skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before the Stuxnet attack,a 1982 cyber operation against Trans-Siberian Pipeline
Many reports cite Stuxnet as the first cyber operation, when in fact it could be that one in 1982 when the United States allowed the USSR to steal pipeline control software from a Canadian company. This software included a Trojan Horse that caused a major explosion of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline in June, 1982. The Trojan ran during a pressure test on the pipeline but doubled the usual pressure, causing the explosion.
Fed cuts interest rates by a half point
People will be surprised on how far you can get NSQ.
It doesn't come with any fancy guarantee like only-once or even ordered, this forced developer to think how to design better on the application side. Not saying it's ideal tho.
Ah I see they recently cut their pricing by 40% so you are correct - sorry about that. It seems we are more expensive compared to their new pricing
From the day of the first spoken word, humans have guided the development of language through conversational use and institution. With the advent of AI being used to publish documents into the open web, humans have given up their exclusive domain.

What would it take for Open AI overlords to inject words they want to force into usage in their models and will new words into use? Few have had the power to do such things. Open AI through its popular GPT platform now has the potential of dictating the evolution of human language.

This is novel and scary.
Does anyone know what "pathways" is and why they wanted so much central control to set that up? It seems that there was some sort of power angle to all this.
I didn't watch the video, but the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation would pay him if Yellow Trucking didn't.

The argument is about the source of the money, not if they'll get paid.

> how it is legal to just take it away randomly

That's not what's happening. It's not random, the company has no money, so it can't pay. Instead the PBGC will pay in such a situation (companies pay an insurance premium to it, in case to go under).

This particular argument is about leftover money - how much should go to which company, it's not about the individual retiree.
The rules of war prohibit planting explosive in objects which are likely to be picked up by civilians. The rules of war also discourages fighting in civilian areas. Members of an enemy organization are not automatically valid military targets according to the rules of war. Especially when they are just going about their civilian lives far away from the battlefield.

This is attack consistent with terrorist tactics, not warfare.
Continued US support is absolutely essential to provide Israel a licence to keep doing basically whatever it wants. Making sure that politicians keep supporting Israel is possibly even more important than delivering blows to enemies.

Israel planted cellphone spying devices near the White House:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/12/israel-planted...

No consequences whatsoever, why?
These companies are backed into a corner. Even if they "realize" that they are doomed the investors won't allow them to just shut down.

"NewThing from the developers of Redis" holds so much more weight than "Redis is now closed source and you have to pay for it"

I disagree with this part. The problem we're now seeing with open core is that almost everybody just wants the core. They don't want enterprise. They don't want the new thing.
https://twitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/1836431337168806113
If I'm not mistaken, selectric is the name of an Emacs package that adds sound(s?) when you type from some IBM (?) Selectric typewriter.
Perhaps, but the solution is the same either way, and it isn't trying to ban technology or halt progress or just sit and cry about how society is broken. It's educating each other and our children on the way these things work, how to break out of them, and how we might more responsibly use the technology.
Not sure about that, the consumer CPU market is probably more competitive right now than it's been in a decade, primarily on efficiency.

Also not sure what that has to do with the original point, which is that the A15 is not an impressive chip to be manufacturing in the US because it's designed by apple and meant for mobile devices, neither of which are reasons to discount the complexity of the chip.
I'm not sure deniability is something Israel is prioritizing here. They know that the world will immediately know that nobody but Israel would/could have done this.

But avoiding civilian harm and managing the international response are definitely interrelated goals here, to say the least.
Jews poisoning wells was a common antisemitic accusation for centuries (and still - Mahmoud Abbas made a very similar, unsubstantiated claim in 2016) Also, accusations of murdering Christian babies to make matzo, generally worshiping the devil and desecrating communion hosts, etc.
I know but the mentality is the same.
I often tell younger engineers that the human brain is the slowest, lowest-memory, and most error-prone runtime for a program. If they're stuck trying to figure out a bug, one of the most effective things they can do is validate their assumptions about what's happening, because there wouldn't be a bug if everything was happening exactly according to expectations.
Yep. Zeus is a fork of Zookeeper, Hack is a fork of PHP, etc. It's usually needed to make it work with the internal environment.

The few things that don't have forks are usually the open source projects like React or PyTorch, but even those have some custom features added to make it work with FB internals.
Yeah, I can't see how it's great for Tesla other than I guess extra revenue from charging. But the infrastructure already is somewhat constrained, so yes there will be more lines now at superchargers.

On the other hand, I'm happy we're not heading down the path of shitty walled gardens of charging, eventually Tesla owners will also benefit from being able to charge more easily at 3rd party chargers. For humanity this is a good thing, and increases overall efficiency of infrastructure greatly.
Great, who gives me $500,000,000, Nvidia connections to actually get graphics cards and a legal team to protect against copyright lawsuits from the entities whose IP was stolen for training?

Then I can go ahead and train my open source model.
Sounds like you’ve diagnosed your issue in the last line.

Notebooks are usually not inherently slow — I use Jupyter in VS Code running off a remote server and it’s snappy.

I have a MacBook Pro 2020.
Social media used to be about content sharing, but it's clear that it's far more profitable to keep your users on your site at all times and keep the content they create in house rather than linked somewhere else.

HN is probably the last true aggregator site left that I know of.

It's partly why the web is so much worse. There's really no reason to create content outside of a walled platform is it is getting increasingly difficult to find an audience for it. Even blogging is an uphill battle since more and more social media sites penalize link sharing (they want you to create the content on their platform and leave it there).

That's why it's not surprising that these APIs are disappearing since the fundamental model has changed.
You TRULY NEED to be multicloud? That would be only reason. Otherwise, assuming SNS/SQS is meeting your needs well, I wouldn't even consider it. You are paying ~20 USD per month with no maintenance costs. That's hell of a deal.
Simply because "bomb" dogs, like "drug" dogs are a scam to give the police a legal excuse to violate your rights. The dogs don't detect bombs/drugs, they detect cues from the controlling officer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detection_dog#Criticism

The law was reviewed in 2006 by the New South Wales Ombudsman, who handed down a critical report regarding the use of dogs for drug detection. The report stated that prohibited drugs were found in only 26% of searches following an indication by a drug sniffer dog. Of these, 84% were for small amounts of cannabis deemed for personal use.[27]: 29 Subsequent figures obtained from NSW Police in 2023 revealed that between 1 January 2013 and 30 June 2023, officers had conducted 94,535 personal searches (refers to both strip searches and less invasive frisk or "general" searches) resulting from drug detection dog indications, with only 25% resulting in illicit drugs being found.[28]
I think you need to look at the nature of the attack, the targeted, the design of the weapon, and the intended outcome. These devices were not designed specifically to be lethal (although some were). They were designed to send a message by maiming the targets and to create a distrust of needed comm tech by not just Hezbolah, but by Hamas and the Iranians too. I’m sure the designers of the attack realized that some would be lethal and that some non-targets would be affected. All that went in to the calculation. They decided the strategic and tactical payoff was worth the collateral damage. Welcome to warfare.
This is actually great advice for writers. Simple and effective, but will inspire writers block and help me make my writing less boring.
> There are other indices if you want to compare historical prices relevant to moon programs

Could you please expand or give a few pointers on those indices? Or where could I learn more about this.
Zimbabwe was never the breadbasket of Africa. They were largely self-sufficient agriculturally and they grew a lot of corn and wheat but they never even got close to 10% of the food production in the region (with almost all if not all of their production being consumed internally).

Land reforms decreased Zimbabwe's productivity somewhat but more importantly other regions have become massively more productive with wheat and corn production on the continent increasing 4x over the last 60 or so years.

So they aren't and weren't ever really a "breadbasket". It's just everywhere else was largely unproductive and those regions have now caught up.
I agree with your point that delivering on this is an impossibility for business, which inherently means it's an even bigger impossibility for individuals (if a huge corporation can't figure it out, Bob working on the line definitely can't) and should therefore be moved to the government as the other option (Logan's running everyone) is going to be a really hard sell.
It's blocked for me
I have an account and I think Twitter is extremely awful.

I never post anything, I just have the account to open links people sent me.
Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
No licensing fees, but they are charging a premium for non-Teslas to use the superchargers.
If the left-most edge of the Overton Window had been pushed right of the centrist position of, say, the 90s that would be correct. But it's obvious that isn't at all true -- many moderate left positions today would have been considered outlandishly radical in the 90s.

It's rather more likely that the increase of left-authoritarianism is due to increasing resistance to moving the Overton Window, both the left-most edge and the right-most edge, leftwards. As resistance increases more forceful techniques are necessary.
Curious but is there a path where llm training or inference could be distributed across the BOINC network:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure...
>> Reading between the lines the change is a response to political pressure to reduce costs and impose restrictions on curricula.

Reduce costs by spending huge amounts of money to lose capability? This smells like someone got an "incentive" to spend public (govt) money on some corporate project. Not sure why anyone wants to impose restrictions on curricula, but that'd be a kind of separate thing.
And if this was the up-front cost, I'm sure there would be more DD about alternatives.

But I'm sure the lock-in occurred long before the bill hit 9 figures.
https://archive.is/34wxJ
I know just about as much as you do, but I know the EFF has been fighting against bad parents for a bit. For example:

EFF v. Personal Audio LLC | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/cases/eff-v-personal-audio-llc

I imagine they're a little breathless because if these go through, they won't be able to advocate on behalf of cancelling bad patents as easily.

I tend to agree with the EFF on this, but appreciate you providing some context.
How do you manage schema for exchanges, queues, and routing? The pattern seems to be for each client to set up the schema for the parts they touch before hand, but that doesn't scale well. The schema ends up siloed in each project and nobody knows what the current state should be.
I don't know if I'd agree better ergonomics in this case, since you lose a lot. What if you wanted to load your test cases from a CSV? e.g. you had a two column CSV with 1,000 words, first column mixed case, second case lowercase. They're mixed languages, with unicode oddities sprinkled in. So it really is worth testing against such a corpus. In Go, I could simply open a csv checked into the codebase and use it for my test cases. I'm sure it's possible, but you probably have to break way from the macro (which I argue doesn't add anything) and take a completely different approach. In Go, it's JUST CODE.

Again, I really like Swift (besides xcode performance at times… ugh!). It's possible to find flaws in both languages yes still like them. Swift knocks Go out of the water in so many ways. But I'm scarred from ruby on rails magic growing and growing until you had to be an expert in the magic to write code, when the point was for the magic to make it easier.
Probably not. It's written in Hack, and heavily tied to internal frameworks, so it'll be practically impossible to extract into a standalone package, unless they do a "clean room" implementation (like they did for Sapling UI https://sapling-scm.com/docs/addons/isl/).

But it has some cool features that notebook developers can take inspiration from.
South Korea makes advancements in drive system technology for machine tools
Honestly, it's not a great sign. Looks a bit like they are panicking.
> There's plenty of open source AI out there that isn't Meta. It's just not as good.

To my knowledge all of the notable open source models are subsidised by corporations in one way or another, whether by being the side project of a mega-corp which can absorb the loss (Meta) or coasting on investor hype (Mistral, Stability). Neither of those give me much confidence that they will continue forever, especially the latter category which will just run out of money eventually.

For open source AI to actually be sustainable it needs to stand on its own, which will likely require orders of magnitude more efficient training, and even then the data cleaning and RLHF are a huge money sink.
Sure, but the implication that US politicians are on board with Israel because of some perceived threat of danger to their lives is absurd.

If Israel threatened, even once, to attack the US, rest assured their US support would be gone in an instant.

Surveillance is separate. We surveil allies all the time, and they surveil us. It’s not nice, but it’s par for the course.
I think you have been propagandized by criminals. I don't blame you, I was the same.

Regarding starvation, it happened under capitalist, slavery-based and feudal regimes aswell. One recent example is how the very capitalistic UK engineered a terrible famine that nearly killed 200mio Indians. For most of the western world, Churchill was very much a saviour, but for Indians, he was a brutal dictator.
Anaconda updating its Terms of Service
I've tried to "get" Twitter since the early days. I've created a couple of Twitter accounts over the years to support various creative endeavours but I've never found myself getting much value out of it as a user.

I heard that it's original use-case was that back 2008 there were no good ways to do group messaging over SMS on a cell phone. That's a problem and solution that I can understand.

But as a broader social network? I don't get it.

Things that bother me to the point that they are deal breakers:

- The character limits (there is nothing worse in life than reading through a x/N self-reply to read something long ... I'd rather file a tax return)

- Showing me posts from pages I don't follow in the feed (in 99% of the cases I'm aware of that page/profile already and have chosen not to follow it because I don't like them)

- Ads in the news feed

Some have said that they like Twitter for getting news. I have way better options for that.

I know that I'm not representative of the typical person, generally speaking, but Twitter is one of those things where I really can't understand why anyone likes it and uses it, let alone why it is so popular. And it's not that I'm hating on something I don't know anything about ... I've honestly tried to use it and get value out of it, but I've never found anything of value on offer.
When I saw "deminifier for shell commands" in title I had exactly the same in mind.
If you've ever worked in a large corporation or government, you know that this is the norm. It's amazing that anything, anywhere, ever gets done at all in organizations larger than a few hundred people.

We as humans are very bad at this.

Companies like Oracle, Deloitte, McKinsey, etc. are experts at extracting large sums of money from large dysfunctional organizations.
Both excellent points, and I would add a recommendation for high level organization: to consider the data then the process. If you can draw a graph where every data structure is only connected to a process, and vice versa, and that processes may take multiple inputs but only produce a single output type, it will make holding the entire system in your head a lot easier, even for very scaled-up systems.

Bonus points if you can distinguish between essential state and circumstantial state.
>> It seems like there should be 5-6 vendors of 'University HR Software'

Why can't the CS department join up with other universities and have a bunch of students build it? Open source it.
I already have a Fediverse account on my own domain (via masto.host, an excellent service). There's no way for me to reuse that ActivityPub actor with PeerTube. The fact that making this possible isn't a huge priority for the community gives me serious reservations about building on AvtivityPub.
> In truth and in fact, and as Coconspirator 1 [Farnsworth] and LOWE knew... The $9.95 “unlimited” plan was a temporary marketing gimmick to drive subscriber growth, and MoviePass was losing money as a result.

It's really hard to call this fraud (except under the Matt Levine truism "everything is securities fraud). Amazon lost money for 20 years. Spotify burned $4 billion a year until they made money. But history is written by the victors, and Lowe is guilty of a business plan so bad it didn't have time to get bailed out.
No, you don't attack the country and murder festival goers to make that political point. That is a perverse rationalization of what happened.
Spend time with medical researchers and they start disparaging Doctors. Everyone wants that one authoritative source free from bias, but IMO even having a few voices in the crowd worth listening to beats most other options.
> Organizations typically add 3-5x additional to either "pad" their request (in the event it doesn't get 'fully funded') and/or this is an opportunity for the university to higher for a bunch of roles they wouldn't have been able to get funded in the first place - so lots of things get buried in these numbers.

A factor of 3-5x seems insanely overboard. Thats arguably fraudulent. Ditto for claiming the money is for one thing and then using it for something entirely different.

I get that it’s a communist era style scraping to get by / work around a broken budgetary system life in academia, but that’s misappropriation of tax and tuition dollars.
There are projects doing lo-fi displays, if a 7" LCD display is too high rez for you I suppose.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tidbyt/retro-display
> I still struggle to see how this ends up favorable for Tesla in the long run.

They're expanding their customer-base by maybe 2x or more. Those new customers will be be giving recurring payments to Tesla. For vehicles that Tesla didn't build. How is that not favourable?
Wonder how apple was able to curb the (assumable) higher cogs of producing this domestically.
Probably a kernel of malice (corruption, kickbacks) surrounded by a warm flesh of incompetence.
For the curious: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo
Iosevka is absolutely wonderful!

I have my own builds -- not based on AH's glyph choices, but also chosen to minimize glyph ambiguity.

I'll mention another great legible monospace project: 0xProto

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Build: https://github.com/AndydeCleyre/archbuilder_iosevka/releases...

Screenshot Mono: https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k46acrxl297.png

Screenshot Mono with syntax highlighting: https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l4nec9d8lm4.png

Screenshot Proportional: https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/6yxkce8p6a7.png

0xProto: https://github.com/0xType/0xProto
Naturally occuring genes can't be patented, but artificial ones can. Theoretically, you'd never have the artificial ones, but yeah, sticky subject.

https://www.science.org/content/article/us-supreme-court-str...
I just found my next keyboard.
Still better than leaving devices unpatched. The end user still has the final word, can totally refuse to buy a new one if he/she doesn't think getting a new one is worth it.
In this case, it's "Valkey, from the developers of Redis", and everybody wants the new thing. Because the people working on Valkey are in fact the people who worked on Redis before it went proprietary.
I've personally experienced the horrors of communism so no propaganda was needed for me.
I'm sorry for the low-content remark, but, oh my god... I never thought about doing this, and now my mind is reeling at the implications. The idea of shielding my own writing from AI-plagiarism by masquerading it as AI-generated slop in the first place... but then in the same stroke, further undermining our collective ability to identify genuine human writing, while also flagging my own work as low-value to my readers, hoping that they can read between the lines. It's a fascinating play.
> 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.

Do you have any hard evidence of that? It is absolutely plausible scenario that Hezbollah distributed some of the devices to non-members as part of civil defense plan. In case of the war they may want to have a reliable and authoritative communication channel to civilians.

> 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.

No, it is not reasonable assumption, on the contrary, and we have seen that. It does look like most of the victims weren’t on duty, so it is reasonable to assume that they won‘t be carrying the device all the time.

> 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.

Minimize != avoid. They knew that the explosion may harm the wrong person, because they did not take the measures to prevent that (chosen method made it impossible). This is indiscriminate attack by definition.