skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not for the larger surveillance drones, no. Those are a km up, you are unlikely to even know it’s there.

For small drones a shotgun is great… if it’s semi or full auto, if the soldier knows exactly where a drone coming right at him is, and has time to prepare while it’s still around 50 yards out.

Outside of those conditions, still not great.

Shotguns are roughly “effective” up to 100yards with slugs, and half of that with buckshot. Drones dropping grenades are generally well above 200 yards up, generally more like 500. So it’s really only the suicide ones that can be reasonable targets. The problem is a purpose build FPV drone typically used in suicide runs can haul ass, and cover 50yards in a second, are hard to see and predict the path of, even when you know one is there. Consumer drones can generally cover 50 yards in roughly 2-4 seconds.

Trying to shoot one moving across your view dive bombing on something else is going to have you more likely accidentally shooting the drones target or something unintended rather than the drone itself.

I do anticipate vehicle mounted scattergun systems meant for close in defense of drones though, as well as quickly/auto launched anti-drone drones for further off defense. More powerful drones would be needed for dealing with stuff 1km up and beyond though, the smaller stuff will struggle getting close to that.
Don't shun others on subjects you are unfamiliar with. Speak gently and listen.

Perhaps to the National Hydropower Association knows a bit more than you:
https://www.hydro.org/powerhouse/article/why-hydropower-owne...
Absolutely amazing how Google can release these updates for devices that _they make and support themselves_ without first running tests on the operating system and making sure these things don't happen.

Yes, I'm sure there's hard to track down bugs and this is likely one of them - but the fact that people are trying to get Google's attention because their phones are soft-bricking and Google continues to do nothing about it says volumes about how much they care about their customers.

I ran into a problem with the Pixel 5 I was running at the time. Woke up in the morning and the phone was off. Wouldn't boot. Wouldn't respond to anything at all. Thousands of people were having the same issue all within the span of a few months - Google Bug was created, nothing was done for 3-4 weeks while hundreds of users added their input on the bug... then the issue was suddenly closed with "won't fix" with no explanation.

I know the law is toothless against these massive corporations because the governments been bought out for decades at this point, but I'd sure love to see a company like Google/Alphabet shattered into tens of different companies. There's no reason why they need to control Search, Ads, Cloud Computing, Device Manufacturing, Operating System Development, etc. Same goes for all the other large companies doing the same thing.
and thats not even ALL the laughing attractive employees that they have!
https://external-preview.redd.it/du7KQXLvBmVqc5G0T3tIEbWsYn8...
Getting Started with Vision Pro and AWS
We had a Sony Trinitron CRT TV that had a brightness sensor on it like 35 years ago. It also worked horribly.
Create a DBA for the new name under the current Corp
> I personally would like to see a resurgence and expansion of Reflective LCD screens, and this seems sort of similar.

However, this monitor is not at all a reflective LCD screen. It's just a normal emissive LCD, but which for some reason uses a Rube Goldberg machine as the backlight.
Currently, they simply "curtail" capacity. Meaning they "turn off".. you are genuinely out of your depth and need to do some research.

Here is a great primer:
https://www.hydro.org/powerhouse/article/why-hydropower-owne...
The power grid guys claim to have cold start plans locked and loaded, but I'm not convinced they would work. Anyone seen an after-action report saying how well a real grid cold start went? It would also be interesting to know which grid has had the most cold starts: in a perfect world, they'd be good at it by now. Bet it's in the Caribbean or Africa. But it's funny: small grid cold starts (i.e. an isolated island with one diesel generator and some solar) are so easy they probably wouldn't make good case studies.

It's clear that the Internet itself could not be cold started like that AC grids, there's simply too many AS's. (Think about what AS means for a second to understand why a coordinated, rehearsed cold start is not possible.)
Former King Edward VIII Actively Collaborated with the Nazis
at least the randomware people have someone you can contact
To quickly solve some of your pain, pay a VPN node in America and just proxy requests through it.

Small amount of money compared to the stress.
Quaternions that represent 3D rotations have exactly 3 parameters, because they are normalized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotati...

Quaternions that are not normalized do not form a representation of the spin group Spin(3).
Craig Wright Wins U.S. Appeal in Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Dispute
No, because the advertised additional security may cause people to do things that they would not otherwise have done had they not falsely believed the security claims on the newer protocol.
Ten Tbit/s physical random bit generation with chaotic microcomb
Well, NotPetya was a ransomware, yet paying wouldn't have decrypted any data.
the quality of your comment is not up to even the fairly low bar set by the rest of this thread
You can always use Euler's angles. Well, maybe not quite _always_...
Only if he's not running rootfs on zfs?

Ed: I see he doesn't - but could (and optionally with a slice for swap partition): https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Ubu...
Energy storage doesn’t just have to be chemical reservoirs like that. Since most residential loads are thermal (heating and cooling of air and water), there’s quite a potential to make improvements there. Other loads are often “deferrable” or advancable.

When electricity is cheap, run the fridge/freezer extra hard, make ice or ultra-heat the water tank. Or “pre-charge” the building extra hot or cool but within level of comfort.

When it’s expensive, maybe slow down the dryer/dish|clothes washing or defer it for some hours. Same for any charging. At the end of the day, I don’t care if my stuff is washed+dry in 50 or 500 minutes most of the time.
I wonder which topic has had the most HN front-page dupes. This one is probably in the competition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793375

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35883457

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37106802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37798150

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36277079

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825887

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37866601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35916592

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869315

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37883228

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37989682
I've seen this in other places I've worked. Too many people and too much money to spend can be a lot worse than too few and not enough.
"Massive and parallel 10 Tbit/s physical random bit generation with chaotic microcomb" (2023)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12200-023-00081-4
Their hardware isn't really innovative though... Even the hardware integration isn't really innovative, as others here have pointed out.

My two cents is that this isn't really an innovation business model, it's an execution business model. Their proposition seems to be that they can execute a a server rack with integrated hardware and open-source software so well that customers will love their product.

Maybe they'll just end up with tons of nerds our there thinking, "I really wish I could justify investing in Oxide racks, but it just doesn't make sense for my business / I just can't sell it to my CIO", but hey, maybe not!
Most production websites are running Wordpress or something like Squarespace ...
The shady nature of what often goes on in crypto has a lot more to do with human nature than the technology of trustless distributed ledgers.

It's still a wild west out there, and we weren't exactly model citizens during the literal wild west either. It wasn't tamed by people altruistically agreeing to stop robbing each other with their powerful gun technology, but by laws and law enforcement; crypto needs the same, and then we can hopefully eventually enjoy the benefits of the technology, freeing us from the iron grip of ancient scumlords like Visa, MasterCard, PayPal etc.

There's no fundamental law that says a technology must be abused, that's human choice.

(BTW another choice is Bitcoin choosing to stay with extremely wasteful proof of work consensus mechanism, when proof of stake by all indications seems to work too. Again that's not something fundamentally flawed with crypto in general, that's people making greedy decisions because they're balls deep invested in Bitcoin in particular. Right now it's the top dog, but we should hope it won't always be like that if they continue to grossly misuse energy by choice with viable alternatives.)

I find it extremely disappointing how even the HN crowd struggle to distinguish ubiquitous human greed from the problem crypto solves and its potential uses. Just because crypto hasn't broken down your door and forced you to get some benefit from it doesn't mean it's intrinsically useless; if we all ate with chopsticks and knives were mainly known for use in stabbings, it doesn't logically follow that knives are fundamentally a weapon. Give it time and law enforcement, maybe that knife can be good for something else one day.
Thanks zverok. This helped me under stand pattern matching in Ruby better than any other articles I've read on the subject. I still don't really like it in Ruby (for some of the reasons pointed out in Irks And Quirks in this article) and don't think I'll be using it in my own Ruby programs (for now). But at least now I think I understand it well enough that I won't be totally confused when I see it show up in code. And I'll admit, I'm kind of intrigued by some possible use cases... specifically case-in seems like the way I'm most likely to one day use pattern matching.
Solderless PCB Assembly with Z-Tape – You Shouldn't, but Maybe You Could?
Oh I should note that capex and opex aren't treated the same in grant-land either, and funding agencies can put limits on university overhead for infrastructure grants etc. so that's not all apples to apples.

The benefit to the university for soft salary or funding grad students etc. in both scenarios is the same, but getting money for a new computer cluster or a synchrotron or whatever isn't, typically.
Android texting app that allowed more than 4 lines of less than 20 characters each.

Android keyboard that wasn't a fucking nightmare to use to type more than 2 words.
No worries. My wording was muddled.
Apple is still updating iTunes for Windows. And iPod syncing is built into Finder now on MacOS.

https://badcoffee.club/using-an-ipod-classic-in-2023/
All energy use is bad for everyone. The question is how much utility is gained from that use, and does that utility outweigh the downsides of consuming the energy.

Criticizing uses of energy based on their cost and utility isn't persecution or oppression of cryptocurrency people.

It's not clear to me that hairdryers are worth it for society.
And now there's another competitor with a different take on it!

"Other products already exist" is never a strong counterargument to the existence of new products.
My very-alive iPhone 6s is still my most useful device ever.
It was actually a wiper.
Because Burp Suite is the defacto tool for web pentesting. So that is what people know.

I've never liked Burp. Java, requires GUI, and subscription costing 365 USD/year. Where without a license you cannot even do trivial automated stuff (forcing you to click 'OK' all the time; easily circumvented with e.g. AHK).

At the very least a personal license for Pākiki is only 100 USD/year. Which is a lot less barrier of entry for amateurs (if you're a for-profit web pentester /care). How does Caido and Pākiki compare to mitmproxy?
Agreed, it's in my first phrase "as long as you can efficiently train models of the same size, what counts is the dataset". But useful sizes are just a few. 7, 13, 35, 70, 120B - because they are targeted to various families of GPUs. A 2T model I can't run or too expensive to use on APIs is of no use. Not just dataset size, but data quality matters just as much, and diversity.

I believe LLMs will train mostly on synthetic data engineered to have extreme diversity and very high quality. This kind of data confers 5x gains in efficiency as demonstrated by Microsoft in the Phi-1.5 paper.
Then don't run a OS with a kernel written in C. That would rule out Windows, Mac, Linux and *BSD.
Google has plenty of interesting and successful things in their stable, and there’s plenty of innovation in their 25 year history. The argument being put forth is that little of it is the result of recent innovative activity.
That project must be so much fun to work on. I'd pay just to shadow it.
This is a beautifully and slightly ridiculously formal comment to read two comments deep in response to my comment beginning "In an informal sense".
I guess it depends on the odds (impacts per cross-section per time) for different debris size/composition/speeds in the planned orbit. I'm sure somebody's studying that, but I'm also sure it must involve a lot of complicated tables.

The particular mini-satellite is slated for a 6-month mission, so presumably they think it'll survive at least that long.
> In the short term, flexible power production like coal generation

Coal power is the least flexible way to generate power.

> It has the benefit of being able to be turned on and off practically instantly.

No, the opposite.

> There is no economic incentive to build out sustainable generative capacity if it won't be running all the time,

Of course there is.

And anyway, the article is about using an old coal power plant to mine bitcoin. 1000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a day, without the bitcoin the plant would have been shut down.
Open Source business models – three levers
A+

This is awesome.

Also, it’s rarely used in my experience. I wonder what kind of code would even notice?
I’m curious if you have a source for that? There has been lots of speculation on how much X traffic has reduced, but the best data I can find basically says that it might’ve dropped from the 2nd most visited website to the 5th most visited website in the world (according to SimilarWeb).
Bizarre nationalistic "they're doing it because they're Americans" rantings are still not okay even if they're a "play on a quote". I can "play" with all sorts of quotes to say all sorts of idiotic things.
Nope! It uses Wasm (really WASI) builds of existing JS engines ;)
Why I'm Using Next.js
...or just crossing out.
The cost of false positives is obvious though: lost custom?
I thought coal was pretty slow to get ramp up and ramp down. Nat gas (and hydroelectricity) generators are what can be flipped up/down (or on/off) at the flick of a switch pretty much.
> Cake and ice cream did exist 50 years ago, and I doubt it was any healthier back then.

Cake and Ice cream 50 years were ago were likely healthier and would have been healthier still going farther back. They'd have likely used fewer ingredients, less sugar (and less HFCS), and contained fewer microplastics/PFAS. Much of the ice cream sold in stores today can't even legally call themselves ice cream! They're "Frozen dessert products"
For 1 and 2, to be honest, I don't personally know much about all of that. I'm just an engineer :) I think there's a whole lot of "it depends."

3. Software engineer, not hardware, haha. I don't know if people have tried liquid cooled racks, personally.

5. "What prevents your competitors from also selling servers?" I mean, like I said, they're just totally different businesses. Doesn’t mean it’s impossible, but it feels like there’s not a ton you’d be sharing there, other than one half knowing where they’d be getting some supply from.
> To be fair, that's because he leveled the playing field that was tilted in favor of the elite establishment consensus.

Do you really believe this?

Anyway, most of the people I follow left because of the terrible people and bots, sooooo many bots, clogging up their timeline with right wing nonsense.
Yes, twitter is doing so well currently as a business
Opening up not just a can but a whole writhing pit of worms with regard to security vulnerabilities.
I actually did this exact thing, 20 years ago, with a monitor that had a dead backlight. I took it apart and tried angling a mirror with a diffuser on it (similar to what's shown), but ended up using white paper on the back, and a light/window behind, normal backlight style.

Why? Because, all your points are correct (although the lack of uniformity was pretty ok/analog). And, as the images in the article show, you can't get reasonable brightness without a high powered light behind it. Oddly enough, the images in the article, with the light above and a poor angled reflector in the back, show maximum possible blinding glare, with the bulb shining right in your face.

It was temporary, fairly terrible, experience. A high quality monitor, with auto brightness and ambient color matching (like anything from Apple) would be my preference (and current use).
Reminds me of Project Echo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Echo

Remastered documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19kAuAVAnDc

Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19kAuAVAnDc
If your main focus is growth or potential growth then inefficiencies are fine if they allow increased product velocity. A unified platform for N features is more efficient but communication overheads will cut velocity on improvements for all those N features. Of course if growth is no longer a focus that’s a different story.
The idea of ops people who wrote code for deployment and monitoring and had responsibility for incident management and change control existed before Google gave it a name.

Source: I was one at WebTV in 1996, and I worked with people who did it at Xerox PARC and General Magic long before then.
Or thermal storage.
Euler angles irk me too because latitude rings are parallel to each other but longitude rings aren't, one runs from 0 to 2pi, anther runs from -pi to pi, another runs from 0 to pi, it's a mess. I wish we could find a system with better symmetry and consistency without being overspecified.
> the mere existence of proof-of-work puts a floor on the price of energy

I thought this was backwards, or maybe there's a balance between the two? I assumed that the price of energy acts as a soft floor for the price of bitcoin. Mining pauses when it's unprofitable, or the cost difference is eaten in speculation. The hash rate graphs appear to align with this.
Patents, copyrights, trademarks

Legal fictions all of them interestingly.

I wonder how much "real businesses" are reliant on other legal fictions to create friction, barriers and scarcity. I mean transport is real (and Amazon essentially owns the transport railings so ...)

but interesting ideas
My grandmother donated both her kidneys before her life support was switched off she was brain dead tragically due to having a brain aneurysm at 51, but she was technically living when she donated since they keep people alive until they’ve completed the organ harvest. She also donated her heart, but unfortunately the transplant wasn’t successful at all.

One kidney failed after 3 years, the other kidney is still going strong. That person she saved has gone on to have 17 years of good health and counting, our family get’s anonymous letters letting us know the kidney is still going strong. It’s kind of nice.

If I don’t get to donate my organs to save lives, I’ll still donate them to science.
I was Born with two kidneys and I like to think wanting to keep them for myself isn’t being greedy. If someone I love needs a kidney, I’ll donate to either them, or someone else so they can hopefully receive a kidney quicker, but otherwise, I have no desire to have a major surgical procedure, recovery etc. maybe I’m selfish, but I’ll at least be honest about it.
I don't think the link makes it clear but this is a new development in the Saga: some users are now getting a new message:

"You have 2 videos remaining, if you continue to use ad block the video player will be blocked"

Previously users simply had a timer to wait through, this is a much stronger action
Any kind of food must be processed by removing the parts that are not edible or are contaminated or contain various harmful substances.

This kind of processing is always good.

The kind of processing that is bad either adds to food substances that are not food, e.g. conservants or colorants, or it destroys useful components of the food, like vitamins or unsaturated fatty acids, by heating or other harsh treatments.

The useful part of the grains, which cannot be obtained from other sources at a similar price, are the proteins and the starch, which are needed by a human in large quantities daily. Everything else that is contained in the whole grains can be found in countless other vegetables that are better sources than the whole grains.
This guy is still at it...?
You need to shove the boot a bit further down your throat. Words are still escaping!
ALS? DDC? CI?
ditto. There's no reason to draw anything.

Extract relations as tgf (trivial graph format), import, hierarchical layout.

tgf:

from, to, relation
...
You obtain "literally dead" privileges if you are a ghost, too, of course.

OMG A GOAST SO SPOOKY
Amazing!

Someone made a LoRA/TI for character profiles kinda like this, but nothing nearly this consistent.
He did physics as MIT so has to be fairly bright. Also his (in)famous explanation of yield farming was the first time I'd heard anyone explain what was going on there.

This court case stuff is a different skill set though and also I think it would be beyond almost anyone to talk themselves out of his situation.
Optimistic to believe that mammals will last another 250My. I mean, that's roughly the same time span as from the end-Permian extinction to now.
Apple is still updating iTunes for Windows. You could certainly run it in a VM if you wanted to.

iPod batteries are readily available on ebay and AliExpress. You can also replace the Hard drive with MicroSD cards using this adapter.

https://www.iflash.xyz/store/iflash-quad/
If not for locked bootloaders, it would be trivial for everyone to recover all of the data that this bug is affecting.
Port forwarding is easy and self-reliant compared to using a third party's free service though

Not saying that's for everyone but I do feel like the default should be to click the two buttons in your router interface and third parties a fallback option or conscious choice. Probably just as quick as signing up for tailscale, if it weren't for that all routers feel like they need to reinvent a UI so it's never twice the same
How many years until a domestic terrorism attack operated by a drone pilot followed by us never finding the person
> And I think Google has a backup IRC server on AWS, but that might just apocryphal.

They (>1) do exist but not on AWS or any other major cloud provider.

(Or at least that was the case two years ago when I still worked there.)
> go is uniquely american, only doing the right thing after it has tried everything else.

Perhaps this is why most innovations are American. We don't automatically fall for the bully pulpit of the gnostic class.

> Something they wouldn't have to do

Yea, but they'll get it done anyways, and the language will continue to be excellent. I'm sure Google can absorb the engineering challenge without subtracting anything from us or other languages.