skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm always baffled when I see people talk about "drone swarms" as if they have never used a drone or RC aircraft. Most drones can't fly for more than 30 minutes and then they have to charge for significantly more than 30 minutes.

Most drones are cheap civilian toys. Military drones have had much greater endurance for decades.

> Therefore a transport vehicle such as a jet has to bring the smaller weapon into effective range.

If you are using short-endurancd drones for some reason (e.g., missiles), the carrier can just be a long-endurance drone.

> When people talk about medium sized "kamikaze drones" that are carrying enough fuel to reach a given far off destination they don't realize that these already exist and are called cruise missiles and tomahawk missiles in particular are quite cheap.

That they already exist and are cheap and effective is proof of the point, not an argument against it.
Can you explain why you have to pay for the Sun's gravitational well on the way to Mercury? From the famous XKCD illustration[1] I get the impression that it might be hard to "stop at" Mercury since the pull of the Sun is relatively strong. Is there no clever trajectory that comes close enough to Mercury to get caught in its orbit?

[1] https://xkcd.com/681/
She is clearly a gamer if words have meaning.
It can also be reverse engineered by third parties. Whatsapp in particular has been subject to extensive analysis by reverse engineering.
Maybe the person you were replying to is actually a GPT-3 comment bot and we're already screwed.
I mean people were going to protest already
I bought an 8GB M92p for €50, and a compatible 4c/8t Xeon for €20 .It makes a great little server. Of course, I also have an RPi 4 for other uses.
> exceptions you could be coming from literally anywhere.

False. exceptions can only come from throw statements, which are both static and finite within every codebase.

> Exceptions are probably the worst thing in computer science.

Opinion, irrelevant.
Just to cite a source...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp

To be an accredited investor, a person must have an annual income exceeding $200,000, or $300,000 for joint income, for the last two years with expectation of earning the same or higher income in the current year. An individual must have earned income above the thresholds either alone or with a spouse over the last two years. The income test cannot be satisfied by showing one year of an individual's income and the next two years of joint income with a spouse. The exception to this rule is when a person is married within the period of conducting a test.

A person is also considered an accredited investor if they have net worth exceeding $1 million, either individually or jointly with his spouse. The SEC also considers a person to be an accredited investor if they are a general partner, executive officer, director or a related combination thereof for the issuer of unregistered securities.
>...It's not necessarily the amount of waste that is the problem, it's the incredibly long duration of its radioactivity.

In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

"...Fast reactors can "burn" long lasting nuclear transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides), turning liabilities into assets. Another major waste component, fission products (FP), would stabilize at a lower level of radioactivity than the original natural uranium ore it was attained from in two to four centuries, rather than tens of thousands of years"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

While there are issues with nuclear power, the worry people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least. The amounts generated are manageable and in a relatively short amount of time we can use most of this "waste" to generate electricity.
I use Google products heavily, especially Android, Maps and Gmail, but I have switched to using DuckDuckGo as my primary search provider. Have been using it as my default for over a year now and it feels like Google used to, before all the annoying personalised results and tinkering started ruining their search.
Yes, I don't think it needed to be in the title of the article. That was just click-bait on the part of the NYT.

However its fine to mention it. If his work was made popular by angry men trying to get laid then that's how it happened.

I did think he sounded exactly like the type Joe Rogan would go off the deep end with, sure enough half way through he says he is going to California to try and get on Joe's podcast, lol.

Reading it there is something to underlying premise that how the jaw is used is reflected in how it develops physically. That makes logical sense. Whether any of treatments he recommends work seems to be very much unproven.
We just put in a cash offer on a house, but we fully intend to put a mortgage the property. But we didn’t make the bid contingent on financing going through. We can cover the cost in cash if we have to, but we would rather not.
We've now been through 4.5 US presidential terms where the US administration does not want to turn the dial back. If anything, the dial is turned further and further to ensure housing prices remain artificially inflated with easy credit and low rates.

However much sense stable, realistic home prices make in the long term, it makes sense in the short term for each president to continue propping up the market -- which president wants to inflict wide-scale harm on 2/3 of the households in the US?
I can't say I've needed to use anything outside the appstore and macports, I'm very satisfied with them. For macports you have to install the CLI tools for Xcode.
Well... yes. I'd think that would be standard practice for any rogue nuclear bomber.
NASA working to hunt down pesky ISS air leak
Your metric of what makes a language feature too complicated is just as arbitrary as mine.

> An exception has an unlimited number of places to come from

False. An exception can only come from a throw statement, which is both lexical/statically defined and finite in number within every codebase.
It's a piece of internal Soviet propaganda. Draw your own conclusions.
Liked this comment more than an upvote could say.

I am trying to be less serious as well. It's easy to fall into the trap of be highly critical, highly methodical and just overall taking everything at serious face value, but where is the joy in that?
Cash can also mean that you are selling a home and purchasing a new one with the equity proceeds of the first home (possibly + new savings).
There's a story about early fighter planes... searches a bit... this seems to be the one, although I've not read this exact version: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...

The military was ordering planes designed for the average pilot. But because there are so many dimensions along which someone can vary, most people are far from the average on some dimension, and when SHF and they need to be able to reach the right thing at just the right time, sometimes they couldn't.

Each pilot is unique, just like every other pilot. Accommodating that proved important.

Now... how well does that translate to building software? I can certainly see reasons why it wouldn't. But I don't see an argument that wouldn't apply to the planes as well, without actually measuring things.
>I don't think there is any resolution.

Correct, they are the heretics. Very true in science ( slightly less so in technology), religion or any establishment really. Perhaps medicine is the most affected, and the price paid is enormous.
The way I've seen startups make it work is to save part of the indirect for the worst-case scenario of no bridge funding for the 3-6 month period. If you are able to get into an accelerator that takes a small cut and aligns with your area, the amount of indirect saved (.4*250k) available could be sufficient to bridge a low-cost org for 3-6 months. Even then, it's still a gamble as to whether you'll receive the Phase II in that time.

As for timeline, you're able to apply for the Phase II to kick in right as the Phase I is ending. I've seen that work but it requires planning and long hours to perform research and write the next phase proposal. There's also direct to Phase II for ~$2m in one grant.

If you have outside responsibilities and don't want to risk that bridge, you could try and submit the direct to Phase II, which would also help develop your idea to pitch to VCs in clean-tech space.
I have an allergy to tech analogies in general, but Apple's brick-and-mortar retail analogy is one of the worst.

In any locality other than rural towns served by a single Dollar General, consumers have a choice between multiple retail outlets. If they don't like the choices at one store, they're free to shop at another.

"But Android!" one might say, and once again, the analogy falls completely flat. The switching costs of going between iOS and Android are obviously not remotely comparable from the switching costs of going between Walmart and Target. When you move into iOS town, the only store within a thousand miles is the App Store.
More stats: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Tr...

I had to see how the cars are powered:

> The cars are powered by three-phase 575-volt alternating current rectified to drive a 70 horsepower (52 kW) direct current motor. Electric pickups are fixed on both sides of each car, which connect to electrified rails on one, or both, sides of the guideway.

And controlled:

> When it opened, the PRT was controlled by DEC PDP-11 computers installed in 1971. Due to difficulty in procuring replacement parts, these older computers were replaced in 1997-1998 with Intel Pentium computers
This sounds like an uncommon occurrence sure to an act of nature unlike what op was suggesting
good to see a bit of reddit permeating HN without the downvotes.
> Last month internet service was down in their building for 4 days

I don't live in India, but if it happened in an individual building that sounds like perhaps this was due to management of that building and was just an isolated incident.
> Without vsync? I guess its shifts from being more GPU-bound to more CPU-bound when running simulation proper, thus changing load percentages.

Yes, without vsync, idling in the main menu uses 100% GPU in task manager. GPU fan confirms this. Clearly a bug, as nothing in the menu looks to me to tax the GPU in even the slightest.

> Vsync delays game loop to next screen refresh, so excluding these newfangled Freesync/Gsync monitors framerate reduction is expected.

Interesting - my setup has freesync screens and GPU, although admittedly I'm not too sure about any of these newfangled display things. I have 2 displayed enabled, tomorrow I'll try it with just 1 display in case that helps.

And absolutely agreed, lack of DX12/Vulkan is a real shame and missed opportunity.

Regards lack of splash screen, perhaps I'm getting old, but this is a regression from older versions - FSX took a while to load but had a progress bar. If I had to ship a game in this state, I'd quickly write a shim executable to show a loading bar immediately. There's an exe that loads it (without startup intro videos) in the SDK, so clearly possible.

I guess maybe my expectations are out of line with the modern "release broken, patch often" mindset, but it seems disappointing they didn't optimise for multi core CPU, or handle regressions in basic UX, or do performance optimisation. But nonetheless, there's clearly some great work in this sim, and hopefully they'll have the confidence to try address some of these issues in patches - perhaps even moving to Vulkan or DX12. Nothing is impossible in a world where the entire game is downloaded and updatable, I guess.
I used to have a Synology NAS but eventually I got frustrated with the limitations of its obscure Linux distribution and upgraded to a NUC with a separate multi-bay USB 3.1 hard disk enclosure, which takes up about the same amount of space. I’m really happy with it. NAS appliances are great if they have built-in support for everything you want to do, but if you really want a multipurpose device, I suggest a small form factor computer.

Another advantage of this approach is that you’ll be forced to learn exactly how your redundant storage works. I was always worried that if the Synology device failed, I’d have to go out and buy the latest model and hope that it was able to read the hard disks from the failed device. Since all I did was click through the Synology GUI to set those disks up, I had no idea whether I’d be able to read them on another device.
Related video[1] about teleprompters, including some insight into the nitty gritty.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeRu4xYH_W0
I'm a libertarian. I believe in personal choice and freedom. But you have tons of freedom here.

Instead of using an OS (iOS in this case) with 25% market share that forces you to go through their AppStore, you can choose to use Android (which has 75% market share) and side load apps to your hearts content.

reference: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
Intel: still the undisputed king of single thread performance. For some applications that’s all that matters.
Handshake Explainer Video
I'm glad you found happiness and out of the rat race. how did you get ripped off?
Probably from a pure safety perspective, however since a lot of your life is uploaded to google I'd rather deal with apple. I've used them for years with zero problems other than 1 HD crash, but I always back up my data so that's never an issue. If you're really worried install dockers and use limited user accounts to run apps. There's always a way.
Office has more functionality, without a doubt. File compatibility, privacy/compliance/security, and functionality are key reasons to use it.

Google Docs, on the other hand, the things it does, it does well:

1) Works reliably and without bugs. Last Word document I worked with began crashing Word at some point.

2) Works collaboratively. Google Docs keeps docs in sync in realtime. Office 365 has enough lag to suck at collaboration.

3) Keeps better versioning and version history. Word has a half-dozen different ways to do this, none of which are as good. Again, this is important for collaboration

4) Works better with people outside your organization.

The things it doesn't do, well.... it doesn't.

I've never had issue with Google Docs around UI speed. I have with Word. I think part of the reason is the simpler document structure and format.

In addition, Google Docs has working search tools (so you can find documents), albeit not great organization tools.

For most of my work, I'm not doing fancy formatting or other crap. I'm writing plain text, often on a team. For that, Google Docs would kick Microsoft's butt, if I trusted Google to allow me to comply with legal requirements (Google makes clear I shouldn't), and if I trusted Google not to disconnect my account tomorrow, based on some ML algorithm which decides I look like a scammer, or randomly discontinue something I'm using mid-document.
>One of the most transparently political acts of voter suppression that has ever occurred in the US.

I totally agree! For months media has encouraged large group gatherings in the form of protests and riots and now they tell us to not "gather" to vote but instead mail it in. It's crazy!
Secure is a very vague word, I think you're looking for "less hackable by hostile actors" then definitely chromeOS has a smaller footprint.
fwiw ,except for election day, viber has been up continuously--used it every day to communicate with family
It was Jeff's plan and vision all along.

It's only a surprise because so many people got suckered into thinking that Amazon was a bookstore.
Are you kidding? You still have to do work, but a third party doesn't get to decide if you can boot and what image you boot.

> What is particularly worrying about this process is that it is a network-linked secure boot process where centralized external servers have the power to dictate what the device should boot.

This is an abomination.
I cynically think that neither China or South Korea want to deprogram 30 million brainwashed people, or absorb the land area that has (likely) barely functional infrastructure and no resources to exploit that would cover the costs of integrating the worlds largest cult into your nation and upgrading the infrastructure alongside it. I think each side is hoping the other one has to deal with it.
So people don't need to be freed from Google then, they need to be freed from Apple.
How would you go about sharing that, in a predictable way?
That’s awesome! I wonder how people could achieve similar success in canada or the usa. In canada we have Bell, Videotron, Rogers.. there are some small companies that “sub-lease” the service. Also, there were mergers so I don’t remember if Rogers is still around.

In any case, I believe politicians have ties with these companies (and probably own shares) and will not encourage movements trying to split the manypoly apart.
The 8086/88 does in fact execute 90h (the NOP opcode) as XCHG AX, AX. It does not generate any change in the user-visible architectural state, however, and so it appears to be a NOP.

[Internally the CPU uses the "TMP" register as a temporary storage location during execution of the XCHG operation, and so the NOP will clobber whatever value was previously held there.]

One can observe two of the internal registers ("TMP" and "IND") using an invalid JMP FAR m32 opcode. Normally this is encoded as opcode FF/5 with a mod-rm byte that specifies a memory location (mod=00, mod=01, or mod=10) from which to fetch a doubleword CS:IP pointer. Specifying a mod-rm byte with mod=11 (register) - which is an undefined encoding - skips the "load doubleword from memory" microcode subroutine and causes the CPU to jump directly to the location IND:TMP instead, allowing one to observe the values held in these internal registers.

At some point I'll get around to writing this up in more detail, as I don't think anyone else has ever described the behaviour of this particular invalid 8086 opcode.
even in hinsight i dont see how amazon's success was straightforward
"It used to be quite expensive here at around $100/mo for 10GB but the government broke up the monopoly and forced competition into the market by making existing players share infrastructure. We went up from main 3 providers to around 10 and prices dropped sharply.
"

That's what the US should do too, especially for home internet. For mobile there are a few pretty OK MVNO like Mint but for home internet there is 0 competition in a lot of areas.
He didn't, he is saying that the previous comment anecdotal evidence could be easily explained by the amount of interest into the project by many people, which can't all get access to it, but then show how this same explanation shouldn't apply to Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis.
It's not like the $700B they inject is instantly accounted for. They bought $500B in bonds, which means that bonds have to be sold off again for that money to appear in the economy. They also bought $200B in mortgages, which means those need to be resold and cashed out of before that money shows up in the market.

QE basically artificially raises the value of assets, but those assets still need to be sold/traded for it to have an effect on the economy.

It's not instant.
Another alternative might be, if the programs are single source code files and can mostly work by itself, you can just compile the ones you need and put the binaries where you need them, rather than installing a package.
I had no idea what percentage to ask for. I asked a few friends who had been in startups, and that convinced me that the 1% I was being offered (over 5 years) was a good deal. What I didn't realize till about a year later was that my friends had all joined their respective companies as, say, employee #20 or #30. I was coming into a company with zero employees, and it turns out that I should have been pushing for on the order of 5x was I was being offered.

OTOH, I did tell Jeff that I was having a daughter in several months and planned to go to a 3 day week after that happened. He agreed to that ("I knew when I met you that you'd think about work 24/7 anyway"), so there was a tradeoff there.

I'm not really complaining, but when I did find out what some other early hires had negotiated, it stuck in my throat for a bit.
I've run a nextcloud instance as a dropbox (+contacts/calendar sync) alternative for years. But recently I was looking through their collection of apps, and there's actually so much more you can do with it. It has a webmail interface, video conferencing, collaborative document editing, a Google maps replacement, feed reader, etc etc.. I haven't used most of these yet so I can't say how well they all work. And a decent number of them are basically just iframes to embed other services (eg, etherpad or BigBlueButton). But, as a whole, it pulls together a ton of the things you might think of as "internet utilities". It's a shame about the brand, because the idea of it being your Own [personal] Cloud fits really well. I could totally see running an instance for less tech-literate family members or friends. Particularly my grandma, whose collection of bookmarks in her toolbar basically comprise "her internet".
I don't think it's a fraction of the data and resources needed to pull it off. But if I were, say, Kim Jong Un, this video might give me enough of a sense of how many people, time, and budget I might reasonably allocate for this kind of project. That's not the kind of information that I'd likely get from Scientific American; also, even if I can find a blown-up schematic of a nuclear weapon in a magazine, no matter how detailed it is, I'll never be sure that some important "secret sauce" isn't left out of the image. Seeing hi-res footage of a real device is different in that regard.
At the near-height of the Cold War, the US had a spy called Adolf Tolkachev. He has - somewhat romantically - been called the "Billion dollar spy", because he handed over strategically important information about Russian military capabilities (RADAR ceilings and the like). This allowed the US to change course, and spend the money on the right things. He was later betrayed by Aldrich Ames and/or Robert Hanssen.

It's not quite that simple.
This is so weird. I've removed and added in-app subscriptions to my app multiple times and never had any problems getting it approved. Even now my app is redirecting users to my website to purchase subscriptions, and never had an issue getting past the review process.
In my blog post from 2014 I was mostly illustrating a typical workflow that I've seen over and over and over at numerous Microsoft shops in 2000s all the way through 2014. I was always interested in messaging queuing systems and NoSQL and memcached but when I'd interact with devs from various organizations the answer was "We use SQL Server." I was intrigued because the use cases they were bending SQL Server to handle were more akin to map reduce kinds of scenarios. In other words, the mantra of 10+ years ago was "stay fully in the Microsoft ecosystem, it'll solve all your problems."

Also at that point as we started to use EC2 heavily and the workflow was so straightforward for Linux. The AWS docs would always have caveats for Windows, e.g. "This is how it works...but in Windows you also have to do X and you can't do Y." So that's why we jumped ship.

As mentioned in my earlier comment, I think they've completely tackled all of the perceived shortcomings to the point where the .NET stack is highly attractive and very competitive compared to other stacks.
It was cleaner than most fusion bombs, and fairly high up, so it probably wasn't _too_ bad on the ground. Also their attitudes would have been different. There were hundreds of atmospheric tests in those couple of decades.
The native Facebook app is 250 MB.