skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one of the reasons for building in the Atacama desert. Also, the adaptive optics technology has pretty much removed the majority of the negatives from the atmosphere.
> It may be that the cost per Arrow missile (for long range intercepts) is $3M as well, so they didn't fire that many of them?

This. Israel knew the 3 targets in advance, according to reporting. Any jets or other valuable equipment from the two airfields would have been removed before the attack. It would have been a waste to use Arrow interceptors to protect empty hangars. Also, according to a satellite image of impact craters, many of the missiles hit dirt around the airbase, so wouldn't have been intercepted even if they needed to protect jets.
> The updates wouldn’t be in place anyway because of the Postgres mvcc approach, right?

They might be if the columns being updated weren’t indexed [0], but since it sounds like at least one is, no, not in-place.

Though interestingly, your comment on BRIN indexes is quite relevant, as that’s the one type of index that HOT can still work with.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-hot.html
Also, some timezone labels are ambiguous, e.g. "CST".
We can keep each maker accountable for their own decisions, while blaming the company pushing the Overton window on what the customer will accept as regressions.

I don't see how the two are exclusive.
What are your complaints about Docker/containers, and do VMs address them?
That’s only because you can’t understand that I don’t want a package manager for my package managers. I just want to install the damn software and be done with it; and I’m pretty happy with the way Apple runs the App Store as an iPhone customer, even though I think some of the restrictions are also senseless as viewed through that prism and their developer relations has been a dumpster fire for close to 10 years now. None of that is enough to get me excited about some future great App Store competition.
In the near future, will be even want to share real photos and videos?

Why actually travel when you can easily generate photos and videos of yourself doing all sorts of things in all sorts of places?

I can't even tell what's real and what's AI. I'm actually more likely to assume an authentic image is AI!
They would add whatever feature to Web3 in order to sell the idea, at this point it's the Alchemy of IT.
Um, how in the world would a LEO telescope not be the ultimate series in your photography collection?
Randomly generated domains are a major red flag for abuse and malware detection, and seems to have become a rather large part of how the domain industry manage abuse. Domain "credit score" is also something that is used in the email industry to score links and thus spam values. A large part of providing score values is behind security companies that offer their service as a paid services, but as with a lot of this stuff there are a lot of movement to offer it for free similar to spam block lists.

It will be interesting when this kind of technology moves down to browser add-ons.
"American and German scientists experimentally infected calves and dairy cows...."
In a level 3 , blah blah blah
did we not learn ANYTHING from covid?
The real question is, can bird flu survive pasteurization or is pasteurization not being performed correctly.
If you have physical access to a device that you can solder an antenna you can compromise a TPM or anything else by sticking a custom DIMM in there that you can program from the “back side” so you can replace any part of memory with anything you want anytime you want. You don’t have to randomly flip a bit and hope for the best. You just inject your entire program.
Advertisers trust other advertisers not to lie but not the content providers. well except Google they trust Google. So you have to use these hella shady and networks that are fly by night and security and privacy nightmares across many domains. Instead of many walled gardens of ads like you're saying.
Took the time to make such a comparison using the article's sample images (even if the filter isn't sharpened in those), same thrice doubling of the small picture: http://0x0.st/XEEZ.png

I find such a test strange and irrelevant, though.
I spend an inordinate amount of time looking at plants and pictures of plants and the first image I was shown prominently displays a species very familiar to me. Only, it's subtly wrong, with weirdness along the edges. It jumped straight of the page and distracted me from the rest of the image. Oh well, real life sucks anyway
That still wouldn't change the political leanings much, which is my main point.

However the kind of moralization, where the industry has suddenly become amoral greedy monsters is imo wrong.

Tech has alway been ruthless. It's always been a cutthroat business. We even valorize that kind of character as the founder. That hasn't changed.

What has changed is the political opportunity. SV can now influence and leverage real political power. That political opportunity is why so many are switching away from being Left leaning Libertarians (with even re-distributive ideas like UBI), to more Right leaning libertarians.

And this is all because the incumbents on the Left aren't willing to make room for the new players in Tech. So path of least resistance is to move Right.

This realignment has happening for a decade plus now.
I tried to get started with Rails a few times, it never took. Node was much simpler to wrap my head around. I'm looking for simplicity and Rails is not it.
Yeah the account is from like 2019 or so. But still, I’m spinning everything up with Terraform or AWS Copilot, so it is still an active choice on my end to put it in us-east-1.
The word "monopoly" is irrelevant for many of the laws involved.
National Weather Service Bulletin for Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Can't wait for an influencer that has thousands of travel pics, thousands of likes and comments, but they're all computer-generated.

And then for the influencer to try to get freebies from companies in return for a favorable review in her feed.

Also, asking AI for a generic image is a lot cheaper than paying for stock photos (do stock photo services still charge buyers a lot and pay photographers peanuts?).
Without a capable stealth fighter the US & allies could lose air superiority to China very quickly in the Indo Pacific. And operations in the Middle East could become much more high risk from SAMs.

However it’s interesting to compare the F35 program to the alternative of producing several hundred F22s, or some other stealth solution.
Tying Google's hands while giving Apple a clean bill of health isn't going to increase competition, it's going to solidify Apple's lead in the US.

The competition that actually matters is between whole platforms, it's only Epic's lawyers who want everyone to get fixated on the idea that the app store markets are the whole story (or even really a significant portion of the story). I could totally get behind efforts to prevent Google and Apple from together duopolizing the entire mobile phone space, but this is not that.
Even as a big supporter of image gen ai, I don't like realistic "photos". I remember hitting photorealism and proudly showing them to my wife and she goes "awesome, where is this?" Something about the fact that these were completely fake and not real absolutely sunk the value of them for me. It's a fraud - there's no history in the image, no true cultural value. It's not a capture of a place or emotion, it's a mimic. The architecture not real, the people never existed, the animals incorrectly visualized, the light doesn't behave as real light would etc etc.

I think the sweet spot currently is in obviously fake stylized images or illustration/3dish type stuff. I know artists reject that, but I think it will eventually become a paintbrush of sorts for them, not replacing them anymore than code gen ai replaces software engineers.

Another angle on it - I think there's something really wrong consuming fake images of real life but thinking they're real. It's like the visual equivalent of artificial cancer causing sweetener. I would want to know if the blog image I'm looking at is ai generated or not.
War never changes.

The future will be boots on the ground, men engaging in hand-to-hand combat, one dies/one lives.

That might occur in the context of standoff weapons or cheap drones or AI or whatever, but all of those things will be to facilitate a scenario where your side brings more men to that fight, that your men have an advantage in that fight, and that the fight actually reduces the other side's ability to do the same to you.
Don't some DNS servers implement something that acts like a server-resolved CNAME, where the admin puts in a record that points to some other DNS name but the client just sees an A (out AAAA) record?
> The dog in a park, the collar is obviously off.

Interesting note: my wife works with dogs, and I just took that photo over and asked her what breed she thought it was. Her first take was "it really just looks like an old mutt, I can't tell the marking colors. Maybe some Rottweiler in there?"

When I pointed out the collar she took a closer look, and then pointed out "oh, and look at its legs! They're way too short for its body!" Which, in retrospect, is the most hilarious error in the picture, hah.
> The entire point of Function.length (slight nit: Function.prototype.length is different and is always zero)

If you want to go that route, it's not Function.length, either—which is different and is always 1 (barring potential future spec changes that change the arity of the Function global).
I would not be so sure - a mind boggling number of drones and drone types are used in the Ukraine war, from small observation drones, over supply drones, drop drones, fast one way FPV kill drones up to almost regular drone swarm exchanges with 100+ drones going one way (indigenous Ukrainian drones one way, clones of Iranian Shaheds from the Russian side).

An oil terminal in Feodosia is still burning after the latest Ukrainina strike.

There was even a few cases of re-purposed ultra light aircraft serving as one way drones for ultra long range strikes on the Ukrainian side.

In another region Israel has to shoot down various terrorist launched one way UAVs almost regularly by this point & uses UAVs heavily by itself.

So while US certainly did pioneer UAV use, it seems to be it is getting eclipsed by other states in this area.
for whatever reason I LOVED the tri jet configuration of this wide body plane.
Probably because my first trip was a flight to Florida at 2 years old in a wide body (MD-11), and then Home Alone featured a tri jet.
The issue is that the precedent they point to was categorically ruled _not_ an illegal monopoly in a similar court case. I don't disagree that there should be more competition in for platforms, but I also can recognize that the legally binding opinion on that disagrees with mine.
> they find out they can't visit it because it doesn't exist.

The Apple VR googles salespeople's ears have just perked up...
That's only available on Pro.
uBO (uBlock Origin) is a popular open source ad blocker. There is a change coming to the way Google Chrome and some other browsers host extensions called manifest v3, which for (stated) security and privacy purposes limits a lot of the functionality that makes ad blockers work the way they do. There are workarounds but they are suboptimal. This has been an ongoing fight for years and there are plenty of accusations that Google is doing this because they want to cripple ad blockers since they make so much money from advertising. Firefox has explicitly stated they will not force these changes on extension developers, and thus a lot of people have been threatening to move to Firefox whenever Google finally makes this change for real.
> URL redirection

Erm, just return a new url after the match? Get fancy with state machine like enums? Rust has everything you need here, not getting why you think this requires a framework.

> Specific management of [...]

again, match for that, map your url parts, whatever - it doesn't need a 10,000 pound gorilla when it can be done in a line or two of code

> complex regex matching

erm, regex crate?

> Django, Laravel, Rails

Yup, those are valid choices. I said it's not a framework problem necessarily.

Not a one size fits all sorta problem.

Wordpress is also a fine choice if your business is knocking out new sites for a new client every month.

But, if you're building a single product over the course of a year or two, it's not the end of the world to spend a couple weeks rolling your own auth and hook it up to transactional emails and everything else. It's just one small problem to deal with, not major in the grand scheme of things. YMMV
Nuclear and the Cost of Not Learning
I guess it's because OpenAI is getting traction as a powerful company whereas Worldcoin and Helion (fusion) are not really. But he likes his grand projects.
I imagine a job offer from Apple won't be too far away!
Basing risk analysis on the confidence of a silicon valley huckster is the surest way to lose your shirt.
DonnyR must be calling in joy from his grave
My only personal experience writing with Lisp was Scheme, which I wrote for two weeks back in college 18 years ago, so I truly know nothing about the language.

In retrospect, saying I don't understand was hyperbolic. Of course I understand that people have their preferred languages. The handful of languages I've used in my career each have their draw.

My comment was meant more to question the assertion that Lisp is the-right-thing, which sounds like asserting the-right-religion.
>At least in the US such costs are factored in

According to [3] the industry is liable for 16b per reactor but the industry doesn’t have that much money to pay out. Entergy for example operates its nuclear plants in a subsidiary that generates about 100 million in revenue per year. They would have to raise the price of nuclear electricity by orders of magnitude to gave any chance of paying 16 bn, let alone the 10x more for a Fukushima-esque incident.

So when things go pearshaped the operators will undoubtedly go bankrupt, and since the cleanup is very mandatory the taxpayers end up paying basically everything.

Also consider who has paid for the decades long paperwork around Yucca mt, who pays the military that has had guards stationed at closed plants for decades (rancho seco) and so on and so forth.

In short, even in the US, the hidden costs of nuclear power are immense.
Lightly modified FPVs with grenades are a major concern for soldiers, but so are mortars and artillery shells etc. There’s a lot of low cost long range weapons vs infantry, but a drone with a grenade isn’t really effective vs tanks etc. A fleet of cheap drones just don’t do anything if bomber aircraft can simply fly higher than they can reach.

Leave the realm of mass production and you can build drones that would be, but they quickly start looking like existing systems because militaries have been working with drones since WWII.
Yes, this can be super painful, especially when correlating information from several sources, or when traveling. It can become almost impossible when reviewing historical data.

My solution to inconsistent time rendering in AWS (sometimes UTC, sometimes localtime) is to run a separate browser profile for AWS (and third party status pages) that that's always running in UTC.

But seriously, status page people: there's no excuse for being vague about timezones!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231804
> If the switchblade costing $10k results in a kill 80% of the time, while the $1k drone is 30% of the time, you just get 3 times as many $1k drones, average about the same kill rate, and save 70% to boot.

Sanity check: 80% success is an 80% success rate; 3 shots at 30% success is a 66% rate, which is much, much worse.

You need 5 cheap 30% drones to beat an 80% success rate, still a major savings at the prices you give, but 70% more than 3 drones.
Isn’t there a great deal of overlap? A guided artillery shell is kind of like a fast moving loitering drone. Sometimes shells can even be given more instruction after being fired.
Ask HN: Why sampling a database is not instantaneous?
The other day I was trying to just sample some outputs from a (admittedly big)database, so I executed select * from database limit 10.

It took more than a minute to execute this (not in queue). The data engineer claims that my query is a bad one since the db is a big one and I did not include a where clause.

But are the db engines that naive?
The reason drones are kicking butt right now is because you get both precision and quantity. Advances in electronics, software, communication links, and sensor technology mean that you can make guidance systems as a hobbyist that would be a million dollar missile from a specialized defense contractor just 15 years ago.

You lose range, but urbanized warfare of the 21st century seems to be a very different battlefield calculus from the strategic bombing campaigns of WW2. The vast majority of engagements these days seem to be within easy drone range, probably because they can be produced in quantities that negate the "just destroy everything within 200 miles" strategy of WW2 carrier battle groups.
Adapt or Die, Or?
I enjoyed this book https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113109615224540471 but like any Lisp book I think “I could do a lot of that with (Python|Java|Javascript)” and couldn’t help thinking he wouldn’t be fighting with nconc if we was using Clojure.
It’s coming back in the form of DBRE (hi, it’s me), but unfortunately actual core RDBMS knowledge is often lacking. RDBMS administration is legitimately difficult, as they have a million knobs to turn, and a million gotchas that can tank performance if you aren’t careful. I should mention here that this difficulty really only occurs at scale. If your DB has a few million rows, as long as your queries are indexed it’s unlikely that you’ll experience problems. You probably won’t have optimal performance, but it’s likely to be good enough.

Personally, I love it, but also find it frustrating. The amount of times I’ve presented “here’s your problem, here’s how to fix it, sorry it’s gonna suck” only to be told “nah, we’ll just upsize the instance” is far too many.
Nope. We are building on top of that research.
Haha, yes I know! You also have airspeed, perspiration, metabolic rate, clothing levels, and transients (eg moving from a hot space to a cold space) which all affect the phenomenological experience- but we do consider all of these effects to be wrapped up within the “thermal comfort” term of art.

See the CBE Thermal Comfort Tool to interactively determine comfort bands in relation to various ASHRAE standards for computing thermal comfort with all of these affecting parameters:

https://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu/
OpenBSD 7.6 released
Responded on LI
In part yes, the difference is the ability to access the 64-bit registers, the additional set of registers, and the assumption that SSE is present. But because of all of these, x32 defines a new call convention to optimize function calls.
The entire Redwall series! Man I'm hungry now... could go for a nice cordial and scone...
> Ricks, a native of the Ninth Ward, later told NBC Nightly News that he wrote the bulletin based on his previous experiences with Betsy and Camille. [...] The bulletin, and the rosary that Ricks clutched as he and his fellow forecasters weathered the storm in their office, are both now in the National Museum of American History.[19]
Really depends on where you live and what your electric rates are. These is my breakdown (Corolla comes out ahead as cheaper to operate): https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/comments/14rj3fp/tesla_...
Thank you. That’s good feedback. Thank you for taking the time to go through them :)
Not to sound harsh or anything, this is a genuine question: what is Ruby used for nowadays? I am not talking about projects that are using Ruby since a long time but...what is Ruby used for as a go-to tool nowadays?
Most of today's children are unlikely to live to 100, analysis says
Unique Ways to Say "Keep Up the Good Work" [with Examples and Quotes]
> It's interesting that they implement AWS bucket policies, including all AWS-specific syntax/keys/etc, even "arn": https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/faq/s3-crede...

It seems the Hetzner's docs say they use MinIO to expose their S3 managed service. I guess everything will be the same as MinIO upstream features and contigurations
Yeah that's where I'm at with this topic too.

If we use the Ukraine war as a template for the next major war that the US faces (possibly against China) -- does the United States have the industrial capability to produce the tens to hundreds of millions of drones necessary to win?

Like can it produce the propellers, the frames, the motors, the batteries, the ICs to make a FPV drone that blows up in an enemy soldiers face?

Can that supply chain be made in the US and how long can will it take to make?

Is this a priority for the United States? Why or why not?
Worth noting that Russia has nuclear weapons, yet elects not to use them against their near peer Ukraine.
> Its pretty hilarious to blame a CEO

I'm just going to stop you right there. The CEO assumes direct administrative command over their business and the choices they can make that could result in substantial risk. It's not any more outrageous to blame Elon Musk for the colossal failure of Twitter and the politicization of SpaceX than it is to credit him with the success of his decisions. You cannot say "it's pretty hilarious" because this isn't a laughing matter. The parent's comment is not facetious at all - they're making a logical analysis and you're the one warping it into rhetoric.

Since apparently their comment didn't get through to you the first time, I'll paraphrase: Musk does have a winning strategy. It's the same one Nike and McDonalds and Pixar and Disney and Apple roll out to veritable acclaim; abuse marketing until the fucking lever falls off. Opponents accuse you of antitrust violation? Workers accuse you of workplace abuse? Customers accuse you of fraudulent marketing? Market more! Customers are nobodies, they don't have the power and the voice a wealthy person does. This is the bald-faced reason why Musk wanted Twitter, he thought the marketing potential of a social platform "everyone" uses would be the ultimate platinum chip in the social poker game. Except he's quickly finding out that you can devalue an asset with proximity to brand risk.

So there. Nobody will deny his success, but you also have to be realistic about his shortcomings. This website has an unhealthy fascination with unconditional worship of documented assholes like Sam Altman and Steve Jobs. Let me clear things up for you (and hopefully others) on an epistemic basis: we aren't attacking these people to discredit their success. We're criticizing them to help form the basis for future change. People shouldn't be assholes like Jobs when they can lose credibility from their peers. They shouldn't be hat-in-hand begging for money on unproven science like Altman or Holmes. You can aspire to the heroic aspects of someone without idolizing their entire being - you can improve on imperfect leaders like Elon Musk and encourage them to not make boneheaded stupid fucking mistakes for future reference. That is how humanity gets better, not dick-sucking Elon Musk.

> I have read multiple books on SpaceX and watched interviews with lots of people inside and outside of SpaceX, and you are literally just factually wrong.

Log off X, unfollow the futurist-hopium channels you've got on YouTube. Don't be an armchair critic, get involved.
> Why actually travel when you can easily generate photos and videos of yourself doing all sorts of things in all sorts of places?

This is such a depressing but accurate take on travel.

At least if it's true I can finally enjoy everything without the crowds of selfie sticks.
You're probably right, but FWIW it's not unheard of for google to announce, continually delay, and eventually completely backtrack on things like this, like third party cookie deprecation.