout the web: https://mastodon.social/@grishka/111934602844613193
How many people got screwed in the last 2 iPhone generations on carriers moving from a 24 month carrier financing model to 36 month carrier financing with "bill credit" promotions?

I fathom a lot of people have a sour taste about wanting to trade in and get stuck with this phone for the next 3 years.
yeah just like systemd right?
It's actually cheaper at supercharger, $.26 after midnight, but ~$.50 during off peak at home after all extra fees in SJ, even after selecting EV charging plan.
What you’re describing is mostly in the application side of things, though. You still need Ops to run all the infra, which is what most places’ SRE role really is.

Most devs I’ve worked with didn’t have any interest in dealing with infra. I have no problem with that; while I think anyone working with computers should learn at least some basics about them, I completely understand and agree with specialization.
Agents do not necessarily need to do the entire job of an SRE. They can deliver tremendous value by doing portions of the job. i.e. bringing in relevant data for a given alert or writing post-mortems. There are aspects of the role that are ripe for LLM-powered tools
I didn't know what Pocketpair was and immediate glace made me think they were Pokemon and Nintendo was suing because Pocketpair+Nintendo were in a partnership/official-license and something had broken down in the relationship.

Nope!

Clearly mimicking Pokemon and even all the headlines are "Pokemon with guns". Is it okay? No idea, this seems extremely muddy.
It might just be they've got enough money to make them a juicy enough target to go after for damages. I can't imagine it took the lawyers this long to come up with something to sue them over, and the game didn't exactly fly under the radar... so I'm not sure what else it could be.

I suppose there might have been a flurry of scary lawyer letters being sent back and forth and the lawsuit only happened once negotiations broke down.
The competition against Nintendo is the vast array of indie devs.