skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt that it’s a result of hacking the battery power management. Lithium batteries don’t explode the way I have seen these pagers do so far. They usually smoke or start catching fire before they explode due to overheating, which should’ve given enough time to dispose of them. But what happened is sudden and strong. Definitely, something extra was added and was activated remotely later.
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Footage of explosions: https://x.com/cherylwroteit/status/1836041510233444404

From the hospital (NSFW): https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1836052147646955935

I am very surprised Hezbollah didn't think of supply chain security and didn't do the most cursor inspection of these devices. The post mortem would be very interesting on this one.
Elon Musk is a billionaire among billionaires.

There are 3,194 billionaires; only one is worth $250B+. To compare all billionaires to Elon Musk is by itself fallacious.

> He then somehow came up with the 40-50 billion to buy twitter.

No, he didn't. He got a loan from 7 banks, in combination with his own funds, and using Tesla stock as collateral. This allowed him to avoid selling too much stock, while placing repayment obligations for that loan on X as a company. He also was able to reuse a Twitter stake that he purchased earlier.
A new path for Kyber on the web for Chrome
good question, it's not a no-code tool - we generate code (similar to a cursor or copilot) and we expect people to review the generated codebase. We'll add a section on the documentation like checklist you need to review to make sure there is no security issues.
should probably add ToS also yes
Email mods at hn@ycombinator.com if you see a pervasive violation of HN's comment guidelines.

Flagging and voting also help, but for wildly out-of-control threads, direct contact is more reliable.
As a layoff strategy, I would expect it to be counterproductive. The people most likely to quit skew toward high-performing individuals who feel confident in their ability to get a remote job elsewhere. And vice versa.
> Motorola pagers (a widely used type) seem to typically take a 3.5V 500mAh battery, which if I'm doing my conversions correctly (mAh * V * 3.6) works out to about 23 MJ.

Batteries should really quote energy, not charge, for this reason. The voltage is not a constant.

But something’s wrong with your math. Even assuming a constant 3.5V, that’s 1.75Wh, and 1Wh is 3600J, so that’s 6300J.

23MJ would drive a car a respectable distance :)
As someone who gave hundreds of talks and wrote at least hundreds of articles etc. over the years, I basically agree. Some I look back on as being particular insightful or clever. But you pretty much have to mostly crank at least to a minimum standard. And, yes, there's a lot of reuse in various ways.
I'm not saying that it was time travel, but it was time travel.
I might be misinterpreting, but news coverage seems to say that Hezbollah fighters as well as medical personnel were injured. That might mean that the attack was aimed at pagers rather than Hezbollah pagers.

Such lack of precision would be what you'd expect in any kind of operation targeting so many devices.
The Cloud Hasn't Been Won
Works at squaredance lessons too.
It is actually a prerequisite for Valhalla (value classes) now. As value class fields must be defined before calling super.
HN tries to really avoid this kind of discussion since it never goes anywhere productive. Folks who have really strong views on Israel/Gaza are not going to change their perspective because of a comment thread on Hacker News.
Sometimes reading hackernews makes me want to slam my head on the table repeatedly. Given sufficient size and compute is one of the most load bearing phrases I've ever seen.
I wonder how easily they can be "sniffed" out and found.
Or when they "fact check" a statement with 4 paragraphs of text that amount to "it's true but inconvenient so we'll say it's been 'fact checked' to undermine the statement."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/10/us/debate-trump-harr...
> If you haven't read the Odyssey before, I think her translation is accessible enough to just jump right in.

I keep checking, but it is continuously checked out at my local library :D One day I'll get lucky. (Yes, I know about holds; I don't like them; I don't like the sense of obligation, and I enjoy the hunt; yes, it's a quirk.)
It may be a combination of making the battery overheat which would trigger the planted explosives from a supply chain attack. Of course, I am no hardware engineer/bomb expert to know if that is possible.
There is probably a point where things go from happening gradually to happening suddenly. Very few can relate to the horrors of nuclear war or have the consequences of nuclear bombs in living memory.
There are quite a few open source YC startups at this point. Our understanding is that:

1. Developer tooling should be open source by default
2. Open source doesn't meaningfully affect revenue/scaling because developers that would use your self-hosted version would build in-house anyway.
That's another leading hypothesis. Some classes of WIMPs have been ruled out but the whole idea hasn't been.

BTW primordial black holes could still exist even if they aren't a significant dark matter component.
This will only be true as long as the quality of life gradient is so heavily tilted towards the US. As developing nations improve and if the US continues to starve its social institutions (schools, infrastructure, housing) that calculation may look considerably less rosy. And to top it off, the US foolishly forces some of the smartest immigrants in the world to leave rather than give them a path to citizenship!
they sell a keyboard for it
I tried some of these and they really work. Thanks!
In the land of LLMs, can we do better mock data generation?
Hezbollah reportedly bans its members from carrying cell phones and has them carry pagers instead:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pagers-drones-how-...
IETF draft, Post-quantum hybrid ECDHE-MLKEM Key Agreement for TLSv1.3:

ML-KEM is a key encapsulation method (KEM) defined in the [FIPS203]. It is designed to withstand
cryptanalytic attacks from quantum computers.

This document introduces two new supported groups for hybrid post-quantum key agreements in TLS 1.3:
X25519MLKEM768 and SecP256r1MLKEM768. Both combine ML-KEM-768 with ECDH in the manner of [hybrid].

The first one uses X25519 [rfc7748] and is an update to X25519Kyber768Draft00 [xyber], the most widely
deployed PQ/T hybrid combiner for TLS v1.3 deployed in 2024.

The second one uses secp256r1 (NIST P-256) [ECDSA] [DSS]. The goal of this group is to support a use
case that requires both shared secrets to be generated by FIPS-approved mechanisms.

Both constructions aim to provide a FIPS-approved key-establishment scheme (as per [SP56C]).

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe...
This isn't my area of expertise, but isn't DX12 a decade old at this point?
I know. Everybody knows. There was a test. During this test they managed to highlight a serious design flaw ;) It's clear, it's documented.

What I say is that eventually a marginal frame of people dont believe that fact and instead prefer to believe something wrong ;)

For instance: "chernobyl accident was meant to impeach the Duga to ever work".
> [...] my Rebbe was the geologist of the soul. You see, there are so many treasures in the earth. There is gold, there is silver, and there are diamonds. But if you don’t know where to dig, you’ll find only dirt and rocks and mud. The Rebbe can tell you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do yourself.
This is easy to say when you are in a position of privilege and not in this situation, and have a big support group, family, etc. I don't really see where you are reading that they are craving attention either - learn to practice empathy.
I doubt it has anything to do with the battery, pagers typically use the far more stable (and less energy dense) NiMH composition over a typical lithium one.
I am partial to property testing logic and integration testing servers.
This frequently requires some level of separation, the key is to do it only at the right points.

Don't start by saying how can I unit test this tiny bit of logic against several mocks, start with a simple integration test of your real routes.

As you add abstractions you are trading maintainable straightforward code for more granular testing. It's a hard trade off not a set of principles for good code.
This is one corner of the educational system I never dug into. I know it's possible, so, I would ask someone who has done it, how exactly does one progress from "no background in engineering" to "a Master's degree in CS"?

Having done a Master's degree in CS, but with a Bachelor's in CS before it, the classes I took for my Master's degree would have been mostly impenetrable to someone without a bachelor's degree already.

So how exactly does that work?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567299
Pretty much, yeah. The hack was used only to activate it remotely, and in pager systems, it should not be a hard task. But I highly doubt it was only due to battery overheating. I have seen scooter batteries exploding before, and they don’t burst as quickly as this one.
This is the third comment on this thread you've written prosecuting the idea that Israel is on the eve of invading Lebanon. That's not very plausible. Israel isn't mobilized to invade Lebanon and lacks the capacity to do so while engaged in Gaza.
Commuting over an hour each way, if you're not exageratting, is so much an outlier that it makes these discussions difficult to talk about. Same way the real estate conversations on Reddit always devolve into "sounds good from my perspective in [New York|San Francisco].
This reminds me of when cities in the Bay Area started considering restrictions on free meals at work, because local restaurants were annoyed it reduced their lunch crowd. I'm sure that same group has a vested interest in people commuting to jobs.
A small number of reposts is ok if an article hasn't had significant attention yet. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#reposts.
Are tiny black holes zipping through the solar system?
No, why would it imply that? Even if you believe that LLMs can only repeat text they've seen somewhere else - which I don't think is true, and I'm not sure why that belief is so common - identifying specific ideas that would work out of many others that won't would still be a big deal.
elixir's liveview is perhaps the best known and arguably inspired a lot of the ones in other languages
Seems this project predates ugrep and has a nicer interface.
Is there any legitimate evidence to this being a benefit?
“Fact-checker” is just a sad last-ditch attempt to salvage this “Arbiter of Truth” status from the smoldering remains of the once-respected “journalist” profession.
Why wouldn't the primordial black holes condense into bigger ones like the matter that makes up planets and stars did?
I think this video, and most such experiments involving children, suffer from a central issue: children are extremely sensitive to what they think adults want to hear. The kid watched the woman manipulate the things. He probably figured it would be rude not to acknowledge her changes. They should figure out a way to have another kid as the experimenter and disguise the obvious test/interview situation somehow. Especially the cracker thing feels sooo odd. I can’t believe he would let a peer get away with it, but who’s he to argue with an adult, much less a stranger?

Also children are brought up with super obvious problems like “what object fits into which hole?”. I feel like some of these tests measure less the child’s understanding of the given problem per se and more whether they have previously been introduced to trick questions/illusions.

And even controlling for all that, you’re totally right. Even adults get confused by mass, weight, volume, apparent size etc. sometimes. The kid doesn’t even intellectually know those concepts. His only input here is by sight, but his answer may be different if he got to hold both objects and feel their weight.
The apollo program ran from 1961-1972, 11 years.[1]

The total budget was ~260B in todays dollars.[1]

That's ~24B per year in todays dollars. NASA's current budget is 22B[2], less than .5% of the federal budget. We sent 4 times that amount to Ukraine for the war by an emergency vote. Computing power has increased effectively infinitely, manufacturing automation & precision has increased incredibly. We are vastly richer than we were in 1972: our GDP has increased roughly 25X since then.

The reason we have not gone back to the moon is because we have chosen not to do so. It is not hard, nor particularly expensive.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
I was in a cycling club years ago too. I may have not seen everyone every week and may have not formed deep friendships, but make no mistake friends were made. The amount of shared experience between peer and “friend” can be negligibly small. I haven’t seen those guys in years but I know if I reached out thered be welcoming open arms. My experience is that if you want it to be more, you have to make it more. Friendship in adulthood must be worked/earned—it doesn’t just happen. Sux—I wish it came for free like it did in childhood.

Anyway, i agree with unihacker. Dont give up man. You already know how to take the first step—you’ve demonstrated as much. Be confident taking the second!
If one controls an entire space ship, and the other can unlock a few doors, which is more impressive?
JSSS is long dead.

I'd say a better comparison is JSX, and searching for that I do see pages on MDN about it.
Fortunately, science fiction left behind those inclinations. The cyberscapes of the glittering arcologies where street sams zero every gonk, rimbo, and cyberpsycho that comes their way for fun, eddies, or to just to look nova to their favorite input or output demand your data be crystal, choom.
I assume tar came first just for grouping things together and then compression came out and they were combined together. That's why the unix tarballs were always tar.gz prior to gz having the ability to do both things.
Not new to this release, but digging the scoped variables, alike async-local-storage in js. It's interesting that computing languages seems to be evolving a whole new storage subsystem for languages, that promises/subprocesses/async now has some free form associative stores to go with.
https://openjdk.org/jeps/481

I also really like relaxing constraints on when super() has to be called in constructors. It feels like language designers have been super super scared to let users do anything maybe possibly untoward, and have massively restricted constructors as a keep-you-all-safe-from-yourselves move. But it hampered hackability of inheritance, and makes a bunch of initialization tasks hard or frustrating to do, requires participation from your super. I'd love to see this shift come to other languages, of trying to do some relaxation of what can come before super().
https://openjdk.org/jeps/482
Because the goal as of now is not to get to the moon. It's a government jobs program. Nothing wrong with that IMO, but in the 1960s the goal was to get to the moon before the Soviets + pour money into ICBM-adjacent tech.

Now the motives are dubious. Gateway to Mars? Cold War 2 with China? I don't think anyone even knows what the goal is other than "spend money".
I'm nearing completion of my Cybersecurity Masters degree. It's fully online and takes around 20-40 hours per week of work. No thesis, but I do have a project/capstone course right now.

I don't have a computer science undergrad so for me the motivation was both in the potential for advancement, but also a chance to study the field I've been working in for the past decade.

School has some clear advantages:

* It standardizes taxonomies, frameworks, and methods. You'll be able to talk to others who are more ingrained in things like distributed systems or other deep fields and recognize the terminology and use the correct references.

* Things like ethics, establishing trust, and reliability of data are hard to learn "on the job" except in cases where you are directly prompted. These skills can be easily taught in a classroom setting.

* The efficiency of classroom learning is hard to beat. A well defined lecture and reading guide will show you just the right content to most efficiently convey a topic. Obviously this requires a lecturer to be good enough at their job to successfully perform.

Frankly, some of the arguments here against higher education are alarming. You should not be acquiring specific skills in your classes. You should have learned logic, algorithms, and how DAG works in your undergrad or through self teaching. Mastery of Apache Airflow is your own business, but much more straightforward with the aforementioned skills.

After continuing in my IT career and taking college courses, I have continued to regret my time as a younger administrator. I was given too much permission and it's only through luck and coincidence I never caused turmoil. Without any formal training I had access to so much data and potential to inflict problems. I can't see a world where that kind of malpractice is allowed to continue. In the same way that we ask forklift operators to guarantee the safety of those around them by passing a test, we should be asking our IT workers to prove their basic abilities before handing over domain administrator logins.
Just because you have proof the money is yours doesn't mean they won't take your money.

>...On his drive from Texas to California, a Nevada Highway Patrol officer engineered a reason to pull him over, saying that he passed too closely to a tanker truck. The officer who pulled Stephen over complimented his driving but nevertheless prolonged the stop and asked a series of questions about Stephen’s life and travels. Stephen told the officer that his life savings was in the trunk. Another group of officers arrived, and Stephen gave them permission to search his car. They found a backpack with Stephen’s money, just where he said it would be, along with receipts showing all his bank withdrawals. After a debate amongst the officers, which was recorded on body camera footage, they decided to seize his life savings.

Well they must really believe they have a strong case then, right?

>...So Stephen teamed up with the Institute for Justice to get his money back. It was only after IJ brought a lawsuit against the DEA to return Stephen’s money, and his story garnered national press attention, that the federal government agreed to return his money. In fact, they did so just a day after he filed his lawsuit, showing that they had no basis to hold it.

Nope, I guess they knew they didn't have a case. To recap: They engineer a fake reason for a traffic stop treating cars as a potential lottery ticket with a big payoff. They take the money even though they know they shouldn't. They circumvent Nevada law by handing the money to the DEA so they could get a kickback, hoping he won't be able to now afford a lawyer since they took his life savings. The minute he shows he has a powerful legal team looking into the case, they hand back the money.

https://ij.org/case/nevada-civil-forfeiture/

>For civil asset forfeiture the whole premise is that you can't prove the money is your's.

Also, one has to wonder why the basic principle of the state having to prove guilt needs to be upended with civil asset forfeiture. If you are alleged to have murdered someone you are assumed innocent, but for civil asset forfeiture you are assumed guilty?
As a sci-fi writer who likes a spot of silly world-building myself, this line doesn't seem particularly absurd to me, but it does paint me a mental image of something the author very likely didn't intend to communicate:

Picture a world whose surface is covered in an ocean of hyper-oxygenated dense fluid (like the kind used in liquid-breathing experiments.)

(The fluid isn't cold! The "freezing" isn't a description of the temperature, but of motion ceasing.)

Now imagine this fluid with the appearance of a gel ant farm, with eaten-through trails in it — but rather than these trails being hollow, they're full of a cotton-candy-like pink "fluff".

Why? Through some kind of chemical reaction, exhalation of the now-CO2-saturated-and-warmed fluid into the medium, causes the formation and rapid expansion of a (pink!) aerogel, where the "gel" is "something from the fluid, plus water from your breath" and the "aero" is "nitrogen and CO2".

This aerogel is neutrally or even positively buoyant relative to the dense medium — so it doesn't fall or pour out of your mouth, but rather worms its way out, curving around your face in a random, pretzel-like extrusion pattern, fighting its way out, pushing against the working fluid.

I would imagine that, to continue to breathe safely in this strange medium, you would have to 1. always breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth; and 2. ensure that the reaction product of your exhalation doesn't linger to stick to your face as it forms.

So the optimal way to survive, would be to constantly, briskly walk backward, with this exhalation product extruding away from you like a rocket engine's exhaust (or perhaps more like spaetzle) as you walk.

I imagine you would frequently walk through trails of (your own or others') exhalation product. Which might feel somewhat like walking through gathered up hunks of spiderweb.

I also imagine that this reaction would probably be happening to some degree in your throat and lungs as well, rapidly giving you something like silicosis. Depending on how much tension you want in the plot, you could either just embrace this as "putting a timer on" getting off this planet; or you could posit that the character would be able to pry just the filter from their rebreather, using it to ensure that the reaction never occurs inside of them (but further increasing the strain of breathing in this medium.)
Like Apple suing over trademark to an apple fruit producer.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle...
This comment cracked me up. I do live in downtown Seattle.
It's a privilege because the number of roles with no externalities are limited
In this case the buyer of the print is out of his money, the hotel got the print back, the criminal apparently caught, but really should not the auction house be on the hook for the money? Unless it comes back via the criminal, it would have been the auction house's job to verify this was not stolen. Not always possible, I understand, but.. ?
Interesting idea. This could be used to create new datasets and benchmarks, but I doubt that anyone is going to use this to build production ready apps.
Generative image AI systems infringe by default
It's almost certainly 15 grams of RDX.
Ask HN: How can I improve UI dev skills? Looking for real-world examples
I’m currently working on improving my design skills, especially in the area of UI/UX. This week, my focus is on understanding how great products develop and manage their user interfaces.

I have a few questions that I’d love some insight on:

What key design principles do great products follow when building their UI?
How do they handle large components in their interface while maintaining usability and consistency?
Any best practices or resources you'd recommend for tackling complex UI/UX challenges?
I’m currently job searching and I tend to just see (remote) or (hybrid). It usually requires me digging into the description to see if a company has an office I can go to.

Some that are hybrid optional list themselves as (remote), but do so fully remote companies.