skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're terrible for picky or unattractive people. They're great for those who aren't picky and are attractive.

Almost anyone I know who is not picky and is attractive has gotten a relationship within a couple months of being on any of the mainstream apps. It's the picky or unattractive people who are suffering. I'd say, in particular, the unattractive are the biggest victims since a picky person could learn to be more accepting. You can't really do much about being unattractive - if it's genetic. (e.g. short, ugly, etc.)
Which includes the Enron version I love :)
You can't have a "security checklist" with multiple Turing-complete languages involved.

It's better to give up on security and tell the users that they're generating code at their own risk.
Supply chain attack putting some RDX into a shipment of pagers
I tend to agree with you. However it has been said (from wsj article) that "some people felt the pagers heat up and disposed of them".
This seems like it would have the potential for a lot of collateral damage due to the possibility that modified pagers might enter general distribution. That is to say, how do they insure that a given shipment of pagers are only going to Hezbollah as opposed to some of them going to people like aid workers?
Request to Upgrade Fedora KDE Desktop Spin to Edition Status
A forklift also is meant to weigh quite a lot. The weight penalty is unimportant here.
I think there's a difference between blaming Meta for blocking what it considers blatant misinformation and the effect that these large entities have on speech overall. It's worth exploring in the same way that Brazil's banning of X is, as well as X's labeling of NPR as "U.S. state-affiliated media". Some of these moves show what happens when a private organization is treated like a core service or utility (NPR leaving X doesn't seem to have had much of an effect on anybody). Nobody will grumble if your local Mastodon instance blocks RT, because nobody treats Mastodon as a necessary piece of infrastructure.

Russia's response of "Such selective actions against Russian media are unacceptable. ... This complicates prospects for normalising our relations with Meta."

is hilarious because they're just gonna have to accept it because (drum-roll) Meta _is_ a private organization and isn't beholden to any b.s. from anybody as far as what audience they want to serve.

I also learned via the article that Russia has banned Instagram and Facebook since 2022. I'm a little surprised they didn't think there would be parity there.

It's about the amount of influence over global communication that one entity has, and what that entity should look like.
the two types are nice !

the author likens your first type to building "mental" roads, which form new pathways of cognition, and takes time, and has emotional resistance, and requires conscious effort and practice to carve out. also to relate the roads to other roads correctly, so the mental map of roads is consistent, and can be traversed.

the problem is that most students do not grasp ideas fully and develop facility with it. when this happens, the foundations are shaky, and facility is lost. then, they label themselves as incapable which leads to a vicious cycle where, the belief of being stupid leads to more stupidity.

the second type is where the roads (ideas) are there, but a route from source to destination is not clear, and the aha moment is when you see the full path in the mental eye.
I searched 'pager batteries' on Amazon and most are NiMH, not lithium.
Because HN is about intellectual titillation, not about activism and geopolitics.
They went to places that, without human exploration, we couldn't know anything about.

That's just not generally true anymore. We know things about other planets in the solar system, and planets and stars elsewhere in the galaxy, and in other galaxies, without any human ever having to go to those places.

The combination of sophisticated probes and more much sensitive sensing technology has really changed the justification for human exploration, possibly so much that the justification is mostly gone.
This is a pretty standard type of architecture, it's essentially how anything that runs on a virtual machine works. Back when visual basic was popular, it actually surprised me that Microsoft never ended up bundling the VBDLL files with the OS itself allowing developers to ship significantly smaller installation bundles.
One argument in favor of removing it (not saying it’s the reason or that they didn’t have other options) is that ctrl-click and open did not obviously do anything different. That is, whether you ctrl-click and open a signed app or an unsigned app, the command in the menu was just “open”, with no indication that you were overriding a security policy. Then the dialog it popped up wasn’t particularly distinct from the “first time run” dialog. There is an argument to be made that going to the security settings and specifically allowing an app is a more clear expression of intent. Kind of in the same way you probably want to open a file you download from the web, but good security practices means the browser doesn’t open it for you on download, you need to explicitly go do it.

That said there’s no reason they couldn’t have fixed either of those issues instead
> striking in the best economy in the world and in the history of the world

Isn't this the best time to do it? It seems like if workers did the opposite you'd be complaining that they were striking when conditions were bad and hurting the company!
I love a framework that replaces JS with Python. I'm less certain about replacing HTML/CSS with Python?
wish i knew about this workin support jobs sifting for logs and lines in zip 'support file' packages. very nice!
Hypothetically there could be scenarios where something as simple as control over the right NTP servers could trigger that code, right? I
I mean at that point why not just make the battery the explosive..it's not like it needs a great shelf-life just a kaboom
> Why is it so controversial to return to what everyone was already doing previously?

One reason is that they aren't returning to what they were previously doing: many companies have sold off office space and have removed dedicated work spaces in favour of hybrid-friendly environments and 'hot desks'.
It's amazing how much you can build without resorting to those fancy frameworks if you dedicate some time to learning Django and how its views work. You do not need a SPA, you need a working app that looks good.
Who uses pagers? Aid workers carry phones. The pagers are deliberate opsec move for Hezbollah.
A Deluge for the Sahara
This implies that for-profit companies and not-for-profit hospitals would not lay off employees if they could. What support do you have for that?
Technical Interviews – Part 1
We are self-hosting our GPUs
Btw I switched from using their app to bitfocus companion instead. Still lets me control my stream deck but no more elgato Corsair bloat
Sucks to be them, why they even use pagers is laughable, unencrypted or encrypted. Cell infrastructure is easily traceable.

I just feel sorry for the innocent lives involved in all of this, no one deserves to be caught up in either side of the conflict.
some minimal due diligence to check the electronics maybe.

in simple devices charging and protection circuits are usually logically isolated from the rest of the device, and you cannot draw enough power from them to damage the battery.

maybe they used a weird load pattern the screws with the BMS, but there should be fuses too.

I hope we get more info
Holy wow just yesterday I was toying with Travesty. I had no idea it existed back then and only found it recently when I went page by page through Macintosh Garden's whole database, so it's great to see someone mention it!
Here's a trick for running this against a Heroku PostgreSQL database (here for a Heroku app called "simonwillisonblog"):

rainfrog --url $(heroku config:get DATABASE_URL -a simonwillisonblog)
Though it might fall under the umbrella of not spending enough money, I'd add that we haven't been meaningfully iterating on the technology and processes involved. One might even argue that traditional aerospace has been trying its hardest to reduce the amount of iteration/refinement going on to the barest of minimums.

This has kept crewed spaceflight stuck in a rut in terms of cost and risk. It's like if progress on the design of commercial aircraft suddenly slowed to a crawl in the late 1940s, putting us at mid-60s adjacent aircraft design in 2024.
> It's almost as if wanting a meaningful, intuitive solution prevented me from solving the problem.

This theme shows up repeatedly in Dijkstra's work[1]. The symbol manipulation is itself a calculation.

As a final influence I must mention our desire to let the symbols do the work —more precisely: as much of the work as profitably possible—. The intuitive mathematician feels that he understands what he is talking about and uses formulae primarily to summarize situations and relations in to him familiar universes. When he seems to derive one formula from another, the transformations he allows are those that seem to be true in the universe he has in mind. The formalist, however, prefers to manipulate his formulae, temporarily ignoring all interpretations they might admit, the rules for the permissible symbol manipulations being formulated in terms of those symbols: the formalist calculates with uninterpreted formulae.

The diagrammatic solution the author uses is related to something else I've been interested in, namely Peirce's Existential Graphs[2]. They are also based on diagrammatic representations of mathematical objects with a small set (somewhere between 3 and 6 depending on how you count inversion) of permissible rewrites. Existential Graphs are powerful enough to represent propositional or predicate logic with the exact same rules of inference! There is also an extension for something equivalent to Tarski's modal logic, but I haven't looked into it really. Peirce also designed existential graphs to be amenable to uninterpreted manipulation.

The tutorial I link has some nice examples of proving Frege's axioms using only a single assumed axiom and rules of inference he proved sound. Frege assumed all of his axioms. I mean no disrespect to Frege, but it illustrates just how powerful existential graphs are.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD130...

[2] https://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/egtut.pdf or https://www.jfsowa.com/peirce/ms514.htm
Kubecost's position in the K8s community also will help OpenShift along with Apptio+Turbonomic... their OpenCost initiative is very clever, too
Because employees have no leverage in negotiations. In addition, your job is directly tied to your own well-being, as well as the well-being of your family.
Sub-contractors botched the job. Which reminds me, yesterday was 42th anniversary.
It's weird that he mentions Snow Crash without even mentioning that it is a parody of cyberpunk that is making fun of the self-serious nature of the genre. I mean Stephenson's hero protagonist is literally named "Hiro Protagonist", the crime lord Uncle Enzo controls pizza delivery rather than something like hard drugs, and features countries that exist as franchises like fast food restaurants. I like the book, don't get me wrong, but the way the OP (and others) talk about the book you wouldn't expect it to be a comedy as it is.
The detonation signal could also have been completely out of band, like with Yahya Ayyash (as far as I know) which seems like the Occam's Razor answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash#Assassination
Some remarks on the mathematical structure of the multiverse (2016)
I think this willfully ignores the fact that Israel did occupy southern Lebanon for 15 years, never built a civilian settlement, and unilaterally withdrew from there under assurance from the UN that it would enforce an agreement to keep Hezbollah north of the Litani river, which the UN manifestly does not enforce.

From the article you linked to:

>> every policy expert I spoke with agreed that the chance that Israel would actually establish settlements in southern Lebanon is very low. Natasha Roth-Rowland, a scholar of the Israeli far right, explained that there simply isn’t the political will to advance settlements in Lebanon
I just joined Amazon but I’m definitely on board for unionization. Just need to figure out who else is. It seems like the real solution here is a collective unit to bargain with management to say no 5 days is not necessary. And probably get some other benefits too. But given amazons anti-union tactics in the warehouses I can’t imagine they’d be friendly to a corporate union either
Could be true but that requires a lot more steps. Need the materiel to be implanted, delivered to targets, then have a software payload execute, instead of just the last step. However, most battery packs for pagers im seeing are 650 mAh which isn't much energy at all. Two 18650s have almost ten times as much capacity, and they don't explode.
Congratz on the launch!

Like with most boilerplates the focus is too much on the landing page, but less on the actual application.

I'd be interested to know if you could integrate my boilerplate https://achromatic.dev somehow into the generation to be able to generate web apps. Would be absolutely fanstastic - endless customizations.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic but, in my experience, ChatGPT is mostly useful for producing editable filler. Mind you, that's often useful. The intros and definitions are needed. But it's not producing anything that is especially interesting on its own.
Although, if I was an intelligence agency or police force, I’d definitely give pagers a second look, right? Like they have uses but somebody picking a pager over a cellphone is doing something unusual—maybe something unusual and good, like running an emergency services organization, but still unusual enough to take a second look.
A parking garage full of electric vehicles properly compromised (at least some of them) would be very ... energetic. Burning lithium batteries aren't precisely explosive, but they are still very angry. It is plausible that you could destroy a building with a chain reaction of battery fires. That is one of the safety concerns I think might not yet be fully accounted for (what happens when a bunch of electric cars are in a full closed lot and one of them starts on fire).
Recent study reveals reduced math performance of adults with dyspraxia
Yes, supporting additional languages is straightforward; just need to write language-specific SDKs with bindings to the necessary Pax APIs, which are exposed through an ABI / FFI. (a major advantage of building at the systems level.)

Major constraints for a given language will be runtime size and browser viability — it's fine to use e.g. C# and the CLR when deploying a desktop or (arguably) a mobile app, but it's a showstopper to bundle a several-hundred-MB wasm runtime to ship a C# app to the web. Zig and C++ don't share this problem, and JS gets a freebie because the browser already includes the JS runtime.

Community contributions would be amazing in this regard. Likely our core team should ship JavaScript support first as a template, then Pax's language support should be roughly as extensible as e.g. Stripe's SDKs: https://github.com/stripe
Which part of SB1047 do you think is too onerous or not "slow regulation" enough?
If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it.

It immediately reminded me of Stuxnet, which also from a technical perspective was quite interesting.

I already wonder if this was anything that was planted in the devices perviously, or if the ones responsible had similar devices, and managed reverse engineer them and craft a payload to them, that could be sent over existing cellular protocols/networks and then, similar to Stuxnet, make the device exagerte some existing functionality to a point where it caused a malfunction? Thoughts on this?
Thanks for the videos, obviously something extra was added.
Think this is like a lot of things that work in theory but don't work in practice. You think you'll get the best of both worlds but really you get the worst of both.
Crazy. I wonder if they were used for tracking until they were found out, at which point BOOM
There's footage on Twitter showing an actual detonation, with a bang. Not a huge blast (the man falls to the ground injured, but bystanders seemed unharmed). Definitely not the rapid burning 'whoosh' of a battery fire.
In office is a mixed bag. Sometimes there are genuine people there who could become true friends. On the other hand, there are those that talk through their smiles. The two are sometimes indistinguishable and it can be hard to determine whether those office relationships were hollow or not. In a best case, they are not hollow. In a worst case, you think you have a support network and friends and don't spend as much effort to find genuine community connection. Then when it comes time to leave, or change team - the relationship evaporates leaving you worse off than before (still isolated, but now also older and missed opportunity). It is a spectrum, true friends I believe are somewhat rare in the workplace.

Another dimension to that spectrum is a development of a working cohort. Essentially a half dozen people or more that hire each other at new jobs and move together from company to company. A true best case there us to meet a potential co-founder.

Though, I have had a remote colleague whome we spent days on video calls together working on a problem. I am not sure remote is in-office is actually mutually exclusive. The people willing to spend 5 hours on a call peer coding with you might be the same that you actually become friends with in office
Visualizing Ship Movements with AIs Data
Sonoma vs. Sequoia
> always having to source the environment setup file

We are wrapping everything in bash entry points to accomplish this.

> ... build advanced robots with ROS ...

Yes, experiencing this first hand... there are just so many examples out there for integrating with all the various sensors and such.

> I'm then cross compiling to arm64 using Yocto Linux and meta-ros, so I get reliable and reproducible deployments. Once you get over the initial setup pain (which is significant), it's not too bad.

Can we get a call and talk about this? Because I'm comfortable with the concepts you're talking about but we've not sorted out how to make an actually deployable artifact from (for one example) our workspace making use of pymoveit.

EDIT: Saw your email in your profile and sent a message
Tell Americans that the Communist Chinese are planning to build a gender transition ray on the moon and just watch the money flow.
> This approach will definitely save someone's life (and probably already is) but there's no golden pill that will, long term, give a healthy, in shape, body to people without effort.

Why? Is there any rational reason for such pill not to exist? Just because it seems "unfair" to the people who spent more effort to achieve the same?

The whole history of scientific progress is about achieving good things with less effort.
At least Eight killed and 2,750 wounded (200 of those in a critical condition) [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/17/middle-ea...
Hezbollah are a paramilitary group at best, not civilians. And they are designated terrorists in many countries.
Incorrect: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-describe#Documentation/git-desc...

> If the working tree has local modification "-dirty" is appended to it.

and one can see their invocation of --dirty here: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/cff5336ec71b6fee396a95bb0e...
Noop [0] is a cloud platform that runs entire application ecosystems (including edge routing) locally and deploys the same setups globally -- it's a departure from the plug and play paradigm of kubernetes, but it means a lot less integration work. Full disclosure, I work @Noop.

0. https://noop.dev
Well yeah but you need someone that has some understanding of what he is actually selling to come to that realization, not the greedy bitch that is Tim Cook.

I think the mistake already happened, you can see fewer and fewer macOS only software and there is very little in the way of novelty/exclusivity (both iOS/macOS). Devs are now more and platform stuff more and more (mostly web technologies because it makes for good UI even though performance is not the best, it doesn't matter with today's powerful machines.

I'll add that one key point that Apple was better on is becoming very moot: software optimisation (performance and UI) matters a lot less in today's cheap powerful computing. Apple is supposedly selling top of the line hardware but skimping every way possible so in the end, when price matched, competitive hardware does not do worse no matter how bad the softwares are optimized on concurrent platform.
You appear to be very confused. That was my first and only message to this thread, so it seems extremely unlikely you had any kind of expectation on me posting anything here let alone what I'd say.

Anyway, since you're not only confusing names but forgetting what you wrote, here's a reminder:

> OK, name me 40 great songs from your 2023 list. where "great" is something more than "got a lot of plays on Spotify."

Do you seriously not see that this is you demanding work?

And just to be clear: I'm not demanding that level work from you. I don't actually care about what music you like on a individual song level. I was echoing your request to show how unreasonable it was. You appear to agree it's unreasonable. So why did you make that demand? Why are you pretending that you didn't?

But I am genuinely intrested in why you think these lists are such obvious demonstrations of the superiority of the music you like that just linking to the list should be treated as a mic drop.
I prefer the system implemented at most banks and investment firms (maybe because it's so ingrained in me). Just use brackets!!

Sure, negative signs are accurate but for some numbers which can be both positive and negative, my brain kinda goes into a short thinking loop of "is that really a minus?". With brackets (which are the SEC standard), my brain doesn't tend to overthink in that direction.
nushell has `open file.xlsx | explore --peek` which can be used to interactively select a cell contents from an Excel spreadsheet and pipe it into another command. It would be cool if there were similar tools for editing table data.

See also the `inspect` command... I feel like they could add a lot of neat Smalltalk-like interactivity (Bret Victor-level observability)
We have to be in n the office 3-days so if I WFH because sick, I would have to badge in Friday. This is foolish so I take a sick day if I’m not going into the office.
Sample of one, but around me best engineers came back to work soon after Covid ended, show up every day, communicate and collaborate.

The less productive are the ones dragging their feet, coming up with excuses to stay home and hide as much as possible from peer scrutiny.

Almost like best engineers enjoy coming and working with the team, while the worst dread it.
You do not need to pay for AWS Lambda functions. WebDigital has free Node.js API calls you can easily call from your applications. It's already very easy to call the APIs from WebDigital UI. We now have an NPM library that makes it possible for you to call WebDigital APIs externally from your applications elsewhere. The library is totally isomorphic, which means you can use it from browsers and node.js both. If you have a streaming API, you can also return it and display results as they become available. Totally free!
I think people underestimate the rate of progress of technology but overestimate the time it takes the world to adapt to it. AI is progressing rapidly but it won’t change the world overnight.