skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interviews with aircrew who had been shot down and (miraculously) survived and made it back to England revealed that most never knew what hit them

The particularly depressing part of this story is that for months RAF crews were reporting attacks they couldn't see coming, and the RAF ignored these reports and chalked these losses up to flak. What was happening was the Luftwaffe had observed that RAF heavy bombers lacked belly gun turrets and had essentially zero downwards visibility, and had developed the upwards-facing Schräge Musik gun mounts to attack from below. What was also happening was that RAF bombers were being equipped with Monica tail warning RADAR in an attempt to detect pursuing night fighters more easily, but the Luftwaffe had quickly developed detectors that allowed night fighters to directly home in on these bombers instead, while still avoiding being detected by Monica sets. Together, these were responsible for much of the severe losses suffered by Bomber Command in the winter of 1943-1944.
I second the recommendation for Precious Little Sleep. I bought and would recommend the book, but you can also get a lot of what you need from these blog post but the author.

https://www.preciouslittlesleep.com/what-you-need-to-know-ab...

That was enough for a while and I believe I didn't actually buy the book for at least several months. Then I bought it at 2am during a particularly rough sleep regression. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My main caveat for sleep advice is that you need to take it all with a grain of salt because whether any particular strategy will work depends on the parents and kids temperaments, along with a variety of other factors. YMMV and don't let anybody else's success story make you feel bad. They're probably leaving out the worst parts, possibly because their brains have literally blocked out the memories of them.
> Unless you go with Electron or pay thousands per year for a Qt license, options are quite limited.

I might be wrong, but it seems that Bitwig Studio, probably the most popular cross-platform DAW, uses JavaFX for the UI.
I Got Hacked So You Don't Have to (2017)
The core idea is to separate ease from simplicity and to talk about the implicit trade-offs of adhering to one over the other.

He claims that certain (often popular) tools and practices adhere to ease rather than simplicity, which introduces accidental complexity. And he introduces term „to complect“ which is now widely used in the Clojure community.

Many of the concepts and comparisons he talks about can be found in the design of Clojure and Datomic.
> high-cardinality workloads

Does this mean if you were using it with Prometheus you could get around issues with high cardinality labels?
Yeah, no way that's true if his python and clojure knowledge are at the same level. That tweet sounds like what you see on r/clojure all the time, a cult.
I think the speed is highly affected by the population density. I have seen speeds varying from ~40mbps to <1mbps. The less the density the higher the speed.
This is an great endeavour and problem you are positioned to uniquely solve.

Think of the user's experience and come up with the key questions your audience will need to ask to get the job done like you outlined above and create an easy to use user flow with modern UI controls and basically reduce, anticipate, and outsource the complexity at all stages. What are the most common workflows you can automate with a wizard of questions? Think completing your taxes with Intuit type of experience that has come a long way to be user centered and anticipate answers to all questions they might have and ask.
I'm also interested to see how this is different from generalized additive models (GAMs - not GANs). It seems to be the same principle except with a genetic mutation and selection aspect.
ScaleFactor Raised $100M but hid bigger problems
Elo is great for what it was built for: ranking chess players. Chess is (1) extremely low-variance, (2) has an extremely high skill ceiling, and (3) is 1-on-1. Elo works great for chess, but it would never work for something like Poker. Let's briefly go over these three points.

Most games aren't chess -- where the only variance is picking who's black and who's white -- in fact, they might include dozens of RNG mechanics (from critical strikes to ability rolls, to spawn points). These mechanics (while fun and well-designed) might pollute your "idealized" model. There's also the problem of RPS (rock-paper-scissors) mechanics or pick-counter-pick mechanics which will also heavily skew win rates. For instance, given a slow combo Magic deck, you will most likely auto-concede to mono red aggro (regardless of skill level). If you're using Elo, this will pollute your model. (Hint: you shouldn't be using Elo.)

Most games also don't have chess' high skill ceiling. Chess has such a high skill ceiling for a number of reasons -- it's one of the oldest games still being actively played, for one. Suppose your "game" is simply the flip of a coin (everyone wins 50% of the time). Zero skill involved. Trying to model win-loss-ratios using a sigmoid curve is silly. Obviously, no game is going to be a coin flip, but there's a world of difference between chess and DOTA.

TruSkill attempts to fix (3) by using clever Bayesian updating on a player-by-player basis[1] but in reality, it's a shit-show. Using Elo (or variants thereof) for team-based games where the team isn't really a team (more like 3-5 random people plopped together for one match) is incredibly misguided, but continues to be implemented in just about every modern multiplayer game (to the players' frustration). Of course, mixing and matching pre-made groups with non pre-made groups creates as many issues as you might imagine.

In short, why so many game devs are enamored with Elo when it comes to ranking is a bit bizarre.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
This post isn't about the modern economy, it's about what Apple is planning to do in order to reduce their carbon footprint. Using your logic, for-profit prisons are relevant to this post since Apple is located in America.
We need to protest Apple to make products locally in California/Texas or in EU where sustainability can be traced [1], suppliers can be held accountable and there is no kowtow to the CCP.

Sustainability is just one of the fringe benefits - labor is getting more expensive in China and Apple has risen because of cheap labor. Apple needs to bring back manufacturing to the West. It will invigorate local supply chains from screw makers to PCB manufacturers, glass cutting, CNC, etc.

It would be a dream to buy an iPhone proudly made sustainably in US+EU.

Why are we barking at NBA and flat out ignoring Apple? Where are protests outside of Apple HQ? Where is the press on this!!!?

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/02/apple-suppliers-implicated-in...
If you offer me access to the software doesn't this mean that I am a user of the software and I should be entitled to see the source code ?

My understanding is that AGPL solves a real problem, people modifying GPL software and using loopholes to not give the modifications back to the community, is there a better license that fixes same problem and offers the maximum rights to the users (not maximum power to the developers)
The system isn't perfect. But it's better than pure anarchy.

Probably no (human-designed) system will be perfect. In the case of obnoxious GDPR consent popups, though, the main problem is companies (under the direction of humans, obviously) that are doing their utmost to subvert the clear and reasonable intent of the law, because they simply don't want to respect it (or their users). They're a cancer on the internet. I hope to see the day when enforcement is taken more seriously.
A New Era: EAG Unveils World’s First 70 Seat+ Hybrid Passenger Plane
>cellular aluminum structure

Seems like this could be easily degraded through chemical means. The analogy of Jello filled with chicken nuggets made me think of just eating the Jello part.
A lot of infrastructure. A lot, industry is not tech. The world is not the US.
pour some liquid nitrogen on it and hit it with a sledgehammer?
The Wrangler is hard, hard, hard to compete with. It's had several competitors, and none of them survived. They don't survive because Wranglers are terrible daily drivers. But Wranglers aren't terrible because they're a Jeep, they are terrible because of the compromises Jeep needs to make for the Wrangler to maintain offroad credibility.

Thus, most people tolerate Wranglers because A) they enjoy it, B) they like the image driving one projects. It's really not any different from a Dodge Viper, it's a terrible car that people drive mainly for image, or because melted shoe soles and burned legs are worth it for the fun.

So what happens is, Toyota/Ford/Chevy/Suzuki make a "better" competitor. But hardly anyone buys it because it's a terrible daily driver, and it doesn't have the image of a Wrangler for people to overlook it.

Even Jeep sells mostly comfy SUVs.
I mean, how is this different from any other industry in the world? If you have a set of exports, if someone out competes you and lowers the prices, you suffer. That is why you diversify and build other economies. These petro states made a ton of money, most of the times squeezing desperate countries and selling them oil at above market rates. Should've saved for a rainy day, because sooner or later, other countries are going to figure a way out to cut you off.
This is exactly how I think of it. It very much reminds me of Carmack's talk about how quickly he can bust his own ideas that he's excited about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCBCk4xVa0
However Norway was already one of the richest countries in the world before the oil boom. So there wasn't as much pressure on their government to spend that income immediately instead of investing it.
The cynic in me still thinks the EV1 was a honey pot engineered by GM to kill two birds with one stone.

One, get the government off their back. Two, round up all the 'whiners' lay half of them off and demoralize the rest.

It is said, with only a very small sense of irony, that the only vehicle to come from the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles was the Toyota Prius. See, Toyoda thought we were serious, was blocked from joining the partnership (Bush/Gore era protectionism at its finest) and built a brain trust to compete with what turned out to be a bluff. Detroit may be the biggest bunch of learned helplessness foot-draggers there is. It's too haaard. See? We can't do it.
This sounds similar to Pando [1], which is doing income pooling for professional baseball players [2]:

"Nobody has to pay a cent until they've made it to the majors and they've made $1.6 million. Then that guy has to kick 10% of his salary back to his pool mates."

[1] https://www.pandopooling.com/baseball
[2] https://www.npr.org/2019/10/25/773532516/some-baseball-playe...
Very happy about this. I tried to combine the two a few months ago and it was not a fun experience. Great to know I can give it another go now.
Maybe it's important to be clear with the others that indeed one had made a choice: to wait and learn more.

Rather than seeming uncertain, one can seem certain that there's not enough data
GCC version 6 and later actually warn about misleading indentation if you use -Wall (which you should), and you can turn on -Werror to ensure you don't forget to fix the mistakes.
> If anything, Europe is creating a more sustainable framework for private companies and government intervention. Cross the moat, and you don't have to worry about castles. Just build a good product. That's what I'm reading.

So it's just a market with restrictions for outside companies? I think the point of the article was the absence vision for Europe to generate its own compelling products and companies that spread throughout itself and the rest of the world.
That's fair, I think the scenario I'm laying out still holds though, i.e. that it's a win in E(sum(watch_time)|impression)
Thats a very nice sentiment. It is nice to hear from investors like you who have a portoilfio for diversifying your own risk, but deny that explicitly for founders, who also have no management fee as a fallback.

Have you heard of founders getting money for secondary shares in series A (airbnb, FB, Clubhouse etc)? Or second time founders (who are financially secure form a prior exit) getting a premium in valuations?
“But if you want to chase lap records or quarter-mile times instead, it'll do that, too—it just requires a few suspension tweaks like changing to shorter control arms that allow for less extreme steering angles.”

Not happening. The most important thing is not mentioned: weight. The production version can be 1000 lbs heavier than a regular Mustang. This model can cut some of it but more will be added in batteries to get more power. And then there is nothing you can do on the track - can’t fight physics.

Not the first time I see such misleading claims about cars made by tech sites. Linking to articles written by car magazines would be better - they wouldn’t believe the PR so easily.

Edit: I should mention I’m talking about the lap times more than the 1/4 mile times.
I’m not going to step by step this, but a battery replacement is about the easiest thing you can do to an iPhone. There’s some fiddly bits with small screws and ribbon cables, but it’s not actually difficult. I’ve also done screens, speaker assemblies, and microphone assemblies which are all much the same level. The only thing which will properly kill an iPhone in an irreparable way is it to drown the main circuit board, and with recent models being waterproof to some extent even that isn’t so much of a problem.
They are soft and get dents and such pretty easily.
Bitcoin is not really liked on HN. I'm guessing most of the older HN guys don't seem really interested in the tech or is terrified by the price action, perhaps
Incidentally, this situation ended up being the nail in the coffin for the Soviet Union. The Soviets had been forced to import a lot of grain in the eighties and they were paying for it with oil exports, since that was really the only export that the west was interested in buying from the Soviets.

When oil crashed in the mid eighties, the Soviets were forced to look for hard currency loans from the west to keep up food imports. These loans were then tacitly conditioned on the Soviets behaving themselves in Eastern Europe. When the Solidarity protests started up in Poland and the Monday demonstrations started in East Germany, the normal Soviet response (as in 1956 and 1968) to roll tanks was not an option, because it would have meant no more loans, no more grain, and the starvation of the Soviet population.
That section doesn't allow you to lie to Congress, which is what gp was complaining about.

Facebook can defend itself in the court of public opinion by claiming to be neutral, but when they are in fact discriminating against certain viewpoints they end up facing critisism and potential boycots for that, regardless of whether it is legal.
> The US (as an example) doesn't have the ability to effectively decrease monetary supply by simply failing to redistribute taxes

Why would it matter how quickly the government could cycle through the national wealth, which includes all private assets? The M1 money supply, at 5.2T[1] and using your 3.5T tax revenue figure, would take less than two years to cycle through.

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1
We know how to make lubrication oil from other sources. Natural gas is a molecule easy to make from organic sources, and from there we already have the industrial processes to may synthetic oil. It costs a lot more than regular oil, and making your own natural gas drives up the cost, but it isn't impossible. Note that we can also make synthetic gasoline, last I checked (long ago, gasoline was $1.30/gallon) you could buy drums for about $8/gallon, the only people who paid that price were on a track and good enough that a better fuel was the difference between win and loss.
Is College Still a Good Investment?
Please read my comment more carefully before claiming what I said isn't true.

The "loophole" in the GPL is that you can modify the software, then only provide access to it, not a copy of it, and the users do not need to receive the modified software, because the GPL is a copyright license and has no bearing on what you can and cannot do as long as you don't copy the software itself.

(Whether this is a "loophole" or a desirable property is very much open to individual opinion)

What the AGPL does is say "Aha! If you modify the software and make it remotely available to users, then you must share your changes with them anyway!". And thus the loophole now becomes: modify the software, give it to someone (but nobody else), and then they can provide access to it as a service, without distributing the software itself, because they didn't modify it so the clause doesn't apply to them.

But maybe your interpretation (of the very vague clause 13 of the AGPL) is that the fact that the software was modified "sticks" even after you give it to someone else. In that case, as soon as anyone contributes changes upstream, then upstream becomes a "modified" version and all users of the software are now required to offer source code to anyone they provide access to it to, regardless of whether they themselves have modified it.

So you get to decide: either the AGPL can be trivially bypassed, or it actually requires all users of the software (in normal open source contribution models) to prominently advertise that to anyone they offer remote access to, modified or not. What's your interpretation? What will a judge's be? Neither of the two are what was intended, anyway.
I think you are overestimating the time and complexity to install and set up prometheus + grafana on a box, node exporter on your hosts and copy/paste a grafana dashboard for node exporter (which is your use case).

It gets complex only when you start monitoring your apps (i.e. using a prometheus client library to generate and export custom app metrics) and create custom grafana dashboards for these metrics. Or if you need to monitor some niche technology without its own existing prometheus exporter. Then yes, you need to read the docs, think about what you need to monitor and how, write code...
This was Neil Postman's critique of (pre-Facebook, pre-WWW) media in Amusing Ourselves to Death, originally published in 1987.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/amusing-ourselves-to-death-pu...

The underlying criticism of news media is rather older.
Every big company just wants to die, don't believe anything else.
What would you do with that information?

(not snark: I'm genuinely interested)
Press O (capital o), then click and draw the corners of a closed polygon. You have to click on the original corner to close it.
> Linus also touched on Rust earlier this month

Linus Torvalds: Well, I don't actually think it's true that nobody writes in C any more. I think C is still one of the top 10 languages easily, if you look at any of the statistics.

Bit too much sensationalism but entertaining.
Do anybody here seriously think that people would not buy if it would cost $100 more?
It is similar. The market segment and pool construction ton mechanism as well as the legal infrastructure is different.

We believe this scales beyond startup founders to education, athletics, and any domain where the outcome distributions follow some kind of power laws
I don't think it's either negative or insulting. And it raises a good point. In 10 years' time lots of things could change that would make this "goal" irrelevant. Apple might be struggling to make ends meet 5 years down the line. I know that seems very unlikely for Apple right now, but imagine a company like Intel, add a big economic regression, trade wars with China (which for Apple is a big source of revenue) etc. But even just a few changes in the board of directors, or a change of CEO could see this target go out of the picture.

Besides, it's not a difficult target to achieve. I don't think it would cost much more than a few tens of millions of dollars to start and operate some solar and wind power stations of sufficient capacity to offset all of their consumption. It should be pocket change for Apple's budget.
The 1950s and 1960s were the heyday of the dragstrip. Look at movies of that period. They look so slow. Many production cars today could easily outrun "hot rods" of that period.

It's been a long time since power was the problem in racing. It's all about keeping the wheels on the ground now. If you're burning rubber, you're not getting max acceleration.
I don't know why users have been flagging your replies, but it's probably because you're posting so many off-topic procedural complaints, which is not very interesting.

I don't know what more to tell you about your GP comment. It's not as if this is a borderline call - it was an inflammatory one-liner. Starting a celebrity flamewar is tedious, especially when it's one that has been repeated countless times already.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? This is a place for intellectual curiosity, not political battle. The more the rest of the world is consumed by the latter, the more we need to focus on the former here, or else HN will simply not survive. The whole idea of this place has been to stave that outcome off for as long as we can: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That means we need to moderate comments like the ones you've been posting in this thread, so please don't post them.

Also: we've had to ask you multiple times in general to stop breaking the site guidelines, and unfortunately your commenting history shows many other cases of you doing this, with comments that are unsubstantive and/or unkind - for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23044862 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23094678. Comments like that are bannable offenses on HN. If you keep breaking the rules we are going to have to ban you.

Please fix this by posting substantively and kindly from now on. Alternatively, it's always fine not to post.
Could you please clarify what OSINT means here?
Not going to take sides but Europe does have innovation. It’s just not necessarily commercial or they have been bought out. JetBrains, Minecraft, Python, Linux, HTTP/HTML, ARM, DeepMind.
Yes we can! Here's a quick article outlining the details. https://support.charityvest.org/en/articles/4142972-can-i-do...
Based on my read of the article seems like this would fall apart under evenly applied force. Like a bolt cutter. Odd that the article doesn't mention bolt cutters.
No mention of plasma cutters. I think a big enough plasma cutter will make the plasma go around the ceramic to reach the conductive metal and the ceramic will fall out.
Side projects: why having your own code is more beneficial than detrimental
The fixed supply is the most interesting aspect. There could be an extremely huge gold deposit, or someone could figure out how to extract it from the ocean efficiently, or an asteroid / planet made of gold discovered and mined. But there will never be more bitcoin. More bitcoin would just fork the chain, and it wouldn't be bitcoin anymore.
> Have you thought of applying this to web-stacks?

Yes, it seems like a good place to start. I was thinking of writing a PoC interpreter for a subset of the JS syntax. Thanks for the suggestion!
Ask HN: Do you still use Lodash?
> Oil price is regulated by OPEC cartel. They could make it $200 if they want.

This is why oil prices have been high since the late 70s. Shale oil and oil sands have put a big damper on the OPEC's ability to set prices. The only control OPEC has on oil prices is by limiting supply. Limiting supply to control prices only works when you can reap the rewards. If OPEC drops prices and US shale oil companies turn up the volume, then OPEC only gets the downside of limiting supply while shale oil gets the profits.
No no no no. You don't remove root. You remove ../../../../../../../.. .

Or "remove eight directories up from the current directory", I guess.
How are you running it? On AWS? What’s your infra look like.