skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not both? Location data would be relatively easy to collect and forward, audio not so much (much higher storage and transmission throughput requirements for very low quality source data given the limitations of piezoelectric microphones and the fact that pagers are usually worn on belts).

If you're getting GPS data, collecting people's movements for a month or three probably provides 99% of what you will ever want to know. Once the patterns have been established you're into diminishing returns territory, while the risk of discovery goes up, which would neutralize the value of the explosive attack.

The strategic value of such a perfectly targeted surprise attack is massive, notwithstanding the relatively low fatality rate. Injuries are expensive and often devastating, and the psychological impact is brutal. Logistically, Hezbollah (and many other organizations, militant or not) are going to have to review and/or replace part of their communications tech. That's a massive technical disruption, a significant economic cost, and risks further exposing supply chain information. It's also going to create paranoia about many other electronic devices, poison in the food, and so on.

I'm not sure about the ethics of this. If one were certain that only Hezbollah officers were being targeted then it would be an acceptable kind of asymmetric attack through a novel vector.

However this also seems to have impacted quite a few civilians, and there is a claim (unverified so far) that a hospital just replaced all its pager equipment a couple of weeks ago and would otherwise have been impacted: https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1836080190855795092

If this happened in the US pursuant to one of the wars we've been involved in, we'd definitely be calling it terrorism and/or a war crime. It's a big strategic win for the Israelis in the short term but can hurt them two ways in the longer term. Hezbollah and other enemies of Israel will be significantly more motivated retaliate in some equally creative/unpredictable fashion, and non-aligned economic partners of Israel are likely to view Israeli products with renewed skepticism, hurting exports.
> minimal casualties

We'll see about that. Some of the footage indicates the targets were all just out and about in public. I think it's likely there will be collateral damage. I assume it didn't happen since it's not being reported, but what if one of them was on a plane?
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Again you are responding to an argument which was explicitly and clearly not made. The comment you are replying to asserts that this is an illegal act of war.

Everything only works by agreement and adherence to rules: some explicit, some considered to be so blindingly obvious to a human that there should be no need to state them.

Some of the rules around warfare involve doing your utmost to avoid collateral damage. In this case the collateral damage involves a ten year old girl.

Please try to respond to the actual arguments instead of a cheap, easy strawman. It helps improve the quality of the site.
I think a big part of this math is avoiding huge balance sheet write downs on unoccupied real estate.

When Amazon was heavily investing in SLU in the 2010's they purchased all of their leased offices from the developer, Paul Allen's company.

It's the GE-ification of Amazon. Financial engineering with little care about employees or customers.
This kind of framework isn’t targeted towards frontend devs though. It is targeted towards backend devs who want to make frontends easier.
I've found https://www.refactoringui.com/ to be quite helpful, you can get the first two chapters for free.
I was going to say the opposite, it seems like something that should be an email, but they're turning into a half million dollar fine. It's a totally reasonable change, they were in the process of having it approved, but the FAA is alleging it was used before it was officially approved
In my experience, these types of people have given approximately zero minutes of thinking time to bi people. Or any other kind of person, for that matter. They know their perspective and that's all, and that's how they intend to keep it forever.
UK. That's what the uni calls it.
Hundreds of dead children would mean the devices killed 10x more child bystanders than the military personnel carrying the devices.

What focuses the attack is proximity to the owner wearing it. This is very highly selective in comparison to something like a rockets with accuracy and kill radius measured in double digit meters.
To respond to person above, KLA was a terrorist organization recgnized by USA and many others too, then they became "valuable" in their geopolitical schemes, and US helped them, and many countries literally protected them in kosovo, including the president there, who was a member of KLA.
Maybe they bought a large quantity of pagers from the same supplier and modified beforehand? I think a few grams of high explosives is good enough.
https://archive.ph/vNhP2
You are not thinking past the first point. Considering what these people have been doing lately, even if you are currently on their good side, what happens when you’re not or don’t want to serve them anymore? Think places like India and Brazil may be rethinking their supply chains right now?
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Yeah, I agree with that.

For example, I'm friends with most of my exes. We're all in new relationships. I sometimes go out for dinner with one of them to catch up on life and talk. There is no sexual tension at all, because we are in different relationships, so sex is not something we even think about!

If we were both single and an ex would call me and ask if I'm alone tonight and if she can drop by and watch a movie, then that would be a completely different situation, and there very likely would be sexual tension. But this is highly situational and has more to do with circumstances than with the people involved.

Just because I had sex with a person in the past or might in the future or could in theory does not mean that there is constant sexual tension between us.
Why have you outsourced your common sense to NPR?
Here's a video of someone standing right next to the target: https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1836037485492629605

They are unharmed.
How do they store data? How do they handle queuing systems? Etc, etc.
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Hetzner has RTX 4000 for 185€ per month. Is your solution cheaper?
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Possibly hydrogen explosion.
You've translated my informal problem statement into a quasi-formal process, using your inherent natural language processing skills, and your knowledge of general human concepts like size. But you haven't explained the formal process you followed to go from my problem statement to this pseudocode.

And your pseudocode template only works for one particular kind of informal problem statement. If I instead have the problem "how much money do I need to buy this house and this chair?", or "does this byte fit in my mouth?", your general form will not work.

And what's more, you haven't actually produced a formally solvable problem definition, that we could analyze for complexity and computability, because you rely on two completely unspecified functions. Where is the formal defintion of a button? Is it a physical push button or a UI control or a clothing button? What does it mean that it is bigger or smaller? When do we know it's big enough, is that computable? And how do we scale it up? Do we increase its volume? Its surface area? One of its sides? Or maybe the radius? And how do we go about doing that? All of these, and many more, need to be explicitly defined in order to apply any kind of formal analysis to this problem. And there is no formal way to do so in a way that matches the intent of whoever posed the problem.
wow, maybe it's just that I have as little greek as gaelic, but Homer's mad flow gave me the same vibes as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sf0htzbMKk&t=34s (composed ~2750 years later, and to be honest, these lads are not exactly under the aegis of Athena Glaukopis — if anyone's, Dionysus Acratophorus)
Might be a hardcoded date and time.
Does the legit pager messaging network give the time?
If not, continually powered digital clocks drift slowly.
If you’ve figured out how to get explosives into pagers, the next question is how do you get your enemy to buy a bunch of new pagers from you.

They have to want new pagers in a hurry.

So you just need to convince them that their phones are all already compromised.

Note that this does not require that their phones actually be compromised.
This is such a strange take. As if CIA operatives and a random teacher at some elementary school just both reach into a box with pagers and pick one because they're both employed by the government.
I'm fairly familiar with the Greek gods, but the problem I've had with reading the Illiad is that it is not at all obvious why this is written. With The Odyssey it's clear: he's trying to get home. But everyone in the Illiad seems to do stupid things for unclear reasons and I just loose interest. I think I would be helped out a lot by finding some summary of the themes the poem is talking about. So I think it's good advice.

Similarly, I'm currently reading through the Poetic Edda. I thought I had a decent grasp of Norse mythology, but I am clearly missing references left and right. (I know, because they are footnoted) I think reading the Prose Edda with its background first would probably have been helpful.
Thanks! Yeah we generally recommend not making your databases public and instead connecting to them using a bastion host. We support this at Neosync. Also, ideally, not connecting to a live DB and instead a snapshot or back up. A read replica could work as well but a snapshot is better.
This is what the CDN is for.

Ex - Cloudflare has a flat-rate CDN that has no price changes based on bandwidth spikes, and is free for non-commercial use.

Cloudfront is free up to 1TB of egress.

BunnyCDN is a penny a GB.

etc...

And they basically all include DDOS mitigation - so if it's DDOS instead of actual traffic, you usually aren't billed for it.

Not to mention, you'll usually get much better regional performance, since they'll just cache it and serve it from a local instance closer to your user.

You're still going to pay egress with a VPS. So a CDN makes sense in either case.
>Who regulates governments?

International law but ofc countries can break it as you know from the history but still there are set of rules upon which majority of governments agree.
One thing I'd like to see fixed in computer keyboard input in general is how Shift is handled for capitals.

I find it next to impossible to type "Now" really fast without having it come out as "NOw" much of the time. (Why I'm using this example is that it's the first word of the "Now is the time ..." test sentence).

The timing required is strict. The Shift key must be down before the letter key is down.

Keys activate strictly and immediately on the down event.

Note that virtual buttons on most contemporary GUIs, clicked by mouse, do not work this way. You must click and release the button for it to activate. If you click OK on some dialog, but change your mind while still holding down the mouse button, you can back out of it, by moving the cursor out of the button's area. You also cannot click down outside of the button, then move into the button and release. The button must receive both mouse down and mouse up, without the pointer leaving the area, in order to activate.

I'd like a mode in which the down events of non-modifier keys are deliberately delayed by some configurable number of milliseconds, so that when the user hits a modifier key at around the same time, and that key lands a little bit late, it is still taken into account.

It would also be nice to be able to experiment with a mode in which keystrokes are generated by their up events, not down, and the modifier is sampled at that time.
No. BBC is quite far-left. And far-left is almost 100% anti-Israel.

If you don't think BBC is far-left, count the articles with right-wing perspectives and left-wing perspectives.
Thanks for the question! Faker is useful but doesn't have a lot of features. For example, referential integrity, data orchestration or the ability to read/write to a db. So faker can work for simple API schemas but if you need something more robust for an entire database, then that's where we can help.
Why Do We Use Whitespace to Separate Identifiers in Programming Languages?
that's what we are aiming for yep! for now it takes about 10 min to generate an full stack app which I feel it's still decent compared to do it all by yourself
correction, since 02017, there's also uhvdc transmission in brazil from the belo monte dam. 66% of electrical generation in brazil is hydroelectric

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xingu-Estreito_HVDC_transmissi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xingu-Rio_HVDC_transmission_li...
The Reddit discussion is in the totally delirious stage of NIH syndrome. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1fiuhb7/the_empire_of_...
Evocative of the "power user" scene from Iron Sky[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWovt5-wfk
Some would, but the vast majority of matter is not found in planets and stars. Most stuff just floats around on it's own out there.
The single most important factor in pricing is accurately predicting the future, as we haven't invented time travel yet we're gonna call that a wash. Here's a tool that measures everything else.
IQ 120... in mice.
What's new in Graal Languages 24.1
From article: he also created offline/private set of questions to avoid answer leakage to o1 training set, and o1 scored around 97, which is not 120, but still significant leap in LLM performance.
This was my attitude towards cars when younger. Always bought cheap used ones and fixed them. It frustrated me to no end seeing people fail at basic maintenance and cut the lives of their vehicles by half or more compared to a maintained one. (Stuff like not changing fluids or driving with the fluids leaking out, driving with slipping belts or broken suspensions, etc.)
It's not just that we have $25/y now and had ~$24B/y then, to suggest it is practical. Costs are also vastly reduced over those benchmarks. Starship HLS cost the government under $3B. For that same price you could buy 30 Falcon Heavy flights at wholesale rates. New Glenn looks to launch soon and we don't know its price but it should be competitive, and it's a plenty capable ship.

Of course, depending on these as Artemis does now would only improve prices, not timelines, but it's not like commercial options are all a year old. Marginal launch has been approximately free in Artemis terms for a good while now, possibly even back in the pre-SpaceX dark ages when US launch was a monopoly flying on Russian engines with a billion dollar a year protection racket tax.

Ultimately it comes down to most of the money NASA spends on Artemis being spent on rent seeking by large old space companies that know job losses would look politically disastrous, captured in cost-plus contracts with hiring mandates, tech reuse mandates, and financial incentives not to execute. NASA is spending about as much on a mobile launch tower going overbudget on a cost plus contract as they have on Starship HLS. Guess which one had Congresspeople giving empassioned speeches about NASA's unreasonable spending habits!
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I am partial to QuickScan[1] as it is free and has no ads. It does not seem to be open source though.

[1] https://www.quickscanapp.com/
"Enough" to meet what criteria? A couple foot blast on handheld device on a military personnel is brain surgery in comparison to typical rockets with accuracy and blast radii measured in double digit meters
At best, this is a formal process for manipulating certain kinds of statements. But the general problem, "take a human's statement of a problem and translate it into a formal statement of a problem that, if solved, will address what the human was asking for" is far harder and more nebulous. Ultimately, it's exactly the problem that LLMs have been invented for, so it has been studied in that sense (and there is a broad literature in AI for NLP, algorithm finding, expert systems, etc). But no one would claim that they are even close to having a formal specification of this problem that they could analyze the complexity of.
GraalPy – A high-performance embeddable Python 3 runtime for Java
I would love paperless-ngx export support for this
I would recommend considering the Georgia Tech Online Masters in CS. You can manage the work at your own pace. It is extremely cost-effective, and Georgia Tech is well recognized as a tech-forward university.

Btw, I highly I applaud your decision to go deep tech mid-career. I think there's not enough strong product people in deep tech. Even if you go back to product afterwards, your strength in understanding the problem space and available solutions will serve you well.

I'm also mid-to-late career PM transitioning back into deep tech. My path is a little bit different than yours. I'm doing a hard tech startup instead.
The explosion in the video does show visible smoke, but there is not a visible flame or fire.
> I can't help but wonder about its long-term consequences.

War is over.

The long-term consequences are that we use our words instead of exothermic reactions to reach livable compromises.
i would bet money that an apple watch has more computing power than was available to all of NASA, and maybe the entire US government, at the time
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The news reports are saying a lot of explosions happened at hospitals. Considering that pagers are still in common use by Western doctors, I'm wondering if they considered hospital staff to be acceptable casualties.
> If FAA does not respond to the revision request within X days, it should be considered approved.

I don't think that sort of process is good for anything involving safety. The safety of the general public should trump all here.

Look at the Boeing situation and tell me with a straight face that less oversight plus automatic approval on deadline exhaustion would have helped there. If anything, it would have been worse.

For things not involving safety it's not a terrible idea.
They might have watched The Wire: you page Alice, and she uses a public phone to call you. Undetectable unless you wire all public phones in the city, or someone is dumb enough to always use the same phone (which is what happens in the series; they eventually switch to burner mobiles).
Lots of pagers operate in one-way only mode. Towers transmit messages without expecting acknowledgement a few times, pager is configured to filter out and only alert on messages routed to its ID.

Sure, theoretically one can detect a receive-only radio, but its massively more difficult than detecting something which actively transmits.
There is a joke about YC startups starting as "illegal taxi", "illegal hotel" … It makes sense, since law firms don't bother with lawsuits until the target has deep pockets. There are a thousand ways a startup can fail, and "got sued" in somewhere in that list of worries to focus on, but maybe not near the top at first.
> I call it computer science personality disorder

Yes, I think that if you're neurotypical, and you find it difficult to relate to the neurodivergent, you should dismiss them as being assholes.

> who just doesn't realize he's rude

NT's make the social rules, and everyone else should fall in line, I get it. In this case, you should just go old school and stuff them in a locker because they're harshing your chi, bro.

> Is this everyone else's experience?

Absolutely. I'm not in academia, but I've found that we need to address this scourge early on. Identify these pieces of shit early in grade school. Give them wedgies, laugh at them, beat the shit out of them on the playground, steal their property, call them names, isolate them in the cafeteria, make them the butt of every public joke, and make sure they know where their station is.

And don't get me started on those paraplegics. Neurodivergent people are bad enough, with the wiring in their brains making it difficult to understand our arbitrary social rules. Paraplegics, with the wiring in their spinal cords that make it difficult to walk need to get out of their fucking wheelchairs, what a bunch of assholes, always getting in the way.

Oh my god, and the homosexuals, too! Why won't they just love the correct gender?

I am 100% with you, academictemp. Maybe we can just load all these people who are not exactly like ourselves, or think and behave exactly as we do, onto cattle cars and be done with it.
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The real social part of cycling (and most athletic activities) is the pre-ride and post-ride hangout. It's usually not the riding part.

But on the ride itself, social rides usually involve being in very close proximity (handlebars only a few inches away from each other), and it's normal to strike up a conversation.
I’d love a tool like this to speed up development and I haven’t used the app but you always have to manually edit things afterwards. The difficulty with web apps is getting people to use them.

Cool tool, hope it takes off.
The people with the pagers could be the more important people in the organization.

And the 100k number seems quite exaggerated.
I don't use the heated hose, but the humidity is invaluable since my sinuses often end up clogged if I don't use it. However, I also live in a desert and regularly have ~20% humidity in my house.
This wasn't a battery, it doesn't match the damage seen. The evidence has all the hallmarks of a small charge of high-explosive.