skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pearl Harbor was a temporary tactical success, but a strategic failure. The IJN failed to destroy the fuel storage at Pearl, or to block the harbor. They also failed to destroy much of the maintenance and repair facilities.

Midway would have been an abject failure for the USN if it weren't for the codebreakers. The B-17s at Midway and most of the other aircraft were pretty useless in the battle itself. This was one of the closest naval engagements in the war, and the US was lucky to come away with the victory. But in the end, the defeat of the Kido Butai wasn't a necessary requirement for defeating Japan.

The Battle of the Atlantic was also more dependent upon code breaking than aircraft for success. Combined with the convoy system, the U-boats effect peaked in 1942. After that it was all downhill. Air power in the form of B-24s and escort carriers helped, but were not instrumental.

And the Battle of Britain, there was no chance Germany could ever successfully invade the British Isle. They simply didn't have the Navy to cross the channel.

Air power helped in many campaigns, but was not instrumental in the outcome of the war.
Part of the thinking behind `app/` is that each section of your application can become its own app. Separate layouts, separate data fetching, and more. `pages/` was mapped very linearly to routes – `pages/index.js` was the index route. But with `app/`, that is not the case.

That's a good point about having a route `/layout` – I will check with the team about that.
> It’s amazing how much damage people do to their lawns by consistently over-mowing.

As a new homeowner, I'm curious: what would you define to be "over-mowing"?
Also: https://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html which works on AVR devices without hardware USB support.
Meta’s ‘MyoSuite’ AI platform could help doctors develop better prosthetics
Also related is V-USB from obev for AVR devices which don't have built-in USB transceivers. Impressively, they bit bang low speed USB (1.1) using two regular GPIO pins. [1]

[1] https://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html
I've done this a dozen or more times now. I end up with a barren patch of dirt/clay that nothing grows in. I till about top 6 inches of soil, amend it with a mixture of compost, chicken manure, cow manure, green matter/waste, peat moss and a little sand in case of clay.

It basically immediately turns it into a productive patch of land that plants can thrive in. This is not novel a gardening technique.
like an everyday pedestrian you mean?
I, for one, welcome our impending zombie overlords.
God bless and good luck to the lady who received this treatment. I hope it opens the way to a lot of people getting the same treatment, but first I hope it saves her life.
mRNA vaccines benefited from the statistical power of having a widespread pandemic. Trials could simply do a double blind test and check how often the treatment subjects got covid vs. control. With thousands of study participants and a fast moving virus statistical power is reached quickly.

For cancers, the disease is slow moving and there are fewer patients seeking experimental treatment. Fewer still are willing to chance that they are part of a control group. The patients who do participate are likely taking multiple other treatments, limiting the statistical power of the trial.
It's not the new standard.

Breast cancer is not contagious and has no chance of becoming a pandemic. The issue with a pandemic is every person infected is several more infectees in the future; geometric death effects instead of linear.
The current working idea is that you wouldn't use index.js. There are Layout Components and Page Components, both explicitly defined by `layout.js` and `page.js`. We are open to other opinions here, though. Others have shared similar sentiment: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/37136
The issue is whether the gains of cheap money[1] (new valuable companies etcetera) outweigh the costs of cheap money (zombie companies etcetera).

Your comment is unbalanced, because it only considers costs while ignoring gains, assuming that “cheap liquidity” also creates valuable gains.

Or perhaps your comment is tautologically true: liquidity is defined as cheap when the economic returns are strongly negative overall?

[1] “Cheap liquidity” is a terrible definition, because liquidity is predominantly considered a good thing in functioning markets, and cheap transactions are usually seen as good as well. I am assuming you mean “cheap liquidity” to mean “cheap money” (not a clear definition either) or that “raising funds is easy for startups and costs them relatively little”.
<^> this <^>

Underneath the hype, a Chromebook is still a Linux-powered laptop OS atop whatever reasonably-capable hardware platform one throws at it.
If a car collides with you when you walk you could make the argument its safer to have a helmet. this is not evem remotely rare in terms of occurence.
I think jvalencia meant what if the virus transmits between humans for example, and escapes into the wild.
Depends how you're interpreting the "U" in CRUD - if you have some complex business logic to resolve conflicting updates to the same object then maybe an ACID database would make sense. But certainly if you're just doing last write wins like 99% of CRUD webapps then using an ACID database is wasteful and pointless. The whole point of ACID is to say that you need these globally isolated transactions and you're willing to pay for them, and while database engines are pretty smart with MVCC and so on there's fundamentally only so much they can do.

99% of the time all you want to do is a) commit input events to a durable store as quickly as possible b) read a state-of-the-world that's consistent in the sense that it represents all the consequences of all the inputs up until some (logical) time t, and IME an event sourcing model is if anything better at doing that than an RDBMS is.
> the people who are in fields for status rather than because of intrinsic joy of the work itself are often not the most productive or ethical.

On the other hand, I've found that people who convince themselves that they are pursing a path based on intrinsic joy of the work itself quickly lose interest when they hit a wall and the work becomes not fun at all but a slog.
Minimum wage employees don't typically get healthcare that's the point
It's an Orthopoxvirus [1] [2] and is easy to target and kill. We've already eliminated one of the viruses in the family: Smallpox-causing Variola.

Also notable, it's a doubly stranded DNA virus, so it will mutate less frequently than other virus families, such as ssDNA and RNA viruses.

Patients will undoubtably be monitored closely. That said, we do need to be extremely careful. Wherever it may have originated, Covid should have hopefully instilled caution and respect for safety protocols.

[1] https://journals.lww.com/journalacs/Abstract/2020/04000/Nove...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopoxvirus
Imagen seems better at capturing details/nuance from the prompt, but subjectively the DALLE-2 images feel more “real” to me. Not sure why. Something about the lighting?
There's nothing wrong with healthy debate about languages. Definitely there is some religious stuff that enters the discussion, but I find critique, even more so of popular languages that should have enough "confidence" not to care if someone criticizes, is generally stimulating
Did you mix up your threads? How does logging and fetching sensor data require SQL?
sure, but if a helmet makes things even safer by all means lets mandate helmets in cars. I want people to follow that safety logic to the end.
Seems pretty alive to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vexdf-Rd-AE
> If I asked for "criminals in the United States" and all the results are black people, that should concern me, not because the data set is biased

Well the results would unquestionably be biased. All results being black people wouldn't reflect reality at all, and hurting feelings to enact change seems like a poor justification for incorrect results.

> I'd say it doesn't actually matter, as long as the population sampled is made clear to the user.

Ok, and let's say I ask for "criminals in Cheyenne Wyoming" and it doesn't know the answer to that, should it just do its best to answer? Seem risky if people are going to get fired up about it and act on this to get "real change".

That seems like a good parallel to what we're talking about here, since it's very unlikely that crime statistics were fed into this image generating model.
Php is a beast of an attack surface. On every php install I try to do as much hardening as I can, especially with `disable_functions`, since you can make it much harder for someone to get a useful reverse shell, or other nasty things, like the built in `shell_exec` function.

https://www.madirish.net/?article=229

I'm betting most WordPress shared hosting doesn't do that, nor give people the means to set up a web app firewall in front of it. Without these things I'd never want to expose a WordPress install to the internet :)
ok we will!
> but the middle "Text-to-Image Diffusion Model" step that magically outputs a 64x64 pixel image of an actual golden retriever wearing an actual blue checkered beret and red-dotted turtleneck is where I go "WTF??".

It doesn't output it outright, it basically forms it slowly, finding and strengthening more and more finer-grained features among the dwindling noise, combining the learned associations of memorized convolutional texture primitives vs encoded text embeddings. In the limit of enough data the associations and primitives turn out composable enough to suffice for out-of-distribution benchmark scenes.

When you have a high-quality encoder of your modality into a compressed vector representation, the rest is optimization over a sufficiently high-dimensional, plastic computational substrate (model): https://moultano.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/why-deep-learning-...

It works because it should. The next question is: "What are the implications?".

Can we meaningfully represent every available modality in a single latent space, and freely interconvert composable gestalts like this https://files.catbox.moe/rmy40q.jpg ?
But why is it a problem? The AI is just a mirror showing us ourselves. That’s a good thing. How does it help anyone to make an AI that presents a fake world so that we can pretend that we live in a world that we actually don’t? Disassociation from reality is more dangerous than bias.
Yes, all the time when I lived in Atlanta. They frequently do road construction where they dig up rectangular underground vaults, then cover them up with giant “temporary” steel plates for years at a time. When the steel plates get dislodged, which they always do because they are not supposed to be permanent repairs, it leaves a gaping rectangular hole. I would estimate that the remaining hole is around the 4-washing machine size. When I was working on my MS at Ga Tech, a friend drove over one at speed, the car made it past but it sheared the oil pan right off the engine. Any Atlanta resident can validate that this is not BS. https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/why-at...
That's like saying corporations can release complex open source code with backdoors in it and the userbase won't notice. Are there any big instances of this happening?
All rally drivers wear helmets. Pretty sure its not just to have more sponsor stickers.
He isn't only accused of fraud. He's also accused of market manipulation, and the trick he used here is practically a textbook example of market manipulation.
One incident almost 50 years ago, with no long-term effect, is not a red warning.

Ammonia as an energy storage medium grows an already very mature use. Millions of tons of ammonia are handled every year.
When you write "0x12" you're confusing the "visible representation" with the hardware representation. The whole endianness discussion is around how the hardware counts them. I believe that with the exception of some IBM hardware, bit n has always had weight 2^n, which is basically the little-endian convention.
That’s pretty speculative and dubious (the holding back part) given the heavy bias to publication culture at Google Research and DeepMind. OpenAI has hardly been “crushed” here; PaLM and Imagen are solid, incremental advances, but given what came before them, not Earth-shattering.

If I were going to cite evidence for Alphabet’s “supremacy” in AI, I would’ve picked something more novel and surprising such as AlphaFold, or perhaps even Gato.

It’s not clear to me that Google has anything which compares to Reality Labs, although this may simply be my own ignorance.

Nvidia surely scooped Google with Instant Neural Graphics Primitives, in spite of Google publishing dozens of (often very interesting) NeRF papers. It’s not a war, all these works build on one another.
I did a proof of concept in luigi pretty early on and really liked it. Our main concerns were that we would have needed to bolt on a lot of extra functionality to make it easy to re-run workflows or specific steps in the workflows when necessary (manual intervention is unavoidable IME). The fact that airflow also had a functional UI out of the box made it hard to justify luigi when we were just getting off the ground.
Reminds me of how we do Keynes: we spend countercyclically… and then also spend cyclically so really we just spend.
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Your word choice of "end up with" is confusing me as to the temporal order of your sentences.
Once upon a time you could lie only a little bit and Stanford would give you the whole ImageNet corpus. I know because, uh, a friend told me.

I’ve got no interest in moralizing on this, but if any of the big actors wanted to they could put a meaningful if not overwhelming subset of the corpus on S3, put the source code on GitHub, and you could on a modest budget see an epoch or 3.

I’m not holding my breath.
You're missing the point. A drone like you're describing, (the Kızılelma) is not a $10k in any world. That's going to be $5-$10M each. The AESA radar alone will be $500K. So you can't just make up a fantasy price and say $10k buys you an effective drone.

The communication network you're describing doesn't exist, and would be highly susceptible to jamming, spoofing or hacking if it did. You can't hand wave away the current state of technology because the idea sounds cool. That's just sci-fi you're describing, not realistic technology.

Basically what you're describing is something that's not currently available, nor possible in the near future. It's the same story that comes out from HN about how fighter jets are obsolete because a drone can fly more Gs than a manned aircraft.
In practice it should be better, but it introduces its own awfulness. It requires retuning the scheduler loops, if there needs to be a scaling increase, the tasks run the risk of timing out.
300+ nautical mile range. Onboard threat detection and evasion. Ability to identify between different ship types and prioritize accordingly. Re-attack capability if it misses. Low observability features

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-158C_LRASM

Then there's hypersonics, which, when flying at low-level, reduce the possible reaction time by the target by several orders from the moment it is detected at the radar horizon (best case!) to impact. Subsonic missiles, provided they're detected, take longer and allow for more reaction time.

The Neptune is basically a domestically built version of the Soviet Kh-35, with minor improvements. It's a contemporary of the U.S. Harpoon, and that one is rather long in the tooth. It's not to say that they're bad, nor is it any dig against the Ukrainians. Any capability is better than no capability! But it wasn't a frighteningly new technology either, and one that, on paper, the Moskava should have been capable of handling. It didn't, and it raises questions.
During the financial crisis Goldmans traded against the trades of their customers, who were making trades Goldmans had recommended they make. They made a few hundred million on it. Goldmans that is, not their customers.
If anyone else decides to give this a try on video files with multiple audio tracks, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to tell it to select a certain track.

I got it working by manually adding `-map 0:2` (`2` being the trackid I'm interested in) when calling ffmpeg.

You'll have to make that edit in both `videogrep/transcribe.py` as well as `moviepy/audio/io/readers.py`.

And I'm not sure how easy adding real support for that would be, considering that moviepy doesn't currently have a way to support it (https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy/issues/1654)
Not really, unless "done right" is for like a 2000 line function or something.

If code is running once in order, there's no reason to break it up into functions and take it out of execution order. That's just stupid.
That's not the position taken by Indexed Finance's creators:

"When Kellar and his co-founders created Indexed, they imagined it as a step forward for DeFi, or decentralized finance, a blockchain-based movement that purports to offer a more automated, less intermediated version of borrowing and lending, asset trading, and portfolio management. Some proponents take a utilitarian view of DeFi, considering it an improved version of traditional finance, with its fee-taking middlemen and sluggish human decision-making. Others are more libertarian, seeing DeFi as an escape from the existing system, a way of circumventing the rules and restrictions imposed by governments or corporations. Then there are the skeptics, who think it’s all a grift.

Kellar, who describes himself as “very progressive,” fits squarely into the utilitarian camp."
oh crap, didn't even consider this as a possible 'side effect' I hope someone on HN who has the right scientific background can explain why this is highly unlikely or an impossible outcome..
Viral vectors can be genetically engineered to prevent or impair replication.
I I may defer... Diet Coke is... Awful.

Diet Dr. Pepper is the only thing worth a damn.
> It must be scary for founders / owners though.

If you're a startup engineer employed by such founders, why wouldn't that mean it's also scary for you?
This is effective because analysis paralysis is mentally draining.

We tend to think/optimize in terms of time. But I've found it helpful to optimize for mental energy, which is often the limiting factor.
A lot of people don't actually have any ideas but still want $
We Fact-Checked PolitiFact, They Failed
Not most, but possibly many (see thread):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421716
Hire now pay later
Presumably the same way you’d overconsume public transportation according to OP: staying too long, crowding out other users that want/need to use public goods more than you.
I do not recall any serious proposals to force vaccines into anyone. Restrictions on what you may do when unvaccinated are not forcing you to get injected, they are simply the way society balances the liberty of the people who do not want to be infected by you against your liberty not to be medicated against your will.
I've stayed at the periphery of front end tech. I am comfortable with react, but often eschew it for the impedance mismatch with the server.

With the rise of server side front end practices, it dawns on me that there may be opportunities for integration with other server side runtimes? Asked naively, is there any possibility of an "FFI" integration for Next APIs? Anything more sophisticated than running a subprocess javascript VM?
OpenAI and FAIR are definitely in the same league as Google but Google has been all-in on AI from the beginning. They've probably spent well over $100B on AI research. I really enjoyed the Genius Makers book which came out last year from an NYT reporter on history of ML race. Deepmind apparently turned down a FB offer of double what Google was offering.
Where and when did the defi protocol in question explicitly state "code is law"? No one is waiving legal recourse when they're using Web3. I'm not a lawyer but I'd be very surprised if one could even "waive legal recourse" just because it's blockchain all the way down vs mySQL.

I believe you're making this claim because _some_ crypto proponents believe "code is law" and because your personal logical framing is that web3 has no value add outside of being able to operate without legal recourse thus it must operate without legal recourse.

First, even if web3 had no useful value add, it doesn't mean it ought not exist. I can create a SaaS company that does exactly the same thing another company does just with my own logo and API documentation. Does non-uniqueness invalidate my company's existence? What if I forked an open source SQL database and slapped my name on the repo? Have you heard about something called substitute goods? I don't see why Pepsi can't exist in a world where only Coke is the norm.

Second, web3/blockchain/defi does have benefits outside of traditional web2/finance. The ability to not require depositing your funds into an account to transact on a protocol, for instance, is a clear value add. The ability to buy/sell NFTs without a middleman (if they choose to eschew a middleman) is a novel and potentially valuable value add as well. There are countless other applications of web3 that I won't delve into but these concepts can and should operate within bounds of legal recourse.
It used to be called sub-prime finance and unsecured was the lowest most toxic of them all. It's hard to change the laws of the universe
Also, almost 40 years ago, the name of a laser printer capable of 200 dpi.

Almost there, the Apple Laserwriter nailed it at 300 dpi.

Sometimes sneaked an issue of the "SF-Lovers Digest" in between code printouts.
NIMBY doesn't want the association, and people prone to OD are more interested in taking the drug than testing it.
In addition to the other post in this thread mention that it's time consuming to go through the list.

Fundamentally, that work can be saved by the original author spend negligible amount of energy to provide the reference.

When I see people hiding information, or forgot to provide links, I am thinking a bit of human intellectual energy is wasted for no good reason...
I mean you don't, so I guess your vote should be voided. There are many things representatives vote on for you that you have no idea about.
my grandparents said just grow turnip... Japanese ones where it's thick and long (Daikon) and just let it um rot, after couple of seasons you'd get the length worth of top soil that's good for rice at least!
Another strategy I highly recommend is to not let companies have leverage on you. Don’t commit to any long-term contracts (you want the ability to stop paying them at any time without having to potentially litigate to get out of long-term obligations) and have backup plans in case your primary supplier screws up.

The dynamics change dramatically when the company needs you more than you need them.

Instead of you having to fight them to get what you want, you can simply notify them that they’re not gonna get any more money out of you unless the problem is fixed, and leave the “fighting” to your contact at the company whose paycheck depends on people continuing to buy services from them.
Oryx made a good point that I hadn't realized until I read it:

>*In this context it should be noted that no reports thus far have explicitely mentioned the number of AShMs supposedly launched (as opposed to the number that impacted), so that a scenario in which the Moskva's defences were overwhelmed by a well-planned volley of missiles is not out of the question.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/04/neptunes-wrath-flagshi...

Answering this would require some sleuthing as to how many they're estimated to possess. I understand there's been some attacks since (rumored), so they didn't expend all of them, apparently:

https://eurasiantimes.com/russian-warship-hit-by-ukranian-an...
In this case the article is clear that Uber is moving their entire C/C++ build chain to this technology. It’s clearly not a small side project!