skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This quote is harsh enough that I feel the need to say that this is one of Heinlein's characters talking.

Although the whole "innumerates are terrible" thing appears all over his books.
"Your services" aren't entirely yours. Practically speaking, no one builds systems entirely from scratch. A service likely has remote dependencies too, some of which will trickle down to the clients of your service. For Spotify specifically, they rely on SSO providers and third-party payments services; if those APIs change, then the client will likely require updates even though Spotify didn't change anything in their own core functionality.
regardless of all that, I must now think about the correlation between cryptographic strengths and amount of information necessarily transmitted

is there such a correlation? why? how does it work? i don't even....
> This guy was a prime example of being a "hacker".

Huge stretch
Not in the systems I've worked in. I interpret "shifting left" as preferring unit tests to integration tests. In that world, a unit test that runs in the same env as the dev box running compiler and completes in 20 ms will allow much, much faster iteration than an integration test that has to spin up an EC2 instance, upload code, run a script, download results, etc
Any two of the big 3 (US, SU, UK+commonwealth), plus all the partisans and smaller allies could have done it. It was a dumb hopeless war that the Nazis picked because their ideology was incompatible with accurately evaluating their opponents.

But, it is good that all of the allies decided to band together and get it down a little bit faster. Every moment that Europe spent occupied was just another mountain of human suffering. Plus, getting that theater done before nukes really became available probably saved some historical German cities.
I believe the concept is that through targeted application rather than broadcast application, you don't NEED to carry 100x the volume as you would in traditional aerial applicator. You carry less product, but you need to use less, and therefore you have to purchase less. There are also the environmental benefits of not applying herbicide where it not actually needed, and benefits of not expending energy and resources to produce a wasted product.

Also you are underestimating the cost differential between the drone and a crewed aircraft. The article says this guy's drone costs $50,000. $500,000 is going to buy you a 30 year old clapped out pile of crap with a radial piston engine and a belly full of corrosion. A new crop duster, for example a very common, and fairly small, Air Tractor AT-600, is going to be $1.7-2.0M depending on options.

And, you have not accounted for the extraordinarily high recurring cost of operating a small turbine aircraft, including flight crew, ground crew, maintenance, storage and insurance. Fuel burn is 75 gallons per hour at $6.25 per gallon (That's today's price at the duster base in Linton, North Dakota, 7L2 airport. Say hi to Mike the chief mechanic for me.) So a direct operating cost of $500/hour right off the bat, whether you are spraying or commuting. And the cost of maintaining a fixed base of operation (i.e. an airport.) Costs which mostly go poof with a drone you can throw in a pickup truck. And of course the cost of operating in a highly regulated industry such as ongoing training and certification, maintaining an anti-drug program and workforce monitoring, etc.

And yes, this would clearly be marketed as a service for hire, as many existing agricultural services are. That is not novel in the industry.
> Presumably you have felt thirsty many times and had something to drink

This is not the case. It is very rare that I have ever felt thirsty. It has been an issue my entire life, often with seriously negative outcomes. Every day I have to make a conscious effort to ensure I drink enough water. I can never rely on how I feel; I always have to depend on what intake I have measured.
> keep in mind that robots are made by people, which strongly suggests using people directly is cheaper

And that is why my roof is held up by people I hire to hold it up. Bricks would complain less and would be more reliable, but they are more expensive than people because bricks are made by people.

Except that is not how the cost of things works, is it?
Goodbye from 6605455.
Try this one: we observe complex instinctual behaviors in most animals on this planet. Therefore it follows that humans are special and have no complex instinctual behaviors.
You should probably eliminate the "blue light free" claim. Per results on clinicaltrials.gov, blue light conclusively does not impact sleep outcomes.

This is complex for a layperson to investigate, but you have to search for insomnia, sleep disorders, wakefulness during the day, and only studies with results. There are many uncompleted studies - it is typical for studies that have no chance of producing an interesting outcome are dropped by their investigators even when registered. However, those uncompleted studies produce many conflating results.

For example, https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02698800?tab=results specifically investigated using blue light blocking lenses compared to clear lenses. This was not blinded. The differences in all their measures were within 1 standard deviation between the groups, so the result is conclusive that (1) insomnia scores vary very widely among people as a baseline (2) if there is a real effect, it is pretty small and would require a larger sample size to measure. Of course when they measure the part where you don't know if you're looking at blue light, like when you are actually asleep, there is no difference between groups.

This is just to say that the whole blue light thing - placebo effects are real. People perceive this blue light thing as real, particularly tech people. Seed.com is successful. You can do placebos. But you should do the right thing and cut weird claims with no real evidence that are really small brained.
This is an incredible relief and should be the final nail in the coffin for safety/alignment/shoggoth arguments. It turns out features are completely scrutable, and when modified, we don't see chaotic, schizo non-sequiturs, but a coherent, predictable, globally-consistent shift proving models are operating in a fundamentally understandable way.
> Don't worry about the shipbuilding. China doesn't have carriers. They don't have a navy that can leave shore more than a hundred miles or so.

They have 3 carriers and are rapidly building more. They have naval bases as far as Africa.

A lot more misinformation in your comment but it would take too long to correct it all.
I probably won’t install the suggested replacement of VK Messenger, I have to say. No more 71966195.
Azure makes inter-zone data transfer free
The Ministry of Truth would like to talk to you about your memes, you may be referred to the DoJ.

The above is only half joking as someone was literally convicted for reposting a meme on Twitter in the past few months.
This article discusses inflation in the USA and Canada as it relates to estimates of immigration, consumer spending, and central bank policies.

I came across it on r/econmonitor.
uh oh :(

I haven't used ICQ in years, but my heart is still sad to receive this news.
It's common practice here to take demolished concrete from a structure and pavement and use it as structural fill for new development. Sometimes on the same property. Some agencies will not allow contractors to haul it off as it has salvage value.

Concrete rubble is also salvageable on the job site. Recycling would require transporting to a mill, crushing, separating, transporting to a furnace, and then the process described in the article starts.
Like most people, I think 750ml of liquor daily sounds incredible. That is equivalent to what the NIH defines as a "binge", three times every day. But to alcoholics that's a pretty average level of drinking. I always go back to this graph that still leaves me astounded. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2014/09/...
Just use a second uv for the lighting.
Anything interesting and server-based usually depends on an entire complex data pipeline (one system for this if you’re lucky) and a dozen or more external systems with no great way to mock them that won’t itself be out-of-sync with reality often, anyway.
Why is this a better idea than a pull behind sprayer that goes behind a tractor and dispenses crop spraying intelligently with AI when it recognizes pests?

Seems like a simpler system than using drones, which can fly about 20 mins max on one charge.
You never expect basic ergonomics from an ALL CAPS language. They all suck.
American Airlines says blaming 9-year-old in bathroom recording case was 'error'
these have been around for a long time. e.g. https://www.ebay.com/itm/276030548980, https://www.ebay.com/itm/275256905873
You know what is paper-like, has infinite FPS, never runs out of batteries, and costs about 100x less than this?

A physical notebook & a pen :)
Umm who in America doesn’t know someone personally who has visible liver damage from fast food? I know multiple families where 4/4 people have it. Why would he make that up? He didn’t even go diabetic.
I think it's the word order, borrowed from French, that's scrutinized here. I don't know if that makes it "broken" but it is a special case with only a handful of peers.

A native English construction would be general attorneys.
> As a Ukrainian, this sounds like betrayal. We went to war expecting sufficient military support from our superpower partner/ally.

You didn't "go to war". A portion of your sovereign territory was invaded, and you did/are attempting to defend it. The fact that the US/NATO are willing to contribute to your defense is just a plus. Ukraine is not a NATO member and has no defense treaties with anyone in Europe.
IRC will never die
I didn't realize it still did. Wow, such memories.
See ya.

- 1939647
Farewell, ICQ.

Sincerely,
1339782
Missed opportunity to call it Drewnix.
I'd recommend to identify a market you want to serve, first. Doing WordPress websites for SMEs is a bloody red ocean. If you're up to building themes for a niche (e.g. Odoo ERP), you might be better off and could potentially grow with that niche. Then, specialize further, e.g. complete web solutions for doctors with appointment functionalities etc.

The main message is: take a deep look into a niche and their problems. Do cheap experiments to find out you're on the right track (e.g. landing page + social media marketing).
Everyone Can Do Respect
You also forgot that the PM failed and the Judiciary is still independent and the PM is still under trial. What's your point exactly? What you're saying is evidence of a functioning democracy and the courts are still independent.
I’m onboard with the anti-processed food crowd. I don’t frequent any fast food joints but I get processed food at the grocery store.

It’s bad. But I also roll my eyes when someone in 2020+ brags about their pristine normal diets, goes on a processed-only diet (to prove some point that no one needed to be convinced about?) and then have embarrassing moans and sighs every time they take a bite.

oooooooooHHHHH

Am I too far gone? Too numb to the pleasures of processed food?
I think the biggest risk with advanced AI is that it's captured [likely by bad actors under the guise of cover stories] and that it strays away from being as free market as is possible.

E.g. I don't think there should be any patents regarding what AI creates and how it can create it - let's not give people monopolies anymore for which all possibilities will come into existence due to passionate people, not due to the possibility of being able to patent something. E.g. telling the system to turn a 2D photo into a 3D rendering and then extrapolating/reverse engineering that to tie into materials and known building code requirements is plainly obvious, as one easy example; a "gold rush" for patents on AI etc only aims to benefit relatively rent-seekers and those in the VC industrial complex, etc.
The "new hotness" for today's cloud are all the Excel APIs in the Microsoft Graph:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/excel?...
My approach to that has always been to make sure I'm calling my assumptions with a possible option, usually that's either the use cases we care about or the scaling/infrastructure concerns.

I learned pretty early on that its really easy for that context to be lost and that miscommunication go missed. Its so much easier to catch miscommunication early when a few extra seconds or minutes are spent calling out the context and assumptions that make one option best.
I don't even remember what my ICQ number was. It was the first social network I joined.
Exactly. When I started my job 20 years ago, our company was waterfall, and my then boss (in his 50s) told me - never rely on QA, it's your responsibility as a developer to make sure the code (and product) works.

I think he was right. Today, apparently, he would be left.
> ICQ will stop working from June 26

> You can chat with friends in VK Messenger, and with colleagues in VK WorkSpace

Was ICQ like Livejournal, where it had a lot more popularity and staying power in Russia than in the West?
The UN is simply a playground for the P5 IMO.
Did you mean to share a specific paper?
This makes me sad. I mean, I haven't logged in in about 20 years now, and couldn't if I wanted to (don't have the password or access to the email address).

But I had a low five digit user number, and built a lot of relationships on ICQ (some of which continue today!). It was my main method of electronic communication in college. I had romantic relationships live and die on ICQ.

Another reminder of how things change over time.
Being self-hostable it can never die completely but lets face it, in most communities it's a hollowed out husk of what it used to be since Discord took off.
YOLOv10: Real-Time End-to-End Object Detection
same for 6141850 although it wouldn't work when I tried to log in like 5 years ago.

Imagine a world where all apps had numeric user ids and people memorized them.

Here's the ICQ song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va8dnGF3Xyw
I've definitely seen that happen, and in my opinion its just a sign of bad culture or bad leadership. That's not to say its toxic or widespread, maybe its just a poorly run meeting, but nuance should be a focus of any important discussion rather than the voice that goes ignored.
It used to be the predominant college student came from a family that was well-off and fairly well-connected. Jobs were practically guaranteed for these people if only they could demonstrate they had the basic skills. A college degree became the proxy for those skills. College degrees also provided exclusivity: if anyone challenged the "good old boys" club they could point to their all having college degrees and not just the fact they hailed from the same social class.

People bought their lies hook, line, and sinker. They thought it really was the college degree that set them apart, not the fact they were wealthy and well-connected. The masses then began to get degrees. It worked for a while too - the upper middle class joined in the game and were able to participate somewhat. They weren't as well-connected, but hey, by going to college you could rub elbows with those who were and - OPPORTUNITY! Networking!

Now so many people are getting college degrees the line of exclusivity has changed. A Bachelor's degree is no longer sufficient, you need to have a Master's degree. And so on.

The untold story here is there are only so many "good jobs", and the wealthy and well-connected are going to get first dibs on those jobs. That's the way things have been since antiquity. Any of those "good jobs" they don't want will go to those who "prove" themselves worthy, and these days that's typically the people who have earned advanced degrees.

So - for those "losing faith" in a college education, do you suppose they'll figure what's been going on all along for these thousands of years since we began this civilization experiment?
Yeah I know, besides my keyboard has no physcial end/home key. But if websites do stuff like this, I usually hit Ctrl+w because my time is to precious to fight bad UIs.
I don't mind manually rotating them. But the loose fit makes it hard to do precise calligraphy.
Could this help detect landmines?
Then it doesn't violate the security of the OS, if you need to be an admin to do it.
> Ehud Barak himself confirmed live in an interview with Christiane Amanpoor

This by the way is a total lie. Barak never said that. You're just repeating Hamas talking points.
You're the one who opened with a statement about elevation, presumably to note that it made a difference, somehow. Fucksakes.
I'm thankful for the New Jersey division of consumer affairs that sued Samsung for faulty home appliances. I'll never buy Samsung anything except nvme drives.
Morbid serendipity.
I don't think the thing preventing this level of control and tracking from currently existing is the lack of technology.
This is a somewhat complex question to answer, and one that can't truly be untangled from the broader history of the I/P conflict. But the base idea is this: you can't fight terrorism with bombs. Israel's stated goals in this war don't make sense: even if they could eliminate every single Hamas (military) operative, the kind of assault they are perpetrating is obviously going to give rise to a new wave of militants, probably much more embittered than Hamas is today.

So, Israel can only have two actual goals in this war: either they are seeking to purge Gaza of Palestinians, or they are seeking to punish Gazans in general for the actions of a few terrorists on October 7th, eye-for-an-eye style. There is no other reasonable interpretation of this war, and the vast majority of the world's countries see it this way (as seen by the overwhelming support for all pro-Gaza resolutions at the UN, typically 150+ to 10 or less).

Now, if Israel actually wanted to eliminate the terrorist leadership that perpetrated the October 7th attack while not creating new generations of terrorists, they would have gone about this intervention in a completely different way. They would have had to work with the non-militant parts of Hamas leadership and the PLO of the West Bank and with neighboring Arab countries to bring these murderers to justice, along with sending the equivalent of police forces for taregtted operations.

For an example of how this can work, you can look at how the UK dealt with the IRA in Northern Ireland, or Spain with the Basque Country separatists. They certainly didn't start bombing Belfast or Bilbao semi-indiscriminately to weed out the terrorists there.

Of course, what I'm saying is laughably far from anything that was actually possible to imagine as an Israeli response, given the long history of repression and mutual hatred of those territories. The reality is that Israeli leadership, and a sizeable segment of the Israeli population, wants the territory of Israel to include Gaza and the West Bank, but without bringing in the huge Arab Muslim population there as full citizens with equal rights in Israel. They also want to avoid creating explicit laws officially recognizing them as the second-class citizens that they are. So, the goal of Israeli leadership is actually maintaining the status quo: people in Gaza and the West Bank (and East Jerusalem) are living as second class citizens, their land is slowly being encroached by more radical coloniats, and their anger is controlled by bombings and deprivation when needed.
Bummer. End of an era for sure. But it's dying even back then 20 years ago.
Goodbye from 201253
My favorite will always be poisoning pigeons in the park, introduced to me courtesy of Dr. Demento.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY
Show HN: I made a tool to help creators to easily share content and grow online
I am Isaque Franklin and I build products and solve problems in my free time (between college and work) and also for a living.

I am a big fan of article-like content. I like to write, read, and browse through those kinds of websites. I myself have actually had a bunch of personal blogs and webpages to share my thoughts, almost all of them in Portuguese (unfortunately for you guys).

So I decided to build a tool that could simplify the process of creating a webpage and setting up a blog for non-technical people, like many content creators and small entrepreneurs.

I know that many of those platforms that make it simple to create a webpage + blog system already exist, but I don't like many of them because of the insufferable number of features that make it annoying and confusing.

I wanted something clean, beautiful, easy to use, and that could have some kind of personalization (not to the point of being just as confusing as other platforms).

So I built IndexPage, a plug-and-go webpage + blog system, where you can put your links, bio, info, and publish your articles for your audience. You can also grow your email list with every article because your readers can subscribe to your page.

So an easy-to-use, build, get emails and grow webpage for content creators and small entrepreneurs.

If you've read until here, I appreciate your time.

IndexPage link: https://www.indexpage.space/
gg. 466368349
This does not involve an identity function?

It's just a textbook monoid: an operation on two elements which produces another (+ or *), with a "neutral" element provided (0 or 1).
It is amazing that "goes to sleep properly when I close the lid" is a competitive advantage for a laptop in 2024. My X1 Carbon would bake itself in my backpack all the time but my new work mac has been perfect so far.
Goodbye from 9,275,290
Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is...
Gadu Gadu, the contemporary clone from Poland, is still up. I don't know if anyone uses it.
In the US, there’s a concern that some alcohol company will start claiming their drinks are healthier than the others, so alcohol packaging isn’t required to say anything about the number of calories in the drink ( https://www.eatingwell.com/article/2052030/why-your-booze-do... ).

It makes me wonder how many people see that calories aren’t listed and assume “it must be small.” I don’t think anybody believes alcohol is a diet drink, but I’m sure many people don’t realize how it’s packed with calories.
To get around legal issues one could just focus on fetuses instead of birthed persons. Pluses include: fetuses are a renewable resource; if harvested early enough, bone tissue is not crunchy; no need to clean out fecal material from the abdomen. This will probably be especially helpful in future space exploration.
Delivering _what_, though? What concrete mass-market applications which either can pay for themselves or conceivably could pay for themselves are there, in production, today? Or are we still in 'jam tomorrow' mode?
Oh wow, didn't think it was still around!
Don't remember my id number any more, but had great fun using centericq over SSH.
Simpler, better times.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
My reading (and maybe I'm wrong because the comment was terse) is that IRC will never die, because it is not a commercial interest that can be shuttered. It's an open protocol and anyone can spin up a server.

Any community you build inside a walled garden can be taken from you. I do think that is important to keep in mind.
Even back in 2016 I saw Packer as a "complete" piece of software. Do you need anything from newer versions?
251437659, still remember my number even though I haven't been using ICQ for more than two decades.
Pinning NixOS with npins, or how to kill channels forever without flakes
People were saying that Juniper sounded like her (the current OpenAI voice)! Personally I think Sky and ScarJo are not the same human voice. They are perhasps the same "performance" as both ScarJo in Her and Sky are playing a friendly/bubbly AI.
DOS Game Club on AfterNET is still really active, for those who have an interest in checking it out.