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While Falcon 1 was developed on internal funding, the first two launches were paid for by DoD through DARPA. There was also a 15 million USD contract to launch a military satellite in 2005, that ultimately fell through (unknown how much was paid to SpaceX by the time of cancellation, but definitely not 0). In 2005, SpaceX boasted USAF as customer lined up for Falcon 1 launches.

Ultimately, first 2 launches the customer was purely military, and third launch by SpaceX was shared military / NASA / civilian client.
Ok, maybe you have information I don't have, but those planes have long range missiles of their own.

What would a US carrier group do to stop a large group of Tu-160, Tu-22, Mig31 and similar aircraft armed with anti-ship missiles with ranges that in many cases exceed 1000km, and some of which are supersonic or even hypersonic?

If the carrier is several 1000 kilometer from land, maybe F35's flying CAP + any additional scrambled fighters may provide enough protection.

But the closer the carrier gets to land, the more vulnerable they may be.

What kind of missile would you use against these bombers, and at what distance?

Now keep in mind that the enemy can stay in the air for a while far within their friendly airspace, and then suddenly start a dash towards you at a speed of Mach2.

In cases like this, I would believe that having a few F-22 around (possibly from land based air bases in the area) would be a good addition to the fighters on the carrier, simply because the F-22 could much more easily dance with the enemy bombers as they were repositioning.
The European Parliament (Who appoints the commission) has an average age below 50.

There are certainly problems with electing too old people in some representative bodies. The US congress is one example, while the European Parliament isn't.
> (e.g. no more $25 gift card for working at Intel for 5 years)

Wow, what can $25 even get you at Intel?
For those that are wondering, 2,699,664 TiB (~2700PiB or ~2.7EiB).

(I've assumed TiB over TB given they are the sizes reported by the drive manufacturer.)
Depends on numbers I suppose.
One employee - not a mistake.
Twelve thousands employees - looks like a quite big mistake?
> Honestly I don't understand why a consortium of governments and businesses with high regulatory requirements don't simply get together and develop a common platform for this. They'd rather give billions of dollars to Documentum or Oracle. If they want support, SOMEONE will provide paid support, like Postgres

Or have a cooperative of businesses write the necessary software.

In Germany we have vaguely similar thing going on with DATEV: Basically all tax advisors are members of the DATEV cooperative if they want to use their software suite, which for all intents and purposes is able to implement absolutely anything a tax advisor is required to do while at the same time implement all regulatory requirements such as confidentiality, archival rules, reporting, logging etc.

In my opinion there should be a similar thing going on for all industry to implement the regulations required by GoBD, GDPR and so on.
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No, they are the ones responsible for enforcing them. They are not the ones responsible for deciding what they look like and if exceptions are granted.
Yes, and that's how they found it. But as this comment explains, it's not quite as trivial as you'd think:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34570931

We were lucky that it was found close to the road and thus not masked by background radiation.
We do that too, in fact it's not only the DB that run in docker, but the whole build + CI process.

Our overall strategy is to create a master "test" DB with a test dataset, and for each test, copy this master DB to a test specific DB (CREATE DATABASE <testdb> TEMPLATE <master>) so that tests can run in parallel without interfering with each other and without the significant overhead of a "from scratch" DB initialization.

For schema migrations, we build the "branch/PR" version and the "main" version, then we check that 'init DB with "main" + migration with the "branch/PR" version' results in the same schema as 'init the DB directly with the "branch/PR" version' using apgdiff.

This strategy could probably be extended to migrating from every older version by building each tag, but we don't have that need.

We could also probably improve checks on the data itself however as for now, we only check the schemas.

Few things to note:

* it's still possible to run the tests outside of docker and use a local DB instead with some light setup (it's faster than running everything in docker when developing)

* docker argument --tmpfs <dir/of/db> is quite good, assuming you have enough ram for your dataset

* few configuration tweaks on the DB, like max connection might be necessary.

Overall, we are quite happy with this setup as it permits to implement end to end integration tests quite easily without spending too much time mocking dependencies.

As a general pattern, I find instantiating dependencies internal to your service (like a DB or Queue) to be the way to go, with mocking only for external dependencies (like external APIs) or exceptionally to reach a specific code branch (specially error handling sections).
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Additionally, the value is a "schema" as opposed to a boolean, meaning you can apply a subschema to any additional fields. Useful if you for instance want to make sure any additional fields start with a specific prefix.

Booleans are valid schemas. It's subschemas all the way down!
I wrote an article around this topic: https://json-schema.org/blog/posts/applicability-json-schema...
It's shocking to me that Hashicorp would focus on building this undifferentiated work and not on shoring up their core offerings as SaaS where they are falling behind resting on their laurels selling Vault to central IT teams that are increasingly not on the vanguard on the companies they work for.
Edit: I realised you're probably being tongue in cheek here and I completely missed it.

That's not quite how it works. It's not like a game of Civilization II where stealth beats SAM.

The problem modern stealth aims to defeat is that radar capabilities are networked with high speed processing.

Rolling a single S-400 into enemy territory doesn't suddenly make even mig-29s obselete.

Similarly an F-117 couldn't fly over even a S-125 with absolute safety.
Indeed

I live far, far away from my company, in tiny village while earning salary like people working there

and im spending that money locally, thus supporting local businesses and communities
> Microsoft's primary use case for 1GB pages on Windows is MS SQL server.

It is automatically enabled, but only if you have the "Lock pages in memory" privilege assigned to the database engine service account...

... which the default SYSTEM account has enabled by default...

... but not if you set up a typical cluster with a domain user account.

So in other words, the scenario where you would want this enabled the most -- large expensive enterprise clusters -- is where it is accidentally disabled with no warning.

I use this as a free 10-20% performance boost. Add in a few other similar tuning settings and I can get a 50% pref improvement on just about any "enterprise" cluster without having to get clever.

Turbo buttons are fun to press.
Personally I prefer TLP to powertop, they even have a FAQ page on the differences. https://linrunner.de/tlp/faq/powertop.html
I'm teetotal and I feel like I can sort of turn this on, usually motivated by boredom.

I wonder if I am putting more effort into it, or lacking a genuine uninhibitedness which drinkers access easily. Or perhaps, on the contrary, by drinking they make it harder to access this state naturally?
Most of the demand for chips, and the vast majority of the strategically important demand, is not for chips made with state-of-the-art fabbing. Slightly old tech and IP is more than enough to become chip independent.
Is "I only have their phone numbers, how could someone who is not me ever find a way of contacting them" a serious question?
I think compiler writers understand this "C is a portable assembler" entirely differently than regular compiler users, because compiler writes are in the trenches all day long and focus (too much?) on relatively minor code generation and memory model details which are just not relevant for most compiler users in their day to day work.

Of all the popular high level languages, C is still (among) the closest to CPU and memory, especially when taking compiler specific language extensions into account which are often simply not available in even higher level languages.

And while modern compilers do all sorts of funky and sometimes surprising code transformations in their optimizer passes, I can still look at a piece of C code and the compiler's output as assembly, and figure out which parts of the C code result in what parts of the assembly code. Some parts may be massively reduced, some parts expanded (e.g. by loop unrolling), some parts may have disappeared completely or shuffled around, but the relationship is still recognizable.

Also, from the POV of a programmer in the 70's or 80's who's used to manually stamping out separate programs for each CPU type in assembly, and then switches to C and only needs to write code once which then runs on different CPUs as if by magic, C would absolutely count as a "portable assembler", and I guess that's the origin of that phrase.
Hey hey now.. Remember! He’s just schluby kid who tried to make the World a better place and things got out of control..

Just a naive kid..
Have you tried https://workdrive.zoho.com?
I'm not too familiar with botco.ai, but from what I can see, we're approaching fairly different problems. DocAsker once deployed on an internal documentation (for example) would allow you to query it, for things like "What was agreed upon on the meeting about X?" or "What's the deployment procedure for the forecast tool?".

We haven't thought about marketing use-cases like botco seems to be focused on, and we're probably a bit too tight resource-wise to target this usage as of right now.
It's crazy that Finland is OK with only being able to fly their planes 20 minutes a day. I get they are so fast that intercept from takeoff isn't much longer than intercept from up in the air but still...
Have recently found this to view HN: https://hckrnews.com/, a "chronologic list of items that have made it onto the Hacker News homepage", by homepage I presume the first page.
> keen to find out who was responsible at the lowest level

It's funny how profit flows up, but legal responsibility trickles down.
The tests are being run against small test datasets of 10s of rows rather than the real data that test whether the behaviour of transforms/joins etc. is as expected. You're right, this approach wouldn't be sensible if the tests have to use large production tables
As a British child, I marvelled in awe at both a Dover publication reprint of a turn of the century catalogue, and a contemporary 1970s one. I could handle either and budget to suit. I never got to buy, only to marvel.

Great bog reading.

The clothes were simply awful. That said, my last pair of 501s were bought in a Seattle sears in 2014 or so, a very very sad shop. I think I may have been the only customer.

I'd rather be able to buy a complete house, a barrel of mixed screws and a bb gun, along with a false limb and cookware from the same store than not. Costco and Amazon aren't quite as satisfying.
In the Wikipedia article it’s clear that the container of the caesium 137 was punctured and the grains of caesium powder were handled by many people and spread on surfaces.

That’s just the original source of beta particles being spread around rather than the beta radiation “spreading” in some way.
THP are a quick win for people who have little control over how malloc behaves. Like Python and numpy, for instance.

I did a lot of HPC modelling ranging from hundreds of GiB to TiB-sized RAM servers and THP was an instantaneous win over not using it. Later on I experimented with LD_PRELOAD_PATH and libhugetlbfs and while it did stabilise things even more and reduced time spent in the page table, it was not even several factors 'better' than THP.

A large part of this really boils down to your performance needs. Deterministic modelling -> fairly stable and reproducible malloc patterns -> THP will probably work OK.

If your memory usage spikes a lot then THP is probably more hassle than it's worth. The kernel will spend an eternity thrashing and kicking the page table and trying in vain to clean up after itself. I can see why people feel THP sucks under those conditions!

If anything, the real crime here is how awful Linux is at HPC without a lot of tuning and careful tweaking. Throw NUMA into the mix, file caches and the OOMkiller and it feels like it never moved out of the 90s. Combine it with poorly-configured hypervisors and your performance will yo-yo and you'll spend an eternity trying to figure out why (ask me how I know...)
Obviously the standards should be in concordance with how critical the infrastructure is. I thought that went without saying. I'm just trying to ask if we should expect working on critical infrastructure to be "fun" and not burdened by regulations.
It doesn't seem to actually go this far -- it means however that any repository for this free software, which can be obtained from the open repositories around the world, would need to have age verification in place. Meaning that in order to access all of this FOSS, there would be the cost of providing this filtered redistribution service. However it doesn't seem to suggest anyone would be afoul of the law for using a VPN to access it for themselves, likely undermining whatever funding model that service was providing.

It's frankly patently absurd all around.

The one amusing point though I suppose is the fact that Microsoft owns Github, and so while many repos could go ahead and say fine, we don't do business in the EU, Microsoft itself would be the company most impacted by this, as they would need to add in age verification for Github, not really having the easy option to just write off the EU as a bunch of technocratic lunatics.

Furthermore, it gets interesting when we consider cloud computing -- if a child has an AWS or Azure VPS, does this mean the cloud provider must do age verification before providing access to distribution provided repositories? There aren't many kids that are using text based protocols, and probably even fewer that are using finch's discord plugin to access perhaps a more popular platform among youth, but at the end of the day, these are provided.

And then there's the whole matter of web based IRC or other chat services.

Really, did they think about this at all?
That is too simple.

For example, consider if drunk driving is common, and lots of people get into accidents because of that. Then a self-driving car might do better than a drunk driver statistically. But then, what if you are not a drunk driver? Then you might personally drive safer than any self-driving car.

A more realistic example could be that 65% of routes are safer in a self-driving car, but then your personal commuting route might be in the remaining 35%.

Or for example one might look at accidents caused chiefly by inattention and assume that a self-driving car would perform better in those situations. But then, you have the unknown quantity of complex situations where a self-driving car will cause an accident due to not being able to understand its environment.

There isn't really a way to condense the discussion to a single statistic without being disingenuous.
oh I didn't it was france -> japan too, I know about the japan -> france fascination from the old japanese prints that feature the eifel tower, and hot air balloons, and of course the stories of japanese tourists being overwhelmed by paris
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Just out of curiosity, why?
Why do you expect the next government will somehow be better for Sweden than Erdoğan?

If they climb to power, they will still need to compel to hardcore nationalist population, in case of Sweden even more than Erdoğan, since they will need their social credit for topic they find important to them and won't burn it because of Sweden.
If it wasn't for the need to do your part in the alliance, of which the US is the most powerful member, then Finland would probably choose Gripen, hands down. The Gripen is basically designed for Finland by virtue of being designed for Sweden. Ground crew of 3, can land and depart with regular roads, reload-refuel in 15 minutes, low fuel consumption etc etc.

Even with Sweden within NATO, Sweden would be a small industrial-military partner and the US a big one.
Wile E. Coyote’s problem was that he was too smart for his own good. His plans were intricate and too clever-by-half, they needed weeks of planning and sophisticated, usually untested equipment.
I believe your comment supports my argument.
Remembering that water flows downhill, and places a long way inland are likely to be significantly higher than sea level, I'm not sure how feasible digging long canals many miles inland will be.

Particularly if they will then fill up with salt.
I don't really buy this, I haven't read any "pg article" which contains something novel that I didn't read some version of sometime before pg ever wrote it. Even "write simply" was first expressed probably 100+ years ago by Strunk and White.

Basically, all of pg's writings are also just cobbled together from other sources and only become notable because he's a rich, successful person.
If you follow PG on Twitter, he elevates it beyond just a blog.
I think it will be hard for them to compete with Twitter.
They don't have to be, but they are. And we ignore that our peril.

I'm not arguing against working from home, I think working from home is great. I'm arguing that to make progress we need to consider things like "now that so many people are working from home, what do we do to help the people who have been affected negatively by this change?" People like baristas, gas station attendants, auto mechanics, people whose livelihoods depended on everyone commuting.

In prior changes, a wave of economic growth took care of their needs. I'm not sure that's going to happen here, so I think we will need to be more intentional about it.
Maybe because the technical selection process was not important? The decision was purely political, they wanted to please the most important NATO country, and they wouldn't achieve that goal by buying MiG or Tornado.
Ask HN: Best Linux distro for a young kid’s first computer?
My 3 year old told me the other day that they want to be able to push buttons like daddy does at work. So now, ridiculous as it may be :D, I am working on repurposing an old desktop into their first computer. The idea is mostly just to teach them to use a mouse, keyboard, and maybe play some simple games.

At the moment, I am planning to install a lightweight Linux distro as the OS. Has anyone done anything similar? Any recommendations on a kid friendly distro? I am leaning towards using Elementary OS at the moment, but I’m not sure what else I’d put there.

Thanks internet friends!
Consider the mythical-man-month. Maybe they are focused on core offerings.
Agree. This is something I would love to have on Youtube (or maybe for the whole web).

I have the feeling that there is much much more content out there that I would enjoy, but youtube is doing a really bad job at letting me find it.

E.g. I have 2-3 repair youtubers that I like to watch. What if there are others like them out there and I just can't find them?
Office365 would be nice if OneDrive were not crippled with a 1TB data ceiling before "additional storage" expenses, per user, render the use of Office365 too expensive for many a small business.
They look pretty different to me, but that is an interesting fact. It also seems that humans are a lot more sensitive to it than rats are.
I agree. To me it’s like asking if an employer giving employees paid time off (vacation days) is bad for the economy.
Iosevka Webfonts hosting using GitHub Pages
Iosevka already provides webfonts, but there is no hosting option available. The issue to add Iosevka font to fonts.google.com doesn't seem to be processed. Therefore, I create my own Iosevka webfonts hosting using Github Page (inspired by Pvinis).

I've created a legacy version, but its massive size causes Github Pages build issue. That's why I created Iosevka-webfonts organization which contains bunch of repositories. Each repository corresponds to an Iosevka webfont variant.

The update process is processed in update-centre repository. It is scheduled to check for the new Iosevka release, then fetches webfont-type assets, and pushes changes to corresponding repository automatically.

Hope you guys enjoy it!
YMMV. The 'hustle and bustle' of the city is something many people would rather avoid.
Well, an outright ban would make most corporate business in the EU impossible, which is why China hasn't even gone this far. I guess you could go ahead and try to ban VPN's for private use, but frankly my suspicion is that this would not be easily enforceable, and on top of that would be easy enough to get around using a "poor man's VPN", ie, ssh -D. Going down the rabbit hole further, banning ssh would still leave the door open for things like stunnel, socks, or heck, even just http proxies.

At some point you're asking to just change the way networking works in the first place. All to stop kids that can drive a car and meet strangers in person from chatting with strangers on the Internet.
What? Your view of Australia’s indigenous population seems to come from the 1850’s.
> I really wish they'd send a couple of squadrons of Gripens to Ukraine, because I think they'd be the perfect aircraft for that theatre.

With or without pilots?
The distinction is breaking someone else’s windows. Plus you need to win, not just start the war, and extract some resources from the someone else.
If that's what he's aiming for, it's even dumber than if he thinks he's mounting a straight defence

"Too arrogant and rash to play by the rules" is a case for the prosecution, not the defence. People get ruled mentally unfit to stand trial because they can't string sentences together or have the sort of verifiable mental health condition that'll see them institutionalised anyway, not because they're running round breaking other rules

Same goes for the my client's background is in trading where in some markets losses are inevitable, and he deeply regrets not having more oversight and understanding of the compliance issues he paid other people to handle defence being a lot more persuasive to a jury if he's not blogging about how the bankruptcy team should have handed the company back to him so he could win all the money back...
"Newman is Jerry's enemy. He lives in the same building as Jerry and Kramer"

I was expecting this would make Newman, Jerry and Kramer all neighbours of each other, but it only did it for Newman and Kramer.
An analogy with vision is definitely appropriate. From each node in the path you you push forward to the visible neighbor nodes. The efficiency of the algorithm comes from exploring the space polygon to polygon.
He’s the typical guy with the deep rooted belief that laws do not apply to him and are there to be exploited in order to give him an advantage. Also people are nothing more than pawns.

He even exploits his own image to present himself as non-threatening almost incel kid at the bottom of the social pyramid - which is comical when you learn about who he is.
The moment in which techies realize that they became the mainstream, and counterculture is elsewhere.
I feel that the original Gioia article may be more interesting:

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/14-warning-signs-that-you-ar...