skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hailed as a game changer by... the company providing the service.

>It has been described as a "game changer" by Admiral Mike Hewitt, a cybersecurity investor and a director of the US-based IronNet

Sounds like an interesting approach to defending against drones, but a huge amount of these things will need to be deployed to create any sort of sizable shield as they're describing in the article.

No doubt that is what the company is advocating for in such PR pieces!

The Ukrainian battlefront is scrappy and resource starved. New technologies that can realistically be scaled are closer to using off the shelf Chinese drones, strapping a grenade to it, and uploading a custom firmware that has the capability to close on the target without a data link.

If this was some sort of software/sensor fusion framework that could be bolted onto Ukrainian homegrown drone tech, then maybe it would have some realistic utility when it comes to countrywide adoption.
Cosmic crisp has such good flesh but the skin is awfully tough. Is there a best of both worlds?

(I like sweetango too but it's hard to find)
You asked why the subject of this research is worthy of attention. I provided the answer. I suggest reading any newspaper article about the subject in question from the past three years for further context.
It's not just seasonality per se — it's that produce is simply not bred to taste good anymore. It's designed to be hardy enough to ship, growable all year round, free of blemishes, but not to actually taste good.
People still use Kik? I wasn’t aware it was still a thing… using lawyers as a threat on an npm package is such a lame and small move…
Agree. I've made it a habit the past few years to include before/after screenshots in my PRs and sometimes a screen capture of the UI/workflow changes. Also, screenshots in the issues pages for bugs or anything UI related.

I find it makes it easier for people to see and understand the goal of your changes and helps them focus on the how in the code review.

When others do that in their PRs I can jump straight into the tests files and get a better understanding of the what is proposed (or at least start the review process in a more substantial way - get the important stuff addressed early on).
In California certified farmers markets are not allowed to re-sell produce.

Not sure if it's enforced. And it's hard to look up non-existing laws in other states. When I don't find something I assume I'm not searching correctly, but in this case there might just not be a law to find.
So honeycrisp is the Top 40 radio of apples. Simply that which offends least.
I feel for customers impacted by this but hate that the only real choices customers have are local, but expensive, equipment or affordable, but outsourced equipment.

This is endemic in the home automation space. Nearly everything is made and operated on Chinese soil. Like security cameras, or, in my case, our LiDAR and camera augmented robot vacuums.

Some components, like lights and switches, have (very) expensive American alternatives. Some support ZigBee or Matter and can be controlled locally. Many many others require cloud infrastructure operated outside of the US and become bricks without it.

I would love to see the US mandate ITAR for all IoT devices sold in the US. If anything, that will help prop up local alternatives like Matter since that will be way cheaper than building compliant cloud-connexted devices.
You return a solar inverter you already have installed? Maybe purchased years ago? And in the meantime you might be without power. That's not recourse.
I'm not an organic/"local" produce snob, but garden tomatoes are tough to beat for flavor. Campari have the best flavor I've found from grocery stores.
It’s for sure cause for alarm, but it is a different alarm than if you gad broken into my computer.

I’m not a fan of the “they did something bad, so we might as well pretend they did something worse” line of argument. It strikes me as dishonest.
> Instead, the risks are concentrated in medium to long term health of individuals who undergo therapy. As of now, we simply don’t have enough data to profile risk factors. More experiments are needed to know if “FNSS for all” is too good to be true.

> Which calls this out but says we don't have enough data to know

I don’t know if that is true, that section to me reads as we don’t know if there are long term effects with FNSS therapy because they haven’t been study yet, specifically to the therapy. Not necessarily how FNSS or FNSS therapy is related to other sleep health studies.
your own answer highlights your reading comprehension fail. go read it again and notice how, if your claim was that it was impossible rather than virtually impossible, my statement would still be true. now notice you didnt say that because it is not impossible, just very hard and realize that is less stringent than canada for new purchases becaus eof recent and foolish changes by canada's government.
> Instead, where real armors evolve against threats, fictional armors evolve as a visual language [...]

I wonder if that hints at a "root cause" of the problem, or rather an additional constraint that movie armor is subject to and real armor is not: Prop design is all about which associations to evoke in the audience and which to avoid.

If you want to show some futuristic soldiers in hi-tech armor, you probably want to deliberately avoid any association with medieval armor - even if from a purely technical standpoint, taking those designs and upgrading them with modern/future tech would be the best fit for your soldiers.
99% certain this is where I copied the idea from.
In case I was unclear, I consider French dead and obsolete.
Small discussion (12 points, 15 hours ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42279055
Isn’t that, again, specifically a benefit of being purely functional?
I'm not sure about that specifically, I've only taken an intro to orbital mechanics class so esoteric orbital maneuvers are a bit beyond me but I understand that in some cases it is possible. I would imagine that one technique that we have yet to try is putting fuel depots in long distance places to facilitate the execution of these manuevers.

With that said what I had in mind when I wrote my comment wasn't using one rocket to launch a 100 probes to different solar bodies but instead to launch 100 probes to a single body in one go. I envision a time where we'll deploy massive constellations of remote sensing satellites, like mini-star link constellations for each solar body be it a moon or planet so that we can get real-time data across the whole body instead of having to stitch together pieces of data from one probe. Like Starlink these constellations will be able to relay data between the nodes should they lose line of sight with Earth and will be able to relay data to other constellations orbiting other nearby solar bodies to get the data to Earth if the whole constellation is blocked.[0]

I could see a near future where we start sending these Starlink like communications/remote sensing craft at the same time we send craft designed to pepper the surface of a body with multiple rovers and stationary probes to survey the surface of planets and again relay the data they collect between themselves and the constellations above.

It would be cool to see terrestrial bodies explored with some sort of RTG/solar powered stationary device that has an automated lab for sample analysis and seismic measurements paired with a dozen or so of these sandflea type robots[0] that can roll and hop over the surface to survey and collect samples to bring back to the stationary labs for analysis.

You can even look at sample return missions where some of these stationary devices have the means to send samples into orbit around the solar body that they're located on where the sample carrying craft rendevous with an orbiting craft designed to return to Earth perhaps refueling with fuel depots previously put in place along the way.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmYm3gMYOQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b4ZZQkcNEo
> a lot of it (dare I say most of it?) is written in Python

I guess ignorance is bliss once someone has done the work for you of getting it all down into TRT.
Mandate? When did the president sign a law written by congress banning C? And even then, the courts have ruled programming as speech, so first amendment applies. I’m not even remotely considering the possibility of letting the thought of pondering maybe worrying cross my mind here.
After looking at the photo, and before actually reading the post, I was sure it was a switch for retrofitted fog lights - they are not required in the US and you must to have them in Europe in order to pass MOT.

I have an almost identical looking switch in my Mustang (which I imported from America) and it does exactly that - turns the fog lights on and off :)
I was totally confused by the description of the Opal apple as "A tasty unwiped anus" until I clicked and saw what they look like.
Yes? What else do you think this tech is for?

Increasingly we should just move toward reducing all work just to the purest form, eliminating things like commutes or geographic locations from the requirements.
I would wager that most real world SIMD use is with direct intrinsics.
> In Germany […]

That‘s confidently and completely wrong.
Re: your last paragraph,
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

EFF have been running this for years. Gives an estimate about how many unique traits your browser has. Even things like screen resolution are measured.
The site runs off of a tiny little server at home so I’ve got some very aggressive firewall rules. Anything from the usual bad countries, certain signatures etc are blocked. Reduced traffic to 1% of previous load.
Iirc they've got a one-year timeout for updates, after which they'll make you sign in with a unifi web account in order to update. Deeply frustrating.
Why Sneer at Wetherspoons? (2023)
I have one - absolutely love it. Was Intel 12th gen, which was merely quite good (all great except battery life really) but upgrading to the AMD has been fantastic - much better battery and notable perf jump overall, and it was eye opening and awesome to just jump to the next gen of the product only replacing the changed parts so easily.

I also set up the leftover old Intel mainboard as a standalone server, which actually works remarkably well (peak power usage isn't great, but the idle is honestly pretty reasonable, so for a homelab it's perfect) and it's basically a free server.
Storage is the key culprit. One solution for that in the US is to buy New Zealand apples when it's nowhere near apple season in the northern hemisphere. Crazy to ship apples half-way round the world but they are delicious. I mostly see Envy apples from NZ in California.

Garlic is another item ruined by long storage. Christopher Ranch is reportedly storing garlic for 2+ years in refrigeration. That's why it doesn't taste like garlic anymore.
Using select2 when u do a search it highlights search result but he wanted it only on click .. only way to do that is not use select2. Yet all drop downs in the app use select2
Nice overview. What should be mentioned is that HPGL and EPS (PCL maybe as well) are vector formats and you can use Inkscape to edit and convert them to SVG or PDF files. Vector formats provide great lossless scaling and other advantages.
For reflexology/acupuncture, you could have a section where you highlight typical focus points used in reflexology/acupuncture, without giving any sort of positive acknowledgement for them as treatments.
Being able to just sleep 10 hours every day seems like an unfair advantage.
> already 13 million miles (20 million kilometers) from Earth.

Please, just call it a "light-minute", and remind ppl that the moon is one and a quarter light-seconds away.
How else will we know if seatbelts are effective in Africa?
Discussion (272 points, 2 months ago, 63 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41618685
Crazy? Maybe, but I also know that within my anecdotal data Spotify prefers to show you popular artists and/or songs you are already familiar with, making finding new niche artists a struggle for me. And most people will stay within what Spotify recommends them, meaning they are, in my experience, barely reaching the 12 new songs/mo minimum. I also have found that yes, most people do decide to stop finding new music as they get older. It’s very common for people to both overstate their desire for new media and to simultaneously slow down their intake of new media over time.

Me and you are both at least one to two standard deviations above the mean in terms of artist acquisition rates. And Spotify hasn’t been able to help me with music acquisition as much as exploring physical music selections or Discogs, BandCamp, or eBay has, and in those cases I end up with higher quality listening experience as well.
"Drag each symbol to the group that is most likely to be offended by it."
Glossolalia: Conjuring the Appearance of Communication
It's Jekyll with the Hyde theme. Source: https://github.com/mcy/mcy.github.io
I love the idea of Valetudo but flashing devices with it is a hell of a lot of work (if you can at all) and projects like these aren't entirely safe from takeovers from malicious actors either.
I was told by a grower that a large factor in apple size is the number of apples on the tree. Growers thin the fruit to control fruit size. Kinda like the tree is going to make some set tonnage of apple and if you thin them, it loads that tonnage into the remaining apples.

Apparently we like larger apples in the US while smaller apples are preferred in China.
Unless you use an epoxy of some sort, they’re quite prone to breaking over time — I only used natural beeswax.

(Plus, quite a few broke while I was iterating on my technique…)

To be clear, this is one of the reasons my then-girlfriend wanted one, to ensure a speedy engagement!
Not sure I agree.

"A bit of linear algebra, calculus and probability/stats" would make you better equipped at leveraging LLM? Or do you mean that having "a bit" of those you would be able to implement/train you own custom LLM to write code for you?
Running Out of Money (Crowdfunding?)
Hey guys,

Just finished med school and I’m developing a software for hospitals with a developer I’m paying by the hour.

The thing is, I’m running out of money (and honestly, I’m getting a bit embarrassed to ask my parents for more). The dev is super talented and reliable, and I really don’t want to lose him.

Do you think I should try crowdfunding? (And any tips on how to go about it?)

Right now, I think I’d need around $2-3k to finish the software (software = the minimal viable product that I've already made and that I could try to sell as a ready-made product. Ofc that if it works, it will cost a lot more)

If I realize this is going to cost me way more money and effort for some reason (like if my customer wants a more complete software but won’t pay me to develop it), then crowdfunding might be the way to go, right?
Black Market, Black Friday: What $20 gets you at the 16th Street BART plaza
One has nothing to do with the other.
It's a little annoying but overall not too bad. Don't need the additional modifiers but I no longer have ZXCV next to each other. I usually have two hands at the keyboard anyway.
Pips rise and software quality stays the same or gets worse. High performers get to delude themselves into thinking they have impact.
i've had mixed results with envy. when they're good, they're really good, but sometimes they are lacking flavour or a bit soft.

the magic of honeycrisp is that they're always about the same
I wouldn’t say it’s implied, but there’s a reason people put on nice clothes for an interview.

I’m looking at the graphs on my phone and I’m pretty sure that there are 5 graphs and 3 labels. And their 8B model doesn’t seem to be very good, looks like a 20B model beats it in every single benchmark.
How climate change is melting our minds
This doesn't seem fundamentally different from any schema/API mismatch issue. For example using the wrong header for a C library, or the wrong Protobuf schema.

I guess it would be good if it verified it at runtime somehow though. E.g. when you first connect to the database it checks Postgresql is the minimum required version, and the tables match what was used at compile time.
People complained but nobody put in enough work to get a good solution until someone actually did.
> Anyway, I'm staying with my old gas Honda until it dies which is probably never with proper maintenance and eventually restoration.

I would have stuck with my 2003 Honda Accord too, except that some woman, probably talking or texting on her cell, slammed into me while I was stopped at a light, totaling my car and damaging 3 others. I got $8K for my car after arguing with the insurance company, and paid $28K for a 3 y/o replacement.

The fine for texting while driving in Kentucky is $25.
For LLM's no, but the explanation is wrong also, it has nothing to do with 'false memories' and has everything to do with how LLMs work.

Here is the paper.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

RAG and fine tuning improve domain specificity and may reduce the problem to a level where you don't care, but it will always be there.

Clean data would help reduce the incidents, possibly to a level that is more usable, but also don't remove the problem.

Considering next token prediction as serial runs on multi tape TMs, with the previous output as the input can help.

Especially if you consider Microsoft's 1.53bitnet that requires full precision for training but can reduce weights to just the sign components for inference.

Unfortunately all paths to explain this I have require graduate level complexity theory and/or diff geometry. Or you relive the
Brouwer–Hilbert controversy by trying the logic path.
Discussion on source article (530 points, 4 days ago, 254 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42253119
rust-query manages migrations and reads the schema from the database to check that it matches what was defined in the application. If at any point the database schema doesn't match the expected schema, then rust-query will panic with an error message explaining the difference (currently this error is not very pretty).

Furthermore, at the start of every transaction, rust-query will check that the `schema_version` (sqlite pragma) did not change. (source: I am the author)
I used to have an orchard with c. 35 apple trees, 2 of which were honeycrisp. I can confirm that they are tricky trees to manage. I was theoretically in a good area for honeycrisps. But the trees were prone to all sorts of maladies that didn’t affect my other varietals, including antique varietals that are traditionally thought of as “difficult”. And when they did grow fruit it was usually small and misshapen.

Apples are interesting and this is a great example of the unexpected challenges you can face growing them. Every honeycrisp tree is a perfect clone of the very first one, but the environment of each is not a perfect clone of their original environment. And the interplay of genetics and growing conditions can have very unpredictable results.
They are great in each their way, but they're niche.

Production Haskell is for people who want to take their academic Haskell and turn it commercial. There's a lot of practical advice, both coding and non-coding.

Thinking with Types is a very good introduction to type-driven , but the later chapters assume very strong type systems (type-level functions, higher-kinded types, etc.) so you may not be able to apply this kind of modelling outside of Haskell, PureScript, Idris, LEAN, etc.

The book that translates best into any environment is Granin's Functional Architecture.

I can warmly recommend that one even if you're not venturing into FP as a whole.

I can't compare it to a whole lot of other software architecture books, though.
Because some of us go to sites like 4chan in order to learn what people really think. We want to see how they react and what they say when they are protected from consequences by the anonymous nature of the forum. We want the full spectrum of humanity, good and bad.

The opinions of bots are not just irrelevant, they are a form of consensus creation attack. They make it seem like a lot of people have an opinion when the reality might be the opposite. We are not interested in the made up realities that people pay bot operators to create. We want the truth, and the truth comes from real humans expressing their real unfiltered thoughts.
I think the sweet spot is a query builder that just ensures you emit syntactically valid SQL to send to the database. So there are no surprises about what the database is executing. But protects against typos and security issues from building SQL through string concatenation.
This is one of the bigger failures of modern society. This information should've been pervasive but back then it wasn't. It arguably still isn't, perhaps for the highly educated.

Back when I studied (15 years ago), if I knew that I'd have the short-term memory issues that I do now, I'd never have done what I did just in order to study longer.
Hi, idiot here. I badly wanted a US-made robot vacuum that uses LiDAR for mapping and a camera for object classification. This does not exist. Your only options are Chinese-owned-and-operated.

I could flash them with Valetudo and wire them up to Home Assistant, but doing so requires me to solder shit to the JTAG circuit and buy some niche hardware, which requires me to open up the vac and potentially brick it. I'm not risking that on a $1200 device.
Pinephone has em.

https://pine64.org/documentation/PinePhone/Privacy_switches/
> Apps typically aren't identified by DNS names.

Aren't they, at least on Android?

The gmail app is com.google.android.gm [1], and so on. The app ids are Java style reverse ordered dns names.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
This is a very generic list that reads like a ChatGPT “advice for ____”
Just did a CTRL-F and I am shocked nobody is talking about the magnificent McIntosh. Does the rest of the world (outside of Canada) not get them? The fruit has red and green skin, a tart flavour, and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. They've converted many, many people from other variants...
To me, the way inputs and outputs are presented in nodegraph editors adds value on top of the benefits functional programming provides. You see the cascade of every change in real time. Change parameters and see every stage's new inputs and outputs as they're transformed.

If I added Logger.Log calls to show as much info, my console would be a blur. I wouldn't be able to click on a parameter in my log and change its value and see what the consequences were.

You can change values at a breakpoint, but that's a single moment in time. If your code's running at 60hz, breakpoints can feel like trying to solve a where's waldo through an electron microscope.

I have not came across any workflow in my IDEs that is as flexible and informative for the situations where nodegraph editors shine. If something comes to mind for you, I'd love to know about it.

There's no theoretical reason a text editor couldn't be made to show the same cross section of key information though. TempleOS is kind of like that lol.
Interesting! I specifically remember wondering "why is the skin so tough on this?" before, when trying to take a bite of a sandwich and ending up with a whole slice of tomato pulling out.
I don't think this is necessarily true. Is there some really important reason many animals have brains in their head (versus elsewhere in their body), or is it that many species happen to be derived from some ancestor who had that trait.

Another way to ask this would be how much of a benefit would be not sleeping? It's difficult to preserve food, but I guess there is no limit on how much energy you can expend pursuing a mate.