skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was Cisco routers that made the headlines. Not sure of other gear: https://www.engadget.com/2014-05-16-nsa-bugged-cisco-routers...
Depends on the city, but fortune-500 types tend to be located in very busy cities. So there is a bias here. The average American isn't working in a fortune 500 office. Commuting to the average McDonald's is certainly shorter than commuting to the average Amazon office. There many millions of people in food service - Amazon employs 35,000 SWE.
Their comms and command infra is now hosed and all the operatives concentrated in hospitals. They are dead in the water.
Not sure about Macbook Pro, but I converted my Windows 11 gaming desktop to Linux and Steam with Proton works just fine for all the games I care about. The only game that didn't play was Starfield and that was fixed shortly after a few weeks.
They were probably at the risk of being exposed and pulled the plug before the word spread.
I wonder what Israel did to ensure that only legitimate targets were harmed by the sabotaged pagers.
Because of COPPA <=13 year olds aren't allowed on youtube so they lie about their age. These youtubers perpetuate this lie because >=25 is a more valuable ad targeting demographic.
And anyway, saying you can be productive in a 30 minute train ride comes from the same mentality that says you can knock out some work "between meetings" when your calendar is a swiss cheese of meetings.
It's not nothing, I guess, but it's sure not any kind of productive focus time, even in the best of scenarios.
You just don't know what you are talking about. You are essentially saying horse carriage was great for transportation. A car isn't an upgrade. PC gamers were fine with 60hz monitor. 120hz is not high end/is not needed...
high end mice are essential for certain games; esp esports ones.
I wonder what surviving ancient physical texts the modern translations are based on. Also, the Iliad and Odyssey were prominant books in ancient Greece so there may have been different editions and revisions then. How do you know which one you're looking at and what it represents?
If the man is unarmed, I don't think they can be considered a legitimate target. If that is the case, then you could argue all Israelis who have a military background are legitimate targets and that includes most of the population.
It looks like 1-way pagers sold in the US are powered by AA or AAA batteries: https://pagersdirect.net/collections/1-way-pagers.

That's not to say that they couldn't have put a lithium AA or AAA battery into the pagers or inserted a modified AA/AAA battery that was a combination of lithium (with greater power density) and explosive.

It's also possible that they have fancier 1-way pagers than I'm aware of.
Also add structured concurrency to the list - it's a subset of functionality that arises from simple usage of Task composition and async/await since their introduction.

Other than that, note that Panama Vectors are in a rough shape at this moment. Perhaps more feedback from users will make the authors realize that both API and implementation are flawed and map poorly onto many critical parts of algorithm implementations, particularly shuffles. They require a lot more API changes and implementation work to catch up to the current state of Vector APIs in .NET.

Of course the reality of not having access to stack buffers and fast off-heap memory allocation/deallocation also hinders the usability.

In the end, both of these will be at least partially mitigated with pain of engineers who work on e.g. Lucene, but it's something that comes to C# "naturally" and is easily accessible to a developer that does not have as much prerequisite knowledge.
This is false, and one of the simultaneous boons and banes of the GPL family of licenses.

LGPL compliance is achieved purely by providing a copy of your version of the source code; if no modifications have been made to the LGPL portion, a simple link to upstream is sufficient, otherwise a “reasonable” means of getting the same code (full tarball, diff against upstream at some point in time, etc) is needed. The LGPL (and GPL overall) does not make any provision that the user MUST be able to replace the object binary, only that source is provided to enable doing so if you break whatever tamper seals are there for yourself.
That's not been true for well over twenty years.

http://suntelecom.com/images/st900_large.jpg
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We should avoid using the name of the country as a proxy for its current government. The people has nothing to do with this - this is all planned and executed under the auspices of the current prime minister and his associates.

Even though the people largely supports their agenda, an action that targets three people but affects 2,700 people as collateral damage would not pass by their parliament.
For what its worth, "I've been burned out for years but need to collect a paycheck... so I've been taking remote work" isn't a good reason for companies to prefer hiring remote. That's actually a perfect description of how the same individual might have worse differential performance while WFH. The reason for the preference to WFH is also the reason for businesses to prefer RTO.
Stuxnet didn't have a lot of civilian casualties (if any?) but it did cause a lot of monetary damage to civilian companies.

However this was of course unintended, the malware was never meant to make it out to the wider world.
Did you mean you'll be a SWE manager of LLMs?

Yes, hopefully for a couple more years until such managers are themselves automated.
> experimental evidence that time travel was not possible

This is making a large assumption, of course, that time travelers had any interest in attending his party, or that they even would have heard about it.*

* I do not believe in time travel.
The level of competence usually correlates with how much in conflict you are not.
That's a good summary of the dangers of normalizing the actions that previously were the domain of only terrorists. The world works because most countries and people rejected amoral results-based reasoning and considered such actions in the light of another dimension: morality. It's difficult to define, but there was some sort of consensus. How long those agreements, formal and simply normative, will last remains to be seen. I do not look forward to their further erosion.
Google “llm scaling laws”.
The ability to explore & chase down truths is what makes us divine, is the aspect of us that builds & enhances. This guy walked a deep deep spiritual path to exploring something of the mundane world.

It's just so sad, so frustrating, so hellish & infernal that devices do resist us. Computers & devices should be amplifying & radiating the truths they are made of. But humanity is trapped in shells of their own making, in descending consumerism that rejects engagement & learn ability. Computers, alas, especially so, are often the prime obfuscater of truth and understanding! What a vast disuse of so much potential!

I hope we see some break through currents, of machines that are open, emerge in my lifetime. Well done, this dude Doug.
Anyone from Mistral here? The link to the docs is broken, and I really would like to know more about what the specifications are for calling this via API. Foremost, what's the maximum image size you can use via the API? Thank you!
I feel like this "get ready to be surrounded by peers for the first time" or the related "you aren't used to working hard, but now you will actually have to work hard" speech was given to me in some form at the start of high school, college, grad school, and in many other contexts and intermediate milestones. It wasn't ever completely true, but I think if I went for a PhD it would (obviously) have finally been true.

To be clear, I'm not saying I was always smarter than people around me, I just felt like I never had to work as hard as I suspected even through my Masters program.
Scientific orthodoxy - not societal orthodoxy. There's a vast difference.
Ok that's great. I guess I'm just skeptical you won't have to either
A. Settle for premade layouts
B. Learn some CSS like specification of custom styles. And that is where you get sucked into the rabbit hole
If it's basically a remotely controlled IED via a public communication network, then there's nothing technically interesting about that, really.

But the aspect of some supposedly civilized state staging a mass terror attack via a remotely controlled IEDs, putting suddenly thousands of people, many of them civilians (yes, Hezballah are also civilians, because they're a major political party in Lebanon) into hospital, killing ~10, critically infuring ~200, is way more interesting.

You can generate many questions about that aspect. Like the whole why on both strategic and tactical levels? How does this fit with the international law? Why are people kinda chill about this?

Re the response below: No proof of specific targeting of combatants, yet. No proof of any attempt to not affect bystanders, etc. Yet, there are videos of bombs exploding while people are shopping with children around, etc. Pretty much indiscriminate.

Definitely not battery burnings: https://t.me/hamza20300/293409 these are the scale/type of injuries that this caused. (Two children there just in this single scene in one hospital, so beware.)
Are you in hezbollah as well?
> It's war. There's no morality involved.

There's a little.

That's why countries make agreements such as the Genocide Convention, Geneva Conventions, etc. There are (meant to be) strict consequences for breaking these rules. (I noticed you change your wording from 'rules' to 'morality' - still wrong.) Breaking these rules is why we have the concept of 'war crimes'.

The word 'war' also implies two armies battling, rather than an invasion following occupation. In any case, the Geneva Conventions apply in all armed conflicts.

Since the Geneva convention still exists*, no, it is not "within the norms of war to strike service members when they're not in uniform". See Protocol I.

Targeting off-duty or non-uniformed service members violates both international law and the core moral principles of warfare, as outlined by the Geneva Conventions and other international agreements. Denying this isn't just factually wrong, it's deeply immoral.

* Along with the Principle of Distinction, Proportionality, Non-Combatant Immunity and Civilian Impact, etc.
I have seen this prove to be false multiple times. The reasonable falloff is ~5Y.
Hmm, here as well. But then would reorganize the sentences, and add details, where I think the most value of another draft is. Fixing spelling mistakes never entered my mind.
https://www.kubeflow.org/

Kubeflow is the one I see used the most (self hosted). The public clouds also have products targeting these workloads.
Trump launches new cryptocurrency venture but declines to share details
Some of them would, some wouldn't, depends on where they were and how they were moving.

This is a bit like asking why Jupiter isn't part of the Sun but other stuff is.
Handwritten note to a random friend (unrelated to target party) who then digitally sends to a mutual friend, who converts back into handwriting and physically delivers it.
As much as I love their work, I can't be the only one who really struggles to see a path to profitability for Mistral, right? How do you make money selling API access to a model which anyone else can spin up an API for (license is Apache 2.0) on AWS or GCP or similar? Do they have some sort of magic inference optimization that allows them to be cheaper per-token than other hosting providers? Why would I use their API instead of anybody else's?

Asking these questions as a genuine fan of this company—I really want to believe they can succeed and not go the way of StabilityAI.
This almost reads like science fiction, what an incredible attack from a technical POV. A couple of thoughts:

1. The beepers were compromised and have been for a long time. I don't know how easy it is to exfiltrate data from them if they are receive-only devices. At any rate it shows that Israel is capable of intercepting and manipulating low-tech comms. What's left for Hezbollah to use?

2. The next step is to hack into hospital record systems and get a list of all patients admitted today.
Ever watch the Jackass movies? I know plenty of MFA-toting snobs that think it's high performance art. And I don't disagree.

I read the PDF; profit wasn't on the list of KPIs. In fact there was quite a lot of invective against it; he'll kill expensive projects just because he didn't think the quality was good enough. Of course $$ is related, but the focus really is on the eyeballs.

I worked in porn for a while. I found the work fun and meaningful. Not every mission involves saving the world.
Batteries are not magic unknown technology. People who understand their chemistry can confidently say things like that.
And what I keep saying is that you're missing the point. It doesn't matter that the "lifestyle is not that different" (which is arguable), what matters is that it was different enough to make bonding and fitting in harder, which is hardly unbelievable. And yes, there absolutely is a huge variety in people's lifestyles, even within the same social classes and even when you can still find such similarities as having a roof above one's head. Ignoring it and offering "we're all the same species" instead does not bring anything valuable into the discussion and certainly won't help anyone make friends.
This is a fair point, but dropping the kernel patch guarantees that essentially nobody will use this.

Given part of the patch was software emulation for unsupported CPUs, it's possible that people would've implemented support for it anyway, incentivising Intel to push it more broadly.
The internet has allowed remote work for a long time, and in office work was dead walking until the pandemic finally put it in the ground. It needs to stay dead. These local shops don't deserve to lose their business either. if the CBD businesses want to compete, then they need to move. This is a sunk cost. You don't throw good money after bad
Honestly, I only clicked into this thread because I associated the phrase "The Pragmatic Programmer" with the famous book, and if it's not by the same people, I am less interested in their content specifically because of the "borrowed"(stolen?) term.
Part of colonialism is replacing native cultures with your own. Indigenous cultures, conversely, fight for survival in the face of forces that seek to exploit or exterminate them. There's a marked difference in context between the post-colonial world speaking English and the Maori people trying to defend part of their cultural heritage.
BDS looks better and better with each passing day.
I think proper nouns get a bit more of a pass in terms of purple prose.
For some reason, I immediately thought "no way that bird is 70 years old", and reasoned that the bauble on the birds leg is now a status symbol.

After all, all the other birds see humans staring, pointing, admiring the bird with it!

So the bird returning for 70 years, is just whichever bird that managed to kill and take the bauble for its own. I envision a bird arena, and Spock/Kirk fight music, all of it.

And here we just think it's the same bird.
If their comms are severely disrupted, yes. Even if it wasn't militarily effective, it's still quite a clever attack.
I’m sure the ones who love to suck up and don’t have a social life were chomping at the bit to come back, no doubt.
I did read it originally before my 1st comment. I just didn't link this last comment with that comment. HN does a bad job(no job?) of showing that relationship, and it skipped my brain.

I'm glad you learned something though: It's not worth fighting the IRS over smaller amounts of money like this if you can afford it.

The DMV is usually properly staffed. The IRS is absolutely NOT properly staffed. That was the point of my first comment.
It can be done, it was done, but it doesn't scale.

If you want layers of failsafe and redundancy (as we would do it today), it requires higher level abstractions, e.g. writing in at least C if not C++ or Rust, instead of hand-coded assembler like they did back then.

So yes simple got us there, but it's not useful to repeat the exercise like that again.
its a cool cultural study for society wide acceptance of pension fraud
> between two singularities merging

Two black holes merging does not mean two singularities merging. The singularity (singular, not plural) is a moment of time that is to the future of all other moments inside the hole. If two black holes merge, there is just one singularity inside the merged hole.

Remember that GR is a model of spacetime, not space. In spacetime, a single black hole looks, heuristically, like a cylinder, and the singularity inside is at the future end of the cylinder. Two black holes merging look, heuristically, like a pair of trousers, and the (one) singularity inside the merged hole is at the future end of the trousers (the "waist").
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Looks like they were using Gold AL-A25 / Apollo 929 pagers which are 100% passive.
Yeah, I feel like the answer seems most likely to be "no one gets excited over going to the moon the nth time".

All the people asking 'why can't we go to the moon' would definitely get excited. Plenty of people get excited every time SpaceX has a successful launch or achieve some innovation, but somehow you've convinced yourself that 'people on the moon' is fundamentally boring and nobody is interested.
I work in the battery space.

All you have to do is build replacement batteries without the pressure relief vents. You can easily get a Chinese manufacture to do this for a fee and properly some complaining about how stupid it is to do.

Then wrap it in some nichrome wire and have a micro run some power through it. The nichrome wire will overheat the cell really quickly causing the cell to rapidly over pressurize and boom.

Small pouch or prismatic cells that would be used at the size of a pager generally won't burn. And I speak from experience of doing stupid shit to them in the name of testing, nothing like using the nail puller side of a hammer to puncture them, or rigging up a fixture with 3 concrete nail guns to shoot it or well, fun stuff
Yes there was. @48:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NFrjHmI35w&t=48m48s
Literally everybody in the entire world believes Israel is responsible for this. An Mk-82 bomb dropped from a bomber would have more deniability. This was a joke about Israel's tactical signature back when James Mickens included it in a Usenix Security throwaway paragraph back in 2014. There is absolutely no deniability here, unless someone very powerful is deliberately trying to frame Israel (which is not what is happening).
This is a broader sentiment that can be applied to just about any open source ecosystem. Sometimes the technical debt and legacy install base of an existing project is too great to overcome. Sometimes people want to build a library that duplicates existing work just to see if they can. Sometimes personalities involved just don't mesh.
Seems the platform team and docs team didn't sync up before the release :) Seems the docs are in the process of being merged and deployed, in the meantime, you can find that doc here: https://github.com/mistralai/platform-docs-public/blob/a4f76...

Edit: 7 minutes later and the docs are up now! https://docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/vision/
Seems like a harbrining of war, if the pager network was compromised, thus burns the compromised network and also harms a lot of people.

Most major newspapers in Israel are saying that Netanyahu wants an invasion of Southern Lebanon:

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bje3pjv60

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-820399

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-general-said-pushing-for-g...
I don't micromanage my everyday spending like that. I just have a daily allowance and don't track how I spend it.

Personally, the psychic/emotional expense of micromanaging to that degree is far higher than the benefit I could get from doing it.
That's an impressive supply-chain hack. Spend years showing how insecure modern telecom devices are and scare your enemy into going old-school, receive-only. Set up a shell company to sell pagers to your enemy's shell company. Give them devices implanted with a small explosive charge pointed inward, knowing they will be worn around the waist most of the time.

Hack the backend server, send a coordinated page to all the pagers at the same time. You've just injured and identified most of your enemies, incapacitated them, completely broken their communication network and effectively given you weeks of disarray to do whatever you want to further disrupt them.

You have to hand it to them -- it's a clever strategy with minimal casualties outside of your enemy. This is a Stuxnet-level hack that we'll probably never fully understand.
We saw that taking all those cars off the road could really accelerate our climate goals.
Since Haniyeh, yes.
My company tried at the start of the year to get everyone back in the office. The worker's council (which is not entirely a union, but very close to it) negotiated for the everyone a three day a week RTO.

I refused to go back for those three days in the hope that nobody who matters will notice, yet they made line managers snitch on people and I was fired with notice because the agreement with the worker's council was "legally binding" and no exceptions could be made. So for me personally the involvement of the union sealed my fate into unemployment.

Unions are not a panacea, it leaves individuals without anything to bargain outside of the lines of agreements already established, and while some professions might benefit from them, I think unions for high skill jobs are not a good solution.
The people voted for this government.

I do think we can hold Israel as a country responsible. But what we can't do is blame Jewish or even Israeli people in general. Though I don't see anyone doing this. The current government is always quick to draw the antisemitism card when being criticised but I never see anyone actually doing that.
Going from GWT at my first internship to regular HTML/CSS/JavaScript at the next (before even TypeScript) was such a fresh experience.
Yeah, this is likely government backed, so targeting is most likely.
You think Iran ships 2000 pagers to doctors in Lebanon all at once?
I went for a brief swim in the ocean once and having not seen any fish I concluded that the ocean must be devoid of life.
It's almost as if human creativity thrives when you create a low stress environment that caters to the individuals needs. I'm thinking some thing like like Jacque Fresco's - The Venus Project, but instead of radically changing how we interact with the environment through architecture. We create creative environments where humans can freely tinker, create and experiment... Some thing worth exploring further.
>> it would have been the auction house's job to verify this was not stolen.

The auction house is a facilitator of a transaction between the parties. Unless they purchase the object from the seller first, they are not even a middle man. They are akin to ebay, a platform rather than a dealership. I'd bet that somewhere in the fine print is even a statement that any appraisals remain the opinion of the individual appraiser and are not the responsibility of the auction house.
>Whoever did this just killed that as an information channel as both the devices and the network are now compromised.

This is also true for Hezbollah. They must now distrust their own network, equipment and procurement channels. The reshuffling resulting from the casualties will make the organization less effective, at least temporarily, thus delaying any attack plans and allowing moles to rise through the ranks.
Land Value Taxes Can Resolve Property Tax Systems' Inequities
along with basic hygiene