skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ugly question is how much collateral is fine. Hezbollah confirmed the deaths of 3 people, two of its fighters and this girl. Of course, this will surely escalate the war between Israel and Hezbollah so its surely negative even if the collateral ends up being very low because Hezbollah received most of the pagers.
> In the short term, it's a smart strategy for Israel, but they've likely opened Pandora's box in the process.

Did they? Supply chain attacks, intercepted parcels, none of this is new - the US, going by the Snowden leaks, has a long history of tampering with parcels in transit, which is why a few of the "libre phone" vendors offer to seal the parcel, the device and all screws in random glitter glue and take photos prior to shipping so that any attempt at tampering in transit is not hideable (there is no known way to recreate a glitter pattern).
Lithium ion batteries in devices are sandwiched layers enclosed in a kind of 'pouch', right? So what if you manufactured one of these that looked identical to the normal battery, but only had half a battery inside, and the rest of it was plastic explosive. Maybe put a tiny chip in there that, when a particular pattern of current draw happens, fires a detonator. Then, some firmware hack in the device proper that responds to some event and actuates that current draw pattern. It wouldn't even look suspicious if you opened it up.
Yeah but can the average postgrad use it to deploy their whatever pytorch thing with ten lines of python? If the answer to that is no, then not much bleeding edge research will ever use it.

I'm not a fan of what OSRF has done with ROS 2 personally, but supporting both python and C++ is one of the good bits, even though that support has degraded since ROS 1.
Great cross between civil engineering and cyber security with a couple of good examples of past incidents.
> There is off the shelf things that do this these days, but they can be expensive.

Could you share some names for someone inexperienced in MLOps to do some research?
Wikipedia Map: A tool for exploring the connections between Wikipedia pages
One of the main value adds of these tools is to help identify and categorize workloads into OpEx and CapEx buckets
There is more nuance here than you let on.

I grew up with a hand’s full of sisters. I prefer female friends to male friends.

I just lack the experience with the vernacular of male interactions.

I am great at making friends, but I am apparently terrible at keeping them.

If the woman identifiess as cis het then either they start to develop feelings for me or accuse me of having feelings for them. (even in the absence of such feelings)

If they identify as queer they eventually remove me from their lives as I am either unwelcome in their circles or they are ridiculed for having a “cis het white male” friend; even when I consider, and identify, myself as more open than a hard het. (It appears if you say you are uncomfortable with labels people make them up for you and then apply their unique biases.)

I’m unsure how to square that circle. I’ve resolved to just keep repeating the same cycles.
> Sucks to be them, why they even use pagers is laughable, unencrypted or encrypted. Cell infrastructure is easily traceable.

That's the point why they're using pagers: pagers are passive only. A cellphone can guide a rocket to its target, a pager just listens and cannot be used to guide a rocket, to act as a listening bug or confirm someone's presence (or absence).
Depends on the use case. Lots of hospitals and banks use RPA to automate routine processes on their EHRs and systems of record, because these kinds of software typically don't have APIs available. Or if they do, they're very limited.

Playwright and other browser automation scripts are a much more powerful version of RPA but they do require some knowledge of code. But there are more and more developers every year and code just gets more powerful every year. So I think it's a good bet to make that browser automation in code will replace RPA altogether some day.
> I think it's far more likely that Mossad has infiltrated whatever foreign (non-Israeli) supply chain they were using.

Yeah. Wasn't there something in the Snowden leaks about the CIA intercepting servers in-transit to install implants on them? I'm sure Israel is doing something similar.
The kid has the same portion of cracker before and after she splits it, though.
Seems like some broad definitions of language and communication. Like if grass plants are responding to the chemicals of other grass blades being cut, that only seems to be communication if the point of releasing that chemical is as a warning. If I stay away from someone who’s coughing, it’s not because they are coughing to communicate to me a viral threat, it’s because I understand the coughing to be symptomatic of a viral threat.
I'm gonna ask here because I've not found a solution anywhere else:

I loved the Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor game but when I tried to play its sequel, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, I found the mouse input absolutely horrible.

Horrendous mouse lag, floaty camera control, and all the signs of a "mouse emulating gamepad" type situation.

Does anyone know if there's a way to fix this game? I'd love to play it on PC with a mouse but can't stomach it as-is.
Hm what's your evaluation of the program then? What did you learn, and did you learn what you wanted to learn?
Ooh in that case nevermind then
Given history, given adversary, given all facts known thats practically sure. Usually Mosad doesn't say anything so we won't get much more anytime soon.

There will be few movies and documentaries about this for sure once things calm down a bit. I presume they used pagers instead of phones to not be so easily trackable via google/apple software and hardware?
I'd be willing to bet that it's closer to 10 minutes than an hour (over/under 40 minutes) for most Americans. The full 60 minute AVERAGE commute is still pretty rare. These conversations make it seem like the norm. In my mid-size city, my colleagues commute from 3-50 minutes a day. Average is probably 25-30 minutes.
I don't know your background, but speaking as someone who has done a PhD in Pure Math, and working with a lot of people who have done PhDs in Pure Math, I disagree with you. It's very much a case of feeling stupid, and being able to embrace that and live with it.

The "being curious" thing is independent of the "feeling stupid" thing. It definitely exists, but it's absolutely not the same thing.

Looking at the rest of your comment, maybe we have a lot in common, but I definitely disagree with a lot of what you've written here, so no doubt our experiences are wildly different. Perhaps over a coffee[0] we could talk constructively about education, math, struggles to understand, and work ethics, but suffice to say here that even if we do have substantial common ground, I think we might have very different points of view.

[0] Other beverages are available.
Why is getaddrinfo considered a legacy API? I understand that you probably don’t call this when you write software on top of Apples frameworks but it is a pretty standard thing to call for “Unix” (for lack of better term) programs.
Yeah I tried out Endura with the beneficiary CRUD demo.

What are those generated components based on? Is there a component registry?
From the amount of injured it seems more like a broad attack than a targeted one.

Most likely they knew some of them would go to hezbollah, and that was enough, collateral damage be damned.
Likely, there are many many more of them out there, just did not fall into the dragnet of phone numbers that were set to activate.
No. October 7th made me sympathize with Israel. What followed that made defending Israel impossible.
I spend 95% of my work time doing backend python microservices for internal tools, 5% on terraform for the infrastructure, and 0.0001% of my time building frontends for these tools (I just use plain html and JS, and only add a frontend when absolutely necessary). I've build a react app for fun in the past just to learn how that works but if I had to do it again for work I would basically have to go through the entire learning process again.

So, something like this where I'm writing pure python for my web components could really save me a lot of that churn time, not to mention that many of my coworkers have absolutely no JS experience. I have an upcoming task to build a new frontend and am going to add in a couple days to try this out to see if it meets our needs.
Is the solution look like rare limit in the client side ?

And maybe it will have some missed event between your ticker for processing game logic and fps.
I have guy friends I go mountain biking, skiing, mountaineering, play board games with, etc... but the deepest relationships have been found in the yoga studio with the women there. When another guy shows up I make sure to say hi and introduce myself. We're also working on implementing an open share space once a week for all genders to come and connect. Yoga is the one thing I've found that is more holistic than any other sport/activity.
It turns out there isn’t much on the Moon anyway, just rocks and dust, and now a couple flags. The value was the science done along the way to get there.

Now, that science is done.

Using TTLs seems less interesting in general(?). It is nice to be able to send computers into space. NASA should just use computers instead of TTL, if for no other reason than that keeping the infrastructure for those sorts of computers well funded is valuable.
Someone must have watched Knock Off from 1998
No car takes a 25% hit from the A/C in gas mileage.
Person one: hey driving is bad for the environment, why don't we drive less? Besides, wouldn't everyone enjoy that?

Person two: this is slavery and you're a commie. I want muh freedom to be forced to drive 2 hours a day!

Are you seeing how this isn't a reasonable response? Like, at all?
This is a core design challenge for all logging systems. This is why there are mechanisms for intentionally dropping messages to relieve queue pressure, optimizations around the use of IO_URING. Inversely because logging systems can drop messages it is one of the primary reasons for "MARK" type mechanisms (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1998/09/msg00915.html).
A Russian helicopter pilot had his family escape Russia, stole a helicopter, fled to Ukraine with it and cashed out on the bounty money offered. Then he was found and assassinated in Spain by the FSB. We are living in interesting times.
Not really. The utility of credentials is falling fast vs recommendations, networking, and work experience.

If you want to learn some deeper technical things, I suggest online one-off courses or online mini-certificates.

On the other hand, if you are still in one of the few remaining societies where credentialism is still rampant, then you may want a Masters for the prestige.
sure. But everything over cell network is anyway more or less already exposed on the metadata front so why not go "low tech" ?

And yeah it probably was more a "code" than cyphertext.
Pagers could have certain security options that would interest only a military organization. We don't know at which stage these were intercepted. They could just as easily be targeted to Hezbollah from the beginning of the sale. Advertise something that could be catered to them and once they take the bait go ahead and booby trap them all
Intelligence agencies put their bugs within the hardware of electronic devices you order online.

If you believe being the target of an intelligence agency never order anything online. They will put the bug inside, especially if it is an electronic device such as a phone/laptop/TV/coffee machine.

Best solution is to go buy it from a random store and have a good home security system.

Also weigh your electronic devices laptop/phone to check if the weight differs from its original weight, it should not deviate.
Most bugs can be easily found out by any competent counterintelligence team.
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> because without changing habits, if a patient stops using the drug, they'll regain the weight in a short time...

If I stop taking atorvastatin, my cholesterol will shoot up in short time. I have to take it all my life.
You don't have to take GA anymore if you choose the new specialization.

https://omscs.gatech.edu/specialization-human-computer-inter...
Already confirmed as there is one 8 year old girl reportedly in the fatalities. This attack will add to the stereotype that Israel attacks indiscriminately.
The "how" seems pretty important to me...
“But he’s untethered. Sometimes, he takes the boat to Hawaii — and works from there.”
Got bad news for ya buddy. You’re in office 5 days a week.
Wow. I didn’t expect so much response.

A little late now, but I wanted to clarify my thoughts. Being “Gifted” is far from enough. My three siblings were also considered gifted, but they didn’t do as well. My two sisters were impregnated in their teens which limited their opportunities. My brother ended up enlisting and is now a disabled veteran (and active conspiracy theorist). Of my gifted class, I believe at least 40% didn’t graduate. The ones that did well were the ones you’d expect to do well: children of lawyers, doctors, etc.

I think other factors were as important to me: curiosity, academic motivation, self-image. When I was young my aunts would tell me, “you look like you’re going to be successful some day.” And, that kind of became a prophecy to me.
I've built many projects where "the cloud" is less expensive than the alternatives

The last big one: replacing a backbone country-wide network in France with AWS

It is far less expensive due to the low bandwidth requirements (and also the ability to go full managed services)
Well nothing which is why people are spreading stuff about it being a hack causing the batteries to explode. Which disrupts everything with a network connection and battery. Adds confusion to the situation.

As I said elsewhere this is a one shot attack. They would never be able to pull this off again at this scale.
That is not a supply-chain based attack, so don't think that counts in this context
Either name them, or squeeze multiple expressions into a tuple. More can be done, now with walrus.
Java is mostly used for server applications and occasionally for desktop apps (e.g. IntelliJ) these days. Applets aren't relevant anymore since all browsers removed them.

Java is memory-safe, multi-threaded and JIT-compiled. Faster than python, safer than Go or C. It has good tooling (debuggers, profilers, IDEs). It was one of the first languages to bring safe shared-memory multi-threading to the table, its memory-model came before C++'s. Its FFI story has been lacking for a long time, but this has been improving with java.lang.native.

Over the years it has adopted a lot of nice features that other languages have mainstreamed. So 2000s Java is not 2020s Java.

The JVM can also run a bunch of other languages.

There are many 3rd-party, FOSS builds of the JDK, so you don't need to use oracle's builds.

GCs have improved a lot. Lower latency, more parallelism, more throughput. Though they still need a good amount of RAM as breathing room.

Startup times and memory consumption can still be an issue. They're working on value types that should help with memory efficiency too.

And as with any language: even if the base language is fine, a project can still make it hell. Extremely convoluted "Enterprise Java" projects that layer interceptors, factories, dependency injection and what-not on top of each other are infamous for that.
The pagers do give Israel a certain veneer of plausible deniability that they wouldn’t otherwise have if they had used more traditional bombing methods.
Almost any process that involves the word "workflow" (my mental model is one where the user would press alt-tab to look up something else in another window). The very, very common case would be one where they have a stupid SMS-based or "click email link" login flow: one would not wish to do that a ton, versus just leaving the session authenticated for reuse later in the day

Also, if my mental model is correct, the more browsing and mouse-movement telemetry those cloudflare/akamai/etc gizmos encounter, the more likely they are to think the browser is for real, versus encountering a "fresh" one is almost certainly red-alert. Not a panacea, for sure, but I'd guess every little bit helps
> It can be explosives planted, but maybe it can be batteries modified to explode instead of burn.

That is not really a thing, from a technical point of view. Changing the chemistry of the battery (assuming that a suitably explosive one exists; these tend not to be developed very far) would just be swapping an explosive and not a modification. Doing something like adding some vessel to build up pressure within the battery sounds impractical (you’d need something very resistant to heat as a battery fire goes above 2000 K), at which point it’s not worth the trouble.

The most likely is either some explosive besides the battery, or something that looks like a battery from the outside, but is actually half explosive on the inside to at least pass superficial inspection.

This kind of damage really does not look like a battery gone wrong. It would have left all sorts of chemical residues and burned very differently.
Can the average person tell the difference between a pager battery and a bomb professionally made to look like a pager battery?
> still; can't shake the image of my in-laws complaining about different desktop icons and "how are we supposed to work with this?"

Haha that's exactly how I feel! I'm not married to Podman/Docker/containers in general, I'd just been hoping to get my server migrated from an old Ubuntu setup over to FreeBSD that weekend. Migrating the sites and apps I had running on that old server from containers to jails, too, wasn't something I had planned for, and the weekend ran out of time before I could start looking into how I'd do it.

I'm going to take another whack at it soon.
I'm not sure how many bomb techs they have around, but I'd be pretty afraid to personally open something I suspected to have a bomb in it.
This is amazing research. What I want to know is if they repeated the same experiment but trained the agents without language or, rather, on random data instead of language, would their gibbering eventually evolve into a structured language? After how many iterations?
> If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it.

Technical? Yes it's interesting but you are missing the biggest part here: how do you convince such a huge organization to switch so many devices?
This human engineering is the really interesting part here.
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https://x.com/HilzFuld/status/1836040079040483407

has what purports to be a picture of device remains.

Looks like a detonation of some small amount of potent explosive; no char, no flame. Batteries burn.

Snowden has made and deleted tweets this morning about "I hope it was a supply chain attack; the alternative is unthinkable"... It sounds like he wants to imply, as TFA does, that any device with a lithium battery might be vulnerable to remote detonation.

I seriously doubt this is the case; having someone sell these folks "customized" communications gear seems like a much easier approach.

Having said that, I expect the media frenzy over phone bombs to consume everyone's attention for the next few days.
> 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.

Jerusalem Post, one of the major newspapers in Israel also believes that:

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

Ynet as well says Netanyahu wants the IDF to prepare for military campaign in Lebanon:

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

Times of Israel also says the IDF is pushing for a ground invasion now:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-general-said-pushing-for-g...

"Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, the head of the Israel Defense Force’s Northern Command, is pressuring decision-makers to launch a large-scale incursion into Lebanon, while Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi have expressed doubts over launching a war against Hezbollah"

The internal politics is that Gallant doesn't want to, he wants a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage deal, but Netanyahu is currently looking to replace him and Netanyahu doesn't want a ceasefire/hostage deal in Gaza:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said-preparing-to-fi...

If Gallant goes, chance of war with Lebanon increases dramatically.

> Israel isn't mobilized to invade Lebanon and lacks the capacity to do so while engaged in Gaza.

Israel actually has almost no forces in Gaza right now - that isn't the problem. The IDF is much more committed militarily to the West Bank.

It is true there isn't yet a full scale mobilization of ground forces yet, but these wars usually start with air attacks while the ground mobilization occurs.
Yeah, I email Pure Encapsulations the lot code and they verify its authenticity.
Can I use my own existing postgresql database to connect it and generate the UI on top of it?

Also, typo on homepage - 'Authentification' (per our error report: https://triplechecker.com/s/t2ryxA/marblism.com?v=M0bXQ)
A pager is passive receiver only. It never transmits. So you can't track it. That allows an operative to get to a secure line or obtain a burner device.

Whoever did this just killed that as an information channel as both the devices and the network are now compromised.
I'm interested in learning more about your perspective that there's no science left to be done on the moon.

Do you think establishing a human base on the moon has value?
October 7th was obviously far worse. But I don't think people would agree that police should stoop to same levels of criminals.

It wouldn't be considered a success if police stopped a bank robbery by killing bystanders.
There's many things the ACE test ignores. It seems to me it has a narrow focus. (Not saying there's anything wrong with that)

For example, bullying. Or if you yourself had some addiction. Or if you yourself had a mental illness, physical impairment, or if you're neurodivergent, and more things, I suppose, that don't come to my mind right now.

ACE 0 or 1 doesn't mean you had a good childhood
I would agree, but I have to ask: where's the cutoff?

If you let people "choose" and 99% choose to always work from home, do you think that's gonna fly? I don't. I think the in-officers would be very upset about that because that's not enough people to make their in-office experience how they like it.

No matter how you slice it, such a position is one born of control. You have to force some people's hand in where they work.
Unlike stuxnet, this attack had a lot of non-hezbolah civilian casualties. It’s "targeted" in a sense, but not really much more targeted than a drive-by assassination attempt. Anybody close to these people could have sustained serious injury, and there are reports of children injured and dead. We’ll have to wait for details to emerge.

Politically, this is the sort of action that invites comparison to conventional terrorism. It also begs the question of why Hezbollah or other actors shouldn’t try a similar attack against civilian targets. It’s almost like a chemical or biological attack, which most countries shy away from because it’s so hard to defend against (a big part of why it’s illegal). No country can perfectly safeguard its supply chain from intentional sabotage.

I’m afraid that the entire world is a little bit less safe after this move. Maybe Israel is goading Hezbollah into all-out war, who knows, but this affects all of us.