skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Substations wouldn't be hard to protect against drones. Building reinforced concrete bunkers around them is something we know how to do. I'm surprised substation makers aren't offering Ukraine models with armored plates (or maybe they are?), a couple inches of steel is expensive but would stop small drones. The wires themself connecting to the substation are cheap enough to replace.

Of course the above all comes at a cost. It is much cheaper to put your substations in open air.
>Our parents and elderly relatives didn't grow up with smartphones.

Neither did about half of the millennials, so why don't they need similar help?

I don't think the qualifier is age, rather it is prior computer experience. I am elderly, and only started using a smartphone (as opposed to feature phone) about four years ago, but I have had my hands on computer keyboards for over 50 years, so learning to use all the basic features of a smartphone didn't require any help.

Likewise, many millennials did grow up using computers. If you already understand basics on a PC like bootup, shutdown, login, system settings, installing a program, starting a program, finding a program, copy/paste, upload/download, the smartphone should not present much of a challenge. Otherwise, learning a smartphone is mostly just learning how to use a computer.
Because I can configure exactly which search engines to index, no ads, use it for my local LLM's for search, better image search (maybe not better, but totally different results), a bazzillion tweaks and mods. I don't have to pay Kagi for the same results or keep track of how many searches I have left.
if we are going to be racist, then let's argue about americans being who they are, causing revolutions and threatening revolutions to keep said governments inline
I cannot read Romanian. Given the language barrier one would expect the BBC to at least do a bit of translation for its English speaking audience.
More practically, the fallout would blow in their direction.
From the comments people are seriously confused about the article.

1. Regulations as mentioned in the article are only regulations enforced by executive agencies.

2. The essential benefit of a given regulation is the result of a cost benefit analysis the respective enforcing agency must produce every 5 years.

3. Regulations not deemed economically qualified according to the prior point can be eliminated by the governor.
> The only nonlinear programming environments that have really worked are the spreadsheet (which is still linear within each cell) and Labview. Possible shoutout to Unity blueprints, but when those get too complicated sphagetti .. people rewrite them in linear text code.

Not 100% sure what you mean by 'nonlinear' here (flow control?) but almost all industrial and mining equipment is programmed in visual languages on PLCs. Ladder Logic looks like, well, a stylized electrical drawing of a bunch of relays wired up to perform logical operations. Function Block Diagram looks like a PCB layout, but the 'integrated circuits' are function blocks (basically functors) and the 'traces' are copying data between between the function blocks. Not great for implementing hardcore algorithms but you can do a surprising amount with them (once you get used to coding with both hands tied behind your back) and they sure are accessible to people who otherwise wouldn't be programming.

Of course, as you say, when things get genuinely complicated, it's much nicer to use a 'real' programming language (or even just Structured Text, which is pretty much just Pascal).

Then again, even with electronics, once things get complex enough don't we start using text (eg. VHDL)? Expressing designs is always a tradeoff between simplicity and 'obviousness' on the one hand, and representational efficiency on the other. Structured text sits right in the sweet spot between the two.
Yeah the classifieds business was huge for local news and Craigslist murdered it. Now ad revenue is declining. The result is subscriptions and paywalls.
They arent fine.

Intel seems to be cutting corners to be faster what made their tech full of security issues. Now those issues are fixed by microcode.. and chips become less efficient.

They also oxidize?
The court is the government.

> If the results was true the first time around it'll be the same next time.

Not necessarily. Given that the opposition party now knows what the people seem to want, they can do all sorts of things, especially given the knowledge that the court will strike it down should the election not go in their favor.
The real question is how much money does he stand to gain as a result? Was this a good investment? I would imagine it's a very good investment.

I think what people don't like about this is Elon has made it very visible that our government is up for sale. That's nothing new, but he's been the most in-your-face about it.
I suspect most people don't fly for the experience, they fly because they need to get from point A to point B. So it's still the same basic service, just with shittier add-ons.
>It's a non issue if you don't live in Russia.

Giving money to a criminal terrorist regime, (please no response with what about X)
The enterprise surface area that OpenAI seems to be targeting is very small. The cost curve looks similar to classic cloud providers, but gets very steep much faster. We started on their API and then moved out of the OpenAI ecosystem within ~ 2years as costs grew fast and we see equivalent or better performance with much cheaper and/or OS models, combined with pretty modest hardware. Unless they can pull a bunch of Netflix-style deals the economics here will not work out.
Obvious answer: because this is the American lawsuit for breaking American laws and there is another separate South African one for breaking South African laws.
They capture the reality (for many of us). I stopped subscribing to the NYT because they insisted on showing subscribers ads.

They can do what they want, but I don't really care if businesses that rely on ads go bankrupt.
Indeed. As a speaker of several languages, including RTL language (they haven't even considered the problems with RTL marks etc), I say stay with ASCII for usernames, keep UTF for full names.

If restricted ASCII a-z is good enough for passport names worldwide, it's good enough for usernames.
Not even in theory, it's solidly science fiction. And since you presumably need to park up and plug them into something to actually use them, they'll always be an blindingly obvious target. They'll be the things surrounded by wires, pumping out megawatts of heat.
You think the ruling classes in the US don't assume that they know better than the voters?

And they still get nothing done when it comes to entrenched interests. Let's not glorify the average voter either.
I think that's where I am hopeful.

I am more concerned on whether he will be allowed to do what must be done.

He's running head-first into very, very powerful interests in industrial Food, forever drugs, and media (whose major revenue source is the former 2 groups).

Its not a coincidence his mere nomination caused a bit of a ruckus already. There's been documented meetings from all major lobbyist groups getting together to plan how to take him down already.

There's nothing sinister, to be clear. Its just status quo. When people's expensive DC mortages depends on whether you have a job, and whether you have a job depends on whether your client can sell even more missisipi children lucky charms and ozempic via SNAP food assistance, the lobbyst do what must be done, from their perspective.

He screws the missisipi poor children and the tax payer, no 2nd thoughts needed.
my relatives, who had couple belarusian soldiers stationed on upper floors of 6-story buildings

"stationed" as in "lived while not on the frontline"
I know some people that are building a house in a rural area. Nearest electricity is less than a quarter mile away. PG&E quoted them $100,000 to bring in power. They're going solar.
I don't want any content enough to tolerate ads.
> We still enforce the GDPR

No we don't, and we never did. The whole "GDPR" thing is a sham - unfortunately this is the case in many countries, but especially so in the UK. The ICO is one of the most useless "regulators" I have ever dealt with, somehow even worse than telecoms regulators.

This isn't some sort of subtle and concealed breach of the GDPR that everyone puts effort into keeping quiet. It's blatant, obvious, and in the face of everyone who visits major news websites. If it was enforced, the practice would've quickly stopped.

It's about as subtle as committing murder on live TV. If you don't get arrested for that, it's clear that the law you've broken is not being enforced.

> You should report sites that do that

But let's hypothesize and see what it takes to actually do this:

As per the ICO's requirements, you must first contact the organization that has wronged you and give them time to address your concern.

They have 30 days to do respond, and could extend it potentially indefinitely by engaging in pointless arguments. They could also make technically flawed arguments in how they're not actually tracking you or collecting personal data, and those will successfully work because there's no technical expert on the ICO's side to review it and call bullshit. You need full-time admin staff to deal with these matters.

Assuming you finally get to a stage where you have grounds to make a complaint to the ICO, what are they going to do (if anything)? Well at best they will send a letter, which is not legally binding in any way and will promptly get ignored by the recipient, which is fine because the truth is, both sides are complicit and just want the matter to go away - whether the underlying problem is solved or not is not their concern.

In practice, even if the ICO wanted to act (they don't - don't bite the hand that feeds), what would they do? This isn't a single, small offender, this is the entire newspaper industry. They not only have a lot of lobbying power but outright control the narrative. They know it, and that's why they have no fear putting evidence of their GDPR breach on their homepages.

Are you ready to hire a full-time admin team to do this (and end up absolutely nowhere, except maybe collecting evidence of this "regulator"'s uselessness)?

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GDPR enforcement in the UK (and sadly in a lot of other countries) is and will remain a sham until the issue becomes politically important. The regulator on its own, even with the best of skill and intentions will not succeed in this battle. The only way I can potentially see this changing is if we see continuous and recurrent data breaches of politician's personal data and dirty laundry, but even then the likeliest solution is a two-tier system where politicians are allowed to have privacy while everyone else doesn't.
It doesn't matter if they get the capacity and clearance - they are not stupid enough to do it. Modern war has done a lot of studies and things like taking out the enemy power grid just make the enemy more inclined to fight. Ukraine wants to take out things that would make Russia less willing to fight on (or lacking that things that would make Russia unable to fight on)
I have never worked in start ups, but I've many friends in various mid-size companies. You know that `Best Mid Size Companies To Work For` survey they put out? Use that, while individual teams/business unit might be different, that list is fairly accurate from feed backs of my circle. Pick a few companies that are in your industry and see if you can apply for jobs there.
It seems most developers that are hyping AI capabilities have never used a proper IDE like IntelliJ IDEA. The productivity boost compared to using a text editor is real. Most experienced programmers that use a text editor subscribe to Unix as an IDE philosophy or have built their own integration using Emacs or what's not. Code generation is not an issue as I have an idea of what to write (If I don't, I should go learning about it instead of writing code). The issue is boilerplate (solved by code snippets and generators), syntax mistakes (highlighter and linting), and bugs (debugger and console log).
They betrayed their customers in the Storm-0558 attack.
They didn't disclose the full scale and charged the customers for the advanced logging needed for detections.

Not to mention that they abolished QA and outsourced it to the customer.
My gob is smacked by the overt mercenary cynicism here. They don‘t even pretend to care about possible negative consequences - in fact they don’t even really care about the positive consequences! This is a document written by and for ideological operatives. The “spring-cleaning” below seems to have very negative possible consequences, but the authors take a “credentials schmedentials” approach to considering such things:

Representative Examples of Spring-Cleaning Edits

Type of Spring-Cleaning Edit
Specific Regulation Example

Reduce barriers to entry into a licensed profession
Added an apprenticeship pathway for water-operator licenses in lieu of formal college education

Ease burden of licensure renewal
Reduced continuing education requirements for professions like nursing and plumbing

Expand professional scope of practice
Enabled occupational therapists to perform some duties previously limited to physical therapists; expanded pharmacist prescriptive authority

Empower business ownership
Removed the requirement that a plumber have two years of journeyman experience to own his own business

Limit supervision requirements on a licensed profession
Removed the limit on the number of physician assistants that may be overseen by a physician; expanded the duties that may be delegated to a dental assistant

Expand consumer choice
Eliminated the prohibition on selling alcoholic beverages at college sporting events; removed barriers to telehealth, enabling broader access to health-care services and access to specialists

Liberate academic institutions
Removed the requirement for the board of nursing to review and approve curriculum of nursing programs and deferred to existing accreditation pathways

The “occupational therapists and physical therapists are basically the same thing” is going to ruin a lot of people’s knees. And I wonder how long it’ll take for Iowa to quietly reimpose “plumbers must have requisite experience to run their own business”
Telecom industry 'think tank' tries to smear community owned broadband
Influencer Marketing Unplugged with Emily Freeman [audio]
The project looks great !

But I wonder who the audience is... The website says "serve millions of customers from a tiny box". Who does this appeal to ?

Solo developers who have million of users, need very low latency, yet are happy with a just a SQLite database for their backend ?
No doubt the people who work for the mob benefit from murder, drug-running, and extortion, but it doesn't follow that having them around is worthwhile.

Ads are a scourge.
Nuclear plants have generally not been attacked. NATO and China have both strongly implied if there is nuclear anything attacked used they will jump in and force end this war in Ukraine's favor. We don't know for sure but it seems likely that would happen.
Infowars is an interesting example it’s (was) basically a health supplement company masquerading as a media company. Most of its ad load was selling supplements that it produced.

All shadiness aside it’s an interesting model. Cuts a lot of the middlemen out.
Ask HN: What is your favourite keyboard customizations? (qmk,system config)
For me the most useful customization I've ever found was to replace CapsLock by Esc. It is so ingrained in my muscle memory by now that I really struggle to use a keyboard when this mapping is not in place.

I've always made this configuration via system options and it works really well. I was pleasantly surprised to discover this was a pretty simple configuration to set up in a mac, much easier than what I had experienced on linux.

Recently I've started to dip my toes in the QMK world and was wondering what are some interesting 'modernization' I could apply to my workflow.

I see a lot o people singing the praises of layered workflows, but my memory is not that great and I struggle a lot with the 'layout memorization' part. Maybe if I could print my own keycaps this would be easier.

Do you have any customization ideas to share ?
I started intermittent fasting where I would only eat breakfast after running on an elliptical for an hour.

I got my butt to the gym pretty quick in the day because I was hungry
"I wish I could buy an article" is close to "I'd buy that on a t-shirt" on the sincere-not serious spectrum.

Most people won't do it when it's offered. The few who do aren't enough to be worth implementing it.
Built a Chrome Extension for Split Screen in Tab, Inspired by Edge's Feature
Chrome lacks the built-in split-screen feature available in Edge, which I often found inconvenient while studying, researching, or even managing stock trading.

To address this, I created Split Screen in Tab, a Chrome extension that allows you to split a single tab into multiple windows with customizable layouts (horizontal, vertical, or drag-and-drop). The goal is to improve multitasking efficiency, especially for learning and productivity workflows.

I’d love to hear your thoughts or feedback, and how you manage screen real estate in your browser!
Netburst's branch predictor choices survived. It was the penalties that were a bad idea.
No. The UK and Germany should have said something like "If you hit another Ukrainian powerplant, then we will give them Storm Shadow and Taurus."

The entire value of deterrence is to deter... not to respond.
Most websites provide value - they have readers - but few of them provide enough value to convince people to pay directly for them. Often it is not even the money itself, is the hassle. That's why there are ads.
VMS++ == WNT
How does the focal length affect the background? Are you referring to the focal length's relationship to the depth of field? Because otherwise, I guess that the effect you're referring to ("A portrait taken at 28mm will look very different than one taken at 150mm no matter what you do.") is an artifact of the same thing the GP comment talked about, which is the effect of the distance between the camera and the subject.
Not OP but Raspbian afaik is one such distro.
They didn't forget. They remembered extremely well that both sides can do that. They know that it leads to a feedback loop where the threats escalate.

And in a nuclear world, those threats can escalate to annihilation. The result is Mutually Assured Destruction, and choices are made based on whether you believe the other side is in fact crazy enough to commit suicide.

Russia knew that the US would supply arms. They also expected that they would be able to conquer the country before that could help. They were wrong, but that came as a surprise to everybody (except perhaps the Ukrainians).

The US keeps weighing how much they're going to escalate the threats. They've prevented Ukraine from using their weapons to attack Moscow, precisely because Putin has used Mutually Assured Destruction. Get anywhere near him, and he will use nuclear weapons to destroy the world.

Do you believe him? That is literally the most important question in the world right now, because if you guess wrong, the consequences go way, way beyond Ukraine.
I think probably if you worked through line-by-line you’d find a lot of it is valid ES5 as well (and GoJa does actually support a lot of ES6, see https://github.com/dop251/goja/milestone/1?closed=1).

Also, what features do you need to code in JavaScript to extend PocketBase functionality?
The native Tibetan populations have adapted biologically to the low oxygen, which is why the Sherpas are so much better than the rest of us up there.

Andean and Ethiopan populations also have separate such mutations of their own.

Academic article: https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/46/1/18/661204
Would love to learn more about this. Could you please share some more information?
They also had Space (discontinued in May) and Space Code (discontinued last week). I don't think GitLab makes much sense for them
Agreed. Anyone want to buy some Hawk Tuah crypto? That painfully young influencer seems like an expert in it...
Are you replying to the correct thread? It’s “just” as in “only” not “just” as in “justice”.

Regardless of your personal feelings if you kill someone in defense of yourself or your property it’s going to matter a lot what state you did that in.
Your distinction— understanding the law, broadly, and being able to try a case in court are themselves two extremes on the spectrum of people that understand law. The invective for clickbait obviously exists.

None of those facts means that it’s easy, or even possible to write a headline-length blurb can give laypeople the context they need to know what’s happening.

Maybe I’m wrong? Can you propose one that does?
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>search access comes at the cost of tracking

don't you have your identity (through payments) tied with every search query you make when using kagi?
Yep, they sit in this very, very weird spot. On one hand they (I suspect) don't want to tarnish Apple's brand, so production quality is very reasonable, which is cost. But they charge below market. Their content is above "play it in the background while scrolling" forgettables like Sex/Life, but below polished pearls like Band of Brothers.

Having watched Presumed Innocent on Apple TV, I have had very similar thoughts. <spoiler> Supposedly it is detective fiction, with some intertwined stories, so called unreliable narrator. But then instead of tying everything together they throw all those parallel stories and draw gotcha card. Cheap novel wrapped in shiny production. </spoler>
The first known animal that's "immune" to alcohol intoxication
The amount of missiles you need to penetrate the defenses and actually get through the extremely hardened/resilient shell of a nuclear power plant is invariably more usefully spent elsewhere.

A group of terrorists once attacked a French nuclear plant. Admittedly only with an anti-tank missile, so smaller warhead, but apparently they had a hard time finding the scorch marks. The containment of modern reactors is designed to withstand an airplane strike, which is at least an order of magnitude more powerful than the warheads of cruise missiles or tactical ballistic missiles.

Whereas you can probably take out solar panels with a hand-grenade, which you can lob directly or carry via drones. Don't even need to expend a suicide drone, just have it drop the grenade.

And once again: apart from actually not being well supported logically, your theory is also contradicted by the real world evidence on the ground.