skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats interesting, i don't see these as occupying the same space. Clickhouse is in the space of realtime analytics and Snowflake is a data warehouse. Although you could use Clickhouse for similar things it will fail at doing large distributed joins and similarly Snowflake will have trouble meeting a subsecond SLO.

also FWIW Clickhouse's cloud offering also decouples storage and compute using an object store, but they found a good middleground where they keep local caches of hot data.
> US's blue water navy. (...) hypersonics turns an aircraft carrier

I actually started thinking about the carriers a couple of hours after I had made my comment, which is to say I think that you're of course pretty on point.

Hopefully that danger that you hint to will make the smart people still left in the US Military think twice or thrice when it comes to continuing the aircraft carriers policy, as they've become too big of a target and if the US will need space-based laser guns (or whatever it is that this article proposes) in order to defend them then something is most certainly amiss.
Not just on the runway. The hangers had big drains in them to catch the fuel and anyone unfortunate enough to have to work under the plane would get soaked. "Hey, I think the plane is leaking" -- me.
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How about moon based lasers?
The use of "takes" in "takes parameters" is probably not helping clarify your point here. (since functions "take/pass" arguments when called, but "have/make use of" parameters in their definition).
I see things like MicroPython as a nice tool for prototyping hardware side rapidly (if you just need to test some SPI/I2C stuff in more complex way than i2c interface allows) and for projects simple enough that you don't ever will use most of the CPU and can afford to spend $ for wasted RAM/Flash.

Like, you just want to flip some bits based on some inputs in as simple way as possible.

But then eh, Arduino is easy enough for same thing...
obsidian isn't open source but it's fantastic; standard notes has some issues that put it in the "do not recommend" category for me.

more recs that put SN to shame: logseq, dendron, foam
They aren't compatible with the first amendment. But at this point, those rights are a joke and and all three branches of our government regard the constitution as toilet paper.
Alright fine, I can concede to this. ChatGPT should not have given me the best alternative but it should have given me the exact technically correct answer. You're right.
That’s like 254 too many.
I remember how many distros come with a package of Linux HOWTOS about varios topics, I did learn a lot from those
Wow this is one of the best logo redesigns I’ve seen in a long time. Absolutely keeps the spirit and distinct identity of the old one, but looks a whole lot crisper and fresher. Huge props.
I think it also depends on your social background, the social life that you would lead, and what you want to be in the future?

If you are from the UK, then you would need to consider how the change in social status would affect how you are perceived by your possible friends and family. Would you be happy having to deal with people who have a different mindset, different cultural pursuits, etc... than you?

I think money is less of an issue as long as you make a nice middle class salary for where you live. A lot of the tech community seems to be obsessed with money making, but that is more of a trait shared by Americans, and not widely found in Europe nor Asia. The main issue is whether you are physically capable of manual labour.
My oven only goes to 500F. Some go to 550F. Even Ooni's are 1000F at most.

What does yours do?
I mentioned that all that discussion ignored the nuclear dimension, that it is a totally diferent thing (for the sake of the argument/discussion being made).
Any word on how much they paid?
It's $1.7 trillion in 2023 dollars (I think) total costs across the entirety of the program until 2070 (not sure if the number is "starting today" or "from the start of the program in ~1993") for ~2000 planes for the US and ~1000 for allies (although I don't think the $1.7 trillion includes allies). But the question isn't "how much does the F-35 cost", it's "how much more/less does the F-35 cost compared to whatever else would fulfill its place". Would that be modernized F-15s and F-16s? Would those be able to fulfill the requirements set by the Air Force and indirectly by Congress? Or would there be another program instead that might cost even more than $1.7 trillion across ~50 years (or 80 if counting from the start of the program)?

Also, the F-35 isn't an iteration on the F-22. It's an entirely new airplane. It's a bit worse in aerodynamics but has far better sensors and electronics, reducing the importance of aerodynamics in the first place. In a dogfight the F-22 is better; in a realistic engagement involving multiple platforms and missions being performed at once with air, sea, and land targets and allies, the F-35 is better.

The F-35 program was absolutely mismanaged in its early years and it's a crime that nothing was done about that. There's parts of the program that are mismanaged today (see [0] for examples of what the Air Force is trying to do to avoid those problems with their next fighter). But the program now isn't substantially worse than what other fighters went through, and despite all the program's failings the product itself is fantastic

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/avoiding-f-35-acquisit...
The biggest difference to my mind is that at end of a day you have something concrete to look at and say “I done that”.

In software or business we spend so much time on intangibles. Often worthwhile, but just not viscerally satisfying. “I am mentally fatigued because I refactored the whole controller layer of this app. It turned out the proposed redesign wasn’t worth pursuing so we reverted the commit, but the knowledge gained from this spike was very valuable!”

Hits very different to “All my muscles hurt. I dug that hole. That one right there.”

The line between being fulfilled by manual labour versus being crushed by it is flexibility. If you’re choosing when to work and what to work on, you’ll probably love it. When you’re working through an injury on the hottest day of the year and the aircon on the truck is broken and all the fire in the area was put out days ago anyway… you’ll wish you were refactoring.
Unfortunately, this is an urban legend. While titanium is amazing stuff a normal ring cutter can go through it.
Close to MARVs, but with presumably greater maneuvering capacity (the “glide” description suggests this) which necessarily trades speed to exploit.
They haven't been illegal anywhere I've lived. A few survive, but none thrive. Mostly they seem to get by selling drinks and to smokers.
Yes, Just look how well the DeSantis announcement went. If the huge clusterfuck that was the Desantis announcement of Twitter spaces is any indication of the future for where this leads, then maybe the 'leaders' of our tech community should pause for thought.
I was able to backup/restore an old COBOL system via cpio between modern GNU cpio (man page last updated June 2018), and SCO's cpio (c. 1989). This is neither to affirm nor contradict Kurzweil, but rather to praise the GNU userland for its solid legacy support.
As a recently retired military officer I'm very suspicious of his recent outbursts. To the general global public it's absolutely believable because many want to believe it, especially in the media.

I want to believe it as well but my military instincts kick in because this is exactly what I would do if I was Putin. Create a "woe as me" narrative. Look everyone at all the disfunction in my operations. It's horrible I tell ya, horrible! Putin will never win in the media but he can sabotage it with stories of weakness like this.

Why hasn't Putin Reprimanded him yet or had him eliminated? He could easily have done it already. I don't know if this is the case but in a war where you can't win in the media it would be a smart move. One of the smartest.
what do people use a desktop e-mail client for.. ie thunderbird ?

Going back to a desktop e-mail client seems like a step into the long past. Mine as start sending hand written messages and licking stamps..
Meta is spending 20 B / yr on mostly Nvidia-powered servers. Doing so without a product strategy to utilize them.
Taking a PPI (I think it was generic protonix) truly cured very severe heartburn I'd developed from eating a funny diet. After a few months, I got my doctor to prescribe me a half-size pill, then tapered off and I've been permanently free of heartburn. Maybe footnotes to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-pump_inhibitor#Indicati... explain why. But I remember reading that the PPI permanently shut down a bunch of acid production in your stomach, so after a while, you may be in a good state.
> F-35 is an awful, awful, awful deal. It's an iteration on the F-22

No, its not. While the program was initiated after the program that built the F-22 its a complement with a different set of niches, not an iteration on the -22. Loosely, the F-22 was the successor to the Air Force’s F-15s, and the F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C, was the successor to...every other contemporary fighter and fixed wing attack aircraft in the US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps inventory.
So who's going to Snowflake, and who's going to their other, web3 company, nxyz?
Well it looks like Betterbird war is having an affect on Thunderbird itself. While not the same logo, it has a similar "feel" to the Betterbird logo.
Now if Thunderbird will finally make it possible to NOT have threading as the default for new accounts or have an easy button to remove threading, rather than the cumbersome way they do it now, (listen to the endusers guys , not the sponsored contributors), we will all feel a little bit more love for the venerable Thunderbird.
I do like the new logo though.
Ai chatbots are perfect for this
Earlier this week there was a shareholders meeting at Shell. They'll continue to heavily invest in fossil fuel exploitation including finding new wells. No sense of urgency or even the slightest hint of a correction.

As expected, activists disrupted the protest. Intensely. The meeting concluded with 80% of shareholders signing and approving Shell's plans.

Dutch politicians confronted Shell's leadership:

What you're doing directly opposes what should happen and even accelerates the climate issue. It's highly immoral.

Shell: well, that's just your opinion, dude.

Either we all don't care or we wake up: self-regulation will not happen. Stop being so naive about it.
Lidar only works to a certain subset of distances, so you need cameras anyway to infer long distances beyond the scope. Also, since distance alone isn’t sufficient, you need cameras anyway for inference of other things.
At the very least, and the cost for this perhaps would be prohibitive, but some mechanism to duplicate the raw flux off the tape onto another tape in an identical format, a backup of the backup. This would allow for attempts to read the data that may be potentially destructive to the media (for example, breaking the tape accidentally) and not lose the original signal.
Ford CEO: We’ll Move to Fixed Prices
Plyr: A simple HTML5 video player for modern browsers
Software documentation is an art.

Right balance of exact operation of software and examples, put in order that's useful in normal usage, and explanation for the more complex parts
One of the examples in the readme is this

Counting number of files

/Users/kchan> (cd quicklisp/local-projects/unix-in-lisp)
/Users/kchan/quicklisp/local-projects/unix-in-lisp> (pipe (wc -l) (ls))
9

Personally, I would want the top level parens to be implicit so I could write

/Users/kchan> cd quicklisp/local-projects/unix-in-lisp
/Users/kchan/quicklisp/local-projects/unix-in-lisp>

This removes what could be trivial, but for a basic `cd`, I don't want to have to remember parens every time. Optionally having those parens would be nice for when they're needed, but for basic use-cases I'd rather not.
by SLA you mean: on outage the status page won't be updated for hours

then they'll refund you 2c for the 8 seconds they say they were down for
RIP Tina Turner
Being in enterprise software I have heard AI/Generative AI so many times since chatgpt became mainstream. Every fortune company I have spoken to wants to get on this train.
Oh dear. You will I hope not be too embarrassed by learning that the 10 in SGR 38;5;10 (that control sequence) is colour index 10, which is less than 16, and a member of the very AIXTerm 16 colour set that you want. Thus the rust compiler is not in fact using a colour outwith the 16 AIXTerm colours.
Compute for full self driving hasn’t been solved, I hope it is, and I don’t know which strategy will work. It’s entirely possible LiDaR makes it work better but requires more GPUs on vehicle :)
I agree.

I think (and to be clear this is just addressed at the world as a lament, not directed at you) the issue is that people have an incorrect concept of what the phrase "rolling your own cryptography" even means; when I give talks on security, I always note that while there are tricky issues with some primitives for some use cases involving stuff like "does your code leak information via timing, power usage, caches, etc." that by-and-large the issue isn't about implementing a well-established low-level primitive--or, I will claim (maybe to my peril! ;P), even a high-level protocol--yourself instead of using an existing implementation: it is about coming up with your own design, whether it be your own checksum / hash function / signature algorithm... or your own protocol / scheme for using these primitives to accomplish a goal, as the stuff you will do wrong is not knowing all the corner cases in how to wield the pieces as these low-level cryptographic primitives are not and pretty much can't be leak-proof abstractions: they are little bits of math that often have to be used exactly correctly and even then only still provide some level of protection / risk mitigation against an adversary... when developers waltz in and assume the low-level hash function is in some sense perfect and provides some unbreakable abstract functionality, you are going to think something is trivial that is in fact very very hard.
I imagine that most games have a very limited lifetime to begin with. Only a very free become “classics” that continue to sell well for years.
The study was on HN last week, the sinking is estimated, they didn't take any measurements.

The estimate is 1 to 2 mm per year, and the mention of climate change is an unrelated emotional appeal to make this interesting.
Previously submitted as Plyr – A simple HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo player, maydemir, Feb 28 2022, 5 points. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30501332
You probably meant Hamas. Hezbollah has much more advanced rocket capabilities and has just much more of them. While Hamas (and Islamic Jihad) rockets can usually be stopped by the Iron Dome, Hezbollah has orders of magnitude more of them and many of them are precise.
And in descending order of correctness.

ChatGPT inherited "confidently wrong" and "misunderstanding question and then answering to question they misunderstood" from stackoverflow
Because a successful rebrand (like this one) can onboard new users as well as keep existing ones.

i.e.

you are unlikely to stop using Thunderbird because of this redesign, but someone who doesn't use it now has an increased chance of starting.
https://archive.ph/aLWYG
Ah yes, really living in the future loading up an entire browser, consuming all the ram, to type and read text.
Well they've been subpoenad so probably something happened.
There's a story of an SR-71 nosing around the Florida/Bahamas/Cuba area only to get a call from ATC asking them to divert due to traffic. At our altitude? So the pressure-suited pilots adjust course for a bunch of French tourists in their jackets and sundresses go past, because the one other plane that flew that high was Concorde.
I think you could. In some sense "easily". It may be about finding that thing you're naturally so interested in or otherwise drawn to, that the months figuring out become a type of driven joy, and so the willpower kinda automatic.

And if you find it, don't judge what it is or worry what others might think - or even necessarily tell anyone. Sometimes the most motivating things are highly personal, as with the OP; a significant part of their childhood.
The author worked on this project, and does remark that the only way to power the jet-borne laser at the time was to essentially pack a liquid rocket inside a 747 - but advancements in laser tech over the last 20-30 years have created alternatives like solid state systems.
You have to load a custom ROM if you don't want to be tracked without your consent. You have a crumb more freedom on Android, that's all.
> has 2560x1600 resolution

better than nothing, I guess :-/

https://images.prismic.io/frameworkmarketplace/83578c7d-0d99... shows them using torx screws; is there some technical reason for that, especially above a paragraph touting changes made specifically for ease of replacement?
Are you arguing just against change? Like things should remain the same if there's no technical reason to change them? 2 decades is quite a long time for something visual to remain the same.
Since recovering from this outage, I see a search with Bing, rather than browser option in GPT4 drop down.
Smoke Around Russia's Ministry of Defense Building in Moscow
But if those nerve endings are anywhere but at the surface of the body, they'll still require an implant.
The word "companies" is doing a lot of work in your rant.

The vast majority of websites on the internet do not have a team behind them. That's exactly the reason why they lack maintenance.

So they're not intimidating well-funded companies, they're intimidating that nice guy that in 2003 build a website for the local bridge club. Volunteering his time and money to do so.
> "Scientific knowledge, like language, is intrinsically the common property of a group or else nothing at all. To understand it we shall need to know the special
characteristics of the groups that create and use it."

I really don't know about this - the divisions that humans have created in their study of science are pretty artificial, i.e. physics/chemistry/biology, and seem to have more to do with academic politics and funding opportunities than the natural world itself. Nature doesn't care about such divisions, not in the least.

Mathematics is something of a special case, in that its results (and motivations) are as relevant to the world of art as they are to the world of science.
You would think so, but, then again, Ukraine has been pretty resilient in the face of much more and devastating attacks targeting its infrastructure (mostly related to power generation, as far as I can tell).

As for the refineries, I agree, it would most definitely suck to have some of them taken off-line, but the discussion comes back to the point I was mentioning, meaning if the US is ready to call it quits because it will have to introduce some gasoline rationing as a result of a World War (because at that point we would be in the middle of WW3) then, honestly, it couldn't have won the war anyway. You need some resilience built in, both at the technical level (maybe have more refineries that would be more spread out, for example) and at the national psyche level, for lack of a better term.
You summed up my position perfectly. Netflix is free to change their mind. I'm free to re-evaluate my relationship with them in the context of the new, much less valuable plan.
Usually that's called a weakman argument. Steelman is the opposite, where you look for an opponent's strongest arguments to critique/refute.
"More popular"? Citation needed, please.

In terms of measuring popularity, I love

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

Google Trends is interesting too

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2021-04-24%202...

Disclosure: I work for Snowflake
RIP Brian Shul.
> Except it costs many times more to make an anti-ballistic-missile interceptor then the original ballistic missile.

That doesn't sound correct to me. They're both rockets, one is much larger than the other and has a payload (in the case where we're looking at a failure of deterrence) made out outrageously expensive material. I mean, you can construct an argument that one is already built and paid for, or that 70's/80's technology was cheaper inherently, etc...

But from first principles, no. An ICBM is more expensive than an ABM.
The existing user base will be reluctant to leave, because they’ll lose access to their massive collection of notes in the Evernote proprietary format. They’re locked in, to at least some extent.

I pay for a some writing subscriptions, but they all use markdown as the file format. I can switch apps pretty easily if I ever want to leave
A better question is when will Sony support Vulkan instead of constant NIH. Nintendo does.
Oh man, this sucks. Learning about it from your comment. I always wanted to go see one of his speeches. I remember seeing them on YouTube and they were great. His story is truly inspirational. His books are incredible as well. I was gifted signed copies of Sled Driver and The Untouchables and I honestly treasure them. Guess I’ll just have to read them again today.
Start of Ron DeSantis presidential campaign melts down in Twitter problems
> Why hasn't Putin Reprimanded him yet or had him eliminated?

Might fear an attempt to do so would be the thing that set off said revolution.
> Security of technology is really a process

> But we can probably rebuild 90% of the existing world in a "Safer" manner right no

I strongly agree with this mindset. The only caveat I would offer is that some architectural structures that c and c++ allow probably don't amend themselves to fixing even if you can detect them.

Although just like you can write any language horribly, I think you can write almost any language well.

It's hard to see how tools that allow you to do that can be a bad thing. I'm certainly not going to be paying to rewrite everything from the ground up in rust or otherwise.
> (modulo LLM confabulation)

As of now, there is no LLM without confabulation, so your third item is effectively "hypothetical fantasy ChatGPT that we hope will be available some time in the future", not the actual tools we have right now.
> what do people use a desktop e-mail client for.. ie thunderbird ?

I use Apple Mail for reading mail because I have email accounts at a number of different providers and web UIs differ so easier to bring everything into one app. Also, sometimes it’s good to have email offline.

> Mine as start sending hand written messages and licking stamps..

I do that too, sometimes.
Why post at all? In fact, posting ad-hominems instead of actually discussing the story is against the site rules. You can flag stories you don't think should be posted, it will save you having a public hissy fit.
Buying a car used to be fun. Research, shopping, haggling with numerous dealers. Now it's just a huge pain where whatever you do, you end up feeling ripped off.
It'd be pretty cool if games could use it to argument playing on the TV too, like multi-player gaming on one console with separate displays, for games that don't need all CPU power that is, or extra stats or whatever in some triple A game.
> a relatively small production run

Over 10,000 have been built. The R&D cost should have been amortized away by now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot
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Well most oven won't burn any of your cookware no matter the material.

I just wanted to emphasize that there are danger below 3,000F.
That is incredibly cool!
The glide part would be in the three categories above, but not the whole system, which has extra capabilities (unlimited loitering time for example).
> Ethical oversight is baked into the institutions through governance structures.

Kind of a shocking assumption to make. Over the past several decades it has become increasingly apparent how our governing structures have no inherent relationship with ethics.