skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably depends on how old you are. I heard it called 'the' when the Soviet Union was still a thing (mostly when the Chernobyl stuff was happening)
I have a deep suspicion this will inevitably lead to head-in-the-sand as a service.
Before, computers were used to make less poisonous chemicals.

Now, the people asking computers to do that realized they can ask the computers to make more poisonous chemicals.
So much that it has the code name of xcopy deploy, an alusion to how MS-DOS applications used to be delivered.

However there is also the WinSxS alternative, adding a manifest file to the executable.
less than 1 week difference 11 years later.
Rsync.net is an awesome service. Ive been using their 100GB for 18 USD offer for the last few years to host my RESTIC backups. Have not had a single problem.
This has never been applied and will never be - GDPR enforcement is a joke.

The combined amount of fines across all companies over the GDPR's entire 4-year lifespan is just 1Bn.
IIRC Germany experienced some rather horrific accidents in their facilities for manufacturing chemical weapons.
Gistemp Climate Spiral 1880-2021 (visualization)
It's almost always "die Ukraine" in German at least.

FWIW, there's a handful countries with definite article in German including Switzerland, Turkey and the US:

https://deutschtraining.org/deutsche-grammatik/artikel/laend...
You can be happily manufacturing weapons for a good cause today only to see your government turn evil the next day. Unfortunately people don't cluster around ideas but geography and that's is out of control for most.

This does not mean we shouldn't do something but we have to realize nothing is permanent and the fruits of our labor can very well be misused the next day.
I may be missing something, law is a pain to read, but I'm not seeing any penalty for failure to report being mentioned. So you must report or we'll be cross with you?
It depends on the software. Anyway there's just different ways to create automata. There's no reason why one way is better or worse than others. Painting is no better or worse than photography or sculpture, etc.
Page from an old book showing some different types of tank traps:

https://www.militaryimages.net/media/tank-traps.112392/full?...
That was big. First time since the 2011 quake that I actually put the emergency backpack on. Another 10 seconds and I reckon we would have woken our son and headed outside.
That's a meaningless distinction since there isn't any comparable event to compare the response to.
Indeed! Lots of Jacdac is not about the cable or the UART-based signaling, but about the service standardization and definitions.

Now if only we could get all these silicon vendors to put Jacdac directly on their current I2C/SPI sensors... It's definitely possible given that basic Jacdac implementation runs on PMC150C with 64 bytes or RAM and 1.5k of ROM, but it may be a hard sell since they seem to like lock-in.
In Danish there is no distinction. "I Ukraine" is the only option available in Danish. Danish only has a distinction for distinct territory, such as a hill or an island. One is "i Odsherred", but "på Sjælland". But it's overruled by countries, e.g. "i Grønland", not "på Grønland".

Since Ukraine is not an island, the potential distinction does not exist in this case. It's awkward in Danish to make proper nouns definitive.
It is. I think you misread the previous comment. Tsunami will hit before the high tide, resulting in less potential for flooding.
I remember back in Kazaa/LimeWire/WinMX day, Azureus was a powerful beastly BT client. It is a massive beast that took my computer to fully load Azureus in 10 minutes. And that was the only powerful BT client at the time and people hate it because it is powerful but it is CPU intensive. BitComet, BitLord, FlashGet couldn't hold a candle against Azureus. Until qBittorrent, uTorrent and Transmission popped up few years after Azureus initial release. What a time to be alive back then.
Of course it is. Most (all?) countries who invade places generally don't invade places with large stocks of NATO's state of the art anti-tank missiles though. Russia, obviously, being a rather notable exception.
I think that's part of it, but I also think there's some merit to our intuition as well; sometimes you can viscerally feel if you're in a boom or bust cycle. During the reality TV phase I remember thinking "this is all garbage", and then shows like The Sopranos and The West Wing kicked off an era that had me thinking "I literally can't keep up with all the good shows; there's too much good TV to watch." I think this was a pretty common feeling, and not in hindsight but during the era. In gaming I remember marvelling at a PC boom in 98-99, and then hating the "xbox-ification" of PC games for a few years after that.
This comment is confusing two completely separate things. There's a world of difference between not being willing to defend yourself and actively trying to come up with more aggressive and lethal weapons.

The argument that "we need defense!" only justifies the need to stockpile and develop _sufficiently_ lethal and tactical weaponry to neutralize incoming threats (like anti-ballistic systems). It doesn't justify inventing deadlier weapons. No dispossessed victim of foreign invasion has ever needed a bioweapon to assert themselves, and there's no chance developing one would ever be used for anything but war crimes. You should absolutely turn down roles like "Lethality Engineer" from an ethical standpoint, even if you agree military defense is necessary.

People raise the spectre of deterrence as a utilitarian justification for needing more powerful weapons ("har har, they'll think twice about attacking us if they know we have nukes!"). But that's narrow thinking. Deterrence can be achieved in other less-damning ways, like strategic alliances and building more robust defense systems.

tl;dr defence != deadlier offence.
The article mentions that it's a Russian language thing. "na Ukraine” or “v Ukraine"
I am curious why poster replaced Germany with Nazi.
Your postscript has so business on this forum.

You are blatantly projecting your own beliefs on to others, and assuming anyone who doesn’t align is an idiot. That is backwards, childish reasoning, and I bet you don’t usually resort to that type of thing. Why in this case?
> I strongly believe that it'd be way better for their clients if the client could just do `export default async function handleDns(event) { ... }`

I'm the tech lead of Cloudflare Workers and you're absolutely right about this. We actually introduced such a syntax as an option a while back and are encouraging people to move to it:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-javascript-modules/

Your argument is exactly one of the reasons for this. The more general version of the argument is that it enables composability: you can take a Worker implementation and incorporate it into a larger codebase without having to modify its code. This helps for testing (incorporating into a test harness), but also lets you do things like take two workers and combine them into one worker with a new top-level event handler that dispatches to one or the other.
No, you're confused about that because your article mixed up Street View and Latitude claims. The fine for Latitude was for processing location data collected from French users in France, which requires filing with the French government, not for any nonconsensual data collection. https://larevue.squirepattonboggs.com/google-street-view-and...
I'm sure I'm not the first person to consider this, but ...

RNA molecules can often be "evolved" in vitro to bind/inhibit target molecules with high specificity (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_evolution_of_ligand...)

I imagine it would not be difficult to create RNAs that inhibit some essential human enzyme and then use the RNAs for targeted assassination.

I mean, if you're doing an autopsy, you might run standard drug tests for poisons, but who's gonna screen for a highly specific RNA?
In my perception, "the Ukraine" feels like a geographical entity (a region, perhaps a part of something larger), whereas "Ukraine" would be a nation (an independent state). So yeah, it has been "Ukraine" since the country's own Independence Day.
Elon Musk in the niche field of government contracting for space flight is the closest I can think of.
We Just Hacked a Billionaire
The weirdest thing about the Advantage is the hollow echo sound it makes. I'm using a $300+ keyboard but it sounds so cheap due to the hollow sound. It seems so obvious after first typing on it.

Besides that, it's an excellent keyboard and I'll never, ever buy a regular keyboard again. Everything else about the design makes sense, and it's completely programmable.
I knew they were also on 50Hz, I was just thinking that if they are on a different phase it could blow up or something. But now that you mention some details, it doesn't seem that big of a deal anymore, thanks! What happens if they were to connect them while on opposite phases?
The site will do that too, without being an app installed on my device collecting... stuff? If only it'd work well.

(I tend to eschew apps however much I can. But maybe I should just suck it up until this project is done.)
Protecting the integrity of elections that have all been shown to have very little fraud? Mass fraud without IDs being something of a pipe dream. That doesn’t make much sense.
No, the idea is that the model "builds" its own complex representations directly from images.
Paul Buchheit; ex Google, ex Facebook & ex YCombinator was the one to suggest 'Don't be evil'.

He left Google in 2006 to join Facebook.
More about the how and the why here: https://hoffm.medium.com/hey-look-at-us-3a742993f5c
I was a reviewer for a book on ethical machine learning that wasn’t published. I’ll never forget, the author stated “don’t work on anything that could cause harm.” Here I am reading this while working in defense being like “that’s a lazy and dumb position.” Nearly anything in the wrong hands could cause harm.

It’s not unethical to work in the auto industry because people can die in car accidents. It’s not unethical to work in the beer business because people can become alcoholics. It’s not unethical to work for a credit card company because people can bury themselves in debt. And it’s not unethical to work in defense because the weapons may fall into the wrong hands.

What’s unethical is encouraging these problems and not trying to prevent them. And yeah, it’s hard to navigate these ethical issues, but we’re professionals like doctors and lawyers and part of the reason we get paid like we do is because we may have to wrestle with these issues.
According to whose definition? If Tolstoy, Marx and Beethoven count as geniuses, I don't see an argument for excluding Asimov, Musk or Eminem.
The Python 2.x to 3.x transition was also quite messy and long-winded but now 3.x rules the roost. Recent and coming PHP versions have done and will do away with much of the evolved mess that the language accrued in the decades. Performance is OK, deployment is easy, it is nearly universally supported, the build system is quite a bit more sane than the spaghetti-ball-like mess around node and friends.

It is possible to use PHP for CLI apps as well but this is a bit of an afterthought:

if (PHP_SAPI == "cli") {
# CLI-code goes here
exit();
}

It is the right tool for a lot of jobs - not for all jobs but what language is?
Tanks have always co-evolved against their threats. The reason top armor is weak is because the primary threat when the bulk of these designs were originated (60s/70s) was from other tanks or direct-fire guns. Precision indirect fire munitions weren't yet a major threat.

So, when you're rearchitecting a tank today, you're going to protect it against the now-dominant threats.

At its base, a tank is a propulsion system, a gun, and a set of survivability options.

The first two are always going to be relatively expensive, in quantity. So the last gets defined and scaled to meet the expected threat.
I don't understand a word of what he's saying, but there's a clear robotic sound to his voice. And that's ignoring that it looks like they put a moving head on a static body or that the lighting on the face doesn't match the rest of the scene.
I don't think tanks are going away anytime soon. Nothing else offers the same degree of mobility, armor, and firepower. Sure, a Javelin is cheaper than a tank, but a bullet is cheaper than a soldier and we don't talk about infantry being obsolete. People think of tanks as just lumbering around the battlefield shooting at targets, but they employ fire-and-maneuver tactics the same as infantry. So in combat a tank will be moving from cover to cover, with additional tanks providing suppressive fires from protected positions. Tanks don't move around on their own, they are always fighting as part of at least a platoon (a platoon is 3-4 tanks depending on the country) of other tanks, and almost always with infantry support.

I think improvements in APS and maybe some new reactive armor will be enough to keep the balance between ATGM and tank more or less in the same place it was in the 1980s.
This flag in chrome://flags might be relevant.

chrome://flags/#enable-autofill-credit-card-upload

"Enables a new option to upload credit cards to Google Payments for sync to all Chrome devices. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, Fuchsia"

They've really ramped up the "Google" in Google Chrome these last few years. The "save payment" nag box was annoying before, now I'd move it firmly into the dark pattern region, as it attempts to convince you to move your payment into their payment services not just saved locally.

The fact that there is no "never ask me again" option for that save payment dialog seems like nefarious UI 101. How could a billion dollar company make such a rudimentary UI mistake in a flagship product? Well, they probably didn't make a mistake, they're just getting worse as a company.

Meanwhile, I am blocked from reading any more of that twitter thread by the uncloseable twitter sign up nag screen. What an antagonistic web!
My first job was working for a small retail/VAR shop - just me and my engineering-background boss/owner who specialized in CAD/CAM transitions for manufacturing. (Plus blueprint scanning/digitalization and vector conversion)

Our very first order came in for an i486 - so excited, I grabbed all the components, headed into the backroom and built the machine.

Once it was all together - I eagerly threw the power switch on... Darkness... the breaker blew, the lights were out...

Well... turns out, I had rotated the CPU 180 degrees from it's required position. OMG... here I am a teenager and now I am going to have to pay for a $1200+ part?

My boss calmly reseated the CPU correctly, and... it worked!

We did a 5-day burn-in/benchmark with no problems, and never had any callbacks from the customer.
The US also built bombs containing that agent, BZ, but destroyed their stockpiles in 1989.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M44_generator_cluster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M43_BZ_cluster_bomb

> The M44s relatively small production numbers were due, like all U.S. BZ munitions, to a number of shortcomings. The M44 dispensed its agent in a cloud of white, particulate smoke.[3] This was especially problematic because the white smoke was easily visible and BZ exposure was simple to prevent; a few layers of cloth over the mouth and nose are sufficient.[5] There were a number of other factors that made BZ weapons unattractive to military planners.[5] BZ had a delayed and variable rate-of-action, as well as a less than ideal "envelope-of-action".[5] In addition, BZ casualties exhibited bizarre behavior, 50 to 80 percent had to be restrained to prevent self-injury during recovery.[5] Others exhibited distinct symptoms of paranoia and mania.[5]
Three DDoS attacks on my personal website
Perhaps I'm just used to mechanical switches noise (I'm typing this on a Kinesis Advantage v1 and have used the older contoured model before that), but would like to ask - once you silenced the casing noise, what was it about the switches-noise that you didn't like?
> The smartphone is simply a refinement of that basic technological leap.

There's very little that isn't.

Moon rockets are a refinement of thousand year old technology, fireworks. Steam engines are a refinement of little toys from ancient Greece. Guns are a refinement of throwing things.

Any definition of innovation that doesn't include smartphones is a silly one, in my book. It's quite clear they were novel and massively impactful on society.
The article is just lazy journalism. There are a lot of possible alternatives variables to run a regression on that could have stronger explanatory power and they just chose the first that fit the narrative they wanted to present. Southern states and the legacy of racism looks like a viable explanation for the higher murder rates in 'Red' states that should have been explored as part of the article.
How much money was in physics when Einstein was working in it?
I worry when I look at the low resolution hardware and dodgy programming in my rav4. I tend to keep cars without difficulty 6-8 years or more. People can exceed 10 in low salt environments, yet keeping consumer grade technology working and useful past, say, 4 is a problem. Are we all going to be driving about with entertainment and other systems down for years? And why can’t they just assume that one’s phone is the gui and have a strong interface? This would offload the stability of the glass unto the owner.
More details in this thread: https://twitter.com/Hoffm/status/1503770519396626439
Against badly run T-72 tank divisions maybe. Against a modern tank with an active defence system and infantry cover? I strongly doubt it. There are more than a few known cases of tanks getting hit by Kornets and surviving and Javalin is contemporary.
I think it would generalize the inherent logic of said ideology and apply it to everything. The problem with AI is that it still cannot really think. It can apply formalized knowledge to extrapolate a conclusion that seems likely within this ideological logic. This even has a self-reinforcing effect, although even if that were not the case any modern AI is unlikely to be able to look outside its box.

The result would probably be the opposite of what we would like to gain from AI, that it can improve our blind spots. It would just reiterate the premises it has been fed with and look for any and all correlations that could confirm these believes.
The infamous 2011 earthquake was also in March. Is there any plausible reason for earthquakes to occur in the same region around the same time of year over and over again, or is it just coincidence? I don't think Japan has any large glaciers that could melt in the spring and shift the center of mass of the plate underneath, for example.
Zelensky Video Deepfake
You would probably find it interesting to take a look at McMaster-Carr's website for an example of the hardware-store UX done right.

They do the categorization thing really well, there's "catalog pages" that reference item categories, and item categories can be attached to multiple different catalog pages, and items are categorized by tons of different metrics (length, diameter, thread pitch, head shape, material, color...).

And while that's a pretty generic statement - there's lots of stores that let you filter by material or color, after all - it's all executed SUPER well. I often use it just to get a broad idea of what hardware actually exists/what the terminology I need to search for elsewhere.

https://www.mcmaster.com

I knew someone who worked on their system and apparently it's all COBOL on the backend too lol. I'm sure there's some modern tech on the frontend but I bet all the inventory stuff/etc and the warehouse terminals are running on COBOL.
This is an article that was written to support a conclusion that todays education is bad. To support that conclusion the writer choose click bait evidence to support it.

I don’t agree with this at all. Genius is a subjective. There is no absolute measurement to gauge it. The best approximation would be IQ.
What's funny is they're doing the same to you.
How about, "by all the current means of testing, the least popular in history". There are issues with polling, for sure, but even the more charitable end of the error bars put him in a bad spot.
I used to work on infrared imagers long ago in the late 80s, so I still sometimes notice obscure technical details about IR. Many modern anti-tank weapons were designed back in the 90s and then battle-tested over the next decades. So like aircraft and spacecraft, a lot of the electronics is quite antiquated by modern standards.

For example: The Javelin shoulder-fired missile that we are currently reading about in Ukraine was put into service in the late 90s. It finds its way to the target using an infrared focal-plane array with a resolution of 64x64 [1]. Part of the reason that the resolution is so small: A room-temperature object will have peak E&M radiation around 8-12 microns, and mercury-cadmium-telluride imagers were optimal for that wavelength range in the 90s. However, processing of the materials was pretty difficult back then, so 64x64 was pretty much all you could manage while achieving a usable yield.

Eventually the current generation will be replaced, and that will presumably include a serious upgrade to the IR resolution. It's hard to imagine that won't affect the usefulness of tanks in the coming decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin#Focal_plane_ar...
I think it might be more of an age/time thing. I grew up in Europe and was taught that it was called "The Ukraine" in English. It's only in the past few years I've seen people switching over to using "Ukraine"
It's apparently "critical infrastructure operators", not all "firms".

> sweeping cybersecurity legislation that will require critical infrastructure operators to quickly report data breaches and ransomware payments.

Pretty expansive though:

> The agency lists 16 broad sectors spanning health, energy, food and transportation as critical to the U.S., although the new legislation is yet to spell out precisely which companies would be required to report cyber incidents.

This data will eventually become public. So long as the DHS database exists it will be hacked eventually.
Hitler probably also experienced gas (not sure his generals did, though). People forget that he was actually a decorated NCO, from WWI (which had a lot to do with his terrible attitude, later in life).

It was fairly worthless, militarily. High risk, big mess, no real tactical advantage, and it just pissed everyone off. Its only real efficacy would have been for bombing civilian targets, and I don't think they had the delivery mechanisms.
That was me that mentioned Whitney, and I stand by it even more if the definition is "...whose work single-handedly upends our understanding of the world and causes a revolutionary change in thinking". It's hard to overstate how important Whitney Houston was for the culture, particularly for black women. I mean just read her wikipedia [1]. Contemporary music just doesn't sound the same without her. She's not often in my personal rotation, but there's just no denying how much she changed, both in music and in the culture in general.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston
Back in the day, if you were a top tier animation, video game, graphics, or CAD shop and you could afford it, you bought an SGI workstation. One workstation. For your entire company if you were small and boutique enough. They cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop, but they could do 3D accelerated graphics like no other computer could.

Today even the rinky-dink Intel GPU in an HP Stream has more oomph than those SGI beasts, and people doing visualization work just buy PCs with NVIDIA cards. They can get pricey, but not top-end SGI pricey.
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Have you seen the latest Bond movie?