skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX has launched 8 Starshield satellites. Nobody knows what they do but they are probably testbeds for platform and space link communications. There are SDA launches planned for March and June.

I wouldn't expect to see spy satellites from the SDA; the NRO has always controlled those. I could believe small spy satellites if launched from NRO. There haven't been any details on how missile defense will work from space with small satellites. The descriptions I've seen have been about communication and detecting hypersonic weapons with infrared sensors. The latter is not what I would think of as spy satellite or missile defense.
"The default today may be a distributed mess of spaghetti, but that is a choice."

I'd like to hear more of his thoughts on this. The distributed and service orientated the stuff I work in gets, the less we ship. It's glacial.
I am not sure we are disagreeing on much here. Yes, non-covexity is major problem for optimization. And yes, very simple problems could be analyzed in high dimensions. But many problems are not simple, including understanding general structure of the information/data flow through the network as well as non-convex optimization itself. The work on infinite width networks is very interesting and is getting novel insights. Many theoretical CS researchers are working on understanding of deep neural networks. I should have rephrased the sentence from "Somebody needs to do this" to "It would be nice if we could make a major progress in this direction".
Just upgraded to the latest 2.x compiler and it’s definitely leagues slower to compile than javac.
Ray Camden: Lessons Learned in Twenty Years of Blogging
To make a point out of it: This is not event based in the event sourcing way of thinking. It is using messages. You put a message on a queue, someone else picks it up. Mats implements a request/reply paradigm on top ("messaging with a call stack").

In the interactive, synchronous situation, you do not "wait for an event" per se. You wait for a specific reply. When using the MatsFuturizer (https://mats3.io/docs/sync-async-bridge/), it is extremely close to how you would have used a HttpClient or somesuch.

MatsSocket: The Dart/Flutter implementation is used in a production mobile app. For the Norwegian market only, though.

The JS implementation is used in an internal solution.

Would have been really nice with a bit more usage, yes. It is actually pretty nice, IMHO! ;-)
Isn’t it a little TOO convenient that no civilians were out on Lake Huron in the middle of winter under the objects flight path to take a picture?

(/s, if that was necessary to clarify)
Would be cool if each container could generate a unique browser fingerprint. Right now they are sharing the same fingerprint, which isn't great for privacy.
> There are no good current gen (or even previous gen) cards available for under $1000

Wait, what? Yes there are! An AMD Radeon RX 6800 will set you back $480.

What is your criteria for "good" here?

My computer would be, at today's prices, about $1400.

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12 core |
32GB DDR4-3600 |
2 x 1TB PCIe gen 4 |
Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB |
(Corsair case, PSU and AIO, MSI X570)
Motivation patterns distilled from 80k autobiographies
Cool. Got a link?
It removes all default browser styling for hyperlinks. It wasn't clear from the docs that it would do that so I'm glad the fix came up:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63883580/tailwind-css-ho...
Sim City 5 was so strange to me.

It was going to be an instant buy for me but then as I read the developer statements before release ... it started getting really weird. It was clear it wasn't going to be Sim City, or at least a lot of design decisions had nothing to do with what I thought of as Sim City.

Such a sad waste.

Really strange too because if there was an obvious formula to make a ton of money there it was and they still screwed it up.
I guess the thing is to distinguish when the private park turns into a public square. Ideally, I'd like them either to be supported, or open sourced. Then the community could really pick it up if they want to, or if the publisher doesn't want that, they could just support it for longer.
E-mails are sent from namecheap.com and are using their e-mail template and their link redirecting system. Some of their infrastructure might be compromised.
I built on Elastic early on over Solr and several others because it was open source and seemed to be better. I would have selected a different Lucene wrapper if I had known where Elastic was going.
It's capitalization that turns a pure idea into a bureaucratic nightmare. Other than making someone pay for courses and certificates, how would they prove that they have achieved wisdom? /s
The AIM-9X is infrared imaging based rather than heat signature based. The pilot resolves that contrast between the object and sky before firing the missile and missile targets the object based on the image.
I wonder if Nvidia and AMD are partly to blame.

They are artificially keeping GPU prices high, so people don't want to buy GPUs.

And if they don't want to buy a GPU then they don't want the thing that the GPU goes in.
Interesting. In EU there is a big push for documenting the real ownership of companies. So you can't hide behind shell companies. I.e. a difference between "legal owner" and "real owner".

E.g. a comapny like "nemlig.com Inc" is owned by "INTERVARE Inc" which is owned by 2 persons. But you still have to document those 2 persons for nemlig.com

See "Ejerforhold/Ownership" on https://datacvr.virk.dk/enhed/virksomhed/33070861
All puns aside, we've been demanding answers since they let the first one drift across North America. I'm not holding my breath on getting those answers, though.
The problem with 'commonsense' is that it's neither a sense, nor terribly common. It is, rather, that sweet spot where intuitions are useful.

Which is to say, when you make a 'common sense' judgment, you are typically making a judgment based on gut/intuition. You are accessing your onboard neural network, which was trained against the corpus of your entire life, rather than some rule you don't feel in your bones.

There are many problems with this, but for now, let's notice that intuitions honed at one level might not work on another. For example, intuitions about household debt are famously bad intuitions to apply to U.S. federal debt. So looking for e.g. commonsense solutions to the U.S. debt will probably not work -- you simply won't find one that feels right. This is because you (dear reader) are stochastically unlikely to have much experience in running a country.

An analogous problem occurs in software. And what the intuition cannot usefully reason about, it must cede to systems and algorithms, all of which, by definition, feel 'un-intuitive', because they are literally substituting for your nonexistent and/or offtopic intuitions.

Simply put, most peoples' intuition cannot scale, because the training corpus of most people does not include examples of sufficient scale, so they are stuck blindly applying rules and hoping for the best.

There's just no substitute for experience, but scrum afficionados try anyway ;D
U.S. Shoots Down a Fourth Flying Object
container sync has been a thing for a while, but you have to enable it: https://i.imgur.com/UBj3TjW.png
Aye. I keep two desktops around for this reason.

One is my new Ryzen APU in a small (sub-7-liter) case, which sits half empty because I haven't even dropped a GPU into it. All my games and CAD run just fine on the APU. All the included peripherals are more than I've ever needed.

The other is my old Athlon64x2 4850e in a bigass M3N78 Pro board, with drives and I/O out the wazoo. It's old enough to have floppy and PATA ports, but new enough to have SATA and USB too (and even a PCIe slot), so it's my media mule. I power it up whenever I need to do CD ripping, floppy archiving, that sort of stuff. I actually picked up the fastest chip that would fit the board (a Phenom II X4 945), just for giggles because they're $30 on eBay now, but promptly swapped back to the 4850e because 125 watts in a CPU is unconscionable when 45 does the job just fine.

The latter, of course, is chock-full of cables like they're goin' out of style. I made a few long floppy and PATA ribbons for working with external disks so they sit crammed up in the bottom when not in use, etc. And the non-modular PSU has like a dozen cables all splattered everywhere. It's the opposite of vanity, and I love it.
Fractional scaling was initially an afterthought for Wayland and its implementations, like in Plasma, lagged about adding it and then implementing it without bugs. Fractional scaling was broken on Plasma for a bit because of it, and GNOME decided that users didn't need it. That hasn't been the case for a while, now, and it works on both desktops.

Xorg also had to implement it, and at one point Xorg's implementation was more stable than what popular Wayland compositors offered.
How is it different/better from incognito mode ?
archive: https://archive.is/qRA3F
TIL, that's cool.
Interesting that Palantir video shows SpaceX dragon as an example of "integrating with existing satellites". Plantir's Thiel and Elon go way back...
> Async processing is not a virtue, it's a necessity for high load/high throughput systems.

> 1. Anything that is connected to user interface should be synchronous by default.

If everything UI is synchronous, you prevent users from acheiving high throughput. Sometimes that's fine, but sometimes it's not.

It's simple to wait for a response to a request sent via asynchronous messaging. It's not simple to split a synchronous API into send and receive parts. However, REST is HTTP and there's lots of async HTTP libraries out there.
> I encourage you to read this other discussion

yes, there's a lot of horrid crap on this topic on HN lately. It's been politicised already, no need to push this agenda further. Your encouragement is not needed, that nonsense is quite visible. eyeroll.
Allot of what most people consume isn't great for teeth. Like coffee (and some teas).
We're once more, really laughing at this, over here, again, annual-like.
Never used command line for profiles, I'd just go type "about:profiles" > "Launch profile in new browser".

This opens a new window with that profile, but you can switch between each window at will.

The lack of discoverability of that "about:profiles" page is indeed a UX issue compared to chrome, but other that that it works pretty well.

For most use cases, I find the more lightweight multi-account-containers more useful though.
You can get dual port 10 Gbit cards from ebay for less than 20$ right now.
Posted the basic question in another post but I’ll ask here too. What are you using to saturate a 10gbe nic? Inet??? I find a true 10gbe inet connection unusual but I’ve been out of that game for a while.
You can right click a link, and open it in the other container. It's clunky, but has worked for me so far.

The UX for default containers could really benefit from some kind of context-awareness, but I'm not sure what that would look like.

I'm thinking an intermediary tab that gives you a list of default containers (instead of only a single option or none at all) to choose from when opening a domain. Then, maybe, you could set a default choice based on the originating container. Or maybe a tree of sub-containers... This is where addon-defined UX makes sense.
mac mini is probably enough these days
Counter space unlikely, but there's no international treaty stipulating where air space ends except fl600, US shooting down PRC assets at fl600+1ft gives PRC openning to mess with US intel gathering in PRC EEZ where at least international law has interpretations for such activities being non innocent passage. I'm not sure if it will get that far since those activities are done by mostly manned platforms, but wouldn't rule out another EP3 tier event or PRC taking more US subsurface monitoring infra in SCS.
Also, it's a PDF link
Those links give a lot more information.
i use this, it sounds like in a way inverted from the way you do -- i have containers for any site that i want to maintain persistence on, then default to a tmp container
@jchw that's neat! You've seen this in source or is it accessible somehow from the UI?
In my experience, game developers are some of the most talented engineers I've ever met. But they're very different from the "high quality" engineers you'd find in the rest of tech.

They're usually really good at getting the job done and balancing quality + productivity. However, most things are written with a one-off mindset because chances are your next game will need things to work completely differently. Everywhere else in tech you find "scalable" and "backwards compatible" solutions; not in gaming.

Part of this is the job description. Unlike the rest of tech, you're usually building a game that will be popular for 2-3 years then disappear. It's not common to find that model anywhere else in tech.

Just my 2 cents.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34766703
It's not just low-tier media outlets (at least in terms of reach), this is largely driven by large names like LTT and Gamer's Nexus

People don't realize that mid range mobile chips from both Intel and AMD out perform top of the range desktop SKUs from a few years ago because they're constantly bombarded by hot takes based on things like CPU rendering and unzipping files...

At this point I'm convinced it's just an informal cycle, where if they actually reported in a realistic manner, no release would be exciting. If they didn't pair bottom of the line CPUs with top end GPUs and odd settings configurations under the guise of "not wanting to reflect a GPU bottleneck", it'd be a lot clearer how badly needs have stagnated vs the speed of these new SKUs
>use of swearwords and code quality

I guess it depends on the words.

By the time you damn it all to hell it usually doesn't have far to go.
Pretty certain that I've known Ray the entire time he's been blogging. He pretty much introduced the ColdFusion community to open source. Even if I never have any plans to use or do something he blogs about I read it anyway because he explains things so simply, stumbles over pretty much the same things that I stumble over learning something. Lots of times he's writing about something six months ahead of me realizing that I can't do without it ;<).
Sandboxing JavaScript Code
I'm not sure. 401ks were not an accident when they were introduced, but it doesn't appear that any of their architects intended for them to completely revolutionize and take over the retirement system in the US.

I do agree that now it is an organized effort by capital and that efforts to move social security to a system similar to private 401k accounts (which has been pushed by the right since before W Bush) would absolutely do what you say - seal the complete subservience of labor to capital. I just think that this was an opportunity seized by capital rather than a change planned from the beginning.
I'm waiting on USB-C
Why are BP, Shell, and other oil giants making so much money?
For my part, I am content to let the people of Kentucky govern themselves as they see fit. And I hope my state makes enough room for those who find their fellow men unbearable enough that they would rather live under a different law.
Thanks a bunch! Seriously. And I agree that AGPL is pretty harsh - I have a feeling that this is typically used in a "try before you buy" situation, where there is a commercial license on the side.
> When you're at id Software and don't have to answer to anyone with regards to deadlines or funding

actually Id Software people worked in much harder conditions than game devs of today.

https://preview.redd.it/iehd38ucuuz71.jpg?width=450&format=p...
The missiles seek and track based on heat differences. To an IR sensor the sky is typically pretty "cold" and just about anything in the sky is relatively "hot". Once the missile is locked onto the relatively hot signature against the cold background the sensor stares at it and adjusts the missile's trajectory to intercept it (and blow up).

Countermeasures like flares try to trick a missile's sensor into thinking the hot object it was staring at was the flare going that way and not the maneuvering aircraft going the other way. Modern IR tracking missiles try to stay locked on the object by ignoring hotter or cooler objects that might end up in its view.
Finland and Sweden are keen to join Nato. What is their motivation in your opinion?
And I can guarantee you that this is not true. I've worked on multiple live service games in my career, and running servers for players efficiently and at scale is hard, and expensive.
Is GitHub Actions really similar enough to Temporal/Cadence to be included in the list?
“Times, they are a-changin”

Sorry to disappoint, I too am frustrated about ChatGPT/GPT-3/LLM mainstream gossip deluge, but that doesn’t mean I disagree with augmenting my productivity with the latest tools.
incognito shares state between tabs. temporary containers can have a fresh container for every tab, so your tabs are isolated. you can also use it in a way that by default every site you visit is using a temporary container, with certain urls set to use their corresponding long term containers -- if i go to github, it opens in a github container, if i click a link to some random dev's site, it opens in a temp container, etc.

to provide context, i still use incognito, but i consider incognito mostly about hiding things from myself -- i use it almost exclusively for porn, because i don't want my porn habits in my browser suggestions. temporary tabs still land in the recent urls and such.
I see your point, but our tests ensure that out functions work as expected. usually when test function foo, the test is called test_foo. But if we have a function or class that will ensure that X is a valid sparrow, we have a test called ensure_valid_sparrow.
Also received it.

The target domain is https://links.namecheap.com which goes to https://iterable.com/

DKIM-signed

Seems to be either DHL or Metamask.

What concerns me a lot being a customer is that they have been compromised for a couple of days already without taking proper actions: https://twitter.com/polmesegue/status/1623628920636559361
in that order: "aviate, navigate, communicate"
Straight hydrogen balloons are probably still too flammable for parties but they poof instead of kaboom.
HL == ew
My problem with Battlefield 2042 is that it doesn’t feel like battlefield. It feels like some exec asked “what kind of shooters have gotten popular with the kids recently? Let’s rip those off”.
I think you’re basically making the same point he is. He even cites the environment change as an example (e.g. changing jobs).
No, that’s called immature ideological purity. Like it or not, state secrets are a necessary function of any civilization.
the book can be borrowed at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/flightsoffantasy00lamp
I’m suspecting the same aliens what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald myself (/s)
Indeed. It's a form of DRM if we take the R to mean 'restrictions', whether it's intentional or not. It just goes to show that all these publishers have no interest in making great games, but to simply milk players for a little while before moving on to the next thing. That and the loot boxes are the main reason I don't buy "modern" games anymore. I stash all my cash for GOG.
Given how many times the MFGs have been caught colluding to keep them high, good luck!
I had a 2015 MBP that was falling apart and waited for the M2 refresh. I expect that I won’t get another laptop until 2030.

I have an iPhone 11 (fall 2019) and I see no reason to upgrade.

It does feel like we’ve hit a plateau. The only step up I can see would be on-device ML/“AI” models. Removing the latency and improving offline capabilities of something like Siri would open some doors.
Coinbase’s staking services are not securities
I believe the Holocaust happened, and I also believe

* the number of people who died as a result of ghettoization, genocide, and indirect deaths (disease, suicide, etc) was far higher than 6 million

* the number of Jews murdered by German SS, local blackguards, and in death camps is between 4.5 million and 5.5 million, with 6 million being an off the cuff estimate in the aftermath of the Holocaust ( https://yvng.yadvashem.org/ )

* investigating and accumulating evidence of the deaths of the Holocaust for the purposes of evidence and historical research is valid and should continue

* Litigating the number of dead is an extremely common tactic of Holocaust deniers, as if 1 or 2 million dead would be just reasonable domestic policy

* this article is conflating the latter with the former

* commentary on the above without deep knowledge of the research of Yad Vashem, the US Holocaust Museum, and other major reaearchers of the Holocaust (no matter one's position on Wikipedia or the Holocaust) is 100% ineffective

* including this comment.
Balloon Fight
The Mozilla VPN is a relabelled service by Mullvad VPN.
The kernel ABI is very stable, but applications typically need to interact with parts of the operating system besides the kernel, and those parts are not as fanatical when it comes to providing stable interfaces.

For example, applications that need to do hostname and username resolution have to interface with NSS, and that breaks if you statically link glibc.

Another example is playing audio - this requires interfacing with some userspace audio system like JACK, PulseAudio, or now Pipewire. If you statically link libSDL, it won't work in 5-10 years with whatever the latest fad in audio playback is. But if you dynamically link libSDL, then you can't statically link glibc because libSDL may be linked with a newer version of glibc, causing a conflict.

Thus you end up with a quite a mess.
How do you get over the lack of type inference in Scala?
That's what I'm thinking of doing when I build PCs for my partner and I later this year. I've been looking at benchmarks and I'm not as worried about the top end of performance as much as I am Intel being about ready to release a new socket design next refresh.
isolation of cookies and other data between websites. although now I think firefox does that per tab anyway&site combo nowadays anyway. I mainly use it for multiple reddit accounts and gmail accounts. also good when combined with cookie auto delete for test purpose between testing site changes "freshly".
By "CPU load", loading the CPU is implied. The fact that your AAA titles don't load the CPU, because they're GPU-bottlenecked is irrelevant. Load the CPU properly, e.g. compiling, and you'll see large power consumptions.
Writing, Riffs and Relationships
I don't think this is a bad thing. Even an "obvious" message will have a large percent of viewers who don't get it. And that doesn't necessarily mean they're idiots, as other comments imply: they might be ESL speakers, not from the same culture as the message, children, distracted, neurodivergent, or just... didn't get it. A top explainer comment is also very helpful for people who don't want to commit to watching / reading yet.

I'm all about being elitist but shaming "signposting of basic meaning" doesn't make sense to me. Signposts are great.
I was experimenting with the Warp terminal for the first time last week. It includes a similar feature. I was pretty impressed with how well it worked.

[0] https://docs.warp.dev/features/entry/ai-command-search#
>wanted to see if my PC could run it before I spent 60 euros on it

steam usually allows refunds in the first few hours of playtime, which supports this usecase as well.
Definitely getting them out of your head and recorded elsewhere is a good stress/worry reliever IMHO!
That assumes people read platforms, which I think is incorrect. Warren got maneuvered by the media and activists into a "woke white lady with a plan" lane that just turned out to be a total loser. If she had campaigned on the worker stuff and didn't call people "Latinix" I think she would've done far better.