skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advances in missile technology, specifically Track Via Missile, means that they don't need to be precise enough for targeting anymore, they can be off by 100-200m+, but as long as the velocity measurement is good, the missile can fly in the neighborhood, acquire the target, and cooperate with the radar to confirm that they are locked into the same target and maintain a perfect track. They are definitely difficult to transport compared to others, but they are now small enough to be integrated into a truck, and communication is good enough they can segmented into more modules that can be on different vehicles and still work, greatly increasing transportability and survivability (the antenna is cheap, so it can be almost sacrificial as long as the processing is done elsewhere). Susceptibility to noise is a much lesser concern now due to the generalization of AESA technology.

We can now also do sensor fusion, so a low frequency radar can communicate with other radars and even higher frequency radars that wouldn't be able to detect the target in search mode but could obtain some data in track mode to obtain almost perfect accuracy, make it difficult to evade, provide redundancy, defeat jamming, and discriminate against decoys and chaff, as well as provide bistatic capability and help in noncooperative identification. Also crucial is to defeat stealthy antiradar weapons an F-35 might fire in self protection by tracking them from a direction they might not be stealthy in and provide warning or even targeting information to shoot down.

Integrated air defences are very scary, and it's actually incredibly concerning for the USAF that they never fought against a real IADS. Russia is doing so right now in Ukraine and it's clearly not easy even against 40+ year old systems not even being used as designed, and for the same reason no Ukrainian fixed wing has been able to launch any incursion into Russian territory, only helicopters flying way below the radar horizon.
Their codebase and infrastructure is a huge gobbled mess, according to someone i know who worked there. Dont be seduced by a mention of Ocaml.
That will run both the backend and the frontend on the remote server, while VS Code SSH will only run the backend on the remote. ssh -X is very slow for a complex GUI across a non-local network.
So lets say the tech companies start requiring every Indian looking person to self identify their caste(with penalties if found lying later) on their employee profiles so that everyone in the company can look for signs of casteism to fight it. Same with all Indian looking interviewee to monitoring hiring bias.

Do you think that will tend to increase or decrease discrimination in the companies against various caste groups? Note that caste is much harder to find than race, and many Indians in the US don't care enough about caste to try and find out, but some may now subconsciously or consciously discriminate in both illegal and legal(friendships, dating, invites to social events etc. like racism in America) ways.
But they're not necessarily better - disease spreads much easier (as we are still having demonstrated to us), the noise is bad for your health, the air is bad for your health, the population is completely unsustainable when technology fails, at least in the US they tend to be smelly, dirty, etc.

Until the masking and restaurant restrictions were lifted, there were next to no COVID cases in town and no one around us caught it. Meanwhile, my entire friend group (20+ people) in SF all caught it at some point. I'm the only one of the group that hasn't had it.
The tile size doesn't change, but the number of pixels per meter does as you note--distortion being greater the farther you get from the equator (in the Mercator projection).

The protomaps blog has some heady stuff you may enjoy reading: https://protomaps.com/blog/free-tier-maps. Felt apparently uses protomaps.js, which you can learn more about in that blog as well.
This seems to be an area where the supposed goals of DEI (increased diversity) align with expected business behavior (ie. trying to expand the applicant pool to get better talent and/or reduce costs). That's a good argument for keeping DEI, but also a good argument for getting rid of DEI and telling recruiters/managers to just do their jobs (ie. trying to find candidates wherever you can, whether they're an white appalachian coal miner or a visible minority from the inner cities).
I worked for a company in the SEO space a bit over a decade ago, initially to try and learn the things you call out above. My surprise at the time was to discover most of the snake oil being sold as “SEO” was nothing more than basic usability 101 stuff. Make sure titles are descriptive. Try to use terms that your readers would use and recognise to ensure the content resonates. Structure your content in a sensible way with clear headings. It’s almost like Google were trying to turn a human experience into an algorithm! ;) There was obviously a bunch of black hat stuff too but the efficacy of that was generally pretty short lived and the techniques tightly held. The whole SEO industry seemed to be in on the joke that you only spoke about those techniques or provided training on them after they stopped working.

Something seems to have changed since that time though. I don’t think it’s Ahrefs because there were similar services long before them. Did Google lose their way and stop trying to quantify a human experience? I had my concerns back then when they introduced the concept of a canonical URL for duplicate content, something that’s implemented in a way to only be useful for a bot and not a person. But I’ve been too distant to these things to know if it was an isolated example or the beginning of a trend. Did the cat and mouse game of improving usability come to a plateau and now we’re in the inevitable end game of exploiting edge cases and 2% improvements? Is this what should have been the completely predictable state we’d end up given the alignment of incentives? Search results that are _just_ good enough so that you don’t abandon Google, but not so good that you click a result instead of an ad.

I don’t know what the cause is, or if it’s even just one thing. But it definitely feels like it’s been getting progressively worse for a long time and that the rate of decline has been accelerating.

To that end I’ve personally switched to Kagi. It’s at least ticked the “just good enough” box for me for a few months, which is something that never stuck with DDG. And so I fronted the cash for an annual subscription incase the incentive system with Google was part of the problem. I figure me moaning about it while still active using it means I’m complicit in being part of the problem too. And so I should vote with both my feet and dollars in support of any team that’s actually trying to fix things.
Are you from a higher caste or a lower one? In the '90s, if a usenet discussion turned to how racism basically doesn't exist anymore, one might question whether this was shaped by the group with access to usenet being almost entirely white.

Here on HN I have to question whether the voice of lower caste Indians is proportionally represented, and if not, why that might be.
Well, you're right.

My problem is that they started doing this my using "zero knowledge" as a term from cryptography. The trend had started in early 2010s or so, as cryptocurrencies and all things crypto became popular, people realized they could use that vibe for profit.

So cloud storage providers in particular had realized "zero knowledge" sounds cool and fancy and started using it in their marketing despite stealthily assigning it entirely different meaning from where they took it from (well, some had their cryptographic designs all backwards recognizably even to my uneducated brain - false promises when most customers don't have sufficient knowledge and awareness, business as usual). They were critiqued for it, and they just shrugged it off because who gives a fuck about some angry nerds insisting on some correct word usage. And so this shit caught on, and yes, now we have two meanings.

I suppose I got to let it go, but I feel upset about the outcome.
Do those tactics work in European countries? The legal regimes are quite different from the US/England
Warning, there’s a whole lot of malware ad-hijacking going on on this site. Read with caution.
I don’t get it, projecting a curved surface onto a flat surface given some constraints isn’t even grad school level math. The 2D Map is hard because it requires knowledge of undergrad Math?

Assuming your not not seeking to create a perfect representation of 3D reality since that is impossibly hard.
"All hands" is now banned at some companies because it's not inclusive to people who don't have hands.

"Postmortem" is apparently next on the chopping block because it's triggering to people who know somebody who has died.
> For example, in the US, one could easily describe the black-white divide as a more violently enforced caste system.

Yes, you could use a wildly inaccurate analogy to show a lack of understanding.

Caste (varna) and jati are not about race. They’re culturally transmitted and not based on easily visible characteristics.
If today's word is too easy, Randall Munroe calculated some of the most difficult ones to guess:

https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1522260318512156672
Start a REPL and you can type code in that is immediately executed, and has no side-effects in terms of classfiles being generated or otherwise. How is that not interpreted?
> Ms Streets and Trips had functionality google maps doesn't seem to aspire to

Is there a list of that functionality somewhere?
I absolutely care. About how absolutely cursed HSTS is as a concept. It's basically the EME of TLS.

The idea that they put it right in the specification that browsers were prohibited from allowing users to bypass it, even if they know what they're doing, fully moved browsers out of the "user agent" category.
Please have a seat and let me tell you a story about a little something called 'Kubernetes'.
Disney Hires Apple Games Exec Mark Bozon to Head Metaverse Creative Strategy
You can never guarantee that your food doesn’t make people sick. You can and must follow all regulations, guidelines and best-practices but that’s on a best-effort basis.
>In that sense, a lot of DEI is akin to an abuse-prevention org: figuring out how particular ways of measuring can mislead or harm, and how we can improve or account for those in the absence of any single perfect measurement.

But something tells me that if management decided to use some obviously flawed way of measuring performance (eg. # of commits), that DEI won't step in unless it turned out that black workers committed less code than whites or whatever. In that respect you don't really want DEI, you want an anti metrics abuse department.
The sleight-of-hand in the Chinese room is that Searle asks us whether the man in the room understands Chinese. Of course not. This is like asking whether my CPU knows how to decode h264. The real question is whether the embodied process instantiated by the actions of the man, along with the other involved components in the room, understands Chinese. But the argument doesn't touch this claim.
No extinguishers seems pretty surprising, does OVH not have all those certifications that surely ask for such things?
Similarly, I searched for the name of my product (Streamie) and just got porn results.
>Seems a bit like gatekeeping

So? This seems like a thought-stopping word: "Oh, gatekeeping! Awful". I'd say we could use some more gatekeeping.

>Some people rely on audiobooks

Well, if you mean the blind, or even people with no time outside car commuting, etc, well for them it's another matter.

I might rely on a walker to go around, but that doesn't mean that it's just an altertive for walking that I prefer, as opposed to a remedy for a health issue.
A funny story of a miscommunication about randomness in the real world, there was a miniatures game called Heroclix in the early 2000s. They apparently communicated with the factory that was making them in China that they wanted 5% of the miniatures printed to be the ultra rare ones.

So the Chinese happily obliged. The first 5% of the run was nothing but ultra rare miniatures and none of the remaining 95% printed had any ultra rates. The first people to buy boxes were very happy!
you're not missing anything.
If you wouldn't mind my asking, do you happen to know where HoJos sourced its ice cream from? Did HoJos really make those 28 flavors or simply slap a label on some other creamery's work?

Also, if you can you should totally do a Reddit AMA. It's stories like your grandfather's I find interesting.
Around 2011 I had a job that required me to use ArcGIS often. Quantum GIS (now just QGIS) was nearly unknown in my office, I think I was the first person to require a QGIS install there. Fast forward 10 years and it is awesome how the project progressed in this time. Now the situation inverted, my old colleagues and the people that came after use mostly QGIS.
Show HN: K1pwit – 1Password on iTerm2
It may sound silly at first, but the numbers are not far off. The added losses for 50% (power plant) and 80% (cooktop) efficiency would give you the same 40% overall, but now you don't need massive pipes carrying flammable pressurized gas everywhere. And both of those numbers are probably higher for modern equipment (ex 60/90 = 54% overall efficiency).
1. Montgomery talks about quantization noise. He doesn’t assume infinite precision.

2. DAC output is not stairstep. There’s an analog reconstruction filter that filters out the ultrasonic components, thereby getting back the original smooth waveform. You should read up on DAC design.
Also seems like an opportunity for a couple of perceptive and honest VCs to invest in companies before they get blown up by less discerning folks who get cold feet in the Series B round.

Walking away with $50 mil is a lot better than with liquidation value.
Oh wow! Very appropriate. Looking forward to seeing this fleshed out when you get more time. Will give it a shot on my next project.
You posted 3 links that are written such a way as to suggest that they are. And they lead to posts that says they definitely were rescinded.

In another related post that came earlier than this one, a Twitter thread very strongly suggests they did rescind the offers after saying they wouldn't, and the poster is trying to help the jilted gain referrals since many of them turned down other offers because of this.

But then you're saying "For context... they're not rescinding offers." Maybe much more context is needed. Or at least one link that supports the idea that they aren't.
I remember this old quote:

" Welcome to the world of strategic analysis, where we build weapons that don't work to counter threats that don't exist. "
Honest question: do you really need concurrency to solve problems?
I'm at my least productive when I can't use a debugger (Jenkins jobs, nginx config, networking stuff). Everywhere else, getting it set up is my top priority.

* I usually fix the bug right there in the debugger where I find it. It's so much easier to fix logic in a REPL with all the actual variables available then in a slow guess-and-rebuild cycle.

* Being able to inspect complex objects is so much more convenient when you can right-arrow your way through the levels or watch a nested subpath.

* I'm constantly surprised and confused as I make my way through code. Reality contradicts my assumptions at every step so I need the ability to see that to find my way to the bug at all.

* I love log statements, but I typically need the debugger to find the place to add the log statement. There are so many candidates I'd have to add five prints for every one I use.
I work in government contracting with very expensive and heavy pieces of metal that kill people if something goes wrong, and even I can't convince people they need to use formal methods to help write their code. So the easy answer is 'no'.

That being said, FM is an enormous spectrum; if you squint a little, writing really good user stories could be considered a 'formal specification'. There's a really good paper from Amazon about model checking (Newcombe 2014 IIRC) where they make the bold statement that "Doing the math didn't help us find that many mistakes, nor did using the model checker; the thing that was most helpful was sitting down and forcing ourselves to come up with really good definitions. Like what does X really mean?" So it doesn't have to be as complicated as you think.

So if you want to start as simple as possible, I would recommend something like this: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/decision-table-patterns/
> Our tooling is written in Node.js.

Sure. My question is why.
> That's... not really caste, though?

My understanding from a brief examination of published papers is that it is a significant component of it though.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285414433_Mapping_C... " Color and Caste Discrimination The belief in Aryan racial supremacy dominates social hierarchy practices in India. Upper caste members claim a superior lineage by tracing their “genes” to Aryans, connoting a “natural superiority” over “Shudra” and “ex-untouchables.” (The term “ex-untouchables” refers to Scheduled Castes, also known as Avarna (outside four Varna), Outcastes, Panchama, Antyaja, etc.) This chapter uses terms such as Dalits, ex-untouchables interchangeably, to refer to this population, though the socio-legal term defined to this population is Scheduled Castes—deemed as non-Aryans. Aryans textually are described as a pure, noble, and superior race: physically tall, with sharp noses and lighter skin color. Dasyus or Dasas, on the contrary, are considered of lowly origin and racially inferior due to their dark skin. Such stratification based on skin color is perhaps one of the oldest forms of discrimination and domination in human society. "
This is the model of a lot of work of the future in my opinion with automation.

One 'wizard behind the curtain' and a bunch of automation with lower tier support staff.

Think truck drivers driving huge trains of trailers with the aid of self driving technology keeping the train in line.

A single Lawyer stamping off on support teams with legal automation, able to handle most of the cases a team would have done previously.

A single medical doctor stamping off on support teams work and automation, handling entire clinics.
Hi, this is my first post.
Hope you folks try this out and give me some feedbacks :)
> hopefully this doesn't make me one of these apparently hated "rational" types...!

Maybe? I don't know. :)

It's fun exploring the art of discourse on HN. The moment I added pathos and pathos to the logos I was using, my online conversations got a lot better. It's fun playing around with 2600 year old tradition of rhetoric, trying rhetorical concepts out and seeing how people respond.
> No one said anything about it being difficult or hard to figure out, just that some curious minds who might have started playing around in the REPL will might now pass on the opportunity and miss out on the fun, and that's a pity for them.

This is a valid point. The difference though these days is finding the REPL would likely trigger a google search anyway since the internet is so ubiquitous. Developing nations would of course be an exception to this though I guess.

My first introduction to programming was typing code from the C64 manual into my C64. It's a shame they don't include a self contained learn to program environment into modern operating systems.
> To your point though, help out the distribution networks by buying yourself an extra filter or two now, and put it on the shopping list every time you use one

Yes! Socially we need to make a distinction between buying extras of things after an emergency has started (harmful) and doing it in advance (helpful)
When you're a minority and already hired at Google, you're not "oppressed". You're privileged, in the 0.01% top of the world. You're also more privileged than pretty much every single white person on the planet, should you see them as "oppressor".

That doesn't mean you cannot have a discriminatory experience, but people really need to touch grass.
If they exit they wouldn’t be Mittelstands anymore. They would just be regular mid sized companies that were sold off.
I’m curious if he will befall the same fate as Gregory Sancoff, who built a steath boat called Ghost before there was a request from the Navy, who decided they didn’t want it but forbid him from selling it to anyone else - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-19/the-feds-...
Yes, I suppose that's closer to where I was going, and I saw that you did address that, I guess I would extend that in saying I'm not sure that pre-imposing advantage and disadvantage to either groups is completely necessary. What I would say is that an overwhelming ideology of where one group "belongs" in the society relative to another can become a self-fulfilling prophecy over time, even if those groups weren't always inherently uneven (it helps if they are obviously). There were plenty in the south that believed that slavery and racial inequality was for "societal good" and that society wouldn't function if this wasn't maintained.
I'd like to throw mine into the mix (we're a non-profit that plans to donate 80% of our profits to other non-profit organizations and charities, but we need more traffic before Google will enable ads, so at the moment then we're ad-free and not generating any income to donate):

https://ask.moe
> you can't even yet put async functions in traits.

I find the compiler reminding me constantly that I can't. I don't worry much about the viral nature of async, but this annoys me so much.
Ah, indeed! Not much data yet, but with my first pimantle just now, I was able to get it in 33 tries, instead of often over a hundred with semantle. It really helps to "see" how you are approaching (or not approaching) the word in one more dimension.
Interesting. How does it work? Like, what's going on in that screen capture?

Never having used iTerm2, I'm not familiar with what appears to be: launching a new terminal window which, after some input, then 'communicates' information to the prior terminal window.
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596888
I've been running a filter cube in my office 8hr/day since November. It's a bit grey, but far from black.
The “real cloud” you speak of was down for almost 5 full days in 2021.
To a certain extent, it's just enforcing what you have to do for correctness. If you have concurrency (even without parallelism), and objects are shared across contexts, you have to keep track of when objects are in use or not. The other option is enforcing exclusive access (which is just a way of maintaining a refcount of 1)

At least Rust makes it easier with an Rc/Arc type! Can't tell you how many refcounting bugs I've dealt with in C since you have to remember to increment and decrement the count manually.
How much were companies even talking about the 'metaverse' before Facebook, Inc. rebranded as Meta?

Honest question.
Half would be damn good. Better would be solving the hard half.
No, they aren't.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39179/are-cheap...