skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm running https://info-beamer.com, a digital signage hosted service using the Raspberry Pi. It started as a for-fun project 8 years ago when I decided to do the digital info system for a local hacker conference and didn't find anything that allows quick prototyping and rapid iteration/live coding of content. I then switch from "desktop Linux" to Raspberries and added a web based service around the fairly low-level command line tool. It's my main source of income for 4 years now.
Most if not all users of these applications aren't even in the position to review or accept the terms. When I was subjected to the terms dialog, I asked our legal department what I should do since obviously I am not an agent of the company. They said 'just click accept'. Unbelievable.
Any surface ship is basically as vulnerable to modern antiship missiles.

Aircraft carriers have repeatedly proved their worth since WW2.
But even ordering by the penultimate column (leaving only 'aircraft carriers' according to Wikipedia), still leaves the UK and China with two supercarriers each
You’re not the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company.
I also never meet anyone who has such an extreme view on things.

Here in Europe, we believe that certain things should be public: education, roads, health care, social security, basic research, while other things should be private, like smartphones, cars, ...

And I think for most of the things we like public, there is a good evidence that it should be. I.e. Euro style health care systems spend less money per patient while achieving a higher average lifespan when compared to whatever system the US has.

In general, the argument for private systems is that since they have to make a profit, they will be more efficient. In reality, they have to make a profit, which public systems don't have to. Public systems however have the same price pressure than private systems, since people put this pressure up via democracy.

The biggest issues I see is that public systems are less capable of big innovation vs. small process improvements. This can be tackled via the basic research done at public universities + the private sectors work to bring these to market.

Also, if you follow Peter Thiele Line of thought on how every business should strive for monopoly, so they can take monopoly profits and "focus on the product instead of the competition" - a public service that has granted this monopoly by law would be perfect: they have no competition, so they can focus on making the best product, and they don't have to make a profit, which means they can operate at cost.
Now, I don't think it's as easy as that, but in the end, if you stop being an extremist, you can mix and match all kinds of system to use what is best, instead of striving for something that is ideologically pure.

tl;dr: I want my smartphone from private companies competing for the best product, I want my water from a public utility.
Conspiratorial thinking is often an in-kind response. For instance, the theory that the virus came from a lab was common, but had no particularly strong conviction to it until every authority source became 100% certain that it did not. If they had just accepted the lab origin story as a possibility, it wouldn’t be a conspiracy theory, it would just be a theory. But what you saw was a well-dressed layman spokesperson on every major news channel telling you that only stupid and evil people disagree with them, and they are all plotting against you. This handbook reads like a guide to script writing in the popular media. Everything that ever happens is always a conspiracy that is far more widespread an nefarious than anybody would have assumed from normal experience. It’s never just one random accident that affects only a few people in billions. Until there actually is an event that affects billions of people, and then it’s just a random accident, until election time, and then it’s a conspiracy again. And if you question any of this, you’re an extremist. And I don’t think anybody cares if it came from a lab or not. That’s not the conspiracy part of the theory.
Enjoy Erdogan landing in Marseille if we don’t.

Seriously, those comments are beyond stupid, the world is not made of friendly people (nor Bisounours) and without an army aggression from an external power is guaranteed. Even with one assymetric forces mean war can happen, like it did recently in Karabash for instance.
They allow you to project power, as the saying goes, anywhere in the world, for extended durations, without needing the permission or assistance of any friendly nation (i.e. airstrips in a nearby country) [0].

If you're going up against any nation that doesn't have the ability to sink an aircraft carrier (which is almost every nation in the world) they are very far indeed from obsolete.

[0] So long as you have a serious logistics chain and serious support vessels including protective warships; if all you actually have is one aircraft carrier, you're going to find it pretty useless for long-term power projection.
OH I VISITED THIS BACK DURING CARS 2 -- IT WAS OLD AS FUCK
This is in Britain where they constantly foist such automation on the unsuspecting public.
Haha. Wonder if there are people who got drawn in to the ML/AI hype, got disillusioned somehow and now going back to traditional software development
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That's not quite accurate. France did not reply to an act of war from an allied nation (turkey is part of nato). The turkish navy had a radar lock on a French ship. It is not easy to know if a radar lock is guiding a missile or not: in general it is assumed to be the case and the locked ship will fire in response before being hit. Erdogan is playing with fire with such tactic, and did similar things in the air between turkish f16 and greek air force, even suggesting to find a way to shoot down a greek jet in a way where the pilot could eject.
How many rods from god can SpaceX loft at a time?
Aircraft carriers are more for beating up on nations without substantial resources or power projection once waters have been cleared. Unless you're the US and could stand to lose a few. In a great power conflict, carriers are unlikely to be used in the opening salvos for most nations, since they only have a couple. They're large easy targets and wouldn't be risked.
Bitcoin Breaches $30k as Rally Extends into New Year
How to overcome Phone Addiction
Studies show that excessive phone use is linked to procrastination, suicide, spoilt sleep, food and water neglect, headaches, lower productivity, unstable relationships, poor physical health (eye strain, body-aches, posture, hand strain), and poor mental health (depression, anxiety, stress)
Maybe it’s society or maybe it’s intrinsic human nature, but there seems to be an overriding “only use resources to make it faster to a point, otherwise just make it better [more impressive?]”.

Video games, desktop apps, web apps, etc. And now confirmed that it happens to movies at Pixar.
Yah, or use Linux.
You can a) right-click a stack overflow tab, stack them and then close them all or b) control-ddubleclick one site and Vivaldi will autoselect all from same domain.
I was recently looking at the Lepton. I would really like a to make an affordable monocular. It seemed like the image quality was quite low even for the 160. I'm not sure if adding some lenses for magnification would improve them or not. The refresh rate is pretty slow too. I'd love to experiment with it, but $200 is a lot for a project that might not be usable.

The Boson seems like it has great clarity and refresh rate, but at that price I might as well just buy a purpose made device (outside my price range).
You can’t compile anything with WSL1, did you notice that?
Recent news shows that Solarwinds might have directly employed potential hackers and most companies weren't aware of them nor that their software is partially developed in Eastern Europe, not the US.
I find OSM (the website) is a great map. It's blazing fast (Google Maps aren't), and the color scheme is very clear. When I want to explore some random place on Earth (that uses a writing system I can actually read) I always use OSM.

Google Maps (or its local competitors) are great for spatial searches (ATMs in the area, shops in the area) and routing.

Finally, Wikimapia is great for virtual urban exploration. If you saw an abandoned building or warehouse, or found a suspicious bald spot in the middle of the forest when using OSM or Google Maps, the best place to learn about it is Wikimapia.
It's very painful to follow a conversation on Twitter. I'm not sure why they think the way they've done things makes sense.
Also opposite anecdote, I switched from Pop!_OS to Windows after getting into music production recently as a hobby (MIDI controller driver software doesn't always play well, even with WINE-devel) after over a decade on Linux.

I expected to hate it, but I'm asking myself why I didn't do this sooner.

It's the same sort of scenario as before -- I have Windows running the games I occasionally play, and music stuff, and I do all of my code stuff in WSL2/Ubuntu.

But this way, I never have to fiddle with weird WINE patches or googling bugs, everything "just works". Asking myself why I didn't do this sooner to be honest.

I had one big complaint which is that copying files from Windows to WSL2 would create ".ZoneInfo" file copies of every file, that was downloaded from the web, but they patched this recently too.

With the support for Linux GUI apps that launched with Windows Insider Preview recently, I have a hard time making arguments against it now. The taste of crow is a little bitter, eh.

Linux + WINE/Proton basically felt like shittier, more bug-ridden Windows + WSL2. With the one notable exception that as an OS/host, Windows 10 "feels" a bit slower in general.
There aren't many savy tech women compared to men. So it's not surprising they are mostly men.
I've been using fastmail for a few years and have had no deliverability issues. Previously I was hosting my own mail and decided to switch because of deliverability. And before that, I was using gmail.

I really like fastmail and recommend it.
Thank you so much for the details! This is very helpful. I will pass this along to my Jira Perf colleagues (there's multiple of them, since they know Perf is such a big issue).

Just to clarify on Search though, which search are you talking about:

a) quick search (top bar)
b) issue search (the one with the basic/JQL switcher)
c) something else

Trying to narrow down the latter "even if clicking into any of them is not" part to understand which view that is
Thanks!

First of all I sell perpetual licenses. For everything else I rely entirely on the honor system. I wont spend my time chasing some student who pirates a copy. The real money comes from the larger companies and they are terrified of getting in legal trouble for breaking any kind of license agreement, so they have no reason to screw me over.

I worry a lot more about making things complicated for licensees then I do about them taking advantage of me.
> I don't wanna make 250k while most people work three jobs

1. no way “most” people work three jobs
2. But if they were they would still be working three jobs wether you had a US or EU salary
https://profunctor.io/

Job board for developers with cross post to popular Telegram channel. Might come in handy if you hire devs and don't mind to work with people in EU Timezone. Job posting is free of charge.

I made some money with ads last year, tho.
The first reaction to seeing this is of course 'why not use Stylus.' But it only takes a 10 second look at the page / screenshots to see that this clearly has a number of unique and new features that are beyond what Stylus offers. So no, you can't just use Stylus.

My first impressions are that Stylus is nice for applying big site-wide styles like dark themes, but this is vastly superior for all the small customizations that you might want to make to sites you frequently visit. No need to go deep into the CSS; just right click a thing and open the sidebar and make it look how you want. Not even close to Stylus. Definitely something I'm going to keep, and makes for a very powerful combination paired with uBlock Origin's element picker/zapper.
This inch-measuing business is very misguided

I now have a 32inch 4k monitor, and I sit further away from ot than i did with previous 24inch screen. Get a large screen, as large as your work setuo allows, your back and posture will thank you.
Would be cool if you could add Plausible Analytics!
I'm "anyone" since I know very little about the subject but I'd speculate that they've done a cost-benefit analysis and figured that would be overkill and tie them to proprietary hardware, so that they couldn't easily adapt and take advantage of advances in commodity hardware.
Amusingly, Pixar did build the "Pixar Image Computer" [1] in the 80s and they keep one inside their renderfarm room in Emeryville (as a reminder).

Basically though, Pixar doesn't have the scale to make custom chips (the entire Pixar and even "Disney all up" scale is pretty small compared to say a single Google or Amazon cluster).

Until recently GPUs also didn't have enough memory to handle production film rendering, particularly the amount of textures used per frame (which even on CPUs are handled out-of-core with a texture cache, rather than "read it all in up front somehow"). I think the recent HBM-based GPUs will make this a more likely scenario, especially when/if OptiX/RTX gains a serious texture cache for this kind of usage. Even still, however, those GPUs are extremely expensive. For folks that can squeeze into the 16 GiB per card of the NVIDIA T4, it's just about right.

tl;dr: The economics don't work out. You'll probably start seeing more and more studios using GPUs (particularly with RTX) for shot work, especially in VFX or shorts or simpler films, but until the memory per card (here now!) and $/GPU (nope) is competitive it'll be a tradeoff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar_Image_Computer
I think guiding a hypersonic glider on a moving target is a difficult task. I thought waves could not penetrate the plasma around the glider, making the last phase of the flight unguided ?
For more context check out [0], which had a major discussion when it was posted. In short, the source code of Maps.me is open source and people are working on building from that, yet the Maps.me you find in the play store isn't the same as the one so many people recommend.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25515004
Gensim considers the `word2vec.c` code, from the original authors of the Word2Vec paper, as canonical and seeks to match its behavior exactly, even in ways it might deviate from some interpretations of the paper.

If there's an actual benefit to be had here, Gensim could add it as an option - but would likely always default to the same CBOW behavior as in `word2vec.c` (& similarly, FastText) - rather than this 'koan' variant.
It's amazing to me that people find twitter difficult to read... I mean it's not perfect but it's not an ovaltine decoder ring, either.

Just ... Scroll ... Down ... Click where it says "read more" or "show more replies"

You're human; THE most adaptable creature known. Adapt!

I'm not saying that twitter UX is perfect, or even good. I AM saying that it is usable.
The high variance is another problem. Good software has low variance in performance. Especially if you're sampling in the tens of thousands.

The high variance does give you two tactical problems. First, how do you keep performance from getting worse? Typically you would set a threshold on the metrics, and prevent checking in code that breaks the threshold. With high variance you clearly cannot do this. Instead, make the barrier soft. If the performance tests break the threshold, then you need to get signoff from a manager or senior engineer. This way, you can continue to make coding progress while adding just enough friction that people are careful about making performance worse.

The second problem of high variance is showing that you're making progress. However, for you, this isn't a real problem. You're not talking about cutting 500 microseconds off a 16 millisecond frame render. You need to cut 5-25 second page loads down by a factor of 10 at least. There must be dozens of dead obvious problems taking up seconds of run time. Is Confluence's performance so atrocious that you couldn't statistically measure cutting the page load time in half?
Indeed.

The defense against Russia and China is the nuclear deterrent. There is not going to be any direct war between France (or the West for that matter) and Russia/China.
tl;dr Carriers, US wise, the whole military, keeps is high budgets because Congress uses the political leverage to keep themselves in office.

Large military assets like carriers are safe against other super powers simply because any conflict that would involve their loss is going to be so costly on all other fronts as to make the point moot. So while Russia and China could sink one with effort the cost long term are their best defense, simply put the economic trade issues if a conflict comes up out weighs everything else.

US wise, the military branches have always had a pissing match going on. The Navy with its carriers and the air force with its manned bombers. Both technologies are either obsolete or nearing it with the advent of smarter drones; both flying and water borne; let alone combined with new artillery like rail guns and hypersonic missiles.

However that pissing match is saved by both parties in Congress who use the funding to keep political power. The US could keep its peace at half the military it has and the Chiefs of Staff know it. Congress would not even let the military close bases it clearly did not need. Congress regularly has the military buy weapons it doesn't want.

So combine the internal political power Congress wields with a large military establishment with one up man ship attitude between the Air Force and Navy and we are stuck with a very expensive relic of days gone past.

I am not sure how much turn over is required in Congress to pare down the military. Don't get me wrong, you may seem claims they have or will cut the budget but remember the US Congress considers increases automatic and reducing the increase while still increasing constitutes a cut.
Make those missiles [semi-]autonomous, and they're swarms of suicide drones:

https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/firefly-israels...

I've heard people say that this obsoletes large surface vessels and even manned fighters.
Which fits with what the original poster stated:

> no country has more than two of them at the moment

Having even one puts you on a pretty small list.
Yeah I see what you mean about what I wrote as well.

This is what the internet was supposed to be. HN is the only place I've found that is still like that.
I thought about that sometimes. It's funny how the size and cost (and size of the crew) of an aircraft carrier can work as a deterrent from sinking it. As in "this weapon is so expensive that, even if you can destroy it, you'd better not because that would bring an inevitable escalation". I wonder if major powers have devised plans to disable aircraft carriers without completely destroying them and killing the crews. It would make a lot of sense.
They aren’t there to project power directly at other big military powerhouses.

They’re used to project power indirectly, by proxy wars in less developed countries (and sometimes for direct wars with them, without proxy of other empires, at least at start).
Probably because CPU times fall within acceptable windows. That would be my guess. You can go faster with FPGA or silicon, but it also has a very high cost, on the order of 10 to 100 as expensive. You can get a lot of hardware for that.
Love this! I wish more would share your take on this.
Edsger Dijkstra – Discipline in Thought [video]
Python – Create large ZIP archives without memory inflation
Currently the French Navy is the largest in Europe.
It’s not just performance, but you now have to go back and update every instance of that struct to reflect the change in ownership of that member if you can even change the member in the first place (e.g., you can’t change the type of a member of the struct itself is defined in a third-party package). Moreover, some instances of your struct might be in a tight loop and others might not, but now you’re committing to poorer performance in all cases. Maybe you can box it (although IIRC I’ve run into other issues when I tried this) but in any case this isn’t the “elegance” I was promised. Which is fine, because Rust is a living, rapidly-improving language, but let’s not pretend that there is an elegant solution today.
> It's the same kind of thing as computers and calculators switching from decimal hardware to binary hardware 100 years ago.

Not quite. ENIAC, for example, did calculations in decimal, and it was finished in 1945. There may be more recent examples.

If you include binary-coded decimal, that still includes machines made in 1970 or later, like the IBM 1401.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25523904
"Unproven theories that threaten someone's worldview are typically met with the same reaction as an opposing political opinions, and for similar reasons. Rarely is it based in logic and consideration, since adjusting one's worldview takes a lot of energy."

I disagree that most opposition to conspiracy theories comes from fear of having to adjust one's worldview, or that logic and consideration are rare. This statement makes critics of conspiracy theories out to be closed-minded and unreasonable, which is a common argument made by proponents of conspiracy theories to justify not having their worldview threatened by criticism.

Rather, logic and consideration are the reason most conspiracy theories are rejected, because most such theories are not rational, nor do they present compelling evidence.

"My advice is to foster a worldview in which you accept that the world is poorly understood and many things are possible, and then you won't have to do significant reorganization (or denial and attack) every time an interesting new idea comes your way."

Speaking of something obvious that goes without saying, most people already accept that the world is poorly understood and many things are possible. I believe that. That has nothing to do with the credibility of any particular conspiracy theory, and it does seem as if you're arguing against either accepting or rejecting any particular one under the implication that because the world is poorly understood, anything could be possible.

The most charitable interpretation I can make is that you're just arguing against rejecting conspiracy theories for purely emotional reasons... but my reply to you didn't contradict that premise at all, yet you and everyone else here assumes I'm simply closed minded and irrational.

I believe your point of view contributes to the problem. Even if that's not your intent, that is the result.
> How do you know what styling the project needed?

I don't know what the project needed but I'll assume the author of the dialog knew and didn't purposefully pick a harder way to do it that intentionally spited others rather picked the easiest way to meet the styling goals.

> What styling requires a button to stop being a button?

None, did anyone ever claim you can't style a button to be whatever you want with more effort?
> If war breaks out

War doesn't just "break out". If tensions mount, the US can place its carriers 1000 miles or more away from any Russian or Chinese battery. At that distance, the carriers are not "huge and slow", they are tiny dots on a map and quite evasive too. In the time a hypersonic missile covers 1000 miles, a carrier can move a few miles.
Today I learned that Care Bears are called Bisounours in French

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bisounours