skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't the Russians have missiles that fly >5x faster than this, at mach 27?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a30346798/...
I would posit that it could be totally normal and healthy to "get into a rut" every now and then. I tend to be pretty obsessive about the interests I pursue, and my productivity comes in waves with high crests and low troughs. I've found that sometimes my brain just needs a break from a certain activity.

I'm thankful to have a job where my activities can vary pretty widely from day to day (security and compliance), although I also think I've brought that situation about myself due to my work habits (which usually consist of intense periods of focusing on one thing until I get results, followed by a period of relative quiet / lower productivity, followed by intense action on a new front).

If the first thing an employer saw was my low productivity phase, they very well might fire me before they got to see me kick an uncommon amount of ass. We all move at a different pace, and it's important to step back and survey your productivity from a birds eye view. It's totally okay to have off days, and even off weeks, as long as your overall output is good.
It doesn't matter, you are not allowed to point out hypocrisy, as is not immoral to criticize another government while your own kills children with drone strikes. Is the way it is, I learned the good old *downvoted* way. There is, it seems, a list of things you cannot criticize over here: Rust, US, React JS, Firefox, Elon Musk, Tesla, etc...
> As things stand, with the current technology its too much like trolley-philosophy-problem with live bodies.

Yeah if the trolley problem is kill 1 person for a 10% chance of saving 5 people in ten years.

I think the ethics are actually against Tesla, especially since there are other alternatives to testing/developing self driving such as simulation or closed courses, instead of releasing it out into the wild with very irresponsible naming and marketing.
This wouldn't surprise me at all. I ran into the same issue with AT&T during the switch from 3G to 4G. Suddenly, signal at my house went to absolute crap. Couldn't make or get calls. Texts would never send, texts would arrive in a random burst overnight.

Repeated visits to the AT&T store to complain were met with them pulling up a google maps like coverage map and saying "Nope see you have fine coverage at your house, go away please."
Many depth estimation AI approaches do that and call it disparity. The idea there is that as things get further away, you'll see distances less precisely, so perceptually 20cm to 30cm might be the same as 20m to 30m
it's kind of funny how concerned people are about secrecy and data storage when people just pull out their phones and put that stuff out in the open. Reminds me of the military base that was exposed through strava heatmap data a few years ago. One really has to wonder how far OSINT can go.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42853072
The artist and the museum are in dispute over the purpose of the funding and the work delivered, although I suspect its the kind of dispute which resolves if the value of the work can be confirmed by the wider community participation.

On the whole, I think contracts-for-art are tricky. If you drive too hard, you get underwear on the sistine chapel. if you don't drive hard enough you get conceptual art that might not even exist.
> 100 people screaming on twitter now has the same impact as 200,000 matching on Washington

It doesn't, though, unless at least one of those 100 has a giant following, but “one person with a media megaphone is louder than 100,000 without” isn't new, its older than radio competing with newspapers.
IMHO, the risk of nuclear war is higher than we think. Can you imagine the number of expected casualties of all-out-war with China? We've played this game before. Japan/WW2. The US _will_ nuke China and justify it under number of lives saved.
Wow, with global replication by default, this looks absolutely perfect for what I'm currently building, even before taking costs into account.

I'm hoping this means what I think it means, that write latencies will be minimal across the globe, since writes will be persisted and ack'd at the closest region and then eventually consistently propagated to other regions?

If so, curious what would happen in a scenario where a region requests an object that has been persisted at another region but not yet propagated? Will it result in a 404 or is the system smart enough to route the request to the region that has the file at the cost higher latency?

From my research so far into S3's cross region replication, the latter behavior doesn't seem possible out of the box since requests have to specify a single region (S3 experts, please do correct me if I'm wrong), so I'm hoping CloudFlare with its deep expertise in managing a global network can differentiate here. Even if it's not offered out of the box, due to the lack of egress costs, it's a lot more feasible to build in this behavior in the application layer with R2 by just racing requests across several regions and taking the one that resolves first (or at all), so very promising regardless.

Also, would love to hear some numbers on what kinds of write latency to expect. From my experience so far, S3 writes for tiny files in a single region take on the order of 50ms ish even for clients in close physical proximity, which is serviceable for my use case, but seems higher than it needs to be (and every little bit I can shave off on latency helps tremendously for what I'm building). Really looking forward to seeing what the CloudFlare solution is capable of here.

Lastly, S3 didn't advertise and guarantee strong read-after-write consistency for same region read/write until late last year. Will R2 offer this out of the gate?
One is a real problem, actually experienced and only getting worse. One is a pretend problem that is only talked about and never experienced.
I heard a great story a while back for a digitization project where historic content was being provided by many libraries around the world, including one in Russia.

The quality of the scanned books was excellent, except for a weird distortion every so often where part of the page would be shifted partway through as if someone had shifted half the page in Photoshop. This was only noticed in books over a certain size so people were checking to see if there was some kind of mechanical problem with the scanner (these were robots with automatic page turners so it was plausible that there could be something which was only an issue past a certain position), trying to figure out of there was some way that the software had some kind of memory leak or other issue which would explain the long and inconsistent intervals.

Eventually they were on a long-distance phone call to Moscow and not turning up anything when there was a loud rumble in the background. “What was that?” lead to the realization that the library's scan center was close to a subway tunnel. The vibration of a passing train was enough to cause a glitch but only if you happened to be scanning at the exact time it went by: the reason longer books were noticed was simply because having more pages meant that at any point in time a long book was more likely to be sitting in the scanner and the technicians running the scanner were apparently tuning out the trains as background noise. This was reportedly the first project they'd done with one of the scan robots which can process an entire book unattended so it was plausible that smaller past projects simply hadn't been scanning frequently enough to hit this problem or that some previous technician had noticed and immediately redone the page.
Super I annoyed I missed that. Good on you!
Salt is BAD.

Sodium contamination messes up the threshold voltages of transistors.

And the Northeast uses salt everywhere for snow and ice control and removal.
ngl main appeal here is that azlo, the bank stripe atlas was using, has shut down and I don't want to learn how to replace it
It's split into ~9 second excerpts. Each are loaded by ajax on demand. They're served with content type video/MP2T. JS loads the content of the response into a Blob. `URL.createObjectURL` converts each piece into a "blob:"-scheme URL that can be interpreted by the <video> element on the page.
Many-Worlds Assisted Mind Uploading (2006)
> That part is probably not portable.

If you need that part, and that part is not portable, then your solution is not portable is it!
Visible is a Verizon subsidiary used to capture price sensitive customers.
I just watched the product video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj1t3msy8dc), and it's clear that surveillance is not a stealthy component, but the only function this device actually has: Despite a $1000 sales tag, they didn't even bother putting a vacuum in their robot.

Amazon's main target audience is suburban helicopter moms who want to snoop on their kids, and I doubt that privacy is a major concern to them.
There's nothing extraordinary about Amazon having a 2 year tenure average. Here's a somewhat dated (I'd guess it's gotten even shorter since) article from 2018 listing many more company tenures:

https://www.inc.com/business-insider/tech-companies-employee...

There are many known companies with ~2 years give or take.
Well, I'm 100% sure that some of that is there for SEC reasons, but I'm not 100% sure the primary motivator for putting it up is the SEC, JPM being JPM and all, who knows... so, as throwing caution to the wind, I put 97%, as I also feel 100% sure I don't really trust JPM. :)
oh so tiktok viral clickbait is a new cool thing now. so cool.
One approach is to (auto)nag users to enable MFA and (auto)disable console access if failed to do so.

AWS Console with MFA enabled will require MFA.

They can self-manage MFA/password at any point.
Haiku Animator – open-source vector design tool for creating Lottie animations
> I guess maybe he didn't want to slow down the rate at which he was pulling in F-U money.

Bingo! The manager's 10-30% bonus was on the line; and they probably saw the stressed employee not quite through a human lense, but was more of a broken cog that was gumming up the works and tanking the manager's metrics/KPIs.
I was using Zim for a while until someone I was working with suggested Joplin when I mentioned I was looking for alternatives. It's perfectly functional, but it feels... lacking, just this side of clunky. I just wasn't happy with it overall or the way notes are organized. The generated backlinks were annoying.

I'm liking Joplin a lot better, although the rich text editor will get weird every once in a while. I'll switch back and forth between Markup and rich text depending on how lazy I'm feeling.

Might have to give Obsidian a whirl.
Yeah was just thinking that! That analogy may have worked 20 years ago but everything, including notably storage, is solid state now and way more durable.
Upvoted b/c it feels very well thought out and summarized the article brilliantly. And because I don't know if I agree with you politically, which makes it an even more valuable assessment to me (because I'm not prejudging).
Insular
I rely almost entirely on the swabs for testing things around the house, because they're what I have, and they tell you whether lead is actually transferable from a surface, versus being merely present in the material.

But if I had an XRF tester I would use it all the time. The swabs are relatively slow, especially the way I use them, and they don't work at all for some things. For example, a swab won't tell you if there's lead paint under a layer of safe paint. This is important because that lead paint is just as much of a hazard when it chips or when you do any remodelling. You can scrape away paint a layer at a time to swab it, but you'll never get a whole house tested this way, whereas an XRF could do it in an hour or two.

Every so often I gather up some particular things and take them to the tri-county health department here in south Denver for XRF testing. The last batch I took included some old red-painted hand tools, a chip of red paint from a yard decoration, a set of chinese-made pastel crayons that my kids got for christmas, and a bag of dust I collected from the HVAC in our house. These things aren't testable with swabs; the dust isn't swabable, and the red tools and pastels colored the swab regardless of lead content.

The people there are friendly and eager to help. I made an appointment, and the lady actually drove in for it from a different department. She tested all my stuff in about 15 minutes, and everything came back negative except for one of the red tools. Even the chinese-made pastels were completely clean, which surprised me.

Fun bonus: she told me a story about how the county health department updated their standard household lead testing protocol twelve years ago after some guy brought in a bunch of dishes that tested shockingly high. Guess who that guy was? :)
Does anyone know what would happen to the squirrel if he/she realizes their entire year's of investment is gone? Does it have feelings to feel angry / sadness?

Would the Squirrel likely starve (or if it was a breadwinner would the whole family starve), or would another squirrel help it out?

If anyone has interesting resources to learn about squirrels that could help me investigate more please share.
So you are saying that facebook has exactly zero moral obligation to do the right thing?

They make instagram, they know instagram can cause suicidal thoughts in teens, the government hasn't regulated it yet, so facebook is in the clear?

That sounds like a zuckerberg-y level denial and blame shifting. I don't think they should operate like philip morris, and I'd guess that some of their employees would agree or we wouldn't have even heard about this information.
I may be underestimating our adversaries but I’d imagine we know exactly where all of their satellites are at all times and could just wait to pull it out until a window of clear skies (I don’t think they have 24/7 coverage of the entire United States)

There are already restrictions on our civilian satellites taking high res pictures of our military installations.
Looks like an X-47 to me.

On a side note, somebody just got fired.

https://www.rumblerum.com/northrop-grumman-x-47b-uav/
If Rupert Murdoch was looking for a model to run his bully pulpit, he didn't have to look much further.
> root-less nature of podman

I see this repeated a lot, but it's not the default, its has to be explicitly configured: https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/v3.3.1/docs/tutori...

And in addition to the known upsides, there are some lesser known downsides:

1. There are feature limitations with it: https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/v3.3.1/rootless.md

2. There are security implications, quoting Arch Wiki:

> Warning: Rootless Podman relies on the unprivileged user namespace usage (CONFIG_USER_NS_UNPRIVILEGED) which has some serious security implications, see Security#Sandboxing applications for details.

Also worth noting that Docker itself has a rootless mode as well by now: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/

I'm happy that there are Docker alternatives, but I have the feeling that podman has been hyped a lot recently and many articles and comments give the impression that it's more secure by default and without any downsides.
It's a big problem now that manufacturers use soy insulation for wires, which I guess is tasty if you are a rodent.
Unlike OpenAI, which is serving a closed-source model, anyone can validate for themselves (even without using our service) whether open-source models like GPT-J are suitable for a particular application. We'd like to work with the open source community to make this kind of technology more accessible, essentially as an infrastructure provider.

If you have some specific use case in mind feel free to shoot us an email at hello@exafunction.com
You should look up the definition of those words, they don't apply here.
I don’t know about squirrels but hamsters are known to hedge their “nest eggs” with crypto.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/crypto-trading-hamster-mr-...
One of the most toxic environments on the internet, filled with people who define themselves by their employment at big tech, and how large their salaries are. Think WallStreetBets meets tech but with less self-deprecation and emotional maturity, if you can imagine it.
All judges are opinionated. They're humans. I don't see why you're trying to deny humanity to judges.

Read the above and reconsider if your argument makes sense. It stands to reason that if you have any position of "power," even if it's just "random internet moderator," you should at least try to be fair, consistent, and reasonable.
The challenges I’ve had switching out Docker Engine, CLI, and Compose with Podman has been the absence of a vetted Docker Compose replacement.

What I’ve done so far in replacing Docker Desktop has been to use just the CLI, Engine, and Compose on WSL2.
DMs are a major abuse vector, and only the abuser and their victim see DMs.

It doesn't sound like you've thought this one through.
I honestly love this copy. It's fantastically refreshing! I wish I got to see it more often... This was my favourite bit:

> Listen, this is half service, half art project. I made it in two days because I needed one and Imgur is an embarrassing husk of its former self, and I had nothing better to do. If you're expecting professionalism, call Oracle and ask for a quote of Oracle Advanced Image Sharing for Hadoop or whatever crap they sell, IMGZ is awesome but what you see is what you get.
Stray Squirrel Shuts Down Nasdaq System (1987)
Ah, rodents and cars.

Many years ago a mouse built a nest in one of the heating vents of my car. He lived there peacefully until I went on a climbing trip with friends in the Olympics. We were driving up a steep dirt road to the trailhead, and I turned on the heating to help cool the engine a bit. At some point it got too hot. The mouse jumped out of the vent onto the dashboard of the car to get some fresh air.

It's hard to say who was more surprised: the mouse or the humans. We looked at him in stunned silence. He looked back. Nobody moved for what seemed like about a minute, thought it was probably more like a few seconds. Eventually one of my friends had the presence of mind to grab him and gently drop him out of the window into the bushes at the side of the road.

Then we all laughed hysterically for about 10 minutes. For the rest of the trip you just had to say "the mouse..." and it started all over again. Live well, little mouse!
If your blog required a “real ID” to post content rather than allowed anonymous comments, would we have the same problem? The premise of the GP (and one I share) is that the internet’s content moderation problems are symptoms of default anonymity. Twitter is default anonymous so nobody’s reputation is a stake when they teach a neural net hooked up to the twitter firehose to be a racist asshole.
Yes, Spot + a repurposed pro camera gimbal could do this today. However the cost needs to come down by about 100x.
Meh I am an existing user, can't be bothered to change to this. Convenience matters.
I mean, the government has legislated that full-time employees HAVE to get benefits from the employer... I don't think it is quite a "both at fault" situation because the government can actually change the rules, companies just have to follow them...
Because at the end of the day it is based on phone numbers you have to check those keys even if all of the software is secure, because people only rent phone numbers and they are even awkwardly easy to steal by sweet talking the carrier into letting you do a number port.
We had this happen to our truck when I was a kid. The exhaust pipe was packed from the catalytic converter back through the muffler. It took a bit to figure out what was going on and then I had to get under and cut holes in the exhaust pipe in a couple places until I found clear pipe.

After that we started putting soup cans over the exhaust pipes if they were going to sit more than a day or two.
> He was at turns informally warned, encouraged to take leave, and offered severance.

Both these options would leave him without ongoing income and would do nothing to help him as a person[1]. They'd neatly solve the employer's problems though, and it's apparent who you more closely identify with in this story.

1. As someone else mentioned, short- and/or long-term disability was the mutually beneficial solution, but management/HR took the path of least resistance, regardless of the cost to his humanity.
I wonder if you could return bogus but plausible results to port scans? Either whitelist a set of safe ports such as HTTP(S?) so that if they try to "curl google.com" to confirm whether everything is OK they get a good response but silently drop everything else causing their scan to return negative on all ports.
> . Can you imagine the number of expected casualties of all-out-war with China? We've played this game before. Japan/WW2. The US _will_ nuke China

Japan didn't have a nuclear second-strike capability with the range to hit the US. (Or, literally, any part of that taken independently.)

The US leadership can't even make a remotely plausible argument, after emerging from their bunkers after the exchange is done, to have “saved lives” by nuking China.
Don't forget FRAPS!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraps
Show HNs were great years ago, but due to the sheer size of the community here nowadays nobody gets noticed without a prearranged horde of up-voters at the ready and/or a little "help" from the mods.
Is it a timed ban or they cancel your contract?
I've found that architectures like redux which force the separation of logic and side effects (eg file writes or networking) allow me to write robust tests against the logic code without mocks or stubs. My approach is to write enough code that I have a good idea of what the interface to SUT should look like. Then I write the failing test and make it pass then write another test... The tests I write generally only change when the interface changes or when the requirements change. It doesn't make the code too rigid b/c I'm only writing tests against the interface of this big blob of code. I'm free to refactor away and my test will still run as long as I don't change the interface.
Ask HN: Photography Hacks
I have always known about the rule of thirds [0] and golden ratio [1].

I recently learned of rabatment of the rectangle [2], lead room [3] and head room [4].

What other "rules" of photography or modern hacks do you find worthy of adding to your repertoire?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabatment_of_the_rectangle

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_room

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headroom_(photographic_framing)
And we could have no issues with water or heating and no billionaires, unless you're suggesting that billionaires alone make such problems go away. In that case we should send ours to the countries without so many.

We're a wealthy country, that's obvious, and while we've demonstrated the power of greed to get things done, we have done poorly at keeping it in check and harnessing it for good. We don't need to do away with billionaires or take away all corporate power but they shouldn't be making up the rules to suit themselves.

On this point of water access, it seems pretty reasonable to charge progressively, but not so progressively that it's practical for small consumers to sell their excess cheap water to large consumers.
Doesn't smell right, you're saying a family of 4 in Arizona uses ~900 gallons a day? That's 3500L or 3.5 tons of water every day.

I mean you can flush the toilet every minute for the whole day and only use about that much water, and that's assume the toilet fills up as fast (it doesn't).
> the heinous crime of facilitating voluntarily peaceful trade

Well that, money laundering, hacking, and contracting someone to kill six people.