skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am Russian and personally I know nobody with the former or the latter experience.

I don't doubt such cases exist somewhere out there. But the prevalence of such revelations is from people re-posting emigrant press, who often do not have any firsthand Russia experience for a few years now.
I think this is right.

There are like 3 animes I wanted to watch on netflix, but they only have dutch subtitles, Trigun had dutch subtitles for like 4 years until they removed it in the netherlands.

I have to play whack a mole with 4-5 streaming services to find out where the show is 'at the moment'.

The tv apps are so garbage.. each company is pushing more and more visual animations crap, it has gotten to the point that I cant even scroll the titles properly.
couldn't open the page using ublock, so there u go: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2024%2F0...
When I quit pirating music, I remember the standard being either LAME -V2 or --alt-preset standard which both are VBR https://opentrackers.org/scenerules.org/html/2007_MP3.html
Thank you for the details. There really is so much at play here not even bringing in the spying.

I've had a question maybe you would know ever since finishing the Rhodes book relating to the initiator. Maybe its a sign of the times the book was written, or maybe purposfully leaving details out, but I had some confusion.

At one point its talks about the gun-style design and how it needed to be a certain size in order to accelerate the bullet up to enough speed so that it does not become critical before the bullet makes complete contact with the target. There was what felt like an entire chapter to speccing out the gun and how fast the bullet would need to travel etc.

Then later it talks about needing to design a foil initiator which would provide an additional source of neurtons to set it off, which would be sandwiched between the bullet and target.

Then what was the worry about the gun size / bullet speed?

This was seperate from the initiator that was needed for the implosion type bomb and what I presume Fuchs helped with.

I am almost positive this is what I read but the book I feel is unclear or states different things at different times about this topic. Its 1200+ pages and I haven't gone back to look, but just wondering if anyone knows the details here.

Did the gun-type bomb need an additional initator or was just shooting the two parts together enough?
I had reasonable experience with structure editors (worked on one long time ago, for beginner programmers) and at least in their naïve form they are a bloody pain to use, and far slower to get information in than a halfway decent touch typist. It's possible some improvements might make things better, but it's really hard to see. Happy to be proven wrong!
But if it works this is one of those “chuck this in and see if you get a speedup” things, a bit like a platform upgrade for Java or .NET or moving to a new cloud SKU. Devs and managers love this kind of thing. No code
just chuck it in and stuff goes faster (assuming that is how it works).
Do you really think any insurance "expert" would look for that?

From my experience unless the car has some kind of self driving stuff they just check with a mechanic the state of the car to see if it is totalled or can be repaired. Unless there are wires going out of the car there is no reason they would even check the os of the dashboard console[1]

[1] I refuse to use infotainment word, it is so unappropriate.
Vinod Khosla Annotations: What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial? [pdf]
FYI: 'fouten' means 'errors'
Do you get limits on how tight the beam can be compared to the emitter size, like with RF and visible?

What about diffraction patterns and other things that normal lasers do?
businesses don't need to be just profitable, they need growth and it can be achieved by increasing nr of users, or prices, or some sort of upselling. As result prices will always increase as much as possible to keep most users but grow the profit
Such works might be quite useful for natural language AI infused code editing as there would be a coherent interface for the AI to give commands to and a smaller room of error (given that the action space is smaller than when a standard text editor is used)
The trick is to never start.

In the early noughties I had saved a woman from being hit by a train: she had been texting and walking without minding her surroundings. That scared me, and I vowed to never become like her.

I got my first and only smartphone in 2020, mostly to get a inexpensive, decent digital camera — because simple cameras that are not smartphones are not made any more. I had been evaluating different models for several months, and mostly been disappointed with how bad the smartphone landscape is compared to computers.
I chose the one I thought was the least bad (Google Pixel 4a).

The biggest problem I have had without a cellphone is with other people who just blatantly make assumptions about how I have/use it.
I had to start using SIM cards in late 2022 only for 2FA to my online health records.
Casey Neistat is used to interacting with people
while wearing Ray bans. People are used to not seeing his eyes.
I wish I had a photo to share, but there's a museum on Bere Island in southwestern Ireland about the island's people and history. It's a TINY island with a few hundred people on it. One of the exhibits shows pictures of how people would gather at the one street corner (I mean, it was a dirt path, not a "street" as you imagine it) and dance and play music on Friday nights until late. And then how that died out after TV showed up.
The bomb threat wasn't even related to Defcon, though.

I heard it both from Dark Tangent and several high level Goons.
I know what it is, but IIRC haven't used it, even a single time.

But I don't think most people around here (Central Europe) heard about it. It's kinda like Baidu in that regard.
terribly sadly, at least 14 years after the video lectures being recorded, this ocw page has been destroyed, which is something i've never seen happen in mit ocw before. https://web.archive.org/web/20210411091327/https://ocw.mit.e... has an archive of some of the information that used to be there. fortunately mit uploaded the videos originally to the internet archive, so probably, with enough work, the work can be recovered. https://ia601307.us.archive.org/22/items/MITHS.GodelEscherBa... has the video lectures, and https://archive.org/details/MITHS.GodelEscherBach has the front end to them

and they're under a cc-by-nc-sa license, so share and enjoy; piracy is always an act of benevolence, but in this case it's even legal

(the mind you save could be your own)
But didn’t the cable TV cost include the content delivery and hardware? You need to add the cost of your internet connection on top of that, plus whatever box you use to play to the TV etc.
> After WW2 we call it a war crime (or terrorism) to mass kill civilians to save military casualties.

We did? Where?

The laws of war have always made allowances for civilian deaths as long as "military necessity" is justified. And they would have to be - there is no way to conduct a war without civilian casualties.

It is true that mass killing civilians for no military purpose is a war crime. So at the extreme ends the answer is simple. But not in the middle.

One can quibble at the margins - how much destruction of military capabilities are justified in exchange for the loss of X civilian lives, but that can never be answered since it's not an objective measure. There is significant overlap between civilians and military when answering such questions - are workers in a factory producing weapons civilians or means to wage war? The answer is both.
>Can an LLM drive locomotion

If it's been trained to, but I'm not sure that's been the focus recently, though I think some research has been done into it. Turns out prediction engines with attention are useful for more than just predicting text; our bodies and brains work on learned assumptions and behaviours.

But certainly I imagine transformer + attention can = learning to walk/perform task. LLM specifically no...because it's trained on language and not motion, it's all in the name. But even then perhaps motion can be turned into language (non English tokens tho) & an LLM still used, I know people are working on funky stuff like that as well.
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Does it have to be the motivation? It's true in either case.
Istanbul please.
Of course. What could go wrong?
One of Spotify's biggest problems is their terrible UI, lacking even the basic functionality. I don't understand how they haven't been able do the bare minimum for 15 years now.
Anyone knows how this compares with Svelte’s approach?
Most SWEs have a tenure of less than two years with an employer, and many other industries aren't much better (or worse depending on your perspective). If you're more than a few months into your career you should expect to have started accumulating connections with people in other companies at a reasonable pace.
> TOOOL still has some of the best workshops and tutorials on the conference floor and usually has some people who'll talk about breaking open Medecos or Fichets to anyone who'll listen.

While you're over there look around for the Tamper Evident Village and we'll happily demonstrate and allow you to try removing Tamper Evident Seals of various kinds.
https://archive.is/aHZX8
I can imagine. For me it's the reason also to not want kids. I want to enjoy my life.

But it's good for environmental reasons to not have kids anyway.
We call each other out: "No phones", in the family and company.
Our advice here [0] is also to stay away from Microsoft itself in the
weeks prior to an election. Large technology companies are not neutral
or disinterested, but rather part of the disinformation problem
themselves.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/election-disinfo/
I'd be less annoyed about this one if they just removed dtrace if they don't want to fix it and replaced it with "echo 'use Instruments'". But that's not the case - dtrace will currently crash your whole system if you try to use it on M2/M3. They also acknowledged it's a bug months ago.
Yes that rubbed me the wrong way too. The author has a flawed understanding of TCP (from the application pov) and confused the DNS header with the TCP header. Apart from what you said about practically all TCP/IP packets on the internet being <= 1500 bytes and thus the reply being effectively delivered in multiple TCP packets, all this is completely opaque to the application layer. The application (DNS server) has no idea how many packets the data it's handing over to the kernel will be split into, what their size is, and in what order they arrive. At the same time, the client's DNS resolver has no idea what happened on the lower layers, like how many packets the data it receives was spread across, whether any of these were lost and needed to be resent, etc. What might happen is that the kernel tells your app that some data arrived, and when you go fetch it, it's not as many bytes as you expected, so you can guess that your data was split across multiple packets and where one of those boundaries was, but that's about it.
Completely disregarding the rights of those of us who want to buy the products and don't give a fuck about this macho fight the EU is trying to pull.
I do this, though using a different term for the station. Mine is called a "key catch" since I also plop my wallet, keys and the rest of my EDC on this shelf that is also fitted to charge my phone.

My trouble is that it's not necessarily the phone I'm addicted to, but screens in general. I have a tablet that floats around the house, and my laptop is never far away, so without the phone in hand, I'm reaching for one of those two preferred devices.

The justification is that I'm not playing games or endlessly scrolling social media. If I'm on my tablet, I'm reading news or a book. If I'm on my laptop, I'm working on a project or learning something.

I view my devices as tools, so any use of them is intended to inform me or further my understanding on something. Still, I arguably spend too much time on all of them collectively and I am not clear if this is healthy or not, but it does make me happier than my actual job or going out into the community which inevitably involves spending money I don't need to spend. Of the people who know me and understand this, nobody seems alarmed by my behavior.

I mentioned that because I deal with substance abuse in my life as a 12-year-sober recovering alcoholic. When we start applying the word "addiction" and it's barbed hooks to things like technology, I take notice. I'd argue that it depends on what you are doing with said device. Doom scrolling? Gambling? Eroding your self-worth by comparing yourself to people on Instagram? Watching vapid YouTubers read listicles from Reddit?

The activity matters...BUT, is the person performing the activity getting some joy from it without harming themselves or others?

It's a sticky subject, to me, but one worth discussing.
Wow, just WOW. The Dystopia has gone too far away in 2024...
Stop the train please, i'm jumping out of it.
Wait, do people get their smartphone out of their pocket or look at it while in a meeting? I am working remote nowadays but pre covid I would have found this rude and that person would have been called out during the meeting and asked to keep attention or leave.

Obviously when everybody is talking from their laptop in a videocall, source of distractions and the lure of multitasking is much stronger.
There was a 42 minute downtime for 0.23% of their user base.

Hardly "never going to happen".
And then there's David Walsh and his syndicate
My kids will be happy to enjoy an empty world. Thank you.
If they hadn't hosted Def Con for the last 20 years I'd agree, but this community certainly isn't new to them.
People more consistently work seriously and assiduously in an office.
I deployed my first non-trivial Deno app to production in 2023. There were some teething issues with learning to keep the lock file in sync, especially in a repo with multiple entry points each with separate lock files. Some of the granular permissions stuff didn't work how I expected, to the point where I almost gave up and just allowed network to/from all hosts. But overall the experience was good, and I have positive feelings towards Deno. I look forward to seeing where they take it.
If HBO and all the other content houses would all go to Netflix and say we'll close down our streaming service and license you all our content, and take our share of a household $60/month, everyone would all make more money, but there's negative infinity chance of that happening; on top of Netflix making their own content, so what's the way forwards? He government could step in and say that online distribution platforms can't also make their own non-self-marketing content, but there's also zero chance of that happening either, so it's a tragedy of commons until someone goes bankrupt, and it's not OnlyFans that's going to be the content farm to fail here, so someones is going to have to buy everyone else until the DoJ gets involved for antitrust reasons, and then we're left with two subscription services (US consumers aren't properly able to count higher than that. Apple vs Google, Democrats vs Republicans, McDonald's vs Burger King, CVS vs Walgreens, AT&T vs Verizon, etc)
Just had a look. Seems like he probably deserved that sentence for the CSAM alone.
Do you like dark scenes?
I have two kids. It's tough. But this kind of "opinion" column on a large network is just despicable.

Kids is the hardest thing to come to life, I call it "life on hard mode". And I've moved across the world. But the gains are immense.

You can bend yourself backward your entire career trying to achieve something that is taken away in a whiff. Your children is a richer investment. When you leave this earth, you're leaving something tangible.

Living a full life is about experiencing life fully. Raising children is a huge part of this. Going to a restaurant twice a week with your partner, when you're 40+ and no kids, will get very repetitive and boring.

People on HN are typically pretty well off. Low social economic couples tend to have 3, 4, 5+ kids. Certain countries with extremely low standards of living have many kids as well.

Look at yourself and be clear about this: we're thinning.

Society needs fixing, not having less kids. Smart people need to have kids too.

If being "smart" is not having kids, we've failed at the game of life!
You know a business is out of ideas when they start lashing out at piracy.

Netflix has a content problem. They lost their licenses for most of the third-party content worth watching, and their own productions are now trash.

Netflix Original was a stamp of quality at one point, but I think they probably saw in the data that cheap content like true crime and docuseries were getting the bulk of their playtime and focussed in on that. However, for many people, that sort of content is not something they'd pay for, it's just background TV to watch while half doing something else, similar to podcasts and YouTube - which are both free.

Their competitors have shows and films that people actually want to watch.
Same reason. I'm not an expert but I don't think taking an 80mph cricket ball on the lips is much fun either.
It was Defcon 6 if I'm not mistaken and someone actually didn't go because of it which is how it became a meme.

Here's at least one source corroborating that[0]:

> "I think it's from around DC6 and is a reference to our only near brush with cancellation at the Monte Carlo for DC4," Def Con spokesperson Darington Forbes wrote me in an email. "I wish I had more to tell you—since it happened seventeen or so years ago my info is murky. Something about a casino mogul preferring we not use the Monte Carlo, threats of legal action."

> @ivydigital DEF CON - cancelled annually for over 20 years

> — Rich Trouton (@rtrouton) July 31, 2015

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/ezvez4/def-con-is-cancelled-...
> It’s not intended to be a consumer replaceable connector.

Isn't this exactly what people are complaining about though? Yes, you can design this to not be consumer replaceable, but would it be that much more effort to just use a more standard connector instead?
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I have heard the name before, but only in topics regarding russia, e.g. news about the Moscow stock market or similar. I couldn't tell you what sort of products they have. I have never used one of their sites/products (at least knowingly). I always assumed it was a Russian tech company having 100% Russian users. Basically like vk(ontakte) is, or what Baidu is in China?
It's both a throwaway quip, and a real sentiment: I think that Deno is not getting any traction, surely not the intended traction expected when it was created (and by Node's creator no less), and it will just keep hanging on in the fringe.

Besides, it wouldn't hurt HN to loosen up a little once in a while. You know, obsessive total adherence to rules is never a good thing - even to the law.
You need therapy. It's not a good idea to explain/justify mental health issues with some external factors. It's all in your head. The worst that can happen if you can't find a job, is that you just wait for a short bit until the economy rebounds. That's life, and it's not the reason to loose sleep.
> It's certainly not the social scene Defcon is (indeed, it replaces that social scene with an enterprise sales hookup scene), but it's definitely not a "totally boring business conference".

It's the enterprise sales hookup thing that attracts most visitors though. The people from our company that go there go mainly for that. They're all VPs and other suits that have no interest in specific vulnerabilities. They just want the free wine and dine and to feel important.

I couldn't imagine going to that kind of thing. I'd only put up with it if it would give me a chance to go to Def Con :)

And it's really the Def Con social scene I'd be interested in. I'm not a vulnerability researcher either, I'm just very informal, I'm not comfortable socialising with business people even though I work in enterprise security. So I think for me black hat would be pretty boring.

What I love about the grassroots hacker conferences is the free sharing of information without commercial strings attached (in fact here in Europe people get booed off stage when they pull out the sales pitch) The presentations not vetted by PR departments. The tongue in cheek remarks against big tech. The activism. Drunkenly running into other makers and making good friends. Exchanging business cards and finding a new vendor is definitely not on the list. I don't normally go to too many of the talks either, especially not the huge ones.
Things I'd like to learn in 2024
The “monetary policy” column of their “economic forecasts” column is completely messed up: for the US they display the upper limit of the federal funds target range (which is currently equal to the discount rate), but for the Euro area they display the deposit rate (which is 75bps lower than the marginal lending facility rate, which is the ECB equivalent of the discount rate).

I know this kind of table isn't the place to subtle discussion about the different types of interest rates, and how they are all different from one central bank to another, but at least compare rates that can be compared instead of picking an interest rate at random!

I honestly don't understand how this could have gone through proofreading…
That's not true. There are a number of obvious instances of it working.

YouTube/TikTok/etc.: The market price is zero, the service itself and much of the content is funded through ads.

Debian/Firefox/etc.: The market price is zero, the development is provided through user contributions/donations.

Substack/OnlyFans/etc.: The market price is not zero and then the content is often available for free anyway, but enough patrons choose to pay to fund its creation nevertheless, either because they don't know how to pirate or choose not to. Maybe this is the same as the donation model in all but the eyes of the law, but in any event there are objectively people making a living from it.