skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the posts I feel like a lot of HN doesnt fully understand what we're defending against? These ships are BIG.

First, "manually control" engines and rudder isnt a thing. You're talking about a rudder that could be four stories tall. manual input is physically impossible and you wouldnt want it anyway. screw around with the rudder too much or too quickly and the underway mass of a 500,000 short-ton tanker will rip it out of the ship.

a tanker engine starts at 2.5 stories tall (8-10m). Before ECM and modern SCADA automation these things could take an entire day to start. Everything from fueling to speed and fire suppression are intimately linked through a network on the ship. you can restrict these networks from the rest of the ship but its generally not advised. ship engines communicate with breaker panels, engine controls on the bridge, and telemetry from shipping companies for preventative maintenance.

the solution to this is to have a SOC or rapid response team combined with redundant systems. assume a serious compromise is a failure condition and start the EPO/Mayday.

all it takes is a hacker to add a couple extra zeroes to the idle speed of the engines and youre now a runaway ship, or worse, a runaway engine fire.
> The left doesn't bat an eye on how unionizing is illegal in China.

It is hard to say what counts as left in America. Apart from a few real old-timey nostalgists, I don't think that people look to China as providing a model these days. The heyday of the upper middle class Maoist was probably forty years ago.
All of the studies are biased.
What fortunate timing - I see this as I'm procrastinating putting together a travel itinerary for my parents!
I'm so out of the loop these days...I've written off blockchain junk almost entirely. Can someone break down what blobs are? Is this some kind of temporary place for transactions to go so they aren't charged fees individually?

EDIT: NVM, I RTFMed https://ethereum.org/en/layer-2/. I wonder what the trade-offs of layer 2 protocols are. Less secure?
To be honest, isn't 25 years too much? He didn't beat or kill anyone, he simply found dumb people and took little of their money. It is not like he was robbing poor people by increasing their utilities bill every year or raising rent. Why is such a small, non-violent crime so severely punished? Of course he deserves a punishment but maybe not that much?
Yeah the fundamental problem is that a committee of suits have taken over the creative reins of big franchises trying to please the population at large. This is never going to work long term as it feels completely fake.

Usually creatives will do something that resonates with them personally and sometimes this touches people universally. This isn't something you can create artificially IMO.
Ask HN: Any curated lists of no-build JavaScript libraries?
I'm looking for a curated list of libraries someone can use for simple web stacks (no build tools, etc).

For example, Bootstrap, jQuery, prismjs, chartjs, d3, datatables, htmx, etc.
True. But americans love to waste their tax money and put harmless (in a physical violence sense) people like him behind bars instead of doing something useful for society. In 10 years he'll be free and start the next scam with the couple of millions he's probably hiding somewhere.
Don't know why you are getting downvoted. NYT and many publishers are notorious with their dark patterns to keep you around.

The only company that I know of that makes it easier to 'unsubscribe' than to 'subscribe' is netflix. I couldn't believe how easy it was. Didn't have to call them and have them guilt trip me into staying. Or chat with someone or some AI. Just cancel. Though they do email you deals from time to time. But even then only every few weeks or so.
Building AI Models is faster and cheaper than you probably think
Every vehicle is a drone as every algorithm is AI now. Marketing keeps the world rolling.
Before the Bitcoin et al. scamming, some people said "crypto" to abbreviate terms like cryptography and cryptographic protocol. Scammer bros appropriated "crypto", and made it dirty.
All data you insert into a generational box needs to be allowed to last for the 'static lifetime (have no internal temporary pointers). You cannot insert something like &'a str into a generational box
Do you have a repo for your Guile solutions to AoC? Would love to see it.
It could be doable to transition back to pneumatic PID blocks by some royal decree but it’s definitely not going to be any real government’s solution. PLC’s are here to stay for all complex machines, and these ships are relatively complex.

More interesting to talk about options that could realistically happen, and discuss pros/cons of various government/industry solutions that are actually likely to occur.

I wish I could find a cutaway of a pneumatic PID block though. They’re quite amazing technology that implemented true P-I-D “calculation” logic in a purely physical form by using pressure of air at two inputs (setpoint, current value) to control one output penumatic pressure which in turn would control some valve a distance away. Really amazing engineering we had before electronic control! The air lines had a bad tendency to get clogged up though.
It was standards based, but the way Apple ran the launch and marketing (kind of genius, actually), they gave the impression that Apple Pay was the only phone-based tap-to-pay around. Merchants would have signs saying "Apple Pay accepted" but not mention Google, leading to confusion over whether non-Apple payments would work.

Part of that is definitely the confusing state of payments on Android. Samsung Pay could refer to either NFC or magstripe-emulation. Google, of course, is terrible at branding stuff, and between Wallet and the many iterations of Google Pay it's still difficult to figure out what's what.
can you run valorant on it?
> prison should fundamentally be abt rehabilitation

You can’t ignore retribution and incapacitation. Focus solely on rehabilitation and people will take the law into their own hands while raging against the system when it comes to recividism.

We need to focus more on rehabilitation and restoration. But those can’t be exclusive of the other components of justice.
Zero-trust network isolation for the operational side is probably the only real solution, but it's expensive since using the network side to update the industrial control systems on the operational side is no longer allowed. Here's a writeup on the Colonial Pipelines ransoware attack for comparison:

https://airgap.io/blog/zero-trust-network-isolation-for-indu...
Firestore is great until Google sunsets it
Notepad++ for Linux & MacOS?? Very awesome!! :)
there doesn't need to be an excuse, and there frequently isn't. "i'm the president and i can do this" is the only excuse necessary
Anything less doesn’t keep a job at Apple even in quasi retirement.
Note that the fast_read option on erasure-coded Ceph pools uses the same technique. I'm not sure which release it was in, but I see commits referencing it from 2015.
A difference in philosophy on prison sentence length. The higher incarceration rate is almost 100% explained by sentences that are on average roughly twice what the UK imposes (as one example).
True; unfortunately, that battle is lost.
What's the use case of 20 nm chips? I understand value in 3D printers for electronics, but what is unlocked at that level? Replacements would require design files, so I'm thinking more of what is unlocked at 20 nm for open-source designs or at hobbyist creations
For the record, borrowed references are only going to be really usable in Swift 6 which isn't released yet.

That said, Swift's implementation of borrowing seems significantly more user-friendly than Rust's. While this is very much an advanced feature, I'd expect it to be actually used in many cases where in Rust folks would resort to working around the borrow checking (via things like indexing into arrays and such). As a result I expect it to be significantly more useful.
Right, I suspect that $15 will prove to be far too low to dissuade 90% of lower Manhattan drivers. Having said that, it's a reasonable (and politically palatable) starting guess, it provides funding to improve transit, makes drivers pay for at least a fraction of the negative externalities they impose on the neighborhoods they drive through, and it can always be increased over time until it has the intended effect.

> I wonder if the city will keep metrics up to see how well it's working.

Certainly they've talked about tracking travel times before and after, but I think the real test will be the long-term changes in land value. My guess is that eventually land value in car-dependent communities in the NYC metro area will decrease relative to those with transit access.

> It will hurt the Uber drivers and delivery drivers

That is a reasonable hypothesis, but I'm sure we'll find out. I would wager that the reduced travel time will allow drivers to make more deliveries which will make up for the daily $15 fee. In the end, the market will decide.

> Why just Manhattan you think?

That's where the supply/demand imbalance seems most acute. Well, there and many of the brides which we should be charging for as well. Any place that becomes gridlocked on a regular basis should probably have a price applied to ensure efficient utilization.

Finally, if we're worried that this fee is regressive, I think a better solution would be to use some of the funds to make the state income tax even more progressive. Subsiding driving for a small number of poor and middle class drivers seems less fair and efficient than letting people keep more of their money at tax time.
This sounds like a pretty startling goalpost shift.
I suspect it's two factors. The first is that it's not produced by a major and statistically we like an underdog. The second is that they made a video client that actually worked when all the majors under invested and produced clients with serious issues. From there, the market is sticky. It has worn a bit though, hasn't it?
I agree.

Just FYI, Kubernetes is abbreviated to k8s, not k8.

> K8s as an abbreviation results from counting the eight letters between the "K" and the "s".

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/
25 years is a long, long time. He's going to spend the best years of his life in federal prison and come out the other side in a world that's moved on without him. 25 years ago the World Trade Center buildings were still standing.

IMO, if we're thinking of sentencing someone to 50 years or life in prison, we should cut to the chase and execute them instead. It's faster and cheaper for the taxpayers, and arguably less cruel.
A big caveat mentioned in the article is that this experiment was done with a small set (N=47) of specific questions that they expected to have relatively simple relational answers:

> The researchers developed a method to estimate these simple functions, and then computed functions for 47 different relations, such as “capital city of a country” and “lead singer of a band.” While there could be an infinite number of possible relations, the researchers chose to study this specific subset because they are representative of the kinds of facts that can be written in this way.

About 60% of these relations were retrieved using a linear function in the model. The remaining appeared to have nonlinear retrieval and is still a subject of investigation:

> Functions retrieved the correct information more than 60 percent of the time, showing that some information in a transformer is encoded and retrieved in this way. “But not everything is linearly encoded. For some facts, even though the model knows them and will predict text that is consistent with these facts, we can’t find linear functions for them. This suggests that the model is doing something more intricate to store that information,” he says.
> Neither of them have any need for "software updates" nor do they have any way to do so.

Pretty sure they could get firmware updates for the ECU and TCU. There's probably somebody doing ECU tunes for more power / better efficiency / better noises, even if that's just tweaking the tables ajd even if there are no factory software updates. Electronicly controlled transmissions often have some updates available over their early service life, even if they're not well publicized or pushed. ODB-II is commonly used for that, although maybe the 1995 would need modules removed and rom chips replaced.
The question is more "why would the President self-immolate themselves politically for someone who appears to have minimal actual political capital, especially now that they're broke?"
Wow that’s really fascinating!
> small

in what world is stealing ~$8bn a "small" crime?
This was directly addressed by the judge during the sentencing, so you might be interested in finding a recording or transcript.
Pleasantly surprised to find this here, especially without all the "tokens are a scam" comments
On a much more severe scale, this is clearly the message that the Kremlin lavishly displayed of the initial treatment of the suspects involved in the Moscow Crocus Hall shootings/bombing - the results of severe torture send an unmistakable message of "Do not be tempted to try this (terrorism/attempted revolution" to the citizenry, with the implicit message that their very-short remaining lifespan will be very painful.
Check out Michael Levin's work, who's done some experiments with skin cell and has shown that they learn to do stuff.
Prison is a way to get cheap labor, and some prisons are run by publicly traded companies.

Not the best sources but you get the point.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
2. https://www.dailyo.in/wallet/heard-of-prison-stocks-here-are...
Are they targeting Mach 5? The second paragraph of TFA says "The company's long-term ambition is to develop a commercial aircraft that can travel at Mach 9".

They mention that goal a couple of places, and state that hypersonic is defined as Mach 5 or more.
There's a security researcher who calls herself Isis Agora Lovecruft and I'm pretty sure it's not her real name. I thought it might be the same with this guy, but Dankrad seems to be an actual German name meaning something like "thanks for the advice"
I don’t use pre-commit checks but I use linters before every PR and checks will fail and not allow a merge if they aren’t applied. I prefer flake8, black, and isort at the moment. Though, black and flake8 can conflict, but you can adjust the settings in flake8.
The key to your example is, if they are alive.

Cadavers are used in medical school. Where is the moral outrage.
"The golden age of science fiction is 14."

If it's 30 year old people reading, sci fi lost its audience.

And probably so: mistb14 year olds would rather play a phone/mmo than read
You are incorrect: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/what-do-texans-....

> There is also a federal tax of $18.4 cents per gallon.
Monkeying Around the KubeCon Paris 2024
My take on sessions I've attended at recent KubeCon. What are your impressions?
Also for transparency: I like how Ethereum doesn't even attempt trying to make any of this appear accessible to curious outsiders.
Cruise missiles that have wings and follow flight plans rather than ballistic trajectories are pretty much just drones and always have been.
I'm no fan of either - Allegro has Amazon executives and nearly identical Prime-free shipping strategy. Pretty sure Allegro has the same effect of monopolizing and driving up prices as Amazon has.

I find the eBay-esque artifact interface absurd. It's likely Amazon hasn't found a way because an environment that isn't a monopoly isn't attractive to begin with for that business model.
Missed opportunity to write it in a Memory-Safe, White House approved language and call it Rustpad or something...I joke of course.

After reading the title I was 99% sure it would've been an Electron app, nice to see it's actually native. Good work.
Your argument that HN didn’t think he was going to jail is a heavily downvoted post whose top reply says he’s going to jail?
> Where each bank had their own janky implementation inside their own specific app, which was both slower and had a worse UX.

You obviously understand this is by (Apple's) design.
As a former eth miner and now crypto un-enthusiast, i was attracted to the idea of contract disruption and value transfers utilizing blockchain but ever since the entire industry has become scams, wall street and *bros, yeah I'd love to see it all crash and burn. Exposing tether would be a great start.
Perhaps, but flat fees like this are regressive taxation
You're confusing competence with disagreeability.
Smart TV is snooping on you
Awesome. When I moved to linux a few years ago notepad++ was one of the harder apps to find a replacement for. I ended up sticking with Kate

Edit: Kate is great, give it a shot!
> even though that ended up being very costly for the government.

Did it? The FDIC is funded by banks, not the government.
"[...] But Zoom - one of the most used VC services - falsely claims that users need to install an app to use it. I've had frustrated colleagues express their displeasure that they can't install an app and, therefore, have to dial in on a phone and can't see any slides.

Here's the thing. Zoom supports web browsers. It just hides it really well. Only after attempting to download the app, and then waiting for a few seconds, do you get this tiny message saying you can join in the browser:"
HOLY CRAP!!! This is wonderful news. This is probably my most missed app on Linux/Macos. Installing immediately!

edit: flatpak support is just chefs kiss.
Well, I'd say that's the problem with sci-fi. We don't know how to use the tech we already have, so there's no point in dreaming with more. It's a bit like a billionaire dreaming about winning the lottery.
That's also right around where aerodynamic forces are juuuuuuust starting to transition to disassociation and ionization in high flow areas, as the electrons are ripped from molecules in the air. Probably not a coincidence, because a very ooooof zone will be the ramjet intake, since ramjets need to slow the air to subsonic for combustion. Lots of these high mach ramjets have amazing cooling devices on the intake.

These RDEs are especially neat because the exhaust mass is moving supersonically but they're very choosy about the mix in the combustion chamber, so and air-breathing RDE will be doing some sort of voodoo in that department. If they riddle it out they might get a single engine that functions throughout the airspeed regime.
> have access to virtually the entire internet

It isn't even close to 1% of the internet, much less virtually the entire internet. According to the latest dump, Common Crawl has 4.3B pages, but Google in 2016 estimated there are 130T pages. The difference between 130T and 4.3B is about 130T. Even if you narrow it down to Google's searchable text index it's "100's of billions of pages" and roughly 100P compared to CommonCrawl's 400T.
Perhaps it would be worth expanding PNG to Papua New Guinea in the title?
Google Director of Engineering: Rust teams are 2x as productive as C++ teams
> Digital just scales better.

Yes!

> Our brain has a pretty bounded need of scaling

No!

Over aeons our brains scaled from several neurons to 100 billion neurons, each with 1000 synapses. They were able to do it because our brains are digital. They lean on their digital nature even more than computer chips do.

Action potentials are so digital it hurts. They aren't just quantized in level, but in the entire shape of the waveform across several milliseconds. Just as in computer chips, this suppresses perturbations. As long as higher level computation only depends on presence/absence of action potentials and timing, it inherits this robustness and allows scale. Rather than errors accumulating and preventing integration beyond a certain threshold, error resilience scales alongside computation. Every neuron "refreshes the signal," allowing arbitrary integration complexity at any scale, even in the face of messy biology problems along the way. Just like every transistor (or at least logic gate) "refreshes the signal" so that you can stack billions on a chip and quadrillions in sequential computation, even though each transistor is imperfect.

Digital computation is the way. Always has been, always will be.
Another comment points out the inevitability of this technology appearing in weapons long before any sort of passenger aircraft. So the likely marketing reason is a bit of gaslighting to avoid "issues" with some investors.
I think the issue is that the sci-fi "setting" has to be materially different than the modern world, otherwise you get the "____ in space" effect. This isn't an issue with historical settings, like the wild West or medieval Europe, since the differences are baked-in.
An often forgotten aspect of sentencing is that once a criminal has done something evil, we still want there to be incentives for them to not do further evil things, as well as to co-operate with authorities.

That can play out into, say, giving both a murderer and a scammer 25 years in prison, provided that they turn themselves in and otherwise co-operate with the legal process.

I'm sure police officers would rather go into houses to arrest people knowing that whatever the suspect has done, they're going to get another 25 years in jail if they fight back. Arresting someone who has no hope at all, regardless of what they do, is simply more dangerous.
ECJ rules that four specific safety standards must be freely available
Got it, so you accept the risk of local access and poorly segmented canbus and maybe access via complex RF style-hacks more or less, but remove the software, wifi, cell and presumably Bluetooth threat models. That makes sense to me.
People should be able to have encryption if they want it. The rules are absolutely unenforceable either way and there isn't actually any drawback. I'm a ham but most hams like to freak out about it because they think it'll cause companies to suddenly start using ham bands with impunity. The reality is, we need to enforce the existing rules about IDing in the clear periodically and then send whatever you want after that. You already can't decode most of the common digital modes without significant effort because they rely on proprietary vocoders so it's not like encryption would change anything.

Cue hams being angry:
The article says different. Tell me why it's wrong.
"Stole" is the word you're looking for. He stole their money. Lots of it.
A lot more centralized, in my view.
put another way, you're engaged in sexual, financial, and managerial relationships with an epic fraudster, and continue that pattern well after it's become clear that they're, at best, kind of dubious.

most people will never be anywhere near that, not on that scale and scope, and not with that kind of insight.
I wonder if this could be programmed to operate on CB bands only? If it could, would that be legal to use on the air?
> Today, we have all the tools we'll need, and indeed most of the tools we'll ever have, to build applications that are simultaneously cypherpunk and user-friendly.

Really looking forward to the next couple years. Everyone has been writing this off as "no killer apps after 10 years" but there's a lot that's been happening to support adoption, from scaling to improved UX. In the next couple years those should percolate to production apps.

The primary improvements have been rollups, blobs, account abstraction, and chain abstraction.

An example of a new onboarding process being developed by coinbase can be seen here: https://twitter.com/WilsonCusack/status/1764355750149710190
Browser Company sort of built this themselves for Arc, but its really a separate SwiftUI-like Windows implementation (Windows UI is separate code written in a similar style). It still feels like a technical preview though unfortunately.
It's pretty clear that "nitrogen" means "nitrogen fertilizer" in this context.
China Engineering Ready to Export Desert Mega-Bases to the World
Why do you think SBF requires 20-25 years to rehabilitate?
Private prisons account for 8% of the total prison population.