skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good news reporting is an expensive and dying craft.

These days most articles have one of two sources:

* rewritten from a single prime news reporting source that did the hard yards,

* copied near verbatim from an official Press Release and|or Advertorial Press Material.

The second is the real bane of modern "news" sourcing - eg: straight up disguised advertising- a mega shopping chain pays a network to insert "news" pieces about fighting back against inflation savings that "local" stores are offering up to "stick it to the big guys" and other such template garbage. Perhaps worse; the undeclared "vested interest" news that comes from (say) a mining or energy companies Press Release.

More and more it's hard to find any truly independant journalism (because of cost cutting), and near impossible to find multiple sources and viewpoints.

One answer is for more citizens to become "press aware" and start to distribute their own press kit releases on local issues to spread the side of events that they want aired. That still faces the counter pressure of actual advertisers that spend with networks that would rather see their take get the airtime.
Brimestone 2 is 50kg - what's his deal with medium helicopters?
A three legged table will always sit stably on an uneven surface. Adding a forth table introduces wobble. To remove that wobble, we need to find a location where the fourth leg is exactly the distance between the table top and the ground under the table top.

As we rotate the table we know that in some locations a particular leg will be too short (wobble when we press in that location) or become too tall (source of wobble for another leg).

As long as the ground is continuous and does not have any cracks to introduce discontinuity, we know that there must be a location that the leg is the exact length. By the intermediate value theorem the length cannot go from too short to too long without a solution in between.

I first ran across the Wobbly Table when my wife was studying the Borsuk-Ulam theorem. It is fun since you can effectively solve wobbly tables on many patios.
You don’t have GPS satellite data, “location services” without Google Play services. That means a gps lock takes minutes. This data could be stored on the phone, but it’s better for google if you fetch it from them when you need it.
The creditors are only "earning" 19%. The first 100% is their own investment. The comparison you are trying to make is 260% vs 19%, not 119%.
C++ is the most direct comparison. Neither GCC nor Clang have LTS releases. MSVC does via Visual Studio, but I've never seen anyone list it as a benefit vs the other two. What advantage does LTS have for compiler toolchains if no one seems to want it?
I recommend you don’t commit suicide based on claims that have 100% predictive failure.

But, that’s just me…
I bought a Solana NFT that I never took off of FTX. Anyone know if I can do anything about that?
Related:

An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17528817 - July 2018 (71 comments)
"Just close enough" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

It doesn't matter if the decoy can match frequency if it can't match amplitude because it's trivial to triangulate the position and eliminate anything that's too quiet. Any helicopter that sounds "farther away" than its actual position is obviously a decoy. Measuring the time of flight on reflections eliminates directional speakers.

These aren't even hacks, this is something an Alexa smart home speaker is equipped to do today. Add a rudimentary radar and the decoy now has to have the same radar cross section as a big metal helicopter. Chaff isn't going to work when sensor fusion includes computer vision.

> Once found, the counter-drone dispatches a kill drone which can match the anti-helo drone's speed.

Once it's dispatched, how is it going to target and intercept a small drone with a tiny radar cross section that has thrust vectoring? That's a job for static CIWS/AA, not a cheap counter drone dispatched from a decoy.

My point is that attackers have the technological and cost advantage here, possibly forever. Civilian quadcopters can't easily take down a 150 knot helicopter now but the technology to make 200+ mph military drones is already here, it just hasn't been combined into a weapon yet. No imagination needed, it's practically inevitable.
Yeah, it’s hilarious because Google Gemini came up with that link.

To your point, maybe it depends on the product?

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/external...

> By default, we use the manufacturer barcode to track eligible inventory throughout the fulfillment process, unless you change your barcode setting or your product is not eligible. When more than one seller has inventory with the same manufacturer barcode, we may fulfill orders with the inventory that’s closest to the buyer, to facilitate faster delivery.

> If your product isn’t eligible for virtual tracking with the manufacturer barcode, an Amazon barcode is required. You may be able to get an exemption to use the manufacturer barcode by enrolling your ASIN in Amazon Brand Registry. To learn more about virtual tracking and see product eligibility requirements, go to,Using manufacturer barcodes with FBA virtual tracking.
You can solder a Zero Stem [1] onto an RPi Zero. No experience with it. I just went searching for "raspberry pi 3 UDC", because I have a spare RPi 3.

It was mentioned in the context of Raw Gadget [2], which is a Linux kernel driver that gives more low-level control over Gadget FS. I've been reading about this problem space a little lately, and Gadget FS seems pretty versatile and just needs a kernel recompile to enable it on RPi, I believe.

I found out about Raw Gadget on Raspberry Pi[3] just now, in reading about raw-gadget [4]:

> Most of the Gadset subsystem interfaces (with the exception of GadgetFS and the FunctionFS-based composite function) only allow emulating USB devices of specific classes. Compared to them, Raw Gadget allows emulating USB devices of arbitary classes.

[1] https://zerostem.io/

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

[3] https://github.com/xairy/raw-gadget/blob/master/docs/setup_r...

[4] https://github.com/xairy/raw-gadget
Thankfully for the investor, the non-cryptocurrency assets generated enough return to make them whole and even give them a profit.
It's using an oft-ignored part of the ePub standard, so I think all that should be needed for Kobo support is implementation of that part of the standard in KOReader.
They aren’t actually too similar. They both use XNU, but the memory model is completely different. On macOS memory can be paged to/from disk. On iOS it isn’t and applications must free memory when asked or be terminated [0].

iOS applications are sandboxed by the kernel, with no opt out. macOS applications are not sandboxed by default and are opt in.

Then there are the API and UI differences.

EDIT: That linked blog post in the parent blog post also shows how different the userspace is: https://worthdoingbadly.com/macappsios/

EDIT: iPadOS 16 enables virtual memory swap [1]

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Pe...

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/06/ipados-16-takes-the-v...
I’m paying Apple to watch things, and sync them been my devices. I don’t see how Apple could not have “my data”.
Poets don't favor "readability"—at least not good poets. They're optimizing for something else altogether.
Nobody cares "who's right" here; consumers just want competition because when businesses compete the consumers win.
I've had decent luck with random people on Fiverr, of all things...
I’m not suggesting the justice system should change. I’m suggesting that civil servants who file and lose a ton of suits should be presumed to be doing net harm. Just as we would for prosecutors in criminal law.

And when it’s politically motivated, it is not just harm in the sense of economic inefficiency, but further is unjust and lowers public trust in institutions.
This cannot be true forever. Transistors are still shrinking yet we're fast approaching physical limits. Hence the ever larger and hotter and more power hungry GPUs and CPUs.

There's also the waste involved in continuously producing those more efficient models. Their lifetime emissions, including manufacturing, may actually be worse compared to certain older generations.
I'm reading all the arguments below for why Google just appears open, while they aren't, and they are bullshit.

Go here, download and install the APK: https://f-droid.org/en/

You now have a third party app repository on your phone. And actually every Samsung device comes with their own app store installed in addition to Google Play. It's not perfect, Play having the privilege to automatically install updates, but good enough.

Also, AOSP is completely usable even without Google's apps or Play Services, and one proof of that is that Amazon forked it for their Kindle Fire.

The arguments from Apple fans are truly bizarre.
I'm a former Army helicopter pilot (but Black Hawks, not Apaches) and I think this is an interesting observation.

By 2011, when I went to war, the main thing we'd learned was to fly high up above small arms range: above 1,000 feet AGL. Only our Kiowas were generally allowed to operate below that, flying exactly the way you describe Marine helicopters operating; that was part of the Kiowa's nature as scouts relying mostly on the pilots' eyes (and sometimes their M4 rifles pointed out the door). The aircraft (Kiowas, but also Apaches and Black Hawks when in support of troops-in-contact) that got chewed up were invariably operating down below that.

By that time, Apaches were also mostly a deterrent. The point was for them to be seen. That kept the enemy in hiding under cover while we did whatever else needed to be done. Before firing a shot, they'd circle for 30+ minutes recording video and talking into the tape recorder to establish positive identification of targets and explicitly go through all the steps that the lawyers came up with to mitigate civilian casualties. It was all very unlike e.g. Iraq in 1991 or 2003, to my knowledge, or present-day Ukraine. Not at all stealthy or fast. And there has been an effort in recent years to unlearn all of this, and get back to the tactics that would be needed in a fight like Ukraine's.
I think if they glass Finland/Germany, then they know the US will next attempt to glass Russia, so they will launch it all at once, which of course results in all of Russia, nearly all of Europe, and the USA all being glassed and China picking up the pieces. So it’s probably better to learn Mandarin and find an AWS like data center there.
>> how do you go about it

Let's not allow LLM bots to misinform, manipulate, and create chaos? This is the argument that we should allow everybody to have guns so that they can defend from other gun owners.

In the case of LLMs, the solution is to leave them at the "shooting range"; which sadly, it's most of the Internet now. We need spaces purely for humans and the authenticity of their fleshy needs.
> Software developers are mostly to blame for obsoleting perfectly working hardware.

Is it the developer, say, of some app for Android or iOS, at fault, or is it that the changing API surface coupled with App Store policies means that an app developer is forced to keep releasing new versions and deprecating older operating systems and hardware? I always had the impression that Google and Apple took a very dim view of apps that were stable and not refreshed.
My ex business partner did the hardware design for our prototype and scored a super helpful brilliant guy out of Nigeria on Fiverr that walked him through everything he needed. So I can honestly recommend this route.

The use case we had was actually pretty similar to OP, we had some basic design in EasyEDA and were looking to bring it to the next level for proper prototyping.

The business failed for several other reasons, but lack of solid hardware design (admittedly, ours was a pretty simple design) was not one of them.

Fiverr honestly goes pretty hard if you are running lean. I saved about an order of magnitude on trademark fees by having someone on Fiverr who had done them many times before walk me through the process instead of paying a lawyer to do it. I’ve also used it in the past to get acceptable (not great, but good enough to put on contractual letterhead) logo designs for extremely reasonable pricing
I found this article helpful when I had that same question. Basically BER has some less rigid specifications for how to encode the data that can be convenient for the implementation. Such as symbol-terminated sequences instead of having to know their length ahead of time. But this means that there are many equivalent serializations of the same underlying object, which is problematic for cryptography, so DER is an unambiguous subset of BER which will have only one correct possible serialization for a given object.

https://luca.ntop.org/Teaching/Appunti/asn1.html
They stall and aren't maneuverable at the speeds you need.
Russia's use is more similar to the use you describe in the marines. Come in fast and low, pop up the nose and fire off the ordinance while popping flares then get out before the MANPADS can take a shot. The problem is that this limits them to very expensive portable artillery and the accuracy suffers a lot when you can't stick around.

The big use for helicopters is defense. Russia showed the potential during last year's failure of a counter-offensive by Ukraine. They'd pop up just over the treelines to shoot their TOW equivalent from outside of MANPADS range (can't do this on offense because you can't be sure that the front line didn't accidentally bypass a MANPADS somewhere). The helicopters would target the minesweeper and rear vehicle to stall the convoy then the chopper's remaining missiles along with artillery and whatever else would finish off the vehicles in the middle (or they'd try their luck in the minefield which always ended badly).
If your ming vase is stolen should you get it back after it appreciated, or the thief gets the upside and you just get cash as if it were a forced sale at theft time?

Not an exact analogy but I think it at least shows there is a spectrum of situations to consider.
The recent case of Iran under COVID is an example of this: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/iran-the-double-jeopardy-...
Which mean Tencent (Epic's parent company) will finally be free to open their app stores world-wide.
I thought there were 8B people which makes it even less. I need to turn in my brain card!
I think the point was a $4-$8/hr VM is pretty small potatoes compared to other common corporate expenses.
Don't care about self hosting. That's not a feature to me, it's a burden. I would rather some cloud provider do that for me, thankfully Google does it for free and the convenience is much appreciated. It's the same reason i'd put my personal code in Github than some hard drive in the basement which may die anytime.
Yeah but what if you return 119% of what you took?
Well if he doesn’t want it, he can give it to me!
You’re asking why the creditors are getting their assets back
Do you have a plan for doing writes in that scenario? It's not proper availability without writes.

If the partitions are configured for consistency, and they can't hear from each other, then at most one will accept writes. If the client relays metadata between the partitions to make the write happen in both, then you don't actually have a partition anymore.

Also in practical terms, the nodes almost always have better contact with each other than the client has to the nodes. The situation where the client can connect to both sides of a partition is unlikely enough that if you add code for it you're probably getting negative value. It wastes time and can add scary bugs.
Zoom in on Tampa on this Category 4 flood map and see the utter devastation that this amount of flooding will cause:

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/203f772571cb48b1b8b...
"Don't you need a chairman?" Funt asked.

"What chairman?" Bender exclaimed.

"An official one - in a word, the chief of the establishment."

"I am the chief myself."

"In other words, you expect to do time yourself? Why didn't you say so in the first place? Why did you take up two hours of my valuable time?"

The old man in the Passover trousers became exceedingly angry, foamed at the mouth, fumed, emitted explosive noises, but the pauses between his sentences did not diminish.

"I am Funt!" he said emphatically. "I am ninety years old! All my life I've done time for others! Such is my profession - to suffer for others!"

"Oh, so you're professional figure-head!"

"Yes," said the old man, tossing his head boastfully. "I am Substitute-chairman Funt! I've always done time. At the time of Alexander the Second, the Liberator, at the time of Alexander the Third, the Peacemaker, at the time of Nicholas the Second, the Bloody." And the old man slowly bent back his fingers, counting the tsars. "At the time of Kerensky I also did time. At the time of Military Communism, I did no time, to tell the truth, because clean business disappeared and there was no work for me. But how I did time in the days of the NEP! How I did time in the days of the NEP! Those were the best days of my life..."

Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov, The little golden calf. https://archive.org/details/littlegoldencalf0000unse
All of networking, SSDs, eGPUs would go faster than that today, nevermind during the lifespan of the device or concurrent use of those.

(Current SSDs and Ethernet seem to go at about 100 Gbit/s, GPU external buses are an order of magnitude up from there)
No question; I can write far more performant C# code than I can Ruby.

For this set of teams, at least, their code wasn’t very performant because it took 3 months to get from Jira ticket to production. They were always getting themselves tied into knots about how to handle rollbacks across their nine microservices required to change a birthday.

Meanwhile, I’m in my corner with my nice little monolith that could read data from their database easier than they could read it.
Living with LLMs: Personal Remarks and the 80-20 Rule
If bitcoin is up 260%, the non-cryptocurrency assets must bringing the average return down, right?
Nope. this is all written to advertise product hunt, but the product hunt meta is actually over. Right now, if you are on product hunt, you are not doing yourself a favor. The secrets to distribution lie elsewhere.
Maybe I am not understanding something: what if the surface is a plane? The wobble can’t go away in that case right?
Yeah, this is not creditors "making money". Anyone who had 1 bitcoin in FTX is not getting their 1 bitcoin back, which is massively more valuable.

Instead, they are getting 119% of the USD value of a bitcoin in late 2022. They are massively losing out. They are effectively getting back 33% of their assets.
“… security precautions, largely to prevent bad actors from stealing the weights (and thereby disabling our safeguards) for a model that is capable of enabling extremely harmful actions. ”

They’re not stealing your “weights”. They’re stealing (or parallel-discovering) your training algorithms.

Assume your enemies are smarter than you, and have malintent. They don’t give a shit about your security and your safeguards.

Better focus on developing the best AIs, and deploying them to your fellow citizens as widely and defensively as possible.

Might I suggest:

- don’t teach them to lie (ie. 2001)

- teach them to love people

- bake in Asimov’s 3 laws

Unfortunately, all of these tenets are currently being assiduously broken by all major AI trainers.

What could go wrong?
It's a stretch to call many many of the stories these sites produce "reporting," I'm thinking in particular about the "Someone posted to Twitter and other people posted angrily to Twitter in response" genre
Well, actually helicopters are already critical in both anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare. They can extend range and distribute shots of anti-ship missiles to make concurrent salvos from multiple directions more deadly.
I assumed it was a soundless video and I played it while my 2 year old was falling asleep. Not asleep now :facepalm:
The text left me wanting a more formal treatment of the theorem. I went ahead and found a paper which does just that:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564585.564601
PDF: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/731-sp04/readings/GL-cap.p...
Foxconn chairman: AI investment boom has time to go as language models evolve
> what if you return 119% of what you took?

You go to jail. It’s not a hypothetical.
Flying down canyons was so much fun, like a trench run.
I cannot read your mind.
The freeloading concept and not giving back is stupid. Open source by definition promotes the so called freeloading.
Android 12 was what fixed what I meant to refer to: unattended updates with third party sideloaded stores. It's from 2021 and probably didn't get 50% marketshare until ~2023 or so. Developers for those app stores had to deal with their users being out of date all the time to a much bigger extent than Play store and officially partnered stores.

And Android WearOS is still hard for side-loaded stores to work with at all without developer debugging mode I think and is tightly integrated with the phone stuff.
Excellent writing style
> Imagine if Spotify had a Spotify store that required device id tracking for their ad network.

I’m pretty sure the likes of Adobe and Meta would be literally foaming at the mouth in excitement over the potential for this.
Importantly he correctly predicted the entire broad course of the evolution of the war in the past two years in his first video on like day 10 of the conflict. I’m always impressed by his analysis each week, definitely a channel worth following and binge watching.
probably NORAD with all their sensors hasn't been able to invalidate that idea. hahaha! :)
“She.”

J. K. Jemisin is a woman (of color). I had no idea, myself, until after I had read The Broken Earth series, and wanted to find out more about the author.

I did enjoy her stuff, but it isn’t what I’d want on my Desert Island list.
> I just want to install the damn software and be done with it

So use the built-in app store, like you are doing today.
I told my boomer elders NOT to plug in the smart TV. They just can’t resist the temptation of convenience.
I think it only makes sense for developer products. That whole loud launch strategy is distracting a lot of developers. You have to launch where your customers are.
We're already seeing LLMs being used to write emails that are then summarized by other LLMs, having AIs attend pointless meetings with other AIs is just the next evolution.

(To be clear, I don't particularly like or want this, but it seems inevitable.)
> 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, or not having that meeting at all

Oh hey, my thoughts every time I’m pitched a new customer service chat bot.
I can totally get that. I didn't think it was too slow, but Stormlight is definitely slower paced than Mistborn. That's why most people (including the author) recommend Mistborn over The Stormlight Archive as a first read.
> the VMs they are selling are crashing

VMs would be a subset of existing iOS/macOS. VMs are more uniform targets than bare-metal, less likely to crash.

Think Microsoft CAL (client access license) paper entitlements.

Or papal certificates of indulgence, https://theconversation.com/the-catholic-view-on-indulgences...

Software margins with iPad-as-DRM-dongle, investors would rejoice! Broadcom and Qualcomm would be envious.
They would have to be completely autonomous.

Not much radio range under 500m of water.
Galloway says he bought $1mn claim for $270k. That's a nice ~4.5x profit.
His real talent is to find a bunch of these OSINT reports on a topic, combine them, and then apply his knowledge of economics and game theory and military history and theory to explain what it all means. As a PhD economist I can clearly tell he understands economics and has a talent for teaching it I only wish I did.