skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No disparagement of the Fleet Problems was intended. They were complementary to the NWC games.

Some of the lessons learned in the table games about carriers were before the Fleet Problems could have learned the same lessons, due to the carriers not yet being available. Indeed, one of the issues the games were addressing was just what kind of carriers should be built. I expect any solution the NWC games came up with that could be verified in the FPs would have been. Also, the fleet problems would have provided vital inputs to the enhance the rules the NWC games used.

Other unlearned lessons (from NWC): the importance of unrestricted submarine warfare (this had been ruled out in the games because the British were assumed to be neutral, so not targeting their ships strongly constrained what the subs could do), the importance of night battles (the USN failed to train adequately for these and suffered greatly in the Solomons for it), kamikazes (the games assumed the Japanese would have an adequate pilot training pipeline and not have to resort to this), and what would be necessary to get Japan to surrender (politics in Japan was out of scope.)
Even worse with Azure. They frequently freak out if you try to provision more than 1-2 instances per week. I have encountered this issue multiple times.
Optimization for latency is a completely different game than optimization for throughput. The flip side has similar but opposite hacks and you can get a lot of hints on what to do by looking at that polar opposite as things to avoid.
I think a proper reddit competitor will go the Mastodon/Pleroma route. The "value being dropped on the floor" isn't worth much in the first place if Reddit failed to monetize them - so why subjugate them in the first place? These people just want a dependable platform they control, and a federation/shared identity solution seems like the shortest path there.

There are indeed people investing and trying to find the right team (see: Meta[0]), but I think the best route is to let these users find a new platform. Forcing your idea of community on a group of people who like you for your interface design might not work as well as you think.

[0] https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1659938015576473600
That Canadian law does not cover the edge case of first-degree murder for a fetus is a hole in the rules, not permission to kill.
I took a two-year course, where our homework was primarily focused on developing an essay at the end of each class (about 14 of them all told). All the classes had similar formats and requirements, and so all the essays also had maximum word counts. I really, really appreciated that, because it surely forced me to distill all my thoughts into the most essential passages and cut out the fat.

Occasionally, I would be plagued by a bit of writer's block, and I couldn't think up enough to write, but eventually I could gin up enough logorrhea that I would have a nice tapestry to begin snipping out the wordy and irrelevant bits.

And that was my favorite part about the classes, being able to write a really tight research/opinion paper every few weeks.
I really just want imtringued to explain a few more links in the chain of reasoning. It sounds like something I heard recently that we'll have a veneer of socialism, to hide the fact that the rich are in control (central bank, monopolies). Just not sure I'm reading into this post correctly.
I do to use Bing+ChatGPT, which I find very helpful for research and generating code. I have also been using CodePilot for over a year. But it is a decision to use these services, and I totally understand some people not wanting to use them.

The Center for Humane Technology has good articles and video presentations on good tactics to use tech to your advantage. https://www.humanetech.com/
Why is the fact that they don't offer any invidious instance not a good point?
Servo browser: Adding support for ‘outline’ properties
They wouldn't have to if they swapped the schedules.
"You can't get better by scaling out" disagrees with you. That's my point - if you scale out, it's more expensive.
Great comment, thank you very much!
One more: abstract cultural onboarding

This involves spending days to learn a lot about very abstract culture and values like being dynamic and innovative, and inclusive.

Usually also in stark contrast to actual practices. Like spending 2 days on DEI training in an office full of white 20-30 year old men, and the three token woman they hired all still in junior roles after 5 years of service.

Not sure what this part of the onboarding is about but many companies do it to a degree. It doesn’t seem useful to anyone or impacting anything in the actual culture.
https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a609020.html
Kbin: Reddit Alternative
But somehow they made the search bar weird? Like it deselects often. Or is this just me?
My understanding why arithmetic coding isn't used as much as Huffman coding is because of the patents that IBM had on arithmetic coding. I'm not familiar with any actively used compression algorithm that uses arithmetic coding.

I have explored using arithmetic coding on some data at work (mainly large amounts of XYZ points). My attempts did not work better than standard zip compression.
+1 to this, but I feel like "if you have a good team with good structure" is hand-waving away some pretty heavy stuff ;) It's the "#1 be good looking #2 don't be ugly" of the software world - if you have great people, you can literally just point them at a problem and let them go. You just have to stay out of their way.

In reality, most teams are working with some people who are still learning, some people who don't really want to be there, some people who are interested in writing promotion-ware, etc.
Yeah and then you end up with a manager who hacks out a complicated solution to problems we don't have and ships it to prod.

And obviously you can't tell them it's a terrible idea because they're your manager.
Restic + backblaze
I doubt reddit itself runs the bot farms that enable modifying public perception.
Finally since good news :)

Surprised that a 13 years old was able to take care of 3 small children in a jungle full of snakes and jaguars for 40 days. How was he able to keep the toddler alive? What do you feed someone that young in a jungle??
How do those interact with the MagSafe charging are on the back of the iPhone?
Congrats! Been using it on a 2017 Thinkpad X270 with MATE. Everything works perfectly. Honestly might not be the "flashiest" distro but does the job perfectly well. And personally I always recommend it to people new to Linux.
About cars. Is it financially feasible to drive and/or own one?
Speaking of daggerfall, a while ago I saw it got ported to Unity. Its free on GOG if you wanna try it out. Makes the game look way better.

IIRC, daggerfalls map is as big as europe, so it was easy to overlook the replicated chunks.

https://www.gog.com/game/daggerfall_unity_gog_cut
There is a difference from legal point. If the firmware is hardcoded in device, you do not need to accept any license contract with IP holder. You do not need to copy it, and your right to run it is implied from ownership of the device. If the firmware is independent part bundled with OS, then anyone who wants to run it or even just distribute the OS must accept the license.
sure sure. i am not a doctor, i made that clear, didn't i? i have consumed like 3 tablets in my life, all related to 2 of the heel incidents. yeah, talk to your doctor about it,
Exploratory Testing: Looking for Patterns
It’s still used in PNG, it is part of the spec.

There’s a trade off, Huffman is relatively fast and easier to get right, and the gains from increased compression may be considered marginal.

This is a classic engineering trade off.
Octopuses tweak the RNA in their brains to adjust to warmer and cooler waters
Germany absolutely had a great casus belli against France. France had treated Germany horribly (and invaded Germany first).

Very different situation from Russia/Ukraine.
I use borg to backup all my computers to my home server, including the server. It runs raid 1+0. I then use rclone to sync the borg repos to backblaze and dropbox. I encrypt both in the borg repo and in the rclone transfer.
> Why is he using it frivolously? He says Bush didn't do any of those things.

Exactly. He doesn’t. But it doesn’t matter for russian propaganda which is known for intentional twisting facts and expressions and making their opponent to explain obvious lies. Russian propaganda uses such twisting as en excuse to promote their narrative even if unrelated.

The initial question about Bush was invented in order to shift the discussion from undesired topic and deliver narrative in which actions of Bush and putin would look similar which is intentional lie to cover genocide actions performed by russia in Ukraine.
I wouldn't assume that. BERT uses the original encoder-decoder transformer architecture which takes advantage of the entire input sequence being available, so you have the forward context as well as backward context of a word to assist with translation.

GPT uses the decoder-only transformer architecture and masked attention so that it only relies on backward context, which allows it to predict word-by-word. It's not a better architecture, just one adapted for different requirements.

If you are able to use the forward context, then I'd assume that a BERT-like architecture would do better since it has more information available.
I’ll add another:

“Follow these steps and if something doesn’t work figure out the solution and update the document”.
Yeah, I'd probably ditch the big stereo system if I were starting over from scratch at this point. But that would be in the interests of downsizing, not because I have any illusions that a soundbar is as good as my surround sound setup with large speakers and a subwoofer.
I thought you were wrong about how UAC worked, and then I went looking through Windows Vista docs on UAC and you’re absolutely right. And that’s batshit insane!
My best onboarding experience was at a ~300 person company in Munich.

They had an internal Confluence site for every new person, where every part of the onboarding process was transparently visible.

- Who greets, when and where and is the new hire informed.
- Access card handed out
- Introduction of all business units (monthly talks about what every unit does and who's part of it.)
- All accounts set up.
- And more stuff like that.

But hey, if you want to improve your onboarding process, simply start by asking new hirees how they think it went at week 1, month 1 and month 3.
Have you read any of Singer's writing? You've gone through a wikipedia article and cherry picked out the most provocative aspects of his philosophy, but, given that he's one of the most famous modern ethical philosophers, don't you suspect that there might be some depth to his reasoning?
How would this change anything?

Would it really increase your trust in this site, if the site itself told you it's content?

A malicious actor would just put "Enable JavaScript now or you will miss out on cool prices" or something like this.

"noscript" shouldn't serve any other means but telling you that javascript is disabled.
My experience publishing "HNRelevant" was also straight forward. It was my first time too, and reading others previous experiences had me worried.

Last update was approved almost instantly, I had to douple check. Propably because it's quite simple.
I had the same thought just now. Reminds me of the good old days of forums, which was what attracted me to Reddit originally. Looks like they have equivalents for at least two of my frequently visited subreddits, so that’s an easy sell for me.
The CloudFlare bot-checker thing goes into an infinite loop on Firefox. Good sign the devs don't bother to test on anything but Chrome. In fairness, OpenAI does the same thing (not to mention Cloudflare itself has no excuse), so I guess it's just the world we live in, but I'm still never going to sign up for any site that does this.
I use Edge at work because it suits my needs best.

I can log into my work account in the browser, letting me save my work passwords to a trusted account, and search internally using Bing. It also has decent Outlook integration, which is helpful to my workflow.

I also love vertical tabs, because I end up managing 100+ tabs at work regularly. I'm eager to see a fully conceived version of this appear in other browsers because it's honestly a game changer.

And, not a huge deal, but when you copy a URL from the address bar, it pastes as a formatted link, which is really helpful when you have to do this regularly.

It really isn't a bad browser, it's just got poor privacy, which isn't important for me when I'm working. My employer already knows what I'm up to anyway.

I use Chrome as a personal browser, so it's nice keeping them completely separate from each other.
https://kbin.social someone linked in another thread seems to be the straight to content site equivalent to reddit.com; kbin.pub is I suppose the 'marketing' / organising contributors & instance maintainers etc. site, whatever you want to call it.
A one year old eats almost anything you give to them.
> On the other, I can't help but feel we're losing something when even a purist distribution like Debian is forced to concede in the fight against proprietary firmware blobs.

The software needs hardware to run, and the whole point of the software is to make the hardware useful. If you can't use the hardware, what's the point of the software?

In my book, freedom is a function of usefulness. No amount of redistributable source code has any value to me if I can't run it.

Enabling the use of hardware I already own is not a compromise, it's a solution. It's what operating systems exist for. Debian is fulfilling its primary function. I'm glad that this necessity was finally recognised.
That's just another version of The Trolley Problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

If you were the conductor, what choice would you make?
#1 Post-Snowden the general public has demonstrated they don't really care about privacy. As long as that is true, both companies and governments can demand a lot and get it, even though they don't need it.

Strictly from a computing standpoint (I can't address healthcare providers etc.), the root of many of these problems are at the consumer OS level and the incentives for the companies which build them.

We have three big problems: Google, Apple, and Microsoft. The incentives for these three are misaligned from having secure multi-device computing.

Amazon is as bad or worse, just look at the issues they've had with employees accessing Alexa audio recordings along with their security camera stuff. Fortunately their phone flopped.

Out of the big three, Google has been the worst offender here for the last 10 or so years. Apple has been pretty good, especially with actually security the hardware and stomping out 0days, but watch out: advertising is their growth business. Microsoft has a long history that isn't trustworthy.

Post-GPT3.5+, privacy matters a whole lot. The difference between people who will get completely p0wned and those that don't will be how much public and accessible data is out there. This will have a perverse feedback loop of companies demanding even more personal data and proprietary verification hardware.
Moved back to Debian because of lxc on Ubuntu requiring snaps. Turns out same problem on Debian. Snapd consumes 100% cpu. All. The. Time. Hoping Bookworm will solve it. Else I will be moving to Archlinux, which has lxc without snapd.
Link is broken, FYI
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN has DM feature?
Ability to send direct message to HNers will be really helpful.
One thing I feel is missing from the article is how brutal the conditions (for the kids and the rescue team) must have been. Extreme heat and humidity are no joke.
Could this all be deliberate to make money off shorting Reddit stock as soon as it goes public?
A bit offtopic... are there any distros besides PoPOS that comes with the proprietary Nvidia drivers preinstalled? I tried to use (live image) Debian on an RTX 4070 PC and nothing worked just black screen after GRUB. PoPOS works out of the box but honestly I'd prefer something more simple as Debian.
That didn't bother me much as it is "advertisement" about things related to my system.

What I did not like was Firefox taking 20s to start.
I used to feel like a caged bird, longing to be set free and soar to new heights.

I faced a similar struggle, not during my PhD, but when I worked under the H1b visa.

After obtaining my green card, I made the decision to quit and start a company. However, I soon realized that running a startup was not suitable for me.

Running a startup is akin to playing the game of Monopoly; it revolves around resource management, and resources can be diverse in nature.

While personal skills do matter to some extent, the most crucial resource is finding good people who are willing to collaborate with you. Unfortunately, many of us lack such connections and struggle with scaling productivity.

After my startup journey ended in failure, I returned to being a programmer. However, the experience of entrepreneurship has brought about a positive change in me: I have become mentally settled. I still have the desire to build something, but I am now content with working on it gradually and alongside other commitments.

My advice to you is not to quit your PhD and avoid rushing into a situation in a country that may not be supportive (as I also came from a similar background). Whatever path you choose, it's essential to have the right environment to nurture your aspirations. While an unsupportive family might seem like a minor obstacle, factors such as justice, legal frameworks, and the spirit of contracts play a crucial role.

Instead, consider building your ideas on the side. Take time to reflect on and refine your product ideas.

some good reads for you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327219

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26012189
I pay for

- ChatGPT

- proxyman.io (Debugging Proxy - life safer for development!)

- CleanShot (screenshots, screen recordings)

- PixelSnap (measuring distances, rectangles on desktop...)

- Little Snitch (Firewall but also good for network debugging, e.g. turn off network for specific app)

I donate to

- zig language (not using at the moment but looks really nice!)

- lunarvim (ready to use neovim configuration)

- neovim

- brew

- Asahi linux (linux for apple silicon)

- Minisim (menubar tool to lunch android emulators and iOS simulators)
My country's medical system is made by Epic, should I be scared?
But it's /not/ released though. Their own news section mentions that cd images are still being built, which seems like something that should have happened already. There's nothing but 11.7 available for download.
They’ll put anything you want in their mouth, but they’re just as well masters in spitting it out. Feeding 1 year olds is fun though, I give you that :P
And several things you don't :)
You are correct, I posted to fast. I retract post.

I do often think the best way to convince people to not be Christian is to have them read the Bible. Most Christians have no idea what they believe in, and don't know what is in the Bible (like in US where they think Jesus was pro-Gun, kill thy neighbor). Just reading the Bible is enough to convince people to not be Christian.

So, if I take this reasoning back to Economics. Maybe people do have a lot of false beliefs about Economics, and if they would study it, they would realize it is bunk, and turn away from it?

[EDIT POST]
Changing bit more. Because it really is where the person is at in their learning. There are plenty of Christians that want to persecute Trans Kids, and reading the Bible is not going to convince them they shouldn't (even though Jesus). But maybe when they learn more about Jesus they will stop wanting to kill people.

It is about the learning.
If you indoctrinate kids into a cult at Bible School, how are they supposed to know it is wrong? They a fresh young minds to be imprinted.

Same with Econ 101. Freshman, just starting out, they are learning. They are not already experts, so going to study Economics and immediately see through it all as bunk.

So guess you need some expertise in the bunk, to refute the bunk. But that all takes a lot of energy.
Yes that was out of line, apologies.
How can I contact you? I want to ask a few questions.
>Once you understand someone is delusional, there is no point.

it’s not a delusion. it’s typical russian propaganda tactics.
explained here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36270224
It looks like it's a place where plants fruit all year round, plus the BBC article said that they are members of a local indigenous group and might have known what was edible.
Discovering New Points of Differentiation
Exactly, it's about consolidation, not about Apples guidelines.
I’m right there with you. I recently quit my job to recover from burnout. I expected that would involve a break from programming. Turns out I’m spending more time programming now than when I was paid for it. I was burned out on the non-programming parts of the job. I’m relieved to know it didn’t break my love of programming.
Tankie has less to do with any coherent ideology and more to do with just being on the side of whatever is not The USA.

It does tend to be true that all 20th century Marxists were and remain tankies, I was raised by such and have family friends who think Putin is awesome and it's fuckin embarrassing.

But I am a Marxist in the economic sense and also believe the USA is still a pretty good bet.
K-Quants
See the old SolidGoldMagikarp drama- it's happened before.
I wouldn't judge too harshly. We're not Apple-big, but even significantly scaling back design plans, we're almost 50% over budget on a $MM facilities expansion.

That's just the reality of completing projects in a 2023 market that were drafted in 2018.
No I’m not talking about useful things like last login, average cpu, etc. they were advertising their cloud products.
Monitoring citizens using AI is China-like dystopia.
I hope they can still find Wilson, the rescue dog. Its tracks led the rescuers to the children. https://www.elpais.com.co/colombia/el-perro-wilson-se-mantie...
This is totally a non-issue and fake headline. You can still delete it, they just made the feature better.
There is a little ritual we do here from time to time where someone writes a comment that starts something like "Well, I didn't expect Stallman would be right about [issue now being reported on] but he predicted this years ago".

If it can go wrong it will, and if software isn't free then its owners will do things that the users really do not like. In this case, if they can fix bugs they can reduce functionality post-hoc. That is consequential. It is better to have freedom or certainty as to what a device does.
I would say rich people who want to signal status would not get caught with those. But there are plenty of rich folks who want to fly under the radar, your millionaire next door types.
How do these cache boxes work? Does the server send them its half of the ephemeral key or something? I can't imagine each isp has a box with a copy of netflix's private key.
I'm also considering this, but I'm a little afraid of being stuck in the slow lane when it comes to software updates. I'm aware of Backports, but I'm led to believe it has a somewhat limited selection.

Perhaps this is a good opportunity to try a combination of Debian, for general system stability, and Nix, for specific tools where I need newer releases? Has anyone tried this combination before? If so, how did you find it?
The UFO Religion of Dr. Steven Greer?
I'd call this "Checkbox onboarding"!
This is how it was on the 90s internet. Sites got hugged to death on the regular. It's how we ended up with the platforms, really, cause they had the capital to handle these surges without losing the company's house.

Edit: and there was no Patreon or any popular platform to quickly save the site.