skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you are the world police and you stop "doing wars everywhere," everywhere starts doing wars with you (usually through your weaker/looser allies). Hence Ukraine, Hong Kong, the Mexican cartels, Iran's proxy wars, and let's not forget 9/11.

In all cases, the US has demonstrated a level of weakness on the foreign stage, and terrible people have come to exploit that. Like it or not, those little wars in Iraq were the long arm of the Pax Americana, which is ending now, to the tune of the first land war in Europe in quite some time. And one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent history.

This is what happens when you are a world-spanning empire. An empire, by the way, that Europe, India, China, and the rest of the civilized world has benefitted massively from in the form of free security and safe transport of goods. When there is no dominant empire, the world gets messy.
> In fact your own reply starts of with blaming solely Apple. Your only mention of Android is how they did bigger screens first.

This sub-thread started about Apple, addressing it first feels logical to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41762229

My other response was enterely focused on Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4177226
Theoretically a very good development regarding lawfulness and accountability.

State spies are basically illegals without accountability, like the various mafia networks. (CIA did have close connections to the Italian mafia, btw in their various illegal activities, such as drugs and torture. The NSA is regularly above the constitution.) Private spies are not yet connected like the mafia, but still can get caught operating out of the legal or constitutional boundaries.
Tailwind Balances Abstraction and Transparency
Hi, everyone, I am here to introduce a brand new macOS app - Honeytone, which allow you to draw shapes, text on your screen directly. You may need it, if you want to showcase your macOS to any other one via screen video, or you want to demostrate things on your screen.

- Website: https://honeytone.pixelegg.me/

- Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqGuA0lPSEA

All feedbacks are welcome.
i have built similar thing long time ago, using couchdb as replication-storage mechanism, and it's variants on non-server platforms - touchdb/android/ios <-> pouchdb/js-browser etc , but yes, except serverside, all other platforms still had sqlite underneath.

Long live sqlite :)
So many comments advocating for centralized tightly controlled technology.

Capitalism and freedom are truly dead in the name of small short-term conveniences. Or, most probably, invested interest in increasing share value for big-tech.

If the USA decides that monopolies are the only way it is going to lose the tech race. The death of AT&T created some chaos but a lot of opportunities for technological and business advancement.

Breaking all monopolies is the only way forward for a healthy competitive economy. Big share value gains just show that the system is not working. That there is no competition, no choice, just a rent-seeking economy that reduces value at the cost of everybody.
Improving Cashfree Payments Website Performance Using Unlighthouse
I'd love to hear pgraham give his current thoughts on this aspect of HN, 15 years after this: https://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
not true sub launched drone variations include helicopter like platforms .
Do you actually believe if paychecks were bouncing, pilots would be paying for fuel with their own money? Myths are kind of cool sometimes but let's stay within the boundaries of reality. I'm sure the blackjack story is highly exaggerated, probably also the story that his professor gave his business plan a failing grade.
link?
i am close to CCTV retailers and dahua and hikvision are only brands of CCTV widely available with two exceptions of "cp plus" and "hawkvision" which are in all lilkelihood rebranded or made in china products.

https://www.amazon.in/s?k=cctv+system+4+channel

so what are your options? i have been contemplating getting a door phone + cctv for my home for the past so many years but problems like these prevent me from investing into an ecosystem.

edit: oh. looks like pager attacks has their attention now.

https://trak.in/stories/pager-bombs-govt-can-ban-chinese-cct...

i guess time will tell and then there is lobbying so yeah
Nuclear material is put in glass which can last many thousands of years.

Geological studies of the locations where the nuclear waste is burried show that it would take millions of year for the isotopes to escape.

Meanwhile, the effects of low dose radiations on health are vastly exaggerated. Every industry is releasing pollution in the ecosystem that are way more toxic and dangerous. And these get barely any attention for some reasons.
This needs a very large "citation needed" banner.
Not just interstellar space. Everything in space needs to be radiation hardened, thus equal to a 50 year old computer.

They do use laptops, but not for much longer than a year. The basics must endure longer.
Well he was a bad poet, that's why he changed field.
Asking for Help as a Software Developer
Strange architecture. They clearly have a queue, but instead of checking previous request, they create a new one. It's like they managed to get the worst of pub/sub and task queue.
I question the very framework of judging harms at the tool instead of at the user in the first place. Under that twisted logic of attributing the morality of all users to the creator so much as sharpening an axe is a moral wrong.
> if you think you would rather send an AI to attend a meeting for you rather than waste your time, your life, on that meeting, consider just taking it to email

That’s essentially what I’m doing when sending an AI. We don’t use zoom, but I’ll join Teams meetings, zoom out and work on something else while people have endless meaningless circular discussions near the end I’ll ask copilot to summarize points and actions and just ask people if they agree that there are those actions for them saved me having to sit and waste my attention on the meeting that could have been an e-mail or teams discussion.
Totally agree. Loved this book. Reading "The Little Prover" right now. I can't get enough of this style of textbook writing.
> But what does "committed" mean when you're only reading from one partition in a partitioned scenario?

I would say you can't make new commits in that situation? I don't know, I didn't make up the scenario, I think you need to figure out your own answer and/or get clarification from fallingsquirrel if you want to talk about that kind of problem.

> I think you can get a read that is half from a prior stale operation and half from a subsequent uncommitted operation, or something on those lines.

What's the full timeline for that?

If you're specifically talking about the ABA problem, that's trivial to fix with a generation counter.
Today's US Army is dwarfed by the size of the Vietnam-era Army. I love putting this into perspective for people who don't know the history. Those 5,500+ losses would be more than the Army's entire helicopter fleet today; active and reserve components combined. 300+ losses would be huge, like half of the current Apache fleet. I'm not sure that we ever had more than 300 helicopters in Iraq or Afghanistan, even at the peak of the 2007-2010 surges.

The co-pilot/gunner actually sits in the front seat of the Apache, by the way.
This user asked a fair question in a polite way
Does anyone know if there is something similar to this open source?
Thanks for the laugh - Fellow aussie
I didn’t state if they gave it up willingly or compelled.

There are also reports of the US buying lots of data from data brokers, as well as hackers.

I mean, I would too, if I were an intelligence agency.

It just means I’m more careful about which data I put where
Spending nearly 1/6th of Japan's GDP to clean up 0.45% of the nuclear waste dumped into the ocean is worth consideration. If the earthquake had happened 20 years earlier (nothing on tectonic timescales) this wouldn't be up to much discussion.

If you were to commit such a large amount of cash - a reparation for the disaster - would you spend it all on this?
> Basically it is trying to squeeze blood from a stone and the image out of renderer is going to be far sharper than anyone will see because it will go through multiple stages. Even compositing almost never leaves a render verbatim.

Don't forget that these days, it's all going through some ML-based denoiser, anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if filter choice is nearly irrelevant at this point (except for training).
> Whether the number for France is correct, is debatable. While I like the electricitymaps app, they are quite optimistic about nuclear power.

They aren't “optimistic”, nuclear simply doesn't emit CO2 directly, and indirect emissions are dwarfed by direct emissions of fossils fuel plants.

> What can and is being done is to replace coal as quickly as possible and that is happening.

It has been happening for the past 13 years, and there's no end in sight. We'll be able to have the same discussion in 13 years with only marginal progress (maybe they'll be around 200g/kWh at that point if we're being optimistic…).

> and even more so by France having to shut down too many nuclear reactors for repairs - German coal had to fill part of that gap.

And so what? French nuclear has been filling the gap for defunct German nuclear for more than a decade now … And Germany could have filled this gap with coal even if they had much less regular coal use thanks to their nuclear.
80% of a fancy SPA in 21 lines of code
"Look at how much pain we can inflict, you want to be friends with us, that's the only logical conclusion".

That seems to be the explicit strategy here, and I've come to believe that they genuinely think that this is how it should be, that there can't be a different world. Perhaps some linguistic quirk that makes the difference between friendship (that's not based on a power gradient) and allegiance (unite with the strongest, even when they're monsters, in particular when they're monsters) different to express and think about, perhaps it's a long term effect of socialist ideology having co-opted all concepts of friendship based on equality for a system that never was. But the pattern seems to go all the way through society, from the infamous prison hierarchies to imbalanced spousal relationships to the KGB state to the relationship between state power and its barons (who are commonly called oligarchs, but they are the exact opposite, powerless pawns on the political floor that are allowed to hold a fief until they aren't)
I worked with a former army officer / test pilot who was formerly involved with the Comanche project, when the news came out that it got cancelled. He was quite disappointed with that, and disagreed with what was said about it's survivability. He said if they can't see you, they can't shoot you.
> >4GB is only really meaningful for web browsers, compilers & interpreters, games and creative apps such as anything doing 3D, audio or large data processing.

Yes, but...

> web browsers

...includes Electron, Cordova/PhoneGap, WebView-based UIs, et cetera.

So yes, so long as software-houses uncritically jump on Electron as their platform-of-choice then all those apps will also ultimately be "web browsers" in disguise

...even a simple utility to flash an SD card[1] is a 150MB behemoth... I'm dying inside at this point.

[1]: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.19.21
Ask HN: Good Online Maths Communities?
Hello everyone,

I've gotten back into doing maths more seriously lately, and was wondering if there were any good online maths communities. Part of this is because there are some problems I'm stuck on, and part of it is because I think that much like hanging out on HN can help one become a better programmer, hanging out on a good math forum could help me become a better mathematician.

Does anyone know of any good communities? Math Overflow maybe?
Probably Catch-22
One of the nasty impacts comes from the low-tech metal recovery
process that washes out heavy metals like cadmium, mercury, lead,
arsenic into the sea. Fish from the West coast of Africa are basically
lethal to eat.

Did a podcast with a researcher named Gerry McGovern (World Wide
Waste) on this a couple of years ago [0].

Something that impedes recycling and repair is status display. I
was proud of the old Nokia I kept for 10 years, all stuck together with
tape, despite the scowls and snickers from the crowd with their latest
iPhone who supposed I must be some freakish homeless person who
wandered in - instead of their project leader/CTO. That was back in
the days when meetings always started with an animalistic display of
getting your tech out on the table to pose with. Somehow that little
Nokia really emasculated and pissed them off. These were the same
people who could talk about "efficiency" all day long, but the actual
reality of doing more with less undermined some more powerful, lower
drive.

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-farnell-perils-of...
I've done the same with mobx-state-tree, and realized I was essentially building a relational database with cache-ing in JavaScript.

The only thing SQLite is missed, which is important when integrating with React, is incremental view maintenance: how do we maintain as much immutable state on an update as possible to avoid wasteful re-renders?
This dates back to WW2. The "special echelon" made up of penal units (i.e. former convicts and soldiers being punished), the only difference is that during WW2 you were excused from the penal units if you were wounded (and happened to survived).

And of course it wouldn't work if the commanders didn't have informal authority to put their soldiers into pits or summarily execute them - also well documented.
I have no answer.

I tried to use it to generate images when the alternative was costly or had a prohibitive licence. However it did not reproduce the mundane subject (German mailboxes, empty apartments without light fixtures, Berliner Altbaus) well at all.

I did use it to make friends laugh in our little group chat, but in this case AI nonsense was not a bug but a feature. Artefacts added to the humour more often than not.

I did plan to use it for deliberate art practice. It can generate unlimited subjects and let me see hundreds of variations of the same detail. It also lets me see the same concept in different styles. This could be useful.

By and large though, image generation seems to be a tool for spam and porn.
> That we dumped so much crap into the ocean a little more won’t hurt?

Something I found out recently was that the city of Brussels discharged raw sewage into the rivers until 2007. This from a wealthy city at the heart of the European project.

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

Radioactive waste disposal is seldom paired with a cost-benefit analysis. Perhaps this is because the benefits are harder to quantify.

Does anyone know how many lives will be saved by spending an estimated 4.7B EUR to commence retrieval of the low and intermediate level waste from the Asse II mine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine

4.7B EUR could provide humanitarian aid to many around the world, saving lives and enabling yet more to more fully reach their potential.
Can we take a moment to reminisce about the DSL and Knoppix era of running immutable Linux distros off of business card-shaped CDs?
You are ignoring the relevant market. Sure, Google and Apple are competitors in the smartphone market (where they have a very dangerous duopoly, but let's leave that aside). But they each have a monopoly in the software distribution market for their respective platforms. Additionally, Google has a monopoly position in the smartphone OS market: if you want to build a smartphone, Google Android is basically the only option in town (Apple doesn't sell or license iOS, so it's not a competitor at all in this market).

Additonally, Google have used their position in the Android software market to cement their position in the smartphone OS market, and vice-versa. For example, they de-list certain apps from Google Play Store is they are offered on certain competitor stores (notably, Amazon's). And they don't allow Google Play to be installed on a phone that doesn't ship with it from the factory. And there are numerous other examples. Plus, they've been foolish enough to discuss a lot of these strategies internally over email as ways of ensuring competitors don't succeed, which came out clearly in the discovery process.
> older processes should be fine

Except for metal whiskering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy)
One computer magazine urged us to search for "this browser doesnt support frames" to show the nonexistent indexing of framed pages.
> What technologies are Japanese companies developing here,

Do you think the technology already exists off the shelf already?

> does the tax payer get any of that privately held revenue back in return?

Japan's taxpayers also happen to be Japanese people employed in these companies, so they get their share of that revenues. And the price doesn't even account for the taxes that are paid back to the government directly.
>TBH, I don't get the flagship phone thing at all. When my employer was paying, I got some of them-- a Lumia 1020, a LG V10, and a Samsung GSII-- and I didn't really use any of the performance.

With the proliferation of javascript heavy SPAs and electron apps, you'll definitely notice the performance difference even if you're not gaming or whatever.
Nuclear power is one of the few industries where a single mistake can cost you as much as replacing the entire nuclear power plant fleet.
The first question I have when I visit the site is, how is this different from Firebase?
So, I just signed up for Twilio Sendgrid for a new product I am working on. Its not going to have a lot of traffic to begin with, so Sendgrids free tier of 100 emails should get me started, or so I thought.

In the middle of the first signup flow, where I was going through the process of confirming my email I started getting error messages of not beeing able to signin, and a minute later I got this in my inbox:

"Hello,

We appreciate your interest in Twilio SendGrid and your efforts in completing our account creation process. After a thorough review, we regret to inform you that we are unable to proceed with activating your account (****) at this time.

Ensuring the security and integrity of our platform is our top priority, and our vetting process is designed to detect potential risks. While we understand the importance of transparency, we are not able to provide the specifics of our vetting process.

We want to emphasize that our decision is based on stringent security measures and our commitment to the safety of all our users.

Thank you for considering Twilio SendGrid.

Sincerely,
Onboarding & Compliance Operations"

I have been in contact with them several times to try to get clarification on the reason behind this, but they will never actually explained why I should not be able to use their service. I just wanted to warn other developers on here about this practice, since an email service can be an important part of a service, a service that Twilio Sendgrid can decide to shut down at any minute without explanation.

I have since started using postmark instead which is working fine for my application.
If you're just writing tiny scripts for yourself, sure use the system Python.

If you're doing work on a large Python app for production software, then using system Python isn't going to cut it.
The problem with said situation is that being big is such a winning move post-industrialization, even before divide and conquer shenanigans to play at 'colonizing India'. Fractal balkanization isn't exactly a winning move and there is a reason why a unified Germany became a significant power above and beyond its most bellicose states.
Page title: The Email API for optimal inbox placement

Please don't editorialize https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Maybe your experience should be a blog post?
I don’t necessarily disagree with your conclusion, but legislators generally don’t make prosecutorial decisions. Prosecutorial decisions are generally made after legislation is passed, by a different branch of government.
Congrats! What hardware you use to run the inference 24/7? I built a simpler version for running on low end hardware [0] for recognizing if there’s a person on my parcel, so I know someone have trespassed and I can launch siren, lights etc.

https://github.com/jmaczan/yolov3-tiny-openvino
> This would lose the security properties of iOS, which is a big part of the value proposition for iPhones and iPads.

Right. Apple is adding more and more security features from iOS into macOS. But, people are going to complain about that too.

> Other operating systems can run in _parallel_ with iOS

Absolutely, but there is a performance hit and memory management becomes an issue. You still need a host OS as well to unify the UX. Also, there needs to be some way for IPC between the applications of different OSes.

> Microsoft implemented WSL

WSL has networking and memory management issues. WSLg sort of works. Its architecture is wild [1]. Display scaling is terrible though. IPC between Windows and WSL guests is limited.

WSL 2 was released in 2020 and it still has issues. It's not a simple problem to solve.

Microsoft has also gone from WinRT, UWP, WinUI, MAUI, and now WinUI 3 trying to unify application development [2]. Again, it's not a simple problem to solve.

I think the only OS that has actually unified application development across all form factors is Android/Chrome OS. But, people complain about how limited Chrome OS is.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/wslg?tab=readme-ov-file#wslg-ar...

[2] https://www.irrlicht3d.org/index.php?t=1626
Not really. I find he’s pretty darn accurate. He also usually gives multiple potential outcomes depending on decisions being made
This is a popular internet myth. The actual data shows that coal consumption is way down and even in the year of the shutdown the percentage of coal/gas went up by an insignificant amount.
SpaceX Confirms Next Starship Test Will Try to Catch the Booster
Yes! I wouldn't call myself a poet, but I wrote quite a few poems myself, being initially attracted to the formal rules one can use when writing poetry. I perfectly see what you mean, it really felt the same to me.
Swarms of autonomous AI-targeting high speed death squads are inevitable, the technology is even open source already.
Ok, Ill write this up instead.
Awesomeness counts.
Can I compete with exaequOS?
Gnome Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due to Budget Woes
As far as I'm aware this type of data does not meet the requirements [0] for a GDPR violation and there was a bit of initial litigation around Google's street view data gathering which left this part out as well (e.g. [1] for a somewhat recent discussion).

[0] https://academic.oup.com/idpl/article/1/3/149/688705

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517547