skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1x 8 GB DIMM is a lot easier to drive than 4x 48 for example.

That's a bit of an exaggeration. What matters are DIMMs per channel, and ranks per DIMM. Consumer systems have at most two memory slots per channel, so 2x 8GB modules installed correctly is just two separate instances of one DIMM per channel, and 4x48GB is two separate instances of two DIMMs per channel, with each module being dual-rank.

The best configurations for overclocking are supposed to be motherboards with only one memory slot per channel, so that when operating with one DIMM per channel there are no empty slots providing stubs of wiring that degrade signal integrity. But very few motherboards restrict themselves like this for the sake of memory overclocking.
I guess I should also mention Inform7 for interactive fiction as another example. That is an extremely weird language. It's shaped to the minds of fiction authors, who are very, very different from software engineers.
Not that I'm aware of, but there should be!
I'm curious what kind of sanction a civil fine from a federal agency gives them in this case. For example, if they used a 0 day to compromise my laptop and remove these features would they be within federal law?
To protest stupidly short EOL deadlines.
Awesome, thanks for the suggestion!!
It's probably much more interesting to see what else is happening while everyone is paying attention on communication devices and tending wounded.
So... how do track-only cars deal with this? My understanding is that non-road vehicles wouldn't have the same restrictions. Even at the state level, travelling under 5k miles per year exempts you from emmissions standards. I'm not sure if this is built off of the federal law, but it would be very interesting if it actually conflicts with it.

It would seem that these tuners have a lawful purpose if there are in fact exceptions for non-road vehicles, such as true race cars.

Edit: answered my own question. Seems it's just selective enforcement. State level inspection exemption is still a "visual only" inspection, meaning there can't be any obvious deletes (not really enforced it seems).
https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/2137/epa-clarifies-its-...
That sounds a lot like the PCW8256 or 8512 and locomotive's CP/M Plus and the few dozen apps/games that supported it.

If so it wasn't a 'standard' per se; but it was common across the Spectrum +3, the PCWs, and the Amstrad 664/6128.

There may have also been some software to enable such software to also work on the Tatung Einstein and the Enterprise Flan (which didn't 'technically' run CP/M at all, but IS-DOS was compatible enough to run most CP/M software).
Would be cool but "responsible disclosure" is a non-starter for me. Full disclosure is the only way to operate, IMO.
> The supply chain for an iPhone is much stronger

Probably not strong enough to make it unreachable by a sophisticated agency like the Mossad.
I think this contest is a good thing.

It might put pressure on customers to demand products with longer support lifecycles, which in turn forces vendors to offer longer support and/or make their software and APIs open source once support ends.
It was an addon board with explosives on it which was attached to the existing normal circuit board.
No, you get sent to internment camps because you’re a prisoner of war or because of some basic property of your being.

The comparison would be the Japanese internment camps the US had in WW2.

There is nothing like that today where citizens are being locked up without breaking any laws.
> and found that only "Gab" doesn't censor its users (beyond their content policy).

... Wait, what does that mean? They don't censor, except for the censorship?
Sure. Maybe the market will provide food security in 98% of years on its own, but we need more 9's. And we obviously need our government to be coercive enough to protect us from outside, less benevolent, forms of coercion.

At the same time, this isn't a "yes/no" question. This is thousands of sliders that we adjust for each industry.

You always have to consider the opportunity cost. Sure, perhaps we've ended greater security and have also ended up with vibrant industry A at the end of it; but we maybe had to pay by hurting industries B, C, and D. It might be worth it; but it doesn't mean it makes sense to do it for industry Z where there is a smaller security benefit.
October Surprise, 2016. Not subtle.
I looks like codon has less restrictions when compared to shed skin.
> instead of burning down the entire strip

Their bombing campaign begs to differ
Some of it made in Korea.
Why do you think the industry is morally obliged to have them remain untouched?
Or the flip side. Hamas promised to continue slaughtering Israeli Arabs, Jews, and Christians until they are all dead. Hezbollah has launched rockets into northern Israel for a year…with 100k+ Israelis forced to relocate south.

What exactly other option does Israel had. Peace talks didn’t go anywhere for last few decades
Yeah pay an illustrator if this is important to you.

See a lot of people upset about AI still using AI image generation because it's not in their field so they feel less strongly about it and can't create art themselves anyway, hypocritical either use it or don't but don't fuss over it then use it for something thats convenient for you.
If you like DejaVu, you'll love BitstromWera Nerd Font [1] (looks almost the same, with some improvements). It works great with Starship [2].

[1] https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

[2] https://starship.rs
I was trying to bridge a communication gap by offering an interpretion. In truth I don't understand your comment at all, but I never go to stack overflow empty handed for example.
I'll be curious about what details emerge concerning connections between the hand-held radios and the pagers. Any overlap in the manufacturers? Were the radios new/recently replaced like the pagers? How was the explosive triggered?
Based on my parent poster's question we're already operating from the assumption that happening and I'm just explaining why that's bad, not how likely it is.
Two wrongs don't make a right.

The US could just drop nukes on any country they have a trade dispute with. They don't, because that is insane and disproportionate and they have the capability to do better than that.

What Israel did here is something you would expect from a terrorist organization.
If playing while working, then the gameplay should be on topic. That pushes creativity. Just because you aren't concentrating on one thing.

Better than playing is talking on topic.
It's a similar world with fuel injected dirt bikes. Although the throttle is mechanical, some specific fuel and ignition mapping choices the manufacturers provide results in huge amounts of acceleration with small amounts of throttle input. The exact reasons why aren't published, but the general consensus is it relates to emissions.

Remapping the factory ECU completely resolves the issue, albeit obviously a "defeat device" per the EPA
Keep things up to date and ideally, having your public facing servers in a DMZ/their own VLAN (separate network from your private stuff).

Administrative things like SSH and RDP are best accessed with a VPN but you can configure SSH in particular to be key-based authentication only, which is very secure.
I don't see it like that at all. Some 0-days can (somewhat) be mitigated by other hardware/software.

I rather have as many "known" 0-days in the open. Then having it the other way. Even if it means I won't see any updates to affected devices or software
That doesn't invalidate any of my points. A 10:1 ratio of militant to civilian deaths would be impossible to acheive using any conventional method. Unless you are arguing the acceptable number of civilian deaths in war is zero i'm not sure of the point you are trying to make.
To me the silly hang-up for PowerShell is none of that, but the strange syntax. I'd taken (even!) JavaScript-ish syntax over that.
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580205
To me, these RTOs are nothing but silent layoffs. Their best and probably most expensive talent, who have the skills to land remote gigs, will depart. Amazon's smart enough to know this; I understand from friends who worked there they believe everyone is replaceable. I disagree.
Show HN: Project Manager AI
Building a project management AI to go against the Trello/Jira etc. experience. The annoying part about these tools is actually keeping the tasks up to date. Instead, what if AI could automate the task creation, state updates, and completion. That’s the goal.

Ideally, you wouldn’t even need to directly interact with the AI, it could parse the information from your chat, github, etc. Let me know your thoughts on this idea. Thanks in advance!
Dupe. Older discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580205
I think the most likely outcome here is that all these devices were intercepted from the same firm.
If the mossad was able to plant explosives without being caught, I wouldn't be surprised if they also planted bugs (indiscriminately) in many electronic devices delivered to Lebanon such as TVs, computers, phones etc...

Similar to the spy chips implants within the Supermicro server motherboards.
Sure, what is that identity? Is there uniquely Israeli cuisine, dances, anything? What is the Israeli identity outside of an existential threat on Jews?
One reason is that Hezbollah is not a purely military organization, and has political, medical and educational arms. Another is that some of the reported casualties are the family of Hezbollah members.
Icom is a Japanese company. They make radios, including police walkie talkies (land mobile radios). The pictures I've seen look like bog-standard land mobile radios. Not particularly small, and larger than most flip phones.

The radio in question: https://rigpix.com/icom/icv82.htm
Very nice demo!

When you ran it the first time, it took a while to load up. Do subsequent runs go faster?

And what cloud provider are you all using under the hood? We work in a specific sector that excludes us from using certain cloud providers (ie. AWS) at my company.
Hezbollah like most other similar organisations is not a primarily military organisation even though they are a paramilitary one. The vast majority of the members of Hezbollah have non-military roles of various kinds.
So for some reason you're visiting 20 doctors and they all tell you "I will resell all your personal information to as many buyers as I can find, including sketchy ones, and to insurance companies which may raise your premiums depending on what you discuss with me" (I know it's illegal, it's an example), and you're blaming the law forcing them to confess this and giving you a chance to opt out?
You can at the very least block traffic to the hardcoded IP.
Fine-Tuning LLMs to 1.58bit
> One can dream of a future where perhaps it will be possible to write a function, library, or program in any language one chooses and call it from any other shell or language without swig or ceremony

I mean, there's a reason text was selected, it's the lowest common denominator. What you're asking for is universal FFI, which we already have that for the most part: C. The problem ultimately turns into runtime and resource management issues when crossing language boundaries, that is, unless you use OS primatives (pipes, sockets, shared memory, processes, etc.) and use message passing/pipelines exclusively. Then we're back to plaintext.

There's a ton of non-printable characters in ASCII that are useful as delimiters for non-keyboard interactive programs that are largely vestigial. One could at least consider reusing them for delimiters and special control sequences for message passing, but without some sort of standardization it's limited in practical use.
Ancestry does more than genetic analysis. Their claim to fame is their tools to search through old public records to help one build their genealogy/family tree.
Allegedly hidden well enough that a casual X-ray of the pager wouldn't have revealed it.
There's been a ton of low-rent listicle writing out there for ages. Certainly not new in the past few years. I admit I don't go on YouTube much and don't even have a tiktok account so it's possible there's a lot of newer lousy content I'm not really exposed to.

It seems to me that the fact it's so cheap and relatively easy for people with dreams of becoming wealthy influencers to put stuff out there has more to do with the flood of often mediocre content than AI does.

Of course the vast majority don't have much real success and get on with life and the crank turns and a new generation perpetuates the cycle.

LLMs etc. may make things marginally easier but there's no shortage of twenty somethings with lots of time imagining riches while making pennies.
I've seen photos posted on X and Telegram (of course I can't verify) of what look like Baofeng and Icom UHF hand-helds that have detonated. Not sure how they can get them to all blow up in unison--these aren't devices that can receive a digital message--as they apparently did at a funeral today.
Shades of Q, APL and other array languages, but visual by default. Maybe an APL spreadsheet-shell would fit the bill? :-D
Probably after the pagers yesterday, these Icom walkie-talkies were going to be discovered soon, leading to this subsequent trigger. Regardless, this is probably the first big worldwide event to bring the spotlight on supply chain attacks, and finally when we -nerds- talk about the possibility of bugging devices before delivering them or worse, detonating them remotely, it isn’t some sci-fi or conspiracy theory anymore.
Very impressive. A months long operation culminating in an early new year's eve celebration with a bunch of firecrackers. I guess it's time to go back to pigeons
I guess they are taking a victory lap around yesterday's major embarrassment. I never thought that you could dismantle a terrorist organization so surgically by just booby-trapping comms devices.

This will certainly be made into a blockbuster movie in ten years.

I'll re-iterate my previous comment on this matter: this is an impressive supply-chain hack with absolutely oversized results, and you gotta hand it to them for pulling it off.

I think this will go down as being significantly more impressive than Stuxnet.
I think the goal is to shed some resources organically.

With full RTO they should guarantee no work after office hours.
There has been no statement or indication that the thousands of people injured were comprised in any significant proportion of civilians. Given that these pagers were purchased by Hezbollah directly and videos of their explosions show a minimal blast radius it is premature and, depending on motives, propagandistic to claim that the thousands of people injured were civilians.
I cannot say if your comment is sarcasm.

Do you think devices are retired because they aren't sold? Why would you want that information to be known only by bad actors? Just imagine trying to convince someone who mounted a beautiful android 4.4 tablet to control their smart home (heh) 5 years ago that they will have to redo every thing because they bought into a proprietary protocol and the base os isn't receiving security updates.

Or do you truly believe you are safe if you hide under your bedsheet?
The fundamental tension that you must resolve is that if your notion of free speech allows people to screech incoherently into megaphones to drown out everyone else in the room, then you don't have free speech.

Censors have learned that they don't need to deny people the right to speak, they just need to drown it out with infinite noise.

There is no simple or easy resolution to this problem. The only useful platforms for the free exchange of ideas must find ways to balance the signal:noise ratio, which is isomorphic to moderation. And if you ask, "who does the moderation?", yes, that's precisely the problem. Unfortunately, the alternative, no moderation, is trivial to censor in practice.

Furthermore, keep in mind that free speech is a means, not an end. Free society is the end.
Is this still being developed? The last commit to the main library was 5 months ago and its tied to exceptions/tests.
> There is probably no alliance on earth tighter than the U.S. and the U.K.

I'd argue North Korea & China have a closer relationship.
Was there enough empty space in the device for this? Were other components removed or miniaturized?
I wonder to what extent possible is it possible to avoid this by air gapping your tuning computer from now on.
I'm trying to pull some things together.

Mostly, a big part of the book is just a warming up of the tired 'Infant Industry argument'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_industry_argument

For now, have a look at https://mises.org/journal-libertarian-studies/prejudice-free... to get an alternative look at Malaysia, one of the recurring example in 'How Asia Works'. (That paper is also just a really good read by itself.)

I don't particularly like Noah Smith (he's also in favour of protectionism and 'industrial policy'), but his https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-polandmalaysia-model has some good points also about Malaysia.

https://www.amazon.com/Just-Get-Out-Way-Government/dp/193086... is an alternative view at development economics. The title is a bit provocative, (even the author wasn't really happy with it, when I had a chat with him about it). The main thesis of the book is that honest and competent civil servants are the most rare and precious resource a country has, especially a poor one, so policies should economies on their labour.

So eg you should privatise a state-owned company by auctioning it off in one piece to the highest cash-bidder open to all comers from anywhere, no questions asked. Instead of having your civil servants set up a complex system or worse trying to evaluate proposed business plans. Complexity breeds corruption in the worst case, and in the best case still takes up civil servants' limited time.

Directly about 'How Asia Works' https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-how-asia-works mentions some critiques in the 'Conclusion' section. See also https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/book-review-h...
Glass is the gold standard for a non-reactive chemical. Use glass jars instead of plastic whenever possible.
Yeah heard they had a few blow ups.
They were most probably devices sold at retail in areas where members of hezbollah are located.
> 60-90 day disclosure windows with vendor

This is not 0day. (but I think this is a fun initiative nonetheless)
Interesting thought experiment. Reminds me of my cousin's project Xonsh https://xon.sh/
> You said that RTO doesn't have any real downsides.

I literally never said this. Obviously some people perceive it to have downsides. Some may believe these downsides are 100% objective.

> Because the office, itself, is actually useless.

Like I actually did say, like tennis against a wall.

> RTO only works if you force other people to go to the office when they don't want to.

You are correct here and I don't think this is a bad thing. People have agency and can get new jobs if they find the office so distasteful and care about the climate so much.
Midjourney Generating Screenshots of Movies
The advertisement promises a combination of bash and lisp. So it makes me wonder -- why couldn't we just use lisp?

What are the affordances needed for a "scripting" language (or for interactive use) vis-a-vis more "production use? Is it just about having minimal boilerplate, and a large corpus of ready-to-use functions in the namespace?
> The doctrine also is targeting infrastructure for the purpose of denying it to Hezbollah

It also describes the infrastructure as literally every single Shiite city. I hope for all of us that Iran or similar doesn't apply this doctrine to Israel.
The internal tools at Meta are incredible tbh. There’s an ecosystem of well-designed internal tools that talk to each other. That was my favorite part of working there.
Don't be a part of a terrorist organization and if you are - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device
If you're skeptical about whether governance is required for markets to function, launch your next startup on the darkweb or in a failed state. I fail to see how one could imagine any kind of healthy market operating without basic governance, reliable infrastructure etc. It's a religious idea (anarchocaptialism or something similar) at that point.

Past that, actually engaging with business (as a customer or employee) should be a rapid reminder of how much we have regulation to thank for. From not being poisoned (immediately or over the course of a lifetime) by our food, burned alive by non-fire retardant furniture (and the absence of a fire service), to having weekends off, our wages reliably paid, to being free from physical and the more obvious forms of psychological abuse. It's right there - you engage with the rights and privileges afforded by legislation daily.

Just astonishing to me that this kind of market fundamentalism is still actively engaged in. People can disagree on the extent and fundamental structure of government, but to deny it's role in the basic functioning of business in a society as complex as ours seems outright absurd.
At least some individuals can have a conscience even if the system tends to iron that out at scale.
>Well, I'm in awe to be perfectly honest with you.

Why? They killed 12 people including a child.

If it was bank robbery and the police shot through a child but killed 11 robbers there would be a lot of heads rolling at that police department.
> As long as you’re not buying electronics from shady factories with no known owners you’ll be fine

For now and to our knowledge so far.
In our lifetimes, it’s more likely to be (remain?) the other way around. 0.001% leisure class; almost everyone else toiling miserably to enable their lifestyles.
Voyager 1 fires thrusters for first time in decades
"Dynamic typing is not great for maintaining large codebases" - when your language has an option to not use types, most SWEs will NOT use them - I experienced this firsthand (Angular TS codebases littered with "any" types - direct equivalent analogy to Python in this case). I heard the saying, "you can only burn yourself so many times" - but this seems to be untrue in this case - it's as infinite as human stupidity is.

Ecosystem is great - and probably the greatest thing Python has to offer after the aforementioned low barrier to entry. No language comes close if one wants to get up & going and try out AI/ML - whether using an API or using some packages to make models of one's own - it has everything one can ever need.
I can find literally no source for 10.000+ outside of the UN "estimating" it, the nearest I could find was 7.500 and that's not verified (and old). I'm not trying to downplay anything and I resent the implicaiton.

I'm perfectly content holding Israel to account for their numerous crimes, but that becomes extremely difficult to do when you have literal terrorists doing everything they can to make things as bloody and cantankerous as humanly possible to cast shadows at Israel.

Bombing civilians is not technically a war crime in of itself, people like to use the word war crime without actually fucking reading what are war crimes, such as not identifying yourself as military, hiding in the population, using medical buildings as cover and so forth.

Israeli's settling the west-bank and blockading aid under the guise of "the more material they have, the more they will use against us" is condemdable; but when 5,000 rockets suddenly launch from Gaza and a ground force invasion kills over a thousand people -- people reasonably start to think that Israel has a point, and all my criticisms against Israel suddenly start to look very impotent.

Where I get annoyed is that people have decided that terrorists are good, actually, despite clearly throwing gay people off of roofs and engaging in what are actual war crimes.

In fact, the number I go from my source was also just Gaza's health ministry telling the UN; it's never been independently verified as far as I can tell; https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251265727/un-gaza-death-toll...