skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. I should have said that's accelerated it.
That's an interesting catch. Still, it's known that the previous object was a balloon, so I'd say it makes more sense to expect those words are shorthand for "previous object (which was a balloon)". This new object may still be a balloon, but those words aren't admission of that.
Probe detection & response times for various approaches and altitudes, sigint for radio chatter that doesn't reach past the US, similar for active radar targeting high altitudes, wasting more US money than they cost China by a long shot, trial-run for a mass launch of these with potentially more interesting payloads than these sacrificial trial ones are carrying (even just as a kind of attention- and resource-wasting chaff during, say, an attack on Taiwan), radio-signal mapping for some crazy new passive guidance system. Lots of possibilities.
Sure, Django docs say this about custom context processors: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/templates/api/#wri...

So in my context_processors.py file, I write something like:

def base_template(request):
template = "templates/base.html" # full page

if "HX-Request" in request.headers:
template = "templates/base_ajax.html" # minimal template

return {"base_template": template}

And then my template just needs to start with `{% extends base_template %}`. Nothing needs to be done in the view (although you could technically override "base_template" there, if you need to).
It is because the article is just "bad"...

> And then you could take the table idea farther and have a table for a specific [purpose] . You could have a [purpose.test] or [purpose.production], all without having to use separate files where you may accidentally leave out a common setting that every .env file needs to define for your application. (I'm also a fan of less configuration files, not more.)

that is the complete OPPOSITE purpose of .env files!! It is supposed to be such that you never conflict the information, and no simple "flag" sets production vs local environment vs test environment.
Disclaimer: I am in this space.

UI generation is an interesting problem. It's very from other domains like copywriting, search, etc. that these new AI models excel at. For it to be useful in the UI field, there are quite a few things more that are needed. Something like this is just one step above using stable diffusion for generating images of prototypes to get good color schemes, and applying that to a template off of website marketplace like envato.

One thing that makes ui different is that it's not that difficult to adapt a design for multiple purposes. Often times just changing the images. That's very different from images where you can't just swap out sections of an image because things like the lighting will be off. It's makes customization very easy, so the tolerance for getting a design and tearing it apart to be able to customize it is a lot lower. You can mockup a presentable design for a button in like a minute, so it's not worth the hassle of using prompts to slowly make adjustments as opposed to images where it's going to take hours to design what a single prompt can do.

Also the key thing with ui design isn't the design - again ui is highly adaptable. You can grab two templates and have it used within the company. You can't grab two different images with different styles and put them in a picture book. The key thing with ui/ux is about communication and making sure everyone is happy and various issues are addressed. It's what made figma so great, because you didn't have to ask people do download photoshop to view a file or if they wanted to tweak something slightly. It's about making sure that small details like the spacing are consistent, and when they can be broken and communicating that with the dev team. It's a bunch of ideas that need to be communicated that happens as the design is developed. If those things don't get produced, that's a problem.
We already spent the money on the missiles, may as well use them.
The US Department of Attack budget for 2023 is $1.9 trillion dollars. A couple of missiles is petty cash.
Why would you need to police population in case of war for returning Taiwan? It will be very popular war and you definitely won't need to lock people down.
I wonder if there is some sort of theory on graphical representation of complexity vs text.

Is it possible to have a comic that explains something better than text alone, while being easier to understand?

Usually these comics tend to hide complexity by simplifying things, which is fine. It’s an interesting thought to consider a man page as a comic.
Agreed. Tens of terabytes is fine in S3. Sure, it’s expensive, but so is every other solution. S3 removes the headaches for you.
And it works because almost no one else on earth can gang radar to missile systems. So they can't shoot ours down. And we can shoot theirs down.
> It's not npm, you specify a specific version and that's the code that's used, no matter how upstream changes things.

Note that that _is_ how NPM behaves. (At least, when using a lock file, which is the default behaviour like with Cargo. If you don't use lock files then neither Cargo not NPM can guarantee this property.)
Apple built one of the most expensive office complexes in the world. They are going to want people in the office.

Additionally they deal a lot with hardware design. Being in the office is going to be easier for certain things, particularly when you are as secretive as Apple.
Those large stores are where most people buy food. The margins for food in them are very low, but they make it up by volume. Smaller stores cannot compete on price or selection, and so even if there is a small store close Americans will make regular trips to the large store that has everything at a low price for most food. There isn't much room for the small stores anymore.

There are pros and cons to the above. Do not claim what you are used to is better: it is different, not better or worse. Odds are you have not spent enough time using both to make a real claim. even if you have, odds are your stage of life is different enough that you cannot compare.
I agree about Rust's memory safety advantage over C++, but I disagree that it's disappointing from a project perspective. Some DB experts made a good DB using a performant language they're comfortable with.

You can't make project choices in a vacuum, and you can't assume others can either. People have limited time. The choice they were facing was probably not C++ vs Rust, but C++ vs nothing because they didn't have time to learn a new language before starting their project.

Also, their first release was in 2019, so they probably heard of it, but that's around the beginning of its recent spike in popularity. It's starting to be viewed as a good long term option, but back then a lot of people were still wondering if it was a fad.

I'm learning Rust, and I'm a big fan, but this is a bad take.
Coming to a campus near you: Nuclear microreactors
> Cheap balloon

I'm surprised this seems to be such a common point. Why is it believed that it was cheap?
The biggest money launderers are close to those who write the AML policies.

One of the most significant money launderers is a famous attorney from Shearman and Sterling in NYC.

From my experience, prominent financial executives attempted to engage in blatant laundering of drug money in BVI. These individuals were connected to the attorney and one is a public official appointed by 4 US Presidents.

This was 20+ years ago and I don’t know what they actually did, but I was in the room when they tried to do it. Outside the room hung a giant photo of George W. Bush golfing with the firm’s CEO.

They offered me $1 million in cash to fly with $100m at a time to Tortola. The financial structure was created by the attorney.
Many AI image generation can do text now. Especially some unreleased ones like Muse from Google.

What does behind the scenes might isn’t necessarily 1:1 with old image generation stuff either way.
Could also be a flying promotional bearskin bladder from a local hunting lodge.

Which I have to say is where we may start to see a tragic lack of creativity unfolding on China's part.
It depends... are you delivering mostly static content or creating and interactive application front-end? Most sites are somewhere in the middle and so should the responses.

For me, if it's an application ui/ux, then the rendering should be almost exclusively on the front-end. It's just delivered via a web server instead of installed. Yeah, it's larger than server-sent. It's also emphatically not tying up server resources for template processing, instead using the super computer on your desk or in your pocket.

I frankly feel ill when I see more than a couple hundred kb of compressed JS go over the wire... why a couple hundred, that's just where I draw the line... React + MUI with some optimizations and all the application logic should easily fit in under 300k compressed payload. If you're going over that, you're probably doing something very, very wrong. Not that you can't go much smaller and hand crafted. It's a trade-off.

I also think edge development tools like Cloudflare Workers and Deno are exceedingly nice and can seriously bridge the gap closer to server rendered, but still not the same as a lot of classic legacy apps.

On the flip side, I look at how much memory and resources applications use on a server as it is... They're often massively under-utilized as well. So who knows. I just know that there's nothing wrong in using the client's system to render the client.
There was a fun theory on UFOs I saw recently.

The general premise is this:

U.S. adversaries realized they couldn't compete with the U.S. on spending. So they got creative and loaded the equivalent of Pringles cans up with a bunch of sensors, hooked them up to either a balloons or relatively cheap unmanned aircraft, and sent them through U.S. airspace to collect intelligence. They'd occasionally get caught (perhaps on purpose) and cause a base to scramble to intercept. The proposed theory on why they'd get caught on purpose was to gather up intelligence on what a response would be flying through the airspace.

It's possible they've been doing this for more than a decade and the military has gotten caught with egg on it's face having ignored the reports for so long.
Surely the appropriate response is to release some "weather" balloons from Taiwan.
Other countries are trying to spy on the US’s super advanced “UAPs”. Pet theory of mine.
Not many other types of non-maneuverable flying craft.
I've read about those but I'm more referring to the cost comment. In eve it is common to hedge a loss as "ISK Positive" if the value of the ammo that blew you up costed more than your ship, as tallied up on the killmail.
Right but a search engine takes in web pages and outputs search. copilot takes in code and outputs code.
You could definitely browse hacker news as long as you could tiktok. In both cases there’s plenty of content if you actually go to the source links.

Mindless seems to be an opinion. What’s mindless about it?
Sites like Paypal and Skrill did this because they know most people would otherwise just cancel on sign up , and when you've got money locked in you have no choice but to complete verification. Thankfully i haven't had to deal with their crap in the past 4 years due to better options existing.
> incredibly friendly

This has NOT been my experience as a relatively recent resident. Literally the first questions anyone you meet asks is (A) when you moved here, (B) from where, and (C) why. One of the first people I met practically spat in my face when I told her I moved for work in tech, possibly saved only by the fact that I didn't move from CA.

I don't blame them for the hostility, they're being priced out of their homes thanks to the property tax situation, but you can't call them "friendly" when everyone sees you as an invading barbarian to be discouraged at all costs.

I've lived all over, and Austinites are by far the most actively hostile people I have ever encountered. (Followed by the Maastrichtenaar, who also didn't much care for foreigners.)
I've been to the Portugese Chapel of Bones in Évora. The two things that really struck me were the sheer size of it — I expected a tiny room, and instead it was a decently sized chapel — and how every skull essentially looked the same. A stark reminder of how similar we all are in the end.
Seems to me like this is not generating a simple image of the layout, but is generating the parameters to define the layout.
Similar church in Czech Republic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary

The Sedlec Ossuary is a Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints, part of the former Sedlec Abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.

The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have, in many cases, been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.
Dang, you're correct. It still had a thermal signature, but it wasn't as definitive as what I thought.
I think they are going for "sophisticated."
I’m not sure you’re serious or not. Just in case you are, this would be a horrible position to take on the concept of truth. It would make you unaware of the fallacy of your political side. No one side has truth on their side.
It's said that breps vs. meshes in 3D is like vector vs. raster in 2D.
I follow chemistry on tiktok. Is that mindless?

https://www.tiktok.com/@chemteacherphil?lang=en
I found this online course to be pretty useful: https://www.udemy.com/course/mapacademy/
Tell HN: Discord is obviating my need to use StackOverflow
Everyone's talking about ChatGPT eating SO's lunch these days, but I've found Discord servers are vastly more responsive and more correct than any AI tool. I can usually ask a question on Discord and get a response within 30 seconds as many people start responding. Sometimes they ask clarifying questions and generally speaking that will be enough for them to answer. If I asked the same question on SO, I would have to wait days, months, or even years for an answer. This is what happened to some of the questions I've seen there, with many questions also not having any answers at all.

The problem, of course, is indexability for search engines; SO is very indexable, and Discord is opaque. People therefore keep asking the same questions over and over again on the Discord server.

For those curious as to what Discord servers I'm in (grouped into folders, comments in parentheses):

Web Dev:

- Rome Tools (makers of an all-in-one JS toolchain, written in Rust)

- Deno

- Next.js

- vanilla-extract (great compile-time CSS-in-JS library)

- Astro.js

- Reactiflux (best Discord server for general React related questions)

- TypeScript

- GraphQL

- GraphQL Dart (for Flutter projects)

- Foam (open source Roam alternative in VSCode)

- ZeroToMastery (took a few of their courses before)

Design:

- Three.js

- Poimandres (makers of react-three-fiber, jotai, zustand, etc)

- Framer (for framer-motion)

- Bruno Simon (maker of the ThreeJS Journey course)

- Kevin Powell (YouTuber with advanced CSS tutorials, usually replicating some design seen online)

- Rive (animation tool built in Flutter)

- Friends of Figma (official Figma Discord server)

Flutter:

- Riverpod ecosystem (similar to Poimandres, makers of many useful Flutter packages)

- /r/FlutterDev

- Rivaan Ranawat (YouTuber with advanced Flutter tutorials)

- Shorebird (new company by ex-tech-lead of Flutter, but lots of Flutter team members to talk to)

Rust:

- The Rust Programming Language (official server)

- Rust Programming Language

- Actix Web (backend API framework)

- Zero To Production In Rust (great book about how to make your own backend API in Rust, with Actix Web)

- Prisma Client Rust + rspc (using Prisma to generate type-safe Rust bindings to the database)

DevOps:

- coolLabs (makers of https://coolify.io, the best open source Heroku replacement in my opinion)

- Docker

- Supabase

Miscellaneous Programming:

- ReasonML

- iOS Programming

- Teach Yourself CS (https://teachyourselfcs.com, a structured way of learning computer science)

AI:

- TVP & MVP community (video interpolation, especially animated)

- NMKD Software (video interpolation and Stable Diffusion client)

- Stable Foundation (official Stable Diffusion server)

- Unstable Diffusion

- SAIL

Miscellaneous:

- /r/Productivity

- /r/Startups

- Furlough (good community for talking about startups, high signal to noise)

- StockDrops (for finding GPUs / consoles when they are available)

- Dream Cafe (lucid dreaming)

- Polyphasic Sleeping
Thanks for checking it out. I am glad you like it.

1. Now that you have asked for it, I certainly plan on adding `loft`. Thank you for the suggestion. Looking quickly it looks quite reasonable to implement. I would expect to add it in the near future.

2. It is a digital art coloring book image that I filled in and used as a background.
Tags in loki are things like host, application, and environment. When searching by those tags and a time interval, it will read everything from disk. So any query that filters by ex. SessionId or a keyword from the log like Exception will read all the logs from disk. This can take ages if you have a lot of logs and a big time frame. Compare that with Elasticsearch which can index anyrhing, like SessionId/log message and return the result in an instant, without even reading the disk.
The same thing happens in Germany, with N26. Under the pretext of "regulatory requirements", they ask for information like income amount and source, employment status and industry etc. BaFin (the banking supervisory authority) is ignoring this, like they did with Wirecard
HN has noprocrast, but otherwise yeah, same as. Only thing is that at the end, your rotted brain can now talk about Google discontinuing products, Apple CSAM, and Amazon inventory commingling. You will also be unable to dance.
It could be to gradually increase reaction expectations so it would not be surprising if China shot down one of the USA's drones. Or perhaps escalate by using their previously demonstrated ability to blow up satellites. The balloon was a very public microaggression that forced the USA to respond in a very public way. China tried the public "oops it was a weather balloon" to give the USA a chance to back off the public response (but know that China was still provoking them). But it was too brazen to accept.

The USA is already on their doorsteps by having bases in almost all the neighboring countries, and conducting operational freedom exercises by flying and sailing through disputed areas.
The original comment that "vaccines do not cause mutations, period" was playing the same semantic game, by replying to a comment with a deliberate misinterpretation of its claims, which any reasonable reader would have understood to be referring to selection pressure from population bottlenecks, not the specific genomic process used by these drugs.

And actually, are the effects not basically the same? They both increase the likelihood of a new variant outcompeting existing variants, but in different ways - this drug increases the rate of mutations to new variants, whereas vaccination reduces the rate of mutations to existing variants. The effect in both cases is to favor new variants.

It's like how China banning Google and degrading service of US internet companies created an opportunity for domestic Chinese companies like Baidu to offer a lower-quality yet viable substitute to the firewalled service of its American counterpart, allowing them to grow their market-share to fund development toward feature parity with the original American apps.
Third Man Factor
Centralization is not necessarily a win. There are other concerns besides efficiency -- such as resiliency.

The efficiency gains we had with JIT global supply chain failing during the pandemic lockdowns is a great example.

There are worst problems than just resiliency. As an example, overharvesting happens when the people consuming a resource is disconnected from those who harvest it. Traditionally, local harvesters were also the consumers, and there is immediate feedback on the limits of a harvest.

It's made worse when we have been under a couple centuries of a civilization founded on the presumption that we have continuous, and unbounded growth.
For my use case (education) iPad Pro is a godsend. I don’t see anything wrong with it.
In my view, natural gas is only competitive due to externalized costs and the slowdown/freeze of nuclear energy deployment. I recognize it's the only option for all kinds of situations (my dwelling heat included), but for anyone thinking forward it should be excluded in future development where possible.

My main concern is the overall long term efficiency & affordability of renewable-friendly solutions, because competitiveness in those areas is what will lead to mass adoption. The point I was hewing toward is that I feel the heat pump advocates and providers need to make it more clear which situations are best suited for that solution and which are not, because it would benefit everyone.
I've always wondered exactly how electronic Capacitors work...

When I read various "how does a capacitor work" articles, I always see such words and terms as electrons, electric charge, electric field, and charged particles, i.e.

From https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/teachers/study-resources/stem/p... -- my first Google search result:

>"a capacitor is a circuit component that temporarily stores electrical energy through distributing charged particles on (generally two) plates to create a potential difference"

Well, that understanding is not wrong -- but is it the most detailed, most nuanced one?

You see, we have two very similar patterns here:

We know, on the one hand, that electric capacitance is a phenomena that occurs between two metal plates in an electric circuit -- and that this capacitance increases not linearly, but exponentially -- as the space between the plates decreases linearly...

We know, on the other hand, that two metal plates (according to the Casimir Effect) -- will block increasingly lower frequency waves -- as the space between the plates decreases...

So, are these two phenomena -- related?

?

Or are they unrelated?

?

Could Science conclusively prove -- or disprove (an irrefutable negative proof) -- a relationship between these two phenomena occuring relative to the space between two plates of metal?

?

You see, I don't know the answer to that...

But I submit that both phenomena occur between plates of metal relative to the space between them... this we know...

So, are these two phenomena related, or are they unrelated?

We as of yet don't know...
It's been tried. The problem is that you need artists of a very high skill level to really make it work, and even then it takes a while to perfect that level of artistry. It's definitely something I would love to see, but my guess is that the ROI on that type of tertiary content just isn't profitable enough right now.
That’s exactly what we are still doing in our bootstrapped SaaS tool!
Using asp.net mvc though, not web forms.
I’m far from being the only one and it doesn’t take a genius to see that our industry is driven by far more than objective value returned to developer or end user.

Just do a quick search on HN, Twitter, Mastodon. You’ll see that’s actually not at all hard to find articles questioning its effectiveness.

The epiphany I had a few years ago is that React is very good for hiring, being hired, managing a team and has very little to do with writing and maintaining a website. At least that’s what I tell myself to find some peace. If you don’t think the JS world is mad, I don’t know if I can convince you in a HN thread.
Portable S-Expressions Spec