skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the US built an incredible air superiority fighter to counter a phantom of a jet that never really existed in the way America thought.

Are you sure that's what really happened, or did a group of people in the Air Force want an air superiority fighter and use the Mig-25 as the excuse?
I recommend https://write.as if you just want a clean, minimalist blog platform with photo hosting and minimal effort. Integrates with RSS, mail, even ActivityPub/Mastodon. Write in Markdown. No ads. Or self-host this software as F/OSS with WriteFreely if you want full control or think $6/mo is kinda steep. You can add interaction (blog post comments) via e.g. Commento if you dislike the invasive Disqus, as you should...

It reminds me of Medium before all the bullshit.
Yes.

I never understood why ReScript didn't get more love.
I would guess that it would be an app that uses wireless networking.

Probably slow as molasses compared to a blade server but also probably pretty powerful since it has so many compute nodes.
He used to be. He recently left the rust-analyzer and rust compiler development teams to broaden his horizons, and is working full-time on a project that uses Zig now (which no doubt sparked this thought experiment).
What makes you think the folks developing CAD/CAE software are so behind (nay, negligent)? No amount of React will solve topology or perform naming and matching (look it up, modern CAD can’t live without it).

A lack of respect for established success is both a superpower (don’t listen to the bozos) and foolishness. Knowing when to use each is what makes some pursuits blossom and others slowly burn out.
This comes directly from Steve Jobs legacy. He talked a lot about the value of small teams and how they self regulate but can breakup if they grow too quickly.

https://youtu.be/wTgQ2PBiz-g
Typescript definitely won something. Just looks at the current usage of both languages.
I can't really say I've tried, but probably. I 'ran through' a glass storm door once as a kid -- I was locked out in the cold by my grandpa

The safety glass in cars is especially difficult where I expect much less from that in a home.

With the obsession over insulation I suspect they're stronger than I remember, but brute force always works - if not, just use more. Maybe introduce leverage
Uber’s really cheap there.
Gren is apparently such a fork: https://gren-lang.org/
latest: https://www.voanews.com/a/us-shoots-down-mysterious-high-alt...

>According to the Pentagon, the object first moved into U.S. airspace late Thursday and was tracked by U.S. Northern Command as it moved over the skies of northeastern Alaska, staying consistently at about 12,000 meters (40,000 feet).

>Pentagon and White House officials said U.S. planes approached the object, said to be the size of a small car, and determined that no human was in it before one of two F-22 fighter jets sent on an intercept course shot it from the skies with an AIM-9x Sidewinder missile.

…

>"This was an object ... it wasn't an aircraft per se,” Ryder said, briefing Pentagon reporters. “We have no further details about the object at this time, including any description of its capabilities, purpose or origin.”

…

>“We do expect to be able to recover the debris since it fell on our territorial space but on what we believe is frozen water,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said during a separate White House briefing. “We’re hopeful that we’ll be successful and then we can learn a little bit more about it."
I think that the internet is overpopulated.

It creates ephemeral platforms that strives for a little while and become slave to the imperatives that drives revenu (ads, data) instead of staying true to themselves they corrupt their core in the name of viability, effectively rendering them shitty.
Is this sunk cost fallacy?
Ironically I think WoW had a bunch of these bugs too, with mechanics prioritizing "oldest account id" first..
I did it. From the same area as OP, I traveled and worked as a freelancer for several years before settling and starting a business in Vietnam. I've been doing it as a sole trader and never experienced any issues but maybe that depends on the area (setting up an LLC is probably good advice though).

It's not for everyone of course and there have been hardships. But this has and continues to be the adventure of a lifetime. When I hear about people working a decade in an office and then think about the last decade that I lived I would never change it. Stability is overrated.

Bonus: I have way more personal savings and investments than I could have had by staying back in crazy expensive Europe.

Side note: the only time I had a frustrating experience as a freelancer, from a legal perspective, was when working for a UK company. The UK seems to have a crazy amount of rules and regulations around this. Fortunately I was able to get out of the project within a few months and I made a personal rule of "no UK clients from now on".
I understand almost nothing of the technology behind ChatGPT but even to me it seems obvious that a model designed for natural language processing should not be very good at simple calculation with large numbers – something which is never done in natural language.
Until another change against the community interest comes along. You only trust the "benevolent dictator" for as long as they remain benevolent.
Your last sentence is actually why I might -- might -- be a bit more forgiving here -- in some cases (most?) the layoffs are being driven by pressure from activist investors. I have firsthand knowledge that at least one of the major companies that did a layoff recently had no internal desire or financial need to do it, but is being heavily pressured to lay off staff as a cost-cutting measure, even though the business is perfectly viable without it.

A lot of the world's ills today seem to be boiling down to sociopathic trust fund billionaires treating literally everything in life as a game to be won.
Because the former is a straw man as is the latter?

Do you have a specific policy you are concerned about that we could rationally talk about or only talk radio talking points?
That is a good point...if you had some way of putting this amazing content at the top, then Medium would have a chance. In that regard I think Medium has the same problem as Soureforge.

I've seen tons of medium articles and to me it always seemed like random ranting and a pulpit for leftists, rather than a serious platform. I hope you can do something about it.
I wonder if they could think of some way to shove ads in the compiler too, it's Google's brainchild after all
I remember getting a fork of it, Philips Songbird, with an MP3 player and using it for a few years on a Windows XP machine. Worked much better than iTunes, and I actually kinda miss it a lot.
New explanation from the Senate Appropriations subcommittee:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-balloon-carried-antenna...

tl;dr - nothing important in Alaska

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Pentagon officials, in testimony to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense, said that the balloon wasn’t deemed to be a threat as it crossed Alaska where it didn’t pass over sensitive sites.

They added that no analysis had been done at that point on where the debris from the Chinese craft might fall. The risk to people on the ground was considerable, they said, given that the balloon was 200 feet tall and carried an equipment array the size of a small airplane.

Shooting down the balloon in the waters off Alaska would likely have made recovering it more difficult due to the depth and frigid ocean temperatures, said Melissa Dalton, a senior Pentagon official with responsibilities for homeland defense.

Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims II, director of operations for the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, cautioned that shooting down an intruding craft not seen as an imminent threat might encourage other nations to act hastily if Western planes approached their borders.

“Once you take a shot, you can’t get it back,” Gen. Sims said. “I think it’s important for us to remember that if we establish that precedent… we may meet the same precedent.”

“We may create something that is to our detriment,” he added.

The U.S. has conducted reconnaissance flights in international airspace close to China’s territorial limits, drawing frequent objections from Beijing. In December, a Chinese J-11 fighter flew within 20 feet of a U.S. RC-135 surveillance plane near South China Sea islands controlled by Beijing.

The Pentagon testimony didn’t assuage some lawmakers, particularly Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska. Ms. Murkowski said that the Pentagon appeared to be treating potential threats to her state as a secondary concern.

“At what point do we say a surveillance balloon, a spy balloon coming from China is a threat to our sovereignty?” she said. “ It should be the minute it crosses the line, and that line is Alaska.
Because people in India and China want air conditioned malls, meat for every meal, and private cars. The governments in these regions are absolutely dependent on keeping those countries on a path to western prosperity for their legitimacy. Any climate change plan that contradicts that isn’t a serious plan and will fuck us all.
How was this proof to be supplied? It sounds as if this is just a thinly veiled attempt to get your client list. That's confidential information and would have been a hard no from me.
GPT needs a thalamus to repackage and send the math queries to Wolfram
I assume that the backcross is marker-assisted for SNPs in the blight resistance locus.

If that is true it amounts to the same thing you are proposing. Sounds just like making a speed-congenic mouse.

Are they not selecting with markers at all?
(1) Paywalls.

(2) Fucked up the "Editors" or content aggregators.

The CEO won't admit the first one tho.
I have been there as a kid. I might have been too young to process the experience like something related to death, but I recall I didn't feel anything in particular; it left me with absolutely nothing but thinking "why on earth would someone cover a place with skeletons?". It probably contributed much later to my aversion to horror movies.
sounds like money laundering to me or allowing some 'customers' to move money from a stolen cc to another https://flurly.com/p/paymencreditcard
I think (would hope?) that you can say this kind of thing is most companies, in the right way if you first ensure that your current level is the level at which "up and out" stops. In many companies that may be at Senior or above (or whatever they call the equivalent.

So if you say you want to stay at "intermediate", that's an "out" you're voting for. If you say it (in the politically correct way) at senior (or whatever is the correct level for it at your company), you can stay.
Or they can make the charging process and fees very clear, and give out free trials. Or, if the funding mechanism is to be ads, include them from day 1.
Too expensive. Make it 50x cheaper and you'd be competitive with python scrapy + rotating residential proxies.
Yes that’s what I said.
> People seem to love Python syntax.

Python's syntax is just yet another C-like syntax that goes back to ALGOL. People love it because it's familiar, it's not doing anything special.
Due to the way the numbers are tokenized, for a start.
How soon after identification are they shooting them down?

Like if they are watching the launch and then waiting 2 days, the adversary isn't learning the whole story.
That’s probably an accurate assessment—both of the market forces and my interest in longform. I love long reads from traditional media (eg NYT) so perhaps I just haven’t found the right Substacks for me—discovery seems to be a tricky issue in this space.
The challenge is there aren't a lot of options for heat pumps in many US markets it seems. There's really only higher end units available, so there's no range in prices.

I priced out a heat pump versus just an AC and gas furnace in my area, and it was a similar spread a few years ago for me in Texas.
If Wikipedia isn’t missing some examples, there’s exactly one of those operating now in Russia. That seems like we might need more data points before proclaiming them cheaper and faster in the present tense.

I’m totally on board for building more but it doesn’t seem like this is a solved problem yet.
What are the houses usually made of? Stone?
Once the maintainer has ignored all community feedback on said whitelist and then threatened said members of community for considering removing the whitelist, why in the world would you assume it'll remain "just a whitelist"?
Kind of have to wonder if after the last shootdown the PLA sent out a more specialized collection platform in the hopes that the US would take the bait yet again.

I’m sure that NORAD doesn’t use their most advanced sensor platforms in such a circumstance, but there could be all kinds of interesting close range data to collect on the aircraft and weapons systems used to respond.
Incorruptible bodies are not proof of sainthood. Also, I assume Lenin's body had something done to it?
https://archive.md/HL307

Also worth reading: The Unusual Crew Behind Tether, Crypto’s Pre-Eminent Stablecoin

https://archive.is/bYvit
(disclosure: I'm Polish)

This is not true.

The legal act that regulates it[0] says (only relevant parts)

"""
Article 1: This act regulates

1) recording, collecting, developing, maintaining, making available and publishing documents of the state security authorities, obtained and collected from July 22, 1944 to July 31, 1990, as well as Third Reich and USSR security authorities, regarding:

a) crimes committed against persons of Polish nationality or Polish citizens of other nationalities in the period from November 8, 1917 to July 31, 1990:
- Nazi crimes,
- communist crimes,
- crimes of Ukrainian nationalists and members of Ukrainian formations collaborating with the German Third Reich,
- other crimes constituting crimes against peace, humanity or war crimes,

[...]

Article 55: Whoever publicly and contrary to facts denies the crimes referred to in Article 1, point 1, shall be subject to a fine or imprisonment for up to 3 years. The sentence shall be made public.
"""

(art and research is exempt from this law)

So it is illegal to deny Holocaust or to attribute the responsibility for it to Poland or the Polish nation or to say that the death camps linked to Holocaust were Polish or operated by Poland.

It is legal to suggest or just simply say (as it is documented by the Institute of National Remembrance - a Polish state research institute) that there were individual Polish citizens that collaborated with Nazis and took part in committing Nazi crimes.

[0] https://sip.lex.pl/akty-prawne/dzu-dziennik-ustaw/instytut-p...
When I started reading
People write for many different reasons. Sometimes it is because they believe in an idea (political, ethical, philosophical, religious, etc), and their main objective is to convince others to believe in that idea too-what you may come to think of their abilities as an author is rather besides their point.
Similar to the now infamous Bedlam incident at Microsoft: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm
Oh, I was just ruminating on the original title of the article rather than commenting on your selection. Sorry for the confusion.
The business world needs to stop supporting Microsoft Office. The creative world needs to stop supporting Adobe Photoshop. The industrial design world needs to stop supporting Solidworks/AutoCAD. Everyone needs to stop supporting Microsoft Windows/Apple OSX. etc.

I've been telling people for years they should be using GIMP and Linux but nobody cares. At least Oracle's stranglehold seems to be weakening.
Makes sense. I got more interested after finishing reading your whole post and went looking at the manufacturer's website... it would be too easy for them to just provide their software direct for people to download, huh? It looks like a total software-hardware-cloud service lock in... I can't seem to tell but it seems like all tags might have to call back to their cloud to get their displayed info that is managed by their "VUSION Manager". Talk about a nightmare.

They note it's end to end encrypted, and if they call home to their cloud and not to local area managed software, I bet they are calling a preset list of IP's to auth and DL data. You'd have to both spoof their IP and sign the data with their key somehow.
Are both not used for frontend engineering by compiling to Javascript?
Books about quirks of human behavior? I suppose behavioral economics books, like those by Daniel Kahneman, might be good.
If you get familiar with Pareto you might have an advantage by knowing which items in a set best deserve your attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Military flying is way more complicated than man-hours per flight. For instance, ground servicing people also need to be trained. So double or triple the minimum man hours needed to accomidate those people being trained on the job. Military people also have a host of training/admin/command costs spread across the entire military complex. Then per-hour numbers dont accomidate the periodic maintenance not done at the home squadron but at a support facility elsewhere. Other costs are less a function of hours than duty cycles, paticularly engines. And aircraft like the f22 are irreplaceable, meaning their depretiation costs are more a matter of policy than simple math. Fighter squadrons are generally given a budget in dollars, but also airframe hours to accomidate fleet costs. Boiling everthing down to a per-hour budget is totally impractical.
Barclays needs Russian business more than Ukrainian, I expect.
I couldn't have said it better myself. The peace of mind being able to refactor often even in large projects and not be worried about bugs or runtime errors once the project compiles again in incredible.

I couldn't imagine having such a large project/codebase in react and need to do a huge refactor...
Not sure I have any good marketing references, but I would ask / say

- Why would I want to use this over my current calendar?

- What makes your product different?

- Who responds to this? Can you find a niche who wants this?

Do not spend money on advertising until you can reach some users and learn from them.

I would recommend going through the https://startupschool.org videos. For most products, "marketing" comes later, at least the kind you would find in a course on marketing. This is not the kind of marketing you want to do. You want to post about it on social media, other places your users would be, quality content helps people discover the things around it.

Also consider time management apps are a dime a dozen, a hyper-crowded space. What are you trying to get out of this project?
Ah, good to know! I took your meaning differently.
Not agitated, but I believe it would be incredibly unwise for the US to have done this, in particular regarding the trust relationship with Germany. It’s also naive to think that who did it wouldn’t come out sooner or later. Those things have a way to not stay secret.
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our Worlds“
Drones are constantly being shot down by ZPUs and other obsolete AA guns mounted on technicals. Costs even less than the drone you are shooting.
Catala – Programming language for literate programming law specification
Hey Michael, congrats on your success so far, you have built a community and product people are buying which is already a great achievement.

My experience as a tech founder (software) reading your blog (thanks for sharing) and your Cloud feedback at https://forum.tinypilotkvm.com/-163/tinypilot-cloud-feedback is that you need to dig deeper into requirements and your user personas, and what combination of product and software adjustments reach an enterprise / professional market that are happy to pay recurring subscription amounts to you because they receive benefits and value.

Be careful you don’t set out to build and shape software entirely focused on users that don’t want to pay (because they have simpler requirements and free options) and you then don’t offer value to enterprises that needed different features because your talking to hobbyists instead of professionals with expensive problems they would pay to have solved.

You’ve got hobbyists that may not pay $30/month for a subscription, but to me they aren’t your target audience for a new revenue stream, what’s it look like if you focus your efforts in customising the hardware / cloud software to support enterprise scenarios? Can you be doing Zoom calls with a few of your users in the professional space about what problem they wish TinyPilot could be solving that they could be paying for?

Look at the feedback from Reeman and Larry in the above forum post, they’re asking for enterprise features that you’d be best positioned to solve and charge for (and a lot more than $30 per month), schedule calls with them and dig into their problems further, build for them, so they can order 100 devices and put them under cloud management for work, not the hobbyist that has no budget and wants different features.
It's an interesting concept, but legally it doesn't make any sense. You can't license what you don't own. If the hybrid seeds are not available in compliance with the GPL, then you would just be violating two licenses.
Balloons and airships aren't easily downed by gunfire- the holes create slow leaks that can take days or weeks to deflate the balloon. Fighter jets' guns are mostly an air-to-ground weapon these days.
> A minuscule amount of tritium, dumped into an ocean that has billions of tons of uranium

(And then marine life enters the room, accumulating this while ignoring that, and all those carefully raised math models, simulations and speeches fall like a house of cards).
Flight hours are flight hours, and it’s very rare to do any type of offensive air-to-air operation outside of an exercise, so I’m sure it was a great training opportunity.

Less thrilled about it as someone who happened to be on a flight transiting nearby airspace last night, and who is familiar with incidents like KAL 007.
Tells more about you than about Prolog.
To the US economy.
I know it's bad, absolutely, as I mentioned in my point about indexability. But when I'm trying to get work done, as you stated, it's immediate for me and that's why it's still useful.
> I'm still using an old iPhone 10. Apple has obsoleted it too. I can't install any apps from the "App Store" but it still does what I want most. The phone and the "Maps" and text apps still work fine.

The iPhone X is still supported with the latest iOS release, iOS 16[1].

Just wondering what exactly isn't working or makes it seem obsolete? :-)

I'm also a big fan of riding iPhones into the ground!

My wife is still using an iPhone XS Max, that runs like new even on the latest iOS! :-)

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/iphe3fa5df43/io...
But even if the content is good.. Annoying me with making an account and only viewing 3 random articles ensures I'll never find out how great it is. Making an account is a pretty big step if you're just consuming content.

Unless those 3 articles all happen to be amazing which is unlikely, and even then it's still a very large jump to a pricey subscription. Not everyone makes silicon valley money.

Ps not sure if it's still 3, because I haven't visited medium for about a year now.
I wouldn't trust anything that originated on TikTok
If you don’t bother to fact check your evidence before making serious accusations then yes, one should shut up.

Circumstantial evidence is still evidence yes, but this is just a bunch of shit that is observably false followed by salacious assertions.

Presenting claims that are trivially falsifiable as true without bothering to apply skepticism because it plays into your favored narrative is not journalism. It’s whatever the hell Hersh is doing now.
When you say “Marketing” do you really mean just the subsets “Marketing Communications,” and “Sales,” or do you also mean the things needed to find product-market fit?