skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How does a twenty thousand dollar sedan have a more robust readiness-detection system than a hundred million dollar airplane?

because the car industry is driven by market forces, not government corruption driven monopolies. I'm not sure why anybody thinks the US military is anything more than a paper tiger after the last few decades of failure, highlighted by the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan. I feel bad for the countries that got pressured into buying the F-35
> to not kill civilians and cause a PR nightmare

Estimates sit at around 240,000 deaths, great job.

Still better then the Iraqi genocide mind....
IPv6 is already mainstream in many countries, including the United States.
I used to work for a company which the founder (and original engineer) was both very curious about how compilers worked and paranoid about having the company's code base stolen. That came to fruition with the following idea: "if I develop my own language and compiler, even if someone steals part of the code they still won't be able to run without the language specification and compiler!".

He designed his own programming language, compiler and, why not, the database and tools as well. It was a mess. It got all the limitations of a poorly projected side project and no benefit in the long run besides from huge technical debt.

15 years later, with dozens of clients' sites with the software installed and running locally, the company was locked in a horrible software stack that was next to impossible to move away from by gradually replacing modules, because the programming language had zero interoperability, the original creator was retired and no one besides himself had worked on it for years; while continue giving support to existing customers, because there were fires everyday, and with the same engineering team headcount.

That is one of the top 5 "oh my" in my career. I'm glad I left that behind.
(1) is hilarious. Do they also expect enemy combatants to make an appointment and provide the location of the meet :D
I would vastly prefer that. I had a QR code for the european app and it simply didn't work. No error message, the app just didn't do anything. Wasn't really mad because I didn't really want to use it anyway.
These types of services are mostly not aimed at established tech shops. Similar to Wix or Squarespace or Appian, if you already have an in house tech team, you don't need this, probably.

But if you're just starting out, with a small and quite possibly partly outsourced team, this could be a cheaper and faster way to spin things up. Just like many companies don't have their own datacenter anymore, and even fewer have them literally onsite in a server closet.
I installed Homekit compatible Hunter ceiling fans almost a year ago and they have worked without issue since. All I had to do was scan a QR code to add it to my network. I feel like as long as you read reviews, you can stick to the quality stuff that works.
Not really. Its a U.S thing.
> I think this overstates the difficulty. This of course depends a lot on the language, but for a reasonable one (not C++) you can just go and write the parser by hand. I’d ballpark this as three weeks, if you know how the thing is supposed to work.

Having a parser which generates an AST is just the first step. Then, you actually need to implement all the rules of the language, so for instance the scoping rules, how the object system works, any other built-in compound/aggregate types, other constructs like decorators, generics, namespaces or module systems, and on and on and on. Depending on the language, this will usually be the main work.

And then of course there's dynamic typing - if you want to enable smart completions for a dynamically typed language, you need to implement some kind of type deduction. This alone can take a lot of time to implement.
No more right wing trolls. You can still say bad things about white male Republicans, as 5 minutes on Reddit will tell you.
The way to deal with excess debt is not to have a cranky database that loses the records. Also forgiveness seldom happens.

What does happen in reality often is inflation - government gives money to the needy (or similar) and the money being given out inflates away the debts.
Engineering here must be in quotes, because real engineering is about simplicity and justrightness, like any craft.
In the beginning, you can. Then as code size, build times, testing requirements increase, they will upgrade the server. After a couple of years it will be impossible to run the server on your laptop.
> Smart contracts are deployed once and run forever; their code cannot be changed. The software development industry has literally zero experience with such a deployment model.

Programmers for cartridge-based game systems and many other embedded devices with no connectivity have decades of experience with this.
Good article. I've been thinking along the same lines.

While working at home, I initially tried to focus for 100 percent of the time. I played music and always tried to be in the flow. It didn't work and my mind would break; by break, it seemed like my mind got stuck in a repetitive loop.

What did work for me was meditation (just focusing on something neutral like an object I held in my hand) and Pomodoro. Pomodoro naturally has intervals to shift from focused mode to unfocused mode.

Another thing that helped me is a lowkey activity of reading something light on my E-Paper tablet. I'd play an audiobook and read on the tablet so that I can follow along and then catch-up with the audiobook; my mind would wander or unfocus then I can focus it again by catching-up my reading with the audiobook.

Meditation I think is also just shifting from focused to unfocused again and again. The mind wanders then is brought back or focused to a neutral place and then it wanders again. It's not about always being focused on the neutral object but letting the mind shift between the two modes again and again.

The article also reminds me of the Barbara Oakley course on "Learning How to Learn" in which she highlights the importance of the focused and diffused mode.
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It's a complex case, because the main event was a fake accusation made by the police.

Autotranaltion of https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_C%C3%B3ppola#Problem...

> It was proven that the judge "armed" the case together with his secretary, Roberto Schlagel, and three federal police officers.¨

I'm not sure if "armed" is the correct translation. Simplifying, the police put the drug in the home of someone.

Anyway, it's probably too weird to forget it.
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The situation sounds very similar to what happened in Argentina.
About 30 years ago, Argentina's education level was good. In the name of social justice , high school standards were significantly lowered by the populist/socialist ruling party. Low grades started to be considered 'stigmatizing' for the students. The effect is that now there are some children that finish high school without being able to read fluently.

Don't be like Argentina.

However, regarding math, if there are cognitive research studies that justify delaying some topics, I don't consider that as negative.
As if anyone would believe this person was not fully aware of the tradeoffs they were making in exchange for the higher pay.

In my experience working with highly motivated, highly paid people they often aren't particularly self-aware or introspective. In their mind it's not a tradeoff; they usually believe that every job in their industry is like theirs. I suspect this is due to the fact that they've worked long hours and said "Yes" to every request from the beginning of their careers. They genuinely don't understand that things could be different.

This is why so many businesses are struggling with remote working. They honestly don't get that people can work differently.
Migrating Our Web Codebase from Flow to TypeScript
Another problem is when people argue based off words rather than knowledge of the subject.

The differences between the meager number of neurons and simple layout in a lobster and the extremely large and complex nervous system of an octopus are in no way comparable to the differences in nervous system complexity between a human and a bird. A lobster literally can be understood. It's nervous system is that simple, only ~100,000 neurons in small groups (less than a fruit fly!). There is very little mystery in it's operation. It is feasibly enumberable, developmentally predictable, and it's parts are knowable in function. It is not conscious like a mammal, bird, or octopus is conscious.

Bird and human brains are of a similar order of complexity. Complex enough we can't even begin to hope to understand the functioning yet.
>I would have a lot more sympathy for the arguments that the rapacious British were nothing but a detriment to archaeology and understanding of the past when you could point me to the preservation efforts that existed before the British arrived.

And I would accept this excuse if they now returned the items they looted to the countries that do have significant preservation efforts in place. Like Greece.

Sure the British could have been worse, but they were still pretty bad.
As an alternative to atool I've always used The Unarchiver's cli version[0] which has been able to handle basically anything I've thrown at it correctly.

[0]: https://theunarchiver.com/command-line
You can completely avoid linking it, if you don't use any C or C++ standard library functionality.
The author says
[40] Keep track of research in your space. Soon you’ll have a shorthand with your ICs that enables super-fast communication: “what if we try that thing from projectX? And combine it with the technique in projectY?”.

so by that learning it is not at all weird that they would refer to infra at an alternative company
>The article says that this was a checklist item for both the ground crew and the pilot, and yet it wasn't spotted/fixed (did they even conduct the checks?). Multiple heads are definitely going to roll on this one.

As it should be. If you're just ticking boxes on a checklist of a weapons system responsible for life and death situations, without actually performing said checks, you shouldn't be entrusted with this job. This is beyond incompetence.
Yes, but often times the army of scientists had already done their work. Even in the late 90's a lot of what I was learning was already known to be false but the updates hadn't yet hit by textbooks published in 1982. The teachers even sometimes already knew it to be wrong but had to teach it anyway because it was still considered part of the state curriculum. But the more common and larger issue was the partial truths/mostly lies - even if some of the lies are arguably justified to make learning easier for some kids. The better teachers wouldn't lie but would simply say "You'll be taught about that later in a higher grade".
There is some important context here in that many large publishers are based in Texas and have their operations there. Texan activists have long used this to censor and shape published works, especially textbooks.
Yeah, mostly .NET shops in my experience.
Definitely agree with the notion that "your debt to society has been paid". Right to be forgotten also seems appropriate here.
> Well, 1. and 2. is about contracts between McDonalds and their franchisees, so if a franchise owner feels unfairly harmed by this restriction, then they can sue McDonalds, it's not something about which Kytch should be able to sue Taylor.

A contract between two parties can unfairly harm a 3rd party. Especially if one of the two parties is abusing its market power to push anticompetitive clauses. For example requiring "authorized" car mechanics to buy only overpriced Ford-branded repair tools. This way Ford uses its car marketshare to push into the repair tool market. Tool manufacturers that don't have a car manufacturer backing them simply can't compete.

Of course Ford would probably argue that the markets are related, and that it has a legitimate interest in ensuring its mechanics use adequate tools. That only its own tools qualify as good enough is just a big coincidence..
TeaVM transpiles Java bytecode to native JS, only keeping the required classes. The output is compact, efficient, and fast to download in a browser. No interpreter or runtime is used, which makes TeaVM apps fast and light.
A 4K 70" TV is hardly a HiDPI screen...
Scott, are there any “modern” games that you feel capture the same spirit of exploration and discovery that your games embraced?
Not that I disagree with the point on journalists behavior, I think while people are to a degree aware of the tradeoffs they are making initially, over time they normalize everything and get basically Stockholm syndromed and peer pressured into their situation.

Early in my career I met a manager type guy in his late 30s that prided himself of only having taken a week of vacation in 4 years and was fully convinced that those kind of things are a pre-requisite of success for everyone. He got a lot more relaxed about life a couple years later after divorce and bankruptcy, having to start many things from scratch.

So I do buy that people can have a revelation about changing lifestyle, even if initially it was a conscious decision to prioritize career over family.
I often find myself prefering languages with few abstractions even when some more complex language might be "better".

Reason is that with "bare" languages like C, you can choose your own design more freely. Case in point: Serenity OS.

Author of that OS replicated entire libc and still refuses to use C++'s STL. He created his own abstractions that he feels confident using. That is true engineering.
Easy. Back end is a lot more exciting. Your job got replaced by Squarespace.
This lets you build against the MSVCRT that ships with all versions of Windows: https://github.com/neosmart/msvcrt.lib
Eventually we plan to integrate this algorithm into the Text type of Automerge [1], which is a more production-ready CRDT.

[1]: https://github.com/automerge/automerge
> a plane that took [...] a trillion dollars to develop

It didn't take a trillion dollar to develop. The trillion dollar figure includes acquisition costs (going to 2070) as well as operations and maintenance over the same period.

By the way, the F-35 isn't any more expensive than other aircraft. For example for the latest budget proposal (2022), the DoD plans to acquire 85 F-35s [1] for a total price of $85 BN, or about $150 MM per plane. At the same time, it plans to acquire 14 tanker aircraft KC-46 for a unit price of about $180 MM, and 9 cargo helicopters CH-53K for a unit price of $190 MM. Yes, you read that right, those are helicopters, they are not attack, but cargo helicopters, and cost almost $200 MM apiece.

[1] https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/263871...
Your job got replaced by Squarespace. Backend is easy.
That's naive. Strategic and tactical bombing did jack shit besides kill or at least make life miserable for lots of civilians, and destroy lots of land for the foreseeable future in Vietnam.

Afghanistan is highly mountainous. Carpet bombing doesn't work very well for caves.
>they usually believe that every job in their industry is like theirs.

It was, for the woman in the article. But no one forces them to be in that industry, other than their desire to earn high wages.
This article is literally repeating an article from The Sun, a tabloid with a better track record of reporting on royals caught on holiday with their knickers off.

There are a lot of covers on ports and weapons on a combat aircraft sitting on the flight deck, the implication is that it was the inlet covers, which is impossible, the engine wouldn't have operated with those on and they are kind of obvious. It's much more likely this was a cover on something like a pitot tube or AoA sensor.

It's also possible that something just blew off the deck and it had nothing at all to do with crash, The Sun is reporting on some hot tip from the shipboard rumor mill, not the Ministry of Defense.
JavaScript will dynamically change the effective type of a value like sting or number into another depending on the operation being performed on it:

'2' * 3
=> 6

'2' + 3
=> '23'
Ask HN: Are you using Handshake domains for anything?
I've been considering setting up a Handshake TLD, but there wouldn't be much point if registered domains aren't actually being used for something concrete.
NextAuth has the credentials provider to allow username/password logins [0] - I use it in a project and it works okay-ish. However I too got a weird feeling when I read what the NextAuth team really thinks about a username/password login:

> The functionality provided for credentials based authentication is intentionally limited to discourage use of passwords due to the inherent security risks associated with them and the additional complexity associated with supporting usernames and passwords

I cannot disagree more. Using 3rd party auth has a lot of issues such as data privacy (requirement of stating that in your privacy/GDPR policy if you are in the EU), increased user support request when they cannot remember which auth provider they used, or the ever growing cases in which Facebook/Google/Whatnot decide to close someones account without possibility to appeal and effectively shutting them out of your App. Or the risk that if Google/FB/Github might not like your webapp, they can disable auth for your users with the flip of a switch. Me personally, I avoid 3rd party auth for those reasons alltogether.

[0]: https://next-auth.js.org/providers/credentials
This is the future of IDEs for me. I get my mailing lists, code, git (magit), and irc all in one!

Org-capture, tramp mode, ansi-term. Tight integration with any workflow. Flycheck, flyspell, it’s all so good.

Much love for emacs. I would refuse to work where I can’t use it. Steep learning curve, but the view is beautiful after the climb.
Sher's TWEANN work cites NEAT and HyperNEAT quite extensively — Stanley's original work here is pretty influential in the neuroevolution space!
Who will eventually get the ownership of the Mars? Musk Bezos or Branson?
I Minted the "Planet Ownership" NFT project, and there is no doubt that the most valuable item is the Mars ownership, I will sell it to Musk Bezos and Branson. So who do you think will will eventually get the ownership of the Mars?

this is the twitter link:
https://twitter.com/ghking6/status/1463468968073887744

this is the opensea link:
https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/89251501841272577371086038045564485821546824109254963306396695560628727709697/
Governments also “inflate” their way out of debts through population increases.
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There is a big difference between an author defending their book and posting holocaust denial and antivax theories on Facebook or YouTube.
MacOS dropped subpixel AA in Mojave by default but brought back a stronger default of grayscale AA in Big Sur AFAIK, which can be optimized. [1]

And I agree, a lot has changed since the article was written. On HiDPI displays, personally I don't like subpixel antialiasing.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/jiwwga/big_sur_f...
In this kind of structure, what role does managers fill? It sounds like ICs can manage themselves, and the project manager manages the project... What's left for managers to do?
Many people who have cats (not all, but many) have ample places for their cat to run around in, and some will even let their cats outdoors. I'm fairly certain the proportion of people who let their cats be "Free Range" is much much larger than the people letting their pet birds fly around.
Smaller nitpick: Unix was eventually ported to mainframes even before Linux ran on z Series hardware.

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

> UTS is a discontinued implementation of the UNIX operating system for IBM mainframe (and compatible) computers. Amdahl created the first versions of UTS, and released it in May 1981,[1] with UTS Global acquiring rights to the product in 2002.
>I'm not sure why anybody thinks the US military is anything more than a paper tiger after the last few decades of failure, highlighted by the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan.

I dunno about that, but the military industrial complex made absolute bank though, for which the taxpayers generously picked up the tab.
The real problem will never be solved because it will never be named. I will probably get flagged, dead just for writing this. Whites and Asians in America perform far better on PSIA than the international average; the American Asians better than Asia, the whites better than Europe, mostly.

No, the inconvenient truth of the matter is that american blacks (and Hispanics? Not sure) drag down the scores. This score, and every score that we have yet devised. Every measure of intelligence that we can think of, every control for income and parents, every statistical trick to attempt some socially acceptable explanation, it all comes up the same way: they're just not as smart. The natural attempt to handwave this as some kind of systemic racism is thwarted by the existence of those poor Asians who perform better than whites; this is another inconvenience and is why Asians are being quietly dropped from "PoC" initiatives and measurements. Californian education reform is all a song and dance to desperately ignore this fact. When you have a group of people who are less smart, and the goal is that they achieve the same level as everyone else, what can you do? Well, you can give them more class time and free tutoring, but no one will support an initiative where some students take extra classes. There simply is no solution apart from lowering the ceiling. And since the governing bodies refuse to stop measuring everything by race, they also refuse to simply segregate based on ability, since this would show too many blacks in the lower performing classes.

This problem will literally never be solved under the current mode of thinking. It can't be, because those in charge are adamant about rejecting reality. No solution can be had if the problem cannot be identified. They will continue lowering the ceiling, and they may eventually lower it enough to get an equitable result. But those pesky private schools and tutors will still be around ruining their plans, and if there ever still exists a high educational standard out there somewhere, it's the tutored and the private schooled who will pass that bar. And at that point then it actually will be because of privilege.
Oh, not only does it spin but you get a bit of flashyness from the internals. Definitely worth it.
There is no such thing as 'gaming addiction'
There is on this one, it's a jump ramp carrier, not a catapult launch.
It will be interesting to see whether companies can make a hybrid model work reliably. I tend to think that combining remote with on-site leads to worse results, because it’s easy to leave the remote people out of the loop.
I agree with you that we have a “unique brand” of intelligence but we’ve gone astray in ascribing a value judgment to that, in my opinion - as in, our brand is the best. Or, our brand is so much better than others that those others are worthless.

This doesn’t just apply to other species but also to other ways of being (“cultural intelligences”?) than our neoliberal, capitalist and technology-focused society. Our great technological achievements have been fatal for millions of other species and there is a strong possibility that they will be fatal for us as well. How intelligent is that?

I recognize that when we talk about “intelligence” in the context of the original article we mean something different than the more common sense meaning I used in my last paragraph. However it seems to me that the way we define intelligence is part of the problem. What’s a greater achievement, traveling to the moon or living for millions of years in harmony with the natural systems of the planet? Or who is happier, a blue whale or a Walmart employee?