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If we continue to give the Defense department trillions of dollars without audits, they have no incentive to be smart with the money they spend. There is a huge amount of policy around contracting and expenditures but once you’re in the door via the approved contracting route there are not very many controls.

Further: if they have the budget allocated, they will spend it. It’s that simple. Doesn’t matter what it is on, and going over budget in this political climate is a plus because they can justify more money for next year’s program request.

In this article’s case, expensive items are often novel and have some weird context or specific change attached (Stinger missiles, for example could have a lot of reasons to be expensive now) and the trash can is probably a metal galley can that is not cheap to produce and deliver to site, but it makes a good argument about price gouging generally due to lack of controls across a number of products.

Like most things the answer is not that this is completely unreasonable but rather that it could be better if we did something about it.
Because you can replace a group of unikernel VMs with an operating system and processes, and rely on those abstractions instead.

Unikernels haven't caught on because the use cases where they are the most adequate solution are limited.
The most productive QA/dev team experience I had back in the day was in a shop that was playing with eXtreme Programming and we did little 2-3 person strike mission per-issue groups with 2 to 3 devs and 1 QA person. Work on strictly defined small feature and continuously QA through the process, and then iteration end the QA person worked more intensely. The point being that the QA staff was treated like another development engineer even if they weren't writing code, so no "toss this over the fence to QA" and "oh god this is horrible, the devs are shit" mentality. Outcome of the feature was not just completed code, but (hopefully) test plans and sign-off from QA.

The QA people hated it though.
What Was ‘The Telegraph’ Thinking with This New Logo Design?
> Doing a more modern website enables a lot of things that PDFs cannot do. Animations, interactivity, better automatic parsing, metadata generation, tracking of changes and versions, easier embedding elsewhere, better referencing and citing (hyperlinks),

Perhaps you are not aware that you can create interactive and animated PDFs with LaTeX, beamer, and tikz. Admittedly, it is rarely used. But links inside and outside of a PDF, including additional files, like source code and measured data into the PDF, generating versions of PDFs that show the diff compared to another commit in a version control system, slides that reveal themselves piece by piece are not only possible but actively used in academic circles. Just have look at the PDF of this HN thread for some of those features.

Copying parts of a PDF is usually not a problem if it was generated with LaTeX but is often a problem with other generators.

> "quality of figures identifies 90% of any paper's merit"

Again, see the PDF of this HN thread for nicely formated, syntax highlighted copyable figures, e.g. Fig 2. Do that in a web stack. Of course it is possible, but the best way to do it changes probably quite often and needs a dozen NPM libraries with aforementioned maintenance burden.

PDF are offline capable. I can have a directory on my machines or a cloud service of my choosing as a kind of private library. Do that with web pages. It is possible but often more pita than it is worth. I can use local tools for full text search in them. And I will be able to use that when sitting in an airplane or in the middle of a forest. I.e. I can choose where I want to read and consume complicated reads to facilitate my understanding not to optimize wifi coverage.

I've had a colleague at university who wrote a multi-hundred page book with around 600 diagrams, all of them where programmed with tikz in LaTeX, you could change centrally the building blocks, colors, line styles, shading, font sizes etc. And all of the diagrams would adapt automatically. While being able to integrate these diagrams with arrows to source code and mathematical formulas. I am not aware of any other tool that can do that reliably. That is an extreme use case and for many simpler use cases LaTeX/PDF is not worth it.
I would do this even if I used the on-board GPS. I wouldn't be in the car 100% of the time, so having downloaded maps on the phone is handy.
Reading the comments, that plane was actually fully certified, they just forgot to remove the sticker.
The key quote "entire hull was completely destroyed in 40 milliseconds...half the minimum required for the cognitive recognition of an event." Nature is amazing.
Your friend probably made the driver feel unsafe; drivers are quite vulnerable to physical violence. Hard to defend yourself from attacks from behind you, driving or not.
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Ask HN: Would you pay for an E2E Encrypted Git Hosting service?
Do you write any sensitive code that you wouldn't want GitHub to used for training Chat GPT?

I would imagine if your writing code for an algorithmic trading strategy you would not want any one to prompt Chat GPT and have it spill your entire trading strategy.

What other use cases do you see it where you consider the code you are writing as sensitive?
I think it's less about time and place and more about tone and intent in discussion and debate.

That is to say, it's not a bad time to talk about these things unless you are speaking with friends and family of The Departed. However, if people want to have a real conversation exploring what drives public attention, they need to treat it as a real conversation. This means engaging the person that you're talking with good faith, respect, and an open mind.
The differences are three fold:

- You can pick your private school. There is choice. Public school, you can’t (with some caveats). People who say you can just move so it’s not a monopoly are fooling themselves, moving with a family is a very large decision not taken lightly.

- Private schools are aware you picked them and are paying them directly with your hard earned dollars. This motivates them to provide superior service. If they don’t, people will send their kids elsewhere.

- Many (most) private schools do not have a teacher’s union. My kids’ teachers are very proud to be non-union.

These three facts make an enormous difference.
I have like a billion demo tapes from the 80s and 90s from bands I tried out for or whatever, many of which include fairly well written pop songs in the approximate quality range of this song. so... this seems like someone's demo tape with a pretty good song that caught on regardless of not being identified? one would think this occurs often, at least if we put more old demo tape songs on youtube
They never implemented multiplayer. They only let you walk around your own "Captain's Quarters."

They had the whole stations, bars, clubs, traders, asteroid exploration, assassination... etc. designs, but they couldn't figure out how to get it off the ground in a clean way.
So this is a really good starting point -- but you havent formulated any hypotheses that can be tested. You've just looked at the graph and "reckoned something".

Formally, what hypotheses are you comparing? What do you think the specific hypothesis of the "AI = stats" person is? It isnt that the NN literally remembers data tokens, right?

In any case:

The issue with forcing NNs to model mathematical features is that the structure of the data itself has those properties. So the distributional hypothesis is true for sorting ordinals.

But it's really obviously false for natural language. The properties of the world are not the properties of word order... being red isnt "red follows words like...".
Use another place to store your git projects then, it's not like Github is the only one. Github is a PRODUCT built around git, not just a place to store your git repositories. I'm pretty sure you will be able to find other services which only exist to host git projects and do nothing else.
And that's not surprising, considering the operators had been using them since they were children.
I drink ~8 cups per day most days, but I only need one to avoid getting a headache.
They put something like that in ksp2. very useful, even if the numbers aren't 100% right.

Very glad I'm living in a post-ksp world, even of I'm not playing it, for the real life rocketry it enabled.
As I get older and I've played every genre, I think few video games are fun.

Many video games are addicting(stardew valley), many games invoke nostalgia(Nintendo/Zelda), some are slot machines(Diablo 3 and Starcraft Coop), etc...

You wonder how many games are genuinely fun, and how many are marketed well and cause a network effect. Did people really like playing Madden 20xx and Call of Duty X? Or did 1 popular friend get their psychology exploited, and if you wanted to be cool, you'd buy the game to play with them.
Doesn't Oracle (and I think reaches waaaaay back in the memory banks DB2) do something similar in the sense that it is packaged up with its own VM/storage subsystems that bypasses the native OSes facilities and is hyper-optimized for the DB use case?
If what's going on in Ukraine is simply a matter of money and legal obligation to you -- then it's clear there's nothing to discuss here.
Weird how different people can be. The only thing I found compelling in the “great features” list is snappiness. Otherwise,

- subject-verb isn’t a universal improvement; Vim provides both through visual mode with an extra keypress, kak/helix only make one easy;

- git integration looks sub-par for anyone familiar with magit / fugitive;

- the level of discoverability is at “much worse than Emacs, but proud of the achievement”;

- system integration is on a table stakes level.

The extensibility / composability topic is close to my heart, but the particular take does not sound right.

Emacs, for one, is not extensible like vs code is extensible, it’s runtime modifiable via insane levels of “internal” composability that is not achieved by other tools. It also works well with outside tools. I don't see what prevents the author from running magit separately; you can absolutely eval a magit-status from your command line. You'll lose editor integration, but that seems to be the point of the exercise?

In this particular case, the whole philosophical comparison reads like an excuse for Helix’s limitations.

TOML config would just make me angry on a daily basis.

It’s okay to like simple simple things. Just don’t compare them with Emacs — it's an entirely different kind of thing. Apples, oranges, kitchen sinks.
Yeah.

The negative feedback is curbing my responses.

Almost like I am a neural-net (wet one), and I am receiving RLHF (downvoted), which is modifying my internal network weights on future responses.
Unfortunately, this effort fully misses the boat. Human cognition is about concepts, not language, and that's where one must start to understand it. Language simply serializes our conceptual thinking in multiple language formats, the key is what's being serialized and how that actually works in conceptual awareness.
Ferrari, Lamborghini, superyacht and so on.

They're all 9x % proof of waste ... to prove wealth/"social" status.
Modern cars are universally the opposite of the optimum subsonic shape, which is a hemispherical leading section tapering into a cone.

The 1914 Alfa Aerodinamica by Castagna was closer to the optimum than anything from 2023.

Even engineless EVs persist with a long bonnet.
That sounds like a joke. It's also one of the very first things they wrote, not one of the last.

I'll take this announcement as being closer to reality.
As a casual PoE player I hope sooner or later we will get an LLM that can make builds for me. https://poeplanner.com/ is still an absolute mindfuck. But it would be cool to have an LLM that does like "make me an INT/STR build with 2-handed weapon and aoe skills"
Because they have not been arrested officially because they returned from a war zone (it’s suspicious but not illegal) but because they used cryptography.
I think I'd care about "not using a service" before I cared about "E2E" for git, but then I've also not seen an E2E encrypted git implementation yet.
Apologies for not making that more explicit. My point was that that isn't necessarily code, but also data. Literally, you can turn that into a list and instead of evaluating it with the standard runtime, you can send it to another place that turns it into the "command" style from the example java.

You can /kind/ of do this with java, of course. Just make sure to not use "new FooCommand" and instead change the "foo" function to return a the command object. No reason that couldn't be done; but, and this is the big difference, it requires building a ton of scaffolding in the java program to support both ideas at the same time. In lisp, it is fairly easy to wrap in a macro. Still somewhat magical, I suppose, but no more so than the rest of the compilation/build process.

That make sense? I'm somewhat interested in this, so more than happy to try and do a blog post on the idea, if that would help.
If this were true, then other countries’ militaries would also be paying $50k for a trash can, since none of what you wrote is unique to the US. Given other countries’ military budgets are a fraction of the US’s, I highly doubt that they’re spending anywhere near that.
Thank you for writing this. These emperor's new clothes reviews are a sorely needed sanity check.
Ha! Hopefully you enjoyed it.

I remember the first time that I played it, knowing absolutely nothing about it. It goes so much deeper than I had anticipated.

As a heads-up, there is more than one ending!
Tyrannies like China, Iran and Russia, the usual targets of such attacks, aren't interested in divulging that the "decadent West" was successful at conducting a cyber attack and hurting them.
Sure. And all of this needs to be peoperly certified, to whatever standard the E-3 was certified against, in order to be mounted on the plane. Your comment tells me you were never involved in any of this.

Alternative: Those trash cans set in stock somewhere, the 300 buck price guarantee ran out, and the alternative was to not fly or develop new cans. Well, that wpupd also justify 50k per can if said E-3s are actually needed right now.
This is funny. This is also not the type of comments that I expect to see on HN. I come here out of curiosity, not for humor or entertainment.
>Humiliating him would cut the legs of the movement.

No, it wouldn't, at all. People have been humiliating conspiracy theorists with the facts for decades, and the only result is that conspiracy theory has become mainstream. If all it took was a superior rational argument from an expert to convince people of the error of anti-vaxxers, there would be no anti-vaxxers. Yet even on HN, a forum that should be a nexus of rational thought, they dominate any thread where vaccines are a subject. The "sunlight is the best disinfectant" shit isn't working.

What will happen is exactly what people like RFK want to happen - their message will spread, the "experts" will be reframed and reedited and taken out of context through memes and bad-faith videos and exposes, and people will (as they always do) have sympathy for the "underdog" (the anti-vaxxers) and skepticism towards "experts" and wonder what they must be trying to hide.
Most of the key lessons learned so far were already known by OG and the other industry players well before this and other mission failures had occurred. They not only refused to take the baseline and evidenciarily needed steps to make the craft safe, they fired a safety engineer and bragged about their cavalier attitude. They ignored communications from their peers telling them how unsafe their craft was, especially with paying customers on board. They bragged about breaking rules, and they unprededently didn't get basic deepsea dive certifications.

Pointing out the insane hubris and known-ahead-of-time shortcomings is not flogging the dead. In fact, it's highlighting arguable the most important takeaway so far.
Yeah, their official API support is just really limited... by policy, not availability. https://www.pathofexile.com/developer/docs#resources

As in they have a bunch of endpoints that are perfectly usable but they don't want you using it for some reason. It spawned a small ecosystem of third party docs and wrappers on poedb and github.

I can't tell if GGG just don't have the resources to support more APIs or if they are worried about increasing access for other business reasons, but they do threaten an account ban for unauthorized use of their public APIs. It's too bad, as someone who's both spent a lot of money with them and wanted to spend more but could never find the right items because their official shop is so bad. Oh well.
A new, faster algorithm for the group isomorphism problem
San Francisco keeps the inefficient toilet spending crown with the $1.7m toilet:

https://slate.com/business/2022/10/san-francisco-toilet-mill...
Because I want to store my document's data in a standard text-only human-readable human-editable format, but be able to do the majority of my writing more easily and with wysiwyg which is an free, automatic and space-conservative preview.
They had already developed it. How much do you think it costs to design a bin..
Tell HN: Interview take home assessments without feedback are frustrating
I'm in the process of interviewing for senior and staff front end positions. I've done several multi-hour take home projects now and a couple were rejected with generic rejection messages. It's pretty insulting to be frank. Spending 2-4 hours on likely valueless work is a substantial amount of time relative to the week day. If I've spent the time making the project and they've spent the time recruiting me and reviewing the project, the recruiter and reviewer could spend 5 minutes sending constructive feedback.

Anyone else share in this frustrating experience? Have you successfully asked for feedback before?
That's a grim ad-laden site, better to have a look at https://t.co/7PggXCugqE
> According to the study, the neural machine translation provided a BLEU4 score of 36.52 for cuneiform to English, and a score of 37.47 for transliterated cuneiform to English. BLEU4 scores are from 0 to 100, with 0 being the lowest and 100 being a perfect translation, which even a human translator could not achieve. Around 37 is considered fairly good for an early-stage translation model, explained Gutherz.

> Gutherz said that Google Translate, a privately-funded commercial tool that has been in existence for over a decade, would get a BLEU4 score of about 60 translating from Spanish to English.

It looks more like an early stage of a significant AI accomplishment to me. The glass is half full.
I've wanted this when the primary requirement was a WYSIWYG editing experience acceptable to business users. Neither HTML nor Markdown were acceptable and while it's perhaps more accepted today, there are still huge audiences which won't touch anything looking like code. The options available generated terrible HTML on the backend that wouldn't roundtrip or resulted in problems when the overall site design was changed. I'm completely onboard with your feelings as a technical person.

Using Markdown as the storage format solved the problem because it is consistent and templates can easily be updated to support design updates. The problem is now finding a WYSIWYG editor that supports Markdown. I'm glad there is more going on this space, but StackOverflow helped me a lot with https://editor.stackoverflow.design/.
I have not yet read the paper, but based on this description it seems like it provides grounding in the context of the training data, which is kind of the rub with current LLMs to begin with, right? We don't have a set of high quality training data that is completely unbiased and factual.
Well, at least it’s pretty: that’s a step above standup and sprint planning meetings and you don’t quit your job over those do you?
Every update that goes into CentOS Stream is not a "proposed update", it is an update that has gone through the entire QA process and is scheduled to go into the next RHEL minor release. It's the same as Debian, except that Debian has no other "more stable" point release branch, it just has the one that updates flow into after being tested.
> Some critics said that making all depositors whole at the lender and Signature Bank, which failed March 12, created a moral hazard.

It’s a bit late to be talking about “moral hazard”

https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/personal-finance/go...

https://www.propublica.org/article/government-bailouts
>Did people really like playing Madden 20xx and Call of Duty X?

Can't talk about those games but Fortnite is a fine example of insanely popular game yet it's actually really fun too. I was ignoring it for a long time and started playing when the Covid lockdowns started and I was surprised that it's actually a good TPS game + the constant updates what makes it really enjoyable. Live service games live and die by the updates and Epic does the gameplay updates really well: new or unvaulted weapons every 2-3 weeks, new map changes every 3 months etc. So it always feels fresh, just enough change that you don't get bored.

There is also the aspect of instant gratification which makes the genre appealing to a lot and easy to jump in. It doesn't take a lot to understand what's going on and if you fail you just start a new game, akin to rogue/lite/like genre which is coincidentally (or not) became popular since the 2010s too.
If I was working on anything sensitive I'd just spin up a Gitea instance on my own hosting provider.
Thank you and much appreciated, fortunately had no affected certs. I guess I need to spend some time implementing ARI :)
There are benefits to the procurement rules. Little Giant ladders are used extensively in the military. That's the only reason why they haven't moved all production to Mexico.
they can answer those

https://medium.com/@nathanbos/prompting-better-theory-of-min...
> no air conditioned seats ... and good A/C

Which is it? Directly cooling/heating the body through the seat seems like the fastest and most efficient way.
Putting out the hardware dumpster fire
Then you shouldn't be using Github at all. Problem solved.
When synchronizing two nodes A and B, where there is a persistent difference in the travel times A->B and B->A, how do you achieve synchronization when knowing A->B->A or B->A->B?
Ask HN: Where do you buy your coffee beans?
I'm based in the bay area and I typically buy owl's howl espresso beans from sightglass
Crusader Kings II/III w/ Excel?

Also, have to love that Microsoft is actually involved here. Makes me wish that Activision buy out goes through.
coworkers aren't your friends they're "work friends", and your job isn't your life.

join a club, go places, talk to people. even working from home I walk to local coffee shops and chat with the people there. 6am there is always the same old guy and he reads the whole damn newspaper before 7am -- and is keen to talk. Old-timey, but a nice guy.

I'm on a softball team. there are a few meetup.com groups I like to hit, esp. the local LUG. there is a local non-profit art center and my wife sits on that board -- get to go to a few art events.

the problem is you're stuck at home. get out more, killer.
Where's Harry Truman when we need him?

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/1175403633/truman-committee-b...
Only some developers like markdown, the rest of the world just expect things to work like Word.

Things like this can bridge the gap.
eh, the nvme drives should be fine I think.
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