skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That scenario is rampant in government. Dell prices SSDs, RAM, etc. insanely high and, after a quick email, you can get a huge “discount” to show your boss. Just ignore the fact that you’re still paying 2-3x market value.

Ex: I recently saw it with server RAM. $1700 (CAD) from Dell (via service tag) for something that’s $100 CAD from Crucial, but “discounted” to a few hundred after an email. Or $600 SSDs marked up to $3500. It’s a big scam.

Dell also sends “itemized” invoices where every item is listed, but the price is one big total. Descriptions are intentionally, in my opinion, obfuscated to resist price comparing and auditing. We need a massive audit of government spending on tech IMO. Companies like Dell are price gouging.
Also, if you asked me to pick my poison: things get partially available / degraded for a long period of time, or there's a blip of full unavailability during a cutover, I'd pick the latter 9 times out of 10. I find people are pretty good about writing code to deal with "does it work y/n" but people are often a lot less good about "does it nominally work but is going so slow it will never complete / other things will time out in unexpected orders before this finishes / etc". Some of the worst incidents I've seen were "partial" outages that spanned a long time period until the right thing could be drained/kicked/whatever.
Working with JOOQ and Flyway Using Testcontainers
I explored how a popular AI project translates code from one language to another
I've had great success using this helm chart to install the entire stack into my EKS clusters. Even if you're not using Kubernetes, it's still a useful example for how everything should fit together.
https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/mai...

Good luck! It's a lot.
Is this the good one that isn't the scam? Which ones are the shady ones these days?
I agree: comparing Rosetta plus the graphics API translation layer, with DXVK, which only accomplishes the latter, is ridiculous.

Here is what you said, though:

> Fantastic would be DXVK approximate levels of performance hit. This is far short of that.
You would be surprised to see what the older generations think about what we consider to be formal and professional, and how much of our lexicon started out as more informal vocabulary imported by upper classes. Are you sure your opposition to certain terms are completely unrelated to your expectations about different backgrounds, geographies and cultures?
Split keyboards is my recommendation
Happy to help. Have you tried Home Assistant as well? It's pretty good for personal use cases and such.
> This would remove one of the primary reasons subs need to surface , in order to GPS lock.

Huh? Wouldn't it be enough to send some small thing connected by thin wires or wirelessly to the submarine (lasers, ultrasound, whatever) that could aquire location and communicate it? Given military budgets it could probably even be disposable.

Leaving beacons in areas of interest also seems like a good idea. With good encryption their signal could be indistinguishable from noise happening around it.
Well summarized. And to expand, I would complain equally about moderators OR commenters for whom the answer to "this is a comment I disagree with" is "this commenter is obviously an -ist or -ic who must be banned".
Thank you, two more questions: do we expect that other governments in the world will build a similar system soon? and/or how many years of advantage does the Royal Navy have?
As an individual, $5/month for a social media account is expensive and alienating. The vast majority of real people are already priced out.

For a business, a shill account can be one of the cheapest marketing options.
You are claiming multiple things that are just plain false. Some of these countries were full democracies before they became Moscow's satellites. The amount of censorship and self-censorship was staggering. And no, your communication today is not constantly taped and listened to in most of Europe.

You are either a Russian troll, someone with an undisclosed agenda, or a naive 13 y/o. The things you're saying are a mix of straight up lies and misdirection and a classic example of historical revisionism that should be called out everywhere we see it.

Concrete points:

- I don't think racism is a peculiarity of socialist countries. Slavs have always been a culturally xenophobic culture, still are.

This is racist bullshit - "slavs" are not inherently xenophobic. 30-40 years of progress just didn't happen in Central Europe because Moscow didn't like big social changes.

- Your communications are still constantly taped and listened on unless you're naive to think the opposite.

Not in the same way, and I have a feeling you know that.

- Never my family was afraid of who we talked to. Moreover, what was to be afraid of, unless you were plotting something?

Being careful about who you talk to about what is literally the thing most people remember right after "we couldn't travel." If you didn't feel this, you were either a small child, politically aligned with the party, or extremely sheltered.
But they can be paid that minimum wage in part through the employer stealing the employee's tips. So, not really paying them the minimum wage.
No, fortunately you can't justify any evil. You simply stop being good. Justification lets you off the hook. There is no justification, and more importantly this isn't consequentialism, though it seems you think it is (and that can justify any evil).

Falseness, and the teaching of false and limiting beliefs is one of the greater evils, and unlike many things its not just normative and thus can't be discounted as such because it results in actual loss at some point.

> But somehow, human's still live and coexist together.

That's purely survivor bias and our limited power to destroy each other. Organized warfare was not present until population centers outgrew their resources.

Sophie's choice is a framework, and its not made up, people have used it.

> If you don't believe in humans free will

I never said that, I said choices are very few. That's putting words in my mouth, and we're done.
Related recent discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
It’s the 13” MBP. If you look at the metal overlay in the corner it shows the product name of the processor, and in this case, it’s the base M1 with 16GB of memory.
You’re right but it does t help when media companies always are customer unfriendly. People start rooting for the thief when the owner is such a jerk.
> IRC was never federated.

What? What do you think the term “relay” in IRC means? The jargon term netsplit used even for newer federated networks (even used in these comments elsewhere) comes from IRC. There is literally an entire network named after a defederation event.

Now we sort of take for granted that IRC is basically a closed federated system - but the original design of the network was one dominant set of relays - EFnet is a direct descendant of this network after all - if anything it’s just a specific example of politics and network evolution.
There are technical reasons as well - but at the time of the early splits of the 90s (EFnet, Undernet) it was not primarily technical problems.

Anyone involved in a fediverse I think would do well to learn some lessons from IRC even if their system is technically superior.

> but so is email

As a federated system barely - go try to stand up an email server on your home network or VPS and see how well that works. It’s run by a cabal of large providers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30224478
I think that approach surrenders intelligence and facts to scientific racists and climate change deniers.

In other words: if you can't defeat them with facts and intelligence, what exactly is that supposed to tell me about climate change and racism?
As a dvorak user, whatever increase in typing speed is mostly irrelevant, for most of us, our output isn't limited by how fast we can type, but how fast we can think. That being said, a long time ago I took an analysis of one of our code bases, mapped every character onto dvorak and qwerty keyboards to produce heatmaps, and it's startling how much less the fingers have to move on a dvorak keyboard. So if you're lazy, dvorak might be something to consider.

Overall, I've been using dvorak for >10 years and I like it. Going back to Qwerty is like going back to sleeping on a twin mattress. It gets the job done, but once you've become accustomed to sleeping on a queen, it's hard to justify going back to a twin.
Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta
Research advances date for likely summer ice-free Arctic by a decade
I've used this product to query transcripts and filings to find the information I need to inform investment analysis quickly, as opposed to laboriously searching for the data I need. I love the tool; keep up the great work!!
Apple Vision Pro – price tag aside, what does it offer gamers?
edge brings compute close to where data is generated, cloud brings data to compute.

even processing something in a web browser is called edge. i guess due to this impression the industry is moving towards "on-device"
An update to an existing idea[1], with lower noise.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_gradiometry#
It doesn’t matter. If C is supposed to be a language for solving real-world problems, its strings have to be real-world strings. Wishing writing were more elegant gets you nowhere.
> My experience of being an atheist is that it was the most dogmatic and intellectually dishonest view of the world I have encountered.

Well bless your heart. You've already implied I'm degenerate, and now you're implying I'm dogmatic and immoral.
Here's more useless trivia, my brain is cluttered with superfluous memories, I can't remember every algorithm but I remember the minutiae. I remember our producer Matt Householder telling me the bad experiences they had outsourcing the development of Diablo 1 expansion and ports meant they really wanted to make the Diablo 2 expansion in house. So at one point early in production on Diablo 2, our lead programmer, Rick Seis, had the .csv importing functionality as his primary task which seemed kind of mundane even at the time and now probably standard in most language libraries, and we transformed the Diablo 2 hard coded tables ( we were mostly following Dave Brevik's examples in Diablo 1!) into Excel spreadsheets. Then afterwards Peter Hu was on an optimization crusade towards the end, he made a .csv binary compacter/reader to save runtime.
Would be nice when it supports the OpenFeature spec
Seems fair game to use fake MSRPs against them.
To realize that the real state acts "deep state" like without requiring nefarious or shadowy behavior.

Simply make unelected people have lifelong careers within governmental organizations. Snowden talks about this in his book. Yeah a new ~puppet~ figure head gets elected every 4 years. But what about all the layers of folks who actually perform the "Government" actions? They are the same people for decades, they say yes or no to actions you can/cannot take, they influence in their every choice they true meaning of policies...
You dont need to type fast to be productive imho
> The code to the old version of Reddit is even open source.

I actually took an hour to look through the old reddit source code to see what it would take to spin up an alternative and add features quickly.

From what I can tell, Reddit open source code is very tightly bound into Pylons and Cassandra (and Python 2.7), so if you don't like those choices... too bad. It relies on global in-process locking of data store transactions. There are no allowances to separate queries/reads from commands/writes, or specify which models reside in which data store. No good way to make DTOs for lower network overhead. The whole thing is also an untyped mass of code (due to it being Python 2.7), so making any modification requires reading and mentally executing anything you're modifying.

Granted, to start out, all of this is fine. But feels like it will fall over as soon as it gets big.

It would be a large undertaking to even get the old Reddit source to a state where a dev could get up to speed and make changes without a month of study. I'm not saying it's not worth it, but I suspect that's the reason nobody's ever just forked Reddit and made their own.
Aider looks cool. Gonna try it out today. Have you tried out StarCoder or Replit-code?
Patrick Tierney's "The Highest Altar" [1] develops a very similar thesis, with first-hand experience by the author.

Wikipedia provides some material on child sacrifice by the Incas in e.g. [2] and [3].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-08-bk-201-st...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plomo_Mummy
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Llullaillaco
I also read he was a GS-15 (civilian equivalent to a colonel). Not just anyone ends up at that level. Colonels in the military command large units, think "senior director" level in industry.

I believe this guy is probably acting out of a duty to root out what he believes is unlawful behavior (hiding activities from Congress). I don't believe the ET claims personally.
As far as we know there is no extradimensional space where you can hide matter/energy. So I find it unlikely that UFOs are "superdimensional entities". How would these dimensions interact with the dimensions we know?
I thought this was very insightful on his part - yeah this all sounds great, but so what? The Mac Pro is an empty box besides for Apple Silicon and a few fans. What are you going to put in there exactly?
> shouldn't depart controlled flight in an effort to maintain altitude

Aircraft isn't inherently stable in a level flight, otherwise there would be no need for autopilot. There are constant small corrections.

And when the engines dies the plane starts to drop the nose but not with an exactly 0 degree roll, because nor the weight is distributed ideally nor the atmosphere is an ideal gas. And while I don't know how far the plane should be out of the flight parameters for the AP to disengage, you should remember what it is still tries to correct the plane (while not yet disengaged) but the dwindling engine power (and hence airspeed) make the control surfaces less effective, so now the AP needs to over-correct and this how you end with rudder and elevators stuck in weird positions and sending the plane anywhere but the stable gliding path.

Though in this case it's less probable becaue looks like the engines were still working, if I understood some sources right.
> incandescent bulbs had to be replaced all the time in my experience

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
I agree that the pricing for 2M actions is so high, that why even show it? But this doesn't seem like a typical use case for rapid prototyping, which is what this seems to be made for
The US military made no claims that these videos showed unexplainable phenomena. They just sort of put them out there.

The video they called "Gimbal" shows an artifact caused by a gimbal mechanism, for example
It's funny that I can think of a few legitimate use cases for this type of service:

- Deploying a new brand identity. I've worked with larger marketing agencies that may create many dozens of brands in a given month, and the process tends to be fairly manual and subject to various operational issues. There may be 20+ usernames/handles to "claim" as accounts across a broad spectrum of platforms, plus updating bios, profile pictures, 2FA/MFA, and, of course, the basic sign up and email confirmation process. I once scoped out how much of this could be automated, which was unsurprisingly cost infeasible relative to the current human method, and one of the components involved verification links, especially in scenarios with multi-tenant brands (such as a client wanting their new socials to be established under their own email, but wanting the agency to create those socials).

- User software provisioning. For all services that don't support some type of OAuth provisioning (through Okta, Atlassian, Google, etc) it would be helpful to create a new user, use scripts to post sign-up requests to non-OAuth services, use a function to verify the user's email, archive the email and present the user with their credentials.

- Tracking marketing/sales/promotion/update/announcement emails. Imagine if I could pay per user record for a Regex/SQL query; what if I want to estimate the amount of traction or activity of a competitor's email list? Rather than facilitating any interaction with the source users' email, it could simply give me a count of records, and perhaps a boolean for read/unread. Already that sounds like valuable data.
I know! I was so confused that I tried downloading it and playing and it wouldn't work. I've been in a spiral all day.
> there are plenty of triple A games in the App Store

Mobile AAA games in the iOS App Store, or desktop AAA games in the Mac App Store? There are some AAAs that work on a desktop Mac (e.g. Resident Evil Village), but it's not the norm at all. As for mobile ... modern mobile games can die in a fire for all I care (as they're 95% gacha nonsense).
Yes please if not sooner! Having this available not only the Vision Pro but also iOS would be amazing for things like A-frame and other frameworks.
Love the reference!!
I use Dvorak for keyboards and qwerty for thumbs. Keeps them both in muscle memory to some extent, so it's not too painful when I'm using someone else's keyboard.
Considering that this is from Raymond Hill (gorhill), I'm 99% sure that this one is the good one.
SimCity 4 was released in 2003.
> Read the article.

This (issuing a command to read the article) is even worse than the behavior discussed in guidelines from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
Accelerating star-like masses to 99% speed of light in a few seconds also seems somewhat less efficient than your typical FM transceiver.
I’ve been in tech and business media for over 15 years.
These articles appear, identical and similarly framed, every time Apple launches a product in a new category.
They’ve always been rubbish, written mostly by people who haven’t tried the product.
This piece pertains exactly to that sub-genre of punditry.
Wasted bytes is all.
I think that's where the author pulled the idea from in the novel it's called the Librareome Project and a character brings up the similarity of the processes.
LIV Golf Merges with the PGA Tour
what? we learned that digital privacy does not exist. anyone that can make a dollar for information that they can glean from their users via any mechanism they offer will sell that data. we've learned that there are more people doing that very thing than would seem obvious at first. we've also learned that if the product/service you are using is free means you are the product is no longer true as things like smart TVs and other items that you pay for are also data hoarders to the point they make more money of the analytics sales than they do the actual product they are known to sell. we've learned that the rules for thee but not for me is rule of the land for gov't TLAs.

so, it seems to me that we've learned a lot, but the "nothing" you claim would be more appropriately describing the response from what was learned.
I honestly don’t care enough what the older generations think since the context is contemporary and cosmopolitan and that’s how “bro” is used in such settings. Feel free to falsify that if the word matters that much to you.
Who is 'we' in this? If 'we' is U.S. citizen I think it's something along the lines of the typical trope 'if I don't have anything to hide then I don't have anything to worry about' with the unspoken piece of the formula being '...so I should censor myself to ensure...' etc.
I can kind of see that: by moving all the frequently-used letters to the edges and mostly away from each other (and keeping frequent letter pairs further apart), it probably makes interpreting taps between letters and things like swipe keyboards easier to execute.
A huge part of the problem is that the layperson is taught otherwise.
Yep. The surprising thing is that Asypr bothered updating a 20 year old game for Apple Silicon. https://support.aspyr.com/hc/en-us/articles/12168615035405-H...
I want to build a low cost but comfortable small earthen house in the Sonoran Desert. Currently conducting a series of experiments to discover process that will be effective for my build:

- Comparing lime versus Poland cement for stabilizing poured earth. These mixes have a cure time measured in days and multiple experiments are in progress...
- Research into latex cement for panelized wall and roof coverings over exterior insulation, mostly for temporary shelter structures.
- Modular forms lined with geotextile fabric to minimize surface cracking in poured walls.
- Other techniques to assure reliable performance of earth structures.
- small mechanical projects to help make DIY practicable, e.g. auger mixers I can run from my tractor PTO, DIY trommel for grading materials, etc.
But it also means when they trade in for a new Tesla they are paying much less.
I’d be fine with just “let me run the software in perpetuity”, ideally without automated updates. Software that matters enough for me to pay for is going to become part of my workflow, and a tool in my toolbox. I don’t want my tools disappearing or changing arbitrarily.

I’ve always seen software development and maintenance as a service. The idea of free lifetime updates always struck me as unsustainable. Having a reasonable bug-fix and free update lifetime for a given version doesn’t strike me as unfair.

A company offering free lifetime updates raises a red flag in my mind re: their long-term viability.
don't know what chatbase.co is but it seems to not be free. OpenChat is (?)
Thanks you for your responses !

I'm going to be very blunt here, because you need to hear this to go forward :

You HAVE TO be at least API-compatible with Polars or Pandas to exist. Being backend-compatible with arrow is not enough.

There is no technical reason why you would not pick one and go with it, apart from being a very difficult task.

As of today, I have 2 major pains : Pandas being a giant memory hog and Polars not being a drop-in replacement for Pandas. I am pushing Polars, as hard as I can in all projects I can touch, and it's a very long way from being the default DataFrame library. Data Scientists will continue to use Pandas for the foreseeable future, and that saddens me greatly because I will also have to work with OOMKilled pipelines for the foreseeable future.

There is no place for a 3rd alternative, so either you become a "distribution bridge for Polars", and that would be absolutely amazing. Or, you go your own way, I'll put a small star on github, a "Noice!" in the comment section and move on and never come back.

It's tough, but sadly real.
Doesn't matter just take into account what didn't move. you don't have to recalibrate at each instant.
Perhaps you should take up your struggle over the term with zoologists then:

caste: (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caste
Young woman use it. It’s also very common in black culture for at least the past 50 years.
Amazing doc. It's quite scaring!
That mainstream media outlets filled with "former" intelligence agents completely control american discourse.
I hate when journalists steal headlines and don't add any meaning/life to a story. The actual piece is from Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/edward-snowd...
There’s nothing saying that you can’t do a re-localization or remapping path with basically infinite frequency, or any frequency that we know that there is variance around. At a minimum then, it becomes a better standard for which other things can bear on.