skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FileMaker flies under the radar and most people haven't even heard of it. It seems like it was neglected over the years as well. They also took some strategic directions that weakened the utility such as lack of interoperability, but it seems like they've improved.

The only reason I even know it exists is because I was brought in to one company to try to untangle a mess of business logic and UIs that had accumulated into an insane mountain of technical debt.

That said, I do appreciate what it is trying to do and the power it gives users. There are a lot of niche products trying to "reinvent" aspects of FileMaker, but no real general replacement exists that I'm aware of.
I think that requires replacing javascript itself
Take my up vote.
Bit-sliced was certainly "interesting". It was the interim step from discrete logic processors to everything else. In addition to the Am2900 (and follow-on Am29300), there was the Intel 3000 line, the 74x181/381, MMI 5700, Fairchild 9000, Signetics 8x line, etc., etc. Many late 70s/80s/early 90s computers were bit-slice processors.
Nona Gaprindashvili was the women's world champion for 16 years (!), and is a legend in the chess world.

Her best tournament results seem to be equal 1st at Lone Pine 1977[0], and equal 2nd at Sandomierz 1976[1] and Dortmund 1978[2].

[0] https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=80958

[1] https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Vitrobud_op_1976/24138

[2] https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=49490

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nona_Gaprindashvili
How can I work in domains like HPC (not run of the mill work, but not really “academic” either) without having formal education expose me to the the scale and infrastructure needed?

FWIW I don’t have a degree nor do I believe the average CS program is worth the money (US context ofc)
Rolls-Royce’s all-electric aircraft completes 15-minute maiden voyage
> We can always strive to be better and push others to do so

I agree, but Facebook, and the rest of these companies, are not people. They are legal entities. Technically, US congress can kill them all overnight, without even violating a single UN policy.

Too bad that’s unlikely to happen.
This is a stupid headline and completely wrong. The imperial system has never gone away - pints of beer and pints of milk, six-feet tall humans, 12-inch records, quarter-pounder burgers, shoe sizes, clothes sizes - but they’re now saying that shops or store holders will be allowed to sell goods in older measures like pounds and ounces.

The imperial system is a system good for humans, metric is good for standardization.
I have an easier solution that doesn’t require making a false moral choice.

Give your customers the ability to install their own software or app stores on the hardware that they own and paid for, without requiring a monopolistic walled garden. Of course, companies like Apple would never do this because they are far too greedy.
I was very early person on FB (Columbia U), but now never use it because of the annoying ads.

I can't use an adblocker which is really annoying.
Camels are massive mate
Specifically in this case it's to build submarines which can chase after submarines which are trying to break us blockade. If china invades Taiwan, the obvious next step is to blockade Chinese oil imports, which cripples upwards of 60-80% of Chinese domestic food production, but is justifiable on "military grounds" and definitely prevents china from creating supply lines outside of the first island chain.

There is no sensible equivalent retaliatory action on the part of china after such a blockade, as the us is currently food and energy self-sufficient.
I'm pretty sure camels don't need a dry desert to survive
congrats! I'm curious how do you do you do the maintenance. For visalist, how do you keep the info up-to-date? For anexplorer, how do you test compatibility on different phones?
That's horrifying, my litmus test for data scientists is whether they acknowledge KPI's are imperfect measures. In my experience, data scientists that come from hard science backgrounds (e.g. Physics and Biostats) tend to be much more open minded to the idea that there isn't a "perfect" statistical measure.
YouTube livestream cryptocurrency scam using SpaceX trademarks
Several new and repurposed/old channels are operating large "live" streams with Twitter/Elon Musk style cryptocurrency scams. They shot straight to my recommendations, have disabled chat, and lots of views. They're using archived footage of Everyday Astronaut and SpaceX press conferences with overlays.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBnsjjrHaiQI0HHpffcqalg/about

https://www.youtube.com/user/studioimagetm/about

https://www.youtube.com/c/OMeditante/about

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA4Su1Rvtclz3u4Qe-gbZyA/about

edits: clarifying traits such as channel age, content
I fear we overcomplicated everything software/infrastructure IT related, and in the no so far future we will completely be dominated by huge mega corps. We already see something of that since the last 20 years, but also because of hubris and ego we continue making things harder and harder for new comers new hackers.
unless apple has an M1 that can address more than 16GB, this isn't happening.
Fairly annoyed they discontinued the Forester XT. Only reason I bought a used one.
That doesn't make my statement any less true.
what's wrong with south / east coasts?
self-hosted Miniflux + Feedme on Android. Uses the Fever API provided by miniflux. Works great.
The problem is plenty of people don't care and click accept all and are tired of folks like you who make every site put a big pop-up in their face.
Is that real notivation? I am sure they could be refueled in France once in a decade if needes
> If you have the guts (like Israel) to take a chance as a society you might save another 1 life per 2.000 to 10.000 this fall.

Screw testing let's deploy to prod cause we need to seem like we are doing something!

65+ (Who are almost 80% of deaths in the US) and At risk groups are still advised to get it & everyone else will still have significant protection from the first shots. Not that the young and the healthy were at high risk to begin with...
What Do You Do with a Billion Grams of Surplus Weed?
I would argue that they don't serve National Security, they threaten it. These cloud providers are selling the government on being their secret keepers, which secures them against regulation.
Rental car companies cannot control their inventory as well as we might hope. Sometimes cars are returned early. Sometimes late. Sometimes late and in need of maintenance. Sometimes people cancel. If the rental agency planned for these contingencies with additional inventory, that would just be extra cars lying around depreciating most of the time. I think we are to understand from their "untenable conduct" is that margins are too low to not be cleverly utilizing all of their inventory JIT-style, and nobody in their market segment wants to pay higher fees in exchange for a guaranteed vehicle model.
That's what people are trying to do with WASM. There's a project currently on the front page or not far about a frontend framework in Rust, and it's one of many. There's also TypeScript, and other alternatives. User interfaces are far from being a solved problem.
Yes, the societal tolerance of vehicular homicide generally is probably too high.

That doesn't mean we need to endorse putting more cars on the road that sporadically act like drunks.
“ Briggs persuaded an Inuit family to "adopt" her and "try to keep her alive," as the anthropologist wrote in 1970.”

Oh like some native tribe totally didn’t have their own shit to worry about.
Apparently you may order 1 oz of whiskey and get 25mL in England and Whales, but 35 mL in North Ireland and Scotland.

So I say they think differently about it, but they all know.

Maybe someone from UK can elaborate further.
In my mind it is related to KISS and suckless philosophy https://suckless.org/philosophy/

Well also the long lasting bit, use the building blocks that are sound and principles that aren't newfangled for your particular language of choice.
You shouldn't. It's a terrible story in burning bridges, losing trust with leadership, and basically optimizing for being RIGHT over actually fixing any problems or enacting change.

If you find yourself considering doing anything of the sort, you should just quit. And you might say what's the difference - he ended up quitting anyway. Yeah, but he also did so by ruining his reputation with a bunch of people who you might say you don't care about their opinion, but they'll talk to other people whose opinion you DO Care about, and they won't tell a charitable version of this incident. They'll just say that you weren't a team player, that you don't know how to collaborate with others, and to not hire you.

What he should have done is spent a week writing a document to senior leadership preparing an executive overview explaining the process he would follow, tools to use, and a detailed breakdown of the estimate of building this system (by someone else mind you) - in a timeframe that he understood the leadership would accept as reasonable - but longer than 1 hour.

Then he should have presented the document to them.
…$1,500 is not worth the fight? All you have to do is ask them to prove where you agreed to it. You either missed it when you signed the paperwork, or they are stealing from you.
Building from source was the fun part when I first got into Linux. Trying to get the modules down to the smallest subset possible that would run on my machine just to see how fast I could get it to boot.

Tricky part was it was a dual boot Windows installation on a single hard drive, I was always worried I would screw something up that I couldn't recover from since I needed the computer for school. Somehow I didn't mess up anything I couldn't recover from.
A complete and shameful shit show. This wasn't even a warship. Yes, it made the French look like fools and untrustworthy and they had to dump that ship to another nation for a huge discount. A complete failure.

Merci Hollande! /s

USA is nobody"s ally when it's about business. USA only has interests.
It's never that simple.

From what I understand, France is willing to sell nuclear submarines, with some caveats related to non-proliferation treaties (though apparently the upcoming US deal might blatantly violate those).

This kind of move is about backroom deals and consolidation of soft power; if Australia had asked France for nuclear submarines, they would never have sunk a multi-billion deal over that.
I run a FreshRSS server on digital ocean droplet. Has a nice web interface and works with the excellent iOS Reeder app.
They have a POV, but I wouldn't call it a US bias. They're pretty quick to criticize. (It's one of my few regular reads besides HN.)

They always post their sources, and then explain any speculation from there. Usually the speculation is more accusative of the US military than anything else, but Russia, China etc also get covered.

Now, many of the "sources" are US military or other US government FOIA requests or similar, as well as some vets sharing technical details of what their deployment was like, etc.

(I actually think they have more trouble with bias in proximity to US domestic politics than they do any US bias.)

Any US "bias" isn't really a skew of reality, so much as the US military is pretty much the topic the focus on covering.

They get giddy about some historical stories, but it's usually more about the tech than the allegiance.

Is hacker news biased for having a large number of articles about, or from the POV of, tech/startup/otherwise-HN crow? (excluding comments) Or is it just what the site is about?
I'd just note some things Youtube doesn't have.

It doesn't have any "the key words I'm interested are" section. It doesn't have any fine grained "show me less like this" or "show me more like that" options.

That all the filters of net (Google, FB, etc) have convinced users that an out-of-their control recommendation system is a triumph of this sort of system. If you just demand the recommendation system be different, you're just asking users be controlled in a different way.

Edit: whenever I mention this, I get "but the users are morons and need to be lead". I'd say instead, users are often unthinking and need to be educated.
Yes, few people realize it but fixing Google's algorithms could be the best thing that ever happened to the climate, and the worst thing that ever happened to our economy (depending on how you look at it).
The great thing about using ancient Egypt to support social theories is that there's no evidence there.

For example, we still don't know if the workers who build the pyramids were slaves or freemen. Kind of a big deal for that society.
I'm am at a loss that otherwise smart people didn't see this coming. The employer/employee relationship is ALWAYS adversarial. An employer is never ever ever going to be watching out for your interests as an employee and always going to be seeking the maximum means of exploiting you, act accordingly. This isn't a new thing. It's not much consolation but mailchimp folks still made out way better than wework folks.
> from this was a little different than McNamara's, though. Since you will inevitably want to track your progress, make sure you track as many things as possible, because anything which is not tracked will get sacrificed to that which is.

That wasn't Deming’s position, Deming was pretty strong on the idea that there are measurable things that it is not cost effective to measure.

A big contribution of Deming’s here is the importance of understanding uncertainty in measurements relations between them to understand the degree of control.
Well, if their fault. None of this could happen if we have freedom on software distribution. The moral of this story is, don't use non-free computers.
> due to the precise break that separates one half of the formation from the other. While it may look like a simple crack in the foundation of the sandstone, the break is so exact and straight that it looks as if though someone took a laser to the rock to split it apart. In addition, the two remarkably heavy sides of the formation seem to balance on nothing more than thin pieces of rock, appearing to nearly gravitate in thin air.

I'm pretty certain this is all easily explained by simple weathering and there are quite a number of examples of this kind of rock in the geological literature.
Importing entry level workers to be more globally competitive and counteract population decline.
"Would a tree falling in the forest ..." never seemed much of a puzzle to me.

I don't agree with the proposition that life on Earth had no value until it gave rise to the evolution of Homo sapiens, or that it would have no value after our extinction.
It’s silly to compare small scale sculptural artwork to monumental architecture like Stonehenge and the pyramids.

This new dating is certainly cool but it should stand on its own.
The inventory people were not allowed to buy more inventory until the monthly buying time came around again. It was not an external issue, it was entirely internal.
> I would argue that it's worthwhile to measure as much as you can, insofar as it facilitates orderly decisionmaking processes.

That would be true, if measurement was free. It never is, and it often is quite costly.
I like it. I kinda wish I got the touring for eyesight for adaptive cruise control. But it came with leather and I was just not going to deal with leather. Though the outback XT is pretty good as it is 2.4 ascent engine so no premium.
I think I've seen a similar video in a previous FSD version and the car tries to swerve into the concrete pillar, so I think this person was trying to stress test that same situation, which I guess you can say it improved. I'm assuming this situation had something to do with the pillar again. Who knows though the reroute was really weird.
Biden had months to prepare for the pullout.

Ironically, France evacuated its embassies months ahead of time, for obvious reasons (at least obvious in hindsight). The Biden administration at the time criticized us for undermining confidence in the Afghan government.
So you're still saying 113 kWh net. This is just boring at this point.

Break free of your social media bubble. It's weighing you down.
Justin Trudeau Vows Two-Year Ban on Foreign Home Buyers in Canada Election
> trying to sell weapons to Russia, an aggressive total dictatorship, you deserved that one

Well USA is selling or has sold weapons to Saudi Arabia, a known democracy respecting human rights/s

Weapons used to massacre children in Yemen, I mean let's not claim USA is a paragon of virtue either, when it comes to the business of war.
That is a theoretical effect I frequently see mentioned, but never seen materialize in practice. Quite likely it is hidden by other things that affect Java performance negatively.

Cache effects might play a role here as well. Deallocating memory immediately after use allows you to allocate it again when it is still hot in the cache. So eg if you're iterating a structure and doing lot of interleaved allocations/deallocations they are likely to not cause cache misses (assuming the allocator is not dumb and uses some kind of LRU strategy).

With GC and deferred deallocation, you're moving a lot more data between the main memory and the caches, because memory for sure gets pushed out of cache by the time it is reclaimed. And additionally, GC has to touch quite a big number of objects when tracing (and move unneeded stuff to cache, and push needed stuff out of cache). Memory bandwidth is a scarce resource these days.

If you want to see these effects in extreme, try running a GC based program in an environment that is low on memory but has swap enabled. Hitting the first full GC is basically performance game-over, regardless concurrent or not.

On the other hand, manually managed apps can often deal with big chunks of their heap swapped out without terrible consequences.
I’m reminded of GWB’s “soft bigotry of low expectations”. (Even if you didn’t like him, it remains apt.)

Sorry, most drivers I’ve seen avoid the kid that follows the bouncing ball into the street and all the other random events. A few drivers are crap. But justifying automation based on that few is lazy and incorrect. Elon is just full of his own crap on Tesla’s autopilot.
Netnewswire!
> it becomes quite apparent that while the internet connects us, we definitely do not share the same culture or held beliefs.

Ooh I’ll agree on this one. And since I’ve seen a a number of people effectively advocate for nuclear war as a solution to economic problems, I’ll give my equally unrealistic and destructive solution to our cultural issues:

Split up the US. It’s apparent that many people even within the same states and cities live in wildly different worlds.
No way in hell they can all manage to have functional representation in government.
Yeah that's a fair point. I do believe there is value in synthetic biology, so I try to keep up with what happens a bit at least :)
Same problem as for all megalithic structures: why should aliens give a crap about rocks?

All of the ancient megaliths, Old World and New, share well earned fascination. But what is fascinating is how people (often) without metal tools, materials science, advanced mathematics, or so much as a block and tackle, cut, transported, and fitted such monstrous stones into edifices that often still stand.

What is certain is that we still have a great deal more to learn about what the ancients did, and how, than we now know; and plenty of that cannot fail, if ever elucidated, to astonish us, if only we pay attention.

Is this one natural? It is hard to believe. Is it a made thing? That seems equally hard, but for different reasons. People insisting on one or the other know less than those who admit they don't know.
Ask for “out the door price”. It makes it an apples to apples comparison. For my last car, 30 minutes of phone calls to the “online sales manager” pretty much zeroed in on the lowest price I would get in my area, and this matched the KBB forum prices I was seeing.

Or… just by a Tesla. I hate that I am a fanboy, but I am. Great sales process, great car.
Sounds similar to what Bruce Perens said in the latter half of a recent talk (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27961940) about the corporatization of FLOSS and the need for a post-open source license that's sustainable for developers.
TSMC is geopolitically irrelevant.
The app is up. Have you ever heard about a butterfly effect? And this is not even a butterfly's wing flap.
I kinda suspected how it will end up.

Honestly, I knew immediately when I joined that I made a huge mistake. My patience for bullshit is very short and I am extra infuriated by people who just don't care to do a good job or help the company (that is paying their salary) and are completely fine crippling their own project for some strange power games.

I knew that if I was going to do what they (management) wanted of me -- which was to sit quiet and do nothing, I would have to leave anyway.

So I decided to give it a shot and it did not work.

But it sure was fun to watch these people trying to gather some response before they had a chance to reach their back channels to solve the problem another way.
Everyone who thinks they're smart by reading /r/personalfinance has figured this "hack" out. You're not saving much of anything by buying newish used cars unless you're buying the things that moneyed buyers flee from (Ford Foci, Chrysler 200s, other stereotypical fleet sedans from non-premium manufacturers), no a Camry/Accord do not meet these criteria.
No, weights are metric but distances are imperial. Distances are in miles and speed is in mph.
Nice idea.

But no,
I don't want a bunch of unnecessarily, rarely used apps on my device. I don't download apps to do a single, simple action.

That's what web sites and web apps are for.
And what about when you need to glue an external library into a page, or pivot a feature.
I've seen design generating frontend as a promised holy grail, and it's still not there. The further away your design is from the person who actually builds the product, the longer and slower the turn around time is for the inevitable pivot or adjustment.
It's all 'perfect world' scenarios.
Creating a CMS? Sure. Web app that connects to x,y,z services and crunches a,b,c datasets? Not a chance.
Deltarune Chapter 2
Very much a generational thing. I'm early 30s and think in miles for distance/speed, pints for beer, feet for height and metric for everything else.

This has always been a niche issue for the baby boomer generation, I don't know anyone of my generation that gives a damn other than metric being more sensible for international compatibility.

Much like Brexit certain parts of the older and more politically powerful / numerous generation go off the deep end about this stuff, e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Martyrs
> I watched one video on peppers out of curiousity.

I watched one video on preppers out of curiousity - and my feed is now full of videos about machine guns, shot guns and the correct military gear to pretend you are in the army.
4chan and 8chan aren't walled gardens

and september would normally end because some of the idiot freshmen would get their access yanked by whoever ran the NNTP servers at the school.
Thank you. I’ve been curious about this but wasn’t going to bother to watch a six minute video.
How do I find a mentor? (Found 10 mentors in last 3 years))
The difference from car rental vs a hotel room or an airplane seat is the fact the the company relies on the previous occupant to return the car on time, which often does not happen. If a person wants to extend a hotel reservation but the hotel is entirely sold out, they say "sorry, too bad." With a rental car people simply don't always bring them back, they pay the extra day fee or whatever, but the car simply isn't there to give to you. It does suck, of course, the best way to prevent this is to pre-pay. This will get you priority among everyone else waiting for cars to become available.