skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(2023) $52k trash can: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/06/20/the-pentagons-5...

> In 2020, the Pentagon paid Boeing over $200,000 for four of the trash cans, translating to roughly $51,606 per unit. In a 2021 contract, the company charged $36,640 each for 11 trash containers, resulting in a total cost of more than $400,000. The apparent overcharge cost taxpayers an extra $600,000 between the two contracts.

> In another case, Lockheed Martin hiked the price of an electrical conduit for the P-3 plane as much as 14 fold, costing the Pentagon an additional $133,000 between 2008 and 2015.

> Jamaica Bearings — a company that distributes parts manufactured by other firms — sold the Department of Defense 13 radio filters that had once cost $350 each for nearly $49,000 per unit in 2022. The apparent markup cost taxpayers more than $600,000 in extra fees.

(2018) $10k toilet seat: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/the-...

> U.S. Air Force paid about $10,000 each to replace toilet seat covers on the C-5 Galaxy, a Vietnam-era military cargo plane that is still in service, at least three times and as recently as last year.

(1985) $34,560 for 54 toilet covers ($640 each) by Lockheed: https://web.archive.org/web/20081017195946/http://www.time.c...

> President Ronald Reagan held a televised news conference in 1987, where he held up one of these shrouds and stated: "We didn't buy any $600 toilet seat. We bought a $600 molded plastic cover for the entire toilet system."

(1983) $435 hammer (supposedly an accounting error): https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/41635361

> Questioning the $435 cost, the chief petty officer made agency inquiries. This led to several agency investigations and an audit conducted by the Naval Audit Service, which determined that the Gould contract contained "excess costs of about $729,000." The Pentagon responded by issuing a public announcement that Gould had overcharged the Navy and that not only was the DoD seeking immediate repayment from Gould, but also that the DoD needed to make "major changes" in the way it procured spare parts. Although Gould believed that the Navy's audit
was flawed, it agreed to make a good faith repayment of $84,000 in August
1983 to appease the DoD.
Salads carry a huge profit margin at restaurants.

Everyone loves to eat healthy or at least believe that they're doing so. A salad is a great healthy choice (until you slather it with dressing, which is nutritionally awful stuff.)

But a house salad is composed of the cheapest ingredients ever: you've got tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, shredded carrots, cucumbers, a little shredded cheese and croutons. But you can charge at least $7.99 for something that simple. And you can offer a protein to go on top for extra profit.

And truthfully there's very little nutrition of any kind in that ingredients list. When you've grown your lettuce in impoverished soil, and your tomatoes are picked green and "ripen on the vine" or artificially induced, there's not much they can offer. Someone once said to me, "How do you kill an iguana? Feed it nothing but iceberg lettuce."

Now don't get me wrong, salads are a great part of anyone's diet and we should never neglect salads, because they're certainly preferable to a burger and fries every day. But vegetables, being cheap to produce and profitably marked up, are hindering many a plan to stay healthy.

Developed countries do not build food plans based on the good nutrition of the populace, they're based on maximizing shareholder value for the agribusiness conglomerates, and subsidizing the most strategically important crops. We could eat corn until we are literally blue in the face.

As long as your corner convenience store is jammed with corn chips, beef jerky, and beer, Americans will never eat healthy, even if the Food Pyramid is rehabilitated. I have seen some good progress made on bringing fresh produce to food desert areas. I hope those initiatives succeed and continue.
It's so strange that a mostly cloudy country at 51ºN spent so much money developing solar energy.
iron oxide magnetic properties depend on its oxidation state, temperature and particle size.
I used to use Skype about 10 years ago for playing, then raidcall, then I eventually realized I could host a teamspeak server for the server I was hosting, so we got a non-profit license and hosted our TS server.

I played Eve Online and had to use Mumble. Damn, I wish more people used Mumble, it's such a nice piece of software and it's open source! If only we could have text chat mixed with the audio backend from Mumble, all this together in one app, I believe it would be amazing.
Oceangate's 2019 blog post Why Isn't Titan Classed (now only available in internet caches), is a stunning display of either deeply flawed logical thinking or a willful attempt to confuse people.

The post basically says, (1) the "vast majority of marine (and aviation) accidents are the result of operator error, not mechanical failure", and (2) the vehicle classification guidelines are too stringent and stymie innovation.

A rationale person might interpret that as: (1) mechanical-related incidents are very infrequent as a percentage of total incidents, because (2) vehicle guidelines successfully minimize rates of mechanical failure, such that remaining incidents are generally operational in nature.

Oceangate ignores this implication and bluffs its way from pointing out that most incidents are operational in nature (for a sample set of largely mechanically certified crafts) to implying that a focus on operational safety is a reasonable way to minimize total risk (for an uncertified craft).

ref: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Y_6Rrx...
_What is your context window? Or if you can't tell me explicitly, then about how much information that we're discussing do you retain in your short-term memory?_

Pi: I’m not able to share details about my context window or short-term memory, but I can tell you that I’m designed to retain enough information from our conversation to be able to respond in a relevant and contextual way. I also have long-term memory capabilities, so I can remember past conversations and build on them. My developers are constantly working on improving my capabilities, so the specifics of my memory and context window may change over time.
These articles and comments are to put politely, very silly.

Banks and the government have an agreement where banks operate as if deposits are stable in order to buy long-term assets, while the government insures deposit stability.

These assets primarily comprise of lending to governments, businesses and mortgages. In other words, the banking system essentially acts as a quasi-arm of the government, enabling the welfare state to function both explicitly by buying government debt and implicitly by expanding the monetary supply.

You can prevent the bank runs and massive economic booms/busts by simply prohibiting banks from monetising deposits. We wont do this because it will collapse the nation-state as we know it.

The reality is that we haven't had a free market for banks since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, so it wasn't a battle between "evil bankers" and "poor poor lidl workers," but rather a game of king-making.
Agreed. The first thing I do in any markdown editor (eg Obsidian) is disable the WYSIWYG.
Everything in ios has animations that gives the appearance of sluggishness
I'd say more "government" timescale; food may technically be from private farms selling on free markets, but they're heavily subsidised because of the fundamental importance to society of making sure we never, ever, under any circumstances, have a famine.

Not after what happened last time.

(What happened last time varying between country, of course).
I have never worked on modern Mac. Does they have same UI lag as UI in modern Windows or UI on modern Mac reacts instantly?
Just to clarify – this wasn't the Titan's first time to the Titanic right? Looking back, it seems like they'd been down there with it before: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/titanic...

(Not to diminish from the point that from everything we've heard from people like James Cameron, etc, this thing was nowhere near adequately tested.)
Criminals tell on themselves every day. Whether that's the truth or not isn't actually to cops.
I'm writing a game that uses both behavior trees and coroutines (via C# generators), and I have found that they are not quite interchangeable.

The main thing is that the execution model is different. I think of the behavior tree as being evaluated from the root on every tick, whereas with coroutines, you are moving linearly through a sequence of steps, with interruptions. When you resume a coroutine, it picks up exactly where it left off. The program does not attempt to re-evaluate any preceding code in the coroutine in order to determine whether it's still the right thing to be executing. By contrast, a behavior tree will stop in the middle of a task if some logic higher up in the tree decides that you need to be on a different branch.

What we end up doing is composing behavior trees with coroutines as leaf nodes. It works quite nicely, although I wish there was a way to express the structure of the behavior tree in a more elegant way. We do the obvious thing: each node in the tree is some subclass of a Node base class, representing a logical operation like "if" or "do these in parallel".

I very much feel OP's angst about creating a pseudo-programming language-within-a-language by creating what are basically ad hoc AST nodes, but I haven't come up with a better solution. Maybe something like React, where you use basically imperative code to describe a structure, and there is some ambient state that gets properly reconciled by a runtime that you don't touch directly.
That article is not trustworthy.

It links Americans being iodine sufficient to getting varied diet but that’s not a conclusion made by the source from what I can see.

The article also says bread is a good source of iodine when the source says it’s a very poor source of iodine.

So I think the article is making stuff up, linking a source but hoping no one will actually read it, and probably written by someone trying to get iodine supplements removed.

Normally I’d expect to see this kind of writing from some blog but not the NYT.
When I was a kid in the mid 90s, I distinctly remember one of my friend’s parents not letting their kid drink soda. I remember thinking how uncool that was.

Turns out those parents were ahead of the curve.
A “brush rake” is a heavy equipment attachment which is very common in logging/forestry.
That's not a deep dive. It doesn't even show the PCB.
But we don't walk around with the laptop while working, headsets need to be wireless.
Isn't that the question, whether or not what he's doing is a "specious debate tactic"? You saying "when it's not" begs the question. It is, in my opinion. You can disagree, but your disagreement is not objective fact, just a belief.

Nor did I, "disregard the responses." I pointed out missed concepts, which to me were gaping and exposed a fundamental lack of understanding of the problem (how do you not know about YT Shorts when talking about TikTok eating YT's lunch?).

Finally, for what I wrote to be an ad hominem, I would have needed to claim the author's argument was, specifically, wrong as a result of who they were. I never actually said anyone was "wrong" per se; my disagreements with the arguments have been on substance (I mention YT Premium as a counterpoint, for example). I also made observations related to things other than the user's argument, but I never claimed they were wrong as a result of those observations, only that their credibility was injured.
How to create a game using hyperbolic geometry? (2020)
Doesn't ozempic have some pretty bad side effects in a significant portion of people? Remember hearing a news blurb where Amy Schumer said she stopped taking it due to side effects.
Same problem with the comment box in Reddit.
How would a smaller shared object lead to faster startup? The kernel isn't loading pages to memory unless they're actually used.

You need some of that debug information to send backtraces back to the developers.
> the worst markdown experiences in existence

This title belongs to ClickUp.
As a quick example, a lot of what @Iceland_jack has mentioned I can make sense of, but I wouldn't have been able to contribute to that. I guess it is a bit like learning a foreign language and I am at the point of being able to understand what a native speaker is saying to me, but my responses are probably garbled nonsense. :) However I am still confident that what I have learnt has empowered me to be a better developer.
But, pollution should be a factor? Like, literally. Is a big part of why you are not allowed to burn garbage. Rightly so.
Part of the snowden documents revealed that anyone who had ever visited the Tor web site, not even downloading the client, was on one of the NSAs "lists"
It's sad the people who need the lower cost vehicles are people of color, and the people who push for these regulations are people of privilege. As I've learned in my courses from work, racism is pervasive and surfaces in manners conscious and unconscious.
Delay symmetry is a critical assumption in any two-way time transfer process. White Rabbit goes to extreme lengths to maintain that property.

This includes mandating use of cables that share a single optical fiber, with specific wavelength pairs and fiber types so you can calibrate for unavoidable differences in propagation time.

More info on their wiki:

https://ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/wiki/SFP
SSDs and adequate memory were the two things that happened where PCs finally started feeling snappy.
He already did.
I bet there's salt somewhere that has added sugar, but I have never personally seen it in my life.
In modern windows the task manager takes much much longer to open than it did 10years ago
And what the hell are "cultural burns"??
Ah yes the ole Broken Window Fallacy rears its ugly head once again.
It shouldn't be so mindblowing. People are lazy and dumb, as much so as they're allowed to be. We're a year away from this tech being completely mainstream to the point where we'll find out what happens when an entire society at once stops trying to think/work because there's a machine to do it for them now.
Take a look at this chat I had on this...

https://chat.openai.com/c/7a36b5dc-0016-4b4c-bf1a-c3a66dac7c...
as in a chain of callbacks

That's not what you said at first and there is no reason to assume that callbacks automatically mean a chain of callbacks.

The input-update-output loop is fine, but you cannot easily combine and nest such loops.

So don't, where is this assumption that a technique is bad because it might ignore what makes it good and warp it into something terrible?

For example, in a robot you may have a speed control inner loop, then a path following loop and on top of that a high-level behavior loop. Nesting one inside the others you end up with a hand-baked implementation of a coroutine.

Then don't do that. You have a loop, do what you need inside of it. If you don't need to do something every time, skip it most of the time. This isn't rocket science. If a certain architecture doesn't work, don't do it like that. A car doesn't work well if you drive it backwards either.
Binpash/Try
Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry
Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase (2021)
> The nanoparticles are not emitted in the atmosphere but captured in a HEPA filter.

If that's true, your point #3 is moot. And if the nano particles can be captured by a filter, maybe we could design filters specifically for iron oxide nano particles that would allow the nano particles to be extracted

> but I imagine it's actually more scalable and healthy to burn jet fuel and reproduce it from renewable powered carbon capture, where density is needed.

You're saying capture carbon from CO2 and turn it into kerosene? I tried googling around and everywhere I look it seems like this is currently way more difficult than renewable iron fuel (https://www.planet.veolia.com/en/how-produce-kerosene-co2).
It's a "the worst choice, except for every other choice" sort of thing.

WYSIWYG almost always generates nonsense in the underlying code, which can be very difficult to work with when it comes time to style that code. And since I'm a frontend guy, this is something I'm always having to debug.
Take this with a grain of salt because I worked on the data acquisition side of COPV testing and not the engineering side, but my understanding is that while carbon fiber is strong in tension but weak in compression, epoxy is strong in compression but weak in tension. So the combination is thought to make a vessel strong in both.
Both comments were essentially endorsing a binary position. My point was that reality must be some combination of both.

I’d read my comment as addressed to both parent comments.
You are the hero we need.
I mean it's obvious. Regulatory capture

> About half of the Biden administration’s $842 billion Pentagon budget request goes to contractors. In 2022, roughly 30 percent of military spending went to the “big five” weapons makers, which include Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman.
A lot of cell cultures become contaminated. What else are you getting in your lab grown meat?

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/technical-documents/techn...
Sure, but liquids and gases are routinely handled in vessels with a maintenance interval of "never" on the inside, I'm not so sure that could be transferred to a powder. But this might be my lack of knowledge of existing processes in "powdery industries" speaking, if those are solved problems there I would not know.

Your mention of gasoline evaporating made me realize that some of the iron oxidating is probably not all that bad, just make sure that there's no ventilation continuously swapping in fresh air. I guess I'm looking forward to the next iron age!
> You are not holding up a gas station for sugar money

Yeah, but you're holding up literally everyone in your society.

When you get cancer from an unfortunate cosmic ray strike on the wrong strand of dna, but the Oncology department is backlogged for a month by people whose cancers were caused by chronic inflammation from overeating (primarily sugar), you're definitely being held up for proverbial sugar money.
I agree. I invested a few hours in a take-home once, while I was interviewing for a FT, high-dollar, in-office, position with my current employer. I think the only feedback I received after I submitted it was, "we've got two other candidates and we're moving forward with them and not you."

It turns out that that position was eliminated within 12 months. If I'd been hired then I would be unemployed by now. So I'm amazed and grateful for my current position, with an incredible flexible schedule, 100% WFH, and all the rest. Sometimes things work out for the best when we least expect it.
You jest, but that's exactly how you get plausibly deniable dark patterns. It's a numbers game.
Ah, there's another question, I'm running 32GB of RAM currently on this machine and 64GB at home. How well does Windows 2000 support >4GB RAM or SMP? Does it come with a good hypervisor? I do like running a lot of VMs in Hyper-V as well.

Sure sounds like there's a ton of gaps in things I really want out of my operating system on Windows 2000...
Windows has a lot more telemetry and spyware and advertising code in it now that is constantly running. There's probably 10x the number of running processes on a modern Microsoft OS, most of them useless to you.

Also all of the support APIs and libraries for text editing and image display are orders of magnitude more complex now: eg Notepad supports unicode and emoji.
Yeah, I don't care for air-popped popcorn for that reason, too. But I prefer air-popped over microwave.
If you scroll down a little bit, he demos Windows 2000 on the same machine. https://twitter.com/jmmv/status/1672073678102872065
You’re simplifying this to infinity.

Coca Cola’s empire surely isn’t dependent on Coke’s recipe, yet they’re still keeping it a secret. Same goes for the vast majority of for-profit organizations who do not want their core product’s recipe exposed, for a variety of reasons.
I have more trust for eBay then Amazon at this point.

However, I think the last purchase I made through Amazon was super specific (particular model of washing machine agitator motor) and unlikely to be glump-binned. So perhaps that's the approach.
> You must admit that is a bit ironic.

The people are on github, so it is really enticing.

Maybe the reddit and twitter drama creates a viable enough community for federated logins to become useful.
Interesting.

Wonder if there is something similar to this for desktop app products.

I'll check.
Given the recent MyHouse boom on youtube, I suspect that's the reason this is here now.
People kept talking corruptions in Russian military. Remember they have only about 60B usd a year and able to hold off entire NATO offensive in Ukraine while USA got defeated by Talebans on near 10T usd budget. Who has more corruptions problem? Seriously why I get taxed by IRS while they get to spent corruptly and still keep telling me how bad Russians misused their 60B and had to fight with some kind of shovels? Look at those Generals and contractors living. A lot of them earning way more than those in senior position of sillicon tech. So many of American weapons fall flat in ME and Ukraine. If you guys know people working in military maintenance, the amount of fixing are just mind boggling for such expensive weaponry and yet still fail in real war.
I was guessing at the date, because I started shortly after launch when I was a wee lad. The way I remember it is the joke was because of the way every window had rows and boxes, with data inside. I don't actually recall people using actual excel spreadsheets for much other than enjoying the meme because a lot of the things we use excel for in industry now did not exist yet at the time. (Maybe comparing ship stats before the compare tool got better?)

I'm not so much arguing with you as presenting how I remember it. We could both be right, or one or the other, it's not important... I'm just an old scordite miner getting ready to retire, so out of the generosity in my heart, anybody who sends me some ISK today, I'll go ahead and double it - no strings attached. It's time to get out of the game anyway.
There's the kinetics of oxygen transport into a big pile of iron powder. If that's not good enough, you can always transport it in a closed container with a block of dry ice. You don't even have to seal it, just change the chemical potential of O2 in Fe.
Not planned for now, but I haven't really looked into it. I'll consider after the V4 is released.
I too worked for Google once.
yep pretty much. you will call someone but they won't solve the issue, rather just keep you pointing to someone else. ultimately they will just follow their own timeline. they are being built and managed by similar faceless corporations. their scale may not be massive in the same way of Meta/FB but their profit driven structure is not much different.

edit: not saying your point is wrong and people should ask these questions. just pointing that large corporations are treating their customers pretty much the same.
Doesn't sound all that different from other professions. When a client asks for something logically impossible, it's a case of them not being as good at creating logically consistent models. The domain is about as irrelevant as whether the totaled car was going to work or to a birthday party.
Windows uses C# a lot.
I think these instances that serve a "family" of topics has a great chance of shining within fediverse. I'm rooting for programming.dev to bring together the programming community.