skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be possible from low earth orbit but time overhead is, at maximum, 20 minutes. Add in obstructions like terrain and non-ideal look angles and you may be only able to paint a target for several minutes if at all. This would require extraordinary precision and coordination to achieve.

I am comfortable saying that it is realistically impossible from higher orbits.
Russia's Bankers Become Secret Policemen
Russian and Chinese Surface to Air Missile (SAM) systems are really good. Modern versions can detect and target most stealth aircraft at a range of 15-35 miles, depending on radar cross section and electronic countermeasures in use.
Yeah, 1K, 2K, 5K, 10K are all available lighting options. Really, anything less than 1K, and people would look at you with that "ahh, isn't that cute" for bringing out your Fisher Price Baby's First Light Kit. At least that's what one gaffer told me he called the kits from Lowel that had 500W, 750W, and the big light was 1K. Before LEDs and fluorescent lighting, "hot" lights had that moniker for a reason. Having stuff ruined because of the heat of a light source was not a rare event, especially for noob gaffer/grip types.
Terrain following significantly decreases detection range.
iPhone 4

it made me extremely productive (especially learning stuffs)
You can get merge conflicts just as well as rebase conflicts. Especially for squash merges, which really are rebases.
Compile-Time Invariants in Rust
Study: ChatGPT has 'undeniable gender bias' in its views on jobs
Inverse square applies to spherically projected energy. It was directed in this case.
You mean the docs they sent the NRC? That's not a pile of shit. The NRC is one of the most conservative regulatory bodies anywhere in the world, you can't send them garbage. Oklo tried that stunt and fell flat on their face [1].

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/large-lwr/col/auro...
How to boss without being bossy
it's used to describe flavors of angsty dystopia, much as -gate is used to refer to careless conspiracy scandals
"War for the Overworld" is another game, in addition to Dungeons 2, 3, and (just released) Dungeons 4.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/War_for_the_Overwo...
I did it once. Went to Alinea in Chicago. $400/person before wine pairing to give you a gist of the scale. At that level the experience transcends the food. It's all-encompassing. You don't worry about the valet, the restaurant has that covered. You don't worry about your coats; they take them for you. You don't get a jacket ticket.

It almost feels like the servers have ESP. They get you a new napkin, or fork before you even raise your finger (but not after you thought about asking). The food is timed perfectly. Once everyone finishes the course, the next course comes. If there's a conversation about the previous course, the next one miraculously waits until that conversation dies down.

The food is ordered in a way to activate taste buds. It's not just from "lighter fare" to "heavier fare." Salty/sweet, temperature play, texture play; it's all on the table and masterfully executed. There's introspective dishes served in one course, and fun dishes (like candied balloons) in the next.

The food itself is nutrient-complete, so while the portions are ostensibly small, you leave satisfied, and each course builds the hype. There's never a dish that ends up making the last feel "smaller."

You can sit for as long as you want, then when the group decides it's time to leave, the restaurant already has your jackets ready, the car is ready, and everything is in it's right spot. There's no mix ups.

The crispness of the experience made me realize food can be more than just a meal, but ultimately it's hard to define without trying it.
IIRC, poor people have a lot of kids, but rich people have the most kids.

I'm well above median salaries in my state, but actually somewhat below median salary when you consider that I'm the sole earner for a household of four people. And I'm here to tell you that life isn't so hard here slightly below the middle.
> Making AI the business is a joke of a model to me.

I don't think AI businesses are jokes, so long as you're selling a platform or a way to customize AI to some specific need or hardware. AI is a gold rush, and the most reliable way to get rich in a gold rush is to sell shovels.

But if you want to make money from actually using AI yourself, then yeah, you've gotta have a business that AI makes better.
I have the same feeling. It's amazing the amount of garbage that was fed to current LLMs, yet they perform very well. I hope they will become incredible with enough curation and specialization.
I think you're forgetting how we got here. fastaguy88 wrote

> I am not particularly knowledgeable about philosophy as a modern discipline, but taking philosophy courses as an undergraduate taught me a lot, particularly about the limits of knowledge and scientific enquiry.

to which I replied

> The trouble is, we have to take your word for it that philosophy taught you a lot that the rest of us find useful, as there's little Independent verification

Personally, I don't trust anyone to certify that someone else has learned "a lot...about the limits of knowledge and scientific enquiry" the way I trust the FAA to certify (indirectly) that someone has learned aircraft mechanics, or the State Bar of California to certify that someone has learned California law. Do you?
The original game does not work great on modern operating systems and screen resolutions etc. Text sizes, GUI scaling is usually way off in games from this era. Using the "modernized" open source engine gives you a better experience.

There are also improvements to the user interface that weren't a part of the original.

Same goes for many other remakes.
Yes they are useful. K8S is also obviously useful.

Doesn’t mean they are useful for everything.
The BSD version is sort of very recent, for what it's worth -- FreeBSD imported a not fully functional version in 2017 and has seen more work on it in 2022: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commits/main/usr.bin/... , but the default version shipped is still GNU diff3 from ~2007 (before the GPL3): https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=diff3&apropos=0&se... .
> My home router has one public IP and many private IPs. No matter how crappy my router is, it's impossible to address private IPs from the outside except on the random mapped ports.

Only because your router also has a properly configured stateful firewall for ipv4 as part of its NAT implementation. I have a Mikrotik CCR2004 at home, I can enable SNAT without appropriate firewall rules and have any other customer of my ISP on the same subnet send packets towards the WAN interface of my router and have it happily forward them onto my internal network.

NAT is implemented using a stateful firewall, but the mere presence of it does not mean the firewall is configured to reject unestablished connections from outside. IPv6 just exposes such poor configurations more readily.
SumUp backend is built on Go. They use Elixir only for some hardware things. It seems more like a toy thing for them.

Ref: https://www.sumup.com/careers/positions/
>> they don't even use oil to power the country

Well, maybe not in terms of energy, but it definitely "powers" the country in the sense that's where the money comes from.
2. ZFS, jails, stability (although the root reason at the time was "because people smarter than I recommended it"). In hindsight I can see how running some services works better on this system.
> It also increases the cost of every new car.

It can probably be pretty cheap, since it looks like it does not have to detect actual drunkenness. It just has to detect impaired driving. That might be mostly doable with hardware already being built into new cars.
The municipal heating network consists of both cooling and warming networks. Excess heat from, for example, data centers will be used to heat the water. Newer apartments are cooled using cold water from the network in the summer and heated using hot water in the winter. There are also joint power-and-heat plants connected to the heating network which are quite efficient: first the generated heat is used to drive a generator turbine and the remaining waste heat is piped into the municipal heating network. Combined efficiency is way higher than with generator-only plants or heating-only plants.
> You had to write code that you're literally deleting the commit after you added it. Why bother? I'm unconvinced that the history of "do it", "oops fix it" is more useful when doing archaeology than "do it right the first time".

My suspicion is that people are using rebasing to clean up their prior commits as they go instead of just getting everything working and then breaking the work up into commits, if needed. And this is also how they work themselves into horrible knots trying to figure out what they did to hose their branch.
This is a problem with how you work. You're not making atomic commits, you're spreading a logical change over multiple commits. Non-atomic commits are just bad.

Here's an example of a correct way to use small commits: add a new function+unit tests into a library in one commit, then switch existing code to use it in one or more follow-up commits.
Or write better queries. Messing around with postgresql optimizations to cover up for a framework's shortcomings isn't a great testament to django or the application written using it.
1. Desktop which also functions as a server.

2. Centralized documentation, board of directors versus benevolent dictator for life, faster network stack, fewer GNU tools in the base install, ports tree, license.

3. ZFS, Linuxulator, documentation, community, familiarity.

4. Hardware support, especially power management (ACPI, SpeedStep, etc.) on laptops that are not ThinkPads or Dell Latitudes. Wayland.

5. The FreeBSD handbook.

The biggest problem with the BSDs are not the operating systems themselves, but the network effect surrounding GNU/Linux causing developers to completely overlook them, going on to create bodies of code that are not easy to port or in some cases impossible (Systemd, Wayland).
Well, my biggest light might have only been 750w, but I had three of them running. So, a decent space heater. Only these are more useful, as the heat was generated but also made all of that wonderful light.
Pretty cool. Any plans to expand length, add sound, different styles, etc.?
What happened in that case is the FBI went to a different vendor, and they broke into the iPhone either with a zero day they had developed or more likely, they just cloned the phone hardware thousands of times until they could guess the password.
The desire to disrupt almost always arises out of ignorance. I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just that if you know the complex reasoning and all the institutional baggage that explains why hotels, banks, or old-school tech companies operate in a particular way, it's hard to say "let's blow it all up."

On the flip side, if you can explain it away as "they just don't get it and I do," it's a lot easier to act. And the thing is, sometimes, you get good results. Sometimes, the old way of doing business is just a matter of inertia, and the justifications used by others turn out to be bad.

But about just as often, you end up reinventing the wheel or re-learning the lessons that others learned before.
Originally the guns replaced bows, because, despite its surface simplicity, the bow, as a weapon, is actually relatively difficult to make and is very time consuming to become proficient in, compared to a gun.
imo, I think it's a bit of both.

> Further more, people living in different countries kill each other at irregular time intervals, so that also for this reason any one who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror.

It sounds like he's speaking to the common intervals of war during his lifetime. From 1879-1955 Einstein would have been alive for roughly 27 wars that involved the US and there's probably a multiplicative factor there for international conflicts and wars.

> This is due to the fact that the intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce some thing valuable for the community. I trust that posterity will read these statements with a feeling of proud and justified superiority.

The way I read this is that people are inevitably who vote for war. It's similar to the attitude prevalent in the song "Forever Young" by Alphaville:

Can you imagine how we won the war?
Little fascist lady she loves you so
Following her leader, she's getting in tune
The music's played by the madmen

which became

Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders we're getting in tune
The music's played by the madmen

I reason about that as juxtaposed to his comments on his contribution to the atomic bomb:

> “Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would never have lifted a finger.” (1947)
That would be part of it. You'd have to multiply the mortality rate by the birth rate, right?
Front-line needs reliability, but the military has a lot of backend too, and they may well be interested in a secure supply of powerful GPUs running all kinds of AI-type workloads that don’t need to be on the battlefield. Something like continuous satellite surveillance of enemy territory with automated flagging of suspicious activity.
You do understand that you are arguing for more 9/11?

Or you think collective responsibility is something that should applied to others only.

Rules for thee and not for me.
We also have found Marimo very helpful, particularly for bridging the gap between notebooks and interactive UIs.
And again, tell that to Russians, who operate the third in the world by energy production dam, Sayano-Shushenskaya.
See for yourself

> date -d '@1600000000'

> date -d '@1700000000'
Wow thanks! That’s actually really enlightening. So what you’re saying is that someone has potentially paid a RaaS service to attack my site? It does seem odd that they keep trying. Also because my SaaS is quite niche.
if you want to finish the quote it should also be taken in context. the quote is an answer to the question of why people go to war and kill each other
Oh... Docker-based Rust builds are extremely slow in my experience.

I seem to remember that caching was really, really bad.
Making a suggestion isn't entitlement. Maybe reconsider the foul void that accusation came from.
I also lived through the 1980s, but my grandmother cut my hair until I was a teen, and I can't remember what I paid at Supercuts or if I tipped or not.

How many people do you know well enough to know how if they tipped at the barber's? I don't think I knew anyone else's payment practice.
Not being shot down by longer-range surface to air missiles.
Because so much of it was just completely false. Jeff positioned Red Hat as going against the community, which wasn't the case at all. The "bad actors" were squarely Rocky and Alma who just wanted to sell the exact same ten year support enterprise Red Hat as Red Hat themselves without any work. Well, Red Hat said, you want it, you go get it in Stream, which has a 5 year lifecycle.

The only companies that need ten year lifecycles are the same consumers Red Hat caters to with RHEL.

Red Hat is continuing to honor all its licensing terms. It just isn't doing its freeloading competitors any favors. And yes: they're freeloaders.

Red Hat's choice never touched the community in any way. As a hobbyist who uses Red Hat stuff, I'm not using RHEL, and even if I was, Red Hat gives generous licenses for hobbyists like me.

Jeff (and everybody else) jumped on the hate bandwagon. It wasn't kind, it was mob behavior, and it completely lacked any nuance.
I had debilitating sciatica for 4 to 5 months to the point where I could only get a few intermittent hours of sleep every night even with strong muscle relaxants. I worked with a PT for months on stretches and strengthening exercises. A few months in, they off-handedly suggested dry needling, which seems to operate on the same principles as trigger point massage. I gave it a shot because I was open to any possible treatment at that time. Literally one session cured my sciatica. Within minutes, the pain was less than half of what it had been before and by the next morning, it was over 90% gone. It was quite fortunate timing as this was March 2020 and I cannot fathom how I would have survived the fear and isolation of the early months of the COVID pandemic coupled with that pain.
Lords of Nether is inspired by it and in development as well. https://lordsofnether.com/
I mean like a checklist of security capabilities that are enabled/disabled, all grouped together in dmesg. That is cool though, it does help
One case study: Aereo

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/7/18073200/aereo
It's good to see people are still plugging away on the case.
yeah, I think it makes for a pretty interesting and grey area. Presumably it is in the interest of society to enforce the laws we have on the books, or we wouldn't have them. Presumably we would want justice for Hogan.

Im not sure it needs an analogy, but It seems a bit like reporting your neighbor for pouring oil down the storm drain after they piss you off.
The owner can control Trustzone if the device is shipped with unfused OTP registers.

On Raspberry Pi for example, you can write the hash of your own public key to locations 47-54 of the OTP memory block:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberr...

Here's the QuickStart for the entire process:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot/blob/master/secure-bo...

Note that the Raspberry Pi does not have a full TrustZone implementation to protect secure mode memory, etc. But it is a widely available device with good documentation and allows developers to experiment with and learn about the basics of TrustZone architecture.
I think if you're talking about the compiler getting faster at what it does today, how it does it today, that's true. But that's a heavy constraint. If we got support for binary dependencies, that wouldn't be a compiler optimization in the same sense as parallelism is, but it would radically improve compile times for the average project.
Lago – Open-source metering and usage-based billing
Box blur applied twice gives the same result. It will quickly converge to Gaussian.
Yep, Apple had nothing to do with it. They do hand over iCloud data (which now can be E2E)
Did you read the article or are you responding to what you imagine it says?

> a whole toolchain of specialized models, … all of these specialized models are combined with tons of just normal code and logic that creates the end result

They are not referring to a toolchain as “write a compiler”.

They are referring to it as “fine tune models with specific purposes and glue them together with normal code”.

It’s a no-brainer that any startup that doesnt do this is a thin wrapper around the openAI api, has zero moat, and is therefore:

A) deeply vulnerable to having any meaningful product copied by others (including openAI)

B) lazy AF now that fine tuning is so simple to do.

C) will be technically out competed by their competitors because fine tuned models are better.

D) therefore, probably doomed.

> The most important thing is to not use AI at first.

> Explore the problem space using normal programming practices to determine what areas need a specialized model in the first place.

> Remember, making “supermodels” is generally not the right approach.

This is good advice.

> The real secret is to already have a viable business that AI can subsequently improve

You realise that what you said, is the equivalent of what they said, which is: use AI to solve problems, rather than slapping it on meaninglessly.
> What's particulry bad about the author's example is that it's arguably completely unnecessary for the task at hand.

I entirely missed the compiler on the first read through and I don't know why so many commenters are fixated on that specifically. That wasn't what the blog post was actually about.
Since when does the price of a product relate to the cost of the BOM?

I mean, for many Intel CPUs, they're literally exactly the same products off the manufacturing line that are just binned differently, despite significant price differences in the market.
That's true, but merge conflicts are the easiest possible conflicts to resolve. Main branch and my branch both changed this line, no matter what, you must resolve that conflict.

Rebase conflicts might be just as easy or they might be an order of magnitude more complex and confusing. They'll never be easier than a merge conflict.
> Actually not true - it’s mostly grocery store employees.

I would not have guessed that -- Whole Foods's website indicates 105k+ employees. Am I missing a whole other order of magnitude?

https://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/about/
> It's very hard to screw up, unlike v6 firewalls which often have bad defaults or possibly don't work as intended.

???

Firewalls generally have inside and outside: default-deny any new connections from the outside and you're done. This is how all CPE gears ships out of the box.

> Especially when one of the other goals of ipv6 is to enable p2p applications, which might lead to permissive defaults.

For this you need hole punching, with on CPE gear is done with UPnP and/or PCP, the exact same protocols that are used with IPv4 NAT. (But of course applications also have to futz around with TURN/ICE/STUN if there's NAT.)

> No matter how crappy my router is, it's impossible to address private IPs from the outside except on the random mapped ports.

When I was still with a residential ISP that did IPv6 this was the exact same with all of my home devices behind my ten+ year old Asus.

Further, because you only have one public IPv4 address, someone can scan just that address to see which ports are forwarded. People regularly scan the entire IPv4 address space: 2^32 addresses is not a difficult task.

With IPv6, they'd have to know the IPv6 address of your service that you had opened to the public. If you hadn't advertised the address publicly, an Internet rando is not going to find it: good luck remotely scanning a single /64 (never mind a /60 or /56 that many ISPs hand out).
Marimo is an incredible tool and makes data come alive with zero effort!
I would argue that tech boomed because the (broader) economy was bad. The Fed interest rate was ~0% from 2009 through 2016, due to the long shadow of the Great Recession, and then again from March 2020 to early 2022. That made investors look for unlikely bets on long time horizons, which fueled VCs and big tech, which created the industry we know today.
What if we make the same game with bikes?

Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX
In an absolute sense, I can talk about anything as long as I am willing to muck through the mud of low quality noise.

In terms of having actual discussion, sneak laid out a good range of topics that quickly get derailed in flame wars (IME). I'll personally add homelessness and mental health as a few more very touchy topics.

I know high quality, nuanced discussion isn't a 1st amendment right, but that's what the other half of the conversation wants while most argue with the strawman half that wants to be racist/sexist online.
Maybe - depends on how secure enclave is built. It may have hardware defined limitations on # of tries for the passkey and no way to circumvent that in firmware even.
How five researchers fared after leaving academia
Automation of most jobs basically solves the problem with progressive UBI or social welfare policies.
Not really. Solarpunk is utopian, steampunk isn't angsty.

If anything it just describes aesthetics related to technology and energy in a sci-fi setting, that may or may not have political undertones.
I don't know; my wife is limited to primarily these things[1], and she was always asking me why her computer was so slow; she refused to close most of the open apps or browser tabs for various reasons.

I bought here an air with 16GB of RAM and all of the complaints have gone away.

1: Though s/Facebook/Pinterest/, and occasionally a non-word office app open.