skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you protect a power grid from state actors?

I think one of the best ways is mutual destruction assurance. Ukraine should be given the capacity and clearance to also take down Russia's power grid.
Bird-inspired drone can jump for take-off
Remake of PS2 game just dropped yesterday! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2958970/The_Thing_Remaste...
(A) not all environmentalists take a non-nuclear position. Be careful painting with a broad brush

(B) some people's opinion is based on emotional reaction to a technology rather than a cold calculus of how much a technology could do to reduce global warming effects and reduce humans environmental impact.
Book Review: The Rise of Christianity – By Scott Alexander
OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching 'AGI' clause with Microsoft
Video Guide – AutoHotkey and Interception Driver Command Line Installation
Programming is Hard, Let's go Scripting (2007)
I wanted to know about headphones that have high sound quality yesterday and you know what I did to find out? I googled it.

I found out about ChatGPT and became a paying subscriber in january 2023, because it was all over hckrnews, youtube, twitter and tech media in general.

New stuff and recommendations are everywhere. They are even a form of entertainment themselves. I watch several tech channels on youtube just to see what cool new stuff there is. There are channels and websites for movies, books, home renovation, hobbies and anything really if you want to know more.

No ads needed.
WireMock Now Has an Official Spring Boot Integration
Hi, thanks for your feedback.

We were considering making typing practice more forgiving, but in the end, you really need to be precise when writing in another language. But your point about the keyboard is a valid one. However, if you really plan taking on another language and you are serious about it, you get to have multiple keyboard layouts at one point anyway. Still, I understand your point and we'll see how we can improve this experience.

Thank you for mentioning Language Transfer. With the way our app is designed, it is actually very easy to add new content and idea about audio lessons is a good one.

What our strong points are is pausing the audio anytime, tapping and translating words and ease of exploring how one word can be used in different contexts and what forms it can take.
Fortunately for OpenAI the contract states that they get to say when they have invented AGI.

Note: they announced recently that that they will have invented AGI in precisely 1000 days.
How to Fine-Tune and Deploy Embedding Models
> If everything is a legitimate target the defender has to decide whether to expend limited AA to protect civilian or strategic targets.

And this is precisely why targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime, as is hiding/embedding military infrastructure in or below civilian infrastructure.
Aside from things mentioned by others: Having a network to potential buyers.
Cost != price/value. You can produce energy cheaply at noon, but it has little value compared to electricity produced at 18:00. The higher the share of renewables in the electricity mix, the more storage is needed, and it grows faster than linearly. You can also not stock electricity in advance for months in northern areas. There are a lot of factors to keep into account, and the cost of electricity production is often a minor one, when considering the total price.
I think the important part is that you could choose to look at those or not.

For all it's faults facebook advertising is similar, you can just scroll past an advert if it's of no interest. I don't find their adverts overly annoying.
Rather than focus on zero ads, I would like to see better ads and better ad targeting.

Lately many ads, are for things I HATE, and advertising them makes me not want to watch the content I really want, if there is ads I actively hate. Government ads in particular I find offensive.

But it seems wild that the ad targeting is so bad.

I ride a bike and am anti-car, so stop giving me ads for cars and trucks, I will never buy.

I don't think Ive had a video game ad in years, but outside of food and rent, games and tech is one of my biggest budget line items.

Why is advertising so bad? They spend too much money on the technology and data to target consumers.
The question is not about that. The question is whether you feel it's unfair when you perform the same work and receive less than someone else. I suppose you have no idea what the billionaire did and hence you don't care. It would perhaps be different if you knew the billionaire from school, went to the same classes, did the same stuff, but they ended up billionaires while you did not?
> But the EU ordered it to be reintroduced because they wanted the rules the same within Europe.

This is incorrect, though there was so much confusion around the reporting on this that it's not surprising that people got this impression. The EC allowed the scanners in the first place, but has reinstated the 100ml rule because they don't work properly. This is implied to be a software problem, and the reinstatement is implied to be temporary, but there's no timeline to lift the restriction again.

Vaguely coherent, though still not great, explanation here: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/08/23/100ml-limit-on...
Agree.
So far "the progress" implied understanding (discovering) previously unknown things. AI is exactly the opposite: "I don't understand how, but it sorta works!"
Ah yes, it's the Ukraine's fault that Russia is indiscriminately bombing them.
When you think about all the time, money and effort that have been wasted on Unicode...
little did we know that all it would take to cure cancer was $2000 in store credit to Google But Sometimes It Lies (Professional™ Edition)
> when you thought he was learning and improving, he forgets everything and starts from square zero again.

I'd say it's more like: every time you start a new conversation with him, it's like his first day on the job.

But also: within the span of one interaction with him, he advances from junior to senior engineer in your specific domain.
That Zeiss hardware has a fixed frequency (and wavelength) of the X rays (there are 2 variants, the one with a higher frequency and smaller wavelength has a wavelength close to 0.15 nm).

This article is about a tunable high intensity X-ray source, which can be used instead of a huge synchrotron that could do the same thing.
For comparison:

- 5 weeks paid vacation, you can decide per day basis whenever you want (really)

- plus all annual holidays

- 320 paid days (70% salary) of parental leave per kid, divided between as you wish

- 40h work week

- regulatory maximum of 60h voluntary overtime per year

- free nice healthcare

Plus:
- free sick child care service (at your home)

- massage benefit, travel benefit, culture benefit, electric bike benefit, car benefit, lunch benefit etc.

Everything except ”plus” is for all Finnish companies with atleast 20 people. Smaller compnies don’t have to provide the healthcare part (then it’s just free public one).

Plus benefits are common for most tech companies and best ones include the child care as well.
While that is a type of inequality it's not really what they're studying here. The IA they're looking a is more direct and is triggered in situations where equity would be expected. Unless you're a renown celebrity that's just been categorically underpaid it's not really apples to apples because in some sense you don't perceive any actual inequality. That person is doing a job that pays them that well.

the IA here would be more like you and a friend go over to help your elderly neighbor with his yard work. You both rake up leaves and both do the same quality and amount of work. Your neighbor then gives your friend $200, and then gives you $5. Out of a sense of IA you might actually reject that money which is disadvantageous inequity aversion since technically that leaves you with nothing.

Now if your friend had cleaned the gutters and fixed the toilet and you had just swept the porch you would not feel as unequal since the tasks were different, but given a sense of equal effort you would likely not be so casual about being snubbed and come next year maybe you won't even help your neighbor, or at least not with the same friend.

and you could probably narrow that gap down if the snubbery were consistent. Maybe you help your neighbor all the time and he consistently gives your friend $10 and you $5. after the 6th or 7th time I would be surprised if you didn't begin to harbor a sense of inequality over a mere $5, and for a job you would be willing to do for free anyway.
I see it the other way, assuming these tools keep on improving you will only need junior developers as there's no point on knowing more than the basics about programming to get a job done.
The thing is, Ukraine does not want to do the same as Russia does. For one, it would be a war crime on its own, but especially, they don't want to give Putin the propaganda points "the evil UA Nxzis bombed our power plants!!!" that the 5th column worldwide would parrot while conveniently ignoring that Russia did that shit for two years.
Trying Kubernetes for the first time (my journey documented)
The richest people, hence the most valuable for advertisers, would buy it. This significantly affects the whole ad business value. Such that the ad-free tier would have to be priced too high. It’s more profitable to “force” everyone to watch ads. I’m afraid.
>$200 monthly plan

I've switched to using a selfhosted interface and APIs.

The effective cost per token on monthly plans is frankly absurd.
I always crop, but always and only 8x10. Why? Because I saw the results from my past clients. There is something about that ration, whether it is genetic or historical, that makes people feel more drawn to my photographs.

And I agree with all of his points. Modern cameras have made people focus more on the technical and less on the art. I sold a photograph I took with a point and shoot Canon A series for $150 multiple times.
AI can be used for financial gain, to influence and lie to people, to simulate human connection, to generate infinite content for consumption,... at scale.

It won't go anywhere until _we_ change.
> people don't pay attention

Let's start from the fact that people never asked for TSA. It was imposed on them and never went away.
Excuse me - do you understand what a component library is? It's a whole framework from element wrappers, styling, animations to pre-made pages, filtering and sorting functions on tables etc. Think MUI, Bootstrap or PrimeNG.

HTMX is just "replace this with response", you'll still have to write all the CSS classes, manually add them to all the elements, do animations yourself etc. I like HTMX, but I am tired of backend and hobby programmers shilling it at every opportunity. Try to write a reasonably complex website with it and give it your friend to maintain and improve. You'll understand why frontend frameworks exist. HTMX sends you back to the HTML-in-PHP ages with homebrew ORMs and what not, because there's no unified way of doing things.
Oh absolutely, I am not talking about the provider side. Sure, it is not trivial, it is doable to set up a central directory and maintain it for relatively affordable.

The problem is with the software you are using. A lot of SaaS software has the connection to an SSO provider locked behind an enterprise tier.

Take Figma as an example. Their Pro tier is 15€/mo, their Organization tier is 45€/mo. A 3x markup for the lowers tier that supports SSO. And that is among the more reasonable prices. I’ve seen markups of 10x for an enterprise tier that is essential a pro tier + SSO.
Interesting! I share a keen interest in synthesizers.

If you play these patches on the DX7 itself, how good is the reproducibility? I would assume the digital settings to match perfectly. Is there anything else going on that might make patches feel different on different DX7s?

For example, I could imagine some oscillators having subtle differences, perhaps with variation with temperature? If the signal path is all downstream of the same clock, at least until the final analog conversion, I’d expect negligible variation.
I didn't say many were no car. Jus that it isn't as bad as the reputation by a bit. Your experience proves that I think
For Chernobyl, the projection is ~4000 such "statistical deaths".

The deaths directly attributed to the Chernobyl accident are... surprise-surprise... 30 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319286
Yeah we should have all just stuck to Shift-JIS
Those are most likely illegal too, although local DPAs have been mucking with allowing them.

The CJEU however doesn't seem to like the practice, considering Meta/Facebook wants to do the same scheme, and as a general rule, when a major company does it, it'll eventually get a decision from the CJEU.
FFWD later is independent of context size, each processed token passes thought the same weights.
> It feels spacious, natural, functional, and hospitable.

If we want to solve the climate crisis, this is everything an airport should not be.
Lots of bad photographers can’t seem to figure out photography is art. All the rules get in the way of them understanding that. I do wonder if photography attracts people who were never interested in other art forms. Certainly the best photographers have an artists mindset.
> Adobe announced that it's acquiring Marketo, a company that sells marketing software, from Vista Equity Partners for $4.75 billion

> New Relic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners and TPG for $6.5 Billion

Sounds like he is good salesman, the numbers are quite good.
It's a great move by the Verge but I agree with the article that it doesn't go far enough.

Why not offer a premium ad-free tier?

For me, viewing web ads is non negotiable (print ads were much more manageable and didn't prevent me from enjoying the content).

However I only view about 4-6 Verge articles per month so I'll see how it plays out. If the best stuff goes behind a paywall then I can't justify subscribing, and nor do I want to hand over personal data to every site I read occasionally (for several reasons).

I've always wondered why publishers can't follow the Spotify or Netflix model for at least some of their content?

This does also raise the uncomfortable question of how much the content is worth. Yes they have some exclusives and unique content but in other areas if I stopped reading it I'd have another hundred reviews of the latest Apple products to choose from, and Reddit is much more realistic (albeit noisy) about the Sonos debacle than The Verge. The article about undersea cables was good though.
> the vibes

I went to lunch the other day with a friend. We had both worked at Intel during our early careers, and we still know people who are there over 20 years later.

Of course the topic arose of our old workplace. We had a great time there it should be said. But neither of us stayed on, and it was vibes.

Even at that time, as a young guy in university, I thought something was wrong. I couldn't tell what, since I was a young guy who barely knew anything about the business. But I knew that I felt uncomfortable about potentially spending decades at a place where everyone was so relaxed. There was no urgency. People would come in, find a colleague to have coffee with, and that was their day. I checked with the other interns as well, it was really chill.

I was working on my thesis, and my team was working on rolling out what would later be called WiFi. Amazingly, part of the strategy was to slow down certain standards, because we were behind in some of the fabs. That didn't seem like what you would do as a cutting-edge technology company. People at the all-hands would ask things like "should we keep AMD around just for show? So that we aren't a monopoly?". Well, that problem has been solved now.

I got offered a permanent role but never even considered it.
The people receiving benefits are not being rewarded for anything. They're simply being helped in a time of need. If you don't know the difference between a helping hand in a time where you desperately need it, and a receiving a fair reward for what you've done, you should really try and think harder about the topic.
Natural diamonds have variety as well. Just not the ones sold in jewelry stores, because they all generally come from the same DeBeers-owned mines. Diamonds are gemstones that can be found all over the world, with each location producing stones with their own unique properties.
> What would happen if Russia attacked these power plants directly

There is zero need to attack a NPP directly.

If you really need to shutdown it then just target the power distribution system - a reactor can't run without providing the energy and if there is no load then you need to shutdown it.
Richer people always get products first, when they are still expensive and bad. Don't worry about too much.
At this point if you believe they don't produce anything new is either of two things- a) having not given a fair shot to the current flagship models or b) you have a very narrow definition of new that is satisfied only by a very minuscule of human population.

If it's the latter, then agreed it doesn't produce anything new but so doesn't most of humanity and it doesn't need to, to be able to be of assistance.
Despite working in the industry, I always found the "cone" terms for NAT confusing, and difficult to remember.

So once the BEHAVE terms came out, I adopted them, as they were (at least to me) more obvious. They're also more flexible in that they can describe real behaviours which can not be mapped to "cone" terms.
I didn't realise we were being that pedantic about the phrasing. I had 3 months to evaluate a project, it took 1 month, I got asked to create a technical document for a migration in 2 weeks, it took 1 week. I wrote a prototype in a framework i didnt know and did it in less time than I could in a framework I know well without AI.
A love that HN doesn’t have pics and that they strive for short meaningful titles, so I’ll stay here :)
Всеки трябва да използва латиница, абсолютно съм съгласен.

After all, it's objectively the most perfect set of characters for any reasonable human language.
Maybe I'm hijacking, but I see a generalized problem - how do you keep snippets of text that you use in your browser?

My current kludge is to edit long fields of text in an external editor via a browser addon, and have the editor save all such edits locally.
Agree it would be nice to have, there is an open PR with one.
Always great to see alternative hackernews frontends!

I really like the newspaper like layout.

My own hackernews frontend project is this: https://news.facts.dev/interests

The goal was to add a quick way to filter by interests
Don't worry, those robots are coming!

https://www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi0

Software moves faster than hardware
Gordon's book 'Inside OS/2' was one of the most accessible and well written texts on Operating Systems I've ever read.
The saying, “If it ain't broke, don’t fix it,” comes to mind. I’m all for progress, but Hacker News's simplicity and density are its major features.
Worlds: Mutability with Control
I don't really want to, which was kind of my point. I don't want to spend 5 days in the gym to lift a heavy box once a year, it just doesn't make sense.
Metrics are useless in my experience for figuring out a problem. For the most part they only tell you that you have a problem. Being able to slice and dice logs that you have faith in is critical in my experience.
Print magazines were paid, either via subscription or purchasing at a street kiosk, and had advertising in it. A lot of it, actually.

The ads just weren't as obtrusive, privacy-invading and annoying as what we have now. A lot of them were fun to read, had amazing photography, because creativity still mattered, not just volume. Unfortunately alternatives to bring back this more harmless and tasteful form of advertising to the web (RIP The Deck) have failed.
AT&T won't even build fiber home internet where they've already got fiber. One of their fiber lines has been running under my driveway for years but they've never offered it at my address.
That minimum level is to be flown to your destination.
A study that made very questionable assumptions.

Links here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_the_Fuk...

Regardless, even if deaths were in the 100's, the deaths per GWh remain safer than that of coal and even, gasp! hydroelectric.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
50M in salary is actually quite high. The S&P 500 average is less than 20M. I’ve seen companies half the size of Intel pay their CEOs ~11M.
Nope, they do not. That whole experiment was killed a while ago.
These are all very interesting points. I’d like to add the total flop of Arrow Lake. That’s the type of thing the board likely cares about.
True, they have the information game stitched up tight. But if it was retaliation I’m sure it would be ok.
What has HN come to... teenager jokes (woosh?) about a serious topic. It's not at all clear you were joking, please remember people cannot hear your tone of voice, or see your body language, all they can see is what you wrote which looks very serious to me and by the responses here, to most others.
My guess is that some of those ads bring in so much money that covering them with an ad-free model would lead to a cost that they feel is prohibitively expensive.

There may be ad agreements that preempt their ability to offer ad-free at this time, likely in the case of ultra-premium advertisers.

It could also just be good ol’ internal bureaucracy at play. Maybe there was a turf war, and this was the best they could do while keeping everyone happy.

Edit: The point in the other comment about it affecting reader demographics is a good one too.
> naming things is one of the hard things to do in computer science

I've been thinking about that a lot lately. Code is text, it's arranged linearly, code has to be readable, identifiers are thus short strings that try to express short essays about the purpose of the variable or whatever it is, and then ideally there's a longer version of the essay in a comment, but not too long because that would clutter up the code as well (because it's text, arranged linearly). And we have code folding to tidy them up, for what good it does, and ideally an even longer version of the essay in documentation except nobody writes that.

What if it wasn't text, and wasn't linear, and we didn't have an expectation that code should be strings of stupid over-terse names and hieroglyphic symbols? So I was thinking vaguely about investigating graphic-based programming, but it's probably worse, IDK. It could automatically assign arbitrary icons* instead of identifiers, and you could write tooltip-like comments to describe them as and when you want to, and everything could be laid out nicely with diagrams and different pages instead of like a text file. I suppose this is all merely cosmetic? The thing with the instance on code being written as strings of text feels very primitive, is all. It causes this problem.

* Which doesn't solve the problem, I admit, because now you have to remember what the icons mean, but maybe that's easier?
Another option is gets caught but walks free due to jury nullification.
Well, the moral and true answer is that invest into the developing world until everyone has the ability to earn a living wage and can afford small fees like this should they choose.

Anything else is anti-poor.
> The Verge trusts Feedly to not abuse the paywall mechanism?

Yes, just like they trust your browser not to share the paid content with others.
I think people blaming OS/2's failure surely on Microsoft are missing the point that IBM grossly mismanaged the project.