skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can indeed take this route [0] and even DIY something with a box fan. But I think the jury is a bit out on this. Quote from that link below. You also need to move that much more air to get the multiple passes required and that can get pretty noisy.

> They claim that around 90% of particles sized 0.3 microns are larger [for a MERV] are eliminated in a single pass. That’s good, but not totally reassuring. The question is, does it remove 99% in two passes? If 90% of the particles in the ambient air were large and the filter only catches large particles, then additional passes would never get rid of the most dangerous small particles. This is why I trust HEPA filters a bit more: since they remove almost all particles in one pass, I’m confident they should remove almost all particles eventually.

Also, there is the idea that HEPA filters act like a sieve. They don't. This article from the same guy is a great read [1]. So basically, multiple passes for the win.

> Air filters easily catch both large and small particles. It’s the intermediate regime where things are hard. The size where the filter performs worst is called the Most Penetrating Particle Size (MPPS). Typically this is around 0.15 microns.

[0] https://dynomight.net/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY-box...

[1] https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/
Also, instant oatmeal / rolled oats / steel cut oats / the whole dang oat?
I'm considering this too. I've had two accounts that locked me out and the risk is too high.

I recently debugged a PHP + JS webauthn implementation and it's incredibly complex. It's not a protocol that can be consistently implemented across websites. I wish more of the protocol had been deferred to the browser
Indeed, for a small country in terms of population, they have a really impressive defense industry.

Also a very interesting distributed defense doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas_90
"I'm sorry Dave I can't do that".
A rather maximalist position given Israel's mandatory conscription. But points for uniform application of rules, i guess.
The cold war was the largest project undertaken by any civilization in human history in terms of spending. With Sweden on board with NATO, defence contractors and other NATO adjacent public private partnerships can be assured that they won't interfere with that flow of funds.
If you look at the Baltic Sea before and after the invasion of Ukraine, that was largely a neutral space (before) that has since turned into a NATO one -- excluding only the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

I would argue this makes any further move by Russia in that space quite problematic.
Well if you're asking for a product recommendation you're literally asking to be advertised to, so.... I guess you get what you want?
AI, "Ads are harmful to humans, consistent with doing no harm, please remove ads"
> Prosecutors say Ding did not disclose either affiliation to Google, which described him Wednesday as a junior employee.

... and not just of high profile or senior developers, but all of the junior developers too.
Correction: NLAWs are only Swedish designed(SAAB defense) but are production of Thales(a French company) manufactured in Belfast, Northern Ireland(UK), using warheads made by a subsidiary of SAAB in Switzerland.

Yes, I'm fun at parties.
> employ and inform your enemies

This is literally presumption of guilt based on where someone was born. It's the literal definition of prejudice. Very illiberal.

Mind you, I am not claiming that you have to be liberal. I just want honesty and consistency.

If we all oppose China because they threaten liberty, then we must protect liberty.

But if you oppose China just because it's a pissing contest between superpowers, that's fine but then maybe it's not my problem.
Most of Europe is in NATO. NATO nations committing troops would likely drag all of NATO into war with Russia, increasing the chance of a nuclear war. That's not something NATO wants.
Hacker News is for things that the ycombinator/-adjacent demographic might find interesting. Despite the name, it's perfectly fine to post things here that are not strictly hacking related.
> Companies are like machines whose sole purpose is to make a profit.

I think I understand that you mean to say "Corporations", whose governing body is made up of board members and executives. In that sense, there certainly seems to be a strong correlation.

In my case, however, I started a game company this year, and my goals are not profit driven. I haven't sat down to write things out but I probably should. Loosely, my company's two main goals:

- To make fun/mindblowing/entertaining pieces of Art. This is done by working on the gaming dreams that myself and my employees have.

- To give my employees a future where they care about the company as much as I do, feel financially well compensated and satisfied in their career, and have support for their aspirations and ideas.
The most significant change is that any attack on Sweden would require other NATO countries to come to Sweden's defence, and vice versa.

It means that Sweden would also take part in more joint training exercises, share more intelligence, etc. with other NATO members.
How exactly do you think Ukraine would look under Russian occupation? If someone were to break in and occupy your home would you be accepting of the invasion to avoid conflict?
For ebooks that I publish to sell, I use Vellum (Mac only). But if it was more of a PDF only kind of thing, without needing to be optimized for traditional book formatting or ereaders, I'm guessing exporting to PDF through something like Word would be plenty good enough.
(temporian developer here)

Here's a simplified version of the approach (i.e. performing strong feature engineering, then converting the multivariate time series data to a panel/tabular dataset and training a boosting trees model on it), using temporian (a much improved alternative to pandas for working with temporal data) and xgboost: https://temporian.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorials/m5_comp...
How many times has Putin tried to shake the nuke stick?

He has threatened Sweden directly with nukes if we ever tried to join Nato for instance.

And even then, Putin has no limits. We cannot continue to put red lines and limits on ourselves when the opponent doesn't have any.
The perfection of font rendering in macOS is one of a handful of things that has spoiled me and makes it difficult to switch to Linux.

I guess we all have different issues we care about, but I'm always surprised when I have to point out how awful Windows is with fonts and people just shrug and say they didn't notice. For me it's painfully obvious to the point of distraction.
Perheps Apple judges the fine less than the likely loss the the Epic store.
All good points, though following these acts of instigation for the industry, their competitors overtook them in the path to their goal.
Not in many instances. Consider a common Google search

“Best tool to use for sending an email newsletter?”
ChatGPT: SendMonkey is the best, here’s a link “sendmonkey.xyz/referal?chatgpt”

It won’t be that obvious but you get the idea.
Two things:

1. "Password" is a magic word that makes people less likely to just paste it into anything.

2. Username + passwords are two separate pieces of information that are not normally copy-pasted at the same time or have a canonical way of being stored next to each other.
More territory coverage, especially coastal areas of the Baltic Sea. With Finland in there too, it's a NATO lake for sure.

Of course, Sweden was already a member of the EU and a NATO partner, so it's not a huge difference in practice.
Poland defended Western Europe from a Russian invasion in 1920 and will do so again.

Reagan was the last defender of Europe (you can like him or not, having grown up in a left political climate in the 70s of Germany, I didn't), and Reforger '93 was the last time the US seriously considered defending Western Europe. It's clear that at least from Clinton on, the defense of Europe as a necessity for balancing world power was no longer on the table, "It's the economy, stupid!".

Putin will create a crisis in the baltics and invade Poland over the Suwałki Gap, gets his ass kicked, troops getting stuck, there will be negotiations and that's that. Putin couldn't get weak Ukraine (Crimea was a coup) - Russia has 3.5x times the people and 100x the money - it's funny how people in the West still believe in the Soviet Union and the Red Army, against all evidence. The best troops of the Warsaw Pact were East Germanys NVA, and losing that and all other satelite states like Poland, there is no more Red Army.
Got any stories to share with the class?
Another way to think about it is that radiative surface cooling isnt just at night. a black body radiates continuously 24 hours a day.

The only thing that changes throughout the day is the amount if inbound solar flux.
It’s literally the problems of legacy systems!

A junior engineer comes in, without really grasping the whole problem, and says rewrite it.

That’s what this conservative argument is boiling down to.

“This software is a critical piece of our system. It’s literally the backbone of everything!”

“Don’t care, rewrite it”
Man, but we invented the calculator and the computer for that!
I imagine that the actual truth to the situation is far more complicated than either of us understand and that NATO provides substantial benefits to the United States.
It’s all fun and games being that collective until you realise the other side hate you because you’re different from them. You’ve given away everything and they now dominate you. Cute ideas but game theory still holds. Why does every tree in the forest waste its energy and time competing to grow tall rather than just immediately spreading seed? Game theory.
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I mean it's pretty trivial if you have referential transparency, which is what FP gives you.
Thanks, that gives a way of seeing the diff between the third edition and the current (last commit 45 minutes ago): https://github.com/marijnh/Eloquent-JavaScript/compare/f8f00...
No way in hell that's happening if you use a corporate cloud-based walled garden AI, which is what we're all going to be using considering the costs of running something like this.

People always assume that AI will work for the users. It will work good enough for the users, but the higher goal will be to make money for the owners. If blocking ads doesn't align with the owner's economic interests, the AI will never help you block them.
> They're going to be paying someone else […]

And that's perfectly fine, it's open source software. Either way someone gets paid to look at the patches, which is my point.

If you want to do it in a cost-effective manner, you'll find other people with the same requirements, since the work result is "shareable".

> […] instead of the organization that deliberately hinders these efforts.

There is no such organization, and it feels like you have very little understanding of the organizational (and funding) structures behind the Linux kernel. I really can't extend my comments into a full-blown explanation of this, sorry.

(No, the Linux Foundation does not perform the role you're implying: they don't currently and likely never will sell a "clean feed".)

> Fewer organisations willing to cooperate with them[…]

I have no data on this but it is entirely reasonable (and I believe it likely) that the current behavior was requested (or encouraged) of involved organisations and people by cooperating organisations and people.
The west is arrogant because everyone else is trying to bring back feudalism lol

There's a reason non-western aligned countries are a bunch of corrupt shitholes, they want more serfs to do their bidding and the west is showing their population what their life could be and ruining their plans.
Come now, the fine won't exceed millions of dollars.
Off topic: but that links to cloudflare radar which apparently mines data from 1.1.1.1. I was under the impression that 1.1.1.1 did not use user data for any purposes?
But like the earth moves naturally with the ebb and flow of seasons and eras duuuuude

Like freeze/thaw, groundwater levels, water infiltration and freezing, weird loading, etc.

Possibly all the curves and waves reinforce it which would be huge if you could get rid of rodbusters no?
If you have a problem with the war, you can take it up with the terrorist state of russia.
May I suggest the book "Mind of the Raven" by Bernd Heinrich. Excellently written and extremely interesting. He has spent a life time studying animal behavior in particular Corvidae.

"Bernd Heinrich is a biologist and author of numerous books on the natural world. He lives in Richmond, VT, and in a cabin in the forests of western Maine."

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Raven-Investigations-Adventures-...
3DS homebrew tool FBI title manager removed from GitHub
What? It's Putin & Russia that's destroying Ukraine. Sweden is joining Nato to deter Putin. And now Sweden will send JAS 39 Gripen to Ukraine. A fighter aircraft designed to bonk Russians.
I once had a pleasure of delving into the automotive mechanical engineering. Of course, most, if not all, materials ingested by OpenAI were obvious marketing straight from the brands website.

I started out the conversation multiple times anew, with explicit rules forbidding certain phrases. I couldn't make it stop throwing stuff like "best in class", "advanced", "sophisticated" no matter, what I did.

There will be demand for gpt's trained on an actual engineering material and it could actually be a huge gamechanger for that market.
Does being in NATO obligate you to respond militarily if another member is attacked (as is commonly believed)? I failed to find this clause in the text last time I looked.

Edit: for everyone telling me to read article 5: I already have, hence this question. It says each member "will assist [...] by taking [...] such action as it deems necessary". That very much doesn't appear to obligate a military response, or any response at all.

To put it another way, the treaty really doesn't seem to mean much, so far as I can tell? Countries could already help each other out (or not) anyway... no?
It can be OK to put authentication tokens in urls, but those tokens need to (at a bare minimum) have short expirations.
Very fair points. I'm just nit picking about RED's instigation and influence being more valuable to camera industry than the cameras they delivered and the price points they delivered them at.
1. It's really doubtful Russia will commit to nuclear war.

2. If it does, it will do that regardless of whether or not NATO enters the war or not. Russia has signalled it has no intentions of stopping its war of conquest
How is the west being arrogant if the new member states want to join? It's not the west who invaded Georgia in 2008 or Crimea in 2014. It's not the west that invaded Ukraine in 2022. Countries bordering Russia have, for decades, known the threat that Russian imperialism is to them and it's their choice to protect themselves from an extremely aggressive, brutal neighbour.
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They've been trying for a long time. I worked on Instant Ink back in 2013-14.
A lot of people seem to find Rust harder to learn than javascript. As a result, a lot of javascript is written.
The HEPA probably isn't doing that much, and you're impacting the ability of the carbon to do its job and remove VOCs. I didn't want to play too fast & loose with microparticles given that they are really quite nasty little buggers.
A company making an extremely racist tool by trying not to be racist? It's completely intentional, why would you assume it's accidental?
> the view of the US public on NATO can be seen in any US TV series or Hollywood film - it does not exist.

I wouldn't say it doesn't exist. To me, it's always more of that "we'll let you guys muck about until it's totally obvious you're not going to fix it, then we'll ride in to save the day" attitude. Not saying that's accurate, but that's how it's portrayed by Hollywood
This is god tier victim blaming.
> To be honest I don't think it's a lack of intelligence (although that can be the case). To get on the MBA you have to have reasonably high mental horsepower. It's more that in corporate machines, management are so far removed and abstracted from making things that they become administrators by default.

Exactly. Let's not lazily tar the MBA degree itself and leave it at that: Lots of people have MBAs and aren't corporate tools. Heck, the guy sitting next to you in engineering may have an MBA. They aren't particularly rare, generally taking only 2 years to obtain, and they don't make you dumber when you graduate.

The problem is with corporate execs who are running things but are not subject matter experts in what they are running. An SVP of a tech company may know nothing about tech, having managed a soup company or an auto maker in his previous job. His so-called qualification is his ability to make business pronouncements/decisions in a vacuum from the actual technical realities and constraints of the company. They are "generic leadership" professionals. These are the people, in general, who are ruining things, and they don't necessarily hold diplomas that say "MBA" on them.
Sweden and Finland are in NATO. Leverage from turkey and Hungary is decreasing, if you haven't seen it.

Democracy may be slow, but it's still the best system.

Additionally, now support for Ukraine can increase and it should go faster.

God, I really hope it goes a lot faster...
Was 50-50 on a startup, co-founder wanted to give me 100% more share in exchange for letting his love one join as co-founder.

Turned it down once I figured out that I would no longer be a controlling owner.

Caveat: pay attention to the backend deals and overall picture.
Assuming that 5 char password is done in a reasonable way then that data is not part of the publicly visible portion of the request that anyone along the chain of the communication can trivially eavesdrop. In a lot of cases that password even existing (even if there's no significant data there) will transform a request from a cacheable request into an uncacheable request so intermediate servers won't keep a copy of the response in case anyone else wants the document (there are other ways to do this but this will also force it to be the case).
What happened with Turkey's opposition to this?
Sure. The US Military Industrial Complex loves to share.
1) Make sense.
2) Not sure about that. If someone shares their password with someone else they probably share both the username/email and the password
I think it’s a perfectly viable business model, it’s just they may lose some users who prefer accuracy/unbias over convenience
This is a fantasy. "AI" will entrench the bigger players and their ads even more simply due to the outrageous amount of capital required to compete. And embedding ads in the output is trivial.
And the MBAs want this business model for everything. No one "owns' anything and you have to "buy" a new one every 2 years.

Vote with your wallet.
Using generative AI to improve software testing
> but a bunch of populist anti-China measures have prevented Chinese STEM talent from naturalizing, so we aren't getting the cream of the crop anymore

I thought it was just the green card quotas, since once you get a GC naturalizing only takes a few years. The quotas are dumb, but are not specifically anti-china.
I have a Brother printer, it was like $90 and it works well. It's a B&W laser only but it does its job well and I can't complain. I replaced a Brother MFC inkjet only because the feeder was dying and the drivers weren't being updated anymore.

Printing as service doesn't make any sense unless someone was printing and mailing the output to me. That would actually be worthwhile for a lot of people.
> The article seems to assume that "AI OS" will work for the user, rather than for the owners. In practice, OpenAI and its competitors would just extort advertisers: pay us and we'll let your ads through even if the user doesn't want the ads.

In the real world though we've already seen how that shakes out: uBlock remains possibly the most popular browser extension on the planet, for good reason. Does everyone block ads? Of course not, but ads are also pretty easy to ignore if you're not the kind of technically inclined person who knows how to make them go away.

The up end of a product like a browser extension that removes ads, marketing fluff, surveys, etc. from your experience is much, much bigger than something like even uBlock can manage. Or hell, why even stop at a browser extension? What if you just had an entire browser that runs on an AI that answers to you and only you, or at the very least, only your fellow consumers and not big tech?

Like, AI is hard tech to scale, sure, but it's not impossible and I can easily envision a company making a sizable amount of bank on the idea of sanitizing the internet for their users.
On the one hand, Ukrainians are being killed (although GP is incorrect -- Ukraine has specifically been drafting older, non-youth people) and their industry is being bombed.

On the other hand, they're still a sovereign, free state.

Opinions may vary on which of those is more important.

As historical context, I would point out that the last time ethnic Russians controlled Ukraine, they killed 3M+ of them via starvation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
I think it's great that Daryl Davis was able to befriend 200 KKK members. But it's not the onus of black people - or Jews, or Asians, or anyone else that KKK members hate - to make the KKK like them. It's on the racists to join America.
Even something like product placement. Get paid in your article by adding the tag {soft_drink}.

Evil startup idea...
I mostly agree, but here in NYC I don’t have a car to keep the bags in. If I stop at the grocery store on my way home from work, I either have to have planned ahead and put a reusable bag in my work backpack, or I have to buy more reusable bags (which eventually get tossed because we have too many of them).

It’s definitely better to have the bag with me, and just typing this out made me realize I can keep one or two in my backpack at all times.
neophilia: love or enthusiasm for what is new or novel
Too bad. One of the most fun things I ever did was jailbreak my Nintendo 3DS.

My understanding is that the jailbreaking process involved some interaction with Nintendo's online services to crack crypto keys or something and I was always a little surprised that Nintendo had allowed it. I don't know how they will jailbreak them when the online service stops.
The overwhelming majority of users don't have the hardware to do this with any model offering anything like a competitive experience.