skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While in the Hollywood movies people always succeed to miraculously enter heavily guarded objectives without being detected, in real life this should be impossible.

With a well designed system of redundant sensors of multiple kinds, it should be impossible for anyone to come aboard such a ship without being instantly detected as a foe and without having their movements tracked with precision.

The ship should have some self-defense system, but when that defense system is overwhelmed and it is impossible to prevent enemies to enter certain critical zones, self-destruction should be activated. When the internal communication between certain parts of the ship is lost, presumably due to damage inflicted by attackers, self-destruction may also need to be activated.

This seems as one of the easiest parts to design of such a ship. Designing various sub-assemblies to be repairable using automatic means will be more challenging, especially in their mechanical design.
> The author is just now complaining because he's only now seeing it applied in his general direction (because academia is establishment adjacent).

This is the only thing I'm really trying to correct here. The author is complaining because of the extreme extent to which it is being applied. Not just that it's coming more generally in his direction now. His initial example happens to be a personal one, but the long bulleted list of other examples he supplies does not appear to be personal to him.

It's not a "wow now that this is happening to me I'm going to start caring" it's a "wow this is happening to huge swaths of people in ways that are much more extreme than I've seen in the past"
Possibly. I'm ignorant of Romanian politics. But the idea that EU should strengthen policing of democratic norms and sanction members who don't conform to them is important.
Thank you for doing work that makes python better for millions of people.
Depending on where in the world you are, paying yourself a high wage results in much higher taxes than paying profits in the form of dividends. These taxes may benefit society at large, which may well be in line with their goals.
I have stopped using Amazon all together >1 year ago. Prime Video is as shitty as it gets and most stuff ordered on Amazon is Chinese shovelware in the same rankings as Temu. I give exactly zero shit about same day delivery in 99,99% of the cases.

Amazon shines in customer support though.

Search & categorization is entirely broken, the webshop experience is absolutely abysmal. Just order from better online stores. In Germany, I found these (surprisingly ok):

- Kaufland --> https://www.kaufland.de

- Galaxus Deutschland --> https://www.galaxus.de

- Lidl --> https://www.lidl.de (Schwarz IT is building a European Cloud btw!)

- ShopApotheke --> https://www.shop-apotheke.com/

- Home24 --> https://www.home24.de/

Then, buying specialized stuff on the actual website is often a decent experience. Just price hunt on sites like Idealo (attention though, Axel Springer!) and proceed to the specific stores from there.

https://www.idealo.de/ --> https://www.shop-apotheke.com/

I explicitly avoided mentioning Otto as alternative to Amazon although it is technically the closest. While their shop is ok, prices and customer experience are horrifyingly bad (especially returns and delivery). For an unbiased view:

https://www.otto.de/
This would be great for civilian shipping in certain areas, as modern piracy seems to exclusively focus on holding crew members for ransom.

Lots of comments here raise good questions about its fitness as a military vessel, but maybe the point is to develop tech that civilian vessels can use? Preventing piracy has always been viewed as a task of the military, and piracy-proofing civilian vessels would go a long ways towards meeting that goal.
I really can't imagine home coffee reaching an expense of 5$+ a cup to equal out to cafes
The author is an academic idealist, and bemoaning the low priority that his institution ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford ) gives to traditional academic functions (education & research).

Wikipedia seems to say that Oxford is ultimately controlled by its alumni, who elect the chancellor, vice-chancellor, and other top officials.

Theory: Oxford's alumni are quite content with the "sufficient academics & architecture to keep up appearances, otherwise boost the bloat" strategy.

Guess: The author is quite aware of this preference, but knows that publicly speaking of it would be bad for his career. Vs. lip-service idealism is safe.
You should look to Norway https://www.norway.no/en/missions/eu/areas-of-cooperation/th...
I pay for purelymail after seeing others on HN say they like it. It costs something absurd,like $0.8 per month, and I've never had a problem with it.
But are you donating to an organization to plant trees?

What has the lower barrier of entry: making a point to donate your money, or switching your default search engine?
What’s the point of making a moral judgment about a bit of human nature that literally everyone in earth shares? It doesn’t make you or me superior to condemn it; we would do the same. So… what does “bad” even mean in this context?
> The average coffee farmer’s age is 50-something and their kids don’t want to take over the farm, they want to move to the city. The people who are willing to work the farms, want to be paid a lot more, so there’s upward pressure on prices.

Good. Farmers are criminally under-paid when people doing nothing productive in the economy are getting paid for their annoyances. It is time the system gets a reset.
Oh but you can pay expenses to a "consulting company" that your wife/brother/daughter/... owns which will keep their profits and pay off dividents
I thought the Phalanx was exactly the type of defense system that drone swarms were more or less designed to penetrate. Sure, it can put out an unreasonable amount of lead (tungsten? uranium?) downrange but the number of disparate targets it can engage per second is actually quite limited. It's vulnerable to being swarmed.

Sorta reminds me a Schlock comic:

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-04-12
Huge recommendation for the Disney Family Museum! It greatly exceeded my expectations, and there’s a lot of focus on Disneys innovations during Walt’s lifetime.
> How do you deal with that?

Historically, with a slap, either open handed or with a glove to induce a dual. But we live in more genial times where such egregious violence is deemed unavailable.

> I don't think the human political brain is built for this level of indirection.

Indeed. People using incompetent and mistaken assumptions doesn't improve on their desire to tear up the political foundations in the US.
> Besides this outrage at the US from EU perspective is mind-boggling, for the first time since I can remember US is moving away from imperialist global polices

What's mind boggling is saying that the US is becoming LESS imperialist, when Trump has threatened to annex both Canada and Greenland, and come out in favor of the most imperialist country in Europe.
It’s genuinely sad to see the world splintering into waves of nationalistic protectionism.

Not long ago, we had something promising, a slow but steady crawl toward a united global community. Progress was gradual, sure, but it was real. Countries could specialize and trade freely: I’d buy your chips, you’d buy my steel, and we’d both come out ahead. It worked.

Now, though, it’s all about "national sovereignty" and "independence" as if going it alone could ever match the strength of interdependence.

The trust we built feels shattered and TBH it’s hard to imagine it being rebuilt anytime soon, if ever.
Its ability to store data on S3 is in paid cloud version only, last time I've checked.
I do use personal Google Workspace now--in part, because I used to use it extensively at work. But even if I used something else, people casually share GDocs with me from time to time.
Maybe these papers:
"Attention Is All You Need" (Transformer paper, 2017)
"Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-training" (GPT-1, 2018)
"Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners" (GPT-2, 2019)
I agree 100% with you, and this is how I build my stuff too!

I was just pointing out that framework-less Go projects can have SQLX, ORM, etc, if you want to!
They still have this system. This video gives great insights into how GPS jamming affects planes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm9B-oofY9g
Or instead of making a bad faith comparison of partisan violence, you could compare it to the George Floyd protests which injured over 700 police officers and killed over 20 people.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents/treaties-agreem...

Close, but not quite the same. (e.g. free movement of labor would be cool)
will update ))
Google are aware of the problem and are working on a fix: https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/1j7caui/comment...

Still very annoying.
Zoltan's FLOPs – GPU mini-grant, first iteration
Mini-grant program for GPU computing projects. Providing small-scale funding to help researchers and developers access GPU compute time on modern hardware.
This video was fascinating!
I don't think they are confusing anything with anything.
I hope there will be more adoption of EU stable coins like https://monerium.com, and a payments ecosystem will form around it. The rails are there, we need the apps and the integrations next.
If I reformat this,

{
int val;
if (getFoo(&val)) {

}
printf("%d", val);
}

The bug is still possible, as you've introduced an extra scope that doesn't exist in the C++ version.

Also, this was one example. There are plenty of other examples.
The problem is that biology is such a huge and complex field, and there's simply no way to make progress without incremental work like this that has no immediate payoff. To even contemplate whether something like this could cure cancer means that the article completely misrepresented its value.

I think the problem is that you're viewing things as either "cures for cancer", or "not cures for cancer". I would suggest instead framing things as, "how on Earth could we possibly cure cancer when human bodies have trillions of moving parts and we only understand half of them?" It's like trying to fix a broken car and not even knowing what internal combustion is.
Gemini 2.0 Experimental 02-05 sees this as "only" 107K tokens.

Handy if you want help breaking this down.

https://aistudio.google.com

'Laplace Approximation is a "quick and dirty" way to turn a complex probability distribution into a simple Gaussian (bell curve).

It works by finding the highest point (mode) and matching the curvature at that point.

It's fast and easy, but it can be very inaccurate and overconfident if the true distribution doesn't look like a bell curve.'
I don't even routinely use my undergrad's email forwarding address. It's probably better than it used to be but, at one time, it definitely caused more stuff to drop in the bit bucket than emailing directly. And I assume, at this point, that my Gmail account isn't going to go away.
It's hard not to imagine we're in a golden age for most things at the moment.
Stallman is a brilliant and passionate chap, but he's also a lifelong academic, and has very different life priorities than people that need to make a living at shipping things.

He's one end of the spectrum, and NSO is at the other end. The best place is somewhere in the middle.
We also wrote their constitution that they can't have a military.

They still have the jdf but we kinda forced this position, it's a bit of a baffling question.
Energy needed for elecation gain when going uphill is independent of speed (to first order, losses in drivetrain are probably a bit higher when driving with higher power).

Available max and continuous torque of electric vehicles isn't necessarily that high compared to ICE vehicles, whats really different is that torque is available instantly and from near 0 RPM and the motor reacts more or less "instantly".

BTW, combining "miles" and "kWh" is strange, shouldn't that be pound*mile²/h ?
There was a plan for a 5x speedup overall looking for funding back in 2022. Then a team with Guido and others involved (and MS backing?) got on the same bandwagon and made some announcements for speeding up CPython a lot.

Several releases in, have we seen even a 2x speedup? Or more like 0.2x at best?

Not trying to dismiss the interpreter changes - more want to know if those speedup plans were even remotely realistic, and if anything close enough to even 1/5 of what was promised will really come out of them...
>Chips made with Dutch chip fabrication technology

Using american EUV light sources....this train of who makes what in the supply chain can go on forever, the point is who's making the highest margins from the end product and it's not ASML nor ARM but Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc.

Hence my point that while EU has some IP, its value is dwarfed by the IP the US makes. Just look at market cap of US vs European tech sector. It's not even a competition. ASML can't offset that. I think Apple has enough cash in the bank to buy ASML if they wanted to.
If you are into punchcards, I wrote a multipart blog post about recovering and running some 40-years old code which was originally on punch tape.

See https://www.quaxio.com/kaleidoscope_part1/
> Also (most) engineers don't hallucinate answers.

They absolutely do, where do you think bugs come from? The base rate is typically just lower than current AIs.
it rarely returns the right answer

One of the biggest difficulties AI will face is getting developers to unlearn the idea that there's a right answer, and that of the many thousands of possible right answers, 'the code I would have written myself' is just one (or a few if you're one of the few great devs who don't stop thinking about approaches after your first attempt.)
> Writing SQL against systems much larger than that used to be the norm.

Doing things the hard way was the norm until a better way was found.

Saying something was the norm in the past doesn't imply it was good
Previous discussions:

01-jun-2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605831 1 comments

25-feb-2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633366 1 comments

22-apr-2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11550779 21 comments

06-apr-2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16768953 62 comments
Summary of the Internet
Nvidia Might Re-Launch RTX 4090 with Up to 96GB of VRAM
Can get next day delivery to locker even outside the bigger metros here.

Guess you'll be surprised when Amazon starts gouging you.
Grove: A Bidirectionally Typed Collaborative Structure Editor Calculus
https://www.mytinytodo.net/

I have been using this!
I somehow suspect that the reason why Quake2 does this lies in the legacy of Quake1 written in DJGPP. DJGPP supports dynamicaly loaded libraries (although the API is technically unsupported and internal-only), but does not have any kind of dynamic linker, thus passing around pair of such structs during library initialization is the only way to make that work.
Are they not easy to detect on radar? Even during WWII, radar got good enough to detect submarine periscopes. It's hard to imagine that a partially surfaced submarine wouldn't have a significant radar return. That doesn't mean that they're easy to detect at long ranges, but I would have thought that partially surfacing or raising a periscope would be a significant risk to a submarine if the enemy knew its rough location.

At a guess, Ukraine probably can't deploy naval assets with powerful radar close enough to where Russian subs are operating. But an adversary with a more powerful navy might be able to.
This is a short video of my FastEPD library running on the M5Stack PaperS3. LVGL version 9 is set to 8-bit grayscale mode and I'm converting that to 1-bit graphics to allow fast partial updates of the eink panel. I will be publishing this and more LVGL demos at https://github.com/bitbank2/bb_lvgl
okeyyyyyyyy, next steps:
1. will update gender selection to something meaningful (even a bit nice options).
2. will add games, or something nice things while you are connecting with stranger.
3. and many more interesting things specifically for "one-time" approach stuff. lol
Intuitive Machines' Athena Lander Launches on Journey to the Moon
I don't have any special information here, but I wanted to mention that's it's just as exhausting when people approach every single interaction assuming the worst possible intentions as the reverse. It's OK to not be cynical once in a while.
I had a shortwave radio as a kid in the 90s in Minnesota. I never picked up much with it. Some Mexican stations, weather broadcasts, and when the ionosphere was right BBC World Service. On exceedingly rare occasions I could even pick up stations from South East Asia.

As a lonely and somewhat isolated child, these fleeting glimpses of the wider world were nothing short of magical.
I have a 2017 Bolt, resistive heater no heat pump. I take a -minimum- of 25% range hit in the winter (midwest, garaged but frequent long drives in sub-freezing temperatures) with minimal usage of heat. I've trialed no-heater days, but most of the time I only run a low level for window defogging.

I have a 150 mile round-trip commute when I need to go in to the office. My "summer range" (really more "not-winter range") is 240+ miles. I stick to posted speed limits for efficiency, 60-65 MPH. This winter I've been getting back home with 30 miles of range to spare. I haven't done the math or recall what power draw my gauge cluster reports when I toggle heat on/off, but I do remember it reduces my range estimate by ~5 miles when I turn the heat on.
I've mulled over your comment for a couple days and I still don't really understand what you're saying... feel free not to reply in light of the delay (or to stop the conversation from spiralling), but:

> Throw a baby in water and it can swim, no naiveté anywhere.

Are you suggesting I'm doing something akin to intentionally throwing a baby in water to see if it drowns?

> 1) Putting out a bet that a vulnerable person will take is immoral. But that’s not what we are discussing.

Agreed... I'm just asking if Polymarket can effectively be used as an assassination market, and if so, isn't that a bad thing?

> 2) How would putting out such a bet, a call option, lead to hedging?

I fully admit I'm not an investment expert, so maybe I'm not using the term correctly. But in my mind, "hedging" is putting in place some type of mechanism to benefit or at least limit your losses in the case of your preferred outcome not working out. So in this scenario, a business person could simultaneously make decisions on the assumption of an ongoing trade war, as well as make other decisions that would only be beneficial in the case of the end of the trade war due to someone's demise.

(For clarity, I'm NOT advocating anyone's demise. I'm a peacenik and am not cheering for harm to fall on anyone. I'm simply discussing hypotheticals in an attempt to understand IF Polymarket could be used as an assassination market, and purely because if it could, I feel that should probably be regulated.)

> 3) This can turn into a long ass discussion that I’m not sure you wanna go on.

You're probably right, but I'm not sure where you feel this conversation is headed.
Building Cross-Platform SDKs: From FFI to WebAssembly – Flipt Blog
Yeah this isn't what people make it out to be.

I already pointed it out in another thread about this exact website: Go and search for "keyboard", what's the first search result? Logitech, a company that makes their products almost exclusively in china. There's nothing european about this.

"Yeah but it's a european company so!" yeah i don't care. It's not an european product. It's a chinese product. I don't care if the CEO lives in europe or it has a German flag on the cover or whatever - if the product is made in china, it's not an european product.

Also this is like the 5th time i see this here, which makes me wonder if this is some sort of organic-looking promotional campaign.
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TIL about :%d and :%y, thank you!
>Government currencies don't have the price volatility of Bitcoin.

You WHAT.

Latest example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira
Evaluations are crucial, but what should you eval on?
LLM evaluations are tricky. You can measure accuracy, latency, cost, hallucinations, bias... but what really matters for your app? Instead of relying on generic benchmarks, build your own evals --> focused on your use case, and then, bring those evals into real-time monitoring of your LLM app. We open-sourced LangWatch to help with this..
How are you handling LLM evals in production?
We've progressed to the "more detailed photos and screen grabs on Twitter" stage: https://x.com/bdsqlsz/status/1898307273967145350
the paper used the word "gender" completely unnecessarily, no? those are sex hormones.
Yes, words have meanings. What you call "true democracy" is what is usually referred to as direct democracy. You seem to be implying that a representative democracy is not a democracy. It is, it's just a different form than direct democracy.

In your previous post you said that the US is not a democracy, but a constitutional republic. Now you say that the US has a representative democracy, but operates as a constitutional republic, so I'm not sure what you mean anymore? You seem to agree that a constitutional republic can also be a democracy.

To answer your question, I agree with you the US is a democracy. The parent comment did not say that the US is not a democracy, it said that "companies and banks should invest only where democracy thrives". I take that to mean that this user believes that democracy is not currently thriving in the US, which I would agree with.
> Recurrent conducted the study with the help of a National Science Foundation grant.

Uh-oh...
Why don't they compete outside of Switzerland?
I will repeat my other comment:

> Just over the past year BTC has gone between $54K and $104K.

That's crazy volatility. That is not the same as local currencies.

And with Bitcoin there's no such thing as local purchasing power.
The problem was that the people that benefitted most from free trade never do the work to ensure that a fair share of the profits went to the working class who were now being displaced. If you can no longer get lifelong middleclass job with a high school diploma, but you need a degree, then the degree should be paid for by the state... or you see what you see, a race to the bottom and then a backlash.
List of current and past projects:

Akon City

Cryptoland

MS Satoshi

Próspera

Planned:

Bitcoin City

Also, charter city is a better term. There is no guarantee “freedom” is preserved more inside the city fence than outside it.
Because the response time required for MAD to be an effective deterrent is minutes, not months.
Clever cloud for containers and database (French)
Doug Finke's module became ImportExcel (which can also export): https://github.com/dfinke/ImportExcel
Transitioning from Gmail was painless? What approach did you take? I think I would have hundreds, if not thousands of services I would need to change email on.
+1 Cline is the best. I've tried it with openrouter!
I'm a little confused - I didn't say that? I said that a lot of the circuits meant for IP still had to use (digital) protocols designed for voice.