skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This would probably result in the total destruction of the opposing drone swarm.

My point is, at $3-4 million each (or $2-3 million as I saw in some sources, which I included in another comment here, that's still 20+ of these drones to to each F-35 in equivalent cost. So:

- Can the F-35 actually mount enough long-range weaponry to attack 22 separate targets?

- Do the drones even need to have an equivalent sensor suite in every instance? If defending, there may be ground stations with expensive sensor packages to help to coordinate. If attacking, the impetus is on the F-35 to destroy or render all units incapable of carrying our their mission. Destroying most of them and retreating without confrontation is useful only inasmuch as it prevents the attackers mission success, or lessens its impact.

That said, given the information you presented above about the F-35 being a drone coordinator, that makes it a much more useful and effective weapon in my eyes. If it can basically act as a force multiplier for the drones by providing a much more effective sensor suite, and coordinate them so it's like one large attack vehicle, then that's providing the benefits of both types while minimizing the downsides of each. For example, I would imagine an F-35 + 20 drones would be much more effective and deadly than either two F-35's or 40 drones.

In some ways, it's a lot like how Aircraft carriers worked in the beginning of or just before WWII. Having one in a battle group provided a much larger scouting range, and the ability to harass or incapacitate some types of enemy prior to the battle group arriving (they shifted more into an attack role as the war got under way, is my understanding. Prior to that there wasn't a lot of practical experience in using them in engagements).
Excuse me? Who are you to tell others what to comment on? HN is a place to discuss projects and articles on good faith with comments as knowledgeable as possible. If you don't like constructive criticism, please leave and take your censoring somewhere else.

By the way, it is specially humorous that you ask me to "show something", when we are discussing a project that makes extraordinary claims without backing them at all.
Even if the site is not evidence of dinosaurs at the time of the KT, isn't it still a very significant find?
Which gives me zero information. It just says that you plan to add optimizations in the future and lists your compilation targets. I'm talking about an actual white paper or blog post that explains the inner workings of your compiler. Or just show us your source code. Something that proves you aren't just a troll taking people's money via Patreon over empty promises.
How can it never exist if there's an online playground? :thinking:

I will release it in June without delays, that's the plan. Whatever state it is in.
The examples sound excellent. Top (equal or better) of any text-to-speech synthesizer I've ever heard. I would love to start using it for audio books and for VoIP to save space and traffic as soon as possible. And a Linux-native text-to-speech synthesizer capable of producing speech of this quality is a thing I dream of (now the only option I know is booting to Windows and using Ivona voices)
Don’t know what you do to your Apple cables but I don’t think I’ve ever bought one in however many years since iPhone 3s.

I think two have gone bad, both replaced by Apple care.
I was of the same opinion until I got a charging pad from Costco for Christmas. I decided to try it out to be polite, and was surprised at how much I like it. I don't have to fish for the cable, I don't have to try to plug it into the speakers a few times in the dark before finding the right port, and if I want to pick up my phone to check something really quick I can just do it without unplugging or having to hover near the cord. Life-changing, no, but certainly worth a few bucks to me.
IIRC, yes.
This can be mitigated by https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
I've only started going to tech meetups recently, as an attempt to socialize. It's definitely helped! I basically avoided it for the first 6 years, so I'd recommend it very much.
They still own a lot of shares.
I’m not sure how I feel about 360 videos. Maybe it’s because I never tried it with a headset on.

Does anybody have examples of really well done 360 videos?
>> In order to get projects, you have to leave your house and meet other local business owners.

> And so we come to one thing that rarely gets explicitly discussed in articles like this - the location. I don't blame authors for that, your environment is usually something you take for granted.

Isn’t that what conferences are for? Or content marketing? Patio11 went from not consulting to charging $10,000 a week while living in the Japanese equivalent of Iowa by writing blog posts but IIRC the best channel for his particular consulting was Microconf followed at some distance by cold emailing.

If you live in Romania you can afford to attend a Western European conference once a quarter, right? You can definitely afford to blog.
Correct. There are citations floating around on the internet, for example here: https://twitter.com/refdra/status/1111656520083746818

Again, this is not a rebuke of anyone's politics: It's simply a verifiable description of Shapiro's views.
I feel like it would be pretty trivial for the average person to get rid of their social presence. If they used their real names on things like e.g. forums then yeah, that will follow them.
Hilariously nightmarish. I'm going to use this for my alarm clock...
There's nothing extraordinary on the website. Everything mentioned there was done before.
Open Source Messenger App for iOS - Messaging, Voice and Video Calls
Am I the police?
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That does not make sense. Either you support both because you can translate most C++, or you don't support any (modulo bugs).

Maybe you are hardcoding detection of a set of known types by hand?
Go's GC is not really pushing the envelope. They have merely improved from a STW, non-compacting, non-generational collector with a 25% CPU overhead to a concurrent, non-compacting collector with reasonable overhead.

JVMs and CLR had those a decade ago. The state of the art are concurrent, compacting, region-based pauseless or millisecond-pause collectors.
After engaging with the author, I believe that he's just a troll. After seeing a different post of his, I became suspicious and did some googling and read through his content. He basically makes claims without ever releasing any source code, and his compiler appears to be a front end only that emits C or x86 using some sort direct translation. I'm not for sure on this because again, he hasn't released any source code. I am a PL enthusiast and have put a lot into PLT, and I agree that what he seems to have built so far is trivial. I'd be happy to have him show me his source code and prove me wrong.

Also this fxfan account has commented on all of the negative posts about his language, and based on the phrasing of the comments, I have concluded that it is also a troll account.

It is normal for people who are first discovering PLT to get excited building their first compiler. But the author is either having delusions of grandeur and truly doesn't understand the scope of building a production language, or is actively trying to mislead people. Either way, I love seeing people doing cool things in PL, especially from beginners, but not like this. This is unethical.
It should be pretty easy to prove that you're a celebrity.
It's flat enough to stay inside a 7mm charging range. (Or the inch plus that newer chargers can supposedly do.)
That the first paper doesn't talk about dinosaurs is reason for skepticism? He didn't tell us everything in the first paper, therefore it's probably bullshit?

Please.
The contempt their CEO continues to display for its users is honestly something else. 'Dumb f*s' indeed.
Ask HN: Deleted FB account before GDPR, now what?
Where can I request them do delete everything they got on me?
Bitcoin in the Wilderness
Name of Japan's new era to be revealed at 11:30 a.m. Monday
Not really no. The closest thing to production I've used it was as a one-liner web-server to serve some images.
My phone still has a headphone jack, so removing 1 port still leaves me with 1.
Experimental 'CoW toilets' aim to cut e-moo-ssions
I don't mean to hijack this thread but please see my question about deleting FB account before GDPR happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19527715
Could you please tell what SKU/product it was?
Space Cadet Keyboard
Ironically, the link in the "Found an error/typo? Please submit a pull request." part of the docs leads to a 404 (is the repo private?)
In a way, but the real job of the F-35 is transfer wealth from the federal treasury to the stockholders and executives of Lockheed Martin.

And it has been an incredible success!
Tangentially related, there is a clip of the Brady Bunch [1] that anti-vaxxers like to share that shows how the attitude towards measles has changed. Is anyone here old enough to verify how true it is? It makes me wonder about the recent introduction of the chickenpox vaccine - will the mostly benign (but of course not without exceptions) chickenpox in later generations be seen as extremely dangerous? Also interesting - anti-vaxxers say that the chickenpox vaccine has increased the occurrences of shingles. I find it interesting but not sure about it all.

[1] https://youtu.be/eR6NEv6yCEg
Do you know of any single person that has written a C++ transpiler into another language from scratch?
The dead ones use the least power.

In other words, other things being equal, the more power a programming language uses the more useful it has to be (by, for example, saving power or time). If it's not, its use will not be higher than its economic benefit.
Very few, I’d imagine.
I don't know who made the decision (or when), but he did have a slide prepared that said "OPEN" [1] in big letters next to a FaceTime screenshot, which I'd assume means the decision was made at least before taking the stage.

[1] https://youtu.be/AmXc1Mjr5J4?t=5816
How would you compare AirPower with Cue::cat?
I didn’t make it; my phrasing apparently failed. I’m sorry :(
Much of the advice given in this thread should be qualified with "at least in the US". For example, the liability problems are much less of an issue in the EU, and forming an LLC equivalent in most countries will not protect you from liability if you are the sole owner and you manage the company.
That's why we have to bend them so often in real life with tricks. In media they can just make something up, we've got to find real solutions. I'm sure that one exists but it's either too expensive currently or not consistent enough yet. Yet being the key word there. I'm sure this will be an elegantly solved issue at some point, just might require some more smarts on the hardware side.
Just to put this in perspective, a traditional phone line encodes 56 Kb/s of data, which was believed to be the size channel to send the human voice with a reasonable quality. They are doing it in 1.6 Kb/s!
That’s why Apple invests in quality control to prevent this from occurring.
That means you don’t actually know the real cost since insurance shields you from the actual amount and it can be drastically different for each insurance company. You’re just estimating with a false sense of information.
Yes indeed they do!
Those were rhetorical questions. I am sorry I offended you.
Thanks for linking to the actual course! (I'm the lead for Udacity's ML/DL content)
I see a lot of expression of scepticism, echo-chamber style, but not much ‘reason’.

The central attack seems to be a straw-man; that it’s not a dinosaur graveyard, something that was never claimed in the article at all. It’s like they read the title, and jumped on Twitter without reading the whole article.

Also, some random comments about colonialism.
Since it's a type of coroutine, maybe `co`? also as in "co-pilot".

I'm not very confident about it :(
I think even zuck would have given up on any political aspirations at this point. He's a total pariah.

Honestly, who wants to be a billionaire at this point? Even if you promise to give away 99% of your money everyone still hates you.
Wireless charging’s nice to have at home— it’s pretty convenient to just be able to throw my phone on the charger at night and have it charged in the morning, without having to mess with a cable.

The real killer app for me, though, is wireless charging in the car. I’ve got a Qi charger built into my car (and Qi phone mounts are readily available as retrofits for cars that don’t) and it’s really handy (and likely safer) to be able to just throw my phone in the pad if I realize it’s low while driving rather than having to fumble around with a cable.
Yes, I was looking for "carefully optimised Asm" on that list too. Even if it's not faster it will pretty much always be smaller. (Compilers are surprisingly easy to beat at size optimisation.)
It takes something easy and makes it effortless. Like AirPods, this has a surprising number of implications that you really don't think about until you try it.

If I'm just setting my phone down on my desk and it's at 50%, and my cable is right there, I may not bother to plug it in. Especially if I might get up again in 5 or 10 minutes. But if I can just set it down in a particular place and regain a couple percentage points, and I do this twenty times a day, it adds up.
YOu're dumb if "second account" is your only defense. Downvote and move on, you're not as smart as you think- people here are pretty knowledgeable.
Probably true, but there is in fact the apropos readdir function, which does have a readdir_r variant to address thread safety issues (now apparently deprecated due to other unrelated design issues). So it seems the joke’s on us.

Getting API design right is _hard_.
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I just don't understand what he has to gain from this notoriety. This type of snake oil salesmanship doesn't make much sense to me in open source. Or is he making money from this somehow?
The kid had a 105 (!) degree fever. He was unvaccinated. It sounds like the parent has some doctor skepticism already. As a parent, if my child had a fever that high, and the doctor told me to consider emergency care immediately, you better believe I'd be in that urgent care yesterday. The parent in this piece decided that their child was sick enough to go to the doctor, listen to their advice, and instead took their kid home, decided to double check the doctor's work, and then ignore the recommendation. The doctor probably sensed this skepticism based on their interaction and the ignored phone calls, and called in a welfare check.

This case does seem like it spiraled out of control. I usually can appreciate a good parents' rights outrage piece, but I don't fully back the parent in this case.
That would require sync over WiFi to actually work. Reliably.
I got my first GM a couple months ago. Definitely felt like an achievement.

Afaik Arika is not allowed to make non-guideline Tetris games, but the fact that they made Tetris 99 for the switch has got some rumors going that they reached some kind of agreement and maybe a tgm4 could actually happen again.
Just write idiomatic code, it's what all the major engines try to optimize for.
The vast amount of vendor management makes the scal of PMing apple products rather unwieldy...
These are all valid reasons for saying that this is an important site, but only 1, 2 and 5 can tell us something about the extinction event itself.
No you’re right - very little if anything was accomplished here. The other side of the cables connecting Iceland land in five eyes territory and cost like n times more for capacity (and are old etc).
I’ve never understood it either.

I have four of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K702S66/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_z8UN... with little 2-inch micro USB and Lightning cables. I keep they in different sockets around the house. When I want to charge something I just pick it up and plug it in and fold the battery around the back. I can hold it in my hand or set it down on a desk. More wireless than wireless.
Seriously, why the fuck is this? I get recommended Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, MGTOW, etc. all the fucking time despite explicitly telling Youtube that I'm "not interested" in these videos.
I pay $30/month in an average month for electricity and $0/month for gasoline (TBH I don’t own a car, so a more realistic measure is I’ve probably spent about $50 this month on a Lyft ride, new brakes for my bike and a few transit rides). The point being, energy doesn’t have to be expensive if you aren’t blasting the heat, driving everywhere and doing who knows what else.
Sometimes the gun trucks are also other F35s however. The F35 has a “beast mode” where it is backing an unbelievable amount of firepower:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-beast-mode-new-v...

I think I the balance is to use each platform for what it is amazing at and supplement the weaknesses with other platforms that are better in various areas. Combined forces hit the hardest, but the electronics / SIGINT packages in modern fighters truly does set them apart. After an F35 has expended all of its rockets it can still designate targets for other combatants to destroy. The sensor fusion going on (thanks to Moore’s law and smaller / faster compute) really is something.
Well so does mine since it was an important feature to me. This conversation is about Apple products though, and they decided to make a convoluted reason to try and prop up their Airpods and Beats headphones to be "courageous". Samsung almost has the problem solved by wireless charging of devices from the phone, however I'm not sure about the long term ramifications of sending electrical signals directly at devices plugged into your ears. Apple Airpods remind me of that scene about hair gel from "Something About Mary" and are basically meant to be thrown away after a few years of use. Meanwhile I've had the same headphones with different earbuds for literally over 5 years. When there are two USB C chargers I might consider dropping the headphone jack.
Oh I see now, he has a Patreon. Wow, that's incredibly low. I honestly don't know what to say.
I don't know what it's called but someone sells a silicone attachment for the AirPods that anchors it inside your ear. I know this because one of my coworkers has it.
The latest poll on this issue showed 64% of Quebec’s population backed the bill. One of the issue in Quebec is that the French (I’m French Canadian) are affraid of getting assimilated and fight toe and nails to keep their traditions which sometimes come off as racist. Quebec feels like it is the only important Canadian minority.
No, the US. This was about two years ago, before the GDPR existed. The same thing might not happen now.
> A text conversation is never really over.

And in some ways it never really gets started. I love texting. I love the ability to send little pings to people throughout the day. To share moments, etc. But at the same time, the complete proliferation of instant communication has left us with no place to have anything but the most base-level communication.

> We try to negotiate the same kind of turn taking, but many of the cues we use to gauge whether a conversation is going well—or even just still going—are missing. That can be stressful.

> as anyone who’s ever sent a vulnerable text knows, it can be jarring to put a message out into the world and get nothing back, leaving a message hanging in a void until the next time the conversation picks up.

These lines and many others like it in this post are exactly why I created Pony [0]. Pony is a non-instant email platform that sends and receives messages once a day. Ever since my first communication online, the stressful and often difficult-to-navigate rhythms of instant, always-on contact made me wish there was a non-instant online medium so I could correspond without with some space to reflect and think.

[0]: https://www.pony.gg
I moved the website to a different repo, need to update that link.
Was fairly leery of how useful I thought this would be, but you reference the FAQ[1] early in what I assume is an attempt to head this off, and it delivers adequately. Despite being predisposed going in thinking it was probably not worth the janky stuff you would have to do to get it working, the level of detail and thorough covering of some fairly complex attack vectors leaves me thinking that while not as secure as no automatic boot method for encrypted disks (obviously), it would definitely be a step up over not encrypting and something I would recommend without worrying that I was increasing the burden of managing the systems to a level an organization would be unprepared to deal with.

Not that I'm some professional security researcher or anything, but congratulations, color me impressed.

1: https://www.recompile.se/mandos/man/intro.8mandos
Book of Lamentations
It is! How did I forget that. How do firefighters move through a building with no floors?

> The blaze began high in the warehouse and was so difficult to reach that firefighters had to cut holes in the roof, according to Neil Odin, chief officer at Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. A sprinkler system only contained the fire in its early stages. It took more than 200 people to quell the flames.
"Everytime I sit down, I place my phone down on my charger pad, because that's where it goes."

I hope you enjoy destroying your battery prematurely, because constant charging cycles wears it out rapidly. Lithium chemistry hates that kind of treatment.
Moving into the future Army shows off drone destroying mobile laser system
- Not all IDEs show method signatures.
- Not all languages have IDEs developed specifically for them.
- Some IDEs require configuration/plugins to have that feature.
- Some IDEs will give you method signatures for Standard libraries, but not custom ones.
etc.
I have to agree. A dock or pad with a cable or two and an inductive charging mat would be ideal. I like my setup, but it'd be much easier to remember to charge my AirPods if I could just place them on a pad, or just casually laying my phone down, and still getting a charge, but having the option of a cable for the fast charge and being able to charge and use simultaneously.
Makes sense. It didn't come across that way since you mentioned the energy savings and then immediately mentioned those alternatives. Interestingly though, while Java used a lot of memory, the energy expenditure for DRAM is still one of the lowest for Java. And they found little correlation between memory usage and DRAM energy in general. I wonder why that is.
I don't believe this is true of modern Li-ion batteries.
I replaced my last phone because the port wore out, and sometimes I'd wake up with a low battery.

Nice to know my port gets less wear!

(Also, both iPhone and Android support Qi. Don't need to play the different cable game.)
Here’s how many Bay Area homes Lyft employees can buy with IPO cash
Last I checked, I only had one opposable thumb per hand. I need that to hold my phone, so how would I grab the cable? With my teeth?