skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The merchant ships are also civilian! The current attacks are deliberate attacks on civilians.

I must have missed the part where those civilians couldn't take the Cape route. Also, saying that the West does this in the interest of a couple of dozens under-paid Filipino or Eastern European sailors and not because it's freaking out about a few percentage points added to the transport costs of the Chinese dildos and EVs being brought in by ship from China is beyond parody.
Or a techno-distopian space sci-fi movie ;)
You can manage/terminate individual autopay/linked merchants at paypal. It's at the bottom of the settings>payments page, follow the automatic payments link.
> I think nobody in my country would say going out to eat is better than eating at home.

You haven't eaten at a 2 or 3 star restaurant then. They use ingredients you don't have access too, using techniques you can't use at home and pair them with wines or juices you haven't heard about.

However good you think your home cooking is (I think I'm a fairly good cook), you don't come to the knees of a chef with such a restaurant.

Yes, they are not cheap. But neither is buying a bigger house.

And if it's about getting together, who cooked the food doesn't matter. Or even get together without food, that works too.
If ever an article needed an artist's rendition.

I'd love to see the massive jaw structure to see how afraid I should be for my toes if some crazy billionaire decides to do a Cambrian Park. This worm is about a foot long after all.
I think Ukraine itself is a feint and soon there will be Russian paratroopers dropping all along the west coast. The only hope we have is for ragtag groups of teenagers to rise up and fight using guerilla warfare style tactics.
It's not about saving face, it's about the economic and deterrence consequences of the naval blockade that is being attempted.
I'm currently running CP/M, on a Z80 single-board computer with 64k RAM.

Compiling a simple snake, or tetris game, takes about two seconds. CP/M with turbo pascal is pretty fast.

I started my journey with ZX Spectrum BASIC, then z80 assembly, before jumping to MS-DOS and x86 assembly. Learning C, and other languages, didn't start until my 16-bit days.

(Though I have a memory of receiving a FORTH system for the ZX Spectrum I don't think I did anything useful with it, or fully understood it given that I was about 15 at the time.)
Microsoft is just aiming to revive their monopoly but this time through AI. Beware. You think Google is bad? It is. But wait until MS can get their hooks into you with AI products that know just about everything about you and that tattle your every action back to the MotherShip in order to make it that much more sticky.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240104052617/https://news.ycom...
Aliens of NY – Finding Love in the App
> It's broken in an adversarial situation: given the hash of evidence-file A, it's possible to construct a file B that gives the same hash.

No, that's a second preimage attack. MD5 is safe against preimage & second preimage attacks.

What MD5 is not safe against, is a collision attack: you can create two messages/files with different content, that end up having the same hash.
The "totally different set of activities" and much higher effort also means that it often just doesn't happen.

The same problem happens with car sharing: If you have the car in your driveway, using it is trivial. If you add booking a rental/shared car, going to the station, checking it for damage, ... a quick trip turns into a major chore.

And even if it may be overall cheaper to rent as needed than owning the "overkill" solution the whole time, it won't be much cheaper, because renting is ridiculously expensive. Short time rentals and car sharing around here are typically $50-100 per day and/or not that expensive per time but $0.50 per km which makes it prohibitive for longer trips. You can get an OK used car for a couple thousand and it will cost you way less than that in maintenance.

Self-delivering self-driving cars could alleviate at least the hassle (since you'd be able to reserve a fungible car from a citywide pool, for pickup and return at your door), although the cost aspect will likely remain.
I have realised that when the ratio of the upvotes to the number of comments for a post on HN is high, the probability of the post being good is high.

This one is a good example.
Having a vacation home is incredibly uncommon and privileged compared to a huge population that can't even afford a primary home that they own.
An improvement to the alternative which was in the realm of what, a few kelvins or something?
I like the look of that building. I don't care at all that it may be haphazard in architecture history.
Very nice, what are you running, one of Ciarcia's boards or something else entirely? And what do you use for mass storage?

When I was in 8 bit territory the best I could get was 360K floppies and running any kind of serious compiler required multiple floppy swaps to get the passes in. 6809 with 64K RAM was the best 8 bit system that I had, the next best was a BBC Model B with a very much maxed out Solidisk (more than maxed out, we ran more banks than were officially supported).
Origins of J
> Someone (probably a sysadmin) showed me vi. I thought the whole concepts of modes was stupid.

I couldn't agree more. I've never understood vim, I just want to edit text, why turn it into a complicated task in which I must remember a thousand shortcut, and the same shortcut does a different thing in each mode.
The rfcs all exist with names still on them, you can read them too. No stone tablets involved.
Scientists turn whisky-making by-product into fuel for the future
Python Rgonomics
Scarblac's mentions a company that only has 15 developers. That means time spent on internal tooling like, say, improving the CI system has direct benefits for the other 14 developers, all of whom probably report to the same boss.
Thanks for that link. I think he's correct, no-code is dead. What he hasn't made clear in the article and I think is implied is that low-code is the future.

"They have to re-create their own (usually subpar) versions of IDEs, version control, code review, integration testing, and more." - Our solution to this will be to allow users to use actual git as the input method. i.e. Coder sets code in git, gets reviewed in github or similar, merged and released. Now the edits will need done in the UI initially but where possible code will be exposed sensibly. e.g. SQL queries written will be visible. Many other tools are beginning to do similar.

An interesting conundrum to this. If AI can be used with no-code OR with low-code does it matter.
Title is misleading. It is saying growth of market has slowed. EV sales are doing really well, considering interest rates.
And not gigantic. These headlines are becoming tiresome.
I've got some bad news for you...
Room-temp superconductors would make magnetic confinement fusion a looot cheaper and smaller, in turn making energy production easier as well.
While light travels pretty far; it doesn't travel perfectly inside the fiber. So over time you lose all the light.

This can be trivially prevented by have amplifiers (analog) along the long cable so that you boost the signal's light level. However now we introduce another problem where the our nice on-off-on square wave starts to look like a gaussian distribution and as it continues to degrade it becomes hard to determine a 0 from a 1 (or say 00 from 01). So instead of amplifying you have a repeater (digital) that re-transmits the original signal (assuming it can read it correctly).

Why not just plug the amplifiers and repeaters into the grid? They probably do; it's just there isn't a grid underwater.

https://www.synopsys.com/photonic-solutions/product-applicat...
I worked at Microsoft. I left because they weren't like me.
Tangential: I really liked the glitch remix of U Can't Touch This by Rude Ass Tinker[0] way back whenever that was (15 years!)

There was also one of Its Getting Hot In Herre (can't find a link) and Daft Punk's Derezzed[1] - which is more of a standard remix than glitch, and I like it as much as the original

The first two manage to stay true to the source material, whilst also being very annoying in creative, and therefore entertaining, ways.

[0]:https://youtu.be/iT797Sw6L6Y

[1]:https://youtu.be/ejwwxJQF8lw
Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back 'silly measure'
Israel is also bombing refugee camps in the West Bank right now, destroyed water infrastructure last night. Hamas isn't in the West Bank. A few Politicians are criticizing Israeli politicians openly talking of complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza, but tacitly condone the actions.

Terrorists aren't just a fixed group of people, and studies and common sense is that widespread and arbritrary attacks on innocent people increase resentment. It's like an employment program for war mongers and war profiteers. The civilian populations of Israel and the US also don't benefit from this, in addition to the innocents in Palestine Israel as occupying force is obliged to protect under international law.

> The only effective strategy to prevent civilians from being thrown in arms way

... is to not do it actively. Obviously. Otherwise, preventing the harm to innocents can be ruled out as a motivation and justification.
Google to Disable Third-Party Cookies for 1% of Chrome Users
The Houthis are very much independent of the I-P mess, and same for all Iranian influence which is based on local Shiite militia - with their own reasons for existing, like 'spreading the revolution'.
Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search
It depends on your business and your clients. Maintenance in the form of compliance always sells, albeit begrudgingly. If maintaining various compliance requirements is required (like DoD), then maintenance budgets are usually flush with cash.
Where in the world does it take 15 minutes to fill up a tank of gas? You change your oil every 3 months? Are you driving 20,000+ miles per year? 1 hour per month on ICE problems? What are you driving, a 1985 Pontiac Skylark? My parents' 2003 Camry has never had a single mechanical problem.

Sometimes you just want something and that's OK...but your calculations are not based in reality.
That's probably true in the US. Not around here, in a semi-populated region of Europe. It's far shorter to somewhere to charge than it is to a gas station. There used to be lots of them, but they started to disappear even before EVs were a thing. For me the nearest one is quite a bit away, through a toll booth even.
afaik -150f or at room temperature at millions of earth pressure
SEEKING WORK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

3+ years working as a Data Analyst/Generalist (foodtech/marketing/ecommerce/livecommerce/liveshop) + 6 months working as Product Owner

Technologies: google bigquery sql, firebase data, postgresql, google data studio, python, pandas, google cloud function, google cloud run, etc.

I can perform some machine learning as well - I'm not a specialist, don't have fluence and I'm just an enthusiast in the following (however, had professional experience in all of it): sklearn, numpy, prophet, gaussian mixture models, recommendation systems, clustering, forecasting, NLP, speech recognition, GPT-4/OpenAI API, etc.

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You can imagine how this came about. Nadella issued a decree that every division has to come up with an idea of how to integrate AI into their product. The keyboard people thought they would add another key. I dread to think what the mouse designers are planning.
This is the same story as in the Wall Street Journal today: https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-is-finally-killing-cookies-a...
But the framerate of a CRT is surely limited by the decay time required for the phosphor to stop glowing. I suppose this could be mitigated with a weaker beam for each higher framerate frame...but then you'd get a dimmer image.

Though after looking it up: seems hard to find, some quote as little as 1ms, but the general trend is towards 4-5ms, so 200fps in theory. Learn something new every day.

I suppose in that case, then it really just comes down to people having fond memories of lugging their CRTs to lans, but not wanting to re-enact it when we have great >=27" 144hz 4k monitors that are also like 10mm thick :p

I couldn't imagine how big and heavy a CRT with similar specs to modern displays would be!
The limitations of "I only hang out with friends in businesses" is still sad to me. It means:

No offering your spare bedroom when someone drinks too much, no communal potlucks, no gatherings when businesses are closed...

Where you invest your resources speaks volumes about your priorities in life.
The prices are usually set mich higher tho. That app that costs 5$, for which the user perhaps expects an update 5 years later won’t move to a subscription model for 1$ per year, but probably 1$ per month. Over 5 years that’ll be a tenfold increase.
Another one I would love to see on more grocery shelves is cardoon.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-clean-cardoons-2394986
> I'm not conflating "electric vehicles" with "electric cars".

My mistake!

To add a bit more to the discussion. Larger adaption of motorcycles instead of cars in cities can also reduce the pollution from public transport. Nothing spews more exhaust than a bus stuck in traffic. Motorcycles are also a good complement to public transit, since you can get to a station or terminal that is far away on your motorcycle and easily park there. Car parking needs much more space. In many cases it is better to get to a terminal that has express public transport by your own means, so that you don't have to live by the local bus schedule and wait for the slow route to the terminal.
> 30 minutes (a much more usual break on a long 3 hour trip).

I am fascinated by this comment, because I don't consider a 3 hour trip to be particularly long. Certainly not long enough to require a half hour break in the middle of it.

That said, "range anxiety" isn't the reason that I won't buy an EV at all. Most of my driving would be well covered by EV ranges, and I'd be fine renting a car or using other transportation methods for the occasional long trip.
Good to have more proof of the changes that people have been talking about for some time. My wife has/had long covid - she's over her worst but as this says she finds exercise exhausting - which frustrates her immensely as she was working out 4 days a week before covid and the fittest she had ever been.

But the bigger frustration was continually being told it was all in her head and the dismissal of her symptoms by some doctors (and by random online).

Just hope this can lead to treatments and ways to mitigate damage in future long covid patients.
> In strict mode it's no longer possible to "walk" the JavaScript stack. Many implementations used to implement some extension features that make it possible to detect the upstream caller of a function. When a function fun is in the middle of being called, fun.caller is the function that most recently called fun, and fun.arguments is the arguments for that invocation of fun. Both extensions are problematic for "secure" JavaScript because they allow "secured" code to access "privileged" functions and their (potentially unsecured) arguments.

This affects V8's stack frames as well [1]. Is this related to the principle of least privilege? Can someone explain what specific vulnerability could result from allowing "secured code to access privileged functions and their (potentially unsecured) arguments" in Javascript?

https://v8.dev/docs/stack-trace-api#:~:text=strict%20mode
I mean bad sugar, one glucose molecule (not so sweet) plus one fructose molecule (very sweet), like HFCS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup

Fruits and vegetables have fiber, its a different story.

By the way he goes on talking about diet soft drinks, and explain that they are also bad, you produce insulin anyway.
There are good reasons to discard the best runs. If you think of your system as having predictable behavior that's slowed down by background processing happening on the machine, it might make sense to use the best run. But if there are any intrinsic sources of non-determinism in the program (and it's far more likely than you might think), taking the best time is likely to be unrepresentative.

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2019/minimum_times_tend_to_mis... is a good piece on the subject.
As far as the US is concerned, there are no stricly "bad" locations for solar. Even using them in Alaska makes sense.
I checked gas prices in Germany, which I'm fairly sure are higher than in the US, around €1.8 per liter. That makes it about 270l of gasoline.

With the average fuel efficiency in Europe, I'd say the average car here uses about 8-9l in a mixed driving regime (town/city + highway). So that would mean about 3000-3300km per month, 36000-40000km per year.

That's a TON of driving :-O

Edit I:

Though I imagine in the US we're a lot more likely for the fuel efficiency to be closer to 15l/100km (F150 or something), so those distance numbers go down by 60% or so :-)

Edit II:

Oh, I forgot the cost of gas in the US, so nevermind. Gasoline is about 60% cheaper in the US so at the end of the day... the distance numbers do end up closer to 3000km per month.
No data, just an intuition about being closer to the power centers.
Yes. This is already done. It's how almost all submarine communication cables currently work. Most long-distance fibre links do not use electronics to regenerate their signals.

They use optical amplifiers, which take light at one wavelength and use it to intensify light at another wavelength. They're much like lasers (technically I think they count as optically-pumped lasers?), and they turn on from a very small input signal, effectively reenforcing it.

This can happen across multiple signals, on different wavelengths, in parallel. Like a broadband radio amplifier, it boosts everything across a large working bandwidth. There are even optical compressors (also powered by light), which speed up the baud rate of signals. That way a slow electronic system can produce the original pulses, and then they can be compressed to faster than electronics can work with, and then multiplexed with many other signals at different wavelengths, and this whole composite thing is sent down the line, amplified without decoding along the way, and then finally the whole thing is reversed at the other end.

This is the trick behind how fibre links are so fast, considering there are no electronics that can handle data serially at those speeds.
It's the Tetris version I still like the best. I still play it from time to time. In a dedicated Windows XP virtual machine, since 64-bit Windows doesn't play nice with 16-bit programs.

Indeed, I consider it a disappointment when I don't succeed to turn the score negative. When I'm in the right state of mind, and have enough time, and a bit of luck maybe, I can go from positive to negative to positive back to negative multiple times; I've never kept count, but I know of some instances where I've played a single game for over 45 minutes at least.
The transmitter module; https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/AFBR-POL2120-DS
Why would anyone buy a used Tesla when 1st buyers already have issues getting dying batteries replaced?
A good example of why AI favors big tech incumbents. They have all the distribution advantage and can now natively integrate AI into their products.
I'm generally someone who sees honesty as a virtue and have always been fairly open, at work and in my private life. I'm curious if you can expand on this a bit - i.e., why is it a disadvantage and what sort of pitfalls can it lead to? I've been in analytics for a few years now, and it seems like it has mostly been an advantage for me, but it's certainly possible I just don't know what I don't know.
I think that has happened to some extent. Compare a 2008 smartphone to a 2023 one at like price point (or even cheaper); the 2008 one is a pretty fragile flimsy thing by comparison, generally (likely not even water resistant). Of course, smartphones benefited from _massive_ scale.
Sure thing. This is 540mW and looking at https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/36495/27147

> headphone jacks typically provide only 10-20 mW of output power.

microphones draw even less. A handful of mW is plenty to drive even an ARM Cortex M0 not that you need something that complex.
1. You are trying to sell software to someone that often loves writing software themselves.
2. You often can't convince them that they could NOT recreate your product easily. They will pick a tiny subset of functionality and say "oh I whipped up this demo that does 90% of what we need last week".
3. They don't care about the maintenance cost of self-written. In some cases that's their job security.
4. Even if it makes them 50% more productive, their hours or pay won't change.

This is why the "best" products are often in boring areas OR have a unique platform advantage. Think of paypal/stripe.
but its not just MSFT doing this. It's literally everyone. Google had such a strong position for so long, and LLMs so suddenly breached that position, that everyone is racing towards the LLM future where they have as much data as they can get their hands on. Google, apple, microsoft, etc.
A capacitor would be useful if you need a spike of higher power. If it's the only or you have you will make it work.
I guess that makes sense. Level 1 and 2 managers are not really closer to power centers despite being higher in the org chain.
A good example of where INT might make sense could be a table of a relatively set size, where other tables with massively more data had a foreign key to it.

No chance of overflow, but as a BIGINT it would take a ton of space elsewhere.

Even then though, it’s potentially not worth it.
Depends if that diplomatic leverage is real. After all, China is more than willing to fill in the void for any future demands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/magazine/palliative-psych...
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Is that a fair assessment though? I mean, the West has a great deal of failings and hypocrisy and books can be filled but it's also full of people who do value human rights and have effective political means to apply counter pressure.

Unfortunately it seems that humans just aren't equipped with the proper intuition for how to handle the behaviour of enormous masses of people grouped in societies. It seems that we apply the same moral intuitions used for individuals, judging "the West" or "Muslims" or "China" as if they were a single person with a single unified mind.

Each society hosts a variety of people with different individual attitudes and values, and each society produces and consumes a different mix of ideas some of which may be beneficial or problematic (both domestically and Internationally). Ideas like exploitative capitalism or jihadism or whatnot; powerful ideas that have real effects.

Yet people are people and have far more things in common between each other than what our instincts prime us to think.
It doesn't work like that. Greenhouse gases don't stay in one place.
This only works in pure free markets, which generally do not exist.
What's the Copilot shortcut on a Surface tablet?
A random board I came across by accident - low production run, but decent despite that.

The board uses an USB-stick for storage, formatted as a FAT filesystem which makes exchanging files between this and another system easy - though of course you can transfer files over the serial port.

The biggest issue is that the board has only 62k of RAM so I'm stuck with CP/M 2.2, rather than 3.0 which requires paging-support. Still I can run infocom games, BASIC, Turbo Pascal, and other retro things.
> But wait until MS can get their hooks into you with AI products

Is this already priced into their stock price ?