skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big mistakes were: starting a war with your largest trading partner, allying with countries that could not make up the trade difference, and assuming the country attacked would just give up rather than exploit its factor of ~6 advantage in production capability.

Attacking Pearl Harbor, in particular, was a lethal mistake. The "sneak attack" guaranteed the US would be filled with a thirst for vengeance. Japan might have done better by simply bypassing US possessions (including the Philippines) and going after European colonial areas to the south.

The US only won much faster than expected if one didn't understand how quickly war production ramped up. All that really mattered was that the US was going to do that.
And, having done that, the US would just swamp anything Japan could do.
Actually, I have a trick for exactly this.

Start playing in a domain as closely related to the work as possible (i.e. explore a tangent you're curious about), then, if/when you gained some momentum try to identify a good stopping point try to smoothly pivot into what you should really be doing instead of stopping.

It doesn't always work, but every now and then it does.
Sorry, I only meant to address with some nuance the statement "A failure with logic should nuke due to the app being in an inconsistent state". If you are confident that the specific DFA code in the blog post will not fail, more power to you! And to us, which transitively trust the code via your judgment ;)

Edit. For technical geeking around:

* The point is about redundant check elimination, not full check elimination. A decent compiler should be able to eliminate redundant checks, though perhaps the language could offer some intrinsics (was: pragmas) to make this 100% reliable.

* For DFA proofs, perhaps something like https://courses.grainger.illinois.edu/cs373/fa2013/Lectures/... could be a start. A great intern may tackle it over a summer ;)
Fiji becomes first Pacific nation to recognise waste pickers
Gross margin is their sales price minus costs of goods sold.

Doesn't include indirect costs, which include non-recurring engineering (NRE). Which is huge for a company like Nvidia designing and verifying new parts, and paying for the masks to make them, which appear to go down to TSMC's 3nm node. Also making new reference designs for boards, I hope tech support for OEMs etc.

They're also one of the very few hardware companies that's good at software and that appears to be done with six figure market salaries per a search I just did.

High gross margins also give them maneuvering room when the market turns against them like now and very possibly for a while longer, and I seriously doubt they've ever believed they could confidently predict what the cryptocurrency market would do with their repurposed systems.
That just strikes me as a reiteration of what I'm already talking about.
> There are situations in which if you detect errors you want the program to continue running, and have only that particular functionality to fail.

Yes, like a web server. If a request handler fails by panicking, in a Rust program, you catch the panic, respond with a 500 error and log the panic somewhere. But you continue serving other requests.

I talked about this in the blog post.

The problem with your strategy is that it requires you to be aware of your own mistakes. That doesn't sound like a robust strategy, unless you're investing huge resources into sophisticated tooling and have drastically restricted the expressivity of your programming environment. That exists and is fine, and I even addressed that in the blog post too.
It's true. Why is Amazon/Google/Facebook considered the evil triumverate of the panopticon and not JP Morgan Chase/Capital One/AmEx? These three know more about the US economy than the BLS or Dept of Commerce.
The san juan's seem to both collect and produce wizards
Well climate != clean energy.

It would be great if there were people looking at climate change in truly innovative ways. But if it's a lot of the same-old, wrapped in a new ribbon it's going to be a disappointment.

And honestly there is a huge disconnect between the dire warnings we're getting and the actions we're taking. If it truly is an existential crisis, better wind turbines and solar panels that are 2x more efficient are great, but they're not gonna move the needle, and the real work should be a bout surviving in a hotter world.
TornadoCash is a smart contract, so there is not really a way to enforce the sanction.

Plus, there is not really a way to tell who creates a smart contract if you cover your tracks well enough.

This sanctions stuff is smoke and mirrors for the government to try and convince themselves they are capable of doing something.

The most realistic approach is for major chains to go POS and the major validators and other important pieces of the puzzle to need a lot of resources to the point where they become businesses and are on the governments radar (and by extension they would need to comply with regulations).

But because everyone knows that is a natural consequence of POS, it is exactly why no reasonable person would be on board with a transition to it.
Of course -- all money laundering attempts to obscure the source of money. Usually, launderers get caught when they make mistakes, or when money is used for goods or services which are more easily observable.
I'm comfortable that, in the zillion words I've self-indulgently written on this thread, I've established both my bona fides and where I'm coming from with respect to the issues at play here, so in the interests of not repeating myself, I'm not going to repeat myself.
These subsidized 'unhealthy' foods are highly calorie dense. While in-theory, you can eat less, you will not feel full like you would with low calorie dense food.

For example, an Apple weights 200g and is 110 calories. Whereas a double cheeseburger at McDonald's is 173 grams but 450 calories.
Might have to start pulling cable.
It has a lot to do with shipping and protection of trade routes. That is about to become a lot more harder and more expensive.
If your place was listed on Zillow/Redfin/Streeteasy/etc then they already have a detailed floorplan. Idk what they are going to learn about where you put your couch.
Congrats on your launch.

What are your distinguishing selling points (besides cost) compared to Amazon Device Farm[0]?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/
Personal transportation by drone: (Basically, flying cars.)

Just imagine, you can travel reasonable distances without needing to deal with traffic. Your drone could pick you up on your roof, and then drop you off on a roof in a city, bypassing roads and traffic.

More importantly, if most personal transport is by drone, it means we don't need to invest as much in roads, bridges, and railroads.
We have a web page which lists every single tool/service we use, and we actively encourage people to check whether unfamiliar links are listed on that page.

I've considered creating a browser plugin which marks the address bar red/green when you're on URLs the company (dis)trusts. Seems like this would be something that should exist already.
The PPSh-41 was also inspired by a weapon from Finland, but still the Soviet designer Spagin had to make a lot of adjustment. For example they used stamped parts, in order to make it easier to produce the weapon in great numbers.
Something similar must have happened with the AK-47 as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPSh-41
> The strengths of the AK-47 are its ease of operation, endurance to mistreatment, and insignificant failure rate. It trades these features for weaknesses including less accuracy, less safety, and a smaller range than similar weapons.

I'm not sure how it's unsafe, but regarding accuracy I'll point out that a modern AK with a decent barrel is much more accurate than most people think. I used to hunt with an AK and standard ball ammunition, and killed several deer at about 80 yards. It was more than adequate for the task, in fact I never had one run off.

On paper, I'm usually at about a 2" group at 100 yards. Certainly there are more accurate rifles, and that group would open up substantially at 300 yards, but for my purposes it was a great rifle.
The 1857 Utah War
Fair point in regard to the original story. I was mainly responding to the GP discussing hiring for management level, assuming hiring had happened as well. But, yeah it doesn't have to be illegal but can still be fraud.

I find it interesting that perceptions can be wildly different. In some societies people who don't game the system or try to commit fraud can be seen as naive or stupid. In others, the complete opposite - those who try all these things, are shunned and held in low regard even if they haven't actually broken any laws, because they are breaking social mores.
Or they found a way to profit off the thing and took the conversations to private channels.
One positive does not erase a litany of negatives
Robots this time.
Blackout is limited to spec-ops use. More interesting is this: In April 2022 the DOD awarded substantial contracts[1] to Sig Sauer for the manufacture of the XM5 rifle and XM250 automatic rifle and the "6.8 Common Cartridge" as part of the Next Generation Squad Weapon Program.

The new 6.8 is a much heavier and higher pressure round than the 556 and delivers far greater range and body armor defeat capability. The pressure is so great (80,000 psi, 551.6 MPa) that the case head (the 'back' part where firing pin hits) is made of stainless steel instead of brass; a 'composite' (steal + brass) case. I don't think that has ever been done in a military infantry weapon; all steel cases have been around a long time, but those are about cost saving as opposed to performance.

80,000 psi is pretty extreme in a rifle round. The high end of traditional brass case ammunition is 65,000 psi. That includes high performance rifle calibers like 338 Lapua Magnum and 22-250.

Also, the XM157 Fire Control optic being built for these new rifles is remarkable: "variable magnification optic (1X8), backup etched reticle, laser rangefinder, ballistic calculator, atmospheric sensor suite, compass, Intra-Soldier Wireless, visible and infrared aiming lasers, and a digital display overlay."

Due to the undoubtedly high cost these weapons will be limited to the 'first responder' combat forces and M4/M249 will be the mainstay for the rest for many years yet. But this commitment including the official designation of a new cartridge is a clear signal that the DOD is taking infantry weapon performance rather seriously.

[1] https://www.army.mil/article/255827/army_awards_next_generat...
"The XM5 Rifle will replace the M4/M4A1 carbine within the close combat force, and the XM250 Automatic Rifle is the planned replacement for the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon"
> And not in a country that extradites to the U.S., or every planning on going through one. Or using U.S. dollars. Or the currencies of its allies.

Only US persons faces criminal prosecution for sanction violations. Non-US persons face secondary sanctions which is still quite serious penalty.
By that logic everyone with two brain cells who has worked on an interstate road crew should be imprisoned.

Of course you may consider one _knows_ launderers will be helped but have no _intent_ to help them, which may be true of the interstate road crew, bank tellers, or a user of Tornado Cash.
Because nobody except a very few number of extreme technologist would buy it.
"The smart knee: Supports the goal of 100% patient compliance, and, Provides remote, automatic internal medical data through an intuitive user interface"

Not language I expected in the ad copy for a prosthetic knee replacement.
To be fair this looks like any Youtube Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Space, or Twitch HQ.
Name one.

He fought his way to where he is in the late 80s, early 90s from nothing [1]

The idea that you shouldn't be proud or shout about your achievements is a technique loser adults push on children to stunt their potential.

[1]: https://i.redd.it/2p6oli8y8to31.jpg
That might be due to literary/aural poetic conventions.

Films don’t usually show anyone shitting. That is not proof that nobody had to go to the bathroom.
Vanilla Data Fetching in React?
Someone should probably change the title then, it’s currently describing Wonkey as “A cross-platform programming language by the creator of BlitzBasic”.
My issue is less that it drops connection (seems pretty solid once I have music playing), but that the initial connection can take several tries.

My guess is that when the receiver is awoken by Airplay, it is then attempting to connect to the “Last Used” input (or something) which disconnects Airplay.
I had low expectations for Becky Chamber’s books but so far I have liked every one of them.
Love this idea. I’ve been sending screencasts to PMs for years now, something like this would have saved me dozens of hours over the years.

Since I’m mostly an Apple dev, when do you see yourselves supporting iOS as well? I’ve seen other companies try the “Mac/iOS in the cloud” thing and I’ve yet to see it work perfectly so I’m curious what your vision is to make it a great experience.
300bo was done by AAC on its own though. There were some in the SOF community that were looking for better subsonic/more knockdown.

I think 300bo is closer to 9x39mm in application.
I'm building one of the RC2014 Z80 based kits. I was looking at the CP/M docs and I was struck by the similarities between CP/M and a VAX/VMS process address space. There's a well-known vector or jump table at some fixed low address, a chunk of address space in which to load a file's code, a shell (CCP or DCL) in some high address chunk, and the OS at the very top of the address space. The shell reads a file into the address space and jumps to the specified entry point.

CP/M is said to be heavily influenced by DEC operating systems. Is what I describe above an example of that influence?
The nice thing about the blockchain (for law enforcement) is that the transaction history never decays.
> Your assertions are the ones that are extraordinary, so yours is the side that requires proof.

Ah, or your assertions are akin in a technical sense to saying “the internet is a complex series of tubes, prove me otherwise!” Your criticism is based on a pretty clearly patchy technical understanding.
Go ask the Termux guys (and girls), how much fun they are having with Android's Linux experience.

The Linux kernel is not part of the official Android API surface for app developers, only for OEMs.

Anything that works, is out of sheer luck, might work only on specific devices, or be killed by Zygote and system linker, when the application tries to be naughty and steer away from the official Java/Kotlin/NDK APIs.

Termux is stuck on Android 9 compatibility, until they are no longer allowed to publish such old API level on the store.
https://archive.ph/nHJGU
Dear anon-fresh-hn-account, it sounds like you enjoy terraform. What's your use case?
Meanwhile, Project Gutenberg existed since 1971.

Reminds me of the cheesy William Gibson quote:

The future is already here—It's just not very evenly distributed
Novelists and Reductionists
Twilio Support:

> We're aware that some users would much rather prefer not to use SMS for 2FA usage […] this is a known issue

> Please be noted that as of right now, you can only access [TOTP] after submitting a valid phone number. If possible, we'd recommend you just provide a personal phone number as a workaround

I’d already borrowed a coworker’s phone once for the initial account verification, but requiring it multiple times crossed a line.
The questions align chronologically with his misfortunes, essentially providing a roadmap of the major events that determined the course of his life.

Yes, they're lucky. It's a game show. A large part of trivia game shows is a matter of luck with respect to the questions asked.

But the point of the movie was that his luck on the game show was good karma for the decisions he made at the major points of his life. (Contrast with his brother.)
You're comparing apples and oranges.

None of the examples you listed (Gmail, Wordpress, Electron, Android) have draconian resource constraints, and developers put a heavy emphasis on shipping new features and ease-of-use. The cost of customers lost due to resource bloat is far lower than engineer hours put into optimization - the reality is that customers simply do not care.

For niches that are still constrained, the "quality" you are reffering to is called "efficiency" and it didn't go anywhere since the 80s (in fact it improved due to superior tooling)

I've worked in embedded where I had to come up with ways to shave bytes and kilobytes, now I work in web development and I absolutely don't care about performance. My server costs me 15 bucks a month, I can double it 5 more times before optimization becomes remotely profitable for me.
Freight trains are also electric, just with diesel generators. I'll completely speculate 2 things that stand in the way of them going fully electric:

1. Trains derail, crash, etc.

I live in a city that's a rail hub. We probably have a derailment every couple years even with annual rail/rail bed maintenance. They will fix the rail, the roads around it, and have everything back up and running in less than 2 days. You spill some diesel and it sucks to clean up. You spill Li and you walk into "environmental disaster."

2. Money. When it's cheaper, then they'll get serious.

To the last point it's similar to fleet vehicles for large fleets. You see a lot of pledges to go all-electric by 20XX. That's because replacing a fleet requires a TON of capital already, and fundamentally changing the vehicles is an order of magnitude higher.

Think about a delivery hub like the post office. They have a network already established for purchasing gasoline, delivering it, local storage, refueling process, etc. They have operations built around it.

You now likely have to have parallel infrastructure for electric, which means negotiating major power consumption with each local power company, purchase of new or adjacent land, buildout, etc. Can you refuel in the same time window to not effect operations? If not, can you shift operations without impacting customer experience?

Now, you will see companies deploying all-electric in niches, especially when it opens up new market opportunities. Those tiny urban vehicles could enable vehicles to go where they could not before, reducing time spent walking. And that might have a shorter timeline than autonomous drones that don't run old ladies over.

I think even more than cruise ships and freighters, the biggest all-electric vehicle impact would come from all-electric airplanes. They still haven't gotten off of leaded fuel (see #2). The emissions there are massive.

But I think #1 will be a barrier there too. And the bureaucracy will slow it way down just like it did with unleaded jet fuel, which exists now, but is essentially unused.

And I guess a theme I'm coming up with is that electric is cool and all, but won't impact big % points of emissions until it's adopted by cargo, not human transport.

And cases like trains and large ships that are electric, but fuel the local electric with local power generation bring up the other big point: How would we even begin to power cargo? It's orders of magnitude more massive than consumer vehicles and it's growing so fast that supply can't meet demand.

Anyway, whatever. I know enough to be dangerous but not enough to be an expert on any of this, and I'm rambling.
Running it is one thing, but where are we going to get the model?

Who is going to give away their trained model (that presumably cost millions) to the public? And getting the blame for any nefarious usage that will eventually follow?
Roomba CEO says iRobot will never sell your data (2019)
More than semi-fallacious - the math doesn't add up, because you run into the Bekenstein bound, which limits how much information you can pack into a volume.
I'll bet if this was an accurate quote, what was being said is technically correct but far less mind-blowing than as it was presented.
Usage of EU subsidiaries of US cloud providers deemed unlawful by German court
summary (English): https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=VK_Baden-W%C3%BCrttemburg...

news article (German): https://www.golem.de/news/vergabekammer-clouddienste-von-us-...

primary source (German): https://rewis.io/s/u/PjK/

press statement of law firm (German): https://gruendelpartner.de/newsroom/gruendelpartner-erwirkt-...
Discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14875604
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>I've always found it interesting that AKs are relatively easy to manufacture in rough conditions, but that ARs are easier to manufacture in the US. I can build a working AR lower receiver in the US with tools I have laying around my home (drill press, rotary tool, etc). I can't do the same for an AK because I don't have a spot welder to attach the rails.

Worse than that: AK receivers have to be stamped, rails welded on, then heat treated. A soft AK receiver will run for a while but eventually waller out all the pin holes. The gun will get more and more rattly until it can't completely chamber a round, at which point it will blow up.

The heyday of the stamped sheet metal gun was, of course, WW2. The Sten, MP 36, M3, and postwar AKM, CETME, G3, etc etc. The central planners were staring down the barrel of total war. They were thinking they would have to arm every single man, woman and child in the country. The Brits made four million Stens, at about $150 each.

For that, you want as few machining operations as possible, but you can spend on the tools themselves, since they'll be amortized over huge production runs. Therefore you see heavy industrial processes with specialized tools: 100 ton presses stamping out 20 receivers at a time, specialized heat treat ovens to make up for the downsides of metal stamping, complex assembly jigs, etc.

The AR pattern rifle is unattractive for super-mass production. Milled receivers with curved surfaces and finicky blind holes. But it's not a stressed component, so you can make the damn thing out of plastic if you want, and none of the dimensions are safety critical, since the barrel is self headspaced with bolt lugs built in. (The US could put complex features into the barrel because they could trust their subcontractors to build interchangeable parts-- the Sten had magazine feed problems the entire war because of contractors going off spec and the Soviets had innumerable problems with QA. If you can't trust outside firms then you have to build everything in house)

This means when you shoot out the barrel in an AR, your unit's armorer can put in a new one. If you wear out the barrel in an AK, you throw away the gun-- headspacing is a factory operation, and the Red Army isn't going to waste time transporting trash. Official doctrine on the US M3 was to provide no replacement parts. The whole gun was welded and riveted together. You could clean it, but otherwise it was a disposable unit. Heavy industrial processes are cheap, but not amendable to field repair.
JS (and TS thereby) allows arbitrary unicode in identifiers (variable names, class names, [TS] type names). The lambda symbol is just acting as the name of a type parameter instead of something more ASCII usual like `T` or `F`.

There's a lot of interesting discussions around it as some math libraries like to use math symbols and greek letters and sometimes even emoji as variable/class names in JS and other developers have a gut reaction that they do not like it.
Sincere question: is this satire?
Services like those are part of the scope of quite a lot of national post institutions, and actually for quite valid reasons.
One maker converted his Tesla to ICE because you can't get repair parts for a Tesla.

https://evobsession.com/converting-a-tesla-model-s-into-an-i...