skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The criticism I hear specifically about the Abrams is that it's designed for a role that doesn't really exist on the battlefield. It's a tank designed to fight tanks, which isn't very common in Ukraine.

That's a surprising statement given that we saw tank to tank battle last time US fought a "peer" adversary back in desert storm where US Abrams took on Iraqi T72's. Smarter and more informed people have gone on record (Perun and The Chieftain) to say tanks are part of both defense and offense (you can't push the front lines with just infantry).

In fact - Perun's video mentions a good example - how come we're only saying this for tanks when there are MANPADS and AA for Helis and Jets/Bombers, respectively?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUyAPQEb01Q

I hear what you're saying... but I don't find the examples persuasive for me.
BBC doesn't show ads within the UK. Imposing them on the international audience to defray the costs to the license payers seems not unreasonable.
> (Also I think 10^-7 should be 10^-5 in the quoted phrase, as per your reply above.)

Yeah, you're right, I had a typo in one of the intermediate numbers (the rest of the calcs used the correct number). Turns out I was just wrong overall though, not because of a typo but because of an incorrect assumption. Energy goes as 1/r^2, but amplitude is only 1/r, so the correct value is much smaller (it's about the Earth-Moon distance).

> 10^-7, that is, 4 times 10^-17 times larger than the gravitational wave detected which doesn't sound right. (Like saying "X is 0.1 times larger than Y" when X = 10Y.) The ear displacement is 2.5×10^16 larger

A is 2.5x10^16 larger than B is equivalent to B is 4x10^-17 larger than A, although I get what you mean by the phrasing being weird. "times the size of" would've been better than "larger".
Source: I was there. Person who handled this is a friend of mine.

They weren't milking it for attention. At EMF - at least early on - they were deliberately downplaying it to avoid causing a panic until the risk was known. Unfortunately when Atomicmaya's toot[1] dropped, they felt like they had to respond to squash any potential speculation or rumours. (the fear was someone would hear "orphan source" or "nuclear material" and think "Goiana incident, repeat of" -- Goiana was a much stronger caesium-137 gamma source).

Photos of the unit were being circulated privately in case there were more (the donator's identity was unknown at this point). EMF later announced in closing -- and you can see this on the recording [4] -- that they'd like to know if there were only two.

I've done basic risk assessment in a volunteer role and when there were unknowns, we took the path of assuming the worst, and planning for the best until we had more information. I can't really judge Tryst or anyone else for doing the same. In this case the worst-case scenario was a kid or teen at the camp buying it and taking it apart in their tent, and making the source material airborne.

Several people in the Furry Village google were trying to find information on the MIC based on the photos, and at the time we all found nothing.

The thing also very industrial which probably amped up the risk profile a bit further in peoples' minds, because it wasn't an obvious, recognisable, smoke detector.

This evening I googled the part number and sure enough, it's a very spicy (compared to modern ionisation detectors, about 10x the amount of Am241) early-generation smoke detector, and the Am241 is encased in gold. [2] [3]

TLDR: It's low risk, but that wasn't known at the time.

1: https://tech.lgbt/@AtomicMaya/112536889993443251
2: https://forcetechnology.com/-/media/force-technology-media/p...
3: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ml0037/ml003770968.pdf
4: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/emf2024/relive/551
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It's been my experience as well, 80% of websites that had previously content displayed in google results are just not in Google index any more. Google only left titles of the pages in index which won't rank well in search results and won't be able to find the content of those pages.
I'm still not convinced the very loud people online who hate it aren't just a very vocal minority. Personally I plan to leave the feature on. I await real data on what the silent majority of Windows users think. It's not like MSFT would just randomly launch a hugely divisive, frankly shocking, feature to a billion plug users without a lot of dogfooders and focus group studies at least getting a passing grade. To me, this doesn't feel any different that browser history. I do get why privacy-enjoyers get the willies by it too. That's what a setting toggle is for.
When I was experimenting with IPv6 on my lan, router advertisements indeed worked great!

But the big loss was that I had no control to reserve a particular IPv6 address for a particular MAC address inside the DHCP server, or assign DNS names automatically, etc. since it's basically 1 way - device receives a RA then configures itself with a random address.
https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/all/http/

Not only does Arch Linux have some of the best online documentation, one of the most comprehensive package search databases, probably the most useful of all rootfs/bootstrap tarballs, it even has a healthy number of non-TLS mirrors.
Total value of US residential real estate:
$47.5 trillion

Blackstone AUM: $1T (2% of market)

Evictions per year: 7400 * 365 = 2.7M

Homes owned by Invitiation: 2.7M / 0.1 = 27M

% US Population in Invitation: 27M (x avg househould size) /400M > 5%.

But Invitation is only a fraction of Blackstone.

Something doesn't add up.
It's elder futhark, younger futhark and anglo-frisian runes. They are part of the Unicode spec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_(Unicode_block)
Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
By that time it won't be Windows 11. It will definitely be in Windows 12 or 13 though.
Show HN: Android-Document-QA: On-Device RAG with Mediapipe and ObjectBox
A simple Android app that allows the user to add a PDF/DOCX document and ask natural-language questions whose answers are generated by the means of an LLM.

Currently, it uses the following tech-stack for multiple operations:

1. Apache POI and iTextPDF for parsing DOCX and PDF documents

2. ObjectBox for on-device vector-store and NoSQL database

3. Mediapipe Text Embedding for generating on-device text/sentence embeddings

4. Gemini Android SDK (Cloud based API) as a hosted large-language model

With such an app, coupled with an on-device LLM (not the case currently, but can be added easily), users can get personalized answers from documents they choose. It eliminates LLM hallucination to some degree, enables faster inference with on-device vector-db/LLM, along with keeping the user's data secure on their device.
One might think. But common and even corporate landlords are not that powerful.

See the fact that the FBI is raiding them for price fixing. Which they should, as rent prices are a major political instability pressure point and a major factor in the unspoken social contract. Private landlords exploiting tech to destabilize housing needs to be checked without quarter.

Federal Police virtually never raid actual aristocrats in such a public manner, and especially not with a focus in their livelihood. Remember that the aristocracy was traditionally a powerful position: collectively challenging the King and often winning.

The aristocracy actually morphed into parliamentary government, which is the dominant government throughout the West. That's where you find the legacy that you thought resided with modern landlords. While some might still earn a living in that manner: making and wielding the law long ago became more attractive.
194 decibels is the maximum loudness in air, the maximum in water is higher
> ...produces the high quality that made them all popular in the first place

Agree with everything you said in general, but you lost me at the very end in the context of this thread. Hard to equate Stack Exchange as a "high quality" destination. It was probably true in the first few years after inception, but years of tug war between "the business they think they're in" vs. "the business their users think they are" have made a terrible experience for said less-informed users.

When given an alternative (e.g. LLMs, ironically probably trained on their own content, but without the snarkiness and self-righteousness of their mods), users seem to be voting with their clicks [1].

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/387278/has-stack-ex...
https://martinwecke.de/108/#A0E02G2I01O3P2
I can appreciate that it might not sound that appetizing but it’s really pretty good.

I worked on the original Buck and kind of caught the “principled and performant polyglot build system” bug and I’ve been diving down that rabbit hole since.

There are still usability and adoption challenges, but it’s the future and between buck2 and bazel7/bzlmod the gap to slow, non-deterministic alternatives is closing fast.

I wouldn’t write it off.
A blog post is different from a real compliant commercial implementation. Other reasons you couldn't do it include eg someone with a patent on it won't license it to you.
No, the reason is that GA pilots have to pay for their fuel.
I’m trying this indeed, but it seems I have to go through Squaresoft support for this
Cheat codes breaking Bazel 7’s sandbox: ‘cd -P’.

sudo give me my files.
That only indicates someone had access to his iCloud account at some point.
Replacement variables are not very discoverable in the docs (I only found them after your comment, by using the ai assistant), and the docs don't reflect the app I see in your demo account (I see no personalize button when editing a template, and I don't know what it would do if it were there). I would recommend fleshing out the docs and linking them and/or the ai assistant in the app to make features more discoverable. twilio and stripe carved their market even more with documentation and code snippets than with features. Also, having a tier or three between 1 + 2 would be absolutely essential if you ever desired to get smaller businesses to use your product.
Nearly all of Finance theory is Ethics, but with the vector pointing in the opposite direction.
I'd recommend using Crockford base 32 [0] to encode the bytes. It makes the text more human friendly by eliminating case sensitivity, removing similar/ambiguous letters, and preventing accidental profanity.

And in most cases I think you're also better off just using a uuid and encoding its bytes as base 32, in which case you're basically doing type id's [1]. If the "slug" portion of the id actually encodes a uuid, then it gives you the option to store it in your database using an appropriate uuid type. This will make your database much happier than using long string PK's.

0: https://www.crockford.com/base32.html

1: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid
Or when you have a #$@^$! notch
My whole life is in documents in that Google Workspace

I once accidentally deleted a GSuite 5 years ago and all documents were gone and non recoverable. I’m very careful now when playing with this subscription.
This sounds less dramatic than the headline. They executed a search warrant for some information. Doesn't sound like they're close to charging anything.
Going along with this, take the question of marriage seriously and don't delay. Your prospects will mostly get worse from 22yo onward. If you're in a relationship that you don't see progressing toward marriage, get out. If you end up without prospects by 24 or 25, seriously consider going to grad school, just for the dating market. Anticipate that it's way harder to join lives with someone who is already set in his ways, which is what happens when you live out of college and without roommates for years.
> SQL has never been as popular as it is right now in history.

As a compiler target, but even then the SQL is compiled to another representation, so if you want to take that angle it isn't SQL that is popular. Turtles all the way down.

> Is there something they can adopt?

What Oracle is doing was already mentioned. I am personally not entirely sold on their technical choices, and feel that they are trying to stay too close to SQL unnecessarily, but at least they are trying something which is more than we can say for a lot of the other vendors out there. I commend them on that.

> If this X was indeed more popular

It isn't what I would call popular, but it is also rather new. It is quite unusual for a technology to become immediately popular. Though, frankly, I'm not sure it could become popular if never adopted by any other engine. Oracle doesn't have a stranglehold on databases, and if anything is losing ground. Popularity can never come before wide distribution.

> If you've been around long enough you wait until someone can bring the receipts.

But now we circle back to the original posts – there is no good vector for anything else to bring said receipts. SQL has things completely locked down, effectively, which you suggest can only be overcome by becoming more popular than SQL, but, again, popularly is impossible before wide distribution. So the only possible way off of SQL is to convince the SQL crowd that an alternative is possible in hopes that they will consider opening things up.

> You'd be better off proposing this as a feature addition to SQL

It is...? I believe it has been since the very beginning, or at least since the early days. It's such a glaring issue, of course it had to be dealt with. But you have to remember to enable it – which most of the time it seems developers forget, at least in my travels.

Of course, by the same token, if you are able to remember such things, what do you need Rust for? You can avoid bugs and security issues in C just fine if you keep a clear head and never make mistakes. So, Rust doesn't do anything meaningfully different from C, except in the places you suggest don't matter because as long as you don't make mistakes you'll never need it, and yet despite that has gained a decent following. Why it but not some SQL alternative?
Divorces have a reputation money wise as well. ;)
Do you know how they got that list?

(Do they just manage the property and collect condo fees, or do they also collect rents?)
Helicopters are actually even safer than fixed-wing airplanes this way: as long as the rotor system is working properly (i.e., it's just an engine failure), the pilot can autorotate and land on any nearby spot of clear land large enough for the helicopter, and can achieve a safe landing with no or minimal damage. In fact, helicopter pilots frequently practice this maneuver while in flight training.

Airplanes need some kind of runway, by contrast, and this isn't usually available within the glide distance. So they can "land", but it frequently won't be a pretty landing.

The main dangers with helicopter engine failures are 1) it happens too close to the ground, so there's no time to react and enter a safe autorotation, and 2) the pilot is too slow to react (low-inertia rotor systems are more dangerous this way, so helicopters like Robinsons are worse).
After 30.0 septendecillion, feels like there are still not enough paper clips!
When can we expect them to die in totally normal circumstances?
Most PCs don't have the chip capable of running it though. Running it without the chip would probably slow most people's current PCs to a crawl. And if that were to ever happen, it's easy enough to roll back to an earlier update.
Right? Sarcasm is so easy to detect using only text with no additional signifiers.

Wait.

Was that sarcastic?

Who could say. /s is just the same as using a sarcastic vocal tone, eye roll, or hand gesture. Surely you aren't against those?
Dude's an anti-Semite and a conspiracy theory nutter, so persona non grata to me.
> Why do you need to send anyone an SMS message? Will KnowBe4 compensate individuals for the added cost?

What added cost?

> If a device can receive an SMS, it can surely receive emails

This is not true. Maybe there are more devices that can send and receive emails than SMS. But there are still basic feature phones around that can only do SMS. My daily driver is a Nokia 2660, and I use my wife's iPhone for anything that requires a smartphone.

My colleagues are always amused when I pull out my phone as I am an Android Engineer.
New Internet Thing, Chapter 5 (The Next Big Thing)
Anything's possible, but it wouldn't be performant. MoltenVK is just about as good as an untuned native Vulkan client would be.
i like how local municipalities, who literally have legal responsibility to clean up public spaces, are viewed as less responsible than every single other party, none of whom have any legal responsibility to clean up public spaces.
Save Team Fortress 2 (#savetf2)
Rubio's was sold to a private equity firm in 2020 (https://www.nrn.com/corporate/rubios-be-sold-mill-road-91m) in their first bankruptcy. This is their second bankruptcy.

I went to a Rubio's a couple years ago - the quality was abysmal, nearly inedible, and prices were high. In the before times (before private equity took over), Rubio's was actually pretty good and quite affordable. It was clear the new owners tried to over-optimize their supply chain, because the food became hot (not even hot most of the time) garbage.

Good riddance to them in this current form.
> 80% of the energy we use is NOT electricity

99% of the energy used by mankind is sunlight, but obviously we aren’t aiming for accuracy here.

Your 80% as fossil fuels is half (coal, natural gas) which are mostly used to make electricity and therefore goes away on a renewable grid on its own. In essence you are double counting the inefficiency of fossil fuels as if it was somehow a positive. People do use some natural gas for heating and cooking, but there’s direct swap in replacements that use electricity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum....

“40%” is oil though again that’s what’s pumped out of the ground not what’s actually used as fuel. Subtract EV’s and year really talk about 10% “of the worlds energy” used in boats and aircraft.

> big merchant boat with electricity.

New boats can run 100% hydrogen out of the gate.

Container ships don’t actually last that long, but you can also retrofit existing engines to run 85% on hydrogen fairly easily.
It was her "protégé", Sylvain Lesné, that did the dirty work. And apparently has been rewarded with continuing employment.

Perhaps it was Ashe's Harvard education that led her to not consider double-checking the work...

Edit to add: iirc, it was the University of Minnesota that is also responsible for the "food fat is bad" advice that has made obesity than American epidemic...
> And yet, most programmers have an irrational fear of built-in metaprogramming because it "makes hard to understand code". But seemingly nobody is afraid of bad metaprogramming, like code generation. Which I would argue is more difficult to understand.

The difference here is that “bad meta programming” happens when the people writing thorny libraries and frameworks clamor enough for meta programming that the language implementers shoehorn in a subpar implementation. These people know how important it is to programmatically generate and modify code, because they had problems that just couldn’t be solved without that, and the other language users never see it (very few programmers in most non-Lisp ecosystems are curious about the code of libraries they use) and so don’t care whether or not it exists.

On the other hand, a language with pervasive meta programming is going to have cases where you could do a task without that feature, but can do that task much more easily with it. Meaning that of the programmers using that language, everyone in the subset of “programmers that like to minimize what they need to learn as much as possible” will be exposed to code using meta programming.

Most of these engineers will not have the prior experiences to understand that “ok, we need to learn meta programming either way because it’s essential to many important coding tasks and so has to be in the language; it’s not an increase in learning/comprehension difficulty to also have it in code that doesn’t strictly require it”. As such, their reaction is simply “why do I have to learn how to work around this extra thing?! Get rid of it, now!!!”.
FSD is level 4 nowhere. The human is always responsible for driving.
The other incidents were much publicized, but I don’t think that had anything to do with their actual burden/costliness, which was quite tiny. After all, a Waymo car got violently totaled by a crowd even though they have had an almost flawless record. Some fraction of the population hates these things intrinsically, and I don’t think the disdain is driven by the actual risk or events; those are just an excuse.
Thanks! Yeah, a lot of innovation happening in this space.
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I use it as my regular terminal, works great.
I think that makes sense when you are already at a "good" company. Then there is opportunity for advancement. The average dark matter developer is not at a FAANG company so YMMV.
> You can't fail if you don't launch.

The BE-4 was launched earlier this year. I wouldn’t assume that late means never.
Reminds me of a running joke in Terry Pratchett's _The Truth_ that the paper prints as many names (plus age, address, and maybe a brief bit of information about them) as possible because those people will then want to buy a copy.

"‘Mr Goodmountain, can you think of any reason I should put this in the paper?’ said William, handing him Sacharissa’s report of the Flowers and Cookery meeting. ‘It’s a bit … dull …’
The dwarf read the copy. ‘There’s seventy-three reasons,’ he said. ‘That’s ’cos there’s seventy-three names. I expect people like to see their names in the paper.’"
Just to clarify, I disagree that materialism is the one true way (re: your "believe in ghosts" quip), even though I'm quite aware that Searle is not a cartesian dualist (which is why I made the comment about what our "brains do"). Philosophy of mind-wise, I'm much more in line with folks like Chalmers, though not fully bought in there, either.

And yes, by "AGI nonsense" I meant that "ChatGPT isn't a step toward human-like AGI" since the main chatter these days is about how ChatGPT/Claude/etc. is the harbinger of AGI. I think Searle's argument is particularly strong because you don't even have to believe in something "spooky" happening in our heads. In fact, I'd probably extend "AGI nonsense" to "AGI is flat out not possible" but that's more of a hunch and the full argument invokes things like the non-computability of various physical phenomena.
And there’s a leak of ullage helium, which they are unable to resolve, so I doubt they will be reentering with the capsule.