skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is my favorite answer to this question which counters economics with physics:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...

"Alright, the Earth has only one mechanism for releasing heat to space, and that’s via (infrared) radiation. We understand the phenomenon perfectly well, and can predict the surface temperature of the planet as a function of how much energy the human race produces. The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth rate, we would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years."
Unfortunately it wouldn't help since you'd still need to re-write the program (or at least port to a 32-bit compiler and use a DOS Extender), it's the 64k memory segmentation that's the issue
Western Europe are helping Poland and Romania which are direct neighbors and do have to accept refugees.

Actually the real mystery is why the EU would take anyone at all from Syria, which is pure courtesy and zero obligation. And the answer is that the EU is a wannabe moral superpower that’s great at taking in refugees (or people claiming to be refugees) and bad at everything that comes after. It’s already over its capacity to absorb outsiders. In the end the EU heads of state act surprised that anti-foreigner sentiments and the popularity of right-wing parties are rising, rinse and repeat while the wheels haven’t fallen off yet.

The UK seem to know their limits since their new found independence and just as expected they’re getting skewered for not throwing the gates wide open.
Where in the world are you getting it from that the name of the street made it ok to bomb? He's saying that he learned of the street because the Russians bombing it was newsworthy given that it killed 20 people. Then what followed from him learning that the street exists with the name Bandera, was him thinking that maybe there could be some support for Nazis still remaining in Ukraine. Similar to how seeing a street named after a Confederate fighter would make someone think that maybe there's still some love for the Confederacy in the US (which is actually accurate!)
And I am not sure why you keep pretending there was any nonconsensual data collection from the phone, quoting the article author's poor wording instead of the actual claims brought against Google. The article specifically describes which data was nonconsensually obtained by the cars. Can you tell me which data was nonconsensually obtained from phones? Look at the numbered claims.

Edit: I can't respond because you've made this thread too long. Once again, reread the numbered claims that CNIL brought against Google. None of your quotes are supported by the claims. (Technically, you're misinterpreting the first quote in your comment below, which is about data collected for Latitude, not data collected by Latitude. To avoid making mistakes of interpreting the author's interpretation, simply read the numbered claims.)
The people who would use them don't care about the Geneva Protocol.
What a pea-brained blog post.

Top 10 tweets by Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah that’s right! You heard it here first, Zuckerberg is on Twitter! Whoops, sounds like Meta is grasping at straws, ahem ummmm awkward.

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I can't tell if this is a parody and/or copypasta

> that I’m typing while my girlfriend lies in my arm in our bed, should be mind blowing
Exactly. I love the irony of "forced openness" :p
I disagree with your interpretation.

Would it be better if nobody had access to easier ways to produce new and innovative nerve agents? Yes, of course it would be better.

Do I prefer a world where only state actors can build nerve agents, vs a world that includes state actors plus more? Yes, less sources of nerve agents is more good.

You might as well complain how pointless it is to block proliferation of nuclear weapons when malicious state actors already have them.

The world wont be safer by spreading nuclear weapons to more people, and similarly for nerve agents.

Fortunately, this sounds similar to nuclear weapons in another way, designing the weapon is not the hard part that limits them to state actors, its producing them that's hard.

Still, nuclear powers don't tend to publish their weapon plans publicly, for good reason, and the same logic should apply here.

I'm not using the comparison to imply this is as serious as nuclear proliferation btw, just that it's a useful example of knowledge that really should be kept limited.
Once in a while the Flutter/RN discussion shows up on Hackernews and I'd like to remind you all that Capacitor community is also alive and kicking.

For the past months I've been building an E-commerce with Capacitor/NextJS and its been quite a pleasant experience. If you're familiar with JS/TS and React, it's a great option for an e-commerce or a b2b SAAS app.

If you don't need many native components or a super slick performance, Capacitor might be the cheapest and quickest solution for web developers.
I know Michael Kandel, and asked him about that once. He admitted that there were times when he had to literally make stuff up to make it work in English.

Tangentially, I once had a job where I had to locate passages in Phil Dick's novels based on English translations of French editions. In many cases it was non-obvious, in a few cases it couldn't be done at all. There were passages in the french that just didn't exist in the original.
Characterizing super-semi sandwiches for quantum computing
Any guy with reasonable coding experience in frontend or backend can do a project in React Native in less than one month. I was CSS/HTML frontend development back in the days and it took me one month to learn JS+React Native. It's very convinient and straightfoward process. In Flutter, with all the widget, folders, environment/IDE setup, concepts. It takes longer.
I'm surprised Flutter's performance compares favorably to React Native here. Last time I tried Flutter (around 1 year ago) even the simplest of scrolling demos noticeably stuttered dropped frames on my phone. React Native apps work fine. Was that just my experience?
This is unfortunate and indeed is going to contribute to confusion about what Simple English Wikipedia is. Ugh.
Why would you recover those drones? Just blow them up on target or when no longer needed, simple - just like you do with missiles. The advantage drones can have is a longer loiter time, missiles are a lot faster -> combine the two by having a sensor network of drones mapping the target area, directing missiles to their targets. Add a shaped charge to the drone to give it the ability to do something useful if and when the opportunity arrives.

So, launch a flock of drones while submerged - these could be launched from a single canister containing many of them - and have them move to the target area while hiding in the radar echoes of the waves. Once there have them all pop up to their working height where they map the targets and direct missiles towards them and/or damage/destroy targets themselves. Remember those through-the-window missile strikes in the gulf wars? That thing, but more accurate and a lot cheaper.

Come to think of it, that launch canister can be attached to a torpedo engine so the sub can stay well out the way.
Yeah a well employed heavy armor element, particularly supported by dismounted infantry and SHORAD is going to stomp an infantry element that has exhausted anti tank rocket/missile stocks. Not debating that for a second.
Near limitless chances to really badly screw up, too. If all it takes is one rock hopper to miss the orbital refineries and foundries with a nice hunk of nickel and iron, with an inhabited planet as the backstop..
Well, we can definitely hope so.
I think Tarkovsky's movie was the one that made the novel popular in certain circles and the article claims the same.
https://www.homedepot.com/ is showing a 403 forbidden page to me since GDPR hit. Such a spit in face left bad taste in my mouth. Not even a page that explains why, just the standard 403 page..
The thing is 99% of sneering is about NFTs and other wacky thinly veiled "bitcoin but what if I owned all the premined coins instead?" ideas.
For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euhipRI6bJ0
Could this be a replacement for SketchUp?
I think the point of higher resolution isn't to necessarily hit the sweet spots, but rather to better improve countermeasure rejection.
I just recently started reading his book Fiasco (more precisely an English translation) and it's so different from other stuff I've read but I am loving it. First book I've read by him.

Other than Solaris, any recommendations for a next one?
You will spend year teaching someone then he leaves for another company who gave him 20% rase. You're net negative, they're net positive. You'll lose the race in the end.

This could be a good approach for someone huge like Google or government. Asking that from an ordinary company will not work.
Looks a bit like the PowerDNS LUA records https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/lua-records/index.htm... but with JavaScript and shinier GUI?
I suppose that is possible. But then I'd expect to see canon balls somewhere like by the side of the road. Why take the trouble to move them all entirely out of frame?
even a RFC doesn't guarantee the existence of a mailbox - if the address e.g. has a typo in the name.

And own rules very much sounds like management ever wanted to invent something.
> "Because of this, and that fact that many other languages do have stricter rules regarding inclusion of the definitive article like German, [..]"

In German most states are neuter and go without article. If the state name is a plural (the United States), female or male it requires the article. Ukraine is female, so it is "die Ukraine" in German.

Regions require an article (der Kaukasus = the Caucasus) like in English and similar to Russian.

As always with languages, there are exceptions.
Wordle’s Growth Loop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284511
If I remember rightly, the 487SX was actually a full 486DX processor that, when installed, disabled the existing 486SX CPU.
I don't think they were really asking. I think they were pointing out that there is no evidense of this from the user's interface.

They go to site x and it fails in inconsistent and unexplained way. It is correct to stick to that and pretend you don't have special insight into sepeerate building blocks and service boundaries behind the scenes.
Contact me if you are open to collaboration for a video. We are open for that.
This is an ongoing concern of US weapons policy. By refusing to back down from improving our missile defense capabilities, we undermine MAD and our adversaries’ willingness to engage in disarmament (thereby making it more likely these weapons will be used).
Fair. When I was a teenager in the 90s, my favorite vocal groups made obvious use of overdubbing, and they sounded different when performing live.
What happens when people get older? Can you still identify it's the same iris when the iris was scanned 15 years ago?

I don't get what they are trying to solve. Just fair distribution of coins? Once everyone has an equal number of WorldCoins, then what is the plan?
By the contrary, according to the article and the latest data, Tanks have the advantage. It's just, fortunately, Russian incompetence and Ukrainian combat skill we are seeing.

“Trophy exceeded our expectations,” said Col. Dean. “Unlike prior APS tests…we were shooting actual threats at actual vehicles. I’m happy to say I kept trying to kill an Abrams tank about 48 times and failed every time.”

https://breakingdefense.com/2017/10/army-accelerates-armor-s...
I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but are there viable defenses against hypersonic missiles?
Medicine After Oil
Here's Google translate's version:

Shy cybernetic powerful extremes
He recognized when unimodular groups
Cyberiads were integrated on a steamy afternoon,
Not knowing if there is love or not yet.
Away with me, away, Laplasiana from evening to morning,
And vectors of vectors from morning to evening!
Closer, counterpictures! Closer, because it's time
Reduce the mistress to the embrace of the lover!
He tremors half a meter, which a groan unites,
Change into rotation groups and feedbacks,
And so cascading, and so dizzying,
That they threaten with a short circuit, going from eye to eye!
You transfinal class! You, strong greatness!
Unwind continuum! Pre-layout white!
I will give Christoffel and Stoks for a century
For the first and last derivative of love.
Your scalar spaces have multi-leaf depths
Show those involved in the Body Theorem,
Cyberiada of cypresses, bimodal whole
In gradients, pigeons multiplied for flights!
Oh, he did not live up to the pleasure of anyone without gray hair
Neither in Weyl's space, nor in Brouwer's
A topological study opens with an embrace,
When examining Moebius, no curvature known!
O, the multi-skin of comitanto feelings,
You have to treasure a lot, this one will only find out
Who such parameters, sensing the phantom,
It dies in nanoseconds, burning every moment!
Like a point that is part of the holonomic system,
Without the zero coordinates an asymptote,
Yes, in the last projection, the last caress
Farewell - the cybernetic dies of love.
Its the classic logistics problem. Scaling ratio of weight vs volume or something like that. Just like nukes, if you heat an enemy soldier to 100M degrees he isn't any more dead than heating him to 10M degrees and volumes expand very slowly with mass so making bigger and bigger bombs is a fools-errand.

Same problem with chem weapons. You hit a tank brigade with 1000x lethal dose they aren't any deader than if you hit them with 1x dose. But if the bomb misses which is likely, all you've done is REALLY piss them off. Nerve gas in an empty wheat field just kills a bunch of corn bugs but it really pisses people off. If you target their tank brigade and miss, they'll target your home town, as we did to them with conventional bomb even without having been nerve gassed to start with. If you target their home town then the brigade you missed is going to be unhurt and really angry. Its the kind of weapon thats pretty useless unless you have infinite supply and infinite logistics. Like cold war USA or cold war Russia.

The allies had better logistics than the Germans so they knew the second time around in WWII that trying to go chem is just going to end up in the German's getting more chem'd than the allies.

Another issue is WWI and previous its all about siege warfare and breaking sieges where WMD is awesome and useful, whereas WWII and newer is all about maneuver warfare and blitzkrieg and all of Germany's plans and all of their early success were based on the idea that anything in range of shells or aircraft today is going to be occupied rear supply area next week at the latest, so destroying it would be pretty dumb because we need that area to be the rear of the battle space next week. For a modern comparison the USA could have nuked the green zone in Iraq and there's absolutely nothing anyone could have done about it, but 'we' knew we'd be occupying the green zone and needing something like the green zone, and the green zone is sitting there for the taking, so in an incredibly short term perspective it would have saved troops and saved time and saved effort to just nuke it instead of taking it the old fashioned way, but in medium and longer term it would be counterproductive to war efforts to use WMDs against the green zone, so we didn't.
I’ve never worked with anything that made me want to quit software entirely more than React Native, and didn’t feel that way at all about Flutter. Maybe it’s just me but I feel like the developer experience of Flutter is much more consistent.
I don't know why Solaris is considered so good or famous, he has so many other, much better books.
Full of bugs that obscure the point the author is trying to make. Just in the first couple of paragraphs they range from small (it's Oswald Spengler, not Olaf) to large (The compression/parallax of looking backwards in an informal way distorts her perception of "genius" and the speed of invention.

The fact is it is a golden age in the way she wishes; it's just that the benefit is spread more widely around, like peanut butter. The ability to do work built upon the work of others has massively sped up -- as a startup in, for example, pharma we were able to rapidly search the literature, download relevant papers, and pass them around 15 years ago in a way that was unthinkable 15 years before that. The amount of information sharing (including, in Silicon Valley but much less so elsewhere, confidential info shared with winking approval of management) has spread technological and non-technological development massively.
Sleeping. Closed for business. 10p to 6a
I'm a founder of a fintech startup[1]. We are celebrating sleep awareness by snoozing our website at night. We want your business but let’s chat in the morning.

Yes, you are reading it correct.

Why am I doing this?

No thanks in large part due to remote–I realized that many of us are available to others all the time, at the cost of downtime, friends and family.

I hope many of you do this, and get away from the hustle culture.

Get Sleep.

[1] Taking a stand, and not shamelessly plugging my startup’s URL
Still maintained, and I am still using it. I guess I am from way back, too. :)
We visited Japan 3 years ago and it stuck with me how normal earthquakes, alerts for this and tsunamis are.

Like wtf!
The "dual use" paper this is commenting on is the clickbait equivalent of "encryption is for pedos", and maybe Derek's "not too surprising" is code for "Science editors are not discerning enough".

Like, this is the whole point of pharmacology: Predicting the biological interactions of chemicals (what they do to biological targets, how potent), and their ancillary physical properties (solubility, volatility, stability etc). For example,

Optimizing for mu-opioid agonist activity gives you super potent painkillers, drugs of abuse, and that stuff Russia gassed a theater with to knock out / kill hostages and kidnappers (i.e. fentanyl analogues)

Optimizing for inhibition of various proteases might give you chemotherapy drugs with nasty side effects, or stuff with nasty side effects and no known therapeutic use (i.e. ricin)

Optimizing for acetylcholinesterase inhibitor activity will turn up nasty poisons which could be purposed as "nerve agents" or "pesticides"

Optimizing for 5HT2a activity will give compounds that are great for mapping receptor locations in brains, which are also drugs of abuse, and which are also lethal to humans in small doses.

And the "predicted compounds not included in the training set" thing is just table stakes for any predictive model!
AdverTorch: A toolbox for adversarial robustness research
Looks like it is "go-style" because the API/syntax is modelled after the go API. In particular the "choose" macro from the example looks to be designed to mimic "select" even though otherwise macros might be dispreferred.

There's another library linked that has similar functionality with a less go-like API.

Just a guess.
> the track record of using AI to generate pharmaceuticals to do good has been "mixed", except really it's just been a bust.

Researchers have only been using AI for drug development for like 6 years, I think it's way to early to call it a bust
I want to throw Ionic and Capacitor (or any other webview based toolkit with your favourite SPA framework) into this mix, I believe for a lot of apps its probably a better option than either Flutter or React Native. I also don't and believe in "one true cross platform toolkit", each has its place. So:

Hiring - The OP suggests React Native has a larger pool of developers than Flutter, very true. But Ionic/Capacitor/etc you have access to an even larger pool of developers, any proficient font end web developer.

Sharing Code, Knowledge, and Developers - Again I believe Ionic/Capacitor/etc are even better than React Native here, you can potentially reuse even more of your code/views/logic. In fact your SPA web app version is your mobile app, except you then have access to native apis with Capacitor.

Developer Experience - Dev experience with Ionic/Capacitor/etc is as good a React Native at this point. It has all the hot reload features we now expect from any SPA framework. You can even now you Vite for super speedy development.

Performance - A webview based app on hardware less than five years old is on par with any React native app. The performance of web views is not the issue, it's the underling app code, modern SPA frameworks and good engineering is all you need.

Unified UI Experience - Firstly customers don't really care about a unified UI, they have been trained after 20 years of using web apps not to care. If it works it works. Having said that Ionic have done an incredible job of replicating the Material/iOS components.

Native Integrations - Capacitor has all your usual apis covered, if you need more it's as simple as with React Native to drop down to native with Swift or Kotlin. I'm a fan of using NativeScript with Capacitor, it gives you access to all native apis straight from your JS codebase.

Internationalization - Standard SPA internationalization support, easy.

Built-In Navigation - Use whatever your SPA framework uses.

Web Support - Capacitor is the clear winner here as you have built a SPA.

Third-Party Libraries - You can use any web/javascript toolkit, along with any platform specific libraries for iOS or Android that you need.

Obviously its not the right platform for all use cases, but if you are just starting out small with a tiny team you only have to build your app once. 90% of your app is probably the front end, your don't want to be build that twice until you have the traction and teams to do it.
Which is profoundly sad since Wittgenstein is only saved by his prophetic beliefs about language - despite writing like a post-modernist while somehow being considered part of the "analytic tradition"...

He is fashionable nonsense.
If it takes a year for someone to pick up a new framework and be productive, I didn't want them anyway.
Fellow swede, same here. It always makes me think of these guys:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout

Last confirmed holdout in 1974, almost 30 years after ww2 ended for Japan.
Same, while good, I think it could have been better if it were a few pages shorter, as it seems to lose momentum in the last pages.

The Cyberiad is better, full of short stories.

Also a good one is the The Futurological Congress.
Isn't the corollary that there are other companies who train up people who you can hire for a 20% raise from them? Or even just give your existing staff a pay rise once they reach a more senior level?

If you can't afford to do that, then that's saying you can't afford to hire people who know a lot about the technology you're using, and then that's a whole different issue.
It's not "Sunshine Protection" to make people feel good, those words are just likely to be recognized as synonyms for "Daylight Savings".

(I actually didn't catch this on my own either)
Striving for relative prosperity compared to others seems like an inherent mechanism for human mating rather than capitalism.
The big wasn't still very big here in Tokyo, but it felt weird. The shake was in different direction than usually, it's hard to describe. It also lasted quite long in detectable intensities, although the peak shake was over pretty quickly.
May I interest you in some Lua instead? https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/lua-records/index.htm...

I run PowerDNS but haven't found a reason to play with this yet.
I was talking about the Ukrainian people and you're talking about Ukraine the country. Different things.
But doesn't Jacdac require PCB customization as well to make that edge connector work?
The context is ransomware, though. It would be pretty useless ransomware if they didn't tell you your data is being held ransom and where to make a payment. It's not exactly the kind of incident you can bury your head in the sand when 99% of the time you're proactively alerted to the issue.