skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think a second strike from asteroids would work. You can't just arbitrarily redirect an asteroid towards Earth whenever you want. You need one that's already going to pass nearby. You might have to wait decades for it to hit, and during that time your enemy can send their own nuke and nudge it away.

But if you could do second strikes with asteroids, that would be a good thing. Second strike capability helps prevent nuclear war. Effective first strikes are what's destabilizing.

Which brings us to your second point. I agree that stationing nuclear warheads in space is a bad idea. But we don't have to do that. With years or decades of advance warning, we can just launch them from Earth.
POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.
What makes people think companies like OpenAI can't just pay experts for verified true data? Why do all these "gotcha" replies always revolve around the idea that everyone developing AI models is credulous and stupid?
When I was younger I had a bout of insomnia and somebody procured me some wee. I did not know how strong it was and had a psychedelic trip instead. It was terrifying, I thought it was the end for me. Nobody seems to believe me that weed could give you psychedelic visuals.
Because you want people to pay in US dollars, buy US goods and pharmaceuticals.

> Ah yes, the desperately poor are notorious for pulling the strings of global finance. Best to stay on their good side.

You wanted everyone to admire the US and exported the American dream to be the ideal of the world.

> The American dream has nothing to do with giving our money away to foreigners, actually.

Why is it important for America to enforce freedom in every oil rich country - apparently even Canada now!

> focus

You can take a "mission accomplished" stance and be done with it, but if America wants to maintain it's standing in the world, these sorts of programs will need to continue.

> Our standing is derived from our success--from our military, financial and cultural dominance. Your opinions as to our generosity have no bearing whatsoever on our standing.

Without the US footing the bill for this, China will come in with Chinese aid, and teach these countries how to adopt the Chinese ideology.

> These countries don't matter.
> regurgitating math verbatim but with words instead

Where in my comment is there any math? It's all physical concepts. No mathematics at all. Because the purpose and intent of my post was to point out that the role mass plays is identical to that of stiffness in other contexts. That's it, and he takes a very circuitous route to pointing that out.

It's like the opposite of what you described. If you don't know what "mass" and "stiffness" are you should probably understand those before attempting to understand quantum field theory. It's not condescension. The analogy holds only if you really understand both concepts.

The algebra is beside the point.
No problem. I haven’t had a chance to do anything hardware related for a long time, so it’s fun to think about hardware problems again.

On the topic of extending battery life mentioned in the article, one relatively straightforward thing to investigate is simply reducing the processor clock speed. Your application probably doesn’t need to run at full tilt. I think there is a function called setCpuFrequencyMhz — I think it only works with a few specific frequencies, but the lower the frequency you can pick (while still keeping up with your application’s needs), the less power the system should consume while awake.

Of course, you want to be putting the processor to sleep between updates anyways, and there is a trade off between sleeping more (which means running the processor faster so it can sleep sooner, “race to sleep”), versus the inefficiency caused by running a processor higher on the frequency/efficiency curve, so there might be an optimal frequency that isn’t the lowest or the highest possible option. It’s something that would need to be measured.

Just some thoughts! It might not make a big difference if the processor is already sleeping most of the time, but I figured I would mention it as something to try.
Histrionics. Such a warped view of reality should be treated the same way we treat flat earthers
Not that being near DC affords me any kind of right to an opinion, but:

Given the uptick in near miss incidents across the US the last few years, this is the kind of incident that should've been entirely avoidable through changes in policy from these past events but is also apparently the only kind that can spur along policy changes. I can see a world where the fault is on the VH-60, but absent more information, it would surprise me less to hear that it's the fault of the tower.

Knowing where AA5342 was in its approach, I see no possibility of the jet being at fault.

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL5342

I'm drawing a lot of early conclusions but it's mostly because I'm just not surprised. Angry as someone who flies a bunch, but not surprised.
I didn't say it took off from the old embassy. The flight track starts at the backyard of a house that is currently owned by the embassy. You can see the owner of that property by searching that address here (the site doesn't support a direct link): https://icare.fairfaxcounty.gov/ffxcare/search/commonsearch....
Meanwhile, San Carlos Airport (KSQL, near San Francisco) is going ATC-zero on February 1st. The tower will be unstaffed.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CASMATEO/bulletins/...

"The FAA has awarded a new contract for air traffic services at SQL to Robinson Aviation (RVA). However, the contract does not include locality pay to account for the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a result, RVA’s employment offers to current SQL controllers were significantly lower than their current compensation under SERCO. Understandably, all current controllers have declined RVA’s offers."

"Given that the FAA is ultimately responsible for ensuring air traffic services at SQL, we requested temporary FAA staffing for the tower—a solution currently being implemented at Eagle Airport in Colorado during its transition from SERCO to RVA. However, the FAA informed us this morning that they will not provide temporary personnel for SQL"
> how much time before that impact would be able to ascertain over 50% probability of impact? hypothetically.

I understand it's hypothetical, but even a 10% chance of hitting a city, for example, would be a crisis.
I was always a fan of using 100uf and 100nf near a chip, and something like 1000uf for the entire board... but I don't do modern stuff usually, mostly retro boards if I can still get parts.
Here is a contrived example:

CREATE MACRO foo(bar, baz) AS TABLE
WITH
base AS (
FROM query_table(bar) t
),
refined AS (
FROM base
JOIN query_table(baz) u ON base.id = u.id
)
SELECT * FROM refined;

I want to test many user-defined combinations of (bar, baz). How can I pass a macro instance to query_table like

FROM (
(FROM foo(mybar1(some_arg1, some_arg2), mybaz101(500)))
UNION ALL
(FROM foo(mybar2(some_arg3, some_arg4), mybaz201(300)))
UNION ALL
...
)
SELECT *;

Your second example using the 'query_macro' looks like something I was looking for. But it doesn't seem to be of general use that supports an arbitrary number of arguments.
Imagine paying $3,500 for a computer that has to stream games from a $1,600 PC. Ouch...
AI models don't assume anything. AI models are just statistical tools. Their data is prepared by humans, who aren't morons. What is it with these super-ignorant AI critiques popping up everywhere?
It's very common for civilian ATC to instruct pilots to maintain visual separation, especially when they're both in the approach pattern. For airliners, TCAS gives an extra level of safety to guard against pilot errors. But I think many military aircraft lack TCAS.
I've been ongoingly baffled by the phenomenon as well. Like it's a new technology and all, but it seems incredibly obvious to me that copy and pasting output like that is adding nothing to the conversation (and the hallucination factor makes it, well, worse then useless IMO).
In fairness to the current administration, while the hiring freeze may have impacted ATC hiring, that is not causal here. No one hired last week would have been running things today (if they were hit with the freeze).
What was the compliance rate in evacuating parts of LA for the recent fires?
I've consumed far more than my fair share of cannabis, starting at age 19. I'm also almost certainly ADHD (according to friend who's a psychiatrist, but says I'm untestable), and have a meaninglessly high IQ.

I've noticed that amongst very slow people, more _seem_ to have started smoking dope at a very young age (9 to 12). The idea that pot could be very bad for adolescents in particular is not a new one. I certainly feel slowed down by it, although as the study says, it's working memory that's affected.

I sometimes wonder what life would have been like if I'd met weed at say 30yo. Would the final stages of "maturing" have played out very differently?
Basically everything performance enhancing is bad because that means use is rewarded yet there's always the cost. This explains why not-yet-banned-for-centuries substances like alcohol, coffee, tobacco, sugar, salt, skydiving, whatever, are preferred over drugs; use is detrimental, so those problems self correct to some degree.
The Hell Bomb by William L. Laurence (1951)
Well, yes, but I don't think I did.

Edit: Also: these things need to be discussed. Or can't they?

Did you rate limit me for this?
And they are hilarious, because they ride on the assumption that multi-billion dollar companies are all just employing naive imbeciles who just push buttons and watch the lights on the server racks go, never checking the datasets.
You are right on the money, its like a dying empire's last gasp, or when kids are playing hide-and-seek and one kids is found and says, "I wasn't playing anyway!"

China (Tiawan) is doing fine in chip manufacturing, pretending to cut them off just hastens the US downfall.
This is based on an old Russian tale, so the story itself is not specifically Soviet.
ASTs did the first satellite video call in Europe from an unmodified smart phone
I'm seeing a lot of talk of there being a shortage of bus drivers in many places, so self-driving could probably still help increase service
I might have misunderstood. If this a part of static site generation it might make some sense. But just syncing some random rss feed to bsky with GH actions seems like a bit excessive and wasteful. A simple daemon can do.
TikTok, like DeepSeek seems to be doing fine despite the lip service.
Plane Crashes Near Washington DC after midair collision with helicopter
The issue here is breach of contract, not copyright.
There have been incidents that were just saved by luck (eg losing door in flight). And Too many near misses.
When you have the Internet's birthplace making these types of moves, the writing is on the wall. The truly wild open and global Internet has been sick and hobbling for a long time, and these are truly its last days. It's held up strong, but it looks like it's not going to survive the current wave of post-pandemic anti-globalism and corporate centralization.

One of the most positive things to come out of the open global Internet is the worldwide open source movement and Linux. I'm sure Linux will be protected in the coming closedown, but only because it's been extremely useful to companies. In the long run it won't matter. POSIX can't last forever. At some point given the massive parallelism in GPUs and that continuing to increase within CPUs, some new paradigm is certain to take hold and it won't be open source.

Decades shall pass, and the Internet will become like the telephone, radio and television: a big boring thing controlled and meted out by massive corporate entities, culturally moving at the speed of molasses, providing slow and reliable returns on investment, and fading more or less into the background.

Maybe after half a century or so there will be a new disruptor, a new 90's Internet with its optimism and desire for freedom; and maybe it will take some lessons learned from this iteration and survive longer.
Sure, there’s a way to conduct yourself at these places.

From her account: there’s no indication that he was being rude, only that she felt he didn’t provide her preferred amount of solemnity. If it were anyone else there’d be nothing to conclude. If it’s Elon Musk, it’s devastating proof of sociopathy
> Well, apparently real CEOs couldn't care less either.

Some healthcare ones did for a few weeks, after one of them got whacked by someone truly over their bullshit.
It's not even that there are pyschos, it's that incentives wane with scale because individuals have less control over outcomes.
Mkes me wonder how many inventions Australia has claimed but were invented in New Zealand. Robert Muldoon did once state that the "annual exodus of Kiwis to Australia raised the average IQ of both countries".
Yeah, it's great comedy.

> Aaron clearly warns users that Nepenthes is aggressive malware. It's not to be deployed by site owners uncomfortable with trapping AI crawlers and sending them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they "get stuck" and "thrash around" for months, he tells users.

Because a website with lots of links is executable code. And the scrapers totally don't have any checks in them to see if they spent too much time on a single domain. And no data verification ever occurs.
Hell, why not go all the way? Just put a big warning telling everyone: "Warning, this is a cyber-nuclear weapon! Do not deploy unless you're a super rad bad dude who totally traps the evil AI robot and wins the day!"
Unless your phone has full mainline kernel support (pinephone, librem 5, pocophone f1 etc...), All these Linux on phone projects mostly use Android system services (init, surfaceflinger, rild etc..) to talk to the device hardware, without bringing up the Android UI.

They do this so that they don't have to reverse engineer and write the hardware drivers from scratch and simply use Android's user space drivers for them.

I haven't been involved in that domain for a while, but it basically meant reusing the contents of your device's /system and /vendor partitions and simply installing the Linux OS into /data.
Assuming the numbers I linked above are correct or at least in the ballpark:

At the federal level, pretty much anything else, since it’s already not really spending any money on libraries, relatively speaking.

At the state/local level, it’s harder to say since there are many more administrative units involved, each with their own budget and operating model. (This also makes it hard to optimize in general, since you’d have to apply the optimizations independently across many polities.)

If I use my city as an example, library funding is 5% of the city budget. The state provides no funding to any library, so this is the entire amount the libraries get. It’s the second smallest spend by category as the city tracks such things —- though there is an “other” category that represents 10% of the budget. The bulk of the spending is on police (23%), fire (17%), and public works (11%). Obviously these are also critical services (basically everything in the city budget is!), so it’s not easy to do cost cutting there either, but there’s proportionally more room for improvement.
Honest question: are air traffic controllers at risk for being replaced with AI systems? My initial thought is no, there is too much complexity, but AI could help ease the load. I'm not really informed about air traffic systems, just curious.
It's linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874330 the liveatc link
> Three months later in April when this tagged data is used to train the next iteration, the AI can successfully learn that today's date is actually January 29th.

Such an ingenious attack, surely none of these companies ever considered it.
Difficult to "roll coal" in an EV.
Indenting with 2 spaces is for code formatting, which is why the URL isn't a link. Don't indent it if you want a link:

https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
Yeah, the transflective display is not great, but the power usage is nil when the backlight is off, which is nice. E-ink might be even nicer.. but the price is a major stumbling block for most form factors.

The pebble might be a good option though, not only is the os now open sourced but there is apparently someone trying to build new watches.

Once you get out of the hobby space, Hardware is a tough business, and there are a lot of people that would benefit from a solid solution that won’t be up for tinkering.

You might also find that there are Chinese manufacturers with white-box watches that might be running common chips like the nrf52840/832. I certainly see a lot of apparently identical smartwatches around 30 dollars that are marketed under different brands. Those might be a better direction if you are looking at a broad market.

OTOH, once you get away from the supportive and nurturing maker environment most of the fun will leak out, so depending on your motives, you might want to stick to your solution - which looks pretty great to me, even if it might not be as simple to scale production.

Best of luck with whatever direction you are looking at. By the way, you might try a resin printer if you are going to be doing any production in house. For larger multiples of small parts they are crazy fast and the finish is pretty great.
At the very least you can use monte carlo to provide examples from the expected distribution. It's hard to visualize a probability cloud.
Ask HN: What's the craziest thing a copilot did for you?
Just wonderin
Regulations are written in blood, which is why it's such a disservice to indiscriminately tear it all down. We will re-learn the same lessons and people will pay for those lessons with their lives.
U.S. even failed on military too as China recently demostrated their 6th-gen fighters, i.e. their own NGAD[1], while U.S. has paused the NGAD development.

Arrogance is the biggest enemy of U.S., not China.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3293762/why...
I just listened to the ATC recording from immediately before the collision. ATC instructs the helicopter to pass behind the CRJ. I’m fairly certain a few minutes before that, ATC instructed the helicopter to maintain visual separation, which is common. They typically ask, “do you have the aircraft in sight” and if you respond in the affirmative they rely on you to maintain safe distance.

I should mention that in the recording you can only hear one side of the conversation, so I don’t know whether or not the helicopter said whether or not they had visual contact with the plane they collided with.

Either way it doesn’t seem to be the fault of ATC. Of course we’ll know more as additional information becomes available.
Seems highly out of place to me. In macOS and linux it’s in the a/v stack.
If they can get out, they have a chance. There was a crash on the Potomac in January 1982 and there were several survivors. The video of the rescue is pretty crazy.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/from-the-archives-h...
We've really come full circle. Back when Facebook was a user-friendly place, you could connect any RSS feed to your Facebook feed. My FB was just a collection of things I posted to del.icio.us, flickr, etc etc. It really was a sign of the crapification of that place that was to come when they ripped out this feature.
> the things you list that your PM has done seems like just another day at the office for Trump

Yet you did not mention one single thing. The thread to which you replied did.
If 14 days is extremely long, what is 382 days?
From what I read elsewhere (random reddit comment), the visible reasoning is just "for show" and isn't the process deepseek used to arrive at the result. But if the reasoning has value, I guess it doesn't matter even if it's fake.
Regarding your edit: that's a good point, but the vertical ascent rate of the chopper at those first few data points shows 400-800 feet per minute, which is consistent with a chopper taking off...'

edit: your second edit makes me think you're right though, tonight's flight track was pretty consistent with the past flight track where it looks like it both took off from and landed at Fort Belvoir.
I think the comment is responding to the fears of..

"My most charitable view is that Google have found a major fault with the Pixel 4a battery and want to mitigate a repeat of the Galaxy Note 7 without saying it outright and causing a panic."

These lithium batteries usually last longer when you don't fully discharge them and fully charge them regularly. 20-80%. No idea why manufacturers don't just call that range as 0-100%.
I’m enjoying How AI Works but I have not made it to the other yet.
I think commenters don't know about Bill Gates personally wining and dining Hu Jintao in Medina 20 years ago.
Communism is functionally societal-level Taylorism, which I believe is the dominant corporate management style.

Hayek said that the reason Communist economies failed was that the center could not get accurate information on what the leaves needed/wanted, so there was always a supply/demand problem. Market economies use prices to automatically convey this information. It seems like as companies get towards nation-state sizes they tend to have a similar problem: management is completely out of touch with what the people doing the work need (and/or out of touch with the customer base, market situation, etc.).

Fortunately, leaving companies is a lot easier than Communist countries. Also disagreement is a lot less dangerous, and the consequences of being on the receiving end of political backstabbing are a lot more tolerable. Maybe most importantly, corporations don't tend to be founded on a lie like Communist governments (see the Charter 77 essay [1]).

[1] https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-v...
What's the threat scenario where forcing a password reset increases security? I'm genuinely curious, because I feel it's often the case that password expirations might introduce more threats than they mitigate.
My original comment was "Trump has run several successful businesses, and with a 50+ year career several failures as well".

I'm not interested in arguing about the comments someone else made.
AIUI "policy" is not "law," and are subject to the whims of the current leadership in the DoJ

Then again, it's my opinion that "law" isn't "law" if one has enough lawyers
So 1 + 1 = 3?
CNN is reporting the helicopter came from Fort Belvoir.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/plane-crash-dca-potomac-was...
Do you want to post a link the recording?
This smells LLM-written (which seems very likely given the rest of this site's content). There's a lot of weird apparatus like defining vocab, a very poor explanation of Kalman Filter which wouldn't help anyone, before jumping into the 'EIF' and then almost instantaneously concluding with takeaways. I'm reading this and not learning anything but buzzwords. And this is +14? Are you guys actually reading this and getting anything out of this?
Sadly, that hasn’t helped me.