skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Too easy to get started" is just gate keeping.
I'm not so sure the Japanese had better equipment at the start of WWII. The Zero was about the only thing that was qualitatively better than American planes, but that was more due to them having optimized it perfectly for their doctrine. Once Americans developed tactics to counter the Zero, like the Thatch Weave, the Zero's relative performance went down significantly.

However, Imperial Japan certainly had much more experience than the US at the start of the war: they'd been fighting in China for years, had carrier operations down to a science, and had dominated southeast Asia for even longer. But they ultimately failed to adapt as the war went on. In a way, America starting as the underdog actually helped long term: while the US kept improving equipment, incorporating what doctrine and training worked, and refining production processes, the Japanese military essentially continued to use what had worked for the relatively low intensity war they had been fighting before.

The most famous example is probably that Axis (Japanese and German) pilots often had dozens of air to air victories, while the US sent their pilots home to train new pilots regularly. While the Japanese aces were formidable, the rest of their pilots weren't so great, and after so many pilots were lost there was nobody to create new good pilots. Over China, where the Zero was technically better than anything it went up against, it was fine to throw new pilots on missions with little experience, since the plane would compensate for inexperience. Against the US Navy though, even the most green pilot had trained from an experienced pilot and knew all the tricks and tactics that would otherwise take several combat sorties to discover. In short, the US pilots had lower peaks than the Japanese, but the baseline level was much higher.

Another example is the Bofors 40mm antiaircraft gun. Reportedly the original Swedish blueprints had so many sections marked "machine to fit" that an engineer said that "the Bofors gun had been designed so as to eliminate the unemployment problems of the Great Depression"[0]. By the end of the war, production time of the gun had been cut in half, enabling every ship in the fleet to be loaded with ever increasing numbers of guns. Meanwhile, the Zero's factory didn't even have an airstrip, and it had to be carried disassembled on animal-drawn carriage to the nearest airport, up to the end of the war.

TL;DR the Japanese didn't have better equipment at the start of the war, but they did have more experience. However, they relied on their tried-and-true methods of production and training, which were geared towards a lower intensity war against an inferior opponent in China. The US knew they started from the underdog position and worked from the start to improve everything everywhere, and continued to do so up until the end of the war.

[0] http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_4cm-56_mk12.php#Use_by_...
Thanks! Yeah I have talked about it a bit - I should probably talk about it more :)

https://saasclub.io/podcast/ipinfo-ben-dowling/

https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ben-dowling-ipinfo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r79AuXgTy-4
I work as a Deep Learning Research Engineer after graduating college. Worked as a Deep Learning consultant while in college.

My three-year science degree makes me quite ineligible to get into a PhD programme directly. I would definitely like to get a PhD if I could. Chances are slim. I worked for cos all my short career and do not have even one published paper.

Want to migrate to a region with more opportunities first, then after getting my feet on solid economic foundation, I will try hard to get into an actually good PhD programme. But in core Deep Learning.

I was a Physics major in college.

As for Math, I really love it, and started loving it more in more recent times.

And I want to contribute fundamental knowledge to the field of Deep Learning, or, more generally, to AI.

And Math is crucial. I have good fundamentals, but I lack good foundations in topics a Math undergrad would know. So, now I have planned to put down three years of my time- part time for Math study where I will study Real and Complex Analysis, Linear Algebra (Physics requires a good base, already), Topology, Group Theory, Category Theory, Game Theory, advanced calculus, Complex Analysis, Real Analysis, etc. On my own. I have subreddits and Math SE. It is going quite well.

I am following books recommended by Susan Rigetti and Mark Saroufim. And I keep my eyes and ears open for good resources and directions.

I feel I am too old to tolerate college beaurocracies and arbitrary rules. Test, semestars and so on. So much hassle.
> These €55 sure came with a privacy cost larger than anticipated.

I mean, I don't think it's unanticipated that giving your bank details to Elsevier would mean that they know your bank details.

Elsevier are 100% evil but this article has some crazy fear mongering.
Yes, a small python script.
Recommend the esprimos. Fujitsu is very honest in their energy consumption white papers so you can know exactly what they'll draw.

Also their mainboards - as far as I can tell - have always been atx wrt screw holes, so you can put them into larger cases. Problem then is that the psu is proprietary regarding both size and connector. They've been doing 12V only to the mainboard for a couple years now, and convert to other voltages on the mainboard. But replacement parts are cheap and plenty on eBay, so don't worry too much.
There are plenty of orgs that tackle portions of what the ACLU used to - enough that I’m sure with 3 or 4 donations one could replace the former ACLU donations one made.

For example, FIRE has done way more for campus free speech issues this last decade or two than the ACLU despite a considerably smaller budget. Between them, Institute for Justice, and EFF, I don’t miss my ACLU donations much.
Ugh, the EU should be enshrining the right to privacy as a human right, and instead we get this garbage.
For better technical details see https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/corals-convert-sunsc...

TLDR: oxybenzone from sunblock gets glucose attached, which turns oxybenzone into a UV light driven catalyst. The catalyst doesn’t degrade, and the UV light catalyses biological molecules of the coral, damaging or killing the coral, particularly bleached coral lacking protective symbiotes.
This is me as well and is the primary reason I still buy albums on vinyl. I'm not an audiophile snob or anything, I just think that listening to music on vinyl is deliberate enough to overcome the "disposable" issue that you're describing. If I want to listen to an album, I have to go to the room in my house with the turntable, open the album, put it on, set the tone arm, etc. It's very deliberate and it helps me appreciate and dedicate time to music.
That Bible passage is about God blowing His breath into Adam who was non-biological clay up to that point. It has nothing to do with Adam taking his first breath. Obviously, Adam was never a foetus, nor was he a child, nor a teenager. As according to this passage life starts when you are a full grown man, should we allow abortions into the 108th trimester?
I guess I don’t see the problem if a channel notifies you and you either read/action immediately, or triage for later. Why is it a problem if your sender expects you to decide if you have time to deal with an important message now? If the message is long but unimportant, I’d file it in the “read quickly and move on” category. I think I’m disagreeing and not misunderstanding.
14-ish: a desktop, two laptops, two tablets, 5 (?) old Android phones, 3 iPhones (hand-me-downs), game console (mostly we watch movies with it), plus older phones destined for element-extraction.

The iPhone I use is from 2015, and the other two are more recent but too large.
All the other computers are older than 2014 (I think; I'm beyond caring about acquiring new computers these days, as everything I have meets my wants, in part because I'm decreasing what I want).

For all I go on about reducing luxuries, having 14+ computers is in some ways like Uncle Scrooge swimming in his money bin. On the other hand, as my perspective shifts I'd feel far richer if I was part of a tight-knit community (fewer than 150 humans, say) that took good care of the land, water, and air and respected the downstream and downwind communities. Easily dismissed as romantic by those of us (myself included) who have come to normalize the fruits of easy access to massive amounts of energy.
> When an investor gets a billion dollar return, remember that is the value from a company that likely provides billions more to local economies.

I have no idea why that would be true, especially if it's an online business where highly paid people go to a campus and don't leave until it's time to drive home.
Hawley introducing measure to strip Disney of copyright protections
Lots of frankly silly comments here suggesting parents buy an iPhone without a SIM instead of an iPod Touch?

Assuming you buy them new, the cheapest iPhone is $399 vs. the $199 iPod Touch. Buying used is often a mixed bag. An iPad Mini is $499!

This is basically just a kick in the pants to parents who bought these for their kids.

Guess those parents are going to go off and buy another brand and type of product now, since Apple refuses to offer a price-equivalent product for kids like this. I don't think it would've hurt Apple to keep producing this product...
I figured it was either that or Early Access and its impact on development schedules, milestones, feedback, etc.
There's no need for action, just wait it out.

The "stable" coins used to route around US laws are starting to lose their peg. When Tether goes, it'll all drop at least 90%, if not 99.95%, as all the margins on the offshore exchanges get called.
Yes, there's a really big difference lol. I would encourage you to consult a dictionary or wikipedia to clear it up.
You are correct. However, the request did not request personal information and only aggregate counts.
Use Claude Shannon's THROBAC-I

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/235492-calculating-with...
Wait, what? 100k+ LoC is more like a "two-pizza" team and a few years, empirically. And this is in C++, a language where LoC don't flow nearly as quickly as in other languages. Even extremely complex code bases (think database engines) are entirely manageable at this scale and beyond without introducing microservices. Monoliths will scale into millions of LoC with little loss of effectiveness if your code base and processes are setup correctly.

You are describing the consequences of poor architecture and process, not anything intrinsic to software projects.
I hope he reverses my Twitter ban for calling Maxine Waters an “old hag”.
I think this is a fair criticism and deserves attention. Whenever anything shiny comes around, we are too enamored by it to not allow any criticism.

Is there a reason Deno is not packaged as a repo in official apt, deb, yum, etc repositories?
Yes. This kind of scenario is really frightening. It's why we need to expand colonies off world.

There isn't much to add except that I've had the exact same thought several times before.
> Oh, since we can't have them benefiting from positive outcomes of collective action, we'll pipe in polluted air and river waste to help simulate a truly free market environmental policy.

That’s a completely artificial and shoehorned idea. If you want to prove a point about libertarians, do it properly in a closed system. They must be left to their own devices and are left to clean their own pollution.
It has not really been a technological problem for a long time. End to end encryption is mature technology. Human institutions require humans to function, and humans are easily swayed based on circumstances in a way that make them willing to simply hand over their rights.
Also read about the "impossible trinity":

1. Fixed exchange rate

2. Free movement of capital

3. Independent monetary policy

You can have at most two, but not all three at once.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
In the end, most people are even happy living under the most brutal of dictatorships as long as they themselves live a relatively comfortable life, and for that you need a working economy (and the hand of luck protecting you from being in the group that said dictatorship thinks the scapegoat should be).

The same is much more true for "well, this is essentially not a democracy anymore, and has some weird tendencies, but at least we're not forced to salute the flag every morning in school" style systems.
Many devices will turn off when you hold the power button long enough.
Will definitely be watching this!

As I understand it Nelson's vision is still not grasped today.

His original hyperlink was bi-directional.

Pause and think about that for a moment.

In practice, at the time, the target in a client-server implementation
had no way to store "return" links pointing to it. The WWW could not
rise to Nelson's ambition. Maybe that's changed today, and we could
certainly rewrite servers or create a more peer-oriented way of going
about things.

The upshot is a totally changed "Web", in which search is
fundamentally different from a centralised index a-la Google.
"Heard of" is different from knowing the exact meaning of the precise date is falls on.

The implication that it scheduling a business event on YK is a sign that one is antisemitic is a smear, straight up.

Especially with the history Germany has had

Enough lecturing, please.
In Russia it has started with "child porno" blocking.

Fast forward 10 years, the list of things your web site may be blocked for is unbound.

So it's not just slippery slope, rather an euphemism.
Update: eBay exec customer service called me back today and said

(1) They have removed the suspension on my account

(2) They erroneously flagged my Airpods as counterfeit because (a) none of the photos in the listing clearly showed the serial number and the listing price was too low.

This seems kind of odd to me as (a) I uploaded five photos, and the 3rd one showed most of the serial number but not the whole thing); (b) the listing price, $158, was higher than the highest offer I had previously gotten ($150) and about the same price as completed listings or a little higher.

But I guess you just email exec CS with these erroneous fraud flags and you're all set.
When Mr. Traina hosted a dinner later that year, he sat Mr. Breslow between Mr. Thiel and Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn.

“I was laughing to myself, saying he’ll sink or swim tonight,” Mr. Traina recalled in an interview.

What is really sad is to see this kind of behaviour from investors. Testing a founder just for the fun of it.
Similar to the abacus or knuckle methods.

Btw, the word for pebbles is calx, hence calculate/calculus.
I'm currently running a yunohost install on 2007 EeePC 701. My only worry : the battery health.
Oh man, Geode! That's a name I haven't heard in a really long time. That was AMD's attempt to keep the Cyrix IP alive, right?
> is in quotes, as if

You cannot read what people write the way /you/ would read it if you wrote it. So, you have to place lots of partial confidence values. Others for that quote place more bets in, "he could have placed the opening quotes of figurative speech two words earlier" (i.e. "under a pretense of a fight against Evil...").
And what has FIRE done for, say, minority voting rights in the south? Police harassment?
Could someone with an aviation background chime in on what this entails? I would think that VTOL pilot/aircraft certification would be more stricter/tighter than light aircrafts. I wonder if this move was made by the FAA being slightly concerned about the safety, though the AW609 mentioned in the (initial) part of the article is a light aircraft... which raises the question on why VTOL rules weren't applied right from the start.

Side note: why does this website restrict copying text, or even middle-button scrolling?
My "device" is a laptop. You say "like Apple", but I believe Apple's CSAM is unique - nothing else tries to scan your messages between keyboard and encryption.
The problem is that those fame-chaser maintainers aren't the only ones doing it. Babel does it. Webpack does. ESLint does it. Before them others did.

If we ban those, we'd have to ban Babel and Webpack too... Oh now, wait a minute, now that actually sounds interesting...
“Terence Dougherty, the organization’s general counsel, testified via video deposition that the ACLU had spearheaded the effort and served as Heard’s ghostwriter in exchange for her promise to donate $3.5 million to the organization.”

Sorry but a donation is either free (donare: give as a gift) or it is no such thing. What a travesty.
Who cares? MBPs will never see this CPU anyway.
Assuming that a CPU is at 100% TDP all the time is a bit naif, too.
The ACLU is a sad case. When I was growing up they were a bipartisan organization that were fierce advocates for free speech. Now it seems they only defend the speech of those on the Left side of the aisle.

Here's a critique of those currently running the ACLU by their legendary former leader Ira Glasser (edited):

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10458777/Former-ACL...
There have been some horrible incidents in the US:

https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/news/rememberin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_rail_accidents
On one hand, JavaScript being easy makes programming accessible. On the other hand, the state of programming is terrible and getting worse. So you can't say if it's bad or not.
My wife has a calculator that is solar powered--unfortunately, the light requirement to reasonably use the calculator is lower than the light requirement to run it.
Thanks i hate the lack of hydro statics. Water does not seek a level here. But that is something one can not achieve with just local interaction.
You can use arrays, but if you want to maintain the Elm-like model of before and after states, then you need to explicitly copy the array into the new state rather than rely on Go copying just the pointer.
In person conversation that occurs in a pre-approved 10x10 meter anechoeic chamber without any microphones.

Yeah. It's that difficult.
"Bankruptcy" is not the right analogy for this.
Sure, I agree. But my point is that the commenter did not misgender anyone, even by the general standards of the trans community.
> The consequence is their hiring pool is also that much smaller.

In the current market, unless you're a big company that gets flooded with applications on a daily basis, why would you ever reduce your hiring pool arbitrarily? If you're a 13-person startup with good funding, you want all the candidates you can possibly get. Excluding potentially great engineers because they've never worked with Deno doesn't make any sense.
While signing does improve security, it's still something of a turtles-all-the-way-down problem because how do you verify the public key is valid? An additional factor is added, which helps, but it's not a silver bullet. And the complexity tradeoffs of requiring cross-platform installation of a signing lib like gpg/minisign (which plenty won't already have installed) and a much larger install snippet are significant.
The debacle with the Depp/Heard case is really concerning, I'll say that right up front. That whole event is a good argument for the article's point. But many of the other criticisms are the same ones that didn't convince me the first few times I saw them.

The author says that the ACLU can't be beholden to a political ideology, but that's an obvious contradiction. Support for civil liberties is an inherently political position. If a political party adopts policies that limit civil liberty, then defending CL becomes a partisan issue as well. If one candidate in a race for office is in favor of CL and the other is opposed, which one could easily argue for in the case of the Abrams Vs. Kemp race, [0] then it is entirely appropriate for a CL organization to support one candidate over the other. To claim that the ACLU ought to be, that it could be, apolitical, is to categorically refuse to prepare for or fight against the most powerful attacks on civil liberties.

In general, I've come to value neutrality and apoliticality less and less. What's "political" and what's not is loosely defined and socially constructed, and I suspect it's occasionally deliberately constructed and redefined by the media to shut down certain discussions or criticisms as "inappropriate". Neutrality is likewise poorly defined, and it's often just a form of cowardice from media groups unwilling to take an obviously correct stance because they're afraid to lose subscriptions from people who disagree with the evidence.

Plus, one should note that it's the American Civil Liberties Union, not the American Free Speech Union. The author implies that it is somehow inappropriate for the ACLU to fight for civil liberties other free speech. "Immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, reproductive freedom, and racial justice" as named by the article are all as much civil liberties as the right to free speech, and thus it is within the organization's mission to champion them. Yet the author describes the ACLU as unable "uphold its core values" by supporting these causes.

Plus, there's this:

> But in 2018, following the ACLU’s successful litigation to obtain a permit for white supremacists to march in Charlottesville, Virginia, which ended in death and disaster, the ACLU issued new guidelines.

There's good logic to the idea that an attack on the free speech of Nazis could weaken the rights of the rest of us, but an organization that regularly defends Nazis (a group of people noted for their desire to commit genocide) will eventually have something like this happen. It's an area where the cost-benefit analysis may well not turn out in its favor.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kemp#Accusations_of_vote...
Who made these circles in the Sahara?
the Old Testament does say you can stone your belligerent child to death outside the city walls if you like (Deuteronomy 21:18-21 [1]) - after all, what is the death penalty if not a very late abortion plus some due diligence?

However, more interestingly, do you think you could cite where (a) the Bible forbids abortion or (b) the Bible makes clear that life begins at any point prior to birth?

[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%202...
I think an even better quote for this situation is the one where the same character says “there are 3 ways to make money - be first, be smarter, or cheat. And the easiest is always to be first.”
> I've never met the people who want these clownish surveillance things

I'd guess the much older folks that don't use any of these means of communication wouldn't be strongly opposed and will probably be voting for some social benefit carrot program that is included as part of the package.

That said I have no data on this whatsoever and am just speculating.
They're asking for aggregate data, not personal data.
> Or perhaps there are non-obvious blockers that make it too hard?

To me, it seems like you'd need a new language.
An evil individual can easily defeat mass surveillance, because there is inherent asymmetry in encryption. She can encrypt her evil messages with, say, 6-words passphrase that no government would be able to crack no matter how many billions of dollars they throw at the task.

Mass surveillance only works against innocents and low-wit criminals.
sshfs is a linux filesystem driver that uses ssh (secure socket host) as a transport mechanism. With proper setup you shouldn't feel latency except with very large files (can be mitigated with caching). I think there's a windows client available but an alternative Windows solution is using WSL2 to facilitate ssh.
Pharma is no longer a great choice for PR. Several of the various federal advantages to locating there have expired
Tether has a yield in the same way USD cash has yield. You have to deposit into a platform and get exposed to an instrument to generate the yield.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31329982
In SFF PCs like the NUC this makes a lot of sense.