skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you take down a drone with a single bullet? It’s not trivially easy to shoot them down. Also, a “defensive” drone swarm would need more advanced tracking and targeting capabilities, so it would be more expensive. Look at Israel’s Iron Dome. A single interception costs $100,000-$150,000. The rockets being intercepted cost less than $1,000. If Israel was more evenly matched, it would be cost prohibitive to intercept all of the rockets.
Family rescued from wildfires in Maui

https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/09/family-rescued-wildfires-maui...
Oh, it just speculation of course but they mention that many of these supplements have antioxidants, which is the opposite effect of what you would like to have. Given that the fermentation theory is correct.

In other words, you don't want to inhibit oxidation, you want to promote oxidation and inhibit fermentation.
> Fetching data from disk is something that everyone strives to avoid since it takes approximately 10x more time than using it from main memory.

Did they mean 10 thousand times? Or is the in-memory version that inefficient?
How Apple is already using machine learning and AI in iOS
(I am from Europe, so I have a fairly good idea of what Unions can do, also thanks to having lived and worked in two different countries).

I am not against Unionizing "per se" but the role of Unions has never been "tell the management how to run their business". There has been some cases of (smallish) company being "acquired" by their own workforce, and the Unions might have helped with formalizing the deal, but this is rare, and anyway happens only when the company goes bankrupt or decides to shut down.

So I do not understand exactly what you mean here.
I get a fair number of pizza takeaways in the UK, and a couple of decades ago delivered many many more.

I've have never had such a thing, nor do my pizzas sag. Perhaps UK boxes are tougher?
The level of none compliance was actually pretty surprising to me. You're right speed is not really that important, realistically you're not going to have a large amount of TOML in any given project, nor are you going to read and write it constantly.

One issue I've run into is programs that have configuration language that looks a lot like TOML or INI format... yet it's neither. So a TOML or INI parser might be able to read and write the configuration files 90% or the time, but fail in strange ways in some edge cases.
When Our Tools Hold Us Back (2022)
>Mobile phones are not complex to use because of bad interface design, they are complex to use because they are complex devices with a myriad of features.

I'm reminded of Linus Torvalds' rant about CVS[0] and SVN giving people brain damage. While this quote is obviously hyperbolic to the point of being offensive and demeaning, there's some truth to it. People whose only experience is with CVS and SVN might just assume that all version control has to be built in that weirdly clunky and centralized way. Likewise, people who have only ever used the garbage UIs on underpowered phones confused user hostility for essential complexity.

[0] Concurrent Versions System, not the US drugstore that used to be called Consumer Value Stores
I'm definitely pro Ukraine, but Grishka also has a point here. I think it's well worth it to take a few steps back and consider that the war was indeed somewhat provoked by NATO (although I am truly a NATO supporter, let's not convince ourselves that they are completely innocent all the time).

Putin won't be in charge forever, and they can stop the war literally right now by ceding some territory to Russia. After which NATO membership can be given to Ukraine. No more sanctions for our Russian HN members.
Groundwater depletion would create major disruption (as unrests and wars). This is literally a vital issue. Every country should take it seriously as matter of national security.
So in the end - buy a double insulated "something" and put your hot liquid in there - until we find out that's poison too.

At the end of the day, we're not giving up on drinks and at some point we'll need to accept one of the toxic solutions. But never stop searching!
I have forgotten to add "Ask HN" to the title.

@dang can you please add it?
$1.75 in my building! Most standalone commercial laundromats do cost more, in the $3-4 range, and those almost always take credit cards. I don’t think I’ve ever had to use an app though, just a card.
Alleged corruption in Cambodia’s monkey farms taints global wildlife trade
This^^ The article depicts it like it's an either-or when in real world capable engineers can consistently do both
I don't think I suggested the Ukrainians have superiority at all. If anything the fact that the Russians, despite their staggering incompetence, can employ drones effectively suggests that this new weapon system is an even more significant threat.

As for my choice of subreddit, I'm well aware that it's biased. But I'd rather watch Russian occupiers get killed than Ukrainians fighting for their right to exist.
It kind of gives you everything and is just a well written book that incrementally builds up abstractions in every chapter.

I found I got more from it the second time I read it after I had some experience programming. The first time I had almost no experience and was caught up in everything it was trying to teach and missed a lot of things.
A lot of that is from Frederick Taylor, who invented “scientific management”.

He did experiments where he would have workers shovel piles of ash from one side of a line to the next, giving them a new shovel size each day. Found that the ideal shovel size holds 21 pounds [1].

The ideological assumption of his work is that management exclusively does the thinking and the workers exclusively do the doing. This falls apart when the workers have unique knowledge and insight that management does not have.

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63341/frederick-winslow-...
You can copyright lists of words if their selection or arrangement amounts to creative work. I mean, a poem is a list of words. A list of words that have been picked because they have a certain length or because, when combined with other lists, they produce a memorable, unique combination may (and I guess does in practice) amount to a copyrightable creation.
How split is the community over this? I had front row seats to the gogs vs gitea split and it was clear that gitea had the upper hand when it came to momentum there. Is there a similar consensus now?
Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager (2022)
This article is just begging for footnotes.

> To aid in internationalization, Unicode was used top to bottom, greatly enhancing internationalization.

And we all know the story of how Unicode then went from 16-bit to 32-bit, rather spoiling things, leading to the world as it is today, with WTF-16 and code page 65001.

> NT was a fully 32 bit microkernel operating system with [...]

There was a whole lot of debate about this at the time, and the upshot is that by no contemporary measure of what it meant to be one, was Windows NT a microkernel operating system. It's sad to see this come back in potted histories 30 years after the fact, because "microkernel" was more marketing tapping into an operating systems design fad of the time rather than an accurate technical description.

> but unlike VMS [...] NT uses its own NTFS [...]

In an article calling out the similarities in other aspects, missing the marked parallels between ODS-2 and NTFS, from BITMAP.SYS versus $Bitmap to INDEXF.SYS versus $MFT, is rather silly.

> A program written for NT in 1993 can run unmodified on Windows 11 in 2023 as the entire API and userland haven’t changed while everything underneath most certainly has.

The interesting part of this sentence being in the discussion of personalities is that the Win32 personality is the only one of the original personalities for which this is true. The 16-bit OS/2 personality doesn't exist any more, the POSIX personality has been superseded four times (2 Interix systems, and then 2 WSLs), and NTVDMs went away with the move to 64-bit.

> Microsoft added the win32 API developed for NT to Windows 3.x as well [...]

Actually it was Win32s, and an article that mentions the list of caveats for the 16-bit OS/2 API on Windows NT listed in an OS2API.TXT file should really mention that Win32s came with lots of similar caveats about what parts of the Win32 API weren't supported in Win32s. Yes, just like that OS2API.TXT there was a list of what DOS+Windows 3.x did and didn't support, in the SDK. It was WIN32API.CSV. There was also a WIN32S.DAT listing all of the Win32 stuff that didn't work on DOS+Windows 3.x with Win32s.
If you believe I do not have an argument, feel free to refute my references and construct a coherent argument backed up by credible references (YouTube or thekopi.co are not).

Here is a selection:

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/politi...

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/authoritarian-rule-of-l...

[2] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211411/sp...

[3] https://www.ethosbooks.com.sg/products/air-conditioned-natio...
Indeed, it’s like medical costs. As you approach death, your price sensitivity for interventions declines to zero (what good is the money when you’re dead). But the money won’t help, this administration has the will to kill paid tax prep. It’s nice to see progress finally getting done.

At least folks on K street are getting some cocktails and steaks out of it.
Dual NVMe Card with Eight E1.S SSDs Achieves 55 GB/S Performance
Young Japanese Find It Pays to Work Abroad
DC is an outlier because it's a city, not a state
We do not have a single working model that explains consciousness itself.

And until we do, all formulations from this context of consciousness still reduce to a fundamental mystery. Similarly, our ability to make increasingly accurate observations has not gotten us closer to understanding the context of existence itself.

It’s possible that this is just unknowable to human minds, even though I hope we’ll eventually get there, but I’d argue it’s all pretty mysterious. Most scientists working at the edges of these frontiers would, too.
You just gave me flashbacks to my first job out of college. It was this giant mess of hibernate with a combination of custom SQL queries mixed with the ORM that was responsible for billing data in the billions.
It's even more noticeable if you're watching an ad-free re-run of something that was made to have adverts stuffed inside it. The scene immediately 'refreshes' and you get a character saying, almost literally, "as I told you just a moment ago..." I live in the UK and realising this has ruined a lot of TV for me — The Simpsons, for example, is particularly bad at it.
Why not? The size of the channel it has to move through goes to zero as your hands meet, but the volume reduction per second is roughly constant. That means the velocity goes to "infinity."
After starting to watch the link I found, I realized it was reversed too. Even though it says "in order" from his profile's page. I've never really used YT for anything other than one off videos, and only recently started trying to watch some content in a more consumerist manner. I'm not liking it at all, and wonder why people put up with it, and don't just stop like I'm already considering
Scientists have been talking about the dangers of global warming for decades. I don't know what else is left to say??
I haven't read it yet to be certain, but my impression is that rather than using lossless compression of entire chats, this uses lossy summarization to get the gist of chats. There will be tradeoffs between the two methods, hopefully this paper covers that.
Location: Rajasthan, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: JS, Next JS, ReactJS, Bootstrap, NodeJS, Typescript, C++

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PsVAp_ctZ6h6yxjlARo8c7wQp4M...

Email: shrimalirahul00@gmail.com

Dear community,
I am a full stack web developer graduating from one of the institute of national importance in India in 2024, I have a previous experience as an intern at a Growing Gaming startup in India (WinZO) where I worked on their main website.
I would love to contribute to your institute as well.

Rahul Shrimali
If management doesn't understand what is being built, maybe they are not fit to be a manager?
I mentioned this in a comment a few weeks ago, but people are oversimplifying the summarization part: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37117515

For a given use-case, long term memory has a subtly different value proposition.

If I'm building a home assistant, I should be using NER to identify names and build an understanding of how they like to be spoken to in messages, or places and how they tend to be commuted to

If I'm building a CS bot, I should be identifying queries that resulted in extended exchanges, or led to a sudden abandoned cart

Summarization at the generic summarization level is enough for flashy demoes, but to build truly useful products right now you need to go a step further
DC is always an outlier in state-level comparisons because it is essentially a large city. States are otherwise averages of metropolitan and non metropolitan areas.
The EC also increases the spread, legitimizing results in the public mind, while papering over some key points.

The 2016 and 2020 Presidential contests were actually decided by a relatively small number of votes in precisely the same counties.

As noted by Scott Adams in his podcast, when there is a challenge with massive payoff and relatively scant penalties for shenanigans, it is ludicrous to think that there is NOT game afoot.

Anyone not calling for strongly auditable election systems and a re-emphasis on ballot security is not credible, in my view.
Absolutely, I'm not saying it can't ever work for anyone and don't bother trying if you're about to die I'm just saying Apple has never even implied the system is intended to hold up for large numbers of people in natural disaster scenarios and such a system will look very different than what they are doing. One user (or even dozens) using the service in Maui making it to a 9to5mac article is orthogonal to that, as cool as it is.

T-Mobile's plan to work with the Starlink satellites directly is a little closer in design to the question but even that is still just intended for non-populated areas. More than "how many satellites" the actual way the system works needs to be drastically different to get large numbers connected in a usable way.
To my intuition, all of these ways of building memory in “text space” seem super hacky.

It seems intuitive to me that memory would be best stored in dense embedding space that can preserve full semantic meaning for the model rather than as some hacked on process of continually regenerating summaries.

And similarly, the model needs to be trained in a setting where it is aware of the memory and how to use it. Preferably that would be from the very beginning (ie. the train on text).
Debunked: Why you'll never have to pay for Facebook (2010)
That’s not true. There are methods for proving control of a key, both in the protocol and outside.

- Sharing keys in person

- Sharing keys via other channels like Twitter

- Via DNS using NIP-05
I've worked with several types of people. For me, the best mentors were the ones who would answer questions I had with the full answer, often with details. Then they got on with what they were doing while I went back to my desk and tried to understand/retain some of what they told me.

I'd personally find someone shadowing me and asking questions super annoying.

I don't think this would work with all teams, the takeaway I got from the article is about artificial metrics.
As a coffee house owner and someone who looks to do things sustainably and efficiently, it has long been know that paper cups — even compostable ones — are a problem.

But it is all has to be considered relative to the other options. I generally think paper is better the other disposable options. But I will certainly review any new research

Of course, the best for the environment and quality of the beverage is reusable ceramic cups.
It’s terrible about visualizing how its output appears on a console.

Also, terrible at providing phrases that fit a pattern. “Like 143 means I love you, and give me more phrases like that”.

Still surprised it’s so good at drawing (that birthday cake was really close!)
I don't know, my experience with my country's publicly funded media (which is in your list) is that they carry worthless regime propaganda while badmouthing anyone who questions prevailing orthodoxies.
Maybe they've since reduced the quantity and difficulty of the math part of physics education.
I would start being less diplomatic once I get the hunch polite phrasing isn’t getting through - “this code is badly structured, brittle and will make debugging harder”. As programmers being tactless is expected so might as well use it to your benefit.
The multidrop capable 10Base-T1S is much shorter range (around 30meters) than the long range point-to-point 10Base-T1L (+1000meters).
10Base-T1S also does not tolerate too long "branches" from the main trunk, so can't run it old phone wiring in a house for example.
The early iPhone sucked in ways similar to how the early iPod sucked, and was received with similar reactions. In both cases, the folks who predicted failure focused too much on the technical deficiencies of the V1 product and not enough on the game-changing difference in approach. In the iPhone’s case that meant betting fully on a multitouch screen with a rich, smoothly animated GUI, and wresting software control away from the carriers. I think the latter in particular was not sufficiently appreciated.
It's a great deal for Tim. He never has to work overtime to deliver something, and never has to fix bugs on stuff he built.

That said I believe the author that Tim was a huge net positive.
New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits
> * (the core) the lisp metacircular evaluator

Which leads to the funny footnote in section 4.1.1 when discussing implementing conditionals

6 [...] Contemplation of the meaning of true? here yields expansion of consciousness without the abuse of substance.
New Startup Lossless Wants to Build Conscious Artificial Intelligence
Yes, but if you don’t want to use your phone, you can ask them to send you a physical 2FA device instead: https://www.ing.nl/particulier/digitaal-bankieren/mijn-ing/s...
Right, I think the general point is that log-loss is a bit unintuitive as a scoring mechanism since it really penalizes overconfident wrong answers, much more strongly than underconfident right answers (at least in the domain where you are not asking questions with very high probability answers).

There is absolutely a metagame to this game. Those who have spent time forecasting on Metaculus will do much better, for example.
I think I did too. Read it after having finished grad school and working for a bit. Not very impressed. But then again, I’ve never been as enamored with the lisp/scheme family as others seem to be.
Nobody ever accused me of liking politians. The alternative to the various forms of democracy so is oligarchies, totalotarian rwgimes and even more rampant, exploitative capitalism than we see now. I know what I prefer.
> Freedom is the key component of capitalism, in the purist sense.

Competitive markets and price information are also key components of capitalism - and the "right to repair" enhances both. Empirically, manufactures don't like competing for repairs, and they also obfuscate the cost of those repairs so customers would never know the total cost of ownership ahead of time.

State intervention does not violate capitalist ideals when it enhances competition, I'll go further and say coercive monopolies are anti-capitalist. Just because I bought a widget from you shouldn't force me to have it solely fixed by you at a price of your choosing.
"Many of the victims are well-educated, sometimes coming from professional jobs or with graduate or even post-graduate degrees, computer-literate and multi-lingual." (from the report)
I had this problem. But I bounced back and doing as expected in my life:

1. Read "Deep Work" by Cal Newport. Follow the guidelines as much as you can.

2. Exercising and meditating made me focus much better. Read "Mind Illuminated" by Culadasa.

I can really vouch for the books and the methods as they worked.
I was pointing to the article as a whole, not just the Halloween Problem section, and regret if I read too quickly.
TextEdit dates all the way back to NeXT
> after enough retellings for some reason people think that it is real

I do not think anyone thinks it's real; you might be getting caught up by the word "story", just some dark Balkan humor.
You forgot Radio Free Europe. Notably none of those were operated by countries to inform their own population, so I am not sure why you would mix these into the term public television.
Just because the thing you hit continues to vibrate and emit sound after it is struck, doesn't mean there wasn't a small sonic boom caused by the air escaping the contact surface.
These statements are only true about big farms and rarely apply to small operations.

The food produced by my small farm is not cheap. We barely use chemicals when absolutely required, and our animal "waste" fertilizes our pastures and reduces our external inputs even further. One consequence of such good stewardship is that our pork sells for 3-4x the cost of supermarket meat.

I find it very frustrating to see all farms demonized like this, because small farms already face scale-based discrimination. Most existing regulations were written to favor Big Ag, and they do indeed produce cheap food (in every sense of the word). Small farms already face nearly impossible odds bringing our food to market, so please don't conflate our practices and products with those of Big Ag.
I tried it in a pretty vanilla Edge and it worked. I guess that's two reasons to keep Edge around: download browser of choice, and use Archive.
I love stuff like this but I’m trying to understand what the mass appeal would be compared to a NUC or Brix which seem more technically capable and also have a very small form factor.

As near as I can tell, the differentiators are the ability to daisy chain them into a cluster over a high speed bus, a relatively low price, and some platform/App Store play like Synology or QNap.

So it’s somewhere between a Brix and an RPi, I guess, in the price/performance balance, and then the software ecosystem is part of the selling point as well for most people. It seems like you’re buying the guts of a qnap without the drive bay hardware, and btw you can build a cluster of ‘em if you have that need for performance or HA.

Cool. Will be interested in seeing how it evolves.
Professors blame the pandemic, but the true root cause is the blithe attitude American society has towards mathematics that seems to be ubiquitous outside of the east coast. This affects each student a decade before they enter high school; according to Common Core (no citation because mobile) fractions are taught not until FOURTH GRADE. That is almost 3 years too late.

I wonder what it will take to change this. What went wrong, or what do other countries do that isn't done here? Why are we like this?
That’s also a permission on iOS to allow tracking.

But there is still nothing stopping a company from doing server side analytics and tracking.
nice, thanks for the link
> If that's bloated, I have bad news about Linux!

This remark points you don't realize how bloated NT truly was.

In the 2000s I could still run Linux _and XFree86_ in under 4MB of RAM.

NT in 1993 would just BSOD with less than 10MB of RAM.
Well, Git is decentralized, and most people do use it as such. It's just that the entire infrastructure around it is not. Metadata such as creating, viewing, and managing issues and pull requests generally fall outside of Git itself.