skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So from reading the article's first couple of paragraphs my obvious question was how do you dispose of the equipment to not allow it to fall into enemy hands? And of course they didn't:

> While the pickup truck exploded after the assassination, it failed to destroy the smart rifle system beyond recognition. This allowed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to piece together what occurred

Using remote AI-assisted seems a logical conclusion. Heck I imagine they hire somebody fresh out of high school who enjoys playing CoD to pull the trigger. It's lower casualty than drones but higher risk if you can't dispose of your tech appropriately
In iOS 15 it does look like you can browse more photos directly on a restaurant page before confronted with the Yelp button. So that’s an improvement I’d say.
This looks pretty cool. I wonder how else NLP could be used to find other insights
A scene graph with script and domain-specific simplifications is a useful tool. It was basically Hypercard v2. Wish parts of the model were integrated into Web standards.
Totally. With Next, your page component can export a getServerSideProps function which is used by the Next server to fetch any props necessary for the page component server-side on-demand. There’s a variation of this function for static builds called getStaticProps, which runs at build time to fetch data for props. So, even if we don’t render anything server-side, we can still run logic/fetches/etc. on the server side when a particular page is requested. This could be useful for dealing with sensitive data, for example.

Sounds like a cool app. I definitely see plenty of opportunities for static content there, like you said, but proper state management is vital for the real-time stuff.
If the people reading these meta-analyses spent equivalent time reading the meta-analyses for any of the three U.S. developed vaccines, maybe they could get an actually effective treatment.

But these people are contrarian-first. They'd much rather delude themselves that self-administered nicotine enemas are proven effective by cargo cult science websites by anonymous "Q" types than believe anything served by a .gov domain.
Or more precisely:

"The particular interpretation of the adage 'a calorie is a calorie' that we have chosen here violates the second law of thermodynamics."
Once you get the hang of it, AN reads beautifully. The concept of Life Tables and the ways the math can be abstracted away using these mystical symbols is incredibly elegant.

Side comment, when you get into the weeds with actuarial exams you quickly learn to respect older actuaries who had to solve these complex problems using clever heuristics instead of computing power. Once those heuristics are internalized they are able to give incredibly accurate off-the-cuff answers using their intuition. I remember my boss and I spending a week valuing a new product and presenting it to the wise old chief actuary who immediately felt something was off in the numbers and could point out where we likely made an error. It took me all afternoon to find the error, but of course he was right.
On the note of cheap automatic watches, Starking is shockingly good (and good looking) for a $60 automatic watch. It has a lot of issues when put under a microscope, but it's accurate enough for daily wear.
Not where we need to get to. A segment of the population is overriding the government in Denmark. That's a 'shadow government' and seems very wrong.

If you want the wages to be reasonable, then the government should take action to make it so. Not a private organization, by essentially extorting the public.
Bombadillo: a non-web browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25223184 - Nov 2020 (50 comments)
What about a 'remarkable'?

A bit big for an eReader perhaps (10") but supports Epub and PDF, is a fairly open platform with lots of community activity and they are about to add the ability to sync with cloud services which I think will enhance its usability.

Not to mention the ability to take notes with a pen.

Or there are three similar Onyx Boox products.
FBI held back ransomware decryption key to run operation targeting hackers
Perhaps something to do with this? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/sec-probing-activisio...
> What positions are taboo for this sort of thing?

I'm not sure what this question means exactly? Are you asking what kind of targeted foreign aggression is informally permissible?
no, I'm not googling things around, your point is that they have "people hearing planes" as part of their defense system, you provide evidence of your claims.
On MacOS if you remap your capslock to control there is a race condition on the login screen. If you use the control/capslock key to wake up your laptop and manage to time it right, you can enable capslock but not have a way to disable it (unless you remapped another key to capslock (why?)).
I generally agree. I once played with 130 and found that to be crazy. Settled on 100 (when it's my own project).

My point is that it's not like they came up with these opinions based on a sandbox of experimentation. The opinions on line length, indentation, etc. are all results of constraints at the time. Which makes the opinions on things like "80 chars, 8 char tabs" feel like retcons.
Nice!

Why not re-run the auto-generation script automatically?
No, since it's proprietary software you don't know what it's being used for. But I'd bet a great deal of money in how they store and analyse all that data for purposes of advertising and worse.

I personally don't want a list of all the "subversive literature" I read nicely compiled for corporations and government to exploit, fuck that 100x.
Creating a JavaScript Connector Map Visualizing the Tour De France 2021 Route
My understanding is that a big part of this type of operation is understanding their target, the patterns and schedule they move by, and then selecting a good spot that is going to work to take them out when they aren’t expecting it or prepared, and they have a good opportunity to escape or not get caught.

So most likely left there the night before (or even longer), they knew when he would be by (and it wasn’t going to be a one-off), and there you go.
I’ve never had an issue with my kobo ereaders.
except via SharedArrayBuffer?
Here are sample PIN requirements (you can change them):

Must be a at least 4 characters long.
Cannot be longer than 127 characters.
Uppercase letters are permitted.
Lowercase letters are required.
May include digits.
Special characters are possible.
Cannot be an obvious number pattern (such as 123456 or 111111).
Writing a Completion Provider in VSCode
Sometimes a feature of a programming language is about making it really inconvenient to do something you shouldn't be doing
It's really so amazing to watch how humanity is spending great amounts of creative energy toward the goal of ending humanity.
System apps doesn't receive separate updates. You can get update for Google translate though.
> the same site that then fixed that bug and forced all blog descriptions to be utf-8, but then implemented size limits as a number of bytes.
> so they truncated mid-utf-8 character, which made parsing the XML A REAL FUN TASK LET ME TELL YOU

How is this a problem unless you do UTF-8 validation when parsing the XML, in which case stop doing that for data you don't control.
Short Link:
https://archive.is/pvJPm
Original NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuc...

Mirror: https://archive.is/mPBhk
And isn't it a sign of moral strength to withhold yourself until marriage?
Was this magazine really 500 pages thick?
Sun launched in 1982, went public in 1986 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems). One might presume that its customers thought it ready for commercial production work by the mid 80s at least...
You don't need ML. A simple if/else would do.

If China, fraud.
Lack of epub support is unacceptable. An e-reader should allow you to read e-books (what a concept!)
It was his regular route I believe
The goal is not to end humanity, though.
I was thinking the same thing. How about one that you can sit in, and maybe attach your bike to the front or rear?

I guess that's the next step and we can call it bikeless trailer or something.
Texas Startups Mount Fight Against Abortion Ban–Without Big Tech
https://www.goodreads.com/review/import

If you're logged in, at the top is an export option which will generate a CSV file. It includes the ISBN if present and a lot of other columns of data that may be useful.

I don't think that's how I did it when I pulled the data out years ago, but it works and involves no 3rd parties so that's nice.
Super cool. I feel like the bigger struggle will be getting actual books.

Unless you pirate them, most books are encumbered with DRM.
National Internet Segment Reliability Research
Yea I think most of the people hyping it here are just consumers and software developers with no plans to make custom cores. If anything, I imagine these people would rather have standard cores that work ootb rather than something customized. So I don't believe this aspect is a reasonable explanation for much of the hype.
Yes, you can get a shorter term loan and have a lower interest rate- 15 years is also reasonably common, and fixed rate products exist at 20 and 10 years respectively. Adjustable rate and 5/1 or 7/1 products exist as well, but they aren’t as popular or encouraged by regulators, as they played a role in the 2008 financial crisis.

As to why go for a 30 year loan instead of a lower interest rate 15 year the answer is basically cash flow and opportunity cost. A 15 year loan may result in paying less interest, but the monthly interest + principal payments are more. Your average borrower will qualify for a larger 30 year loan because the analysis is based on their ability to afford the monthly payments based on their current income.

Even people who can easily afford a 15 year loan will choose a 30 year because the 0.5-1% interest rate is lower than the expected returns of something like stocks, so it makes sense to stay leveraged. There are also tax benefits to paying interest (but not principal) on loans, but these are way less important since the trump tax reforms.

And I just reread your question, and I think you are asking about 5/1 loans. The reason there is that a) interest rates so fluctuate, a lot- they were above 9% in 1991. With a 30 year, you can choose when you refinance (there is no penalty to paying off a home loan early in the US) whereas with a 5/1 you might find yourself getting forced into a higher interest rate- potentially much higher to the point it’s unaffordable. 5/1s also actually have a higher interest rate than 15 years currently, as they aren’t considered “conforming” to various US government programs.
https://archive.is/wgJLU
https://archive.is/ESCa2
Details of some 100M visitors to Thailand exposed online
Everyone's a (Perl) critic, and you can be too
For another story of how ship-borne rats wreaked havoc on an island’s ecosystem, see SG&SS islands[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sa...
Static typing does not make programs automatically faster. The compiler also needs to know typical patterns and apply optimized assembly code for these cases like e.g. loop unrolling or binary arithmetic. Since typical python programs do not do number crunching much (NumPy delegates that to C routines), I wouldn't expect a great performance boost by a static compiler. Also note that statically compiled languages like Go e.g. still do a lot of run-time dispatching (due to the way interfaces work) which can not be removed by the compiler despite the presence of static types. Furthermore, much of perfomance is lost due to garbage collection that still needs to be done by a compiled python program. This why C programs will stay a thing when it comes to performance sensitive niches since it is fast due to the absence of language features.

I'd argue a good JIT compiler will always beat a static compiler, especially for a dynamic language using a complicated syntax such as python.
They still are FASCINATING. People just trying anything. Personal testimonials, sexual imagery, crazy far out futuristic art, it's all there in the ads.
I get it, it's not the device for you. You can leave it disconnected from WiFi and sideload everything if you are that paranoid.
I second the recommendation for "NotJustBikes", very eye-opening in regards to city planning and infrastructure
Link broken.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/cia-director-havana-...
10x to 100x less likely but still a distinct possibility you kill someone that would've lived if they weren't inoculated with a live virus. That's messed up by itself, but also cases like that would likely discourage the people on the fence about vaccination.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/10/us/covid-brea...

Minor live infections to build immunity is called variolation, it's a tactic that was used effectively historically against smallpox, but effectively got obsoleted by vaccination, which doesn't kill as many people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
That area is full of salt pillars. The geology served as an opportunity to create a moral and religious story. Could this have also influenced the story? Perhaps, but the salt pillars are quite large, obvious, and unique.

Edit: I note that nearby Jericho is dated to have been destroyed and abandoned in the same time period (within 50 years, likely well within margins of error). One of the most striking thing about the Tel in Jericho is that half the Tel is missing. Specifically the side to the East, which would be facing this Tel. I have never seen any good reason given for that missing section of Jericho, and would not be surprised at all if the same event destroyed both cities. Obviously lending more weight to this event having been integrated into Biblical writings.
Odd quote from this article:

"One interesting idea that has emerged in dry places (notably Australia and Israel) is water markets. These make sense on a pretty basic level: if something is scarce and valuable, I should be able to buy, sell, and speculate on it."

Given that water is a fundamental necessity, it's supply should not be subject to rigged markets and monopolistic pricing, which is the norm when private investors try to take over natural monopolies (i.e. there's no 'competition' in water supply systems, rather like electricity markets.)
I know it has been attempted many times. But like the general problem of too many options, it doesn't gain enough attention and develop a critical mass.

And in the case of setup tools, they tend to all suffer from the problem of being very difficult to change once setup. The tool you use to build the customized foundation is often unable to make future modifications if you have changed any of the generated code.

But by now we know the 99% common options people want: a choice of a few databases, (probably but optional) user profiles and auth, etc. The database side is pretty much solved, but the user management is definitely not - and it's the source of so many data leaks.
I'm confused. The switch has a screen and accelerometers. How does that that result in a situation you can just let your arms drop that you can't when playing the PS4?
Why? I seriously don't understand this investment. Can someone here explain?
New approach may improve gene therapy for muscle disorders, other rare diseases
I tried to replicate an exact issue I had last week, but I can't which is interesting. I knew I had read a doc days earlier. I could not find it by partial title matches, content searches, nothing. I had to search email for "so and so shared a doc" to get back to the document. Of course, now I can find it the expected way. I routinely need to search things that are buried in docs, like our intern program. This was another one where I couldn't quite remember the title of the doc nor who wrote it. I searched and searched variations of things containing "intern" and even though I had been in the document within the last couple of weeks, I just plum couldn't find it. I had to go back to a calendar invite to find the doc. Part of the problem could be that sometimes people write things different. I might look for "precap," a part of a doc title I'd expect for interviews, but someone else stored it as "interview pre-read" and so I can't find it. That's why I like document hierarchies / trees for finding things. I can go HR -> interviewing -> $something_more_if_needed and browse a couple of files and find what I want. Labels are cool for when something fits into multiple locations in the tree.
I've always considered 40k a satire of the entire sci-fi genre (and in many ways a satire on modern politics). In that way, I find it quite refreshing. And your statement of "unashamed embrace of over-the-top" resonates quite well.
We use Apollo at my new company and I have mixed feelings on GQL so far, but I asked HN about it and lots of people had positive anecdotes:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28488259
> when I'm in the mood for racing and I have my good road bike I tend to avoid bike paths as a courtesy to other cyclists

Please share this advice with your fellow bike racing enthusiasts. I reside on Cape Cod, which has a rather famous and busy bike trail. My kids and I have been almost run over, and scolded by spandex wearing weekend Tour de France warriors several times. If you want to race, stay off bike trails.
the terrifying thing will be when this type of system gets deployed at scale with drone swarms. The dream of any authoritarian government to use against citizens to keep them in line
If Alice buys a home for $100k and it appreciates $1M over ten years, and Bob rents for ten years for $100k, total. Alice has $1M more than Bob does. That isn't nullified if Alice chooses to buy a $1M home next. She can also go buy another $100k home instead and pocket the $900k. Bob, obviously, cannot pocket anything.
I read that three-dimensional space is the only one where gravitational orbits are possible, because inverse-cube / inverse-linear etc. doesn't have orbits stable to minor perturbations.
Ending humanity, is trying to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons?
São Paulo's speed limits are automatically enforced by traffic cameras, so drivers are highly incentivized to comply. "If you’re driving in São Paulo and you go above the speed limit, you’re sure you’re going to get a ticket," Vieira says. "I was surprised when I was [in America] that you don’t have automatic enforcement."

The only reason US municipalities are willing to install auto enforcement is to fatten budgets. It's a perverse incentive and it band-aids the core fault of having cars in places that ought to be pedestrian spaces.
Like this? https://theconversation.com/of-bunyips-and-other-beasts-livi...

They reference this book which seems interesting: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/edge-of-memory-9781472943262/

What is your source?
You can't just throw out numbers like "25% sales tax" and think that it paints a clear picture of how it is to live and work in a country like Denmark. I'm Danish and have lived in the US for 13 years. I have owned companies in both countries. Denmark is without question superior in almost every aspect when it comes to running a business.

As a note, my personal tax rate in the US is not that much lower than my Danish tax, and in Denmark I get free health care, free education, free support if I'm struggling, and a unified, digital service for registering and running my company.
They say they've improved it 20% over the last model. So presumably it's at a minimum 20% faster than the one you have.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/amazon-announces-new...
I don't think Israel have any taboos regarding who to kill in Iran, the constrains come from the US and the limited deterrence provided by possible Iranian response.
Here's a different way to think about water:

There is the theory that evolution is a process by which genes advance and proliferate. That livings things are just the pawns for their genes, life is a medium for a genetic super organism.

But the genetic super organism is just a middle manager. Life does not exist for itself or for genes but for water. Living organisms were created within water and by water to be a vehicle that H2O can use to transcend the tyranny of gravity and explore space.
Okay but what if I need something more than an enum? Like if the stuff parameter is of type "BaseThing", and there are only meant to be five subclasses of BaseThing to check. I would want the type checker to verify that I dealt with every case. But without sealed classes, it can't determine that some other code that subclasses from BaseThing is wrong.
Internet Freedom Around the World Declines for 11th Consecutive Year
Except now how am I supposed to know '?' brings up this display?
Asking the right questions.
There is a non-anonymous sort of meta-analysis in the form of a letter containing corrections to an earlier flawed meta-analysis. (I'm not endorsing this letter, just pointing out that it exists.)

https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/...

I think though that most people aren't asking the right question about ivermectin. From a population health standpoint it's clearly not a viable alternative to vaccination (and I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can). But vaccination isn't 100% effective so there will continue to be many symptomatic breakthrough cases. So the real question is whether ivermectin should be added to the treatment protocol along with other drugs including monoclonal antibodies? Is it clinically justified on a risk / reward basis?

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/about-the-gui...

The NIH is currently sponsoring a large scale clinical trial of ivermectin and other drugs.

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...

While waiting for results from that study does it make sense to act based on lower quality research? There are at least some small studies which appear to show a significant clinical benefit with minimal risk.

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03000605211013550

It's unfortunate that the issue has been so heavily politicized. Decisions on off-label drug use should generally be left up to individual physicians.
It usually boils down to ‘will they be able to hurt us in a way that will outweigh the value to us of taking this target out’.

If a 2nd rate dictator takes out someone from a 1st world country or their allies this way? They won’t be a dictator for long, guaranteed. Someone will get a UN resolution going, call for a coalition, and within a week they’ll have their palaces bombed - if folks want to spend the effort doing it that way instead of having Mossad or the CIA put a bomb in their car anyway.

Someone from a 1st world gov’t wanting to do this to a 2nd tier gov’t? Well, how much pull does that person have with the 1st world gov’ts allies? Is there major business or economic blowback
possible? Would they be able to start a war or blow something up that would hurt us? Is there bad PR to worry about? A congressional or parliamentary investigation that could happen? Or like in this case is the target considered ‘a bad person’ working for a ‘bad country’ that is already sanctioned and won’t hurt any major 1st world economic or business interests?

If not likely to stir up any fuss and could make something happen someone wants, some enterprising group is likely to take them out. Either military, intelligence, or private.
Hmm yeah that what I’m confusing. I suppose it’s misleading when folks say The Fourth Dimension since it depends on context! But in the case of the article the question becomes how do we visualize four or more dimensions? What the dimensions represent doesn’t necessarily matter unless there’s a specific problem being solved.