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Other peoples' projects won't give you the same fire to learn that your own project will give. Somewhere within us, there is that project idea that will burn enough for us to pick it up and run with it.

It doesn't have to be a big project, to start with. You can allow it it to expand later. My own pet project that has gone through many reincarnations was to emulate my first 'home computer' from the late 1970s. That went from merely emulating the output, through to emulating all the internal hardware, then the user-interface progressing from a CLI shell output, to a curses display to a GUI display.

That project of yours: 'Build one to throw away'. You will learn enough while doing your project that at the end, you will consider your early efforts in producing it to be so bad that you will 'throw that one away' and rewrite it from scratch incorporating all of your new-found knowledge. (Most probably, in doing that you will learn even more and induce you to throw that second effort away too. That's normal.)
Yes that’s where to start.
Resistors!? Unless they were particularly specialized ones, the first THT resistor I picked on digikey had about 1.5 million in stock (and Digikey is profoundly not a particularly big-boy market)

The lead times are absolutely horrific though. And I do worry that fast PC parts (specifically GPUs) may be this price for a while.
This trend started years ago. My opinion is that politics should be off topic on HN but the "everything is political" crowd doesn't seem to agree.
How has some evidence accrued for that view? The article you are commenting suggests that fire suppression, not controlled burns, over the past century have lead to more mega fires. People keep talking about more controlled burns because we aren't doing controlled burns. We're actively hindering them.
equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity. you are never going to get the first because psychology and biology you can only provide for the second.
> ...the whole process of programming just takes too fucking long. The languages we use are not expressive enough, not succinct enough to capture our solutions. The tooling we use is not powerful enough to allow for an efficient exploration of the solution space.

I lately started getting very sick of web dev (which I practice since 2009; way too long). This in turn made me scared for my future income but that's a different story. :D

...I completely agree that trivial shit takes way too long to create or update. Just today I complained on ElixirForum (not to the core team members of Phoenix, just in general) that nowhere in web dev do we have stuff like "make controller.param.add" (which will not just modify the controller but everything that depends on it) or "make controller.param.change_type" (which would generate / edit boilerplate for validation) or "make template.root.change_css_kit" (ha-ha, that one will only happen when AGI is invented!).

I want a program that can modify programs, doing the text editing for me, structurally, not just regexes or even a bit semantic-more-like grouping of text (even that's not good enough). I won't reach for LISP even though I am fairly sure it being homoiconic will make this much easier, because no LISP runtime of any dialect offers transparent parallelism a la Erlang/Elixir or the compile-time guarantees of Rust. But I do sometimes wish all languages were homoiconic regardless. :(

Maybe I'll just gather some money and then just work on tooling that can do the above-described tasks.

I won't fall into the trap of thinking that detailed UML diagrams can lead to 100% correct code generation (although I am tempted to this day!). But there has to be a better way than us wrangling characters on the screen manually all the time.

And it's not even about typing. I enjoy typing.

It's about the menial nature of many tasks. They just... kill you. They slowly drain all your creativity and dreams about the future and desire to change things for the better around you. One day you catch yourself just wishing the work week passed by quicker.

We have to do something! But yeah, we're all slaves to the wage. I wish more of us were like @codinghorror; be rich enough to just one day ping a few buddies and say "hey guys, I am bored -- let's make a forum system" and boom, some years later you have Discourse that's being used more and more everywhere each day.

I wish all of us could as casually work on stuff we love as Jeff Atwood did.

<long-sigh-ends-here>
For sure all that is right as well. But if I was in the Australian shoes this is just to good of deal from US and UK to turn down.
Not disagreeing with you. I think it’s not an either/or situation. Nor do I think it’s specifically the fault of consumers themselves.

It is the environment of social norms we’ve created. Wastefulness is for all intents and purposes just a facet of our culture from consumers up to corporations.

We don’t worry about the costs we needn’t immediately bear.

So yeah - wasn’t an indictment of people or a shrugging off of responsibility on the part of corporations and governments to regulate and manage the issue.

I just also lament seeing the manifestations of it in the average person, feeling compelled to throw more useful shit out to replace it with moderately newer shit of practically identical utility.
There's no question that nuclear subs are more appropriate for Australia, especially against a sophisticated opponent like China. Hopefully USA and Australia can compensate France in some way to maintain their prestige.
Totally agree, if you want proof of the paradox of tolerance look around HN. In the sake of being tolerant to misogynistic, homophobic, racist, and transphobic posts and comments it has chased away many people leaving more and more the ugliness behind.

Most women, and trans people I know despise and avoid the site at this point. All you have to do is look at the comments any time something even tangentially related to women’s experiences in tech or when tech impacts women to see it.
I've been busy today, didn't see if the daily yellow peril story hit the front page (China's about to invade Taiwan, China should respect British sovereignty in Hong Kong, China should treat Uighur terrorists nice like the US did in next door in Afghanistan etc.)
You can withhold rent and put it in an escrow account and get a hotel room until your landlord provides a habitable environment regarding the broken AC, at least that was the case for me in California. They can’t evict you over this and will lose in court, of course look up your state laws as they vary by state.
Navalny's app removed from Apple, Google since Russian elections begin
I think most of the teenager mindset moved towards the Apple camp. Apple has been far more restrictive and anticompetitive than Microsoft ever was at its worst. Mention something like how Safari being the only allowed web engine on iOS and get downvoted, don't agree that Google is the ultimate evil and point out they're open sourcing Android, Chromium and etc... get downvoted.

The embrace of Apple on tech sites is something I'll never understand considering the attitudes that were prevalent when it came to Microsoft just a decade or two before.
You can flag posts, even if you can't downvote them.
I guess there's plenty of ways to tease apart the mechanism.
I'd start by changing speed, try various frequency shaping (eg, squashing the treble), a version done in MIDI with pure tones rather than wavetable), try midi with wavetable, but with successively bigger changes to the tone, try playing various subsections on repeat, etc.
It not that crazy concept for an actually functional drone delivery system. Ocean based wind farms that generate green hydrogen has been suggested as a possible future method to solve the grid stability issue in a future without fossil fuels (especially in the camp that would rather use fossil fuels than nuclear). If you are already producing the hydrogen in the ocean, having a delivery system of drones that operate on hydrogen and can travel independently to those wind farms to refuel seems like a good match.

This assuming that the cost of building the green hydrogen producing wind farm near the ports, the cost of the drones, the control systems and loading/offloading can be competitive to simply using very large ships that burn cheap fossil fuel.
typo! 49%. (Fixed now.)
Out West Newspaper
Biden is a idiot! You don't please one partner by screwing over another one!
France can do nuclear subs, Australia explicitly wanted diesel, until they suddenly didn't want diesel anymore.

Arms deals are a joke always, they don't make sense, its basically all corruption fraud and lies.
the whole "unless eating or drinking" exception makes the whole enterprise kindof a farce

if she had been holding a drink the whole time would it then be OK?
Banks NPLs ratio declines to 5.4% in July vs. 5.7% in May, says CBN
The nuclear subs appear to have much bigger advantages over conventional subs, so on the merits of the product, perhaps the US/UK combine increases security in the Pacific and strengthens the "contain China" strategy. Similarly, withdrawing from Afghanistan puts an end to twenty years of lying to the American public that the Afghan war was even a modest success, and allows resources and political capital to be focused on other efforts/strategic goals of national interest. But it has all been done in a hamfisted way.
I don't know I think it depends on the particulars of the area. Things didn't shut down everywhere, and having a car wasn't so necessary when everyone was working from home. In addition being in a high density area preserved some camaraderie and togetherness in a period of universal isolation, and being able to get out and walk around in the immediate area was a great way to fight cabin fever.

In other words, by my estimation the urban ideal continued to be advantageous for different reasons during the pandemic, though I can certainly picture other urban centers that would have been a much worse experience, in particular those with stricter mandates and poor weather (which is a truly isolating scenario).
"MVP" is now a meaningless word that is used to mean "initial release" of something. The "minimal" part has been entirely forgotten. Silicon Valley people are incredibly stupid.
Here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351357682_ABENICS_A...
It's not just you. That's all it is these days. I was thinking of making an app that would take HN posts, and apply a categorization layer that would filter out political posts. Too much excitement around what regulators are doing. I really don't care.
https://blog.keithkim.org

I set it up on GitBook, wrote a few posts then lost interest for a long while. Maybe I'll have something new to post again. The last thing I posted (I think) was about keyboard layouts and what matters or doesn't.
It’s pretty much an Anglosphere FU to the EU here, but the stakes are one countries military industrial complex vs another.

With nuclear tipped deterrents all around the world why are we so determined to play these power games? Not that it’s anything new of course. It reminds me of the future played out in Dune where nobody can act openly against each other so everyone is trained in espionage - what are those subs going to do? Give a 2 minute head start on 10 minute ICBMs?
I don't think it's possible to prove causality. But it stands to reason that decreasing the supply of weapons raises the price making it harder to acquire them legally or illegally. And the cost of making legal gun ownership harder seems to be minimal.
This is such a bad idea. They obviously have plenty of simple situations to work on already
To win in electric battle you actually need electric cars.

Magical new battery technology will not suddenly mean that you end up winning. Their claims about solid state have been repeatably delayed and a commercial product isn't close, and even if they did bring it out, it would be years before any real numbers were produced and even then it would likely not be competitive for the cheap and mid priced cars anytime soon.

Toyota is living very dangerously right now.
China is Australia's largest trade partner, and China owns tons of Australian real estate (residential and industrial), and one out of 20 Australians considers themselves of Chinese ancestry.

It doesn't seem to make much sense to conceive of Australia and China as submarine warfare opponents.
See the game theory on this says it wasn't worth it. Should have just laid low and continued to collect the pay checks while plotting your next move.
You know what else is as old as the hills? Those guidelines.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140702092610/https://news.ycom...

It might have been an illusion before but I personally think HN feels more like Reddit nowadays compared to then.
This is a small follow up to the thread earlier this week.

[Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28505406)

Thanks enragedcacti and Tim-- for pointing me at Binwalk and also thanks to dunham for the hint on the remaining "random data".
I have implemented a much more flexible URAD tool, completed a large scale project with it and then used it in other projects.

The huge amount of possibilities in software development will usually beat the tool and eventually what helped you get a fast start, ends up dragging you behind.

1-The way we store data can be completely different from the way we present it to user

2-In only a tiny fraction of apps each user can only see their own data

3-When load (data volume/request per second, etc) increases, we often need fine control over the entire product

4-Change management can be tricky, especially when if changes shape of data store

For all these reasons, I don't expect these extreme rapid tools to gain huge success. More modest claims, like retool's (A great internal data administration tool) are more realistic.

Eventually, I think that extremely flexible and extremely rapid tools will emerge, but my expectation is that they need great vision, great execution, and when trade-offs need to be made, it's better to err on the side of flexibility rather than super fast demos.
One of the few hyperlinks is to an article by PG about how using Lisp enabled his small team to build amazing stuff that ran circles around larger teams that were using other languages. Based on that link, with no other knowledge, I also assumed that meant the author might have used Lisp, but it also makes sense in the "higher order language", or even just "writing custom code to solve problems" sense.
This is all geopolitics. nothing about technology or specifics on anything interesting.
If software is released for a sub-system that enemies don't know exists, or for a senior system that makes calls to that sub-system, damaging information is being revealed right there.

Even just exposing data structures will reveal capabilities by virtue of the data created by them.

If an fighter pilot's battlefield/ situational awareness software makes calls to 4 known methods of battlefield communication, and also to an additional unknown one, then that reveals info, even without knowing anything else about it.

Maybe you're intending that all of these types of inquiries, or data sharing capabilities be redacted or sanitized somehow, but that seems like a huge undertaking in itself, especially if you expect a working product.

And then what would that resulting skeleton product's remaining value be, for the extra effort put into releasing it?

Besides potentially helping other countries close the capability gap.
Thank God for Mississippi
And you people consider yourselves contrarians. Let me show you amateurs how to upset an apple cart.

Donald Trump, raging narcissist, charlatan and fascistic bigot that he was, was also the most authentically American President America has ever had. He embodied the American spirit - it's true spirit - unmasked and exposed in its full lunatic glory, and it should surprise no one that some Americans loved him enough to form an actual cult around him.
Well, if Biden's pitch to the electorate was that he had more experience and was more capable, it is difficult to reconcile these clumsy efforts with the sales pitch. If you claim to be better than your predecessor, you really can't have it both ways: ultimately, responsibility lies with you, and you had better deliver the goods.
France has a GDP of ~2,600 billion and the contact was something like 40 billion + potential overruns.

Recalling an ambassador over a 1-2% of GDP slight seems pretty proportionate. It is a lot of money.
We certainly do not have libel laws to prevent people from being offended by art.
Not a surprise, with the EU's passivity wrt Russia, China, and Iran
Well... I feel we got screwed twice !
I got how bad this seems from the French perspective, but pulling Ambassadors sounds like something you do if a country assassinated your diplomat or something, not just due to losing a military contract.
I thought the purpose of the subs was to make a large first strike harder by concealing where all the launch sites are
Though downvotes I agree here - I would rather the US eschew the UK to have better relations with the EU, who seem to have a much better grasp on the challenges of today, while also providing for better quality of life for their citizens. Of course nothing is all roses but I’d find it hard to argue the average person in the (western) EU has a worse quality of life than in the US.
The cost on the French contract had already gone up by tens of billions of dollars, and nothing had been delivered.
A young black man in the 2nd perctile of income has the same chance of being incarcerated as a young white man in the 65th. The difference between the 1st percentile and 99th percentile young white men is smaller than between 80th percentile black men and white men. [1] I'm not sure which stats you are looking at, but the ones I see suggest that economics are not the biggest factor.

The gender disparity is interesting and I wasn't aware of it's severity. Thanks.

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2018/03/19/race-class-deba...
They made a documentary about this called 'Sorry to Bother You' by director Boots Riley. In the movie they renamed Amazon to 'WorryFree' to see how people would react to the idea of company towns in the 21st century. You know, to help people be more objective... The docu is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XthLQZWIshQ
How did you handle the extra fees and charges that appeared on the final paperwork and that had never been discussed?
How trustworthy is The War Zone? It seems to be largely focussed on US defence tech industry, so I expect fairly biased reporting on this topic. Is there a better source?
speaking of the part of Europe, the price point reminds me of the Yugo.

https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/the-yugo/
That is gorgeous! I want it.
Dang would have to respond, politics are allowed according to the rules, but I think the rules need to be reconsidered. Too many flame wars and not enough on software and hardware.
> nothing about technology

Well the whole point is that they've switched technology from diesel to nuclear, based on changing user requirements. Agile, if you like!
I think this is often where people are confused by MVP. Your minimum viable product isn't (necessarily) your initial product. It's the product you build to test a hypothesis.

This is why the article read fairly false to me, not that there wasn't the odd nugget of value, but coming up with a new MVT, is just adding to the confusion.
I don't think so. Beyond that you are looking at the noise of the system which is why even over/perfectly qualified candidates have an interview failure rate of up to 50%.
Biden/the US military industrial complex of which he’s a part have been eyeing the EU with way too much suspicion. I really fear for the consequences in the future. Hoping the EU will take refugees :p
That's for nuclear missile subs. The Australian subs will only have nuclear propulsion. They will be conventionally armed, like a US attack sub.
I tried to buy an electric car on Alibaba a few months back. I could never get a clear answer about getting it through customs. It isn't clear if it would clear emissions. But, is that necessary if i promised I would only drive it in my driveway? The company said lots of people own them in the US.

Anyone here have success purchasing one of these Chinese electric cars and importing it into the US?
Sorry, it's true that a passing submarine does not disturb the water it passes through?

I'm not challenging the idea that a submarine might require less energy to move one knot than a surface ship does. I'm challenging the idea that a submarine leaves no wake.

In the photo heading the article you link, a wake is visible behind the submarine.
Maybe related (PDF):
https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/Buzsaki%20...

Rhythms of theBrain

No, not music related, but frecuency. And maybe, waves.
I used a cookie cutter project with react-admin and fastapi but I was kind of bummed with how much packages were pulled in and how slow builds were. I figure I need to go in there and figure out all the stuff I don’t need, but after that I realized it would be hard to get buy-in with the others on my team.

Still, I believe something like this is a good future for internal apps.
Big weapons deals are always deeply political. If you have a defense alliance, it affects where you buy.

South Korea, Japan and Australia, etc. can generally buy any big weapon system they want as long as it's American, because the US has huge political commitment to defend these countries. They can take bids from others to keep the price/performance within reasonable limits, but unless the US system is outrageously expensive or inferior, they go with that.
Me too (well, it was the Borland C++ manual, pretty dry , but comprehensive. Yellow and Red as I recall), but I was about 13 at the time. 5-10 is a stretch for C++ IMO.
Last time France pulled ambassador from Australia was when Australia denied France from a weapons bid due to France testing nukes in the Pacific.
France was Germany's largest trading partner prior to WWI
Unfortunately... I found lobste.rs to be a good source of purely technical articles, but those made up only ~half of "the good stuff" on HN. The other half is startup/entrepreneur related posts.

For those, HN is still the best, but the signal-to-noise ratio is getting poorer with all those off-topic posts.
Reading the parent’s comment: Gaming the system refers to the Facebook Timeline algorithm. If you’re trying to get a message out on Facebook specifically then you optimize for engagement metrics that Facebook cares about. It’s the Facebook equivalent of SEO.

As for who has an agenda? Media Conglomerates. Neither e.g. the New York Times nor Fox nor other broadcasters, newspapers, magazines and other publications are neutral observers because Facebook crowds their space. Facebook is in the same market they are, and so they have an obvious and terminal bias when reporting on Facebook. And not just Facebook: you can easily observe this between different papers and broadcasters who call each other out.
This is cool!

On a related note, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that substack publishes RSS feeds of each and every blog hosted on its service. Sorta the opposite of this!
I suspect also there's a greater need to "shadow" Chinese subs in the south china sea given expected increase in naval activity there
We are very protective of our territorial waters, not all submarine usage is warfare.
My 10 year old is currently enjoying Swift Playground; I know a few other neighborhood kids who are doing well with that.

I thought it looked too basic when he initially started, but when I skipped ahead and looked at the content, it looks very solid.
It is 100% biased to USA sources. But they have interesting information on how the US defence tech industry works and goes more in depth than most places. It is a very fair point. I like how they actually talk about the technology and all that. Thanks for reminding me to keep in mind the source!