skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to tell.

So far as the news is concerned they work on a 24 hour cycle and on a lot of days there isn't much news. Ukraine is disciplined about information so you aren't hearing anything about the Kherson offensive right now. On the other hand, Russia has been astonishingly undisciplined about information so every time the Antonovsky bridge is hit we see ground level cell phone video where you can count the holes. Historically preventing the enemy from knowing what the outcome of a bombing campaign has been a central concept in counter-intelligence as bomb damage assessment is pretty hard.

Russia's best hope for a "win" would be to keep the territory it has occupied if Ukraine is ready to give up. That's only likely to happen if it gets cut off from Western weapons. The most likely scenario I see is that Germany decides to throw in the towel since Germany is highly consistent in pursuing short-term economic goals to the exclusion of anything else in foreign policy. Other European countries including the UK are under high pressure too (the UK is talking about possible 22% inflation) but some will never give up (Poland.) I think the US is also unlikely to give up because the US is not feeling that much pressure and it's a very good situation for us to send weapons that can be used by highly motivated local troops.

Russia's wildcard possibility would be an attack on Odessa which would cut Ukraine off from the Black Sea and cripple Ukraine's economy (very limited industrial and agricultural exports without Russian cooperation). One of the reasons why the Ukrainians are fighting hard to take back Kherson is that controlling Kherson makes it much harder for the Russians to attack Odessa.

As for tactical nukes...

Robert Jastrow wrote a book titled "How to make nuclear weapons obsolete" in the 1980s which focused on Reagan's SDI initiative but at the same time there was a movement to replace tactical nuclear weapons with advanced conventional weapons that I later got some insight into when I was talking to a former defense contractor who retired to become a chicken farmer.

Back in the 1970s there was an expectation that a Russian invasion of Europe would be countered with "neutron bombs" that would kill tank crews effectively. The idea that infantry could counter tanks was barely developed at the time and the early weapons like the Dragon were probably more harmful to their users than their targets but once you've got systems like the Javelin tactical nuclear weapons seem less attractive for that role. Similarly precision guided munitions are orders of magnitude more effective per pound and sortie than what we had before so conventional weapons have grown in power.

Thus, a handful of tactical nuclear weapons would not be decisive in the war. Mariupol was flattened with rocket artillery, tactical nuclear weapons could accomplish this more quickly, but it's not really a new level of destruction.
You realize that he has to lick his master's boot and any pro-Russia statements he makes are automatically suspect.
Anyone working on closed caption models at the moment?
PIA Announces Completion of Independent Audit Conducted by a Big Four Firm
He founded and operates the site and he reacted to her death by calling himself a god. In what way is that not gloating?

If the person burning the Rumsfeld photo contributed to his death then I might say they were gloating too.
That's been true for every big company that faded away into obscurity. Or at least lost its erstwhile dominance. They usually have a product or division that does so well that it completely dominates the organization. Every part of the business becomes designed, organically or intentionally, to support this division. Innovation falters and new trends catch the incumbent off guard.

While its not even close to dire straits for Google yet, the Gen-Z shift away from search is clearly a red flag and a sign that there's an entirely new trend that has caught Google off guard. Luckily they have YouTube, otherwise I'd be way more bearish on Google's future. Text-based search isn't going to grow by leaps and bounds, at least not in developed markets.
It's pretty rare for our nighttime lows to be above 72, even in the Summer, and I live in a fairly hot part of the US (though not the South proper). Even when it's in the high 90s or low 100s during the day, which is typically only a few weeks a year, usually it still gets down to 75-78 at night. We're in the high-80s this week and nighttime lows will be as low as 58F.

Spring nighttime temps are more like 35-55.

The main trouble's the damn humidity. A very-humid 72 still feels gross. And maybe I could sleep like a baby on a night when it gets down to 60, but if that's a spring or summer night I'll wake up nasty and covered in sweat unless I've got some serious dehumidification going (that's what happens when I go camping—might be cold enough to sleep well, but unless it's Winter or late Fall the high humidity still has unpleasant effects). Plus you get mildew and mold problems if you let a modern, very-sealed-up (so, efficient for AC) house get very humid too often, so it's better to just dehumidify with the AC even if the outdoor temp matches what I'd like it to be indoors.
I just use my GPG key for SSH authentication.

One GPG ID is personal, one GPG ID is work... and the twain shall not cross.
This too will pass.
Seems like because of legal reasons.
> Best I could do a month ago was a stick figure in MS Paint

That is still the best you can do... which happens to be about the best I can do! Just like my introduction to the computer at a young age has atrophied my handwriting quality.
I understand that it may sound silly once that question is posed for other technologies that have been hyped similarly in the past and today do indeed provide utility. This was a genuine question. Maybe I'm just silly.
I don't know what you mean by non answer.
I've owned something similar to a shell company before and used my home address as required by local laws. Obviously some more nefarious actors would not but plenty of stupid criminals around.
Ask HN: Could be the energy problem the trigger for a new revolution in Europe?
Europe is going to a really difficult moment with energy prices going up and up. As a European, I would like to understand if energy could be the trigger for social revolt as bread prices were for the French Revolution or other uprisings.
Is there a way to use csrf tokens without cookies?
Plumbing, because I can fit into tight spaces and it sucks hard so there is lots of work.
Let's take it as a given that the needs of a startup are different from a stable, large company. That doesn't mean working at a startup is the best way to learn how to make your own startup. You could work at a company that is seriously dysfunctional and learn things you shouldn't. You could work at a company that just fell into amazing success and not learn anything that applies to the startup you'll make.
Indeed, it doesn't! But having much stricter legal obligations means there are more tools to hold their feet to the fire.
No. Over 4M people in the US are out of the workforce because of long Covid. The death rate from Covid this year is on pace to be a multiple of average flu deaths.
Snap is shutting down Zenly, a social-location app with 40mm MAU [Twitter]
Winning is a matter of perspective. Are they succeeding in their stated objectives? Unstated?

Stated would be something like:

- "denazification" - debatable meaning, but destruction/capture of Azov probably meets it.

- "Liberation" of ethnic-Russian-majority areas from Ukraine - This won't be settled until the fighting stops, I think it's far too uncertain at this point to call in either direction, but if Putin can hold what he currently has he may be able to claim this. I suspect Russia would suffer if they try to take too much, hubris often seems to lead to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Unstated:
- Destroying Ukraine as a viable country/functioning economy, and/or installing a puppet government

- Damaging American global authority and accelerating the push towards multipolarity

- Gathering domestic public support and distracting from domestic politics by uniting against an external enemy

Ukraine has failed to make significant headway in driving the Russians out, but I don't know if that means they're losing or if their strategy just needs more time. As the defender, most successful scenarios require great sacrifice and possibly territorial concessions, so the line between victory and defeat is blurrier than for the attacker, who presumably has defined objectives before moving militarily.

UA still has great public and institutional support in the West, and in a fight for survival will undoubtedly push harder for victory than RU. They still have far greater total available manpower - AIUI, as long as Putin does not formally declare war he is greatly restricted in the number of troops he can field. The Ukrainians seem to lack in equipment and haven't been able to destroy enough Russian artillery to push them back, but sabotage operations may change that.
Back when I was in game dev, I really wanted to find a way to make them fun even when you lost. I never managed to grok that magic, but I did see it in e.g. Settlers of Catan.
Not sure what "every other posts" you are talking about. The current front page one is the only mention of Dall-E I have seen on this site in weeks.
I know. But these mini shorts are placed right inside Amazon's app and you're encouraged to view them while you're shopping. Which makes absolutely no sense.

Prime Videos is its own standalone product. But these mini shorts are weirdly spliced in with Amazon's primary product.
Not sure why you're attacking me, I don't agree with Germany's greater stance on nuclear. But I don't see how that's of relevance here.
This. If they aren't your friends or family, you owe them no explanation at all. If they are trying to get one out of you, they're being manipulative and rude, and are worthy of being ignored.
Where is he calling himself a God?
IMHO, they should have just named the new one .CORE and called it a day.

It would have made it immeasurably easier to google, and could have been be incorporated into other names to differentiate them from old versions: ASP.CORE, ADO.CORE, WinForms.CORE…
I am hoping to soon see how we can generate a coherent set of characters in different artistic styles and perhaps build a graphic novel / comic strip using prompts.

A slightly higher order application of the DALL-E/SD/MidJourney primitives.
Yeah, but not all parents have the best interests of their children at heart. This is generally recognized, and the reason why there is increasing clarification of the boundaries between the rights of parents and the rights of children. It's the reason that forced marriage and child brides have been outlawed in many countries. It's also the reason why child labour and child welfare, and protective services for children exist.

Should someone be providing HRT to children? Generally no. Has the child been prescribed that medication, and the parents are refusing, unable to, or actively preventing the child from getting that medication? Absolutely!

If this was in relation to insulin, antibiotics, or any other generally accepted medical prescription, the individual would be lauded. Because of transphobia and ignorance, sites like kiwifarms are being targetted by a bunch of relentless shitweasels who are hiding behind Freedom of Speech or Freedom of Expression, something which Cloudflare is under absolutely no legal requirement to provide.

I don't want tech companies to become the arbiters of free speech, but I also don't think companies are obligated to provide services to a website owned by a person who gleefully celebrated the suicide of a victim of harassment.

Now that I am not an employee there anymore, one thing I am absolutely thrilled to say is that the Fastly approach with a Good Neighbour policy is awesome, and that alone (among many awesome things over the 5 years I was there) makes it a better company to work for than CloudFlare.
The usual way to deal with an infinite number of cases is to group them into a finite number of cases and then deal with those. That's how induction works. So if you can prove that (1) the machine is in a certain condition at some step and (2) whenever the machine is in that condition at some step it will get back into that same condition at a later step, then you can prove that the machine will never halt.
Article 72. Each Union Republic shall retain the right freely to secede from the USSR.
A cookie is a tiny plaintext file limited at 4kb. Your browser keeps an inventory of them, lets you read or delete them, and automatically clears them out regularly.

Local storage can contain just about any type of user data without letting users know, and theoretically forever.

If you have to store local data, and you cared about "innocence" (author's word), it seems to me a cookie set to the local domain leaves less room for shenanigans. Hence why Google probably disables it when you disable cookies as well.
Don't forget that: Most startups fail.

As an employee, you need to vhet the startup even more closely than an investor. An investor will spread their money to multiple startups; but you can only have a single full time job at a time.
I have a FIDO2 key I use for SSH, can't beat the convenience nor the security:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/u2f-fido2-with-ssh/
There's some evidence that exercising during the fast helps minimize the loss of muscle.
I’m currently in Scandinavia and never heard of it
What are the margins on Amazon's retail revenue after all logistics costs versus the margins on Google's advertising?

I'm going to take a guess and say retail probably breaks even (almost by design by Amazon but not sure if it'll ever be more than a 10-20% margin business because by design they are offering traditionally expensive services like fast shipping, very lenient returns at very low cost/price to the end user) whereas advertising is probably... 80% margin?

I know there are server costs, engineers to maintain them, but if Google stopped investing in growth as far as diversifying/expanding advertising services goes engineer/developer/management wise... how lean could they run?

Could they support Google's current ad offerings with a core team of... 1000 engineers? 500? 200?
Ask HN: Lifting a Google Ads Account Suspension/ How?
I set up a new google ads account. Entered all the information, rewrote the ad copy they suggested. Specified my audience, budget and entered my credit card details - a credit card I use to pay my Google Workspace account for three seperate businesses. I am on the home-straight, ready for Google to work its magic and generate my business some leads, or so i thought. I hit submit, the final step in the process, only to be told on the next screen that my account is suspended due to suspicious payment activity associated with my account. This a new account so I am confused. I submit an appeal only to be told that my ads are in violation of Google's policies - they aren't. Any advice from the HN crowd on how to resolve this Kafka-esque situation?
> Russia can have monitors to ensure their are no 'Nazis!'

No, not acceptable. That will let Russian monitors have a veto on Ukrainian politics, media, and society, because they can label "Nazi" anyone who they decide they don't like. And it gives Russia a causus belli if the monitors are ignored.

So, no. Don't plant that seed of destruction to try to fix the current mess.
DS9 shot on film: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19454370

But it did use a lot of early CGI that would need to be redone.
Why is so much padding needed? Once I remove support for Windows and Bare Metal it seems that it might be possible to halve the binary size if you can remove the legal section (or at least change it for a link + checksum?) and the padding.

BTW, once I enable windows I think there's padding at the end of the binary section that's hard to notice, it might be good to replace it with something visible. I think it's coming from `ape_idata_iatend`.
I guess this is what they call “remote debugging”.
Cal ISO: Excessive heat starting tomorrow will stress energy grid [pdf]
I know that there must exist adults working in the software industry that have never seen a floppy disk. Because I'm old, and it's been probably fifteen years (to be conservative) since I've held a floppy disk in my hands. I can understand a resistance to change, as we all know how well moving it "online" can go versus a working system, but where in the hell were users even supposed to find these disks even, say, five years ago?

As an off-topic peeve, why is "Nix" capitalized in the title when nothing else is?
Could you comment on if you think there is a natural analogue out there? Even if less effective? For example a quick google search led me to this: https://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Article/2017/12/01/Ashw...

Which is suggesting Ashwagandha might a candidate for Rapamycin and Metformin mimcry.
This is welcome, great launch James.

I'm constantly looking about for a new CMS system, either Strapi, Wordpress, etc, how does PayloadCMS compare to these?

What is PayloadCMS's killer feature?
I have always ignored them as I did not know what DALL-E was, but last night got reading the multiple stable diffusion posts and liked what I read. Interesting stuff.

Now after having read, I think it is good to have one odd post here and there as there are always some people not in the know, but I agree we are seeing too many of those.
Yeah, the story is absolutely bananas. Not just the personal effort of the scientist, but what in the world even made them think to try any of this. The "Rapa" in the name is from Rapa Nui because this was a chemical found in a random soil sample from Easter Island. This deserves some conspiracy theories.
KF doesn't doxx people for being gay. As far as I can tell, KF has a huge LGBT presence in their userbase. They have doxxed people who are gay, but not because they are gay.
Was it profitable?
My (black) wife is very much into skincare(addiction) and even mixing her own stuff from basic ingredients. While getting ready-made products for black skin (or hair…) in Germany has been getting easier, it’s still hard. Do you have any plans for availability here in the EU?

And a fun anecdote for zinc oxide sun protection, I once accidentally bought one of those. It looked slightly questionable on my pasty white skin, but on her, it looked hilarious, she turned purple :D
Sounds good. I would not double down on Krebs right now. Or on the tinfoil theory that the FBI and Ubiquiti are lying about this.
I have to disagree, Windows 11 feels much more like a desktop UI without all the random Windows 8 fly-ins, sidebars, etc. of Windows 10. The Settings app is much neater and dark/light mode is in better colors than "night blindness white" and "astigmatism-inducing OLED black on IPS". Quick actions and the smaller Wi-Fi menu make more sense and are a lot more responsive than the Windows 8-era network menu that barely changed.
Because technologists these days are first and foremost salesmen
There are free tools that can do that on Windows and Linux.

For example on Windows you can dump and write EDID using https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-EDID-DisplayID-Wri...

And you can edit it using https://ez.analog.com/video/w/documents/750/advantiv-edid-ed...

Simply incrementing the serial number or the week of manufacture bit will be enough.

But you also have to be lucky to have a monitor that hasn’t already locked the write pin of the EEPROM.

On macOS it’s a lot harder to write the EDID, especially on Apple Silicon. I’m not sure why, but the WriteI2C method doesn’t always work so you might end up breaking the monitor with an incomplete write.
Looks like an interesting idea. Other than PHP-hate, why would someone choose this over something like Drupal?
The timing doesn't support that take, though. Nikolas Sharp (the sole source for these stories) was arrested almost a year ago. Krebs knew then that his source was tainted, and he did nothing. Instead he waited until he was months into litigation with Ubiquity (which he's almost sure to lose) to try to backpedal.

That's just a straight up violation of journalistic ethics. I think it's very reasonable to demand that our reporters in the security community be clear about their sourcing and prompt about corrections.

A "what more do you want from the guy" implies that we shouldn't hold his past actions to account. And... we should. We absolutely should.
This shouldn't be downvoted. It's an honest representation of the situation.
The reality is that most consumers (and I'm one of them) will not pay $200 for a coffeemaker when they can buy a $20 one every few years.

It's simply not worth it to most of us. OTOH, a long time ago I spent $200 on a KitchenAid mixer that is all but indestructible and has a healthy supply of spare parts for the occasions when something does break. Having a mixer that can power through stiff bread dough is worth $200 (probably far more now due to inflation) to me. Having a coffeemaker that's easy to clean is not.
The most mind-bending thing to me about the Busy Beaver problem is that once N gets big enough (probably into the low hundreds of states) the machines can start to examine all of mathematics itself, and so likely are posing extremely interesting questions like whether a particular set of finite axioms is complete and consistent, and checking all possible proofs until finally discovering a gigantic theory smaller than PA or ZFC but still far larger than any finite systems we can ever imagine, and halting once all the possible proofs are enumerated. Depending on how our universe turns out to work on a fundamental level, busy beavers may contain a record of the evolution of our universe (and all the alternatives from different initial conditions) from the big bang until the heat death as a trivial lemma in a larger proof. They'll be full of proofs or disproofs of mathematical conjectures in fancy formal systems we'll never have time to discover even with the infinite axiom schemas available to us.

At least that's the most complex, longest-lasting and most bits-written-to-tape task I can imagine specifying in a few hundred bits. The neat thing is that BB(N) considers all the interesting and answerable questions anyone could ever think to ask with N states worth of bits. Sure, maybe there's some trivial rote task that is truly the biggest for a given N (which I doubt; it seems like rote tasks would fall out of an exploration of a larger conceptual space) but some of its neighbors will be absolutely amazing.
Truth Social is strapped for cash and struggling to find new users
Ha, thanks. Seriously, this was not a run-of-the-mill journalistic mistake for which one apologizes for and moves on. This was so brazen I couldn't even believe it at the time, my assumption was that he was short Ubiquiti's stock or something. What Krebs did was so egregious and so extreme that I really have no idea why the world hasn't turned its back on him as a journalist.
I have recently transitioned to Teamfight Tactics and a bit of Fall Guys, and have had much more enjoyment from it. But I have also realized that everything in TFT is RNG based, and is almost equivalent to playing a slot machine where every pull takes 30-40 minutes.

The scary thing with a 5v5 MOBA and a ranking system is that a large part of the game falls outside of your control unless you're that player that can consistently carry. So to that point, you really have to take time to study the game and psychology if you want to climb...but then you get wherever you're going and realize you have almost nothing of value to show for it.