skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DJI drones are ubiquitous on both sides in the Ukraine conflict. They have excellent cameras and long flight durations, which make them an ideal aerial observation platform. The battlefield is a very different place if you can't hide behind terrain and have to assume that if you can see the sky, then you can be seen by the enemy. These drones have drastically improved the effectiveness of conventional artillery, because you can seek out targets and get real-time reports on exactly where you shells are landing. Consumer/prosumer drones are vulnerable to jamming or being shot down, but they're also cheap enough to be essentially expendable. Ukraine are reportedly losing 10,000 drones a month, but that's a bargain for what they achieve on the battlefield.

DJI drones fitted with grenade-dropping mechanisms have been used extensively and still see some use, but DIY FPV drones are now the preferred offensive weapon, used in a kamikaze role as a kind of cheap guided missile. They're cheaper, faster and more agile than the DJI drones. A good FPV pilot can hit the weak spots on a moving tank, or fly through a narrow opening to hit troops sheltering in a bunker. They're invariably used with DJI drones in hunter-killer teams, with a DJI drone acting as a spotter for an FPV pilot.

The sound of a DJI drone is known to everyone on the front line and it means exactly one thing - that you need to find hard cover now. If you can hear it, then chances are that it has spotted you, the pilot has passed on your coordinates and a kamikaze drone or an artillery shell is already flying towards you. If you ignore it or take pot shots at it, then you're gambling with your life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjsemcB7I9o (subtitles available)
Computer Vision Challenge: Validate Detections in Rows and Columns
Automated algorithms based on user-generated flagging or
subscribers count is not an excuse for censorship and bans
Googling OTP it Erlang comes no 9 in the results. The first three are One Time Password. I think there should be a rule to avoid unexplained abbreviations unless the meaning comes up easily in Google.
As Vulnerability Research is my area of expertise we are finding new attack vectors all the time. Remember with new technology and abstraction you introduce new potential security issues that can be used to subvert other means of protection. It’s a tit for tat non ending cycle. That being said exploitation of consoles and phones has become quite difficult. Enough at least to make me move to embedded security as there is more work to be done there..
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As someone who dissed GraphQL for a long time, Hasura/Apollo are in a really good place now, the amount of code you don't have to write and the performance/features you get for free are really compelling. The setup isn't conceptually simple, but it sure does keep your codebase lean.
I guess that the FSB has some kind of "kompromat" on fake tony stark?
I usually also use Cloud Run for running my containers. But I use Cloud Build instead of GH Actions. I'm curious, what's your reasoning? I prefer my repository to just hold code and run build actions close to where it's deployed.
This is similar to what people found when they went back to World of Warcraft after it introduced an automated "dungeon finder" that matched you with people doing the same content across multiple servers. You had no real social interaction, because you just queued for your role with the tool, got teleported to the instance immediately, did the content, then left. Because you were never going to talk to these people again, you had no real incentive to "meet" them properly, unlike when you were doing public (but admittedly clumsy) "Looking for Group" channel pings/organization.

Also, it's important to realize when going back to remasters/old games how much less distraction players had back then. Because of the prevalence of free-to-play games on phones/Steam, or the immense backlog people have, or the OTHER "lifestyle, log in every day" games people have, they aren't likely to be sticking around with games as long as they did before. A game like Diablo 2 could be "your game" for the entire YEAR because of how much content you had, but also because you might not be able to afford another game until Christmas/birthday. This is also what has kind of killed custom content: people made Starcraft Brood War or Warcraft 3 custom maps that became their own games (Dota, some Tower Defense variants) because they needed to extend the value of the games they were playing.

That isn't the case now.
Ah yes, they are great if you messing about. Not so great if you have crucial business server with them.
This seems like too much effort has been put into it for it to be a purely satirical exercise, but I really cannot see why anyone would prefer to use this within Python, rather than (say) reaching for a proper type-safe functional language and either using that directly, or calling out to it from Python code.

As a person who teaches functional programming at degree level, this is the kind of thing that would put people off FP before they even get in the door. It is obviously less ergonomic than standard Python, and the code you end up with is no safer or more abstracted than what you started with.

That said, if the authors really do think it's a better way for programming in Python, and it works for them, then more power to 'em.
Related:

"Use natural language to execute SQL queries":

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-kernel/use-natural-l...

"How to Convert Natural Language Text to SQL using LangChain":

https://www.gettingstarted.ai/tutorial-on-how-to-convert-nat...

"Text-To-SQL":

https://paperswithcode.com/task/text-to-sql

Google Search: "Natural Language to SQL":

https://www.google.com/search?q=Natural+Language+to+SQL
I have an ipad through which I subscribed for Apple arcade. I don't use it / play at all on it and there was recently an email that price is going up. Sure, I'll just cancel subscription I said. I don't have my ipad on me, nor any other apple device (I don't use them anymore), nor windows. I have linux machines and android phone. Ok, so how do I cancel subscription? icloud login? no. subscription place of sorts? it wants me to install itunes, which I can't.. ok, no. After googling around, turns out there's actually no way except to call Apple in USA or wherever. I'll just wait a week untill I get a hold of my iPad and Apple won't be seeing my money for a long time. Disgraceful to say the least.
They have VPS cloud offerings similar to DigitalOcean as well, with no setup fees.
Tofu dreg coal plants? Maybe
I don't think that's necessarily true.

Regardless, corporate tax avoidance is well documented. Suggesting that because they avoided it once the benefactor needn't pay meaningful tax on receipt is borderline facetious.
Excellent, I'll email you later on tonight. It'll be a good excuse to give the cards a once-over for formatting, etc and make sure they're all up to snuff!
> It goes without saying we typically believe our parents if they tell us things

No. It doesn't. I don't believe my mom when she says she saw angels and I don't believe my dad saw creatures that the cameras magically didn't pick up. I need to just stop reading this thread. People believing whatever they want is fine but this ad hoc delusional justification is killing my soul
With a soon to be nonexistent middle class in the USA (as well as big growth in comparatively poor countries) getting Apple-style huge profits in the next 2-3 decades is going to be much more about getting $20-50/mo/user in perpetuity and less about selling premium price $1k-3k devices. The AVP (at like version 3 or 4) is the endgame for “Apple should make a TV”. It’s the ultimate passive content consumption device.

Apple is now existentially committed to recurring revenue like a crackhead loves crack.

It was obvious to me when I bought a $1600 iPhone and within 5 minutes of setting it up it began nagging me for $5 for iCloud storage. When even Google has figured out how to not nickel and dime your most profitable customer segment and Apple hasn’t, you know something’s wrong.

Expect one of the most clever companies in the world to put a majority of their mental energy into rentseeking of all kinds, from cloud storage to content rentals (music and tv and movie subscriptions) to AppleCare and every other possible thing (Fitness, Arcade, the perpetual iPhone upgrade thing, etc). It’s going to be subscriptions forever.

I expect them to be wildly successful from a revenue standpoint with this plan. Their products (that ugly-ass Ultra watch and tiny bass-free Homepod mini, for example) and nag-filled no-privacy UX have taken a hit and will continue to do so. They’re just consumption devices for Apple Music and iMessage (your attachment history for which drives iCloud storage upgrades). I’m surprised they haven’t figured out a way to charge something for FaceTime yet.

This is why they are fighting the DMA - their position as rentseeker is directly responsible for a double digit percentage of the profits of the most valuable company in the world for the next two dozen years. We are talking about literally trillions of dollars hanging in the balance here. How much fight do you think they will bring to bear on this for that much revenue?

There is zero product UX that is insanely great coming out of Apple these days. The actual engineering behind things like Homepods, AVP, the watch, AirPods, and the Mx silicon is absolutely insane, but it doesn’t inspire users in the UX anymore - it’s all in the background. The AVP is literally the cutting edge of hardware at that price point and all people say about it is that it’s too heavy. The products can’t exist without the engineering, but the users don’t know or care and don’t get the elation and delight that Apple used to be explicitly known for. It’s just “GPU performance and battery life go up and to the right again this year (and sometimes new colors)”.

It’s all just scaffolding to play back consumer media (the marginal cost of which asymptotically approaches zero) so they can extract the recurring rents.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they ever do make a car that they offer it as lease-only.
Why not go with hertzner cloud? No setup fees and you'll be billed by the usage. Still cheaper than other cloud providers.
> The big breakthrough work was The Lawnmower Man (1992), a conceptually absurd film where scientist Pierce Brosnan uses VR to somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius. What made The Lawnmower Man a hit was the ground-breaking computer graphic effects used to depict the virtual environment. An even sillier work was the sequel Lawnmower Man II: Beyond Cyberspace/Lawnmower Man II: Jobe’s War (1996), which had the psychic genius trying to become a messiah in cyberspace.

Lawnmower Man was both awesome and ridiculous. Loved it.
But for that the density reachable without elevators (if you're ignoring accessibility; i.e., 4~6 floors plus basement) suffices.

And yeah, having the bottom floor be commercial is often effective. Even if it's just a GP's doctor's office.

Look at pre-WW1 urban core neighborhoods in Germany, for example.
Well exactly. The point is that both sides of the argument are somewhat more nuanced as they are disingenuously promoted.
Ironically, business rules are often much easier done in a monolith, since they tend to require access to basically the entire database, and have impact across your code base.

Not saying it needs to be spaghetti all over the code mind you. Just that it's easier to have a module within the monolith rather than a dedicated service.
Piss and vinegar: ingredients for ecofriendly battery recycling (2023)
> The screeds on this topic reveal thought patterns verging on mental illness.

Personal attacks are, imo, uncalled for.
someone needs to explain to me why political and/or public figures are still active and using this garbage platform.

Because that's where the journalists hang out. If you want journalists to see and report on your words and activities you have to be where they are, since they are far too lazy to go out and find you.
X suspends account of Navalny's widow
Apple is the new Microsoft, except worse. Windows was at least still a reasonably open platform.
Apple always assume that you use their devices as primaries. It can be very annoying. When I wanted to get my wife a replacement MB, I ended up checking out as a guest as they insisted on sending my 2FA code to my iPad (which mostly just annoyed my toddler).
I don't. I bought 1 game for my original xbox- Mech Assault
Supposedly, the market for it is people who want to play their PS5 but can't because somebody else in the household is occupying their TV. But that begs the question of why they wouldn't just go buy a bedroom TV instead and move the PS5 into the bedroom?

Other possible markets would be people trying to collect a complete set of PS5 accessories and people impulse buying it without thinking about whether it'd actually be useful. Of course the people buying it right now are mainly the scalpers and Sony likely produced very small quantities to ensure it'd sell out and get them positive press.
We also need to see widespread adoption of Information Lifecycle Management thinking. One example is the billions (trillions?) of hours of video held by YouTube and its ilk. Does most of this really need to be preserved in perpetuity? To evoke Theodore Sturgeon, at least 90% of it is crap. The argument from the other side is that we don't know what future historians will find valuable for study, but in a finite universe, a balance needs to be struck and I feel it's too far on the end of preserving anything and everything 'just because'.
Remote memory profiling (Python code) with Memray
Also, will all the people worldwide that changed their country setting to "France" because it prevents their iPhone from slowing down[1] now also experience broken PWA's?

I guess so?

[1] Untrue, apparently, but nonetheless something some people did: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/25/dont-set-your-old...
> Why Safari can’t just launch from a Home Screen bookmark even if the user has chosen another “default browser”?

IIRC this is exactly what it does after the change. It now just launches the bookmark in a normal browser instead of a browser with the UI hidden.
I don't work at Hetzner, I live in Sweden. I'm just a happy customer giving praise for a company that really doesn't get so much attention.

With all big american companies seemingly getting so much attention nowadays, I am glad for the European alternatives that we have where you don't have to ship your customers data to the three letter agencies.
Esports_are_for_losers does content like that
If the video leaks due to shitty (pun not intended) sandboxing that is rightlfully on Apple (when on iOS), if it leaks due to the browser being broken then it is on Google and if it's due to an explicit modification of Samsung (when talking about Android) it's on Samsung.

When Facebook has a bug/exploit in their app that results in X hacker being able to gain access to files stored within the sandbox of Facebook noone is blaming Apple for Facebooks bug.
Down again?
I'd like him to leave for Mars. I'm not bothered if he gets there or not...
Thanks I appreciate this. It’s a very pragmatic take on this.
> I'm guessing this guy was a serial job hopper who had no expectation of being able to progress up the ladder at the company you were at.

The magpie was practically furniture (Over a decade there). We speculated that he had buried a literal body for the CEO based on what he got away with. Shiny objects was an astute call on the part of IT guy (he was setting up another new MacBook for him)
Hey. The first comment actually hitting on it. There is zero difference between UFO truthers and religious folks. Literally the arguments being made in this thread would apply to "is god real?

And yet once again were here, already taking the unfounded conspiracy more seriously than it deserves to be.

And in fact, I see the causes being the same. People are losing control. Losing the excitement of the capitalist consumer treadmill. Searching for answers and clarity. What would solve all of my problems that the single largest shift in human history! Jesus's return! I mean aliens!
I routinely install old 32bit applications in wine because they never got a 64bit version. It's literally the only reason I haven't tried running 64-only.
The issue with their approach is that the whole LLM must fit in the chips to run at all: you need hundreds of cards to run a 7B LLM.

This approach is very good if you want to spend several millions building a large inference server to achieve the lowest latency possible. But it doesn't make sense for a lone customer buying a single card, since you wouldn't really be able to run anything on it.
> all the shit show and all the alternatives that there are... I really don't get it.

Network effects means that if you go elsewhere you won’t get the eyeballs and serendipitous discovery to the degree you get on X, for example.

To put it differently, people on social media seek exposure and attention and X is a way to maximize your exposure.
You really should educate yourself on what PWAs are, how they’re built, and what this change actually does vis-à-vis ordinary browser tabs.
a yes, they already said that already in 2015, 2017
As said elsewhere, the PWA apps could open in Safari.

But would this have legal implications? Could the browser vendors argue they are discriminated against if PWA apps do not open in their browser?

I think this whole thing puts the finger on how fluid the borders have become. What is an app, what is an API, what is a service? Is Safari an Apple API for PWA apps? Or is a PWA app running by mandate on Safari when the user has selected another browser as default somehow wrong legally or ethically?
Why do we need "scale"? The 2nd cheapest Hetzner offering can probably serve a hundred thousand people a basic CRUD app just fine, with the DB running on the same machine. And you can just buy a slightly more expensive machine if you need scale, horizontal scaling is very rarely necessary actually.

Stackoverflow runs on a couple of (beefy) machines only.
> If you're saying women are less capable, be direct

This is an anonymous forum, if that's what I thought, I would say so. I have no reason to censor myself, could not care less about the points.

> The tech sphere is often a bros club and exclusionary to women.

There is no sphere or club, if the software you write provides value to some company or users you get paid for it. No one cares about your chromosomes.

>There are many examples of talented women in our field being trampled out by the mob.

What happened? Did paying customers suddenly boycott their favorite sofwtare upon finding out that a woman wrote the code for it? I'd love to hear some examples.
So ... maybe number of coal plants is not a good metric of anything. Maybe instead we should just talk about emissions - and in that case, it sounds like China's are going up, though the article is hopeful that may not be the case (hope springs eternal).

>As low-carbon energy sources continue to grow, they’ll take priority spot in the electricity mix. Coal power will start to take on the role of ‘peaker plants’.

Another 'hopeful' statement from the author. Coal power will be a baseload in China for a long time still.
Why, if just telling him he's a visionary genius works just as well?
Structured concurrency in Rust is a hard problem. Boats blogged about this before: https://without.boats/blog/the-scoped-task-trilemma/
That's neat. But it still got fooled by them:

> Best Splurge: Molekule Air Pro

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> dander, and viruses. It's also effective at removing odors and VOCs. While it's one of the most
> expensive options on the list, it's a good choice for those with severe allergies or asthma.

This brand was specifically called out by the main article for being overpriced junk by a company currently in a lawsuit regarding false advertising.
Could you educate me on what's wrong with fork()?
Both musk and Walter isaacson have denied that’s what happened.

I don’t think there’s definitive proof, but the way you are telling the story makes out like everyone agrees this is what happened, which is simply not true.

(Starlink was never even enabled in that area according to musk and isaacson)
You have 15 years of experience. You are likely the mentor, than the mentee. Anyway here is the easiest one:
https://sive.rs/ment
Another smart move by Microsoft was shipping Xboxes in an uninitialized state that has to connect to the internet and download the latest firmware before it can be used. Sony has been repeatedly burned by patching an exploit but having the vulnerable firmware still pre-installed on machines still in retail channels, so someone willing to abuse return policies can easily get one. MS doesn't need to worry about that, every new Xbox ends up on the latest firmware regardless of when it was manufactured.
Off-topic: does anyone know of SQL-to-SQL optimisers or simplifiers? I understand that databases themselves have query-optimisers, and that's not what I'm talking about - I work with generated query systems and SQL macro systems that make fairly complex queries quite easy to generate, but often times come up with unnecessary joins/subqueries etc.

PostgreSQL's query-optimiser does handle these cases quite well for me once I explain and add the appropriate indexes, yet complex source queries carry undiscountable costs (longer planning times, missed optimisations e.g. predicate pushdowns).

I find myself needing to mechanically transform and simplify SQL every now and then, and it hardly seems something out of reach of automation, yet somehow I've never been able to find software that simplifies and transforms SQL source-to-source. When I look, I only find optimisers for SQL execution plans. It's a bit hard to believe that such a thing doesn't exist, given how significant the SQL ecosystem is.
I didn't think I was complaining. Just, like lots of people, it takes a while to get in by whatever transportation mode so I don't do it often.

The greater metro area around where I live has far more jobs in many areas than the city itself does. I'm not sure there were any sizable tech-industry companies in the city proper for a long time although there are more now.

I was mostly responding to a comment way upthread somewhere that, even with a fairly good public transit system, going into a city can take a fair bit of time if you have to use multiple modes of transportation. So the answers are pretty suck it up, move closer, or don't go into the city much.
I heard about Navalny when he was in Germany because it was newsworthy, and then when he decided to get back to Russia. I have never heard about him before.

Same for Protasevich - it is because his plane was diverted that it made it to the news.

The only time we hear about these people is when they do something visible. I am not saying that this is OK, it is just the sad reality of our world where one news pushes another.

Navalny could have had protested and there would be a chance he would be heard then. When he was in prison it was over until he dies.
>Why not? To them it could be like any other tuesday

If we're going for "with magic, anything's possible" (but just substitute magic with "technology") then sure...
If you have to walk 20 minutes to get a parking space, the parking meters were non-existent, too cheap, an unusual event happened, or parking fees weren't enforced.
Especially that it must be fun hunting down race conditions across microservices. Like, microservices throw away every benefit of a single code base in a single language (and its guarantees). They sometimes make sense, but arguably that sometimes is quite rare.