skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised Ukrainians do not use remotely controlled mines.

I don't know anything about weapons. Would it be hard to create a detonator that is remote controlled?

Then one guy - let's call him the controller - could watch over a street in which a bunch of mines with such detonators are buried. As soon as an enemy vehicle is over the position of such a mine, the controllers selects it on his app and destroys the vehicle.

If the signal can be sent over a distance of - say - 100m or more, then that would be a very comfortable way of defense against tanks, wouldn't it?
None

that market price range has none with such quality

(be realistic please)
Where is my Flying Car, Where is my Space Tourism, Where is my Space Colony, Where is my Underwater Colony, Where is my Cheap Plentiful Environmentally friendly Energy Generation / Storage

it seems to be we are stuck, we are improving current technology, but we have not created new technology in a long time, Sure computers got smaller and more powerful but that is just iteration of the same design..

We need another major shift in technology, not just iterations / improvements on the same old, same old
> Somehow Chrome autopopulating credit card fields got transformed into me having a Google Pay account.

If you give a company your information in one department, another department will invariably use it. See also: Facebook using the phone number you put in for 2FA for targeted marketing [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your...

> The old "don't be evil" Google wouldn't have done this.

What's the "old" Google? You mean like Google Latitude, circa 2009? [2] [3]

[2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2530951/privacy-group-...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/technology/22privacy.html
Read my message again and read your reply again then.

Selling replacement parts with an unreasonable markup is a form of bait and switch: the customer buys the product thinking that it will have a given TCO over its lifetime. Only after some time the customer learns that the TCO is much higher when a replacement is needed.

You twisted my words by claiming that making a profit is not a scam.
Economic growth is bounded by the laws of physics, particularly the laws of thermodynamics.
Well re-use and re-cycle are always good, but you would also hope that technology advanced enough to mine the floor of the pacific would be able to do it in an ecologically sensitive way.
I have Russian work colleagues in a western European country. While they don't support Putin (at least not overtly) and don't like the level of power he has acquired, they seem to have an ingrained distrust of the "west", even though the "west" gave them permanent residence, social security, a means of living. They somehow still believe Putin's propaganda, claiming that they're not sure if bioweapons or labs really were found in Ukraine, or generally not trusting western news sources, while somehow still believing Russian ones.

So in my experience, a majority of Russians, even those living abroad, really are Putin's puppets.
> mobile-first thinking leads to substandard desktop or tablet experiences.

This IMO is what made Win8 so bad.
The flaw in that logic is that, if it weren't for the people who develop lethal weapons for the bullies, we wouldn't have to fear the bullies.

Also, I think the design space of "radical defense" is under explored. Our (western) armies are still designed for attack and force projection, although we have long since renamed our war ministers secretaries of defense.

But I wonder if you could develop defense capability to make your country unattackable. Not by threat of retaliation, but for example by much much stronger missile defense. Or by educating ("indoctrinating") your own population, so that an occupier would not find a single collaborator? Or by mining your own infrastructure, and giving every citizen basic combat training (a bit like the swiss)? Or by fostering a world-wide political transformation that is designed to prevent wars from happening at all?

I think if we wanted to spend money researching stuff to keep us safe, it doesn't necessarily have to be offensive weapons.
There's a much more sensible C# merge sort implementation in the same repo as the oddly-over-the-top one linked in the article, which is very very close to the PHP one: https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/C-Sharp/blob/master/Algorit...
Ban on Deep Learning is coming. It's going to be classified as a weapon and practitioners will need a background check/license to perform it.
Some people use YouTube as a method of listening to music/podcasts/etc.
Well now I feel compelled to install a web server on mine. I've got a fully functional i486DX2 66Mhz, though the PSU is a little shoddy.

Maybe we can create an old school banner network linking all these old computers together :D
The idea of using a VoIP provider would be to _avoid_ using one's phone, e.g. to get better rates... And the reply-to number, it's unfortunately not the way telcos work... and changing all the infrastructure for this would be very very expensive.
I can relate to that. In my career I stepped out and into defense, and it never really bothered me that much to be honest. But then it was always things like fighter jets and helicopters sold to NATO members, I never had to rationalize that we build the weapons carrier and not the, e.g., missiles that actually cause harm.

I always drew the line at small arms so. Way more people die because of those, they end up in every conflict and there have been too many scandals of those smalls arms manufacturers circumventing export restrictions. Quite recently I added supporting countries like Saudi and the UAE to that list, even the job would have been really interesting, providing highly sophisticated training services to the Saudis is nothing I could do and still look myself in mirror. And civil aerospace is fun as well.
Is there be something to be said about how difficult notoriety is these days? People are so connected and the competition much greater to get noticed vs historically where publications were limited. Today it feels as though in order to become a famous genius, you would not only have to optimize for your field, but also the SEO required to get a high ranking on a google or youtube search. That in addition to the storytelling skills necessary to keep your readers and viewers engaged because there's a cat video next on the feed. Which makes me also think what's tech's responsibility in causing all this? Are we preventing people from attaining this genius state because we're sucking all their attention with social media?
Ask HN: Pull requests based reviwable staging instance?
Hi developers who use pull requests based work flow, have you ever worked with a flow where all opened pull requests' branches merged with shadow master behind the scene as a reviewable branch deployed to a staging server?

That is all opened PRs are still opened, the master branch stays as it is, just the mixed of PRs'branches + shadow-master gets deployed and let project manager review.

Any PR can be marked with label to be excluded and re-mark to be included, and every push to any pull request will trigger the automated build (merging all pull requests)
Mostly void, partially stars...
Nothing stopping you wearing one on your own :) could help reduce the probability of getting sick.
Or even a lot of the middling ones. In the US something like a trillion dollars a year is spent on making people want to buy stuff. Not to mention all the social forces that encourage spending. Relatively few people manage to live far enough beneath their means that they can just quit a job on principle.

I happen to be one of the people who can (and has!) quit a job on principle. But it's very much a luxury good that I work hard to afford. And it's easier for me: no kids, no parents to care for, no mortgage to worry about. I would rather more people quit their jobs on principle (or risked it through efforts like unionization). But I mostly don't blame them if they feel like they can't.
Been reading Chuck Klosterman's book, But What If We're Wrong?. Which is partly that thought. The things that get remembered in the global consciousness are not always the people or things we'd expect. It's possible that we have a "genius" right now that will be remembered in 100 years. But due to all the local noise it's hard to see through that and remain objective.

Basically we're really terrible at guessing what the future holds.
I’m a sales associate at Home Depot - I have to look up items all the time. I usually just google “item Home Depot”

This usually gets me the item or a similar item. If the item is similar and not what they want, I have a tree categorization and I can usually go up a level. The interesting problem w the Home Depot I think is figuring out how to categorize and when to make a category. For example “screws” is an obvious category in which there will be sub-categories and parameters on which to filter like “length” or “color” (I use this a lot). What filter parameters to have is also interesting as is how to display the results. Most items are returned in a list form but, annoyingly, some types of items have their own splash page that is kind of unique to that item.

If the item is weird, it might be really hard to categorize, usually these go into _____ accessories. Overall I think Home Depot does a good job w the search except the UI is laggy as someone mentioned and as they also mentioned the location setting is ALWAYS WRONG. FIX THIS NOW! Every. Single. Time I have to check if an item is in stock at my store, it puts me in the wrong store and I have to manually change it myself. Am I just a moron or is there really no way to set it and forget it?
On desires - I would disagree on two fronts. In the first place our capacity to fulfill desires is limited by time and money. In the second, core desires are ultimately few in number, whereas creative abstractions to satisfy them are effectively limitless, but there are diminishing returns. Think overconsumption or addiction. I think where this leaves us is having a large variety of means to satisfy desire, but consumption per individual (not in terms of dollars but stimulation) falls within a range.

As for growth, I think the pandora's box that has been opened is that population (either domestic or abroad) is a necessary component, and natural resources make that possible. On the other hand, a stagnant GDP seems more a crisis for the wealthy than everyone else. The global population is projected to level off in the next 100 years; there will come a point we will have to plan for that. The valid fear is that unlike many historical periods of stagnation and high inequality, this may not be broken up (as it was by war), and ruling classes will have better tools to hold on to wealth and power.
Good to know I was looking in the wrong spot, I was looking for what looked like the most likely header other parts of the code would be using.
If I can express something using the type system I'll always go with that first, so I don't even need the test to enforce the same contract.
It managed to convince the majority of Republicans to take it?

Game changer!
From that article:

> Users of the Advantage keyboards tend to fall into two rough buckets: 1) people who suffer from pain when typing on a conventional keyboard, and 2) software developers.

I assume the second bucket is software developers who do not have RSI problems. What are the advantages of this keyboard for software developers? Is "software developers" just another way of saying users who want to customize how the keyboard works?
This is essentially what the pesticide and herbicide industries have been doing since their inception, i.e. designing molecules that efficiently kill animals, insects and plants. It seemed like a miracle at first, but the long-term consequences of things like persistent chlorinated aromatics and their derivatives (Agent Orange and dioxin for example) eventually appeared in human populations.

The development of the toxic nerve agents (organo-phosphate compouds mostly) in particular was a side effect of research into insect toxins. The nerve agents were discovered in this manner, they worked too well. Nevertheless, these pesticides were deemed safer than the organochlorines because they degraded fairly rapidly after application (although they are implicated in nerve damage related diseases like Parkinson's in agricultural areas).

Insect infestations are indeed a big issue in agriculture and can wipe out entire crops if not dealt with, but there are plenty of options that don't require applications of highly toxic or persistent chemicals.

Otherwise, this is just another of the many issues modern technology has created. Smallpox is another one - in the late 1990s, there was a great debate over whether to destroy the last smallpox samples - and then in the mid 2000's, someone demonstrated you could recreate smallpox by ordering the appropriate DNA sequences online and assembling them in a host cell. Then there's the past ten years of CRISPR and gain-of-function research with pathogenic viruses, a very contentious topic indeed, and still unresolved.
Somewhat related (and shameless plug), I coded a Lua-scriptable (Javascript planned) DNS server a while ago[0]. I'm using it in a few low traffic domains, but the code needs some additional love :-)

[0] https://github.com/luismedel/redns
Like anything difficult there are real risks and trade-offs, but just refusing to engage in difficult pragmatic issues is not the ethical position imo, it's just the easy one that feels good. It puts the burden of actual complex ethical decisions onto other people.

The west needs the capability to defend the ideals of classical liberalism and individual liberty. In order to do that it needs a strong military capability.

https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html
Their regex fails on some valid ccTLDs:

- .香港 is a valid ccTLD (for Hong Kong)

- .xn--j6w193g is a valid ccTLD (punycode transliteration of the above)
I assume it's a Protonmail account, I noticed many websites say a "pm.me" email address is invalid.
After a week of adjustment and constant tweaking of the layout (Wally is so nice), I have to say my Moonlander fixed most of my shoulder, forearm and wrist issues.

When people asked about the price, I told them some days I spend more time on my keyboard than on my bed.

I just wish I could put a trackpoint right between YUHJ buttons and never use my mouse again.
That is hilarious. Can we use deep fakes combined with trump's spite to move him closer toward the left??
I'm no expert but ....I guess it's similar to an aircraft carrier. Alone it's massively vulnerable from asymmetric attacks, but when properly protected can be powerful and effective.
Much better article. It says they have a 2000 MW transmission line between Ukraine and Europe.
> If you want to argue hard science, you'll have an uphill job of explaining to me why there should be 24 timezones and not 1440 of them.

Why not just have the time be the current longitude where the sun is at the meridian? The whole world could use the same standard and eliminate a lot of confusion.

We would have to use a unit other than degrees since that would make minutes and seconds (and weather conditions) confusing.
IPC is totally worthwhile for native applications in any case, when separate complex components are combined into a single user session. Running the code in separate heaps reduces the chances of bugs in one application code corrupting the entire application heap.

Very hard to argue that IPC would ever be just for avoiding license. It always increases total robustness.
This is not really that worrying IMO - we already have weaponized toxins, viruses, and enough explosives to blow up the entire planet. So what if an AI can come up with something a little bit worse? It isn't the existence of these things that's stopping us all from killing each other.
Do you mean something like “dominant superpower”? Because China, the former USSR, and the USA were commonly referred to as the superpowers until the collapse of the USSR, which leaves the USA and China (and Russia? I don’t know). Is the USA, today, more powerful than China? It’s not clear.
You can say the same thing about lack of light at night?
It isn't for you, me, or Google to determine whether or not there are potential negative outcomes coming from the unexpected use of very sensitive data such as CC #s, or what amount of risk is acceptable. That sort of assessment can only realistically be done by whoever's data it is.

That Google appears to be so cavalier about this is a serious, but unsurprising, thing. I don't think I'd call it "evil", though, so much as "abusive".
My only experience with Nix was one job, where we hired a new guy who had just done his PHD in Computer Science but never written production code.

Someone on the team was mentioning that our build/deploy pipeline was a pain in the butt, and it would really be nice to have a proper CI process implemented.

PHD spoke up saying he could help with that, and then spent the next three months wrestling with Nix. I left the company before I saw how long it actually took him, though.

I saw enough to realize it would likely never be worth my time to use. Sorry Nix.
These two things are different enough that it feels a little disengenuous to compare them. The similar growth from 2017-2020 seems more like a spurious correlation than a true one
The Oral-Gut Axis: Digestive disorders and the oral microbiome
> At the risk of putting myself on a watchlist, They already know that, so They have an eye on certain kinds of labware, different precursors, and such. And They already have antidotes to some of these poisons.

Errm, maybe They Do.

On the other hand, I used to work in an organic chemistry research lab, and at least within my ex university's context, we could basically order anything we wanted from the standard chemical suppliers without anyone batting an eyelid. Pre-signed but otherwise blank order forms were freely handed out, you just filled in what compounds you wanted and handed it over, two days later it arrived and you collected it from Stores.

I personally ordered a compound for a reaction I was planning and it was only after it arrived - when I read the safety data sheet - that I realised just quite how toxic it was.

I backed carefully away from that particular bottle, and left it in the fridge, still sealed. Then found another - safer - way to do the reaction instead...
The same argument applies to airplanes, but both airplanes and tanks have certain advantages that on balance exceed the risk of them getting blown up.
lol the old Google and it's mission statement i wonder if it ever followed that vs. it was all PR that many fell under it's spell. I surely did then I was invited to demo my invention/tech to Google ATAP and whoa it was a huge spit in my face type experience and similar to this MIT student's experience https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929. Hers was worse as they blatantly patented her work after her interview without her knowledge and consent. Yet they got caught.

I am avid DDG user and advocate ever since realizing wow Google stomps on all the dreamers it inspired.
The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (2019)
It looks very close, is a tsunami possible?
No need to apologize for being a lurker!

The explanation that you found it and uploaded it makes perfect sense and clarifies things for me anyway.

Similar to GP, I read your post as though that Youtube video was the initial source, rather than something you uploaded.
They can not access your private repositories if you are just in the organization.
The pedals turn a generator that produces electricity that drives the motor on the rear hub. One need not be much of an engineer of any sort to count the points of efficiency lossiness in that system. This, versus chain drive which for all it’s maintenance and fiddliness, is still the most efficient drive for bicycles and motorcycles. Even if one is fine carrying the weight of a shaft drive (say, a BMW motorcycle), it isn’t as efficient. Who cares, on a 125 bhp motorcycle? You will care on that next steep hill you have to climb with this Rube Goldberg bicycle.

And how much does this weigh in comparison to a chain drive? I don’t want to piss on anyone’s idea, but the single selling point I see is not having to clean or replace a chain. Otherwise, I assume it weighs more, and isn’t as efficient. Throw me a bone here, what makes this better other than “no chain”?
I think you were hard on him. There should be no ethical qualms when our weapons are used on enemies who seek to kill us or attack our interests.

Also, if an ethical person doesn’t take this job, someone far more unethical probably will. And they will raise no objections if they should ever be necessary. Kind of like how a lot of bad people become police officers when no one good wants to do it.
Supercharge Your Skills Using the Google Search Console API with Node.js
> that's kind of a very specialized need

I somewhat disagree with this. I have been able to build a lot of business systems that have nothing to do with fintech on top of the exact same abstraction. Order matching engines are not the only thing that can benefit from being able to deal with millions of serialized events per second. Most video games, especially multiplayer ones, can benefit from this style of abstraction too.
I think tanks are becoming a liability more than an asset in modern combat. I personally would rather be an infantry member with an e-bike, a personal recon drone, and a long range rifle.
The results here look fine to me in positions 3 and 4 - https://www.homedepot.com/s/2'x4'%2520piece%2520of%2520birch...

What are you expecting to see? I worked on this search engine so interested to get feedback, good or bad (bad is actually more useful!).
Magma: A GPT-style multimodal model for any combination of image and text
MAGMA semantically understands images beyond traditional object classification and can, for exmaple, be used to automatically generate image captions for arbitrary images. Some of these results are really astonishing and surprisingly precise.
Another possibility is that healthcare workers see how the sausage is made and have less faith in medical advice in general than the average citizen does.
> I'm happy with "routing" as in directing traffic via DNS resolution. I doubt anyone here is confusing that.

I disagree. As a former network engineer the title "We're transforming internet routing" and subtitle "Rethinking Internet Routing" [my emphasis] makes me think of IP based routing first. I think they could have been clearer or picked a less grandiose title.

Don't get me wrong, on the surface this looks like a neat tool.
Comparison: The 2011 earthquake had a magnitude of 9.0 - 9.1 (but it had a 7.2 foreshock 2 days before.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
Well, I get if you want to verify the submitted data is an actual email address, and checking the TLD is a valid way of doing it. It does seem excessive, though -- as you said, it will bug out on sending the email if it isn't valid.
When You Can't Use WordPress
Somewhere along the lines of a maths education in primary school I hope people would learn the word "algorithm" and remember it for the rest of their lives... how are people in charge of government policy when they can't recall stuff they learnt in primary school?

I wrote hope, maybe I'm hoping for too much here...
Whimsical: A Journey into Visual Collaboration
Daylight saving time: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine position statement
My guess: It's just not worth trying to guess/hope where a tank will roll over your mines.
hah! it would be funny to see politicians try that - not far from legislating Pi.