skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The balloon shot down last week was likely order of magnitude more expensive than the Sidewinder that shot it down. Someone posted link to similar sized NASA balloon that cost $1 million for just the balloon and maybe platform but not the payload.

It might be possible to shoot down balloons with unguided rockets. It depends on how close the fighter can get and how accurate the rockets are. Rockets are super cheap.
Those are all excellent examples of how a content platform descends into empty hollow entertainment if monetized too much.
Iron Dome is selective and only fires when the trajectory will go to a built up area.
It seems reasonable that the kind of ideology might affect how it correlates with brain activity, wouldn't it?
> The fact that he is putting that the ideas are lame and amplifying the idea that they might be political loyalty tests is a wildly supportive position for him given his usual approach to politics.

Sorry I deleted the original comment. Interesting take.

A simpler explanation is he's changed his mind. Or maybe he thinks that the hype for his original view has ended; he predicts that the opposition is gaining more support within the state government, the academic community, and the people; and he therefore is positioning himself closer to the opposition where there will be more future support.
I started a newsletter about nice design details
This took me way too long to find: https://donate.qgis.org/
Yeah thanks for your transparency but how do you go about fixing these problems? Like it's great to acknowledge them but the "Why NodeJS is dead" article was in the suggested sidebar for me yesterday
Are the primary sources on this story from the Snowden leaks available somewhere? Even the article here points to another Reuters article which isn't available any more, and I've never been able to find out which documents people were referencing about this?
I had normal AirPods and now AirPod pros and they are amazing except for the connector.

If we get a new iPhone and AirPods with USB-C I will be upgrading. Until then other recent improvements haven’t seemed notable.
In my experience, those areas exist but are disconnected, expensive, and still primarily car-centric.
As you might imagine, there are plenty of discussions of this paper on Wikipedia itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/N...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Not...

(The first contains links to others.)

Similar points were raised by Haaretz a few years ago:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-10-04/ty-article-ma...
it's more like a specialisation of "rent-seeking" when applied to this particular case and pattern. nothing wrong with inventing a more specific term when the pattern behind it gets common enough.
Docker Compose is the easy answer
I feel like the majority of queries won't benefit from LLM responses and a huge chunk that do could be easily pre-computed and don't need to use the model on each search, pretty much all queries about historical figures and events just need to be summarized once.
I think we can all agree that it is a national security priority that critical technological infrastructure by owned, managed and maintained by organisations loyal to the territories it serves. It is not the threat today but the threat tomorrow which must be considered
Typescript won because is doesn’t ask developers to write better code, only that they write more code. As you pointed out, its syntax is familiar enough to be non-threatening to existing devs and its type system is completely optional in so far that I’ve worked with clients whose devs proudly proclaim their project is typescript yet they have _no_ types defined. Not that the type system is good anyway and I’m not even talking about `any`. That’s why it is so frustrating to me. Yes, we need a strong typed language but typescript’s type system is just disappointing, so of course it’s popular.

Typescript does make the devs _feel_ like it’s secure and that’s more important. Marketing works.
It sounds to me like the relationship between dev and main is maintained implicitly. At some point dev and main were the same, and from there, any delta that is applied to dev is eventually either applied to main (if it passes QA) or removed from dev (if it fails). If you follow this pattern forever, dev should always be main plus patches currently in QA.

One more question. What if instead of this dev branch people just asked the QA system to run on their feature branches? Would that generate too much work?

I'm imagining that the flow you describe is some kind of convenient or less expensive version of that.
I think there's monitization models somewhere there. Off the top of my head, you could go the email route and charge for "premium" features. Analytics, custom domains etc.

Either that or it could to be run as a loss leader for some other service
It seems a little unfair to blame Stripe here. Per their communication, the site has been assessed as selling illegal merchandise and is subject to a $425k fine by the payment card issuers, despite Stripe's efforts to dispute the issue on behalf of their client. It's not clear to me whether this is the first that Flurly has heard about the issue or represents the last stage of an ongoing story, which Flurly's users were unaware of until now.
To the extent that thinking something is possible influences the outcome, sure. For me, at my age, with my expertise, I am aware that there is a tiny possibility I could live forever the same way I am aware I could win the lottery: I accept that neither will happen, but I’ll still buy a lottery ticket every now and then.
It was prototyped on MPF. But I later refactored and used a more direct API for the P3-ROC. Because these games are nothing like typical pinball. And because I'm allergic to frameworks. The direct API isn't public but I can share it with you if you want.
Thanks for sharing this. What's your current view of Substack?

We've gone through many cycles of publishing platforms/trends. What catches your eyes in this space today (in general)?
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=gpt

related queries: "chat gpt google"

that's funny :)
I'm excited for the progress on gren as well. It's very clear the lead maintainer wants to build in regular updates into the dna of the language, as evidenced by the very frequent updates on zulip

https://gren.zulipchat.com/
I used QGIS to help me import some terrain into Minecraft. I found a lidar elevation map, used QGIS to visualize it in 3d and tweak some things, and then I was able to use another tool to do the conversion into Minecraft. Definitely an impressive tool.
I should also add I am happy to provide logins so everyone can get in and play with the tool.

Also happy with feedback from the esteemed community on the likelihood a tool like this would be useful to you.
It wasn't the license. It was adding pseudo-DRM to the compiler. (Not quite real DRM, since people were technically capable and legally allowed to create a fork without it.)
Substack has RSS feeds.
Yes, capital hill is great. Check out grocery stores in Columbia City, Rainier Beach, and lots of neighborhoods in north Seattle.
F-22 entered service 2005

Air to air kills since entered service:

2005-2022: 0

2023: 2
This is why Euclidean zoning needs to die.
Cory Doctorow calls this enshittification[0], and it applies to more than just social media companies. But social media is the most obvious representative of this cycle.

[0] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
> Given the possibilities of an alien spacecraft observed on Earth violating the known laws of physics, or some error on the part of the observer, I'm going with the latter every time.

You know, it isn't (physically) necessary to choose anything.

> First, prove that everything we know about physics is wrong at a fundamental, irreconcilable level.

Why does everything have to be wrong, in an irreconcilable manner?

> Don't get me wrong, I want it to be true.

I dunno man, the opposite seems to be the case - are you not at least suffering from motivated reasoning, to some degree?

> I want some fate for humanity other than us slowly choking to death on our own poison, alone on this island in the midst of vast seas of infinity.

Me too!! Consider this idea: our cultural tendency to form beliefs absent of proof (therefore: faith based, which is usually considered a big no no) causes substantial harm, and our tendency to write it off as "that's just people" or (begrudgingly) as "well, of course I'm only expressing my opinion, that's what everyone is always doing" are not proper common sense and reasonableness, but rather are emergent behaviors that cause humanity to be permanently stuck in a local maxima (on certain dimensions, while ongoing successes in specific domains like science, engineering, computing, etc make it appear like we have our shit substantially together comprehensively).

Of course, this is speculation - but what if it is actually true to a non-trivial degree?
It’s not a bubble. My extended social circle has transitioned to fewer alcohol + weed too. Not just for health… weed alters your mood in … well, nicer ways. People find silly things funny and can open up a bit more. Alcohols effects are great in mild quantities (buzzed) but after that it’s no fun, the hangovers suck and you just don’t have the same kind of experience.
While I agree that the internet has a huge impact on the economy, I don't think there's reason to believe it changes it in the way you seem to imply. In the absence of any very convincing argument to the contrary, the historical view seems very likely to be correct.

Pray tell, how do you mean the internet would make deflation favour the poor? I fail to see any mechanic or theory that would support the notion.
Pretty sure some canned stews should be on here.
I use fly.io for a side project and I have about 5 servers running there. I still think it's viable for side projects and my assumption is that the outages right now are growing pains that will get better with time.

I can totally understand why people using Fly in production would be frustrated and would consider moving. My product is free though and I have less than 50 users a day. To me, Fly's low price and ease of use is worth the instability since nothing I'm doing is mission critical.
Everyone should know, and yet I often see people, in HN comments for example, citing Wikipedia as if it means something. As the great Tycho has said,

“The fact of the matter is that all sources of information are not of equal value, and I don't know how or when it became impolitic to suggest it. In opposition to the spirit of Wikipedia, I believe there is such a thing as expertise.”

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16/i-have-the-pow...
C++ has the same basic thing but in a better way with `if constexpr`. There you're opting in to lazy evaluation and can scrutinize it better without having all your branches everywhere be lazy evaluation such that wrong code is allowed.
it's more about the fact there's 30
Yes, that is rather the point.

If he used an actual Eminem track or lyric he would be covered by venue ASCAP licensing. As it is he used a clip that he made himself using an online tool based on a lyric that OpenAI randomly generated, that means it’s probably not even copyrightable, so has no rights issues (unless maybe he breached the ToS of any of the services he used to generate it?) and is certainly not sharing in commercial proceeds with the artist impersonated.

And so the question is… is that okay?
The USAF pops off live missiles while training from time to time, so these could just come from that supply, and not really cost anything. Shooting down balloons is a good enough training exercise.
The SM-3, which is launched from ships for ballistic missile defense, can be used as anti-satellite missile. Its ceiling is supposed to be 1000 km. Which means could reach ISS.

It was tested in 2008 to destroy failed recon satellite.
very well written article, thanks for sharing your findings! gg!
> He must provide 2 years warranty selling to regular consumers.

AFAIK, sellers who are individual physical persons are not subject to consumer law regulations for distance selling.
Street traffic is allowed through Pike Place Market because the vendors want it that way. The Market is an irreplaceable treasure and I think we generally ought to support the preferences of the people who make it work, for fear of "fixing what ain't broke".

How much damage can drivers do at 1 MPH, anyway?
Show HN: Get notified in Slack for each GitHub star
I wrote a Zap on Zapier to get notified when someone stars your repo. I use it on our open-source repo and it's helpful.

Fern: https://github.com/fern-api/fern
> few pay attention to the fact that most grains are protected or even patented

Government and legislative failure. Just protect the seeds by disallowing any protection/patenting, for the public good, that's why we pay taxes.
epoxy boards are often stringerless and they're getting popular lately. a lot of alternative materials are being used, firewire and like dark arts with sharpeye boards
Well that example wouldn't be allowed on Kickstarter, because they require a prototype to exist for electronics campaigns. I think that's a fairly reasonable arbitrarily chosen line.
I’m releasing a high altitude balloon soon for a prize competition. Whoever guesses the closest landing zone of the balloon wins a new cybertruck. Just a silly promotion for my startup. I really hope my balloon gets shot down by a US jet, the free pr would be great for us. Unlikely my balloon will cross the pond though.
> I don't want to be an ageist

Yet you felt compelled to cast aspersions on Hersh solely based on age.
What exactly do you think the alternative is?

If you want to accept payments online, you need to do so through a credit card processor. There is no "self-hosted" alternative.
I think you’re mistaking the fallacy. That fallacy is best applied when someone asserts certainty in absence, as in the case of God.

If someone just asserts some random thing, it’s reasonable to ask for evidence. While their lack of evidence does not disprove their point, it’s certainly an argument for being skeptical about their point.

Otherwise I get to assert that every atom is a superintelligence, and your inability to provide contrary evidence is a point in my favor.
I often wonder when I see a car with progressive/left bumper stickers in the Chick-Fil-A drivethrough if there was an internal voice debate over whether or not they should buy the forbidden chicken.

I have hope that delicious chicken biscuits may be the thing that is able to transcend partisan politics.
Well, considering that currently in Poland it's literally illegal to even suggest Poles have commited any crimes linked with the holocaust, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. One of the most shameful things about this country for me personally.
This remains my chief concern - part of this admittedly is anger that those responsible for the sackings have generally not been sacked, but the rest of it is whether or not anyone in charge truly knows what they did wrong in order to avoid the same situation again.

When one authorizes a 40,000-person increase in headcount, what did they think they were paying for? What projects were these people allocated to, and why are these projects now expendable where they weren't before?

My suspicion is that a lot of the hiring for the past two years were for work and projects that simply wouldn't pass even a cursory smell-test. I also strongly suspect that there really should be some replacements in leadership positions - not because of some sense of retribution for the layoffs but because I honestly don't think many people have internalized what went wrong in a way that would make them more reliable in the future.

Many of these layoffs seem like slash-and-burn tactics in response to criticism and investor panic rather than a real, sober assessment of the excesses of the past few years and why they happened.
I must say that the hook and lede of Medium articles are very effective. They are sticky and grabs your interest. The frustration comes with the paywall. There must be another way, like a free summary (maybe use ChatGPT) that will compel me to pay.
Fancy lensing on top of a CRT, see also Pinball2000, which I've heard works fine with LCD as well.
> anyone notice in Apple Music how the categories all start with Apple?

No-- where are you seeing this?

Almost nothing in the Apple Music app on iOS or MacOS starts with "Apple Music" for me. Only really the "Apple Music" radio stations, which is necessary to distinguish them from the generic playlists and third-party radio stations.
As if office politics wasn't tricky enough already, throw in Elon Musk
Pretty sure it's still used for interop with C and lower level stuff but don't quote me
http://Wordpress.com (not.org)
> I still can't believe major corporations thought the shift to ecommerce from the pandemic "looked to be permanent".

My theory is that it had less to do with e-commerce overall than more to do with all the big spenders in VC and crypto that essentially vanished once QE and ZIRP regime changed completely (over a very short period).

Not unlike the dotcom boom where large companies at the time like Sun/Cisco took huge losses because they were selling shovels for the gold miners (startups) who suddenly all went out of business. It's no surprise that so many of the Super Bowl ads were crypto - there was an immense amount of such cash swishing around.

Apple didn't dip into that market at all (naturally they are B2C) so they neither hired for that gold rush, nor fired as the gold rush faded.
> Daytime temperatures Friday were about minus 17 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius).

Oops.. minus 27 degrees Celsius. Yes, you might assume the `minus` applies to both, you only have to go up 17 degrees Fahrenheit for the signs not to match (better to be specific).
Something similar (in terms of using idle smartphone time) that I worked on in past is running automated tests on a distributed network of mobile devices.

Stopped working on it but the code is open source and I wrote about it a while ago: https://elvischidera.com/2020-11-23-building-distributed-and...
Yeah, I feel the same way. My main switch runs RouterOS, but I use OpenWrt on APs for simplicity and flexibility. I recently went all in with RBM11Gs for APs, and OpenWrt is a great fit there, but I'm still considering whether I should go with OpenWrt for my upcoming router replacement, stick with my current pf/OPNsense, or double down with a Mikrotik router and RouterOS.

The package selection on OpenWrt is an appealing factor, but I can also run any of those on a standalone server or RPi.
But without a mic
not saying I turn down it every chance I get, and it depends on time/day of week. but there's a good amount of parking with good turnover on that street.
i dont know, this sounds awfully seditious and terroristic.. better ship you to gitmo :)
Familiarity.

The preferred syntax is the one that incurs the least cognitive load. Which in turn depends on what they are already familiar with.
FWIW, the site mentioned by Flurly (newsawp.com) looks like a dressed-up web spam tool. And that's assuming that it wasn't a front for something else.
It's been frustratingly slow because our recs system is sprawling. Your main feed is populated differently than the read-more section you are referencing. Plus author behavior lags incentives. We actually had a clickbait about MILFs on a programming story the other day so it's worse than you are reporting.

Where we are today is 30% rolled out but not even announced to our authors. That'll happen in a week and is when I think author behavior will change.

That "X is dead" trope will disappear from your recs both because we'll have better things to show and because the new incentives make it not worth writing. An article like that is very sensitive to incentives because there is no authentic reason to have written it. Probably without Medium's payment, it never would have been occurred to the person.
Stripe is on the hook for that $425k as well because it is their merchant account use to process transactions. If they don't pay it, card brands will cut them off.

This why stripe is quick to ban merchants.
I'm reminded of something some newcomer to DC said about corruption:

"What's shocking is not the illegality going on. What's shocking is what's legal. "
Is there any case where a kid calling in has caused serious harm or damage? I'll assume there's like...one, maybe.

More importantly, is there some kind of pattern of it that warrants...a response of some sort?

This sounds like kids getting poisoned from Halloween candy, which happened once from the kid's own parent.
There is only one reason medium went down the hole and it's because it annoyed the fuck out of users by demanding sign up (and subscription) just to read content OTHERS had created on the platform.

What the hell did they expect would happen?

Medium did one thing and one thing well: a fast, easy, and free way to publish an article for the others to read. The value of that is immense.

It has nothing to do with 1 and 2. Youtube is FULL of click bait videos and their recommendation system is garbage, but it thrives, you know why?

They take care of their best content creators, they even send a plaque! And they don't force viewers to subscribe, they show ads and offer a subscription to remove them.

Imagine if youtube tomorrow started telling every visitor that they must login to view any video, and if they view more than 10 videos they need to buy a subscription. Rumble.com would be popping champagne.
I didn't indicate which way I care for the ruling to go. I think you're giving current AI models much more credit than they deserve. Additionally, it's hard to have enough computational power to run these models even if you have top of the line consumer hardware, and that's for generating a single frame.

NERFs are interesting from a film-making and art point of view. AI isn't going anywhere. Any sort of ruling would have zero impact on this kind of AI. Tech will move forward regardless of the ruling. The issue is about datasets, not the software itself. I expect all of the suits against the underlying technology to be dismissed. If the lawsuit is successful in blocking AI, it would have a lot of negative implications for fair use and be a gross mischaracterization of the underlying math.

I think we need a clear ruling on how copyright should be handled from things generated using AI. Once you modify it in some way, you clear the bar for making a transformative work, but the difficult questions is how and if the copyright of the input dataset applies to raw generated media.

No one is having the same discussion regarding the input and output of ChatGPT. Even the discussion against CoPilot is weak. But a ruling in a case will affect every other one. It's not really possible for laws to differentiate between text and photos, because photos are stored digitally as text. During my research, my PI explained to me that copyright work is fine to test with and make datasets with, but I can't include benchmarks against it or for it in my final paper. But the weights generated from such work is fine. This is only really a problem because these models are being used in commercial ways.

https://theaisummer.com/nerf/
Tether is a USD pegged stablecoin. It needs to be backed by reserves, and someone needs to manage those reserves. There is no alternative.