skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These things are useless without frequent landing spots, even if we develop a safe tech many cities are completely unequipped to deal with this sort of traffic.

The ideal landing for such machine is a flat surface at around 200ft in the air.

Not too tall skyscrapers where wind becomes a factor when trying to land and not too low that you are facing turbolence among buildings.

In one word you'd need the type of building that Sao Paulo has and a platform on top of it, and in fact helicopter traffic is very intense there, because necessity is the mother of invention. Tokyo somewhat too but much less so.

Maybe, just maybe NYC and Chicago could be adapted but there are too many super high buildings and a very popular law not to fly helicopters over Manhattan.

London, Rome, Paris, Madrid, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem forget about it, you'd need a complete overhaul of the skyline.
At least once I have gotten a terribly phrased and link-strewn "Fraud Alert" from a bank, reported it to said bank's anti-phisihing e-mail address, gotten a personalized mail that responded that it was in fact fraud and that they had policies against using third party subdomains like... And then found out the day later that yes, that was their real new anti-fraud tool and template.

There will need to be jail time for the idiots writing the government standards on these fraud departments before we get jail time for the idiots running these fraud departments before it gets better.
Amazon claim they'll be able to hit $400. In Ka band

SpaceX spent $2.4 billion on dish R&D and production of 1 million antennas upfront with ST Micro. That kind of commitment goes a long way.

It's probably not. SpaceX doesn't have a separate modem. It's in the dish. These two companies got in via the military. OneWeb is in Ku band like starlink, they may be open to talk
I'll just leave this here: https://i.imgur.com/Clz9pSu.png

Since you ignored pretty much everything i said for whatever reason, i'll just say it again: it may be "just fine" in places that don't have extreme humidity and temperature deltas between night and day. All i can tell you is i've installed PtP and PtMP sector antennas and "dishes", and if the power goes out for 2 nights, you're at least in for replacing some parts.

It isn't "the rain" that I/we worry about. Oddly, all the starlink stuff is heavily gasketed connectors. i wonder why they don't just use USB-C like some cameras, they could even face the connectors downward!

As far as my last point - i said i don't see the point since starlink is CGNAT. It's like putting a fiber cable to a cellphone for tethering. you get no benefit. In the starlink app you can turn off DHCP and put your own junk behind it if you want - that is, if you want triple or quadruple NAT.
This is going to be controversial and I don’t want the Amazon to continue deforestation but it’s not quite fair that both Native Americans and the USA as well as the rest of the world deforested a lot of land already in pursuit of development yet countries in South America can’t do that now because they’re too late to the party.

That said, I believe we’ve actually halted deforestation in the US so that’s good.
Blizzard was one of the first large customers of TOTP, and what we learned from that saga is that 1) keyloggers are a problem and 2) impersonating people for TOTP interactions is profitable even if you're only a gold farmer.

The vector was this: Blizzard let you disable the authenticator on your account by asking for 3 consecutive TOTP outputs from your device. That would let you delete the authenticator from your account.

The implementation was to spread a keylogger as a virus, and when it detected a Blizzard login, it would grab the key as you typed it, and make sure Blizzard got the wrong value when you hit submit. Blizzard would say try again, and the logger would collect the next two values, log into your account, remove the authenticator and change your password.

By the time you typed in the 4th attempt to log in, you'd already be locked out of your account, and by the time you called support, they would already have laundered your stuff.

This was targeting 10 million people for their imaginary money and a fraction of their imaginary goods. On the one hand that's a lot of effort for a small payoff. On the other, maybe the fact that it was so ridiculous insulated them from FBI intervention. If they were doing this to banks they'd have Feds on them like white on rice. But it definitely is a proof of concept for something much more nefarious.
Does it or does it just require 1% improvement over the last winner? As opposed to a static additional 1% improvement vs the initial best “score”.
Now this is substance material for HN.
Misplaced link!
Low dose codeine is notoriously efficient.
How scientists are using artificial intelligence
OP possibly meant alchemical? Can't seem to find anything for almetical.
I think there's little way around the model itself being very bizarre? Unity asserts they'll be able to reliably track a number of installs that accounts for trolls, multiple downloads, and also carves out exemptions for charity, demos, etc. all while not collecting predatory amounts of information on each install. I'm virtually certain it's a complete fabrication; that their entire model (and, by proxy, the health of entire companies) relies on this claim is deeply worrying.

Unity's model is still WAY kinder than Unreal's for virtually all pay-upfront games, but there are degenerate failure cases, particularly around f2p mobile games, where you're on the hook for catastrophic amounts of money; Unity's seeming unkindness around that (e.g. not implementing a 5% revenue cap, like Unreal) is also concerning, and I'm not really sure why they're not handling this with more care.
Communicative Agents for Software Development [PDF]
yeah, it's oft-remarked but it's extremely silly how much memory and CPU usage have been inflated over the years. 256MB was just fine for gaming in the early days of XP. windows 98 or windows 2000 could run pretty nicely on like, 64MB - a lot of people ran windows 95 on 16mb even. that's a modern, multitasking desktop OS!

and today you can't boot shit on 16MB.even raspbian or something is going to croak even with XFCE and the lightest-weight setup you can do (short of raw terminal - I did get ubuntu server with fbdev running on a thinkpad with 256MB, although the mach64 driver is in an absolute state at this point).

(menuetOS is a fun regression along this line - a full multiprocessing OS with all the fixings, in x86/x64 assembly, that fits on a 1.44 inch floppy disk)

https://menuetos.net/

I know that a lot of that power and memory has been spent on isolation and security, but part of the reason we need that security is because we've turned the browser and OS into a sandbox running untrusted code loading off the internet. It is interesting to watch this video of linus getting a xserve running (challenging due to cert expiration, discontinued services, etc), and part of the OSX Server Tools suite is things like time machine backup host, ichat host (self-hosted XMPP chat server!) and so on, and the point linus makes is that apple saw the way the wind was blowing and decided it would be more profitable to sell the service than the hardware. And writ large that's the tradeoff we've made from the macos 9 era to the modern one. Slower, browser-based and cloud-based applications instead of self-hosted or local applications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFnj7LvhvR4

Anyway yes, I have done the same thing as you and original OP and put a mSATA drive in an IDE adapter to get an old machine running, and used a SATA SSD to juice up a cheap laptop when my nice one died in grad school, etc, and a SSD and maxing out the memory (if possible) does make a substantial difference.

People usually tend to think like "it's an old machine, it is running slow anyway" but actually I think it's the opposite and you should think "it's an old machine and it needs all the help it can get". It has little enough processing power already, at least let it progress at the rate of processing and not spend 3/4ths of its cycles waiting for disk!
Probably if you succeed at this, 500,000 will be worthless to you
I loved my 2015 Retina Macbook, though it sometimes feels like it's a minority opinion given the first gen butterfly keyboard and the single USB-C port, but it was exactly what I wanted a the time: an iPad-sized device with a keyboard and a proper OS.

The current Macbook Air IMHO completely misses the whole point of what the Air line stood for, it's really just a Macbook Non-Pro, while the Retina MB was the proper Macbook air in the lineup.
is using your own headers for date not the solution here?

I'd imagine a lot of proxies in general will overwrite that date. At least on the corporate proxy side of things.
All of this is quite difficult without the DSL to explore and construct pipelines for LLMs. Current approaches are very slow in terms of iteration.
They're People interested in Zettelkasten and already know/like me.

They understand my use of old school font/letter. Otherwise to a cold audience (like yourself) it's definitely cringe.
>but it's not reported to anyone

I'm apparently wrong about that. Seems NPLEX/MethCheck was made a requirement US state by US state over a number of years. So there's no national monitoring, but many (most?) US states require it and give law enforcement access. And like most things set up that way, enforcement and monitoring varies by state/county/etc.
Correction, `A\<B` is `(A&(\W|^))(\w&B)`, which matters if the A regex can match the empty string.
Humans can do lossy or lossless. There are plenty of people who can recite entire Bible or Koran flawlessly.
I'm no mathematician but I don't believe this is true. Lossless information encoding requires all the original information to be present.
https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

https://ourworldindata.org/soy

Beef, soy and palm oil are responsible for 60% of tropical deforestation

Beef - 2.71 million hectares / year

Soy - 480,000 ha / year (77% for animal feed, just 7% for humans)

Palm Oil - 270,000 ha / year

Wood - 380,000 ha / year (but probably more)
I mean it is technically anecdotal evidence; it is just a story about you and wasn’t collected in any systemic way, we have no way to abstract it.

But there’s also lots of clinically collected evidence behind blood pressure medicine, right? I don’t see why anyone would have reason to doubt you.
What's the difference between this and something like VirtualBox? Legacy hardware emulation?
BMW, Ford and Honda Form ChargeScape
Alleged ‘non-human’ being remains
I know there have been models to predict which areas of the country are expected to be most/least impacted by climate change but I'm not qualified to judge them. I suspect that increasing heat and desertification will leave much of the southern and western US in very bad shape. Anywhere prone to flooding now will only have it worse. The coastal areas will also deal with flooding and storms in increasing frequency/severity.

Maybe some of the northern flyover states would be best? Higher land around the great lakes for example? If I were looking to buy up some land today I'd even consider Canada, but only after the fires have died down. The only nice thing about wildfires burning 40 million acres of forest to the ground is that it'll be a while before there's enough fuel for it to happen again.
Lossy text compression has little utility.
Though it looks and acts like that, and can be used in such a way with no problem, in a sense, you've got it inside out.

From the GNU Emacs homepage:

At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

It's not an editor with a lispy config language, it's a Lispy interpreter that comes with an editor that can configure it via said Lisp.

It's kinda like one of those Smalltalk VMs where the line is blurred between the code you're writing and the environment that it runs in.
Why? How does this improvement translates to more financial gains?
You need to cut the power for certain USB devices to actually reset their in-device memory though (like an iLok dongle). Just "disconnecting and reconnecting" via software without a power cycle won't do anything for those. And that's not a bug, in dongles that's literally an anti-piracy feature.
Many years ago I worked at a startup that tried to do this. To make a long story short the goal was to make money off content that was made with the tool instead of selling the tool directly to people making the content.

Zero sales later, we all lost our jobs because if you show up with a new pricing model that completely upends how businesses even account for their spending and pricing, it better be the greatest fucking piece of software ever made that has zero competition or an industry standard because no one is going to use it.
We are using Cloudflare enterprise as well and have a phone number to call, including an SLA for P1 support tickets, which I believe is 2 hours. [0]

Never had any issues with receiving solid support but our account manager has been super good. I will say there's been a lot of turnover after they went public but overall the service has been solid for our use case. (delivering terabytes of peer data and analytics a month)

Have you brought any of these issues or concerns up to your account manager? Curious if they had any ways to help.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/enterprise_support_sla/
Is it an accurate documentary, or is it some over dramatized Netflix piece like Drive to survive?
The interactivity is one. It's easy to evaluate expressions from within the editor. I am not sure you can programmatically change aspects of nvim on the fly, and even if so, probably not a central component of nvim experience. M-x in Emacs is much more powerful than : in (n)vim.
I have long thought our society would be a lot better if we did more to incentivize small and medium-sized businesses to flourish, and to discourage scale. Better for employees, better for consumers, better for the overall character of communities. Also, regions that are dominated by smaller firms tend to have the most robust economies.
> Someone who has little but doesn't spend too much will generally have good credit.

No, that metric has nothing to do with it. The main things that affect your credit score are a) age of oldest credit line, b) on-time payment history, c) amount of available credit, d) credit utilization.

While "not spending too much" can be correlated to (b) and (d), it's not always a particularly strong correlation.

And even if you do all those things right, one bill -- even for $50 -- sent to collections (because your automated bill pay randomly stopped working and you didn't notice for several months -- this happened to me) can knock 50-100 points off your credit rating. Sometimes you can get this fixed, but the biller has no obligation to send a correction to the credit bureaus even if you pay the $50 and explain why you missed the bill. Enjoy waiting 7 years for that negative report to "scroll off" your score calculation. It just did for me a few months ago, and despite the fact that I have otherwise excellent credit, I was surprised how much my score went up after this was off my record.
Arm at HC35 (2023): CSS-Genesis
You could run Quality Control on your amazon chemical purchases if you were willing to put in time to find methods using spectrophotometery in this wavelength range.
'Trident Spectre', the Navy SEALs' yearly tech integration program
Important and *MUST-KNOW* techniques for a 2023 LLM serving system
I can say that from 144/165 to 240 or higher is barely noticeable.

Back when 240hz monitors were still gaining traction, I visited the Dell booth at ESL One 2018 and they had 2 monitors, side by side, one 144hz and one 240hz. The difference was barely noticeable, if any.

Maybe it was an old model and not as good as today's models, but I really don't think it's worth the premium price tag.

The jump from 60>75 is already very noticeable, from 60 to 144 is a big difference, unfortunately from 144 to 240 doesn't seem to be the case as the former example.
The Golden Rules of Presentation Design
Apple forked PF, but didn't change the name. Apple's fork of PF has a bug. The article only mentions Apple's fork.
Uninstalling Facebook extends battery runtime.
I've been in this boat too, and it's infuriating. I once had a doctor that wrote me a script for it though and the pharmacy let me get a whole 90 day supply with no problems. I ended up moving and couldn't see this doc anymore, sadly. This was in the late 00s though, I don't doubt that they closed this "loophole" and don't allow docs to write for that anymore.
With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and many more this month, is no software safe?
> Not to mention if your threat model includes attacker has hacked the server and added javascript, why doesn't the attacker just take over the server directly?

If the attacker can only hack the server that hosts your SPA, but not your API server, they can inject javascript to it, but can't do a lot beyond that
When I was a child, there was a hot second where someone implemented PacMan on an LCD screen.

And I really do mean a hot second, because one boy showed up with one, another couple had one within days, and by the end of the week the school had banned them. As, I'm sure, did most every other school in the country. Now I can play audiobooks on my watch, but no games to speak of.
UK to launch new research agency to support high risk science (2021)
Largely affected by steel production being outsourced to China

https://worldsteel.org/steel-topics/statistics/world-steel-i...
And bankers hours, and their own waiting line! Perfect!
To be fair... k8s offers both:

Write declarative code with yaml and kubectl. This solves most use cases and interactions.

Write operators in a variety of languages (usually golang) if you need direct control of the underlying control loop, advanced resources, and other use cases to extend or customize how your cluster works. This is far more flexible and powerful than most people understand and of itself has layers ranging from moderate to very complex.

Furthermore there is the api aggregation layer you can extend if you need to customize the core api of your cluster.
So, if someone with Newton’s caliber gets suckered into losing a lot of money in a market bubble (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company, note that it was a slave trading company), what hope is there for the rest of us?
Ah, yes, that matters so much when applying for a gas station attendant job.

But please, most people have debt! Mortgages, a car loan, educational debt. Revolving credit card debt, even if they pay off the statement balance every month. (Maybe you personally don't, but you are not typical if that's the case!)

Sure, if you have debts that you are having trouble paying, maybe you'd be more susceptible to accepting a bribe or caving to blackmail? But c'mon, for most jobs out there this is just not a consideration.
what exactly am I going to be “caught” for? my lack of proper training to use self-checkout lanes?
Or at least reproducible. It could still be compressed.
My favourite is http://perdu.com, from 1998. I've been using it with ping when testing internet connectivity for years
That's true, but it seems unlikely that that's a particularly important part of intelligence. The vast majority of people do _not_ do that type of memorization, are they still intelligent?
It might unironically make the game run better than it is running now with Unity. If you've ever ran your own Rust (the game) server, you might've noticed just how wonky the whole framework is. Just switching to/rewriting in Unreal might de-bloat the game, who knows?

There are, btw, project conversion tools like the Utu Plugin (Unity to Unreal Project Converter; see i.e. https://youtu.be/34qx5Ac8cZo) and some other frameworks on GitHub that might at least help in some rudimentary conversions in a switch from Unity to Unreal. That is, if going full Rust is a bit of a stretch and taking the joke too far.

One door closes, another one opens.
One is losing residents and one is gaining. Could that partially explain what you descibed?
where to find account manager?

i don’t think we have one …

this might be a mistake from them or us that we didn’t get one account manager at the beginning …

is the phone number you use on the cloudflare website? or is it from some private conversation in email threads with your account manager?

we might do the enterprise plan wrong …
For what it's worth, I think Hearthstone in particular very much qualifies as "ginormous".
We had the era of Slack-like interface, now it's time for Teams-like interface.

Outlook recently changed it and I absolutely hated it. Took me a good 2 weeks to get used to it. I was used to clicking on the bottom to open my calendar, now everything moved and I look everywhere BUT the left sidebar which was recently added. And, to make things worse, the icon is not your traditional calendar icon and you don't get a tooltip saying it'll open your Calendar when you hover over it.

I disliked Teams' interface for this and now I hate it even more because this seems to be the new shitty trend UX is going to.
Early response to false claims in Wikipedia, 15 years later
Many can recite the Koran flawlessly, its short and heavily encouraged in education through rote repetition.

Much, much fewer can recite the bible, its many times longer.

LLMs can also recite the bible and Koran flawlessly, given how frequent the text appears in their training material.
The comparison doesn’t include the (perhaps confusingly named) openshift library. All the ansible kubernetes modules rely heavily on it because its support for dynamic client (where you just want to apply a manifest and don’t know in advance that it’s a Deployment and a Service and a ConfigMap) is first rate.
It seems like a wild breach of professional ethics to sell medical treatments that they don’t believe will help their patients. Did they mistake themselves for cashiers or something?
This is more the equivalent of asking humans to create an exact copy of the text, typesetting and all, including the publishing information, page numbers, and exact linebreaks. Not just recite the text, which would be a lossy encoding of the original.

Humans are terrible at lossless encoding of information, it's what we invented machines for =D
That's literally arithmetic coding which is used by all winning entries in the above so far.
I recently came across a game theory term called "Moloch" in which individual incentives lead to negative outcomes for all parties involved. Nobody individually wants the negative outcome, but it's extremely difficult to break out of the cycle.
It's 1% over the last winner. The latest winner has a total size of 114156155, compared to previous winner of 115352938. The payout was

500000 * (1 - 114156155 / 115352938) = 5187

(see table near "Baseline Enwik9 and Previous Records Enwik8")
And there are humans that can jump 8ft in the air. Doesn't mean it's correct to say that "humans can jump 8ft in the air." Very few people are regurgitating verbatim information.
Great point. But it could be easily solved with something like: “Call the number on the back of your credit card. Push *5 and when prompted enter your credit card number and you will be immediately connected back to my line”