skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What this blogpost does, is start with the base assumptions of "Command Modern Operations", a military-simulator from MatrixGames, as well as the assumption of 2x Neptunes fired + 1x Drone nearby the ship.

With the base assumptions, the Moskva detects both missiles and destroys them long before they're anywhere close to a threat. Of course, this isn't what happened in reality....

From there, the blogpost doubles the OODA loop: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, making the ship's crew less-and-less competent until the missiles hit. The OODA-loop originally assumes a response time of 15-seconds. But what if it was 30-seconds? 60-seconds? 120-seconds? How long do we give the "crew" to not see the missiles?

A second experiment is then run: what if the RADAR is off? It looks like the CWIS detects the missiles, but its too late: the CWIS can only disable one missile before the second one strikes the ship.

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Of course, just playing around with assumptions probably won't get us to the truth of the matter. But maybe it gives us at least an idea of what the crew was thinking and/or not thinking.

Personally speaking, I would have increased the number of Neptune missiles until two missiles struck the ship in the simulation. There's just a lot of unknown variables here...
Variance is a critical lifeblood for card games, as demonstrated by the commander companion mechanic debacle, as a key lesson that mtg r&d has known but occasionally forgets. But not only at casual levels but many levels, mtg can definitely have too much starting hand quality variance that starts to reduce fun. Tournament mulligan rules and mtg arena starting hand sampling algorithms point to this.

I personally suspect that aggro would completely dominate a separate land deck meta if pushed hard enough. But I'm all on board for an alternative game design that invents new interesting questions to ponder, addresses a pain point of mtg design, and most of all makes it more fun for a kid.
> And in my experience, these people usually are not braggarts

That’s my experience as well. The real ultra productive devs are surprisingly easygoing. Nothing like the 10x memes.
There is absolutely NO comparison, in terms of mass, momentum and similar related forces, between a "film canister" and the first stage of a rocket.

But common sense is quite uncommon nowadays.
(like I said..) I'm impressed with the prowess of the MATERIALS SCIENCE in companies like 3M and DuPont, certainly not the business ethics.

Please don't conflate admiration for the fascinating engineering work with endorsement of an entire company's impact on the world!
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Doesn't that defeat the point of federation?
Do a manual count for a random sample plus all tight races and in case of any suspicions or challenges.
I like analyzing any given permanents chance to be cast, that's neat. Did you model each card's power / importance at all or were they all treated as equal?
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Principles matter!
He mentioned it so many times, I think he was genuinely worried about that.
Cool write-up. A 10 minute read + 1 minute deleting the annoying gifs from the DOM.
That's a poor assumption to base a business off of.
You got bamboozled by the startup industry. No reason for C corp when no 6+ figure checks on the table.
The current price is based on the predicted earnings growth. Everyone expects 3M to have earnings growth and that expectation is already baked in. The price is only going to spike if something unexpected happens. Growth would have to exceed expectations.
Are these prices also adjusted for interest rates? Cost of borrowing in 1987 was 10% compared to today at 3%.
Why not make it up to the user what content to block, rather than the instance?
Horses and humans i the Americas at the same time is a post-Columbus thing. Buffaloes can't be domesticated. Llamas are mountain animals and wheeled wagons in mountains are extra hard to do well. Even in the old world, wheels where primarily a steppe thing.

Edit: I was wrong about the horses, there is a overlap.
Debian already maintains these images and has non-free firmware packages. They're just not enabled on the main installation disc by default. You can get non-free Debian images, they're just harder to get to.

Edit: Here we go. They're "unoffical" images for sure, but they seem to be maintained similarly to the official ones. https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-in...
Here is the opinion for anyone who is interested

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/04/18/1...
>As bad as it is in the short term the only way we'll see long term change is to keep the friction on. It's this friction that forces the change of habit to support manufacturers who open their firmware. If it's seamless then there's no incentive to seek out the open option next time you buy.

The only friction you're causing is to Debian users. My current laptop is Arch after 5 laptops that ran Debian. My Debian desktop is barely functional with the friendliest AMD GPU to Linux I could find.

By my next update cycle I will be Debian free for the first time in 20 years. Debian needs less friction if it wants to keep me as a user.
If I may ask, how is vyos in terms of functionality? I'm more than comfortable with cli (have worked with cisco/hp/arista routers and firewalls before).
How plausible is this actually?

The surface of the earth is huge and given the high-resolution close-to-realtime imagery that most people want, its not really possible to provide standardized sets of images that just happen to cover the region-of-interest for everyone right? Hence the need to targeted imaging.
Even a wheelbarrow is a big deal.

But making a practical wheel out of wood would take some significant woodworking and joinery skills. They may have tried, and just gave up after the wheel would fracture after a few moments use.

I.e. the concept of the wheel and making a successful implementation of it are very different things.
Ask HN: Why Sales cost so high for SaaS companies?
Sales & Marketing account for almost 50% of revenue for most SaaS companies. This is often double what they spend on R&D.

See https://miro.medium.com/max/2406/1*nmQhFQD-MYWGwG1wc-sXHw.png

For more specific examples, for the year 2020:

Confluent - Sales:150M, R&D:100M, Revenue: 230M

DataDog - Sales:160M, R&D:110M, Revenue: 350M

Salesforce - Sales:7B, R&D:2B, Revenue: 16B

I assume most of R&D is just engineering salaries. But what constitutes Sales expenses? Is it just Salespeople salaries and commissions? If not, what are the major contributors?

https://investors.datadoghq.com/static-files/9d3083a2-f95f-48be-a413-c35d154a3046

https://s23.q4cdn.com/574569502/files/doc_financials/2021/ar/Salesforce-FY-2021-Annual-Report.pdf
Voter coercion and retaliation for voting 'the wrong way' is probably even more important than vote buying/selling.

A key feature of a secret ballot is that it must remove the ability for anyone to verify how you voted even with your cooperation (no matter if willing, coerced or bought) - you must have plausible deniability i.e. any reasonable "demonstration" to others how you voted must be possible even if you actually voted differently.
Why not isn't that how google has become one of the largest companies in the world?
You probably lack situational awareness. It’s very easy for anyone to observe these price increases, if they are paying attention.
Seems like one could believe in both.
I agree. to me this is like people complaining someone is taking a photograph of their front yard... If you don't want something visible, don't display it to the world.
Basically—but at the same time, for an end user sometimes it’s nice just running a binary and not needing to be like “alright so in order to use this application I’m going to need to install pyenv because if I install another Python app maybe it’ll blow up my other Python apps” or something along those lines. I realize there are solutions to this, but for the average person just wanting to ship a utility without much headache, self contained is pretty compelling.
> I personally suspect that aggro would completely dominate a separate land deck meta if pushed hard enough.

Agreed, I probably should have listed it first.

Even in the short term, look at when Arena ran their Treasure events where each upkeep that player would get a treasure token. By the end of the first day the event was dominated by “mono red” decks with 13 land and free splashes.
Are there any hardware-level examples similar to this?

I mean some sort of "evil CPU": even if all the software is clean,
it will act differently on some inputs (read: some pattern of instructions) to produce output in a way that it's indistinguishable at any user-level "views" without a logic analyzer analyzing all the bits in and out the CPU in physical level as electrical signals which is beyond reach practically, while still performing some evil tasks. A similar idea can be expanded to an "evil RAM" or "evil bus" but you probably get it.

I'm pretty sure there are already backdoors already in many CPUs that we aren't aware of, but I was wondering if this particular type of attack has ever been spotted in the wild.
Thank god the tourists have returned. Window smashing locals really wasn’t a thing during covid, but the innovations of garage door jacking no longer fill my KarenDoor feed.
It’s about the blatant hypocrisy of attacking Apple for its 30% fee not that long ago and now they want to charge 50%.
Reading Mahasi Sayadaw on the hell realms cured me of that idea.
Plaid seems to think so
This was trying to get a Framework laptop running, and there were literally 3 Fedora team devs working on compatibility for it as a priority and stuff still didn't work. I only went to Fedora after I couldn't even get through the setup tools for Manjaro, Ubuntu, Debian, or Pop.

I'd look into swapping out my UI if I had any confidence I knew what was going on and how to revert it. I mostly bricked an Ubuntu install earlier last year trying to get Wayland working on it.

I'm pretty sure it's not pulseaudio, it's Pipewire by default, but I think neither of them works. It's something about the device just not registering correctly on boot for some reason.

I knew what I was in for on trackpads, but it's still not a good system/sign either way.

I'm really unsure I agree with you on Windows having "similar issues" with hardware. As someone who's been building and upgrading the same desktop computer for 20 years with a combination of Windows and various Linux distros running on it, I have literally never had a compatibility issue on Windows that took more than going to the company's website and running an EXE for drivers, and I never once went to check if Windows was compatible with any part I purchased. Meanwhile, I found out that the specific sub-SKU of my Intel CPU just doesn't work with the Linux kernel for some features, so I guess I'm either out hundreds of dollars on a new CPU or I just don't use Linux again on that computer.

I'm to the point where I mostly like Linux for day to day stuff, and I really do understand a lot of the reasons why all of this isn't trivial, but it really gets my ire when people try to contend that Windows has worse usability for most normal use cases. I don't know nearly as much about Linux as you or many others, but I appreciate that I can fix things in ways I couldn't before. That said, the complete "there are no guard rails, the only instructions are a forum post you just have to copy-paste from, and sometimes the answer is just NO" of Linux is really its own universe of pain for anyone who doesn't want to have their computer eating up 1-10 hours a week just to keep it running acceptably.
Auras are great. I gave some to family and friends, and they became the go-to good masks for a decent portion of them.

My personal favorite is the 3M V-Flex N95. Super comfortable, great seal, and relatively large interior volume (great breathability). It's pretty close to a perfect mask. I also gave some of these away, and they were similarly popular.

In general, Aura seemed to be liked more for smaller faces, and V-Flex for larger faces. So, nowadays, my go-to recommendations are V-Flexes and Auras.
Do not agree. Let the countless others do that.

Can anyone say with a straight face that there is anything wrong with Debian's vision or principles merely existing somewhere in the world?

Ok, so they exist somewhere in the world, in Debian.

And it predates you. Debian didn't come along and fuck up your life. There is no basis for any kind of "take it back" idea to "fix" Debian.

If you don't subscribe to those principles, great news! The entire rest of the world agrees with you! Go use Ubuntu or Mint or really anything.

If your argument is that Debian is an important base for countless users of other distros, and so it's inconsiderate or irresponsible or something not to serve all those indirect users better (according to your personal definition of "better"), well then why ARE so many other distros choosing Debian's shoulders to stand on if it's so unhelpful? All those other distros are perfectly free to provide their own base the "right" way.

You in fact are free yourself to launch a new better os to replace Debian. Go ahead. No one is stopping you. Show those backwards clods how it's done by practical people with their heads screwed on straight.
This has been my experience. What was deleted or made private? YT and other providers know but will just show a 404 or whatever instead of any metadata. The old idea that everything on the internet is there forever is now being fought because things can now just disappear if it fits with the host's priorities.

I tend to save something if I find it interesting and it is something that isn't exactly a copyrighted piece.
Genuine question -- what low level things can't you access on a MacBook? I've been using them for years and have never run into anything I needed that I outright couldn't access. It could well just be that I'm not digging into that level of detail though.
If you’re mentioning the uk is waterstones separate from Amazon? There’s hatchards off Piccadilly but isn’t that owned by a bigger player?
You probably are. Luckily, 15 minutes isn't too bad.

When I worked for a German company, we'd fly German colleagues out for important planning seasons (held over two - three weeks to justify the jet lag).

And we'd always warn those on their first trip about the NZ sun being considerably more fierce than any sun they were used to, yes, far more fierce than Lanzarote, Corsica, or "Blauhimmel Deutschland" (Blue sky Germany) aka the parts of Mallorca that sold Die Welt in local shops, and hotels that served white sausage and wheat beer on Sundays.

And invariably, they thought we were exaggerating, after all it was spring/autumn! They'd go spend a day at Sumner or New Brighton beaches, and then we got to watch their very red faces peel and gradually heal over the next fortnight. Our CEO managed to get sufficiently sunburnt on his first trip that his forehead blistered, which made it hard to maintain eye contact at times.

(He also managed to be on the New Brighton pier during the big Valentine's Day aftershock, which put a charge up him).

They always remembered to wear sunscreen and sun hats on their second trip ...

...conversely, it was lovely for me when I traveled to Germany in their summer, I could have a lunch outside for an hour, and not get burnt. My people are very much of the north.
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Beyond a certain level, everyone has access to all the cards they want. That might cause a poor fit on the bottom levels, but intermediate to advanced levels, its not about ownership
Can AI pricing algorithms be stopped from learning to collude? (2020, pdf)
Gradio and Hugging Face for Rapid Deep Learning App Development in Python
Bloomberg's main product offering is still the data feed though. The "application" part of it definitely makes it easier to use but a lot of trading desks build their own algorithms and pricers on top of that data for the functionality they really need. The built in stuff bloomberg has tends to be overly simplified
Yes, emulation.

Visual Studio 2022 is x64 and is running under emulation in an ARM environment (M1 Max) and is working perfectly.

While it's not native performance, it's close and the gap will even get narrower by time.
Depends on how you define 'user-hostile'. There's already a link to the non-free image on the current installation page, and I wouldn't consider respecting your freedoms as hostile.
> assuming everyone around them is an idiot

Or just subservient to a corrupted system.
I’ve had some f’d up hormones one of which was a nifty tumor on my adrenal gland. Stuffing me full of stress hormones.
As a social animal myself, "surprising" isn't the adjective I'd use.
I bought a Framework, which was specifically intended to work with Linux, and has devs from multiple distros working to stabilize, and I'm still having plenty of issues.

As I said elsewhere, I've been building desktops for most of 20 years with just entirely random parts and had Windows always work completely fine on it, and only get better at it over the years. Linux has gotten better as well, but I still have to be paranoid about every single part and sub-component in the system. My current motherboard's USB-C controller just doesn't work with Linux, it seems, but I'm not about to replace the entire motherboard just for that, and I'm not even sure where I'd go to research such a thing.
I highly recommend this paper for a more in-depth treatment of exp/log map and the related representation of transformations:

A Micro Lie Theory by Joan Sola, Jeremie Deray, Dinesh Atchuthan
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.01537.pdf
Hellenistic cremation burial found in Istanbul train station
damn this thread single handedly destroyed all three of my dreams: owning a early 00 private jet, a 90s seaplane and 80s yacht. ALL of which were very much the focus of my day dreams!
Just what could qualify as funny to your friends, as opposite to a wide audience.

I think you should browse successful streamers yourself and get a hang of it.
Math books are recreated because of money.
Of course I care if I have something pretty on my desk. I care about aesthetics of everything around me that I interact with/see/experience on my daily life, especially if it's something literally designed for me to look at for hours every day, like a computer.
I've been a PM for Kubernetes at two of the major contributing companies and helped popularize Operators.

The project that will replace Kubernetes will be something that provides builtins that compose together to EXTEND the system. With such a foundation, you'll be given the flexibility to evolve over time and correct design flaws. Kubernetes was in a rush to beat competitors out in the early orchestration wars, so they focused on primitives that people needed to deploy "today". I think they did a good job, but the focus wasn't on extensibility.

In an ideal world (and I've proposed), there be a long term SIG/WG that experimented with custom controllers to add new primitives that focused on EXTENDING Kubernetes. Most companies at the time wanted to tighten up the core APIs, not realizing that they should be skating towards where the puck is going. Now every major Kubernetes provider is past the point of just getting clusters into folks' hands and are realizing they need to add more functionality, but have no means that doesn't come at the cost of explosive complexity.
What happened if you don't mind me asking? (I might be in a similar situation lol. I just started a FANG on a team of all Indian ppl and I'm the only white dude and I can barely understand the speech much less the code)
This is amazing because it takes the promise of "caching Docker layers", which doesn't usually work out well in practice, and actually delivers on it.
I'm sure tons of fallible things work in your experience.
There are people alive today with Neandertal ancestry, so at least one other species is still alive.
Designing Uber
Foxes are canid, but vulpine rather than canine.
There are two ways for a war to end: One way is for one side or the other to be basically destroyed. The other way is some negotiated settlement

History readily provides an infinite number of counterexamples, more or less along the theme of "mutual, or one-sided exhaustion (but still far short of one-sided destruction)". WW I, the US/Soviet failures in Afghanistan and most colonial occupations for that matter immediately spring to mind.
They are the only reason I use Debian at all.
I think you're right. ICE will remain, however niche most consumers think it is. Offroad, towing, agriculture, specialist/collector vehicles.

And thats after a 20+ year transition, based on the average vs maximum realistic lifetime of vehicles either on the road, or soon to be.

But for liquid energy transport, I think LNG with H2 injection, and Ammonia will fit the energy density niche. I don't see deep well petrochemicals as a sustaining model of energy shipment, if we move the economy away from them for transport.

All this is very much "after my lifetime" -Much as my parents lived through the transition of horse power to gas engines, and I was on the cusp of steam trains to diesel and electric, some things happen in timescales beyond my lifetime
Sure, the US effectively blacklisted NSO, but they did nothing to Israel. Imagine if a Russian business was found to have hacked State Department employees phones. Would being a private company prevent Russia from being blamed, particularly if they had the kind of state connections NSO had?
Yep. Have seen similar things.
What issues have you experienced with CalyxOS? Asking as a daily user of CalyxOS. I have not had any real issues, but I also don't install many apps on my phone.
Air is so quickly cycled out of aircraft, that the viral load has to be about 1/100th of what you might find in a typical crowded restaurant.

Anyway, each person is allowed to wear a mask on a plane. So, for those with concerns, that should handle it.
But that were pretty much pro forma, after the Occupier pretty much signaled they were ready to throw in the towel.

And long after the average Jane and Joe on the street could be expected to care even a whit about about what was happening in that far-off nominal protectorate, or why.
The product quality is awesome. The company has some bad history with chemical dumping and caused at least one superfund site. And used the standard tobacco playbook after finding health concerns with PFAS chemicals in the 1970s to delay the rest of the world from finding out how bad it was. They only started phasing them out in 2000 and paid off at least one academic researcher for another decade to prevent or slow the release of studies showing negative affects.[1]

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/toxic-s...