skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a terrorist cell, which has no leader, no members, no financiers but is able to attack anyway.

This is called "stochastic terrorism". It has carried out at least two attacks in the United States in the past week. Doesn't require fancy technology, just very effective ideological poisoning.
The loss in 2021 was due to 765 million dollar lawsuit settlement. Also, after that loss was 221 million not 492. It would be 0.5B profitable if not that.
Also, do not fully rely on Google Maps knowing house numbers. Looks like in some areas (in UK for example) Google used some sort of OCR to find house numbers. There are houses and Wales with random house numbers that only have a house name; Numbering ends a few houses into dead-end alley where the Street View car didn't come; Or totally wrong numbers where house number sings are hard to read.
W11 Home auto-reboots for us by default, but I think there's a toggle to disable it. Until they reset that setting of course :)
The biggest of them all is Reddit. We will know few years down the lane how much of Reddit was astroturfed by the US government given that reddit directly hired ex government officials for their director level positions

Almost all of Reddit home page is now either subtle advertising or outright propaganda
Favorited, if I become famous for my amazing talent by combining 10 different things, it's your fault.

I guess that's what you're extraordinary at, making super stars with just one comment ;-)
> a free person in the 13 American colonies could afford a musket or a rifle

This view of history needs to account for the nonfree people and how, despite the ambient tech level, they were kept unfree for a century after independence.
Only problem is Macs are missing everything good about the iPad. No touch screen, no pen input, always 2+ lbs.

Apple doesn't need to pull a rabbit out of a hat they just need to stop artificially limiting what iPadOS can do. There's no reason the iPad can't run Emacs natively with a full stack of dev tools except Apple's rules. The $80 Fire Tablet I'm typing this on can (OK it's not exactly quick but $80...).
I wanted to say "you can just make it cable controlled", but then I guess you can always hack into machine controlling it...
Not heard of MagicEarth before - looks interesting but what's missing is a "Why/how is it free" statement. They don't cover how they monetise this, what's their business model.
I looked into it (though didn't download the models - too dodgy). One of the NSFW models that's gained traction, and gained attention because it seems to be better at generating even non-porn faces and bodies, is called "Hassan's blend". Hassan mentioned that he'd taken down an earlier checkpoint because it generated undesirable images.

Reading between the lines, it likely generated CSAM-like images even without explicit prompting for it.
There were probably covert ways to obtain the same information but it's now easier for Google to grab the information using regular APIs.

It also means if app X and app Y on their own subdomains were previously using location APIs without any tricks, you are now effectively opting into both apps.

Bottom line: technically it doesn't matter but it probably makes a difference in practice.
I think there's a fair number of people ok with leaving the house when a croc pot is going vs a gas stove. Otherwise they're the same, but with the oven+dutch combo giving you better temp control as well as a wider range of temps. Like when I make carnitas I do it at 325F so that it fries off in its own rendered fat. The croc pot version is tasty but can't duplicate that.
I had been a game developer for last 7 years and I disagree. Most game developers do not have that much expertise to start with, because it has been a long time that low-level optimization makes or breaks your game. They tend to lean to proven techniques to the point that they have consistent aches like your aging grandparents but still keep using them because complaints alone don't break their games. The ratio of game developers capable of optimizing things at that level is roughly same to (or possibly even lower than) the ratio of comparable non-game developers.
I am a fan of the film chappie by Blomkamp
The separate account is needed for openstreetmap uploads/notes/corrections. You can add places on osm.org also or retry with the osm account using Osmand.
>If you take the entire sum of your own unique talents, and find a way to combine them properly, you can become extraordinary simply by finding a new way of looking at the world, even if the individual talents you have are not outstanding compared to others.

maybe i'm too pessimistic in the opposite direction but this kind of argument always sounds like appealing nonsense to me. appealing because we'd like it to be true, and because the number of possible combinations is great enough that it's not immediately obvious that it isn't true. but in reality, skills don't generally exist in isolation, and as long as we're still attaching some kind of objective qualitative value to being 'extraordinary' beyond just being unique, most people who are mediocre at two things are not going to significantly exceed being mediocre at their combination, whereas people who are extraordinary at one thing are (in my experience) quite often at least near-extraordinary at a few others.
He got hired to do a job. Rather than doing the job he was hired to do, he tried to farm out the job to someone else publicly, on Twitter.

This is the kind of incompetence you've said that Twitter is filled with. Why is it okay when it's George Hotz then?
His definition of "best" seems to be "highest views", which is a bit like saying McDonalds is the "best" restaurant.

I mean, I love Macs, but...
There is the small issue of transmission and maintaining that. But surely it is better to also use the grid for when you peak over 5MW at dinner time when people turn on their ovens, lights and other appliances and also to be able to sell back to the grid at other times. Unless you have batteries.

But your argument is solid for a factory with constant 24/7 load where a single building might
consume all that power.
The cable-controlled bomb disposal robot, sometimes armed with shotgun, was a common feature in Northern Ireland at least 30 years ago. In that situation it's a much simpler technology.
> As for mods, some GOG games can't access the steam workshop recently. This is bad for the longetivity of the game and it's success, and of course for modders and players.

While I do use Steam myself I think that part needs a lot more attention so that Valve is pushed to allow you do download content from the Workshop without a client or login. Perhaps some day the law will recognize that kind of network effect abuse as anti-competitive behavior.

> And I believe that there is still a steam runtime that games check for, even if launching outside of Steam.

It is up to the game, but yes many of them do need Steam or something that looks like Steam [0] running.

[0] https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator
Nah, Google will never do it because url parameters have terrible SEO... Um wait
It's a serious problem, wildlife is disappearing because of millions of cats: too many predators in the wild. If you develop a product that stop cats killing everything, people will probably buy it. You know, ecology and climate change are in the air at the moment. I'm asking here because people have products idea and know how to develop products.
That model sounds like something only leading to horrible things...

But they are a middle-man company selling shovels. So with proper connections and management it is not horrible model. If there is demand on side supplying the loans.
"You have 20 seconds to comply"
The Force Engine – a reverse engineered Jedi Engine for modern systems
IMO, this is why game-designers, sales people, actors, anthropologists (to some extent) are IMO much closer to understanding human behavior than social psychologists.
My children's favorite pastimes: reading, building stuff with legos, drawing and painting, roughhousing, listening to audiobooks, climbing on a gym rack thingy that we got gifted from a neighbor.

Also: building things out of pillows, blankets, cooking pots and utensils, etc.

Videogames have become a bit of an issue with my oldest one (8). But he seems to spend a lot less time on them than most other boys that age. But he's not happy about it.
There are already laws against it but enforcement is laking, as always.
The economist talking about crypto.... talk about biased
I think I’ve never heard someone romanticize a profession as hard as what you’ve done here. This comment paints a truly distorted and unrealistic picture of game developers.

Game developers are not radically different from other developers. You see game developers leave the game industry and become programmers somewhere else, or you see programmers in another industry become programmers in the game industry. It is not a big deal.

While you could find some game developers who care about saving a couple bytes to fit something in a single network packet, you can equally find developers elsewhere who care about the same thing. Shave some time off your latency numbers and people stay on your website or app, they buy things or watch ads, your company gets money, you put it in your performance review. That’s just the most boring example I could think of. There are more interesting examples. Most programmers are simply not interested in saving a few bytes or a few cycles because they have features to work on. That includes game developers.

We fetishize low-level programming too much. Low-level programming is, in a sense, easy, because you are working with components that are simpler and have better documentation.
It's lyrics from a song - the last line sounds like a new sentence, so it's punctuation that I'm probably missing.

I've added it for clarity.
Makes more sense to switch to bing maps, since they have ever so slightly better satelite imagery and there's no way in hell anyone would use bing for anything else anyway.
icecream and ccache has been a killer combo for my development routine, even if I only connect my workstation with the laptop which I would otherwise almost never use.

distcc didn't for example handle the load balancing well in my experiments whereas icecream did much better on that front and thus resulting with noticeably shorter build times. icecream also comes with a nice GUI (icemon) which can come really handy, e.g. you can use it to observe the build jobs and debug when things go south.

But I didn't know that sccache also supports distributed builds. From your comment it seems as if this was a recentish addition. I wonder how polished it is but I will definitely give it a try at some moment.
I think it's looking fairly similar, the first one was a bit tricky too. Later improvements by the community made it clearer.

The docs aren't good though, it tells you to download two things when actually I think you only need one. If you do need two then it doesn't tell you at all where to put the second.

You really need xformers if you're doing it at home, I've got a 3090 and it blew through the ram without it. However, the instructions didn't work for me for compiling and there's an incompatibility if you try and install from conda. You can have it work but you need to upgrade python from 3.8.5 to 3.9 in the yaml file first, then you can install it (xformers needs 3.9+, and something else in SD breaks on 3.10+ so 3.9 works).

This needs the classic "sit next to a new person installing it by following the docs and see what problems they hit, fix the docs and start from scratch again" process.

Looks good, though so far the images I've made don't look as nice as with 1.4, but I guess that's largely down to finding the right tweaks for the model and right magic wording for the prompts.
> I don't think changing literature is a huge ask here

That's the assumption that is (indirectly) being questioned here. I don't have strong opinion either way, just trying to show how to steelman better.
Welcome to the Official Twitter Page of His Holiness Pope Francis
Crimean "referendum" as well as recent ones on the occupied territories ware held under the guns of Russian soldiers which make it illegitimate by international laws and conventions.
Interesting to see the documentation emphasized here. I don't use Arch, but I often see the arch wiki in google results for linux stuff I look up. Makes me wonder why wikis aren't used more for documentation.
Windows 7 was the last MS operating system I've used on a personal computer of mine. Once I did some work for a local ad tech company, they dictated I should use a windows computer for work. I discovered the hell of WSL and lasted about 12 weeks on that gig. The fact that I had to train tech leads on Git and was having arguments about "pushing directly to production is bad, we should have a staging environment at the very least" did not help.
Some are not. Many are.
House names, rather than numbers, are very common in rural UK.
I’ve been using the command line for almost 3 decades. This is really great! I found it covers basically everything I ever had to care about. Strikes a good balance in level of detail. Well done!
> Several years later, Discord announced that they were switching from Rust to Go.

That should say "switching from Go to Rust.": https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
What exactly is your comment accomplishing? They were receiving holiday pay. This is common enough for a lot of contractors since it doesn't cost much and improves morale.

This isn't them not receiving something they never had. This is an employment perk they have had for years being taken away right before a holiday.
If you need OSM on Android, I can recommend:

- "Organic Maps" (a fork of the old MapsMe codebase) if you want a clean, simple user experience

- "OSMAnd" if you want a very powerful, highly customizable map application, which comes at the cost of a steeper learning curve

Both apps are open source and support navigation, offline maps and POI search.

The things I miss most compared to Google Maps is live traffic information and the powerful search. However, this has a privacy cost, so I generally try to use OSM first, and only fall back to Google Maps (in the browser) if I really need to.
Recently safari (on macos 10.15) started auto completing „maps.“ to „maps.apple.com“, although I only tried Apple maps once and always use gmaps. Maybe google noticed this and tries to circumvent safari‘s „preference“ for Apple Maps
What am I missing here? A school library, with three thousand graphic novels?

That seems like an awful lot of them. I doubt if my school library even had 3000 books at all, let along graphic novels.
It kind of annoys me that they removed NSFW images from the training set. Not because I want to generate porn (though some people do), but because I feel that they're foisting a puritan ethic on me. I don't consider the naked body inherently bad, and I don't like seeing new technology carry this (wrong, in my opinion) stigma.

Then again, it's their model, they can do whatever they want with it, but it still leaves me with a weird feeling.
Huh, I never knew they sometimes had shotguns.
Yeah, I'm wondering why Memex disabled the search feature. It obviously didn't work out for them.

> It could decide based on other users who also saved the article

That's a cool idea, I'll think about it. Maybe it doesn't even need to be other Unclutter users. I already ingest almost every Hacker News post for the social annotations feature and there are APIs for web traffic stats.

Thank you for the links on pricing, that's very helpful. At least this Show HN has convinced me to keep trying for a bit longer :)

If you have any other feedback later, just email me, open an issue, etc. Thanks!
Yes, in C++ you can also do this:

```
int & a = *new int;
```

And it would be as stupid as juggling with spans around liberally.
As others have noticed, this is not a new move. For the past several years I've been accessing Google Maps simply by typing in maps.google.com and it has always redirected me to google.com/maps.
Yes, wild birds and rodents are massively disappearing.
The problem is there are too many domesticated cats hunting in the wild, to the point of exterminating wildlife.
Insects are massively disappearing too. Not because of too many birds, because of too many pollutants in their environment.
Scientists noticed the cat problem and I'm trying to find a solution on this website.
> Congratulations, you now have permission to geo-track me across all of your services.

I don't think Google needed to do this move to track you across their services. Pretty sure they were able to do that before.
Just noticed HN stripped the timestamp, timestamp is 4m.
Javascript and WASM are unrelated
Does the GDPR care about the concept of apps and URLs? If not, all it matters is the person/company relationship.
Vastness of rural US is a security factor on its own. Plenty of military installations in the desert aren't even fenced.
> Each line starts at the same place, right?

> Each pipe character is the same width, right?

> Monospace characters are unaffected by their surrounding characters, right? Unless they're ligatures, in that case their width is a multiple of the single character width.

Yes, but not in Microsoft products.
Not bad. But most lectures will not be helpful in a political discussion.
Probably wouldn't be allowed because of the app store rule against apps with embedded languages.
It's always been that the one with power controls those with less power. We've only got democracy because of unionization and education. And some good, old-fashioned Christian guilt feelings.

Now, that power needs to be distributed properly. If there were a super-villain with an overwhelming military power under direct personal control, (s)he would be able to dictate some terms, but not be able to control all the way down to individual behavior. That would require micromanaging at an impossible level. So, to completely subvert society, you need an army with a hierachy.
That's not how most typical default php setups work, for quite some time. They do get their own interpreter, but not every request is a fork.
That last cite actually answered my own question:

"The future of robotic policing can now be found in developments within the military.(54) The military has used remote controlled robots for more than a decade.(55) The Department of Defense is preparing for a future in which nearly autonomous robots will play a central role in warfare.(56) Consequently, the military is spending the most money and attention on robotics."

(54). [P.W. Singer, Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century (2009)], supra note 20, at 78 (observing that the “military sets the agenda in AI”).
That's actually a good point.

Though to me this is also an inaccuracy in the article which would better be clarified.
A school district, not just a single school.

Often districts will rotate books between schools.
Thanks to GDPR I can use this website https://www.smartsteuer.de/online/ without Third Party Cookies (example for German taxes)
I program in both Lisp and SML/OCaml. I don't think Lisp lives in the latter.

For me, Lisp is about power. However, Haskell and other languages that popularized category theory feel like going through the GoF nightmare again.
Isn't maps.apple.com in your bookmarks? Most browsers suggest from bookmarks before anything else. Maybe it got added there in an update to. you know, improve your experience with the Apple ecosystem.
“Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.” – Sean Connery
UK Police to send SMS message to 70k victims of bank fraud
> In the 1970s and 80s, Gopnik and her colleagues [...] focused not on what children said, but on what they did in creative and problem-solving situations. “It turned out that even the youngest babies already knew more and learned more than we ever would have thought,” Gopnik went on.

This was one of the things that really surprised me when becoming a parent. If you take the time to just observe very small children doing their thing, they are surprisingly methodical, consistent, and hypothesis-driven. It looks like chaos at first, but then I've sort of come to realise that it's really about performing actions that are likely to trigger a response with high information content.
There's a 1980s docunentary about the group, apparently they didn't hide themselves well.
What respect did you have for musk?
Good point. I was thinking about "unlock and start" the car, didn't write that though. And even in that case it might not be much worse than the keyless options nowadays.
As projects grow, I am just a lot less productive when I don't have any strong abstractions over the DOM.
Given that not even an artist who handcrafts the whole song does know for sure I'd say they don't. They just use generic enough loops that the result is also too generic to run afoul of someone
Not only Kindle. There are e-readers with Dropbox integration and RSS is still widely used. My own scenario (no matter phone or computer):

- I come to a page I want to read later, a page behind a soft paywall, a page with a "switch off your add blocker" popup, page with tons of JS, popups, videos that takes forever to load and one has to close this and that while scrolling down

- It takes one click (2 to 4 taps on mobile) to send the page to web2doc and forget

I read the content directly in the web channel or (1)Feeder reminds me about the new article(s) within half an hour.

(1) Feeder: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/
Hack steals data from the Treasury of 500k taxpayers and 50k police officers
My kid: Parents kid 1+

I should put in a base case and one child test. Eh, I'll do it later.
If you do dev in the cloud, you might as well just get a Chromebook, since you're probably carrying a keyboard with the iPad anyway. And all the recent Chromebooks can also run Android and Linux apps.
> A slightly higher-level interface is the C ABI;

Small remark: There is nothing like "the C ABI".

https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/#c-doesnt-actua...
Yeah it makes a lot of sense to do it this way, however it does not feel that nefarious when there were plausable workarounds anyway.
That slope slips all the way to Hell.
Main problem with ovens is really that the "typical" size is just bad. I never used full size of it, I don't think I even used half the size of it, and it just makes it heat slower.

Double ovens are a thing but you rarely see apartments outfitted with those and if you already have an oven, air-fryer makes more sense than replacing single oven with double oven.
which killer features?
Wasn't this all legalized in 2011?
Absolutely agree, it’s one thing to get terrified at the complexity of the borrow checker, and another thing to get terrified by the complexity of Unsafe Rust (“the-thing-that-must-not-be-mentioned” in the Rust community).

I think the solution for memory safety (which the fundamental problem stems from us having to deal with a linear address space) can only be fully tacked with a combination of compile-time and runtime features, but in my opinion Rust goes too overboard on the former and sacrifice too much actual language usability.

Really like to see new experiments like generational references (https://verdagon.dev/blog/generational-references) being researched as an alternative to Rust’s ‘type-systems-approach’ towards memory safety.

Or maybe someday we might finally have thorough tagged pointer support in hardware (like what CHERI is doing) and system-level programmers will rejoice in joy.
In that sense I think there's a strong parallel with household computing: a PC in the 80s was far closer to the wooden cash register than a tablet/phone of the 20s. (which mostly inspire adults to just scroll down repeatedly?)
Every tech product you use came out between '00-'10. Nothing was built from 2010