skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digression:

Incidents like this are why I know aliens aren't in Area 51, and generally believe that the government isn't withholding some huge bombshell secrets from us. Not because they don't want to, but because they can't.

In the event of any kind of info leak, discretion is thrown to the wind and FOMO sets in. The urge to "correct the record" becomes overwhelming. Information becomes a currency to spend. Only the best 3 letter agencies in the world can resist, and even they are only as strong as the weakest-willed.

Time + workforce churn = inevitable leaks for just about everything. You might be able to buy yourself a year or two with loyal employees and strict secrecy policies. But retaining a HUGE secret for 10+ years? Not compatible with society imo.
It definitely would have been more interesting.
I see one right now near the bottom limb (observing from North America). It's been slowly moving to right the last few days as the sun rotates. I'm using cheap eclipse glasses.
I was in Northern MN a couple years back when there was some decent aurora https://imgur.com/a/nBjdhZ9

What the camera caught was really impressive! Even with just a couple seconds exposure on a phone. But what the human eye saw was.... effectively a portion of the sky that was unusually bright and seemed to have some sort of movement. Like you stared at it and knew something was amiss, but nothing "impressive" to look at.
I believe "in practice, theoretically" simplifies to "theoretically".

In actual practice there might as well be hidden local variables here. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference, even though you could in theory.
iPhone 14 from my back yard in (extremely light polluted) Liverpool, England.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/KPUMabcnNG6E5gZ77
Seems to be visible in Portugal, sadly where I live the sky is overcast.
Thanks for restoring my sanity. Every now and then I read articles about quantum computing that upend my (limited) understanding of how it functions, and I feel like I really know nothing about it. In fairness, I do know close to nothing about it, it just turns out that "close to nothing" is still more than a good chunk of the discussion about quantum computing.
Top of hn again. Terrific ad
Such noise cameras already exist in some places.

Unfortunately, in the US, we already have a problem with "ghost cars". I see plenty of cars in California with no plates, fake temporary tags, plates with the retroreflective material stripped off, covers that block the view of the plate, etc.

So those loud motorbikes are just going to bend their plates out of sight of the cameras.
EA is prototyping in-game ads even as we speak
You're free to make that argument, and the stock market and capital will make a different one. Using that capital, the businesses competing against you will make sure that your good business is no longer a business. At which point it will indisputably be a bad business, failing to do anything for anyone.
Emacs is one of the best GUI programs because they add functionality on top of the terminal version, like image support, different font sizes at once, and the window separators not being part of the text so highlighting text quickly is easier, but it keeps the first-class keyboard support it's always had.

I think the average GUI was designed for mouse-first and the lowest common denominator, so it'll generally never be as good. It's similar to how irssi and weechat are top-tier chat programs, but nothing in the XMPP or Matrix world really seems as good.
Except it hasn’t though has it. Reuters calculations show Russia's projected April oil and gas revenue at 1.292 trillion roubles ($14 billion), up from 648 billion roubles in April 2023 and slightly down from the 1.308 trillion roubles last month. Russia's Finance Ministry will publish the April data in early May.
Tea Classics
The beam isn't necessarily concentrated enough to be damaging, so it isn't obvious that such a system would be a weapon.

In other words, the weaponization potential can be eliminated, and doesn't exist in lots of proposed designs.
But these are not top tier?
> But so does employment, so does freelancing, so does nearly every business ever.

Sure, capitalism is fucked up all the way through.

If and when you get it to the point where people can negotiate from position of equal power (also in all those other areas, yes), then I could take your ethical point seriously.

As it is, the companies that get harmed by piracy of the kind that DRM prevents are parasites on society, and the notion that the deal that they force on the rest of us though their position of economic dominance is some kind of "social contract" is laughable. Which is exactly why piracy is so prevalent - if it really were a social contract, people wouldn't do it in droves.
The Book of Tea
Stellantis to test the first-ever production-line lithium-sulfur batteries
You can also get custom fitted earplugs from an audiologist. They are wonderful. Extremely comfortable and they don't press on your ear canal, so you don't have any pain or hear your heartbeat, etc.
I am thoroughly confused about how this ad has become the controversy it has become. This whole ordeal feels very "let's invent something to get mad at!"

I would bet a large sum of money that the creatives who created the ad for Apple had no intentions beyond "this ad will be a metaphor for the insane variety of creative endeavors you can use an iPad for!"

Apple isn't tone-deaf. The people mad about this are tone-hallucinating.
All these insiders dumping shares?
Optimus Prime has been resurrected and come back more times than Jesus.
It's a magnetic field, no? Is there any particular radioactive component? I'd be more worried about the acute effect on the plane's electronics, the whole point is they disrupt electrical systems.
> Computing power should get there around 2048

We may not get there. Doing some more back of the envelope calculations, let's see how much further we can take silicon.

Currently, TSMC has a 3nm chip. Let's halve it until we get to the atomic radius of silicon of
0.132 nm. That's not a good value because we're not considering crystal latice distances, Heisenberg uncertainty, etc., but it sets a lower bound. 3nm -> 1.5nm -> 0.75 nm -> 0.375nm -> 0.1875nm. There is no way we can get past 3 more generations using Silicon. There's a max of 4.5 years of Moore's law we're going to be able to squeeze out. That means we will not make it past 2030 with these kind of improvements.

I'd love to be shown how wrong I am about this, but I think we're entering the horizontal portion of the sigmoidal curve of exponential computational growth.
What’s the issue? Headlines you don’t want to believe or false information?
I was strongly under the impression that medications with expiration dates do not become dangerous after their expiration, but they may be less effective.

That turns out to be wrong according to the FDA website. https://www.fda.gov/drugs/special-features/dont-be-tempted-u...

Either way, the tylenol in my cabinet expired in 2014 and I'm doing fine.
> I certainly understand the sentiment, but my question to someone on the "anti" immigration side would be this: what do you see as a possible alternative solution?

Most people are not against immigration per se, they are against uncontrolled immigration of undocumented aliens. A legal and orderly immigration process is the way to go for Europe. In fact this route existed for many years but recently it takes a back seat to simply running over the border. Europe need to scale it up and actually allow for more legal immigration.
Lessons from training a Stable Diffusion model on 2B images
My take is that people hate this ad because unintentionally it made them look at the mirror. Like “look what beautiful things you have traded for this single couch computer”. They realized that they too have helped in enabling Apple to squash all this beautiful things and some to the point of no return, and they didn’t like it at all.

The uproar we see is projected guilt
My mother-in-law cleaned our pantry. I didn't ask her to, but she was here for a week, and just did it.

She threw out salt because it was past the "best by" date. Mind you, that salt has spent millions, possibly billions, of years in the ground. I asked why. She said, if the manufacturer says that, why would they lie?

I don't often find myself reaching out for facepalm memes or "SMDH", but I sure did then. I just said okay, but don't ever throw out salt again.
Same. I’m hoping the article is a satire piece of some kind but maybe I’m wrong. It’s a clever ad about how an iPad can do a ton of stuff. I’m not sure how you even come away with this world view. It’s like watching a Chick-fil-a ad and concluding they want cows to rule over us as they are in control of our media or something wild
A Notable subversion of this technique is Sorkin’s “walk and talk” shots where 2 or 3 characters have a walking conversation facing camera as it leads them through a path.

It will take more time to light that entire path upfront, but then you are free to let your actors live in the moment without cutting and there’s no need for turn around. You get something feels more real, but you rely on your dialogue and your actors for the pacing instead of editing.

Typically you need “character” actors to pull this off which is a phrase that generally means “good at acting.”
I will praise the day when vertical farming becomes completely viable. No pesticides or herbicides of any sort. Grow vegetables and fruit in controlled environments. Focus on taste.

Hopefully they could be viable inside city limits thus precluding the need for transportation from
rural areas.
I did growing up, but haven’t touched it in decades.

I personally just took it as a spoof on the hydraulic press channel.
It's not like there are no GPS alternatives already:

Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS)

India's Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)

China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS)

European Union's Galileo

Most consumer GPS receivers can use any or all of these already...
Well, since we were asked to locate material to pirate, which the company intended to sell, it would be criminal, but the criminal act would be the sale of the material, not the procurement of the material, as I read the law.

There might have been a possibility of a claim that we employees asked to download the material were committing a criminal offense under the 'posession with during business with intent to commit and act of infringement', but even there I think it'd be the VPs that had the stupid idea that were committing infringement, not us lowly employees asked to acquire the material.

About the best I suspect CPS could hope for would be a threat as a cudgel to admit who suggested the idea. But I'd have happily told them, and I left the company very shortly after.
If you are interested in learning about the history of Rentech and Jim Simon’s life I highly recommend this podcast: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/renaissance-technologies
Anyone have any DSLR settings recommendations? (newbie here, Canon EOS R5).

Located North Eastern US, just about approaching dusk. Fingers crossed!
If you're finding food that is past the expiration date on a regular basis, you're probably wasting money on stuff you rarely or never actually eat. It isn't a problem anybody should be running into.
Useful for generating truly random numbers?
Chess: The Axiom System
Meanwhile when I grew up we’d cover cooked leftovers, including meat, leave it out, and eat it the next day. I never got food poisoning.
Rio Grande do Sul is one of the richest Brazilian states, is 5th biggest agro producer and has 2x the area of UK. The heavy rains affected most of the state and the metropolitan region was almost entirely flooded. Huge material damage, more than 300K homeless/displaced, almost 2KK negatively impacted.
Because citizens aren't expected to need to know the scale. They are only expected to follow the guidance their governments issue.
So FAA says thanks, but no thanks, and everyone moves on?
We Looked at All Recent Evidence on Mobile Phone Bans in Schools: What We Found
Digging through menus can be pretty frustrating. A way to search available commands and options would be ideal. Something like Emacs's M-x prompt suggesting commands as you type, and if you see nothing relevant you can try a different term. Even the basic actions the default keybinds do have equivalent commands you can run.

I've heard of a setup relying on Unity's old global menu feature that then lets you use something like rofi to search all the menus in a GUI program at once, but sadly never got it working. Sounds like a dream. You didn't have to actually use Unity, just make programs think you were, presumably so they'd expose the information the right way.
I recently decommissioned an Oracle Portal installation. I kept a backup of the database, but in order to keep a version I could easily lookup, I also copied it into an sqlite file.

As I expected, I later had to recover various files that had been stored there. It was a lot easier than restoring the backup.

Kudos to SQLite.
Interesting that in a few seconds, this has been banished from the front page of HN and nearly every comment has been downvoted.
Anecdotally I've noticed that people in the tech world seem to have a rather tenuous grasp on basic ethics when it comes to the difference between being inspired by product X versus shamelessly copying it.

If you see some app/game/service and then proceed to make an alternate version without giving a shout-out or credit to the original, that's a pretty low class move.
Their mistake was that they forgot that their customers seek approval from their company like children seek approval from their parents. As the ones who encourage (and technically mandate) that desire for approval, they should stick to flattery and praise.

Instead they flattened a number of things other than Apple products that their customers also hang their personalities on (kitsch over-represented.) Instead, they should have just marketed an Apple-branded piano that was only allowed to play Apple-approved songs. Their customers would smash all their old pianos themselves, and feel superior to the left-behind losers who wouldn't.

This is like being upset that the Beatles said they were more popular than Jesus, but for insecure upper-middle-class opinion-worker douchebags.
I think it will lead to lots of lost data. Kind of like how your kid's old ipad loses its mind and your apple id password doesn't work and the data is lost.

This kind of thing should be super-explicit when setting things up, and they should provide a way out.
Trading is just like, a lot of fun you know?

Atleast that's my primary motivation for it.
The podcast seems like a death sentence. They did one on Charlie Munger and he died a few weeks after. Jim Simons also died a few weeks after his episode aired.
This kind of thing is one of the reasons why we have different distros. For Debian, it's actually common to provide a "minimal" package plus one or more versions built with different feature flags.
> Even though I'm pretty frugal, one measure I currently practice is to usually not touch food past the best-by/sell-by/expiration date.

Three different things.

Best-by -> may not be particularly unsafe, but starts tasting gnarly as time goes on.

Sell-by -> the store should sell it by this date, but there's still a healthy margin of time left for you to keep it on your shelves and eat it.

Expiration -> They definitely don't want you to eat it after this date.
I used vim for 5 years and never knew about C-d for scrolling until after I had switched to Emacs and one day, on a whim, decided to install and activate evil and look what various commands were bound to. I removed evil immediately afterwards as 5 years of vim taught me to hate modal editing with a passion.
Crank your ISO up and play with shutter speed. You need a tripod to capture anything satisfactory.
Looked outside just now around Bad Homburg in Frankfurt area, nothing :( So depressing
40% seems like a lot. Were you previously at a FANG level salary?
For what it's worth... growing up in Tromsø, we have auroras a few dozen times per winter usually.

They were always strong enough to be easily seen, often quite dramatic. It really does look like that if you're far enough north.
Don't be afraid of Iso, you might want manual focus, mirrorless cameras even as good as the R5 have a hard time focusing on "nothing at infinity". Largest aperture your lens can do (biggest hole, smallest f number) and the recommended shutter speeds.

I had luck with iso 3200, f1.4 and 1/6s shutter handheld on a sony a7iv with a 35mm f1.4 GM.
That's beyond heartbreaking. Everything is somehow getting worse but I'd held out hope that something universally considered a masterpiece might get better treatment. Do you know if a better release exists in Japan?
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
Python-heavy pedagogy does students and the world at large a disservice.
Tires for my car range from 67 to 72db, which isn’t much of a range
Yeah wtf is going on? I went back several pages and can't even find it
Do you live in a cool climate, or maybe always had air conditioning? Some things will definitely go off if you leave them unrefrigerated for a day in a hot climate.
Tripod. Long exposure and keep ISO lowish. You may need to manually focus as there won’t be a clear object to focus on.

Shoot RAW and you can tweak the image better to pull down the brightness of the sky to help the colours stand out.
- "Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40324179
The unspoken etiquette here is to just post the archive link for the benefit of others, as you have done.

Then move on, knowing you have contributed a small act of kindness to the world today.
Debian does this all the time. There are thousands of .deb packages that are built with patches.

In this case, though, it's not even a patch - it's a build flag that is provided by upstream.
if someone on a bike shook their finger at me i'd turn towards them
Well I do mostly agree..in this day and age where the earth is not in the best shape and green house gases…I hate seeing people be destructive and wasteful. There are YouTubers who make videos taking brand new things and destroying them or will smash things and I cringe thinking what a waste all this effort and green house gas went into making a product and then they are needlessly destroyed for what? So though I don’t think this ad was meant to be so deep I do think it is cringe they are destroying items for no reason.
Wait, WAS IT ALL LIES??????
That seems pretty excessive, IIRC if there's not a really long linear length of wire involved (e.g. power lines) then things are probably fine.
Tony Soprano and the Jungian Death Mother (2023)
> I would bet a large sum of money that the creatives who created the ad for Apple had no intentions beyond "this ad will be a metaphor for the insane variety of creative endeavors you can use an iPad for!"

I think most people—including the author of TFA—would agree with you that that's the conscious thought going through the creators' minds. The problem with the ad isn't that it was an intentional statement of destruction on the part of Apple, it's that the metaphor is a bit too on the nose.

If they'd had all the stuff disappear into a magician's hat and then pulled out an iPad, or turned the iPad into a bag of holding and placed all those items inside (or pulled them all out!), that would have conveyed the happy side of the metaphor without triggering any antipathy.

The anger (and I'd argue, fear) stems from the fact that the metaphor Apple chose has the iPad replacing every other creative endeavor. There's no ambiguity: every other instrument, tool, and object is totally and finally crushed. That hydraulic press left no survivors besides the iPad.

That's what the video conveys, and that's what is triggering a lot of angst among creative people of many different stripes. It's too close to what we all have feared has been happening, now presented in vivid and visceral detail.
I've also found (anecdotal) significant success in just throwing in available context before prompting. I've written multiple automations in this way as well.
Glad to hear this - I'm still looking for employment after a four month search, but at least the market is headed in the right direction now.
If I had to guess, what they wanted was to sample from a finite set you're only allowed to stream ("unbounded" just means you don't know the bound). Or if it really is unbounded, they still just want a uniform sample up to that point (i.e., still bounded).
Maladaptive Culture
Close - "AI" is replace high paying moderate skill jobs. Those artists, writers and developers that are being replaced are not in the innovative and creative roles, they are just the assembly workers putting together or "fluffing up" work of other people. Not great for those people and increasing the inequality overall.
I've gotten so fed up with Salesforce that I've taken to exporting data and reports using SOQL and displaying them in external dashboards.
I worked at Apple as a college dropout, and got an offer from Google I didn't accept also as a dropout.

Both of them only really cared more about work history and my ability to solve whiteboard problems. Pretty much all the interviews ended up "what's another clever way to use a hashmap?"
> That login service can be written to be virtually immune to SQL attacks because it doesn't have to handle generalized queries. Ban all the SQL control characters in usernames/passwords

Why? If that login service is a third-party provider, what does this accomplish?
New York (state) counties by GDP (2021)
I say this without rancor: A lot of artists have a lot of free time to spend online being angry about things.
I’m increasingly suspecting the faux outrage is exactly what Apple intended.

It’s dominating the headlines, despite it being a rather mundane ad.
LARPing is likely Internet's favourite pass-time.
It depends. Some niche software is so entrenched that they have no incentive to improve. But other domains are nimble enough that there's still a fight for market share.
I expected this nit-pick to come sooner. Yes, technically my preferences devolved to them at some point, and yes, Labor were a few steps from the bottom while the Coalition were a few steps closer to the bottom.

The preferencing system is great and I would not suggest that there is anything seriously wrong with it. Primary votes are counted separately, so there's still information available to challenge notions of popular mandate if it's important. While part of me does wish there was some way of signalling that I want my preferences to stip devolving at a certain point, I'd take this over most other systems any day of the week.
So where exactly did you pull this quote from?

The very same document you were dissecting - the 1988 charter. The phrases are easy to find in any reliable translation you have handy. Just look for keywords like "Judgement", "tree", "Jew", "battle". The other questions you're raising are also interesting, but if you don't mind -- for now I'd be keen to know your interpretation of the phrases cited in the post above this one.

The context for each phrase would be the immediately surrounding text, of course.

(Yes, is a turgid sprawl, the '88 charter. But give it a shot!)
I considered multiple readings of the claim. Obviously different readings may differ in strength. I do not exclude a reading that is neither too strong nor too weak; the comment is an invitation to give one, which you appear to have taken up.

I do not see the distinction between what you have written in the second paragraph and the claim that P≠NP.
it's not an attack. i just find it rude to post a paywalled article. why not take two seconds to post an archive link if you really need to?

because someone else will do it for you? is that really a decent attitude?