skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, the vendors announcing these things so far are ones I've literally never heard of before. I'd still be a bit skeptical, but I think it would actually mean something if Kingston, G.Skill, Corsair, or Teamgroup announced this product. As it stands, I have no reason to think that I'll ever be able to actually buy this product.

> flashy but useless heat spreaders

The funny thing about heat spreaders on SDRAM is that they originated as a skeuomorph of RDRAM modules from the early Pentium 4 days, but everyone's pretty much forgotten that by now, so the market is essentially flooded with "retro" memory for no obvious reason except "everybody else does it".
I don't think those are exceptions. In both of those activities, if you're doing them for a paycheck then they are no longer optional. You have to do them whether you feel like it or not.

For me, that's the essential dividing line between work and play. Play is optional.
I'm thinking that bugs may not necessarily disappear when the device or application where they are discovered is EOL'd. This research could discover attack vectors and vulnerabilities that will need to be addressed in active implementations.
Pretty much the *chans and random places on the darknet. Everything else is a horrific mess.
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In the other thread, HN said Israel can only pull this trick only once and they just did it the second time
Because communication still needs to happen?
I realize this is about a million times easier said than done - not least because I am trying to do it and it is in fact very hard - but you refute it by doing it better yourself.

I think we've all kind of internalized this idea that you have to be a shark to do business. But insofar as businesses are profitable (and many are), every dollar of profit represents a dollar of ruthlessness that that company didn't have to execute. If a company has a 10% profit margin, they can be 10% less ruthless, and that turns out to buy their way out of a lot of the worst abuses. Or at least it could if the company's leadership wanted it to.

But there is absolutely nothing stopping you, in principle, from starting a company of your own, choosing not to hand de facto control over it to shareholders, and making the executive decision not to screw people for an extra dollar. You can do that. In fact, the Flappy Bird guy did exactly that - it's just that in this case he got outmaneuvered by predatory jerks. (Or, if you want to frame it differently: he got outcompeted in the legal arena, as obviously wrong as that is in this instance.)

The only problem here is that he lost, so...you know, don't lose. Be as much of a shark as you need to be to do business and defend yourself against the other sharks, but no more than that, and you'll be doing a lot better than the status quo.
*attack on terrorists
It's not a victory lap; this operation by itself is one of the largest and most intricate operations Israeli intelligence has ever executed, and would have been planned months in advance. Repeating from elsewhere on the thread: the reporting is that this is happening now because Hezbollah was on the verge of discovering the operation. I think it's likely both sets of devices came from the same manufacturer or distributor.
Once you graduate from this guide, be sure to check /r/homelab and /r/homedatacenter ;)
Exactly. The EU designates Hezbolla as a terrorist group. It is illegal for EU to sell to them.
I'd be eyeballing for anything that could still function with a couple cm^3 carved out & filled with HE. Next come the potatoes.
They also sent you to the gulags fog breaking the law.
Replace the battery, not the device.
To whomever downvoted parent: please don't act against people brave enough to state that they don't know something.

This is a desired quality, increasingly less present in IT work environments. People afraid of being shamed for stating knowledge gaps are not the folks you want to work with.
who is a great technologist with a lot of hands on experience. if it made sense to leverage papermill, he would have done so and focused on something else.
Correct. The injuries are comparable or worse to what you get if you try to use a .50 BMG cartridge as a hammer.

Videos show outright detonations (so far with notably little fire), nothing like the fiery deflagrations you see in “battery explodes” videos while someone is doing a repair.
I'm also not sure what the point of vendor disclosure is, if the product really is EOL
If your definition of “censorship free” is “not allowed to remove CP and similar content that comes with criminal liability for the site owner”, then yeah they do “censor” things.

What people normally mean when they say “free speech” is in the US first amendment sense, not in the “you can post videos of horrible crimes you’ve committed” sense.

Gabs content policy is pretty short and basically just says this. No CP and other criminal content, anything protected by first amendment is ok.
Telegram? Matrix.org?
Their content policy is basically don't say anything illegal (inciting violence, etc.) and no porn. Their stance is that porn images are not speech.
They have other ways to detect explosives.

I've had my stuff tested for explosives, and it did not involve turning anything on.
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> This implies _intent_.

And, incredibly, it is.
Yeah, I can't say I'm a big fan of this massive scale booby trapping devices all over civilian society and I suspect most nation stats are not very happy about this either. The EU is probably not going to be happy at all about Israel using an EU flagged company to do it either.

This is going to create a lot of distrust in the international supply chain.
One concrete example: R has 5 distinct, actively maintained class systems, at least 3 of which are somewhat commonly used for new projects. I.e., there are 3+ reasonable ways to declare a class, and the class will have different semantics for object access, method calling and dispatch, etc. depending on which one you choose.

Another: R can’t losslessly represent JSON because 1 and [1] are identical. That’s a float (well, float vector) literal by the way, the corresponding int literal is 1L, though ints are very prone to being silently converted to float anyway.
I'm having trouble even understanding the question, because I think your usage of "free speech" means something different than is normally intended. Free expression and free will always have an implied caveat, like "free will except where it impedes that of another". Free speech is always going to have a Venn diagram with "behavior", some of which is illegal. So if you're asking where you can go do illegal stuff, that's one question. If you're asking where you can talk about legal stuff and do legal stuff, but where you don't feel able to right now, that's more interesting.
Why use Tailscale if you can just setup a WireGuard tunnel?
Official release from Runway: https://runwayml.com/news/runway-partners-with-lionsgate
They could receive a radio broadcast.
TSMC doesn't pay taxes to the US government (at least, not significant taxes until recently). And that's what we are trying to onshore, the fabrication capabilities.

We could try and incentivize a company like Apple to fabricate in the US, but the simple fact is that (until recently with the new TSMC fabs) we did not have the fabrication capabilities in the US needed to make apple silicon. Apple does not have the capabilities to make these fabs either.

You can cut taxes to 0 for US fabrication plants, but there are simple overhead costs that are hard to get away from. That's why an actual subsidy is needed.

I mean, you could exempt fabrication plants from employment and environmental laws to allow them to operate cheaper... but that's sort of monstrous.
There's a family of discrete logarithm problems, one for each representation of a group. (Where I mean "representation" in the usual sense, not the precise mathematical one. It's an important distinction because the secp256k1 group, for instance, is isomorphic to all cyclic groups of the same order, but the discrete logarithm problem on secp256k1 is harder than the additive group on Z/<order of secp256k1>Z, because the isomorphism is computationally intractable.) So there isn't simply one monolithic discrete logarithm problem.
"Lots of manual transmission cars made after 2010 have rev hang"

I think this is similar to "skip shift". The idea is to force you to shift from 1st to 4th so you use the more efficient ratio. Stupid idea in my experience since it forced higher RPMs in an inefficient gear and can have some drivability issues in traffic and on hills. You technically don't need a tune to eliminate this. They make jumpers that sit between your computer cable and the transmission that eliminate the gear lockouts. You could also pullout in second and it would bypass the skipshift logic since you aren't in first.
However, you are WILDLY inaccurate suggesting that the Minsk agreements would have ”granted to Putin permanent sovereignty over” Donbas.

You are WILDLY misquoting me already in the very first sentence of your riposte. I never said that that's what the Minks Protocols said. I can understand how it might sort of seem like I said that -- that is, if you're hastily skimming, but not actually reading. Just read my words again, carefully this time please.

He was not “sitting over it”.

"Sitting on it" I said. Either way, it's just another way of saying "occupying" it, which of course he was and still is.

As to the other stuff you're saying -- look, you're going off on way too many tangents here (many not even about Ukraine), and presenting way too many twisted mischaracterizations of the historical record along the way (including even more WILDLY inflated body counts, this time in Afghanistan). Like any other contorted, vituperative, ideology-driven libertarian rant.

Not something I have time for, or see any purpose in. You're free to make of the world what you want, though.
A solution in-between can be Mastodon.

Rich feature set, ability to be ingested by other services (other M servers, Bluesky, etc.), can self-host.

I don't know too much about search engine indexing, but I guess in the day and age you'd have to find your audience by other means anyway.
No, I see a lot of the "right" discourse. Many are openly supporting Putin now. I follow many conservative (US) pundits and journalists and they have either taken a hard right turn or are raising the alarm and supporting Harris. I see similar trends here in Canada.

Yes, I see that the left has become more authoritarian, but it pales to the hard shift I see on the right.
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> But very few motherboards restrict themselves like this for the sake of memory overclocking.

Though I'd hope they'd finally start doing it considering the per DIMM capacities DDR5 brings (32 GB, with 64 GB planned), and most consumers really not going for capacities that'd require 2 DPC (DIMM per channel).

1 DPC should've been the default by now with the amount of 1 DPC and 2 DPC boards swapped, as it's just making things worse in the most common use case
Hezbollah has been firing missiles non-stop at Israel since 10/7. 60,000 Israelis had to relocate from the North. This is not an escalation.
Well I'm glad we've gone full circle here. I started off with "the entire notion of Israel as a concept is predicated on it being under constant existential threats" and you seem to also accept that now.

If conflicts were to stop, so would Israel. So Israel has a perverse incentive to keep the conflicts going -- largely explaining why Israel can't stop bombing its neighbours or trying to lobby others to bomb them. And why things like settlements won't ever stop.
I guess we now know what intelligence org had the know how for supply chain attacks we we're thinking impossible a few years ago... Thank god they are our allies. :)
> you can fsync and close it fine afterwards

No you cannot. Once you pass descriptor to another process, that process can pass it to yet another process, fork and detach, send it via SCM_RIGHTS, give "/proc/PID/fd/N" path to something etc.

Never assume descriptor cleanup will happen, unless you have complete control over everything.
I think this person has too high a view of pre-2021, probably for ego reasons. In fact, their attitude seems very ego driven. AI didn't just occur in 2021. Nobody knows how much text was machine generated prior to 2021, it was much harder if not impossible to detect. If anything, it's probably easier now since people are all using the same ai that use words like delve so much much it becomes obvious.
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I think you're missing an important part of the equation: it's outcome quality per amount paid. If you could have gotten 20% better results but it would mean tripling the costs of healthcare because we'd need to hire a lot more staff, perhaps we felt that was a bad deal.

If you can get 20% by paying... what, presumably <5% more for some ML tool that double-checks stuff and flags risky stuff... perhaps it's something we want to do.
Its almost like the target group is known for using civilians as shields. Dont bring kids to your work seems like a no brainer, especially when you are a terrorist.
Ignoring the thrust of the argument above, and missing the entire subthread where the nuance of how the US has redeployed its economy for comparative advantage is discussed and debated, to type that over and over was a bit of a waste of your time, IMO. Reading it wasn't a good use of mine.

If you read the surrounding argument and want to discuss some further point not covered, I'm here.
Everything involving any kind of coordination, cooperation, competition, and/ot communication between two or more people involves politics by its very nature. LLMs are communication tools. You can't divorce politics from their use when one person is generating text for another person to read.
It was a few lines in a news article, so unknown.

But you can see photos of the same model of pager and it's an LCD screen in a plastic shell, the kind that seems like there would be room on the inside for a little addon board to be attached to the existing board.
Confidence for sure. I grew up in Israel and never heard of this anniversary.
These aren't civilian devices.
The buildings and shipping containers that store low background steel aren't built out of the stuff either.
There has been no statement or indication that the thousands of people injured were comprised in any significant proportion of civilians. Given that these pagers-- reportedly 5000 of them-- were purchased by Hezbollah directly and videos of their explosions show a minimal blast radius it is premature and, depending on motives, propagandistic to claim that the thousands of people injured were civilians.
Ten Years? Netflix is probably having a meeting about it tomorrow.

/s
If one can modify a device to incorporate an explosive, then it's surely possible to add another receiver of some kind too.
I've seen plenty of comments here that read like they've been generated by an LLM, if this is a gated community we need a better gate.
Show HN: Multiborder – an iOS app for adding borders to multiple images
I created a free iOS app for photographers and other creators to add borders to multiple images. The free iOS apps that performed this function were either overloaded with other features or just didn't suit my use case. I use this to preserve my 16:9 camera photos while posting to Instagram at 4:5 or 1:1.

Hopefully this helps the HN photographers out there!
It's interesting how so many people miss this. I often hear "Big Co. can't do Y, it'd be a violation of X!". Well of course they can. No one is going to pull C-Level executives from their beds in the middle of the night because they did something you don't like.

Likewise, lots of people seem to think that just because some IP has entered the public domain or it's "fair use" you won't get sued if you start using it. Of course you'll get sued. The plaintiff doesn't expect to win, they expect you to give up. I can already hear the sound of a thousand keyboards typing out responses to this how numerous jurisdictions have laws against "SLAPP" lawsuits.
Is 2023 going to be for data what the trinity test was for iron? Eg post 2023 all data now contains trace amounts of ai?
Luck and being in the right place at the right time can’t make a CEO. Anne is a terrible CEO
Authoritarianism on the right is becoming its mainstream, while authoritarianism on the left is merely on the rise.
Maybe mainly to avoid legal trouble? Even if you “know” the answer from the vendor will be that it’s EOL, notifying them of your findings and giving them time to fix it shows that you have good intentions. That they then do choose to do nothing about it, well that’s not your fault.

Additionally, it helps you avoid the situation where you thought the device was EOL because there hadn’t been any updates for a long time but then it turns out that they actually do still respond to, and fix, security issues. And it just happened that there hadn’t been updates for a long while because no one had reported anything for a while.
This is only true if your goal is only to speak some language rather than be a linguist.

The analogy is a little off because most people do not much need to be linguists.

But programmers almost always benefit from being a linguist that can pick up any language and do some job and then the next job might be any other language.

The abstract language allows you to see the difference between the universal principles and the arbitrary quirks.

You don't think it's worth the abstract stage it to know that? I do.

Even though I'm not primarily a developer. This is just as an ordinary mere user of computers. Just the plain utility of being even basically literate and functional and do a little coding or modifying in any language that the current project happens to use is extremely valuable in whatever I want to do at any given time.

Not to mention the entirely other obvious thing that you almost always learn a simple version of any new thing rather than starting immediately with the most advanced and complex version.

No, this reasoning does not hold up to scrutiny.
The only way we'd find out how they did it is if some pagers didn't explode and at least one would get into the hands of someone willing to do a public tear-down.

In this video, we'll be cutting the explosive battery. Hit the like and subscribe buttons, and let us know what kind of explosive you think this is in the comments. Also, don't try this at home kids, we're what you'd call "professionals".
It might have looked like a normal pager under xray, but I bet it looked _different_ than an unmodified pager. Not suspicious on its own but suspicious because it was changed.
I love what Scott Hanselman said about this:

So, Amazon wants everyone to return to the office. Does that mean they also want us to return to the mall and supporting small local businesses?

https://x.com/shanselman/status/1836140762075210102
I think you underestimate the HN userbase, there are a lot of heavyweights here, ranging from big names operating with less visibility, to Principles or SWE6+ at FAANGs.

in other words, actual millionaires.
I agree -- "victory lap" is just a figure of speech. Yesterday's results were probably far outsized impact on their own, and today's are (apologies for another figure of speech) "icing on the cake".

I would imagine that they've been feeding these booby-trapped devices to the supply chain for at least a few months and showing that multiple devices are potentially bombs is just an even more powerful psychological victory. What devices can they even trust now? Will they need to go back to sneakernet?
>It might put pressure on customers to demand products with longer support lifecycles

It won't. It'll allow vendors to put pressure on customers to buy new shit to replace their old shit that still works just fine that the vendor would rather not spend the resources patching.
If you are looking for freeing resources that you can redirect, firing your "resources" won't help redirecting them... unless you think you don't need the people that are working for a while at your company and can get better ones by hiring.

But if it's the second one, well, you'd be stupid and my best possible explanation up there doesn't apply anymore.
X shut down API access in Feb 2023, Reddit shut theirs down at the end of June of the same year. Just barely 6 months apart.

Furthermore, while X had also only announced this in February, Reddit announced their API shutdown just 2 months later in April.

And, to further add to that, X was pretty upfront that they think they have access to a large and powerful dataset in X and didn't want to give it out for free. Reddit used very similar wording when announcing their changes.
After watching Dark Waters and becoming fearful of PFAS, I don't understand how these PFAS aren't completely eliminated from production. Is it because they help reduce spoilage/leakage which allows food to travel further and increase shelf life? Do the lobbyists argue that this reduces food waste?

How is it legal for Sweetgreen, Cava and other restaurants to use PFAS in "compostable" food packaging and make it seem like a "sustainable" alternative to plastic packaging? [1]

It's difficult for me to contain my emotions whenever I read about PFAS being found in yet another common material and certain government bodies trying to deregulate safety inspections [2].

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dan...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/28/trum...
No there wouldn't.

Don't be silly, 11 criminals dead and one bystander is well within limits of even a civilian police force, military ones are considered much more broad.

NATO sets the acceptable loss threshold at 4:1; for every 4 combatants killed, 1 civilian is considered acceptable.

It's very fluid, but you'll be hard pressed to find something more conservative than this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio

Yes, this is callous, and cold, and awful, but emotion has no place here, we're talking about people on both sides who feel like they are fighting for their right to exist. This is quite literally war, and there will be casualties.

Truth be told, while I'm not giddy and children dying, I'm glad we're talking about so few civilian casualties despite causing so much damage to Hezbollah operatives and operations.
Yeah, that’s very easy to do. I don’t live in a deranged place filled with terrorists supported by a significant part of the population.
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Impressive... but any collateral victim ?
I assume it was the same factory, that made the explosive containing batteries.

And then those batteries "just" had to be swapped with the intercepted original ones. Still requires effort, but less than building pagers and walki talkies for this purpose.
I think in this case it's unlikely because I don't think the problems the tool solves correspond 1-1 with reduced staffing or other resources. The tool mostly seems to provide ongoing diagnosis at a level of detail the clinical team doesn't have regular bandwidth for (they might make one diagnosis of the patient per time they visit the patient rather than on an ongoing basis). It doesn't really reduce the amount of time staff can spend with patients. They can't get rid of doctor diagnosis entirely so they can't really reduce time per patient in any effective way.