skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All weapon systems that consist of an expensive vehicle and an expensive-to-train crew are being re-evaluated against drones right now.

I don’t think that drones are necessarily the only answer to the “expensive weapons with expensive to train crews” problem.

Expensive weapons lead to cost boondoggles and economic asymmetry, eg $10k in modified COTS drones can defeat $MM in conventional armored vehicles.

We should be re-evaluating our weapons systems economically as well as doctrinally.

For example, would our Navy be more effective with thousands of relatively inexpensive small platforms that could do commerce raiding, interdiction, air defense and so forth (destroyer type jobs) than with our expensive and rare large surface combatants?
If they are rebadged, that's fine :)
Am I assuming correctly that this is for modern, not ancient, Greek?
TableRAG: Million-Token Table Understanding with Language Models
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I find it hard to celebrate a service that makes it easier to spam people and waste our planet’s resources. Was either of those things a consideration when you chose to pick up this project?
I don't get it are operating systems and computers supposed to ship without web browsers? You could argue literally any feature is put into a product to 'bundle and dump' to kill competitors. Why is a web browser something that should be a paid product with a so called competitive market to begin with?

Windows also comes with USB drivers but hypothetically I could drive down to Best Buy and choose from a number of different USB drivers I would have to pay for separately (I guess I should pick up a web browser too apparently). This would be preferable why?
> Too much efficiency can make things worse

Absolutely. Isn't the recent Crowdstrike incident sort of a testament to this? In terms of efficiency it's great for a bunch of systems to all rely on the same tool. But when something goes wrong, it goes wrong for everyone.
> If you want real growth, force people to work for you for free

Countries with free labor bury slave economies. Every time.

I see the notion that slaves are more productive than free labor all the time. What is missing is any evidence of it.

For an example, the US initially divided itself into two countries - North and South, free labor and slave labor. Guess which one economically and then militarily buried the other. For another, Korea divided into two countries. One buried the other economically. Germany split in two. The free one buried the slave one.

How much more evidence do you need?
> we need to ensure that electronic waste doesn't end up being dumped on random impoverished towns in Africa

Wouldn't this further impoverish those who get work from said dumps?

The real issue seems to be that they have no alternatives. If they could get a $5000/Yr job making textiles there'd be no appetite for diving into rubbish.
What you are describing, where 1 function = 1 service, is serverless architectures. The "ideal" with any service (micro or macro) is to get it so that it maximises richness of functionality over scale of API.

But I agree one should do monolith by default.
That depends what you mean by that. In reality there's many international treaties that are administered by the organization people refer to as the EU.

Schengen - Free movement of people, goods and capital - Switzerland is part of this

Single internal market - Switzerland is 99% part of this

Monetary union - Switzerland doesn't take part

EU, same name, NOT the same thing, perhaps it should be called "Lisbon treaty countries" (but of course the EU organization would really prefer everyone forget about the Lisbon treaty) - Switzerland chooses on a case-by-case basis to take part or not

(of course you could say that in practice every large EU member state has now chosen to select which EU law they're subject to and which they're not subject to. Is that legal? No it isn't. Nobody cares, or at least not in the member state. That now includes France, Germany, Italy and Poland, and, in a way, UK. The way things are currently moving I highly doubt this will reverse in the next decade or so. So, really, the "Swiss way" of EU membership is expanding, not contracting, it's just that the EU really, really hates this happening)

Frankly Switzerland is a part of the EU in practice and has the best possible position a country could have in the EU. All the goodies, very few of the costs.
I went down a rabbithole and wow.

Found a comment from the author of https://github.com/stclib/STC apparently and then came across this example:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/76887723

int coro_a(struct a* g)
{
cco_routine (g) {
printf("entering a\n");
for (g->i = 0; g->i < 3; g->i++) {
printf("A step %d\n", g->i);
cco_yield();
}
cco_final:
printf("returning from a\n");
}
return 0; // done
}

gcc -E -ISTC/include co.c

After running it through a preprocessor, it gives me this.

int coro_a(struct a* g)
{
for (int* _state = &(g)->cco_state; *_state != CCO_STATE_DONE; *_state = CCO_STATE_DONE) _resume: switch (*_state) case 0: {
printf("entering a\n");
for (g->i = 0; g->i < 3; g->i++) {
printf("A step %d\n", g->i);
do { *_state = 14; return CCO_YIELD; goto _resume; case 14:; } while (0);
}
*_state = CCO_STATE_FINAL; case CCO_STATE_FINAL:
printf("returning from a\n");
}
return 0;
}
Ironically, the main feature that separates LISP from other modern languages is homoiconicity/macros(now that features like garbage collection are mainstream).

And this leads to an easier implementation - parsing is easier(which is why code transformation via macros becomes easy).
> As an example Renaissance Technologies was founded in 1978 and has only about 310 employees today. Yet I can assure you that the US economy would not have been better off without it.

Another example is Germany, even though the country has some massive companies there's a lot of quite productive medium/small companies (Mittelstand) doing specialised work.
The minimal subset is too small. It should have a second client, to avoid solutions like "the client stores a copy of all the messages it sent, so it can detect the stale value".
I’m an engineer at a grocery chain that essentially has a monopoly in most of Texas. The chain has a good and well earned reputation for the public but it definitely uses underhanded monopolistic tactics to maintain dominance.

As it’s grown and expanded you can definitely tell that the ethics and how they treat workers / customers has gone down hill. Maybe it’s all the Amazon managers they’ve absorbed.
Isn't the toxicity for these kinds of heavy metals very local?
Fact check: firefox 1.0 (released in 2004) was only 5MB [1], which takes only 15 minutes to download on a 54 kb/s dial up connection[2]

[1] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=6+MB+at+54kb%2Fs
That's circular reasoning. You're defining "success" as "line go up" and then saying we made the "line go up" therefore we were successful. If you define success as GDP per capita, then sure, the countries with the highest GDP per capita won. However, even by other flawed metrics, such as Real GDP with purchasing power parity taken into account, India and Russia are also top of the list[1]. Even this metric is flawed, though, because humans are complicated and GDP != happiness or success.

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/real-gdp-purcha...
I became fully aware of this when a few months ago, my Xiaomi smart TV turned on by itself and displayed an AD to subscribe to Netflix (I did have the Netflix app installed because I had an account a while ago, but I had already unsubscribed, I simply forgot to uninstall the app).

Needless to say, from that moment onwards, no wifi and no ethernet for the TV. I got an Xbox with Kodi connected to it. I am not saying the Xbox is immune to data harvesting (probably they collect a fair bit), but feels less intrusive and obnoxious than the whole package of the smart TV.
"we would all be f'ing _thrilled_."

I think the argument is pretty much the opposite: not everyone would be thrilled. The wannabe priest class (think of Greta and her How dare you!), which is always with us, would be frustrated from the lack of something to preach about.

Of course there is always Israel vs. Palestine.
It didn't work for Angola, either.
> But the world is run by greedy bastards who don’t care about anything else than their own pockets. That’s how plastic gets ditched in the ocean.

The people who do the actual dumping tend to be poor, not the world running rich.
anti trust is really on a roll right now
Thanks to AI we can soon get rid of most staff. Shareholders rejoicing. For one year.

Then barely anyone will buy iPhones anymore and the stock will plummet as most will have lost their jobs.

Brave new world!
We had the same experience with the Xplora watches: we moved 6km away and took the internet contract with us. Whenever the watch was inside the house, it would show it as being at the old address. Outside of he house and away from wifi, it showed the location correctly. I imagine this is an edge case
Applying Quantum Autoencoders for Time Series Anomaly Detection
High Court ruling might mean executives face 'lower bar' for prosecutions
> Basically paying like 5-10 bucks per commit

Which isn't actually all that much, compared to the amount you pay your developers.
I think that was downstream to deal with the fact the real toy was expensive and hard to get due to demand.

IIRC it was Blue Peter's most requested instructions ever.

Quite a signficant public service by whoever designed that when you think about it.
Nah, but the title is accurate; the reels had been unseen. And there's some unused / unaired scenes (or, at least one). Still a valuable historic artifact.
Depends on the kind of trouble you are having.

Many corner stores can fix a smashed iPhone screen.
i take breaks
It's become hard after so many avenues of abuse. When I started in the web on the late 90s/early 2000s it was surprisingly easy to send emails programatically. Get yourself a SMTP server and fire away, even rolling out your own was totally fine to have your emails reaching users (though configuring postfix/smtpd was a fucking pain in the ass).

Then spammers progressively got frenzier, GMail appeared in 2004 with a good spam filter, spammers tried to beat the spam filters and the arms race brought us to this point where sending emails and having them reach an inbox is a massive headache...
The real reason Netscape failed was their browser stunk. I know because I used both of them. Netscape crashed constantly. Explorer crashed too, but not nearly as often.

That's why people switched to Explorer. Netscape ran crying to the government.

That whole shtick about Explorer being uninstallable was ludicrous and irrelevant. Nothing stopped a user from installing another browser and using it. These days, a free browser is included with about every device.
Elements of Game Theory (Little Mathematics Library) (1980)
Around 2014 my company (a service provider for big enterprise, mostly telecom) was tasked with building dashboards for their operation center[1]. Think Nasa control centers, dark room with a bunch of people looking at monitors and a big array of TVs in the front.

They really liked the dashboards so we were tasked to build some more visualizations for them, one of which was a google-maps visualization of all the antennas with active alarms/errors and the field technicians they had in the country who went to fix those antennas. They had all the GPS info in their database from the technicians company-issued phone, but couldn't see it.

The people in the operation center said the biggest problem they had was technicians pretending or taking a long time to go to the antennas. The technicians apparently often stopped for 1-2 hour breaks at coffee shops[2]. They wanted to be able to track them live so they could see if they were actually working.

After a few months that map visualization got so popular that the COO of the org came directly to us (we had no interaction with him beforehand). He tasked us to build some dashboards to be used exclusively by him. He claimed that the biggest issue he had was people from lower layers hiding information from him and we, being a 3rd party, were trustworthy to give the right info.

This was very early in my career and I was surprised by how much cloak and dagger all the layers of the org treated each other. That telco was a massive company, sometimes I wonder if they still use the dashboards we built.

We used to joke that we probably got a lot of people fired. In retrospect that was the whole goal to begin with, but we didn't realize before we delivered those projects.

[1]: They had an array of 3 by 2 1080p 42'' TVs (6 total) in which they would put our dashboards on. The TVs were arranged as a single external monitor on their operations center. Being a single web application we had a lot of performance problems trying to render one browser tab in a 6k display in 2014.

[2]: Another big issue was a technician would claim that the weather was bad and they couldn't climb the antenna for safety reasons. So we added weather information to that map visualization.
> [...], running any arbitrary code locally can be a big deal.

Well, unless you are using JavaScript?
This but unironically. Communism arguably has pretty good "moral principles" behind it. I mean, how could you be against everyone being equal and laborers owning the means of production rather some fatcat capitalist who doesn't even work? However, we all know empirically how that worked out.
> If we move to renewables, over 100 years there would be 0 reason to have a single nuclear plant running anywhere, apart from making nuclear weapons fuel. I just wish we were now where we would/will be in 50 years in terms of renewables technology maturity and its spread.

Of course if we ignore the need for batteries. Renewable advocates conveniently forget to include that in the calculus (there’s active action in progress to strip mine the ocean floor creating untold ecological damage to try to keep up with requirements for batteries). And they also tend to ignore the fact that renewables can’t be used in various industrial processes. Nuclear fission remains the best option for large scale power and is still cheaper than directly comparable renewables with batteries included despite being divested from raising overall costs.

Hopefully we get fusion soon and renewables and fission become a thing of the past.
That was the fastest a dial up modem could be, many modems were a fraction of that speed.

And this was Netscape, not Firefox, you need to go back
about ten years further.

Edit: redoing the maths properly makes the 15 megabyte download in the late 90s take approximately:

- 45 minutes at 56.6kb modem

- 90 minutes at 28.8kb modem

- 180 minutes at 14.4kb modem

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/netscape/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape

> Microsoft released version 1.0 of Internet Explorer as a part of the Windows 95 Plus Pack add-on. According to former Spyglass developer Eric Sink, Internet Explorer was based not on NCSA Mosaic as commonly believed, but on a version of Mosaic developed at Spyglass[33] (which itself was based upon NCSA Mosaic).

> This period of time would become known as the browser wars. Netscape Navigator was not free to the general public until January 1998,[34] while Internet Explorer and Internet Information Server have always been free or came bundled with an operating system and/or other applications. Meanwhile, Netscape faced increasing criticism for "featuritis" – putting a higher priority on adding new features than on making their products work properly. Netscape experienced its first bad quarter at the end of 1997 and underwent a large round of layoffs in January 1998.
Consumers at the time had other browsers they could install and use. There was no impediment to it.
I am working on a OSS project am passionate about. Would love feedback
Darnahi v2.3

It is a personal health intelligence app that allows you to store your health data on *your computer* and run AI tools locally on it to generate personal insights. Your data never leaves your computer. It is:
1. Self Hosted (This means you have to run/ install this on your own linux computer and all your data stays on *your computer*; your data does not leave your computer and security is limited by your own computer's security),
2. Open Source (always free)

Requires:
Linux
Ollama; mistral-nemo model (download needed)

For demo UI feel click here (features turned off):
https://seapoe1809.pythonanywhere.com/login
pwd- health

To get a fully functional app go here and follow instructions:

https://github.com/seapoe1809/Health_server

Whats New:
1. More secure
2. Do more with your health data
2. Ask questions of your medical records that is stored as structured and unstructured RAG
3. Local running LLM and Local running darnahi server #privacy
4. Better AI engine that uses NLP to analyze your health files to create health screening recommendations (USPTF based), wordclouds, RAG for darnabot
5. Symptom logger (optional use of AI to generate notes) for storage in darnahi file server). Can be shared with your provider if you wish in pdf's
5. More comprehensive Chartit to log your basic information in FHIR R4 format
6. Ability to view medical dicom image files, xml files, health suggestions for your age
7. Ability to encrypt and zip your files securely and remotely
8. New AI Modules
a) weight/ bp/ glucose/ water tracker
b) IBS module- tracks your dietary and bowel habits; AI FODMAP engine; exercises to manage your IBS and know your IBS
c) Immunization passport- to track and keep record of your immunizations; AI travel advisor; travel map

Check out the videos:
[darnahi_landing.webm](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a6f61b33-9b1e-4f4...)

[darnabot2.webm](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cddca3d3-1012-4a0...)

https://nostrcheck.me/media/49a2ed6afaabf19d0570adab526a3462...
The problem with software support is that it costs a lot to keep old versions around, and even to keep drivers for old hardware around. Even if there weren't perverse incentives to brick old phones to sell new hardware, it's very hard to imagine that any company would keep old software working for free like this. Windows, which did aim to keep back compact and support relatively old devices in its day was quite expensive for its time, and upgrades were not free either.
The documentary "Supermarionation" (no relation to Super Mario) on Netflix is about the making of Thunderbirds and the other puppeteer shows from the same studio. Mind you, it's a typical Netflix documentary with 90% interviews from a handful of people.
Copying writers is probably a copyright thing. But the experience with generative AI for images was that, at least for the early models, it was good to put things like "masterpiece, highest quality" in the prompt. The model biased towards average rather than trying to maintain a high standard. The more general problem here could easily be that people haven't figured out how to prompt interesting writing from an LLM yet.

Although my personal theory would be that LLMs are just writing how someone without an ego or firsthand knowledge would write - it has a bunch of different angles it could take but has no particular reference to draw on to determine which is true. Great human writers are often cataloguing their extra-literary experiences. How is ChatGPT supposed to be inspired by a beautiful sunset to capture it in a way that has never been done before? It is capable of the writing part, but the inspiration part is a lot harder for it.
Exactly. The whole case was simply an attack on Microsoft because Microsoft was a big target that (stupidly) dissed the DoJ.
Switchblade cost closer to 50k$, its payload was around 100 grams of explosive, and its range and success rate in the electronic warfare heavy environment of Ukraine are lower than a 300$ FPV that can carry 1.5kg of explosive.

Switchblade was designed for a different war entirely.
For demo UI feel click here (features turned off): https://seapoe1809.pythonanywhere.com/login pwd- health

To get a fully functional app go here and follow instructions:

https://github.com/seapoe1809/Health_server
On site mini reactors with directly wired machinery isn’t entirely inconceivable but would require a massive restructuring of industrial layouts and processes.
Or you could get it on a CD.
This is an incredibly entertaining game that I've spent a lot of time playing. It's highly engaging and addictive, making it hard to put down!
PSA: despite the trope, please do not store film in your garden shed. Film is very delicate and hates moisture and temperature fluctuation.
A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase
> On macOS memory can be paged to/from disk. On iOS it isn’t and applications must free memory when asked or be terminated

Not sure what you meant by that, you always could `mmap` files into memory on iOS. Back in the 32 bits days there was a ~700 MB limit due to the address space, but there aren't anymore nowadays with 64 bits. If `didReceiveMemoryWarning` is called on your app, then you need to free resident memory but the kernel will take care of dumping file-backed memory pages for you.
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I found grounding-dino better than Florence and faster
Warning: on Math Overflow they do not tolerate noobs and noob questions. They will redirect you to the Math stack exchange (which is a different one).
I find it weird that the convention to use char/short/int/long/long long has persisted so widely to this day. I would have thought that already back in the 16 -> 32 bit transition period people would have standardized and moved to stdint.h style types instead (i.e. int32_t etc).

Sure, that doesn't change pointer sizes, but it would have reduced the impact of the different 64-bit data models, like Unix LP64 vs Windows LLP64
Only really true for gev iii reactors. Gen iv reactors don’t have any of the challenges you mention. It’s almost as if you don’t have any faith on the human race’s ability to creatively problem solve and are assuming nuclear technology needs to be stuck in time from designs of the 1960s.
> I don't get it are operating systems and computers supposed to ship without web browsers? You could argue literally any feature is put into a product to 'bundle and dump' to kill competitors.

A browser was a separate product at the time, not a feature. Microsoft bundled, as they have done many other times, for anticompetitive reasons.
The replace/rp is a versatile tool that enables you to perform efficient replacement operations within specified files. This tool facilitates the seamless update of content across multiple files simultaneously. Whether you need to correct a typo, update a key term, or make any other content changes.
Interesting fact, during the earthquake there was another plant much closer to the eq origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onagawa_Nuclear_Power_Plant. It'll be restarted this year