skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rocks and boulders have all kinds of different sizes in general. If the coast/beach area is all smooth and uniform small particles (ie sand) then it would be easy to measure as long as you use a ruler larger than ~10 grains of sand. If there are ranges of particles from 1cm (pebbles) to 10 cm (rocks) to 10 meters (boulders) to 100 meters (rock outcroppings) then the effect kicks in.
Blah blah blah. Could you lay this article out any worse? What are the queries you used to test? I want to try them too. Buried in here somewhere.

Using an adblocker is not expert anything.

That you've defined your own opinion for what some of the results should be blows the thing up.

Searching youtube downloader, many people would be fine with some of the ad covered but totally functional sites that pop up on Google. I use some of them every day for quick conversion tasks. I don't want any youtube-dl result. The average users don't either.

Download firefox? What's that? All the top links are fine? No one's looking at the 7th listing for a simple query to download a program.

Why do wider tires have better grip? .. what, sites like roadandtrack, prioritytire, reddit, some physics and stackexchange sites aren't good enough? they are.

The Vancouver snow report one also. Lots of major news sites. Some weathernetwork and almanacs. All totally acceptable results for a sort of variable question.

blah blah this is just a hate on for Google and a HN/nerd view of the world that the average user is nowhere near living in.
Could you expand this to appliances being measure in amps? Is this the resistance?

In a solar powered system with limited supply being able to power a limited amount of devices - how is that calculated? What is a mental model I can use for that?
The Guardian headline is:

Missile hits Red Sea container ship, US destroyers shoot down two more

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/31/missile-hits-r...

The US (and other nations) are already there.
> But really it’s most powerful in larger enterprises where individual teams may have technical people who have business knowledge but not much much IT power.

It's not just business knowledge, it allows the people who are most committed to project success to do the work.

I think that's the real pain point with IT departments in large organizations. They aren't feeling the pain that made you need the software in the first place.
It's a function of how powerful one's adversary is. Russia is a superpower.
Intentionally downing drones has typically not been causus belli. Iran downed a US stealth drone intentionally and seemed to have made it out with essentially no consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
Labeling (which is typically manual and thus not scalable) is a proxy for comparisons. Two things are the same if they have the same label. The question is how else to encode the comparison information.
That was always bizarre rhetoric from billionaires. You don’t trip and accidentally stand up one of the richest people in the world.

Those men knew exactly what they wanted and spent every waking moment working towards it. Money.

SV earnestness has always been a con.
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Just rewatched this last month. valuable and entertaining at the same time. Monteiro is a king of drama-infused memorable communication and having his lawyer in the room was incredible.
You're replying to the actual author of both the post and the book.
True.

You have put it more succinctly than me. In Geopolitics, 'Might creates deterrence.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_theory
An act of war does not obligate country going to war. And an act of war is not required to start a war. Basically, wars start when in nation’s interest and can spin a reason.

One issue with cargo ships being attacked is that it is only act of war against the flag nation. The three big flag nations have no navies. I wonder if we’ll see more ships registered in countries with navies.

The other complication is that the attackers are Houti rebels. The US doesn’t want to get involved in that conflict cause they have held off Yemen government and Saudi Arabia for years.
It depends; somewhat on the strategic situation, but also the public response. Few would consider a downed drone worth killing over (and those that would tend to be hair-on-fire types). But if something becomes a media circus, public opinion can shift rapidly. Consider for example the absurd freakout over Chinese spy balloons earlier this year - it was a convenient stick to beat the incumbent administration with during a slow news period, so it became The Most Important thing for a week.
Was Fusebox a predecessor to ColdBox?
> Russia is a superpower.

Russia shares some of the land of a previous superpower, and has inherited some of their geriatric weapons of power.
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Thank you for the explaination.

I had to chew on this for a minute or two to put it together. This explaination helped a lot.
The larger debate is way less clear-cut than your assertion, check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_debate#Subsidies and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...

The civilian nuclear industry stemmed from massive military investments, which were a way to subsidize it. "In the United States, the federal government has paid US$145 billion for energy subsidies to support R&D for nuclear power ($85 billion) and fossil fuels ($60 billion) from 1950 to 2016" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies_in_the_United...)

The very PWR reactor exists thanks to the US Army desire of nuclear subs, which paid all associated R&D (Westinghouse then adapted it to the civilian on-shore market).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor#Hist...

Nowadays the sole direct federal energy support "peaked in FY 2021 at over $500 million" ( https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/pdf/subsidy.pd... )

There is no secret here: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/nuclear-power-still-not-via...
https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/nuclear_s...
Nuclear enjoys massive tax reduction

Cost effectiveness will be established after the last hot waste of the last decommissioned plant will be cold. In the meantime any serious accident or waste particle wandering around may induce costs.
They’re not exactly limited to Germany, although sash windows are more popular here. If you want them, just go to a nearby home improvement store and buy them. Search for “Tilt and Turn” casement windows.
I used to work in a Brentano's. Typical retailers will flag any books that have been in the restroom to prevent this.
There are an alarming number of responses seemingly completely unaware of the core thrust of the article (and NYT lawsuit). ChatGPT was able to reproduce and publish significant portions of NYT articles, completely verbatim for hundred-to-thousand word stretches.

It’s not derivative work. We’re way past that. NYT has an exceptionally strong case here and anyone arguing about the merits of copyright is way off the mark. This court case is not going single-handedly to undo copyright. OpenAI has very little going for them other than “this is new, how were we to know it could do this”. So knowing that, the currently trained models are in a very sticky situation.

Further, I don’t see NYT settling. The implications are too large, and if they settle with OpenAI, they will have a similar case pop up with every other model. And every other publisher of digital content with have a similarly merited case. This is an inflection point for generative AI, and it’s looking like it will be either much more expensive or much more limited than we originally thought.

A side effect of this: I am predicting that we will start to see a rise in “pirate” models. Models who eschew all legality, who are trained in a distributed fashion, and whose weights are published not by corporations but by collectives (e.g. torrent models). There is a good chance we see these surpass the official “well behaved” models in effectiveness. It will be an interesting next few years to see this play out.
A few years ago I started getting increasingly worried about my Gmail account being a single point of failure for basically my entire life. Along with Google’s evolution into an evil empire this prompted me to completely excise them from my life. It took a couple of years to transition all my less-used accounts to my new email but the peace of mind is worth it.
I've definitely seen Google do this already: https://searchengineland.com/google-tests-suggested-clip-sea...
I can see what you're getting at and sure, I think there are some parallels. I think the parallels grow stronger if you force your jQuery queries to always be composable. So, no $('.js-fooSubmittButton') but yes $('.submit .clickable .highlightable'). You'd then end up writing generic functions which work against a set of entities returned by intentionally generic queries.

Bevy is still declarative in some ways, though. You create a Sprite, but you don't have to worry about the Sprite's rendering process/lifetime. You just spawn/despawn/update its properties. There's an entire "render world" which is managed by Bevy and is distinct from your app's world. In this way, you're still working through a layer of abstraction prior to rendering, like React, rather than manipulating the DOM directly, and you reap performance benefits by leveraging this abstraction.
This technology is called galvanic vestibular stimulation and I found a relatively recent paper that actually tried to reduce VR motion sickness using it

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9714040
https://youtu.be/z91PZpejFeE?feature=shared

Pretty neat
You can read this the other way. Russia is so inferior to the US that something like the downing of a drone does not necessitate a response. If it's clear that you can and will act when and where you want, then responding to the bellicose actions of a lesser advisary is ... beneath you.
The problem with this sort of logic is that it becomes incredibly easy to bait states into disproportionate responses that end up as strategic failures - either due to bad PR or deploying force against decoy attacks and leaving holes in places that matter.
Shell (and its odd cousin the .BAT file) is interesting because it’s got such wildly different sets of “easy things” and “complex things” compared to almost any language.

Write some ASCII to a file - one character in Bash, 2-?? lines of annoying boilerplate in every other language

Pick the second item in an array - in Bash, a series of random-looking punctuation I can never recall to even create a true array. In any other language, roughly myArray[1]

So I worry that in some cases the student forced to only learn using shell might be bitter once they learned other languages.

PS: it’s funny you mentioned loops as a “do without” — I’d say bash is pretty okay with that — as long as you’re looping over a list of files ;)
>This is true of digital floating point too, chained compositions lose precision.

No. You're thinking in terms of like f64 as maximum precision and how precision is lost in software as you add stuff up. That's a property of the mathematics behind floating point. The mathematical model of floating point is MODELED to lose precision this way, we chose to use this model so we chose this trade off.

The problem I'm talking about is INTRINSIC to the device itself. We cannot get rid of noise in the voltage and it will add up as we compose devices together. This does not happen with electrical gates. You chain a million NOT gates together the output will be correct and clean voltage number equivalent to a HIGH or a Low.

>I’m not sure what you mean here exactly. Most real numbers cannot be represented exactly, and the idea of an exact number in digital integers and/or floating point still comes with a tolerance range. It’s only possible to have an exact number by construction or a-priori knowledge, but not in general and especially not when processing input data. It is possible to have an “exact” analog number, within a tolerance range.

That's probably because you don't understand what it means to be digital vs. analog. In digital TTL you choose ANY voltage between 2-5V to represent 1 and any voltage between 0.8-0V to represent 0. Thus there's an entire RANGE of voltages that symbolize a 1 or 0. The representation is exact because we CHOSE it to be exact.

In analog computing we choose the EXACT voltage value to represent some multiple of EXACT number. Thus 3.49394239045 volts equals some number: C * 3.49394239045. Unless we can exactly ALWAYS get the voltage to be 1V flat we can never really represent the number exact number 1. We can't do this, thus it's practically impossible.

> If you used, say, one analog signal per decimal digit,

Doing this is a form of digital computing. You are essentially setting thresholds to the voltage. Each digit has values 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. You are choosing a range of voltages to represent each digit. Modern computing DOES the SAME thing, but instead of 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 it uses just 1 and 0. We use binary to represent all numbers but it doesn't have to be that way. Digital computers are not necessarily binary.

Reread my reply. I mentioned this, you just didn't get it.

>It is possible with analog circuitry to quantize a signal and/or interpret and have an analog ‘repeater’ that will rectify the signal into the interpreted value, correcting for line noise.

You're not understanding the meaning of a digital computer. Read the first sentence: https://www.britannica.com/technology/digital-computer

The minute you "quantize" your signal you're no longer doing analog computing. The number is no longer continuous as you discretized it.

The "precision" you're talking about with your "multiple signal" technique is achievable not just with multiple signals but with multiple bits. Digital computers can do the EXACT same thing with just 1s and 0s.
I contemplated the same problem and concluded the thing to try first would be probabilistic clustering of snippets, but I haven’t actually tried it yet.
Couldn't you tilt the treadmill to simulate acceleration? Here's a random paper I just found about that: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1501156
Because events never cause wars. Countries want war and then they wait for an inciting event to go in.

The US wants a war with Russia without putting boots on the ground. Ukraine was a convieinient excuse.

9/11 triggered a war with random middle eastern countries that the US wanted to invade anyway.

If Cuba downed a large cargo ship, then the US will have annexed it before midnight. If China downs one in South China sea, the US might keep it quiet because neither country wants a violent escalation into war just yet.

War is premeditated. The inciting event is just the excuse.
MAID isn't a suicide pod, and it currently involves the administration of drugs
> Download firefox? What's that? All the top links are fine? No one's looking at the 7th listing for a simple query to download a program.

They are if the first six results are SEO bullshit. Which is the de-facto state of affairs for Google today: advertising traipsing around as search.
As in "the Might of the USofA deterred Osama Bin Laden from attacking"?

There seems to be a flaw or two in that as a truism.
Wonder why this is getting downvoted. It’s just a statement of fact.
Founder of DronaHQ here - a Retool alternative. would love if you can include us as well in your list. unless its just a list of open source
The military response would look like air strikes either from carrier or Gulf bases. No commmandos required, drones have replaced them.
Even if it controlled your vestibular system perfectly, it unfortunately wouldn't help. You need your sense of balance to stand and walk. If you mess with it too much you will hit the floor very quickly. Physics isn't fooled.

You could imagine supporting yourself with a harness so you wouldn't fall, but certainly you can also imagine that constantly struggling against a harness won't feel like natural walking either.

And there's also proprioception that will sense that your limbs are not moving in the way your inner ear predicts they should. Proprioception can't be fooled. If it could your limbs would get out of sync with your brain and who knows what chaos would result.

Unfortunately we won't be running around freely in arbitrary VR environments until the invention of The Matrix's brain jack. So, not likely within our lifetimes.
ProDOS was the first hierarchical file system I ever used… all the rest made sense afterwards.
Russia is not a superpower or even remotely close to such a status. No country besides the US is currently considered a superpower.
If? That's what literally happened.
Then farmers aren't purchasing water - they are being taxed.
Didn’t Google try this already? It seems useful to me, at least. IMO the next frontier of search is not better hypertext, it’s podcasts, audio, and video.
CFML was the easiest way to get into dynamic, server-side rendered pages back in the day. It was insanely productive and easy for a person cutting their teeth on programming as it was such a small leap from HTML.

I don't know of anything that still ticks those boxes but if you're just looking for (1) easy-ish, (2) interspersing HTML tags and code, and (3) server-side rendered simplicity, then PHP is still a very viable successor.
In content and fact you seem to be in agreement with the post you're replying to, but in tone you act as though you're refuting them.
Ask HN: What would be the effect if the entire Windows OS lineage went OSS?
I'm thinking mainly in terms of what if those massive codebases were on GitHub and anyone could contribute fixes and patches? But it's fascinating to consider other effects.
i learned cold fusion in middle school. this was before stack overflow and i remember that one of the benefits to cfml was that it was highly guessable. i wasn’t great at consulting docs and once you got a few patterns you could figure the rest out with trial and error
IIRC I think it only gave you a fixed number of arrays, too, though I think they could get pretty long so you could probably have done that.

Also it’s rad that you were programming the TI-83 in middle school. I learned TI BASIC in high school for both fun and academics. (I created programs to solve each kind of trig problem we were assigned complete with shown work, with the full blessing of the teacher who could see that understanding was obviously a prerequisite to being able to code a solver.)
Judging by the declaration of war against Ukraine by Russia, it appears an underappreciated aspect of the equation is equal measures of senility and insanity.
i cant remember where i read this, but something about how google ranks site that have google ads higher than sites that dont. makese sense, its evil, but makes sense, thats why we get all this scrapped spam. is there any more info on this?
> The US wants a war with Russia without putting boots on the ground. Ukraine was a convieinient excuse

If that was true, the us wouldn’t be still dragging their feet two years into the war on arming the Ukrainians with air and long range strike capabilities. It took long enough for Bradley’s and artillery to be delivered.
Technology is never a problem. Automatic weapons can also be used in defense. Someone with a knife wouldn’t be able to confront a mass killer with a rifle.

You are talking about mental problem. Do you know what have contributed to mental problem ever since the existence of human being? Isolation and loneliness, which technologies such as telephone, email and yes, social network can help with.

Name any technology that should be banned, and I can give you a reason why it should be not.
MH17 was shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile, killing all 298 p.o.b. with no consequences for Russia.

Russia has flown Bear nuclear-capable bombers over the UK (actually over land), with no consequences [1].

Russia, Iran, and North Korea all trade arms with each other and supply missiles, drones, and ammunition to the Houthi.

Russia invaded Ukraine and deploy weapons from the above "axis" countries.

I don't think a specific individual trigger event exists for a military response. More typically, the West goes to war when energy security is threatened.

[1] My parents live in Cornwall and witnessed this https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/19/russian-bomb...
Precisely. The USSR was a superpower. Russia is a joke.
The driver has to talk to the OS somehow, and they have insane amount of telemetry, might as well use it to some actual usefulness. Always allow a way to "use the old UI" with this approach, but at least then, you can have more uniformity.
Other than the US getting called out in front of Russia and China in front of the UN Security Council:

On 9 December 2011, Iran lodged a formal complaint to the United Nations Security Council over the UAV violating its airspace.

Iran's U.N. ambassador stated in the letter that "My government emphasizes that this blatant and unprovoked air violation by the United States government is tantamount to an act of hostility against the Islamic Republic of Iran in clear contravention of international law, in particular, the basic tenets of the United Nations Charter."
Can someone tell me why Bing, and thus DDG, has switched to prioritizing local results? I'll search the most inane things, like lyrics to a song, and get results for local businesses containing maybe one word in common.

It's most frustrating with phone numbers. I picked up the habit of searching the random numbers that called me, to try and find out if they were possibly important. I used to get a bunch of spam sites that clearly existed to profit off me making those searches.

Both Google and DDG have removed those spam sites, even though they were useful at times. Google will tell me the number is in some random PDF that contains a few of the digits, then no other results. DDG will say the top result is my local police department, something that freaked me out the first few times.
Nice interface!

The instructions could use maybe a few examples on how to make a move -- but I figured it out. The game is tough and challenging, but it's really satisfying when you make progress. Well done!
I thought it was clickbait too, until I realized it was Daihatsu, which is all but unknown in the US where CNN is based. But then I realized that "Toyota-owned automaker Daihatsu tampered..." would work and now I think it's clickbait again.
I'd argue that is actually the hard part of software engineering. Sure, I can learn the basic syntax of a new coding language in a week or so, but learning all the deep frameworks to do non-trivial stuff, conventions, deployment, and how to diagnose bugs can take years to become expert at.

Much of this feels like needless complexity, but its ubiquity in almost every stack points to something fundamental, in my opinion: the classic 80/20 rule. That last, irreducible 20% complexity is where the dragons lie. Expectations for software have grown, and boundless flexibility is table stakes.
Thanks! If you are that "single person" who built Marginalia... hope you are not taking my criticism personally. I am more annoyed by this blog post that uses a few handpicked queries to present generalized long winded conclusions that are completely disproven when using a different set of queries.
It must be some kind of Pizza effect, where they assimilated all the silly depictions of radical groups from parodies. Life imitating art?
Words are one thing, but actions are another. Their demands are basically to end an ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign.
This is the man who was sued to oblivion by Nintendo for modding the Switch. He likely owes 30% of his income for the rest of his life to Nintendo. Did you know he's confined to a wheelchair and has kids?

Consider emulating your next Nintendo game on a Steam Deck and donating the purchase price to Gary. Nintendo will still get their cut.
> site is still working fine

Twitter has had a lot of issues and generally failing as a company at the moment.