skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a lot of strategies for this but a basic one is using direction find on the jammer. then electronically or manually moving antenna nulls (bad spots of a directional antenna) to face the jammer(s) which would then increase the gain for directed non-jammer areas.

GPS is a very low amplitude signal that can easily be jammed. Dropping WP (white phosphorus) or a missile on the suspected jammer would be a better bet.
I you’re in the Apple ecosystem, the built-in Notes app does this.
What? It’s extremely unclear what your concrete (ha) questions are. Your questions (while clearly well-meaning and well-intentioned, and probably from a perspective that most people in this discussion generally agree with, including myself) seem generally too broad and disconnected from the more detailed discussion of materials. You mentioned you can’t see the other side of the argument, but it’s unclear what exactly you are arguing for or against in relation to reclaiming cement from concrete versus down cycling concrete into roads. It’s unclear to me what environmental concerns you are talking about that directly relate to the discussion above.

There are all sorts of ecological/environmental/social concerns at various stages of the concrete lifecycle, but certainly at a global scale one of the most significant effects is the contribution to climate collapse associated with cement production for concrete (around 10% of global emissions). Concrete however is certainly not going away though as it is one of the primary structural materials in most of the world, especially in parts that are rapidly expanding the building stock, and so doing everything we can to mitigate the resulting carbon emissions is essential, as those emissions pose a dire threat…
Deregulate nuclear especially small scale reactors utilizing known technologies that make them incapable of melting down. Why engage in the insane mental gymnastics to set up some Rube-Goldberg machine of centralized wind and solar with battery backup. The costs are incredibly distorted for wind, solar and nuclear - with the latter being artificially expensive due to regulation and misinformed sentiment and the former being artificially inexpensive due to costs being hidden in the lifecycle, supply chain, and problems only seen at very large scale.
> Is where we are any good? I think one of the more germane issues with generative AI art is that it is distinctly not creative. It can only regurgitate variations of what it has seen.

Yes, state of the art models like midjourney, sd3 are _really_ good. You are bounded only by your imagination.

The idea that generative AI is only derivative was never an empirical claim, its always been a cope.
6TB - Snowflake

Why?

That's the boring solution. If you don't have a use case, what kind of queries you would run then opt for maximum flexibility with the minimum setup of a managed solution.

If cost is prohibitive on the long run, you can figure out a more tailored solution based on the revealed preferences.

Fiddling with CSVs is the DWH version of the legendary "Dropbox HN commenter".
Because it's excellent rule of thumb. When you need to run more than one process in container, you are forced to write scripts/service handler. This introduces complexity to system and troubleshooting is much more difficult when things go wrong. However, on practical level, it has to be done occasionally especially when containerizing third party applications that were not designed for containers.
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> We find what appear to be personal devices being brought by military personnel into war zones, exposing pre-deployment sites and military positions.

Is this verified? Does the military not ban Apple/Google personal trackers?
Would seafood like shrimp have too much cholesterols?
> The only real violations of international law apply to an army purposefully going, unprovoked, into a civilian area and starting to shoot everyone. Hamas does that, as they've proven on many occasions (including their own civilians), Israel doesn't.

Israel has been shown to do this on multiple occasions. Take, for example, them doing exactly this to their own surrendering hostages, which they mistook for surviving, surrendering Palestinian civilians as they combed through the rubble of their bombings. Or maybe there was no mistake.

Given Israel's assault on the free press in Gaza (ranging from shutting off power and communications to literally shooting and bombing press workers), we may never know the true extent of these cleansings, especially when it really is "just" surviving, surrendering Palestinian civilians.
This was posted less than an hour ago so obviously someone found it of value to be shared. Why would I assume that article was a year old? My assumption of it being recent makes more sense. The fact that it was shared recently makes it worthwhile for me to mention that it's no longer the case with newer, better models.
I thought this forum still wanted to be on the serious side, so under that view look at the works of George T. Renner, in particular his World Map for the Air Age, published in 1942-1943. [1] [2]

As air-power started to be taken seriously with the advent of WW2 (some) geographers started realising that one of the shortest ways of getting from Europe to North America is via the North Pole, or close to it, anyway. Hence those maps I've linked to, which had the North Pole at their center, and that is because Renner thought that the control of the North Pole was similar to the control of the Northern Hemisphere. Related, a little bit later on ICMBs were meant to take the same route, give or take, hence why NORAD became a thing.

But, again, we can choose to take the "lol! lol! lol! The Russians and their shovels!" angle, which won't benefit anyone involved in this conversation, intellectually speaking.

Later edit: Additional resource, this study [3] titled: "The Hot Struggle Over the Cold Waters: The Strategic Position of
the Arctic Region During and After the Cold War"

This paragraph there is a good start on how important were the views of people like Renner when it came to the Arctic, that is in the context of the US vs. the USSR/Russia (potential) confrontation:

> The first to focus his interests on the significance of the strategic position of the Arctic was George T. Renner, when in the 1940s, based on a map with the North Pole at the center, he estimated the opportunities and threats associated with this new perspective. However, the increase of the Arctic’simportance is inextricably linked with the development of technology which allowed greater exploration of the region. Shortly after the outbreak of the Cold War, in the rhetoric of the United States, the High North began to be identified as a “mighty” and “important” region.44 Hence, the geostrategic role of the Far North was fully revealed during of the Cold War, when it was possible to observe real military and political tensions on the polar waters and islands.

[1] https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-renner-world-...

[2] archive.org link that should work, but doesn't: https://archive.org/details/dr_rand-mcnally-world-map-for-th...

[3] https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
Some encodings add a prefix, which then get sanitised by the liberal base64_decode. https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/php-filters-chain-...
Generative AIs are great at generating new, unique groups of words and images, etc. that are pleasing to humans (this is what they are trained to do after all).

They're not oracles or databases or encyclopedias. But they're marketed to us as the latter, so people naturally get upset when they have flaws all those other sources of info don't.
I'm drinking mate cocido right now.

It's basically milk tea but with yerba mate instead of tea.
Side question, anyone knows where the phrase "used in anger" comes from? I know it means using something in production but where does it come from?

Is it about battlefield and such?
So, basically a database where you store a replica in memory on every edge node.
Instruct-BLIP and MMICL are not good models, GPT-4o doesn't fail at it no matter what and probably does Gemini and others better models, so yeah it's really a nothingburger, the author tried to extrapolate from the performance of bad models.
AuthZ is troublesome in British English domains where the usual spelling is Authorisation.
"Drain our lake to build your city? Karma."

- The Aztecs
> estimated 2.4 million items

That's 5 years if one person worked on it nonstop without sleeping and each item took 60 seconds.

I would assume they probably sit in a secure location and items on display or items leaving/transferred are catalogued first so there's bit of a triage and backlog.

Museums probably don't want to turn down valuable item donations even if they don't have the resources to catalogue if right away.
I don't think home ownership maps 1:1 to the rich vs labor :)
Looking at the angular size of the region in question, it surely would have to be that they’re equidistant from us in order to be at all interesting. There should be innumerable galaxies in and around the ring, from our perspective.
The collection began 270 years ago, and has moved buildings a number of times, including a distributed dispersal during the war.
It definitely makes me less jittery than coffee. I stopped drinking coffee, except for a cup in the morning and I have mate the rest of the day.

It’s still a stimulant but in a more relaxing way
DHH Discusses SQLite (and Stoicism)
I think authentication is about proof of identity. Identity can mean a lot of things imo. Applications identify me all the time without me giving them any proof of who I am. This happens in meatspace all the time too. People project identity and we make assumptions about what we observe. We don’t necessarily ask them to verify this identify through mutually agreed upon terms.
Things You Should Never Do as a Software Engineer
At root it's kind of like this, you were right about God but it's not really about religion or religious people in the West. It's about looking for identity within and choosing something versus having something chosen for you. We name ourselves. Now we can choose our identity to be anything and even physical and biological reality is less important than our choices. We are told to find ourselves, fulfilment, belonging and direction within ourselves.

A person can choose their religion now, they can label themselves according to what they believe in. For many in the West religion is a kind of loose political or ideological club. For many, religion and identity is found and chosen from within. "it's the real me", "I have found the meaning in my life by this chosen identity".

But it has not been this way forever, and in other (non-Western) parts of the world it's still another way.

The other way is to have your identity defined from above or outside you. For most people who we were, our identities were defined according to our position, where we lived, what our father did, what the culture was. Your father named you. To be "real" you would behave according to what identity had been given to you. Ultimately God is above everything and with regard to identities, symbolically represents this top down giving of a meaning of life.

I guess it's making the hole bigger than trying to fill it with something else.

Edits:

a) I suppose that some older religious people who were "born into it" might be more towards identity-from-outside.

b) It would work with non religious people in identity-from-outside cultures. Stereotypical examples: a farmer in rural China, a salaryman in Japan or a peasant in 17th Century Germany. Or a culture where children are encouraged to "do their best" with what they have at hand vs "find themselves" with things they might discover.
Checking that we've gotten better at dealing with novelty seems like a very hard thing to do. Everyone knows black swans exist, they're famous for it!
Funny how the maintainers preferred to build a plugin system instead of just the tree explorer, I suspect Helix will lose its biggest feature: no plugins and easy configuration :(
I think since these are cultural artifacts, many times looted in war or conquest, there's an argument to be made they could be returned to the cultural institutions or museums of the place they were taken from.
Ah that is why it is rebrewed. I do a mixed brew in a pair of quart jars. I fill about 2/3 w mate and water. Then I brew oolong tea and mix that strained tea w the mate that still has the mate leaves in it. I drink it w sugar. It's popular for the health and mood benefits it isn't consumed for flavor.
That's probably not going to happen as part of the core editor (there's a long discussion about this somewhere on the bug tracker) but should be easy to add using the now work-in-progress plugin system. Scroll down to the Examples section.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675
You're thinking simple image augmentations. These nets learn much more complex invariants. Basically to isolate concepts from irrelevant context. The point is you can't remove that image from the training data (not practically) and the experiment is pointless if it's in there.
I am aware there is a lot of complexity (obviously) in why people develop lung cancer, or any illness for that matter, but within that assumption was smoking being far worse than it actually is. Reading further, and this may also seem obvious written out in this simple form, the cancer numbers for people in homes using coal burning for cooking food varies hugely depending on the coal. And that the incidence of lung cancers in 'never-smokers' is rising rapidly globally.
Uber Migrates 1T Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6M Yearly
It really depends on the set of prompts you present the LLM. If it's anything requiring reasoning, you'll often get nonsense that sounds like sense. It has a higher chance of being accurate with knowledge queries.

LLMs are impressive, a very lossy search engine in a small package, capable of outputting convincing natural language responses.
There's a difference between museums and galleries where pieces were purchased and have a good chain of ownership and pieces where the museum knows one of the owners in the chain looted the piece
I'm thankful every day I don't have to work on a team where JWTs are a valid solution, and nobody suggests them regardless. What a nightmare.
Adding a smiley improves performance according to Logan Kilpatrick, head of developer relations at OpenAI.

> There's a lot of really small silly things, like adding a smiley face, increases the performance of the model.

> You could imagine on the order of one or 2%, which for a few sentence answer might not even be a discernible difference. Again, if you're generating an entire saga of texts, the smiley face could actually make a material difference for you, but for something small and textual it might not.

He mentioned that in Lenny’s podcast at 24:37.

Transcript available here: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/inside-openai-logan-kilpatrick...

Direct link to that chapter of the podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mdxAszZtmGFbNrCEQr8Ba?si=c...

Edit: added quotes
Commercial offering that's been around a long time - InRule [1].

I don't have any affiliation with them, it was considered for a project I worked on in 2005.

[1] https://inrule.com/
Yeah, and yet another piece of valuable biodiversity, yet another green zone down the drain. "Kleingärten" serve a vital and valuable role in a city's ecology.
looking at China and applying that example to the US is absurd, these are entirely different situations

for one the "ghost towns" of China are in places no one wants to live, the complete opposite of what the US (or anyone) needs to do
He pushed for this operator :=

And switch/case pattern matching

And he merged Microsoft's faster bytecode for arithmetic operators.
itertools is a gem and has been since the 2.7 days. Glad to see people waking up to its powerful abstractions.
Hahah, there goes my evening... what a wonderful blog!

E.g. https://www.aiweirdness.com/shaped-like-information/ – the prompt "Please generate a colorful guide to basic geometric shapes, as an aid to children learning to identify basic shapes" gave shape names like:

CIRCLE CINCLE SQALE QUARE SQUARE
CHALE ʤUARE TLIABLE TRINGLE SVAPE
RESNTQON REUAGE RENATLE RECANGE HECTANBIE

HOBOZ PSO SEOISUON HEXION FLOTN
>it's still a much higher investment to build a renewable plant and hire people who know how to work it than it is to continue existing operations with existing people.

But someone is still doing that investment and will eventually reap the returns, so it still seems short sighted for existing energy companies not to try and outcompete them.

>that would turn essentially the entirety of these companies' existing capital into 0 value.

Honestly, I'd be kind of happy if these companies invested in renewables (even with government subsidies) and were lobbying the government to buy back the fossil fuel infrastructure that isn't needed anymore...
Thank you so much for sharing!!!
https://archive.is/s4U6o
(In case that's the intended effect, HN's markup uses *asterisks* for emphasised words. If not, as an n=1 data point, I find the thrown-off spacing a little harder to read, or maybe that's because of my narrow phone view.)
It’s military based isn’t it? First time you use a weapon “in anger” is to test its effectiveness in real world conflict
Original source

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40454706

Related article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464184
Show HN: Do you dare to share your takes?
Do you dare to share your hot takes and see the reactions?
Personally I'm not sure whether it tells us AI is bad at general concepts or the opposite. If I didn't know spotless giraffe exists, I probably can't tell the creature in this particular image is an adult but spotless giraffe. I might assume they're like birds: the young ones look different from the adults.
Yeah, but access to me feels like access to records. Not necessarily permissions to do certain actions (in general or to certain records)

Iirc, Java or J2EE used “Principal”, which I found super confusing
The British Museum have somewhere on the order of 8 million objects. Having been collected since 1759 (and indeed before) in various state of being catalogued correctly at the time of collection.

The collection has survived new buildings being built (a time when stuff easily gets misplaced) and of course the ebbing and flowing of funding.

I would say that keeping that large of a collection of such a long time completely in order is a hard problem.
Sure you can. Have it generate a new photo. Or dump a barrel of wine over the giraffe.
I like the word "possession" for this. Either actual possession, when you physically control and can use something, and constructive possesion, where you might not have physical contact with something but still control it.

Ownership is when you convince the right people that you should possess something.
> 2) Too many "cookie cutter" posts, that is variation of formats like "100 million people are using AI but %99 are using it wrong"

> 5) Tesla FSD just saved lives, the real danger are the human drivers

> 6) Get rich fast schemes and courses that are supposed to give you passive income to retire early.

Hopefully this helps others, because I see these complaints often about Twitter (and about Reddit too, shocking number of tech-minded people just read the front page and get mad at it!).

These types of posts fall under what I call the "self-improvement bait" umbrella, including the Tesla accounts here, since they are so weird and monomaniacal about Tesla and $TSLA and Elon.

Several months ago I simply started blocking anyone who posts using their strange marketing cadence, because they're all the same really. They are so easy to spot within 4 or 5 words.

I cannot express just how much my feed improved after doing this. Of course, new accounts trying to bandwagon on this trend do pop up, but again, just block them and move on.
When I write programs like this, I have my program write out shell commands for moving/deleting/renaming files to stdout. Then I review the changes and if I like them, I pip to `sh` or `bash`. Assuming that the file renames are idempotent, this works out really well.
Earlier IP migrations were done when the internet was run by universities and government bodies who felt the need to migrate to a newer standard because there was a newer standard.

IPv6 took longer because the internet is now run by companies that need to see a return on investment, and as long as IPv4 was working fine for their customers, didn't see a benefit to it. It's why IPv6 adoption only started taking off when the answer to "Our projected customer growth this year is 200,000, can we have 200,000 more IPv4 addresses please?" became "No".
I drink it a lot, about twice per day with my wife. It’s a nice moment to share with friends and family. Less jittery than coffee.
The flip side of that is that you end up with spaghetti code that is expensive to add features to and is expensive to clean up when you are successful. Then people in the business implement workarounds to handle special cases that are undocumented and hidden.
Don't say auth, say authn and authz.
> In Europe, up to 60 per cent of renewable energy capacity goes unused on sunny and windy days. This results in the reliance on fossil-based energy resources such as coal or gas to meet electricity demands when renewable sources are unavailable.

I am really curious as to what hides behind this number. Afaik solar and wind aren't dispachable. You cannot just tell your solar panel or wind farm to stop producing energy if you have too much.

So if 60% of the capacity goes unused, it must be dispatchable hydraulic, in which case, isn't that kind of a good thing?
> Unsure which code pages were used but this was in Sweden.

Interesting. Every PC I ever used in Finland (home, school, friend's, etc.) were always using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 and I would have assumed every PC in Sweden did too. Maybe your did have cp850 or something uncommon.
life expectancy in some cities is closer to 80 now, some millennials will be buying their first houses in their 50s
You think that the reason it can now is because of some articles that were written about it. From my tests it looks like it can understand the image, its contents, and what's missing. I even asked if it knew about any articles about it (without using web search) and, no, it doesn't. Why do you make baseless assumptions like that? Just try it out instead of speculating.
This seems like a reasonable use of resources and time? I'm assuming the British Museum has been around a bit longer than 5 years and hopefully plans on being around longer than 5 years.

Maybe than can hire a couple people. [edit] removed inflammatory last sentence.
Is Autocorrect Racist?
I'm not :/
Ask HN: What is needed to replicate the Sal Khan ChatGPT-4o trig demo?
Video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nSmkyDNulk

I'd like to replicate, it looked like hardware-wise an iPad and a stylus is needed.

Has anyone else replicated and can share some tips?
boomers with houses have no incentives to move into them
Can you reveal what was safe to use as a tattoo ink?
In general, yes i would agree that modern C++ compiler could do a much better job on exception enable code, especially in term of data flow analysis.
But in this case, the benchmark it's self is kinda flawed. The semantic of the two code a very different so there isn't much the compiler could have (reasonably done).
"If it takes you 60hrs/week to do 39hrs/week, you're not going to be able to fit 2*30hrs/week into 60hrs/week."

Oh please, there are tons of jobs that say you only need 40 hours a week, but then they basically force you to work more. This is a common scenario, especially for IT.
Emacs is far from being modal though ...