skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me share a small fun story (of making an application in an hour, not months).

At one large insurance company in my role as an architect I have tried to convince people we need Elasticsearch to speed up free-form queries to our database containing information about hundreds of millions of people and their contracts. That database was Oracle and so not really amenable to completely arbitrary queries.

I was immediately shot down that the project will take huge amount of time and effort to complete and so is completely off the table.

So I came up with fun plan. I set up an hour-long meeting which was supposed to be my last chance to pitch the project.

Rather than present slides and extol virtues of Elasticsearch, I decided to WRITE THE APPLICATION DURING THE MEETING, FROM SCRATCH.

And that's what I did. I came to the meeting, set my laptop, connected projector, put some music on, and I wrote the entire service from scratch and had time to spare to present how it works.

I cheated a little bit, of course. That 1h meeting was well rehearsed. I spent entire week preparing, finding better ways to do stuff and retrying entire process dozens of times.

I used JHipster to generate 90% of the service and the rest was just tiny bit of well thought glue code.

Unfortunately, this did not sit well with couple of people whom I made complete mockery of. I had to leave soon after.
"No Silver Bullet" is similar to "Moore's law" - an observation rather than an absolute rule. In both cases, the authors were only projecting into the future 10 years.

It is just measurement, not pessimism or optimism. The fact that "No Silver Bullet" is still true 35 years later show just how hard progress can be.
That whole industry is so weird. This year, I've seen Hertz locations with people waiting for multiple hours (!) to fill out a bunch of papers forms, at least half an hour per rental of just waiting on a human to write up your super-generic contract. Other locations may demand weird shit like a must-have return flight ticket. On the other hand, there is Turo where (once you registered) the whole "typing up the contract and signing it in your blood for 30 minutes" is non-existent: you just find your car and open it, no humans involved, no stupid rental branches with multi-hour lines. Turo is definitely not for everybody, but I think they need to start to learn from each other - it is possible to make the booking and pick-up process instant and save a ton of time (and money).
Google, Apple said to have removed Navalny voting app as Russian elections begin
Oh yeah, I think GitLab will make a fine company. Even if as a user of their product I routinely find it to be half-baked, but of course in enterprise the actual user is commonly the least important aspect of any deal.
It's over complicated to you because you're already thinking about making something small and iterating. It's becoming second nature to a lot of people, but there are a lot of people who still think they need to make the "perfect" product.
This is getting pretty ridiculous. Almost like a child throwing a tantrum. How does France expect to be taken seriously if it acts like a petulant child?
Wow, very similar experience here with the email-terminal starting point, except instead of the C compiler, which was indeed a pretty awesome discovery, I discovered I could write shell scripts, just like those described by hacker-hunter Cliff Stoll.

I had been writing DOS batch files with the help of PC Magazine utils for years, and shell scripts looked absolutely amazing. From that point on I pretty much always had to know where I could go to get unix or Linux shell access...
What does RSN mean here?

What cannot you do with traditional internal DNS that you can do with those newfangled DNS replacements? They offer censorship resistance and potentially a much lower cost to register your name, but they have plenty of drawbacks too.

Quite frankly, I suspect I might be getting trolled by GPT-3, but I'm asking the question anyway for the benefit of the community.
I have not studied the content of the patent, but the "Cited by" list includes the Who's Who of the industry; so the invention is apparently relevant.
I think e-scooters will shake it up a bit. I chose a scooter over an e-bike because it was a third of the price, half the weight to carry up stars when I get to the office, and didn't need peddling.

I also find standing up for my 15 minute commute far more comfortable that the hard saddles that seem to be in fashion on bikes these days.
Remember that the area around Vladivostok was annexed by Russia from China... and that Russia had 'treaty ports' similar to Hongkong in China (most notably Tianjin, Harbin, and Dalian)
AMD Chipset Vulnerability Leaks Passwords, Patch Available
I've been writing web applications using python and django for close to 15 years now. Smooth, concise and stable. Doing the same using a verbose and boilerplate heavy language like golang doesn't sound attractive to me, at all.

Not sure I understand the fuss about upgrades either, at my current job I've gone from python 2 to 3 and from Django 1.8 all the way to 3.2 LTS without too many headaches. The release notes provide detailed instructions on what is deprecated and what you should do to fix it.
It’s probably not in the spectrum. It’s probably in those flowing mildly syncopated arpeggios.
Does Google censor in the US the same way they were required to in China? No.

Google censor based on court rulings, user requests from Europe, national security certicates. Google follows the law where it operates which is why they stopped in China.

Google doesn't spy on behalf the government. The government monitors all traffic via under the sea cables and at all major backbone datacenters. The cellphone location beacon you carry around does.
It seems like a bit of an overreaction. Is shipbuilding that important to France?
Telegram blocked Navalny Telegram bot
The problem you are talking about is rigidity. Contracts are just promises and predictions. Reality is always different. This is why we let people go bankrupt and write off their debt, to add the necessary amount of flexibility to account for the real world being unpredictable.

Following pieces of paper down to their very letter will make people abandon perfectly fine businesses. A lot of profitable businesses would have to shut down if they had to pay extortionate interest rates.

Positive interest rates simply reward short term thinking. Let's imagine a hypothetical scenario where interest rates are 5% (don't confuse this with the federal funds rate) across the board but it's only the rental car companies that have been hit by covid. A bean counter would see that shutting down the rental car company and using the capital for something else would be a better idea than to keep the rental car company. Next year everyone wants rental cars and the returns increase above 5%.

The point is that we make decisions in the present yet most of the money is going to be earned in the future. What we need is patience and patience means low interest rates, as close to zero as possible and maybe negative if we want 0% inflation.
Someone got a patent for a warp drive [1], so I don't think being actually possible is a requirement for patents.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2001057881A1/en
Neighbor took a vacation to Hawaii a couple months ago. The cars available to rent were $250/day and up. He passed.

Fortunately, there's a car equivalent of AirBNB, and he was able to rent an individual's car for around $80/day (I can't remember the name of the service, unfortunately).

I guess when you're on an island, cars aren't all that fungible.
Are Facebook and Instagram unusable on mobile Safari, which bypasses the App Store? (I haven't used FB/Insta for years, so I'm not asking a rhetorical question here: I really don't know and I'm genuinely curious.) I do know that viable mobile browser video games that bypass the App Stores are currently impossible to do on both mobile Safari and Android Chrome because I recently tried. Dark patterns are employed, including adding a typical 300ms audio latency to the Web Audio API on Android Chrome[1], and making WebGL perform terrible on iOS Safari, preventing WebGL from going full screen, preventing accelerometer/gyro input "for privacy reasons" etc.

[1] Superpowered Android audio latency test database shows how awful Android web audio latency is:

https://superpowered.com/latency
Or there are several children of Prince Philip's who got something in the will so they would be encouraged to keep silent.

Definitely some sort of scandal.
Republicans (well, honestly, every party) had decades to come up with their own sane climate policy. They came up with a president that called climate change a Chinese hoax. Not that I'm terribly fond of AOC, but I'd pick AOC over Republicans every time if I get to choose.
France always reacts like this
Well I mean Australia and the USA could not go behind Frances back to strike a deal which apparently causes Australia to back out of a deal it has with France?
You can play it right in your browser: http://play.abstreet.org/0.2.58/abstreet.html What a cool project!
Show HN: Open-Source Orphism Art Generator
Earlier comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561941
But that copyright protection only extends to the literary expression. The recipe itself is still not covered by copyright, even if accompanied by an essay.
https://marcolabarile.me

Even though there is mostly old content.
We also need to electrify everything that can be, and use fuel cells for what can not.

The capital issue really is political, as not doing it will cost way more in the long run. Pricing adequately carbon emissions would be a first step.

Nuclear plants don’t need rare materials, and the waste in current designs cannot be used in a nuclear bomb (well, they could be used in a dirty bomb, but then there are loads of cheap as chips chemicals that are much better for this use).

It is true that it is too late now to rely only on that. We still need all the tools we have, and we should build as much reactors as we can, and as much wind turbines (and solar panels where it makes sense) as we can. We are not in a situation where we can prioritise one or the other, otherwise we end up with gas and coal, like in Germany.
i did not interpret it that way
That's cool, never seen that done before. You should write it up!

Make your link clickable if you still can. Or here, I'll do it if not: https://cbailey.co.uk/
A few thousand dollars is no barrier for someone with a regular job and music for a hobby. As for vinyls and other physical products artists can always take refundable preorders. Not everyone can or should be a full time professional artist. Nor is the the role of record companies to decide what the public likes.
> getting denied the vehicle they reserved

Why do car rental companies have such a problem with this? I haven't rented a car in 5 years, but I rented a bunch in the 5 years before that. I don't think even once I was actually able to get the car I reserved, they are always out. There's even a joke from the '90s in Seinfeld about this.

Why are car rentals so much worse than other industries with reservations? Rarely would this happen at a restaurant or a hotel. Only cars seem to have this problem.
>It's not at all clear to me who you believe is "pushing an agenda" or who is "gaming the system."

I can't answer for the other commenter, but presumably media companies. Gaming the system meaning lobbying the government indirectly.
OrangeTheory fitness. It’s fun, great for any shape and you’ll be motivated because you pay for it. I had the BeachBody app but got bored of working out at home alone. I used to be in shape prior to Covid wfh. Used
Am I understanding correctly that this is a bug in AMD's PSP, and that AMD's PSP is the equivalent of Intel's ME? Maybe we need an effort to neuter the former like we have with the latter.
> I mean, how many different programming language were actually used outside of niche applications in the 80s, maybe even 90s? More than a couple, for sure, but if you look at popular languages right now, there's a really long (and not overly thin) tail.

First, I think there were a lot of languages then, too. It's just that you haven't heard of them. SNOBOL? JOVIAL? There were 1700 known languages in 1965 (quote at the top of https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf). In 1990, say, there was Lisp, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, PL/I, APL, probably still some ALGOL. Then there was the Unix-flavored stuff: C, PERL, awk, sed. There was Pascal, Simula, and Smalltalk.

Today I think the picture is similar, except for one thing: web frameworks. If you exclude web frameworks, there aren't that many languages in general use today. C, C++, C#, Java, go, python, Swift. Maybe Clojure, Kotlin, or Scala, depending on how you define "general use".

I think that a huge amount of the churn is in web languages and web frameworks. Outside of that, languages aren't moving that fast at all.
This whole thing is wild and proves that major trade deals are unequivocally what drive international politics.
Wireguard isn't so good for mesh networks because every new node requires reconfiguring all the others. Even with management utilities this is a pain, so instead I recommend something like nebula
https://github.com/slackhq/nebula
That's part of it, but it's mostly a larger political play around France and Europe being less dependent on the USA as a partner around the world. France has been pushing on 'strategic autonomy' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_autonomy) for quite some time now, and this played right into their hands as an opportunity of the USA not being reliable.

Whether or not it's true, or if this will work, will take a lot more time to figure out.
Is it just me or are there more off-topic political posts on HN lately?
Database for those interested in similar OECD publications: https://www.voced.edu.au
Also genuinely curious. With no judgment, I want to understand the French perspective here.

And can anyone weigh in on whether these deals getting scuttled is so rare. Esp for advanced military equipment, I’d think that it’s quite common.
A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom
Thanks, this is great. I see the readme mentions the project was created for yew, how far is from being ready to work with it?
The Most Cinematic Talk on Viewstamped Replication Ever Made
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You're right, they are not really edge cases, but the original poster mentioned a sign covered in snow. In that case, a human would probably just do the same thing the TSLA would: blow the stop sign or continue at the current speed limit until they get pulled over.
What do you mean by "highest possible trim"? You know that rentals are special low cost trim and it's possible to get a much better trim when buying a car made for retail sales, right?
€50B over 50 years, dubbed "the contract of the century".
It's always about domestic politics. Macron doesn't want to look weak in the leadup to the 2022 election, and it's not hard to see why France would be upset here.
It looks like the vaunted experience of Biden and his team has not translated into any sort of deft policymaking, particularly in foreign policy. The messy pullout out of Afghanistan, followed by this scuttling of the deal in progress between Australia and France have reinforced the notion that Uncle Sam can not be relied upon, even by his closest allies. Pretty surefire way of helping fence-sitters become client states of China.
I think this is true about a lot of current orthodoxy. Most people know something stupid when they see it, but few want to stick their neck out so they just go along with it. Ths greatest enemy of freedom is apathy
They are after all French
This isn't off-topic for HN. We've always had 1) submarine posts (aha, I mean both meanings here haha), 2) military strategy posts, 3) $40B deal-falling-apart posts, and even 4) war escalation posts. There's even a prized technical angle about the development of high-tech nuclear submarines.

On-topic.
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Rampant crime, human waste on sidewalks, parks filled with homeless encampments, used needles everywhere, riots, looting?
I used both yew and seed, but the svg support is lacking. Both framework don't render svg elements correctly. As I'm the author of svgbob[0], which heavily uses svg. I wasn't satisfied with both of the frameworks, So I created sauron web framework and I was quite happy with the result. Not only I can do an server side rendering for svgbob[0], I can also write a text-editor[1] with it and achieve a ~15ms typing latency.

[0]: https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/
[1]: https://ivanceras.github.io/ultron/
Parent is saying that of you aren't starving you'll lack the motivation to make good, efficient choices. Corporso lifestyle inflation.
It does work. It's called software engineering, you separate concerns between subsystems so you can assemble them separately and with alternative implementations of the other subsystems. Like if you have a classified (for whatever reason) subsystem you can provide an alternative implementation that at least lets you build the system, possibly doing what amounts to a no-op or some bare-minimum version (perhaps slower and stupider using public algorithms if the classified algorithms are classified for some key mathematical or physical insight).

Regarding running/building, sure, it's harder. But mostly because of expense, the specific examples were military and US DOD and its contractors buy compilers. So buy a license for Green Hills or similar and you can build it. Buy an ARM development board and you can run it. "ARM?!?!?" Yes, ARM. Embedded systems in the modern era (that is to say, after 2000 but starting sometime in the 1980s) use off-the-shelf chips, perhaps hardened versions for things like satellites. "Hardened" doesn't necessarily change the architecture, mostly just ties them to an old version of it. If the software is from pre-1990 there's a good chance it is running on a bespoke architecture, but after that point, and certainly after 2000, it became rarer.

Now, whether they will release the code is another matter. Doing this determination requires good upfront engineering or a lot of analysis before releasing it. But good engineering has been known to happen from time to time, even by the government. More practically, though, the software will mostly be developed by contractors who will retain the copyright and so it won't be public domain.
In a sale or a IPO you are not allowed to sell immediately.

Even founders will always have vesting schedules for stock granted.

I would say it probably A lot of people stick around way longer than otherwise because of equity grants making it financially sensible to do so.

There are plenty of ways to retain talent in public or private companies while granting stock options.
I imagine this is a big motivator for car companies to start moving towards a CaaS model
The French were messing up the contract all on their own.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-20/australia-attack-clas...
I don’t think that everyone who disagrees with the public policies are spreading misinformation. I also don’t think that the people making the restrictive policies are acting in bad faith, or without reasonable advisement, or are just stupid or something like that.
geopolitical topics != politics

impact of nation-state relations have a very real impact on the world commerce
It is super laughable because the nuclear powered version that they are building for themselves was a fixed bid contract for something like 10 billion for 8 subs.. and the Australian contract keeps going up and up something like 35 billion for ten subs. The diesel sub for Australia is based on the nuclear sub that they signed the fixed bid contract for. Anybody with half brain can tell they are making up the lost of fixed bid contract by charging the Australia more.. and then they act surprised when Australia pulls out when they can get nuclear subs for cheaper. When nuclear subs usually cost 2.5* the cost. These people do great reporting on all of this. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone
A word that is always important to ALL OF US: Diversify.

Don't put all of your eggs in one basket. None of us can expect to stay in the same field that we start off in for the whole of our working life. In my own case, I started in Pharmacy, but developed expertise in aviation, computing and rental properties.

While the aviation and computing didn't become the main thrusts of my work, they became important sidelines. When it comes to rental properties, my wife and I had little savings due to our two divorces, and we needed to ensure that there would be some form of income after we retired from our 'main jobs'. So we took a few risks to build up a stable of rental properties while we still had our main-job incomes.

Today, retired, our income comes from rental properties and some of the property-management is made easier by my computing expertise.

The aviation? Well, after I became a commercial-pilot, the aviation industry went through a down-turn for several years and it never became the enjoyable cash-cow that I hoped it would. All the same, it was a fun time that I would have been disappointed to have missed.

Another thing to always keep in mind: For instance, when they moved their offices, I came in on my own time to help physically move computers and helped to hook up all the cables.

If you discount your own worth by working without pay, why should the employer consider you to be worth more?
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My understanding is that Australia did not want nuclear subs, which is why Naval Group had to work on changing the design of the French nuclear subs to accommodate a diesel/electric engine.

Maybe Australia's views on this changed (fair enough), but I think the key to explain this new deal is American pressure.

The fact that France is recalling its ambassador to the US, even if only for 'consultations', which is, I believe, unprecedented from the US's first and oldest ally, is clearly them pointing the finger to the guy in charge (and they obviously understand that the UK is a sideshow, or a 'junior partner' as David Cameron would say).
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>because smart people have vaccinated themselves

This is casual bigotry and you should refrain from it if you want your opinion to be respected. If you want to see society decline into violence, keep at dehumanizing and demonizing people who don't have the same lived experience as you. Your comment was little more that a poorly disguised shot at communities of color who have good reason for vaccine hesitancy. It added absolutely nothing to your post but took away from societal cohesion for no benefit other than perhaps a bit of bigoted smugness.
Right, but the migrant waves linked with the current instability are just a couple of percents of the overall population here. That is far below real integration issues (which do currently exist for the 2nd and 3rd generations of earlier migrant waves).
Sorry but i have no idea what any of you are saying, nor do i have any idea where to direct this question, but can someone/anyone plz listen to my (probably useless) idea, and/or share with whoever takes requests? In just tired of all of the kids around here following all these self-destructing and mindless 'trends' from all of these social media sites! Its just so embarrassing, i wish these younger generations would stop copying bad examples probably started by some evil genius that works for the govt of a country who hates us and wants to see what stupid tricks they can make us do.

ANYWAYS.... i sure would like to know what would happen if everyone who has youtube, tiktok, facebook (etc) account had their personalized results/preferences changed so that all of the suggestions and 'similar' results would consist of 'Restoring Faith in Humanity' type videos. Thank you for listening, sorry its probably a dumb idea.