skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The f-22 is also the US fighter with the highest combat ceiling. I believe the actual number is still classified. The f22 took the shot on the balloon last week at 58 thousand feet, which is higher than many fighters can fly.

This one was considerably lower. But IIRC Alaska is a common station location for f-22s so may have just been coincidence.
> “Indeed, rather than increasing diversity in the workplace, these DEI initiatives are having the opposite effect and are being advanced in ways that proactively encourage discrimination in the workplace,” [Gardner Pate] said.

Agreed, 100%. As a black person, I used to believe in diversity initiatives back when I was naïve enough to believe they were really about true diversity (i.e., diversity of thought, background, etc.). Over the years though, my own experiences have taught me that it’s mostly a hustle and/or virtue-signaling tool for a lot of folks in the diversity movement. Ironically, I consistently get shut down by the same individuals who claim to care about diversity simply because my views don’t align with theirs.

More importantly, I never ever want my race to be a part of why I’m considered for a role or opportunity. I like to earn my spot. Hire me because I’m a great software engineer first, not because I happen to be black. The entire concept of equity, in particular, is actually insulting to me. I just want equal opportunity. If I make it, I make it; if I don’t, I work harder. Equity is telling me that I need my hands held because I’m black — how insulting!
Isn't it open source regardless and a lot of the maintainers are not google devs?
> People are born with an innate biological bias towards C like syntax OVER ML syntax or even FP syntax.

Are there some studies that back that up? My wife took the How to Code course on edX, and the use of Racket was a non-issue. The use of it was quite literally transparent.

The issue is that humans react to something foreign with huge amounts of bias. So if I person has any introduction at all to some form of a C-type of language, it seems to shut down all forms of curiosity, generally speaking. I honestly wonder if that has been studied.

I was first taught C, Python, and Java, and was totally uninterested in programming. Once I found functional-first and visual dataflow languages, I was hooked.

I'm generally curious what C and Python people think when they learn something like Prolog? Do they exclaim "this isn't hard enough?".
texas will of course continue to favor one demographic group to the detriment of others
I'm sad they are discontinuing Official. My Walmart has it for $8 a six pack.

(inexplicably less per can than the 12 pack right above it)
How do you notify other countries when you are going to fire an ICBM that it's just a test?

Also, could this possible just be cover for taking out some secret UAP undersea base that spawns all those USOs?
This disregards the business model behind the companies. There are no transactions for wikipedia or hacker news.

Both AirBnB and Reddit are incentived to collect a massive amount of data on their users and to maximize the experience in any way possible. They need the data to understand user behavior and feed it back into the recommendation algorithms. For both hospitality and social media, users look for images/video content since it is much more powerful than text for most people. All of their competitors have equally bad performance for similar reasons, so they don't lose a competitive edge.

Hacker news specifically goes for a retro look with an interface that has not changed significantly in decades. Wikipedia simply doesn't have the money or engineering capacity to support a more robust platform like airbnb or reddit.
It works well under the original intent, as someone who handles things that are orthogonal to development, like gathering information from different departments to answer a question, getting things through approvals, managing feature requests, preparing reports, fending off last minute changes, etc. it doesn’t work when it’s just someone doing business-school project management with story points and 30 minute daily sit-downs
RAF joins US and Australia for largest Allied air exercise ever [video][10 mins]
It’s his company. If even his twists are not promoted, what is the sense of the whole enterprise?
spark is just a tool to let you take a computation that would run in an hour on your laptop if coded properly and send it to a server with 1000 cores where it runs in 2 hours.
Hawaii was still an "incorporated territory" of the US though, surely it would have qualified as "US soil"? I gather at least some deaths did occur in Honolulu itself too.
I think the concern is that it reinforces impression that the Google announcement is rushed and half-baked in response to competitive pressures.
On older ARM only bx is allowed to switch Thumb state, even if the address you're giving it is e.g. a Thumb address in ARM mode. You can still use pc as a GPR to jump ARM-ARM or Thumb-Thumb, though.
You wouldn't know because none of the trackers would fire...
I've had limited luck getting ChatGPT to generate svg's. If finetuned on the task I bet it would be decent at it.

Wouldn't be surprised if a similar markup language for CAD models was also possible.
> There are some egregious ones up there like that, but also if you step one block off of any major thoroughfare the sidewalk ends, yet there is still consistent traffic.

Sure, but again, those streets by and large did not feel unsafe to me (on foot).

> There were 271 pedestrian injuries in Seattle last year, 17 were fatal.

This datapoint is just not responsive to the discussion, unless you're saying those injuries happened specifically on non-sidewalked streets in north Seattle? I suspect most were in the street or crosswalks in busier parts of town.
I think creator's burnout happened due to personal style of working was misaligned with users (developers)' demands. I think there are some points the creator made the right choice such as disallow native code, no more fancy type like typeclass etc. And the bell curve of developers can't stand pure <-> impure interop. They rather like messy types like Typescript where js thingy can float around freely with all insane effects everywhere, plus hackable and ugly structural typing .. unsound. They thought people don't love type like they do but people rather love elegant type! .. it's off-topic now, yeah.
"Not to mention the stupid paywall which is infuriating."

"Is there any way for a platform like Medium to keep up with high quality posts while also paying their writers well"

Where exactly do you expect the money to come from to pay the writers well?
> if for example there are 10 instructions you need to execute, the chance is 0.05*10

0.05^10, surely?
Generally loving this breakdown! Good wide review.

Qwik has a lot more going for it that I knew. It's used by CloudFlare's Mastadon/ActivityPub implememtation. At first that was kind of a turn off to me; the initial research I did on it didnt really sell me. But this simple breakdown makes a lot of sense!

One thing that did bug me: this portrays Single Page Apps as having to load the whole site ahead of time. Projects like react-router have had exemplary incremental loading for a long long time now. I wish this was a more frequent focus. We never really got great at unbundling, breaking out multiple units of code; the hope that ESM would let us fully unbundle was the miracle that never delivered, alas, where any incremental load would just automatically quickly get whatever other new deps were needed. But there's definitely still a much wider terrain than is portrayed here for SPA.

But again, thumbs up mostly! We dont have many quick easy reviews of whats out there, how we do the web, and this post is a great quick understandable introduction. Great material.
Yes I know. With Spring it's pretty unavoidable in common usage. I was hoping Quarkus was new enough to do something different than use 1999 EJB tech.
The helium is generally the biggest cost for a launch. You generally need welding grade helium instead of the party balloon variety which costs more. The price fluctuates a lot because of some complicated economics related to natural gas production, but getting that high can easily set you back $400.
Okay, but at this point, just bringing up the risks doesn't contribute anything. To make a contribution, you need to actually say something interesting about them, probably based on some experience or research. Or link to something that does.
So crime was not at a manageable level prior to say 1970, when none of these AMLKYC laws existed? And crime has not been at a manageable level after say 2008 when crypto came into existence and made it impossible to actually enforce?

Man, for that brief shining window we really had perfection.
I was curious if you had any examples in mind.
Honestly have to agree a sticky note and swim lanes in an office was the most productive strategy I've ever worked in. No BA, no scrum and only a TE that managed e2e and integration test. No, Jira no sprint, no breakdowns. Just do what you need on the priority.

Large orgs pay a communication tax, and it's heavy for a lot.
That’s an escalator that China can’t afford to ride.

The US would deorbit everything China ever put into space if they started shooting at satellites. Those satellites are part of the strategic triad and would be a direct threat to the US nuclear umbrella. The AEGIS systems off the Chinese coast would take care of any attempts to add satellites back into space.
They’d just pinch weld together some sheet steel.

Assuming we’re talking ‘functional equivalent’, compared to ‘exact copy’.
Did they quote by line-kilometre flown, any chance of sharing the number?

Full multi channel or just LIDAR?
The attention mechanism started as a simple trick to not use recurrent neural networks.

Read the intro in the original paper "Attention is all you need"
(https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762)

This video explains the drawbacks to RNNs and how transformers solve that: https://youtu.be/S27pHKBEp30?t=394

Andrej Karpathy explains attention here:
https://youtu.be/kCc8FmEb1nY?t=3719

He explains how attention is seen as a communication network:
https://youtu.be/kCc8FmEb1nY?t=4298
this is so cute I dont even want to bother explaining it

How are we on a KYC thread, with people that actually do KYC, believing their koolaid

They see the accounts

They know the gaps in the regulatory framework, or should

They should know the pointlessness of this exercise but apparently the idealism (or a couple internal examples I’m unaware of) is convincing still and masquerades as reality

KYC is as strong as the weakest link in all financial institutions and all pooled accounts

I’m out
> "when was the last time they had to take something out of the backlog because they ran out of things to do"

Happens to me quite a bit actually. There's a huge crunch of features that need to ship yesterday, followed by a lull where I pick up boring tasks like "documentation" or "unit tests" :)
Green right up left
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Green down right up

That’s on track to solve in 14. Don’t know how to get to 13
Very strange. When I write F# code, it almost directly mimics the problem statement. For example, I have implemented a fair amount of The Ray Tracer Challenge in F#, and it feels like I'm literally just writing down the description and tests from the book and have working code.

Do you have a particular example of Python that you feel it shows off its pseudocode abilities? Because one can write F# almost identically to Python, so I just can't imagine Python being superior given that it lacks several domain modeling tools that F# has (records and discriminated unions).
What are you using to get it into an STL? I've had OK results with DEMto3D plugin, but it has some weird artifacts that I can't seem to get rid of. Are there any better options you're aware of?
Can confirm this and that it happen in both Bosnia and the Serbia campaigns. I had family members who were involved [0].

The deception methods that were applied were truly remarkable, they used decoy tanks and sent people out to imprint fake tank tracks into fields.

They also understood IR and would shield real troops while leaving coal to burn in empty pillboxes and bunkers

There was also the shoot down of the F-117A by what was effectively a rag-tag group of AA who planned the operation and pulled it off

A lot of what was learned in the earlier Bosnia campaign was applied later in '99 - not just the use of decoys and microwaves, but using spotters to track the regular flight paths of incoming fighters and intermittently switching radar off and on (this is how Scott O'Grady was shot down in his F16)

Gen. Wesley Clark was a huge advocate of the doctrine that you could win wars with air power alone and never have to sacrifice ground troops - that thinking changed after '99

[0] note that I in no way condone the overall goal of what took place there and those same family members would be the first to tell you it was horrific
The farmer did enter into an agreement when he purchased Roundup.
For residential installation, you don't want fast charging. Slow charging damages the battery less, and for everyday use getting to full charge overnight is sufficient.

When you need to fast charge, you should go do it at a charger.
Same here. I have no patience for this type of shameless spamming anymore. One thing I hate about Medium is that it puts a paywall across everything, as if they’re The NY Times. If anything, I care about the author I’m reading, not Medium. With Substack I can subscribe to an individual author and they are the ones deciding what to paywall. Sure Substack gets a cut if I subscribe but that’s in the background.
Nope no thanks.
If that were a volume conversion, bananas must've grown a whole lot bigger in the US since I was last there.
I did. The security argument is a poor one- tab managers are way more "secure" than the millions of chrome extensions that require total control of all websites you browse to. The multi-threaded and faster experience is just a matter of redesign. If UI people followed Linus's adage of never breaking compability with APIs we'd all be happier
> You can just assume that every rural kid between 15 and 18 does the above job for a couple summers

Interesting assumption. As a corn farmer, I've never seen anyone growing seed corn in person. It was certainly not a job I had when I was a kid of such an age. Obviously someone does out there, but you may be overestimating just how prevalent it is.
There is a way out. I'm not buying supermarket flour anymore and making your own bread with a bread machine is super easy (and very tasty). I have learned so much from this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Home-Ground-Flour-Book-Tech...
It is, though: Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game boy Advance, DS, 3DS, Switch, PSP, PS Vita, Steam Deck, smartphones, et al.
(NPM) cotd – Typing and Deleting Animation in Console
Anything you are comfortable with.
My suggestion start with one learn it, if u find somethings that u requires are not there and is available in the other one, then try the other one. But start with one( I think both have more or less the same features.)
As a thought experiment I replaced “artists” with “coders”, ”IP” with “proprietary code”, and “productivity software” with “movies, books, art”.

I suspect this analogy may be less convincing than intended.
I had a British friend who would tell that joke in reverse, as in "the real reason to colonize India was so that someone would teach us how to cook properly"
If you are competing with a bigger, better-funded fish, then the odds are very against you anyway as long as you're playing the same game as they are. Your real strength is to play a different game, one that leverages your unique strengths, not to meet them toe-to-toe in a game that leverages theirs. This can be done even if your product is in the same category as theirs.

Exactly how to do that is highly dependent on you, so very individual (which is part of why it's so effective).
Most (but not all) inventory gets old as time goes on, and the 2022 model isn't as cool as the 2023 version. Which is to say, having a bunch of 2023 stuff on hand is a liability until it is sold. Imagine a car dealership right as Covid shuts things down in 2020.
Fingers crossed it's not a Korean airliner
They can't do shit because of our body temperature (above 35 celsius is the threshold if I'm not mistaken). We and a lot of other species evolved this way to counter fungi related diseases.
You are, of course, correct!
For me, it’s been almost completely personal relationships. Either people I know from school, previous work, or made acquaintance after presenting at a meetup. All of these environments allowed me to demonstrate that I can get shit done.

Part of the freelancer’s job is to maintain those relationships, and often these are people that I want to go get a drink with anyway, so it’s not just opportunistic.
I thought there was subsequent reporting that Biden got a commitment from the chancellor (embarrassingly, I can’t remember if it was before or after Merkel left) that if Russia did invade, Germany would pull the plus on NS2. That could just as easily explain the comment, no?
Can you expand on this? What scenarios are you thinking of?
A runtime option for disabling telemetry has little value for build tools because any random build script can re-enable it without you knowing. Even more so if it's an environment variable for opting out, because it's so common for build scripts to clear environment variables for legitimate reasons.

Whether there's a compile time option to disable telemetry altogether is what many downstream packagers would probably be interested in.
What was electricity cost?
Show HN: Coding Quest, a programming competition for secondary students
Hi all. I'd love to share and get your thoughts on Coding Quest (https://codingquest.io), a programming competition I have created as a personal side-project which is now into its second year. The 2023 competition is coming up! It is 10 days of problems from Monday 6 March to Friday 17 March. Last year I had over 30 and ~250 students participate. I'd love to have double the participation rate this year!

The original inspiration was heavily drawn from Advent of Code (which I love doing every year!) but I wanted something that was a little more accessible to my students so they could enjoy the fun of something similar. Also, being a teacher, I wanted the skills required by the competition problems to align with those taught in my classes, and so Coding Quest was born. As a general rule I aim for week 1 problems to be achievable by Key Stage 4 CompSci students (Grade 9/10, 15/16 years old), and week 2 will progress into the skills taught in the final two years of school (A Levels, IB Diploma, AP Computer Science etc).

Students compete for positions within an internal school leaderboard, and additionally each school competes against other schools for a bit of light-hearted rivalry (which school gets to brag at having the most hot-shot programmers?!). The overwhelming emphasis, however, is on the learning experience and maximum participation. Students will be able to download an individualised certificate of achievement upon completion of the event. Example: https://codingquest.io/certificate-example.pdf

If you are a teacher, or you know a teacher who might be interested in using it - It is recommended that teachers sign-in to register their school prior to promoting the event with students. That will allow the school team to be listed and available for students to see and join when they sign up. When you are ready to invite your students, there is a promotional poster you can use here: https://codingquest.io/codingquest_poster_2023.pdf

There is no cost. This is a self-funded personal project which I have unleashed onto the world. The problems from 2022 remain available for students to use as practice in the lead up to the event.

I'd love to know what you think.
I think he made that bet a while ago… https://shopify.engineering/remix-joins-shopify
Fantastic visualization! Would be really cool to get global coverage for this. Possible by leveraging Google Maps?
Also, Medium were blocked in some countries including Vietnam. Here we can't access Medium so need to find alternatives.
ML Syntax seems to be made for machines, not for the average human mind. Parsing language that is 'too unnatural' is a bit of a strain when compared to something that looks like average grammar if you squint at it, so it doesn't surprise me at all.

It's also a bit in the realm of scientific/academic programming vs. real-world bulk programming where it's mostly just CRUD, mapping and business rules. It's all still important if that's how money is made, but as far as I can tell, most programming isn't really all that involved with 'quality languages' and more about feature output from a backlog. If you can do that for cheap with a fresh can of Python developers and some extra EC2 instances on AWS, that's an easy choice vs. someone who might want to do it in Lisp instead for example.
Well, I disagree with your previous assertion that Facebook makes money from selling ads.

Facebook makes money by creating a product that attracts a bunch of people to use it, and then they sell ads.

The whole thing falls apart if they don’t do #1 properly.
Because woz is not just a disgruntled customer, he is an icon in the tech industry
Assuming you ever find out.
I don't doubt Western governments have the ability to spy on their citizens as needed, and it's likely at some point most of us have been spied on in some minor way, but unless we happened to be doing something particularly nefarious at the point it happened, very unlikely they'd bother acting on it*. Whereas I very much doubt China could see much advantage in trying to spy on an average citizen from another country at all.

* unless perhaps you were applying for military clearance
Atomization.
I think "libre" means something different to me. All OSS is libre, but not all libre software is open source. For instance, freeware distributed solely in binary form is libre.

But nobody taught me this definition. Not sure where I got it. So I could very well be wrong.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Naively, one might say "ah but that ended in 1971!" - but let me put it this way: if you spotted a cockroach in your house, you'd be a fool to think that was the only one.

Also: the oversight/limits you're protected by could disappear some day, they're imaginary and socially constructed. Sure, you trust our current government to handle these powers responsibly, (though you really shouldn't, see above), but why are you so confident you can trust _tomorrow's_ government?
There may be a way to collapse comments, but I didn't try it yet. If there's no complete page refresh on click, it could be Javascript manipulating the DOM, and that may not work on lynx.

I couldn't tell which are replies versus standalone, since everything is left-indented. However, some comments are definitely replies if there's ">" for example, or abbreviated and curt. But I found this "contextual friction" let me be more forgiving in a way.

The comments all seem to float in the ether, utterances in the night. The extra effort to traverse to each comment--arrow, arrow, arrow, arrow--somehow made the whole thing like an exercise in deliberate consciousness: I was seeking after content, rather than having it just be laid out and scrollable.

I was also using the framebuffer. It didn't take much to fill the screen. Moving to the next page happens more often and is so manual; you almost want to wring meaning out of every screen.
There aren't any of that design operating any more, and no more will be built, so they're not a proliferation issue. That particular design could be used that way (and was by the UK) which is a major reason no more will be built.
Google says the two letter abbreviation for Michigan is CA
What about security? Does the rendering engine still leakes like a sieve? Who on earth needs this pdf bullshit in the browser? Average people are obsessed with editing PDFs or what the hell is going on?