skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The drone and/or stealth properties of it are likely overstated. The fact that Russia is constructing at least two incredibly expensive submarines (Khabarovsk and Belgorod) to carry them suggests that they aren't suited or intended for long term independent operation. For economically troubled Russia to construct two very costly host submarines suggests that these devices are more akin to torpedoes than autonomous submarines.

Less significantly, the diagrams Russia "published" don't seem to have any room for ballast tanks, which means it would not have hydrostatic control over it's buoyancy (like a traditional submarine does.) Operating depth would therefore be controlled hydrodynamically (as a traditional torpedo does.) Unless it were doing laps, and thus easier to detect, it probably cannot loiter for very long.

Despite all of the above, there are some rumors of a sea bed variant, however I still suspect the system cannot simply settle itself down on the sea bed. Rather it, along with supporting infrastructure, would be placed there by a submarine or surface ship. The Belgorod in particular seems the likely candidate for this sort of operation, since it is additionally reported to be the host for a Paltus-class midget submarine.

> "This is a deadmans switch kind of weapon"

e.g. for retaliation, not first strikes. On that we agree. SSBNs have traditionally served this role, since assuring their destruction during a preemptive strike would be virtually impossible. Advances in ballistic missile defenses threaten to make the inability to assure destruction of all SSBNs irrelevant, and this new torpedo is obviously a response to that.
I wonder if Thailand's military junta sees this "violation of sovereignty" as some sort of personal insult against the king. Since the 2014 coup, the military has claimed its rule is necessary to preserve the honor of the Thai royal family. It rabidly prosecutes any perceived insults, which conveniently tend to be committed by critics of the coup. (But of course to criticize the coup is to criticize the king, since the military claims to act only for the sake of the king...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9_in_Thai...
It can get easier, if you learn to view challenges as an opportunity for growth rather than a burden.
Dude, kindly do not post things that are behind a paywall.

Is the web already not crap enough for you so you felt compelled to make it just that bit crappier?
> A device should look beautiful, clean and simple that you are looking at all day.

That's valid. For my part, I literally could not care less how the device looks. I'll take the ugly one that works better any day of the week.
Eh, I prefer to think of it as looking at your foundation, or roots. It’s just a slab of concrete, where the stuff on top is a bit more elaborate and abstract. Looking back should be like looking at your foundation. It’s supporting everything that comes after it. Of course it’s less ‘sophisticated’. That’s good design. Unless someone was using crown molding build the foundation of their house. Like using OOP where you don’t need it.
Sea level has been rising at three millimeters a year as long as detailed measurements have been made. There has been no acceleration in that rate. We are, after all, still coming out of an ice age, and the oceans are still expanding due to accumulated heat.

Locally apparent changes are primarily due to land subsidence due to sediment deposits or rebound after the ice melted.
I hope so. A backend using Haskell sure would be a selling point for me. I shudder to think of the software that is currently used by many financial firms to handle backend interactions.

Best of luck!
Our Atari 800 is still hooked up and operational. My kids (now all in their 20s) came home with college friends and showed them some of their favorite games on it (like JumpMan! and M.U.L.E.).
FYI: The RubyKaigi 2019 Progress Report on Ruby 3 Talk Slides have more (from the source) info. See the slides titled "Static Analysis" [1]

Ruby 3 static analysis will have four items:

1. Type signature format
2. Level-1 type checking tool
3. Type signature profiling / prototyping tool
4. Level-2 type checking tools

and so on.
[1]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z_5JT0-MJySGn6UGrtda...
> Makes me curious how you categorize other parties in Europe if the Austrian conservatives are already right-wings to you (think Orban, FPO, Le Pen, Golden Dawn, NPD,...)

Right wing to right wing extremism. In particular NPD is very far to the right. Some of these parties are not just about being on the right but also outright racist without hiding it.

> This is where I really disagree, so many of these accusations are so blown out of proportion to me.

You’re likely not directly affected by their policies. I am. I’m married to a foreigner and employ non EU foreigners and I got to experience the changes directly.

As an example to the new policies that silently became a thing is that my wife as a non EU foreigner is no longer allowed to carry a pepper spray. We now need to proof every year that our children are going to the doctor or Kindergarten and that my wife’s permit did not lapse to continue receiving tax credits and Familienbeihilfe. It’s a joke as the kids are Austrian citizens and entitled regardless of her status.
Well this starts off as a decent read and then turns into an advertisement real quick... Guess it worked as expected though as they made me aware of their service and curious about plans. Poster is the author of the article.
Scheme, actually, since it uses "define" instead of "defun." I formatted it reasonably, but it still looked like a pain to untangle.
"Too small" means either it can not be detected experimentally, or even in principle, depending on whether you are allowing gedankenexperiments.

I don't think it is reasonable to expect our models to be identical to reality. Otherwise, they wouldn't be models, they would be reality. A theory is correct if it produces experimentally verified predictions.
SecuROM is not like a pair of "Golden Handcuffs", it's like the hardened metal cuffs that Jigsaw puts on you.
I didn't confuse. Although I did change from what my parent mentioned.

Although it would be nice to have the time to check best befores and use bys of everything I put in my trolley, in practice its basically meat and milk, purely to check that they will last until I want to use them.
Perhaps the essential components of pirate defense can be provided more inexpensively with today’s technology than in the past, and large organizations move slowly to adopt efficiencies without an external forcing function.
There's also the fact that there's no known upper limit on the complexity/time needed to solve an arbitrary problem. Just because you can create an AGI doesn't mean nearly impossible problems suddenly become tractable.

Humans can already create humans that can outsmart them, and only every so often do they solve an interesting problem here or there.
Given how absolutely critical sensor data is becoming to aircraft software, it seems like airplanes should probably have a dozen redundant AoA sensors and pitot tubes. And the sensors should be of different design and manufacture, so they're unlikely to all fail under the same conditions.

It seems like the Air France 447 and 737 MAX crashes could have been avoided just by having highly redundant sensors.

This is probably what will have to happen for fully self-flying aircraft, so why not do it now with partially self-flying aircraft?
We're carrying more tools and hardware - unless we're top-roping, and in that case none of these issues exist.
First step is to validate the problem. Ask 20 people in your target market about their biggest problems. If they bring up the problem early in the conversation, you know you got a winner. If you gotta pull it out of them, you'll have trouble getting them to use whatever solution you come up with.

Then you brainstorm on a solution based on the notes from the interviews.

Then you interview another 20 people and pitch the idea to them. At least half of them should seem excited about it. If not, you gotta either rethink the solution or the problem.

And if you can't find 40 people to interview, that's another problem altogether.

Good luck!
Show HN: I made a command line Tetris in Clojure
Yet she went on and bought another Macbook, and this is not the only case I've heard of about "Macbooks have gone crap but what else am I supposed to do about it?"

Well, the problem is that you've bought into the ecosystem so hard now it's impossible to you to get out, I agree, maybe you don't feel like Windows or Linux are going to solve your problems (although I don't think this to be true) , but the problem is if you keep buying Apple products the company will retain the monopoly.

If you want Apple to either improve their hardware or open up their software to other manufacturers then I feel like the only way is to stop buying their products.

And it's not only about hardware/software quality, it's also about their despicable relationship with customers.
That was the first and only one I had seen, too. I suppose there may be a few more but they certainly seem to be rare. This exhibition had no other examples. The helmet with a flame-engulfed dragon that was shown mounted on an armor suit comes closest.
I don't really get it. I use contacts on my phone + iMessage, this seems to be just a slightly more featured contacts manager? But, comes with a huge drawback that everyone else needs to be using it as well?

I would like an app where I can manage my friends / family lists, and then be able to text multiple people at once, invite them to events, etc. Those are the useful features I see from social networks, but are not well replicated right now outside of Facebook.

I typically manage all my contacts thru Google, and that has some features for merging duplicates, portability across devices/gmail, and also some list features.
>Inflation adjustment is weird across time and geographies. I'm not saying the article is wrong, but just something to keep in mind. In 1973 the internet was nascent, we didn't have smartphones, insulin was still hard to produce, and so on. Even making the same amount "inflation adjusted" as 1973, our lives are much richer in part to all these advances.

Or much poorer. Smartphone means FOMO, constantly accessible to bosses, less interaction and more wasted hours with BS apps (people are starting to treat it as addiction), and the "easier to produce insulin" is balanced by skyrocketing healthcare costs, much more stressful lives (including being worked to the bone, and with no "company loyalty" anymore), and loss of quality of life in many important ways...

It's just that for many US people, "access to BS gadgets" (which nobody missed in the 70s because they didn't exist anyway) trumps other qualitative life factors that don't even register. I think e.g. Europeans would appreciate those much more...

>As an example - it's likely in adjusted terms someone in the top 1% a 100 years ago would be close to the top percentiles today, and yet it's pretty easy to argue that the average person today is still doing much better in almost any measure than a 1%-er from a century ago.

Regarding quality, meaning of life, friends, lifestyle, etc, or just based on access to stuff?
This is the first time I've heard the term "micro-promotion," and I would very much like to never hear it again.
Worth remembering that housing (and I presume land) is far more expensive than it used to be.

https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/valu...
I think that counts as "better", not "easier". Challenges, by definition, are not easy. I also think that challenges, and therefore difficulty, is an essential ingredient in being happy.
I know one person who is like that (in Poland). Mostly, she's bitter about how much she is exploited under capitalism - she could only find illegal work, so she's paid below minimum wage, has only 5-10 days of paid vacation and basically no worker rights whatsoever. Plus she has to worry about being fired and starving on the street. Whereas under communism, the state was officially obliged with providing her with job, so there was no fear of unemployment.
Latest lost satellite is now space junk that could put other spacecraft at risk
Also quote from US pro cyclist Greg Lemond:

"It never gets easier, you just go faster."

https://www.commacomma.co.uk/it-never-gets-easier-you-just-g...
From the license fiasco to this. RedisLabs tries hard to be the new Microsoft.
> Unger says she received death threats, and that some colleagues stopped speaking to her.

That is totally fucked up. I don't recall hearing about death threats against scientists pre Internet. Maybe against some research on primates, but I'm not sure. Yet another consequence of Eternal September :(

> “I have heard scientists say that if we found forest loss cooled the planet, we wouldn’t publish it.”

That is also totally fucked up. But I guess that it's not that surprising. I mean, Kuhn and all.
(1) I excluded gaming as something that is legitimately ping dependent

(2) You can achieve 100-130 ms latency with a "like one data center per continent" sort of network. You don't need edge computing on hundreds or thousands of edge sites to achieve that.
If adopting the new API is mandatory, every team should be told why it's mandatory, and we'll reprioritize and get it done. Doing it to our code behind our back is passive-aggressive and likely to break stuff, because who is monitoring and reporting on a change in our system's behavior that we didn't even see?
Why is AI needed to weed out "garbage flights"?
Can't all of this be done via Stripe Atlas for $500?
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A friend of mine's grandparents retired quite comfortably after selling the Chinese food restaurant they ran for many years. They were farmers in China but after the second time an invading army took everything they decided not to stick around for the third strike. They showed up in a dying rust belt city without the ability to read and write English, say nothing of cultural differences and they did just fine.

The point of this anecdote is to point out what we often take for granted. Even if a sizable minority of Americans are subject to systemic racism native born Americans at least have the ability to transact business in English which gives them a pretty good head start and I think that on average that more than make up for a systemic disadvantage applied to a fraction of the population.
> To say nothing of the fact that comparing a number to physical stuff will eventually bring you head on against Zeno’s paradox, one way or the other.

Zeno's paradoxes are soluble by basic calculus. Once you distinguish between countable and uncountable infinities, the problem of crossing a bounded interval in finite time ceases to be paradoxical.

This is basically to say I don't think this is a particular problem for the resolution of outstanding inconsistencies in theoretical physics.
Facebook is fighting fake news ahead of South Africa elections, failed in USA
> They do not want people using the wireless mouse as a wired mouse with a short, thick cord not designed for it. Which is totally what my parents would do.

That's still stupid as hell, as it basically asserts you're not allowed to use your computer if your mouse is out of batteries.

Logitech's MX master came with a super long cable (it's at least 150cm / 5 ft), pretty flexible, and the charging port's at the top of the mouse. When it's out of battery it just becomes a wired mouse for a short while, it's super convenient. The Anywhere 2S is the same, and for all that I preferred the VX Nano overall, not having to hunt for a pair of emergency battery when I forget/forgot to recharge the 2S is extremely useful.

In fact that's pretty much the only thing I dislike about my Apple Wireless Keyboard: if I forget to charge/change the batteries when it starts whining it becomes dead weight.
This "demand" seems entirely reasonable, a way to establish trust in employees by non-traditional means.

I do assume that this is only while performing paid duties for the company, of course.
I'd like to see that same graph but going back to 1980.

Back in the early 80s you could buy a house in an expensive state (NY) for about 50-60k but today a similar house goes for around 400k.

But a lot of people in the 80s and early 90s made equal or more money than they do today, like a legit dollar for dollar amount more. Certain industries paid 35k-40k a year back then but pay 30-35k today, which is a massive difference considering how much more things are today than back in the 80s.
There is no "ai", it's the same bull crap we had in the 80s. We haven't had true innovation in this space for a very long time, the current hype was caused by GPU, cloud, and abundance of data for training.
This seems pretty nuts. I'm with Steve Dower here - make all parameters allowed as keyword arguments.

Guido's objection that "writing len(obj=configurations) is not something we want to encourage" makes not one iota of sense. Allowing it is not encouraging it.

There's mention of one bug which allegedly could have been fixed with positional-only parameters:

https://bugs.python.org/issue9137

The bug here is that dicts have an update method which you can call two ways, by passing a single dict, or with keyword arguments, and if you try to call the single-dict version using a named parameter, it's not clear what should happen, and at one point, for OrderedDict, it could end up throwing an exception.

But the mistake here isn't confusing parameters, it's having a single method that you can call in two different ways. That sort of thing might fly in Perl, but it's a source of ambiguity and confusion that, IMHO, is not up to Python's standards.
I think the most likely explanation is that the podcast name is being treated as a printf format string, something they mentioned in the show but erroneously dismissed. "% In" would be parsed as a "%n" directive, which can write arbritrary memory addresses and easily lead to a crash.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/printf.3.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_format_string
My 2c: its the 2-3 whales controlling 90%, just bouncing coins around. Hoping to build hype again
How much can climate change help forests?
I wonder why the headline says 'Asian' instead of saying Chinese, since all three researchers were Chinese with ties to China.

As an ethic Indian, I'm kinda offended when all Asians are just lumped together as I believe it promotes general racism and bias against anyone from that continent.
Interesting to see this pop up here! I'm in the process right now of getting my team Tower Safety Certified by Comtrain and this is one of the things they learn about. They also have to practice both being rescued from a tower (while hanging limp as though they were unconscious) and rescuing someone else from a tower. Gotta stay safe out there!
Yup, this is a very common effect that is used by almost every technology in existence. Almost anything is replicable, and engineers love to point that out, and how little time it would take them to replicate as a humblebrag hidden as a comment on triviality of the product. In reality, though, convenience and user experience is what makes the world work, not how easy something is on paper, because that last 20% that makes anything valuable can sure as hell be paid for only in the currency of blood, sweat and tears. (And time.)

Industrial revolution was a thing because it made easier the manufacturing of clothing. People could do it by hand before, the end product wasn’t something a human hand couldn’t. It just made it slightly simpler, and here we are 200 years later, counting atoms on microprocessor semiconductor walls.
Compiler-Generated Functions: Rule of Three and Rule of Five
I damaged my company 2017 MBP by dropping it ~24" when I caught the cord on my foot. The Genius Bar wanted me to pre-authorize $800 of charges before they would even look at it. I was a bit appalled that I couldn't pay any kind of diagnostic fee.
How about “overcome yourself to become a better self”?
Or to put it another way
“Don’t act like who you are, act like the person you’d like to be”
Are you worried that a malicious attacker will MITM the connection and give you inferior advice about starting a company?
Grakn: An 'Intelligent' Knowledge Graph Database
I think that you should be hiring whoever is qualified, not based on gender/ethnicity/etc.

If you have many people then you will have diversity, because they are different people and therefore they have all different experience and ideas from each other. They should neither to try to only to hire people of same gender nor to try to hire everyone all difference gender/skins (doing so can be relevant to a movie set perhaps, but not for a computer programming job).

If women are less interested or less capable for this job by average (although I do not actually know whether or not this is true) then by your interviewing to see who is qualify then you can hire someone, by statistics it is likely that less women will be hired and that is not your fault and is not your problem. But you should not try to hire less women, nor more; see if they are competent at the job rather than their gender.
Have you tried the MacBook Touchpad? All my windows and linux machines have been Thinkpads and while I prefer to use the trackpoint on them, the touchpad on a MacBook wins easily in my experience.
Your cite says that < 1s is "for users to feel they are interacting freely with the information". Even a 400ms round trip is well within that limit.
The actions in here are excellent. At most workplaces you have to ignore everything that does not please management and only do the things that do. Even if it means ignoring a lot of little things that customers will view as quality.
Why is storage at a (space-limited) cell tower more interesting than storage/compute at the ISP or packet core (or whatever's at the other end of the backhaul)?

How much latency do you think is incurred between the ISP and cell tower?
Austria's politics is presently dominated by (far) right wing populism. This isn't really all that surprising in the context of a right wing authoritarian state.
Lemond also said:

"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying."

https://www.azquotes.com/author/8602-Greg_LeMond
MD Anderson President Peter Pisters says all [five] are “Asian”; Science has confirmed that three are ethnically Chinese.
When they get this to the point of restoring consciousness, this will be a pretty fucked up line of experimentation to continue.
How do foreign founders deal with the visa situation when doing business in the US?
For sure. Millbrae was farmland back then. My grandpa grew up in SF and had never heard of it. And it took 8 hours to get to Tahoe from SF.

One difference is they didn’t have to think about whether it would pan out in the long run. They needed a bigger house. They could get one 15 minutes away from SF, where my grandpa was stationed at the time.
It’s a direct quote from a statement provided by the institution. Not a choice the reporter made, but they mention that they confirmed most are ethnically Chinese.