skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of the US military, the best funded in the world, is decades behind the private sector on computing technology

This assertion embeds many assumptions not in evidence. Closed source computer science R&D, not only to which the US defense establishment have access but in many cases funded, is decades ahead of open source and academia in many key areas, not just in obvious areas like cryptography but data structures and algorithms, as well as exotic hardware.

It doesn't explain UFOs, but the idea that the most advanced public computer tech is decades ahead of what elements of the US DoD have doesn't pass the smell test. At worst there is parity and in some areas there is quite a bit of anecdotal evidence of capability that should not be possible if you solely went on public computing literature. (As a well-known example, there is empirical evidence that graph analysis capabilities exist that are vastly more scalable than is explainable by literature.)

Not everyone aspires to be a code monkey at Facebook for the money. There are extremely talented computer scientists working in US government, especially the secretive parts, that could instantly get a job at any FAANG company if they wanted to -- I've met many of them -- but they don't. The notion that the US DoD does not have access to "the best engineers and scientists" is dubious.
I need watermark removal version.
I tried it and it didnt work
Which is of course absolutely terrible for the quality of the dataset you're trying to produce
Not from what I've seen at the retail end. They're certainly not at their crazy peak prices from that one May, but they're still much higher than even a few years ago, and have not been decreasing commensurate with the futures. Especially if you start to consider a quality/$ measure; For example, I used to be able to buy lumber that was ready to use. Now I _have_ to give it time to air dry because it's too wet to work with immediately despite being 'kiln dried'. That's time and additional preparation I have to do, not to mention have the room to allow it to air dry. I can imagine that being a pain if you needed a 2x4 for some small project in a small apartment.
Right, I meant to suggest there might be some "culture" bleed. Another commenter suggested it had more to do with key Pixar figures leaving for Disney, at which point Disney's own offerings improved and Pixar's suffered.

I'm not very good at articulating "feelings" so bear with me: Early Pixar movies (to me) are timeless, positive, almost fairy-tale like. They're centrist, middle-of-the-road films that don't offend or validate anyone, just faithfully follow the Hero's Journey as they try to resolve some issue in the ideal world where we're all in this together. Toy Story is the best example-- literally every single toy could not be more different, but the entire point of the movie is about all of them finding ways to leverage their differences to advance the journey for all of them, not exploiting their shortcomings to hold everyone else back. Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles, all are the same pattern. Pixar's money printer used to be endless asset-swaps of "Diversity: The Movie" (the secret to Sesame Street as well), and it was a beautiful thing before the concept was perverted by the same children who grew up watching these movies.

I don't have kids' show equivalents to name from AppleTV, but I do get the same feeling ("Diversity: The Show") from their regular shows. Ted Lasso is the obvious frontrunner. For All Mankind, Invasion, Foundation (caveat: I was really high when I watched this one). All of these beautifully weave together the themes of diversity and unity into a shared journey.
Are you promoting radical scepticism and believe we should abjure from pro or con cases or are you a believer? They're not the same. Do you apply the same criterion to all rebuttals or only rebuttals of this kind? How topic specific is your concern with credibility ? And, forgive me but why should we care about your opinion over others?

You are in some ways invoking appeal to authority but then... All debunking is at some level an appeal to authority. I am unquestionably promoting an appeal to authority above btw.

Since there's no point discussing this "evidence" with a believer, I ask what you would consider viable credible discrediting. My suspicion is, no discrediting would meet your standard and you are not actually prepared to accept any alternate basis, such as lens flare.
If you use the UpVPN app it configures DNS=1.1.1.1 and not configurable yet.

However, when you use Web Devices, a configuration file or QR code is generated with DNS=1.1.1.1 but you can change it before using.
Glypha is fun, used to play it a lot on macOS in the System 7.0 (or so) days. I expect the remake to be similar fun.

Would buy it again on GOG, but Steam I kinda try to avoid these days.
Which is different than making money.

I think that none of the top 10 most valuable (to me) websites generate any sort of direct revenue (many, not even indirect) to their owners.

But they're immensely valuable.
The large, distracting menus are quite exciting.
Do that and you are just creating targets for the next security auditor that you need any sort of certification or approval from.

In the end you'll choose the path of least resistance, which is to slavishly obey every rule on the checklist. It's not that people don't want to tailor the rules. They try at first, and then it gets beaten out of them.

Frustrating indeed.
Or, internal survey just means they didn't publish the results, not that they only polled employees.
I think, in your response of sarcasm you are brushing over a lot of valid points the OC is making.

They're not saying that we should get rid of natural-born folks. They're just saying that often times the people who most want their nation to not allow other folks in, don't appreciate all of the things that those other folks provide for them. i.e. Immigration is subsidizing a lot of the things you probably enjoy about your life, and we should probably be considering it more as a blessing than a curse.

Nobody is trying to replace you. They're just trying to help you, and provide a better opportunity for their children once they've bought into the same system your parents bought into.
That's a good testimonial. Also thanks for the link.

I'm a big fan of strongly typed software, but at the same time I've absolutely seen bugs introduced where people were forced to be explicit in conversions and got it wrong, when the automatic thing would have been the right thing. Maybe the answer to my concern is just that there is no replacement for care and competence and that bad software can be written regardless of the tools.
I tried to find the comments you're talking about and found only two that seemed to be talking about ease of development. Both of them were clearly making the point that the barrier to entry being lower than in the past has lead to a glut of basic low-quality, low-effort games. That is, people are producing games that boot up and do something but don't meet today's expectations for quality games. They're talking about the ease of making shovelware; you're talking about the difficulty of making AAA games. I'm not sure the sentiment you're responding to (that good games are easy to make) actually exists in a comment here.

They're clearly right about their point. You can make a shitty game in one sitting using today's tools; I've done so a bunch of times. My games all suck but they are games with art, music, sound, and gameplay that people can play and enjoy briefly. You are also clearly right that making good games is hard, and indeed getting harder. The quality bar for a AAA game is insanely high in 2023. I don't see these as being incompatible points, and I'm not sure the anger I sense in your post is warranted--was it necessary to suggest that anyone who disagrees with you is a dilletante and that their posts are noise?
Baffles would remove volume as well. But I'm not sure how that'd compare with sponges.
You say this as though it’s some evil corporate trick. Although sometimes they are abused, these PIPs are often deserved.

I work in an organization where it is very difficult to fire marginal employees and while job security is great, the poor performers really drag down everyone else’s morale. PIPs if utilized properly can be a great way to rehabilitate these employees, even if they ultimately move on to other teams.
Seeing as how its nearly done, it doesn't change much. It changed more often in the beginning, but its like on its final draft, or near final draft. I think the IETF plans to make final soon.
That's incorrect. That's the total spent by players of CoD.
> Companies almost always develop to the most popular console, and put in the barest minimum of effort to port it to PC and elsewhere.

I am still not over those statements from Microsoft from the first Xbox era and Fable and how it would speed up dev. and how we would get games on both platforms at the same time and then how they didn't release Fable 2 on PC even though they said DirectX blah blah. /rant
No credible debunking of "Gimball" exists, despite Mick West proponents. Mick made himself look like a complete fool, and the response to his video by _actual_ fighter pilots is pretty embarrassing for him

https://youtu.be/Tyw4JA00AMc

https://youtu.be/vNjB3LxBw_0
That could work, but unless you can somehow deliver similar speeds with radio the network would bottleneck on the ground to satellite links.
Thanks for mentioning this, could not have worded it better.
I see EVs being shipped/distributed all the time on top of ICE semi-trucks
#2 and #3 are pretty solid advice. But the rest of them are nothing specific to fintech. I will also offer a few additional points.

1. Never record an amount without its currency.

2. Reconcile all your data all the time. Never let any data go unaccounted for.

3. Maker-checker is a powerful concept. Embrace it to the fullest across your system.

4. You will be dealing with all sorts of non-standardized financial integrations. A lot. Think adapter pattern as early as possible.

5. You will be answering to multiple regulatory agencies. Create boundaries between them within your system and reduce the surface of compliance as much as possible.
> One of them is an init system specifically designed to be easier to use than runit and $6, while still being sane, unlike systemd. Yes, I'm going to focus on ease of use because as you said, that matters a lot.

Ooh can you link directly to this? I'd love to take a look at. Runit is sharp and annoying.
Why is "plain prose" so logically the litmus test for what can be discussed? It certainly wasn't designed around the idea it should cover every possible concept, or do so remotely efficiently either, so the repeated assertion it logically is the only way to know if a concept can be discussed is a bit hard to follow. It does cover most concepts though, and conveniently.
I'm stuck on the chess one.

The best move is Queen to e8, which I'm sure is represented in algebraic notation as Qe8. But it says that Qe8 is invalid notation.
My view is that the design of this site, targeted at niche users, is not alienating because it is designed by people from the same niche. It's great for that purpose much like niche tools like git or whatever are for people in the right niche, but I don't think you can apply this strategy when designing something that needs to have mass appeal for its business model to work.

The success of this website is that it doesn't have to be successful along the same metrics as substack or reddit or tiktok to fulfill its purpose.
We've got a theoretical basis for warp drives [1]! Casimir effect-based propelentless propulsion! Nuclear engines in spaaaaace! How much more theoretical basis does your contrarianism demand?

We've got a theoretical basis for almost any alien technology that comes short of violating the conservation of momentum or breaking the speed of light. Doesn't mean we're any closer to making an SSTO space ship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
That deals with commas but (since AWK is line-oriented) I doubt that deals with multi-line fields?
Well, the sharpie secretary is definitely fired. But this is nothing compared to the Apple employee who left the iPhone 4 prototype at a bar.

Steve Jobs' minions made sure that man would never be physically capable of holding an iPhone ever again.
Gentzen's Consistency Proof
This is a beautiful result that clarifies a common misunderstanding of Gödel's second incompleteness theorem: the erroneous claim that a theory can only be proved consistent in a strictly stronger one. Indeed, Gentzen's theory, proving the consistency of Peano Arithmetic, is neither stronger nor weaker than PA.
> As for waiting years between installments, we have plenty of great games to play through in the meantime. "We will release it when it's ready" is a mentality that has sadly been forgotten over the past several years.

It's very questionable if we do have plenty of great games. And there is a difference between rushing a release and spending 15 years between releases.

Putting it as waiting years is presenting it in a false light, it's waiting decades. It's very possible the time between Skyrim and the next installment is 20-years.

GTA5 was 10-years ago and has been on 3 different generations of consoles. It could very well be that GTA6 doesn't even get release on PS4 because it'll take so long.
You understand it wrong, this is a spurious and frankly absurd claim propagated by Mick West, which has been repeatedly debunked by _actual fighter pilots_.

Ex: https://youtu.be/Tyw4JA00AMc
GitHub's developer workflow is a joke compared with the ticketing, CI, and code review tooling at Meta. I found the tools at Meta made it a lot smoother and faster to write and review code. Also, their automated flaky test detection, suppression, & ticket issuance/resolution is no joke. One of my favorite features. Their feature flagging system was also on point. Also, Workplace is a fantastic replacement of Wiki that surfaces relevant & interesting content to you. Their chat tools are way better than Google Chat / Microsoft Teams (not sure how it stacks up against Slack since I'm not a huge user of them).

I agree the observability tools I interfaced within Meta was subpar a few years ago, but I think you're being ungenerous to take that and extend it to the coding tooling specifically.
You need to pay for art
The majority of the population is overweight and more than a third are obese, with the numbers of both on a steady upward climb for decades.

Traditional methods are already out there and this health crisis is just getting worse each year. The average person is clearly not having success with them, and saying "if they just try harder" or putting some different spin on them hasn't done a thing to fix the trajectory of this problem in the past 30 years, so I can pretty confidently say that there is zero chance they will somehow solve this societal problem in the future.

Being significantly overweight has immense health consequences and imposes huge costs on both the individual and society. I think it's incredibly, incredibly unlikely that the costs or health risks of this medication are higher than the well-documented costs of people continuing to be significantly overweight.

And FWIW: I say this as a thin person with no trouble with my own weight.
Yeah, I hear that all the time here. Usually from the people that dislike US/Europe and like China/Russia.

I'm all in on pragmatism, but c'mon, let's be real here.
After two years, my e-paper smart display now has a much smaller bezel
When I first shared my e-paper smart display with the HN crowd more than two years ago, one of the main feedback points I got was "that huge bezel".

To cut down the size of the bezel, I first had to learn how to design PCBs. Bad reference diagrams, parts shortages and my day job meant that it took almost two years to get it done.

But I am now happy to announce that the new version of my e-paper display is out now.

You can find it here:
https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...

The default app is a calendar that you can sync to Google calendar. But in fact, you can point it to any image url on the web. This means you're free to design your own content as well.

I'm also working on opening up the platform to allow others to build and distribute apps for the device. If you're interested in developing something, please email me at info@invisible-computers.com
No idea. Maybe she stayed home?
I did that, now I have a company.
VT digger shows in 2021 Vermonters were able to shelter all of their homeless[0].

[0] https://vtdigger.org/2023/06/07/this-years-count-finds-homel...
The only information we use to generate your lab req in Quest is:
name
dob
biological sex
phone number
Yes, it is global. Even running `matchMedia("(prefers-reduced-motion)")` in the browser console returns true. I see no way of disabling reduced motion only for Safari either.

That being said, if you do decide to use spaces, I want to point out a MacOS setup that would help you to keep apps on different spaces and have an experience (slightly) closer to i3wm and other window managers.

First, you should create 10 spaces. Then go to Settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Mission Control -> Expand the Mission Control dropdown. You'll see options to set keyboard shortcuts for each workspace there. I've set it to Option+{1-9, 0 for 10}.

Then just open some of the permanent apps you use, and right click on their Dock icon -> Options -> Assign to this desktop. I keep the browser in workspace 1, and messaging app in workspace 10.

I know this isn't the best solution, but behind crazy-hidden settings, it is possible to get a pretty decent solution for window management on macOS. Ohh also, I use Amethyst sometimes, for i3wm-like window layouts, and it allows you to set shortcuts to move apps from one workspace.
If the hull were made out of metal it would be much heavier and require a much bigger support ship to launch and recover. This would increase overall system costs.

The lower density of carbon also removed the need for syntactic foam floats.

The CEO had aircraft experience so he liked carbon fiber.
The age old startup bargain: do you want to pay a small cost up front, or a large one later? If only you'd seen it coming!
Yet, he can't stop running his mouth incriminating himself further. They had a chat group literally named wire fraud ..

A first semester law/finance student from a bottom tier university would know to shut your mouth and not document your crimes..
Related, I've always had trouble finding a black highlighter to purchase.
Here's my post in response to a comment in the "US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles" HN thread[1] from a few weeks ago that addresses this:

> Watch the introduction to the 4 hour UAP panel that NASA hosted a few days ago[2], they address this.

> According to NASA, even highly trained and experienced pilots can easily be fooled, and often reported UAPs are artifacts of the technology that detects them, or are indeed things like weather balloons. For example, NASA even used the example of Navy pilots being fooled by a procession of commercial airplanes queueing to land at an airport 40+ miles away from their base.

> They also emphasize that radar, detection systems, etc are not scientific instruments that are suitable for the detection or analysis of this phenomenon. They emphasize that the technology that the Navy et al. use are strictly optimized for defensive/offensive interception of conventional weapons. That's to say that they're calibrated for war and not for accurate scientific observation.

> Going back to the procession of airplanes waiting to land, according to the instruments available to pilots and their own observations, those airplanes were doing things that were impossible to do without bending the laws of physics. Yet all they were were just a bunch of airplanes doing what all airplanes do.

> > Due to the supposed feeds and eye witness accounts, it seems infeasible there is a 'weather balloon' type explanation

> Pilots and their systems are fallible, you'd have to assume some argument from authority to believe otherwise.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36216745

[2] Public Meeting on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (Official NASA Broadcast): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQo08JRY0iM
I agree its a misnomer, however appropriate to technically describe whats happening in one word.

Its a computing model people recognize .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing
I'm a 'trimethylxanthine' guy myself.
I think a lot of people are getting tired of subscriptions everywhere. For the average user, it's not possible to spin up a VPN because of lack of technical knowledge. So, if you are an infrequent VPN user and hate subscriptions, this could be a nice service.
If all CI systems of the world went down, it would have cooled Earth by 0.001°C.
Thanks for bringing this to our notice. Will need to check this with our legal team. Meanwhile we have a registered trademark for Gitopia in multiple jurisdictions as well as classes.
If it must go to internet, a MITM SSL proxy cache out of GH would help.

The problem is within GH's network, a 90s ISP would have blocked spammy users, GH should at least operate like an ISP if random stuff can execute and reach the 'net.
350? What do you do?
I don't get it. If code written in numpy is slow because the algorithm is bad, and you need to rewrite it, we can't say "numpy is too slow". A good chunk of the blogpost talks about this particular case, which is a non-case.

The rest is some vague suggestions to use numba, or jax. But if your code is vectorizable in my experience you don't get any benefit from numba and jax. With the exception that jax is by default single-precision so you get some speed up from that. If you make it double precision, you get back to numpy speed. I suppose the author's conclusion is not all that different, otherwise they'd put a code snippet and show some numbers.
Sure, the EA 350 kW is capable of 800V. Good point about smaller brands that do have some 800V offerings. Pretty small amount of cars shipped, though, compared to Hyundai/Kia.
dbar is pretty common in lattice field theory notes (though I've never seen it in a book), where it is used because fourier integrals naturally come with a 1/2π.
By Mick West numerous times, for instance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs
Interesting that the overall concept of the Trieste is very similar to the Limiting Factor.

The main difference being instead of using gasoline as bouyancy, they use syntactic foam. It seems like that made the overall vessel smaller. But the fundamentals of the pressure vessel is very similar, with modern tech wrapped around inside and outside. And LF using Ti vs. the Trieste's Steel vessel.

https://lynceans.org/tag/syntactic-foam/
> We aren't entitled to their efforts and we have no claim over how long they choose to spend making something.

I think as paying consumers who they keep selling to there is a level of entitlement. The whole "they don't owe us anything" doesn't really work, they kinda owe us their success. Especially when they re-release the same game multiple times instead of a new one.