skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These pagers were used by Hizbullah because, unlike mobile phones, they cannot be tracked. The people who had them were certainly not random aid workers, but people in the Hizbullah chain of command. This is also indicated by the statements of Hizbullah itself (which are themself to be questioned and not taken at face value), according to which so far one non-combatant was reported killed and no other non-combatant were reported injured out of a total of 4,000 exploded explosive devices.
The CCTV footage also shows that even in a crowded supermarket, no one was injured apart from the Hizbullah member with the pager.
The writing was on the wall anyway. With the news of the political struggles between Steve Teixeira (who was pushing for deeper integration with open social web) and Laura Chambers (who seems more interested in keeping Google happy to receive the fat checks) it was clear that the whole "Let's open an instance and call an experiment with new social media" was just a way to pretend they were doing anything in the space while not hurting any of Big Tech's feelings.

Back in May I wrote a series of blog posts about mozilla.social, ActivityPub and what I thought could be done instead. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428098)
> RTO is about protecting commercial real estate. It has nothing to do with productivity.

I keep seeing this claim. Over and over and over.

I don't see any evidence, though. All is see is "because of course it is", with a side order of conspiracy ("them" are doing it - sometimes more explicit, "the administration").

So in your claim, you say you're someone who is leaving a full remote role for an in-office one. You don't say that you know anything about commercial real estate. You don't say that you have any evidence. You don't hear that you caught one of the higher-ups admitting that this is the reason. No, your basis for knowing is just that it's happening to you.

That's not enough. That's not evidence; it's conjecture.

And that's all I ever see on this claim. Why am I seeing this claim so often when there's nothing to back it up? Is the conspiracy theory that prevalent? Or is it just a few people endlessly repeating the same claim, because that's their particular hobby horse?

I guess this sounds fairly harsh. But this is about the 4th time I've seen this claim today, always as if "of course it's true", always with no evidence, and it's getting annoying.

My instinct (yes, I also do not have actual evidence) is that the people making these decisions and the people who actually own commercial real estate are different people, with different interests. They aren't some monolithic "they". I could actually be persuaded, but it's going to take more than repetition and "of course it's true" to do it.
I’ve had issues using the Resolv library in Ruby when I’m connecting to the internet via a tethered iPhone. Never ran into that until Sequoia. I wonder if that’s related?

TBH I’m too lazy to dig in and find out. Has anybody else run into this issue?
Please provide evidence of any of your comment.

Especially given you are so quick to criticise me for gobbling up said bullshit.
If there are fewer cars on the road because the people who can work at home are doing so, then the commute becomes smoother for anyone who can't work from home.
I feel poor looking at this.
huh. it's almost like there isn't a one size fits all solution and people should have options that fit their lifestyle.
Jython has historically lagged hard, often falling behind for very extended periods. For a time their releases basically just stopped, which led to them missing support for pretty much anything between 2.7 and 3.6 (iirc). I know the project basically rebooted at some point, but I've since lost interest.
What you're leaving out is that CBS isn't posing as a "USA Citizen from Springfield", while being from another country, sponsored by a foreign state in an undisclosed way.

Do you think ID Checks on social media should be implemented to avoid those problems?
There is definitely A school of thought that every personality trait is within in ourselves.

Various factors can lead people to move along a spectrum.

A whole self represents a balancing of the spectrums. Some end up with a propensity to dwell at certain points along the spectrum. This becomes one’s personality.

Personality disorders happen when one is frustrated by their perceptions and a consensus reaction.

This is where there are boundaries and establishing healthy boundaries is considered a way to a whole self.

If someone finds themselves struggling with multiple human interactions they need to evaluate why the interactions aren’t working.

The final thought is that a mature person can evaluate what went wrong and figure out on their own or with healthy communication with others.

An immature person develops coping mechanisms such as avoidant and hopes for the best in the future.
There's a lot to be said for a consistent process that always fixes a problem, vs one that fixes the problem relatively permanently, inconsistently, and requires more memory.
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> 80%+ h1bs

This is laughable, cite a source or get out.
Tangentially related - Hezbollah used pagers because they could not trust mobiles. One reason is that mobile basebands are locked down: if they weren't, it's quite possible that by now someone would have implemented a baseband firmware which preserves opsec, that could be used on (rooted) phones . That is probably one of the reasons why governments are hostile to modifiable radio firmware.
Are you sure you want that? We could lose people like like Alan Turing, Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton in the bargain.

The estimates now are that autism affects about 1 in 35 people. That’s not a disorder. That’s human diversity. I realize that there are less lucky autistic people who are severely disabled. If this helps them, then good, but I don’t want to be cured. I want to be accepted. And the way our medical system works now, I don’t trust that any treatments will only be used to help those who most need it. Children who simply need acceptance and a little support will be drugged, because that will be the convenient option.
> Are there people who are not on said spectrum?

Yes.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD for short) is a neurodevelopment disorder. I'm quoting verbatim from Wikipedia:

"characterized by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive, and inflexible patterns of behavior. Autism generally affects a person's ability to understand and connect with others, as well as their adaptability to everyday situations, with its severity and support needs varying widely across the spectrum."

Within this spectrum you have "high functioning" individuals who are capable of living self-sufficient, productive lives on their own (individuals with what we used to describe as having asperger's syndrom) and on the other end of it you have individuals who will always need constant supervision because they can't communicate effectively enough to hold a job, nor can they be trusted around kitchen appliances.

Common characteristics of ASD are:

- Regular difficulties in social interaction or communication (note the word "regular", everyone struggles from time to time. Someone with ASD experiences this permanently)

- Restricted or repetitive behaviours (examples: not using hand gestures when speaking, rocking motions etc.)

- Resistance to disruptions in routine (many people don't like routine disruptions, someone with ASD usually finds this to be crippling)

- Restricted interests (getting obsessive about hobbies but also really not giving a shit about things that most other people care about, like small talk or even major life events in the lives of loved ones ... like I couldn't give the slightest crap that my sisters got married or that I'm an uncle, and I like my sisters and their kids)

- Not enjoying human touch. I don't like being hugged or kissed, even by my wife or children. Even as a 42 year old adult, I hold my breath when I'm in the company of strangers because I find the idea of inhaling the air that they just exhaled to be gross.

There are more. But someone who is "on the spectrum" will exhibit many of these characteristics and exhibit them permanently throughout their lives. Whereas for "neurotypical" people, these may be fleeting or they may experience one or two in isolation... whereas ASD is a prolongued pattern of many of these characteristics together.
The best evidence we have now suggests that the devices used had removable (AAA) batteries, not built-in batteries.

If I was buying pagers and had previously been hit by intelligence ops I would be buying batteries in random supermarkets.
Does anyone have more info on this? They thank Azure at the top so I'm assuming it's a flavor of GPT? How do they prevent hallucinations? I am always cautious about asking an LLM for facts because half of the time it feels like it just adds whatever it wants. So I'm curious if they addressed that here or if this is just poorly thought-out...
I guess I was just under the impression that cloud inference is such a competitive market that it'd be nigh-on-impossible to compete with the major players.
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Comment moderation is also a shitshow, my comments routinely get silently deleted (or worse: shadowbanned).

And the most ridiculous in this, is how they get deleted/banned a LOT more if you use YouTube's own syntax for time-links ! (Maybe the automatic moderation system thinks these are external links or something?!?)
Israel don't usually apologize either.

They didn't apologize in the Hind Rajab case, they denied they were ever there.

They didn't apologize for the babies at Al-Nasr, they claimed they had to move on suddenly.

They didn't apologize for the vast majority of journalists murdered, just claimed they were Hamas.

Etc, tens of thousands of times.

What might be revealing for you is to look at the cases where they did apologize:

They apologized for shooting three of their own hostages dead in cold blood as they called out in Hebrew waving a white flag: turns out there was audio of that about to leak. No consequences for anyone involved though.

They apologized for the World Food Kitchen workers killed, after initial denials. There was undeniable evidence of that one too. Zero consequences.

They apologized for sniping Aysenur Ezgi - after it turned out she was an American citizen. They still claimed it was an accident, during stones being thrown (a lie). They still haven't reached out to a single witness during their 'investigation'. Zero consequences.

... Can you see the pattern here?
> They are actively working on making Swift viable in baremetal environments, firmware, drivers, etc.

I don’t think Swift has a place in these niches FWIW. Writing low-level Swift code is very verbose and unnatural. Personally I just don’t think it’s practical to have a single language excel across the stack.
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See: https://waclaw.blog/macos-firewall-blocking-web-browsing-aft...

If disabling the firewall (for testing) solves this problem, this is likely your issue.
>I thought somebody would make "Xfire of mobile" in the early days of smartphones but is too late now I suppose.

Pretty sure the idea wholesale was dead on arrival. Much less invasive apps on IOS were taken down by Apple.

And the appification of mobile more or less split that idea into 4-5 different apps. Discord for know what friends are playing and chatting with them, twitch to stream games, any given social media for IM, built in phone features for recording/straming playback.

>Epic won't beat Steam at anything

I mean, Epic wins the mobile store by default if Steam isn't even showing a modicrum of interest in the platform to begin with. And I don't see any other competitor rising up in that space.

Even their steam client app is probably the worst part about Valve from a technical level. I'd be very shocked if Valve did anything with the mobile platform this decade.
What of my reply do you consider propaganda, Mr 1equalsequals1, if that is your real name?
Do you feel bad about the file you're deleting?
I agree in that the meaning of prove in that context is "put it to the test" but for me it doesn't go as far as finding the rule incorrect, because it's a general rule, not an absolute rule. A lot more exceptions would be necessary to make the rule incorrect for the general case.
The way games ought to do keymapping is to just allow conflicts. If you map two functions to the same key, that key should do both things, until the player sorts it out. The keymapper can put a warning sign up, "conflicts with foobar", but it shouldn't remove the key from foobar, and it shouldn't say "I can't allow you to do that", either.
Sorry, my suggestion was if you need to do training. If you're only serving then the suggestions I made aren't as valuable and something like what you've done probably make more sense. But you want a proper cluster setup to do multigpu and especially multi node stuff
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Code repo: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/raft-distillation-recipe
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This is AMAZING!

I hope this is released for public use at some point. I'd love to run it through some of my older photos to see what it does with them.
Right but some countries (incl China) have explicit registration data so these estimates are not a shot in the dark. From Jose Pontes' article where the Wikipedia Y estimates came from, there were 530k 3s sold and 1.2M Ys sold

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/05/world-ev-sales-report-t...
My intention was less to imply "I'll just spin it up" and more to imply "Some competitor of Mistral's will spin it up". I agree that from my perspective as a casual user, Mistral's API is quite convenient. What I don't understand is why they aren't driven to zero-margin instantaneously by an onslaught of clones of their business model.
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I maybe imagining but I feel like deja vu that there will be a problem with DNS that would affect Little snitch., Mullvad and others with new releases of iOS and Mac. If true I would really question what apple is doing during their months long developer and beta testing.
Were these compromised during supply chain, small explosives inserted. Or were they able to make the factory standard batteries explode, some sort of zero day to control the charging circuitry?
Ask HN: Product people, what do you use to manage your roadmap?
Hey! I've been managing a roadmap at the startup I work at for the past 2 years and I'm yet to find a tool I'm happy with.

I initially used product plan, then moved to figjam for creating gantt chart style layouts and Monday for managing product feature prioritisation but it all feels a bit disjointed.

I'd love to hear what others are using and liking/disliking.
The people disliking the language are very vocal about it, but there is a huge amount of silent people that loves it and an even bigger amount that just like it as much as alternatives. It's mainstream now, not trending like 10 years ago, so there is no hype about it anymore. We just use it to do stuff.

Add to that the existing excellent ecosystem, the strong culture of scientific stacks and a very good story for providing c-extentions (actually the best one in all scripting languages because of things like cibuildwheel).

It's only in small tech bubbles like HN that devs find it surprising.
> I expect downvotes for this. But that’s super lame. Would rather people engage thoughtfully. Alas.

You'll never hear some of these downvoters say it out lot but a lot of people made some really poorly thought out real estate transactions during the pandemic assuming that their WFH gravy train would keep going forever. I know many people who up and sold their house and moved way out into the sticks thinking "this is the new normal". Not sure what these people were thinking, but then again there wasn't a whole lot of thinking going on anywhere during that time.

It's kind of hard to feel sorry for these folks either. They were incredibly privileged that a "once in a lifetime global pandemic" granted them such ability. If the government declared all their cushy tech jobs "non essential" (which most tech companies are) and forced them all into unemployment like the average working person, I'm pretty sure their entire take on the last 4 years would be entirely different.
Chicago 2024: https://youtu.be/bv8I3jQUOek

GBC specification - https://www.greatballcontraption.com/wiki/standard

It's also interesting looking at its evolution...

Chicago 2014: https://youtu.be/qHQZcRPqUkY
Your figure for 2021 Model3 Sales is actually 3+Y btw
Looks like some of the contraptions in the video made by Akiyuki are for sale at BuildaMOC: https://buildamoc.com/search?q=akiyuki&type=product

Searching for GBC yields a bunch of other kits: https://buildamoc.com/search?q=gbc&type=product
Well, you can think about it like a filter for bad jobs : as a hacker, why would you want to work for an employer that uses a Microsoft platform ?
Hypotenuse of a 1x2 unit right triangle, to be precise. By Pythagoras, the square root of any sum of squares can be drawn trivially with a compass and a straight edge. So 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 17, etc
> Anyone that is advocating that it need not be cured is someone that is on the less severe side of the spectrum

You are completely misunderstanding the point being made by people that push back against this kind of language. Any argument that autism spectrum disorder is something that should be "cured" is directly and significantly contributing to stigmatism surrounding the disorder and is extraordinarily insulting to many people.
Love to consider only the technical aspect of terrorist attacks that's what makes this News for Hackers yes.
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How is it so clear to you?
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Certainly, if it needs to be some original/novel research that you've personally done of some sort, you can't just conjure that from scratch. A lot of what I've done over the years isn't that though.
Yeah, if it was intentional, it would probably be a hard-coded, encrypted URL. Some devices are starting to do that to get around ad blocking.
I tend to agree with this. The spontaneous face-to-face opportunities, like "Hey, what do you think about..." are what I miss the most. I didn't realize how much I learned just interacting with my coworkers so frequently. Also, there's something to be said about keeping your home space completely separate from work. That being said, I still love WFH, and don't think we have to be completely black or white on the matter. I personally would love a 2/3 or 3/2 day split between office and home, assuming my coworkers were on the same schedule. Or even an every other week toggle between office and WFH.
I certainly wouldn't want to change myself, but autistic people kill themselves at rates many times that of the general population. It may not be a disorder but it's certainly capable of impacting peoples' lives negatively.
No. All members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict are combatants, except medical and religious personnel.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule3
https://youtu.be/jxMMtIxDrGk?si=dMKyJueGM5kKwRbz&t=55

I would also recommend: 30 - A LEGO GBC Module to test Compliance with the Standard https://youtu.be/Wu3gQLWqm-4
the (complicated) rules:

man 5 resolver

also try with a domain that exists
Undoubtedly, this attack has proven that it certainly is, at whatever cost.
Looking at pictures of mangled devices, it would seem to confirm that they were Motorola Gold Apollo pagers. In which case they just used standard alkaline batteries which would rule out a malware targeting the battery, and confirm it was a supply chain attack with planted explosives.
I guess if mice are generating too many messages, asking Windows to coalesce them has less impact.
at 5min mark of the full video linked below, the presenter says those miles were done at "American gross vehicle weight limits
I can give a very fast and incomplete explanation, but you must trust me.

In the complex numbers, the vertices of a pentagon are z^5-1=0. You can factorize it as (z^4+z^3+z^2+z+1)*(z-1)=0. The hard part is solving z^4+z^3+z^2+z+1=0.

Now that equation can't be factorized, and has degree 4. It's important that the solutions have a property that is related to the degree of the equation so they have a property that is 4.

With a compass and a straightedge you can solve only equations of degree 2, that is like taking a square root. If you repeat the process you can solve (some) equations of degree 4. So after a few tricks, you can solve the equation and draw the pentagon.

For 17, the equation is z^16+z^15+...+z+1=0. So the property is 16 and you must use the square root a few times. Each time the solutions double their property, so you get 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 8 -> 16. Near the bottom of the article is the formula, and it's possible to see a lot of nested and repeated square roots.

For 7, the equation is z^6+z^5+...+z+1=0. So the property of the solutions is 6. With the square root you can only double the property, so you get 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 8 -> 16 -> 32 ... but you can never get a solution which has a property equal to 6.

(There are more technicals details. You can solve some equations of degree 16, for example to draw the 17agon, but you can't solve every one of them.)
These devices apparently were distributed to thousands of operatives. I would imagine that people having those are some of the more elite ones and they probably will travel for business reasons, be it personal business or Hezbollah business. A few who choose to take their pagers with them(i.e. will not be heading straight home after travel, so brings the pager) are huge risk IMHO. Even a single incident may reveal the plot.

I don't know how those detectors at the airports work exactly but they are probably playing cat and mouse game with the people who are into smuggling things and as a result they are probably aware of the more advanced methods like injecting things into the plastic.
Picture working for a big, non-tech corporation. Your BU only does Java because it has always been thus and Jeff the SVP is a law grad and doesn't want anything to change because of perceived risk. GraalVM allows smart people who have to work within such limitations to still write (mostly) the software they want while still vaguely relating it to Java for decision makers.
YouTube, and build your ideas. Preferably before finding out how it has already been solved.

Early on I just read books and built distributed systems and database engines from scratch.

These days I have been able to drink from the firehose on YouTube for a variety of subjects. Physics, chemistry, business finance, technical analysis (stocks), CAM, food production, and plenty more. I'm literally blown away at how much more efficient it is than trudging through college. If you put in the work you can go deep and gain skills very quickly.
I don't find it very persuasive to simply assume that the casualties are "excessive." Whether they are actually excessive is really the whole issue. As of right now, there is no strong evidence that I'm aware of that the injuries from today's attack are "excessive" much less those of a different purely hypothetical attack.

And even then: to judge whether casualties are excessive requires an understanding of the goal to be achieved, which is almost completely absent from this discussion.
> If their prices aren't changing then we have a market problem that extends beyond AWS.

How do you get there? Even in markets without any specific lock in, the top brands charge prices that have nothing to do with raw costs.