skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> gravitational forces

Gravity is not a force in GR. The spacetime curvature in a spacetime with two black holes that merge is not describable in terms of a simple "gravitational field". Spacetime curvature is a fourth rank tensor with twenty independent components. In vacuum ten of those vanish identically, leaving ten independent components.
Maybe it's just the dropbox model? Make something that's theoretically easy to do even easier
Just use onshape and learn to use their API for creating custom nodes in the history tree. Ie write a small module that generates planetary gears and then use them in the context of a standard, sketch and extrude history based CAD system.
Same here. I'd forgotten that it wasn't an Edition until I saw this.
Former AWS here.

I mentioned unionization on my personal social media account and was approached by legal that I should “consider my public statements about my job carefully.”

It is well known that Amazon hires organizations like the Pinkertons to break up unionization efforts at all levels, even going as far as to bait union supporters into signing fake union interest forms on false pretense and then attrition-fire individuals who signed by giving them no hours, pushing them into ineffective or frustrating conditions, PIPs, etc.
presumably the only difference between an explosive-laden battery and a normal battery is it's capacity. All else will appear identical. And tearing down the battery to inspect it destroys the battery.
According to this post, the pagers that exploded had rechargeable batteries. They even used USB-C, so Hezbollah must be using somewhat fancy pagers: https://x.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/1836082246538629490
Yes, I'm not trying to disparage it too much, it's just the reality of the job. But I found that even junior PhD students can have a romantic illusion that real scientists just spend their time musing and thinking and sometimes they have a flash of insight which they then enthusiastically share with the others. But the more mundane reality is that papers are projects with their own life cycle. You have to be on time, you have to cater to where "the discourse" is right now, the metagame. But to be fast, you need a process, a formula. It's sales. Everything can be approached from a sales and marketing mentality and it tends to bring success to a scary degree. Some apply similar tools in their romantic lives too, where optimizing your dating profile is just the start.
I tend to think this is not the real path to something fulfilling, but pursuing this question veers into religious territory.
To be fair a lot of small startups could benefit from forgoing custom CSS styles for very straightforward frontend dev. So much money wasted on react devs imho (including myself)
Everything looks great. I have tried to generate an app that generates stupid faces. At first it produced an app that generates what looks like random images - coffee tables, nature, people, pens... I have tried fixing it by chatting. It suggested to add an AI routine to make sure I'll be getting stupid faces. It broke itself and started to produce error messages instead of images. I have asked it to fix itself. It has added error handling, better error messages, and stupid face generation success rate bar to the UI, but I have never been able to generate a stupid face. Great idea though, and hopefully some day it will work.
They didn't. Al Jazeera's headline was updated to read "Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers."
thank you, that was just my 2 cents
We're in the middle of putting this together right now but it's going to be a wrapper around Google Secret Manager for those that don't want to set up a secrets manager themselves.
Building messaging automation is a waste of time
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> Also add structured concurrency to the list - it's a subset of functionality that naturally arises Task composition and async/await since their introduction.

Could be wrong, but the JEP feels like it goes a bit deeper than `async/await` in C#. It feels like a hybrid between Task and Channels but operating at a lower level.
That is indeed a possibility.
Not everyone lays the blame at the Prime Minister’s door, however. Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts wrote in an opinion column on Britain’s i news website last year that Churchill “did all he could to relieve the terrible Bengal Famine subject to the exigencies of the Japanese holding Burma and their submarines infesting the Bay of Bengal.”
Fear is a powerful form of communication.
Though not ones supplied by a terror group, connected to their private network.

(This is an assumption, I'm neither a doctor nor a terrorist).
lol you have too many meetings. I don't care if the manager with back to back meetings listens in from transit or something. im literally suggesting being more flexible
Unfortunately innocent people were also harmed, don’t think a straight list will serve anyone

Honestly I doubt Israel/Mossad doesn’t know who is in Hezbollah, i think this is more of a direct attack (obviously) mixed with scare/terror benefit
What book is that?

Edit: Found it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale
How We're increasing transparency for gen AI content with the C2PA
Why would you take graduate courses if you have no background? Maybe undergraduate would be more your speed
That's basically all ChatGPT is being used for here, so I think it's OK.

Don't bother arguing, it's a religious thing at this point.
The U.S, and the Soviet Union, each landed probes on the moon in the 60s. And the Soviet Union even did a sample return in 1970.

>All the software in the world isn't as good as a trained pilot in a novel scenario

You can likely launch 5 (or more) autonomous missions rather than send humans. And that's assuming good spending, if you go by the $93 billion Artemis Program, likely 20 or more.
I'm not missing the point, I'm absolutely disagreeing with it.
This is likely to settle out as one of the most surgical non-infantry attacks in the history of modern warfare, and because Israel is involved, 20% of the commentary is about how the people who set it in motion belong in the Hague. Think about what that says to people weighing the (correct!) claims that Israel has committed widespread war crimes in its occupation of Gaza.
> How do you understand this process of matter escaping a black hole?

No matter escapes. Gravitational waves are not matter. They are spacetime curvature. Nor do they "escape" the black hole; they are emitted from outside the horizon. The reason the mass of the merged hole can be smaller than the combined masses of the original holes, with the difference being emitted as gravitational waves, is that black holes are not made of matter, they are made of spacetime curvature, and when they merge, some of the spacetime curvature doesn't get included in the merged hole. That's just how spacetime curvature works.
>or firmware hack.

There's still the question of how the explosive capsule would have been triggered. It couldn't just explode at the first incoming call. There must be more to that.
Killing isn't always the goal.

The effect of this "action" is the same as a bouncing betty. (I assume) The goal is to incapacitate and use resources.
More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41569724
A LiPo will burn, aggressively and hot, but they don't explode.

To get a LiPo to explode you'd need to both puncture/rupture it and somehow contain the escaping gasses long enough to build up pressure.

No, I'm as convinced as I can be that this was a supply-chain attack, and used a purpose-built "addition" the pagers in the form of an explosively formed penetrator.

Given that an EFP is usually concave, I'll even go so far as to say I bet it was disguised as part of the speaker assembly.
I think people like Horowitz are aware of this. What he is fighting against is being regulated himself. The danger is not coming from AI, it's coming from the people who control it.
It takes some doing. In my case (in the USA):

* Years of part time math classes. Math classes are sequential, I hadn't taken any college level math as an undergrad. I was working at a university, so I had the luxury of basically free credits, and lunch breaks where I was already on campus.

* A unicorn, no-longer-in-existence post baccalaureate program that covered the highlights of undergrad CS topics in 9 months. It was full time, and the entry bar was pretty low, but I had to take the GRE. Completion granted automatic entry to the MSCS program.

* Postbac is always an option, without a special program you'd just take undergraduate programs until you either earn the entry requirements for the MSCS program, or an actual second bachelor's degree. This can take years, because of course scheduling and sequential classes.

* I went to a state school -- sadly, many of the MSCS classes were 400/500 level, meaning there were some nominal additional assignments for the grad students, but you were otherwise basically just taking advanced undergraduate classes for special topics.

* All told, I spent a few years taking math classes one at a time, three terms full time post bac, and two terms in MSCS before landing a job. I don't see an advantage to finishing the MSCS at that school.
I'm not sure why it's being assumed that they detonated all of the pagers. They presumably have unique device IDs / phone numbers that can be tied to individual people. For all we know, they may have just detonated the ones known to be in use by Hezbollah operatives.
There's a reason its cheap, you pay with your life: https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Homicide-Map/53...
probably unrelated, lebanon is a big place
Would we be surprised if the answer is “nothing”.

Of course we can read anything we want from the silence, as it’s unlike we’re getting any details about it. Anything in the range of “of course they did, we’re talking about a civilized country” to “of course they didn’t, how could they”.
Israel used letter bombs for a long time to assassinate and terrorize. People didn't stop using the mail because of that, but upgraded their opsec.
Both projects were started around the same time in 2019. The initial git commits were about five weeks apart:

https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep/commit/e37c986dd842adc3b2c2...

https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/commit/16b4277d361ce...
Maybe it was unclear, I meant, tautologically and just for emphasis, that the science that was done for the previous mission was (of course) done.

> Now, that science is done.

That said, building a base on the moon is pretty pointless, and I think we shouldn’t do it. If we’re going to become a spacefaring species, we’re going to have to learn how to live in space. The conditions on each planet, moon, whatever, are all pretty different, so we’ll probably need different bespoke solutions on each one.

We should perfect the art of building self-sustaining orbital habitats, because those aren’t redesigned from scratch every time. Let’s iterate on the space-station.

Energetically going downwell is a big cost. The only reason to go onto a planet is to get resources that aren’t already present in less energetically disadvantageous locations.
Alibaba cloud servers being 'carefully dried' after firefighter drenching
> If I need a database, I'll grab SQLAlchemy. I wish there were a mature lightweight solution here; maybe Tortoise ORM will get there soon?

[Peewee ORM](https://docs.peewee-orm.com/)
Presumably the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle.
It's effects might have been intended as much for psychological as lethal results. This specific vector may be a one-and-done tactic but Hezbollah members would be foolhardy not to regard every electronic device that is, at minimum, younger than $pager_age with suspicion. At this point even if it's a wired copper POTS line I'd be asking the intern to take my calls and shout things out from a few rooms away.
> 7x, not 10x

5624/677 = 8.3x

Yes, I rounded up, and yes I picked a low to make a point. But go ahead and pick a random point 10-15 years ago if you'd like and compare it to today and the returns are still very large.
Evaluating startup ideas based on search volume reminds me of the apocryphal Henry Ford quote about "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". VC-backed startups don't succeed by finding an underserved niche and generating a nice, steadily growing profit over time. They are by their nature supposed to either explosively succeed or rapidly die.
(a) These are a bunch of comments about what you believe Israel wants to do, not what it's capable of.

(b) You wrote, elsewhere on the thread, that Israel was set to take southern Lebanon in the near term. Israel is not mobilized to do anything like that.
What specific problem are you talking about?
Why this over something like Faker?
> Gravitational waves carry momentum and energy (and therefore mass), just like electromagnetic waves.

No, EM waves do not have mass. They are massless. They carry momentum and energy, yes, but not mass.

In GR, the source of gravity is not "mass", it's stress-energy. EM waves carry stress-energy even though they are massless.

Gravitational waves do have some aspects that are analogous to EM waves, but there is a key difference: gravitational waves do not have any stress-energy. They are pure spacetime curvature in vacuum. So while there is a sense in which they carry momentum and energy, since properly constructed detectors can extract momentum and energy from them, they do not carry any stress-energy and the momentum and energy they carry cannot be localized the way momentum and energy in EM waves can.
The whole article is about how they were craving attention. Literally just read. They talk about how they expect someone to speak to them just because they have their earphones off at a gym then get disappointed when they didn't. Go workout, if people want to speak to you great, waiting for it makes you lonely in the worst kind of way.
thanks for trying it out! I guess everything is fine in your code and just needed to direct the prompt a bit in the actual code (there is a tab 'code editor'). it's a bit what we're trying to improve. The AI gets 98% of stuff correctly, but for example here it missed to adjust the prompt to output stupid face generation - which literally takes 10 seconds to do in the code.
not unprecedented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash#Assassination

but not on this scale
The way we plan to handle authenticated sessions is through a secret management service with the ability to ping an endpoint to check if the session is still valid, and if not, run a separate automation that re-authenticates and updates the secret manager with the new token. In that case, it wouldn't need to be stateful, but I can certainly see a case for statefulness being useful as workflows get even more complex.

As for device telemetry, my experience has been that most companies don't rely too much on it. Any heuristic used to identify bots is likely to have a high false positive rate and include many legitimate users, who then complain about it. Captchas are much more common and effective, though if you've seen some of the newer puzzles that vendors like Arkose Labs offers, it's a tossup whether the median human intelligence can even solve it.
> Stuff as much knowledge in your head as possible, share bare minimum, use non-standard tech stack, write no documentation, ground as much project on yourself

This will work only if your manager has 62 IQ.
Put a handful of geologists on a Mars base with an ATV, some hammers and chisels and I'm sure they could accomplish the greatest feats of discovery in their field perhaps ever.

Note, I'm not saying that this would be easy or safe or cheap. But I am suggesting that the science achieved by getting some real scientists on Mars would be qualitatively and quantitatively greater than robotic missions.
I've seen multiple videos of the explosions, even people standing directly next to the target were not hurt.

Contrary to what you said, this is pretty much the ultimate in targeted attacks.
I am a fan of Scala, personally, when it comes to its use as a more concise, more elegant Java - with full access to the Java ecosystem and its libraries.
Very interesting, so the battery modification is plausible it seems.
> I still do understand what a "gravitational atom" might be.

It's a vague gesture in the direction of a speculative theory of quantum gravity. It's not anything we have any actual evidence for.
If so, I'd expect my phone to weigh too much rather than too little, because of the added explosives.
it's now 6,295 more members
Any of them except for the Oracle Commercial build.
These pagers were distributed only to Hezbollah members, these were not just standard pagers anyone could buy.
> We've got nothing like that to prove now.

Just wait til China announces an effort to put humans on Mars.
I literally read it, and it's a description of someone very lonely that isn't comfortable approaching people in that setting and doesn't know how to make friends. Maybe they have anxiety, or are on the spectrum? It doesn't really matter. He wants to meet people. But even the most uncharitable reading does not support your point.
Elaborated here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41570028

Colonizing the moon makes as much sense as swimming out to a rock a bunch of times, to prepare for piloting a cargo ship.
It reads like he is assuming that missing messages from the mouse is not allowable.

I would say think of it this way: what happens when the mouse moves between USB hid messages?

If the mouse moves between messages sent via USB HID do the later messages capture the delta between the last and current message. Including the movement that happened in between?

Do the input messages, both those sent over USB by the mouse as well processed and presented by Windows, give relative or absolute positions?

The messages already represent a discrete sampling if a signal. You should be able to recreate the original information reasonably well without processing every single message.
Also related, but rather a malware attack: Europol/French Police compromising all Encrochat phones in 2020.
Don't hire a React dev, hire a web dev.
In my case they did it at the store where I came to pick it up. That's how I got aware of it.

The espionage agency in question was the french DGSI.
I'm really tired of seeing CEOs and the C-Suite all having three or more jobs. They really need to focus.
I’ll try to be a bit more direct than other answers, so apologies if it is too much, but let me say that such a move would make more sense if you want to switch to a developer role. I’d say it is not a good plan for a PM role as honestly PMs don’t need the tech depth to be great and two years isn’t enough to be competitive technically with devs with 4yr degrees and 10+ years experience, etc. Instead consider taking an online data structure coding class to feel how it feels (coursera has good ones) to become technical. If you love it, you can choose to go further in that direction if you want. Hope that helps!
I believe NASA is targeting something like 99.5% reliability with Starliner. I agree that ability to accept risk has decreased, but my guess is that Starliner in reality has more like one nine of reliability.

If you look at the first flight test of Starliner, everyone talks about the timing problem that caused them to fail to achieve the proper orbit. What is more rarely discussed is that after this happened, they did a top to bottom code review while the Starliner was in orbit, and found a bug in the crew/service module undocking procedure that would have caused the service module to strike the crew module after undocking, most likely damage the heat shield, and cause the capsule to burn up on reentry. They applied a hot fix in orbit for this.

Had the timer problem not happened, the code review wouldn't have happened and this wouldn't have been caught.

With the number of gremlins that have come up on every Starliner flight, there are certainly many more lower probability defects that will eventually lead to a loss of crew.

My general feeling is that the true reason NASA/Boeing is much less successful than in the 60s is because the NASA of that time attracted the very top talent that was young, energetic, and bright. These days that talent generally doesn't go to those places. IMO the main reason SpaceX has been so successful is that a lot of those people really wanted to work on rockets but didn't want to work for NASA/Boeing.
The Starlink satellites have a design lifespan of about 5 years and will reenter the atmosphere relatively quickly even if not actively maneuvering, simply by virtue of being so close to Earth.
And some of us would still disagree: HN has, for a long time, been exactly the union between the overly optimistic technologist (tech founder) and a very critical engineer.

I mean, this is evident in posts by one of "model" founders, Paul Graham. Many of his posts are about how most are doing things wrong, only framed in a positive way (for success, do this instead of the usual things you've been doing).

So perhaps you came in attracted by one side, but stuck around for the arguments, even if unconsciously ;)
Peter Green's translations of Homer are excellent but ommitted from this roundup:

https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-New-Translation-Peter-Green/dp/...
Sounds like something Peter Watts might have invented. I like it, sort of; almost plausible, barely survivable, and deeply unpleasant.
NPR called her out for this and gave it "mostly false" despite it being true but misleading and required a confirmation from the DoD. What did you want to happen? "Just a moment Vice President Harris, I need to get on the phone with Kirby to confirm this before we continue."

https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2024-09-13/politifact-f...
Rumor that this is the company that manufactures the pagers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Apollo
Ok well someone's on some TLA's list now.
I'm old enough to recall my youth glueing irises loosely encased in occipital domes onto craft projects. The kids today call them googly eyes.
If author reads comments I just wanted to confirm that everything seems to be correct.

The fun parts you might not know is eg. that if you want to ship on steam you will need legacy messages for its overlay to function. Because its a web based thing ^_^

Practical solutions usually include either letting user to pick their perfect input type and assume they know limitations like no windowed mode. Or expecting users to reduce 8k to reasonable number in mouse software. Users already know how to read forums or reddit and games that do now work fine with 4k/8k polling rates are well known and numerous.

There is an alternative that my colleagues going to explore = make it Microsoft problem. There is Microsoft provided library that can do input for you ...