skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current interceptors do not use nuclear warheads. This makes it both cheaper and more expensive. It requires a more complicated hit to kill system than merely getting the nuclear warhead close enough. However, the system as a whole ends up cheaper. You don't need to get National Command Authority to authorize a launch anymore, because you're not using nukes. You can get that delegated down to whichever officer is in charge of the system that day.

The objective of National Missile Defense isn't to stop all the warheads, it's to make the attacker's job harder. There's a bunch of ways it does that. One is that the defender gets to choose what it stops. So they can stop all the warheads going to one target. But the attacker doesn't know ahead of time, so they need to launch enough warheads at each target to destroy it regardless of whether it's actually defended or not. So 1550 warheads no longer hit 750 targets, but rather they hit 75 targets. It really sucks to be one of those 75 targets, because most of them get absolutely destroyed, but the other 90% of potential targets are much better off, because they didn't get hit at all.

Another way is that ballistic missile accuracy depends on how far away from the target it gets separated from the missile bus that has the guidance system. If they separate too late, the interceptor will hit the bus before separation. Which kills all the warheads. So they have to move it back, which makes it less accurate, which means it's more likely the warhead will miss the target.

A third way is that they may decide they need to carry penetration aids. But there's a bunch of really fancy tricks radars and IR sensors can do to see which is a real thing, and which isn't, which amount to: the penetration aid which is best at mimicking a warhead ends up being the same size and shape as a real warhead. So they might as well just use a real warhead.
Exactly, not everyone wants to send their data to OpenAI, I'm working on this (albeit very slowly) but hopefully I'll have something out in a week or two, and will be open source _and_ plug and play.

https://github.com/aldarisbm/memory
One more possible reason might be when driving down a hill: When descending a sufficiently steep incline, I may be braking just to maintain my speed! That said, I'm still _feeling_ negative acceleration to maintain a constant speed. (That said, if I'm doing this for more than a handful of seconds, I'll generally downshift, and _that_ doesn't trigger brake lights, despite also causing increased negative acceleration. So maybe regenerative braking is analagous, and fine without brake lights?)
With a drone you need to plan and prepare in advance. With a space laser, I would assume it's O(seconds) to reorient and fire.
I'd say this of low- or first-level managers, but not the middle layers.

Those are filled with people who are clinging to their roles well past their usefulness, because even though they're ruining social supports like Medicare and Social Security by pulling out multiples more funds than they ever contributed, they also failed to save anything of their own or are otherwise refusing to retire and leave the workforce (even though they've already started receiving "retirement" benefits).
a16z's investment thesis completely centers around finding the next bagholder for their investments.

They don't care about building enduring businesses that make them a lot of money because the businesses are actually driving that much value creation.

They care about creating a hype cycle and dumping before the tide goes out and their investments crash on someone else's balance sheet.

None of them could get on a podcast and say anything remotely rational or intelligent about their crypto investments: it was all pump and dump. In one interview, their head of crypto investments main value claim was "monetizing the sharing of your home wifi," and after some pushback resorted to deference to authority by saying the founders they invest in went to the right schools and nobody else could understand because "they weren't in the room."

These are smart people who couldn't articulate a clear value. They obviously didn't believe any of it and just saw an opportunity to promote a Dutch tulip mania.

Good fund for con artist "entrepreneurs" though. Same deal for Chamath and his SPACs.

There's increasing hesitation among builders to take money from funds that have strayed this far from long-term value creation, because once they get addicted to short-term pump and dump profits and chasing the latest thing, it's hard to go back to supporting actual builders.
> The whole thing is played like it's ordinary, no awkward asides to make sure we understand that this is a WOMAN being STRONG. 1977 and 1980 release dates.

This is a big problem I have with modern movies; they're unable or unwilling to simply show, they need to show and tell. It doesn't matter the theme, even wholly unpolitical themes are far too often explicitly laid out, multiple times, with blunt dialogue exposition to the audience who are presumed to only be half-watching the movie.

A modern movie can't just have a bank robber kill another bank robber. They need the killer to say "hehehe, this way I get a larger cut of the profit!" Does that really need to be said? Why can't a movie just show it but not have the character explain his motivations outloud to an empty room? Because modern movies are made to spoonfeed disinterested dimwits with short attention spans. Movies are catering to people who aren't even paying attention, because in test audiences there are always a few people who keep muttering questions "what's going on? what did they just say? why is this happening?" And the worst part is, these sort of people are still confused even when the movie explicitly explains everything to them.
Sounds like a job for state machines like you can build out with a library like xstate[0] (though I'm sure there are similar libraries in whatever language you choose. Python has one called automat[1])

These exist to formalize state logic (current state, computing state, transitioning state etc), you can even produce diagrams based on their definitions. Advanced libraries like xstate even have Actors are part of the core of the library

[0]: https://stately.ai/docs/xstate

[1]: https://github.com/glyph/Automat
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I'm not sure how common they are or precisely where it came from but I know someone with a hand-copied prayer book from the indian melankara church. I'm not sure when the original was made but this one was copied in the 1960s so is nearly a minor relic in its own right.
Nice reference, "The Name of The Rose" is my favourite book. A masterpiece.
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"They might be the friendliest, most charming, most outwardly positive people you meet."

This is by far the biggest indicator to me that they're playing politics.
You couldn’t feel that way if you had no doubt or did not care about your level or worth as a developer. So you do care about how others perceive your level and you are not totally convinced that your self evaluation is right.

I would say don’t judge yourself too much. You don’t have to be perfect (especially if you are not, and nobody is). You probably are in this business to learn, so give yourself some room to learn a bit (or a lot!) more. People that criticize your work may be wrong. Don’t take their criticisms as absolute truth. In case you feel they may be right, drop your ideas right away, ruthlessly steal theirs and make them yours. This is how you don’t get stuck in local minima. You don’t have to care about having been wrong, there are more constructive things to do.
Yes, that's right. Note that it also applies to fiat currencies. For example, at various times in recent years many Venezuelans would try to hoard USD (the good money), driving it out of circulation, and spend as much as possible in the latest version of the Bolivar -- until the Bolivar failed. Once the Bolivar failed, everyone would stop accepting it. Venezuela has created several versions of the Bolivar in recent years that have subsequently failed.
The quote is apocryphal. There is no evidence he said that. And if he did, it was in jest.
Show HN: Collaborative recipe manager for iOS, built with SwiftUI and Firebase
I initially created Umami for my family. We'd been using a giant google sheet of recipes that my wife made (one recipe per tab plus a table of contents at the front), but the UX of that left much to be desired, especially on mobile.

We also tried a bunch of other recipe apps like Paprika, Whisk, Mela, etc., but most of them don't let you create a shared collection of recipes without using the same login credentials, which we didn't want to share with extended family members.

Anyways, I've steadily been working on Umami as a solo side project for about 3 years. At first, just my family and a few friends were using it, but now it's starting to get downloaded by other people. I'd love to get feedback here on what kinds of features would be helpful to y'all. Also happy to answer any questions about the tech stack. Thanks friends!
Nope, no different from safely keeping any other books, but I might if I had even older ones depending on their condition.
If you must, write the response then delete it. I believe that was an old Lincoln trick. He wrote mean response letters to people and then put them in his desk draw and never sent them.
Microsoft post: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/05/24/vol...
I'd presume the experience would be ... smaller?

If we get to the point where there's the possibility of thousands of passengers, supported by thousands of attendant crew, on a single airship, then we've got a different discussion. And a massive success for LTA tech.

But at that point, I'd probably just want whatever the 'sky sleeper train' equivalent is.
My 2020 Bolt does the right thing also. I only wish the lights would stay on while I'm stopped at a light but that's minor.
Beware Elon Musk’s warped libertarianism
Exactly, I just absorb whatever I read and comment in rare circumstances. In those rare circumstances, there's many times where people have said what I wanted.
How long before AI recombines DNA for creature creation?
Does this use Faiss to find similar vectors?

https://engineering.fb.com/2017/03/29/data-infrastructure/fa...
Cheers, I worded that badly I suppose but you answered the question I meant :)
The nominal reason for the passing of the law was widespread use of VCRs, which allowed non-centralized and difficult to control recording/copying, distribution, and at home playing where usage couldn’t be monitored (like at a theatre which can be audited).

Before that, it would involve something like literal film, which didn’t scale well, and was too expensive and difficult for a typical person to do at home. It still happened, but was VERY niche.

With VHS/VCRs, someone could spend a couple thousand dollars and make hundreds of bootleg copies of any blockbuster video out there from their garage, and it was easy to literally go to Blockbuster(tm) and get an copy to duplicate without being tracked. Easy money. Folks would sell them out of the back of (literally) vans, or through friends, or via flea markets, etc.

It’s still super prevalent in Asia, using DVD/Blu-ray’s.

In the US, it then eventually got applied to the internet, because it was even easier and more scalable using computers, and harder to track down the culprits.

It’s all about money in the end of course.
I appreciate your write-up, it was well done. How long did you spend on this? I'd be most interested to know how long, not counting writing the blog post.
While less than ideal, you could always re-encode the tags right?
A major milestone towards more precise measurements of the W-boson mass
Excalidraw is nice, not a grid of course, but mostly text on an infinite canvas and has alignment tools to make it neat.

The other thing that popped into my head is maybe a Kanban tool (that would be a grid). You could do a quick paper prototype that easily with some postit notes on the wall to see if it works :).
Maybe you're the problem? Looking at your questions, you're asking for opinions, not answers or solutions. Putting people on the spot is bad form in my opinion. If I have a technical challenge I want you to solve, I'll give you the time for that so I can actually see your work and discuss it with you.

I've seen people that can talk the talk but not walk the walk and vice versa, they can't articulate well, but their approach and work speaks for itself.
Diesels with a J-brake can also decelerate quite abruptly, though in that case there's still a remarkably loud audio queue from the engine compressing
Recommendation you didn't ask for (just skip if not open to it).

Seven principles for making marriage work[1] - has great advice for many sorts of committed romantic relationships.

Also if he's criticizing you as you described he may want to consider talk therapy/CBT to come to an understanding of the nature of his frustrations and his inability to productively communicate them to you.

[1:] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/849380.The_Seven_Princip...
Shutting up and refusing to answer a question makes it very clear that you have something to hide, much more than a lie.

I'm not sure whether that's good or bad. I guess it depends on what you are accused of.
It works better when you use it to generate something sane. My take away from the article is that to program in typescript you have to jump through insane hoops.
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Got to pay those San Francisco salaries somehow.
Plenty of evidence he did it, however.
You don't have to be a believer in a16z to find this list of AI resources useful.
Not sure if I understand your statement. A deployment of a new unstoppable super weapon would be an entrenchment of power not a dethronement.

Norms are violated all the time to very little consequence, sure, this would be on a whole other level but what could you do… what could anyone do… and that’s the point. I think people are over optimistic about the potential for collective action. I’m not the person who needs convincing that it’s a bad idea, that decision maker, if they even exist, is in the US government somewhere.
People are running their code on servers calling it "serverless."

We've somehow accepted that nomenclature.
While the Antikythera mechanism (earliest known computer) is housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, there is a smaller museum in Athens called the Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, with replicas of the mechanism as well as various greek inventions over the millenia that I knew little to nothing about prior. Lots of times I thought "they never taught me that in any class..."

Highly recommend you add a visit during the busy periods of the more well known tourist attractions in Athens. The personal guide was very engaging, very informative, and I think it was like 5 bucks per person.

http://kotsanas.com/gb/index.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
BATS, the video cutting & tagging software used by nearly all MLB teams, has been around since… I wanna say the early-90s.
No, it doesn't, because you don't know what the world would have looked like if there were no sanctions. If the impact of the sanctions delayed the war or forced Russia to go in with fewer supplies then the sanctions absolutely had a measurable impact. Just because Putin has strong authority now doesn't mean he wouldn't have been stronger without sanctions. Your arguments have no basis in reality.
In the safety classes I’ve taken, there’s usually been training (albeit brief) of being aware if others are behind you, but building the habit of using the engine to decelerate that you flash your brake lights and or apply enough brake to trigger them without heavily braking.

This was also an issue when I had a larger manual car with a medium size (4.6l) v8.

At lower speeds <45mph, it was entirely possible for me to be significantly decelerating using only the engine, where I would make sure to at least flash my brake lights several times.
Is the 80% sampling a variety of manufacturers and batches, or a single batch of drives that were all ordered at the same time from the same manufacturer? If the latter, I'd suspect it's more of a realization that you got a flawed batch of drives (which is a real risk to manage, but not universal).
I found this to be a good explanation of Calculus in particular: http://lightandmatter.com/fund/

It assumes you have some algebra, but does not require college algebra.
Who gets to define "good"?
Wouldn't a more reasonable explanation be that a16z destroyed their brand through years of questionable investments, excessive hype, cringe inducing behavior and being very obnoxious, very publicly. Also not a fan of their push to "American Exceptionalism" aka weapons dealing and mass surveillance.
And tidb
I like people here commenting that "yes ! politics are the worst !", although the person never defines "politics", doesn't explain a bit about what happened, what went wrong, what were the reason for them quitting (not "firing themselves"), what the other people did, why they fired them or anything.

He's just rambling in the void, or did I miss something ?
Can someone share how this compares to Math for Computer Science by Lehman, Leighton, and Meyer ?
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf
Math, Stats, Operational Research QAA Subject Benchmark Letter [pdf]
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> If you can't beat 'em..

Hard to fault people who try to getting a larger, safer vehicle - which not only means joining them, but going further, going all the way to buying a SUV. Sit higher for better visibility, more cage around you. Can't change the city planning, can't prevent people from looking at their phones, but you can decided what vehicle you drive.
So, it's not even monotonically growing.
You're right of course, but these days engine braking is most commonly used by tow vehicles, whether that's a family car or a big hauler. Either way when towing, these are generally required to have trailer brake controllers that are activated by deceleration so that the trailer brake lights do come on.

When we cross the Cascades or Rockies in our Land Rover Discovery towing an Airstream, we have to shift and engine brake on the downslope for miles (to avoid overheating the breaks) and it's noticeable that the trailer brake lights go red, while the Land Rover doesn't unless I tap the brake pedal.
yeah you report it to ppl in the company who might flip on the company and contact the interviewer (I’ve been this prior interviewer before who was told I was discriminated against, paunched an EEOC case and got financial settlements with the company)

You can also get a hungry lawyer to launch ads and try to find prior interviewers
One of the bigger issues I see here is that you could get a bad battery and have car issues without warning. It can also manifest as inconsistent mileage which is not a great UX either.
TBF, the roll of a VC isn't to be on the cutting edge of science, but rather business, and generative AI is very new business, even if it isn't very new science.
Now that we have good language models, it would be great to see what would a quantitative analysis of this perceived increase in ressentiment actually lands as results. I lean on agreeing with your comment, but also curious to see if we're both hallucinating.
I think most people are just seeing the speed of (seemingly) progress as a direction to AGI. But we are far from it. Though maybe we are seeing something interesting in linear world models recently emerging. But my guess is gradual progress and then all of a sudden we will have AGI. But that first part will take 20-30 years. at least.
That's pretty much been my take as well. Been looking at CockroachLabs (CockroachDB hosted cloud), and been kind of hard to get any detail if pgbouncer is beneficial for this, since I'm planning to connect via node_compat via Cloudflare Workers, and have kind of decided to punt the issue and connect directly for now in development, and closer to prod release do some tests with/without pgbouncer at each cloud location for the larger prod cluster instances for release.

Not the same service(s) as PG even if it's the same protocol, so I know it's really beneficial for connection queueing WRT my scenario for PG, but no idea on the CDB side.
You can't afford to buy the most effective content either, if you don't push yourself into a strong position.

Even at Disney, it seems like the Disney Plus team is struggling to maintain the company-wide financial support it needs to grow large enough to be profitable.
by recognizing that

1. i am human
2. humans are all fallible
3. we all make mistakes
4. i am not my work

I also fully believe that every time someone points out something i've misunderstood, or a way I could have done things "better" it's a gift that teaches me how to get better at what i do. "Stupid" mistakes like, typos or forgetting to do something you know all about are just part of being a falliable human.
The implication is that the PL/SQL job was operating rowwise.

Batch processing, backed by set theory in this case, is far more efficient than rowwise operations because of the potential for greater parallelism (SIMD) and fewer cache misses.

E.g., if inserting into a table with a foreign key pointing to the user table, batch processing means you can load the user id index once, and validate referential integrity in one fell swoop. If you do that same operation rowwise, the user id index is liable to get discarded and pulled from disk multiple times, depending on how busy the DB is.
And, of course, further research is needed…
I was forced to read that book and 'how to be a superstar'. Due to a manager who disliked my bluntness in saying things were broken. He wanted me to punch it up with doublespeak to make him feel better.

They show how to manipulate people. But not solid advice on how to do the right thing.
Disruptor: High performance alternative to bounded queues
Sure! It was Monthly ASCII, 1985-11, No.101 https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/3250694/1/1
Have companies managed to get awarded damages in lawsuits against their customers who merely broke their terms of service?

Is there existing case law here?
> The way they manipulate might be cleverly disguised as being helpful or outwardly positive.

I am not trying to play politics though.
I genuinely want to help.
I am not even good at communicating.

:/
good! Google and Amazon searches are horrid and basically useless
> then why am I being asked to bail out a generation's college loans?

Wouldn't that fit perfectly with the comment you're responding to? Because the money is there. In fact I'd expect us to be bailing people out as we get richer. Less govern

> then why is food bank use at an all time high?

Food insecurity is no where near an all time high. https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...

So perhaps there are just more people! (Anything can be an "all time high" or "record X" if you ignore this fact). Or local trust in food banks has risen. Or food banks have more money now to hand out more food.

> then why are more six-figure earners reporting to be living paycheck-to-paycheck?

Because the popular report you're citing here, sponsored by lending service LendingClub, includes buying groceries on a credit card as "living paycheck to paycheck" even if you're paying it off each month and only doing it for the points.

> then why is personal credit card debt at an all time high?

Because there are more people! Or are you actually talking about debt as a percent of income which is a more realistic stat? Because people spend less on their debt now than almost ever. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP
I don't think you can say that based on how many A100s you own. Perhaps with more A100s, you could confidently say what the PE should be, rather than simply claiming it's too high.
They pretend it matters as they download thirty 10MB Tictok videos.
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