skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The general answer has already been covered - their magical shields protect against projectile weapons. (Though of course there's always the feeling that the use of massive projectiles would overwhelm them.)

That said, and something I don't think anybody else has mentioned in the thread, in the first Dune novel when the Sardaukar land on Arrakis and have a bunch of fights after the betrayal they _do_ use projectile weapons, which has the affect of trapping the Atreides who'd retreated into caves.

It is brought up later that these weapons aren't worth returning, because their use was a one-off. These cannons were considered a "quirky surprise" rather than a useful weapon.
Heh, the Bulgarian government is so corrupt that they are all probably fighting and trying to find a way to launder the previously seized BTC used in money laundering.
very interesting observation. never thought about how memory is central to all those concepts and technologies.
Is it the rendering or the selection of fonts?
Gitlab and github are a lot more than simple markdown. They support a lot of additions like equations, and mermaid graphs. The only thing I've used confluence for that won't work in out of the box gitlab is a circuit diagram. And the right way to do that was probably to have the pipeline generate an svg from the circuit simulation model, not draw it.
There are still a few companies that make them. Called "slide charts", since they come in many forms besides just the "rule" form.

I look into having them made every now and then, but it seems like the minimum order quantity is almost universally 500. It would be nice if there was a modern style of e-print service for smaller quantities.
Is there a similar list for computer vision and/or computational photography?
Ask HN: Prospecting when "Company X just raised $Y Million"
Suppose I see a headline like this in TechCrunch and Company X works in an area I am interested in. Maybe I am thinking I'd like to work for Company X or maybe I think they might buy why I am selling, or maybe I just want to network with them for the long term.

Is this a good time to reach out or has the ship already sailed? Are the people at a company like that getting mobbed by people who want a piece of the action? Are they burned out by the effort of fundraising or are they at an emotional high that makes them receptive?

What are your thoughts?
Remember the wheeze that governments were going to use Bitcoin as the world's reserve currency? That was a good laugh.
GitHub Issue: Add Substack Logo to Font-Awesome
True enough.

Granted, as the article also mentioned (if I recall correctly), some recommender systems are actually quite good. For me, finding new music to listen from a particular genre fits into this category.
Generally, and probably inescapably, science fiction ends up being entangled in the author's worldview. (Either positively, as you note, or negatively, as in the warnings of dystopias, or in an arbitrarily mixed way that still has to be grounded in the author's point of view about society.)

The two major periods in time in publishing when that was less visibly true is at the start of the last century when Hugo Gernsback (for whom the Hugo Award is named) was soliciting stories that were basically "what neat new use case could wireless technology address?", which can be viewed as a way of creating a literary prototype of what the reader might see in a few years. Of course, even if these stories might be seen as focused on predicting the near future, Gernsback is also literally organizing his readers into the Wireless Association of America, which directly advocates for political and regulatory decisions.

And in the 1940s-1950s, the science fiction mainstream felt the distinguishing feature of their genre was a focus on a scientific conceit, as opposed to melodramatic adventures. This often meant that they ignored how their stories reflected their worldviews. For example in unconsciously repeating their expectations about the gender roles of housewives. But ignoring one's opinions about culture or society doesn't mean they don't exist in what you are writing.
Covid vaccine 'black hole' for injury claims is unconstitutional, lawsuit says
Not trying to minimize Canon's work, but the original tech was American: Molecular Imprints.
> Female Statistics Professor

Claudia Goldin, the economic "Nobel" Laurette this year.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Goldin
It's refreshingly earnest and twee, and always technical and to the point (as opposed to other vacuous and rambling bloggers).

Also, it's reassuring to see someone say "I don't know this"/"I'm not sure", instead of trying to pass as an authority on the subject. We all learn together.
~100% of developer effort in the Linux graphical stack is going towards Wayland.

Shutting up and using Wayland is the sensible thing to do.
I disagree with the author's point that CPU instruction sets should expose more of the CPU's implementation. This has been tried in the past and failed to work long-term. One example of this is branch delay slots from some RISC processors (such as MIPS and SuperH) designed in the late 80s and early 90s. For those unfamiliar with the concept, it basically means that the instruction after a branch instruction will get run regardless of if the branch was taken or not. This was a short-term benefit, as it meant the job of avoiding pipeline stalls after a branch was left to the programmer, so the processor could be simpler and cheaper than designs without them. However, as time went on, the processor designs evolved with more complex pipelines, so the single instruction wasn't enough to cover the branch delay. Instead, it became a legacy issue that future processors had to deal with for compatibility reasons and made their branch prediction and pipeline logic more complex.
Protectil VP2420 here.
No doubt, I couldn't find any data on its eventual disposition other than 'we dont have it anymore.'
This is tantalizing but it's paywalled so I can't see the most important number - how much of the expected climate change would be offset.

Surely not all, we should be that lucky!
The point is that a "quotation dash" (i.e., a dash that precedes a quotation, used in place of or accompanying quotation marks in many languages, as your link explains) is not the same thing as the dash used for quotation attributions.

An em-dash is an alternative to a proper quotation dash when used to precede a quotation, but is generally itself considered the proper dash for attribution [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Attribution_of_quote_sour...
KDE 3.5 was its peak for me. KDE 4 changed everything around completely, in a worse way (like no more multiple task bars, no more easy launcher icons, introduction of hard to disable CPU hogging background processes like baloo, less configuration, degradation in contrast of scrollbars in the theme choices, etc...).
What is C really? A concise syntax to define structs and functions, with a usable expression syntax. There isn't all that much to it, I've always found it ridiculous for people to claim it's holding hardware back.

I don't think I've ever really seen a good argument what developments were prevented by the existence of C as an important compiled language. The one claim I can remember I find ridiculous: that today's CPUs execute instructions in parallel, not serially. Well, for one, C's semantics aren't that serial, there is a large degree of freedom for compilers and CPUs how to schedule the execution of C expressions and statements. Then, there are SIMD instructions exploiting those capabilities explicitly. But also, the rest of the code gets automatically pipelined by the CPU, according to a specific CPUs capabilities. Even though that stuff happens in parallel, any instruction encoding is by necessity serial. Or is anyone proposing we should switch to higher-dimensional code (and address spaces)?
They’re doing this BEFORE you buy the device.

They’re not forcing anything on you.
The two are unrelated. In the latter, he was referring to a dedicated artist/sound designer for the final product. In my comment, he is referring to building a quick prototype to show to the team. Once he's done that, the dedicated folks will make the actual final/production version based on his prototype.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...

YouTube us very profitable. It’s just that they want even more and they believe forcing users to turn off their adblockers will get them there. Smells monopolistic to me.
Getting an error instead of the incorrect data because the route that was actually ran was another one is pretty good for debugging. I have actually ran into this with Django, one route was missing the ending "$" regex.
This pattern of the signal handler merely setting a global var seems robust. Of course, now the programmer must decide when and where to check the global value.
Show HN: "Musing" web app where you can post and read thoughts
An accountant can walk you though the steps.

The author writes "The best approach is to start as an “Einzelunternehmer” (sole proprietor). You can register this at your local town hall for a nominal fee, and you’ll typically receive confirmation within a few days."

When I did it the cost was 35 Euro, I think it depends on city. One can argue why this step can't be done online but until 2023 it wasn't possible to register a car online in Germany either.

Then a letter to the local tax office (in Germany they're by city or region, not central. Then as the author says ignore VAT until you're over the threshold.
i am only dabbling in this space myself, so can't answer everything. all the formats i mentioned are for a quantized version of the original model. basically a lower resolution version, with the associated precision loss. e.g. original model weights are in f16, the gptq version is in int4. a big difference in size but often an acceptable loss of quality. using quants is basically a tradeoff between quality and "can i run it?".

examples of original models are llama(2), mistral, xwin. they are not directly related to any quantized versions. quants are mostly done by third parties (e.g. thebloke[1]).

using a full model for inference requires pretty beefy hardware. most inference on consumer hardware is done with quantized versions for that reason.

[1] https://huggingface.co/TheBloke
This is the commit for those curious: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/c778c0d73570b51def4f06...

> Packets sent over loopback got their checksums calculated twice.
In the output path they were filled in and during TCP/IP input all
checksums were calculated again to be compared with the previous
result.

Avoid this by claiming that lo(4) supports hardware checksum
offloading. For each packet convert the flag that the checksum
should be calculated to the flag that it has been checked successfully.
Keep the flag that it should be calculated for the case that it may
be bridged or forwarded later.

A drawback is that "tcpdump -ni lo0 -v" reports invalid checksum.
But that is the same with physical interfaces and hardware offloading.

OK dlg@
Personally I think he dilemma is justified, just because I use an ad blocker doesn't mean I necessarily agree with it on principal.

However like you said, the problem is not the ads themselves it is the tracking that comes along for the ride.

There isn't any inherent reason that ads have to be so privacy invasive (I guess it is hard to not have ads at least log your requests when they go to a different server but that alone is normal I guess).

It is unfortunate that is seems the ship has sailed on actually privacy focused ads and instead of being tailored to the user they are just tailored to the content on the page/video/whatever. I would allow those ads if they existed.

It sucks since I do think ads are important, website operators need some way to make money and it is clear that most people are not going to pay for the things they have grown accustom to getting for free. But the current solution is so privacy invasive that you have to block it.
> C is low level for at least one reason: manual memory management. Especially with modern hardware, memory management is at the center of programming.

Ok, but even with C we can't actually low level manage memory how the processor does it. You can't tell the processor what to keep or not on what level of cache, what to send to virtual memory, etc. It's lower level than say Python but I don't think it is low level memory management in the way PDP-11 C was.
Hmm... Are the Gzilt not simply one of the humanoid species? Or perhaps the Culture at the time of prospective Gzilt merger already contained the rest of the constituent groups?
Plus Satoshi's stake held by the NSA lol.
Of the 7 non-Wayland systems linked in the opening post, two still have a working web page.

KDrive gave me a TLS error (the certificate is misconfigured) but ignoring it brings me to a web page that states the information is obsolete and hasn't been updated in about 7 years according to the page info. Everybody online talks about KDrive in the past tense it seems.

Y-windows.org works, but the homepage only shows two entries written in 2004. It seems to be the product of a thesis that never received any development.

I think it's safe to say from the listed post, only Wayland survived. I think of all the other alternatives, Mir had the best change at succeeding, but that died half a decade ago.
Slightly off-topic: where does one get an overview of what is planned to go into a new release?
I have read that many security innovations [1] get implemented in OpenBSD soon, like W^X [2]. But I don't know enough about OpenBSD and I would like to hear as well if any organization uses it for mission critical applications.

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W^X
Easier than opening your browser and going to Bing?
The quarterly earnings statements
I've created Musing.Live, a place to share your thoughts without the need for accounts, feedback, likes, comments, followers, or following. It's a straightforward platform to post and read thoughts from people worldwide.

I'm not sure how it'll turn out, but I'm eager to see. It could be an interesting experiment or a complete flop, but it's a learning opportunity.

The tech stack includes Meteor, React, Mongo, Mapbox, and more. It currently works on Chrome, but other browsers haven't been tested yet. I'll keep working on it, adding features, and fixing bugs.

I only collect post content, timestamps, latitude, and longitude.

Your thoughts on this project are much appreciated!
can anyone explain how these visual tokens which are concatenated with the tokenizer outputs for the encoder are created?
Lisp is fine on 6502 though :-)
Many screenshots with explanations: https://opendylan.org/history/apple-dylan/screenshots/index.... and linked pages.

Release CD-ROM with a few more screenshots: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1358-apple-dylan-technol....
It certainly helps, but one of the goals is to help you understand large badly documented/commented codebases
How would it wipe everything on the phone anyway? There’s nothing on the phone. It’s brand new and in the box.

Apple clearly take security very seriously. There’s no way this would be left enabled after someone sets up the iPhone.
The BLS methodology is certainly “elaborate.” But as is pointed out down-thread, the CPI uses completely bizarre measures and makes little attempt to source data from the kind of places that would typically be used to do these analysis were more rigor being demanded or actual money was riding on them being correct.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37895252
Snow in the Northern Hemisphere is likely to be cleaner by the end of this century — an effect that will partially offset the effects of global warming1.

Global warming has reduced snowfall and accelerated snowmelt in mountainous regions, threatening the supply of fresh water for two billion people worldwide. Snow melts even faster if it is covered with sooty particles of black carbon, which are produced by the burning of wood and fossil fuels.

Dalei Hao at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, and his colleagues used simulations to assess how much soot will land on snow in the next several decades. They project a reduction in black-carbon pollution in snow-covered regions across the Northern Hemisphere between 2015 and the end of the twenty-first century.

Even if global carbon emissions continue to rise for the next half-century, the amount of solar radiation the snow absorbs because of soot and dust pollution will be 62.3% less by 2100 than when the snow was dirtier. The whitening of the snowpack is expected to slow its loss and increase the availability of fresh water, the scientists say.
I wouldn’t go that far. Stock price is a trailing indicator [1]. RIMs stock was at its highest in 2006 right before the iPhone was introduced.

[1] yes I know that’s not technically true. I know it’s supppose to the present value of all future returns.
By "They" you mean "Some".
https://archive.ph/K9Ib1
At Sam Goody or Camelot Music, CD's were $14-20

Meanwhile at Best Buy (and other places I'm sure, but I worked at Best Buy) they were $9-12
Would that mean we'd get to have Freedom Bacon alongside the Freedom Fries?
It is actively harmful if they're measuring the wrong things and in the wrong way to come to an exact predefined conclusion instead of the one that is actually maximally good for children.
> "Bay Area"

The Bay Area is not America. In Philadelphia, for example, entrees at a nice restaurant downtown are about $15, while I fed three adults at a bar in the suburbs for $40.

The government isn't lying to you with CPI, you just live in an outlier city.
No way!8-))
here is the thing, I have yet to see any proof that by paying to removing ads from YouTube that they are removing the main problem and that is the constant tracking.

If the root of the problem exists its not fixing the problem and its just fixing it for non technical people, since most don't understand the real problem or how it works.
It just depends on the questions. I have gone from asking 2 or 3 questions per months (and reading 100s per months) to using ChatGPT for all of it. Because it gets the questions better and the response is immediate.
Along the New York / Canadian border, yes the wind is generally southerly and easterly, very rarely are you getting the wind to go up from new york and into Canada. Since the fires were in Ontario, that wind brought it over Lake Ontario, and down across new york and down the coast.
Man, JavaScript just keeps getting blamed for everything.
Who actually believed that outside of /r/bitcoin?
> It gives you low-level access to a machine that your real machine actually has to somewhat laboriously emulate

Isn't C the language (x86_64) processors are designed to be fast for? Sure they added a large amount of abstractions but since they were made for C is there any language where the processor doesn't have to laboriously emulate?
That is counted. As is shrinkflation, decreases in quality, etc.
In the 'real world' compare-and-swap operations (such as one would find in atomic types used for communication between worker and handler) are single-cycle operations, if not a hard CPU flag...

>I understand why you think the way you do; I did too. But the real world is more complicated.

Please consider the complications of the high-end audio world, where such techniques are well established. Not only must bat-out-of-hell threads have all the gumption they can muster, but they have to be able to be controlled - in as close to realtime as possible - by outside handler threads.

I think boffinaudio is trying to help you improve your code quality. Its not bad advice to re-think this.
On the days of the outlier events, I don't think it is exactly hidden on how things are going, is it? I certainly know when wildfires are causing bad air here and we don't go out on those days, if we can avoid it.

I can kind of see how it is annoying to allow outliers to be struck from target measuring goals. That said, I also don't see how or why it helps people that are trying to hit targets to include the outliers that they didn't cause. If anything, that would help obscure if they were also rising.
For me it is the opposite, I can't stand the font rendering on windows.
From your parent:

> How can we be assured this can't be done for a phone that is set up, in my pocket?

In that case the phone would already be initialized.
KDE3.5 was forked at the time and still exists as Trinity Desktop https://trinitydesktop.org/
The weapons sent to Ukraine are generally out of date surplus, and the ammunition for those weapons are generally either out of production or nearly so. The west is no where near going into a wartime economy maximizing production of its latest military equipment, and that is by design. The west has been balancing support for Ukraine against not escalating tension with Russia, who regardless of their conventional military's capability are nevertheless sitting on the world's largest nuclear stockpile. This is a limited proxy conflict, and the west is behaving as such.
This release doesn't say, but here's the actual article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41732-6

>changes in snow over the Tibetan Plateau will alleviate future snowpack loss due to climate change by 52.1 ± 8.0% and 8.0 ± 1.1% at the end of the century for the two scenarios, mainly due to reduced black carbon contamination
> To some extent, just sitting down for a year to learn modern assembler and starting from the very, very bottom once again to build a high level language, rather than starting with C and building "C, but ..."

Right so build a 'union' of what's available and somehow try to fit it in a unified model. I was hoping there was at least some theoretical PL answer of a unified model. But can't be because all manufacturers and industry sub-groups are doing their own thing.

> assembler

Yes that's definitely a cop out.
Oh so all we needed to fight climate change was some VOOM? Quick, where’s Cat Z?
What’s up with this seeming resurgence in interest in IPSec? Did Jason politically/socially mess up? Or are people realizing IPSec solves some novel problem outside the scope of WG?
How to avoid documentation and hoard what you know
To be clear. I got it to work 100% of the times. What I meant was that 25% of those it required some digging around for the latest whatever-the-issue-was on my part, and 75% of those it just worked.
Crail [1] which is a distributed K/V store on top of NVMEoF.

[1] https://craillabs.github.io