skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your typical e-ink screen will be white when turned off. I think transflective LCDs too, or alternative display techs like https://daylightcomputer.com/

You can get monitors using those technologies if you don't want it to be black when off.
> striking in the best economy in the world and in the history of the world

The children working in gilded age coal mines were working in the best economy in the world and in the history of the world up to that point.
What is your definition of free speech?

Another question - why do you personally need free speech?
Makes sense. Strongly hope it won't be a "mac app" but a cross-platform application instead though, nothing worse than having a great mac app that you can't use 50% of the time because your work computer's a mac and your personal computer's a windows machine because you like playing games.
Most people are not judges in the international court of justice. The legal technicalities are irrelevant.
With an iPad, just open Camera. If it sees a piece of paper, you’ll get a yellow Scan Document button without doing anything.
I suppose that's right, I don't think shedskin can call numpy yet, for instance. On the other hand it seems easier to put shedskin on an embedded device, for instance.
I mean, it has been only one day after the last attack. It's still part of the same attack plan IMO.

I really doubt Israel can pull this off again next month or year. Hezbollah (and Lebanon) will switch all their electronics to Chinese supply chain or something, and double check it.
ICMP is lower-level than what Network.framework provides.

CFSocket would be the Swift/Obj-C API.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corefoundation/cfs...
Considering Hezbollah is a designated terrorist organisation in many countries, this probably should be considered an anti-terrorist operation. The targets are enemy combatants.

Also notably, it clearly did not intentionally target civilians, although there may be civilian casualties which is uncharacteristic of a terrorist attack.
It's too late now like climate change.

They are finding microplastics in our BRAINS

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

There's going to be an IQ drop for at least one generation if not multiple just like leaded gas (which is still in use and sprayed around every airport)
It is terrorism if the attack is planned in such a way, where innocent people will suffer with very high probability and nothing is done to prevent that.
Yes, the supply chain is very clearly compromised.

How much of it is an excellent question. It's remarkable that apparently (?) none of the devices went off prematurely and tipped off the targets. That implies a higher degree of QA than you'd expect from a more ramshackle organization.
The problem of powershell is not merely thet it's new and different, and not merely that you have to learn a new and different way to get a given task done.

Powershell makes some things possible or easier that weren't possible or easy, but only at the expense of making other things either impossible or at least vastly less practical, and all in all it's a bad trade off and a wrong set of priorities for the job it claims to fill, or at least for the job bash currently fills. It's not that bash is a gold standard, just that it's not fundamentally wrong.
Most roads are difficult to exclude. Most spend most of their time with excess capacity and are not rivalrous. They're clearly not a typical private good.

And they're usually a natural monopoly, too. Not to mention that the acquisition of land to make a road is often problematic.

Basically, there's a lot of reasons to expect market failure in a market for roads. That's not to say the only solution is for the government to provide them, but that laissez-faire, completely hands off solutions are probably not going to turn out great.
Illegal in what jurisdiction?

Free speech conversations tend to devolve very quickly into americentrism, which is fine until those with mass power try to impose their specific views on other countries.
Hezbollah is a military peer of Israel and the two are openly at war.
Wow you're right. I mean it's all maths articles on Wikipedia, not just statistics.

I think there are two causes of Wikipedia maths articles' general awfulness:

1. They're probably written by people that just learnt about them and want to show off their superior knowledge rather than explain the concept.

2. The people writing them think it's supposed to be a precise mathematical definition of the concept, rather than an easy to understand introduction. It's like they're writing a formal model instead of a tutorial.

Often the Mathworld articles are a lot better than Wikipedia, when they exist at least.
Stuff like this is not exactly new but it’s great it’s receiving desired outcomes. The company I work for developed a sepsis alert back in 2010 that helped inform clinicians to possible sepsis in patients by analyzing lab results. Lot of success stories but of course false positives. Tools like this are very useful when they are one of many factors driving a clinician’s decision and not the only reason.
Process composition is one thing that shell languages do better than traditional programming languages
Easily googleable so I suggest you do that, I'm not your librarian.
Not all displays default to blackness when there's no power... just think of a pocket calculator or old-school black and white LCD watch, for example.

(And also, there are color e-ink devices in the wild now, like https://us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-libra-colour or https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-paper/pro)
Not fair to consumers. Mega Corp created pretty metal cups and we moved off of plastics ones like nalgene. Vacuum sealed metal containers hold ice much better than glass or plastic.

Jokes on us, Mega Corp sprayed plastic liners and/or PFAS onto the metal for longevity. Same with milk cartons. Most of us didn’t know this until years later.

Glass is not an option for people with young children. I don’t want to pick up glass out of their car seat again.
Well I am very curious! Could you give us some hints without giving the whole thing away?
Well, are you a member of a terrorist group? If no, then odds are that nobody is going to go through the trouble of adding explosives to your phone's battery.

In this case the people responsible must have discovered where these terrorists were buying their devices. Since basically no one except for them was buying large quantities of these, they were easy to target.
> - You are not under any restrictions or sanctions from the US.

Can we make this a condition of giving any prizes, rather than of entry to the competition? This restriction affects literally 200 + million people.
> Well, you can (partially) thank the Jones Act for US ship building being so abysmal.

Or you can thank it for there being any shipbuilding left at all.

I would like to hear the case for how repealing the Jones Act would strengthen the US shipbuilding industry. I imagine it would be quite amusing.
>this isn't just putting a bomb into every pager.

I never claimed otherwise. Again, the claim isn't that innocent people are carrying the pagers, is that the pagers are around innocent civilians. It's not any different than drone striking terrorists at weddings[1], which also drew criticism from human rights groups. Even if we assume the targets are definitely terrorists, that doesn't solve the issue of civilians who happen to be nearby.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wech_Baghtu_wedding_party_airs...
The documentation says "Optimized if enabled via experimental VM option". (I linked in another thread.)
> The subsidy is already a tit, the tariff is tat

Why is someone else subsidizing the price of a thing you buy bad?

The subsidy is doing you a favor by reducing your input costs, or freeing up your work and capital to produce something else.
The definition of terrorism is controversial and political, so there isn't a hard answer.

But I think a general distinction is the targeting of combatants vs civilians.

There is a difference between infiltrating military or para-military organizations or operations and intentionally targeting mass casualties of civilians for attention.
Well, telling me I can't empathize is irritating, and isn't much of an explanation. But, I'm not sure what I was asking. Well OK, I think it's this: I don't believe that statistically, people saying "I think I'll try opioids because I feel terrible" can be a driver of the epidemic, because on aggregate people wouldn't. Sure, some people feel more terrible than others, and some are more persuaded by circumstantial effects than others (including somebody I know who picked up an addiction from her boyfriend despite being a super-rational psychology student who should have known better). But these things can't be the main cause, because people in general do know better than to begin, and to have an "internal voice that you can't make stop", prior to addiction, can't be very common. Statistically, it's got to be something else. I'll go with the medical pill-pushing theory for now.
Modern war obviously doesn't follow all the rules the Geneva convention assumed (Hezbollah militants don't wear their insignia and IDs) but in practice it seems fairly effectively targeted given the casualty breakdown so it'd be a hard case to make.
> It's a flaw in the design of Unix where polymorphic behaviour is achieved through file descriptors. Worse is better...

Looks to me it's a flaw on the signature of `write`. There should be a way to recover the status without changing the descriptor status, and there should be a way to ensure you get the final status, blocking if necessary.

This can even be fixed in a backwards compatible way, by creating a new pair of functions.
As people get richer they demand better quality stuff and can afford it.

That includes taking weekends off.

It's perfectly legal where I live to work on the weekend. There's also no minimum wage here. Yet, most people get weekends off and get paid more than zero.

It's also entirely legal here to offer jobs without reliable pay (as long as the contract doesn't promise reliable pay).

There's plenty of long term poisonous food available in all countries: you can mainline eg pure sugar to your heart's content. Most people in most countries opt for tastier and healthier fare, because they can afford it. There's also plenty of immediately poisonous substances available, like strong alcohol.

People also regularly opt for more than the legal minimum in terms of furniture safety. Eg Ikea sells you kits to bolt your cabinet to the wall, so it doesn't fall on your child trying to climb up on it. So the legal minimum's don't seem particularly binding: people voluntarily exceed them.

> 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.

Governments do stick their hands into many pies, but that doesn't mean that them doing that is required by some physical or natural law.

> 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.

Yes, governments control some of the best real estate on earth. That doesn't mean they necessarily contributed much to that happy state of affairs; often just the opposite.

Btw, many companies are trying to escape even basic functions provided by government, and are going for private arbitration instead, because it's more efficient.
> when did we stop being hopeful and start seeing the darkest side of everything?

I think a decade or two ago, when most of the new tech being introduced (at least by our industry) started being unmistakably abusive and dehumanizing. When the recent past shows a strong trend, it's not unreasonable to expect the the near future will continue that trend. Particularly when it makes companies money.
Who is using a pager or walkie talking in 2024? I will admit there was maybe a few bystanders standing too close to a Hezbollah member, but how many non-Hezbollah members do you think really had one of these pagers? Keep in mind Israel also does surveillance and probably tracked where they went. If it turns out a material % of these were owned by civilians, I might agree with you, but I suspect that’s not the case.
Were the kids killed also terrorists?
I guess from now on they will fly it in directly from China.
You have two levers for reducing unexpected deaths, right? Hopefully this didn't increase the number of expected deaths to substitute.
I've been trying to download various blogs, on blogspot.com and wordpress.com, as well as a couple now only on archive.org, using Linux CLI tools. I cannot make it work. Everything either seems to miss css, or jumps the wrong number of links, or stops arbitrarily, or has some other problem.

If I had a couple of days to devote to it entirely, I think I could make it work, but I've had to be sporadic, although it's cost me a ton of time cumulatively. I've tried wget, httrack, and a couple of other more obscure tools -- all with various options and parameters of course.

One issue is that blog info is duplicated -- you might get domainname.com/article/article.html; domainname.com/page/1; and domainname.com/2015/10/01; all of which contain the same links. Could there be some vicious circularity taking place, causing the downloader to be confused about what it's done and what it has yet to do? I wouldn't think so, but static, non-blog pages are obviously much simpler than blogs.

Anyway, is there a known, standardized way to download blogs? I haven't yet found one. But it seems such a common use case! Does anybody have any advice?
But those were not any random public pagers. They were custom made, ordered specifically for their internal operations.
Enjoy the privilege of seeing multiple doctors as long as you still can. With steady cost reduction (AI, automation, less effort per patient) and increase in medical authoritarianism ("expert said so") that privilege is on thin ice. In the UK it's already normal to have a single area-designated doctor you're allowed to go to, and that doctor is also a gatekeeper to refer you to specialists. Hope he likes you!
Beyond that, AI diagnosis would likely require an extensive medical online profile of you. Such e-med profiles obviously already exist in various countries, as opt-out features. In the name of cost reduction through automation, I'll be so free and call it: These profiles will become mandatory over the next ten years. Either way, good luck getting a second opinion once a false diagnosis ended up in your file or once AI continuously misidentifies a pattern present there.
How to date a recording using background electrical noise (2022)
Well I don't agree on (1) or (2). I think they are at least attempting to degrade the capabilities of Hezbollah, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the US and others. I don't really want to get into the depths of Arab/Israel conflicts as I don't think anyone really has a good solution to that, certainly not me.

However, I do find anti-BDS laws very hard to justify. It seems that many conflate antizionism with antisemitism, probably because some of the most vocal people are actually just dogwhistling against Jews in general. However, there is a large contingent of people, especially in the West, who are opposed to Israel's battlefield tactics and the current conflict, while simultaneously believing that Israel has a right to exist and defend themselves. Those people might reasonably decide that they want to boycott Israel or Israeli products to make their views heard (hit them in the pocketbook), but are prohibited from expressing themselves by these laws.

Are they unconstitutional in the US? One would imagine that if the Citizens United case says that money is speech, that would equally apply to people who want to boycott Israel. After all, we already tolerate much worse forms of antisemtic speech here. Why would we not also tolerate people voting with their money?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws
> A "full delete" of the emission controls on a modern heavy-duty diesel pickup truck can cause it to emit as much harmful pollution as 300 trucks with fully functioning emissions controls! Tampering with only some components also leads to significantly elevated emissions of NOx, PM, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons. These pollutants contribute to a variety of public health problems, such as premature death in people with heart or lung disease, heart attacks, irregular heartbeat, aggravated asthma, decreased lung function, and respiratory symptoms such as irritation of the airways, coughing, or difficulty breathing. NOx reacts with sunlight to cause ground-level ozone pollution (smog), so visibility, discomfort and illness may increase in the summer, when people enjoy being outside and traffic increases with travel to vacation and recreation areas.

> Violations are widespread and financial penalties are significant. Those who sell or install devices to defeat emission controls can be fined over $5,000 per defeat device, and dealers can be fined over $5,000 per tampered vehicle. Nationally, EPA has settled over 100 civil tampering cases to date, and the Department of Justice has won jail terms and high fines in criminal cases.

Federal statute in below citation.

https://cleanairnortheast.epa.gov/tampering.html
I kind of love Meta for all the seemingly unnecessary internal stuff they do. They have so many projects that are absolutely not critical for them, maybe not even net positive, but they spend who knows how many hours building and maintaining them.
Because the current Israeli leadership are using external conflict to avoid facing criminal charges from internal political issues. Netanyahu was on the verge of being ousted before the 7 October attacks.

If the conflict stops, the current cabinet will be forced to face their own party, the opposition and the rest of their country.
What did they put inside?
I typically look at the US, France, Germany, UK
> Those fabs would be damaged or destroyed

> > China is likely to take out the nearby, high quality fab

Yes.

If China's domestic fabs are second best or close --- and China may manage to crawl into this position --- destroying the best fab increases their relative standing and significantly hurts Western security. Whatever crumbs they get from Taiwan (the proportion of expertise that decides to roll over and help, and whatever capital equipment survives to be reverse engineered) are just a bonus.

If China's domestic fabs are not --- because there's a fab tied for first place in North America-- destroying the neighboring fab that they benefit from clearly doesn't benefit them.
On the other hand: isn't risk to this enormous? What if they just abandon all electronics and conduct their _business_ "off grid"? Good luck tracking that down...
The argument is that the IDF is targeting enemy combatants, and not deliberately targeting civilians (unlike, e.g. Hamas). The existence of non-combatant casualties alone does not imply terrorism.
> There are no markets without government intervention.

Of course there are. Black markets pop up everywhere to route around government intervention
> I know, imagining things is hard. But that's not much evidence either way.

Imagining is easy; "hard to imagine" is an English idiom for "that seems implausible" :-)

You're providing examples that counter the impact of government innovation, but it's unclear to me whether these are true counterexamples. The history for IBM, for example, is almost entirely intertwined with IBM's role as a defense contractor. Zuse's second computer (the Z2) was funded directly by the German government, presumably because it aligned with Nazi military interests.

(As a whole, these things are impossible to extricate: it's clear that the government doesn't create every possible idea, and there are an infinite number of innovations that can't be assigned back to government sponsorship. But I think there's general academic consensus that computing, aerospace, and biotech all progressed at rates beyond their equivalent private sector capacity due to government investment, and that the resulting progress was "worth it" in terms of returned economic and social value.)
Well, it goes both ways. Yes, the algorithm is simply rewarding content styles that apparently people "want to see more of". Of course, this metric is fuzzy. Twitter et al don't have perfect information here. All they know is certain content gets engaged with more. So it's both the people to blame and the algorithm. You can't really blame either side; capitalism values attention at all costs, while people naturally engage with certain content styles that don't necessarily breed the most nuance or positivity.
What does it mean to be a major player in manufacturing technology 4000 years ago?
Well that solves the eternal rivalry between ICOM and Yaesu.
> but that's not "government intervention"

I would argue it 100% is. You can make MUCH more money if you steal or perhaps keep slaves. We're just so used to these preventative measures that we don't really consider them, but this is, in essence, a huge "tax" on the private sector.

Playing by the rules is very expensive as compared to not.
Tomorrow: "Hezbollah laptops explode across Lebanon, sources say"
Everything seems to be exploding in Lebanon!?
Given apparently(?) none of them detonated prematurely, the arming device would need to be content aware so that a normal transmission didn't set them off randomly and warn the rest of the targets that the devices were compromised.
The difference is the target. Targeting non-combatants would make it terrorism. Hezbollah aren't non-combatants.
I guess it could still be considered the same one, just the continuation of it. I was kind of expecting a ground invasion after such havoc in communications has been wrecked. I guess if the "electronic" attack is still going on, maybe something else will still proceed...
What? You guys like war?

Seriously though. Dynamite didn't do it, nuclear bombs didn't do it, but tiny precision bombs are going to work: just kill all the people who like to fight. QED
I have zero ethical concerns about the data used to train AI. Add that to my list of things I don't get, I guess. No one has even come close to offering a compelling argument that would even raise an eyebrow toward these "undeniable ethical concerns."
> It's a separatist group

Are you talking about Hezbollah? If so, you're really wrong.
It's terrorism if non-combatants are the target. These attacks targeted combatants who were being sent information to conduct combat through the very same devices that exploded.