skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont think anyone is denying that there were fringe nationalist groups in Ukraine, just like nobody can deny that there are fringe nationalist groups in US(Remember "Jews wont replace us" chanting blokes in 2020) or fringe nationalist groups in Russia(See the video of Rogozin, who leads Russia's space agency, participating in Moscow' nationalist meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUItOUKQ-zc ).

A fringe group that has 0 political power does not make "Ukrainian are nazis" any more true than when its spewed by Russian propaganda machine
I didn't understand that quote. Why is CGI cheating? Because the author wants to do himself whatever it is that (i.e.) Apache does under the hood to run the CGI script?
Property tax is the only tax I know of, at least in the US, that's on static wealth rather than economic activity.

Your stock goes from 500 shares at $20 to 500 shares at $2000, no tax on that $999,000 gain until you sell.

Your house goes from $12,000 to $3,500,000, absent something like Prop 13 in California, your tax bill goes way up even though you have derived no income from the gain in value. This can be a hardship for people whose incomes have not kept pace with the house value.
I feel like nobody can read the actual definition of this term, and how and why it is used in a conversation.
Wow, well that was well handled by the professor. Some people never learn the lesson that some things are true whether you believe them or not.
Was the original AI winter with reference to AGI? I thought it was in reference to the resulting lack of research and interest after the "bubble bust". If we're not close to AGI now I can't imagine researchers 40 years ago really thought AGI was around the corner, right? Just curious, I'm not an expert on the history of ML!
It was "optimized" for the aesthetic concerns of RDBMS purists and for ease of implementation of certain other systems, in other words it was optimal for the developers and severely sub-optimal for the users, which is a problem endemic to RDBMS fandom.
Some seem to think that "cancel culture" started 5 years ago as well. It's a strange position to take which indicates a near total lack of research into the topic.
Ironically I've been using this site as a form of Pomodoro timer, so it has worked with some surprising degree of success!
It's going to depend on the author and I only read a few of them, but some authors were quite transparent about the details of the deals they signed, much more than is usual for professional authors. For example:

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/financial-transparency
The Phoenix was never the prime BVR for the US. It was a niche weapon for the USN, to combat the Backfire/Bear threat. Even for the USN, it wasn't the prime; the AIM-7 Sparrow was the primary AAM carried. Tomcats rarely carried Phoenix except when qualifying. It was too heavy, and the F-14 couldn't bring back all 6 to the carrier due to weight. If the Tomcat had stuck around longer, the AMRAAM would have been qual'd for it, and the Tomcat would probably have lost out to it.

And the reason it wasn't used much wasn't just ID issues, but cost. It was supremely expensive, in limited stocks. Why use it against an Su-22 in the Gulf of Sidra? Or waste it over Iraq?
> During dreams we experience an awesome occurrence: the ability of the mind to turn pure information into a dynamic multidimensional reality

What do I experience when I'm awake, then? Because I could swear that I must be turning data into multidimensional reality.

As for the rest, any not terribly advanced psychology is indistinguishable from woo.
> with decently ranged AA missiles

Those missiles are not cheap, and it would be unlikely for cheap Cessnas to get in range of an F-35. At long range the F-35 is difficult to observe by sensors that fit inside a Cessna.

I believe it is possible to shoot down low-radar-crossection aircraft if the missiles are spotted/guided by other sensor networks, but that is not easy, cheap, or mobile. And land based radars are sitting ducks.
it's surely inherently more (likely to be) balanced/matching up with reality?

Not really. TV/Movies are stereotypes & caricatures. News media shows mostly the extremes, or anything violent. Think of native British shows you might watch: are they accurate portrayals of day to day life? (Besides Dr. Who, which I'm pretty sure is a documentary.)
tech is the economy. its not an outgrowth, the biggest companies in the US are all tech, unlike 20 years ago.
Hunter laptop story
The corporate world really sucks, huh.

Just cutthroat, mercenary and exploitative. And the worst part is so many people view this stuff as "good business"
I know you can embed binary blobs into compiled executables. I also (often) use the trick to include a shell script header in Java JAR files to make them self executing (assuming Java is installed).

But, would it be possible to do something like this where new posts are appended to a binary? You have one executable, but then to update the content, new data is appended to that file?

I assume it’s possible, but I’m not familiar enough with executable formats to know where to start. I’m also not sure how this works security wise — but I again assume that you can update a file, even if the memory holding the code loaded from that file is protected from writes.
Yes that is our burden as a democracy.
Why would you buy something that as a westerner you are not permitted to sell under current Russian regulations? That's not a market and it's not a security.
This was very entertaining. A few tells that this was imagined, apart from the obvious unlikeliness of a microwave passing a turing test so well:

1) I don't think it's possible to give 100 pages worth of prompting to GPT-3 in the first place (I might be wrong, I haven't used the API often).

2) Very unlikely that the microwave API which could also talk to GPT-3 could do anything else but prompt GPT-3 and return a response. The model would have to craft a response with malicious code embedded in it specific to the very microwave it existed.

3) if GPT-3 was the sentient overlord claimed in the story, it would understand a human could not fit in a microwave. This mistake is possibly the most believable part of the story :)
Why Blocking Roads Can Speed Up Traffic (2012)
The problem is the theory was just discounted right off the bat without any real reason other than conservatives said it. That is not an intellectually good argument. We should not be banning plausible theories unless we have actual evidence.
You can’t “remove” those errors — they are likely the primary cause of the perceived gap. I think that fact checkers and related orgs are mostly correct, but where there is room for interpretation and when mistakes are made they happen with a strong bias in one direction. Removing those is basically just pruning “outliers” in dataset that don’t support the conclusion you’d like to make.
Ask HN: Why does Microsoft keep answers.microsoft.com up?
I have never seen any useful responses from so called "Microsoft Support" people. Why does Microsoft keep this up? Are they paying these people to give completely generic and irrelevant answers to customers?
You can partition your audit/event table by time period and archive old events [1] or you can avoid the records hitting the database in the first place by generating the events elsewhere to begin with [2].

[1] https://github.com/icheishvili/audit-trigger
[2] https://github.com/eulerto/wal2json
You wouldn't know it from these comments but the change of heart is related to introducing ad-supported subscription tiers (eg, free-with-ads).

There is, however, this lovely bit:

> Andrew Essex, a longtime advertising executive who now runs the consulting firm GoingConcern, said that the “streaming industry is maturing, becoming much more realpolitik, where they’re saying to hell with the user experience — we need revenue, we will explore additional forms of monetization. It’s basically game on.”
gRPC and gRPC-web via a single Istio gateway port
CFLs were and are a bad idea that lasted about 15 years. Look at all the don'ts:

https://www.energystar.gov/products/lighting_fans/light_bulb...
The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage
... the on and off switches were inputs during the training phase? I might need some proof here
I found the script they used for copying data really interesting: https://gist.github.com/peterwj/0614bf6b6fe339a3cbd42eb93dc5...

It's written in Python, spins up a queue.Queue object, populates it with ranges of rows that need to be copied (based on min < ID < max ranges), starts up a bunch of Python threads and then each of those threads uses os.system() to run this:

psql "{source_url}" -c "COPY (SELECT * FROM ...) TO STDOUT" \
| psql "{dest_url}" -c "COPY {table_name} FROM STDIN"

This feels really smart to me. The Python GIL won't be a factor here.
You know what, I'm so sad, you just came up with a wild claim and you can't prove it with simple words, I wasn't asking you for the moon.
Archived: https://archive.ph/ZlMB9
Oh you're right about that, ecommerce picked up a lot. I was thinking about documents. Well I'm wrong sometimes, I accept that. Ecommerce, didn't think of that.
Meta's Fees for Metaverse Sales Blow Away Apple's App Store
Currently seems to support a number of languages: https://ydb.tech/en/docs/reference/ydb-sdk/install

- Python
- Go
- .NET
- Java
- PHP

Has some example code here: https://ydb.tech/en/docs/getting_started/sdk
If both jobs are new to you, it’s very difficult to know what will be easy or hard from the outside. I’ve had jobs that I thought would be high stress actually be easy and vice versa
Thank you for this post. This is the kind of authoritative, insightful, contextually relevant information that makes HN so valuable.
this is definitely a useful tool, thank you for putting the work into it!

from the evil camp, it works be really useful if it also included an option to generate doom/spacemacs style mnemonic keybindings, as those are a central facet of why those like us start using them. i’d be interested in switching but for the enormous amount of effort it would take to add those! and if i were coming in as a newer user of emacs, having examples of how to create those kind of layered bindings would be hugely helpful.
I think this may have already been attempted, and you're perhaps underestimating the incentive and relative cheapness of large well funded companies (right now, literally the largest and most well funded) to insert their own agendas into visible movements like this (for better or worse, this is not much different from how "Open Source" came out of "Free Software.")

In other words, the fact that you don't see these positions I think is a result of a mild "embrace, extend extinguish" and not "no one thought of this before."
You don't have to sell me on the superiority of good infrastructure and moral labor practices. I and many people I know advocate for them in the United States, constantly.

I'm sure you did make wise choices in addition to your good luck. But unless you were born to a well-to-do family in the United States, those wise choices would not have been feasible. The choices you'd make in their place, no matter how prudent you were, would likely yield less. There's a good chance you'd likely end up exactly like the OP. That's the whole point of those benefits— they aren't just for your convenience. They give you opportunities and protect you from risks through no action of your own. Not being born into those benefits is not a moral failure.

Proudly pointing out your avoidance of someone else's work or mental health problems when you have vastly more work and mental health support, in general, is utterly obnoxious. It's like someone living off of a trust fund pointing out that they also made prudent financial decisions as justification for publicly touting their financial solubility in the face of someone else's poverty.
Dude you are not taking great care of your garden...
Seeking arguments against hypersonic weapons is as futile as arguing against every other leg of the perpetual arms race. The advantages are clear; the speed of hypersonic missiles makes all current anti-missile systems (limited as they already are,) obsolete. The first iterations of hypersonic missiles are already in service with two major powers and a third will join soon. Everyone else will follow.
Why No One Wants to Talk About Sweden
Luckily the use of Transformer models makes what's going on under the hood a bit more interpretable, but I think the fundamental part at which ideas are merged is translating from CLIP text embeddings to CLIP image embeddings.

The training principle of CLIP is very simple, but intuitively understanding how the diffusion prior maps between semantically similar textual and visual representations is a bit more unclear (if that's even a well-formulated question!)
AFAIK byobu is just a theme for tmux or screen.
I agree. Medium made the editor clean for writers but made the interface messy, cludgy and just a pain for readers.

Substack kept it clean for both.
Node.js 18 JavaScript Framework Improves Security, Adds Fetch API
By mainstream media I mean media that is popular - people are reading it. Thoughts described there are so extreme there must be acceptance for such rhetoric.
https://archive.ph/IuL3p
I’ve been playing around with wrapping SQLite in a similar way for applications. Suppose folks would call it “low code/no code” but I find the title a bit cringe.

Just been crappy little experiments so far but I’ll prob push something out when I get some more time for it.
The problem at that firm wasn't the SQL Server it was the RDBMS mindset which led them to do joins between tables of journaled trades and much larger tables of corporate actions going back decades, instead of materializing a more useful intermediate result. This is my main beef with RDBMSs: they lead to cognitive hazards of this type. It's not that the databases are themselves naturally bad systems.
All this does is explain that they use leverage. It doesn't explain how they actually generate an edge.
I wonder how many threads patience and reading comprehension would kill outright?
I'm really impressed to see this, Mozilla should've led here on implementing something like this years ago. This is a pretty big nudge for me to consider Brave as a future browser.
I believe these missiles cost a crapload of money, are slow to make and Ukraine has a small number of these. It would be irrational for them to use not one but at least two of them (some sources say there even were 3 hits) without a decent chance of a hit.
It doesn't appear to have roots with tied to Japanese culture though: https://www.etymonline.com/word/dweeb
We have a word for it within the domain of philosophy and literature: Kafkaesque.
Now that such a watermarking scheme is published, it seems easy to make a watermark unreadable... Simply detect each 1 and 0 through the increases and decreases in power every 0.08 seconds, and then reverse a random 50% of them.

Surely a watermark shouldn't be removable? Yet this seems trivially removable.
The 747 and A380 are still really popular for freight, but for passenger flights they are dwindling. Simply put there are very few routes where they are viable, think long distance and high volume (Dubai -> Sydney or London -> Dubai).
100% correct. This isn’t just a C64 demo. This is a game that was an Easter egg included as an audio track on the vinyl album We Are Stardust by Lukehash. I didn’t know any of this before you linked the site so thanks!

Now I’ve got a copy of the sold out Vinyl coming in from eBay.
No, they tried out whether reducing sodium intake beyond the ordinary low-sodium diet helps, and there wasn't statistical evidence for a difference between a low-sodium diet and a extra-low-sodium diet.

They did not find (or even try to find) whether a low-sodium diet helps in comparison to a normal, average diet.
They are basically "google of Russia" - main search engine, browser, etc. Waiting till Russia cuts off YouTube and the rest.

They basically adopt western open-source for Russian government (review and such). Their browser is Chromium, machine learning is Tensor Flow, etc. They also work in cybersecurity for Russian government (including conducting attacks).
I'd call that gratuit software rather than libre software.

Using a most descriptive language sidesteps the English conflation of free and free.

North Korea is a very free country. Everything is gratuit, but it's not a free country at all, no libre
How employee incentive stock options (ISOs) work
Isn't this going to make mobile performance worse? They should publish performance numbers.
Only 14lbs for the CLU. That's HEAVY. Someone still needs to hump that around, plus the missiles. Plus all the battle rattle gear. The Army did away with the 11H MOS, so now everyone is either an 11B or 11C. Stuff gets heavy, and rarely gets lighter.
For rust, it might be nice to add the option to use either rust-mode (basic) or rustic-mode (more fully featured, depends on rust-mode). Rustic-mode is mentioned as the go to option for more features even in the rust-mode readme.
That is just an awesome piece of art. I would love a print of that.
This. Until fetch has all the features of xhr, what's the point of being pretty?
If it is sunlight you are depriving the ecosystem of it.

It's not unthinkable that a fission or fusion economy could produce enough energy that the waste heat cooks us.
> Supersonic commercial aircraf

Hopefully we will see a resurgence in the next decade. I'm rooting hard for Boom supersonic.
Kudos! While reading this announcement I've learned upcoming AMP 2.x. Impressive that Google still pusing for AMP and as mentioned is even worse.
big-time red flag that they're using deno's infra... wouldn't trust that
Apart from what everyone else said (take time off and see a doctor) I’ve been following this advice:
- work the absolute minimum you can get away with. No overtime.
- treat sleep like it’s your job. Get 8 hours of sleep no matter what.
- do not take any extra responsibilities at work. Just say no. That includes studying for certifications, personal projects etc.

If you’re in a bad way it will likely take a few months before you feel better but it does work. I now find it helpful to go into this mode whenever I get the slightest hint of burnout coming on.

Good luck!
So, could this lead to legal action?
Are you calling Ukraine Ukra? I cant tell if you are trying to save bandwidth or sound demeaning to the country and its people.

These so-called safety reasons are Russian propaganda lies as there was 0 reasons for a nuclear-armed Russia to be afraid of Ukrainian military attacking its territories.

Remember, Ukrainian politics have a lifespan of 4 years, so they have to fight to stay in the office. For Russian, their czar is forever, so his illusions of grandeur are lifelong.
this is the kind of IOT hell i hate. sure you can open and close your power strip from anywhere in the world but when you FORCE the said power brick to first talk to their server and then flip the switch, aka it wont work locally, that is the scummy kind of company that i refuse to give my money to.
Soulseek has been the best source of music for some two decades now. The coffin on the recorded music industry needs nailing shut.
Google Project Zero Year in Review of 0-days Used In-the-Wild in 2021
why is this thread voted so high
It should have an option to show the wooden table behind the paper.
I hope he just read the same news that stated the Russian economy was more than capable just like Germany.
That it had a lot of industries, natural resources, and above all relatively autonomous and so on ... and per Bloomberg own report, a sanction Fortress.
I just hope he didn't conveniently skip that.
Rust binaries aren't statically linked by default, but all of the rust code in the binary is.
This seems extremely reductive at best, especially with the benefit of hindsight.
I have a single question on a blog contact page for roughly 5 years now, that can be answered with a google query and is extremely permissive about how you write the answer.

I have not received a single spam message on that email address as of now (quite a few actual comments tho).

Granted: people who don't manage to put in the time to answer the question are not people who I am interested in — a stance which a government website cannot afford — but there are ways to solve this sufficiently without Recaptcha.

If your forms are juicy goals for targeted attacks this might be a different matter, but how about just paying a bunch of devs to program it for your state and open-source it?
it seems not. they have compatibility for querying external PG dbs (YQL query engine), I thing that's the reason for that.
Null island is like the opposite of the Bermuda triangle. In fact, maybe they form a portal...
Tangential

I've imagined some sort of video watermark that would be dynamically injected into video streams from services like Netflix.

The watermark would ID the account to which the stream was sent. The purpose would be to catch whoever is making the web-rips the make it into the wild.

I don't actually expect anything like this to be practical. It's a lot of technology to develop and support just for the slight chance of catching video pirates. But it's a fun mental exercise.

Questions I ask myself include:

1. What would the watermark look like visually? I image a slightly off-colored pixel appearing at various x,y locations at various time intervals. Sort of like the yellow microdots on laser printers that ID an individual printer.

2. How would the visual data be injected into the existing cached video byte chunks residing on CDN (I'm not sure of the correct technical term for the packets). I suppose the altered packets would have to be created on the fly and sent to the CDN host serving the individual streamer.
Do you have specific writers or publications on Medium you frequently read? I’d also like to support a publishing platform that doesn’t rely on advertising but it’s never even occurred to me to pay for Medium because it seems like there would just be so much crap to sift through in order to find the good stuff.
In addition to what everyone has said about Substack providing an incredibly easy-to-use platform for reaching readers with essentially no lock-in, they also provide the ability to produce podcasts.

A free service for running a mailing list and podcast with the ability to jump ship at any time (you can export your list from there) and the ability to flip a switch and start making money directly from your audience at a reasonable cost is all fantastic.
Definitely. But sadly, it's over for both.

I find Concorde and the A380 to be fascinating products. Both were great technological advancements but lost huge amounts of money. Unsustainable amounts. Both were propped up by state aerospace programs, and wound up creating the world's largest aerospace company and the only serious competitor to Boeing. What a ride!
Nifty. But I can't help thinking this was harder than it needed to be in the cloud. Because frankly, 4 TB is not big: my home Synology backup server is 4 TB. Making a pair of standalone Linux servers to rehearse this locally, and with full control of which Postgres modules and other software to use, would have made things easier, it seems.

Anyway, thanks for food for thought.
Thank you. Someone had to.
It goes even further than that, rates are low for about 40 years now. Yes they are super low now at around 0% , but when/if they go back up to 4-5% that is still historically low.
> How is this not covered by the posters comment about it not being a business but a charity if you rely on people paying more than they need to?

If that's your definition, then sure.

That's not my definition.
Looking around that makes sense. Actual production shrank and almost no one can afford housing until they're middle aged. Walking down city streets the buildings that aren't boarded up and decaying only have "for lease" signs in the windows.