skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the discussion itself is kind of a weird one to have. Most of the author's point is about OD&D, but OD&D itself was a very short lived phenomenon. People pretty rapidly moved to either the AD&D or B/X line of products, and there are some departures in the rules, and both lines added official rulebooks that do explicitly contain things that go against a lot of the author's points. And basically every table from the start has had a pile of house rules (or at least generalized processes) to handle situations not explicitly called out in the rulebooks. Much of the question of feudalism is more of a campaign setting question than a rules question - plenty of people played campaigns back in the day in settings where there was royalty, where you would have to purchase or otherwise acquire land rather than just plopping down your claim somewhere.

The argument the author is making is messy because it mashes together the dichotomy of old school D&D versions vs. the modern equivalents. Originally, D&D was a framework that you built on top of. You might adhere fairly closely to the rules as written, but they were intentionally quite basic in nature, and additional structure and systems almost always came as part of your campaign milieu and table-specific needs. Modern D&D has significantly more rules - it's a more complete game, with all the good and bad that entails. Neither have a mechanism to force you to use any specific portion of them, and many people don't.

I agree with the sentiment that D&D is not pro-medieval, though depending on which rulebooks you use it might incorporate aspects of medieval society and structure. I also don't think it's anti-medieval, because that implies structure that isn't there. Any given campaign or table might be more or less medieval than any other and still be totally authentic D&D.
It's moments like this I get an urge to migrate to Mars.
Attacks or responses to attacks?

You seem to conflate them.
Historically there has never been any such moral consensus in the Middle East. It's been a continuous series of wars, massacres, and terrorism going back millennia — since long before Hezbollah or the modern state of Israel even existed.
I'm not sure they necessarily need to deeply own their adversary's networks. I'd be impressed if Lebanese pager tech has any serious kind of encryption, for example. And we're already accepting at face value that they sabotaged the devices, so it's possible this was done with a separate RF signal than their own cellular network, even if it is locked down.

But yes, the supply chain sabotaging is certainly impressive.
If you go here and scroll down to
Recent Studies, you'll notice that there's many things the ACE test ignores.

But the extended list of adverse experiences is incomplete too:

https://www.christineortollcharity.org/post/adverse-childhoo...

> I have no one else to blame but myself.

Of course not! That sounds sad. (Also, some things just happen / are the way they are, without being anyone's fault)

But maybe you're the best person for doing something about things you aren't happy with :-)
Hezbollah members in Lebanon are not necessarily perceived as bad people - why would the scar be a problem ? Hezbollah claims it’s a resistance movement to Israel, they’re now wearing a scar caused by Israel in a mass coordinated attack, which will further legitimize Hezbollah.

I agree with the disruption of communication protocols and psychological damage though.
Amazon comp is based on your annual performance review (OLR) and your pay band (level + job family). OLR has 5 tiers: least effective, highly valued 1-3, and top tier. Each of those tiers determines your band penetration.

Lets say your pay band is 100-200k. A new hire is theoretically better than 50% of their team, so they join at an HV3 and make 180k. If they receive HV3 at OLR, their total comp target (TCT) remains 180k. If it is their first OLR, they are probably not getting any additional RSUs because the cash-based comp of the first 2 years means they are already at their TCT.

If they made TT, their TCT goes to 200k and they would receive additional RSUs to reach that pay.

If they were HV2 or below, they would not get additional RSUs and their TC would slowly fall from 180k to 160k or below. If it fell below the HV2 level of 160k they would get some RSUs later to bump them back to TCT.

Amazon also assumes the stock will go up 15% year over year, so when RSUs are granted over a multiyear time horizon, you receive less based on assumed growth that would make you reach your TCT.
Theoretically, pagers are simpler devices, meaning it would be much easier in principle to analyse both hardware and software to check for issues, unlike a mainstream phone OS which has a bigger software attack area and can have at least some zero day attacks known to a state level actor like Israel.

Although, if it really was explosive inside the pagers it seems Hezbollah didn't do this.
Exactly... we don't need the fucking nonsense of how he made an agreement with his wife on a napkin and other personal shit in his life.

Not getting to the point promptly enough and painting the message to look better only makes it much worse.
the pager is already wireless. So adding functionality to trigger wirelessly (over the phone network) is trivial. And it can trigger only with a special message.
haha that is a good point. I could set up a development VM on my 1U and use this as a dumb terminal. That actually could be a pretty good set up and could easily fit in the ram constraints. Now I'm back to being on the fence.
As the user Kaikue pointed out in another comment, the Māori had a couple specific comments, which Lego addressed, and then everyone seems to have moved on.

My stance on appropriation is more nuanced than most, I think. If you're not part of a culture, but you use their language, dress, or other cultural trappings, that's appropriation; whether or not that's bad is a different question. But here's the thing: you don't get to be the one who decides whether or not it's bad. A billion dollar company commercializing Māori language because they thought it sounded neat was probably not the greatest starting point, and though I'm sympathetic to Alastair for not having access to the resources to properly vet his usage of te reo Māori, I don't think Lego had such limitations and probably should have put a little more effort in.

Perhaps another, more recent example: in the video game Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, one of the main cultures that the player interacts with are the Huana, a Māori/Pacific Islander-inspired culture that is, not coincidentally, beset on multiple sides by colonial powers. Game director Josh Sawyer says[1] "...we should have also hired some Māori consultants specifically to look at the Huana. The Huana aren’t really Māori (just like the Rauatai aren’t really Japanese), but even a fictional culture that’s only “inspired by” a mix of real world cultures can still get into uncomfortable or outright bad territory.

A few Pacific Islanders have contacted me to tell me that they appreciate that Deadfire deals with PI-type cultures and colonial themes. I’m genuinely glad for that, but we could have very easily done something incredibly shitty through pure ignorance. It never hurts to ask ahead of time."

[1]https://www.tumblr.com/jesawyer/622841880878678016/looking-b...
What would you recommend for parsing instead?
Do we really know that these were explosives or lithium ion batteries on their own can be this dangerous?
I went through a similar change from PM(-T in my case) to SDE, and I can +1 the parent. The best way to make a mid career change is to find a job where the old and new role can overlap, which I how I did it as well. If you're currently working as a PM, try to get an engineering role for the same product. The engineering part will be new, but you will be able to leverage your domain expertise.

I will caution you that SDE is a job family that requires a ton of practitioner experience, especially at the higher job levels (and you likely don't want to transition to a lower level). The only way I was able to make this change was because I have a relevant college degree and because I started out my career as an SDE and always kept up to date. And even with that, it took me 2.5 years to make the job change official.

Still, don't let that caution scare you, if you really want the change and you want it for the right reasons. SDE is probably the easiest of the STEM disciplines to get into without a format education in the field.

And finally, another big +1 on the parent's comment about PM-T with technical experience being super valuable.
It looks like a trigger that can only be pulled once.

Thus, choice of the optimal time could be influenced by a lot of things:

- knowledge of other Hezbollah imminent action making comms disruption right now of great importance

- recognition that the vulnerability had been discovered and was about to be remediated

- via other "eyes on" prime targets, knowledge that just one or two top leaders were briefly in especially-vulnerable positions (like sleeping alongside their pagers)

- etc

And, there will be a "long tail" of damage to Hezbollah's usual communications practices & trust in devices/suppliers. Some marginal recruits may even be deterred from joining a battle against an opponent which can carry out this sort of attack – though of course, others may be emboldened.
improving ROS means breaking it, it's not just the details which are bad but a lot of the baked-in architecture (distribute everything! Now you have N+1 problems where N is the number of nodes). ROS 2 was an opportunity there but not much improved.
Indeed, but I don't see how this goes in the direction you were defending earlier…
None of that changes the facts stated, or makes any substantial argument as to how this doesn't constitute a war crime.

> This is likely to settle out as one of the most surgical non-infantry attacks in the history of modern warfare,

No, it isn't. There's already reports of murdered children, and people as far away as Syria getting injured. The Iranian ambassador to Beirut was reportedly injured, meaning this could precipitate nuclear war.

> because Israel is involved, 20% of the commentary is about how the people who set it in motion belong in the Hague

No, it isn't. You're literally the only person mentioning the Hague in the whole thread.

But yes, they do. That's where war crimes are prosecuted, and this is a war crime (see above), even if 'just' one of many thousands.

> Think about what that says to people weighing the (correct!) claims that Israel has committed widespread war crimes in its occupation of Gaza.

Huh??

Explain to me, please, how more targeted war crimes excuse completely untargeted war crimes, and war crimes targeted at journalists, aid workers, health workers, teachers, children, families, little old ladies in churches, premature babies, etc.
Huh; my org seems to be pretty lenient in that regard - if you are ill or book time off on a day you meant to be in the office it's fine.
Right but these were exploding in public right next to innocent people. There's CCTV footage of some of them exploding.
New President new approach.
I don't know why it'd be a matter of belief, it's a known word with a known prescriptive spelling. I'm sure the encyclopedia editors would have liked to get it right. But it's an interesting anecdote. A googol is an uncommon item of vernacular usage, and basically trivia for most people. I remember hearing "a googolplex" on elementary school playgrounds, as an example of a number so large you couldn't conceive of it. "You're stupid times infinity", "No, you're stupid times infinity to the googolplex power", and so on. And since the word doesn't follow intuitive spelling rules in English, I imagine it would have been very easy to spell it wrong in the 80s, unless you happened to both have access to specific resources, and remembered to look it up.
Fascinating look into how culture impacts research. This is done in China, and seemingly takes a 100% empirical mindset, deciding not to mention any of the theoretical frameworks that could back such a system, the most obvious of them being Marvin Minsky’s Society of Mind (highly recommend, the most hacker-style book on theoretical AI out there). If I had to guess, that’s 50% due to language barriers and 50% due to overall intellectual orientation.

Regardless, their results are very interesting! Dedicated doomers may remember that Stanford did a proof of concept for this almost exactly a year ago, but it was focused on “believability” of the society rather than the society’s collective ability to perform tasks: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/computational-agents-exhibit-b...

On a humorous side note: I was curious about their choice of a fun name for their simulated environment — “IrollanValley” - in an otherwise very empirical and dry paper, and was excited to learn something about Chinese folklore! But, uhh no lol, it’s just a reference to the video game Heroes of Might and Magic https://mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Irollan

Thanks for posting! I’ve gotta hurry up and publish before this gets out of hand. In addition to the need for a Society of Mind discussion in any follow up paper, I personally hope to see a discussion of Terminator’s SkyNet, as well…
I would also like to know this. I got mine for 12€ a while back and it looks to be going for around 20€ now.
I feel this is just one more step away from "wild" globalized products and towards supply chain safety.
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> absurd hyperbole

It's actually not, if you stop and consider the true cost of working and commuting to an office. It's just we're conditioned NOT to consider the true cost, so we externalize a bunch of the costs.

For example, you don't consider the CO2 from your car, or the time spent driving, or the risk of death. If you factor in just the time spent driving, suddenly smoking a pack a day is better for your lifespan than being in an office.
I love this unique insight:

"Fire control computers ... solve ... fire control problems."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug

U.S. NAVY BASIC MECHANISMS OF FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS MECHANICAL COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 27794
I'm reminded fondly of the opening chapter to QNTM's Fine Structure, which sets up the story with a similarly baffling (yet self consistent, in my opinion) but wildly evocative narration of a blazing dogfight across a multiverse of hyperspaces.
Given that resources are always going to be limited, absolute improvements matter less than value-per-currency-unit. And the value of putting people there at this stage of the game seems quite likely to be fairly limited.
> Attacks or responses to attacks?

Oh come on. I didn't say one side was retaliation and the other aggression. You are saying that. I said there were attacks on both sides. Whether one attack is raw aggression or defensive retaliation is very much in the eye of the beholder.
They are consensus extraction devices. They will argue for the consensus conspiracy theories and against the conspiracy theories that oppose the consensus.

If you train an LLM on a set of tokens that include a consensus for a conspiracy theory rejected in a baseline set, it would be just as convincing.
Or set up an Amazon subscription for the beans, so convenient
This is the reason that consultants often get paid ridiculous hourly rates, and in-demand consultants may overbook. So far, my experience has been those that are likely over-employed - tend to be poor workers. I might be "ok" with their output because I can't tell if they are still ramping up or what else is going on.

Again, high trust environment.
Goodhart's Law in Software Engineering
And it powers 70% of the world mobile phone market (even if ART isn't technically a JVM implementation), Xerox and Ricoh printers, Cisco inteligent phone terminals, M2M gateways, military battleships targeting systems, missile tracking systems, factory robots,....
Wow! That's interesting.
I think it makes more sense to think of these as explosive devices manufactured by/for Israel that are just designed to pass as pagers.
Yep. This is state-sponsored terrorism.
Apparently not these ones.
How does a screen reader interact with one of these canvas pages?
Gowitness – a CLI screenshot utility that uses Chrome headless
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Simply put, a DM should not allow you to roll in that situation. You only roll for things you might possibly succeed at. If I had a player at my table say that, I'd simply reply "Your hammer bounces off of it with great force, but as you examine the ring, it is unharmed."

If they complained that they didn't get a chance to roll the dice, I'd explain to them that they're misunderstanding the purpose of dice in the game - it's to provide randomness to situations where outcomes are uncertain.

In the inverse case, I wouldn't make someone roll the dice for mounting their horse when breaking camp if their character is someone who is familiar with riding horses, or to not spill their flagon of water when taking a rest in the dungeon.

Particularly for older versions of D&D, players went out of their way to avoid rolling dice whenever possible - dice are dangerous! Roll poorly, and you don't succeed. You might even die! And the ability to resurrect the dead is far more limited for older editions - player characters being effectively immortal outside of TPKs is a much more modern change.
Given Israel's successful precision targeting of various senior Hezb members in recent months, I wonder if the pagers were initially used as such, but as suspicion mounted, and chances of an overhaul increased, they decided to hit the kill switch while they still could.

Although as as per an WSJ article: "The affected pagers were from a new shipment that the group received in recent days"
I bet lots of people with that model of pager are now ripping them open to check for explosives. If we don't see pictures of unexploded ones, then I'd guess they were all triggered, and the only ones we might see are devices that were turned off at the time.
That's still a targeted attack and it seems from the media reports so far that the "collateral damage" is remarkably low, actually.
Where are you getting the 677 number? The min I'm seeing is 735.
I remember reading once that Apollo is pretty much the only name in the game any more for pagers.
But is that what's going to happen? IBM has acquired a lot of clever things, only to not really utilize them and just let them wither away.

IBM bought RedHat 6 years ago, can we truly claim that they've done something useful with that purchase? I get that they haven't managed to mess it up like they did with SoftLayer, but they've also haven't done much RedHat couldn't do on its own.
Of course you disagree with me ;) You’re talking about the minority of people who’ve had incredible amounts of math success (yes despite sometimes legitimately feeling very stupid). I’m not talking about my own experience, FWIW, I’m talking about the majority of people who never get anywhere close to a PhD in math, because they were left behind by our math education system. Obviously I don’t know exactly what you disagree with since you didn’t elaborate, but we have bumped into each other in mathy threads fairly often, right? If we get the chance some time, it would be super fun to discuss math & education over coffee!
Their trips were paid for by people who expected discoveries of various kinds to yield a net win (land, minerals, food, whatever).

The explorers' dreams are of less importance than their benefactors' expectations.
10 years into my non-FAANG career and I own a basement suite and a bicycle. Any tips for better-paying non-FAANG companies I might look into?
This is a little over-the-top, but I do agree that the clinical way some are handling this understates the horror of what's happening. These people were at home or running errands or at work, not pointing a gun at anyone at that particular moment.
Pagers, by definition, are likely to be older technology.

The internals could be replaced with modern smaller and lower-power equivalents, requiring a smaller battery, and saving enough space.

(Or maybe somebody just donated a batch of innocent-looking devices to 'the cause', or offered a bargain on some 'extra secure' pagers?)
Experts long said the photograph’s real value was hard to peg. Previous sales of The Roaring Lion have fetched as much as $85,000 at auction. Though the actual stolen portrait managed to fetch only about $7,500 from a London auction house (significantly less than the $25,000 it was once insured for), Geller, as the lead investigator on the case, insists that the resale price didn’t matter to him as much as what it represented.

So priceless in the way that all unique things are priceless.
With the size of these explosions, the "range" seems very small.
An experience I’m familiar with:
1. Hired fully remote to virtual location etc.
2. A few months after joining RTO (return to office) enforced even though I’m not technically returning
3. About a year later RTH (return to team hub) announced with about 1 month for internal transfer or move to Seattle with in a few months.
4. Roughly 2 months later 5 days a week announced.
Perhaps we should replace this messaging with "You may find that you won't have to work hard to get through X, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't." Educators don't have the time or ability to set up an incentive scheme that makes you "have to" work your hardest, but it gets more rewarding at each level.
Covid does not work as an excuse anymore. They need a different excuse to say it is not bad C level strategy or stupidly high bonus for someone who does nothing special
I see the author also has some newer papers as well on the broad topic.

The reader may also enjoy this survey report on multiverse theories which I generated just this morning:

https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://github.com/impre...