skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Russian "hypersonic" missile is just the upper stage of a short ranged ballistic missile launched from an aircraft. Its just an existing weapon with more steps.

The Chinese hypersonic weapons everyone is worried about is a boost glide vehicle. Basically a ballistic missile with a hypersonic lifting body as its warhead as opposed to a blunt body RV you usually see. This makes it more maneuverable and potentially harder to hit.

The weapon the air force tested today is similar to that but meant to be launched from bombers instead of ground launched.

The actual scary ones are hypersonic cruise missiles. Nobody has fielded one operationally yet. But the US is by far the furthest ahead in this technology. In march they had a successful test of HAWC the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept. Scramjet powered cruise missiles like HAWC are more dangerous than conventional ballistic missile or boost-glide missiles because they actually fly. And therefore can do the things normal cruise missiles like Tomahawk can do. They can take circuitous routes. They can change their altitude. They can fly somewhat evasively. They can fly to an area and pick targets of opportunity. And other things.

Why does it matter? We've gotten much better at shooting down conventional cruise missiles. A few years back an Arleigh Burke destroyer had a number of Chinese built subsonic anti ship missiles fired at it by Houthi Rebels. It shot down every single one of them. These missiles are comparable to the Neptunes that recently sank Moskva in terms of performance. So modern warships aren't as vulnerable as Soviet era antiques. You need better weapons to kill them. hypersonic cruise missiles are much harder to intercept. Boost glides are of dubious utility in my opinion.
> "an obvious problem with this, the pricing structure would become transparent "

How is the pricing structure not currently transparent? What number are you missing exactly?
I love new task management systems. They are so handy to dump my work into, and then ignore like I did the old one ;)

I love the concept. I hope it catches on for folks that are successful in using these!
I’m completely baffled by this comment. Itanium is dead, never made it to the desktop and so has zero chance and we have an actual mass market Arm desktop available - and apparently selling very well.
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Sickle cell disease is exclusively caused by genetics, not race. The vast majority of people of African or Afro-Caribbean descent aren't carriers, so have the same likelihood as everyone else who is not a carrier to develop it.
Like you I'm skeptical. But there are certainly things I have faith in that other people have no reason to believe so I'll allow other people their own faith based beliefs as well.
Not sure about the autofocus advice; I'm pretty happy with manual focus. It requires static camera placement, and fixed distance to the person, but isn't this happening anyways? Are people really walking around the room or moving camera between calls?

Manual means there are less failure modes - slow autofocus, autofocus trying to refocus, focusing on a wrong thing, etc.

It also means the hardware can be cheaper - camera doesn't need to have good autofocus (some old DSLR is fine), you can also use manual lenses.
Good point! Will add it.
The 4a is actually a smidge smaller than the 3a. Much easier to handle, IMO, though not quite ideal.

Your point about bezels getting smaller is very true for the phones you mentioned. But you also left out the Pixel 4a 5G, the Pixel 5a, the Pixel 6, the Pixel 6 Pro, and the Pixel 6a. Which all ballooned massively in physical size relative to their predecessors.
>Aegis BDM is designed to hit hypersonic reentry vehicles

Ballistic hypersonic reentry vehicles. The entire point is that these new weapons are maneuverable in the atmosphere at mach 8+ all the way to the terminal phase.
Consider the possibility that technology changes with each decade and the previous system is...you know...now obsolete.

I assume you have a smart phone and not an Amiga. By analogy, if your enemy has "iPhone" level weapons, would you want to face them with an "Amiga" level weapon? I doubt it.
oh yes I remember reading this now.

Co-incidentally I was just glad today morning that iPhone doesn't show the row of small notification icons on the top-bar all the time. And then noticed that notifications don't show on the home screen also. I pulled down the notification list and saw a ton of notifications - I said no thanks and left them all unopened.

I did switch from Android to iPhone recently. I think notifications on iPhone are way better, I get distracted way lesser. Tho I don't get many important or time-sensitive notifications. Just a bunch of transactional notifications.
Please make an android phone the size of the old iPhone SE. I want out of the Apple ecosystem but there are no phones this size on android I can find.
Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live with Her Voices
I was half-thinking about taking the Postgres wire protocol code[1] that CockroachDB uses, and adding it to rqlite[2]. Then you could talk to rqlite using Postgres tooling (perhaps). The only thing is that rqlite doesn't support distributed transactions in the usual sense, so there might be some difficulty mapping Postgres transaction control to rqlite. But still, could be interesting.

[1] https://github.com/jackc/pgproto3

[2] https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

Disclaimer: I am the creator of rqlite.
If they're profitable why would they panic sell?
> Except the associated plasma shielding makes it invisible to radar.

All hypersonic ballistic missile reentry vehicles have this plasma stealth. That doesn't stop Aegis BDM from tracking and intercepting them. Have you ever seen a reentry vehicle coming in? They're as bright as meteorites, very easy to see.

> And the Russian ones are capable of sea skimming and maneuvering at mach 8 in the terminal phase.

These are the hypersonic cruise missiles; very different from hypersonic boost-glide missiles. This is what I mean about the media talking about "hypersonic" generically without specifying the technology they're actually talking about; it leads to people believing that 'hypersonic' is itself the technology.
Herriges Rezoned: A City Shaped by Many Hands (Strong Towns)
As prosperous and socialist as they might seem, Denmark also has the ugly determination of being #2 in the world's inequality index (only behind South Africa). Intentionally or not, the policies have had entirely the opposite effect.
> All three of Trump's appointments are more conservative than Kennedy

Would it be hopelessly optimistic to suggest one might want to qualify that and say that "based on their previous decisions they appear to be more conservative than Kennedy"?

> SCOTUS tends to be less ideologically rigid than the other major institutions

Yet even in here, commentary on appointments to SCOTUS appears to show a fair degree of ideological rigidity.

> the justices are much more aligned with their associated parties

As I said before, at least from the outside it looks like there is a fair degree of non-alignment within the parties on major topics.
Many years ago at a small private company that had access to thousands of Google analytics accounts ranging from recognizable name brands to people just trying to get started. You could actively watch small brands grow big over history and in all cases it was clear that twitter success (in terms of traffic from twitter and follower count) trailed brand development.

This was also not universally true of all social media. Facebook for example did precede growth in quite a few cases.

I also want to repeat the caveat that this was quite awhile back, so I wouldn't give it too much credence for today.

However my Twitter critique also grows out of several cycles of activity and inactivity over many years running a reasonably high traffic (for it's niche) blog and seeing these same observations. Twitter activity only caused minor bumps in traffic, and never correlated with a shift in the baseline readership.

Others here claim different experience, and it's quite possible they are correct. I have found personally that it's very easy to conflate the "feels good" of getting a lot of likes/follower/etc with the illusion that "this is working". Twitter is like a micro HN front page, only at least with HN you'll get a pretty ego inflating spike upon success (which is in practice is bad for marketing because it makes it easy to focus on the things that feel good over the things that work).

For better or worse the best source of consistent increases in traffic was (and from my experience still is) SEO. A high ranking post will have the highest probability of shifting your baseline traffic up.
Keep in mind that if you're going to be using a fast lens as the author suggests the focus depth will be paper-thin at large apertures. So you're probably not going to get that creamy bokeh in your standup unless you stand perfectly still and move only your mouth muscles.

You can really see this effect when the early mirrorless DSLRs took to market and every youtuber was using one with a fast wide open normal lens. Everything was zoomed in and out of focus resulting in queasy viewers. It took a couple of years for them to get the hang of it though.
... Adversarial examples.

It's a whole field of research, and it's pretty trivial to generate them for most classes of ML models. It's actually quite difficult to create robust models that DON'T have this problem...
Twitter is about writing a quick thought to get it out of your system and hoping some of your followers actually sees it, which statistically, they won't. I wrote an analysis 12 years ago about it (below). With the passage of time it's clear that without AI algorithms, Twitter (and other social networks) would be totally useless, instead of mostly useless, as it is today.

I didn't get how good AI was going to get back then so I assumed Twitter (which was only 4 years old at that point) was a fad that would eventually fade. Missed that call. Instead it became the greatest tool for spreading misinformation that humankind has ever created. Woops.

I stopped using Twitter on January 20th, 2016 and deleted all my previous tweets, likes and followers. I only have an account now as a placeholder. I encourage you to do the same.

https://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/drinking-from-the-fireho...
Possibly a stupid question but can any of these public CI services support the following:

1) Build containers easily, for each commit?

2) Provide hypervisor access for custom VMs?

3) Secure support for 1/2 for possibly hostile PRs?

I'm currently using self-hosted gitlab runners for 1/2 but not 3 and interested in alternatives.
I can recommend a full-frame Canon RP ($999) with RF 35mm f1.8 lens ($449) as a relatively inexpensive narrow FOV setup.

Edited to add: Meant Narrow DOF when writing this, but both are true if you sit close to it!
If you define "knowledge" both expansively (things that at least one human knows) and specifically (as in, not "how galaxies/stars/planets form" but "how did that Galaxy/star/planet form") the first and third estimates probably round to 0%, and that's without delving into the nitty gritty of biospheres, ecosystems, clades, species, and organisms, etc., Much less civilizations (even just our own, as it expands outward), technologies, cultures, subcultures, movements, philosophies, fashions, memes and so on. Knowledge is Fractal, and Space is Big.

“I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.” — Isaac Asimov

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

As for "things that we know that just ain't so", it sort of depends on how you define "false". On one level, the map is never the territory, so all knowledge is an imperfect approximation. But if we loosen our britches a bit, and say, that, for example, both Newtonian and Einsteinian physics are still "true" (and will continue to be even as they are superseded by better theories), then I'd say probably about 50%, and that the percentage will stay steady over time.

“The map is not the territory” — Alfred Korzybski

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George Box
Biden's bumping up the military budget by tens of billions of dollars, that's what's turning this around.

We finally got ourselves out of the Middle East, but we gotta keep the military-industrial complex fed, I guess. We already spend more total and per capita than the next top ten countries combined.

It's so sad. We could do so much domestically, or just worked on influencing foreign policy by helping other countries, instead of military force projection.
I was able to do this on my Rebel T7i by switching to manual focus, and then selecting the "info" button a couple of times to remove the overlay. There might have been some other changes I made, like turning off the grid overlay, but I think just the first two changes were enough though.
> Rural areas could probably have 10x the current population density without touching agriculture.

This does not apply in central Europe.

Real estate market in Europe is severely constrained now. There is a demand overhang (for every property you've got hundreds of interested buyers) for family housing (I'm not monitoring situation in other markets) even in rural areas, at the same time all villages/cities are limiting new construction by zoning and/or building regulations.

My suspicion is that increasing the area of land intended for urban construction should decrease the house prices and increase their availability.
I settled on a similar approach. I used to liberally follow all sorts of accounts that seemed even remotely relevant, but signal to noise was abysmal and there was way too much drama. Several times I was on the verge of quitting, even though Twitter was quite useful for promoting my own work and that of my students. But recently I decided to try a new approach and systematically unfollowed a lot of accounts. Now I stick to the following diet and it produces a much more healthy and interesting feed:

1. No politicians
2. No journalists
3. No institutions
4. No companies
5. No entertainment
6. No anonymous accounts
7. Some notable exceptions in all the categories above
8. Mute words to taste

What's left is mostly genuinely interesting people who post about things they understand and truly care about.

I primarily browse the chronological timeline without retweets courtesy of a nice search function hack (you must be logged in for this to work):

https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20exclude%3Are...

The algorithmic timeline has a bad reputation but it's actually useful for stuff you missed. But I only check it after looking at the chronological feed.

I also like and mostly follow these suggestions for using Twitter effectively: https://twitter.com/AlanLevinovitz/status/151946437478365184...
It's also a two-wheeled vehicle powered by legs
https://twitter.com/_scaryh/status/804647101149966336
See also: Supercavitating torpedos, which reportedly can travel at 300-350 mph.
You have to do a lot of advertising. Not buying ads on Facebook, but talking about the project and trying to convince people to join. Putting a project up on GitHub and then sitting back and waiting for people to show up will result in exactly 0 people showing up. You'll need to identify where your target developers are, currently, and go to them. It helps to get interviewed in tech blogs, too.
Because the sauce is not in the camera, but in the software. I recommend the following article, if not even for reading, just to appreciate how much processing magic is going on: https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
> I'm not sure there is a solution for that, other than perhaps carrying two devices around. Most people would not be happy with that solution and tethering the bigger device to the smaller ones (so they share internet connectivity instead of both needing SIMs & paid accounts)

People do that all of the time and gladly pay the extra $10 for a smaller “phone” - the cellular Apple Watch.

I will leave my phone in a heartbeat when I’m going to the gym, the pool, or anywhere else where a large phone isn’t convenient and I still want to be able to keep in touch with people
Seems like we just need a modernized XS12 with the correct frequencies
sidenote : implementing RAFT myself was really tough. The original paper has 2 or 3 obscure points which were really hard to figure out...
this is hackernews
The least happy people I know are those who spend much of their time obsessing about the religious beliefs of others. Doubly so for those who lack any of those beliefs themselves. Usually they end up lying to themselves about not having beliefs based on faith and end up absolutely miserable trying to defend their ever shifting secular faith based beliefs. The happiest, in my personal experience, are those who are secure in their faith and have no need for external validation of their faith from others. Ultimately you only control yourself. Wasting energy on how stupid others are in your perception due to their faith is a road to personal unhappiness.

So to answer your purported question, simply don't value how others perceive your religious faith. Their emotional state is their own responsibility. Don't let it become yours.
If you check out the Kubernetes folder in the repo, then you find the Kubernetes setup to run in a distributed environment (that is also highly available).
I'd argue the complexity of trying to achieve this at all is too much to bear in practice, especially considering the type of customers this would be inflicted upon. Competitive gamers will now also be wondering if the "fake lag" system is bugged, in addition to all of the other problems that could still exist.

Some problems cannot be solved with clever tricks.
> "Obviously the vendor shouldn't delete data, that would be stupid"

Since data accrues charges over time, there is no alternative if you want a hard cap. Which is why none of this is very simple at all and requires a tremendous amount of planning and complexity just to implement, let alone all the possible new issues and mistakes it creates for customers.

Again, this is the typical "write some code in a weekend" approach that's missing all context of what it actually takes. And as I mentioned before, it's far easier to just negotiate billing then to deal with the aftereffects of whatever service and data disruption this feature would cause for the tiny fraction of customers that end up with this problem.

Waving your $5 fee is far easier and cheaper than spending millions on trying to avoid it in the first place, only to get replaced with potential complains that a production account was suspended or deleted.
Could you explain what you mean by ‘non proprietary’ boards. All open source software, open hardware. Would closed source RISC-V designs count?
I have a Rock64 and I don't remember it being that difficult to setup. Maybe I was just using it as a headless machine, but to get a working Linux install shouldn't have been this hard.

I typically use Arch Linux because it's very barebones, and Arch Linux ARM has a working setup [0] for the Rock64. You do need to write various parts like U-Boot bootloader onto the SD card manually, but everything has been pre-compiled. If you prefer an image that you can directly flash onto an SD card like Raspbian, then maybe you can try Armbian [1].

These should get you a working Linux install rather quickly, bringing you to up to the "sixth circle" as written by the author.

[0] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/rockchip/rock64#ins...

[1] https://www.armbian.com/rock64/
None of the leaked specs (if real) for iPhone 14 include a "Mini" variant, so it looks like Apple killed theirs.

I'm going to buy a 13 Mini because of Apple's long term support, so it should last me a good few years.
> Additionally, for most cameras, the input feed used by the software goes through the camera's image processing stack as if they were using the real-time "Live View" feature (i.e. showing you the image you're going to take post-processing, i.e. real-time image processing). This often heats the camera up and causes it to shut down due to thermal overload. If you use a capture card, it captures whatever's on the screen without hitting the image processing stack, which is much less resource-intensive.

These pathways are the same. You're decidedly not getting raw video out of (most) consumer cameras via HDMI.
> I'm afraid you're entirely missing the relevance of the core fact that the syntax and runtime execution of programming languages are humongously difficult to understand for the large majority of computer users.

No, I know that, I just don't think it's a relevant problem for the user group we are talking about.

> Saying that the web brought nothing new because BBSs existed before

I did not say that? And in the first place, BBS competes with other networks like the Internet, not a service running in such a network.

> The main new aspect that logseq and Obsidian bring to the table is the possibility to backlink to any part of the hierarchical structure.

No, they do not. Linking is a fundamental concept of hypertext. And easy linking inside your dataspace, as also automatically listing backlinks, was already established with wikis 20+ years ago. Even hierarchies exists in wiki space for a long time now in several different ways.

> The tools automatically compile all those links as a new data object, which the user can process without creating a script to gather all that data.

What kind of low-level-tools have you used till now that this is your level of knowledge here??

> In logseq / Obsidian, you can keep adding multimedia content to your structured knowledge base, and exploit that content without coding at all

Yes, because someone else does the coding, as always. This is the benefit of a popular ecosystem. But this is not the point of having a scriptable and programmable app. The scripting just enable you to personalize on small levels. The programmability should enable the user and community to extend the program with new abilities, as dataview here is doing it. There are other extensions who enable scripting to certain degrees for the user, as obsidian is not really adding this on it's own.

No app will ever be perfect for everyone. That's why extensions and scripting are beneficial, especially for this space.k

> What tool before these ones had that possibility before? With hierarchical structures, not just flat structures like the spreadsheet?

The constraints again. Why does it matter that obsidian&co. can do some more tricks than their ancestors, like playing videos, when the fundamental purpose and handling is still the same? That's like the old joke of taking something old and just add a clock, to sell it as new. More bells and whistle don't make a new church.
I think this comment has it right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31414217

DAI may still be vulnerable to a liquidity crisis. I.e. if there are no buyers for the collateral. This is probably not an issue if DAI is relatively small, but what if it becomes the dominant stablecoin?