skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One step closer to Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32839690
you would invest in a fund, not individual small companies.
> The advertisers will want some measure of control over who sees the ads and some reporting on performance.

They don't get either for highway billboards or magazine ads, radio or TV ads, yet for decades they advertised that way. They want control and spyware, but they don't need it.
Just like a 1970s IBM mainframe ;)
> So they’re just creating a vlan named “starshield” and then depositing $70M in the checking account?

It's always difficult to price products and services with high fixed costs and low marginal costs (like bridges). The best estimates I've seen are that Starlink costs $1B+ to operate. It sounds like they're finally profitable (at least on an ongoing basis); we'll see what happens when Kuiper finally comes online.
Went there a few times, it was a beautiful tree in a beautiful landscape. It's sad to think I can no longer go see it again.
> To clear space for the new church, Hugh Stubbins and Bill LeMessurier (he pronounces his name “LeMeasure”) set

Sure, repeat his name n times and then ‘oh, by the way, it’s pronounced this way’. New Yorker does this all the time.
They probably mean "in any type of ICE vehicle."

It's already high time we address the distinction between modern cars (EV) and legacy cars (ICE).
Podman can start systemd services inside containers
I guess the broader point they're driving at is that attempting to port familiar programming constructs to YAML DSLs will result in this kind of ugliness. If that's true though, it's a bit too subtle for my tastes.
I use f.lux - it changes the screen color temperature through the day to make it easier to sleep.

If I sit late at night my desktop walpaper (which is a regular photo with a lot of blue sky) becomes basically all red if you look at rgb values. But I still perceive the sky in it as blue because other things are "more red" so it looks blue, and because I know sky is blue, and because I remember how it looked before and the change happened slowly.

All of these scream "relativism" to me, in fact the mapping to common moral fallacies is surprisingly direct :) When law changes around you you might not recognize when it got evil. Obeying the law is good because it's the law. When everything around is evil - small evil seems good.

As for language and law - these are arbitrary. "Yellow pages" can be any color, so can "blue screen of death". Green traffic lights are actually blue in some countries.
Lots of thorough answers but I'm just going to say the simple thing.

If you have 18 years of professional experience in anything, you are senior. It's not that complicated and at that point it doesn't matter what the company is.

Not that it automatically makes you a brilliant developer. But at that level of experience you can't consider someone as junior or mid. It's senior or above.
> How would you go about doing this - just out of curiosity.

Take the length and divide it by the length of a football field?
This is a neat concept! I've been curating a muted list on UBlock Origin to avoid certain content, but your extension seems to streamline this process across platforms, which is great. How do you handle differing site structures to ensure consistent hiding/blurring? Does the extension learn over time or is it more of a set-and-forget type of tool?
Most of modern Scotland was forest up until a fairly recent time. The felling of one tree is an instagram tragedy; the felling of one billion is an economic statistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_Forest
Like if someone only gave me binaries of Apache and said it's open source, you wouldn't agree with them. Cause you can't practically modify it. Open source of a model would be exact same, you would need to be able to do the same build process. A model is literally the same as an EXE or Elf Binary, its a "probabilistic" program, but its still a program
So?

It's just a tree, why should we care about it just because a random person planted a seed a hundred years ago?
I had tough time parsing the headline. It can’t possibly be the case that US has its own solar system.
Yes, but are you providing any sources for any claims contrary to those made here?
If the current scale of animal production had to be fed by grazing there would be little nature left anyway.
The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
> I'd say that it's worth weighing up on a case-by-case basis whether the need to persuade overrides the value of respect for others.

In general, sure. But a manual on how to be persuasive doesn't seem like the place to do that weighing.
Which, even to my college-aged binge-drinking former self, would be enough for getting hammered three times a week or blind drunk twice. That's a helluva lot of alcohol for a week's consumption. Maybe not chronic alcoholism tier but nevertheless... I wish the world would cross over to responsible cannabis use as a replacement more quickly.

No offense to those who still drink alcohol (I can't for reasons not related to addiction) but the fact that this low-dose poison is still the world's most consumed psychoactive substance alongside caffeine while LLMs are available on our phones, (pseudo)self-driving cars are on the roads, virtual meetings on our computers, and reusable rockets in space feels almost anachronistic. I wish alcohol would go the way of the cigarette.

But all this is not to say that it is solely responsible for the behavior of those men in Antarctica.
XML is perfect for everything in theory. Too bad the average programmer apparently has such an issue grokking a little complexity, adjusting their eyes to the sight of brackets, and configuring their parser correctly that we all had to throw our hands up and use dumbed down formats instead.
Your coping is painfully obvious.

I'd be sacred too, but at least would be taking a rational approach to it. It's an adapt or die situation. Putting your head in the sand is just gonna get you mowed down.
And he if he wouldn't have been an linguist at university during Vietnam, just how many people would have read his thoughts on policy?
Personally, I use AI-powered project management tools to automate tasks like scheduling and data analysis. Chatbots also help streamline customer support.

Additionally, AI-driven email categorization saves hours by prioritizing messages. It's about finding the right AI tools for your workflow, and there are plenty of options out there.

And last but not least, I also use TranscribeMe in order to transcribe voice notes to text: https://www.transcribeme.app/r
> Totally agree. I'd even go a little further and say the business is in trouble if the CEO doesn't know "what we should do about this". It's the CEOs job to know those things, and it's the data team's job to provide the tools to make those decisions easier, faster and better.

I agree with one modification. Also the CEO's job to empower folks to pitch what they think the CEO should know too. I've worked in plenty of successful shops where the CEO's answer to "what should we do" is "I'm not sure yet - what do you think?" - and that is a golden opportunity to show your chops if you've got the opportunity
32 countries facing European court action over climate stance
I thought this was well understood. TCO is a big number, and license cost is typically a small portion of it.

FOSS can be a win because of stability and control; cost is rarely the driver.
Group-Chat Culture Is Out of Control
Big misstep from the article not publishing a picture of the tree standing.
The keyboard is just a way to get your attention - you always put your hands on it, so I'll put myself on it and make you pet me! My cat likes to pull my phone from my hands too - he usually wants grooming or food or outside rather than YouTube. The remarkable perceptual ability of cats seems to be well-suited to tasks like observation, profiling, and behavioral manipulation, all useful for both sustainably hunting intelligent prey or tricking apes into giving it food and care.
The same thing preventing Lockheed from building F-35's for other countries: national security interests.

I'm sure they'll be allowed to build commercial satellites for other countries that contain a kill switch the military has access too. Military hardened satellite networks will be a non-starter other than maybe for some close allies like the UK.
Wow, what an interesting find. I think it's a really big stretch to request sensor data just for detecting if the user is a bot.

Oh, and please add [2019] for clarity, thanks.
And it’s not even 9:00 AM.
> At only $70M it's doubtful this specific contract includes any dedicated satellites. A single Falcon 9 launch is close to that price.

While I broadly agree with you, if SpaceX is selling a service and not a launch, I think the proper number is the internal cost to launch which probably sits around $20m-$25m.
Start by identifying your target audience's online hangouts, such as forums, social media groups, and niche communities. Engage genuinely and offer value before promoting your product. Collaborate with influencers who resonate with your audience. Leverage SEO and content marketing to attract organic traffic.

Don't underestimate the power of word-of-mouth referrals. Building a user base takes time, so be patient and focus on building meaningful connections.
Honestly, one of my favorite pieces I've read in 30+ years of reading that magazine.
The fact that he's domiciled (and seems to enjoy his life) in the US, and that the government has the ability to take everything you own and lock you up if they so decide. Probably.
A simple tech support worker for the US State Department's Bureau of Intelligence, Abraham Lemma, uploaded more than 100 intelligence reports since last December and passed them on... to Ethiopia. Comrade Lemma, a U.S. citizen originally from that country, turned out to be an Ethiopian spy. And had access to sensitive data dating back to 2020.

Secret documents and maps, photos of military bases, data from satellites in the region - all of this Lemma wrote on bolts, took out of the State Department and transmitted via messenger to Ethiopian intelligence. For his labors, he received ~$100K from trips back home. The African spy's professionalism matched the price tag: immediately after stealing the data and upon returning to the US, Lemma would stuff dirty spy cash into his account and swear off bank demands to fill out a currency transaction report. He also aroused suspicion by keeping obscure notes at work. On espionage charges, this hapless man faces up to the death penalty or life in prison.
Defense technology export restrictions would get in the way, so at most I guess they might be able to sell this to particularly close allies like the UK and Japan.
Lutris is mentioned further down the page.
Would active cooling work underneath another hat?
Those videos set a very high standard for educational videos.
Youtube reccomended one of their videos and they are really well done with layman's explanations of everything and CG re-enactments, video evidence, and report evidence. They set a high bar for investigation videos
Does it seem clear to you that a + b is equivalent to b + a? If you know the semantics of join operations (as you should to at least a basic degree if you're going to use them), the SQL notation above is just as clear as the arithmetic notation for addition.
Nothing, according to the article:

The AP sent the NSF a detailed list of questions about its investigation in early June and has continued to correspond since, including asking for any planned changes to address sexual harassment and assault. The NSF never listed any planned changes to alcohol policies.

“Because these changes are related to morale and welfare and not sexual assault/harassment prevention, we did not mention this program initiative in our previous response,” the NSF said in a statement.
How can this number be true when probably at least 10% of online pornography features men only?
Model inputs are definitely design decisions, what data to use, how to fine tune them, what methods were used in weighting things. This is LITERALLY the source of the model. The model is a binary like an EXE
Well, it is systems so not one for US but anyone living in US can have their own solar system.
Feel like revenge of guy frustrated by kubertes.
One classic choice is "Infinity and the Mind" by Rudy Rucker, which explores infinity from both mathematical and philosophical perspectives.

For a more mathematical approach, "Understanding Infinity: The Mathematics of Infinite Processes" by A.C. Davis is a comprehensive option.

And if you're interested in the history of mathematical ideas, "The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity" by Amir D. Aczel is a fascinating read.
I agree with you about dev boards but I think their post was focused on things like used NUCs or other small x86 machines that are only marginally larger than a Pi in an enclosure and include literally everything you'd want (enclosure, pwa fan, SATA SSD, NVMe, wifi, etc.) and the software support is there (linux / windows).
No. If you're running a game through Steam on your Linux PC and running that same game on the Steam Deck then you're running the same compatibility layer on both so there should be no performance difference because of the software.

There may be a performance difference based on if the CPU or GPU in your PC is slower or faster than the Steam Deck.
Beginning Mathematical Logic: A Study Guide (2022)
If users can’t be arsed to turn off privacy settings maybe privacy isn’t as important as we think it is, or perhaps we’re willing to trade some privacy in exchange for powerful new features.

The people beating the drum of user privacy might really just be doing it as a way to block competitors from getting an advantage. Weaponized Privacy.
Are you implying that only vegan people that are against abortion are truly 'pro-life'?
Hardcore commercial porn is pretty gross, more like a simulated rape than a sex act. I’d rather just enjoy furry art.
> "There is no way in Hell he should have been on the streets," Mayor Brandon Scott said.

And yet.
Direct link to the PDF just in case: https://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/LogicStudyGuide....
I don't like home assistant. Everything is based off state changes which is just so stupid.

Ie instead of sending a "home_button_clicked" event, it has to work with: button_click=none -> button_click=home -> delay() -> button_click=none. Just a ridiculous architecture.

Obvious thing is to make it completely event based where certain events change state, ie discrete event=home_button_clicked which has the side-effect of setting event_last_button_clicked when that event is triggered.

They've done it completely the wrong way around and it annoys the hecky out of me.
I bought a Philips Hue lightbulb because it was the easiest way to get a dimmable lamp in my living room.
Cloud-based hub for facilitating distribution and consumption of API
We used Triton Inference Server (with a Golang sidecar to translate requests) for model serving and a separate Go app that handled receiving the request, fetching features, sending to Triton, doing other stuff with the response, serving. This scaled to 100k QPS with pretty good performance but does require some hops.

In general writing pure Go inference libraries sucks. Not easy to do array/vector manipulation, not easy to do SIMD/CUDA acceleration, cgo is not go, etc. I wrote a fast XGBoost library at least (https://github.com/stillmatic/arboreal) - it's on par with C implementations, but doing anything more complex is going to be tricky.
He was already on the stand last week. This doc was part of that, which is how it first came to my attention https://archive.ph/lGLXR
I remember seeing a talk years ago about percentiles and how they lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU

You should be exposing the maximum metric from your app, computing a percentile from an aggregated histogram is lossy.

[edit: Found the link, "How NOT to Measure Latency" by Gil Tene]
Perspective on "fairly recent" from wiki:

> An examination of the earliest maps of Scotland suggests that the extent of the Caledonian Forest remnants has changed little since 1600.
Yes, it's just a tree.
A new tree can grow.

The Philistine instagrammers will be disappointed. So sad.

It's not a Roman tree.

A new tree literally grows (on) trees.
imo there are three core pillars you have to get right here:

1. Relevant: Don't just build a dashboard for the sake of building a dashboard. First, understand what the goal of the user is, and what metrics they'll want to look at to understand their progress towards that goal

2. Reliable: You only have one shot to get this one right. As soon as you present incorrect data to your users, you've lost their trust forever, so make sure you have solid tooling in place across your data stack that ensures data quality, from collection, through transformations to query time

3. Accessible: The data the user will be looking at needs to be either self explanatory, or the user has to have access to documentation that describes the data they're looking at in detail.

For point 1/, here's a framework to help you identify which metrics to focus on: https://www.avo.app/blog/tracking-the-right-product-metrics
I think it is fair to say that physicists in general are eager for results that are counter to expectations, though not so much if they rule out a hypothesis they personally have been pursuing for some time.
You have to explicitly grant permission for a site to use a serial port.
> door-to-door sales people

The harder they work, the more lucrative the contract for them AKA you're getting a bad deal.

Pretty much like 99% of advertising: the more they advertise, the more expensive they will be compared to the competition.
So that you can't use them to protect yourself against people stalking you, or to collect evidence in the case of potential crime?
It's not just cats but their larger relatives too.

Just do an image search for 'Lions in boxes', 'Tigers in boxes' and so on.
The Dell wyse 5070 idles close to 3-5 watts. A bit more than the pi, but pretty close. It's older now, can be picked up cheaper than a pi off eBay. DDR 4, sata m.2, on board emmc flash. M.2 a-key for WiFi. Max 16GB ram.

When you throw in m.2, lots of ram, all that IO eats power. So the minimum idle power creeps up. Arm boards too.
You have to imagine that they are using some expanded definition of abuse to arrive at that 90% number that is not in line with the average person's views.

I'm sure there is a lot of abuse and torture in online porn though.

But just as a counterpoint, most movies contain all kinds of criminal acts and the average person isn't going out committing criminal acts, just because they watched Dexter.
That this will happen was obvious in March 2022, the only unknown was price. Starlink has proven itself to be unjammable, resilient, low-latency, high-bandwidth, reliable, easy to setup and all that confirmed in a real kinetic war.

Basically everything any Pentagon official could have dreamed of, for $70M? Probably the fastest check ever written there (yes yes it's just the beginning but you get the idea.)
Along the same lines, it reminded me of Denis Hope's lunar real estate shenanigans

https://whyy.org/segments/who-owns-the-moon/
I'd say Kuiper is still firmly an "if" right now considering how long they have left to put up the constellation and the cost+potential flight rate of Vulcan and New Glenn. They have a much higher bar to clear in terms of costs before they can be profitable, and especially with the lawsuit about that, I wouldn't be surprised if eventually they decide to cut their losses and settle for a smaller constellation and restricted user base like OneWeb.
Cladistics can be thought of as k-means clustering in a Hamming space of individual organisms attributes and genetics, I think. A species is a tight cluster, and as you go up towards phyla the clustering becomes more diffuse.
Huh? But there's so much diversity in the desktop space. You have Windows/Mac, but then Debian/Rhel, Free/Net/OpenBSD, SteamOS, ChromeOS, Tails, NixOS, Qubes, Solaris Family, ReactOS and that's just the ones I've actually seen people use at conferences.

The browser space has never been more diverse as well, most of them use Chromium under the hood but who cares, Chrome was Webkit was KHTML when it started too. A browser's success is only somewhat related to its engine. Having a base you can build on that guarantees all current and future website will work and be performant on has allowed for crazy levels of experimentation.
Well APL is great but it is write-only. Also naming is hard, but in APL it is very easy: you just don't do it. What does the following do?

program ← {⊃1 ⍵ ∨.∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ ¯1 0 1 ∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1 ⌽¨ ⊂⍵}

Libraries in other languages deal with arrays just fine, and can solve actual problems at internet scale. Like numpy/jax, or pytorch, which will compile your code to clusters of TPU/GPUs. Most of the useful primitives of APL are present in these libraries (iota, reshape, reduce, etc[1]). The function composition primitives in APL are fine from a theoretical viewpoint, but I can't help feeling like I'm dealing with some obfuscation language crafted by academia to protect some fiefdom. Is it really that interesting to have a primitive for swapping arguments? Isn't that in the domain of conventions? APL was used by algorithmic trading companies for interviewing; just like Google wants you to go through Leetcode only to never use that kind of programming again.

Also APL/BQN/I/J/K all lack an auto-differentiation primitive, which is sort of a shame for 'functional' languages. Functions are mathematical objects too!

But if you just want a code golf session, then I guess APL is just fine. It also may improve your functional abstraction thinking.

/yelling at cloud, I'll go back to my cavern now

[1] https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jax.lax.html
I think it's completely acceptable so long that a legacy compatible "Pi SE" options would be available, in Pi 3 and Pi 4 form factors.

Raspberry Pi are used installed as components into third party engineered products, and Raspberry Pi brand holds no value to potential industrial customers if new products did not technologically exchange with existing such products. That is to say the exact mounting details, electrical compatibility, software compatibility, DO provide the value the "Raspberry Pi" brand offers if its competitors offered it.

What I'm saying is, if Espressif brought that new ESP-branded 32bit thing in the Pi 3 mounting dimensions and onboard eMMC and 1/5th performance at $35+9%, that kind of thing could outsell Pi 5 at this rate, and I wouldn't mind watching that happening.
This lowers the barrier to take unwanted photos/videos significantly. Yes, surveillance cameras are everywhere but your everyday person does not have access to their feed (and the publicly accessible ones are not that common and usually very far away). This is different from possibly being recorded by anyone you pass by in high resolution, for their own personal use.

Also, today when a person takes a photo of you it's usually very apparent, hence most people hesitate just pointing a camera at you to shoot a picture. Tomorrow, when these become more and more popular, just a glance at someone will be enough and no one will hesitate.

Finally, this argument is basically: "oh well, we live in a crappy world already, so making it even more crappy is not a problem".
It's actually pretty bad, because spilt diesel makes the asphalt much softer over the coming weeks until it's pretty much a pothole filled with gravel.

It's easy to miss a small spill, and only weeks later does a hole appear in the road.
> It doesn't make sense for owners of something to not be in control of it.

When I say this about my phone, I get told that It was my choice to buy it.

I would really like to have the same set of principles applied consistently to ownership of end product and ownership of the stock.

Currently some people enjoy greater rights for no reason other than privilidge.