skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So let's do the math for this option. F22 wingspan is about 14m. Let's go easy and say you want a one drone in a square of 30m x 30m ie ~2x the wingspan. To cover 1 sq km, you need ~1000 drones. But the operating ceiling of an f22 is about 18km and the range is about 3000km - so a 1 sq km is not enough as it will simply fly around or over especially if the difference in speeds is over a thousand km/h. So let's say you build a wall 500km wide x 15km high which may make area denial viable - that works out to 7.5 MILLION drones. I doubt the economics of drones that need to fly and loiter 18km high and carry a sidewinder as you say would work out this way - the sky is simply too big.

This is without factoring that a typical war-fighter could simply shoot through such a passive defence wall from dozens of km away if they really need to and if they are moving at Mach 2, they'll be through the hole before it reforms and because of lack of speed, there's essentially no chase capability once through.

These kinds of ideas while interesting remind me of the Magniot line and we all know how it fared
How do you calculate MRR given many of the extensions you display are just a one time purchase? That's not recurring revenue.

For example, if an extension has 1000 users and is priced at $5, that's not $5000 MRR. This only tells that the extension earned approximately $5000 since it got published in the store.
I think the point is that competition will prevent them from doing that. And it worked: in response to Epic's lower rates, Steam also cut their rates. If Epic raises the rate to 30% they'll be more expensive than Steam, and won't be able to compete.
His point is that there are ways to keep the OS from ever fooling with certain cores, after startup. At the extreme, you put an exo-, para-, iso-, whatsit-kernel on them, but just starting a process that does all its kernel activity at startup, then never does another system call after, is more common.

Usually that involves mapping device registers into the process address space via a custom ioctl, and then just polling in a tight loop.
Well, all of the above is so far purely hypothetical.

There are exactly 0 countries on record who went on offensive against nuclear states, with intention to invade them.

To execute a strategy like this, one needs to be quite a monster to rationalise such losses in their sane mind.

It is as ruthless to your own soldiers, as it is to the enemy: forcing a stronger enemy into the most ugly, meat grinding form of ground war, with exact intention to exact maximum attrition losses, while negating advantages of high tech weaponry. Sending them a message "All your bombers, and missiles are useless at the bayonet range, you will have to bury us with your bodies"

Even Mao only sent covert cues to Soviets that he is ready to repeat Zhenbaotai, but even he had no real intention to follow up on them. That was a pure theatre.
> It is so interesting that the sentiment is so common in America: natives > transplants.

It's common globally. Cultures and peoples have always prioritized their own.

A typical 15th century small town French person associated with his village more than his country, and he associated more with his country than with England. Tribalism and cultural identity are nothing new.
If it's designed like their software, no-one will ever be able to find their way around it without a guide.
I should have mentioned that I of course use Git. But the need to manually keep track of the calculation~commit pairing is tiresome and error-prone.
Agreed. Problem solving is a skill separate from IQ and unlike IQ it can be developed over time. If you want to level up your problem solving skill, carry around a small notebook and pay attention to the problems you see in other people, or in the office, in public, or in yourself. Write down the problem and its cause, continually drilling down into root causes. Then make a graph of problems and root causes, with directed edges showing causation.

Within one or two years of doing this you will recognize patterns others do not see. I have improved my problem solving skill by at least 7-8% by doing this. The key is iteration.

My IQ has been stable like yours, around the 96th percentile, and despite being a Tier 1 top-talent engineer, I’ve had to actively improve my problem solving ability over time.
The actual trial is not gonna happen any time soon, this is only for an emergency injunction to stop Apple from cutting Epic access to Apple Development tools. Watching the whole thing it's likely Fortnite will be off the App Store for the time being, and Epic will be able to continue to support Unreal Engine.
Super-productivity: To-do list and time tracker for programmers
I used to be obsessed with trying new note taking apps, but I've been the happiest and most productive using Vim and Markdown on my laptop synced via Syncthing to my phone and editing with Markor. I've used Vim for as long as I could program, so I am embarrassed that it took me so long to set this up (a few months ago) but I finally don't care about note taking apps.

Edit: sometimes I print my notes and for that I use the Vim plugin MarkdownPreview to render to the browser, then print there
> because they are code, not configuration.

This distinction is nonsensical. They are files that you can change to suit your needs. I often comment a few lines on them. Code is a particular case of data.
It's not obvious that the current process does better than chance at detecting genius, though - at the margin, the formal and informal tests used for admissions are far better predictors of your parents' tax bracket than of your own inherent ability.
>actually go and try using your proposed alternatives in protests. Most if not all of these so-called secure chats are completely unusable

This cannot be stressed enough. One can do their imaginary layman revolutions and or secret operation in these chats, citing theoretical security features, etc. But when it comes to the real world, they simply do not work, in the same way your todolist mvc example doesn't work for project management and accounting.
I've lived in a few big cities across the world and I've only ever been welcomed as a foreigner. NYC is the only American city that's like that, really.

I think maybe it's because the Bay Area doesn't actually have any big cities, it doesn't quite have that effect.

Then again, if I think about it, the times I spent in each of these places was when the Internet culture wars weren't so prevalent, so maybe it's just that right now everyone is in a big war on the Internet.

People in real life are quite nice in the Bay and I know lots of natives - none of whom make a big deal out of it. But online...ugh.
> though the majority of the population is jobless and moneyless

This doesn’t match the actual unemployment numbers.
The campaign founder's biography[1] sounds interesting:

Born in 1938, Chrissie largely missed out on formal education
and could not read until she was in her mid‑teens.

And later:

In 1994 Chrissie received an OBE and in 1995 she was awarded an
honorary MA by Manchester University. Two years later, she received
an honorary doctorate from the Open University. And in 1999 she
officially joined the 'establishment' when she was listed in Who's Who.

[1] http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/about-us/history/chrissie-mahe...
Locking the RTP buffer is going to be hilariously slow considering just how many rtp packets can be flowing. As far as I can see, GStreamer isn't using sendmmsg which is a crime against video streaming.
People buy gas guzzlers when there's a brief, significant dip in gas prices.

Long term thinking isn't something everyone has.
I am a software developer working for clients that both use Asana and Jira so I used both. About a year ago I had to pick my own 'task management system' to work with other (freelance) people on client projects, I decided to pick Asana. The reason why? Asana isn't perfect, but at the very least it works and does what it does very well. It is really easy for people to understand the concept and start using it. Also, I really appreciate how easy it is to create a task and work on it yourself or assign it to someone else.

That being said, there is one thing I have been missing in all of those years. That is the ability to have automatic numbers assigned like Jira does (e.g. TE-01, TE-02) and allow those to be referenced in Git messages. So that is why I built a 3rd party integratie[0] that does this and integrate this. The Asana API was a _joy_ to work with, it works fast, quickly and the documentation is top notch. Now compare that to my experience with both the BitBucket API and Jira API.

[0] https://astogi.com
> Almost all CS people learn a good bit of statistics as part of their education

> The crux behind the idea of being better than average at two things makes you individually extraordinary is that the two skills are not correlated.

I don't know if "almost all CS people" come from better schools than mine, but I've never had a proper statistics course, and my degree has a "data science" stamp on it. Having good statistics skills, and not just good knowledge of some machine learning frameworks, is probably rarer than you think.
I just checked and Fornite is not available on Steam.

So all that will happen is that certain games will exist only in one store and not be subject to competition.

Or they will secretly sell your data to third parties which Apple won't do.
I've seen indie devs use SVN for source and assets versioning.
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"To us, Hitler was still only a pompous fool with a Charlie Chaplin moustache" - Wernher von Braun.
US is reaching herd immunity so the markets are reacting. Plus, trillions in stimulus spending.
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Trello does it much better for a small team in a non-enterprise setting. Having to manually add and remove users, and manage external sharing is a huge drag in any bigger environment
We are building Nextjournal[0] exactly for this purpose.

It's a platform for interactive notebooks built on immutable and persistent storage (Datomic) and Docker:

- Changes to the document are automatically versioned to an immutable database (Datomic). Previous versions can be accessed and restored any time.

- Uploaded data or generated result files are automatically versioned in append-only content-addressed storage and can’t be accidentally overwritten.

- Changes to the file system state can be committed as Docker images. Reproducibility is ensured by referencing these images only by their immutable hashes.

[0]https://nextjournal.com
That doesn't match, at all, with my experience. I had to travel for work all over the world the past 8 years, usually twice a month and my maestro cards didn't work in any US atms or shops, nor in chinese ones, nor in hk, indonesia, australia, cambodia, most atms in thailand and other places.

In the US & China, it had big maestro stickers everywhere, but it didn't work at all. Different cards, different banks; on calling the banks they said they did not even see a transaction coming in and they the cards are set for international travel (and work fine everywhere they are accepted in the EU).

And it's not for lack of trying; One time on a big slog from US -> China -> AUS, I (stupidly) brought 1 credit card and 3 maestros and my CC got cancelled (fraud); I tried literally every atm , shop in these countries and could not get $1. I had to borrow from my colleagues. This is a few years ago.
I've been clocking in 10+ hours/wk dogfighting in VR with a decent HOTAS setup since quarantine. You're absolutely right about how fun it is. No other VR experience has been such a consistent draw for me. It's just an excellent place between a fast paced shooter and a strategy game. I love thinking about relative energy and the capabilities of the enemy plane and how they match up with mine in order to come up with an engagement strategy. I also love the tension as you identify a target and you're both trying to come into the engagement from a favorable position. It reminds me of match sprints in track cycling. Very much recommend it.
The walled garden is not what protects your email, 2FA SMSes or bank details. The OS sandboxing and permissions system do that. The two are often conflated, but the two concerns are orthogonal really.

Heck, you could easily imagine a system where software distributed outside the app store can only access a subset of perms if security is such a concern, and that'd still be less anti-competitive
But the distinction is useful because it paves the way for something everyone wants, which is seamless upgrades without user intervention. The fewer places the user touches something, the fewer decision points the upgrade process has to deal with.
I actually skimmed the comments but missed the one from the author among the massive number of others. Therefore, seeing the surge of bananas a few pages in, I thought once discovered, people kept looking for what those "bananas" were about and then discovered the sentence above themselves.

The real explanation is also interesting.
I would stay away from Nexus. It has problems with latest tags.
This is the same guy who ran that complete shambles of a vapourware project a few years back to build a smartphone right?

This sounds exactly the same in that it's some vanity project under the guise of being indie or privacy focused but all he's really looking for is some more cash.

I'd probably continue to steer well clear.
I thought that was Perl... ;P
So Facebook before "shares", with a "poke" button?
F.B. Purity can help restore some sanity to Facebook by killing all the shares, but since people stopped doing their own updates and photo albums to do vapid blog reshares instead, it will probably be a hollow experience.
So then you must keep 'libexec' on the root partition (if your system is partitioned). Whereas '/etc' is on the root partition for sure.
There's loads of fun examples of this across the world - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_nam...

I particularly like "Torpenhow"
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> People in real life are quite nice in the Bay and I know lots of natives - none of whom make a big deal out of it. But online...ugh.

People rarely say unpleasant things directly to someone in real life, even if they're thinking it. Plenty of people don't like their bosses, but they know better than to directly say it.
Why is this downvoted? I'm guessing it's "that's not my experience so it must be wrong."
I think the argument is that it's displaced consumption, where people who would normally have waited for the perfect time to pull the trigger are now all moving at once.
One of the few things that I actually like about systemd configuration is how they split it up in a clear way. I can't recally where it was documented but they make the distinction between site (lib), system (etc), user (home) and runtime (run). I don't recall them making a distinction between executable or not, but since it doesn't for the most part use rc scripts, that shouldn't matter quite as much in the general case. If it we wanted that, it'd be nice to nest it on top of current tree.
It’s big, dry, and mostly remote rugged terrain.
GPUs have excellent support for branches. Pascal has divergent thread execution, Volta added forward progress guarantees, Ampere improves on this further.

There is a lot of research about doing databases on GPUs, and Apache Spark runs on GPUs today, with much higher performance than on CPUs.
Love searching for tech talks or blog posts from this UI!
What about /run or /proc?
Umm... let me rephrase that.

Can I upload my Maven binaries to Helm? Does Helm store them? If I have a jar or war, can Helm store them? Does Helm resolve Maven dependencies if I connect to it and run mvn clean install locally?
I also observe a renaissance of command line interfaces. I guess it's a trend in a similar way how the graphical user interface (in the MS Windows/OS X/X11 way) has been trendy in the 1990s/early 2000s. Remember that Apple banned the terminal from classic Mac OS. This was a declaration of war against complicated CLIs. Nowadays we experience the opposite: Microsoft is building the most modern Terminal emulator as well as many productivity tools such as Powershell but also the Linux subsystem.

Of course this is driven by commercial interests. Microsoft tries to close the gap to the rich Mac OS X development environment, which is rich because it is compatible to the Unix/Linux ecosystem.

As the author noted, many jobs are primarily terminal-based in a way like probably nobody would have believed 20 years ago. DevOps or data scientist, they both enjoy powerful CLI applications, REPL interfaces, scripting as if the "GUI movement" did not even take place.
A true small Web would need to drop the isp provider since they can take down access on a simple take down notice. And run the server yourself.

So, antenna hooked up so that anyone in its perimeter can network. Then whoever can catch the signal may forward/repeat it, extending this small Web.

Afaik long range signals are highly regulated. There is no small Web possible yet.
Not sure what fire plans California have, but prescribed burning is a thing.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/prescribed-fire
Come to think of it, I've had some weird palpitations the last couple of years that have given me a bit of a scare too. I think I started taking Vitamin D supplements around that time (after I had my levels checked). The palpitations seem to happen on and off, and I've also been on the supplements on and off, but I haven't paid attention to if the times match up. I do know I haven't taken the supplements the past few months and it seems the palpitations haven't occurred in that time. I'll probably take the supplements again in the winter, so I'll need to see if the issue returns, and if so, whether not taking them makes it stop again.
They don't select fighter pilots for their writing or reasoning skills, and it shows in this article. There doesn't appear to be anything worth paying attention to here.
My post was a response to "even the slightest acceptance of violence usage against capitalists". So please take your straw man somewhere else.
I'm generally on board with the sentiment, but some of this rhetoric is a bit much, even for me.

> The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit.

Come on now, "user" as in "computer user" was a term in use since long before the web.
Maybe we should be using rational trigonometry instead: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3C58498718451C47
I think this was already the case. This piece is from 2016: https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/

> Here’s the thing: from where I live, the world has drifted away. We aren’t precarious, we’re unnecessary. The money has gone to the top. The wages have gone to the top. The recovery has gone to the top. And what’s worst of all, everybody who matters seems basically pretty okay with that. The new bright sparks, cheerfully referred to as “Young Gods” believe themselves to be the honest winners in a new invent-or-die economy, and are busily planning to escape into space or acquire superpowers, and instead of worrying about this, the talking heads on TV tell you its all a good thing- don’t worry, the recession’s over and everything’s better now, and technology is TOTES AMAZEBALLS!
Takes more than a forest fire to kill off the ents.
Same here, I was quite interested in the first part. That being said, it was already annoying me because it felt like it was just about choosing A (big tech) or B (self hosted) which were basically the same thing, but for some reason people choose A. It's not the same thing, people choose A because most of them are not skilled enough to get B.

And that's probably a mistake to not make it crystal clear - at the same time that we make crystal clear that yes, anybody can acquire those skills. Most people learn to drive a car. This is incredibly difficult! They learn to read and write, some can even do it in several languages! Why should they not be able to learn to write html and upload it?

If we make people think freedom and democracy should come cheap and convenient, we'll just fall into the same trap with some entities building cheap and easy things and getting control over everyone.
Uhm... It's run by Y Combinator. I wouldn't call that, not making money and not trying to take over the world, on the contrary. Traditional seed vc money firm.
> Are they though? A lot of, well at least old software, lacked configuration files, their command line flags and unit scripts were for all intensive purposes, their config files.

Most of the article is dedicated to explaining how modern BSDs changed from these origin and how system owners are very much expected not to edit these scripts so… yes, they are?

> Whether this actually makes upgrade harder (the next point made), is kind of debatable no?

Not it’s not? The article explains exactly how: BSD upgrade process diffs and merged every config file, which includes core rc scripts which the system owner would or should not have edited. So said system owner finds themselves spammed with every upstream update to scripts they never touched, none of which would be relevant to them.

If you argue that this is a good thing, then surely they should also be spammed with upstream updates to every binary, utility or script these use?

> Arch does fine with pacsave and pacnew files.

The article is not about arch?

> Making changes or tracking changes to these files is going to be required

No.

> And for what its worth, I'd rather find out about a breaking update via pacsave/new than figure it out months later when my copied but now outdated and untracked unit starts failing.

Does pacsave/pacnew force you to review every built-in systemd unit?
> but the two concerns are orthogonal really.

They are not, really.
Til, but I don't even know if I'll change, intents and purposes sounds wrong. :|
They can already do that without having to buy ARM.

I think they would be expending the money to grow their CPU team. The ARM engineers would be working on making Nvidia CPUs better, neglecting “public” ARM cores.

This would hurt small fish, but Apple, Amazon, Google, Tesla, Facebook, etc already have their own in house ARM teams.
I'm a little confused why the author is getting merge conflicts in /etc/rc.d one paragraph after asserting that these files don't need to be edited by the local system administrator.

Plenty of files that properly belong in /etc get edited rarely by the local sysadmin, perhaps more rarely than rc.d. (When was the last time you edited /etc/pam.d/ or /etc/gai.conf or /etc/protocols?) Yet they can be edited, and so they properly belong in /etc. If the local sysadmin doesn't actually touch them, an upgrade procedure should just upgrade them without prompting. (I assume the BSDs are clever enough for this.)

So, if you're getting prompted, it's not just because there's a change to review, it's because there's a merge to review, and therefore it's because there was a local modification, and therefore clearly either you or some other sysadmin did in fact edit that file. It is of course worth making it no longer necessary to edit it, such as by moving configuration to /etc/rc.conf for /etc/default/ or a service-specific /etc/foobard.conf, but that change needs to actually happen before you can call the rc script immutable, and once you do make that change, you no longer care if the rc script moves to libexec because you're no longer getting merge prompts.
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