skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair. It may be something that students have been told but don't really internalize. Everybody at the tournament wants to believe that they stand a chance. I know this is true of students in the humanities too. Everybody is actively putting off facing the reality.

One thing I do remember is that as undergrads, we were advised to maintain a pretense of wanting to pursue an academic career, even if we had other plans. If you told them that you intended to finish with a masters and go into industry, you would probably not get accepted, would not get funding, and would be treated as a second class citizen. So students were pretty much told to inflate their expectations. That was a long time ago, and I don't know how it is now.

I didn't become a good enough research scientist to compete for a trophy gig in academia. What I saw is that my own university was hiring up, i.e., only considering applicants from higher ranked schools. That meant my chances were somewhere close to zero. I got to know the post-docs and understood their grind. But also, I became more interested in gadgets and making things work, than in directing fundamental research.
Thank you for following up. I like the product. The UX is very nice and the workflow adds alot of value for me.

Definitely going to test it out.

2 things

1. On windows, your app is getting caught by SmartScreen. I imagine this will fix itself, but fyi.

2. How do I report bugs?
I agree that people are many things and that monsters can also do good things. People are complex. But...

> This is just an ambiguity we have to live with.

This just isn't true. I'm quite sure that Epstein supported what he thought was good science. I'm also quite sure that Epstein had opinions about why his treatment of girls was justified. We do not have to accept that people who have violated our basic ideas about humanity should be allowed to do science. The most obvious example is the controversy around what to do with the results of the Nazi / Unit 731 human torture / experiments[1]. Both the idea that Epstein should be allowed to fund research and the idea that he should not are ethical positions. We should not pretend we don't have a choice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation#Mod...
I remember watching the 1980s episodes as a kid. Didn't understand a thing past the Commodores and Ataris and Apple ][s, but I loved it. It was a whole new world.

Now I watch them again and I actually understand (and actually have many of these computers in my collection), but I still have that same sense of marvel at looking at a new world unfolding. The microcomputer revolution was something to behold and this show captured it.
Got it. Thanks.

More useable too, I'd hope.
Show HN: Exit the Room – strategic game about exiting a room
If I hear census, especially with a capital “C”, I don’t think a business or startup. Are you in the US? Do a lot of people express confusion? How will you trademark your name?
I think the claims might be the evidence you're looking for.
Somewhat related...

"There has been only one dogfight involving a U.S. aircraft in the last 20 years: in 2017, a U.S. Navy pilot shot down a Syrian fighter." [1]

So you have to wonder a bit how much time is worth investing in that aspect of these planes.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/duels-among-the-clouds-11565878...
No, whether something is on front page is not really affected by stock market (though HN algorithm is closed so it may actually be, but unlikely). The main reason is, someone shared link to S-1 and others upvoted it
It's not significantly more people. The US has 5000 universities and colleges, and perhaps a dozen really elite schools, depending on where you draw the line. Those schools have more money. No one else does.

And only some of that money comes from donations. Much of it are your taxpayer dollars at work. The direct way is to donate money. The indirect way is to swing government funds.
Also with big banks and other finance. And some parts of gubmint.
Ouch, data sync his close to home for me. That was my first job. Not an easy problem at all.

Tip for those of you with the same problem, if you can, try to sync both the data and the actions taken to produce the data (event sourcing) and try to eliminate sources of indeterminism.
"Lend credence" is an underhanded phrasing given that it can mean both "consider it more credible in theories" vs "associating with the evil crackpot makes him look more credible". One can argue a responsiblity to avoid both but the two are not at all identical - one is a corruption of their output while the other is essentially a confidence trick like saying a Harvard professor supports homeopathy - ignoring that it was a Philosophy professor and not Biology or Medical. Bad for the institutional reputation but doesn't discredit the work in itself.
Apple vs. Epic Case 'Inclined' to Side with Apple on Fortnite and Epic on UE
If planes are conceptually vulnerable to a fog of drones, then so are missiles. Anyway the fog drones are unlikely to require full-fledged airfields.
reading only this post, is nushell just an implicit awk after each pipe, that already know the output format of a few common programs? or something more than that?
Since it looks like it's just GatsbyJS client, may I suggest GitHub Pages?
I'm not convinced that writing and engineering are a rare, yet sought-after combination. I'm a pretty good writer; good enough that I had several professors in college asked me to use my work as examples for future classes.

It's been recognized by my peers and managers. Not much has ever really come from it. I've been given opportunities to draft "bad news" copy to be sent to clients, and I'm the point person for editing design documentation. But none of these are really roles of prestige. If anything, I'm really seen as being the person responsible for the grunt work that people don't generally enjoy doing.
An F22 can just lob tactical nukes, or high powered conventional explosives, and drop the drones like flies.
Would have been great if you could have simply replied; “Fixed.”
That's a total fantasy, just completely disconnected from real physics. Due to the inverse square law, shockwaves don't propagate very far. And there is no possible way to maintain a wall of drones in the air regardless of unit cost.
I think you're misunderstanding me. You seem to imply it is 100% of funding into one vs 100% into another. I'd argue such a swing is absurd. The other part is that I'm arguing that civilian research is also military research (the reverse is also true, but not as strong of a connection).

The reason to invest in civilian research while in times of peace is that you want products to go into the public domain and be mass produced. This means that the new fighters you can make are much cheaper to produce and can have much more advanced weapon capabilities. The only real difference between civilian and military research is if the knowledge gets into the public domain or not (with the exception for weapons, which is more niche than you'd expect). This is why DARPA does that funding, but it isn't just DARPA. The entire SBIR/STTR program exists to get companies to bootstrap themselves and mass produce things the government needs (yes, it is abused quite a bit). Many contracts exist for this reason too.

The last aspect is economic and cultural. If your country is doing well economically it is often able to avoid war in the first place. Rich countries often don't fight with soldiers and jets, they fight with computers and resources. Why invade a country when you can put economic shackles on it? China and the US are both doing this. The other part is cultural exportation. If your country is producing all the widgets that another country likes and enjoys then their people are not eager to fight you (as long as you're not being aggressive towards them).

All these, and more matter. War is much more than bullets and fighter jets.
Laser systems will handle that eventually. Bases will be hardened.

Animated example of a convoy getting hit by lasers:

https://youtu.be/-miBH10bdCs

Live example:

https://youtu.be/XH6NIazR5pA
His waist/hip ratio is concerning. He needs to watch his diet & exercise.
Are drones anywhere near as fast as a missile? In certain situations, an F/A-18 under afterburner can outrun a SAM missile - outrun meaning go fast enough that the missile can't close the distance before it runs out of fuel. How much chance would a drone have of catching it even while not operating under afterburner?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F/A-18_Horne...

The unclassified ceiling is 50,000 feet, with a 250 m/s climb rate. Could a drone strapped with explosives come anywhere near that level of performance?
If your device is owned by your employer, they can technically do anything with it, including illegal spying on you. Whether something is legal or moral is irrelevant, you should just assume they are doing it and act accordingly. Trying to draw any other line is not helpful.
Show HN: Mandelbrot explorer with Rust Rayon and Web Workers (needs Chrome)
This is a showcase of recent Web technologies (Shared memory buffers, Web Workers, WebAssembly, Rust with Rayon) working together.
It also makes for a quick interactive map of the Mandelbrot set.

Zoom into the set by click-and-dragging to form a region. Toggle `color_threads` box to see the work done by different Rayon worker threads.
Surrogacy is misunderstood and unfairly maligned
Are you going to stop signing up new customers because you've scaled enough?
I think there is something to be said about being a master in something _before_ becoming a jack of all trades.

It seems to me that like you said, dedicating yourself to something can open a lot of doors. More than if you had become above average at multiple things.
Another factor here is employability. Employers go with the latest fad framework because they think it'll improve their ability to hire engineers in the short term. Unfortunately, this means that web developers need to always know the latest fad framework, whether they like it or not, or they won't get interviews let alone job offers.
Boyeee
That's what happens when you have a monopoly on your own app store.

I have nothing against Shopify (I've even built an app for a customer once like 8 years ago), but the only reason they charge 2.9% + $0.30 and not 20% for transactions is because Stripe, Square and PayPal all charge 2.9% + $0.30. What's really interesting is I wonder how much price collusion is involved with the 2.9% + 30c price for payment merchants. If there were no price fixing surely one of them would drop to 2.8% + 30c to gain an edge in market share but they don't.
Plenty of useful software is written in Java. It's not going away. But if you want to move away from Java, then I'd suggest staying in programming, but learning Go. Plenty of enterprise software is now beginning to be written in Go, so having a background in it can generate initial interest from Hiring Managers. However, it is just that: initial interest. You still need to demonstrate general coding ability and capabilities that any good candidate would be expected to demonstrate, such as good communication, being personable, showing enthusiasm for the work, paying attention to detail etc in order to get ahead (it would also include a fair bit of moving on from dead-end jobs). All of that will not change simply by moving to Go programming or Machine Learning.
You can use a lot of cheap, refillable energy to get the missile up to altitude. Otherwise, you need a bigger rocket on the back of every missile.
Seems plenty HN-worthy to me. It's up to the community to decide by voting.
Dhall has the best landing page for any language-like tool I have ever seen.
I sure hope the "cloud first" advocates are happy now, because they have managed to create masses of developers who have next to no idea that what they're doing is an incredible waste of resources. These are also the same people who are perplexed why their systems intermittently fail, or are surprised that they do when the Internet connection cuts out for a bit.
It is often (always in the cases I was involved with) with government involvement so there is no risk of being investigated afterwards. This is just the way it works so everyone can say they don't pay bribes and still save lives.
I guess my argument is that most people can learn to do a lot more work than they are. Not everyone can sustain 100+ hours per week but someone working 40 can probably get a 50% improvement. The most significant change in my life occured through simply working more hour and developing habits to make those hours efficient.
There is a plugin for Helm to interface with Maven.
Is there value in having a pilot, just to increase the consequences of shooting down a plane? When Iran shot down a US drone, there was pretty much no real response by the US. If it was a manned plane, there would almost certainly be at least retaliatory strikes, so Iran (and other countries) are going to be much less likely to shoot down a manned F-18 than an unmanned one. So maybe having manned fighters is valuable just to increase the barrier to engagement.

And regardless, is there even value in having autonomous fighter jets when we already have advanced missiles? It doesn't matter how good the pilot/AI is if they are just firing missiles from miles away. We already have missiles that can loiter for hours before choosing a target and attacking it (ex. IAI Harpy) - to me that is much more valuable and dangerous than an AI fighter.

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War is a good book to read about it.
Sadly, politicians do use studies, polls and legal precedents, but they start with the vision of the kind of society they want and pick and choose which studies, polls and legal precedents give them cover for the policies they are pushing.

Partisanship has made this far worse since politicians aren't even forced to reckon with contradicting studies, polls and legal precedents because they can just dismiss those that contradict their vision as the work of competing partisans.
You don't always need a shebang if it is marked as executable,is this a cosmetic conformity thing?
>As a bit of an aside, I find it disturbing how political debate is becoming pure sophistry, where winning the day is dependent on proving that the other side is racist. Zoning is bad, whether or not it's racist

Such an odd reply to my comment of

>No one is saying every zoning law was racist, or that racism is the sole reason they are bad
How to serve premium/private content on your site?
High Fidelity Rendering Unleashed with Intel
Don't do it alone. Don't do it for yourself. Find a problem someone else has bring the on as a consultant.

Write yourself a deliverables calendar.

if I eventually spent out, I'm going to be going straight for government funding. They make posts on what they want. Sttr and sbir is a wonderful way to get a company started.
The counterargument to this is that dependence on the US military keeps other countries from putting in the resources to become military competitors. It's as similar argument to how sanctioning Chinese tech companies ends up encouraging them to develop indigenous technologies that will later compete for market share on other continents. The US having a dominant military presence globally ensures that other actors either don't even bother spending on a military or don't have conflicts they can practice their militaries on (a big problem for China when they can't see if their new toys actually work) If only the US has active military experience then it's a lot easier and cheaper to fight inexperienced competitors. Even for allies like Europe, if the US leaves the EU to develop a military and they get some experience with fully self-reliant overseas adventures in North Africa or the Middle East, how do you know they won't turn Fascist/Communist/fancy future political ideology one day (or the reverse for the US) and start launching invasions across the Atlantic?
Panfrost hardware counters with Google's Perfetto
Think powershell, but built in rust, posix first and better at processing data(xml, csv, json, ...)
The A part of the F/A 18 means Attack. Usually Attack aircraft are capable of close air support, which is a huge and integral part of our military tactics.

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

Without close air support, troops on the ground can't overwhelm enemies with firepower. Without air superiority, we don't provide close air support. Our strategy dictates air superiority to enable our tactics of close air support.

The reason there's only been one dogfight in the past 20 years is not because these fighters aren't effective, or because they're a relic of the past. It's that they're too effective. We own the sky and nobody is capable of challenging us.
Having only just installed Unity over the weekend and starting to go through tutorials and starting to understand how I can build AR/VR/XR 'things', I've started to see the light and wished I'd started on this a while ago.

I also see they acquired 'Bolt' and made that part of the free toolset. I think 'visual programming' tools like that could be a great help in adoption by young developers. I also like that visual aides like that can help the understanding of underlying code.

This S-1 is a surprise, yet not. If you know what I mean.

Out of the various IPOs I've seen crop up recently, this is the one I'd go for, due to the changes in the way people are to going to have to learn and work, since the pandemic.

Right technology. Right time.
Thanks, very nice to hear =). Looking forward to your feedback!

1. Thanks for letting us know! I'll definitely look into that to see if we can submit to Microsoft.
2. On the bottom right of the app, there's a support button that opens a menu. Click Share Feedback and send us a message there. Thanks!
High bitrate video streaming with GStreamer RTP
That's what I was getting at. Dogfighting ("that aspect") isn't all that useful for the US.
Strongest predictor taken from a pool of weak predictors is still a weak predictor.
That's a good point. But you also have to take into account how many dogfights have been avoided because the enemy knew there was no point in starting one.
CDC no longer recommends asymptomatic testing for Covid-19
He was the Bill Gates we needed.
The Matthew Effect is equal parts frustrating and fascinating.
"The Only Platform Where You can be 100% Anonymous" [citation needed]
The real question is whether you want a society without pilots.
What is your point? I'm asking a serious question. I really don't understand how this relates to the GP.

I think the distinction between "Capitalism" as a philosophy and "US Capitalism" (ie economic ties to the US) is being confused here.
Anonymous communication is interesting. It is nice to see another project in this space. Like some of the other commenters, I am curious how the moderation will work. Without IP address logs or user accounts it seems hard to ban malicious users. Since one can reply to posts, I imagine the moderation will be main difference from something like 4chan (also no images). I also wonder what the monetization strategy is. Finally, I am curious about what the name means.
We have no idea when AGI might appear. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s already running quietly somewhere in OpenAI or Google datacenter.
Because they are so heavily invested in them.
I'm not sure how authoritative other commenter are, but I would be very surprised that Intel was going so far to accommodate them beyond fusing perf profile/ME feature/or some small IP block.

With my knowledge of their sales tactic, I would imagine Intel could've simply said "You are free to buy AMD," with full knowledge that just few years ago their clients had no other option than coming back to them eventually.
For some people its any feet, for others its none
"Something Went Wrong!!! Please Try again" messages make it totally unusable. Not even a second after opening any post, bam: "Something Went Wrong!!! Please Try again"

After trying for some time and reloading a page like 5 times, honestly, I don't think I'll try again.
What Disruption Means?
>Also, the x86_64 patents don't last forever.

No, but Intel and AMD have a decent reason to work together to create new key feature additions to x86 that can be newly patented. FMA is under patent for 6 more years. AVX2 is 12 more years. AVX512 another 15.
Thanks for pointing. Fixed it now (it was a private repo)
This makes a lot of sense. But in some ways it shows the downsides of the modern obsession with SaaS.

How many of those jobs would be required if Asana was simply sold in a shrink-wrapped box that you installed on your desktop or the downstairs server run by the corporate IT guy.

In some ways SaaS is a big win because it offloads all those tasks to a centrally hosted service. No IT guy or tower server in the corporate mail room required. OTOH not everyone has the same ops requirements. Not every customer needs 99.999% reliabilty. Or ultra-hardened HIPAA-compliant security. Or heck, even remote access outside the office LAN.

By delivering Asana as SaaS instead of shrink-wrapped software, it means the Asana hosting team has to deliver to insanely tight operational requirements to every single customer. If one customer requires 5-9s of uptime, then basically every customer requires it. That certainly explodes the cost-of-goods-sold beyond selling shrink-wrapped software.
People pretty much are still immune to leprosy:

> It is estimated that more than 95% of people who are infected with Mycobacterium leprae do not develop leprosy because their immune system fights off the infection. People who develop leprosy may have genes that make them susceptible to the infection once they are exposed. [0]

Leprosy is rare [1], and fairly hard to transmit. You have to have either had close contact with someone with the disease, or have handled an armadillo [2] to contract leprosy. It is impossible to culture in a lab [3] because it's so well adapted to living inside a human cell [ibid]. And, it's in the same genus as the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

If anything, Mycobacterium leprae is extremely well adapted to survival and propagation, because it doesn't make us sick very often, progresses slowly [4], and, importantly, doesn't kill us.

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[0]: https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/infections/tuberculosis-an...

[1]: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/leprosy: "Elimination of leprosy as public health problem (defined as a registered prevalence of less than 1 case per 10 000 population) was achieved globally in 2000."

[2]: https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/a-z/leprosy-risk lists "[living] in a country where leprosy is more common, such as India, Brazil, China, Indonesia, or parts of Africa," along with hanging out with armadillos as the only real risk factors for someone in the US.

[3]: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Host_Dependency_of_...

[4]: https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/guide/lep... says "It usually takes about 3 to 5 years for symptoms to appear after coming into contact with the leprosy-causing bacteria. Some people do not develop symptoms until 20 years later."
> Civilian research will always be used by military

It goes both ways, and military applications create market pressures and timescales that wouldn't normally exist. Take for example, sustained fission, computing, or the semiconductor industry as a whole (which was subsidized by the government in its early years for aerospace applications, some civilian and some not).

But that said it's more about industrial capacity than research. We build planes and tanks not because we need them today, but because we might need the ability to build them tomorrow. Continued research on military applications prevents institutional knowledge from dying and tools from rotting.
> May I suggest you try out Scalyr?

No. Please stop.