skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> gathering data on us

A substantial leap. Given that these are flying near military installations, wouldn't the most plausible explanation be that these are test flights? What data would be gathered from low altitude that could not be aggregated from the myriad other sensors in our environments? Or from satellites, etc.?

Seems like the U.S. military has taken to heart that in any near future conflicts, forces of any branch will need to be heavily augmented by drones for reconnaissance, offense, and defense. So, if that's true, I would expect any military site at which personnel are trained to be flying drones constantly. And it serves them no benefit to let everyone know what they're doing. If the U.S. public is "read in", so are all potential adversaries.
"Try it out for free!"

Demands a google account, as if my personal info is somehow worthless.
Additionally, VPNs aren’t the panacea many paint them to be, and I seriously wish that stopped. There’s nothing stopping a VPN provider from sharing your data, and governments can ban VPNs. The true defence is encoding rights in laws, not circumvention.
A Kanji Always Pays Her Debts
Something can be punishing without being a punishment.
So does Magnus unretire?
Q: What do you think should not be legal?

A: Illegal things.

Seems this exchange has run its course.
The Chinese "spy balloon" that it turned out wasn't a spy balloon (according to the pentagon)? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66062562
Seems like its not that big of an accomplishment relative to the way the headline makes it (obviously a big personal accomplishment). I figure 18 year old chess should have the mental abilities and maybe experience at that point to be able to rise to the top...
GP was drawing a parallel, not alleging that wage theft is a part of these particular bankcruptcy proceedings.
I bought they keychron Q11 because it was cheaper and it is way higher quality than I expected. It's a fantastic split keyboard.
Subway Surfers while you wait. Oh boy.
Control of the Gmail account and ability to get an oath token for that account are one at the same, as far as I know. Both indicate you’ve authenticated as that user with Google.

There are a few others. I’m not sure it’s worth the special casing, but it can be a better user experience.
I really dislike the business model of Tinder->Snapchat->OnlyFans conversion.

There might be a lot of fish in the sea, but there's a lot of pollution too.
Not to high-bandwidth usage. Such low frequencies have some unique properties, but most of these properties are no longer needed nor useful, and even the cases where you do want e.g. extreme single transmitter range, we can now do that with much higher frequencies and bandwidths in much lower power envelopes than kilohertz transmitters.

It is only valuable in the sense that it is a very limited resource.
Why are we just looking up at the sky and wondering what they are? Send up a few AI assisted hunter drones to go find them and see. Then track, photograph, disable as needed.
Not possible, it is banned in some parts of the EU. Publicly funded German TV is available, however. This is from the German equivalent of the BBC, titled "Coup in Kiev: What role did the fascists play?":

https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/panorama/archiv/2014/...

It uses the word "coup", but then says that the majority of the protesters demonstrated for a free Ukraine and were against the corruption of Yanukovich.

The rest of the article is about the Swoboda party, which is ultranationalist and had good contacts to the German NPD. The NPD is a fringe party without any substantial numbers of voters that is classified as ultra right wing.

It then mentions a Neonazi (their words) called Jarosch and his party "Right Sector". It goes on to say that the "Right Sector" was instrumental in ousting the old regime physically on the barricades.

It says that the members then established new security forces that replaced the police.

What does the BBC say?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

The same U.S. that complains about election interference in Romania is picking candidates in Ukraine after the revolution.
I vividly remember reading the code controversy around Internet Explorer 10 defaulting to have Do Not Track to be On, and the author of the Do Not Track standard submitted a patch to Apache [0] which ignored DNT when the user agent was Internet Explorer 10. Full story: [1].

[0]: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f...

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/apach...
I suppose in the usual lichess watchers bubble, everyone knows who Gukesh is and how old/young he is :)
Go Pipelines
How does your solution differ from JupyterHub + ottergrader or nbgrader? What about Kaggle Learn?

From taking the Udacity AI Programming in Python course, it looks like Udacity has a Jupyter Notebooks -based LMS LRS CMS platform.

How does your solution differ from the "Quant Platform" which hosts [Certificate in] "Python for Finance": https://home.tpq.io/pqp/

Do you award (OpenBadges) educational credentials as Blockcerts (W3C VC Verifiable Claims, W3C DIDs Decentralized Identifiers,) with blockchain-certificates/cert-issuer? https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/cert-issuer#how-b...
There are many such constraints, and often ones that you want.

"These two pointers returned from subsequent calls to malloc cannot alias" is a value constraint that relies on UB. You are going to have a bad time if your compiler can't assume this to be true and comparing two compilations with and without this assumption won't be useful to you as a developer.

There are a handful of cases that people do seem to look at and say "this one smells funny to me", even if we cannot articulate some formal reason why it feels okay for the compiler to build logical conclusions from one assumption and not another. Eliminating null checks that are "dead" because they are dominated by some operation that is illegal if performed on null is the most widely expressed example. Eliminating signed integral bounds checks by assuming that arithmetic operations are non-overflowing is another. Some compilers support explicitly disabling some (but not all) optimizations derived from deductions from these assumptions.

But if you generalize this to all UB you probably won't end up with what you actually want.
The solution is to stay off the computer, or at least news websites. Sports scores always get pushed into your face from unexpected locations
Philosopher Charles Taylor Against Pinker, Dennett and Dawkins [video]
I see this attitude over and over again, particularly where it comes to regulating things like AI and bans on social media. Tech would rather do nothing if "it's complicated", or had any downside to anyone while ignoring the rampant downsides impacting everyone right now. Sometimes it comes across as thoughtful policy making, but more and more I see it as a crutch for intellectual laziness and in some cases dishonesty.
Okay, I've been in and around both sides of religions, and I do believe this is the first attempt at saying tithing is an act of fraud. I don't necessarily disagree. Just noting that it's the first time. I'd assume the down votes were expected with this one.
That was both impressive, weird, and 90% coherent. Which does give it a special kind of uncanny vibe.
ATM was an interesting networking tech. I like how it was a hybrid of packet and circuit switching where you could dial another machine to setup a call (this is Telephone tech after all) and you were handed a an in-order point-to-point byte pipe. Made TCP unnecessary. Unfortunately Ethernet was eating its lunch in the 90's leaving it to die a slow death in Telephony.

A similar tech was the old Bell Labs Datakit, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datakit which was supported in early versions of Plan 9, http://man.postnix.pw/plan_9_2e/3/datakit. The Datakit device and dk conversation services enabled you to dial a machine and you'd get a stream which is basically an fd you just read/write. They could use this to dial a disk server using 9p over dk to boot a terminal using datakit. Since 9p multiplexes access to files and files can provide services you could then import an IP stack running on a remote machine to get IP over 9p over datakit.

Another thing I find highly ironic is how they duck tape TSN and other QoS stuff on top of Ethernet to make it behave deterministically like ATM, the technology it destroyed.
By that analogy, the executable code would be the game engine, the model that inference is done on would be the assets, and the training data would be... I guess the PSDs and high-poly models that get compressed and simplified to turn them into game assets.
> an extra “look through your changes” procedure

A lot of the time, when I do my best to blow past that step, I forget to add new files to the commit. I wind up with all this needless CI activity on push, publish a whole PR for others to see, and generally waste everyone's time. Git's workflow really is based on this whole corpus of shared VCS experience, and it shows.

The downside to all that is that Git is _everyone's_ workflow, and nobody's at the same time. It's a compromise, and the tool does expose everyone to all the small little steps that are a part of that bigger experience. That said, if there was a more succinct workflow that was smart enough to flag simple mistakes for me, I would welcome it.
And to think, all these years I used to get mad at geese for pooping all over my yard. Little did I know they were trying to save me from melanoma.
>Professional Drone photographer

Please tell me that’s someone who takes photos using drones not photos of drones - for a living
Considering infra costs, it kind of is worthless, they aren't about to start selling advertising on their AI tool.

I'd assume the reason they have auth is so they don't get botted and it absolutely bricks their servers.
I thought someone was working on an open source Datadog. Forget what that was
So they brute forced 2fac codes?
You can’t do anything without signing in with a Google account.
To add a little more color... Magnus, in recent years, has been expressing his dislike for chess under classical time controls, seeing it as a battle of prep vs prep at the SuperGM level rather than skill vs skill. He doesn't seem to be enthusiastic about doing that prep anymore, and that seems to have been a factor in his decision to no longer fight for the WC title.
Well, at some point in your personal and professional life, you need to learn to let go, hand over, or pass on your responsibilities to the next person so that you can take on bigger, more critical challenges. Yes, it will take time, and no, they won't be your copycats, but you never know—they will make things easier for you and even better for your business.
I'm not convinced of the strategic importance of ethanol in the grand scheme; the US produces more of it because the subsidy creates that incentive. Incentive structures can change, entrenchment just makes it less politically viable.

> You're targeting something that is three levels of abstraction away from what you actually care about. My position is that it makes more sense to target what you're actually after: calories.

It's not abstracted away as healthy eating is concerned. Overconsumption is downstream.

You haven't elucidated how you'd merely target calories through policy, but leaving that aside, a) by default people do not count calories nor would they as a measure to protect against weight-gain, b) it's redundant given a whole-foods diet, no one becomes obese from too much broccoli, chicken breast and lentils, c) for those looking to lose weight, mere calorie counting absent leveraging satiating foods and eschewing junk is woefully ineffective in practice, because of lack of sustainability. Dieters typically do lose some weight, then gain it back. Not only is it difficult to adhere to, it's difficult to eyeball calories on a plate, particularly when they're processed foods, such that they'd have to weigh everything on a scale indefinitely.

Encouraging healthier eating patterns solves several problems at once. It protects against overconsumption, and against disease, which would lessen a burden on the healthcare system. That seems quite pragmatic to me. What's at stake is certain corporations stand to make less money, and corn farmers sell less.

Whether through change in diet patterns or "just eating less" as you might posit, if on the national scale people did end up consuming fewer calories and lose weight, then they'd more than likely consume less sugar/HFCS. The end result is still that a healthier populace == selling less corn. We can't discount any and all policy on the conceit that inconveniencing corn farmers is not acceptable.
Does TSA give you a hard time when they see that rig pop up on the X-ray?
I don't disagree with you. It should not be billed as "free" without qualification. It should read "free with google account".
Isn't airspace around all military installations exempted from this? How would you train your people to use your drones otherwise?

What's more, the feds are clearly signalling that these are ours. As others point out, you can't say its not an adversaries asset unless you know whose it is. Which would suggest either they are flying these illegally, they have some kind of exemption to fly in civilian air space, or they are being flown in military air space that is observable from non-military locations.
I work for a U.S. company that makes ergonomic 3D printed keyboards. We design specifically for the individual user's hand. Almost all the keyboard shells (the 3d files) are designed custom for the individual.

Labor is pretty cheap. It takes on average about 2 hours to build a keyboard. If there are no issues, it takes 1 hour. That costs about $25 total on average for labor.

The main cost is the 3d printed shells. We print PLA ourselves for cheap, but we outsource Nylon and Resin to China. These can cost anywhere from $150 to $200 for the entire thing.

The next highest cost are the PCBs. Our connectors, PCB columns for the switches, trackball PCBs, and the "brain" PCB, where all the logic processing happens, end up costing over $100-$150 total.

The total cost to build them ends up being anywhere from $250 (the absolute minimum barebones keyboard) to $400 for higher end boards.

Just some insight.
I haven’t had a landline for nah on 15 years - well not one connected since it remains a requirement to have one if you have DSL at home in Germany.

Occasionally I check the caller list on my dsl box - probably low single figure spam calls per year.
This permission does not grant the hasher any ability to detect when flushing is most efficient. Nor does constant flushing help with performance.
How do you research something you don't know exists?

> wanna sell me something, anything? you're out.

Advertise? you're out. Have a website? you're out. Go on the Shark Tank? you're out. Do a "Show HN"? you're out.

Reply to an open call to tender? you're out.

> I don't know what makes you say that

"CFO". IBM is the classic choice of the CFO class - they dont want to get fired so they a) dont make a decision or b) chose IBM because they were not "selling them something" (except for all the sales and marketting they do)
Generative language models exhibit social identity biases
Agreed. The whole idea of writing html from scratch using special tags in the code makes no sense to me. It basically destroys the separation between code and design/templates.
A boot password + disk encryption helps but

a) they can attack it before it reboots.

b) most of the value is in the parts, so they don't need your data. You need to make the parts useless for repairs so it's not worth stealing it.
Even if it is 1:1 communication, it's not like the two of you were likely to meet. The thing that I've always seen as the one to get upset about is if the person is local thirst trap type of someone that is much less famous and more of a possibility of real life interactions.
Well, as the deer die off there are more resources left for the remaining deer, and so it is easier for them to have kids and the birth rates might increase. So it could potentially converge to a predator-prey equilibrium
I know, right?! I love it. Unfortunately, GPT-3 and later were much less weird and wonderful, because they were perfectly coherent.
Three free images seems to be the limit. Using a photo as the prompt did not seem to work for me.
Suggested title: "Academic publishers are selling papers to train AIs - and making millions"

(I figured "newspaper publishers" from the current HN title, which was copied from Nature. Nope, completely wrong.)
I feel like this is fundamentally an energy prices problem. If energy were cheaper we could replace quality with quantity and instead of everything being made of the thinnest plastic molded in expertly crafted dies that don't put a drop of plastic anywhere it doesn't need to be our world would have more products made from bigger chunks of lower grade plastic.
You don't do in-person socialization to "pull" people. You "pull" git repositories. You do in-person socialization to experience the companionship of other human beings.

It can be done over the net too, but in-person is better while the net has been actively and intentionally made worse to monetize addiction.

If you want a girlfriend/boyfriend you start by making friends with people. Then you will notice some of your friends are of your sexually compatible gender, which means you may have friends that want to have sex.

Also helps to avoid listening to incel/femcel, PUA, and similar bullshit that actively makes the listener repellent. A lot of women for example will ghost at the first whiff of Andrew Tate or Jordan Peterson adjacent thinking, and as a man I'd do the same at the first whiff of the kind of stuff you hear on the angry womens' subreddits. I don't want someone with a head full of influencer poison.

A major reason to get off the apps is because the apps (social media and similar) reward toxicity and exploitation and are structurally designed to be maximally addictive, meaning they're made to keep you on them not talking to other people. Social media stopped being social around 2012 really. I call them tobacco companies of the mind.
Any specific books you'd recommend?
As long as you've got enough RAM for a file cache for the active program binaries and header files, I've never noticed any significant difference between SD card, eMMC, USB3, or NVMe storage for software building on the SBCs I have. It might be different on a Pioneer :-)

I just checked the Linux kernel tree I was testing with. It's 7.2 GB, but 5.6 GB of that is `.git`, which isn't used by the build. So only 1.6 GB of actual source. And much of that isn't used by any given build. Not least the 150 MB of `arch` that isn't in `arch/riscv` (which is 27 MB). Over 1 GB is in `drivers`.

riscv-gnu-toolchain has 2.1 GB that isn't in `.git`. Binutils is 488 MB, gcc 1096 MB.

This is all small enough that on an 8 GB or 16 GB board there is going to be essentially zero disk traffic. Even if the disk cache doesn't start off hot, reading less than 2 GB of stuff into disk cache over the course of a 1 hour build? It's like 0.5 MB/s, about 1% of what even an SD card will do.

It just simply doesn't matter.

Edit: checking SD card speed on Linux kernel build directory on VisionFive 2 with totally cold disk cache just after a reboot.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Tue Dec 10 07:39:01 2024 from 192.168.1.85
user@starfive:~$ time tar cf - linux/* | cat >/dev/null

real 2m37.013s
user 0m2.812s
sys 0m27.398s
user@starfive:~$ du -hs linux
7.3G linux
user@starfive:~$ du -hs linux/.git
5.6G linux/.git
user@starfive:~$ time tar cf - linux/* | cat >/dev/null

real 0m7.104s
user 0m1.120s
sys 0m8.939s

Yeah, so 2m37s seconds to cache everything. vs 67m35s for a kernel build. Maximum possible difference between hot and cold disk cache 3.9% of the build time. PROVIDED only that there is enough RAM that once something has been read it won't be evicted to make room for something else. But in reality it will be much less that that, and possibly unmeasurable. I think most likely what will actually show up is the 30s of CPU time.

I'm having trouble seeing how NVMe vs SATA can make any difference, when SD card is already 25x faster than needed.

I'm not familiar with the grub build at all. Is it really big?
Celebrated, reviled, reborn: Paul Rudolph, the brutalist architect
Or they will end up in situation that in most cases will end in their death. Which seems so obvious that they must be suicidal. Law enforcement can bring far more force to bear than a single person can defend against.
Urartu is missing as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartu
Turned 47 this year. Had first kid.

Cybertruck order is imminent.
... but you can infer from the HN post title that it's unusual.
Please stop saying "change your password regularly". Despite being a theoretical security increase, it has been shown repeatedly that it is a practical security decrease as it encourages both simpler passwords and incremental passwords. It also makes your users hate you, which isn't great.

A security company should know this. It's been strictly recommended against in the NIST guidelines (and others) for nearing a decade now. I start to really question the expertise of any security company that parrots this outdated advice. What else are they not keeping up on?

Focus on monitoring, alerting, educating, etc. Force password changes only when there are indicators of compromise.
Honestly there is so much more to North America than just Maya for decennia's. You can review the indigenous people territories back centuries ago. There are some really good organizations that are tracking this.

https://native-land.ca/

I don’t know much about USA/Australia and New Zealand but I can imagine they have similar recourses.
Your assertion is not supported by your source:

> Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Pat Ryder said on Thursday that the US was "aware that [the balloon] had intelligence collection capabilities". ... He said the efforts the US took to mitigate any intelligence gathering "contributed" to the balloon's failure to gather sensitive information.

So it was a spy balloon but it was off, or it was a spy balloon and on and we outsmarted it, or it was a spy balloon and it malfunctioned at least in part.

Nothing in that source suggests that it was not a spy balloon.
I think it is conjecture that is what the board wants. I myself have mused on here that is what they want, but I honestly think it would be a huge mistake, especially at this point. I think they are too far invested in this strategy to abandon it now.
> will have to all agree to change their hours. On the same day!

Imagine if there was a powerful body representing the population that could decree a change like this!

Instead, we only have a body powerful enough to decree that all of those people change their clocks on the same day.

Anyway, the best part of changing the hours instead of the clock is that not everybody needs to do it on the same day.
Eating road kill has always been said in jest where I'm from for the obvious reasons. I had never really heard of it being said any where approaching serious until RFK Jr. Now, it seems to be fashionable.
Serverless GPUs: Price Drops and Increasing Efficiency with Scale-to-Zero
Some people may be surprised at the level of historical detail that has been discovered, particularly for the Maya who left written records.
for example,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kings_of_Copán
geese are excellent gaurdian animals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose
While you are right, I think the mindset is different. People know that the interactions are fake. The real lie they tell themselves is that "If they only got to know the real me......." This is what feeds the personal messages/requests to try to break through the "noise" and be seen as a real person with shared interests or w/e.
Great interface. I love the fact we can use Google Sheet to do the math.