skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starlink is used by the US Military

(Aug) https://www.businessinsider.com/us-air-force-contracts-with-...

(Feb)
https://www.army.mil/article/254316/army_tests_commercial_sa...

(2020) https://spacenews.com/u-s-army-signs-deal-with-spacex-to-ass...
> Contrary to conventional wisdom, the most dramatic and consequential change in the distribution of income in America in the past half-century isn’t rising income inequality but the extraordinary growth in income equality among the bottom 60% of household earners.

> Real government transfer payments to the bottom 20% of household earners surged by 269% between 1967 and 2017, while middle-income households saw their real earnings after taxes rise by only 154% during the same period. That has largely equalized the income of the bottom 60% of Americans. This government-created equality has caused the labor-force participation rate to collapse among working-age people in low-income households and unleashed a populist realignment that is unraveling the coalition that has dominated American politics since the 1930s.

As they say, big if true.
Top-end parts can produce over a 10:1 thrust to weight ratio on performance drones at sea level. I would expect that's still enough to at least hover at the summit of Everest, and if not with the exact same specs, then with larger-than-sea-level-optimal propeller.
bitcoin only completes one block every ten minutes. If you want to be safe you need to wait multiple blocks. Yes, 99+% of the time you're transaction will be included in the next block, but that's not guaranteed.

Waiting a minute is also completely unacceptable. Imagine if you had to wait a minute every time you wanted to sue your credit card, grocery stores would grind to a halt.
Everyone wants to come up with complicated reasons Netflix is in trouble, when it's basically 99.99% that they had a defacto monopoly and everyone was ok licensing them all of their IP for a while so literally every single show and movie was there, and now in the last few years all of the content producing companies have caught up to parity and pulled their huge content libraries. Their originals are perfectly competitive with other similarly sized studios, but it's never going to be anywhere near enough to have the power they had up until now. They were TV, now they're a channel.
My guess is some MAGA types in the Argentinan embassy.
>legally required dividend payments

can you tell me more about these?
Sweden's Swish says hej
That effect is still in question. And the price tag was enormous.
Kubernetes is managed by a foundation so less of a risk than a tool owned by one company.
> So looking at both DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, it is yet another contribution that advances the dystopian AI industry

Given that there are more powerful models that have already been developed, should they be gatekeeped or released?
I wonder what type of limits would be imposed on the "FedNow" system. Zelle transfers are already restricted to a daily limit of $2000-2500 in my experience. ACH transfers I have seen top out at $25-30K per day.
I'm interested in hearing what you've built with AHK such that you're so closely tied to it, and by extension windows.
The latter needs to be done for all drone builds. Its quite simple: turn on manual mode, turn on blackbox recording, record hover throttle setting; enter this value in the firmware via the Mavic/CLI interface. Pretty simple. Surprised they didn't use ArduPilot or PX4 (or even iNav) all three of which are just as good as DJI, completely open source and wildly easy to configure.
This is my experience as well. Just came back from RCCL last week. We bought the "Streaming" package for internet access ($100+ for 7 days). But we couldn't get any connection half of the time.
Obviously Bill Gates was wrong: 640K isn't even enough to print hello world /s
Because a bald eagle getting killed by a wind turbine has the same impact on wildlife as a pigeon killed by a cat.
Agreed. Nobody would confuse sex play with gender play. Both terms exist, and are well understood.
what programming language is this being developed in?
This is extremely tame shit, and I'm offended that wikipedians think that this is remotely close to being a decent list of true creepy pasta.
I want to thank you for posting this. I was not aware of the Merck Manuals, and have often struggled to identify useful information on WebMD or Mayo Clinic sites.

Today my wife had a specific medical concern that we wanted supplementary information about, and because of your link we had incredibly helpful and credible insight that helped us and provided a deeper understanding of what her physician was saying.
Omg, they want the kids to be able to read
A Look at Some Interesting Documentation Methods
No, it is a weird usage of “sex” in this context, but at least they are explicit. It should read “gender”. May have been an IRB issue. Had they used the word “gender” then this MAY have made the research design approval process twice as complicated. I wonder if this study was exempt from IRB human subjects research oversight and approval?
Having a diagram drawing tool that automatically lays things out in an elegant fashion by default is really wonderful -- especially when I am just getting started on any given project.

But if that diagram drawing tool does not graduate to allowing me full control over every detail of the output (albeit that might be verbose or awkward) then it cannot grow with me as my requirements become more complex and it is good only for toy-sized or throw-away projects.
> can you tell me more about these?

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/appendix-b-divide...

I googled "fed dividends" without quotes. You'll also find other results on page 1 of the search detailing how this works.
Google competes for user's attention and advertising dollars. It seems pretty straightforward to say that prohibiting competitors from operating is an anticompetitive action.
Fascinating. No need for immigrants at all. I wonder why...
This is only true for multi modal learning, but yeah, in that case we need text and image pairs. More than likely it's possible to pretrain image and language separately, and then use a vastly smaller number of pairs. But that's hypothetical.
> Google's needs are not the needs of most businesses, and what happens when they decide to throw their weight around

Nothing. Because AWS has invested heavily in Kubernetes and they would just fork the whole ecosystem.

They've done it in the past with Elasticsearch, Spark etc.
Aren't there international rules that ban flights over Mount Everest due to it being sacred to the local populace or something like that? Do they apply to drones?
Hm, I'm doubtful.

I have a smartphone, but I use it for text messaging, calls, navigation, and not much else. Tickets I buy online and print. I've never been to a restaurant that required a phone to see the menu or order, and I'd likely walk out if they did.

The maps/navigation is convenient, but if push came to shove I'd print the directions like I used to do before phone navigation was a thing.
Ask HN: Stable Diffusion for Vector Art?
What would it take to get image synthesis and img2img for generating SVG graphics?
Looks like it will, just not yet:

> INFO: It's currently in alpha. During this time, it's only housed on Terrastruct, which provides the most well-supported interface (IDE) for it. Once we have a stable v1, we'll release and continue development of it in open source and make local options available.
Yes, You can find a map with news about (almost) all drone rescue events around the world here - https://enterprise.dji.com/drone-rescue-map/#map
Better to use LaTeX if you ask me (I know you didn't)
> If I feel that I'm free to make those kinds of jokes about every woman except the few closest to me, then I am essentially granting that same agency to every other guy, leaving my own kids open for those same degrading jokes from others.

In my experience (from observations) most of those people do not think the way you do, and if someone will say something like that to their daughters/mothers they will want to just fuck him up.

> It's a double-standard, and our wives/daughters/mothers are going to see that.

They see that already pretty clearly I think. Unfortunately that's the world we are living in, patriarchal world where by the law all genders should be equal but in reality men make more money than woman in same position, leadership positions are dominated by men, if a woman had a lot of partners some people will call her slut but in case of men they call him playboy etc. Double standards are everywhere around us.
> While I appreciate the work AdBlock does, supporting MV3 is ludicrous. If no ad block extension supported it, it would be dead on arrival

Only to people like us. The amount of tech-savvy people I see not using an ad blocker is surprising. As a user of an ad blocker, I definitely feel like I’m in a small minority in the real world.
It’s a radio jammer on a stick.
I think software quality has fallen in many areas - including UI/UX - as a result of widespread Internet access. It's no longer assumed that anything actually has to work when you ship it because you can always fix it with a software update later. There's no need to do real usability research before you ship because you can always spy on users later.

Unfortunately this seems to have created a culture where little that ships was really ready - at least not to the standards we used to consider acceptable. Everyone is busy pushing out new features and other visible changes every ten seconds. But somehow no-one ever finds the time to go back and fix the substandard quality that got an MVP in front of users on launch day.

Google even warned us about this years ago. Remember in its early days everything was Google XYZ Beta? It was an excuse to ship stuff with substandard quality then and it still is now. We're just less honest about it now.
Finally, the US is ready to catch up to India in this aspect.
You can't tell me flying a tiny drone over the mountain top could in any way shape or form be worse than trashing the whole mountain. Not sure how 'sacred' that is

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/06/mount-evere...
Section 7 of the Federal Reserve Act has the current details:

> 1. Stockholder Dividends

>> A. Dividend Amount. After all necessary expenses of a Federal reserve bank have been paid or provided for, the stockholders of the bank shall be entitled to receive an annual dividend on paid-in capital stock of--

>>> i. in the case of a stockholder with total consolidated assets of more than $10,000,000,000, the smaller of--

>>>> I. the rate equal to the high yield of the 10-year Treasury note auctioned at the last auction held prior to the payment of such dividend; and

>>>> II. 6 percent; and

>>> ii. in the case of a stockholder with total consolidated assets of $10,000,000,000 or less, 6 percent.

>> B. Dividend Cumulative. The entitlement to dividends under subparagraph (A) shall be cumulative.

>> C. Inflation Adjustment. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall annually adjust the dollar amounts of total consolidated assets specified under subparagraph (A) to reflect the change in the Gross Domestic Product Price Index, published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/section7.htm

The most recent change was made in 2016: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcre...
Not typos. The name check is because there's a popular scam which goes like this:

Suppose your grandmother died, and it has been pretty complicated sorting everything out. There's a lot of money that needs to be moved around, a lawyer is involved, Smith, Smith and Thompson. It's not difficult to find people who are involved in such things, after all they might Tweet about it, mention it on Facebook, that sort of thing, "Sorry, grandma Josie died, we're sorting everything out so I won't be at FishCon".

One day you get an email, or it could even be a physical letter, and it seems to be from Smith, Smith and Thompson. It explains that they've just switched banks, and so please ensure that any future payments go to their new account, sort code 12-34-56, account 87654321.

Well that's lucky, you have £18 500 of grandma's money to send over because her shares in a Singapore company were sold this morning when their market opened and that money now needs to be sent to Smith, Smith and Thompson. So you type in the numbers from the letter, the bank asks you who this payment is for, you say "Smith, Smith and Thompson", and you send £18 500.

Unfortunately, account 12-34-56 87654321 is not the new account for "Smith, Smith and Thompson" it was opened in the name of a recent immigrant, Jan and it was empty before your £18500 was transferred, whereupon it was all withdrawn. In a few days when you realise you were scammed, the money isn't there. Your bank might take pity on you, or they might not. If police are called, Jan doesn't have the money, he was given £20 by some guy at a friend's party to do bit of paperwork, easiest £20 he ever made. The cops probably eye him up, then give him a caution and send him on his way, he's just a dupe.

So the name check is because while scammers could easily find someone like Jan, they're going to struggle to find people with names like "Smith, Smith and Thompson" which match a suitable business. This was deemed to be a sensible change because people who don't understand IT assumed the reason they were asked for the name was because it was needed, whereas actually it was for their reference. I used to have ones labelled "Mum" and "King Chris" (it's short for "Fucking Chris") but now it's checked.
I mean, you can live in reality where no one is going to dump friends who use phones
CSS container queries are finally here
Interestingly, the Newton was pretty cheap for its time: released for $900 ($1,844.29 in inflation-adjusted terms). IIRC the original price was supposed to be much higher, but at the last second it was cut lower.

Most first-in-kind technology is usually quite expensive[1] (especially during the 80s/90s era), but Apple has frequently been able to release innovative products (relatively) cheaply, as far as I can tell.

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/paying-for-productivity/
Learning to say no is a vital skill for any talented individual.

These 3 strategies have been effective for me:

1. Buffering: replying with a slight delay (24+ hours) will make interest fade and be an answer in and of itself—while not necessarily resulting impolite.
2. Letting it fall through: If I do not know the source, and they are just doing cold outreach, I think I owe it to myself to avoid wasting energy on something impersonal.
3. Filtering at the source: rebuilding LinkedIn by only accepting and adding people I know and/or I think value my time makes it less likely to incur into these situations.

While learning to say no is vital to preserve energy, learning to prevent having to say no is even more vital :)
I think one way in which it plays out opposite to this is that Kubernetes, among companies I’ve talked to, is being deployed as EKS or GKE with cloud provider specific extensions/integrations while Nomad is much much easier to self manage on top of bare VMs. Even being owned by a single company, there is something about being to self host that feels more “free”.

Obviously this could make a 180 easily because of how much control HashiCorp has, but, thus far, they have been pretty good stewards.
Khomeini was actually pretty anti-union IIRC
Show HN: IdleGC – Idle-time garbage collection for Crystal (Reduce memory usage)
If we could separate their entanglements, we would find that the cost of this or that sort of energy is nothing compared to the cost of systematically despising out-groupers.
> There’s company-wide alignment on delivering the best user experience possible. That means sales, marketing, product engineering, product design, and customer success all channel their efforts into creating a product that provides an unparalleled UX. Product development puts all departments on the same wavelength in terms of the end goal.

Who the fuck are they talking about? Clearly not HashiCorp. The most popular tool in HashiCorp's ecosystem that wasn't written by them was written by a consulting firm who hated HashiCorp's UX. Hashi is like Amazon: shitty UX, but features that capture a market early, and so they remain a dominant player despite shitty UX and unnecessary overcomplicated bullshit.

There are only two things that you need to succeed with open source. 1) solve a problem nobody else has solved yet and drive massive adoption. 2) make it so that eventually people realize they can't get any farther without paying for enterprise features, and their lock-in and over-confidence from the free product will make them convince their bosses to pay you.
useRef is pretty important. useReducer though could be removed and I wouldn't notice.
IdleGC makes it easy to automatically run garbage collection when your Crystal process is otherwise idle. Idle-time garbage collection is beneficial for request-driven processes like API or web servers, because (1) it reduces the memory size of the program, reducing operating costs, and (2) it may prevent the garbage collector from running during a latency-sensitive period.

I've been using IdleGC in production on my previous Show HN project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32081943 and it helps keeps memory usage low and consistent, which allows me to set tight Pod memory requests and limits and get more replicas running for higher concurrency on a single inexpensive Kubernetes node.

I know Chrome does "Idle Time Garbage Collection Scheduling" for V8 JavaScript [1]. Are there other systems, especially backends, that detect/guess when the system is idle, and do GC at that time?

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Now that is a name for the history books. Always thought his role in adapting his country to reality was understated.
I don't think they're all that exposed to us as is, and we're constantly wringing out more and more as technology improves, but you have a good point - it's a big planet still and geologically active.
A JIT with dynamic optimization for these traditionally-AOT-compiled languages has little headroom to improve the code, whereas for more dynamic languages, there's a lot of headroom.

Runtime profiling has a cost, and the benefit has to outweigh that cost. Collecting receiver type profiles in order to speculatively inline has a big payoff in, e.g. Java or JavaScript, but probably not C++ or Rust, where programs have less polymorphism because programmers routinely avoid polymorphism in hot parts of the code.
Fresh Air on NPR.
Why even environmentalists are supporting nuclear power today
Browser support

Container queries are now supported in Chrome 105, and soon in Safari 16.
I don't know anything about anything, so take with a large grain of salt.

drones work because of their elegant control mechanisms. Those require a nice clean radio environment. I suspect, but I do not know, a big spark would mess with the video stream coming from the drone, and probably the real time controls going to the drone. So, like, an arc welder or Tesla coil sparking continuously would do unpleasant things to the drone - no remote control.

You could, of course, make the drone smarter, use AI to detect targets. but that would hurt performance, and make the drone more expensive. I'd point to Iran faking gps signals to ground the us drone, like a while ago.

It's a bunch of tradeoffs. Preprogrammed doesn't have versatility, but is cheap. Dynamic is versatile, but expensive. Remote control is vulnerable to other stuff.
I think sincerity is a better measure. As leaders go, he is one of the lasts of his kind.

He was 14 when the war ended. “Our generation is the generation of wartime children,” he said. “It has burned us, leaving its mark both on our characters and on our view of the world.” -- Quote from the WAPO article on this.
U.S. Geological Survey Endangered, Discontinued and Rescued Streamgages Mapper
> industry

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
> Watching an interview where both participants are less than perfect challenges you to think for yourself.

if both participants are dead wrong, how is that any good?

i mean, would you take programming advice from two guys who have no experience in making actual software?

does that actually force you to "think for yourself" or just cause other listeners with no experience to become misinformed, and those with real experience tear their hair out in frustration?
Oregon Trail goes back to 1971 as this first installment is 50 Years of Interactive Fiction explains

https://if50.substack.com/p/1971-the-oregon-trail
Does a function really exist if it is never called?
> I can't think of a good reason Apple would want to support developers who want to publish in their (very) walled garden but aren't willing to purchase at least one macOS device.

Those devs aren't going to purchase Apple hardware whether Apple sells them cheeseburgers or not, so its more profitable for Apple to sell them cheeseburgers.
Why would I ever pay hetzner money when they dare to dictate what software I can/can not run.
I'll stick with cash which is still instant.
The legwork, thinking, and writing come from the software engineers who are also going to be building and maintaining the thing. The review simply verifies that their plan is reasonable and perhaps suggests some angles they hadn't thought about. Reviewers are engaged in the same kind of work as the people going up for review - which is how they are able to make useful suggestions. After the meeting, some will be going back to coding, others to investigate the alerts they just got paged for, others to design/UXR workshops, others to go run sprint planning, etc.

I would expect an Architect team to deal directly with the product requirements, stakeholders, etc. and produce a design that they hand off to others to execute, while they move on to the next set of requirements. Architecture is part of the project lifecycle for everyone. This process is simply the architecture complement of code review, only slightly more formal.
I live in Lithuania and I guess it was the same here, as all apartments have thick steel doors with multiple locks, and ground floor apartments of older buildings often have bars.

Now though it's nothing like that. I'm originally from the UK and I feel much safer being here. Not only personal safety (I don't feel there's any 'bad parts' of the city you 'shouldn't go') but also private belongings. I've never heard of anyone in recent times being burgled or having their car broken into.
Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
Managing the difference between a home server and a cloud service.

I used to manage some rack-mount servers for a garage startup. That meant dealing with:

- power (including UPS and remote power strips)

- network (LAN, router, ISP, DNS)

- server hardware

- server BIOS (i.e. pls reboot after power failure)

- OS and software updates

- user admin

- backups

And living 500 miles away from the server room taught me how many things can go wrong when I'm away, and what it takes to even monitor that. Can't easily conclude it wasn't worth, since these were multi-purpose and the equivalent capacity on EC2 would've cost a ton, but doing all that just for Xcode builds would've been silly.

Closer to the topic, I also used to just manage a remote Mac mini server. It was also not automatic. Even had both disks in my RAID1 set fail over time.
> Since 1953, at least 11 men have died [during BUD/S].

I was very surprised by this. My guess would have been ~1 per year, so ~70.

That being said, it does seem like there's much room for advancement of health monitoring technology to get that number lower.
Pro Am Netflix
I mean, there are thousands of us, but we do pay competitively with FAANG.
Cats don't kill bald eagles (the opposite actually). That's why there is a fuss. The wind folks will probably take the easy win and skip the what-about.
In which I run `order by punsafe desc` and immediately regret it.