skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe microwave transmission, but the economics of GPS or GNSS in general would preclude civilian investment in such an expensive constellation without obvious revenue channels.

And it's moot for both these cases because the technology was needed for direct military applications anyway.

What's the practical or ideological benefit of industry-industry R&D when the military is going to be the only customer, or at least the only paying customer for the first years/decades of use?

I agree with you in general, with it being better for governments not picking the winners of markets or deciding who gets research money.

But military is such a unique (yet universally needed) type of market, that practicality here means treating them as a large customer with unique product needs ( products unlikely to be revenue generating on the public market), even if you don't treat it as direct government allocation or a fixed/manipulated market.

The only way I can think of to avoid that entirely would be some libertarian version of an all private, defense-by-contract type military.

And then you'd have concerns about whether that could hold up to peer adversaries, and dozens of other wildcard concerns.
Huh, and I thought people on this forum were smart and would not stand for obvious FUD.

Personally I’d never choose to use rhetoric like this. (“My life is in danger because of X, and so is YOURS!”/“They are coming for you and yours next!”) - that’s the kind of thing leads to the worst of humanity. Good for you if you like that (and who wouldn’t, when you have a personal hatred of X, right?), but some people have to stand against it.
I don't see an equivalent turn of events in the US. Could you share what you mean?
> our problem comes with DB migrations

What kind of problems do you run into? And how is your DB deployed/updated/migrated/whatever?

I’ve found it necessary to either always update the DB before the code/binaries or to expose DB version to the code so that it can automatically turn off features if the DB schema isn’t updated yet. Which of these options makes sense depends on how you deploy. If you can rigidly enforce that the DB always updates before binaries, that’s a simpler model (but your DB queries need to be backwards/forwards compatible, depending on whether they are in code or in stored procedures).

The other thing that’s been hugely successful is to have a comprehensive test suite that can be exercised in intermediate states. e.g. New DB with old binaries. Absent a strong test suite, it’s always human judgement when it’s safe to roll out.

I’ve also found success with taking certain actions out of the deployment entirely. e.g. Adding indexes to large tables gets done independent of deployments, because if things go south we don’t want to be trying to resolve the indexing issue in the middle of a deployment. It’s easier to do this in isolation from other changes.
A few of them are clearly 'live', and the concentration camp survivor holding a human bone may be "set up" but I can't see how that takes away from the impact.
> There are politically powerful people who would see these things used to ends that hurt others for their own gain. It happens all the time, and likely will as long as humans are what we are.

Don't you think this group of politically powerful people might include the ones you research for?
Media manipulation recommended book: "Trust me, I'm lying"
I didn't mean the right wing was actually in favor of free speech, and I should have been clearer about that. The right wing has never been in favor of free speech, nearly by definition. The consequence is that the US political scene is dominated by two illiberal parties, much like, for example, Egypt after Mubarak's flight, or the late Weimar Republic.

I'm surprised that you'd think right-wing US parties were my preferred political party; maybe you've forgotten who I am because I stopped using Twitter. Still, I'd think even my comments in this thread would provide abundant evidence of my commitments to liberalism and distaste for authoritarianism.
Why must I get dragged kicking and screaming into a walled garden just to look at a funny cat video from a friend?
public officials should be required to use public infrastructure. ActivityPub and ActivityStreams exist.
Apple doesn’t treat point releases that way. They have, for decades, been making breaking changes in late cycle point releases in macOS.
The problem is that the entire car hyper-focused model is unsustainable. Cities are expected to maintain huge amounts of infrastructure for people who don't pay much, if anything, in taxes for it but since cars don't scale well there's a constant demand for even more expansion.

Recognizing that involves telling a lot of people that they need to switch from driving cars to using transit, biking, etc. and there are a lot of people who don't want to hear that, especially if most of their personal net worth is equity in a building which is too far away at anything less than freeway speeds. It's much easier just to keep pretending that a one-time tax or bond issue will solve it, and so we keep doing the same cycle over and over again.
There was an article posted on HN about a year ago, which said that most/all urban areas in the US (and I suspect in many other countries) cannot afford to maintain their infrastructure and are just buying time before major problems with water/sewerage/roads etc.

I can honestly imagine that any local authority who might apply for e.g. $50M to build a bridge do not make sure they can either amortize that cost over 50 years to replace it or otherwise add a reasonable amount of yearly expenditure to make repairs as needed. Concrete seems particularly bad since it is very hard to "repair" and the knowledge of how to build it properly only 50 years ago was poor. Lots of major concrete structures have not lasted long.
This is blatantly false - if you work second or third shift, you cannot hold these titles.

Does that make any e.g. factory worker ineligible for titles? You might say to yourself 'but you don't want factory workers im office' - and then you'd be saying that some classes are worth more than others, that these are 'second class' citizens in the eyes of the law.

And that would be a pretty disgusting viewpoint.

If you can hold a job or make money, perhaps you should make nothing from the position, otherwise there should probably be a living wage stipulation.
If you didn't take money from the federal government, I would be inclined to agree with you, that export controls are an abridgement of the freedom of speech, but if your work is taxpayer-funded, then the government absolutely has the authority to restrict how you use the fruits of those funds; if you cannot abide by them then perhaps consider stop taking federal funds?
> There are working examples of such

For whom do they work for? The author and maybe a small group of Internet hobbyists? When you have to support 3 billion daily active users like iOS or Windows does, that lightweight codebase isn't so lightweight anymore.

And sure, Prime Video isn't Windows, but it still has over 200 million international subscribers that it needs to handle. It's definitely not something you can write in an afternoon.
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

HN is a statistical distribution across a wide spectrum. The only thing that helps is to make sure your own contributions raise the median quality, rather than dragging it down further.
There seems to be a classification problem here; Stonewall is called a riot, but was very different from the riots we saw recently in the US.
Protecting intellectual property is about as far away from the Cultural Revolution as you can get.
"Often the Negro does not even want what he takes; he wants the experience of taking. But most of all, alienated from society and knowing that this society cherishes property above people, he is shocking it by abusing property rights."

Maybe times have changed, but this is excusing and not at all accurately characterizing the people I saw looting Nike, Best Buy, and Walmart. It was naked theft under the cover of "equity." I want to know whether MLK was principled, or a politician making excuses. I'll do more research.
Odd to refer to Redis as a general-purpose database:

"Hive is not meant to become a general-purpose database,
like Redis"

Assume that is an error and they meant to say MySQL (or similar)? Or I'm seriously misunderstanding something.
The US is amassing through taxes a smaller percentage compared to other developed nations. The US taxes lightly. Then it's putting a ton of that money (and even more through debt) into the military.

The money available is not a zero-sum game. The US could raise its taxes.
> Finally, being able to compile, test and release the Java runtime environment for Java 8, Java 11 and soon Java 17 from an open source platform is much easier than relying on the huge internal Google mono repository system which is intended to support only one single version of everything, including a single JDK toolchain.

The maintainers of Java in google3 probably like this simplification a lot too.
I just check my mirror and crack my door and don't throw it wide open.

I don't quite understand the people who need this dutch reach meme to realize that you always need to be careful opening your door into an active traffic lane rather than the hazard being incredibly obvious.
First name that comes to mind overall: Neil deGrasse Tyson. Nerds should understand that having great communication skills is paramount. IMHO he's better than Carl Sagan, exactly because of his communication skills.

Donald Knuth. First Computer Scientist that comes to mind.

Bonus: there's a chance Alan Turing could still be alive today and had advanced Computer Science much more if it weren't for stupid homophobia and distorted religion shit.
Firefox Patch Release to Fix User-Data in Telemetry
I've implemented a change to the game's instructions that clarifies that the user needs to enter a denary (base-10) number and not binary (base-2). Hopefully that should make it a bit easier for people to understand how to play!

https://github.com/James-Livesey/bytle/issues/3
No, nothing equivalent to the Cultural Revolution has happened anywhere else ever. Hopefully it never will.
C/C++ have been around for a long time and have great support in Vim. You can build a cscope database (cscope -b -q -k) and then use :cs find -

- a: Find assignments to this symbol

- c: Find functions calling this function

- d: Find functions called by this function

- e: Find this egrep pattern

- f: Find this file

- i: Find files #including this file

- s: Find this C symbol

- t: Find this text string

And if you want more you just need a single plugin w0rp/ale and have clangd installed, no configuration needed to get the same LSP support you can get with VSCode.

It also has built in makefile and gdb support.
Argentinian here, I confirm that it works exactly was you described, even the non-unionized part.
Always find it strange how much HN hates Google. It's not as society-rending as FB, not as monopolistic as Amazon, or opposed to open-source standards as Apple.
Yet it's always the anti-Google threads that do well.
With Ubuntu, if you delete Python, it obliterates everything. Have fun re-installing your system. Learned that the hard way. You can bet I "use Arch btw" now.
It's astounding the amount of CPU that things use doing nothing. Zoom takes constant 4% CPU usage to show a login screen and Slack does 20% doing nothing. Turning off gifs for Slack drops that back down to ~5%. But still 5% for a chat app at idle.
Also, don't just concede to him that the characterization of the rioters as "poor" or "members of the community" is accepted. Nobody has done any kind of survey of who the rioters are, and from what little we do know, many of those arrested in the larger riots were out of state travelers.

He's painting the most optimistic possible scenario and it's still stomach turning. It's complete moral depravity through and through.
Exploring AWS Aurora v3 for MySQL 8
That's nothing compared to Japanese consumers.

We were a US company working with a Japanese software distributor to do Japanese versions of our products. Occasionally on some Japanese non-IBM compatible PCs [1] we were seeing a lockup during installation.

It was the kind of lockup where CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing, the CAPS LOCK light no longer toggles, and if you have a GUI that mouse pointer no longer moves. There's usually pretty much nothing to do at that point except hit the reset button or toggle power.

It was quite rare, giving us not much to work with. Our Japanese partners decided it was rare enough to go ahead and ship handling the (hopefully) handful of people that hit it via tech support.

So we shipped. And they got something like 100 support calls--but the callers were not upset. In fact they were happy with the product except that they wanted to suggest that the installer should be made faster or should run in the background so they could use the computer while the install takes place. The reports said that the install took something like 20-30 hours.

I can't even conceive of a US consumer letting a computer that appears totally locked up while installing a small utility program sit for up to 30 hours.

(BTW, knowing that it was just very slow rather than frozen was enough of a clue to let us figure it out. We needed to scan for hard drives and CD-ROM drives. The way we were doing that was hitting some sort of edge case on a particular model of controller's firmware that made some requests take a long time. We were able to change the drive scan to avoid that controller's edge case).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-9800_series
Great - better that it is just not there than accidentally use it over Python 3 at this point.
I can relate to a lot of what you've said here. I've built a similar super-generalist profile in software engineering and have spent the last decade in startups.

Compared to my peers/friends in larger companies, I've always had far less politics/BS to deal with at work. I would not say its non-existent; sometimes all it takes is one bad hire, and the smaller the startup the more outsized the impact of the bad apple. So in that sense, impact is a double-edged sword.

On the other hand, I've been able to build a super-generalist profile because of the startups I've worked at. Backend-engineering, frond-end stuff, DevOps, hands-on data-center experience, automated QA, SRE, growth hacking; you name it and I've probably checked that box off at some point in the last 10 years; mostly because I've been able to cultivate good relationships within the company to be able to move around different roles. This would be impossible in a large company, even with a lot of personal connections. A few jumps are possible, but not the kind I'm describing above.

The smaller size of startups also means that you have fewer people between yourself and key decision-makers. I've had the good fortune of being able to work directly with/report to CXOs for over half a decade, which IMO provides a lot more exposure to understanding how a business operates. I would not trade that for working with mid-tier management in most large companies.

With regards to not being appealing to large companies, I'd say that is not true. I've known folks who've moved from startups to FAANG companies in their mid-40s without any issues. The experience always counts. You may lack some of the specialization, but you can always compensate for that with breadth of experience.

Ultimately it boils down to what you want to accomplish. If your goal is to eventually start your own business, working at startups is a great way to get the requisite experience. It is definitely not a walk in the park though. Being able to work with little to no direction, constantly changing goal posts, and the lack of any structure does take its toll on you slowly, but surely. However, I can say from personal experience that I don't regret it one bit.
I looked into using this app a while back because I liked the UI. But Im a bit hesitant because the app is completely free (and no ads) just wonder what the incentive is for them? Anyone have any idea on who made this?
Is that illegal? If not, their actions are not exactly nefarious. Sharing unpublished knowledge is a boon to humanity. (Not that the Chinese are publishing their “findings” openly.)
Kubernetes: The Documentary PART 2 [video]
I've got decent insight into several local school districts. From less-close information I've picked up from around the country, our city doesn't seem to be an outlier.

For both fully-remote and alternating-day in-person, if schools still failed kids, they'd have had to fail over half of most classes. Percentages of engaged-enough-to-be-OK kids in online schools tended to sit in the 10-20% range. It wasn't unusual for half or more of kids to effectively be absent for an entire semester. [EDIT] The alternating-day half-in-half-out in-person schedule kids, in the one district that I have insight into that did that for fall 2020/spring 2021, seemed to fare even worse than the online cohort, incidentally.

> I’d like to see trends in standardized tests during this period as I think the real harm was in knowledge not gained.

Any places that did them, they'll be awful, guaranteed. IIRC at least some states skipped them in Spring 2020 since it'd have been nearly impossible to proctor them and everyone knew they'd be "tainted" anyway. The main point of them is to compare year-over-year progress to see what needs to be adjusted and whether progress is being made, for which a during-remote-learning standardized test would be worthless, since you already know it'll be bad and why it's bad and won't be able to get any actionable info out of comparing it to prior or future years. It'll probably be another couple years before we have something like a new baseline and the tests start to be useful for their intended purpose again.
Because it's easier to visualize / talk about than some weird (to us) Hangul script but the problem is exactly the same: english isn't the only language on earth.
> The tokenization speed issue is already addressed by the language server protocol [...]

It's not really addressed. The semantic tokens API is intended for semantic highlighting:

> Semantic tokenization allows language servers to provide additional token information based on the language server's knowledge on how to resolve symbols in the context of a project.

Abusing the semantic tokens API for syntactic highlighting is slow, unnecessarily complex (why do I need to implement a language server just to do syntactic highlighting?), and only a partial solution (still need a TM grammar, still don't get correct code folding, etc.).
Would love to have something like f-droid for iOS. Number of "technically inclined" people is actually in the millions. If you add up all the consumers of all third-party app stores in the Android ecosystem it would be easily >200 million. It is not some vanishing minority.

So yes, I do hope the US govt forces Apple to un-clench a bit.
I'm astounded that the military uses Windows at all. It would seem a no-brainer to make everyone use a better protected OS. Which *nix is a fine starting inquiry.
I suppose that's a practical argument for it. Philosophically it still doesn't seem right, though.
In the PR description, if you expand the sections "Baldur’s Gate 3 Demo", "Shadow of the Tomb Raider", etc. it shows the performance improvement of capturing the respective games. Looks like a very significant improvement.
Well I won't be complaining about my company laptop anymore lol.

Just from reading your comment, sounds like the biggest problem is the vendor overlap here. MS Endpoint Manager, MacAfee and Tanium all seem to be doing the same thing.

This seems like scope creep on an epic scale. It's almost like someone came to USAF IT every 3 years and said "we signed a contract with X vendor, add it to the laptops".
Not if you're going off of ab initio theory such as Hartee Fock, MP2, CC, etc. We're talking amounts of matrix multiplication that wouldn't be enough to finish calculating this decade, even if you had parallel access to all top 500 supercomputers, you get bigger than a single protein, it's beyond universal time scales with current implementations.
Hamburg is a state in Germany. Pittsburgh is a city in a state that dislikes its two big cities. This might have a difference.
I disagree. System utilities need to stick. I Apple shipped stone age Emacs for some reason, they should continue doing so.
call your government representatives and let them know about alternatives then. I feel the public sector should be required to adopt open and interoperable standards for its communications.

Public money, public access, public infrastructure.
How is this hacker news? Keep this garbage on Parler where it belongs.
> We're well beyond- "does my appearance detract from my work". Of course it does. We're at "does my appearance justify not just complete erasure of my work but constant attempts to deplatform and defund me" I don't think it does.

It’s not you, it’s not the advertisers, it’s them. It’s not fair play. The fair play aspect is particularly infuriating. So what if it’s their platform - just because they can set the standards as they please doesn’t make it right.

YouTube is a US corporation, and this action is un-American.
> I would go further and state that voters are spending tomorrow's taxpayers' money and they never have a problem doing that.

This is what happens to retail politics when the population is trained to think for the short term. After all (successful) politicians merely follow trends.
The spike protein however is known to cause clots and other blood related issues. This applies to both the infected and vaccinated. Like excess deaths being elevated, there are a number of other rarer conditions that have above average statistics during the pandemic.
Ask HN: Fediverse in a box?
Hi HN,

I am thinking of making a dedicated server box for your home that runs self-hosted apps.
Wait, you say... isn't that just a computer running Ubuntu? Yes, but hear me out --

The idea would be to have a physical box (that you can see & trust) in your living room.
Installing a self-hosted app (such as Peertube, Mastodon, email, etc.) takes one click.
All the Docker stuff will happen automatically. DNS/domain configuration will happen automatically.
And suddenly you have your own little self-hosted universe without trusting any external EC2/GCP/etc.
(There are some constraints on traffic; if you host a popular PeerTube your ISP might get a bit sad.
That can be resolved later.)

All of this is possible & relatively easy to do now. It's just schleppy. And it breaks a lot.

If I made something that "just worked", would you buy it? Any feature suggestions, or things to consider?
I find the paper a bit confusing in some part, Hive in itself is a cluster embedding clusters.
More than one time the paper simply mention cluster/node without explicitly which cluster they are talking about, maybe I didn't properly read it but I find it hard to understand
It's not a secret to the DMV; they have the details. Waymo doesn't want a third party to know those details because they are apparently trade secrets.
They do it every so often, but usually you could dismiss the popup/overlay by just clicking on the page.
The first time I noticed it was when I couldn't find the Twitter search bar. I wanted to see someone's Twitter account so I went to http://www.twitter.com and I didn't know what to do from there. It's still like this today. Your obvious options are "Sign Up or Log In", and along the bottom there's "About Help Center Terms of Service Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Accessibility Ads info Blog Status Careers Brand Resources Advertising Marketing Twitter for Business Developers Directory Settings © 2022 Twitter, Inc." which could plausibly be the entire site map EXCEPT for http://www.twitter.com/explore .

Poking around, looks like a path to the search bar is Directory: https://twitter.com/i/directory/profiles