skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Not really" means the war and its tactics haven't changed at all in two years? I find that very hard to believe.

In this specific respect, not really. Neither Ukraine or Russia really gained air superiority and MANPADS are common. In that context, attack helicopters are not a great weapon. It does not mean that it would be the case in all future wars. Some countries are more capable than Russia. Sure, better anti-drone weapons would help, but it’s a bit early to call helicopters obsolete. Pretty much in the same way as it was premature to call the main battle tank dead as a concept last year.
Well, it does support it now. It supported it before, too :P
I was going to recommend it for the footnotes.

Anyone who makes up a fake history for a book then adds footnotes arguing for a different interpretation of that fake history really tickles me.

Really enjoyed Piranesi by the same author too. Reminded me of some of the odder parts of Iain Banks catalogue.
> strength of htmx is to allow non JS languages and frameworks on the server side

I don't see how that has anything to do with the choice of htmlx. You always have the freedom to use any languages in the backend. If anything, htmlx imposes a bunch of hypermedia convention on top of your conventional API, regardless of languages.

Back-end devs think htmlx will allow them to be comfy in the back-end and just trash their front end with "thin client" that has no framework or any sort of organization. Eventually someone who is willing to actually think about front-end has to rebuild it and decouple the 2. Happens all the time.
Sure, but we’re working with a real person's reputation. If they are willing to gamble with AI, that’s their problem.

I’m hoping for a “this human being validated this message”. I think that alone could solve multiple problems.
I didn't even make an argument. I'm saying it's not clear cut.
Were you involved in the research of the video from Stanford you are showing?
The higher rate gets you oceanic use, which is a big benefit of iridium.

You are correct that it can be $50, but AFAIK that’s a different plan that is land or near-land only.
A lawyers opinion just like anyones opinion isn't fact.

Having Starlink terminals doesn't mean starlink is supplying them anymore than Apple is supplying the Taliban with iPhones.

The Pentagon and Ukraine's government don't think SpaceX is selling it to them and that's enough for me.

You can read the Newsweek article on Starlink terminals on Shahed drones
QuickLisp solves most of the issues. Quiop and closer-mop if you want a universal CLOS.

Scheme is not Common Lisp, it's kinda the opposite. It comes with batteries included and MCClim is the defacto GUI for it.

>Stuck with Emacs [from the URL]

Well, Lem tries to be Emacs for Common Lisp, but without having to think on two Lisp languages (albeit closely related) at once.

Once you have a REPL, autocomplete and some docstring looking up tool, you are god.
This trick has been floating around for about a week -- earliest ref I could find:

https://x.com/fofrAI/status/1841854401717403944
@dang
This person is a bot, read other comments of theirs please.
But not on iOS.
You can use the powershell command Add-MPPreference -ExclusionPath[0] and ship a script with your app if you want. I do the same for Terraform providers - whenever a new version comes out, for a time the process can be randomly killed as I suppose a process that spawns a child process that starts talking to lots of endpoints looks somewhat suspicious.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/defender...
Bringing component-based design to Django templates
For Mac, I use `security set-generic-password` and `security find-generic-password` to manage secrets using Keychain.

Inspiration here: https://gist.github.com/bmhatfield/f613c10e360b4f27033761bbe...

Then you can use it like this:

export OPENAI_API_KEY=$(keychain-environment-variable OPENAI_API_KEY)
It's not if. It's when. It has been 'when' since 2020. It is coming. It is not going to not come. It will be here in mere releases. Get ready.
Do either the book on Symbolic Computation + PAIP and/or SICP, and you'll understand.
Show HN: Flexible Internet Treasure Map (FITM)
Hey hackers,

I'm excited to share this and think at least a few of you might have good fun with it.

The Flexible Internet Treasure Map (FITM) is a bit like oldschool del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. It's all about sharing and organizing the best of the Internet using a folksonomy link tagging system while allowing hierarchical sorting based on user ratings and some other filtration methods to quickly find what you want and avoid what you don't. It's not a web crawler--links are added manually by humans. There's an /about page with more details if you're interested.

I think it could be both useful for targeted searches and fun for non-specific rabbit-holing.

This idea comes from a craving for more nuanced online sources and more reliably valuable recommendations than what search engines have been able to offer recently. I see a lot of users on HN and other sites commenting with similar distaste for the blandness of the modern Internet, reminiscing about what it was like in the 90s and 2000s. I didn't see the 90s Internet, but growing up immersed in the 2000s Internet was magical. (Though also occasionally horrifying as a kid without much sense for what to steer clear of.) It was alive with creative surprises. I want to help bring back that Internet, especially for young people today who don't know what they're missing.

I've added a handful of links that I think are pretty cool which hopefully will be new and enjoyable for some of you. Some are admittedly sourced from browsing HN, and HN itself is on there, so maybe those won't be so new. But I'm most eager to see what YOU all think are the best hidden gems out there on the Internet.

Happy treasure hunting!

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...and as a quick disclaimer, I am NOT the best dev here or even close. This is actually my first project that I think might not completely suck. But it certainly may have some bugs. When you find one, please shoot an email to fitm-contact@proton.me and I'll work on getting it fixed ASAP.
Why should that matter? If anything, shouldn't that mean that Google doesn't have a monopoly on Android apps in the way that Apple has on iOS apps because the device manufacturer can pre-install their own store on their devices? Like Galaxy Store on Samsung devices
I live in the US. A near-peer conflict involves a nuclear exchange. The world will change in ways forever that none of us can ever foresee at that point.
The reason to begin with was the Mac OS was x86-32 and the iOS environment was arm. Building for intel let the ui devs have high performance by leveraging the existing network stack and graphics compositor. But most of the libraries live parallel in the sim, not using the OS ones. That wouldn’t allow you to simulate different iOS versions.
They just want max profits without paying any fees.
> In some places USPS is unreliable

I can live with USPS but what made me actually cancel my Prime account was their use of On-Trac shipping in California. They literally missed every single time and had to come back the next day.
Campaign to stop PE takeovers, stop investing in/consuming from PE-backed firms, refuse to work for them (a highly privileged option, but more likely to be available for tech), etc. Basically a boycott.
> I have some sympathy for Brazil getting pissed off about Amazon (the company) too.

I have never seen anybody pissed about that one. But then, I have never seen anybody insisting that "Amazon" means the company and the geographic region better shut-up and forfeit its name.
Interception comes with risks - the debris from that missile has to land somewhere. The only person confirmed to have been killed in the recent Iranian attack was a man in the West Bank who was crushed by part of a destroyed missile. It's clear that at least some of the missiles that got through were deliberately ignored because they were on target to hit open ground.
This is a good book. AI attack will never be robots first and not human like, but it's still fun reading.
That's not really a valid comparison because the Microsoft Store and the macOS App Store don't allow third party stores on them. You have to "sideload" any alternative stores/apps you want. To be clear I doubt the hellscape described by OP will come to fruition but still.
I partly posted this to see if anyone had more context or experience with Kent. Thanks for the extra bit of information.

I can agree with both, but in the end it's Linus' decision.
If WordPress users are going to start using mirrors then WordPress needs to add and support package signing. Otherwise we've added another way to backdoor WordPress sites, using a malicious mirror.
My father was a fitter and turner, diesel mechanic, farmer and self-taught panel beater. When I was a kid he worked on old British cars, Morris Minors in particular (he had a fondness for the early "split screen" flat head) as well as American and Australian made vehicles and machinery (much of which was war surplus from what the US left in Australia from WW2) so I was exposed to the vagaries of Whitworth bolt and nut sizing, compared to the American AF standard. Japanese equipment largely used metric as did Australia from the early 1970s.

Whitworth sizing made no sense. Only decades later did I realise that Whitworth is a measurement of the bolt diameter, while the distance across the flats of the bolt heads and nuts were some standardised mathematical multiple of that; and that AF wasn't an acronym for "American Fine" it was simply "across flats" which made finding the spanner to match the bolt much, much easier.
How does this compare to Instant (https://www.instantdb.com/)?
I guess the question is: Who cares? What is this for, except illustrating blogspam?

It seems that more resources are being poured into verisimilitude across generative models, but what is the business model or even human use case for it?

A picture of a glorious landscape seems worthless to me without any grounding to be able to ask a question like, "where is that?", "when do those flowers bloom?", "what is on the other side of that mountain?" and receive any kind of interesting answer.
Browser profiling has been a thing for at least a decade if I'm not mistaken.
If you look at the chart, Drupal starts declining immediately upon being purchased. Hard to imagine Vista was able to destroy the community that quickly; seems more likely they bought high on Acquia, or even Acquia was doing something sneaky to juice its sale price.
It more or less boiled down to "we would be labeled an advertiser and not a destination for information on the internet". Like being an advertiser stopped people from using Google search or something
They're not blocking uBO, they're removing the features in the browser that allowed uBO to work by releasing new plugin APIs, "Manifest v3". They're eliminating the key APIs needed for uBO to identify things that it shouldn't load, and then not load them. Google claims this was for "performance" or "security" reasons. Of course, the only major 'performance' or 'security' affected is the ability to identify, intercept, and stop harmful or ad related downloads before they start.
Ion and Molecular Sieving with Ultrathin Polydopamine Nanomembranes
Presumably that adblockers (or rather their users) would object to blocking domains that folks might actually want to load content from. I can’t imagine “domain” is the only signal one could use to identify ads, though. To truly befuddle them you’d make advertisements truly indistinguishable from content. This is not trivial.
Will try the JSON schema for a bit: https://github.com/ListfulAl/gpl/issues/1
They generally prefer to be called what they are: Mexicans, Salvadorans, Cubans, etc. The ones born here in the US of A even often just prefer Americans sometimes, although that differs from person to person.

Pan-ethnic terms are the creatures of demographers, political scientists and others of the social sciences. We don’t really need that crap and it’s just there to make their jobs easier.
It is a fictionalised autobiography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_...
What do you think of Coalton?
And most sane people despise the indentured servitude system known as student loans.
Drones for reconnaissance and kill verification too, in combination with regular artillery.

Archer has a 40km range (SF to San Jose) and can fire off three rounds in 20 seconds before hitting the road at 40mph. “Sniper” artillery apparently:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_artillery_system
He's not American since he lives in a 'province'. Reading is fundamental.
> Although it's conceivable there's a surprise legal finding, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are confident enough in how it will go that they are willing to insure you for any lawsuits, which would be ruinous for them if they consistently lost.

I don't think this is the right interpretation, at all.

They can act confidently about this because corporations can't go below zero; the downside of the bet is so far in the red, in that zone of bankruptcy, that it actually makes the bet work even if they internally believe that they're likely to lose in court.
The best analysis I've seen is this Washington Post analysis that said that +24 Iranian missiles hit Israeli military/intelligence targets or were close misses:

https://x.com/catebrown12/status/1842167731547721788

If there was 180 missiles were fired and 24 got through to targets, that is a penetration rate of 13%.
Only having less than 2.5 years of software updates left for an IoT device part of a global network is a bit of a mess isn't it? This is stuff you'd want to embed somewhere and forget I would have thought.
> I think it might

Why do you think the days of the heli might be over?

I think if you ask the military of US, Israel, Russia, and China, you will find them saying the attack heli has unique and useful capabilities not available on other platforms.
I think we have reached a point in tech where there isn't a huge benefit about changing computer every 3 years like in the past.

You can have a computer with 10 years that can run modern OSs and software without being incompatible or too slow, a thing totally impossible 20 years ago.

If you do AI related developement or play videogames, you would require at least a new GPU, but outside that, I think the only couple things (pretty major IMO) making those computers less useful are more complex video formats not available to decode by hardware, and the vast amount of code some web apps use (try using YouTube or Twitter in an old laptop)
How can I de-escalate a situation when someone is angry or agitated?
This. Everyone and their grandma decided it's cool for Google and others to decide what should display on your website next to your content because of "magic online advertising".

How much of the efficiency of online advertising comes from the actual "art" of tracking users and their preferences to display "personalized" ads vs the "efficiencies" from firing/outsourcing your marketing, ad sales and creative workforce.
>The Valley’s enthusiasm for Biden, however, was short-lived. The President quickly appointed three prominent tech skeptics—Gary Gensler, Lina Khan, and Jonathan Kanter—to oversee the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the antitrust division of the Department of Justice, respectively. Soon the government was suing or investigating Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, and dozens of other companies.

Gensler, Warren and Khan have been exceptionally anti-tech. Nice of this article to notice there is a growing number of techies putting their money where their mouth is in response.
I use a custom windows build with defender removed, you can find them on any windows modding site
Academic consensus is nearly as bad to rely upon as "it is argued." There may be more honesty in "it is argued." Academia has been overloaded with fraud for many decades. What's the value of a consensus of weasels?
I’m a year older, btw. Why not learn a new programming language? Maybe try creating a golang implemented gRPC backend, for a flutter mobile app. Something simple like a custom bingo card for friends and family to mess around with. Or rust… the cool kids are doing rust these days! :-)
Not entirely true. If you lower the quality of your content enough the advertisements are in fact indistinguishable. I often enjoy reading the "chumbox" at the bottom of the news article more than the reporting itself
All this says is you have no idea how much skill, theory and planning goes into prompting an AI when people are pursuing it as an art form and not just slop generation.

The guy invested 100+ hours into creating one image. You should be ashamed of yourself for your shallow dismissal of his work.
the biggest tick against helicopters is that they are much more expensive, and poorly armored than a tank, and their speed advantage for delivery matters a lot for special ops type jobs, but is pretty irrelevant for army type jobs.
Sorry, I should have been clearer: I meant the attack helicopter in a war between near peers. Obviously it is different when the enemy is technologically far behind.
Attack helis were never that important compared to tanks of mechanized infantry. On top of that, it really seems that a significant part of their role can be fulfilled by drones.
Android has the appearance of an open platform that could accommodate alternate app stores, and so the court comes by with an order to allow alternate app stores. IOS never had the appearance of an open platform, so the court does not have the opportunity to do the same thing.

What's the lesson for future leaders in tech companies?
Maybe all your secrets should be node locked …
This service will not eliminate all promotional mail. It does not apply to promotional mail from companies or organizations that consumers have an existing business relationship. It also does not apply to local retailers, restaurants, and political organizations. You should expect to see a major reduction in the overall volume of prospect promotional offers received. Please note that ANA is not the source of consumer names for marketing purposes. This opt-in mail suppression service is a tool to assist consumers in managing their marketing offers.
> Google appears open yet is closed in practice

How is Android closed in practice?
I agree that Ruby's standard libs are fantastic, but your example is from ActiveSupport, not the standard Ruby libraries. However, Ruby's well-thought-out object model is what makes libraries like ActiveSupport possible.

I've used Ruby long enough to have some gripes about it, but I've worked in a half-dozen languages as well, and I have yet to meet an object model that I like better. That combined with the standard library, and the affordances for functional data pipelining, are what keeps Ruby among my favorites.
Next time you can also check https://cloudstatus.page/cloud/aws/issues

I guess I'll increase the frequency of some probes to get better aligned with the official timeline :)
This seems reasonable to me too — first test feasibility, and then if it’s feasible let’s go do a more in depth study. But still, the feasibility result isn’t very interesting to external folks like us, and probably shouldn’t make the news. I think it should _just_ motivate the new study you mention
> This (index ordering resulting in useless indices) is not true, at least not in newer versions of Postgres (I just tried with 15).

> While the query will take much longer (for me, it was about 47 msec vs 0.6 msec for 2,000,000 rows), it still uses the index.

I'd argue that something being 78x slower can make it pretty useless, but it is indeed at least used, in some cases.
the only capability they provide the US is that the army is allowed to buy them.
> The China-based parent company of video app TikTok released its own web crawler or scraper bot, dubbed Bytespider, sometime in April

Uh, no... bytespider has been around for a long time...
I think the vast majority of people just don’t understand the Middle East. It’s a powder keg. Oil has been a blessing and a curse on the region. I think there’ll be peace one day but not while there’s a power struggle in the region.
Recently got into this and have mapped most of my area. There's a bit of insecure networks that I could hop on but it's mostly noise in the sea of the internet.

The most interesting thing I have discoved so far is that my elderly neighbors have a CPAP machine. I found out because that CPAP broadcasts BLE. I didn't look much into it, but medical devices shouldn't be broadcasting anything imo.
Makes sense. "I am session abcdef12345" always seemed significantly guaranteed to me, but in a world with ad blockers and third-party cookie restrictions, using heuristics is the only way forward.

It's somewhat scary how much information our browsers leak to unknown parties.

(I don't really take sides on this. I use an ad blocker and am very anti-ad, but am impressed when ad companies come up with tech to thwart them. The cat-and-mouse game is entertaining to read about.)
That is true, not every drone hits the target. But the same with any other weapon. How many 155 shells are needed to actually hit the target? A moving target?

And one regular 155mm shell is 5x more expensive than FPV drone.
How Grafana's SQLite Database Sees a New Dashboard and Panel
Continuing from my blog post (https://playtechnique.io/projects/grafanasink/tracking-sqlit...) in which I learned about database triggers, next it's time to understand grafana's database workings a little better.
Not sure that counts, as we're not using nuclear weapons in practice for current conflicts/engagements.

We have the whole other range of combat capabilities, and the distribution of those capabilities in our arsenal/armed forces seems guaranteed to change.
There are signs that you can notice when you eat too little protein.

An obvious sign is the reduction in muscular mass, e.g. if your arms and thighs become thinner.

A less well known sign is the swelling of both feet (bilateral feet edema), when you might begin to feel that your shoes are too small, which is caused by a too low albumin concentration in the blood. (However there are also other possible causes for feet swelling, like diabetes, so a blood test is necessary to confirm the cause.)

The low albumin concentration in the blood can be detected by a blood test before causing noticeable effects, like the swelling of the feet.

Normal daily protein intakes are between 1 g and 1.5 g of protein per kg of body weight. For those who do intense physical activities more than that is required.

There have been some earlier recommendations of lower protein intakes, like 0.8 g per kg, but later studies have discredited those recommendations as being too low, especially for old people, who need to eat enough proteins to avoid the loss of muscular mass.
It's already axed in canary release
He really needs the attention right now
the firmware releases were infrequent, the distro is not fully hardened, the linux kernel is old, and imagine having to get this notice now, at this point, and know that there wont be any further updates that fix future vulns. if u have this product, your firmware is now frozen and youre vulnerable to every future issue that affects it. looks like their support stops in 2029, but imagine these devices stay in place for another 10 years, this is a nightmare scenario for anyone with large deployments. in lots of cases we expect some devices to be in place for up to 45 yrs. still, this system wont make it past 2037, max. imagine running it for 12 more years without any fixes. untenable.
That's well above the threshold for destroying even the pretense of photographs having any information value on the Internet.
Ebay sellers already can do this [1] [2]

[1] https://www.edesk.com/blog/ebay-fulfillment-amazon-fba/

[2] https://sell.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon
This is news to me! Care to elaborate?