skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Starve them out. The allies had submarines all around Japan and completely blocked all food and oil imports. This was working. But given the Japanese fighting spirit, likely tens of millions would have died before any change took place. It's also possible that the population could drop so low that the islands would become self-sufficient and then the war would drag on literally forever.

Probably the biggest share of the blockade at the end was done by naval mines. At the end, the US airdropped naval mines in Japanese harbors to prevent them from importing food, and this sunk more Japanese shipping than the submarines ever did. It was even called “Operation Starvation”.
I used to joke to myself that I was the next step in evolution, home sapiens superior. I was aware enough no to provoke my classmates though ;)

But, I wonder if it is at all related to Neanderthal lineages. They had bigger brains and were basically autists: the species. Since we are a bastard of them and early Sapiens, maybe some of us present with more of their genome than others?
Seeing this already in Palestine.

It's not pretty, but war never is. I am surprised at how people today can point at a war and be surprised that atrocities happen. World Wars, Korea, Vietnam let alone the immediate history of Israel. Serbia and Croatia anyone?

It's not like we don't have plenty of historical sources. War is bad business and trying to claim that "civilians" should be exempt is not fooling anyone who's had even a precursory glance over such material.
For finetuning, I made a Colab notebook to finetune Qwen2 7b 2x faster and use 70% less VRAM than HF+FA2! https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1mvwsIQWDs2EdZxZQF9p...
I'm sorry to hear about the struggles this has put you through, but I might mention that it is not universal that diagnosed sufferers of ADHD are unable to engage with their interests. In fact often direct interests can be highly engaging, while things that need to be done but are not interesting are debilitatingly difficult (executive dysfunction).

As with ASD and neurodivergency at large, ADHD is a spectrum, with differing impacts for differing people.
How? I don't see any vision-language model in their model list for the API.
And conquests retained
Is it a secret how long I subconsciously linger on a single post as I scroll through my Instagram feed? I’d argue that it’s even more private than a secret, it’s something I may not be aware of and have little control over.
Thanks for the answer! Most users probably don't care about that. Only some of them might ask, especially technical users.
Honestly it's a bit of a blur to me but I do agree that Baruch Goldstein's attack was likely another destabilizing factor. It stood out at the time as something completely insane. For the sake of historical accuracy though Hamas' suicide attacks predate that event, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehola_Junction_bombing

Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin condemned the attack, describing Goldstein as a "degenerate murderer" and "a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism" - which is important.
Ye smaller models are fantastic for finetuning and probably on device applications - they can act as like a first pass on most LLM applications, then if it requires a larger model to intervene, then it can pass if off to some larger one. I do have a Colab to finetune 0.5b 2x faster here for those interested: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1-7tjDdMAyeCueyLAwv6...
Valve's efforts on playing Microsoft only games started ~10 years ago with Proton (which is more like an umbrella project for ~15 software components like Wine and DXVK). Today, proton is surprisingly good. Their bet paid off, and allowed them to make SteamDeck. Most if not all new games play fine out of the box, with 0 tinkering. Older games sometimes have issues.
You can get the positions of every windows, the position of the mouse pointer, and you can focus windows.
I wonder if it'd be worth it to start a small business buying the failed PCBs and repairing and reselling them. The failed components are probably some simple and cheap thing (like a capacitor).
Show HN: I built a browser extension for recording interactive product demos
As someone who's used TikZ for paper figures recently, this is brilliant! I could see this saving a lot of time spent both on studying the documentation and on trial-and-error to coax TikZ to render the figures the way I want. I would absolutely use this.
your ability to writing this out and provide in a liner way make it like a painting to me. You should have no problem in a real world work environment with the right support.

checking our your code, it's great as well, you surpass level of many engineers i know who has staff/principal in their title.

don't let the fact about those job or interview letting you down. You write out C code like nothing from these.

You're absolute a great programmer.

You will have better succeess doing your own SaaS instead.
Only if by "consumer protection" you are OK getting your Ebay account banned. Ebay already provides there own buyer protection... but if you disagree with them and do a charge back then most likely your account will be banned.
That's a whole category that should have been an app.

Little throwback. In 2015, I built an audio-augmented reality running game using Bluetooth beacons. It worked better as an app.
"Caesarela lol"? WTF is this station? :'D

Great job
The German strategy was to pressure the British civilians into pressuring their government for an end to hostilities against Germany. They were demoralizing the British, and to that end the weapon was actually effective though the government did not capitulate.

Additionally, reports of damage to the British capital city was very morale-raising for the Germans who saw mostly the destruction of their own cities. That also has military value.
You might say they are scrambling to criticise them.
And let's not forget about the other flap, toiling away away from publicity
There’s a difference between having a social security number and a social security card.

You need a number to work. You need the card for real id. Replacement of a lost card is onerous. For a minor, incredibly onerous - you need a healthcare provider to sign a statement identifying the minor. (Good luck with that)
May I inquire where you are (as in what country)?

Because all of the G7 are in debt and drowning fast.

So the balance sheet is the place to look. If in the USA, McKinsey has a excellent report called The Digitization Report, which looks at the tech enablement on an Industry level. The usual suspects are trailing: healthcare, education and government.

On a related note, small government offices (think water boards and fire fighters etc) in the US suffer from frequent fraud. They don't use credit cards or they use them inappropriately. A tool to stop such misuse would be very helpful...but can you get them to use it?

On the impact side, are you trying to be Bezos or Musk? Both Billionaires, both exceedingly valuable impact, different fields of endeavor.

Bezos gave the World upto 2+ hours back per week and Musk forced a conversation that car crazy America was loathe to have...both high-impact (which is all this answer is about ..not their politics or what-have-you).

Cities and towns have huge problems bringing business back. VCs are shutting down valuable startups because they didn't go vertical. Airplane was shutdown because they believed the new narrative that AI would soon make them obsolete. I think that was a mistake. The average SMB isn't bothering with AI...and who can blame them? It's an error filled mess. But they all (some 500K) need help automating because hiring is harder than ever and employees are expensive.

Instead of shutting down, it could have been the next Basecamp or RedHat. A slow consistent grower which provides steady tech-related employment which the US desperately needs in states other than CA. Most of which have better cost of living and metrics in every other measurement as well.

A tool which calculates which state has the best incentives and the best packages for employees moving? A Teleport x MainStreet combo??
A fair reaction.

Also, Teams isn't written in 1999 JavaScript.
A temporary solution lasting until the AI fits in our AI-glasses or stealth headphones.
You beat me to that comment!
Another easy tool that may already be on your system is "turbostat".
In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon's Masterpiece
Stating facts is not "debating".
I'm not fond of speaking in specifics. The reason is that everything I am saying is, to the best of my knowledge, correct but the results sounds just so difficult to imagine. It's something like the opposite of cognitive dissonance. I know what I'm saying is true and it also leads to other things that I believe to be true, but the result is so difficult to imagine, that I have difficulty even believing myself. So it's quite odd!

But taking things in the abstract, single digit prices per kg to space would transform the Moon (or space in general) to just another place to build stuff and expand out into. Obviously there are technological hurdles but nothing particularly challenging, especially in contexts where we could have regular traffic flow to/from Earth. The possibilities of this rapidly enter into the sci-fi domain. But there seems no real reason for that "fi" suffix to really exist in these scenarios. So again, it's all just quite weird.

If things work out as they seem increasingly likely to, then are all living through what will be the most critical segue in humanity's history to date, and perhaps ever. So far as we know space really is the final frontier, and once we can start expanding outward into that, humanity's existence will be radically shifted, and our perpetuation as a species will also be all but completely guaranteed.
The Russians and Chinese would probably love to examine those Raptors.
I love the fancy modern type systems and all of the superpowers that they give you. But this is an area that I feel isn't adequately explored.

If you call a function that calls a function that has side effects, or that closes the file descriptor you're using, or could panic, or that needs global shared state, or spins up a thread, or allocates, we don't have a good way to deal with that. There are some partial and underutilised solutions like monadic IO and linear/affine types and, uh, not having panics. I have some (bad) ideas but I think this is a space that's worth playing in.
Open Source Payment Switch?
That was a great little video, thank you :)
If there are any specific topics that you'd like covered, please ask.
"We offered housing to people with complex pyscho-social circumstances on the condition that they will stop having those circumstances. And yet they continued to have them - this was unacceptable."
Llama-zip: a command-line utility for lossless text compression
Thank you for clarifying a corner case.

A US citizen requires proof of SSN, either a social security card or W2. This is a heavy burden for many people.
For a delicious, full serving of tasty irony? :-p
Well, yeah, you shouldn't name your variables so similarly, that's what's causing he confusion. Idunno, maybe varaible is set to "Let's groove, baby!" ? ;-)
> These (tabs and panes) stay open for many months until the inevitable restart for system updates.

And iTerm won't have a way to restore them, right? The `tmux resurrect` plugin can save and restore all your sessions, even after restarts. At the moment I have 45 tmux sessions running and I'm not worried in the slightest about not being able to pick up exactly where I was for every project.

Also, tmux is a nice way to "bury" your "windows." Hiding an iTerm window can only be done by covering something with it or minimizing it, but a tmux session can be detached from/attached to at will, and when you're detached it doesn't add cruft to your window management.
I have a few resume showreel apps and things I maintain because I sometimes use them with clients or on volunteer projects, but for the most part... I only do personal tech if I find something really exciting.

I have other hobbies, and I enjoy using, learning about, and contributing to, the more well known popular FOSS apps just as much as making new ones.
Cheap land and no reason whatsoever to want or need to be there (see: cheap land).

How on earth did they find investors?
People risk their lives for high-risk, high-reward jobs. They don't risk their lives for high-risk, no-Reward explorations.
No, it's not. we know the genes the Neanderthal transferred, and nothing with head size is in there. Also, Africans have autism too.
> do we even have privacy anymore?

No. We have neither privacy nor even a right to privacy in the USA. The 4th amendment has never provided a comprehensive right to privacy, and it has been eroded beyond recognition by the Supreme Court.

Gen Z are indoctrinated into a world without privacy from a young age - their effects can be searched at any time by school employees and they are videotaped at all times at school. Their friends can look up all their Discord history at https://spy.pet/ Only Gen X / Millenials / other older generations had any privacy in the past.
It’s not FUD! Personally, I don’t think it’s a negative thing at all.
It will be finished 'sometime next year, or a little after'.
Caricaturing progressive ideas as some linear scale of 0 - Not Woke, 10 - Wokest is such a lame way to avoid the real points being made on a given subject.
it's a good thing nobody was confused about the booster vs ship re-entering the atmosphere
Yeah, I did a bit but thanks for the thought. Will again

Agreed the micro architecture and energies involved are.. challenging

I guess my thinking is that most of the assumptions that might have precluded small scales may have radically changed

I'm thinking of the lattice as more of a staging area for a downrange scatter, so no local accumulation of the energies. But no idea how practical that may be
Yes, I would consider HN as social media/networking site
Algebraic effects?
> It's a completely generic algorithm. If the school had a uniquely high percentage of any "group" of people, whether based on race, region, hobbies, interests, literally anything, ads for that school would be more likely sent to people in those groups.

Um, oops. There are laws against discriminating on the basis of race, like, steering Black people to different schools on that basis. That's the difference.

When you say, it's a neutral algorithm because it steers people on the basis of other factors as well, you miss the whole point of having anti-discrimination laws. There's no law prohibiting steering on the bases of "hobbies, interests, literally anything". So when you say the algorithm is okay for that reason, you're saying discrimination based on race is okay if you also discriminate on other, lawful grounds. That seems to me like saying, race discrimination ought not be unlawful. If that's your opinion so be it, but an algorithm that steers people based on race is racially discriminatory.

For example, as Meta previously recognized, steering people seeking apartments based on their race was racially discriminatory, even though steering people seeking apartments based on hobbies or interests isn't that kind of discrimination. The argument you're making would apply equally to steering based on race in connection with jobs, housing, education, and all other areas of society, permitting racial steering because there's an algorithm involved that doesn't just include racial discrimination.

Meta hopefully will recognize this was a mistake, and hopefully will do the right thing by adjusting their algorithm to refrain from steering people in this way based on race.
I don’t. I have other hobbies that don’t involve staring at a screen all day
Knowing what you want to achieve before thinking of how to achieve it (2011)
I never liked the idea of:

1. Gassing my indoor air;

2. Burning the gas and ingesting the fumes.

In general, cooking produces a lot of carcinogens, so the best would be like my grandmas used to do it - outside!
There are multiple ways:

1. Solve your own problem first: As you rightly mentioned, solving your own problem first is helpful. If there are millions like you who are facing the same problem and are willing to pay for your solution, you have a business. If it is a recurring problem, you have a bumper business.

2. Observe market trends: Changes in purchasing power, changes in expectations of needs and wants, changes in human behavior over time, geo-political events, climate change, natural and artificial calamities, etc usually create new markets. For example, having a smartphone was more of a "want" than a "need" a decade ago. But today it has become a necessity.

3. New technology on the block: Big businesses drive new technologies and the new technologies then drive small businesses. This has always been the case. We saw it in the mobile revolution how Apple and Google came up with the AppStore and the PlayStore respectively and we are witnessing it today in the LLM models. These marketplaces allowed several unicorn "app" businesses to flourish. In fact, just adding a GPS tracker in smartphones, ended up creating more value in the business world than the App Store and the PlayStore themselves.

4. Regulatory, Statutory, or Govt policy changes: A lot of times these changes create unexpected new markets. For example, think about the EU mandating companies to adhere to GDPR guidelines in 2018. It must have suddenly created openings for hundreds of thousands of data privacy officers. Any company that spent time learning the guidelines and providing training, coaching, and certifications would build a big business. The same goes for companies providing consultancy on implementation gaps, verification of controls, etc.

5. Taking bets on smaller markets: Smaller markets are usually not on the radar of the tech giants, but if you have a conviction that the market is going to grow rapidly, it is totally possible to build a big business in it. One such example is Uber. As per their first investment raise pitch deck in 2008, the predicted TAM for app-driven cab-hailing business was $4.2B[1]. Today Uber itself is a $100B+ giant along with several other players operating in the market.

This is a framework I use. If you think there are more such ways to identify business opportunities, please add them to the list. I hope you find this useful.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/uber-pitch-deck-2008/79...
Wtf? Obviously you can't post slurs like this to HN, regardless of which population you're slurring. Since we've asked you before not to do this and you've continued to do it, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You're not. So please keep your comments high quality and don't complain about shadowbanning :)
Hey Berkay! I recently tried out StaticNinja, and I absolutely adore its minimalist approach. In the past, I've experimented with numerous logo-making tools, but one feature that I've consistently missed in almost all of them is the ability to resize (shrink or enlarge) the logo. Do you have any plans to incorporate this feature into StaticNinja?
I asked that very question on Space.SE:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/6256/why-were-jet-...

The summary is that there isn't enough oxygen at the range of altitudes needed.
There is nothing which would require me to use Clojure to check those things.

For example... one can easily express all that in Common Lisp:

https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/04_b....

CL-USER 9 > (defun non-empty-string-p (string) (and (stringp string) (plusp (length string))))
NON-EMPTY-STRING-P

CL-USER 10 > (deftype name-type () `(and string (satisfies non-empty-string-p)))
NAME-TYPE

CL-USER 11 > (deftype age-type () `(integer 18 120))
AGE-TYPE

CL-USER 12 > (defun foo (age name)
(declare (type age-type age)
(type name-type name))
(print (list age name)))
FOO

also, avoiding SATISFIES:

CL-USER 4 > (deftype name-type () `(and string (not (string 0))))
NAME-TYPE

CL-USER 5 > (typep "hello" 'name-type)
T

CL-USER 6 > (typep "" 'name-type)
NIL

It then has assertions integrated with the condition system, which makes this easily checkable at runtime.

SBCL has this extended with type declarations as assertions: http://sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Handling-of-Types

Eiffel had promoted Design by Contract for a long time.

> Cisco built their cybersecurity platform using Clojure.

Cisco uses a lot of software. Your Clojure marketing attempts are getting silly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_abbey
All of my projects get access to the same two hours I set aside every morning before work, to work on something meaningful.

I also tend to default to working on my business, but if something has my curiosity going, I give myself time to explore.
A society can work without a centralized id system. Carry your id, save copies in a vault for verification if you want. Current id systems are just tools for surveillance and control, sugar coated with state welfare.
To quote Hillel Wayne on LinkedIn, which sums this "study" up nicely:

"""
Yesterday I read a report claiming that Agile projects had "268% Higher Failure Rates" than projects with more upfront planning.

As a fan of upfront planning, and a fan of Empirical Software Engineering, I read the report in more detail.

And I'm pleased to report that it is the single worst study I have ever read.

It is so bad I do not want to share it for fear of spreading a mind-virus, but I can share some highlights:

- The author surveyed 600 people and somehow got P values of 0.00004

- By how he specifically defined "upfront planning", the number of engineers he found practicing it is logically impossible

- Every major calculation table had some sort of error

- The author edited a whole bunch of Wikipedia articles to promote himself, and claims his results can also cure smoking

Today I saw the same report doing on The Register and Slashdot, who both accepted it uncritically. And the hundreds of comments were people accepting the study or suggesting a "confounding factor".

...C'mon, people. You're better than this.

I normally write about Empirical Software Engineering because I think using science to study software engineering is important. But just as important is knowing how to protect yourself from bad science. Anybody who's read a couple of research papers would see P<0.00004 as a major, MAJOR red flag.

Being in STEM doesn't make us immune to pseudoscience. And we're forever vulnerable to seeing something that confirms our beliefs and not digging deeper to make sure it's not lies.
"""
> As others have mentioned, unless you have a strong conscience and really know what you're doing

I don't have a strong conscience - I just don't trust it to do anything right.
Kling, make imagination come alive
The secondary radiation you're talking about is called bremsstrahlung (braking) radiation [1]. This is precisely why water is, to my knowledge, the current leading idea. It works not only as an excellent primary shield but also helps to minimize secondary radiation, and you also naturally have literally tons of it.

As an aside, this is why the original Moon missions used simple aluminum. One of the typical angles people who don't think we landed on the Moon used is that to safely get through the Van Allen Belts we would have needed massive lead shielding on the craft, when in reality it was shielded by a pretty thin layer of aluminum, precisely to minimize secondary radiation. If you put that thick lead shielding on the craft that people intuitively think you'd need, it very well could have killed the astronauts.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung