skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A common thing I see used to prevent bird strikes are black - or even better, UV-reflective - predator-shaped window stickers. Or even window protection film (not sure this is the right translation).
There's tons of rumours around Vilnius tech scene about how Tesonet works. Namely they hire younger devs, give little remote work opportunities and generally push them a lot (kinda fair). I've also heard their engineers say "there are still ways around" to get proxies which to me just sounds like they are simply hacking residential routers.

Finally, they keep providing service to a Russian market.
Perhaps the disastrous outcomes were not a result of central planning per se, but the skewed incentives that central planning mandated. Not sure if central planning can work differently though, probably it's first goal is self preservation.
> No denying that the British Raj greatly mismanaged the economy–but so did the later Mughals. How is one inherently worse than the other?

> And what difference did it make to millions of malnourished peasants, whether the taxes which oppressed them went to Delhi or to London?

This is some kind of bizarre apologetics for colonialism.
There is no evidence of economic mismanagement by later Mughals. You simply made up that shit. The kingdom split up and fell apart and India was dominated by the Maratha empire. Post Aurangzeb Mughals are of no real significance in Indian history or economics. I know you are just trying to move past the fact that Indias economic peak was under Aurangzeb, until the British pulverized the country. But if you are going to directly discard the actual data, what is the point of responding.

In the Mughal period Indian economic output was at its peak and ordinary peasants had similar economic outlook as their western counterparts. At the end of British rule indian peasants were several orders of magnitude poorer than their western counterparts. How on earth are you equating both situations? If you are not going to leave your absurd bias at the door, what's the point in engaging?

You also conveniently ignore 3000 years of rule by the Aryan derived minority upper castes on native lower castes. These apparently were glorious 2000 years for India, because the plight of the majority lower castes don't actually matter.

After the Buddhist empires, it was only during the Islamic empires that the lower castes weren't ritually forced into slavery and penury by "dharma" which was enforced as law. It is no coincidence that Indias economic peaks came under Buddhist and Islamic rule.

Under Upper caste rule Indians suffered a lot, however British colonialism was significantly worse. The economic data speaks for itself.

As an aside, Aurangzeb was the most austere Mughal emperor- This point is not relevant to the discussion, the fact that you made up a false point clearly shows that this is a fact free Ideological polemic from you. Even when the data directly contradicts everything you claim, you will remain unruffled.

> I'm not Indian.

I never claimed you were. But you have all the upper caste hindu right wing tropes down pat :) congratulations. Inspite of the fact that these gave been demonstrated to be fact free over and over again.
Russification does not give _any_ right over land. Russification was a crime of the Soviet Union and should be treated as such.
What kind of setup you've had? I guess the author is making assumption for consumer - easy to setup apps. Enterprise or team software is in software often completely different world
Great series! And a great and short introduction to a whole subgenre of YouTube horror to boot.

My favorite from the short series is "CONTINGENCY" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c66w6fVqOI
I would assume that unless you are able to deliver enough power to damage the receiver (and remember it goes down fast, r^2, plus transmitter is on the side of the microwave, standing wave perpendicular to the door), it wouldn't really impact transmission. It's not AM radio and you are not even outputting noise with timing comparable to transmission, just adding constant (or maybe 50hz sine).

Plus there are multiple channels at 2.4Ghz, and you are probably outputting a narrow single freq.

But that's just me guessing, I'd love to know if it would actually work.
MS push having automatic unattended updates turned on. Azure complains without end if you don't, sometimes Defender (which Azure complains about if you don't have installed) updates override you having turned them off when it updates.

There being a bug in the package may be an Ubuntu thing, me losing time to diagnosing problems caused by the update getting applied without my knowledge is very much an MS/Azure problem.

At least this incident gives me fuel for strongly suggesting that we turn unattended-updates off and darn well keep it off (obviously we need to keep alerts on, but we should install updates in an orderly manner, when we can monitor the results and smoke-test, preferably applying to test resources before uat/prod/other).
Russia has also won the cold war, as it was, too, liberated from cumminst tyranny and quaity of life and freedom have raised significantly as a consequence. Sadly, this consequence took time to take place, which made the causal relationship not obvious for many Russians, and a lot of what Russia has won over this liberation has been gradually lost since Putin came into power.
> but they almost never follow through.

How do you know that? Do you follow up on random online people making this claim a few months down the line to make sure they are really running Linux now?
If anything I believe this casts more doubts than certainties around fuchsia
I keep reading this argument but it’s not at all why people like me use a VPN.

It’s trivial to pinpoint my location just based on IP. Setup a cloudflare worker and dump the request object, it gets very close, down to giving you the rough zip code area. Using something like NordVPN (even with a server in the same country I’m in) changes my IP proximity to something much more broad.

Then in cafes and public networks where I absolutely don’t trust the network
It's both.

DJI drones while expensive they are rather user friendly. Some fighters in Ukraine do use them with aftermarket droppers[1]. Payload is limited to a single VOG-17M grenade. Dropper has a light sensor and is triggered by aux light.

They also build custom drones as well. For example there's R18 by Aerorozvidka[2]. Which is largeish octacopter from higher quality hobby parts. Payload is ~5kg which allows taking multiple anti-armor grenades or small mortar rounds.

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taoke-Airdrop-Delivery-Foldable-com...

[2]: https://aerorozvidka.xyz/r18/
Side topic: DJI is the clear market leader, and it's also a Chinese company.

Is there a viable alternative for EU customers that are sensible about the geopolitical aspects of this?

I also looked at some open source firmware, but didn't find anything particularly appealing. e.g. [0]

[0]: https://www.parrot.com/en/open-source-drone-software
NordVPN is ran by same company that supplies residential proxies.

The way it worked is by using using their service you'd actually reciprocally share your IP.

Thats dodgy on multiple levels.
Breaching airgap security: using your phone’s gyroscope as a microphone
It is up to the OS, you understood correctly. But the EDID spec tells that you can only rely on the standard EDID fields to be present. Someone implementing the spec would be right to do what Apple engineers did in their UUID logic.

All the rest are workarounds that they need to add on a case by case basis when new data appears like 10% of the monitors since 2017 only have an alphanumeric serial number or like some very popular Dell models need a 1.5 second warmup time before reading the EDID to get a complete structure.

You might say, why don’t they just stick every available data in the UUID and call it a day?. The issue is that outside the standard EDID fields, you have no guarantee that the extension data will be persistent. If even a byte of that data changes when adjusting monitor settings, or when reconnecting the monitor, then you’ll break the persistent storage even more for setups where it worked before.

I’m trying to say that it’s not Apple’s fault here. If monitor vendors would follow the incredibly simple standard for those fields, we wouldn’t have any “bug” to talk about right now.

But of course, people will only care if their setup works or not, assigning blame to the right party doesn’t change a thing. So Apple must now try to fix those edge cases, because monitors won’t go back and reflash correct EDIDs in their EEPROMs.
It’s not just a matter of ISA, Apple’s CPUs are significantly more performant in a number of ways compared to other ARM CPUs on the market at the moment.
Data Structure Sketches
I don't think it's yet clear that Starlink is sustainably profitable. Why would other companies enter a market segment where that is the case? Without VC backing, i mean.
I'm sure I read an article or book chapter that went through the astounding number of confounding variables experimenters discovered when running rat experiments.

Things like what they could smell, what they could hear, navigating by lights in the roof, individuals interacting with them, them learning 'tells' from the way the experiment was run that leaked info.

I assume there's some textbook on this for rat experiments.

edit not the one I remember but this is an overview:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8073298/

Things like whether the mouse had more sisters than brothers can have an impact.
Yeah, that paragraph is just their product placement and should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
I am curious as well. Unfortunately there's not a lot of info out there. It's a bit weird to me that the repo says it's a CPU renderer, but most of the code seems to use the GPU (with rust-wgpu).

With so little documentation it's hard to know exactly how it works, but I am curious if its architecture is similar to: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/graphics/gpu/2020/06/13/fas...
If things go that way, the 'legit' models will continue dev, just using licensed content (along with public domain works). It will be more expensive for the end user, but that cost will shrink over time for general work. Tools that mimic working artist though might not be available (or will expensive). This all seems pretty ideal, so the pessimist in me guesses it's fairly unlikely.
I'm going to get on this. I'm really interested in the subject of how we can make news feeds our own again. This was my last question to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32560395

The Commentary Magazine podcast yesterday made some pretty phenomenal points about how media no longer situates itself in any way other than aggregating riled-up audiences, but also about how and why it was possible in the age of national broadcast news hours for those news channels to put their politics aside to each appeal to 1/3rd of the national viewership.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/26Z04b7FrckHLNmF9W5Ryq?si=q...
Is my brain's floating point calculations subject to round off error?

In the (actual) neurons, is there a representation of real numbers? Where are the numbers in the brain stored?

I feel like people who assert this neither understand what neural networks are and how brains work.
The 3060 isn't a bad choice, seeing as it has 12Gb of VRAM.
I should have mentioned linking the GPUs. I meant requiring slightly more VRAM than a single 3090 can handle. Or a 3080 as others have pointed out. The main difference between the way the 3090 works and the A5000 works is SLI vs NvLink/NvSwitch. I believe the 3090 uses NvLink, but not quite in the same way the A5000 does. I can chain together far more A5000's than I can 3090's. Eight A500's vs four 3090's IIRC. And even chain them across machines with the right h/w, though that's probably a bit of a stretch for my budget. Also, the A5000 will share VRAM, giving me a total usable heap of 48GB with two cards, whereas the 3090 will be limited to 24GB each. I can also share the A5000's with multiple VMs simultaneously, whereas with the 3090's I am stuck doing GPU pass through. All that for only a couple of percentage points drop in performance in video games.
You can run it on Replicate too! https://replicate.com/google-research/frame-interpolation
GPT-4 (or a reduced version of it) should be opensource too if you ask me :P
If you don't want to buy one, you can rent a Mac in the cloud only when you need it (unrelated to Xcode Cloud) for 0.10€ per hour at Scaleway
You can run it on Replicate here: https://replicate.com/google-research/frame-interpolation
Forming a reliable, low-maintenance electrical connection between the spinning blades and the tower seems difficult.
I'm definitely interested in your video related bookmarks.

You have generated some pretty cool designs.
Just wait until someone releases a model trained on 10 second TikTok videos. That’s going to fascinating.
Still looks like crap, in the same way that a CGI sequence in a movie jumps out to someone who is a gamer. (In my very modest modest opinion).
The population is missing from the Wikipedia page. I assume it's at least two, but it could be more people living there.
This is great. Gives me a reason to try a new backend language as well.
If I had a nickel for every thread I've opened this year about Texas where the first comment was asking how this thing Texas is doing isn't blatantly unconstitutional, I'd have a surprisingly large pile of nickels.
A silly-string canon is likely to be highly effective against most propeller driven drones. Safer for the people under it too.
MS push having automatic unattended updates turned on. Azure's security recs complains without end if you don't. Much like desktop Windows deciding when it should update & reboot.

I see the argument for getting security updates out there ASAP, but this case proves my point that it is a bad idea to do it automatically [unless perhaps there is a serious remotely vulnerable actively exploited issue] on any sort of production environment. Deploy to test environments and verify (at very least smoke test) first then apply elsewhere. If you don't have test environments, at least do the deploy to prod/other at your control when someone is available to quickly take action regarding any unexpected issues.

So the initial problem may be with Ubuntu, or upstream systemd, but MS policies magnified it significantly.
I wasn't the one mentioning lawsuits. Check OP's message I was replying to. You seem confused.
You need to be very careful with the string/lace/collar you use to attach the bell, it should be strong enough to resist casual attempts to remove it, but not strong enough to not break when some substantial force is exerted on it (weight of the animal).

Single point anecdata, but I once found a cat with a collar that remained stuck in a fence, the cat - attempting to get it off - managed to insert a leg inside the collar and that - with more attempts to get free - made a really deep cut under the armpit, the poor cat was half choked and it took weeks for the wound to heal.
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LCDs may refresh pixels at a rate of 1ms, that does not mean the pixel displayed is only 1ms away from the input. You can get maybe 10ms of input lag with the very best setups. Modern TVs easily have 100ms of lag out of the box due to processing which you may or may not be able to bypass.
Show HN: I built a web-based open-source motion graphics editor
Folks at e.g. MacStadium has been managing Mac minis (running macOS) at scale for a very long time. AWS also entered the space ~2 years ago. Of course Apple can do it themselves, and more efficiently.
There are many thongs terrorists never did, like poisoning food supply or water supply, which exterts in yhe field agree, is very vulnerable.

They seem fixated on mass shootings and bombings. Also US has automatic weapons sonce forever but 50 years ago there were no mass shootings.

Fashion?
>is a great option for casual VPN users who just want to unblock content

Honestly that is all you should ever use these VPN services for. Convenient access to blocked content (or flip to a different region to access alternative content).

Sure your own VPS running WireGuard or OpenVPN is better but that isn't as easy as just picking a different country on a pretty map in an app to get access to a show on BBC iPlayer or Netflix a second later.

Nord, Express, etc. are close to worthless from a privacy aspect but they're very convenient for watching blocked content and that is all anyone should use them for.

If you want/need privacy because you're on a network you don't trust (hotel, airport, whatever) then your own VPS and WireGuard are what you should be looking into. If you trust you home ISP and have decent bandwidth (both ways) you can easily run your own WireGuard server on pretty much anything from home and just connect into that so cost is pretty much zero.
Same here, the build quality is incredible, best machine I owned. PyCharm hammers the battery quite a lot that being said.
I think it's pretty normal. Most people endure coding jobs because they pay a lot, so, if you don't blow money on luxuries, you can save up and buy yourself a lot of freedom later (be it a multi-year gap between jobs, or just early retirement). Also, if you stay within one tech stack and, ideally, one employer/project, the tediousness of chasing petty things will get easier, as they'll literally get imprinted on your brain after a while.
The difference is that chess rules are extrinsic to the players at the board, whereas art is intended to communicate (emotions, narrative, ideas) to humans.

A neural net that can communicate with intent to human minds as well as a biological human is nothing short of strong AI. We’ll get there, but not with generative models.
Correct! That's why I wrote "Chromium-based" ;)
Many people mix those up all the time or even think they are the same.
"Considered broadly, the proposal that alternative, bottom-up technologies for social change can emerge from a setting that is concurrently said to be under the hegemonic control of state and capital is seemingly self-contradictory. By and large, hacker culture, norms, and practices, together with the underlying technological infrastructure, are all saturated through and through with hegemonic relations to the state and capital. Still, we cannot contend from this that resistance is futile."

The article is clearly written by a borg.

What it comes down to is know how, shared world view, and communication of experiences. Soooooooooo just like any group out there but these are hackers.

side note:

The hackers I know would never have themselfs studied, because, in essence its what they are really fighting against: having to adhere to the rules that other peole set them.

I have been there in the 90's when IRC was the place to be and becomming a hacker was basically finding the right people in an IRC_Chatroom and hanging out with them. No magic, just people that are more interested in finding out how your modem works vs what rachel had for dinner last night.
Yeah, but there will be interpolation between them
It doesn't really make sense in that context. The Thirteen Colonies seceded from Great Britain, something not in dispute even in the UK. Great Britain sent troops into the United States to oppose the secession. But it's not referred to as "the War of British Aggression".

The only sense that singling out "Northern Aggression" makes sense in is perpetuating the myth that the slaveowners were the real victims.
> Imagine walking into an airport or grocery store and your smartphone automatically starts charging.

> With further development, the system could charge mobile devices like phones and laptops at 30 m distances.

Seems like a bullshit. Smartphone's optical receiver on my pocket can not be perpendicularly to the beam. And I would not want to be in a place where somebody's 90W laptop is charging using the narrow-beam emitter.
Already posted a couple of times with reference to different status pages at MS. First, and with most commentry, being https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32649273

News has spread elsewhere too, for instance: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/30/ubuntu_systemd_dns_up...
So, every country that did not do better did worse? Sounds about right.
I see this type of reduction again and again to advocate for one position or another relating to ML. Human consciousness and thought processes aren’t “just” anything (math, electrical impulses, etc.) — the fact is, we don’t know what the brain really does and how it’s connected to our conscious experience, or even what that is!

Deep learning is very powerful and impressive in its applications to date. However, it’s so saturated with hype (and humans are so prone to anthropomorphizing things) that it’s often viewed as something much more profound than it actually is. Neural networks, despite their name, don’t model the brain. And they lack a whole array of “intelligence” features that humans possess and use constantly.

All of this is to say that there are very significant differences between computer algorithms and human cognition, and I tend to think the legal system will be unpersuaded by arguments that ignore those differences.

Also, this is to say nothing of the public policy interests that shape the law. Regardless of what’s “under the hood,” the law can simply treat human and machine output differently. I’m not a copyright lawyer, of course, so I can’t speak to the norms or technicalities of copyright law itself.
Running Stable Diffusion on Vultr
I agree I have nothing to fear from the military. I would have hoped that example would show not that I am afraid of cruise missiles, but instead that very serious decisions at the highest level of government are being made from this information. You can bet your bottom dollar that all other high-levels of management, government, religious groups, ect have the same mindset towards the "privacy of metadata". I'm sure you'll plead ignorance of direct evidence of offenses right now and not historical, as reason enough to ignore practical truth..

Being de-anommed from logs is ez pz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj6wfGcKFlI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaCnhC0mc0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQL1jrm7Vzk

There was another talk by a german lady where they de-anommed everybody in their data set, including a german judge who was looking at porn during his chambers sessions, almost like he was addicted. They brought this information to him and it was kept under wraps.

Nobody is safe from this stuff, it only takes 3-4 peices of unique information (not matter how tiny) to statistically add up a probable identity with a high degree of confidence.
I believe it was summed up quite nicely as:

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”
Ukraine reportedly using wooden decoys to lure Russia into wasting its missiles
As EU citizen, stronger? Give it next election to see where the friends of America are going
Oh for fuck sake
What an exceptionally fast and responsive website. Gives a very good first impression.

Does anyone have additional examples of non-intrusive ad-networks and similar? I'd like to encourage such things by penalizing them less hard in my search engine.
I am pretty sure it happened before twitter, so we can start by discarding that theory when we work out how...

Seriously, we need to get past this weird idea that social media is both the cause and cure for all world problems, from genocide to CP. Where does this notion even come from?!
VPS providers (probably) aren't in the business of extracting value from my web traffic like a VPN company is. And I already have relationships with VPS providers, I don't have to "mail cash" to some company I don't really know and my privacy worries aren't that extreme: usually I either want to keep copyright strikes from going to my ISP or I'm on a sketchy free/public network somewhere and I want to go though somewhere I trust just a little bit more than that.