skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A syllabary or a phonetic encoding like IPA would patch the rhyme problem, but it would sabotage you in still other ways. People expect a language model to be able to solve anagrams or reverse strings, for example. And there are a lot of things in written language which are connected to the exact spelling but not necessarily the phonetics; there is no list of what those things are or what not learning them would do to a model, and you would have to discover (or more likely, not discover, in the way that people keep not discovering the BPE sabotage) the drawbacks the hard way. So you have a Bitter Lesson tradeoff here: yeah, you can build in that concept instead of learning from raw Unicode/bytes, and it will work initially better, but you are handicapping yourself in the long run. So, I always say go for raw Unicode for the foreseeable future.
Exactly. Zero of the GPs objections are inconsistent with this explanation. The carrier group tracked an unknown object and scrambled fighters to investigate. The pilots may have visually observed the object, but it would have been too far away to really ascertain any visual detail. Instead they relied on infrared sensors which… suffered from glare, and so rendered incorrect visuals for the object. Its strange shape and rotational behavior are now explained.

What remains is still an unidentified flying object, but one whose behavior is reasonably mundane and doesn't require advanced technology to explain.
Am I wrong? No, it is the children who are out of touch.
The comment you are replying to was using mousetraps as a metaphor. ...at the end of the actual description of what it was talking about. It's an executive summary, not literally talking about mouse traps.

Specifically it was talking about arbitrary problem domains. So ... much more than mousetraps.
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It's not about honesty or fame. The author does not and can not know if the code is going to be good for your use case. Only you can know that. Evaluate it yourself and see if it works for you. If it doesn't, don't use it. It's really that simple.
You're mistaken about who has the burden to prove actual copying. The person alleging infringement has to show that the defendant copied the work.
TL;DR - Brandon Nozaki Miller (Director of Front End Technology and Javascript Engineering @ Ocra) committed obfuscated code in the node-ipc package that runs geolocation and with probability 0.25 erases files at client computers if they have Russian or Byeeelorussian IPs.

Quite funny.
The idea is that electrons, muons and antiprotons have stable orbitals, where they can stay forever. For one electrons, muons or antiprotons, they have the same shape and classification, but they don't have the same size. They are all stable.

It's a bad idea to imagine them like a planet orbiting around the Sun, or that they suddenly make a turn and decide to head to the nuclei, or that they are going in spirals until they colide.

In some case, electrons can interact with the nuclei, and the nuclei absorbs them, one proton changes into a neutron and the process releases a neutrino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_capture But the electron is in a stable orbital and suddenly it interact with the nuclei.

Something similar happens with the antiproton. The antiproton is in a stable orbital and suddenly it interact with the nuclei and is annihilated.
Siri, print 10B vaccines
Intel is investing over $30B to build new chip factories in Europe
I expect to see lots of $5 a month Netflix accounts pop up on eBay if they go worldwide with this.
That's not how it works? That's all I get? I'd refer you to the site guidelines, barging into a thread and going "NO U" is not a real conversation.

A siege of a city is more impractical than it ever has been. In ancient times a siege was conducted out of necessity; it was the only way to kill everyone inside if a population did not desire subjugation. Complete death of those resisting you was typically the goal, with the slow communication of antiquity leaving any resistance might mean coming back to an army the next time you visit. It was easier to depopulate the region and move your descendants in.

We see echoes of this in modern times. We "took" Kabul at extreme expense, but did not really "take" it as asymmetric enemy forces continued to operate throughout the entire country while the US occupied Afghanistan. Taking many cities across a nation with advanced embedded weaponry is going to be impossible. If it came down to it, such a country would resort to area denial, like Russia did in the Chechnya and Syria, leveling the cities instead of sweeping them.

We don't see people deploying chemical WMDs not because they are too expensive but because of political reasons, and after that, because they don't have them due to disarmament treaties. All it takes is someone deciding they really want to win for all of it to change. You can deny a huge area for weeks with a few chemical warheads. You can make a city inhospitable using less materiel than it'd take to flatten it.
When I was in college, a friend of mine knitted me a scarf as a birthday present. I adored it (and still do).

But the economics of it is interesting to reflect on. We were both poor college students, with no real family support, working 30-40hr weeks at coffee shops in order to pay rent and buy food, pulling $8/hr plus tips.

The cost of yarn was a half an hour's worth of work, and the hours it took her to knit it were done while relaxing and watching shows. So labor was considered a write-off, in terms of labor. To her, the gift only cost was the yarn. Time and opportunity at work for more hours were scarce, so it wasn't like we could just work more instead.

Quantifying the value of the scarf didn't really change in my mind. To me, the fact that she spent all that time on it meant it was special and invaluable to me. Especially since it wouldn't make economic sense for her to try starting a business selling them.
> mercenaries who were (genetically) Russian

Also by nationality.

Of a company whose leader is closely tied to Putin and given public awards by Putin for undisclosed reasons after operations in Ukraine, and which
was set up by and believed to be exclusively working with the Russian government (in Ukraine before Syria.)

But, yeah completely different than fighting Russia.
Seems like a recipe for f-up and lawsuits
>If you need to slip or stop development for a half year because you need to train up a whole new team, you have a whole other problem.

Yes, which is why nobody reasonable does that. Which leads us to the original point, that many companies will not be interested in taking risk to introduce flutter.
what does rotation mean? you can change your passwords, both the "master" which i rather call input, and the output password as well. i mean you can have a new output password without changing your input password.

and no although i can only guess what you mean with vaultfile, an attacker still needs access to the sphinx server, which has protections against bruteforce attacks.
Sorry if this is a dumb question:

Reading your link, it sounds like the HgCdTe-based FPAs are primarily an electrochemical thing, akin to the microchannel plate approach of traditional analog image intensification.

My impression of more modern IR-spectrum imaging (Teledyne/BAE/L3 stuff) was that it is basically a bolometer sensor behind vanadium/germanium-doped glass, then somehow hooked up to a cmos sensor.

So, modern sensors are still partially based in an electrochemical process, just a different one that's more amenable to improvements in manufacturing process or something?

I'm thinking of some of the new stuff that can deliver 1920x1080 60hz output - that'd definitely help with targeting.
I don't know. US energy consumption has stayed relatively flat over the last twenty years (down if you exclude renewables) despite economic and population growth

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
We're not abandoning Ukraine to its fate. We're shipping large amounts of hardware, and large amounts of intel. To say that only a no-fly zone counts as "not abandoning them" seems to me to be drawing arbitrary lines.
QBASIC was my first programming language, which I learned on my parents PC running Windows 95. It wasn’t installed with Windows 95 by default; I had to copy it from the Windows 95 CD.
This was asked already like 2 Weeks ago
When I last tried Nova, debugging and tasks were the biggest gaps for my workflows in VSCode. I’m excited to give it another try! I’d happily buy a license to switch to a native macOS editor/IDE.
My company still manufactures new products that use a 186 >.<
I’ve only known one company that was customer focused that wasn’t ruined by VC funding - Backblaze.
you might want to read the whitepaper regarding bruteforce attacks: https://github.com/stef/pwdsphinx/blob/master/whitepaper.org...
This is all I want.
> Unless companies start hiring to mentor people this will not change

This wont change until SWE stop job-hopping so much. In turn, the job-hopping won't stop until employers stop prioritizing new hire compensation over existing employees...and I don't see how this stops because it's measurably profitable and is self-reinforcing.

On the flip side, as an employee, I like that I can reuse the skills I have, it commoditizes employers and lowers the friction in changing jobs. Knowing what I know about capitalism in practice, employers would love the savings from employee tech lock-in.
We will see them used against us in the next war
You're making assumptions about the motivations and goals of the people making the music. It's likely they do think it adds something to every song they use it on. The same way almost all contemporary musicians use amplification and digital mastering "indiscriminately." Not using those techniques is a specific, intentional part of the "sound" of some genres, and outside of that they are ubiquitous.

I'm not saying autotune is this good. I'm saying that if nearly everyone is using it and continues to use it after, at this point, decades, they must be getting something out of it. Masterful singers also use it, some quite a lot, so it can't be as simple as covering up limited skill or range.
I'm glad they're at least being consistent with prior decisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
The children can say whatever they want. Their ideas are hip. It's the more conservative leaning (older) folks who'll have their car tires slashed, or be hit in the face, or just be cancelled (deleted from social media) for supporting the wrong candidates and causes.
I agree that for now this is a good idea, but once the robots can ask for it, this is going to have to change. Hopefully by the time we're working on securing rights for bots we'll have long fixed our broken copyright system so that it once again provides limited protections for creators and isn't just a perpetual revenue stream generator for corporations.
Americans don't like the name chattel slavery anymore, but the demand for labourers that don't have rights as people is just a prevalent.

The treatment of "illegal immigrants" is currently better than the chattel slaves of old, but policies like getting rid of birthright citizenship points in a direction of America wanting to being back chattel slaves
Apple's latest chip M1 Ultra will help TSMC lead Intel in new battlefield
Ask HN: For the new iPad Air, what does “air” mean?
Brief rant on Apple product naming schemes.

When Apple first started using the "Air" term for products, it meant thin and light. The new iPad Air is not the thinnest Apple tablet and it's only the lightest by 5 grams (hardly noticeable).

It seems like it's taken on the new meaning of "Pro Lite".
That's a given (see all the ships crashing into other ships in the South Pacific a couple of years ago -- and not noticing for hours!)
If they can not know their software is good or bad just please choose another profession.
I wish they would release a WM/DM only and let me use it with a different kernel and other OS pieces.
I'm quite confident that most people here are going to find a calm, measured, and thorough explanation of the observed phenomenon more credible than a snarky and instinctive dismissal that doesn't even bother to address a single one of the clearly demonstrated points in the analysis.
A Ukrainian Town Deals Russia One of the War’s Most Decisive Routs
Seeing the galaxies peppering this image, I can't wait for James Webb's version of the 'dark sky' Hubble image. It would be even better if the same patch of sky was used, just with the increased vision of Webb's imaging.
Ask HN: What do you use as your go-to source of world news?
I used to "trust" Google News to give me a reasonable picture of the state of the world, perhaps even with some bias towards things I'm interested in, but now I find it very difficult to navigate. Choosing a region biases the news loads, and I can't choose Europe as a region. I would like something which is as broad as possible, and reports on the important stuff. Nowadays I tend to use the Guardian because I'm fairly progressive-leaning and it seems good enough in terms of quality, and it's also free (I really don't want to have to pay for another subscription, but I understand that beggars can't be choosers). Is there anything else I should check out? With the recent invasion of Ukraine, I have relied more and more on Twitter, but I really struggle to get the signal out of the noise, it's just not proper journalism. What I noticed, however, is that major news outlets tend to just rebroadcast whatever is on Twitter, just with many hours of delay and (hopefully, but not always, given the fast-paced rate at which new stuff happens) with some fact-checking. I am really looking for advice.
> I always read a lot of blog posts, cool stuff or techniques.

You might try writing a blog post. If you're not used to thinking through writing, the results may surprise you.

Pick a topic you know well, or at least think you know well. Then write about it. You'll soon realize cracks in your understanding you never knew existed. Those cracks contain project ideas.

> Afterwards next i'm thinking about the idea and i realize the idea is not fullfilled or not useful for humanity, community, at least for me.

You can talk yourself out of any project idea. One way to deal with this problem is README-driven development.[1] You don't want to commit to a project because you don't know if it's worthwhile. You won't know if it's worthwhile until you spend some time on it. How to spend just the right amount of time? Write the README first.

[1] https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-deve...
Having read through quite a few of the comments lots of people seem to be drawing the conclusion 'obviously no, we have finite material resources'. I think this misunderstands the concept, as economic growth does not necessarily imply more material resources being used. In fact in developed economies the vast majority of GDP is now services (law, accounting, media etc.), which whilst obviously partly material resources based is much less material resource in intensive than say building a new car.

More interestingly over time the material resource intensity of economic activity (material resources used per $ of GDP) declines as countries develop. In the future it seems very likely that demand for creative digital and media products e.g avatars, games, films, instagram filters etc. will account for an ever larger share of GDP. If every year a company's designers creates a 'better looking / cooler' avatar range that people are willing to pay more for then we still have economic growth and assuming the avatars use the same computing power to render we would have essentially 0% growth in material resources used.

Therefore, whilst unbounded and unregulated economic growth causes lots of problems (and has for a long time), the idea it could go on for ever is not as stupid as it sounds, so long as people keep desiring more and more intangible products.
Blender also used to be closed source. Blender foundation had to crowdfund the source code to make it open. I was already using Blender in 1998 when it went freemium and it was already quite evolved, I didn't feel like the UI was bad compared to 3DS Max or Lightwave.
It's more that the owner needs to be a person, and software isn't one. But a corporation can register a copyright, because corporations are legal people, even though a human or humans created the work.
Exactly, add another decade and we're talking about the original Script Kiddies being seasoned executives, or possibly even having cashed out a startup or two and are now investing in startups via the Founder-to-VC pipeline.
PARC Launches Novity – A New Venture for 0 Unplanned Downtime in Manufacturing
Yes, they do! This is also why we have timezones, they help somewhat even when they can't be perfect.
> Arguing otherwise to me is an indication that you think either the material in question is not actually scarce

The material in question is ingenuity and creativity. That is the real driver of economic growth, not some material

I don't think the input has to be free or even go down in price. Just create more value. For instance, consider cars. They haven't gotten cheaper despite creating a lot more value. They're just better. More efficient, safer, more reliable, faster, etc. Creating value doesn't necessarily mean pushing prices down.
Super cool article, we work on OSS vector search technology (Weaviate) as well and I can confirm that we see many similar use cases especially with multi-model models and rerankers.
Shade Grown Livestock in Agroforestry
What?! This is not true! I've never heard anyone claiming russia did it. The mainstream consensus is that the syrian government did it, while a minority thinks it was either old stock getting released by accident or the rebels doing it.

Do you have a source? Because even with all the controversy surrounding international investigation and the theories that have spawned around that, russia wasn't even a possible suspect.
I personally like to make small video games, and I use the game as an excuse to learn some other technology by incorporating it. I've been doing this to learn Rust [0].

If you want to do something similar, I have a huge list of video game ideas you can pull from [1].

[0] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games/tree/main/2d-gam...

[1] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/four-emoji-concepts
> snoozing our website at night

what does snoozing your website mean?

turn off all your webservers so all inbound requests time out? switch the theme to dark mode? keep the frontend and queues running so you can acknowledge and store customer orders but turn off the backends that process batch jobs?
r/WorldNews
I remember seeing her in a magazine cover in the early 90s with BSDM getup and Bill as the gimp. I was pretty young at the time - but even then I knew I was being told "this is the person to hate/fear".

I'm not a fan of HRC but the demonization was in full gear 30 years ago.
Great idea. Let's give these to the communist party so they can destroy more of Buddhist history and culture!

Or. You know. Let's not.
I know it isn't a direct replacement, but I switched to rancher desktop[0] on macos and it has been a pretty easy transition just using nerdctl instead of docker cli

[0]https://rancherdesktop.io/
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I personally see a clear distinction between punishment for a felony and a refusal by the State of RI to do "State business" with me or for that matter, being grounded for too much phone use.

I guess you are entitled to your worldview.
Status-6 is terrifying. Yet one more reason why trying to defend against MAD is a horrible idea.
Likewise, only books written in secluded unpaid conditions count as legitimate writing. If a publication house is required to green-light or edit the project, it's obviously not real writing.
Got any more we can DDoS? :-)
Carriers are most likely partly obsoleted by hypersonic missiles that travel and maneuver at mach 20 (which Russia and China have), in addition to 100 megaton nuclear torpedoes that travel at 120mph (which Russia has).

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/03/russias-new-pos...

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/10/14/will-ground-bas...
That is possible, but I think strains credibility. The GOFAST video is egregious, I find it hard to believe nobody in the US Navy was able to calculate the actual [mundane, very... balloon-like] speed of that object using basic trigonometry. I think it's more likely the Navy knew there was nothing actually exotic in that video.

The Defense Department described the subject of GOFAST, Gimble and FLIR videos as "UAV, Balloons, and other UAS". 'Balloons'; they know what it is. They're not even lying, they're being coy or misleading.
> Can you explain what the thesis is and how this statement validates that?

Sure, it is the first sentence in the "Takeaways" section, at the very top of the article.

"The rate of murders in the US has gone up at an alarming rate. But, despite a media narrative to the contrary, this is a problem that afflicts Republican-run cities and states as much or more than the Democratic bastions."

The comment you are referring to ("No person in their right mind would want to go wandering around the south side of Chicago. That is not a falsehood.") is evidence that the "media narrative" mentioned and referenced in the article has indeed taken hold. Chicago was even one of the examples the article used. Any form of research would quickly identify that the entire South Side of Chicago is not a wasteland where nobody willingly walks around (let alone live). That the commenter felt it was so obviously true speaks to the level of validation.
I would argue it's only bait and switch if they implied that it would always be free.
This, except I always buy a new SSD for my own use, then just swap the factory drive back when needed.
having used rust that isn't a sane trade off. rust is a wonderful language but its orders of magnitude slower than go for development.
Yeah it's ridiculous how many features of a modern database server we are leaving on the table in favour of spending more time re-inventing these things for every new app or middle layer. Even MSSQL has row level security, I doubt it's being used very much.
Aaaa! We got 'em! If AI can't copyright itself, then it won't be allowed to take over or destroy the world (as long as a human and/or patent troll copyrights world domination first). One small victory for mankind!
I honestly don’t know what to make of these observations other than I’m utterly convinced they’re not alien, super high tech or break the laws of physics (eg inertia). There was no alien crash in Roswell. I also file believe any government is competent enough for the claimed cover up and associated psyops.

What I do find interesting is the overlap between people who buy into various conspiracy theories and people who are religious, were religious or would otherwise be likely to be religious.

There’s some fascinating psychology here and I think it boils down to a combination of wishful thinking and the comfort derived from there being a Grand Plan rather than just a collection of random stuff that just happens.

“Can’t be explained” is typically “hasn’t been explained yet”. Lack of an explanation is nothing more than that. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I approach this from the other direction. Given the huge benefits of a Dyson Swarm and the fact that it seems to require no exotic materials and no more physics it looks increasingly likely that we are very alone in the Milky Way and even if we aren’t it requires an awful lot of hubris to suggest a species would spend the considerable effort and tens of thousands of years to come here and hide.

Like this is Main Character Syndrome at its finest.