skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commendable lifestyle! We live in almost the same way :)

> That is neat! People in general will not change their behavior.

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. Out of everyone living like you and me globally, the ones who have been raised by their parents to do so are a really tiny minority. I've lived on two opposite sides of the globe, and in both places they count for <1%. The rest of us has implemented lifestyle changes after being faced with realities.
Most of Tampa Bay is less than 50 feet above sea level. It's not quite as bad as New Orleans, but it's not good. A comparable storm would be the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane that made landfall in a very similar way when Tampa was not nearly as populated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_Tampa_Bay_hurricane
While the regular Switchblade is essentially a glorified flying granade, many FPVs use RPG7 warhwads and are regularly used to take out tanks (possibly using multiple hits, but still).

Also there is a trend recently to see more and more AA FPVs taking down Russian recon drones, some flying up to 3 km high! This already had an interesting side effects of many such drones being covered by expletives or even fake Ukrainian markings - did not really help.
Idea: maybe retirees could move to the island.

Also: they could replentish the cats with stray cats from the mainland. They could be neutered first...
So since there weren’t enough people to take care of the cats they decided to just drive them extinct? That’s pretty wild.
The Poor Soldier Svejk is up there
Perhaps consider not violating the literal letter of the HN guidelines:

> Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You have no idea what's going on it my head, yet you choose to believe that you do as a result of me countering your arguments. This is a great example of why the Rust community has a bad reputation.
My question was more about who you actually can trust if anyone who is paid for something cannot be trusted with regards to that thing
Love this, but Apple's the big offender not Google. Google's already pretty open, and they approve most apps. It's not hard to get your app on the Play Store, it's Apple and the App Store that make publishing your apps a nightmare.

Hope to see things start opening up though. Very happy for Epic and developers everywhere.
This is an incredible example of the hubris and ego of tech nerds. The court got it right, because the issue isn't tech, it's economics. The idea that understanding some code makes you more qualified than a judge to handle antitrust law is laughable.

It doesn't matter that 0.01% of users can technically install F-Droid. Reality, is that 99.99% of people fundamentally can't. Apparently the judge can understand this, and you can't.
Probably there's a certain cat population level that the local ecosystem would support, but not a artifically high population level enable by humans feeding the cats.

But our culture and modern views relating to nature and cats would never allow the idea of having a population of feral cats fending for themselves in a unhabited island.
Is availability sacrificed more often than the other two?
> > I cant develop software that targets any reasonable range of desktop environments
>
> I highly recommend Qt for this purpose.

I really appreciate your comment. QT is a great framework doing a lot of heavy lifting. However, the accessibility software I help maintain needs the ability to know what windows are in the foreground, all applications running and emulating key/text/mouse input in any of those running applications. Wayland is antithetical to those features by design.

I can see your point with QT for standalone applications. However, with interacting with other applications I'm not sure QT can solve the issue.
> We can’t run the resulting binary. x32 is an ABI that impacts the kernel interface too, so these binaries cannot be executed on a regular x86-64 kernel. Sadly, and as far as I can tell, x32 is pretty much abandonware today. Gentoo claims to support it but there are no official builds of any distribution I can find that are built in x32 mode.

Which distro is this ? In debian I'm pretty sure CONFIG_X86_X32 was enabled in the kernel not too long ago, enabling this to work without issues. When I benchmarked it was on average 20% faster than x86_64 and used quite less memory for GUI apps IIRC - I think that for most utilities like coreutils, image viewers, file explorers, media players, etc. they'd benefit from it ; >4GB is only really meaningful for web browsers, compilers & interpreters, games and creative apps such as anything doing 3D, audio or large data processing.
Jeffrey Sachs is unfortunately a misinformation machine. His words sound convincing but lack truth. Unrelated to Ukraine, he is also very friendly with Chinese oppression and refused to acknowledge Uyghur torture.

Try reading this letter and see if you still believe him. Note the number of signatures at the bottom.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230806172854/https://news.berk...
The commit message details the caveat of using onBeforeRequest, and how it's not perfect because it's called at the wrong time in the request lifecycle with incomplete info.
and shipping routes as well lol, it should have been obvious but still got surprised
I hear you, and a prox shell would be ideal, but I have a hard time seeing the comparisons. The scale of attack drones is so small and fast and close, and the drones are very fragile. Perhaps the hand grenade "bomber" types can be far enough up, but the FPV impactor types are right up in your face and have to fly at you to be effective.
For that kind of thing I'd always either used the tagged Python images in Docker Hub or put the build step in an early layer that didn't have to re-run each time.

One other advantage is that you know the provenance of the python executable when you build it yourself. Uv downloads a prebuilt exe from https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/ who is a very reputable, trusted source, but it's not the official version from python.org. If you have very strict security requirements, that may be something to consider. If you use an OS other than Linux/Mac/Windows on x86/ARM, you'll have to build your own version. If you want to use readline instead of libedit, you'll have to build your own version.

I am personally fine with those limitations. All of the OSes I regularly use are covered. I'm satisfied with the indygreg source security. The libedit version works fine for me. I like that I can have a new Python version a couple seconds after asking for uv. There are still plenty of reasons why you might want to use pyenv to build it yourself.
Make sure you have an identity protection PIN at the IRS.

https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/get-an-identi...

It's not a fix but a band-aid so at least people can't file taxes with your SSN.
(Compelled) Open standards isn't an argument, it's an act of congress.

Unfortunately Congress is largely old and non-technical so the problems present aren't very well recognized or understood.

History will look at walled gardens as bad for competition and thus broader society.
Problem with Javascript is that it is not confined to webbrowsers and webapps, but it and it's associated business models (SaaS) finds it's way everywhere, at first desktop apps got enshitified by it, then all sorts of smart devices, and all the way to embedded systems in cars with their laggy sloppy UIs everywhere.

It probably is the most severe case of "worse is better" I've experienced so far.
Speaking from personal experience, occam's razor goes straight out the window when one sees one of these things up close.

Anyway, Robert Hastings has written and researched extensively on this very phenomenon.
This is absolutely the reason. Except in the case of black people, for which it was something imposed by white people during the Clinton administration as a sort of twisted apology for destroying the Rainbow Coalition (who popularized "African-American.")

Once people saw that slaves and their descendants might be compensated in some way, or treated in a special way by government in lieu of compensation, they all wanted to become black. So after 1965 (the end of legal segregation in the US) they started hyphenating their ethnicities, or in the case of "hispanic," making up new ethnicities from whole cloth.

Compensation for slavery isn't "free stuff." You should give up your inheritance.
Scripting News: 30 years of Dave Winer's blog
Yeah, it's basically "every breach extends my free year of identity monitoring" but the exploited companies are not experiencing any meaningful repercussions or regulation beyond that extremely-token gesture.
Wow .. you've just removed a massive source of frustration - thank you.
OTOH the highly precise HIMARS played a crucial role many times. Regular artillery has to shoot dozens of shells before it hits the exact high-value target. This betrays the position of the cannon; if it's close enough it will be fired at. HIMARS is precise so it can pack up and leave before the projectiles even reach the target.

FPV drones are precise because they're remotely piloted by experienced pilots. This allows them to inflict large damage with small payloads applied at a critical point, Luke Skywalker-style.
Presuming said miracle is possible, geoengineering at a scale capable of "solving" climate change would be a massive gamble. Humanity's ability to model the climate simply isn't at a point where we could say with any confidence what the long-term effects of any particular geoengineering "solution" would be, and short of an abrupt technological singularity, won't be for centuries. Without any appeal to moral judgments whatsoever, it's safe to say geoengineering would only be seriously attempted out of total desperation and signal persistent unresolved issues.
The article doesn't say how much the odds have improved. I'm guessing that the answer is "not enough" since the stated goal is to distribute more money to the various states.

It doesn't seem like this is a smart move, but I've been wrong about the rationality of the general public plenty of times before.
They insist on it because big number sell better.
Retirees tend not to want to move away from their family to an unfamiliar, run down, remote island with a somewhat large tourist population. If they did want to do so, there's got to be a ton of cheap houses.
Somehow, it hasn't gone away. There's a disputed border region between China and India where at least 24 soldiers were killed in Jume 2020 in hand-to-hand fighting between the Indian and Chinese militaries.
I’m not sure it’s a minority. Folks out themselves, all the time, and I encountered a couple of companies, when I was still job-searching, that required my HN ID, in the application.

But the main reason I do it, is because it forces me to behave. I may come across as a bit “stuffy,” but I challenge folks to find anything I’ve posted here (or anywhere, in the last eight years or so), that would be considered “troll-ish.”

I used to be a troll. I feel the need for some atonement.

Also, I found out that we are nowhere near as anonymous as we think we are.

If we participate in a public forum, I feel as if we need to be aware that we each have a personal Responsibility to add to it, and that we should just assume that we will be held to account for our words.

Just like IRL.

I know, I know. That’s a “quaint” attitude, but it’s the one I have.
Germany Rushes to Expand Biometric Surveillance
The wikipedia article you linked is a nothing burger.

> In October 2017, subsequent reports alleged that hackers working for the Russian government stole confidential data from the home computer of a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor in 2015 via Kaspersky antivirus software. Kaspersky denied the allegations, stating that the software had detected Equation Group malware samples which it uploaded to its servers for analysis in its normal course of operation.

lol
This is a fairly crappy methodology though because the vast majority of people are not substituting paid working time with researching buying things online. So it hasn't "cost" them anything other than their free time which is far more complex than an hourly rate. Maybe they enjoy researching products and in that situation, it wasn't a waste of time at all.
> did you ignore the point where google was spending 250m a year to Apple to be the default search engine on IOS?

More like ~$20-26 billion
Anyone know of a pcie or usb? card that you can plug into a standard pc to get gadget mode (device not host) usb? It seems crazy that they don't exist for development purposes!
I imagine that moderately sized autonomous VTOL jets will eventually become cheap enough to completely displace attack helicopters for most use cases.
> Having two competing companies being tried for the same monopoly is tragicomic, and only to show how rotten the courts have become.

The reason it sounds weird is because you are insisting on wording it a particular way.

They're a duopoly. They're being tried for abusing that duopoly. Nothing rotten there.
I'd be really worried as they haven't finished cleaning up from the previous hurricane. The giant piles of debris are going to be providing a lot of flying projectiles.
consumers are 100% the issue. consumers choose what to buy, who to buy from, and how often. Why should government need to step in and what is government going to do? Tell people who to buy from?
Thankyou, that's a good perspective. Just to clarify, I wasn't disagreeing (or agreeing) with his actions, I was just curious about what I felt was missing from the article.
As an Android user, I've paid for two, maybe three? apps. And got a refund on one because the paid version didn't do what I thought it said it did.

The restrictions on non-Google billing did impact my employer, but it was less of a problem in the US as in some other countries where Google only billing meant we couldn't charge users as very few had Google compatible payment methods and Google wouldn't let us use other providers that could accept money with the payment methods people actually had. We had other methods in our apk download, but I recall having to take those out, too.

Of course, Apple made payment go through them, but most Apple can accept payments from most of their users, and a lot of their users have a payment method on file.
No, I loved my job as a scientist. Once you move on, you see how silly it was though.
They do, and those particular urban areas also tend to be "healthcare deserts" for similar reasons. However, many times the bad urban areas aren't geographically very far from more economically prosperous areas, so it's not that hard to transport patients with more acute needs from the bad parts to hospitals and doctors that can treat them well. This isn't true for rural areas: the distances are just too great.
Regarding state on the client, my general concern is connectivity with the server. If I have a flaky mobile connection, or if I have a really high RTT to the server for any reason, then I don't want UI interactions to start failing or slowing down left and right. Indeed, a lot of the sluggishness I've experienced with others' websites has to do with excessive roundtrips for trivial tasks like clicking around. So I'd prefer to keep most UI state in the client, if nothing else. (Of course it's still quite possible to make excessive roundtrips with an SPA framework, but it naively seems like it's at least more controllable than if everything is rendered server-side.)
Spaying and neutering cats is not "driving them extinct."
That functionality was never available in phones with Google builds without Google Play Services, so it doesn't fit GGP's claim. The reason it's not in base AOSP out of the box is that it requires a server, and any carrier can build an implementation for downloading carrier profiles without Google Play Services and any OEM can build an LPA using https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/esim-overview.
Rust GPU: The future of GPU programming
I'm looking at a scenario for the counties: Citrus Hardee Hernando Hillsborough Manatee Pasco Pinellas Polk Sumter (Project Phoenix Scenario)

Barrier islands are quickly overtopped, provide ~no protection.

Water up to 26 feet above tide level in downtown Tampa. Bridges have their approaches washed away or are otherwise made unusable.

Most windows blown out in high rise buildings. Along with roof damage/destruction, leads to predictable results for the structures involved.

Inland is not protected from flooding, rivers Hillsborough, Alafia, Lower Manatee, Braden, and Manatee and the Tampa Bypass Canal fill with storm surge water and flood their banks.

During the peak of the flooding, parts of central St. Petersburg and mid‐Pinellas County that are not fully flooded become effective islands. Escape is probably not possible.

General inability to operate Search and Rescue, even days afterwards. Major loss of life.

Personally I would start pulling everything out of Florida I can right now (investments, physical assets, etc.) and write everything off that remains, pending revision.
Are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diel_vertical_migration

If so, Wikipedia's first para makes it clear that that migration occurs at vastly shallower depths than an ocean trench.
Right, but when is the last time they detonated one? What is the current status of their stockpile and the infrastructure required to launch it and strike a target thousands of miles away?

Nuclear missiles have a lot of stuff that degrades over time. The plutonium. The conventional chemical explosives. The electronics. Were their nukes even designed to be serviced 25, 50 years in the future?

Russia went through quite a bit of economic difficulty in the waning years of communism and in the years after communism. The state of their other big expensive military toys (their navy, etc) and even their ability to equip their infantry on a personal level seems to be pretty far from ideal.

I'm not telling you that Russia doesn't have functional nukes, and it's certainly not a bluff that other nations can afford to call, but I think it's a very legitimate question.
We have a similar place in Taiwan that only became a "Cat Town" as recently as 2008, when one lady just kept adopting cats. Doing so basically "saved" a dying mining town by turning it into a must-see tourist destination on the way to Jiufen, another "must-see" tourist destination.

For certain definitions of saved, of course. Jiufen (another former mining town) seems to be getting a bit overwhelmed, but Houtong infrastructure has been rapidly expanding to handle it and the locals seem to be ok with it.
I think this is a fair point. Are nuclear waste disposal costs also included? I cannot prove it, but I am pessimistic.

I also doubt that coal includes the health costs associated with many decades of emissions.
> These Anglo guys still live in the 1980s,

What even is an "Anglo" guy? I don't think there's a culture left on the planet that identifies as that.
That depends. For anything that involves learning how to do a physical movement, video is an infinitely more information dense medium to learn it through.
This assumes that any party to a conflict chooses to use their nuclear arsenal. In WW2, both sides had chemical weapons but chose not to use them due to concerns of reciprocal strikes coupled with a perceived limited utility.

We could be entering a world where there is always a military alternative to nuclear weapons, leaving nukes in a state where their only utility is as a deterrent against another nuclear power using them.
TSMC is building significant, cutting-edge fab capacity in the US at present
Instead of blogs with marketing intent, founders should read the two things that matter most:

Four Steps to Epiphany
Crossing the Chasm

Nothing beats those even today.

Maybe include Focus by Al Ries also.
Cash App demands you give up your rights to file taxes. That's a hard no.
> Is a rendering engine still a web browser if you remove all the chrome and extra features built around the rendering engine?

Is that supposed to be a counterargument?

If you can't replace the rendering engine, then you're not able to install your own web browser.

If you can only replace the rendering engine, then you're not able to install your own web browser.

Both of these can easily be true at the same time.

> And it has a rendering engine

Which is replacing the one that was removed. When they used the word "removed" they weren't trying to imply you get a black screen.
YOU CHOSE to upgrade your phone every year. I don't see a gun to your head.
KA-52 helicopters were considered to be a one of the big obstacles that Ukraine faced during their 2023 counteroffensive. "Military briefing: Russian ‘Alligators’ menace Ukraine’s counteroffensive"[1]:

> Justin Bronk, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think-tank, said Russian helicopters fitted with anti-tank guided missiles “were always going to be a much greater threat to Ukrainian forces during a counteroffensive than during periods when Ukraine was defending against Russian attacks”.

> “They can hover, spot for targets and fire anti-tank guided missiles from beyond the range of shoulder-fired Manpads or anti-aircraft fire,” Bronk said.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/d8fe8941-3703-433d-ac7a-dab9ba500...
America lost the Vietnam war. Do you think Vietnam is America's near peer?

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.
> Russia's Ka-52 were a significant problem for Ukraine in the summer 2023 offensive

This is why in 2024 Ukraine is now shooting down helicopters (they have shot down three now) with FPV drones.
Fascinating. How reliable is the measurement apparatus? Or to put it another way, how tolerant of missed measurements is this scheme? I’ve been in a similar situation in a past life and we took a different approach. I was never satisfied with how we ended up doing it though.
How can it know what it is consistent with? Anything could have happened since the last update. All it knows is that it most recently got an update at a certain time. It may or may not be consistent.
Consider the following sequence* of events:

1. client A reads from partition X

2. client A is unsatisfied with the network map, and requests another read from partition Y

3. (meanwhile) client B writes a value to partition X

4. client A reads from partition Y, sees the value is the same as partition X's (stale) value, and accepts the value as consistent

This is the same kind of behavior you might get if your servers used e.g. a buggy version of Raft or something. You can't get around the proof by just relabeling some of your server nodes as client nodes.

* In the spirit of distributed systems, I use this term loosely :)
What the US public opinion is and what the US government does are two different things. Americans are hilariously self-delusional in that regard. Just compare the civilian death tolls between the first two years of the invasion of Iraq and the first two years of the invasion of Ukraine.

For the last twenty years in the Middle East alone, the number of civilian deaths in which the US is either directly or indirectly involved is easily in the millions
If you remember LHX fondly, there's a new game out with similar aesthetic: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1906230/Thunder_Helix/

Still EA for now, but it looks promising.
Who is surprised? The sterilization program is doing exactly what it was supposed to, and that's a good thing. I think you're misinterpreting the article.
Here's a great piece[0] about these Russian "human safari" tactics in Kherson, written by what seems to be the only Western journalist living in that city.

[0] https://kyivindependent.com/human-safari-kherson-civilians-h...