skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most modern anti-tank rounds (including the famous Javalin and NLAW) actually use a small "pin" object to penetrate the tanks, which causes a shrapnel or gas explosion inside the tank. Some antitank rounds (HESH) don't even penetrate the armour, but cause the inside layer of armour to separate and shred the inside: https://www.ontrmuseum.ca/tankmuseum/blog-post/modern-anti-t...
I parsed this as injustice, but I could be wrong.
Precision. Depth of magazine. Engaging multiple targets faster.
Mathematics is humanity's longest running, largest-scoped, most complicated game.

It also happens to be useful, and you can dive into a lot of philosophy about that which is all very interesting. The utility itself is a large thing on its own. But I think of that utility as something separate from the game itself. The game is just a game. You can do whatever you want with it. If you want to convert your cookbook to hexadecimal just for fun, you can. The fact that it is (broadly speaking) useless, that it will produce no new knowledge, and if anything negative utility in general, doesn't mean you can't do it.

That's the game.

You can also try to play the game to prove the Twin Prime conjecture. That's a much harder level.

This game is scalable to all ages and skill levels, has the best level variety, and can be done with anything from just your personal noggin, to a pencil & paper, to the largest computing cluster in the world. Technically all other games you play are a subset of this game; that may not always be a useful way to think of it, but it is technically true. And while there are a few rules, generally, nobody can tell you how to play it. You want to color pretty pictures? The game has lots of ways of doing that. You want to smash atoms together? The game can help with that. You want to simply count to the highest number you possibly can? Go for it. It's a very popular play with the younger players, but anyone can do it.
yes they are private but that allows them to ban parts of the public and actions of the public e.g. banning people, throwing peopl out for misbehaviour - and that latter could inclde taking photos if the owner wanted.
> Fast forward this year, my (legacy) Google account on which I had most of the photos/videos is now running out of space, so I first reduced the quality of uploaded photos/videos, then completely disabled the backup (I have another cloud backup anyway with Amazon Photos). And then I wanted to stop Google nag and annoy me 3 times a week with the "you almost have no more space in your account, buy Google One ASAP" thing.

You know, when Google came out with Gmail, their top comment was that 'You'd never run out of storage, ever'. That was their advertising reel.

And then, on Android, 'back up everything user-content' is turned on. And these days it's to grab as much data as possible, AND to then nag you to death with "your storage is running out".

I've got all my emails locally. I'm downloading my images, and what few files in Google docs are already copied.

Google is just a corpse being bandied around by advertisers and marketers to be made-believe as real.
How and Why Do Flesh-Eating Bacteria "Eat" Flesh?
> Currently the only field which encourages you to prove things for yourself is maths, and proofs aren't even given that much importance.

Can you prove this assertion with math?
I think the military advantage will me more and more concentrated in technology that is commercially impractical. Things like the Blackbird. Or a nuclear powered aircraft carrier.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if cargo ships start getting approved to use nuclear propulsion in the near future.
Herd behavior.

First everyone over-hired during covid since everyone else was, then everyone started laying them off after since they never knew why they hired them to begin with and everyone else is laying off anyway
Can someone explain to me what problems and solutions this solved
You don't think mainstream self help or therapy uses the concept of forgiveness or breaking self destructive beliefs and patterns? I implore you to tell me what it is you think therapy actually does and contrast it with whatever this newfangled fringe approach is.
Are any peoprietary digital encyclopedias available nowadays? I love Wikipedia and am glad we have it for free but I also know non-free encyclopedias can happen to be much better in some specific ways.
I’ll accept that, but what’s the prevalence of it in the adult male demographic?
Not OP but I use an NVME enclosure with a 4 TB drive in it for my main staging area (I have about 100,000 photos from 4 years on it right now.) This offers fast storage for editing. I highly recommend against the Samsung T7 as it would get hot and throttle way too easily.

I try to rsync the drive to my homebuilt NAS any time I add photos. At this point I feel comfortable formatting SD cards.

The NAS is set to backup to Backblaze using restic every night at 3am.

I'd like to add one more backup into the mix, but cloud storage is expensive.
Sometimes it vacillates between times of war and peace. The gap is usually wider when extended times of peace allow the "war tech" to be developed with the increased funding and secrecy allowed by peacetime.

Sometimes it vacillates with general tech advancements. Tech driven by large bureaucratic structures will still occasionally fall behind what's available on an open market driven by competition and the public's bias toward cheaper goods. In other words, as a country's general economy goes, so goes its war chest... unless it manages a quite large war chest, in which case it can attempt to conquer another country and pillage the economic spoils of that country.
If compatibility is a priority and bandwidth isn't an issue, MJPEG is still the way to go and is by far the most common encoding I see in security cameras.
You’re definitely right that it’s not unprecedented - and as Americans know all too well, even a single gunman can produce a hundred casualties – but there is something worrisome about further reducing the skill threshold and increasing the likelihood of the attacker getting away cleanly.

I think the main difference is precision and anonymity - mortars are noisy and would attract attention, but a drone fits in a backpack and there’s no obvious connection between the launch site and the targets, so things like ballistics analysis and “shot spotter” systems are less effective. If there’s, say, a hotel or apartment building you’re going from needing to check the roof to needing to worry about every window even on the non-facing sides.
The drone is trivial vs building an effective homemade bomb you can drop from a drone.

In then end someone who can make high explosives can trivially kill people, but that’s a non trivial task.
Stable load is better for GPU longevity than cycling between hot and cold repeatedly. Also, lots of mining farms will undervolt their cards for more efficiency. Getting a used mining card is probably better than getting one from a gamer.
> they wheel you into the procedure room, and then you pass out.

This is the bit that a lot of people have a problem with, and there's usually some choices in the amount and type of sedation you get.

In the US they use much heavier sedation than other countries - use of propofol is not uncommon in the US - and it's one of the things that makes colonoscopy more risky than it needs to be.
Link to the paper directly https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.17680.pdf

The system that they describe, Codefusion is interesting because it's a diffusion model for generating code rather than an autoregressive model like most LLM code generators.
This may be an option but seems rather convoluted -- needs a lot of phone menu navigation and inputs-- that practically very few if any must be using it. I for one never heard of it much less seen it in action.

There are areas without reliable mobile coverage... where people who need aadhaar authentication OTPs for their livelihood now, thanks to overzealous implementation of technology, are adversely impacted.

The suggestion is to assume that there are people who cannot use UPI and other shiny new tech, and make accommodations for them to lead their lives, rather than push for all digital and exclude some people.
I think that the amount of free services we got in the last decade is the strongest argument IN FAVOR of dumping. They got there through subsidized services, now they want to fleece everyone, let's see how it goes. My guess is that competitors will arise and gain market share. It's happening to Uber down here in Brazil. The prices are getting too high, Brazilians are migrating to other apps, especially InDrive, a russian based app. Capitalism is great.
The link makes more sense on the left like it is right now.

It's just that single sign on + no info on mobile that irks me. I had only seen the site on mobile, which just shows a login + powered by.

SSO is nice and everything on the net. But everybody seems to want to get all the info they can get. And there's no option to remove for example your name or picture, because apps "require it". Apple solves this better, but some companies detect that and don't allow those email addresses.

But I do have serious issues giving access to ChatGPT.. that's like giving access to my search history.

On a laptop, it looks very good in terms of graphics. Snappy as well!
> This is what IBM and people living off mainframes tell the world all day long, but I think you'll have trouble showing that mainframe's job can't be replaced by a few hi-end x86 servers under cost.

It's been tried many times before, and it never works out. Whether it's system complexity that can't be replicated, or woes from floating point imprecision, it's a hell of a lot harder than people who haven't dug into it think.
I'm a similarly semi professional photographer, and I have to agree. Most photos are stored for decades just to never be looked at again. Sure it might be interesting to retrieve a picture of that random piece of furniture or that car one future day, but seriously how many photos of their dog will people retrieve from storage?

I'm taking pictures everywhere. At the supermarket, on the road, in the kitchen, it's more than words. All these photos are super ephemeral, they will literally expire within 30 minutes. I think it is actually correct to store low resolution copies only, as they are just enough to trigger my own memory. I would gain nothing from a RAW copy of that photo. I would lose nothing from deleting them from the archive, but it's a hassle.

My non-professional photo library is at around 50 GByte, excluding astrophotography projects and photogrammetry runs. It's a really handy size for backups, and it indexes quickly with whatever service. I'm using Google Photos as a dumping ground, but PhotoPrism also indexes quickly.

I'll also note that geotags and a correct clock matter much more for archiving than high dynamic range and raw file formats. "Real cameras" suck for easy archiving. I want to zoom into a map of places I've been, and GPS is way too flimsy to be reliable on my Canon gear.
+1 to this. To add to this, Canada has for years had higher adoption/usage of debit cards relative to the US, and most transactions are handled with tap-to-pay, either with debit or credit.

But yeah. Bank-to-bank e-transfers through Interac are well-used as well. I pay my rent with it. I pay back my friends with it if we need to split a bill, since there's no Venmo here.
I think part of the reason for arduino's success among amateurs is better variable and function names. I have quite a lot of (mostly higher-level) programming experience, but I just have to take your word for it that that's a blink program. The 500 millisecond delay and the endless loop are straightforward, but I have no clue what DDRB or BV(0) refer to and I'm only vaguely aware that PORTB probably refers to GPIO pins.
Yep, you’re right, my bad.
That’s a fair point, if I recall correctly I had three laptops for about 5 years each. And about 7 over 5 years period as I switched jobs and laptops frequently.
>"This shift opens up an ____ opportunity to go after FaceBook."

easy or evil perhaps?
I think, if given an exclusive choice between the two, I would take (much) more reliable batteries over user-replaceable batteries.

10k cycles (~27y) sounds absurdly good - I think 80% of original capacity by 10y would be more than adequate. Basically you never need to replace the battery throughout the useful life time of a device.
Criticizing modern medicine makes a lot of sense if you're a devout Catholic because the afterlife tempers the sadness of death.

For non-believers, though, earthly life is all there is, so reducing suffering, disease, and poverty are much more pressing goals -- goals that might be worth a little alienation.

I would emphasize choice: people can (and do) embrace alternative ways of life, from the Amish to kibbutzim. Similarly, we don't have to drag out our final years: we're free to opt out of medical treatments. You can also opt out of modernity in smaller ways, decisions like not owning a car, not watching TV, and so on.
In a military context, if the invading army is already within the net, both the net and the drones are irrelevant.
Why does youtube have a paid option to avoid ads but not to avoid the violation of our privacy?

Everyone talks about how no one cares about their privacy and just want free stuff. When the world was signing up for gmail or watching youtube, where was the big click to acceopt that explained the (obscenely unfair) trade users were making?

Entitled? Google is the one that feels entitled to our data.
And I'm glad I ONLY have the "free" 15GB plan.

Even getting 8GB of images is stupid hard. Either you get lossy, lose EXIF, Takeout doesn't backup, etc.

And to think people have 1.5TB of data in that roach motel?

I would need something stupid simple like "copy to S3", or "make long URL path with index of links".
Some of them drop anti tank mines, big drones can also drop fairly big mortar round, some fpv drones are strapped on top of rpg rounds

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/10/04/ukrain...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xc687p/quadcopter_...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8PvnhKJEpw
That's confusing, given the description of the show is "The story follows Senku Ishigami, a scientific genius who plans to rebuild civilization."
I visited Australia recently and was surprised to see that many stores (even at the airport) add a surcharge if you pay with a card. I haven't seen that in any other country.
> I will rush less. I wasted so much time trying to get this done in under a few hours.

It's so hard to work on things when you only have a few hours a day to focus on something.
And Africa is huge! It's not like they are crammed in on a small continent. The entire USA including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico etc. is about 25% the size of the African continent.
How to import product thinking to your code
Show HN: A minimal private registry for Terraform modules
If bandwidth ain't much of an issue, can just dump frames to a separate device for encoding, aside, Can't imagine someone using a pi 5 just for camera usage (aside from projects needing cameras)
> Please don’t steal things from other peoples houses.

That is how the country is run.

You can, if you so wish, steal from peoples houses with impunity. The crime will very rarely be investigated, you're unlikely to be caught, etc.

This system of black/white rules that you perceive exists, does not. This misperception lies at the origin of what's trigged your impulse to imagine some threat (which then triggers compassion).

Rather social reality comprises a series of negotiations whose moral content lies in how that delicate interaction takes place. Reducing this down to a chessboard-like system with presumed violent enforcement is itself immoral. It deprives people from living in this negotiated space where morality can take place.
I'm not sure it is all that interesting of a distinction seeing as non-continuous functions can be approximated by continuous ones (basically the entire premise of a digital computer).
No, domain validation should be frequent, so that revoking authorization can take effect quickly, which is particularly important if the domain changes ownership.
I agree OCR for handwriting is difficult.

A few years ago I obtained some scans of records from WWI for my grandfather's unit on the Western Front. All the reports were written in English, but using elaborate 'copperplate' script, which I imagine is very difficult for automatic OCR - it was difficult for me to read as a native English speaker and reader - imagine writing like that in some wet shell-straddled trench.

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

Once tablets are reconstructed, perhaps releasing some kind of 3D scans (raw laser and meshes) for an open competition, with decent prize could be productive (like the prize for the Herculaneum scrolls in the news this week).
Speaking as someone who has teetered on the edge of disability most of my life, so does essentially everyone else. We tie health insurance/access to healthcare to your employer for a few reasons, but I think fundamentally it's because we believe that those who cannot work are undeserving.
The information is spread over multiple comments, I could only link to one comment and thought just linking to the main article would be confusing as the article itself doesn't mention it.
Indian Citizens' ID, Including Aadhaar, for Sale on the Dark Web
The suggestion is to assume that there are people who cannot use UPI and other shiny new tech, and make accommodations for them to lead their lives, rather than push for all digital and exclude some people.
Yes, and yes?

It's kind of inescapable in modern politics, because it's effective at getting people elected and/or making money. It's not the worst way to get elected; certainly better than relying on narrow donor class money. Just .. recognize the limitations of it.
The only time I did that was when I worked at a company that merged with another company that hosted adult entertainment / entertainers. It made for fun HR training sessions. "OK, everyone except him". That was where the fun ended. It was my job to view the websites and there was nothing fun about it as these were the bottom of the barrel. That same company would also take customer executives to strip clubs that were actually sex clubs to get blackmail pictures and videos so they had to lease more servers and racks. That's the least of their bad behavior. I do not miss that place.

Anyway to answer your question, yes. This was in a time and place that it was not too taboo to ssh into a coworkers workstation, set the display to 0 and launch a browser to a extreme fetish site right as their manager is walking by.
> The rules are algorithms and techniques for a variety of problems, such as systems of linear equations, quadratic equations, arithmetic progressions and arithmetico-geometric series, computing square roots approximately, dealing with negative numbers (profit and loss), measurement such as of the fineness of gold, etc.
The Geneva Conventions aren't offering you any protections, so if the infantry is stretched a little too thin you probably can't do much complaining about the "treatment" they give you.
Demystifying the Solar Synoptic Drawing
Bank accounts are a necessary part of modern life in developed and many developing countries, and should be free and readily accessible to everyone.
> Why? This statement seems quite a bit like you're passing a harsh judgement on people like me for preferring partners with a similar amount of sexual experience.

I think exactly because the question of experience seems so easily to carry judgment (in either direction, too few / too many). I don't see how my or their experience should change anything in our current relationship, so if they asked, I would assume some judgment such as you have. And sexual judgment would be incompatible with my values.

I don't even know if my partner had long term relationships before me -- I suspect yes, and I assume they haven't been married. But I don't care about those facts either.
> It's about who's going to pay for those highways

Those who are paying now. And if it's only for emergency vehicles and trucks that bring food to cities (because you are right, cities need them to survive), then don't you think you need less infrastructure? Doesn't seem to me that 6-lanes highways are fully used by emergency vehicles and trucks.

> won't work and will definitely not happen anymore.

It's not black and white, it's a gradient: you can definitely try to move from the right-hand map towards the left-hand one.
I don't think I've ever done more rote manual calculation than for my undergrad linear algebra class! On tests and homework just robotically inverting matrices, adding/subtracting them (I think I even had to do some of that in high school algebra), multiplying them (yuck). It was tedious and frustrating and anything but theoretical.
The hedgehog/fox classification isn't mine, it is Philip Tetlock's. As is the data about pundits showing what the outcome is. See https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/tetlock/.

But I agree that it is not a perfect distinction. For example, Malcolm Gladwell writes on such a variety of things and viewpoints that he can't be a hedgehog. But he pursues a good story over what what is true, and therefore isn't very reliable. By contrast Nate Silver really likes to go to his statistics toolset. But I would call him a fox.

However I think there is something to Tetlock's division. And I think my theory connecting certainty to lacking intellectual integrity has a lot to do with it.
Stimulation of human hair follicle outer root sheath activates sensory neurons
This is pretty ironic, trying to insure AI is "safe, secure, and trustworthy", from an administration that is fighting free speech on social media, and want back door communication with social media companies.
The Digital Euro, Demystified
I have too many pictures to sort through now. I've tried multiple times; I don't have enough time to go through them all. The only way I can find anything is by Google Photos' AI labeling and search, or timestamps.
Passkeys: A No-Frills Explainer on the Future of Password-Less Authentication
The patent offices are likely just used to seeing a steady stream of crap from Apple that is so wacky they just accept it as part of their charm whether from a dead man or not. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple has partners (or their own) planted in the same building to coincidentally wine and dine the patent office execs regularly like lobbyists. There is obviously a well paid set of folks that just file random crap patents from Apple constantly in a hope something, anything hits, and since it's Apple they simply cannot and will not be ignored.

I really can't say I blame them either, look at the lines of patent trolls lined up in West Texas every year to sue them. State of the nation...

I do have to wonder if someone went back to criticize the fact a dead man is the most inventive corpse since 2Pac and Biggie if the patents could be invalidated as superfluous. Yeah right, it's Apple.
They are less reversible the younger you are.
It's by the very excellent artist Andreas Gysin (sort of a portfolio site), he works with ASCII and procedural art. Have a look at the site without the URL parameter on it: https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/
That's so much more readable, even as someone who's read some Illich.
Speeding up Cython with SIMD
I might even be inclined to be part of a singular ecosystem like this if it actually was better. But telling me the experience is better on your browser when it is objectively identical just makes me think of you (the company, and the individual people working on Chrome) as a liar in the best case, and outright hostile/fraudulent in a slightly worse case.
Quite a lot of those millions were account farms which simply got repurposed, maybe with a new name and profile, maybe not.
I wrote malware and got caught
It's a minor step since you already can download a car.

Which you should not do of course :)