skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not having a Hezbollah issued phone is very different from never using a phone.

The idea that Hezbollah members have and had no means of communication other than pagers in a country full of cellphones and landlines is a farce.
Indeed. Related is the Ammann-Beenker tiling and it's connections to the 'Silver Ratio' of sqrt(2) + 1.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_ratio

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammann%E2%80%93Beenker_tiling
At my last job we did the same thing but for AI training hardware. It was definitely the right call cost-wise, with our little cluster breaking even after 8 months. We found a cheap data center in Texas.
IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost
Typically components are never upgraded in a server: you spec it, buy it, write it off in 3-5 years, then throw it away.
I think you're reading that page wrong; but their pricing page is so confusing that its giving me red flags already.

It says that would cost $6.51/hr and $4752/yr: I think you pay both of those things. I think the first number is the hourly cost, and the second number is the annual commitment. So its $56,246/year if you're running 24x7 + $4,756 = $61,002/year total.
Ok, I think we're talking past each other a bit.

If on index.html, the script src is "example-1.2.3.js" and you change it to "example-1.2.4.js" then yes, you have changed the resource identified by index.html.

If instead you have a script src of "example.js" and you simply change the content served at example.js, this does not change the resource index.html.

This rarely has anything to do with method idempotence, because these changes are usually made out-of-band (classically, by uploading new files to an FTP server).
Currently Android is the best we have gotten thus far in that sense.

- Managed userspace

- OS services can be written in Java/Kotlin if desired, and some actually are.

- NDK has a limited set of use cases, mainly for writing native method implementations, 3D rendering and real time audio, and POSIX isn't officially supported beyond to what ISO C and ISO C++ require for their standard libraries implementation.

Naturally OEMs and people that root their devices, push stuff directly with ADB to their phones in developer mode have a different view, but I am writing from the point of view of how the OS behaves in normal devices, by people that don't even know there is such thing as the magic incantation to enable developer mode.

Is this the best we can have, I surely hope not.

I also would like to see something similar, but industry always takes one step forward, two back, in this kind of stuff.

By the way, look into TamaGo, Go based toolchain for bare metal programming firmware.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/TamaGo-Bare-Metal-Go-ARM
The tampered pager likely looks nearly identical, and even un-tampered pagers will vary a little bit from manufacturing. It's possible an expert might be able to visually distinguish that a particular strand of wire is the wrong gauge or the soldering pattern suggests it wasn't made on the appropriate machine, but there shouldn't be something obvious.
indiscriminately? They were all used by Hezbollah operatives by definition. It is the most targeted operation if there ever was one.
To what extent does reading these formats accurately require the execution of code within the documents? In other words, not just stuff like zip expansion by a library dependency of rga, but for example macros inside office documents or JavaScript inside PDFs.

Note: I have no reason to believe such code execution is actually happening — so please don't take this as FUD. My assumption is that a secure design would involve running only external code and thus would sacrifice a small amount of accuracy, possibly negligible.
And yet it took 5 hours for IDF to respond to Hamas breaching their border - where it only takes a maximum of 45 minutes via helicopter to get to any point along the Israel-Palestine border?

Is there any technology possible to help people more seriously see incongruences for what they are, technology to help prevent people from propaganda - or is that primarily simply a systems control issue - education system, information system, etc - that would be party to a censorship-suppression narrative control and distraction apparatus?
That was the exception that proves the rule.
Thinner (less durable, but who cares?) plastic shell to free up space for explosives, but would likely be obvious if someone opened it - which might be a common thing if these were being used as remote triggering devices.

If they were using a AA battery, replace the battery with something that provides you space to work (e.g. put in a AAAA or button cell that would provide appropriate power but lower capacity) because you don't really care if the battery life drops from months to weeks.
I would vastly prefer controller endpoints to have actual objects and url params passed in rather than having to deal with a request or response object
Warning, under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations in the US civil fines of up to $500k per violation apply to software exports classified as related to munitions or military applications. You may want to consult an attorney before sharing such algorithms on a public forum.
I’m not in for a bad time, the banks are in for a bad time.
Thank you for the thoughtful replies, all. This is why HN is great.
In one of the episodes of the 1970's Japanese anime series Gatchaman (known in North America in a heavily edited and abridged form as Battle of the Planets) there is a sequence in which a navigation screen is shown. A destination point is shown with a pin mark exactly like that balloon thing on Google Maps.
I can't remember which episode. I don't have that series on any hard drive any more.
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I would guess it's partly the games you play not having a lot of fast motion and maybe partly that you're not really looking for it.
I am definitely target audience for this.

I am often in need of building internal tools, dashboards - simple apps with simple UI that doesn't need to be unique, drive engagement, or whatever. It needs to get the job done and let me move on.

Streamlit is close but the peculiar approach they take (rerun the script) makes it unwieldly for more complex apps (say, a few related pages, a few dozen components each).

I've been looking for a way to just let me do "GUI app in Python" that get delivered over HTTP and rendered in browser, and Rio is exactly what I was hoping for.

Yeah, no chance Meta will rewrite FB frontend to use Rio. Also pretty sure that I won't be doing any fancy websites in it. But if I can skip dealing with React/Vue/HTMX/whatever on the frontend for some internal thingy.

I only tried doing some simple stuff but so far I really like what I see!
It is both unreasonable and counterproductive here.

We have to ask ourselves, "Why is the FAA doing what it's doing?". Despite most of the complaining I'm hearing, the role of the FAA isn't to be a startup destroying killjoy that just wants to entrench the existing players. There are legitimate concerns for safety here, especially in commercial aviation and space travel, and those safety issues ought to wait for a proper review.

This is a clash between "growth every quarter" and "people not in graves because of pursuit of profit and damn the consequences", and I would rather have the latter than the former.
The theft of it wasn’t even noticed for months. It got sold some months before they realized it was stolen.

I can’t find the article, but the buyer had stated that Sotheby’s mostly reimbursed him. Maybe he was out shipping or VAT? It also said, the buyer, an Italian lawyer, technically could have kept it, but chose not to.
if you physically control the pager I don't even think it's called hacking anymore. you can change the hardware and software willy nilly. put an extra SIM that you control in there, and call it. put a radio receiver. a timer. heck, a dog whistle audio detector, you blow it and they blow up. infinite possibilities.
What makes you think pagers are obsolete? When I worked at a big-three cloud provider (2016) we used them and it was a great fit for on-call requirements. I regularly find I don't have cell service when in large buildings, out in the woods, or even just random spots in US cities. The pager didn't have those issues, and helped us build highly available services. Does Fly use something different for on-call alerts?

A quick search shows the US Government/Army [1] and hospitals use them [2] [3] [4]. I'm not familiar with Lebanese wireless networks, but pagers are certainly still used for these use-cases in the US.

"Residents reported that they used one-way pagers for work-related communication more often than smartphones" (2018)

[1] https://gov.spok.com/contracts-and-agreements/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10407125/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6490267/

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7426134/
> How can you be curious without something you don't understand?

Good question. You might have discovered my point: curiosity comes with stupidity, implicitly by definition, right? I think that’s what you’re saying too. Maybe you don’t disagree after all?

You can’t have curiosity without stupidity, as you rightly point out. Ignorance is probably a better word than stupidity. Using “stupid” is imprecise and was used here for a bit of surprise and humor.

You can have stupidity (ignorance) without curiosity. When that happens, perhaps the expected result is no progress developing new understanding nor lessening of ignorance.

Given that curiosity implies ignorance, and that ignorance alone is not sufficient for learning, what justification is there for claiming curiosity and ignorance are separate steps or separate things when it comes to education or research? I’m suggesting they are two sides of the same coin, they must both exist before learning happens, and neither one can come before the other. Calling it curiosity instead of ignorance or stupidity is perhaps a kinder framing, especially for people who might not immediately get the self deprecating humor of “stupidity”.
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Gaza seems like a pretty effin strong data point to consider here?
IIRC SpaceX has gone on record asking for a massive increase in the FAA budget so that the FAA can process SpaceX submissions & requests in a timely fashion.

If the fines go towards hiring a couple more FAA personnel, SpaceX probably would be thrilled to pay the fine. Other than the optics, of course.
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"Israel managed to hack the portable pagers and cause them to explode" sounds like they uploaded firmware to make the device explode. In fact, it was a supply chain infiltration and they modified the devices with explosives inside. It's weird to call it hack.
Well, I think the problem is the market. When I was a teenager, I didn't mind reading all that stuff because it was all new to me. Now that I've read hundreds of books, I just want the new stuff, which occurs at more infrequent intervals in books do to past reading.

But people who have read a lot are not the main market for any book, unfortunately and seemingly paradoxically.
Very intersting, thanks. If I was going to dip my toe OpenJDK would be the place to start then?
Let's assume that the battery in the pager is replaced with half C4 half battery.
AA battery weighs about 20-25g, so 12.5g C4 total.
12.5g of C4 has roughly 84,000J of energy.
For comparison, a 62 grain 5.56 NATO round has about 1,700 J of kinetic energy.
The C4 is undirected, so the target is getting a fraction of the impact, but that much C4 detonating near your body is going to do some serious damage.
Optimist in me thinks that outside solution is still possible either through revolutionary tech or fundamental discovery like total disproof of religion.
Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician
Elsewhere here listed as: Gold Apollo Rugged Pager AR924

https://www.google.com/search?q=About+https://www.gapollo.co...
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Sure, but this is a simulator with random packet loss that has nothing to do with congestion, isn't it?
How much you want to bet that if the omnibus spending bill isn't passed, good old state media NPR says something about our fighting men going unpaid.

Schrodinger's war.
Can you share the 2 second benchmark of the Linux kernel for ripgrep? On my workstation, ripgrep can search the Linux repo (using default settings) in under 100ms.

ripgrep generally shouldn't be reading from disk. If you're benchmarking Codebased after an initial indexing step, then ripgrep should be benchmarked on a warm cache IMO.
>if you own the buildings

This opens a new avenue I'd never considered: that some of the RTO pressure is perhaps due to keeping real estate prices up. Maybe there is somehow pressure from commercial landlords towards the tenants to keep the building occupied, or as you stated places that own the building don't want it to be devalued by appearing (or actually being) abandoned for years.
It would be a bit rich for us to call this a war crime, since our standard M.O. for targeted strikes --- like everybody else's --- routinely kills innocent civilians in much larger numbers than this.
Your computer doesn't actually know what the keys for WASD are. It just receives a number (commonly called scan code) for the pressed key from the keyboard, and has to use the mapping to determine which key that actually was.

There's some convention for which scan code to use for which physical position on a keyboard, but that's not correlated with what's actually printed on the key caps. E.g. on common QWERTY keyboards the "A" key will have scan code 4, but on AZERTY keyboards it will have scan code 20.

Games can probably get away by listening for the scan codes of the keys in the position commonly used by WASD, but it's a bit fragile, and they can't actually tell you what's printed on the keys they're listening to. The lack of consistenency is certainly annoying, though...
A question for more knowledgeable users: What CPU does Apollo AP-900 Pager use? I tried to search the Internet but found nothing.
Both Iliad and Odyssey are about the same thing: how the Gods determine the fate of humans, even the most powerful of them. They sometimes do stupid things because that's the desire of the Gods.
Discussion (50 points, 1 day ago, 24 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41555349
Any .org should be considering the risk of allowing devices unfettered into onto their businesses premesis which could be used to trigger remote explosions, allies and enemies.
I love Apple, but this is so Apple: hidden powerful functionality you'll only know about through word of mouth or intentional exploration in the UI.
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Are you doing screenshot comparison with Playwright? If so, how? Based on my research this looks to be a missing feature but I could be incorrect.
TBH, I would "hand it to" any group who pulled off this particular attack, even ISIL.
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NASA had a FORTRAN bug in 1963 that

DO 10 I=1.10

wasn't a loop but an initialization of DO10I. The decimal point (not comma) made the spaces not matter.
Discussion (34 points, 4 hours ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567555
>Hezballah are also civilians, because they're a major political party in Lebanon

That's an interesting take. Are you saying hamas are also civilians because they're the major political party in gaza?
$40 per server per month. Includes bandwidth, cooling and internet.
> NI is presented as if it is a fund you contribute to for your pension

No it is not. It establishes some entitlements, not a fund

Gov.uk: "You pay National Insurance contributions to qualify for certain benefits and the State Pension."
Exactly. You don't see them blowing up ten year old girls. It's the power of love.
Why would the family members of a Hezbollah operative be carrying a pager tuned to Hezbollah's private communications network? A reminder that Hezbollah operates a parallel phone system, and is in many ways more sophisticated and organized than the de jure government of Lebanon, whose military forces Hezbollah outnumbers.
We've invested some time to improve this situation for the games we port, at least to some extent.
Keyboard input is read as a combination of scan code + win32 virtual key information to determine the physical key pressed on your keyboard.
This way the keybindings are (almost) independent of the keyboard layout.

However, we also reflect your current key bindings with dynamic button prompts that tell you which key to press in game. For this we translate the determined physical key back through the selected keyboard layout to figure out what the corresponding label on your keyboard might be.

Most of this is just win32 API shenanigans, but the following post provides a bit more detail on reading inputs this way.

https://blog.molecular-matters.com/2011/09/05/properly-handl...
Been bothered for a long time that wildlife conservationists are so quick to tag animals with labels and trackers left and right. Is it really helping, or is it rather control freakery and actionism when the natural habitat or food chain or whatever is simply shrinking and there's not much that can be done about it save for full-on stopping obvious causes? Can not at least animal identities and movement be tracked or estimated with minimal-invasive methods or cameras more intelligently?
For quite some versions that modern networking APIs on macOS using Objective-C frameworks, starting in 2018.

See WWDC 2018's "Introducing Network.framework, A modern alternative to sockets".

NeXTSTEP might have been a UNIX, and macOS derives from it, but the whole UNIX story has always been to bring UNIX software into the platform, not to make it easier to move elsewhere.
> minimal casualties outside of your enemy.

"Thousands injured." I'm not convinced it was as super-targeted as you claim.
It looks like their on-demand price would cost $81,468 per year

So even at the reserved price for a year (365 * 24 * $6.51) you're nowhere near $4,750 per year, it's closer to $60k
Okay, this is actually pretty cool. I wouldn't call the dependency on cloud flare decentralized, but this is a huge iterative improvement to the web I wish we had prior to social media. Imagine having this pre html MySpace pages. An entire generation would have built their own websites instead of signing up for Facebook... One can hope.

I just remembered the algorithm.
How did you expose the servers to the internet, if at all?

I'd personally have these on tailscale, not exposed to the internet, but at some point in self hosting, clients have to be able to talk to something.

I know tailscale has their endpoints but I can't expect this to be able to server a production API at scale.
> so it's better to close the door.

I don't feel convinced of this takeaway, at least in the context of being applied across the board.

I help administer a semi-large, public studygroup community that sees its share of trolls and the like joining the channels and causing disruptions (up to and including exposing themselves and masturbating/helicoptering) for shock value, etc.

If anything, I find Discord's moderation tools for server administrators painfully lacking. Discord is not Signal.

I would have liked to see this in some form closer to an assignable privilege to send out/upload E2EE data granularly grantable to server regulars, while new people start out without the privilege.

This press release going into cool technical details in order to tout E2EE and namedropping one of the most reputable consultants in the biz feels a little tonedeaf.
It needs to -- but never will.

Take a look at the Fortune 500 and see how many top 20 are healthcare companies.

Then take a look at Global F500 and see how many of those are there.

They'll tank the US economy before they let for-profit healthcare die
No, a pager is optimized to be a case size that's comfortable for carrying and reading. The electronics could be the size of the smallest wristwatch, which is already dominated by its own form factor requirements, not the PCB + battery + display subcomponents that are scarcely the size of a nickel.

A typical pager is about 60 x 40 x 20mm. Much of this volume requirement is driven by the 16mm diameter 34mm long CR123 battery, a lot of it could be empty.

That battery is a relatively safe lithium primary chemistry, not a rechargeable Lithium polymer pounch or lithium ion cylinder that would risk fire and explode if the overpressure vents were omitted and the BMS corrupted, but the primary lasts for years.

I bet you could use a CR1216 battery (1.6mm thin, 30mAh, instead if 34mm long and 1500mAh) instead and have quite a good deal of spare volume in the battery for an explosive. If you filled the entire pager, that would be even more room, but much more easily detected.
Sadly, not happening.

A lot of Israelis, Palestinians, and Lebanese are irreligious. Yet, a lot of Israelis, Palestinians, and Lebanese know people who have been affected by the conflict first hand (either refugees, civilian casualties, or combatant casualties), which makes it difficult to negotiate.

The 1990s-2000s was the last period where some sort of negotiation could succeed, because there was still a large 1st and 1.5 gen Mizrahi and Sephardic community that had some residual feeling for Muslim states, and vice versa. That's how Israel and Morocco, Azerbaijan, and Turkey pre-2012 were able to get their relationship back on track.

At this point, the peace process is dead. Even the secular opposition to Likud and the Kahanists in Israel supports a harsh military response, casualties be damned. Similar story in West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon.

Any sort of peace process will have to be backed by internal repression for a generation by all participants.
> I know this might be an "unpopular opinion,"

That's the thing, though; it's important to remember that it very much _is_ an opinion/preference. For some people, working from the office is better, for others, it's working from home, and for others it's a combination of both. There are positives and negatives to each, for both the employee and the employer.

That being said, a company limiting itself to _only_ people willing to work in the office is doing just that; limiting itself. I expect the reverse is also true; but the pool of workers to choose from for "everyone remote" is a _LOT_ bigger than the pool of workers for "everyone in the office".
My suggestion is not to blow up the moon, but to launch payloads from earth via nuclear pulse propulsion containing extremely low albedo material, like coal dust, and create an artificial ring that way.
> "Dedicated GPU clusters for accelerated computing"

- so you have to add the price of AMD/Intel bare metal servers.

- the price of "Networking" PER TB

- and the "Additional services pricing"

https://www.latitude.sh/pricing
The way you define Americans making a choice sounds a lot like a simple hill climbing algorithm. Once you're on the path of your nearest hill you're stuck there until conditions change, even if you can see a mountain in the distance you would have our whole society ignore it and stay on our little hill? That's why China is and will continue lapping us at transportation. Yes you should care, or at least be able to expect someone to care, or at LEAST not try to talk someone who does care out of it.

>I don't waste time agonizing over alternatives that might exist elsewhere but are not accessible to me.

But you're happy to waste time arguing against them?
The Dang is doing a great job at keeping the discussion "civil". As long as one doesn't count certain groups as people.