skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an issue I care deeply about as I believe effective dispersal is a useful conventional deterrent to conflict.

To add - this is a more trodden upon path than many realize. The RAF trained extensively on establishing dispersed airfields for the Harrier force. They dedicated a lot of resources to being able to conduct dispersed operations from modified fields (fields, not airfields) https://youtu.be/QOf1AAf1yqc.

The US Marine Corps’ F-35B community has limited experience with what I’d semi-austere forward arming/refueling points(FARPs).

F-35B landing at FARP. https://youtu.be/le4W1Pk-Dn8

There is enough here about the challenges of fast jets off of roadways and poor condition airfields. I’ll just add that a jet is only as capable as its ground crew, spares, available munitions and fuel stores, so getting those things to a remote strip and protecting them is a big challenge and resource drain. The UK armed forces are already stretched quite thin for personnel so how operable this concept is TBD.

People with an interest in dispersal should watch this video https://youtu.be/MNak9lB_q00 and read this wiki - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas_90. The nordics really expect much of their aviation infrastructure to be destroyed in a conventional conflict and plan accordingly.
> during long game, chess grand masters have physiology comparable to marathon runner, while he runs.

That is obviously not true https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/s0tqcd/chess_grandma...
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The main issue with the action seems to be stalling for time in the courts while the parent company can continue to operate without much consequences (as far as I can tell all the companies listed in the texas-two-step wiki page are still operating and have not paid out).

Because the bankrupcy basically pauses all litigation (including against the parent company) it means even more delays on an already extremely lengthy process, but the restrictions of bankrupcy only apply to the spin-out, not the parent. So while in theory they may pay out eventually, the process can easily take more time and money than many of the claimants have (literally in the case of those who have cancer).

In general the immense amount of time most court systems take to actually resolve disputes like this is a big contributer to the lack of faith most people have in them, and the capacity to stall for time available to both parties but especially defendents is a big part of that problem.
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Based on this research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.03172.pdf
There are plenty of tools that does heartbeat monitoring. We focused on being - free, fast, and simplest UX possible.

The next things we gonna ship are going to be different though - we are going to add status page + nested subdomains so you'll have x.y.peeng.sh so all devices that reports to x.y.peeng.sh will be aggregated to y.peeng.sh status page.
> No, but throwing disparate groups, each with their own interests, into the same pot, is not as conducive to harmony versus everyone belonging to more or less the same "in" group.

This is not true, and not possible in practice. In any seemingly homogenous group there are various subgroups, often at odds with each other for whatever reason. It's just human nature.

Harmony has more to do with local culture, the economy and other quality of life issues. Have a look at a place like Australia, which has little conflict overall even though it has a large and growing immigrant population. That has to do with an egalitarian culture and being a fairly wealthy country with nice weather.
> If not, wouldn't you expect to hear about...

I've certainly heard about such:

https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/a...

> lead, being heavier than water, drop out of the groundwater

Sodium chloride is over twice as heavy as water, and yet doesn't 'drop out' of it.
Eh, Ukraine is defending it's land from invaders that are actively genociding their population and aiming to exterminate their culture. I'm sorry but we must have war crimes confused.
I'm not sure why you keep asking the same question. The answer to the second one is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36752870 and the answer to the first one is basically alluded to here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758795

In your hypothetical situation, the rules are something like:

"Pick a door, then the host will randomly select one of the other doors. If the host doesn't select your door (1/3 odds) AND the host doesn't open a door with a car behind it (2/3 odds) then you can choose to switch or keep your door."

The odds of winning _after_ the host already beats 1/3 and 2/3 odds is indeed 50/50, but the odds of playing the game _overall_ is 33/66.

The only real way I can see of making this situation analogous to the Monty Hall problem is to consider the odds of the whole game (like Monty Hall does, which is always 66% chance of winning by switching, every time, no matter the path the game takes from start to end). If you want to cherry-pick just the situation where the host ALREADY beat some odds, then you do get 50/50, but it really is a non-sequitur in this thread (or in any thread about Monty Hall).
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I disagree, strongly. Most modern translations try to be "accessible" which means they're written in a lukewarm, boring style that avoids difficult (but artistically relevant) language. This is especially true with Victorian-era English, which is criticized for being overly verbose today. Sometimes, maybe that's true. But if say, Confessions of an English Opium Eater had been written in French and was only read as a contemporary translation, you'd completely miss the beauty of De Quincey's writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_English_Opiu...

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-de-quincey/confessi...
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> OK, that may be a bit harsh. But the danger is that a translation that is out-of-date or badly done will turn you off the book.

There are a lot of "new translations" whose only purpose is to generate money for the "translator". They must be different from the old ones and most are generaly poor.
>To be clear: you tried to say "C offers encapsulation/isolation". People read "This solution is equivalent to 'private'", an almost completely unrelated statement, and then respond to that.

>That could typically be classified as a "Straw man fallacy"[0], but I believe people who do this in many cases simply do not have the necessary reading skills

Fyi... the author's article that this thread is about has in bold heading: "Myth: C has no equivalent to “private”"

So, a reasonable interpretation of the text following that headline is how to use C Language constructs to dispel that myth.

Doesn't seem like "straw man" applies here.
You don't need to build for Firefox these days, extension APIs are to a large extent identical.

But then, unlike with Chrome forks, you still have to support a separate version and deal with another "app store", so I can see why people don't do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraft_400

"Kernkraft 400" (English: Nuclear Energy 400) is a song performed by German techno artist Zombie Nation and the first single from their 1999 debut album Leichenschmaus. A remix of the SID track "Star Dust" by David Whittaker, from his 1984 Commodore 64 game Lazy Jones, it peaked at number 22 in Germany in February 2000 while becoming a top-10 hit in the Netherlands and Belgium's Flanders region a few months later

---waiting to create sid tracks, stable diffusion style, to sample cut and layer in the future.
If you read your own link, it explains that the entire point of estimating owner' equivalent rent is to avoid counting capital appreciation of housing in the CPI, because house prices are not consumption (and also because actual expenditure on mortgages would be particularly unhelpful to include in an inflation index because it's directly correlated with the policy variable central banks use to reduce inflation)

In the UK, the subject of the OP, measured inflation is around 8% and house prices (which rose consistently above inflation for the last couple of decades) are falling.

Falling house prices are not good for homeowners.
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What is Tidal? Never heard of it. It is a video streaming service?
I have an old beater. It cost me 2300 USD when I bought it. Last year the ignition cylinder broke. My friend is a mechanic and he told me he could replace the cylinder for 90 USD, or buy him a beer to just install a button. I now jokingly call my car a Tesla since it starts with a button (it also requires the key)
I done sentiment analysis of tweets. It literally was as simple as looking for positive words like 'good', 'amazing', 'awesome', 'brilliant', etc and maybe looking for a smiley-face emoji alongside the tweet, and I found positive sentiment for brands and interacted with the tweets. I was working for a social media company at the time that done brand engagement. Now Twitter is dead we're looking at Bluesky, Nostr, Lemmy, Mastodon, Threads, etc and do our analysis there. It's very astro-turfey, but it works.
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I'm not a heavy Firefox user, but I've seen it as well. I don't remember the specifics, but on a couple of occasions a site would fail to function properly, I'd pop the developer tools open and see a Javascript error, usually about a null object. I'm assuming some sites are relying on Chrome-specific extensions because they don't see enough Firefox traffic to care. I haven't really seen much in the way of broken layout though, which is a big difference from the old "only tested in IE" days.
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60*2000000000 = big number saved.
I used to have a car that had a kill switch requiring the turn signal to be turned on or some such thing. It was periodically a pain with valets or parking garages where your car might need to be moved. I'd leave a big note but it was ignored about half the time.
My buddy has an 89 Prelude that got stolen a couple of times. It basically got driven around and left with an empty tank around town both times and no signs of break in. I think the keys are relatively common for those so maybe the thief has one.

Anyways, I installed a switch up under his dash the disconnects the fuel pump +12v wire. It takes just a moment to flick the switch if you know where it is, and afterwards, the engine will crank and crank and crank and sort of sound like it wants to start at first, but never do anything. It would probably take several minutes to find it if you had to look for the switch, especially if it were at night and you were trying to steal the car. Seems like a good lower tech deterrent to me! The car has not been stolen since.
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Huh, did twitter stop letting unauthenticated users read tweets? I can't get past login form.
To me the use of the word “integration” is a bad smell.

It seems to be a little known secret that coding around HTTP APIs is the easiest kind of coding that there is with the exception that OAuth and other authentication systems can turn a 30 minute project into a 3 day project. (Don’t believe me? I’ve got some ‘simple’ questions about CSS and React that will have most of your scratching your heads.)

Call it “integration” now and the sharks can smell blood and start up startups and buy a lot of ads and generate a lot of blog spam to produce products that make the problem harder instead of easier and, worse yet, create lock-in.
I honestly don't know why anyone would use this gzip approach in production. If you want to do text classification, really the two options you should consider are a best in class linear model like confidence weighted linear classification by Crammer (https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/publications/icml_variance.p...) or a much more expensive LLMs.
Agreed. What do you expect users to do here?

Use Chrome or try to force a few thousand websites to test on Firefox?
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It looks like if I connect a standard jump-pack to the starter motor it bypasses this new deterrent? Given the 50 years arms race leading to current immobilizers this seems a bit comical.
why would you assume there are positive externalities though?

large airports overwhelmingly serve for-profit airlines and freight carriers. I'd argue a lot of this activity should really be moved to rail. but either way, it seems that the businesses involved should cover the cost to operate.

smaller airports are mostly used by hobbyists. while cool, this is not a particularly accessible hobby, and I don't feel it is worth subsidizing.

the only exceptions I can think of are airfields in remote communities (Alaska, islands, etc), and strategic locations that are desirable to the military.
I knew someone with a shitty pickup truck where he wired a light switch into the fuel pump and hid it under the steering column. The truck would be stolen something like 5 times a year and every time he would find it abandoned a km or so away when the gas in the line ran out.

I drove in it once to get lunch and near the beginning the car begins sputtering and he's like, "oh right, you're thirsty" and reached under and flicked the switch. So understated, I still laugh at the memory.
1. It's re-inventing a kill switch.

2. It adds tons of uselees innovation to a kill switch.

3. If your car is antique/valuable/interesting, the people stealing it know the starting diagram/circuit and can easily rip it out/bypass it.

4. IF your car is antique/valuable/interesting you wouldn't add this as it can depreciate the car value/make it more ugly. You're not installing this in a brand new BMW M6, or a new Honda Civic, or a E24/1980's BMW M6 or a 1990's Honda EK Civic.

Solutionism at it's worse. Ignores the whole idea of what a car is. Ignores the innovation in Transponder tech that has been the standard for a while - only Kita/Hyundai in the USA has been avoiding it because if added BOM.

Outside the USA car thefts are not as common and in Domestic Japan/India/Asia a transponder is still pretty rare.

But back to the article - seeing this was sponsored by "University of Michigan- " - WTH is going on there? That is Ford/GM.

Ford has had PATS technology for the longest time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecuriLock

GM has PK, same idea.

"Battery Sleuth bypasses both the wireless communication that key fobs depend on and the standardized onboard communication network that’s used in today’s vehicles. Instead, it authenticates drivers by measuring voltage fluctuations in a vehicle’s electrical system. "

Worthless, so it knows the cars resting voltage usage (easy enough) and if theres a drain, it means something is connected and that it can lock it up, but the same as a killswitch, it can be removed or bypassed.

"Battery Sleuth also has defenses to guard against hacking or physical attacks on the device itself, including a siren that sounds if illegitimate activity is detected and a resistor that shuts down the vehicle’s electrical system if an unauthorized power source is connected to the vehicle. "

Very easy to pop hood, pull siren out/disconnect. and lol "resistor" means anything/nothing.
People on the internet still often criticizes wikipedia when I link to it, I don't understand why.

It's true that it's not good enough for academic work (is it?), but it's largely enough for everything else.
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>> "In other words, Americans may find this midly intrusive from a privacy perspective, but in Europe it's common to know who are you dealing with."

It's not intrusive, it's dangerous. I know it's popular to say the US is different where those differences don't account for why things aren't done, but this is one of the exceptions. We don't really have much in the way of protections, so it only takes a few pieces of information to find everything out about someone. Address is one of those. That's useful for creeps, snoops, identity thieves, stalkers, and other unscrupulous characters.

Also, SWATting. I really don't want someone to be able to easily find my address to send a murder squad to because I said/did something they don't like. We also have more guns than people, so someone with sufficient disconnect from reason might skip calling the police and take matters into their own hands.
There is another affordable nasal spray called Xlear purported to have similar benefits. It consists of Xylitol and Grapefruit Seed Extract.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9313533/
Ask HN: Does an academic's reputation depends on the uni they graduated or teach
I ask this in the context of deciding the "worth" of authors of textbooks. What I mean is if someone got PhD in tier 2 uni but is prof at tier 1 like Ivy League in US, is he deemed "better" than the opposite, that is PhD from tier 1 but prof in tier 2? With no other info about authors I base my judgement on this fact so want to know your opinion.

(Some authors would have graduated from European uni that I have never heard of, outside Gottingen, Oxford, Cambridge, but would be teaching at tier 1/2 US uni so it becomes very hard to judge, but I imagine European uni teach better so give higher weightage lol)
This is stupid.

"Doesn't enter the bloodstream" "it coats the spike protein".

Seems like a nose plug or an N95 mask would be cheaper and more effective than wasting blood thinner down the back of your throat for makeshift bug repellant.

'Wondering' aloud to the press about it, though, places this firmly in Snake Oil territory. The man knows better, but he's doin' it anyways.

Should tell ya somethin'.
>At the end of the three-year project, the team aims to have a commercially viable prototype that can be scaled up to commercial production, first as a theft deterrent device, and potentially later as a complete vehicle entry and control system that could replace traditional keys and fobs.

What's the point of this? Modern cars already have engines that are cryptographically tied to keys[1]. They're not perfect, but is adding a whole new rube goldberg machine into your car really better than fixing the existing system?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immobiliser
...You realize the life guard shortage is real and a result of decisions of collective social hivemind decisions right?

Schools have increasingly dropped swimming pools and programs in favor of football and baseball, because that's what parents want.
School swim programs used to be one of the biggest "drivers" of summer lifeguards, as kids could easily pass the lifeguard swim tests and get themselves what was a cool summer gig.

At the same time, the lifeguard gig wasn't really a high paying job, usually a dollar or two above minimum wage. This was fine decades ago, but not in 2023.

We also instituted training requirements on them because the municipality will get sued if that lifeguard's actions resulted in an injury or death and they didn't have those X hours of training.

Nowadays, that same kid not only doesn't know how to swim, but working in a Amazon Warehouse or Walmart pays more and safer for that pay.

The shortage is after decades of decisions building up to a crux.
Wouldn't the F35-B be sensitive to random crap laying on the ground ? I don't know that its air intake was made for anything else than spotless surfaces. As far as I'm aware only the Soviets/Russians designed planes with that in mind.
FastText isn't a LLM, it's a token embedding model with a simple classifier on top.
Tanks will have a new lease on life when we get a new design with more power (electricity) and a good point defense system (most likely laser based). If we remove drones and ATGMs from the equation, the only viable threats go back to being mines, artillery, and APFSDS tank rounds.
wasm targets the wasm runtime Virtual Machine (ie: a JavaScript VM). Offering fine grained isolation compared to virtualizing the whole operating system.

edit: don't shoot the messenger. I was merely highlighting the main difference between native and webasm in the context of the discussion.
High-fidelity lossless music streaming service with several million subscribers

https://tidal.com/
Yeah, I don't get the "use Vim for everything" approach unless you're just doing it because you find the customization and configuration fun. I usually use VS Code for quick editing and full IDEs for real work with big projects.

Modal editing is awesome though. I use modified Vim keybinds for everything, even web browsing.
Exercising your body seems to have all sorts of disease-delaying benefits. Why would exercising the mind be necessarily different? After all, when you're thinking hard you're burning extra calories.
Thanks for this, I've been trying to find ways to make cakes stand out, and I love having more recipes to test
Depending on your use case there's potentially negligible startup time. On the scale of single digit seconds to less then half a second depending on how much work you put into optimizing it. For some applications this will be too slow (mainly the type where you boot a container per request, although flyio seems to make it work), I think for a _lot_ of applications this wouldn't be noticed.

Kata gives you a few different options for what/how you'd like to boot including firecracker.

This isn't exclusive to firecracker but if you stay lightweight you can have vm's booting under a half second if you're using slim images.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecracker--start-a-vm-in-l...

I honestly think for a lot of people, vm's with the convenience/orchestration tools of containers make more sense for a lot of general use cases simply because of the security benefits. The convenience still needs some work though.
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Store age identities inside the TPM: age-plugin-tpm
Ask HN: Who is the biggest carbon polluter?
This does not really affect the overall picture - for decades of fraud, this is a paultry sum
On the other hand, as someone on an old android device, the performance difference between the two is massive and it isn't getting better. Some sites (usually the ones that are actually important such as restaurant menu) are perfect on Chrome and nearly unusable on Firefox, even with an adblocker.

Performance already matters a lot on desktop browsers, but when battery life is thrown into the mix, it matters even more.
Do you expect Serbia to be able to conduct air strikes against Czechia? Last I looked at the map, there's at least two other countries in the way, at least one of which is a NATO member.
I'm starting to see a pattern here - country seeks closer ties with NATO as a means of protection from Russia, followed by a war with Russia.

NATO has a pretty questionable history what with Operation Gladio and the like, but I'm not sure how these are examples of NATO aggression given that Russia was, y'know, the aggressor.
Ahh right... The neutron corrosion. Same problem with fussion reactors.
The problem is, there is no material that can survive this imo.
The only one we know that can, exists in neutron stars and its ultra dense.
Its unusable by us (different structural scale).

We are DOOOMED! ;)
This attitude has always confused me. “Firefox did something I didn’t like so I switched to a browser which does hundreds of things to undermine the free and open internet”.