skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only time NATO has actually gotten involved in a conflict was in Afghanistan after 911.

False. NATO Command led the bombing of Libya in 2011 (taking over from the French).

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

You can search for "NATO Libya Lessons" and get a ton of articles by analysts, many published in US military journals and/or written by US think tanks on the subject. For example, here's one from RAND:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2014/11/natos-campaign-...
I think if you want that, JavaScript isn’t the right tool. The single threaded simplicity is a big part of why it is a useful tool. You can always spin up external processes from within your app, or use a load balancer or queue to share work with multiple identical processes.

The idea of just horizontally scaling up a node process wouldn’t make a lot of sense. How would you share scope between the different processes for example? You would need a whole new construct, at which point you’re really throwing away the advantages you had and you should probably be using a different language.
> Maybe if you guys really think you are much better than Russia that it has no rights to fight back then go there and invade it.

Priceless. Naturally, the only way to prove Russia wrong about NATO aggression is to prove them right about NATO aggression.
I also really enjoy there seems to be a lot of things that run on top of a mutant version of MMC. IIRC, that’s also from the NT4 days.
Fun write up, kudos!

At a glance, this feels like a good case for an exact cover algorithm. Would be neat to see how that compares, here.
There's nothing unsavory about HN using a cookie to label your comments with your username.

Cookie warnings are like "known to the state of California to cause cancer" warnings. If not displaying a warning creates serious risks, and there is no compensation for legal costs to prove that the warning wasn't necessary, everyone will display the warning everywhere as a precaution.
"AI overview" (which I happen to find really useful) was only available on Chrome and Safari for at least a few months.

Sure, it's a lab experiment or whatever, but these are just words, and the effect is that I have to use a different browser to be able to use them, for absolutely no technical reason. (The LLM is running on Google's servers and provides plaintext. I think Firefox could handle that.)

Just visit this on Firefox if you want to see for yourself, including a big "install Chrome" call to action: https://labs.google.com/search/install
If you would have asked me while I was a young Marine I'd say, "hell yes." I recall the commandant visiting in Afghanistan and Marines were asking him where the next combat zone is because they are eager for more action.
> yet NATO/EU just looks weak and pathetic in the process

Really? Russia, with the 6th largest army in the world, had to pull in Iran and Pyongyang to not get invaded by the 13th largest [1][2].

Moscow is being a nuisance. That doesn't make NATO or Europe look weak, it makes Russia look pathetic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/world/europe/ukraine-russ...
I can easily imagine AI spitting out volume. I can't imagine it spitting out quality. Most of what it generates now is just trash. Like the Tourist/bear paradigm in dumpster security there may be overlap between the worst human writing and the best AI writing... but that's not how you make a successful film.
What, like a do not track http header say.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
It depends on what the potential outcomes are.

I've worked on a (medical, not aviation) system where we tried as much as possible to recover from subsystem failures or at least gracefully reduce functionality until it was safe to shut everything down.

However, there were certain classes of failure where the safest course of action was to shut the entire system down immediately. This was generally the case where continuing to run could have made matters worse, putting patient safety at risk. I suspect that the designers of this system ran into the same problem.
3d printing build plate optimalisation, passenger transport, real estate plot division. Let's make this list longer?
That's pretty much all this is.
That would sell like hot cakes to the public sector.
They're constantly saying this about everything.
Incidentally, I turned this off today. I suspect it's terrible on battery life and I will find out.
But the thing about the summaries that was they would sometimes imply the EXACT OPPOSITE of what was in a message. I had a few stomach-dropping moments when reading the summaries only for me to read the actual thread to see it was nowhere close. This is one of "it's not even wrong" situations and I don't know how it was fucked up this badly. The nature of the texts themselves weren't complicated either. I didn't save them, but I suspect it stemmed from misinterpretating some subtle omission (like our common practice of leaving out articles or pronouns).
The US's short history since 1776 is actually peaceful by relative standards. Despite the genocide of indigenous people, a revolution, slavery, a civil war, and some crime we have had a lower percentage of people killed through violence (including forced starvation) than China or Europe in the same period. Have you heard of WW1 and WW2? I make no excuses for the terrible things that Americans have done at times but the notion that Americans are somehow "absurdly violent" is simply ahistorical and unsupported by any hard data.

For all of its faults, it's great that the USA continues to be the country where the best minds from all over the world still want to move. It gives me hope for the future. Those immigrants are typically glad to be here and prefer to focus on building a better life instead of navel gazing recriminations over historical events.
Thanks for sharing. By skimming through readme some stuff is still not clear to me:

- Can it be used for rejecting consent and not just consenting to everything?

- If so, do you maybe know what happens when it doesn't have a rule for rejecting consent on some site? It would be great if it just lets the pop-up pop up normally.

- How does it handle the "legitimate interest" checkboxes? I.e. can I make it uncheck them all on every site that provides them?
or turn to sci-hub and annas-arhive :)
Some Google sites explicitly say "install Chrome to use this", e.g. this one: https://labs.google.com/search/install
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> Or should other people besides you die?

Yes. We literally have a country willing to do this for us if we give them the weapons.

Otherwise, a country whose population is unwilling to fight for itself isn't a country, just a convenient demarcation on a map.
i'll have to give firefox another look, it has been years.
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I wonder if we're already starting to see this - have noticed that jazz is becoming popular again with young audiences.
That was not a NATO action.
It really depends on where in the world we're talking about. iOS is big in some places (like US) but insignificant in others.
One thing I'd really like AI to do (and Ben Afflect touched during his talk) is that once AI is cheap enough to run at home, I'd like to feed it all David Lynch movies/TV shows, and ask it to produce a Twin Peaks season 4.
its possible. Just look at Apples GPU, its mostly supported by torch, what's left are mostly edge-cases. Apple should make a datacenter GPU :D that would be insanely funny. It's actually somewhat well positioned as, due to the MacBooks, the support is already there. I assume here that most things translate to linux, as I don't think you can sell MacOS in the cloud :D

I know a lot developing on apples silicon and just pushing it to clusters for bigger runs. So why not run it on an apple GPU there?
> Against a real military with SEAD/DEAD, you would witness an Iraq 1991-style collapse within weeks, perhaps less

Other than the US....can you name some "real militaries with SEAD/DEAD" that actually have deep enough ordnance stockpiles, sufficient basing/aerial refueling to support a sustained air campaign against a country as large and well-equipped as Russia, etc..?
What is a VLM?
One of my relative complained about high food price. Then I expect imposition of tariff to spike food price even higher, ditto with immigrant deportation if it's actually implemented as the president elected suggested.

You're right that the people who's making the literal food on our table should be well compensated, from farmhands to the farmers who own their land. However, what you're suggesting is putting people between a rock and a hard place.

It would be easier to deal with if housing and transportation costs weren't so expensive though.
Oh nothing much: Mailpit is installed via a script and then we added a systemd unit vs 'gem install mailcatcher && mailcatcher'
I have not used any. What are some good ones to look at?
Safari has been the new IE
From history: "Flexible Response" was a policy implemented by JFK in 1961, in response to previous administration's over-reliance on massive retaliation.

Of course, it dragged the United States into Vietnam as things slowly escalated.
Some websites basically force you to install the app for that.
> what's left?

The other pipelines. Their shadow oil fleet. There are lots of options. But to my knowledge, only the British, French and Americans are capable of the long-range clandestine operations.
Don't you mean we pay them to take it ?
"HTTPS version of news.bbc.co.uk is not available"

I wonder why. Incompetence?
But you just made a strong claim about something you are here saying we can't know?
>CVS wont even let you return meds. Their solution? "Just throw it in our medicine disposal bin"

This seems like the desired solution, no? What alternative are we hoping for here?
No image uploads on the free plan is tough. Might drive more upgrades but makes using the free plan untenable for me

Might be smarter to limit to a few images because 0 will likely push a lot of people away
People gave up on reporting spam calls. We need to make telcos financially liable for carrying spam calls. And put the death penalty on those who make them.
Like the parent I have a hard time processing the narrative that environmentalism is an existential issue except when we need cheap Asian goods to undercut American workers.

I guess it’s a dead horse though since clearly this kind of cognitive dissonance has handed all branches of US government to those advocating for tariffs and the same populist sentiment is well on its way in the EU.
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Elusive to you, essential to people living in my country. (You can't do your taxes without it.)

And look no further than Google themselves: https://labs.google.com/search/install
Yes, it was [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
> Nato is a defensive alliance against any offensive act.

See my response to sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177029

Which NATO member was NATO defending when it bombed Libya into oblivion?
I'm reminded of various videos on Youtube where they dissect grenaded engines. "Oh look, the Cummins in your pickup dropped a valve seat. That's going to cost you $50K."
I would be fine with all of those. The environmental regulations are the top of my list though. I have seen too many instances of EPA or NEPA completely blocking or slowing development to an untenable pace to support them. Workplace safety is important but I prefer it as recommendations not requirements. US labor is not competitive internationally. We expect more compensation for the same job people halfway around the world are doing to produce things for us. If you want domestic production you have to remove the chains that made us uncompetitive in the first place. Minimum wage and environmental protections are the top of the list.

The Hoover dam was built in 5 years, 2 years after the idea was approved. Skyscrapers of the same era were built by men walking on I-beams, untethered, hundreds of feet in the air. We have become too risk averse to compete internationally.

Just the NEPA paperwork for a new project can take 5 years. For NEPA in particular, we pay employees at the state level to file the paperwork and employees at the federal level to review it. There is no way that is an efficient use of public funds. All it does is slow down our development and put the power of controlling development in each state in the hands of the feds. We are essentially paying twice to ask for permission to build the things we want to build.
Ditto. Even though I'm an expat right now if Poland calls to arms I'm coming home and fighting to defend my country.
Where would this cultural specialty sit? We're all the same naked apes everywhere. Culture develops on the resources available. The human particles are too homogeneous for a group of special human behaviors to cause development. It is much more likely that the overall configuration of economic forces to cause the storms of extra value falling somewhere to give rise to the development and following cultural assertiveness.

Kinda like the rain forest. It's the global rain patterns that cause them. It's not that the rain forests have a special rain attracting power.
Just failed the Rs in strawberry test.
i could not tell from the article whether this was a site with a backend using node.js or if it was just a frontend depending on node.js for the build tools.

for the latter i get around the problem by avoiding build tools altogether. i use a frontend framework that i can load directly into the browser, and use without needing any tools to manage dependencies. the benefit from that is that it will ensure that my site will keep running for years to come, even if i leave it dormant for some time. the downside is that it is probably less optimized. but for smaller sites that aren't under continuous maintenance this is a reasonable tradeoff. i built all my recent sites that way using a prebuilt version of the aurelia framework.

incidentally just today i tried to research if i could build a site with svelte that way. well, it turns out that although it should theoretically be possible, i was unable to find a prebuilt version to do so after a few hours of searching. for vuejs i found one within minutes. i'll be learning vuejs now.

see this thread for a discussion on going buildless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41479365
Warmongering 101. Ready to protect the EU and drunken wasteland at the same time. The enemy is simultaneously pathetic and an existential threat.
I think it might be worse. Google has lied about Chrome and privacy so much that you can just assume it phones everything back to Alphabet even if you set it not to.
Reminds me of the old Electric Imp, which was like an ESP32 before the ESP32. Also came in a (full size) SD card form factor.
It's funny how folks see their jobs as safe, but nearby jobs that they don't understand as at risk. In this case, actors are safe, but VFX better be worried. Ben knows actors are artists and it's going to be hard for an AI to mimic all the experience and subtleties he's gained over his life. The same is true in VFX, it's just that Ben doesn't understand the art or the process of visual effects.
Because Google itself can still track people if they sign into Chrome itself (which it actively encourages by using it as single-sign on for its own services), and thus AdSense can still serve targeted ads, but other ad networks cannot.
since its entire reason to exist was to effect an artificial market segmentation, I guess the answer is .. yes?
So sacrifice more Ukrainian men for the meat grinder? What has that accomplished so far?
> problem starts if (when?) Trump and his clown posse turns the US into a similar setup

Lots of institutional checks in America that post-Soviet Russia lacked.
> they will be aligned (all lowest bits being zero at the start

I don't think so. At the start k will be equal to keyIn, which can point to any arbitrary memory location.
Sometimes they work great and sometimes.. not so great. They definitely need some work.

I haven’t found them particularly useful but I also don’t get bombarded with notifications.
while outages definitely cause big problems in hospitals and schools, neither are completely dependent on connectivity in the short term. most hospitals are required to be able to operate critical services in an outage. even a full power outage. Schools will definitely be fine. they just may have a serious backlog of entering grades, absences, and payroll once things get back online.
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> The installation is more expensive than the material.

That's exactly the problem, isn't it? If any middle class person can afford high-quality wood flooring for their middle-class house, you need something exotic for your mansion. Right?

You know what's crazy? I've got stacks of white oak and black walnut firewood. No furniture maker or woodworker will touch a felled tree in suburban or urban areas because it might have a nail somewhere in it. People will cut it into log lengths with a chainsaw and then beg others to come take it - as much as you can fit in your truck. For free.

PS - unless I'm missing something, solid oak flooring is still in the same pricing ballpark as engineered wood flooring, often times a bit cheaper. It's the labor cost for installation and then finishing that makes it pricier overall?
Arlington is, according to this article, the county with the lowest per capita "annual deaths from land-transport accidents and homicides". I wonder if there are similarly-sized areas (for example, inner Maryland suburbs of Washington, to just take the most obvious place to look) that perform equally well on this metric but just don't happen to be counties.
Cloudflare captchas are an excellent point.

Sure, technically nobody is excluded: Just solve the captcha! Fraud heuristics are only reasonable, right?

But it's all fun only as long as your situation occurs within the 90th or 95th percentile of all data labeled "good customer". Good luck if you're out side of that...
I had no interest in this feature until I read this article, then I immediately switched it on.

I honestly feel Apple should lean into the weirdness by allowing people to change the prompt or allowing people to install alternate prompts from the App Store. So you could have your messages summarized as a haiku or poem, or in the style of Shakespeare or a movie character. I think there would be a market for that.
Their shadow oil fleet is operated by third parties and shell companies. We are dealing with a mafia state here.

https://windward.ai/knowledge-base/illuminating-russias-shad...
You are evidently unaware of UNCLOS and the adoption of many of its provisions into customary international law
Looks like a pretty transparent hint on how response to the recent US/UK/France permission to use long-range missiles against the Russian territory could look like. The Nord Stream sabotage has opened Pandora's box almost exactly how it was predicted in Cryptonomicon.
I think it's complementary as well, even more so after MinIO deprecating its Gateway and Filesystem modes a couple of years ago. MinIO is "S3 compatible" object storage, so technically, MinIO users should be able to use your product to have a file-system like experience on their buckets and objects, although you're using IAM and there might be a need either for your client to handle pure S3 credentials, either for a third-party plugin to your client to do that. It could be a good opportunity to piggyback on MinIO's userbase.

We had built an MLOps platform[0] a few years ago and enabled users to use their S3 buckets in a "file system like" manner. This made it possible for them not to have to know or write S3 specific code in their Jupyter notebooks as most people in the industry did with boto3, which also forced them to write code (say using TensorFlow) in a certain way for training to consume the files, err, objects. It was a mess, and we removed that for notebooks that could run the same way on a laptop or on the platform, even with the shell kernel so people could explore objects like files. MLFlow could work on a filesystem or on S3, but it had no authentication, so we built around that to know which user/experiment produced which artifact.

MinIO had a Gateway that was deprecated. We didn't use it much and they didn't have an admin client at the time, so I rolled one up to orchestrate the thing.

One way I did it that hook into users' compute and storage as opposed to offering storage/compute was for two reasons:

- Organizations already had their data somewhere with established policies. Getting them to move that data is very hard (CISO, CTO, IT, legal, engineers). Friction would have been huge.

- Organizations already had budgeted compute and storage, they may have had contracts/discounts/credits with cloud providers and it didn't make sense to ask them to make a decision on budgeting for another solution.

- A design principle of having the product being able to die without leaving the users scrambling to exfil/migrate data.

One way to do it was to handle FUSE, and your mileage may vary (s3fs-fuse, goofys, etc). Amazon has released Mountpoint last year[1], and one question you'll get asked is why use Regatta when I could use Mountpoint?

Less friction for engineers and execs.

In any way, congratulations on the launch, man!

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230325150132/https://iko.ai/

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/mountpoint-for-amazon-s3-ge...
Might be useful to show the differences with Rclone, s3fs as a table to make it obvious
This is for "new patients" though, once you're in it's generally fine. It's a back-pressure mechanism for them to not sign up too many new people.
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Hey, hold your horses. Biden also threatened to blow up the Nord-Stream 2 pipeline, yet after the sabotage, everybody said "it was Russia". Now about this incident, to be consistent, I'm inclined to think it was the Americans.
Officially, NM is the abbreviation for nautical miles when used in the context of aircraft operations. It’s not just a good idea, it’s the Law. Specifically, 14 CFR Part 1.2 of the United States Code of Federal Regulations.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-A...
Prius uses an Atkinson cycle engine, doesn't it? Inherently more efficient than a conventional engine, albeit at the cost of lower power. You can get that effect with variable valve timing in some power ranges, at the cost of more complexity.
When you use Chrome and sign in, Google is tracking you.

When you use Edge and sign in, Microsoft gets to track you.

Both companies are selling ads.
Mellanox magic: The secret behind Nvidia's meteoric trillion-dollar rise (2023)
Even more straightforward, just don’t believe anyone 100% knows what they are doing.
Terrible article, written by AI perhaps? Most all of our culture leaders; politicians, recognizable celebrities, etc are far past 40.
The big problem with atmospheric railways was sealing the slot in the tube where the piston inside the tube connects to the load. Early atmospheric railways used oiled leather, beeswax, and tallow. Those were not really good enough materials for the job.

There are solutions for this today. They're widely used in rodless pneumatic cylinders.[1] The seal is flexible metal strip to metal, forced closed by the interior pressure of the cylinder. In the 1980s, there was a brief revival of the technology by Aeromovel, which built a few theme park and airport systems. None seem to be still running.

[1] https://tameson.com/pages/rodless-cylinder
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