skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Indeed, where would the Ukraine, Taiwan, or even South Korea be today if it weren't for the defense industry?

Are you aware of what's happening in Ukraine today, or the history of South Korea [1] or Taiwan [2]? These aren't fairy tale stories where the "defense" industry came, brought democracy, and everybody lived happily ever after. South Korea went through decades of dictatorial and often brutal rule that only really ended, and turned into the sort of democratic Korea that we know in the 5th republic - formed in 1989! [1] The same is true of Taiwan, which was under martial law from 1949 to 1987! Both nations also engaged in absolute brutality against opposition interests, as a means of pursuing compliance, with things like the Bodo League Massacre in South Korea [3], or the White Terror [4] in Taiwan.

By contrast we completely lost in Vietnam. And what awaited them? Well not much. There were no mass killings of collaborators or anything like that - that the West had predicted, though there were brutal "reeducation camps". But in general Vietnam just developed as its own independent nation. They were in no way whatsoever a e.g. Chinese puppet. They're the country that got rid of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, which had been supported by China. It's a great place to visit, and I'd recommend it to anybody.

Also I think it's increasingly obvious that fertility rates are one of the most critical factors in society today. South Korea and Taiwan will not exist in the future simply because they are not even close to replacing themselves. Their fertility rates (0.55 and 0.85 respectively) make Japan, at 1.3, look like a nation of rabbits, by contrast. In other words South Korea and Taiwan are not sustainable nations, or people, unless something radically changes. Vietnam is struggling at 1.94, but that's a slow bleed decline - as opposed to the self decapitation path that Taiwan and South Korea are on. If these results are a consequence of the cultural shift that resulted from these countries "defense", then all we've done is sign a post-dated death warrant for these nations.

I am very much a pro-capitalist person, but I'm also in no way whatsoever jingoistic about such. Not only is there room for many systems in this world, but many systems must be trialed. Because if it turns out that one system, which sounds good on paper, just leads to collapse - then a world with many different systems ensures that the overall impact is relatively minimal.

-----

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

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#Martial_law_era_(1949%E...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)
The only reason you are allowed to modify a copyrighted image for personal use is because that's considered fair use. The fact that you found it on a website is irrelevant.

Copyright literally restricts using the material. If you buy a book, you cannot sell tickets to an event where you read it out loud.
If anything, you "shifted the discussion", who gives a crap if you can buy plastic disks when DRM and content delivery doesn't allow you to use them at high quality.
How many homeless people you see on the way to work is a worse measurement of the economy than the stock market.
Article title: Layers of carbonate provide insight into the world of the ancient Romans
If they breathlessly announced they were dismantling one of our howitzers, we'd joke about them being 60 years behind. It doesn't mean those howitzers aren't useful weapons, but...
If every product/service has exactly zero consumer surplus, then consumers won't have any reason to prefer product/service A at price p over product/service B at price q, or even over not spending money at all. This will kill innovation, since business competition is based on providing a higher consumer surplus (better quality for the same amount of money, or same quality for less money). This is a clear market failure, therefore this kind of discriminatory pricing should be made illegal.
Well, the database might be large. Millions of domain names, each with like a dozen (or more) records. (maybe 1k * 30 million domains).

But mostly it's about how the DNS changes, a lot. Sites move, geo records, etc. Getting those changes to every household would be a lot of traffic.

Before DNS folk were sharing a common /etc/hosts file - and quickly determined there had to be a better way.

So, DNS with a dozen root servers that stay fresh, caching down stream.
The point is you can plug it into an UPS and get 12 hours of heating without electricity working...
You conveniently left out, additionally, the service members that died during the botch Afghanistan pull out. It was during the dignified return of remains that Biden was seen repeatedly checking his watch.
Tissue T cell activation and viral RNA Persist 2 Years after SARS-CoV-2
I like the idea of a standardized way of conveying where the project exists on a spectrum of personal hobby to foundation. I'd personally imagine four levels:

Level 0: This code meets (met?) my personal needs. I'm pleased if you find it useful but do not expect a response to suggestions or bug reports.

Level 1: This tool has a solo maintainer. I'll do my best to incorporate suggestions that fit my vision and address bug reports with reproduction steps when I have free time.

Level 2: This project is maintained by a handful of like-minded contributors. Besides suggestions and bug reports, if you're interested in contributing, please join our discord/element/forum/listserv.

Level 3: This project is maintained by an organization. Before submitting a bug report, please read our wiki.
That use of bet would make it a meaningless comment.

Presumably, elzbardico’s use of “bet” meant something akin to betting in a casino or lottery, where the goal is to get high from the rush of sudden, big, improbable wins.
Article is light on details. How many Rivian vans have caught on fire over what span of time? How does that compare to non-EV vans? Other EVs?
I experienced one literally minutes ago after doing a guided tour at Pompeii.

I want an AR tour guide. It should know where I am and give me the relevant commentary to the ruins I am at. Following me, not vice versa.

Ideally if there are several in my group then I want the commentaries synced.

When I walk to an intersection, I want to see what's on offer, with preview, if I turn left vs right.

I want to look at the frescos and crumbling walls and see virtual reconstructions. Extra points for knowledgeable citizens from the past walking up and interacting.

Obviously all in the user's own language.
There's every problem in fake truths, and the recent phenomenon is people so entrenched in troll farm lies to come to believe that truth is impossible.

Politics is the process of lying so well that you can get things your way.
The trick is, you want the telomeres to shorten all the way in cells that rapidly divide because this ends cell lines. And if you don't end proliferating cell lines, you get cancer. All of us and all of our tissues have cells that are basically pre-cancerous, they have driver mutations associated with cancer, and the only thing preventing them from running amok is the fact that there are limitations in the number of divisions that are possible. This is all based on information that's become visible via single-spell spatial transcriptomics. See Peter Campbell's work.
Zypher is indeed a pain in the neck to learn. I have lots of experience with freertos, setting up tool chains, etc, but just getting a basic project with zephyr is confusing.
"Discovery of the first hydrothermal field along the 500-km-long Knipovich Ridge offshore Svalbard (the Jøtul field)" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-60802-3 :

> "The newly discovered hydrothermal field, named Jøtul hydrothermal field, is associated with the eastern bounding fault of the rift valley rather than with an axial volcanic ridge. Guided by physico-chemical anomalies in the water column, ROV investigations on the seafloor showed a wide variety of fluid escape sites, inactive and active mounds with abundant hydrothermal precipitates, and chemosynthetic organisms. Fluids with temperatures between 8 and 316 °C as well as precipitates were sampled at four vent sites. High methane, carbon dioxide, and ammonium concentrations, as well as high [87/86] Sr isotope ratios of the vent fluids indicate strong interaction between magma and sediments from the Svalbard continental margin. Such interactions are important for carbon mobilization at the seafloor and the carbon cycle in the ocean

Does that help confirm or reject thi?s:

"Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle" (2014) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1253358 :

> They conclude that the mantle transition zone — 410 to 660 km below Earth's surface — acts as a large reservoir of water.
I don't mean they are impossible to understand, but that we are just not there yet. I am confident that at some point we'll have "real" LLM engineering rather than "prompt" engineering.
Send it to Northern countries for road deicing?
The drunk cyclist presumably is moving? I.e. at speed?
Worrisome for whom? It doesn’t appear that anyone was hurt. I’m not exactly crying for Jeff Bezos, I’m sure he has insurance.
The only ones bashing the Russian military are the Russian leaders who’ve been exposing the fact that the mighty Russian military isn’t even capable of taking down a military staffed nearly entirely by civilians and using discards from the Cold War which they are learning how to use in the middle of the war.

The Russian military is an absolute embarrassment, and to the extent the Russian leadership and further, the Russian people, continue to allow this illegal war of aggression to continue under their names, it’s an embarrassment to them as well.

When your rallying cry is “we have a history of enduring fighting bitter battles with massive loss of life to gain little to no useful territory” to justify continuing this war where you’re losing badly and embarrassing yourself on the world stage with a begging bowl aimed at North Korea, you’ve shown yourself to not be a serious nation in the 21st century.
I recommend you read up on te history of the Berlin airlift so that you have a chance of forming an inforned opinion grounded on reality.
There's also the availability of coal. Coal was absolutely critical.
Related:

Gilead Shot Prevents 100% of HIV Cases in Trial of African Women - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742163 - June 2024 (412 comments)
Avoided by them taking Ukrain and all other eatern bloc countries without a war,just with corrupt politicians and some well timed assisanation.

Kremlin never hides it's imperialism. Maybe just listen to that?
Discussions

(18 points, 1 day ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868752

(33 points, 5 hours ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40880987
25 is fine for me to work in; it's about 27 that I start to need to take stronger measures to cool off.

That said, I'm guessing 22 (or 18 or whatever) is the lowest temperature you can have on the pipes; that wouldn't translate to 22 in the house.
You're forced to deal with it. If you've set an alarm, it's going to interrupt your work, or don't set the alarm. If every social media message is going to your watch, laptop, or phone you either learn to ignore them (making real alarms useless) or you have a focus mode that only passes on the ones you want (from close family?).

If you mean having a big current time, calendar, etc home screen, then I agree AR would be different, and more transparent unless you're actively using it. It's going to have to be, because power consumption for a display bright enough you can see it outside is going to be a big weight/runtime issue.
interestingly where I live, unit price is on all price tags for food. but tasks like that would be perfect, combined with AI so you wouldn't have to pull up a calculator app etc, instead just say "what's the unit price for this?" or "see any better deals for k-cups?"
1) It's distributed. There's not a single database with all the DNS records in existence. Each zone is responsible for hosting and serving their own records.

2) The TTL for a DNS record can be 0.

Edit:

3) AXFR is blocked on 'most' zones. You would need this to know all the records in a zone.
Costco class-action lawsuit claims baby wipes contain significant levels of PFAS
how run this in kubernetes?
Open Image Denoise on the Web
This is super interesting, thank you.

But, looking at semdesign's site and info I have a question - which is if this tech exists since 2010 or so... why are all the big banks not using it? Is it just bad marketing or is there a gotcha? They are all whining about their cobol problem, this could be a fix......

Does this mean that the market is not what folks imagine?
Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)
There's a reason you're building what you're building
I'm guessing satnavs phone home with your intentions/route. If so, wouldn't that be most people already?
> What's the rationale for being able to charge people with perjury who lie in court?

It's a period bound by topic, time, and location for a matter you were (likely) directly involved in or witnessed.
No, it's just wordplay.

Capital is always at risk in financial investments.

If there is a semantic difference, I'd say you "invest" when you have a historical expectation of future positive returns, and you "bet" when you're taking a contrarian approach or just going with a gut feeling when data isn't available or known.

Anecdotally, and personally, I've had better luck with "bets" than "investments". But they're fundamentally the same thing.
I speculate your comment has been downvoted because you haven’t explained why you’d “like to see generative AI try to reconstruct the full image”.

What would be the purpose of that reconstruction? To help visualize the most likely original scene using a contemporary-biased lens? Why would we want that?

Imagine you found a box of macaron sandwich cookie fragments, and your model only knows about Oreos. Would such a reconstruction have value? Could it also apply inappropriate bias?

On the other hand, the right models can be critical. Look at how researchers created an image of black holes. [0] This is a reconstruction, and it is an average, and it relies on physics models; but those assumptions are in some ways more transparent than generative AI.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Ol_SB5Zfv-Y?si=O6CL-kjDcgBB0bWm , 4-minute overview
Its worth noting this was a daylight attack. Russia doesn't seem to have been able to take down the ATACMS missiles that struck the Vitino Center for Long-Range Space Communications complex later that night.
There's ongoing disagreement because people lie when they say "I believe x" (when it's actually "I've been paid to support y")

On most subjects people would come to an agreement after a while, if they were forced to be honest.
Global autoincorrect in MacOS supposedly did that in recent years, according to some post by Scott Alexander I read a while ago.
Yes, I need analog in.
Russia does not have an equivalent that is demonstrably deployed effectively.

Ukraine is being hit with Iskander-M all the time, e.g. just days ago at Myrhorod taking out SU-27s.

The quality of Russian equipment being deployed right now is really bad.

And yet Ukraine is still losing territory, countless men, and the war. This blasé attitude is just bizarre, as if NATO has a secret stock of wunderwaffen about to be arrive and deliver the coup de grâce any day. NATO has spent a quarter trillion dollars+ on this proxy war, staked its credibility on it, and is losing.

Fun bonus if you want to watch some people die:

Things people who have lost their humanity say.
> I seriously wish Nvidia and AMD could merge now – a technology cross-licensing that takes advantages of each other’s fab capabilities is going to help a lot in bringing the cost of GPU cycles down much further!

It's interesting that they see such a monopoly as something that would bring costs down. It seems more to me like competing with AMD does much more to keep Nvidias costs down (if they can be described as "down") than combining resources would.
Looking for feedback here. Threadly allows users to send to multiple channels at once, and attach custom call-to-actions (CTAs) to Slack messages, track engagement and interactions, and more.

Common use cases would be marketing sharing new updates, sales pinging prospects, and CS introducing features or support. A handful of teams are already rocking it.

How would you use it?
AMD and Apple tried to push OpenCL but the design of it, a C-like kernel compiled to the GPU with LLVM and managed by the Khronos consortium, tended to lag in absolute performance to CUDA which was able to take advantage of evolutions in GPU design more closely.

Nowadays almost nobody cares about OpenCL.
> Also who is responsible if you transmit lie somebody told you as a fact.

Lying means knowingly telling the false
> and it's not end-to-end encryption this time. Not exactly.

Not exactly, but as you mention that... of course, if you could open up that too, that would be great. lol ;)

Why are these Orwellesque desires not more frowned upon? Our crimefighters barely need it, they stay as incompetent as before, but our freedoms and civil rights will suffer, a lot. Even the most conservative ones should be afraid of what they constantly try to enable in face of all the right wing pushes everywhere.. social and even most liberal parties don't hold against it, it is shocking and hilarious at the same time.
Yea this can be problematic if you don’t have sum types, it’s hard to enforce correct typing while also having correct default / uninitialized values.
Yes, I understand I won't hit that SNR.

Thanks for the part recommendation. :-)
Just because two URIs might appear to be similar doesn't mean they are identical. Using the URI string as a hash key wouldn't be vulnerable to this.
Thanks for sharing. A great twenty minute talk by Karpathy, starting at around 4:05 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsTeEkzO9xc&t=245s).
You realize that lies are already illegal in plenty of other situations. For example, lawyers and doctors cannot lie or deliberately deceive. Or you can be prosecuted if you lie when under oath. You know that no lawyer or doctor are arrested for saying "no, that dress doesn't make you look fat at all", right?

It is just extending the laws that already apply to parliament or judicial system to a broader set of situation easily identifiable. Pretending that it is equivalent to be able to raid a political opponent because they said "that dress doesn't make you look fat" is just ridiculous.

We already deal with these situations, and there are easy and proven solutions to avoid misuse.
My best luck for printf is to use a segger debugger with RTT. It streams data over jtag or swd and is very fast
I don't think I've ever encountered such an over-monetized site. Every square mm of space has an ad. Then pop ups will spontaneously cover existing ads. I can't even find the content.
I don't know how it is nowadays but i remember trying CUDA back when GeForce GTX 280 was still a high end GPU. I didn't do anything fancy, i just tried to write a simple raytracer to get a feel of how it'd work.

The experience was incredibly simple: write C like usual but annotate a few C functions with some extra keywords and compile using a custom frontend/preprocessor/whatever-nvcc-was instead of gcc (i was on Linux - and BTW i heavily contest the notion that Nvidia drivers on Linux were "nightmare", they always worked just fine with both performance and features comparable to their Windows counterparts while ATi/AMD had buggy and broken drivers for years). Again, the experience was very simple, i even just copy/pasted a bunch of existing C code i had and it worked.

Later i tried to use OpenCL which was supposedly the open alternative. That one felt way more primitive and low level, like writing shaders without the shading bits.

In a way, as you wrote, it was kinda like DirectX: that is, CUDA was like using OpenGL 1.1 with its convenient and straightforward C API and OpenCL was like using DirectX 3 with its COM infested execute buffer nonsense.

After that i never really used CUDA (or OpenCL for that matter) but it gave me the impression that Nvidia did put way more effort on developer experience.
ViBox – Add and Manage Multiple Desktop Configurations
ViBox is free, works in MacOS / Windows, and offers multiple functionalities to personalize your desktop experience. Add widgets, bubbles, status bar icons, any browser content, and more.

In this video, I show how to have different desktops with different sets of contents.

https://vibox.cloudbit.co/
If you're looking for AI in BI, I have something for you: https://www.definite.app/
There is a Multiplan for DOS either. The Multiplan [1] page has more information:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan
There are too many reasons to list. But the primary reasons DNS is a hierarchy of DNS services hosted by many distinct groups. And DNS records are queriable publicly, but also consider private. Almost all servers in the world disable AFRX for a variety reasons.

Beyond that DNS servers are not just a "database" of records, they are services that can return different results depending on who queried. And this is quite common with CDNs.

There are many more reasons, but let's talk about what you could do.

You could download a list of all registered domains, and then query all of them for the most common records. It would take hours, not include 99.9 percent all records, and be out of date the second it completes. With this database, you could visit some websites, but many host services on subdomains and you have no way to dynamically get that list when you're populating the database.
Other fun options include telling it that you’ll pay it a tip if it does well, asking it to play a character who is an expert in the subject you want to know about, or telling it that something terrible will happen to someone if it does a bad job.
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is - whichever is greater - it obtains a difference or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position that it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and if follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation. The variation being the difference between where the missile is and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows: Because a variation has modified some of the information that the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it know where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice versa. And by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
The difference is not just about APIs; CUDA has a single source file model that is dead easy to use whereas last I checked every competitor still had an outdated manual loading process that adds significant friction.
Ok buddy! We’re coming up on day 900 of the 3 day invasion. I’m sure you’ll get it soon.