skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, he's gay, so is he also going to have insinuations that he was there for the underage girls?

(Or apparently the theories can just get more and more far fetched)
It will never happen anyway.

We are never going to ban cash in the US because government officials need the anonymity of cash just as much if not more than your local drug dealer.
that already is a weapon. as an example, they believe a low power version is what was used in havana.
I'm sure whatever I write, you will find a straw man to vindicate your own feelings.
This echos my experience with Supabase exactly. We migrated to a similar solution for the same reasons.
That's actually true for offices as well. That's also why highly paied people are running away from offices.
Ask HN: Have you ever been banned for flagging too many free scam pianos?
There is a very serious fake piano scam epidemic on Facebook Marketplace.

For the last week I flag the listings and sellers. They are easy to spot: they are always grand pianos, tend to be Yamahas and Steinways, and the seller always joined Facebook in 2023. I tend to flag between 20 to 100 of these fake scam pianos per day.

Today I could no longer flag them!

"Your account is restricted right now."

"You have been temporarily blocked from performing this action."
The fee could be done annually from the credit card company itself. (ie: You made 300 transactions this year, that is $300).
A passkey is never a "thing you know." It is a "thing you have access to, which mostly behaves like a 'thing you have' but also your OS provider probably has it if they want it."
Good luck making that argument to the median voter. The entire conservative wing believes prisoners deserve torture (unless it’s them or their immediate family); half of the center-left is too busy projecting a “tough on crime” image to give much thought about improving conditions.

Even if you can prove a non-profit, non-funded program reduces recidivism, if it also happens to make prisoners’ lives marginally better in the process, that’s an immediate no.
Judging from the size of the dish, I assume it's a physically wide beam. That also means you don't have to aim as well, and you can - like they demonstrated in the video - point and sweep to take out a large swath at once without having to acquire each target individually.
This assumes a knowledge on the subject they're writing about.

Spoiler: plenty of students using this won't have a clue. That's why they're using it.
Just today I attended a 4th grade parents orientation at a Silicon Valley school where they noted they will be placing new emphasis on handwriting and cursive, specifically in order to build up legibility and hand stamina specifically for extended written exams.

The teachers are anticipating a return to hand written testing at high school and college levels in the AI-assisted present/future, so they are preparing students accordingly. (Then we visited the coding class and STEAM classrooms.
It's not a Luddite reaction, more of a practical response to witnessed trends.)

The grade school pendulum has already started to swing from Chromebooks back to bluebooks.
I would assume any such drones would be larger/heavier and in fewer relative numbers. As such, able to be dealt with by conventional means (surface to air missile defense).
What's also really cool is that you can also just use PocketBase as a Go library and just build your app around it like any normal web framework, while still having a great UI for quick prototyping. And when you need more custom behaviour instead of database functions, you just write some Go code while still compiling everything down to a single binary that you can copy over.
> Alice: Hey, Bob? What's all this deep-sea gear for anyway? I mean who needs checks work order 500,000 server racks rated to 15km salt water proofing and a quad-redundant 100MW thermal vent turbine generator anyway?

> Bob: Does it matter? The cheques never bounce. You want SeaX to get that contract? I guess it's some government black budget thing like the Glomar Explorer, but stop asking questions will you and check those welds. You want to get us both fired?
Water has a pretty high heat capacity. Takes a lot more energy to kill a person this way than a drone swarm. For instance, assuming it’s about 20,000Watts effectively focused on one person, it’d take about an entire minute before you manage to increase body temperature by 3 degrees. Versus like a second to knock a drone out of the sky.
With all due respect, the Netherlands is perhaps the furthest a place can be from long-term sustainability. The place is a mix of monoculture + concrete.
I need more info about the chair. Lmao.
> It'll be arms race, as always.

Example: You send 10-15 cheap drones against a side that employs THOR. When the drones get close to the target THOR will activate itself and bring down those 10-15 cheap drones, and thus revealing its position. You then target THOR directly either with artillery or with a slightly more expensive missile. Once THOR is out you can then send 100 to 200 cheap drones. Rinse and repeat.
And the ending of the Scythe trilogy.
How many actually go, though?
It requires too much labor for the prison-industrial complex to monitor. Digital files are far easier to automatically censor.
Curious, what about that triggers your wish for mass extinction events?
I think the calculations are off here. The USDA lists average wheat yield across all types to be between 44 and 49 bu/acre from 2020/21-2023/24.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/wheat-data/

Plus,the University of Nebraska mentions this regarding winter wheat:

A review of seedling rates vs. yield potential is helpful. On average, there are 22 seeds per head and 5 heads per plant, or 110 seeds per plant. With an average seed size of 15,000 seeds per pound or 900,000 seeds per bushel, a pound of average-sized seed with 80% germination and emergence has a yield potential of approximately 1.5 bushels per acre. Seeding 40 lb of seed with a weight of 15,000 seed per pound has a yield potential of 60 bushels per acre.
https://cropwatch.unl.edu/2019/determining-seeding-rate-wint...
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Android doesn't appear to be involved. I sent an SMS to someone's AT&T iPhone yesterday using a VoIP service, and this exact thing happened.
It's hard to know exactly how much energy this is pumping out and how focused the beam is, but suffice to say anyone in the way might start to boil.
> Now let me summarize and you can decide if we have the same understanding of user stories here: A user story describes a work item. It puts extra emphasis on understanding your users and why satisfying their needs is valuable to them.

I don't think a user story should describe a work item. A user story may entail multiple work items, or a single work item may fulfill multiple users stories. A description of a user need is what they are.

Their relationship to features is not simple. I agree that most of their value is in deciding if you actually built something to address all your important user stories, but of course you can only really do that by asking users.

They are useful for organizing your thinking about what you need to build, though, so I imagine that is how they get conflated with work items or features.

I hate personas. At my current company, we have dozens of them, and nobody ever uses them or refers to them. A major effort to create, and time wasted as far as I'm concerned.

At a previous company, we had zero personas, but we did have a list of actual, real people who represented the kinds of users we targeted, and we would meet with them to identify new features and validate our designs and prototypes. That was approximately one million times more effective than a list of made-up personas. You cannot hope to capture the complexity of a real person's real needs in an artificial persona.
I agree entirely, but a lot of people don't and just want to increase prison sentences and make prisons harsher.
microWaves ≠ photons. It just has to mess with the target’s waves with precision chaos.
Nobody...well, very few people want communal bathrooms and kitchens. If my time in offices taught me anything, it's that everyone else is a damn slob.
While I’m working mainly on drones/robotics, counter drones is also becoming a big talk with a lot of interest from investors, however, countring drones isn’t that easy, even with latest sensors (sound/visual/Lidar/radar sensors), there’s a lot of false positives when deployed in real scenarios, one trial we tried near an airport, the system we tested caught a lot of birds as drones, you tune it not to detect it, then drones goes undetected. Some systems tries to us AI to study the fly path and find some anomalies and trigger based on that, but so far I didn’t see personally an acurate system that can reliably detect and neutralize. Swarm on the other hand, might be easier given how easy to detect them.
The benchmarks in the blog post are believable but the profile is not. The benchmarks do roughly the same amount of cgo work; all the extra work in the finalizer benchmark is setting up the finalizer, specifically 'runtime.addspecial'.

We ran the benchmark here and confirmed the relative times, but our profile shows runtime.addspecial as expected. The expectation is that finalizers are used rarely, for objects where the lifetime is unknown but typically long. In contrast, a finalizer benchmark is hammering on finalizers in a way that real apps basically never do.

There are also some O(N) things in finalizer registration, which turn into O(N^2) things for N finalizers for nearby allocations (only up to N=1024), again because we expect them to be very rare. Those could be fixed if this use case of tons of finalizers is realistic in practice.

If you have locally scoped C data you would typically defer C.free(p), and if you do that the cost is basically identical to calling free(p) directly.

BenchmarkAddition-16 22961580 51.77 ns/op
BenchmarkAllocate-16 7611168 144.3 ns/op
BenchmarkAllocateDeferFree-16 7065505 144.3 ns/op
BenchmarkAllocateFinalizer-16 1028251 1243 ns/op

In response to the "cgo is slow" questions, this shows that cgo calls are about 50ns on my four-year-old x86 MacBook Pro. Is that fast or slow? It depends on what the cgo call is doing. If it's executing a single add instruction, an extra 50ns is slow. If it's doing something more substantial, an extra 50ns may be nothing at all.
Yeah, we are—evidently—but that’s not what you’re doing in parent.
It isn't like they are generating plasma conduits with the microwaves and then using a hyper velocity gas gun to propel a slug of plasma down the conduit!
You are actually correct. The speed of light you always hear about is the speed of EM radiation in a perfect vacuum. In a medium such as the atmosphere, the pulse doesn't travel as fast. The slowdown depends on the refractive index, which itself depends on the frequency of the wave -- longer wavelengths have lower indices. This means that microwaves will move the tiniest bit faster than light through the atmosphere.
it is no harder to call it an advancement than it is to call it not one, given that it isn’t released yet.

again, this doesn’t have to be a successful device for apple to have made a successful entry. it just needs to do something different.

are you pretty sure it won’t?
It would be interesting to see a list of all the people known to (or "said to") have met with Epstein, and compare it to the list of people the NYT or other outlets have reported (in titles) to have met with Epstein.
As far as I can tell both Google and Apple have a mechanism to export the key so you can replicate the same key to another device. I run into this same situation with "HSM clusters" sold in enterprises where I don't really understand how people can claim with a straight face that you can't export the key to another device when they just explained to me that they export the key to another device.
I’ve never been obese but after losing 30+ lbs of weight I found it a lot easier to live an active lifestyle and keep the weight off. Partly it was just that moving around was physically easier and less strenuous, but also that I was less self conscious and had higher self esteem.

I imagine Ozempic will help with this even if people don’t learn about nutrition per se. Though I think basically everybody knows nutrition, it’s more about self control IME.
> I wonder about single point of failure with this

Myself as well although I think this is already one of the last lines of defense. These drone swarms don't have a great range so the launchers need to get lucky to get close enough in the first place (I'd hope).
Supabase is also great for auth. Did you reimplement auth yourself or switch to another auth service or framework?
The link you cited points out that private prisons...drive up the cost of prison.

While private prisons are cheaper on a per-day basis, they hold prisoners behind bars longer than public prisons (an average of 90 days) due to increased use of behavioral infraction citations, which negates most of the savings. The link also notes that other costs, like the lawsuit settlements, negate any remaining theoretical savings that exist from using private prisons. WSU researchers noted that this this increased incarceration period alone cost Washington state taxpayers an additional $10.6 million/year over what it would have cost to house those prisoners in public facilities. (https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2020/09/15/privatized-pri...)

And indeed, an audit by Georgia noted that private prisons cost at least 10% more than public prisons on a per-day basis for each prisoner incarcerated (https://apnews.com/article/af7177d9cce540ab9f2d873b99437154), and that a substantial portion of the behavioral infractions issued to justify extended incarceration terms were unsupported by evidence.

Yes. The usual suspects.

Today I learned that an engineer, the family of the UPS founder, the Ford family, and one of the pioneers of the American metallurgy industry are the "usual suspects" in destroying the economy. Leaving aside the fact that the Ford company revolutionized industrial manufacturing, introduced the concept of "fair wages," and was one of the first companies to embrace the shortened (i.e., 5-day) work week that you enjoy today. Or that Langolier pioneered the American metallurgy industry and played a vital role in its existence. Or that UPS was one of the pioneers of the telegraph and parcel delivery, and played an instrumental role in making non-local commercial sales a viable market. Or that Heising is an EECS that owns 6 patents in integrated circuits. Or that MacArthur was an insurance and real estate tycoon who built most of Palm Beach and conducted his business from one of the shops (out of hundreds) that formed in the cities he built.
It's kinda weird that the people worried about supreme court ethics are worried about a guy with rich friends who has no business before the court, but not worried about someone with large book deals who does have business before the court.
Similar but I'd say Dandelion & Burdock is better than Root Beer (as a RB lover).
If a relatively small research project is going to mean adversaries have to spend twice as much on drones which have heavy metal mesh shielding, that’s pretty great return on investment even if the capability is totally negated by that countermeasure.
Weird. Notably, I'm seeing similar (even worse) issues when I use the chat on Bing.com with Firefox (using User Agent Switcher): I can barely type – the JS always overrides ("corrects") my input.
Socialized suicidality
aka Point Break
I think it was Truman who said “Speak softly but carry a big stick”. They have to see the stick for it to have any diplomatic effect.

Then there was Reagan who collapsed the Soviet Union with a mostly bullshit space defense initiative called “Strategic Defense Initiaitive”, aka Star Wars and SDI. That proved if the enemy believes the stick exists you don’t need to actually have the stick.
Over the last few years there was a lot of hay being made about how drone swarms have obsoleted $military_technology_du_jour and how there's no real way to defend against "drone zerg", etc.

The USAF is probably publicizing this for two reasons:

1. To reassure domestic audiences that the USAF can counter these things to some extent and is working on it, and also probably to demonstrate return on investment for Congressional oversight reasons

2. As a form of soft deterrence; a reminder to unfriendly powers that "hey, we have this technology, imagine what else we have that we're not telling you about"
I wonder if ClickBench needs more data or something.

I just randomly compared ClickHouse, Databend and Doris on c6a.4xlarge machine. For some queries, there's a big differences, like ClickHouse being order of magnitude faster than the others in Q28 and two orders of magnitude slower in Q29. That sounds useful because it shows some of the databases do something differently than the others and areas for improvement.

But for most of the queries, the comparison is like 0.02s vs 0.03s vs 0.03s. That doesn't sound very meaningful and also I wonder how precise the measurement is, since if we're looking at difference of milliseconds it is much easier for randomness to sneak in, compared to measurements in minutes.

While I can read it in a way that modern columnar databases are superfast and awesome, I wonder how the results would look like on order or two orders of magnitude more data.
Came to say this. It’s not a big mystery like the news keeps saying it is. How can one defend against this?
Of course it would be easier. I agree. I just take issue with the "why humans" thing because if anything, the recent advancements highlight just how big the human element really is.

Can you imitate a Bach prelude? Sure. And only people who aren't actually familiar with his music would be impressed.

Much of AI approaching "human performance", is it approaching the lowest bar. There's a Wittgenstein thing going on here. That an LLM can ace the LSAT or GMAT is mostly an indictment of those tests.

A little off topic.
Steroid users do it all the time and I haven’t heard of steroid users dealing with infections much.
So, in other words, the requirement that offices are unwieldy uncomfortable spaces conflicts with the requirements that people feel well inside their homes.

I keep wondering where do the office requirements come from, but I know I won't like the answer.
The most amazing part is that these people have the gall to call themselves "correction officers". What are they correcting, exactly?
No, I only really know this because it was in the local news a while ago and though it was interesting / related to the OP.
Of course they were crooked. I smelled it from their ads. When my boss sends me a link and says “Go take this course for $20” and the course is $200, that tends to trip my BS trigger.
We switched to Clerk.dev. Thankfully we had only supported magic link auth, so there wasn't much information to migrate over. Clerk has been pretty good - they have a great Remix integration and solid admin experience.
I didn't see it in the TFA, which is why I added it.

> To be clear, I think medical treatment without humiliation is warranted even for murderers.

I agree.
Yep. But the picture shows it mounted on a trailer, so its position doesn't have to be static.
Recently jumped from Fedora (after a decade?) to Mint, which is free of Ubuntu's nonsense as far as I can tell. But that puts me on kernel 5.15 which is unfortunate as I'm interested in using btrfs. So I've contemplated making this jump - but in the meantime I've come to appreciate Mint's niceties.

And so... maybe I'll just wait for Mint to update.
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I think you make a great point about adding even further abstraction. I was inspired by Michael Nielsen's idea of "Discovery Fiction"[0], and porting the Sussman library gave me the idea that building the abstraction layers required to to do the physics in "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" would make for a great narrative backbone.

I DID start the newsletter thinking I would read Road to Reality and get a community going around the book, and I still want to do that! What happened there was when I tried to talk about the book to anyone that wasn't already dialed on the math I was learning (close family, my wife, software engineer friends) I found that I couldn't communicate what I thought was so beautiful about the book and Penrose's development.

I wanted interactive visualizations that could run in the browser to function as little set pieces, so I could set them down and say

- look, this is what I mean!, and

- Here, you take the controls, let's play!

TRTR will come in, mixed in, I hope, with executable Feynman Lectures etc...

Hopefully that helps fill in some context that I left out!

[0]https://michaelnotebook.com/df/index.html
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If someone working at Apple reads this: it would be amazing if I could remap Capslock to Backspace without any third party tools in the Mac (there’s already an option for almost every key except backspace). Also if it would be possible at all on iOS that would also be nice.
> eagles trained to swoop down and pick apart the props

I assume the eagle dies or gets a horrific injury in this scenario?
HP48GX with a sizeable readable font.
Appreciate this well-thought out response. As someone who has built several proof-of-concepts on Supabase (but never going far enough to test its limits), articles by Val Town here and responses like yours all work towards my analysis of the platform for future projects.

It's funny that threads like these bring up comments like "Well I use XYZ and it solves all of my problems." As if a one-time mention of a new PaaS is enough to bank on it for future projects. Although I can't lie - I do bookmark every PaaS that I see mentioned on HN.

Regardless, I'd much rather put my faith in a platform like SB that has been battle-tested in public, even if it doesn't work out perfectly every time.

Always glad to see you and the team showing up for the discussions and improving SB.
Yeah, I often get the two conflated... in either case, it's never, or at least rarely accurate.