skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively if/when starship is up and running it should be pretty trivial to ferry a lot of JDAM-esque weapons up to an orbital launch platform. From there you could practically throw bombs down in a suborbital path to a target and let the JDAM fins guide it in through the atmosphere.

A starship already costs around 90 million USD at cost (estimated based on parts cost currently) and is intended to cost around 10 million USD per launch commercially if it's able to be reused regularly.

And a single launch could carry a lot of bombs (like 50-400 based on the size). So on the high end after factoring in the cost of the bombs, amortising the cost of the initial orbital platform, and assuming a higher cost of like 120 million USD for a single launch, that would still almost certainly come out cheaper than sacrificing an MQ-9 or a much more expensive missile. And of course if you can get that cost down to 10 million USD per launch then other than artillery, that's going to be the cheapest way to deliver ordinance to any location in the world by far (after factoring in the cost of flight time for jets, etc).
`<!DOCTYPE html>` is not an html opening tag. It is a preamble.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#writing
Good question? :) I'd say no.

How about an exact copy of the log book, but with one bit flipped. Voila, mostly universal physics.
How many bits of all that sensory information--note that our vision is nearly optimally sensitive--actually make it to the brain? I think there's got to be a large amount of low-effort (structurally baked-in, automatic) filtering, aggregation, and lossy compression happening, otherwise it would just be way too much, right?
It takes about 30 seconds for the US National Debt clock (https://www.usdebtclock.org/) to tick off $1 million, so almost 2.5 days to tick off $7 billion. I'd say $7 billion covers much more than 3 seconds of interest.
No idea why you're getting downvoted. You're right.

The brazilian constitution literally contains the words:

> Any and all censorship of political and artistic nature is prohibited

These accounts were engaged in political speech. The judge ordered their banishment. This is a form of censorship of political nature. Therefore what he did is unconstitutional.

It's a very simple argument that I make every time the topic comes up. Nobody has refuted it to this day. I've had people on this site cite lesser laws, irrelevant laws, appeals to the authority of the judge... But they haven't refuted it.
My takeaway: Forbes rich list amounts are basically fictional. Do you think they are devoting the kind of resources it would take to unravel each billionaire's finances? Clearly not. If it's mostly large sharehioldings they might be in the ballpark in some obvious cases.
What a bad faith take. I recommend taking another pass at the comment and trying to get a more respectable understanding. You’ll never find common ground with others by adopting such a shitty attitude.
I don't think Tesla ever used LIDAR and the article confirms they don't think they will need to. I believe they removed ultrasonic sensors though, maybe that's what you're thinking of.
I felt like the article spent way too many words to explain the idea of "the agency shared data across the air gap using USB drives, and a vulnerability was used to surreptitiously copy the malware onto the USB and then onto the target machine", and AFAICT none on explaining what that vulnerability is or why it exists (or existed). Then the rest is standard malware-reversing stuff that doesn't say anything interesting except to other malware reverse engineers. The inner workings of the tools aren't interesting from a security perspective; the compromise of the air gap is.

(As for acoustic etc. side-channel attacks: these would require a level of physical access at which point the air gap is moot. E.g. if you can get a physical listening device into the room to listen to fan noise etc. and deduce something about the computation currently being performed, and then eventually turn that into espionage... you could far more easily just directly use the listening device for espionage in the form of listening to the humans operating the computers.)
Digital tv can degrade gracefully. It just looks different. Instead of fuzz it looks like missed iframes which create blocky artifacting on movement or when switching cameras.
People knew lead was harmful in large quantities, sure, but the science around just how bad lead is and how little can cause damage I would say was not known.

Regarding PVC: It already is not used in almost any new construction for water supply lines, at least in the US. It's used for drains, but the leeching concern isn't really an issue for drain pipes. No water pressure, and no continuous immersion typically. Issues about BPA/vinyl compounds are

As per PEX, I can't say for certain that it's 100% risk free, but overall there is increased scrutiny on drinking water and contaminates and PEX right now seems to be the best choice.
I suspect that's not the only SPOF in play.

Nukes, as with rockets, are complex. Many things have to go right and keep going right for them to operate as intended.

(See Rickover's "Paper Reactors" paper for a similar take on this.)

Another factor that contributed not only to Fukushima but other inundations following the Tohoku earthquake was that in response to the megathrust-fault slip, the east coast of Japan sank about a meter lower.[1] Engineers building seawalls failed to take this into account, as I understand.

I'd first realised that such quakes could lower land on the continental plate of megathrust faults when looking over satellite imagery of Banda Aceh after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake and tsunami. Regions along the coast were flooded long after the tsunami had passed, which I realised must have come from a lowering of the land itself.

Seattle and the Pacific Northwest may face similar issue should their Big One occur eventually.

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Notes:

1. "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003808061..." <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003808061...>
“Human rights groups have asked Wikileaks many times to do more to censor information found in documents. They fear reprisals against aid workers, activists and civilians named in the leaked data.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37165230.amp
Would it be even theoretically possible for a disruptive startup to enter the aircraft manufacturing industry in the US or is Boeing basically just a guaranteed monopoly forever until Airbus and some Chinese firm take over the market?
Some TVs have modular pcie devices in them. You could probably just take the off but with my guess, it would send the TV into panic mode and not boot-up without the device.
Discussed in Permutation City
One of my dreams is to help build an international tech manufacturing R&D zone across Tijuana and San Diego, complete with commuter trains that use the existing ROW.
you should be
even in your "correct" math, your comment doesn't really improve the ridiculously small amount of moving of a needle that this would make
It's been years since I read that one, I'll need to queue it up!

Good suggestion on the library, I might have a chance in late 2025 to head to Japan again so I'll check it out if I can.
Every company so far, I send an email or click the return link on the confirmation email they sent when I ordered. Print the label and send it back. I haven't had any problems yet.
Filters in klev
Hi All,

We've added support for filters in klev a while back, and I finally managed to write a short blogpost on how to use them. You can also check out our docs[0] and api[1]. A quick way to start with klev is using the cli[2]. Happy to answer any questions.

[0] https://klev.dev/docs#filters

[1] https://klev.dev/api#filters

[2] https://github.com/klev-dev/klev-cli
I was hiking in remote Tasmania once, using an AM radio to try to get weather forecasts as there was possibility of snow which would affect one part of our walk. I was getting up pre-dawn to listen, and found that I could not tune in to any local stations, but was able to pick one up from about 2000km away. I figure this is due to the radio waves bouncing off the ionosphere (as intended), but the angle possible with this is relatively shallow, so a greater distance is better than a shorter distance when you haven't got line of sight (there were mountains in the way of most nearby cities).

The moral of the story is to ensure that the broadcasting station needs to describe its location clearly (and the listener to listen for the station's location), as it may be a _long_ way away.
It's a good starting point. Quite late at the game after strattic, cache plugins and offloading queries on sqlite, let's see when and how will they play out with unavoidable interaction parts like contact forms.
And while I agree it's hard, I think that keeping an industrial society should be possible. (although it means reworking almost all the production apparel to be carbon neutral (concrete/steel/fertilizer production, transports, agriculture, ...). Not going to happen in the short-term without an extremely strong political push and more research, on the world scale)

Actual production may become lower than today, but I'd like to believe we don't have to go full Amish.
ÁÉÍÓÚ is always Windows-1252. Windows fully supported UTF-8 for decades, but still defaults to regional encodings for current system locale unless otherwise specified, for compatibility. Therefore, an app that does not explicitly specify so will still butcher the text as it runs on Windows and handles char[] or String even on Windows 11.

IIRC it's combination of some new_API_2.final() Win32 API and compilation options for C++, C#, and Java. Microsoft briefly tried to switch system locale to UTF-8 on Windows 10, but I think they've since given up on it.

Other platforms such as Electron, Android, iOS shouldn't have this problem; those should be UTF-8 native.
Now I'm wondering, isn't there usually a `num_heads x value_dim -> model_dim` projection that goes after a MHA? The W in `softmax(QK)VW`? That one can play the role of this subtraction in a vanilla transformer, no?
So I wonder what kind of advantage does splitting things up like this bring.
This is the plot of most of Ghost in the Shell. That series looks more and more prescient as time goes on. Another big plot point is that most of the internet is just AIs talking to each other. 10 years ago that sounded ridiculous, now not so much.
After looking at HN comments for years, I find this low effort dismissal downvoteable.

APL was originally a rewrite and normalisation of traditional math notation for use on blackboards. Before it was anything to do with computers it was linear algebra without all the bizarre precedence rules and with some common useful operations.
If the universe is real, not simulation.

If you know the position and speed, everything, about every particle, then you should be able to extrapolate the future by calculating it. The problem is you need a computer the size of the universe to do that calculation.

So even thought the map is the territory, equal scale, and you have the map. It is little worthless because the map ends up being reality.

Edit: Little different than the idea that if this is simulation, you can do clipping and only render what we see. I'm saying the entire universe is 'real'.
It works fine pushing 1440 or 4k, last I checked. I don't have it hooked up to a 4k monitor anymore, but I have no reason to believe that it would have stopped doing it. It does have a discreet GPU, and quite a bit of ram. Its not like 1080p content was pushing the limits of what a macbook could accomplish in 2014, so why would it choke now?

The new apple silicon is undeniably faster and more efficient, but the point is that there is, for most intents and purposes, nothing that the old machine can't run that a new one can (unpatched MacOS excepted, but OpenCore or Linux solves for that).

Again, I'm not saying that things haven't improved, just saying that a 10 year old computer is still a good machine, in a way that has never been true in the past of personal computing.

Compare a consumer computer from 1984, 1994, 2004, 2014 and 2024. The delta between each step is pretty massive up until the last 10 years.
From "Most electric-car batteries could soon be made by recycling old ones" - https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/09/19/...

Apologies for the paywalled article. The following quote sums up the article:

"Globally, the mining of raw ingredients for battery manufacturing could peak by the mid 2030s, reckons RMI, an American think-tank. This will be caused by a combination of better recycling and continuing advances in battery chemistry, which boosts the energy density of cells so that batteries can be made with fewer raw materials. This, RMI believes, might see mineral extraction for batteries being avoided altogether by 2050."
>Amazon almost always has a better return process

Every company so far, I send an email or click the return link on the confirmation email they sent when I ordered. Print the label and send it back. I haven't had any problems yet.

>need to give one site your payment details rather than many.

Either use PayPal or your credit card. If it gets compromised, cc companies are really good at making sure you don't get screwed.

I have been doing this for 5 years now and haven't had any problems.
Such side channel attacks are academic. In fact someone on HN pointed out there's a researcher that invents new ones by the dozen and media run with it whenever he presents another one.
I can definitely imagine use cases where a network is air gapped internally for security but bidirectional transfer still takes place. The point is that humans are supposed to be in control of exactly what is transferred, in both directions (not feasible with a network connection, to my knowledge).
The resulting image would be basically useless for navigation. If a human can't make stuff out in the image, a computer definitely won't.
Perhaps.

But it has its own little robot brain, and I have a pocket supercomputer along with a LAN to connect betwixt these two things.

I know that realtime clock modules are useful for scheduling and are not free, but that doesn't mean that a device needs to call home in order to start sweeping the floor at a particular time.
thanks for the recognition we'd love to help more companies support & fund their dependency tree :)
PEX for DWV (drain/waste/vent)?

I’ve seen ABS and PVC (and, of course, cast iron) for DWV, but don’t think I’ve ever heard of Pex for that.
Not as catastrophic, but during power outages in my neighborhood, I am usually left with a poor cell signal (no backups on cable internet boxes). Electric utility's outage map is hidden behind a login (!) and is rendered with fancy clustering and other UI features that are already slow even with a decent connection. So it takes quite a while to check the status or even report an outage.

I could call the utlity company, but for some reason, they chose voice navigation (instead of keypad tones) for their menu, and it is not good at recognizing distorted voice (over bad 4G or 2G connection).
This "HTMX in React" idea just reinvented React Server Components. https://react.dev/reference/rsc/server-components

An attractive future direction might be to re-implement Htmx in React:

• The server sends a JSON blob that React converts into virtual DOM components.

• That would solve the component state problem.

• It would mean we require no special bridge to use React
components.

• It would let us use our React-connected web fetching library, and carefully avoid the queuing choices made by Htmx.

• It would solve the morphdom problems and browser DOM input elements problem, too, which is pretty much a solved problem in React.

In this way, we could drop the Htmx dependency but retain the benefits of the idea. That is, given a budget to embark on such a big piece of work.

RSC is still experimental, and the default implementation assumes that you're going to run JS on the server, which undermines some of the point of HTMX.

But someday (likely in the next year or so) the RSC wire format will be standardized, and then any language can generate RSC JSON for React to consume.
According to the specs the <html> tag can be fully omitted. From MDN [1]:

> The start tag may be omitted if the first thing inside the <html> element is not a comment.

> The end tag may be omitted if the <html> element is not immediately followed by a comment.

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ht...
A previous version of my personal website was scaffolded entirely in HTML and a handful of CSS. I used pandoc as a markdown to HTML converter for blog posts, and wrote a short bash script to package everything up into a bundle of HTML files. GitHub Actions and GH pages were also used like you describe, and then finally I just pointed my domain to the hosted page on GitHub Actions. It worked flawlessly

https://github.com/AshwinSundar/ashwinsundar/commit/6887c201...
Or just "conversation".
$2.1m?! They must have bought two!
He was a little fish, yes, but the effort to prevent his deportation was part of something much bigger, carefully organized, and, in retrospect, pretty gross.
Wolfram does offer an interesting alternative to viewing the universe as a manifold with a tensor (the GR view). He believes it's a graph with computational rules. Are they the same? Mathematically, manifolds have a clear notion of dimension. This affects things like the inverse square rule. Wolfram's view of the ruliad, an evolving graph with rules, does bring up the question of dimension.

But at the end of the day he needs to make a concrete prediction that differs than the current view in order to have people devote a lot of time studying his world view. He's a brilliant guy and the Wolfram Language is fantastic, but he really needs to humble himself enough to value the work of convincing others.
Could also be a Shark or a Roborock - both brands are also pretty popular

Maybe it's just me, but when I hear "popular X" rather than a brand name or "the most popular X" I generally skip past the number one most likely option in my mind
FYI, I can’t downvote your replies

I know, I never said you did, that's how the site works.

If you’re getting downvotes, then maybe you’re earning them?

People see a random blog link and think it's an authority, that's pretty much all there is to it.

More incorrect assumptions?

I think you mean you misunderstood something I wrote again even though it was clear the first time.

It doesn’t really matter if film is soft.

It does for what I was talking about.

If there’s aliasing or ringing or sizzling in the digital source, it can be visible on film even if it’s blurred more by the film.

No one has ever claimed this was wasn't true.

Once aliasing is introduced during sampling, blurring doesn’t necessarily make it go away,

No one claimed this an neither of these have to do with anything I've said.

and in some cases extra blurring can make aliasing worse and more visible.

Technically it would lower the frequency of the noise.

You still aren't distinguishing between different types of aliasing. Sampling for visibility and coverage from the camera is different from sampling for coverage of shadows.

You keep writing as if all aliasing is the same when pixel filters are going to be doing a weighted average of the samples from camera, which themselves could be aliasing from other sources.

That said, I think your claim that 2k by 1k is too sharp for 35mm film is also just plain wrong.

It's not. I've run wedges of pixel filters, different sizes and seen them laser printed to film.

Have you done this?

People can and did tell the difference between pixel filters on film,

Again you keep misunderstanding what I've said. Someone going in cold with no other information is not going to be able to look at a film print and know what pixel filter an image was rendered with, the information isn't there any more.

You’re wrong about this, making weird bad assumptions,

Nope. Your posts are full of giant red flags like not distinguishing between multiple types of aliasing and never hearing "2k resolution".

I'm not even sure what your point is other than replying to say I'm wrong about something I never said.

Show me some evidence. Show me laser printed and laser scanned 35mm film at 2k resolution and let's look at the edges.

Remember, all I originally said was that the vast majority of time someone will just want to use a gauss filter, because it looks good, has no negative lobes and the image will be softened more by the process anyway.
I guess I’ll just wait for Sabine to say something about this.
Almost all modern devices use internet access for one thing: Because, in the modern internet, it's basically impossible to reliably initiate a p2p connection.
Restricted Boltzmann Machines were a huge revolution in the field, warranting a publication in Science in 2006. If you want to know what the field looks like back then, here it is: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/science.pdf

I remember in 2012 for my MS thesis on Deep Neural Networks spending several pages on Boltzmann Machines and the physics-inspired theories of Geoffrey Hinton.

My undergraduate degree was in physics.

So, yes, I think this is an absolutely stunning award. The connections between statistical entropy (inspired by thermodynamics) and also of course from biophysics of human neural networks should not be lost here.

Anyways, congratulations to Geoffrey Hinton. And also, since physics is the language of physical systems, why not expand the definition of the field to include the "physics of intelligence"?

From their official explanation page (https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsp...):
"With ANNs the boundaries of physics are extended to host phenomena of life as well as computation."
The kind of phone you have described is called a 'tough phone', and typically marketed for industrial users.

I already linked to one that comes pretty close to what you want.
Even the last few points of their "simple" flow are overly complicated. Before all the CMS stuff, you created the HTML and CSS on files on your desktop using text editors or WYSIWYG editors like Front-page. You can render it just as easily from local files as on a dedicated web server. When you're happy with it, copy the files over SFTP to your server. Frontpage would even take care of that for you. The same flow still works fine today.

Around the dot com boom there were dozens of high quality desktop editors for making websites. All these hosted SaaS systems were just starting to become popular, meant to make it easier for non-programmers to make websites. But did it really? I don't think so. Now those systems are so complex that you need to hire someone to use them. Yet first year students in comp sci who didn't even have any programming background still write HTML and CSS by hand. Templates for WordPress are these complex programs, but a template for HTML and CSS can be as simple as a Hello World example.
Time and again Musk has made money based on the quality of the people around him. He seems to have chased those people off.
Given my phone number, name and zip code, they were able to determine if I voted in the 2020 election, and how my political views lean. It was accurate (very blue) even though I am registered as an independent. Scary stuff.
Both ingress-nginx and Kong use this? I wonder if OpenResty will consider using
https://freenginx.org instead of http://nginx.org/, since the original implementors had a falling out with F5.
I didn't understand any of that.

But what I got out of it was, this hardcore mf doesn't code in assembly, he codes in binary.
The article highlights that it’s not actually that hard for the ultra-wealthy to avoid a massive estate tax bill through proper tax planning and investment strategies. What’s striking here is that this individual wasn’t even the richest person to ever die, yet he paid the largest estate tax in history, likely by choice.