skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artillery bombardment was widely used in Mosul. This article is puffery, and is (typically) oblique about how the artillery was used upon Mosul, but the title is illustrative: How U.S. Artillery in Iraq Regained Its Status as ‘King of Battle’. https://www.coffeeordie.com/artillery-iraq

> The various howitzers, mortars, and rockets that make up both light and heavy artillery are known in military jargon as “indirect fire.” Though targeting systems have become much more advanced than the days of old — allowing for both greater precision against the enemy and more careful targeting to avoid killing civilians — these weapons unleash incredibly destructive power wherever their munitions land.

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> The campaign to eject ISIS from Mosul and its surrounding towns was destructive — Iraqis are working to rebuild their homes as they continue to count their dead.
humor...
The PWA space seems to be in a state where you still have to write a lot of boilerplate. Are there any good frameworks / syntactic sugar / wrappers that make life easier for folks who would like to have smart opinionated defaults that work for most common use-cases?
Not going to happen. Already advanced AI authors combine many tools. They may use their own image/photos as input (which is non-AI), combine with AI, compose objects/layers, fine-tune, inpaint, outpaint, text inversion and that's about a single week of progress.

You can't stop this even if you tried.
on the topic of DiCaprio, this chart of his girlfriends was spread around recently https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/azjti7/leo... and it's definitely interesting and weird at the same time. Judging just from this picture, it seems like he's not dating to find a life partner (which is what I imagine most want to do.. maybe just me?)
Depends on the dust and sand. The upkeep of solar facilities in deserts can cost more (compared to rooftop/agricultural solar installations) due to maintenance requirements.
Again, you're losing the plot.
1. The corporation is a person.

2. To use the dating app you must first marry a subsidiary of the corporation, which has a prenup with specific conditions.

3. To get married, you must first divorce the corporation and pay the prenup
Because if somebody uses their $50 screwdriver to disassemble office furniture they don't want it to break.
That actually sounds in line with what Canada Post would charge.

I had to ship a laptop from me on Vancouver Island to my employer in Vancouver and it cost ~$50.

Shipping in the states is cheap. Shipping in Canada, even very short distances, is not.
In addition to the ban happening in 2035, most people are charging their cars late at night, when there is surplus power. Although commuters may want to charge while at work.

BTW, for the people shitting on California's ban, people seem to be forgetting that a number of automakers, including Ford, GM, Mercedes-Benz, have announced they are ending production of gasoline powered cars in... you guessed it, 2035.

This is about economics. The gas powered car will soon be dead.
The idea that we have removed the social stigma for being obese is laughable.

Obese people are discriminated against in healthcare, employment, and social settings.

Furthermore, numerous studies have show that fat shaming does not lead to weight loss. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6565398/

Shockingly, it turns out if you tell someone with 100 lbs to lose that they are a disgusting lazy piece of shit doomed to an early grave, they tend to withdraw from health care and other social settings, seek comfort in unhealthy habits, and suffer from anxiety and depression. They may give up on their health entirely. After all, if you've struggled your entire life to lose weight and made little progress, then what's the point?
"Instantaneous breaking force" or whatever it is can get pretty high, especially if the screw has been there for awhile, or there's any oxidation, etc.

Starting with the right driver (with a perfect tip that fits snugly) will reduce the chance of camout and can help remove them, but even then it can be a tricky situation at times.

I personally find that having a really long screw driver helps - I can get more torque without slipping.
> any experiences that you’ve personally had with text marketing that you wish had been different

I wish I'd never received one single marketing text or notification ever in my entire life. I wish I could purge the entire world of such things.
Comment by SALT creator on HN yesterday saying they are using Midjourney, though Midjourney supports Stable Diffusion too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32651855
You could "hack it" by using a couple of other models as part of your pipeline. Similarly to how you have to use GAN after SD to "fix" faces sometimes.

You also could put a language model on top of your prompting system. So "gandolff kicking ass" gets translated into " Page XXX, Paragraph XX from LOTR "
Infiltrate? They're the ones starting the groups - the demand for terrorism outstrips supply these days. No terrorism = no reason to increase / not reduce budget allocated to FBI.
i wish it had an optional server for more concurrent and networked transactions in the cloud
It's not that hard.

Also, conservation plays a part. CA energy consumption peaked in 2006 and then again came very close to it in 2017. Consumption has been roughly flat for 2 decades.

https://www.caiso.com/documents/californiaisopeakloadhistory...
probably because the number of showers is limited and they're making other people wait?
In 2018 I transitioned to an agency focused on the Web as main delivery platform, after a couple of years doing native frontends.

Just deliver mobile Web sites, the PWA part is an optimization.
This is a comforting thought for people who adhere to a certain group’s dogma but do not want to take responsibility for that group’s actions. It’s like how some people “love Russians” but “hate Putin.” At a certain point your participation in a group signals your acceptance of the leadership’s dogma.
Kind of close. Here was the relevant portion of the actual iPhone announcement by Steve Jobs saying all you needed to write great native apps for iPhone was ajax and web 2.0. There was no mention of "app store" in the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nwLilQy64
Maybe I'm just getting old, but Javascript jumped the shark at some point. Hydration, lazy loading, managing flashes of unstyled content, a lot of this is built to address things that wouldn't be problems if we treated the browser as the dojo that it is and not be so dang wasteful.

im sure someone with shinier boots than mine will pop in and tell me how im wrong, and perhaps youre right, but the web was a much better place without all the toolchain and shenanigans. We must return to fundamentals.
Ask HN: Looking for a spreadsheet importer wizard with validation
Hello,
I'm looking for a spreadsheet importer with validation that can be used in house as data being uploaded is sensitive.

I looked and found https://www.pulter.co/ which seems to do the trick but we can't let someone else process the data.

Looking for a wizard type UI that kinds the user through the import, assign columns to our columns, then validates data before final import.

Thanks
> artillery is not verboten in US military doctrine

Nobody said it was. The US obviously has massive artillery firepower, both massed fires and precision fires, and using it is of course part of its doctrine. Who are you responding to that you think said it wasn't?

Both light artillery and precision fires were used in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not remotely like in Ukraine where they are using massed fires.

(By the way we can see you editing your comments after you post them.)
Reminds me of back in the mid 90's when I worked at IBM at the Cottle road site. One hot summer we had rolling blackouts. I was working in disk sputtering for hard drives. IBM had good backup generators. When the power went out it was just a flicker with the change over but it was enough to kill the vacuum of the Ulvac sputtering tool I was working on. More accurately, it probably killed the certification of the vacuum. We had to open her up, bake out the cryo-pumps, clean the machine then pump back down to the proper vacuum. A good 5 hours to get back in to production. Most of it pumping down to the proper vacuum. Good times.
I think even taking Poe's Law into consideration it would be difficult to parse that comment as a joke.
Where is write contention coming from if it's operated locally?
Oh this post resonates with me so much. Everytime I start a new project, I spend atleast a week figuring out which new tool/language/framework to use.

Almost always, in the end, I end up using the good old faithful and friendly PHP (Laravel).
> You will own nothing
The fact that SMRs have made any progress at all *in spite of* the environment so strongly titled against them is, frankly, amazing.

If half of the energy spend demonizing nuclear was spent on modernizing it, SMRs would be a long solved problem.

It's the ultimate "stop hitting yourself" :p
According to weforum, "the world consumes 100.6 billion tonnes of materials annually."[0] 100.6 * 10^9 tonnes is 1.00610^14 kg.

According to Wikipedia, the mass of the moon is 7.342×10^22 kg.

If we switched our entire mining infrastructure to the moon tomorrow, including stuff like sand and gravel for construction (which would be pretty crazy) it would take us 7.298 10^8 years to consume the entire mass of the moon.

It would take us 7.298 * 10^6 years to consume %1 of the moon. 7.3 million years to reduce the mass of the moon by 1% and increase the mass of the Earth some trifling percent that I don't feel like calculating right now, but you get the point.

Long story short, mining the moon at our current rates of mining would do nothing to sea life, or life in general on Earth, while mining on Earth has and continues to do immeasurable damage to life on Earth.

[0] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/all-tonnes-metals-ore...
Programming machines to make the trip and then seeding with human life seems to be the best answer to distance.
i'm not sure there must be something before the "@".
I want to see the fineprint of this service.
> can anyone explain to me why cooling water is an issue for nuke plants?

In retrospect, bad planning.

You could build air-cooled power plants, but it's more expensive.

https://www.powermag.com/air-cooled-condensers-eliminate-pla...

You could build water-cooled systems with extra capacity, so that when the water in the river gets warm in the hot summer months, it would not cause problems for the for the cooling system. But it's more expensive than a capacity that is designed to be just-so.
This is less a case of "powerful enough" and more that Christianity upholds that God is changeable, and expects people to _act_ and not merely trust that he will do everything for him. (Certain prosperity sects excluded.)

There are several times when significant figures such as Moses, David, Jeremiah, and so on, negotiate a new outcome with their God. There are also other times that their God refuses to act, because the faithless have fallen away.

They "wandered around in the desert", a rather small patch of desert, mind you, because of a lack of faith. The 40-ish years in the desert, to age out those who failed in their duty, rather than to enter into their "Promised Land". Moses was also forbidden from entering Cana'an, because he tried to act on his own, instead of in tandem with his god.
So it's like an operating system for cloud workloads?
It would be a good idea if it was treated as an additional channel, not the main source of energy you build your economy on. It was cheap for a reason.
Check out this summary of a peer-reviewed paper titled “What Distinguishes Great Software Engineers?”

https://abinoda.substack.com/p/great-engineers
Those are called jeweller's screwdrivers.
I mean good. The NSA request was unjust so fuck the person having to type in the private keys lol.
> meetup.com actually "offered" our meetups

Do you have a link or a screenshot you can show us? Might help contextualize.
Plus, it’s probably for computer builders and stuff (like ikea things or similar). I don’t think those meant for heavy duty or home building.
A test of Twitter’s new Edit Tweet feature. This is only a test
I was in no position to make any decisions related to energy politics (except voting), and energy politics isn't my strong suit either, but I always thought that the "mutual dependency" sounded like a good argument against a war; much better than MAD or other militaristic options. But, unlike policy makers, I didn't grasp the extend of the dependency on gas in our country.

Though not preparing a backup plan after the first invasion in 2014 was a bad decision. Little hindsight needed here.
You can usually look around for street signs or shop fronts that include useful information (a website that ends in .nz for example).
> There's no functional difference between swimming in undergarments or swimming nude,

I can tell you haven't been backpacking.
From my experience in Human Factors this is not a real graph. It is bs disguised as information.
Getting things down is obviously far less of a problem than getting things up.

The hope is a long run situation where industrial activity is self sufficient enough up there that less stuff has to go up. And most things are just coming down into the gravity well. That's the only way it could ever be economical, or ecologically sensible.

But I'm pretty pessimistic about our ability to execute to get there from here.
> Open to the public, accessible and inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability

This sounds less like a definition and more like a goal. It is absurd to consider an institution that ticks all the other boxes, but does not "foster diversity", as not a museum. By this logic, a museum in China dedicated to Han heritage isn't a museum.
No, it doesn't. Output is value, not input.

When you look at a high-end photo that you like, one of perhaps hundreds that you see in a day, do you do a detailed background check on the input?

Explore the "life experience" of the photographer? Try to guess some deeper meaning? Study the technical approach and gear used, in order to come to the ultimate appreciation of how this outcome came to be?

No, you don't. You look at it for 2 secs, go "nice picture" and move on.
Many manufacturers don't like direct sales, and if they offer them they're basically offering "warranty stock" for sale.

They much prefer selling to distribution.
2140: U.S., China on verge of war over Moon riches.

'CNN - The Chinese government says its patience is running out over a lack of progress in bilateral negotiations with the United States over the sharing of Lunar mineral resources in Sector 4. The U.S. government claims that it legally acquired the mineral rights to the area after being the first nation to activate a fission reactor within the perimeter. The Chinese government, on the other hand, claims to be the rightful owner of the mineral rights since the mineral discovery by the lunar probe Xi Jinping IV. Forces from 45th Marines Regiment, the 10th Space Force, the 3rd Space Infantry Division, and the 8th Space Force are on an elevated readiness level in Sector 4. These forces number approximately 24,000 troops. The People's Liberation Space Army has approximately 13,000 troops on the Moon, with reinforcements on the way, according to a press release by the Chinese State Council. Sector 4 is currently occupied by SpaceX Mining Corporation and the U.S. military forces.'

'Sector 4 contains the richest mineral deposits known to exist on the Moon. Its economic value has been estimated at $634 trillion, and its Helium-3 deposits are a critical input of the manufacturing of quantum conductors, which power everything from personal hovercraft, holo-devices, house appliances, toothbrushes, and personal communication devices and consumer electronics.'

'The United Nations has appealed to both countries to try to keep diplomatic channels open, but both governments have so far ignored its resolutions. In a press conference at the New White House in Princeton, NJ, President Bill Gates III said all options remained on the table. When pressed about whether these options included the deployment of Cordium weapons and neutron bombs against Chinese lunar forces or military operations in the Earth Theater of Operations, President Gates declined to answer.'
> All of the arms in the scene are melted stubs. The subject in the middle has what looks like an insect's leg jutting out of her waist.

I think you're right but it's so hard to see in the Ars pic.
Clicking on the builder.io link redirects me to:

https://uc.appengine.google.com/_ah/conflogin?state=%7E...

which says:

An application is requesting permission to access your Google Account.
Please select an account that you would like to use.

EDIT: you can see it if you go to http://builder.io (https works fine)
There is a good flow chart for your dating life made by a specific YouTuber which I found highly effective. It can be found by searching YouTube for "wheat waffles flow chart"
Why is this any different?

If China goes to the moon to mine heavy metals - the international community can either get together and sanction China (they won't) - or accept that China's doing it.

If the US does it - the same thing will happen.

I can't really imagine anyone else doing it - but then they have a little less global importance and smaller guns - so maybe there would be sanctions to stop it.
SwayOS: The user friendly tiling desktop
The moderator is too busy fighting the culture war on the side of the flaggers (in this case), why would he help you?
I still don’t get why countries such as the Netherlands and Germany started to subsidise fossil fuels by reducing the taxes on them. They claimed this was to help poor people. However, rich people benefit more since they typically have a car and a bigger one.
My experience is very different. At least in Denver thousands of men and women move here every month, so coed sports adult sports leagues are filled with single women looking to make friends and meet partners.

Similarly, many comments have talked about bars not being a good place to meet single women. From my experience this also isn’t true. You don’t walk up to a girl alone at the bar like in the movies though - you’re friend group mingles with another friend group, and one person in that friend group is probably single. The process is way slower than immediately going and talking to the person you want to meet.

But, this is HN so our social skills level is probably one standard deviation lower than anywhere else.
Is “Conscious Capitalism” Still an Option? Was It Ever?
What's the problem with having a few drinks with friends, getting a little rowdy on the weekend? Well if you're a public figure, a lot. See the PM of Finland.

The problem isn't the act, the problem is being able to be judged for that act, for eternity, by people who will choose to shame and judge you for it to their benefit. This can cause stress and trouble whether we want it to or not.
8086 has 16-bit registers and 16-bit near pointers but there are also 32-bit far pointers using the segment register.

PDP-11, where calloc most likely originated, had 16-bit integers and 16-bit pointers. Apparently, later PDP-11s could be split into 64k of code space and 64k of data space (like the Harvard architecture) but that would still use 16-bit pointers.
When an owner of a meetup decides to stop doing so – the ownership is offered to other members of the meetup group. This allows the group to continue even if the owner disengages. But yes, it does also allow the new owner to gain access to a complete list of members in the meetup group (since they are now the admin of the group)

It's a bit messed up, but it's been that way for a long time.
I'm wondering is there a service to create tilemap spritesheet? Say I want to make a retro style Ultima-ish spritesheet with 64*64 sprites, but I don't have any drawing skill, is there an AI to generate some for me?
Think of it this way:

If you are a small business / entrepreneur and you have a working product on one platform, you should be able to port to another platform with minimal effort, where you can at least have a MVP without having to recreate your front-end from scratch.

- If you already have a website and you want to do an app, PWA is probably a simpler path compared to recreating your front-end in Flutter.

- Likewise if you already have a working Flutter mobile app and your users start to ask for a web or desktop version, it's easy to get some sub-optimal version out with less effort if you can re-use a lot of your Flutter code.

It also makes it easier to maintain if you structure your code in a way that separates out the logic that's specific to platforms.

If you manage to achieve product-market fit and your business benefits from your users being first-class citizens on the web and on the phone, you can start to invest in those development teams.
The article shows a model that does this.

It's only a few frames, but they are entirely generated from text - no seed image or interpolation required.
The current GO Expansion to turn the greater Toronto area commuter rail into a true regional rail is a great project, and is using knowledge and expertise from the German rail network. It will electrify the trains and provide all day frequent service throughout the network that will mean not really needing to bother checking the schedule. It also flies in the face of statements that say european style rail isn't possible in north america, since the basic plan is modelled on German S-Bahn.

Just this weekend I drove 1 hr to the edge of Toronto, then got on the subway to downtown for a Blue Jays game. Once GO expansion is done I'll be able to make that same trip on a single train in less time then it takes to drive.

High speed rail from Quebec City to Windsor is a project we should absolutely be funding as the population and travel patterns of the corridor would easily support it. Start with Toronto->Montreal with a spur to Ottawa, then as phase 2 extend to Windsor and Quebec City.
I think that's being very optimistic. The Palestinians are living in pretty bad conditions, overall. While there have been many efforts to integrate Palestinian programmers into Israeli companies, it's a very uphill battle for all sorts of reasons.

I'm not saying the Palestinians (or at least some of their leaders) haven't done a bunch of stupid stuff, including putting money into terrorism instead of investing it in the community. I'm just not sure that had they acted very differently, the situation would for sure be better for them.
TFA appears to be about adapting SQLite for OLAP workloads. I do not understand the rationale. Why try to adapt a row-based storage system for OLAP? Why not just use a column store?
This is really cool, body inflammation plays a huge role in our lives.

3 years ago I had a terrible case of atopic urticaria that lasted 9 months. My CRP was over 10 mg/dL.

I started to make a handwritten habit diary to look for triggers. Food, type of exercises, exposure to temperatures, mood state, etc. Never pinpointed the issue, but I got better suddenly.

Went deep into the body inflammation rabbit hole and found interesting papers on how it relates with depression. I truly believe that my acquaintances suffering from depression could benefit from tracking their CRP levels on a consistent basis and try to bring it down.

Best of luck to the Be Golden team!
> How do you create a menu to select a wifi network from a PWA right now? Or a new driver for you graphic card? Or an equivalent to LittleSnitch?

You also cannot do those examples on native apps, they are usually only allowed by the OS itself.

Anything CRUD related can be easily done on modern browsers, games are one of the few exceptions as WebGL/WebGPU will never be a match to what Metal/DX12/Vulkan are capable of.

Still, plenty of fun can be had with Playstation 3 like graphics.