skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tbh Perun often just takes a report released by RUSI, ISW, or other war think tank and does some narration over it. On top of that, he often extrapolates from very small or noisy data.
If they called it a Macbook Air with an upside-down bulge and a detachable keyboard, would that be just as well?
How is Wealth of Nations surprising for a modern reader? My (perhaps incorrect) intuition is that these sorts of old foundational books tend not to be too surprising because their ideas have permeated society already, which is why I’m curious to hear your take.
1. Scams. Human deepfakes/fake-fakes to make you believe you’re communicating with a real person.

2. Self-image editing. You want a picture of yourself doing something you are unable to do. Could be benign, but very likely being used as a scam on social media in some way.

3. Marketing. Putting your product in some setting without having to do a photoshoot. People will argue this isn’t a form of scam, but it seems suspect to me.
I don't prefer it to less mediocre books.
Yikes is this something I'd have to deal with for personal SMS usage? That is, I might want to send myself an SMS from an online app once in a while, but never to anyone except myself. I hadn't heard of it before.
> The world will change in ways forever that none of us can ever foresee at that point.

Nukes are not magic. Of course we can foresee many of the changes a nuclear exchange would bring. Especially on the “planning for war” level.
What are some low-hanging AI use cases for enterprises?
Everybody talks about AGI and ASI but literally there could so many use cases like search and customer support can benefit from AI. Do you have any thoughts?
i think the problem with revamping Q-Link/AOL into the be-all end-all for everyone (thats human) youre gonna hafta pump the prime with AI chatbots to give the appearance of lots of people to draw you in, kinda like how reddit admins pumped the prime by making tons of posts early on. just a little light treason.
Pick any from library or best sellers from amazon
>All weapon systems that consist of an expensive vehicle and an expensive-to-train crew are being re-evaluated against drones right now.

Worth mentioning that this already happened to an attack helicopter 20 years ago! The Comanche[0] was a revolutionary recon/attack helicopter with some mental stealth engineering behind it - everything from limiting sound profile via blade design & fenestron, a radar presence a fraction of an Apache, they even directed the exhaust down the tail boom so that the heat generated could easily be dissipated by the tail rotor!

Unfortunately for helicopter nerds, UAVs were a fraction of the price, suitable for recon and attack, and pilots could survive it being shot down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%E2%80%93Sikorsky_RAH-66...
Epic doesn't make phones that run Epic made OS.
Not as a first class citizen.

* It's only recently you could have unattended updates of applications.

* It was not possible to distribute additional app stores in Google play, third party stores had to utilize sideloading which includes "scary" warning messages

* Googles terms and conditions essentially required the play store be installed by default by vendors.
What are founders reading on Customer Discovery, Acquisition, and Development
Then it is just another proxy war, like the last half of the 20th century between major powers.
Don't companies with large deployments build in some kind of support deal with their supplier?
Yeah, hence why I started already migrating, slowly.

I have a simple tab organizer extension and some greasemonkey scripts that should work perfectly fine on Firefox without any changes.
A government beneficiary doesn't typically refer to anyone who is advantaged by a governments laws, but essentially a person or entity who receives a monetary benefit from the government, which is likely what is being referred to. This is what did not exist in the US till the early 20th century.
There were a number of essays that influenced my world view and a story that left a strong lasting impression.

The essay on why we consume mass media was insightful at the time and particularly prescient given the rise of influencers, streaming, and short form video.

The essay “Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness” influenced me greatly. It made me realize how much pure artistry and mastery there is in the world. And most of it goes entirely unappreciated.

Incarnations of Burned Children was an amazing piece of literature in a harrowing and terrifying way. To this day, years later, I experience extreme l’appel du vide when carrying hot water around my children.
AI-generated images aren't worth a thousand words, at least for now, because the "prompt space" is just too small.
What is the uBI status on Brave, Edge and Opera?
Chrome is on there and people still use it. It’s just not using Blink. Web browser ≠ rendering engine.
Helicopters like all CAS require air superiority / supremacy to operate effectively. Neither side has either, so it is not an ideal environment for a helicopter to operate in.
I was a scout leader in my late teens and early 20s, and that had quite a lot of "sociality" to it, that went beyond "meet up for drinks occasionally".
Apart from some old 3G tech demos with TV streaming, none of the user data multi/broad cast functionality from 3GPP cellphone standards reached a usable state in consumer hardware, with the single obvious exception being cell broadcast (basically broadcast SMS, by my understanding).
I'm not sure why people would actively want their game to require either EGS or Steam, though, even if it's convenient. EGS has business practices that drive a lot of people crazy, and Steam has an awful security track record and was also convicted of anticompetitive pricing. (Though people seem to like Steam's business practices even with that conviction, which also always struck me as a little weird.)

It seems like not requiring either one would be the more neutral, agreeable position to take.
It wasn't a test about Objectivism. It was about ideological intolerance and zealotry in general. Note that you could fail it by whether you're pro or con Objectivism.
All you have to do is Google + GPT and you can be an expert too!
A Week Is a Long Time at OpenAI
I'm still at the "This extension may soon no longer be supported" warning
> Reddit is already lost. I was talking to the mods in a large political subreddit and they said after Reddit started charging for API access, all the tools they used to keep on top of the trolls and bots stopped working, and the quality of the whole subreddit declined visibly and dramatically.

The whole point of the API access change was to charge AI model-makers. I'd be ironic if the API change made destroyed their product and made their data unsellable.
Just get cb radio
This comes up a lot but when did Google say their platform was "open"? Maybe a few times in the early days when Google was still considered "cool" in hacker circles, but probably not in consumer-facing advertising? Moreover, "open" can mean a lot of things. I don't think I ever signed an agreement with Google that promised me source code for Android or the ability to sideload on my Android phone?
As someone who recently quit vaping I can shed some light.

My understanding is that the FDA recently banned flavored vapes, however the wording of the rule made some reference to the ban being for “cartridge-based” vapes, presumably to target Juul over roll-your-own-vape-juice type systems.

This lead to a loophole where the disposable vapes, being disposable and not cartridge based, can be flavored.
This. Also, importantly, you need ownership and governance mechanisms as a founder so employees are partners.
Writing Advice Is a Lie
Congrats, they do look good at first glance, without the usual overly shiny look, and the pure Nature images do look real to me. I'd really like to visit some of these places.

However, details are still off, e.g.

* the guy you linked to apparently sits in a car, but the ceiling looks like a house (at least I've never seen a vehicle like that). Reversed issue with this guy: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/EeJBCnNsZG1...

* the bicycle guy sits in the air, and the bike is mutated in several places: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/WrfWYZlthe2...

* The face in Yoga in the field is distorted: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/BUcURAtyzjb...

* Hands are ok-ish but not yet solved: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/SeO8u2HZ-V2...

* Any text is obviously fake, which also affects urban environments. Agree with this caption: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/oc6eI5w2kQQ...

Bonus points for this portrait where the tower seems to have a face as well: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/6ho0FIV-i2t...
That’s not the case. It happens, for sure. I know some hair raising army jokes, but plenty of military people recognise their opponents as people just the same.
Most of these look very good! Signs, text, clocks, number plates, and girders or spindly branches tend to go wrong. There are a few mutant hands [0].

Mountain Sheep in Snow [1] looks fake to me - the sheep are more like dogs fading back to rocks, and have different scales.

Underground Time Display [2] looks obviously fake as the clock's colon is in the wrong place and the sign has fake writing.

[0] https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/ozjUKlysLql..., https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/XcNnWM6L54Q...

[1] https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/It9DhumKX7w...

[2] https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/GygiLirdHvq...
As a subset of "best" I read "The Daughter of Time" because it was voted the best crime novel ever.

It was good. A modern (well, 1951) detective solves a historical mystery while bedbound.

As for things that might be "Best" with a capital B I Loved pretty much everything by Umberto Eco.

Neal Stephenson used to feature an NYT quote on his website that described his works "bogging down into lectures like Umberto Eco without the charm", so if you like the historical lectures in Neal Stephenson, check him out.
If someone from Stripe sees this, I think there is a lot of value in updating the branding to be "Adaptive|Localized Currency Pricing." That immediately conveys that this is about currency calculations, and not price or profit maximization via algo. Two cents product feedback from a rando.
People in this discussion are concentrating on the drones (which are a big factor) but the massively effective HIMARS and ATACMS is worth noting too.

Precision guided artillery has been a game-changer in Ukraine.
Ask not what you can do to the attack helicopter, but instead what the attack helicopter can do to you. Increase vulnerability is only one side of the coin. If there are still valuable missions that can be better done by an attack helicopter than by a competing system, then they are not dead.

But yeah, drones will probably take most of the missions away.
So is the only difference between "x32" (sic) and 32 bit x86 with PAE the fact that "x32" can use full 64 bit registers?
> But no one has proven to me that they want to live.

I think I see where you're coming from, but this is a mighty perverse thing to say about people currently dying of organ failure who have expressed a desire to not die of organ failure. This isn't hypothetical, you can reach out to them and ask them how they feel directly. Not paying attention to that is a lack of diligence on your part, not a lack of expression on theirs.

Contrast that with an unborn child who literally cannot express a preference. Proving a desire to be born is a very different problem.
It's HN, so we're not allowed to acknowledge it
Avionics for sure, but there's not really anything like a "5th gen" helicopter. Helicopters are mostly close air support. No one is going to send fleets of helicopters to engage in air to air combat with other fleets of helicopters.
Another thing commonly left out of these napkin math scenarios is cyber security risk... it may make sense to cut down on human resources, but you better make sure your drone fleet won't be commandeered by an adversarial nation-state's script kiddies. Cheaper to make, but perhaps also cheaper to have them turn on you.
I’m also very doubtful, but at least in Austria it’s being touted as a potential DAB alternative.

(That might just be a strategic device by the incumbent public transmitter operator though – they have ubiquitous FM coverage, which helps avoid competing programs on DAB out by decreasing the utility of buying a DAB receiver.)
Battle vs war. In the right situation any weapon is effective.
The logical endgame of this is war between a bunch of drones with very few humans in the loop, with the only viable way for either side to end it being to attack civilian targets until the opponent surrenders.
I don't care about the two proprietary browsers you've mentioned, but Brave is going to (partially) support manifest v2 and maintain uBO compatibility for as long as they're able to:

https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

Not that you really need it as Brave has its own very capable built-in ad blocker with -- last time I checked -- higher performance than uBO (since it's compiled into native code) and full support for same ad lists.
The mining for renewables would be a small fraction of the mining for industrial society as a whole.

So, if electrification cannot be done on this, industrial society as we know it is doomed, and nuclear cannot save it. Unless you're thinking we're going to have nuclear reactors in our mining vehicles...
I am not surprised, drone warfare today requires a lot of people and a lot of manhours, and it does not scale that well. Several guys are often moving the equipment on foot to get as close to the frontline as possible, so that the pilot can have a few shots at delivering a pretty small explosives to a target they might not even found. On the other hand, few conscripts can jump on a Grad and start shooting rockets on a whim.
Nice. Is there a way to add an rss feed? Can't seem to make the newsletter subscription work (could totally be my fault)

Also, do you think there will be a way to use python with it?
Sure, but you've elided the actor, director, and the rest of the crew from the equation from the equation.

Equating the script to the document seems a bit off, IMO.
If I have to go look at log files to see if the intermediary tool is doing the right thing, I might as well just write the SQL myself, right? jq has more use cases dealing with JSON that could come in handy. sq seems to handle trivial use cases but for complicated data models its going to be a hindrance.
Right. For example S3 supports custom headers, as long as that header happens to start with "x-amz-meta-..." - and now your progress reporting is tied to your CDN choice!

Not sure about you, but to me "XmlHttpRequest" in my request handling code feels less dirty than "x-amz-meta-". But to each their own I guess.
Libertarian island where any biotech product can be bought, just sign a waiver
ChatGPT Business Goldmine
The image linked in that comment has a background that's half car and half building, but yeah apart from that minor detail it's pretty hard to tell.
Given your technique, how can one verify these aren't just copies of the training data?
Good lawyers or BS legal system?
The problem is that this is not true. There are no such clean strictly hierarchical layers in most of the protocols that make up the internet.
Communication and detection underwater is a major issue. Radio is not effective at any range. Audio datalinks are short-ranged, low-bandwidth, unreliable, easily jammed, and give away your position. Active sonar gives away your position. High speed both gives away your position and makes passive sonar useless.

Torpedoes are forced to use physical wires for remote guidance because nothing else works.

It would be pretty easy for someone to develop a quiet, long-range torpedo that can be launched undetected outside active sonar range. (Assuming this capability doesn’t already exist.)

Also, SSNs already carry long-range drones called cruise missiles.

Manned subs will take a long time to become obsolete.
Honestly I would probably ask OP whether they re-read it as an adult and whether it held up on second reading. I know I've gone back to things I liked in 8th grade that seem very cringe to me today.
I hate violence. I was in a movie theater with friends, near the ticket kiosks, which were all crowded and a large muscular jerk who was visibly drunk, got agitated trying to buy a ticket, shoved my then-pregnant friend and boyfriend. They were unharmed, but shoving match ensued. Seeing my friend agitated, I brought attention to the situation by yelling loudly "Hey what's going on?" and trying to get other people to witness the shoving. Muscle jerk turned to me and said "oh, you wanna fight too?" I replied "No, I don't fight. If you want someone to fight, I'll call the police." I then started to ask for security from the theater workers who pretended not to notice. Fortunately, muscle jerk's anger had enough time to dissipate, and left.
I don't know what the situation is like in the US, but I was shocked to discover that there are no AM stations in my part of Canada. It is cool in tje sense that I can direct my antenna and pick up stations in Newfoundland and New York on a good evening, without dealing with interference from local stationd, but it would be positively useless in emergency situations. Even if distant stations broadcast useful information during an emergency, picking it up in a vehicle is unreliable. If the antenna is directional, the strength of the signal is going to vary wildly based upon the vehicle's orientation. If the antenna is not directional, you are going to have trouble with interference.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely believe that broadcast radio is an essential tool during emergencies. I buy phones with FM receivers and have backup battery packs. I have an AM/FM/SW reveiver with backup batteries. I have a VHF transceiver, and am licensed to use it in both amateur and maritime bands. But, realistically, I don't see how most people would benefit from the few advantages that the AM broadcast band offers. You would likely be better off improving the resiliance of FM broadcast infrastructure. Even then one must accept its days are numbered.
> Honestly, is cave-in such a big civilian problem that we need to prioritize it as a talking point at all levels?

Considering (1) the number of people who are employed in mining occupations, (2) the frequency of serious accidents in mines, yes. Particularly in developed countries, societies expect that great lengths will be gone to rescue or recover the victims, and mine rescue is incredibly dangerous work.

(1) BLS says ~200K in the US in 2024, although only a minority of them work underground.

(2) BLS says "underground mining machine operators" is the 9th deadliest job in the US, and that is with a large and well-equipped mine rescue system (MSRA says 250 teams across the country).
I bow my head to the eternal Puppy Linux.

Not that I want to see the end of Microsoft like many do. In fact, I don't care. But it could be in real trouble if the masses suddenly became aware of simple, easy, and efficient software like Puppy -- which makes people's dependence on MS even more inexplicable.
How does that refute what the parent comment was saying? Sounds like you are agreeing that the problem is not the technology but the people and processes in place.
I agree, Washington does seem to at least aspire to better roundabouts than some places I've heard of. The one rule I see to be truly necessary is "yield to oncoming traffic from the left."

I still get confused at the big roundabout in Kent, after coming off Highway 167 at Willis Street, but most others I've encountered are fine, despite the drivers who still want to stop before proceeding onto them even when there's no other traffic.
What technologies are Japanese companies developing here, and does the tax payer get any of that privately held revenue back in return?
Came here to say this. Ukraine also adapted by, most likely, having a roving Patriot that ambushed a few Ka-52s (and a few fixed-wing jets).

Western militaries don't seem to have much capability for tactical/mobile medium range air defense. The Russian Air Force has been extremely unimpressive, but has cobbled together an effective tactic now of launching glide bombs at front line targets from relatively safe territory. I am surprised no one has figured out how to put one or two long-range air-air missiles on a loitering high altitude drone.
The West Wing is this for American liberals.
Pictures are always taken from a very low angle and make it look much larger than it is. Behind the electronics area there is the riverbed. When you look at the picture, you might think the „dump site“ goes on and on. It doesn’t.

Trust me, I visited the place in 2014. Of course I had read about the place before. When I got out of the car, first impression was that our driver didn’t bring us to the right spot. It is not that big actually. The waste was mostly domestic then, judging from what I saw (CRTs for example).

Agbogbloshie is so much more than the processing of e-waste. Think of it as a commercial area. There was a large market for onions and other products. There were workshops where people build gas stoves out of car rims. Dismantling cars was big business. There was a Coca Cola Factory on the other side of the road. The air quality was really bad but it was mainly caused by burning tires, not cables. You cannot have tires sitting around there because they will always catch water (in any orientation) and therefore be a breeding bed for anopheles, which is the vector for malaria as you may be aware of.

Over all, the people who worked with electronics, not only the scrapers but also the people who actually repair and sell things, where only a fraction of the people living, working and trading goods there.

It might look different today. Government cleaned the riverbed at least once in order to prevent floorings. There were also attempts to move the onion market. Don’t know if that really happened. I am not saying everything was fine there. Working with e-waste is dangerous. There are unhealthy levels of lead and other things in the soil and in the people. But there was neither the infrastructure nor the workers to process significant loads of foreign e-waste. Even 15,000 tons per year (figures thrown around then in western media where an order of magnitude higher) is two heavy trucks per day.

I will post a few other sources later but have to sleep now. But check this out:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01973...

One of the authors is a geographer at the University of Ghana. Full paper should be available via your local library or sci-hub.