skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in IT at a CUNY school at the time. Just hilariously poor and unintuitive. Every student was given an Employee ID number. Course registration was basically handled by an e-commerce addon.
I've never used RabbitMQ, but NATS supports clustering, super clustering, and leaf node connections. I'm guessing the latter is the closest to what would be considered "federation" in this context.

Edit: spelling
Well there is only a limited amount of space in the container (pager housing.) Early reports were that the shaped charge was about the size of a #2 pencil eraser.

I am not making assumptions about their intentions, only relating facts as I am aware of them.
Every brand in the world is now expected to have the ability to detect and thwart intelligence operations run by Mossad? Like, a yoghurt company needs to have a counter intelligence division?
Yes, the goalposts move. When I started w/the internet 30+ years ago, self hosting meant your own 56K leased line.
Yeah that tends to happen to furry blogs.
Good luck on the launch! Do you plan more connectors? Would love to see Teams, onedrive etc
I think peoples risk tolerance is more rational than you might assume.

70+ year olds where vastly more likely to get vaccinated and use masks etc. https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...

Younger people to it less seriously, but they also had vastly lower risks. In the US below 9,000 people under the age of 30 died out of 1.1 million and of those many had significant health issues. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

You shouldn’t expect those groups to react the same when one is facing 100x the risk of the other.
Farmer moves border marker and accidentally makes Belgium bigger, France smaller
Hacked Docs Reveal Israeli Plan to Evade U.S. Foreign Agent Law
There's infinite people to talk to on the internet-- indeed there's more people to talk to on this thread that share your views than I can manage. I don't need to pick the sub-branch which is unnecessarily unfriendly.

edit: I care, too. I mean, I went into education where I'm teaching future high-skilled labor and building human capital ;) And--- where I am, the kids are alright.
I'm thinking of the millions of IOT devices like old internet firewall appliances that make up modern botnets. Those need to die ASAP.
Assuming that's a plural "you", I would paraphrase the subthread like this:

_________

(1) zer0x4d: "Many people fail to see that morality depends on intent, there is a qualitative difference between deliberate and incidental collateral damage."

(2) abalone: "No, only people suffering from broken moral cores think there's a difference. An attack when they knew a predictable rate of collateral damage is morally the same as deliberately targeting those civilians who died."

(3) Terr_: "It's based on the number of civilians who die? That doesn't make sense. Consider these scenarios, where even though fewer civilians die, the intent/planning of the act makes us judge it as morally worse."

(4) abalone: "Incorrect, I said it was about comparing the two rates of death."

(5) Terr_: "Well, that's not quite what you wrote earlier, is this other version closer to what you meant to convey?"

(6) beedeebeedee: "What is being argued?"

(7) Terr_: [Error: Recursion depth exceeded]
A lot of users/communities are stuck because of network effects & the long history of posts (they still reference them, like living wikis)

These pipeline tools can help people migrate if they want without losing that history & network (my prediction is once people see what's possible with an open API, that'll further motivate user migration, or for twitter to open up again)
If the majority of a people consider a thing to not be theft, then there’s a strong argument that it’s more not theft than is, since theft is defined by and for humans.

Theft is not simply taking something from someone, it is doing so unjustly, immorally, and/or unlawfully. Definitions of what is just, moral, and lawful vary significantly.

Of course, you must also consider how a thing is defined across time, and how stable that definition is.
More details - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2LVvSfoR4w

And I was wrong, it's the third major crash with Lithium Ion batteries in the last couple of months.
A good TLDR on Twitter by
@NikoMcCarty (which is how I first came across this):

"Mixtures of engineered bacteria were able to:

- Identify if a number is prime

- Check if a letter in a string is a vowel

- Determine the max number of pieces of a pie obtained from n straight cuts.

Answers are printed by expressing fluorescent proteins in different patterns."

- https://x.com/NikoMcCarty/status/1836097068089381215
As far as I know in this case both sides have already attacked each other via bombs, airstrikes, rockets, etc. I'm not really making a judgement on whether this was ethical or justified.

There's just a distinction to be made from intentionally killing civilians for the purpose of causing terror versus targeting a group that you are in an open military hostility with. The second one, as you say, is basically just war. And war has historically also included civilian casualties.

Flying a plane full of civilians into a building full of civilians, or detonating a bomb in a public square full of civilians, are pretty clear examples of what "terrorism" is. They aren't actions meant to directly attack the capability of an enemy to wage war against you.

What governments and media choose to label "terrorism" or "terrorist groups" however is inherently political and not done following some agreed, objective definition.
If you buy the boxes from an Apple store, or from an approved distributor, Apple is at fault. What's the meaning of "approved"?

If you buy them from the back of a truck, then no, Apple has no fault of course.

But there's a declaration saying "we had nothing to do with the pagers even though they have our brand". That's different from saying "they were booby-trapped after they left our hands". Not even the company itself is claiming the defense you're using.
I feel so conflicted about this.

On the one hand, I completely agree with Robyn Speer. The open web is dead, and the web is in a really sad state. The other day I decided to publish my personal blog on gopher. Just cause, there's a lot less crap on gopher (and no, gopher is not the answer).

But...

A couple of weeks ago, I had to send a video file to my wife's grandfather, who is 97, lives in another country, and doesn't use computers or mobile phones. Eventually we determined that he has a DVD player, so I turned to x264 to convert this modern 4K HDR video into a form that can be played by any ancient DVD player, while preserving as much visual fidelity as possible.

The thing about x264 is, it doesn't have any docs. Unlike x265 which had a corporate sponsor who could spend money on writing proper docs, x264 was basically developed through trial and error by members of the doom9 forum. There are hundreds of obscure flags, some of which now operate differently to what they did 20 years ago. I could spend hours going through dozens of 20 year old threads on doom9 to figure out what each flag did, or I could do what I did and ask a LLM (in this case Claude).

Claude wasn't perfect. It mixed up a few ffmpeg flags with x264 ones (easy mistake), but combined with some old fashioned searching and some trial and error, I could get the job done in about half an hour. I was quite happy with the quality of the end product, and the video did play on that very old DVD player.

Back in pre-LLM days, it's not like I would have hired a x264 expert to do this job for me. I would have either had to spend hours more on this task, or more likely, this 97 year old man would never have seen his great granddaughter's dance, which apparently brought a massive smile to his face.

Like everything before them, LLMs are just tools. Neither inherently good nor bad. It's what we do with them and how we use them that matters.
Fair enough, but we also know that an index fund beats "professional investment managers" over any reasonable time horizon. Warren Buffet bet a million dollars that this is true and won. The big problems with a pension is the rent seeking by all the brokers and "professionals" just for the employee to earn less than the index and if there is a recession, you need more new employees to prop up and bail the pension out (pyramid scheme).

Why not just have something like SIMPLE+ and you get a matching percentage that has to be a major index and you can't move it out until retirement when you can roll to your own devices and whims. The employees and their families would see a net benefit of such a mechanism.
A country rich in natural resources and surrounded by tropical waters full of fish has problems feeding it's people. Blows my mind.
AMQP and MQTT are both industry standard protocols. Also, RabbitMQ allows you to abuse the limits set by these standards.

Its unfortunate your team ran into performance issues, as Erlang can be inefficient in some situations. Were you using static routes on the DNS load balanced parallel consumers, or relying on the disk caching mechanisms?
Other companies may be right behind Amazon in calling back workers, expert says
The Death of LCDs, Means New Life for Chips
tangentially related, but Marx also predicted that crypto and NFT's would exist in 1894 [1] and I only bring it up because its kind of wild how we keep crossing these "red lines" without even blinking. It's like that meme:

Sci-fi author:

I created the Torment Nexus to serve as a cautionary tale...

Tech Company:

Alas, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic Sci-fi novel "Don't Create the Torment Nexus"

1. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch25.htm
Wow! What are these advertisements actually? Are these for mozilla products or are these generic third-party stuff?
Reminds me of Greplin / Cue, which Apple bought

https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/03/cue-acquired-for-over-40m-...
How they looked and what they did was presented in some of the Snowden files.

I have doubts those servers and other devices with implants made it into the wild since they were specifically targeted for high value target customers of those companies.
> Oct 7 happened and you're suggesting a different approach than a war, i.e. diplomatic solutions? That's too naive

The actions that led up to Oct. 7 long predate it. The seeds of this have been sown every year that the IDF "mowed the grass" and every time they tried to disrupt the PLO from negotiating a peace. Remember, an Israeli prime minister was assassinated for seeking and negotiating peace- not by the Palestinians but by a radical Israeli, whose politics are aligned with the current prime minister. This current prime minister has used his long time in office to disrupt and prevent any peace from occurring.
There are easier ways to play doom.
https://youtu.be/aq6mtEciX2c
Hezbollah pagers were built by BAC Consulting in Hungary
> Good will prevail in the end.

Even if, this is a dangerous thought that discourages decisive action that is likely to be necessary for this to happen.
I have been noticing this trend increasingly myself. It's getting more and more difficult to use tools like Google search to find relevant content.

Many of my searches nowadays include suffixes like "site:reddit.com" (or similar havens of, hopefully, still mostly human-generated content) to produce reasonably useful results. There's so much spam pollution by sites like Medium.com that it's disheartening. It feels as if the Internet humanity is already on the retreat into their last comely homes, which are more closed than open to the outside.

On the positive side:

1. Self-managed blogs (like: not on Substack or Medium) by individuals have become a strong indicator for interesting content. If the blog runs on Hugo, Zola, Astro, you-name-it, there's hope.

2. As a result of (1), I have started to use an RSS reader again. Who would have thought!

I am still torn about what to make of Discord. On the one hand, the closed-by-design nature of the thousands of Discord servers, where content is locked in forever without a chance of being indexed by a search engine, has many downsides in my opinion. On the other hand, the servers I do frequent are populated by humans, not content-generating bots camouflaged as users.
To be clear, you are saying work ethic does exist and it is a factor but it's not the only factor, with productivity being another one?
Sending money also increases the risk of nuclear war in which even more people will die and lose their freedom.
> "The revolutions shorten in time, seemingly exponentially."

The Technological Singularity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Chemical reactivity isn't the only thing at play here, in fact I'd say it's more burying the lead (kekek) than addressing the issue at hand. Sure glass isn't the most inert material, but another piece of the puzzle that is often neglected is mechanical abrasion. Once that surface has been compromised, the microplastics come right out.

Glass has the benefit of very high chemical inertness while also being extremely resistant to mechanical abrasion. Some types of glass are clearly not good enough (eg most 'crystal'/lead glasses), but borosilicate and fused silica are certainly well proven materials.

Another process that is relevant, leaching, while considered a 'chemical process' does not actually involve any kind of 'reactivity'. It's governed by solubility and statistical mechanics.
I didn't include typewriters on my list of goods. I only included items like cars and motherboards that were as economically relevant at the beginning measurement point as they are at the endpoint.

If you think that the manufacturing output in some of the things I listed declined or stagnated -- but it is countered by the fact that US manufacturing of other newly invented goods has increased -- then please specify what those goods are. Seems to me like the US manufacturing also lags in newly invented goods -- like drones.
The traditional favorite game of the supreme court is reducing the bounds of the 4th amendment. At this point its easier to list the things that the 4th protects than it is to list all the exceptions and "well actually not this..." situations the court has carved out.
I was on that team. The rewrite was NOT valuable. Heck there is even a pinned Github issue at the top of the repo that tries to explain why this rewrite even happened and it doesn't have a good answer.
> Hope no one takes this job but I know they will

I guarantee you, hundreds of thousands will, because it is a cushy remote job.
> however, by decree rather than legislation. The EPA's interpretation of the Clean Air Act is that any alteration to an emissions control system is illegal

imo its pretty clearly part of the plain text of the Clean Air Act:

> The term "motor vehicle" means any self-propelled vehicle designed for transporting persons or property on a street or highway.

> [it is prohibited] for any person to manufacture or sell, or offer to sell, or install, any part or component intended for use with, or as part of, any motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine, [whose purpose is defeating emissions systems]

Clearly this applies to any vehicle sold to operate on roads. The owner's intent to use it only off-road has no bearing on the 'design' of the unmodified vehicle and thus is irrelevant to the legality. There are of course exceptions and legal complexities but to call it a decree rather than legislation is plain wrong.

> Chevron decision probably changes the playing field here a little bit.

This is probably true but if it does come into play it will have much less to do with the text of the law than it will the preferences of the majority.

All that said, the EPA has made it pretty clear that they don't really care if you perform your own emissions delete on your track only car:

> “In the course of selecting cases for enforcement, the EPA has and will continue to consider whether the tampered vehicle is used exclusively for competition. The EPA remains primarily concerned with cases where the tampered vehicle is used on public roads, and more specifically with aftermarket manufacturers who sell devices that defeat emission control systems on vehicles used on public roads.”

https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/2137/epa-clarifies-its-...
That's Gatekeeper, not System Integrity Protection. You can disable SIP with `csrutil` by rebooting into the macOS recovery environment.
Absolutely, we already support Onedrive and will look into adding Teams support next. Any other connectors which you'd find useful?
If you put a product out in the field which can potentially be remotely exploited it’s on you to either patch it when someone does find an exploit or possibly open source everything so others can. If you genuinely can’t support it I guess you could put a self-destruct mechanism in which remotely bricks the device instead, just don’t expect your customers to be happy about it.
The argument that Israel was only targeting terrorists has gone out of the window. Anyone can use solar energy.
https://github.com/babashka/babashka

Granted, if you're saying why can't we have the shell also... well, now you're talking about Emacs.
My stuff is always out of date and hasn't gotten hacked yet.

I don't see why you'd want to run ssh on port 22. I run it on a different port and never get login attempts. Yes, if someone targeted me specifically of course they'd find out, but I guess that hasn't happened yet.
For the titans maybe but not for regular mortals.
Tell that to China, Russia, and Trump.
How many different dentists have you been to in the past twenty years? Does she see the same dentist as you now?

I once had a dentist who claimed I had a cavity every visit. I saw him once a year, and he did little more than look at my teeth. I've since switched dentists three times as I moved around the country and my dental insurance changed, and with all three, I've gotten nothing but rave reviews about the state of my teeth. I see my latest dentist twice a year, and he does an X-ray and an intraoral scan every other visit, and on my most recent visit, he discovered that one of those alleged cavities my first dentist had filled was filled improperly and appeared to have become reinfected. Unfortunately for me, I was busy at the time and postponed treatment for too long, and now the filling has fallen out and the tooth has collapsed in on itself, requiring a root canal and a crown, which in addition to being somewhat painful, will likely set me back several thousand dollars.

If you have access to the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA), I highly recommend reading this recent review of overdiagnosis and overtreatment in dentistry[1]. If you don't have access to JAMA, you can find pertinent excerpts in this Reddit post[2], along with some interesting backlash from some thoroughly offended dentists (all of it without any real supporting evidence, of course, though some of the points brought up are worth considering).

[1] https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.0222

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Dentistry/comments/1cql9a8/interest...
Hosting Kiwi Farms wasn't likely to get Cloudflares ASN null-routed by the 7th most populous state on Earth though. There's the potential for serious collateral damage to Cloudflares business here if Brazil calls their bluff.
A few points to consider:

- Electric vehicles are inherently much cheaper and have way fewer moving parts. Just because an entry level internal combustion vehicle costs $25K doesn't mean an EV has to. But with 100% tariffs it can!

- Every day that American workers spend building heavily government subsidized internal combustion powered vehicles is a day we fall farther and farther behind. All those low-end "hoverboards" that everyone bought a few years ago, all the electric scooters. The engineers who design those in China are the ones designing low-cost EVs that utterly out-compete what the US can do. US policy to subsidize mediocrity (Tesla, over-priced, over-hyped, impossible to maintain) HARMS the entire US economy. How many people need to pay an extra $500 to $1000 a month in payments that are effectively a subsidy of outdated tech? Most people with a car payment are doing just that.

Meanwhile we keep getting into wars over petrol which is why we don't keep track of how much we spend on the military because nobody cares, of course it's worth it to keep the oil flowing!

Economics is about information. Price is a function of supply and demand. As much as governments may wish that internal combustion tech was competitive with low-cost EV tech, it's not. As much as everyone wishes healthcare was free, it's not. We have to choose our subsidies wisely. US industrial policy is a disaster and it is fraught with so many misconceptions.

If it's really a national security issue, where is the US stockpile of raw steel, copper, lithium, 555 timers, etc.? Politicians would rather rant and impose tariffs and get photo-ops near coal factories than actually do something simple and strategic that would take away the possibility that a conflict would disrupt crucial supply chain.

Economic specialization is a good thing. Economies are not so simple as importer and exporter. Most companies are both importers and exporters. China's government knows this and adopts sensible policies like subsidizing oceanic shipment of goods so that shipping costs of the $25 electronic device aren't $100. This lets an engineer build and sell something and learn and grow.

China has an economically-aware industrial policy, the US has a backward-looking, short-term, electorally driven one.
Different hedge funds
Gambling with people’s health for a third time to “correct a market failure” is an incredibly grim proposition. Oh it causes cancer? We’ll try again with a new chemical! New chemical in the water supply? Oopsie, we’ll capture it with this next attempt!
Have used both extensively:

NATS, especially in its most elementary form, is braindead simple, stateless, and ootb functional. If I only want a message broker/pubsub, I pick that. If I know on day 1 that I need queues or persistence, I would probably pick Rabbit over NATS’ offering (Jetstream).
1. Those pagers were purchased by Hezbollah, for Hezbollah. They were distributed by Hezbollah, to Hezbollah. I have extremely little doubt that Israel had intel telling them this, and that these weren’t used by hospitals by doctors and nurses.

2. Of course you can’t guarantee this, but the expectation is that operatives have these devices on them, as it is how they communicate with the rest of Hezbollah. That is a reasonable assumption in the fog of war.

3. Of course you can’t guarantee that. You minimize casualties by making the impact smaller but still meaningful; by using less explosive, but still enough to accomplish the goal.

There are no guarantees in war. Ops fail sometimes. You try to predict collateral damage, which Israel clearly did, by targeting specific devices used by and distributed by Hezbollah, and by using a relatively small amount of explosive.

Both of those things indicate that care was put into minimizing collateral damage. Even if they minimized the amount of explosive to avoid detection, that still accomplished the secondary effect of minimizing damage.

This was as successful a military op as it gets.
It does produce some skilled labor, but those skills aren't always the same as the ones needed to make things and make them well and make them inexpensively and make them sustainably.

And by percentage it's no replacement for what we had before. All one needs to do is take a look at massive numbers of young people looking for opportunity not able to find it to understand what this all means.
Show HN: Comparing Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter with SimKube
> Did we (the humans) somehow managed to pollute the internet

Corporations did that, not humans.

"few people recognize that we already share our world with artificial creatures that participate as intelligent agents in our society: corporations"
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4116
China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online