skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How useful are anti-ship missiles in Ishigaki Island (Japan), Batanes (Philippines), etc.?

If Taiwan is loaded with anti-ship missiles, cruise missiles, naval mines, loitering munitions, artillery, modern fighter jets, etc., any Chinese invasion is at the very least going to come at very steep cost in life/military hardware.

And then the economic costs (to everyone in the world) are going to be extreme.
The author has also made a video about it recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euJgtLcWWyo

It reminds me of Boldport, who made project kits that were also works of art [0]. The funky PCB traces and shapes were all hand-drawn, I believe, rather than drawn up in a regular EDA program.

[0] https://boldport.com/shop?category=Soldering+projects
> So no, once again he does not have funding secured

For the reader’s consideration: Musk’s TED interview [0], he claims (quite forcefully) that he did in fact have funding secured, but effectively “pled not secured” as to get a more favorable response from the SEC.

[0]: (time stamp: 0h27m00s) https://youtu.be/cdZZpaB2kDM
The semiconductor industry would be set back a few decades because the main production facilities for the current node and many previous nodes would be gone. It's not just the equipment, but also the institutional knowledge about how to operate it best.
Apple Discontinues macOS Server
He's also doing that:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-21/elon-g...

Elon Musk needs about $46.5 billion to buy Twitter at $54.20 per share: about $39.4 billion to pay for the 91% of Twitter’s stock that he doesn’t currently own, about $4.3 billion of debt to refinance and various miscellaneous costs. To pay that, he has:

A letter from his banks offering to lend $13 billion to Twitter, if he buys it, with $7 billion of that coming in the form of senior secured bank loans and $6 billion coming in the form of junk bonds.
A letter from his banks offering to lend him $12.5 billion personally, secured by $62.5 billion worth of his Tesla Inc. stock. At yesterday’s closing price, that comes to about 64 million shares, or about one-third of his Tesla stake.
An agreement with himself to put up the other $21 billion, give or take.
more likely a long slow decline with several factors

off hand, a few factors I can think of are

- a few users lost here and there due to “bad decisions” (as perceived by exiting customers)
- super saturated paid streaming market
- more people at home = more users but != more paying customers

—-

I think the biggest risk they face now is thinking that 100% of account sharing would be paying customers if they somehow eliminate sharing. That kind of thinking tends to lead to decisions that also push currently paying customers away AND makes new/returning customers think twice.

Just my opinion. Full disclosure: I’m in the “no longer a paying customer, not account sharing, and probably won’t be using netflix in the near future” camp.
> China has the advantage of land-based missiles, land-based air force, AND sea-based naval forces to triple-team up against the US Navy

Point is if China leans into its fleet for fire support (it’s currently not clear if they will do this or rely on land-based or aerial firing platforms), there are anti-ship missile systems Taiwan could be outfitted with to compensate for far cheaper than those ships cost.
I remember there was a shareware x86 assembler called A86 back in the 90s. It was easier to use than Microsoft's. In the documentation, it said it would encode a fingerprint in the output opcodes so they could go after anyone using it for commercial purposes without a license.

This would be possible (according to them) because there are instructions that could be encoded in multiple ways without affecting the operation of the code.

I wonder now if they actually bothered, or if it was just there in the docs to make cheapskates think twice.
I think your understanding is wrong. PBS receives the majority of its money from small donors, followed by the federal and state funds.

The Koch brothers were involved in the Meredith Corporation's purchase of Time back in 2017, but I think that's the most direct involvement they've had with media institutions themselves. They're much bigger fans of the "independent institute that writes policy briefings for conservative politicians" model.
This is a great outcome. Apple should be penalized for trying to squeeze every buck. If they want to save the environment they should have kept the price the same and knocked off 30 dollars if you didn't want the charger.

The fact that they even try to make this about the environment is absurd and what is more idiotic is the general populace believe it.
Answering both you and GP I belong to the “some people” group you described in your post. It’s not that I don’t understand the math, it’s just that I don’t have the mental capacity and time in my life to take advantage of this arbitrage.

To illustrate - I have an acquaintance who transfers money between credit cards to take advantage of points, and sign-up offers etc. Were I to engage in such activity myself - assuming I know anything about myself at all, it is that I will 100% forget some detail or date and end up getting charged all of the delayed interest making me worse off than if I didn’t engage in such a scheme at all.

So it’s like that. Rather than chasing some optimization in a half-ass manner, I’d rather just pay off the debt and pay less of my money to the bank.
> CNN+ never included the CNN cable channel

This is the full stop. Leave it to a bunch of suits to come up with a dairy subscription that doesn't come with milk.
I don't think Twitter is special.

Going back to Trump I think that he going quiet after losing was not an effect of him being banned from Twitter as much as it was about the post defeat depression, mixed with fear of retribution for Jan. 6th now that he was out of office and also a part of him wanting to be Presidential and not critique his successor.

There are no rules in Twitter that prevent Musk from engaging in Pumps&Dumps so he'd have to do something Trump-esque to be banned. Spending 40B to secure the capability of inciting violence and unlike Trump avoid getting banned seems way out of whack. Besides inciting violence doesn't pump a stock.
Well imagine if you have a few friends who are into cars and they're all about, say, reducing certain regulations on tailpipes.

You yourself don't know much about cars and frankly don't care, but because the people you are around predominantly keep giving you these convincing arguments, you start to support their side without even thinking about it. When someone random person starts arguing a counterpoint, you might even start repeating what your friends told you.

Most congressman aren't creating or remixing content. They probably don't care that much, but the people lobbying are definitely more one-sided.
You can write Cloudflare Workers in WASM today.

As far as I can tell from the outside, that's still "WASM-called-by-Javascript", and many of their JS optimizations don't work the same way. E.g. if a Worker calls JS `fetch` and returns that `Response`, they recognize that and remove the JS from the data path; same is not true for WASM at this time.
None of their arguments are that convincing to me but I do think there's something to the broader argument in a US/China lens. The Chinese govt is backing up the dumptruck investing into AI while good ole boys in DC are passing around billion dollar contracts on fighter jets. Google and Facebook are leading the west in AI innovation in my opinion. If AGI is possible, it would really suck for the world if China got there first.

Imagine how different the world would be if China beat us to the internet and the Great Firewall was the world standard, but with AGI it will probably be able to rapidly become more advanced and prevent others from coming close to it.

If the US were to get serious in AI investment I wouldn't care about breaking up big tech but that doesn't seem to be the case at all.
It wasn't just the "series of tubes" phrase itself; it was the whole nonsensical story that followed that. Wikipedia has the full quote and a recording, but to summarize: Stevens opposed network neutrality on the grounds that it could lead to network congestion, which he illustrated with an example of an email (in his words, "an Internet") sent to him which took some time to arrive. As an argument, it was barely coherent, and demonstrated a lack of understanding of the technology he was trying to make an argument about.
> He went off the deep end a long time ago and went into crazy town.

Stop saying this about journalists who you used to agree with, but now disagree with.
It is risky but keep in mind the proposal in non-binding and contingent upon several other conditions.
That revenue figure seems wildly inaccurate. Pew (via a third party research firm) estimates CNNs 2020 revenue at $1.7B:

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news...
Most of the notes do give it that vitality though. Here's a John Mayer example where the simple version "works" but the full version is pure magic

https://youtube.com/shorts/navD83-aLYs
I find Reddit to be really high noise, no matter how selective I get with subs, so sadly I don’t really check it often.

I do also regularly hit up CNBC because I think they do a great job of covering world news and big moves in tech and I check my GitHub recommendations on a fairly regular basis.

I would love more “small HN” stuff - neat projects, old articles/blog posts, and generally just normal people.
https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/try/
"unfair" ability? such victim mentality. lol, you're so entitled. and Musk was bossing you around before he whas middle-aged.
Oh, sure, I thought GP meant the opposite (make it easier for non-rich people to take loans on assets) but this makes more sense.
You could start with a lot more transparency. Everything that isn't critical to the defense of the nation should be public and auditable. Hot button issues like stock trading while in office, term limits and corporate lobbying could be fixed with simple laws if you ignore the whining of current office-holders. If you want to be more drastic, then start shifting power away from the federal government and towards local governments. Politicians who are close to their constituents are the only ones that can be sufficiently supervised. Reduce the role of the faraway central government to that of referee and coordinator and make sure that 99% of representatives time is spent in their own districts where the people can get a hold of them. Finally, if you want to flip the table completely then institute some form of sortition where another branch of government with equal power is formed from randomly selected citizens who are given the opportunity to represent their communities at the levers of power.
I feel like this linked page has more info then the page that OP posted: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.2874
I've always been confused about Holland, Netherlands, and Dutch.
Of which, a lot was probably spent on their own in-house platforms.
I've heard all the dad jokes, I present you with this one:

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Reminds me of the nicer things that IKEA makes. Its pleasant and calming. Those Swedish people know what they are doing. :)
For me setting true

gfx.color_management.force_srgb

in about:config makes the rectangle disappear. I don't have the slightest idea what is going on tho.
> I'd imagine all of CNN and WarnerMedia programming moving onto Discovery+

I thought the consistent messaging was that the branding of the consolidated streaming service would be HBO Max, not Discovery+.

> Doesn't mean CNN+ was a roaring success, but it's just not enough time to tell if it was a flop.

Yeah, they planned a four year period to profitability with a $1 billion investment over that period, 1 month doesn't tell much of that story (though launching it while the merger was going on and when it was in clear conflict with the incoming brand strategy was an odd choice.)
God this thing is gonna look and work so much worse with 10 cables hanging out of it. Probably isn't even heavy enough to stay in one place against all of that mess, but yeah there's about a million times I can recall where having such a thing in the bag would have saved someone's bacon.

I do also expect to see plenty of hipsters unnecessarily self-flagellating themselves with it, per TE tradition.
What all the people disagreeing with you are ignoring is the work and skill that goes into the product design. It takes a lot of iteration, which means lots of prototypes, which means lots of time and money spent just developing the product. This means iteration on the electronics, the UI, the case, etc etc. Anyone could whip together something that's bigger, uglier, and has a worse user interface, all for less money, but to make something equivalent to what TE makes is a what takes all the time/money/effort/skill.

Also most of the disagreers are also ignoring the "bring it to market" step. Even if you built something of equivalent product design as TE, building one for yourself is vastly different than doing a product run where you expect each product to be the same. PCB design and manufacturing is relatively easy and inexpensive, but all the plastic/rubber forming/molding is much trickier and significantly expensive. Getting past the manufacturing aspect, there's the whole marketing, sales, and distribution aspect, which aren't anything to be sneezed at either. Seriously a lot of work goes into bringing a product to market that DIYers building single devices or very tiny runs of devices don't even consider. While TE might not be doing Behringer-level runs of products, their runs are definitely bigger than a lone DIYer could ever handle by themselves.

(Note: This isn't to say that TE's products are necessarily better for everyone than something they could make themselves (or buy for less from a different company), of course. After all, the world's musicians got by just fine before this mixer was released. I just wanted to chime in and explain some of reasons why TE's stuff costs more than what you might think you could make yourself.)
Price aside, what is the use case for this? Bands or electronic live sets will already be bringing a bunch of gear (with 1/4" connections, almost universally) to a show. The size of their 6 channel mixer will not really come into play when you consider guitars, amps, synths, etc.

So, who is this for? People using iPads and iPhones that need the smallest possible mixer? The audio interface aspect is available in many other mixers already. So, that's not a unique feature.
>The developer whose task branch had merge conflicts was responsible for resolving the merge conflicts

But that's exactly my point. The first PR to merge cleanly will determine whether the next PR causes a merge conflict or not. At the time of merging, none of these PRs had a merge conflict.

We often have 10 conflicts between PR admission and approval.
If we can’t even take away chargers from luxury phones we have no chance of making meaningful sacrifices to stop climate change lol.
To be fair - some distros are moving away from GRUB as the default.

Pop!Os uses systemd-boot (formerly gummi-boot) by default if you're on an UEFI system, and only falls back to GRUB for legacy bios.

Arch is also much easier to setup on systemd-boot.

The issue is that GRUB still has a very compelling support matrix - it'll work basically everywhere, and with most all configurations. So if you're already running a batteries included distro, where someone else is doing most of the configuration and the downstream systems are hugely variable (old consumer hardware) - then GRUB still makes the most sense.
I like that apple is trying to reduce waste by not including copper and plastic that is superfluous for a high percentage of phone buyers.

Can Apple not simply offer a two iphone SKUs, "with charger"; "without charger"?
I am too sensitive for grotesque images, but I do greatly enjoy maximally offensive verbal comedy, if it’s funny to me.
Is there a natural tendency for open source software repositories to be run by private companies? Perhaps the cost of development and maintenance make it difficult for non-profit organizations provide comparable services?
Very excited to see this in general availability and with Postgres support
Allegedly, OpenBSD devs run OpenBSD on their Thinkpads. FreeBSD devs use MacOS on their laptop ...
Musk goes to the bank

Musk: I can haz money?

Bank: You said that Twitter isn't going to be a way to make money. That you "don't care about the economics at all". Your exact words.

Musk: ...

Bank: ...

Musk: Give me money
Well splitting hairs, it mandates that everyone support FAT, individual system+OS vendors can add their own filesystems, but then its vendor lock.

So, just do FAT and be done with it. Adding other filesystems is just a waste of time because the ESP only needs to store a half dozen files or so.

13.3.1.1:
"The EFI firmware must support the FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12 variants of the EFI file system"
I had to pledge allegiance to the queen when I got my canadian citizenship (or maybe my parents did? I was 9 so that would make more sense). So in a way, I'd have to renounce my canadian citizenship to become American, even if in reality you are right that it doesn't happen.
> Is there a 1212122 scale (end every other possible combination)?

The steps have to add up to 12 to end up on the same octave. I'm not sure about every possible combination but there are other scales called "modes" which are rotations of that pattern (which can be derived from the white keys on the piano, just starting one of the 7 different notes; whether something is a 2 or a 1 depends on whether there is a black key between the white keys). The different scales derived from that are:

2 2 1 2 2 2 1

2 1 2 2 2 1 2

1 2 2 2 1 2 2

2 2 2 1 2 2 1

2 2 1 2 2 1 2

2 1 2 2 1 2 2

1 2 2 1 2 2 2

The first pattern is a typical Major (associated with happy songs) scale. The sixth one is a standard Minor scale (associated with less happy songs). The third one is called Phrygian and has a dark/exotic feel that works well in metal ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DzGlzdbkDI )

(My comment based on referring to https://learningmusic.ableton.com/advanced-topics/modes.html )

You could have other scales such as:

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (chromatic scale, i.e. every white and black key in order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUpKPaKhsEc )
Pretty sure that this filing shows he is $21 billion short on the borrowing front.
Google Play bans call-recording apps
We could cut the prison population by 90% if poor people got the benefit of Hanlon's Razor.
Can you say "Quibi"?

So much in common.
It is called journalistic integrity. They do not have it.

Your service as a journalist is to serve as a witness for people that was not there.

Not to take advantage of that situation to persuade people into believing your perspectives.

Sports journalism is the only objective journalism.
Zeppelins look so surreal. So much work put into a now-totally-dead technology, making these huge, incredible machines, that were only favored for a very brief span of time.
How to design an good toaster with lessons from the 1940's [video]
If China invaded Taiwan, and the world response was something like the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (economic isolation), it would mean losing 500 billion dollars of imported products, and an uncountable loss of products that are dependent of that 500 billion. Look at what a small kink in chip supply is doing to car pricing and supply. Imagine instead of a kink in the supply chain, the supply goes to zero for several years. Now imagine that affecting thousands of products that are either wholly manufactured in China and Taiwan, or dependent on components made in China and Taiwan.
CNN+ was a stupid endeavor knowing that the ultimate goal was always going to have to be consolidation of streaming services. People don't want to have to subscribe to Discovery+ AND HBOMax AND CNN+. Raise the price by a few bucks and throw it all under one umbrella so that people are less likely to cancel from month to month. These are people with business degrees and they can't figure this out.
How do companies like Milwaukee get away with selling bare tools in Brasil?

https://www.milwaukeebrasil.com/rebitador-m18-fuel-onekey-26...

Apparently they do, I suspect Apple didn't put the required "ugly sticker" on the box.
I am still totally lost to how what I said could constitute a Ponzi scheme
...no? How does paying $1000 or $980 affect the environment?

And they didn't "keep the price tag", because they're selling a completely different product than they were a decade ago. And regardless, they're allowed to set the price as whatever they want, for whatever reason.

I feel like complaints about this is just a psych study in loss aversion.
How do you know that they didn't drop the price?
1000 CPU for 30 developers sounds enormous. What kind of software are you working on?
> That’s not the reason. Library developers aren’t changing code to annoy or educate their users.

They absolutely are.

> The reason is that a hash table with a fixed hash function may be used for denial of service attacks. If an attacker knows how a hash map maps keys and can control the keys being inserted, they can insert thousands of keys that all map to the same hash, effectively turning the hash map into a list or vector that has to be searched linearly (on both lookups and insertions)

That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.

Independent from hash randomisation, Go will randomise the iteration of hashmaps, such that iterating the same hashmap twice, within the same process, without having modified it in any way, will yield different results. Currently this is done by offsetting the starting point of the iteration by a random amount.

For some reason they dropped this explicit mention when https://go.dev/blog/go-maps-in-action was moved over to https://go.dev/blog/maps, but it used to be there:

> Since the release of Go 1.0, the runtime has randomized map iteration order. Programmers had begun to rely on the stable iteration order of early versions of Go, which varied between implementations, leading to portability bugs.

You can trivially observe this behaviour by just iterating the same map multiple times. With mere hash randomisation, even if hash randomisation was done on a per-map basis by iterating the same map you'd observe the same order, but in Go you don't: https://go.dev/play/p/3HZBv2WHKcT

As you can see the items are always in the same relative order, but the starting point of the iteration varies.

You can also see this in the initialisation of the map iterator, it's even labelled with a nice little comment: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/map.go#...
You have to pick a price for high end low volume products and that price often ends up containing a whole lot of development and overhead costs. You can cut corners with development and materials and lose the high end to try for volume, you can try to get your thing very popular, or you can just stick to high prices. High prices tends to get you a better customer base and a sense of exclusivity which drives sales.
Look at System76

https://system76.com/laptops

Personally, I buy refurbed or upgraded Thinkpads from Ebay from years ago and slap Linux on them.
And those people definitely aren't in the market for a $1200 audio interface. If you don't own several pieces of gear already, this device has literally no use. If you do own several pieces of gear and want to record and mix them simultaneously, a $1200 interface is not going to be the first one you purchase.
There was a collaboration with IKEA, where teenage engineering designed the bluetooth loudspeakers. I have the big ones (10x20cm) and they are alright for a small room or to take with you to the garden. Nice but nothing special. The tiny ones for 19€ were really something - nice design, good sound for the size and price, and really, having a rotating knob on such a small stylish thing feels just great.