skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was astonishingly humane especially considering how effective it was:

1.) Communication network completely destroyed (anyone with a working pager in Lebanon has thrown it in the garbage).

2.) Most targets, while severely injured and even blinded, are still alive - I'm sure their families prefer this to them being dead.

3.) If you are an enemy of Israel, what can you even do now? You cannot assume your phones or your furniture or even your cat is safe. Any one of these things could detonate and kill or maim you at any time. And you can't trust anyone in your organization either.

I think this attack coupled with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ismail_Haniye... Haniyeh assassination (in the presumably safest of safe places for him) has re-established Israel and Mossad as absolutely and utterly dominant.

I deplore zionism, but that doesn't change how humane and effective and incredibly precise this attack was. Probably its humane-ness was not particularly on purpose, and was more a side-effect of the constraints they were working with (hiding explosives in a small pager while still maintaining its correct operation), but that doesn't take away from how much better this is for all the casualties compared to, for example, Hamas casualties in Gaza.
Well, if I eat a steak this year and eating animals is made illegal next year, was it legitimate that I ate a steak this year?
It's available as a package on all the linux and BSD distros I'm running.
There will always be legal (but arguably immoral) ways to minimise your taxes, and there will always be illegal ways to minimise your taxes. Those are different problems with different solutions. It's a useful distinction to make, that warrants having different words.
I wasn't involved in the process at all but I saw the creation of this video. I just want to say that I was mind-blown how much work these KRAZAM puts into their videos. Just the mural on the whiteboard took them multiple hours - and, that's for a few seconds of the video. Unbelievable how much love is put into something. And, it sounds weird but really touching to see creatives do something that they truly love.
As near as I can tell, Apple doesn't call it a legacy API. The article does, but the article wasn't written by nor does it appear to be quoting Apple.
I'm actually surprised they suggest getaddrinfo() directly over the async CF wrapper.
I don’t think Swift uses Hindley-Milner though?
> It would be neat if those services could be written in Swift, so that I could just use the language I already know

Then somebody else would have to now learn Swift even thought they write in different language like: Android Developers (Kotlin/Java), React Native devs (JS/TS ), Windows Devs, Linux Devs etc. As long as Apple don't invest more in official cross-platform tooling Swift is not gonna be mainstream (even though I like Swift). They have to bless other competing platforms.
It depends on what you life demands you to do.

(Relevant Chris&Jack sketch:)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0aiBi3g8fFE
A friend of mine who visited Lebanon (and the Hezbollah museum, he gave me a Hezbollah cap by the way) then went to Israel and was subjected to a thorough explosive material search. They basically swiped some kind of broom all over his body (with a focus on genitals) and put it in some device (some kind of spectrometer ?).
I doubt that's what GP meant, and I don't think one has to think either of those things to not buy into the "war on terrorism" rhetoric that is used to excuse all sorts of atrocities.
But trial and error from where? Websites like toptal and upwork?
I want to build this locally, I think it would be an absolute killer product. Could also consider doing an internet "deep dive" where the agent would browse for maybe 1-2 hours before sorting & collating the data. Add multi-modality for even more intelligence-gathering.
To me, the result is exciting because it shows how algebra, over hundreds of years, came back round to improve Euclidian geometry. Without the background, I wouldn't even know why it was an interesting problem. The motivation is very similar to that of the Langlands program.
It's not meaningless at all at least to the vendor.
How incredibly underwhelming. I guess this is the Copilot equivalent of "GPTs".

I really enjoy Copilot and got excited about new features for it but this does not at all seem useful and borderline dangerous/stupid.

> Deploy the latest release of the 'Frontend WebApp' project to the 'Production' environment

I'm sorry what? If someone doesn't know how to do that then they have no business running (or worse yet letting a LLM run) a command like that.

Something like "Respect my ESLint/prettier/<insert linting tool here> settings when generating code" would be useful but these extensions all seem next to useless. I don't want to chat about my Jira tickets in my IDE, I want to write code. I'll go to Jira to look at tickets, I don't want to have to second-guess everything the LLM spits out and somehow I think "Well the LLM said that's what the ticket said to do" isn't quite going to cut it.

I still think Copilot is the best option for "code completion++" but this offering seems like a whole lot of nothing.
>Can you point me to both of:

>* why it's considered low quality

>* evidence of this "wide regard"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdMQwDtumJ8
>Engineering companies success because of their engineering culture.

What current companies do you consider to be both successful and have this culture now?

It's brought up a lot on HN. Heck, the evolution from 'fun, small, engineer company makes through product then everything changes when it becomes larger, more corporate' is almost a Hollywood cliche now (films like Blackberry, tv like Halt and Catch Fire).
I wrote my own python wrapper around Rustic and RClone to achieve 3-2-1 file-level backups: https://github.com/AlphaJack/rusticlone/.

I first tried Rustic's native RClone support, but performance were awful. Backups are automated and run on a daily basis. To restore all my repo (or just one) I run a single command, if I have the repo configs in place.

To backup the repo configs I manually make a second backup by putting them, among all other configurations for my devices, in an encrypted .7z archive, which I upload in a remote cloud storage.

To reinstall Arch, I turned my notes into an automated script that does that in few minutes. The guide in the post derives from it, so it's quite up-to-date.
Or about 60mph for 8 hours a day, which is not an unreasonable average speed for a semi truck if you factor in the first and last miles.
This exactly. However, they did say there was "no compromise in payload."

If they can get those numbers at full payload, that would be impressive. Current generation of trucks can max pull half of the minimum weight of a shipping container. That's a huge headache for everyone in shipping from the trucking company to the terminals to the ships.
and you don’t realize that this proves my point?

~$5.3 trillion doesn't solve the US’ budget holes, while the US government tells you what transactions to make to not be taxed
The Blindsight Device from Neuralink
The word evade has a specific meaning in English, implying avoidance by trickery. And it has a specific legal meaning, which is knowingly bending or breaking the law. They are not synonyms, especially in a tax context.
Having built a few systems with ROS, I've been contemplating the use of distributed publisher-subscriber architectures in robotics. Why is this pattern so prevalent in this domain, but not so widely in others? To be sure, there are plainly many advantages, but there are also several disadvantages, and it doesn't seem to have the conceptual purity of other patterns.
These were detonations, not batteries gone wild. A few grams of common explosives like PETN could have been dabbed to look like a small component in a pager. An exploding bridge wire (EBW) detonator can be blown by a charge pumped array of small low voltage capacitors charged in parallel, then switched to discharge in series. No booster needed.
How often do you see 14 year olds evading internet restrictions?

(Allllll the time. My kids figured out how to bypass the pihole within a day, without even knowing I’d installed it.)
Not normal to be friends with any exes or people you've had sex with? Maybe not too common in ones 20's, but more likely by their 30's or 40's.

Lot's of friendships start with brief dating/hookup that doesn't lead anywhere romantically. And frequently major relationships leave bonds that persist after the relationship ends. I'd be hard pressed to think of ANYONE I know who does not have at least one friendship like that (I'm early 40s).
Is it generally allowed to share paid SaaS account?
or this mostly against the TOS ? I dont know what are the restrictions.
I had a rechargeable battery explode in my kitchen recently and it was like a small grenade went off. I'll see if I can find the photos but it shattered trim and bits went through a screen on the other side of the room.

So, an "excited" AA (which, I believe is what pagers usually use) could do a surprising amount of damage.

Photo: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/40...
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Same experience. Tried sharing by URL and had the same issues you did.
How is what you wrote about that Israel is desperate to provoke is related to Gaza ?
Israel is defending itself against Hamas, Hezbollah and other Iranian allies since October 7th 2023.
Why would Israel provoke Hezbollah? What's the point of it ?
For emacs users in the room, there is consult-recoll.
I’ve migrated to swift for some nontrivial projects that were formerly C++. Quite happy so far, and didn’t find rust nearly as pleasant when I tried the same thing there. I don’t want explicit memory management very often, so ARC works great for me. Haven’t had any issues with portability either, although I don’t test often on windows so I’m not confident there but Linux and Mac have been great.
I disagree. Defaults matter. “It’s illegal” is a firm line parents can hold. And, you don’t need to deter 100% - just taking a chunk out will reverse network effects and cause population collapse.

Plus, expect more services to verify IDs in an effort to combat AI spam.
That's tracing garbage collection. Reference counting is another type of garbage collection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_s...
"Which happens to be a good fit for the kind of stuff people do on phones."

reminds that my pixel pro cpu shutsdown if I have a whatsapp video call longer than 20min in 40C.
I was recently reading an article by a Twitter engineering team member discussing how they're reworking a microservice and kept expecting them to mention Galactus at some point. It lives rent-free in my head. This video is a true masterpiece.
I jumped directly into SwiftUI for a few macOS apps I published, and the weird performance issues / UI lag / Compose complexity for even simplistic apps were hard to navigate, even after a year.

Yet rewriting components in AppKit/UIKit feels regressive since even Apple's docs migrated to SwiftUI, but sometimes that was the right answer to regain some control over what was going on.

Though some of that was limited to macOS which seems to get a lot less attention from Apple than iOS, or because you're naturally building more complex layouts on macOS. But it always makes me appreciate how much better the kit is for building web frontends.
Related. Others?

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799872 - Sept 2022 (234 comments)

Atkinson Hyperlegible – a font by the Braille Institute designed for legibility - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28010540 - July 2021 (1 comment)

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26011945 - Feb 2021 (86 comments)

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154417 - Nov 2020 (10 comments)

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853550 - Oct 2020 (3 comments)
Hmm. I use NextDNS for this feature. I think. May have to do some testing to see whether or not it is operational at all.
Atkinson Hyperlegible appears to slash their zeroes in the same direction as backslash, unlike all other fonts I have used where the slash in slashed zeroes have the same direction as a forward slash. Not sure if this was a deliberate design choice.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible?prev...

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata?preview.text=0...
I'm from a central European country and my mother always made sure to record episodes of the Magic School Bus shown here on TV for me to watch on VHS. No doubt an influential show even beyond the US.
> But since YouTube transcription is really good

Are you sure you're looking at automatic transcripts? YouTube transcripts are bizarrely low quality if they're not provided by the creators (I've actually used my Google Pixel's live transcription to make better captions occasionally).

I just checked a video my girlfriend uploaded a week ago and the auto-transcript was still pretty messy. I've used Whisper for the same task and it's significantly better.
> 1. Men are socialized to only be emotive in aggressive or masculine ways.

Some men, absolutely. Most men? Maybe. But I removed those kinds of people from my life years ago. The few men I involuntarily socialize with are coworkers, mostly programmers, and they tend to be on the less macho side generally, thank god.
looks great, thanks!
It’s almost like the most important stakeholders have no interest in preventing them from evading those restrictions…
How can I find out how much labor / touch time there is for a lower-end vehicle from GM, Ford, Tesla, Toyota, and BYD? Even better if someone has numbers for specific models, like the Equinox EV, Mach E, Model 3, BZ4X, or Han. Can I assume that battery pack assembly is mostly automated?
> This is non-engineers calling the shots, just like Jobs warned us about.

Link to the talk or interview or whatever where he talks about this?
> I suspect they'll be disappointed if they try to replace c++ in totality.

Why is that? That is their aim, I think they’ve made it clear.

They’re writing all-ish new code in Swift (not always practical in existing code) from what I understand. They’re already using it for the code that runs in places like the Secure Enclave or other embedded processors.

Can it replace C++ 100% everywhere today? Probably not. I don’t know enough to know why. But that absolutely appears to be the goal.
I heard that some years ago a Swedish professorin who published some crime statistics got in trouble because the statistics showed that some subgroups are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime; however, some did not like this getting published because it show how bad some subgroups are within society --probably the same group would not have the same reaction if the statistics showed some other subgroup was being disproportionately reactionary.
> I think anyone who is able to post on Hackernews does not have the kind of autism the GP comment is suggesting needs to be cured.

What the...
So if I infer correctly, the SC wants to remove Tim's fellow status due to historical behavior that people have complained about, but haven't really clarified with enough detail for the larger public to see the details to judge on their own, and in the meantime, Tim got involved in the rules change discussion and acted in a way that the SC didn't like, so they banned him (this is partly guesswork, as the SC didn't name Peters, nor give extensive details about the ongoing, persistent words or behaviors he used).

If the SC was more forthright about the facts, they might manage to succeed here. However, their actions run the risk of alienating a lot of the community, such as those of us who have an extremely high tolerance for passionate people on the internet.
Arctic style base on the moon would be 200 to 500 metric tons of materials to ship. That's 2-5 SpaceX Starship return trips if/when they become operational in a few years time.

There's a number of reservations wrt the practicality of SpaceX Starship of course. That said, it allows us to say there's at least one company projecting a 100 metric ton payload spacecraft in the near future (with prototypes already being tested).

If/when they get it working, remember that SpaceX tends to mass produce their spacecraft, so it wouldn't be just a one off single landing by a one off single lander.
Probably not the place for it, but $500 bounty on either of these issues.
C++ would sob in a corner, but the Sob static object was instantiated before the Tears static object because the link order changed and so there's a dangling reference and nothing runs any more.
This is completely unrelated to the post.

What you're complaining about is overreach by the IRS in relation to foreign assets held by US citizens (ie FATCA) and the reporting requirements (eg Form 7938 and FBAR). It's worth noting that real estate is carved out as an exception for reporting purposes somehow, even though it's a common vehicle for money laundering.

That has literally nothing to do the Double Irish Dutch sandwich, which has historically been used by US companies (particularly Big Tech companies) to avoid taxes by moving their IP to a foreign subsidiary and then paying "royalties" to avoid paying US taxes.
At some point in my copious spare time, I plan on writing software to allowlist in my firewall outbound connections only to IPs resolved using my DNS servers.
Well, downloading 1GB of updates, or a 15GB dataset is a pretty common occurrence.
cyclotomic polynomials and Galois theory

a 17-gon reduces to a 4th-degree polynomial, and a 2nd degree one, which can be solved in radicals, by studying the permutations and multiplicities of the roots of this polynomial, in which the solutions are multiples of n*pi/17.
Yeah, that is tax minimization, not tax avoidance. There's a big difference.
I'm surprised more of this kind of validation doesn't happen on products out in the wild more.

I didn't know you still got colour without the presence of quantum dots in these kinds of panels, I thought they were integral to how the displays worked. (unless this is some kind of hybrid)
its 100pct because of the gov grants that will rain.

the EU just fired their regulation prone overseer of tech.
Show HN: I made a free directory for indie artist to show their music
I've created this simple and fun song directory for artists to display their music for free.

Just submit an art cover and a link to the song ( youtube, spotify, soundcloud ... )

Hope it grows well, helping showcasing new artists :)
"expected time-to-decay has only shifted from 10^794 years to 10^790 years"
For every job I've ever had, I've been the "math and functional programming nerd", where I know lots of tricks in Haskell and F# and even concurrency theory within Java. I felt very smart.

I went to ICFP in 2019, and I can say with a high degree of confidence that I was the dumbest person there [1]. Everyone was speaking on four-syllable mathematical notation that I had never heard of, and talking about intricacies in GHC that I wasn't really familiar with, and different aspects of type theory that were completely foreign to me.

It was very humbling; it didn't depress me or anything, but made me realize that there's a lot to learn and improve on, and the people there were actually extremely nice and gave me some pointers so I can get incrementally closer to being as smart as they are.

I think 2024 Tom would be the second dumbest guy in the room if I went again.

[1] Knowledge-wise, I have no idea about IQ or anything.
Not impossible they modified the firmware to improve battery life - look how sophisticated Stuxnet was.
Thanks for pointing this out. It looked weird to me, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why.
Do you have any evidence they’re not targeting it as their main everywhere language?

It’s already been used in their libraries, their OSes, and even firmware on embedded processors.
Marlboro maker sells asthma inhaler group at discount after health backlash
“Given that 100% tax compliance at the highest rates would not solve any high tax nation’s budget holes“

Can I ask where this claim originated from please?
I'm under the impression this is wrong. A trace is made from one or more spans. So long as the context is propagated[1] from one service to another, any number of spans referring to the same trace can be generated anywhere at any time. The trace+spans don't have to be created in the order of a stack.

[1] https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/context-propagation/
AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%
It would be legitimate. If you ate an animal thinking it was lawful, but it was not lawful, then it would not have been legitimate.
They can't, because companies these days only go public after most of their growth has already been captured by private equity (if at all).
It auto-saves I believe.
I'm incredibly excited for this. I thought swift was basically going to be stuck on macOS.

Last time I converted the swift compiler from the Ubuntu package to work on Debian, stuff was looking really awry. Most things work but not simple things like sigterm signals.

Swift is a fantastic language. I think the most advanced and smart language today. And I say this having used over 20 professionally over 25 years.

Just look at how swiftUI is implemented. It's not even a DSL, it's Swift naturally! Compare it to flutter and you'll see how incredible it is. (I do like dart too though)

As for the language it's full of clever features and advanced ideas that don't suck to use and consider the developer real world use of the language.

Two things really suck in swift though; compiler error messages are straight out of the university of assholery and documentation was crafted in Mordor probably.

Of course most libraries probably won't work well on Linux yet but there is a future with the right balance between safety and speed and joy of developing.
Probably since that it's intended for legibilty, it's to differentiate 0 from Ø.
Blowing up a cell phone via a Software hack (2014)
I use routedns [0] as my local stub resolver so that I can pick and choose which requests go to where and also what transport they use. It can also blocklist, re-write, cache, load balance, and/or handle fall back requests; so it give you lots of control.

I use a stub listener on localhost:53 for local requests and then forward them via UDP QUIC (TLS 0-RTT) requests to Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) with caching for most requests. Fast and reasonably secure.

[0] https://github.com/folbricht/routedns
Pagers don't have SIMs, they are simply programmed with a "Cap Code" which is basically the address of the pager.

Pagers can be programmed with multiple cap codes, and can function differently based on which cap code address receives a message. For instance, a single cap code could be programmed to just vibrate the pager, vs an audible alert.

Pagers are sent out via very high power distributed transmitters as one way transmissions simulcasted transmissions.

The format is typically:

[CAP CODE] - Message

That's literally it.
Was it?

Objective-C requires a runtime. I thought the kernel was always C/C++.
Yeah, that's fair enough; outside of keeping as much money as I can in ETFs and index funds, my tax strategies are pretty much non-existent since I don't have enough money for it make a huge difference.
I've seen some videos. Shattered hips, abdominal wounds, hands without fingers. I haven't seen any dead person, just maimed bodies. Mission successful I guess. Oh and one kid.
It surely is because you corrode your target’s trust in technology. They moved from smartphones to pagers, now they’ll have to find even cruder types of communications.
Because cellphones transmit, pagers don't.
No, I haven't
What's the GIL/threading story there?
I think my favorite old computing book is the tannenbaum operating systems text book. It features minix and has some super interesting things about the software license and all that. Minix has some super interesting recent history involving the intel management engine.
yeah, not macOS fault