skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The F-117 nighthawk flew for years, all over the world, before there were any photos or videos.

The RQ-180 has been flying for years, all over the world, and has only been photographed twice, poorly, from far away.[0]

Not to say an unidentified flying object must be an alien, but it seems very obviously the case that there are aircraft flying around the globe today you and I haven't seen in photos and videos.

[0]https://theaviationist.com/2021/09/05/mystery-aircraft-phili...
Show HN: react-xeet, embed your Xeets in React without using the X.com API
Heh, deep company backlogs are a great place to mine for startup ideas.
you're the one making the claim no modern armor can stop a cross bow bolt

prove it
According to the satellite data, this June was fairly average:

https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/

Bundling with ocean surface temperature may make it hotter. But then again, why would you do that?
True, but we're talking about millions of years of possible desolation before that happens.
Here there are some vehicle recovery services where they can dispatch a van with a giant battery in it to charge your stranded EV enough to get to the next proper charger.

Still more of a pain than a petrol can but better than a flatbed!
"After everything, I still believe that Shopify built their platform and they should be able to do whatever they want with it."

He acknowledges this in the post.
Yes, and if you treat your job like that, you're going to be one of the first ones dropped as soon as there's a need.
Blender 3D Bundle
> we cannot deride those who use coal to try to catch up,

We can however point out that people (especially the poor) in those countries are the ones that'll take climate change full force.
Backdoor account in Interbase database server (2001)
After reading the article, I think the turning point was when Terms of Service were unilaterally changed to forbid selling his service to new customers. If he'd been permitted to keep selling to new customers, he'd have been able to continue.

Would a good analogy would be Apple banning other web browsers on iPhone, because they are an important part of the iPhone experience?

His conclusion was that this was a limited time opportunity, which he profited from and it has come to an end.
UNLESS they were leaking it out with careful timing, using a proxy lab!

Sorry sorry I know conspiracy theories are a rabbit hole of 'but what if' but damnit I WANT TO BE GEORGE JETSON!
That illustration...don't look close! :-)

I think it'd be cool to see articles like this that brought up some interesting variants for these different steps. Like building an email list. A lot of introverts are really uncomfortable with that for various reasons, and often get better results by working with other methods that fit their style more closely.

Thanks for sharing the article.
Trench Warfare in Ukraine Casts Old School Army Training in Different Light
I used to think like that. Programmers hate R. But I took a biostatistics class and it really is the best tool for that job. Plus the graphic output can't be beat (ggplot2) and fairly easy to install packages make it quite valuable tool.
For some reason, rum doesn't have nearly as much snobbery around it compared to drinks like wine, whisky or even sake. Maybe it's because it was associated with sailors and the mass production when sugar plantations become common.
We know neither their story nor the full impact of web attestation if Google is successful in popularizing it. It definitely has the potential to shift a huge amount of power to site owners from users, which constrains what kind of software can become popular.

Might that apply to the software geocar credits with saving their life? Without knowing more, we can't say. There's a good chance it applies to things like running open source operating systems and browsers.
At first I went "not that ma... ooohhh, of course". Bravo, sir, you got me. Take your upvote XD
> North africa hadn't been a leader of anything since the fall of ancient egypt.

Not true; see Carthage. They dominated trade and seafaring, and were even the first to sail around Africa (as opposed to the Portuguese, 2,000 years later). Ancient Egypt was in its heydey 2,000 years before Carthage.
I drank an unopened bottle of 120 year old scotch I found buried in sand at the beach. Planned to donate it to a museum but the cork fell out on its own so I tried it. Was pretty awful tasting TBH.
You’re not wrong, and thank you for holding me to account.

In retrospect, I’d delete and/or edit the comments if I could.
Not really the same thing as walking into the police station with the only reason you're doing so is to film the police as they work, or even heckle them with the camera rolling to see if you can rile them up enough to point your finger and say "ha! see? got you!".
I'm perfectly happy for someone to shake up a monopoly. I'm not okay with people acting entitled to do so on top of someone else's platform when that someone else has made it clear they're not welcome.
People don't like antagonists, and they do like those who punish antagonists (even illegally).

"You reap what you sow" even predates the current issues with police.
PlanetScale Boost is now available to everyone
This guy clearly made several million euros. That’s a massive win.

Sure founding a billion euro company is better, but if you don’t have a billion euro idea then starting a million euro company is worthwhile.
Same. The affiliate link autofill fiasco left a bad taste in my mouth.
spacy-llm: Integrating LLMs into structured NLP pipelines
Papyrus! As it happens I have a friend who worked on Avatar's graphic design and he loves this SNL sketch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
Can I use Quarto in a cell-notebook style? So far it seems like I can only get it compiled into a PDF, which feels different from Jupyter.

I could be completely wrong here, just looking for insight.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36897868 and please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. Regardless of how right you are / how much smarter you are or feel you are, it's exactly what the rules here ask you not to do. We're trying for a very different quality of conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Financial technology has you covered: spend your finite life energy providing the feature until the bigco implements it themselves, then buy an annuity with the profits you made in the meantime.
Teslas absolute don't have long-lasting materials or great reliability or great performance. There have been hundreds of thousands of articles and experience about poor materials, build quality, reliability etc. I have owned both a Model S and Model 3, and I did own them because I wanted to support an EV maker, but they are by far some of the worst made cars I have owned. I switched back to a BMW EV and its like night and day.
Better than 0 I guess
Planning is not common sense. It's a skill that takes years of practice, just like playing a piano or programming.

And just like programming or playing a piano, you can spend years of doing it and learn nothing because you were doing it wrong.

There are people who apply design patterns without really understanding them and there are people who apply planning methodologies without understanding them. I'd say that it's more common than not.
And to be frank, I've seen plenty of mission-critical services at $bigco which may have had a team of engineers working on them, but the core functionality was maintained, understood, and supported by effectively one senior engineer. If anything went wrong, the supporting junior staff might have been able to fix reasonably simple stuff, but there was essentially one person who understood the system deeply enough to handle problems of any real significance.
Funny, my ICE car doesn't have to look into the future to know that I've been driving like a grandma for the past 100 miles and I have four gallons of gas left so I can probably go another hundred miles at my driving style.

Which is how it calculates it's range, and also how my 2004 toyota calculated range. The maximum range figures consistently lowered over the course of time I owned it as the engine got old and less efficient! It went from consistently having a max range of 420ish miles to consistently having a max range of 380 miles over twenty years!

Funny that old stuffy mid 2000s toyota could manage that on a car that cost $25k, but legendary tech luxury car maker Tesla can't
It depends on the cause of the bias. If, for example, the bias is caused by imbalanced classes or underrepresented concepts in the dataset, conditional sampling can be used to overcome those limitations.
Could make cheap MRI and maglev trains, high-density electronics, quantum computers, fusion power, and many other potential applications.
No. I'm doing no such thing.
They did start on Gecko, actually. The initial rendering tech was a Gecko-based take on Electron.
Dang, Dang. Well said.

I enjoy HN most in times like this.
Whoops. I've never heard of the "Hot Big Bang" as a period that began after inflation. Thanks.
They run a lot more smoother nowadays though due to continuous welded rail.
Apple bans other browser engines because can they run arbitrary code, which is not allowed per the store rules. They are fine with other browsers on top of WebKit.
Interesting. I guess I've been lucky as I use externally managed stateful and stateless rules (aws security groups + network acls)
I have an extremely similar profile (chess, PBS space time!) and I get non stop Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate in my recommendations. YouTube Shorts are the worst for this, I can't scroll through ten videos without seeing this guy, no matter how many times I click "do not want!"
> I'm talking about getting paid in BAT coin for looking at ads they hijack on other peoples websites.

That's not how it works though. Brave blocks ads by default, but it doesn't insert ads on any websites. It has some separate ads you can enable to get paid, but they are either on the browser start page or in system notifications.
I hope HN has a different blog post with its own take on WEI on the first page every day until the proposal is closed and Google publishes an apology and promises never to try this again. Maybe we can get Apple's web attestation removed too.
ICE cars have been ACCURATELY estimating remaining range based on current driving habits since at least 2004 in my toyota.
It should also be noted that by spec symbols in the system package (like + and such) should not be redefined. This offers “unspecified” behavior and lets the system make optimizations out of the box.

Outside of that you can selectively optimize definitions to empower the system to make better decisions at the cost of runtime protection or dynamism. However these are all compiler specific.
Exactly what was the purpose of going into a police station with a gun? Who were you trying to potentially protect yourself against?
The argument, as I've repeated over and over, is simple; what scientists publish is what matters. What they say in private Slack chats and emails is entirely irrelevant. I await these authors collective retractions, but lacking that, these Slack messages mean absolutely nothing, and Nate Silver knows that, as should you.

And you ought to learn what an ad hominem is. Worst application of the term I've seen on HN in a while.
I used to think of auditors as annoying antagonists (in my real life people never ever carry lethal weapons and police are reasonable people) until I started watching their Youtube videos.

There was one where a somewhat post-middle-aged guy is walking on the side of a busy road or highway. He's legally blind and he has a folded cane in hand, which the cops stop him for and threaten to arrest him.

Then there are the more innocuous ones, where a person is on public property just video recording public buildings from the public sidewalk, and cops come to threaten him with arrest.

I remember one where a guy is video recording in a public library and they call the cops, who come and explain that a public library is public.

And it is a him. Always a him.

In all of these the police, who are visibly and egregiously breaking laws themselves, never apologize and even when a superior tells them to screw off and leave the law-abiding private citizen alone.
Well, then the USA doesn't issue any visas in this case.

Because the only thing that my US tourist visa allows me to do is to show up and ask politely to enter the country.

A US visa also does not give you permission to remain within the country, an I-94 does.
Politically, states play important national roles. They are winner-take-all in both the Senate and the Electoral College, and gerrymandering makes them nearly so in the House.

Sociologically there are bigger differences within the state, but viewed from the outside, a state's main effect on you really is very close to all red or all blue. Only a small number of states play a significant "purple" role, where differences in individual opinion might matter to somebody from outside the state.
> in not just HumanEval and HumanEval+, but also MBPP and DS-1000 as well, so it's not a one off.

and how do you know all these benchmarks not leaked? I think they all scrapped from web sites, the same as training data for LLM, so risk of contamination is extremely high.

The best way to measure this is through synthetic datasets, which generate new tasks every time and model can't memorize them during training. One example is BigBench has multiple such tasks, but researchers usually(always) not regenerating those datasets.
Basically everything coming out of Detroit is sub-100K. Even the tippy top trim of the e-F150 MSRPs just below 100K. Sedans and mid-size SUVS tend to be priced comparably to Tesla's offerings.

Lucid are expensive, but their entire product line is basically a Model X competitor and prices are comparable.
One of the biggest use cases (for superconductors that meet their requirements) would be long distance power transmission, where as much as 30% of the power is lost over long distances.

Essentially, (and very top level) you could produce 30% more power, without adding any more production capactity.
Most automotive collisions happen within 50 miles of your home.

(You interact with your own family members many orders of magnitude more often than with the police; as such, raw numbers here would be wildly misleading.)
I would have thought "actual conservatism" is more concerned about size of the government or balanced budgets than about peoples' skin color or their genitalia, but apparently that's a mistake I keep making.
Quantum Eraser Experiment
“but if they hadn't censored in lockstep, it's likely that some government displeasure would come down on the uncooperative companies later”

This is the root of the problem, right? In the US, the government is specifically excluded from doing this either directly or indirectly, except in specific and rare circumstances that were not in play for most of the censorship that has occurred like covid origins, speech deemed racist, criticism of vaccines, speech deemed hateful, and speech deemed incorrect for example.
Agreed, but it's more like the store is aggressively slipping you gambling chips for their questionable casino every time you buy.
> * I think a lot of police would leave their jobs (or less people would join the police force in the future) without qualified immunity*

I'd rather have fewer police, even if that makes them dangerously understaffed, than the current situation where cops have very little accountability, and are unlikely to be punished when they break the law when interacting with non-cops.

Qualified immunity needs to go. Not just because it's a bad doctrine, but also because there's no basis for it in law; courts have just made it up with little legal justification.

> Or, to make everything a lot easier, just give every cop a bodycam and ~80% of the ambiguity disappears.

Body cameras are much less useful than we'd all like to believe. I think 80% is too optimistic. Cops can turn off the camera (or, "weird, it wasn't working"), and regular physical motion can easily blur the scene and make it impossible to know what's truly going on. I think cops should be required to wear them (and be auto-punished for turning them off), but I don't think they're the panacea many people think they are.
There was one other aspect of these machines I missed. They run forever.

We had a machine in there that by the time I left was running nonstop for 10 years. I was their only IT person for 5 of those years, and I basically visited them a few times a year to work on MSAccess reports, and never touched the server (I may have never even logged into it!). It just chugged along running their entire business with no maintenance.
Welcome to Tails.net
What you say is true.
But...this is Bloomberg so I think we can give them a pass and take a deeper look.
I can't think of a more relevant company within which to develop messaging middleware.
I really want to make a comment like "What version of CICS were you using that it reminded you of HTMX?" but no matter how I write it, it comes out with me sounding like a jerk. So I'm making the comment and hanging a lantern on it. My experience w/ CICS was so down in the weeds I never thought much of it's high-level architecture.

I am somewhat amused that people think the latest / greatest technology is super-new. And I think you hit on that... HTMX definitely "rhymes" with some bits of old-tech. When I was at Amazon some of our devs were floundering trying to figure out how to estimate capacity requirements for some random app they were working on. So I brought in my System 370 Capacity Planning Guide from 1978 and it made a surprisingly decent high-level introduction to how to think about planning in the cloud.
If Shopify "hijacked" it by making a better product it would be more okay. When they however outright just ban competition, that's anti-consumer behavior and should be stopped.
Throughout all of biology you find definitions that are often quite arbitrary. Lions and tigers are "obviously" different species even though they share nearly all of the same characteristics and can even successfully interbreed, and produce fertile young. The same is true for all sorts of animals in biology. If you didn't know what a dingo was, and you saw one, you'd just assume it was a mut. And in fact it can also breed with dogs and produce fertile young as well - doggo? But again it's classified as an entirely different species.

Perhaps even a more extreme example is dog and wolf. It's kind of funny to think that this a nothern inuit dog [1] is the same species as a chihuahua [2], while a wolf [3] is a completely different species. Maybe most interesting is that the transition from wolf to dog happened over less than 40,000 years. Somewhere in the doggy afterlife there's one very disappointed great great... grand wolf father looking down at a chihuahua just thinking to himself.. 'Yeah, you had to go to the campfire didn't you. They just wanna give me some free food you said.'

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Inuit_Dog

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog)

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf
> I am trying to think of a good reason to open-carry into a police station apart from "making a point".

It is legal to do so?
Releasing a book in this century, if you're a celebrity, is most often a calculated PR move to control the narrative, yes. Books are PR instruments, fodder for articles for months.

Have you ever heard of someone refer to traffic stops as "girl problems"? This conversation is ridiculous. One verse in the song is about a traffic stop-- that specific lyric is a play on the line, not all the lyrics. Jay-Z got rich on sexism and now he's getting richer on anti-sexism. Anyone who eats it up is a fool.
Felt effortless to me, too, but I would still call it a visa.

As instructed on the website we didn’t print anything out, so we just brought our passports and immigration was completely without any problems in Miami. Our passports also weren’t stamped as seems to be common now.

When we got into an immigration check near White Sands national park (closed road and checkpoint next to the road) the guards checking us were nightly confused that our passports weren’t stamped and we didn’t have a visa or any kind of printed documentation. And we were confused that we needed any of that?

One guard went to check on us with his computer, I guess, and everything seems to have checked out. So we didn’t need anything after all, it just seems that when you get into an immigration check those checking you might prefer to not go check with a computer, so printed documentation of some kind can get you going faster. (The guard also told me that we should have printed out documentation that we paid for ESTA?! Which seems confusing to me since presumably if we didn’t have paid we wouldn’t have been let in.)
> Either fly back, or take more than a two weeks.

Right, the point is it might be six months, since a lot of cruise lines will do only one crossing for northern/southern hemisphere summer toggling.

e.g. here in Seattle the cruise ships that go between here and Alaska make a single trip down to Australia or somewhere in the fall, and then don't come back for half a year.

So yes, like you said - probably fly back.
I expect this line of explanation. You can always start with a hypothesis. I started with one, that EU targets Big American tech.

I did not include Meta's 1.2 billion Euro fine. For the sake of brevity.

Now, that you understand, I do my homework, all you have to do this -- give me a European company that was fined Billion Euros for anti-trust. One case.

(not group of companies or European company a defendant among 10 companies being fined).

I could not find one.

Self-deception is not my field of mastery!
I think the one row about resources still makes sense though. You didn’t even answer OP’s original question regarding it in your reply. All you did was state an opinion as a fact without providing any proof. At least, I attempted to do so. A simple counterexample to your “common sense” claim that it’s easier to provide resources when people aren’t spread apart is housing.

I didn’t even read the pollution part. That’s a whole different topic that wasn’t being discussed.

But thanks for the downvote! Next time, please make sure your reply is up to par if you feel the need to downvote.
That's a nice reference. It's good to know a dental x-ray is only 1.5 mrem, compared to a full body CT scan coming in at 1000 mrem.
Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why
Update: The Senate Judiciary Committee earlier today has voted to advance the bill, which as the EFF post stated, this is a internet censorship bill in disguise and would do irreparable damage to everyone that uses the internet if passed. https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/27/23809876/kosa-coppa-2-chi...

I feel this Techdirt piece that Mike published today explains that despite Congress pretending that they have fixed the issues of the bill, they haven't. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/congress-pretends-its-fi...

It's a very good idea to get in touch with your Senators and really tell them how you feel about this and tell them where they stand on this potentially internet destroying bill.
In this case it protects it. An auditor relying on a day job is at great financial risk by auditing. One that lives on ad revenue is free to keep auditing.

Plus, if police keep their emotions in check the auditor will likely have to look for a day job and have no more time to bother them!
My thoughts are there are hardly any good police officers.

I think if any officer saw another doing anything illegal or would get them in trouble, 99% of the time they wouldn’t report them. The Blue Wall is real.