skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d think a variation (vary size, shape to suit task) of this with weapons would do well, since it’ll already be replacing the black hawk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_V-280_Valor
Ask HN: What books taught you the most about human nature?
I've been reading through Discworld recently, and have been pleasantly surprised by the amount of (tongue-in-cheek) wisdom contained therein.

Since HN originally pointed me to Discworld, I thought I'd ask -- what other books -- fiction or otherwise -- have changed your perspective on human psychology / sociology / the space of possible minds?
you just admitted that you're the problem. "new stovetop is far more energy efficient than the old one" how so? does it magically produce more heat from nothing?
It looks like it stores it on Jazz Flex, a paid service.

Free tier is 1GB of storage, and it goes up from there.
Generally speaking, money wants to go places that fulfill peoples desires, much like a ball wants to roll down hill.

People want food, housing, entertainment, and many more things so there is money to be made providing them.

Sometimes people do a bad job at picking what they want.

Sometimes people dont like what other people want, and when other people get it.
> For some weird reason, outlinks are to be avoided

Because people don't understand metrics other than "optimize this". So they take social media metrics and apply them where they don't belong.

To me fair, news is probably pretty hard to measure. Since the real value is in quality. People want information, quickly available, but accurate and easily readable. I mean isn't a big function of the news to explain complex topics more simply? I don't think there are any half way decent metrics for quality in really any domain.
Because governments are on it too, big time. It's not just about surveillance politics, or big businesses in some surveillance economy, or credit card purchase data leaked everywhere, or Echelon, or platforms spilling their (our) guts. It's about surveillance everything.

Because it's not an option if you're McKinsey, a data broker, a private security firm, or anyone contracting them. Data collection is an obligation, a requirement. They need to know about what's everyones up to, even if it's only through real time metadata.

Face recognition cameras everywhere, automatic photo radars, license plate readers at busy corners, everything going through apps in potentially always operating and recording pocket pcs we call smartphones, with potential trojans everywhere, in potentially everything. TV's are just one evocation of the disease, mainly directed at old folks, because nobody else cares about TVs and cable subscriptions anymore.

Anyone with just an once of understanding about how computer networking actually operates will actively put up all sorts of firewalls and air gaps around anything they own, because why not.

Anyone else, who shrugs at geek talk, is nothing but fair game, and will remain until someone suddenly pulls the rug from under them. Think massive actionable intelligence used against large parts of a population in a war, or a conscription, or a coup, or a full scale invasion, or whatever. Anything less will only be laughed at and dismissed.

You're offering a comprehensive law against that? That's not enough, far from it. Pass anything, I guaranty you the hydra will still be well and thriving anyway.
If it’s a tourist attraction, there’s probably an argument for keeping it running on the government’s dime
> Surely politics has something to do with this decision?

Why? Plenty of judges rule without partisan predictability. This case doesn’t seem to have any more politics involved than any federal case.

If you have evidence of something interesting, sure, bring it up. But “maybe there are other interests involved, find the evidence for me” isn’t a conversation.
Properties are only sacrificed during partitions. Due to Murphy's Law, if you assume partitions never happen they will happen more often but if you can tolerate partitions they happen really rarely.
> Is a rendering engine still a web browser if you remove all the chrome and extra features built around the rendering engine?
> I would say not.

No, obviously not. If Apple were to allow third-party web rendering engines but disallow third-party web chrome that would be equally ridiculous. But just because one part of a browser is important doesn't mean that other parts of a browser aren't also important.

> And it has a rendering engine: the iOS WebKit engine. It’s not Google’s preferred rendering engine and Chrome isn’t my choice of browser well, anywhere at all actually, but it’s still a functional web browser.

It may be a functional web browser (honestly arguable given how old and buggy the iOS rendering engine is), but it's not "Google's wildly popular web browser".
I suppose it's possible to smuggle fertile cats in, but it's really far-fetched. According to another comment here, this remote island has a single ferry. A howling cat in a carrier is going to be easily noticed while boarding the ferry or traveling on it.
The way Russians use them is obsolete… just like Russian tanks.

Combined arms maneuvering is what they _should_ be doing. In fact Russia reorganized to theoretically be setup for this sort of maneuvering; they organized into BTGs (battalion tactical groups) which contain basically everything: air defense (area denial and SHORAD), logistics (refuel, resupply, rearm, repair), infantry, armor, air attack, engineering, artillery, and I’m probably leaving a few out.

To this end they’ve been completely ineffective.

They started as the second best army in the world, then went to the second best army in Ukraine, and now they are the second best army in Russia.
This problem was created by regulation requiring companies to store ID information. More regulation the answer?
The Cobra hasn't been in use since the late 90s.

The Apache has been incrementally upgrade over the years, so yeah, it is much different.
Salt typhoon: Hackers attacked telecoms and ISPs because of "safe" backdoor
No. It has nothing to do with the discovery being of significant merit. There are countless discoveries of significant merit that aren't rewarded by the Committee.

They have many choices at their disposal. And they intentionally choose from only a small narrow pool of potential winners to keep it in the family. That's corruption.
F35 platform is built to allow the pilot to control “fleets” of drones.
You’re certainly allowed to make the client a more active participant in your consensus protocol, but then it needs to play by the same rules if you want the system to have guarantees. For example, you need to handle network partitions between clients and some servers, and you need to be able to reconcile multiple reads from servers that might have seen different sets of writes. The CAP theorem still applies to the system as a whole.
Because small, cheap drones can’t fly at supersonic speeds at long enough range to matter.

Drones that can do that are called “anti-aircraft missiles”.
Article title: The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite

Source article from WSJ (41 points, 3 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41749046
Not only isn't that an accurate summary of Graham's book, it isn't even a topic discussed in the first half of the book, which is all I've read so far. I suspect it isn't a topic discussed in the book at all; can you back up your assertion with some quotes?
Hi Elina - how about adding Garden of Life Fit and other products?
(No affiliation with them, just a happy user).

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SoC, ASIC, FPGA, Embedded System Questions
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The reality is that Ukraine is producing 300,000+ drones per month, so the ratio is closer to 10,000:1 cheap drones to Switchblades.

No Western military is prepared for a ground war with hundreds of thousands of drone attacks per day, which is what near peer would mean now.
I’m always confused about when to use DER and when to use BER. Pretty much have to study the history to get it.
Came here for the recommendations in the comments. Thank you all internet strangers!
> This was a hard push from white people toward other white people, about being offended on the behalf of black people. Black people have never liked the term African-American, and most don't use it.

Doesn't matter because that's not the point of my comment. The person I was responding to said:

> and the distinction between "black" and "african american" was made because Americans with slave ancestry are not the only people who have dark skin color.

My point is there was no distinction. At the time, in the US, those two terms referred to the same group of people. The push was to replace "black" with "African-American", not to use whichever term was more appropriate.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I suppose don't understand the point. 20 years ago, when consoles were powerful computers sold at a loss or low margin, it made more sense. Now though, Nintendo sells their consoles at a profit (and the Switch 2) is likely to be the same.

This is impressive, and I'm glad people are working to preserve software freedom, but I'd rather just support the alternatives.

Why give them the perceived install base, and profit? Why not get a steam deck or one of the many other handhelds that you have - day 0 as a feature - root access on?
This commit is using onBeforeRequest:

>The change allows early availability of ip address so that `ipaddress=` option can be matched at onBeforeRequest time.

It is using some other functionality, on Firefox only, to get that early availability. But I'm saying Chrome is a non-starter since onBeforeRequest is hobbled there. So the "early availability of ip address" doesn't help. You need both.
> Unless you rolled out of the womb with the plans to live in the manner you've described, there must at some point have been things that changed your behavior.

Honestly probably just the result of having weird parents who didn’t discourage weird decisions by me as a kid. We lived in a small house (without air conditioning) in Florida and spent summers on an even smaller (and even hotter) wooden sailboat.

So I was never afraid of doing things most people wouldn’t consider just to see what would happen.

And even more honestly I just like living this way.

If the Earth was cooling down and we had to warm the planet up by driving more or whatever I’d live the same way I do now because I like it. I wouldn’t care about doing the right thing for the planet.

So I can’t fault the people who just like living a different way that happens to bad for the planet. They like their lives so let ‘em go nuts.
... no one said that.
These people: https://www.corellium.com/about#:~:text=Who%20we%20serve
You can tokenize the data [1], you can dispose of it after you've used it for the business process [2], you can vault it with a custodian. Lots of solutions. I have implemented more than one in the consumer credit space.

Regulation is usually the answer. More? Better. It ain't gonna regulate itself. Storing and processing data securely is not hard. It is work though. Breaches happen because systems and corporations don't care [3], they aren't exposed to the cost of data loss, as there is none.

Would you prefer the business not store the data, but the government attests to your identity (as part of a proofing request and flow) and also stores the receipt and AML/KYC metadata? There are legal and compliance requirements in the finance space unfortunately, and those are not going away. If identity is a requirement, a system must attest to it, and logs of some type must be created to document the ceremony.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenization_(data_security)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-shredding

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches
You do realize that Apple sells Macs, right?
There were no counters to cavalry for like 1000 years. The only generalized countermeasure to cavalry was cavalry of your own. This led to the dramatic territorial and genetic expansion of nomadic peoples, such as the Arabs and Turks.

There are specific 'counters' like pikes, fortifications etc, but they only trade effectively against head on charges. Cavalry still held the advantage of tactical mobility, which meant they dominated reconnaissance, can pursue and annihilate defeated enemies, can retreat gracefully etc.

There may be no counters to drones except for more drones. Or the counter may have to be highly strategical, such as devastating hack-based attacks that may involve use of advanced and dangerous AIs (Cyberpunk Blackwall...).

Artilleries also had no counter for like 50 years. And completely reshaped military doctrine and strategy, made WW1 into a slog etc. WWII found a way to 'beat' artillery by armored thrusts to get behind them, but that is not easily achievable.
Why does it make you feel that way?
Given that the goal was for no more cats to be born (so that the cat population eventually drops to 0) and this was apparently accomplished, it seems like a fair term.
> America lost the Vietnam war. Do you think Vietnam is America's near peer?

I was responding to somebody who said Ukraine was Russian’s near-peer. I didn’t say they should be considered peers now, just that they certainly weren’t when the choice was made to go to war.

The Vietnam War was like 50 years ago. Who cares, sure, I don’t have any investment in whether or not the US and Vietnam were peers decades before I was born. Vietnam certainly has an impressive record.

> Also, if you're not sure what they're after: Russia has been systematically driving Ukraine forces out of the Donbas because the Donbas has been shelled indiscriminately by Ukrainian forces since 2014. You can argue there's more to it than that, but that's their perspective.

They also seem to be trying to get entrenched in Crimea, and IIRC brought up the idea of some promise that Ukraine wouldn’t ever going NATO, although don’t remember if that was a serious proposal or what.
It is `_nomap`, not `no_map`.

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632#zippy=%2Chow-...
My Amazon Basics RCA cables and many other items are the best versions of those items I own. The quality is very very good. I actually like that feature of Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Basics-Speaker-Subwoofer-Gold-...
Portal 2 Challenge Finally Humanly Possible After 8 Years [video]
Discussion (146 points, 10 days ago, 161 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41679994
Both the US and the USSR lost major wars during the Cold War without resorting to nuking their opponent when they felt they were "at a real risk of losing a war". In Vietnam and Korea, the Soviet involvement was considerably more than the current Western involvement in countering the Ukraine invasion. Soviet pilots on Soviet planes killed Americans in American planes. Soviet operators of Soviet-made SAM sites shut down American planes as well.

The reality is that nuclear weapons are a deterrent against existential threats, and all else is a bluff. So it's not a risk of losing this war that will push Russia to commit such murder-suicide, but an existential threat to its own survival as a nation.
We’re still in the very early stage of drone development for warfare and Ukraine is using a lot of civilian gear. Now the armed forces of the world are plowing their funding into R&D I expect them to develop quickly. For example, aluminum air batteries are perfect for this use case but havent been developed because until now single use batteries haven’t seen any demand. Those will at least double or triple the range for armed drones. High end solar panels can allow them to sit and wait for a trigger to attack.

Combine that with the tech behind the Redbull F1 camera drone [1] that can fly at 200mph and drones become much deadlier to attack helicopters. Slap a rocket motor on it for final approach, even a sub-M civilian model rocket motor, and it’s over. Imagine the drone just sitting there listening for a helicopter to get close enough - humans wouldn’t even need to be involved except to place it strategically.

[1] https://youtu.be/NDUcoNlgPrk
DHH's opinion on Peterson
The value is now stale, but it was correct at some point between the read starting and the read finishing, right?

That can happen with any read. Even without any partitions. Can't it?

In that case I don't see the problem.
They are very similar. The differences are largely in that macOS generally will permit some things that iOS will not.
Their constellation wasn't deployed when we were building it. Also this would have been a non-starter:

> Swarm is easy to use and lower cost, but the latency for message delivery is significantly longer, potentially several hours.
What's X86S? I'm not familiar with it.
> Therefore the statement that it certain functionality "by definition" is false.

Here's the design document. The hobbling is noted there as part of the spec. "API Changes WebRequest: Restrict the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API."

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPu6Wy4LWR66EFLeYInl3Nzz...

That firefox chose to skip that portion of the design and still call it 'v3' doesn't change history. A true-to-spec implementation kills live heuristics.
Assume that the folks building the barrels know about the embrittlement, and have both a decent budget and some experienced engineers to mitigate the problem.

Also note my phrase "bury them". Radwaste is not some magical Sealed Evil in a Can. If bound in compounds with substantially higher density that the ocean sediments, and emplaced a few tens of meters below the sea floor, then gravity will quite strongly discourage its upward migration.
First off, no, it did absolutely not do the same thing. It was a polemic question, sure, but it was a specific criticism of a technology and its proponents.

I did not make any claims about myself at all, until I was separately accused of being something or other by someone projecting onto me whatever it was they needed to feel better about themselves.

Second, you have rate-limited me with the "posting too fast" thing so I couldn't reply to your comment or other ad hominem, even though I was posting at a rate no faster than the discussions about OpenSCAD and FreeCAD I had been involved with earlier (considerably less, I would say).

It's IMO really classless to use your administrative privileges to silence people after you accuse them of something but before they can respond, but I am not surprised to see that.

I will repeat again: I think it is really clear to me, and really to everyone I have me outside this bubble, that there is no fine distinction to be drawn between content generating AI projects that are "good" and those that are contributing to "slop". It's all slop-generation; e.g. NotebookLM is no better or cleverer than Midjourney.

Every tool HNers are excited about is going to be used to make the world's culture, and the web, worse.

I'd encourage you and those reading to consider this.

Sure, you can't make much of a change by yourself. But you don't have to be part of what amounts to inflicting automated cultural vandalism on an unprecedented scale.

Goodbye.
>> Re-using devices helps us also reduce the number of new devices needed.

This isn't just the hardware makers, its also software makers.

A ton of the software gets sunset on older versions of Android. Older OnePlus phones, Sony and Google phones are being repurposed for Ubuntu Touch or Sailfish OS because many apps will only work on a specific Android version and up. Same thing with the Google Play store. If you have an older phone that works fine - that's great, too bad none of the software can run on it because modern apps are bloated, you need 12GB of RAM on your phone now. Oh sure you can technically run it, but it won't rune well.

I have three or four Windows phones that still run, but are completely worthless because the software can't be updated because the only browser that you could use was Explorer. Now that MS upgraded to Edge, these phones are worthless. Same thing with the Windows apps. I was able to use One Note on my Lumia 950 just as a stand alone note taker, but now it won't update because MS says it doesn't support that older version and I can't update it.

I agree 100% hardware makers are one of the reasons, but there's a massive issue with the software makers who do the same thing and essentially stop supporting older versions of their software that run fine on these older devices.
Should be fine unless the Aoshima Bird Protection Society gets involved
There are plenty of systems that sacrifice consistency even while the network is fully connected, in the name of performance—for example, DNS, or any system with a caching proxy server.
So, will RUST ever have standards for safety critical systems like C/C++. Example MISRA for car programs? Or is the migration or certification too expensive and time consuming?
So far, there was a trend, if you dig and look where far right money was coming from (Truth Social, Brexit, etc) it was invariably coming from proxies of Putin or useful idiots.

If you notice, Trump had started collecting large amounts of money from Crypto. At approximately the same time when normal channels to transfer money from Putin’s proxies dried up. This channel, on the other hand, is still wide open. A known vulnerability, easy to exploit.
Makes sense, thanks for the interpretation.
One reason airplanes are more versatile is because they're modular.

You can swap a carrier air wing to 2 years newer planes.

You can't swap a battleship to 2 years newer tech.
After reading part of article I realised it’s about Rust the programming language. Not the rust-colored car called Rust as author obviously intended to confuse people with that image and ambiguous title.
Varying intestinal permeability has usually been related to inert compounds. More recently there has been some study on the significance of certain microbe metabolites, but the evidence for any kind of large scale microbial translocation in people that are not very sick (ie septic) is extremely tenuous.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10059777/

"Key controversies in blood microbiome research are the susceptibility of low-biomass samples to exogenous contamination and undetermined microbial viability from NGS-based microbial profiling"

Just because you can amplify some sporadic bacteria DNA from the blood does not mean that bacteria are hanging out in the blood in a physiologically meaningful way.

A lot of it is frankly junk science in disreputable journals.

On the otherhand:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01350-w

"Despite this, we found no evidence for microbial co-occurrence relationships, core species or associations with host phenotypes."