skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the cold war, it was always understood that it would be OTAN that would have to resort to nuclear weapons to halt a mythical soviet attack on western europe.
There's no conceivable scenario the United States could sustain the logistic chains to engage in a sustained land war in Europe against the soviets in the cold war, and now even less so.

Given the preponderance of artillery of the Russians, I really doubt the current numbers from the delusional british about their losses in Ukrain, but supposing Russia would incur 250 deaths year to subdue Estonia is beyond the realms of the most fantastic political sciences major military fantasy.

The United States fought for 20 years in Afghanistan to replace the Taliban regime with the Taliban at the cost of more than 2 trillion dollars. Even nominal success like Desert Storm were not the military triumph it seems as besides Saddam's army being a poor excuse of a military force, widespread bribing was used to guarantee several Iraq's military units would not fight.

Hitler employed 111 divisions on the Barbarossa plan, with the known results. The US has currently 5 divisions equivalent in state of readiness plus some other ten that would take take time. Any serious american operation against Russia in Eastern Europe would thus necessitate a draft in far bigger proportions than the Vietnam's era Draft, in a population that is way less jingoistic than the boomers eager to prove they were up to the heroic acts of the silent generation that overcome the Axis in the battlefield. A lot of american industrial production has been downsized and sizable parts of it depend on global supply chains.

While american weaponry are technologically impressive, most of it was designed by the most byzantine and politicized proccess you could imagine with the goal of guaranteeing politicians votes in their turfs and to maximize returns for the Military Industry shareholders. American weaponry is maintainance intensive, have low availability and depend on optimal conditions to be operated and mantained. They also depend on robust ISR. All things that a smart enemy with hypersonic weapons and space capabilities would make sure to deny on the first day.

The idea that the United States could prevail in a direct lan war against Russia or a naval conflict against China is a fantasy.
There are usually several different ways to install tools like uv. For example, uv is available as a Homebrew formula.

And regarding pre-commit: It usually relies on external code, but it is not a requirement. Pre-commit can also be used to just run arbitrary commands and scripts defined within the pre-commit config using the values "system" or "script" for the "language" key.
Most 'built from scratch' projects still borrow heavily from established thinking—just reimplementing known patterns in different languages or flavors. But first principles means ripping out the assumptions entirely, starting with raw, fundamental constraints: CPU cycles, memory latency, concurrent I/O contention. nubmq doesn't assume that traditional sharding, resizing, or even Redis's single-threaded event loop is optimal just because they're popular. Instead, it assumes almost nothing: keys have to move fast, scaling must be invisible, and downtime is unacceptable. In other words: Don't just tweak existing approaches, burn them to the ground and rebuild from physics upwards. If your 'from scratch' doesn't actively challenge foundational assumptions, it's just another coat of paint—not a true redesign
All the fitness super-nerds have been using chest straps long before wearables were a thing.
Interesting thoughts! First thing to mention is that if you look at the code, it uses SSIM, which is a perceptual image metric. Second is that it may be using sRGB, which isn’t a perceptually uniform color space, but is closer to one than linear RGB. I say that simply because most images these days are sRGB encoded. Whether Thera is depends on the dataset.

Aren’t Thera’s frequency banks pretty darn close to DCT or Fourier transform already? This is a frequency space decomposition & reconstruction, and their goal is similar to JPG in that it aims to capture the low frequencies accurately, and skimp on the frequencies that matter less, either by being less visible or lead to error (aliasing artifacts). It doesn’t seem entirely accurate to frame this paper as learning in pixel space.

As far as perceptual color spaces, yeah that might be worth trying. It’s not clear exactly what the goal is or how it would help, but it might. Thera does use the same color spaces that JPG encoding uses: RGB and YCbCr, which are famously bad. Perceptual color spaces save some bits in the file format, and like frequency space, they are convenient and help with perceptual decisions, but it’s less common to see them used to save work, at least outside of research. Notably, image generation often needs to work in linear color space anyway, and convert to a perceptual color space at the end. For example, CG rendering is all done in linear space, even when using a perceptual color metric to guide adaptive sampling.

Another question worth asking is whether in general a neural network already learns the perceptual factors. When it comes to black box training, if the data and loss function capture what a viewer needs to see, then the network will likely learn what it needs and use it’s own notion of perceptual metrics in it’s latent space. In that case, it may not help to use inputs and output that are encoded in a perceptual space, and we might be making incorrect assumptions.

In this case with Thera, the paper’s goal may be difficult to pin down perceptually. Doesn’t the arbitrary in ‘arbitrary-scale super resolution’ toss viewing conditions and the notion of an ideal viewer out the window? If we don’t even want to know what the solid angle of a pixel is, we can’t know very much about how they’re perceived.
This article from 2 days ago says they have a test rig that is drilling outside. They don't say exactly how deep they have drilled but mentions they have another site where they will attempt to drill up to 100 feet.

So sounds like they are at the very beginning of piloting. I'm not going to listen to an hour podcast to see if it is claiming anything different, if you have a text source I'd be interested.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/geothermal/the-smell-of...
Ah, nice point.
uLisp Sensor Library
Goroutines in Go: A Practical Guide to Concurrency
No one knows what the hell an AI agent is
I'm generally happy with the "original" Firefox. Just wished it played better with KDE Plasma, especially on Wayland. It ignores the window decoration settings among other things.
> ... a threat to their business. For oil companies, so is hydrogen.

Hydrogen is no threat to oil and gas companies, quite the contrary, as discussed by comments all around.

For example, they can produce hydrogen from fossil fuels and justify expanding gas infrastructure while talking about some "future transition".
uLisp for Raspberry Pi RP2350 Boards
those troops will be summarily evicted if the US regime continues threatening its allies with annexation
Solidly enforcing citizens' constitutional right to privacy seems a far better approach to addressing the problem of Google at its root cause.
You're fine no worries. I think you are making my point.

People who claim they are 10x'ers are often not. They are mess makers or wannabes. They appear 10x to those who do not take messes or tech debt into account.

You screaming (to use your lingo) that my buddy above is not a 10x is what the rest of us have been screaming about our co-workers!

I'm not claiming people can't be 10x'ers. Nor am I saying being good is actually bad.
Hawking radiation can't just be stuff dissapearing, because the actual singularity can dissolve. Besides, where would the stuff even leave from? I could imagine the mass flux through our event horizon being related to the energy driving space expansion (or contraction). That only makes sense if time on the inside is related to time on the outside though.

The idea that any mass that will ever fall into our black hole all simultaneously appeared at the big bang doesn't feel correct. That suggests a very specific relationship between time on the inside and outside. There are at least two moments that are distuinishable on both sides. The singularity appearing, and the singularity dissapearing. Compressing all time on the outside into the big bang means weird things for the timing of when the singularity dissapears.
> By 1939 more than half of the Jewish population had fled Germany, so they might have been on to something

That was not because of holocaust, that was because of general restrictions of their legal rights. And also, Germany had policy of trying to make those people leave.

Jews in Germany were largely immigrants living mainly in cities. Frequently refugees from Eastern Europe and their descendants.

> overestimating the current brand of populist republican politics, which has exact replicas in the democratic party as well

You started this thread with claim that Europe has far right problem now. Republican and consequently America politics is massively closer to it that European one ... or democrats.
> "The discovery by the JWST that galaxies rotate in a preferred direction would support the theory of black holes creating new universes, and I would be extremely excited if these findings are confirmed.

Its an interesting theory but to be honest, given the conditions of the event horizon, I don’t see HOW it could be proven.. That said I do feel this will turn out to be a nuance of the measurement itself but maybe that’s just my mind not comprehending the scales of what’s being measured here.
If you’re vaporizing you’d simply use fans to pull the vaporized material out?
To put it bluntly—most engineers today confuse complexity with sophistication. They're stacking libraries and frameworks without questioning if that complexity is needed. nubmq rejects that entirely. It's built on the rawest form of engineering, directly controlling memory, buffers, and goroutine allocation, skipping every third-party crutch that developers usually depend on. It might look radical, even uncomfortable, but that's exactly why it's performant. So, my question back is—are modern developers too afraid to actually build systems this way? Or have we simply gotten complacent with our convenient abstractions?
The advertising in this article is making it actively difficult to figure out how to remediate this issue. The "recovery steps" section just says "start our 14 day free trial".

The security industry tolerates self-promotion only to the extent that the threat research benefits everyone.
you're right, I really should have said "poorly regulated capitalism." My comment on "unchecked capitalism" was more of a commentary on the lack of trustbusting for vertically integrated behemoths like UHG/OptumHealth/Optum PBM/OptumRX and for regional near-monopolies like UPMC.

Healthcare has a lot of regulations, for sure, but it adds a lot of complexity doesn't result in a good system for users -- so, bad regulation. OTOH, I think FSI regulations like Glass-Steagall and Dodd-Frank, as well as regulatory agencies like the SEC and CFPB (gasp!), have been huge successes for retail users of banks and financial markets -- so, better regulation.
They'll get turned off.
Impostor! Clay tablets where written in wet clay, so you didn’t use a chisel and didn’t have to throw away the tablet when your stylus slipped. At worst, you’d erase the entire tablet, but you likely could erase a small part often tablet.

Many tablets even could be recycled after the pharaoh read them (could pharaohs even read?). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet: “Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air, remaining fragile. Later, these unfired clay tablets could be soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets. Other tablets, once written, were either deliberately fired in hot kilns, or inadvertently fired when buildings were burnt down by accident or during conflict, making them hard and durable”
The use for donations could be for a single person whose job is to check the upstream code for any antifeatures (telemetry, ads, product placements, online service defaults, Google as paid default search engine, etc.) not in the user's interest and revert them, as well as bundling any useful extension like uBlock Origin and verifying them.

That needs minimal effort compared to building a browser, because it doesn't involve doing any of the hard work, but just removing code that serves to line the pockets of those doing most of the work at the expense of the user.
Using batteries to produce H₂O₂ from air for industrial applications
When I look at the Gerontocracy that rules american politics today, I can't help but remember myself of the Soviet Gerontocracy that ruled the USSR in its last decade or so.
Most of China’s solar and wind capacity is in its empty west where its people aren’t. They have a bit of transmission, but clearly there is a limit. Western cities like Lanzhou have really cleaned up though as a result. They are limited in how many people can live near renewable sources by water availability.
At the end of the day, all modalities boil down to patterns of electrical activity in your brain.
It's so weird for an EU citizen to claim that the US has a violent culture. Since 1776, Europeans have killed each other at a much higher rate than Americans. The US is far from perfect but let's have a sense of proportion.

Supposedly Hiram Maxim was prompted to invent the machine gun when an acquaintance told him:

"Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility."
It would need to be the other way around, dark energy being matter falling into our black hole. Hawking radiation should 'suck' energy out of our universe. I can't think of a satisfying source of this energy.
The best I can imagine is either space contracting (but that is gravity) or entropy increasing (but that doesn't leak energy, just free energy).
Try Nebo.

I've tried them all, including Concepts. Concepts was great but it requires subscription and it gets slower when you have a very large drawing. I tried large Goodnotes paper too, but it was a bit clunky.Nebo was good, but then I kind of stopped doing large notes.
I'm puzzled by this claim. I wouldn't call it a myth, but all the same...

I grew up on a vineyard. Each harvest time the grapes would hang down heavily and almost touch the ground. Our pet dogs would park themselves beneath and greedily consume a whole bunch.

They would also scoff any dried grapes they found on the ground.

The worst effect seemed that they all would get noticeably pudgy during the season.
While libertarians supported Trump in order to be unregulated (AI, crypto) they will regret the decision when they are increasingly forced to give white supremacy a controlling seat at the board table (the other side of the coin, or as Paul Harvey says "the REST of the story")

People make such Faustian bargains. Research underlies Silicon Valley's growth and is its lifeblood. Here's one scientist's regret. And biomedical research is a powerful force behind valley entrepreneurship. [0]

> I am an NIH-funded biomedical scientist with conservative leanings. I know at least a dozen scientists (a small closeted minority) who voted for Trump, largely because of frustrations with DEI and extreme wokeness that had permeated every aspect of University life. Each one of us deeply regrets their vote for Trump and are utterly ashamed of it.

> We are absolutely horrified at how mindlessly destructive this admin has been to scientific institutions. They are single-handedly destroying the STEM dominance US established over decades.

> Average Americans simply do not realize that we are now on the verge of a precipitous decline in STEM. We all admit that the warnings about Trump/MAGA were on target, and the thing we argue about now is whether the damage is even reversible. All the Lefty overreach was annoying as hell but the MAGA disdain for science is 100X worse.

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/angrystaffer.bsky.social/post/3lkdx...
I've found that in times of great stress, re-reading HHGTTG helps the most. Without fail, it makes me laugh and think about world more lightly, regardless of the circumstances. Wonderful books.
Thank you. Its slowly coming online again. In a day or two should be all up.
I love my Porsche Taycan as well (even if its resale price is dropping like crazy and sales are down), but whenever I travel outside Europe/USA in LATAM, I only see 1 brand: BYD.

The main differentiator why people will switch to EVs is price, and Tesla seems to have stopped competing on it and is bettin on full autonomy instead (which is not a bad bet, as Waymo is achieving it slowly).
Maybe use adjustable lenses?
It's the extra parens, semi-colons, keywords and type annotations. Ruby makes the tradeoff for legibility above all else. Yes, you can obviously read the TypeScript, but there's an argument to be made that it takes more effort to scan the syntax as well as to write the code.

Also:

const chat: Chat = LLM.chat;

...is not instantiating a class, where Ruby is doing so behind the scenes. You'd need yet another pair of parens to make a factory!

This is mainly a matter of syntactic style!
Well, I have some qualifications in typography, a reasonable familiarity with ML techniques, and am fairly good at math (though I can't claim to have won the Putnam), and I can imagine how to apply ML for this task.
The collapse is already happening it’s just happening slowly.

We’ve offshored manufacturing, cut funding for education, have failed to invest in infrastructure.
five fourths of people have trouble with fractions and percentages
It's not "Gen"erative, but is still a Transformer, and is kinda OK: https://github.com/openai/whisper

(I'm not too impressed with the error rate, but OTOH Alexa and Siri mishear me fairly often as well, so Whisper may be "good enough").
In a society where "people who get shit done" are totally unconstrained, how do we ensure the right people are doing the right shit? I think you're making an assumption is that "shit getting done" is by definition progress, but I see no reason that would have to be the case especially absent any controls on what's being done. It might qualify as movement, but movement by definition can be in any direction.

College libertarian complaints about government aside, democratic societies actually have a pretty good track record of progress compared to the alternatives that came before them. There are undoubtedly cases where legitimate progress was slowed by democracy, but if you remove democracy entirely, how do you have any assurance it's those cases that would be accelerated. Like maybe we'll get to Mars faster or invent unlimited fusion energy without representative government. But maybe we'll revert to tribal feudalism because every oligarch will think they're the man of destiny and try to make it so.
But what if you, the observer, are also rotating? What if you’re rotating faster than the thing you’re observing?
Some confusion in this thread. I think it would help folks to know that in addition to conservation of energy, our universe has conservation of angular momentum, aka mass spin.

Hope that helps!
https://archive.is/3z0Wf
Having not seen a live lyrebird, (they're not in Northern Queensland) watching and listening to a bird in person that could mimic equally as well some of the various birds about was something - watching the bird finally succeed in scaring off the flock occupying the tree - I did wonder if it was pure coincidence. I should point out that prior to its success, the bird sat in the tree for a time going through it's great number of different bird calls, and hopping between branches towards the flock from time to time and being chased back out of the tree only to return with another volley of calls. These loop of calls would sometimes include the whistling kite but the flock I think sensed there was no kite sitting in the branches where this bird was sitting and didn't react. At the time I just thought, oh what a strange song bird flitting about advertising its presence and it wasn't until the bird flew way above the tree and down though the top branches with the whistling kite call that I twigged there was more to its behaviour.

David Attenborough's tv series I enjoy if I've got time to watch. I do believe recalling watching the same segment with the lyrebird imitating the camera.
I actually have an app in iOS store that completely executes in the background: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id6737482921?mt=8

Never had it stopped by iOS. So not only there's no fundamental restriction, the App Store itself allows some apps to do that.
One think that I always keep in mind is that I am not the average person. I live a confortable life with financial security. My incentives and the way I see the world is necessarely informed by my standpoint. For me, the continuity of the current institutions and the status-quo is a value.

But think about someone who has been foreclosed in the last financial crisis, people who have no perspective of ever retiring, who a are a paycheck away from becoming homeless. Do you think those people will see our institutions in the same sacred light as we do?
Reading "its radius is x km" would mean nothing to you if you'd never experienced spatial extent directly, whether that be visually or just by moving through space and existing in it. You'd need to do exactly what is being said in the paper, read about thousands of other roughly spherical objects and their radii. At some point, you'd get a decent sense of relative sizes.

On the other hand, if you ever simply see a meter stick, any statement that something measures a particular multiple or fraction of that you can already understand, without ever needing to learn the size of anything else.
And the press did a lot to shape that perception despite both showing signs of decline. That's the point. The coverage was skewed.
That's more or less also what Google does with Chrome in order to force folks to use it and only it. I know that well because I have Chromium installed for this reason alone.
For example It is clearly that some Ukraine nationalist did bloody crimes before the war even if Russian media exegarates it. Even the European Court of Justice has acknowledged crimes on the side of Ukraine.

https://tass.com/world/1927493 https://www.echr.coe.int/w/judgment-concerning-ukraine-2

I'm Russian, but it is my real opinion. I don't get paid anything for it. And I understand that not all Russian(goverment) actions are good, some were incorrect or questionable. Russia just don't want NATO expansion to the East even without transparent referendums. It's all very complicated in reality, in war no side perfectly correct and right and clean... :(
It very much matters, because it's a reason an invasion happens at all, especially between peer states.

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-3134,0...
I have a friend whose fractions stop at fourths. "I'm at half a quarter of a tank of fuel."
The article does not claim scientific standards, and in reality, it is probably not exactly 94%. However, it is likely a very significant amount.

Considering that Germany has never been the easiest market for Tesla, there are many reasons for this trend. Germans like their local manufacturers. It is probably not surprising—and not far from reality—that the majority of people would not consider buying a Tesla at this time.