skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Economic sanctions can be aimed at Belarusian elites and state enterprises

Yes, this is already happening since last year, and was already scheduled to be expanded for a fourth time in June. I assume this clinches that, and probably more.

But the fact nobody seems to know there's been sanctions since last year suggests my other point - they're woefully ineffective as long as they can get other support.
Apple’s blanket ban on interpreted code is not arbitrary.

It is there to prevent apps circumventing the review process and security model ie. apps pretending to do X during the review process and then doing Y when in use or obfuscating their use of private APIs. Now you can argue these restrictions are unreasonable but many of us don’t want our iPads or iPhones to be like our computers.
The real reason for that law is probably to use it as a tool against dissidents.
Thanks for the tip. Yeah, "Intel Virtualization Technology" and "Intel VT-d Feature" are both enabled by default in the BIOS (in fact it doesn't let you turn them off).
It's a pretty huge leap to assume that the image you see in a public news article online is the same image the police have access to without any form of recompression or artifacting.
It seems to me that it would be useful for the app to count items on the left and right of a ruler (or some line) so correct number of items can be separated out from a pool.
>>The idea people are struggling with is that some advantages are fair, while others are cheating

This idea is the very basis of all human competition. The fact that we can't identify exactly which things are fair and which things are not doesn't make it incoherent.
Congrats!
You have made something of value that people appreciate.
Getting the first paid user is usually the hardest.

I would not sell the project at this stage as you would sell it for not a big value. You would need a couple more paying users to prove your concept.

Once you have a few hundred paying users, you would see interesting data. Like how many months they keep paying? How many of them churn? How much can I afford to pay for acquiring a paying user?
I was curious about the IPFS archiving and it appears that it just inlines everything. This is a bit of a shame because with IPFS's content-addressing and deduplication it would be really cool if the assets were out-of-line so that they could be duplicated between webpages.

Example of my blog. You can see that the images, CSS and JS are inlined: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcEKGbtFsYrUoDLFMLv45yrZ1hP7ZyyX79x9Ts...

That being said there are problems with inlining IPFS URLs currently. Because few people support ipfs: URLs you essentially need to pick a gateway and embed that into the archived document which is unfortunate. That being said most people who run their own gateway intercept ipfs.io automatically so it is a sort of defacto IPFS scheme.

You could probably post-process this yourself if you wanted to to "pop out" the inline blobs.
If you are thinking about how to create an AI application, remember that it can help you change the way your business works and make it more efficient. You just need to be ready to take advantage of new opportunities when they come.
Was Tesla actually found guilty of something? The article suggests they never responded to the lawsuit and therefore a default judgment was applied:

> According to Norway’s Nettavisen, Tesla didn’t respond to the lawsuit and the 30 owners behind the case were automatically awarded 136,000 kroner (~$16,000 USD) each in compensation unless Tesla appeals to the case, which it has a few weeks to do.

The award amount comes to half a million dollars total. Might be cheaper to just write checks to the 30 people than to tie up corporate lawyers and possibly set a precedent of admission that could trigger other lawsuits.
> One passanger, Roman Protasevich, was removed fron the plane

There was also info that 6 passengers was removed in Minsk: Protasevich, his girlfriend and probably 4 Belarus' KGB agents.
Show HN: The Independent Country of Gaza
I think I may have a solution to the Israel / Palestine problem. Both "peoples" will have to give up something.

Essentially a new country named Gaza can be formed.

Image of proposed map: https://imgur.com/a/5lmEf9U

Gaza is extended and becomes an independent nation supported by UN. Sufficiently larger (mostly desert, but sea access in South), the claims to West Bank is given up.

As part of the agreement, arabs in Israel must be given full rights and some kind of "affirmative action" must be set up in Israel to avoid exclusion. That could be the terms.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you arguing that you think that the UK police and/or justice system tacitly enforce the US Constitution because they think it's a good idea or merely that you think that the world would be a better place if all of humanity adhered to said constitution?

The former is preposterous, the latter is your opinion but it's frankly irrelevant in this discussion.
not like America...here all of our colleges and workplaces encourage intellectual diversity and expression /s
What kind of sanction do you have in mind?
As I understand it, the Bill of Rights was considered redundant by many people - and some thought that enumerating the rights line by line was dangerously limiting them.
I tend to flag most of the COVID lab leak stories. They’re perfect fodder for pointless flame wars: no one here is in a position to confirm or disprove the theory, and there are no consequences for being wrong. So everyone can just argue their point of view vociferously, while no one learns anything.

If the lab leak theory was easy to confirm, it would have been done already. Maybe someday it will be confirmed or ruled out and I’ll happily upvote that story. This isn’t it, though, even if it is the WSJ.
Just compete with the guys. "But then I can't win a gold medal at the Olympics!" Yes, join the club. 99% of guys are also genetically excluded from the elite-elite of the any sport.
You can remove blur from images with [blind] deconvolution. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_deconvolution
If coming from C++ I definitely wouldn't, especially the module system and reference binding in python is WEIRD. I'd say C, C#, maybe D and Java would fit ? My criterion would be "can a new grad student who only learned c++ be productive in a couple days"
Yeah, get that cheddar.
> Tesla didn’t respond to the lawsuit and the 30 owners behind the case were automatically awarded 136,000 kroner (~$16,000 USD) each in compensation unless Tesla appeals to the case, which it has a few weeks to do.

So that's half a million dollars. One wonders if it was incompetence on Tesla's part, or calculated "well, it will cost that in lawyers fees to settle." Dunno. Leaving it unchallenged in court is a terrible look.
I'm really, really enjoying that two people (this comment and a sibling comment) both posted in support of this interpretation of the constitution, and then both of them posted the same snippet of the Declaration of Independence instead.
I don't want them to try. I don't care if the features are there as long as I can turn them off, but I don't want it. The things I can do off-camera will always be far ahead of whatever's inside.

Capture One/Lightroom and Affinity Photo/Photoshop will have those features with higher quality long before they reach non-phone cameras. They work with the raw data right off the sensor. Nothing done with the limited power of an on-board processor will beat a good raw processor in pulling a good photo out of subpar conditions.
I remember I once saw a post here about research at (I think) MIT where they were able to use shadows in photographs to “see” what was behind the camera and “see” around corners. It was really rough and didn’t really look like very much but I think about that research all the time. What happens when that technology improves and every photo that has been posted online is suddenly a photo of way more than the photographer intended to share?
I once pitched blockchain for an IoT sensor system that I worked on, to detect if messages were dropped. Basically for knowing when you need to figure out a new c for your integrals. I thought it was clever on resource constrained hardware because it required just keeping the previous hash in memory, and nothing needed to be persisted between restarts, and the hashes didn't even need to be secure.

I can't remember why it didn't catch on. I think maybe my mistake was not using the word "blockchain", so it lost out on the inherent sex appeal of the word.

Payment blockchains and IoT on the other hand is where I fail to see the relevance.
In the experiment people installed an app that would send them push notifications asking them how they felt throughout the day. Compliance was measure of how many alerts were sent vs. how many got a reply. Median compliance was 72%. I wonder how you control for people not replying because they’re having a bad day.

Edit: some reviews of the app used for the experiment hint at this bias [1]

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/track-your-happiness/id86726...
> That's not a comforting analogy.

A decentralized world financial system with the transaction capacity double that of VISA consuming as much energy as a shopping mall during peak load is perfectly fine. Our current financial system consumes more. It is literally a negligible cost.

> there will be little improvement in these figures for a damn long time

Some preliminary explorations have shown that it may be possible to adopt anonymity on a Nano-like protocol.

Regardless, it won’t be fixed for a long time but that doesn’t matter. I would support Tor if it used 60 Gwh, and so the same go for XMR. Both are essential in guarding people from censorship and authoritarianism.

> Of secondary importance to me but I'm really curious what you think these things are.

In terms of raw environmental impact? The factory farm industry. But, that’s another discussion entirely.

> if after 11 years there are still roadblocks to wider rollout, it's just rational to second-guess the approach.

Designing a decentralized exchange of currency is a hard problem to solve. 11 years doesn’t seem concerning to me with the improvements we have seen in the time span. Especially given that these projects are mostly developed by volunteers.

There are improvements to be made, mainly around usability. But, those can come later, when the networks and protocols have matured.
Worse, automatically adding request variables to the global namespace, in an order that if input validation is implemented but naively/buggily there can be easy ways to bypass it.
We routinely eliminate millions (billions)? of insects, fish a colossal amount of shrimp, lobsters and fish, and keep mammals in tiny cages for meat.

Asking whether tardigrades feel pain is interesting, implying that there would be ethical concerns with experimenting on them seems a bit disingenuous.
I remember seeing this article on Steve Jobs' claim that the Apple II switching power supply was revolutionary, if anyone wants to read more http://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-powe...
Edit: misread comment
Content marketing became a business strategy in our new reality, not just a part of the marketing efforts.

If a company don't have a team to run the content marketing machine, what would be your suggestions? Start on the low profile by generating valuable content without any strategy or keep it aside until the company makes enough money to hire a team/agency?
Nopah virus, ebola, these are two examples where we have been very lucky, and the only reason they did not spread too much internationally was that they originated in regions with very strong political regimes.
We Hate Being Told We’re Not Doing Enough
Well he shouldn't have used tabs instead of spaces, then!
>This created a lot of confusion among the owners affected by the update who wanted more details about the sudden need to “protect” the battery pack.

They would surely complain if Tesla didn't include any "protections" while charging battery (80% capacity by default, slower charge when capacity approaching full, managing battery temperature, etc.)

But can someone explain why some update for charging protections affect mileage? I can understand if they compare capacity per constant time charged and telling us that after x hour charge I could do x miles, but now x-y... but if trying to charge full...? Maybe Tesla just reserves some capacity for longer lifespan of batteries?
"Uncle Ben's" should have been "Dr. Longping's"
Apple: Craig Federighi on Cloud Streaming
Imgproxy: An open source image proxying server case study
But americans do get marketing though. I bet you know about a bunch of companies that were doing $thing in $country before, probably with better outcomes, but never got the recognition.

In Spain, for example, many industrial companies have a culture where marketing is nearly BS. That hurts them a lot IMO.
All the Belarusian authorities need to do is to send the detained person on the next flight to Vilnius, as Ukrainian authorities have done, and this incident will be over, too.
It doesn't really hurt if some more exotic email addresses are not accepted, no one can really use them anyway.
Should Knowledge Be Free?
Same for autonmous driving. Don't use it on the highway but in the city. Lower speed, lower risk of dying.
Fake or not, doesn't make my point invalid.
Unfortunately the low barrier for entry meant that many programmers hit the ground "running" with no knowledge of such issues, so ended up creating much insecure code simply by never knowing any better.
A really good book is "The Idea Factory" by Jon Gertner. It describes Bell Labs in this period, and through the book basically tells the story of where modern life was born: everything from growing crystals to transistors to cell phones to radar was created at Bell Labs.
CDs are probably the sweet spot
And? Should people hate him for what he did? What is the dispute here? Would you not feel grateful for his contributions, regardless of what end of the political spectrum you're on?

Take your ideology crusade elsewhere.
Not to be contrary for being contrary, but for me it's pretty much he opposite. I've never had complaints about the software when I was an Apple customer (i.e. from 1992 to 2007) and don't have reasons that there is any particular software problem. But the hardware keeps me from buying macs. It doesn't matter how fast Apple's laptops become, as long as they don't have replaceable batteries, have insufficient RAM, and do not come with glare-free screens, I'm not going to become an Apple customer (or developer) ever again.

The power cables are too short and the obsolescence is too planned in modern Apple hardware.
You can't separate the hardware from the software and corporate decisions though.

The problem you've got here is that the iOS model has worked incredibly well for Apple. Without that you wouldn't have had the investment that has delivered the M1.

I'd love to be able to run Firefox on the iPad. I also disagree strongly with some of Apple's decisions - especially on the App Store. However, where we are now is a better outcome than a hypothetical position where iOS is less successful and Apple is using inferior CPU designs. After all I can always buy an Android tablet if I want to run Firefox.
Countries that refuse access to their airspace will generally send fighter jets if you violate it.

The implicit threat of something going badly wrong if they did not land was still there.

And, in both cases it was a dissident committing acts of public service they were after. It was NOT a terrorist.

Even if you manage to convince yourself that the two actions were in no way equivalent that's not how it will play in Belarus. Lukashenko knows that downing Morales plane gives him extra moral authority among his people ("this is standard even the US does it") which is probably why he risked it.
That's for a long distance train from Tokyo to Kyushu, about 500km. For that distance the timing is quite convenient. There's actually a train every 3 minutes or so, but it's prudent to wait for an express or limited express train as it will get there sooner.

Within Tokyo most of the trains run every 5 minutes or so.
There could be over 10,000 Tesla owners affected by the update in Norway alone

I think you have misunderstood the potential consequences.
I didn't say I had a problem with it, just that they have access to more biometrics than any other FAANG and I don't know what their motive is.
How to Value a Business
Thanks, that clarifies it and makes sense.
Been messing about with this: https://mitta.us/https://github.com/wabarc/wayback
You do realise it's not just the hormones at the point of competition that affect your performance? Males have a totally different skeletal structure to females. Especially around the hips. The difference in bone configuration gives male runners a massive advantage.
Zeta becomes a unicorn with $250M SoftBank-led funding
They run quite a number of routes between smaller cities than no other airlines does.
There is an interview with the First Deputy Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of Belarus where he confirms that Mig-29 escorted the Boeing

https://youtu.be/dsyfJ_HqjtQ

Additionally there is an alleged video of the Mig landing after escort with 6 air-to-air missiles visible

https://youtu.be/AV8Im44ZtoI
I always laugh when I read comments saying they won’t buy an iPad because it doesn’t have custom browsing engines, terminals, network sniffers, emulators, VMs etc.

As though Apple is an open source company selling to developers.
There’s also a technique called “weighing”.

It’s a transformation which, by assuming the items are identical, turns quantity from a discrete value to a continuous one with some loss of precision. In many cases measurement times can be reduced my more than 99%.
Because of the constraints on fuel, there was no realistic alternative to going down. And again, once that happened, the fact the Austrian government sent a search party says it all, no matter how hard you want to spin it.
Show HN: Over 200 free images of deep learning architectures and layers
Fine, they aren't arbitrary (obviously a company worth that much isn't making any arbitrary decisions).

But they still suck and degrade the performance for computing enthusiasts who most on this platform are (including me).

I want to push hardware to it's limits because it's fun because there's fun things out there when you do that. Apple wants me to not bork my system or get confused when an app tricks me or have to show up at their Genius Bar with a problem they can't fix from a third party app they've never heard of.

That's fine, but I won't get in that situation, so I don't want hardware locked down by software that worries I will.
Minor correction, his family name is Yuan. Longping is his given name.
Yes, for mac. The first link on their product page [0] has a download for mac [1]

[0] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
[1] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap131.dmg
in fact it probably catches more mistakes than deliberate weird email addresses to be stricter than the standard mandates
‘War’ footing needed to correct economists’ miscalculations on climate change
The ruling would not apply to the other 9970 owners unless a class action lawsuit is started.
Having an US office is due to business needs?
GTA 1 and 2 taught me how to reverse parallel park years before I got my license
People seem to expect their batteries to work forever at their original capacity.
I'm the digital analytics manager for a company that does multi-billion dollars in ecommerce. The real time analytics our ops team use doesn't use any of this behavioral information.

Only place it's been asked for by an operations team is during large (1m+) email sends to ensure there isn't a spike in traffic to error pages.
The fingers are out of focus. No amount of image resolution will correct for out of focus optics at the time the photo was taken. The fingerprints are nowhere to be found in this picture. So clearly something is bogus about the claims in the article.
For pictures, see https://www.google.com/search?q=moscow+metro&tbm=isch

Anyone I spoke with who used Moscow metro, compared to New York and London, people say Moscow always wins hands down. Huge stations, wi-fi on trains and fresh breeze - not 30°C on central line in London during summer.
As much as I despise the Russian regime, the American sabotage of that project aren't much better. Power to Germany if they decide to choose which party they hand control to. At least this way the American influences are limited because of competition in the energy space. With the US desperately clinging to remain their control over the European energy market, Russia's attempts to take their place and Germany's nonsensical denouncement of nuclear energy, the entire project is a cesspool of power struggles and corruption.

I don't find Russian involvement very believable. Belarus don't need Russia to force a plane to land, they can do their own state-funded terrorism like any dictatorship.
Wow, that's a nice feature!
What I like about old computers: creative solutions. These machines were severely limited by today standards, so to do anything useful, interesting workarounds had to be developed.

In the home-computer field, for example, using off-the-shelf cassette tape as storage, compiling code in multiple passes with persistence, simpler byte-code interpreting to increase code density, memory bank switching and other techniques are part of the charm of using that hardware.

Also, it is usually impressive to watch anything useful and quickly being done by constrained hardware.
cardano
By definition? Can you expand?
HDDs have awful MTTF compared to SSDs. Where HDDs shine is when you fill them up, unplug them, and put them in a box for decades.

SSDs are much more reliable than HDDs if you want to access the data, they just need to be powered and never written to.
EVs in general have ridiculous warranty on range/battery capacity.

Consider you have bought 250mile range EV. Most manufacturers will say that there's nothing wrong if your range degrades by up to 30%, down to 175mile range.
I have had three cheap ones in that price range fail. I suspect the Pi Hat version is better designed.
The number one reason at this point in my life (44 years old, fulltime programmer) that I tend to not have any side projects at all is my absolute disdain for physically being tethered to a computer.

After a full week of staring at a screen and sitting too much (I alternate between standing/sitting desks all day) and typing, the last thing in the world that I want to do is more of that. Which is unfortunate, because there are numerous fun programming projects that I'm itching to do.

So I play music and make elaborate chalk art with my kid and garden and ride my bike like a madman. And I suspect that I'm better for it. (Though I'd probably be better at my day job if I were doing those side projects.)
I thought the same thing, how could there be no PFC? The UC3842B is not that old. [1] But I guess time has flown... The PFC requirement was part of Energy Star 5.0 which was 2009. [2]

[1] https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/uc2845.pdf
Great generic current mode control circuit good for lots of things, not just supplies. Still in active use today. Datasheet is like a textbook.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor#cite_note-30
SSDs don't have much data caching. They use the large amount of DRAM for metadata (the FTL), and have small amounts of write buffering. Read caching and prefetching tends to be minimal and amount to the page buffers on each plane of each die, ie. the hardware has to perform a read of 16kB even if you only ask for 4kB.

The bit about updating the same stripe also sounds like hard drive talk, where data can be updated in-place. It doesn't make sense in an SSD context where all modifications go to new stripes and the drive will readily combine a batch of writes to disparate LBAs into a burst of writes to contiguous physical pages.

There's just not much truth behind the Locality rule that isn't already covered by the Request Scale rule.