skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's talk about the Tomahawk cruise missile. Introduced 40 years ago, and most likely still unparalleled until today.

Wikipedia states that the unit cost is $2MM in 2022 dollars [1]. Not clear where the number comes from, but if you check the DoD budget ([2], page 86), you'll see that the 2024 procurement for the US Marine Corps will be of 34 missiles for $105 MM, which comes to a bit more than $3MM apiece.

The more concerning thing is the number though: the entire US military will procure only 34 missile for the 2024 year. For a sense of scale, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 802 Tomahawk missiles were fired. If we ever get into a hot war with China or Russia, we'll need to fire thousands per month.

How can the military industrial complex scale from 34 per year to thousands per month? I hope that the reason these missiles are so expensive is that they keep the assembly lines running, so that if the need arises the production can quickly ramp up.

But it's a very difficult optimization problem: on one hand you don't want to waste money on missiles you will not need, on the other hand you want to be able to get them in huge quantities when you'll need them. How do you maintain the production capability as a nation at peace?

I can appreciate that the answer is not easy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile)

[2] https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudg...
Nah, there's no need. If customers don't want shoddy software then they should specify clear quality requirements in their purchase contracts.
Just to clarify: you mean all those people who were never found personally liable for anything they did on behalf of their corporate employer? The ones who are either already re-employed (most likely at another corporate-type employer, where they're shielded from personal liability), or probably looking for employment at such an employer?

You mean those people? Because I just want to make sure we know who we're referring to here.
It is -- and I cannot stress this enough -- entirely OK to root for the failure of a company that is owned, directed and dominated by an odious person with abhorrent politics.

Compare:

- hoping Ballmer-era Microsoft would fail in their attempts to snuff out Linux

- hoping that USSR would fail in their attempts to snuff out large numbers of their own citizens

- hoping that the Confederates would fail at snuffing out resistance to literal slavery

- (in fiction,) hoping that the Death Star would fail at snuffing out various planets, etc

and so forth.

There is not some weird list of permissible root-reasons. You have no gotcha; you are just gotten.
I have also followed a similar trajectory to you. My early 20's I wanted to do something 'great'. But my ambition was what Paul identified in this post as the type that precedes experience. As a result, I became restless, agitated if I thought I wasn't pursuing the right things, competitive.

That is slowly disappearing from me, for the better. Now I just try to focus on doing things as well as I can. I don't worry about what to do, because really that will flow from your intuition. Just do what you want to do. Maybe it'll be great, maybe not, but you can't force greatness.
It’s bizarre that they weren’t already illegal under fraud or false advertising laws
Which is the problem with the medical research.

They are figuring out if it is better to cut your toenails 2 times a week or 3 times a week, while obesity is killing millions.
Tried. No wifi support for my board (esp-eye) no I2S for audio. Very limited. Too bad because I really enjoy working in Go compared to micropython.
I don’t think that great work and financial success are necessarily related; in fact, in many historical cases they were not. For me personally, I always have special and long-term projects on the side (that may or may not lead to “great work”), while doing more boring work in my bread-and-butter job. I guess I need some sort of independence from financial or social pressure when I want to do what I am passionate about, even if it means that I am not able to go “all in”. Otherwise it would only stress me out and in the worst case, I would lose interest or drift away from my original intentions to satisfy a customer or whoever might give me money.

So many very valuable or important things are just not profitable, but that doesn’t mean they should not be pursued.
> The late 80s/early 90s was such an interesting time for supercomputer architectures. I don't remember ever hearing about Cydra. But there were lots of niche ones -- Kendall Square Research had the ALLCACHE architecture, there was the Connection Machine from Thinking Machines, and the Tera MTA with lots of threads to hide memory latency. There are lots of others (anybody have an interesting or favorite one I'm forgetting?)

Multiflow's [0] Trace VLIWs were pretty impressive. They had three models - 7-wide, 14-wide, and 28-wide. Stardent's Titan used MIPS CPUs and their own vector processors. The book The Architecture of Supercomputers: Titan, a Case Study has an excellent description of how their systems worked.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiflow
Thanks again to the Supabase team, for constantly living up to their open source ethos.
Yeah true. I don't know the scene in the schools but I have read a lot about how math education is pretty dismal, at least in the USA, depending on the teacher

Maybe theres a way for an app to help someone who does have a math aptitude to realize that they do and that math is fun and not a bunch of rote memorization of formulas

And repeat for like.... a bunch of other types of thought

But you're right, it is pretty broad, so maybe best to start with a specific field

There are apps like Brilliant that focus on math, so maybe that fills that niche, or maybe theres something that else could be added to it in terms of helping someone explore the raw thought processes involved
I read 1984 not even 2 months ago and absolutely nothing suggests that members of the party can leave.

If you are saying that he could have ran away, that's simply wrong too, it would just have been a short lived uncomfortable run before being executed.
Thanks for weighing in with some actual first-hand knowledge. It is appreciated.

The latest on cloud hosting is from a week ago, and I'm guessing you don't have any more recent info than this:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...
I expressed myself poorly. I agree that ideally, sex work shouldn't be illegal to either provide or buy.

But the nordic model is better that the criminalization of sex workers imho.
here are the tweets

>To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
>
>- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
>- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
>- New unverified accounts to 300/day

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672

> Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675214274627530754

> Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675260424109928449
Printing Web Pages
Have we found wrecks of yachts damaged as though kicked very hard by 1,000 feet?
HARM are operating at basically few percent of their capabilities, due to

- old C versions from early 90s
- only working on pre-programmed target mode
- no targeting pods like AN/ASQ-213
I didn't expect him to be so depressed about it.
probably Jak X as well
Just wondering... Why do they need to keep 1.0 in a register?
This is a weird way of saying "a platform where you can't force other people to read your posts", yeah.

That's vastly superior to Twitter, which routinely shoves stuff in your timeline from people you do not follow.
Wow, good stuff Virginia. While VPNs certainly circumvent the purpose of this law, it will still have the effect of lowering exposure of minors to this content. Pornography companies have long been avoiding the negative externalities they cause. The false age-gates that are overridden with a button click were long overdue for some regulation.

At the same time there should be some education (parental or community) around pornography, healthy ways of coping with sexual feelings, etc given the wide access of internet, it’s not so easy to protect children these days yet.
Refused paying once is enough to say the man is stupid.
i would, but thats a bit more forgivable :)
> The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left.

Are you saying the engineers who are now at Twitter don’t have the right skills?
I think he has an account here, he will see your comment:D
Longer context means more memory, effectively a longer history the LLM remembers. One issue i'm having is say functions works wonderfully, but context window is tight even with 16k tokens, with a bigger context, sky is the limit.
What a fantastically bad take supported by no facts whatsoever. I like your graphics work but you should really think before you type this kind of a thing up.
So in other words managers are big toddlers that have to be talked into making good decisions using cheap emotional manipulation tactics.

Honestly that kind of checks out
> 'The people in the Kremlin are foreign to me; they are not like me. But they must have their reasons.'

For a regular Russian, the people in Kremlin might just as well be some sort of demigods.
Edge Case Failure / Fireworks Display – Safety Is No Accident (2012) [video]
Frugal dad of two here (oldest is turning three in a couple of weeks).

Your 70 year-old mother is right. There really is so much useless shit for babies now, and very little of it actually solves a real problem that new parents have.

The rules of thumb for us are:

- Don't buy anything until you actually have an imminent need for it. Simplest way to avoid useless shit altogether!

- Where possible, get used on FB Marketplace or Gumtree. It's generally 80% cheaper than new, and you can resell when you're done to get the money you spent on it back. (Or, just give away to friends)

- Get products with less features, not more. When you're sleep deprived and stressed to the end of your tether, the last thing you want to do is work out how a whole lot of different attachments work. If you don't have a pram yet, the Baby Joggers are great at this. They do one thing (single-handed compact fold) and do it well.
In everyday life must people do everything they can to run away from the pain in their lives. Psychedelic therapy can help you face and perhaps even accept the pain instead.
I wish more markdowns accepted some notation for keyword bullet lists. Indented lists which mark with a bolded or emphasised term.

If you can do this, you can write manual pages for options or flags
time.is is clearly simpler in display on the splash page.

timeanddate.com has a lot of depth to it, it's been about for many years and has a back catalog of odd edge cases and pages of good technical explaination.

Its appearence can be customised.

What did catch my eye was I believe time.is may have read my timeanddate.com config cookies and displayed times for my custom locations ...

Which is interesting (and I'll have to circle back and check).
Have you got a Patreon?
> I should be able to put in my own dialer, one that can record phone calls. After all, I am in a one-party consent state.

This is not hard to do on iOS using apps like TapeACall, by recording a speakerphone conversation, etc. In case you think the grass is greener: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/googles-accessibilit...
I still don’t understand. The monthly HN who’s hiring thread literally has many hundreds of job openings every month. And if you cast the net wider you’ll find thousands of open & remote engineering positions.
Anyone who uses the Linux kernel is free to fork the code and fix security vulnerabilities as quickly as they like, or pay a vendor like IBM to do so. That's the beauty of open source. It's completely unreasonable to expect Linus and the other kernel maintainers to focus on security above everything else.
another enthusiastic yes here! Would love to read it!
Well the thing about tripping is you can’t really predict what the result will be. I was able to realize I am cool and sexy because I have been doing a lot of work on myself to get over some past issues, and the trip just helped a few things click that I probably would have figured out in the next year or so either way. Success at dating is mostly about being comfortable with yourself, and that takes therapy and personal growth. If you’re doing those things, psychedelics can help make connections you are close to, but I would not think that any given trip is going to solve that particular problem if it’s not one you’re already making progress on.
> Since Bluesky is invite-only and there's a lot of clamoring for invite codes, it's easy to think that you're missing out if you're not a member.

Reminder that you really shouldn’t feel like this regardless of the quality.
Good point, they were all related as bans resulting from reporting or tweeting about the elonjet ban. I edited my comment accordingly since it’s important context to know the ones I mentioned were all related to a single event (though he’s silenced others as well for different reasons too)
> It's not a self ddos

Maybe not

> if twitter isn't going down

I disagree. Ddos is a type of attack, not the result of an attack. If they're hitting their services way too many times in a distributed fashion, it's a ddos regardless of how it was handled.

Similarly, would you say this[0] wasn't a ddos because it was mitigated? I think not.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/26m-rps-ddos/
Gitsigur for protecting Git repo integrity
While not in the same league, I have a website and it's super easy to identify and if necessary block automated traffic that's requesting too much, which is basically what this person is saying.

My site is so small that anyone who wants to is welcome to scrape it, but I have encountered misconfigured scraping that requests over and over again, and it's easy just to block those. No doubt this can be automated on a larger scale and it's something every website has to deal with.

It appears (but could be speculation) that Twitter's limits are because they didn't pay their cloud bills. Just admitting that would almost be less embarrassing than saying they don't know how to deal with bots.
Agreed, no matter how old my code is, even from a decade ago I can just use the same analysis methodology I use for any other piece of code.
in 2007 when ios first released, we had the ability to open files without insanities everywhere else. it was total insanity it was not possible, part of the apple thinking that you only do what they 100% say. Who would dare have some video file that isnt in itunes? well certainly not someone the mighty apple cares about. so this lead to movie players also having builtin ftp/smb/nfs clients/servers to be able to access your content, god forbid you could just have files.

so yeah, to have a 2007-vintage API be "legacy that cannot open files properly" is a joke, pretending that it is not, is the apple reality distortion field
What kind of argument is this. So engineers have to pick between working on a long weekend and not shipping any code without any option in-between?
Ftp upload, local storage and some that I dont mind being exposed are sending to telegram. Looking into frigate right now, guess that makes me a grandpa ;)
If you don't mind sharing them, I'd love to hear about which parts of this article read like fan fiction. I really enjoyed the article, but (assuming you're a Russian living in Russia) your take on it would be very interesting.
The big numbers rarely are though
Limiting the supply of your product might work for Supreme, but not for an ad-based product.
> All of these rules lead to unexpected results sometimes, and they make writing a parser for CommonMark a complex affair.

> What if we tried to create a light markup syntax [..] revising some of the features that have led to bloat and complexity in the CommonMark spec?

Are you writing this new format to make life easier for the humans using it, or the humans programming it?

It's sad when programmers don't see the forest for the trees.
bro i got 3.5 YOE and ive been applying in vain for the past couple of months. in my last job search i applied to ~ 10 positions and got 4 interviews...
I mean, when spaceman has been bad over and over and over you can’t be all that surprised when people see something go wrong and say “probably spaceman bad”.
The theory is that it's regular lightning, and the rest is a retina-caused illusion? So people actually see ball lightning, but it would be almost impossible to get on a digital camera. So it does, in fact "exist", just not physically.
Yes, please. I have a Kasa cam I'd love to make local.
I believe that remotely disabling your car if you don't pay has been an established practice among "buy here pay here" dealers for many years. It's an "innovative" way to lend to people who have bad or no credit.

On the other hand, I've never heard of it spreading outside that market segment.

It would be news to me if the major manufacturers finance arms have the capability and are keeping it on the down low.
That's a non-sequitir. You can be at the top of your field and not completely understand a complex system. Also, the right people may not have even been involved in the implementation of this "feature".
Green jellybeans and all that:
https://xkcd.com/882/

If you don't prepublish what you are specifically looking for, you can eventually find something that will match.
Stop calling them "loans." Loans get bankruptcy relief.
Why wouldn't you want to mentor someone for free? Passing down experience/wisdom to the next generation is rewarding in and of itself.
This has been a thing in Australia and UK for some time and it seems to work fine.
I’ll play the devils advocate here but frontend devs need to smarten up. This is basic error handling that should have been in place for years. Blocking tweets with 403 or whatever they chose shouldn’t trigger endless retries on short intervals.. ever!
Meanwhile I'm a midlevel over here with 11 years experience...
You seem to be positing that there are two choices:

1. Work for a toxic dictator who makes bad, micro-managed technical decisions and then expects his engineers to work a holiday weekend to clean up his mess.

2. Never ship code, ever.

I'm pleased to report that most software engineers exist happily somewhere in between these two extremes, and I would recommend you find a new job if you don't.
> And nobody flies aircraft at "treetop level", with the possible exception of the A10...

Helicopters fly this low all the time.
That's... a perfectly reasonable position to hold?
Most of those individuals have a rather weak will, they are slaves of desires. At the same time a few individuals with a strong will and predatory mindset know how to push the weak crowd into a loop of addiction. Coca Cola is essentially a drug dealer, they even used an actual hard drug in the past to hook up customers; now they have to resort to milder chemicals to cause addiction. Fashion industry is another example: they use the desire to feel better than others or like others, and skillfully use that to manufacture a loop of addiction.
Possibly more psychotic episodes from more folks who took too much? (I'm pro de-criminalization, not sure if I'm all the way to deregulation)
google wouldn't just shut off services for a big customer like that...
Not in Musk’s defense, I guess there are enough signs that his posture is authoritarian and therefore bound to end up with yes-men, but people in power also sometimes are willing to listen in the proper context. I.e. as long as it is in private or in a trusted forum, where being the Cassandra does not link the warning with their leadership. Of course the really powerful will also react to potentially uncomfortable feedback in a proper forum or in person, rather than in public.
Is using the word “narrative” the new hot thing we’re doing to try to discredit someone we disagree with? It’s so difficult to keep track.
I've used Inoreader ever since myself. This was the day Google became evil to me and I've never forgiven them. To this day I hope Google dies a slow painful death.
I assume the new CEO will hold Twitter’s tech leader responsible.
Functions-as-a-Service definitely makes more sense. However, now that we're on the subject, how the hell did we end up with Cloud to mean Infrastructure-as-a-Service?
Mechanical clocks (like all clocks . . .) drift.

For two centuries mechanical clocks and watches have been regularly wound and reset.

Ports traditionally had a noon day canon and ball drop down a pole (like a flag pole) for ships in the harbour to set their onboard clocks to (for navigational use in determining Longitude).

Watches frequently have bimetallic strips (two sided) with metals that each expand with a differing coefficient to counter effect for rate of 'tick' with respect to tempreture.

Ships at sea required triplets of clocks with mechanisms that countered for pitch and roll accumulation.

You might enjoy:

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horology
ESG points
An interesting discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19533219

Tetris Holdings, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc. held that the tetrominoes are "expression; they are not part of the ideas, rules, or functions of the game," which certainly seems open to dispute, but I could just as easily imagine the same standard being applied to letter tiles with a score value in the corner.

So yeah, unless you have a few spare million to get this precedent overturned, it's probably not worth it.
Cloud is more like "fulfillment by Amazon".
PaaS is almost drop shipping, even.
They can access the first coordinate either with c.l or c.v[0]. They are aliases to the same memory position, because of the union.
And now that he's opened his big fat mouth and revealed just what kind of a person he really is, I'm also rooting for unconed to fail because of his politics.
> I’ve seen some decide that the person trying to warn is somehow responsible for the inevitable outcome.

You should have warned me about this more convincingly!
I'm new to this field, and I have questions.

- It seems like these embeddings are learned during the training phase. Presumably by backpropagating to the embedding during each epoch?

- Given that they are learned, doesn't that mean that they are completely context specific to a given trained model? Ie, they can't readily be shared on their own?

- What does "similar" mean here? Is there some emerging practice on how to determine how close is close "enough" between multiple vectors for the purpose of similarity searches? Is this too determined by the model weights somehow?

I hope I'm not missing something fundamental with these questions. Or maybe I hope I am missing something and someone points out my errors. That's good too. :)
> To dramatically reduce ambiguities, we can remove the doubled character delimiters for strong emphasis. Instead, use a single _ for regular emphasis, and a single * for strong emphasis.

I would love to see * gone but I must note that _ is annoyingly hard to type on a screen keyboard.

Back in the days of USENET one common choice was using a / to delimit /emphasis/ - the usual reading was that this indicated words that would normally be rendered as /italics/. You'd often see it used to indicate the titles of books and movies, as well, since the typographical convention was typically that these were italicized as well - note that both <em> and <cite> typically render as italics, for instance. I have always disliked Markdown's choice to use * as a delimiter for both italics and bold; / always implied italics to me, and * always implied bold.

Anyway. I propose that / would be a much better delimiter for emphasis than _. On a US keyboard, it can be typed without a shift key. And on a US IOS screen keyboard, it is a simple swipe on B, versus shifting to the numeric entry page and swiping on &.