skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> . What they're really listening for now are reactor plant noises.

Yep; a fanatical obsession with reducing plant noise is why US subs were so quiet compared to everyone else. The author knows fuck-all about what he's talking about going on about cavitation.

It's also why diesel hybrid subs from Sweden are nearly undetectable. There's virtually no plant noise - probably just a coolant pump or two - while running on battery. They are sometimes 'hired' by other navies for exercises because they're so incredibly quiet.

He's spouting pure bullshit about the Navy retroactively going back over their 'tapes'. He first explains that for decades the Navy has run computerized classification systems, but then we're supposed to believe that a highly sensitive listening array did not detect the extremely energetic implosion that would sound like nothing else?

Cameron said that buddies in the navy told him very quickly that they'd heard the implosion, but they were confirming what he already knew when he heard that telemetry was lost at the same time as comms; telemetry came from a completely separate external pressure vessel. It going silent means it was destroyed, and the only way that could have happened was the sub imploding.

The bit about it being unrecognizable as an implosion because of its unique construction is complete supposition.

This is what happens when you have an article about submarines written by a guy who checks is a github engineer who likes 80's and 90's phone technology.
Probably getting a bit more popular notice after the mention in the latest Indiana Jones movie (at least, they mentioned Linear B a few times)
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who things Macros are evil.

I've seen his comments here quite a bit, It's good to put a face with a name. 8)

As far as compiler flags, that's an interesting take on things. From the meta perspective, not making a decision but putting in a feature switch is essentially kicking a can down the road, with all the grief that eventually entails.
In your very article the decipherment does yield nonsense when applied to Latin. Your article converts the first line of Vergil to Linear B and then tries to understand it as Greek, offering “With brine and slime in novel fashion at Tholoia Diphilimus (is) cityless.” But that’s nearly totally meaningless.

And even this sentence requires cheating — most prominently, Greek (both in Linear B and later) doesn’t use the -us ending like Latin does, so its use here in a “Greek” sentence is very suspicious.
Retro-YouTuber Adrian Black did a video on the VIC-II-Kwawari just this weekend: https://youtu.be/bak-MePFsJ0. TL;DW: works well, kinda awesome.
Yes. I always put seatbelts on big stuff in the rear seats
I want to add some extra data for other people. The UK has an aging population. Old people need more healthcare spending.

If we adjust the data for age and demographic changes, then we can see spending was reduced between 2010 and 2021.

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/the-past-present-...
They do seem to cover the intake and output: https://www.thedrive.com/content/2020/01/werw.jpg?quality=85
My theory is because we are intrinsically selfish, so even when doing a good act, we expect some sort of return, even if it's a person' smile or a good feeling (I know that's roughly the definition of selfless).

Being a good man is a statement usually seen in the context of straight couples, so when I read it my interpretation is "doing good stuff as a person in a way that attracts potential partners". Again, good person with something in return
TBH I was never quite sold qubits. Is analog quantum out of the question?
I have seen Charity yes, total functional programming is the future.
IRC with multimedia that works so well people use it all the time, and persistent message history and being able to see messages from before you joined a channel are very useful!

That would be enough by itself.

But it's so much better than IRC in so many ways. Sure, you can run your own IRC bouncer for Libera on that "shell account" or AWS micro-instance you're always running anyway, but who except the nerdiest wants to do that? Even then, you don't get to see past messages when you join another channel, unless there's some history bot or archive page, both of which are clunky. Also don't forget to do the NickServ rituals with each network. And you still don't get good multimedia, which most users expect now as normal communication culture.

Throw in a good UI (compared with alternatives except maybe Zulip, and not including search!), link previews where the sender knows exactly what the receiver will see, markdown-style message formatting, enough metadata to link replies, and succinct emoji reactions that don't spam the channel, and if you feel like using them audio and video conferencing that just works with no additional setup.

I say all that as someone who used to use IRC daily, including running an archiving bouncer and admining a community channel, but I no longer bother. Admittedly because I was busy and ill for a while I lost my registered NickServ username (it expired), which also ended up breaking channel admin, so that was a bit demotivating. When everyone left Freenode for Libera, I just stopped using IRC.

I also say it as someone who strongly agrees with the Discord complaints about projects using it in such a way that most of their useful documentation is being continuously created then effectively lost now.

To Discord's credit, they made a great quality, polished product with an understandable network effect. But it's a shame it's not easy for projects to make their channels publically archived and searchable, and of course it's a shame it's neither an open network nor an open source product. And that the search and search UI are awful.

I'd say given the types of projects I see using Discord (mostly open source, even the commercial ones), Matrix still has a chance of taking over eventually, if Discord doesn't open their network somehow. But there's a high friction against it, both for existing projects because their chat history and users can't be transferred, and for new projects because of their need to meet users "where they already area", i.e. on networks (Discord, Slack, Telegram etc) where the users you want tend to already have accounts and apps already running.
> a Kei is probably the wrong choice for most US buyers.

> There are newer import-legal minitrucks that don't have the registration hassles, like Nissan Clipper

I'm confused - the Nissan Clipper is a Kei truck/van. Kei isn't a brand, it's just a description of a specific style of car (low weight, engine size etc incentivized by the Japanese government).
In my startup (until our exit) I've run Postgres on my own, with streaming backups, daily backup tests (automatic restores and checks), offsite backups and (slow) upgrades.

Data wasn't mission critical and customers could live with 5min downtimes for upgrades once a year.

No problem for years. When we had hosted Mongo, we had more problems.

If I have the money I'll use a managed database. But running Postgres in a startup up to $10m ARR / ~1TB data seems not like a problem.
The US Air Force is the world's largest, of course, but second place goes to the US Navy. Or the US Army, if we count rotorcraft. The Marine Corps is like 7 or 8.

We spend a lot of money on the military. A lot a lot.
We’ve been using Task for our (Drupal) web projects for a few years now and are really pleased with it.

Why not Make? We actually used that on a few projects previously, but found it challenging to use with both our teams and with typical tools used in the PHP and JavaScript stack.

1. Most of our newer hires have never used Make before, or anything like it. It seems to have fallen out of many curriculums in favour of other build tools, presumably due to decreasing focus on C / C++ in fundamental computer science classes. The idea that a build tool is inherently files based is a completely foreign concept.
2. File-based dependency tracking being the exception, and not the rule, simply works better with the majority of the types of tasks we run. Those include building docker containers, pulling down CMS databases for local development, and running CLI tasks like database migrations.
3. For those tasks that can be tracked with files, Task supports both timestamps and hashes.

One big win of Task over other tools is that it ships it’s own built-in sh shell. If you have tasks that run on a host and not in a container, it significantly reduces your host dependencies. Being a typical single-binary go app makes deployments easy too.

I’ll also say the maintainers have been very responsive to our few bug reports and feature requests, and responsive to our contributions too.

The worst part is yes, it’s another YAML DSL to learn. And personally, I wish Make had gained more traction in the web and docker world. But given all of the above, the trade offs of switching to Task have been worth it for us.
> For one thing, this approach allows J&J to determine their maximum liability by only spinning off a certain amount to the subsidiary.

Except that's not what they did. As the article explains, under the J&J agreement the "maximum liability" of the parent to the subsidiary was defined as the entire cash value of the parent.
OT: There was at least also LispMe. I used it extensively and wrote a medium large app in it.
That's unfortunately overlooking the biological aspect. Our brain has evolved, but some acts still trigger the biological reactions in potential partners that are desirable and we can't do much about it
At least for me, Vim is immediately useful, and I rarely do much personalization. I agree that personalization is not an adequate measure of an editor. I don't agree that the problem with IDEs has anything to do with personalization.

At least for me, it boils down to wanting an editor for text, rather than some specific programming language or environment. Traditional IDEs have been very "project" focused which isn't useful if you're editing an email or writing a poem or munging some logs.

> imagine how little carpentry would ever get done if every hammer, drill, and tablesaw needed to be personalized.

This is somewhat ironic to me not because of personalization, but because in traditional carpentry (i.e. a master carpenter) it is pretty common to make your own tools. That's kind of the beauty of woodworking and especially hand tools: your tools usually have a lot of wood parts. If they don't, they usually end up with a lot of wood parts anyways.
I wonder how different it is from basically a static site generator re-generating pages once input files change, à la `zola serve`.

BTW I would be interested in a static site generator / CMS that extracts data from flat files (which are the source of truth) and puts them into a database that can be queried in interesting ways during page generation.
You can use the Polynesian palm scallop, which attaches itself to the damp bathroom wall in picturesque clusters like roof shingles. It is an aerial filter feeder, capable of subsisting on household dust (which is mainly organic matter) though for faster growth, one can use a fine-mist spray of blended sausage meat and soggy marrowfat peas. They are also excellent for repelling rats, their natural predator, by emitting sharp bursts of ultrasound when the rodent's presence is detected.

The problem is in getting hold of them, as trade in this protected species is illegal.
I promise you that HN is moderated with no consideration of your genitals. The problem is just that comments expressing generic annoyance with article titles don't lead to interesting conversation. We want interesting and (above all) curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island
Moodle is about the only popular LMS I haven’t experienced. They’re all terrible in their own special ways.
it was similar to the ZX81 (monochrome and character only). Spectrum added higher resolution graphics and a highly constrained color option.
Oh, sorry about that. If you roll back a couple versions it's here:

https://archive.is/19Msi
I don't drink, and I avoid red and preserved meat. It's not that bad.
I know. But from an HN point of view, the thing to do is to simply ignore the "baseless and biased" aspect and focus on the "objective quality" aspect instead. That's the way to end up having interesting conversations instead of getting stuck in annoying loops.
> Is a class action somehow impossible if they don't declare bankruptcy? Or they can't distribute money as easily as in a class action?

The issue is that there might be multiple actions, and compensation might be used up byt the first one (eg, if the company was sent into bankruptcy by the first class action, then subsequent cases would be useless). This is a pretty reasonable argument IMHO.

> Further, if your company produces products that kill or injure people, then why should we show any interest in maintaining that companies existence with odd legal hacks like this?

This seems fairly debatable.

J&J produces a lot of things that aren't talc, and it isn't like they are a cigarette company that knew the health risks. The risks from talc weren't known are are still debated, and it is a thing that has been used for thousands of years without known issues.

Separately there's a good argument that keeping the company alive is better for those affected because it can fun ongoing liabilities.
Glad to hear that someone else thinks of XSLT the way I do. I had to write some to deal with converting DocBook XML to LaTeX (building on dblatex, but adding some specializations), and besides being verbose (as another commenter here says), I found it virtually impossible to debug. I'd much rather write in Prolog.
It sounds like we have dead alien bodies. No, I never thought this was likely.
Chewy was already a multi-billion dollar company by the time it was purchased by PetSmart. Chewy is now publicly traded at a value of over 16B.

Not sure what your point is regarding vet and pharmacy services. Businesses expand. Pets.com, had they been successful, would have likely done the same thing. To use your Amazon example: obviously most of Amazon's revenue is no longer generated by selling books.
They are. Google the UAP act. Things are apparently about to get very weird.
music box? could u elaborate?
Arrival's Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet (2016)
You're not wrong, and I realize there is nuance here, but if you're using GitHub you are already sending your code to Microsoft.
This is going to seem weird:

An MS-DOS based program in GWbasic, or Turbo Pascal from the 1980s, or a Visual Basic 6 prototype that someone wrote in the 1990s and still gets the job done, or an excel sheet/google doc that someone does to do the calculations "by hand", are all excellent requirements documents.

They do the work, are executable (so you can test against their behavior), and already account for all the normal error handling, etc. The people who wrote them saved you a few trips over the waterfall, and perhaps a decade of grief and work.

Your closest bet today is to fire up Lazarus anywhere, or VB.NET on a windows box and quickly build the prototype. Once everyone agrees on its behavior, then you're back to the races again. Get buy in on a single quick and dirty prototype, then scale up from there.
In must cultures of the world, shared history is a consensual fiction, which is regarded as being truer than the truth.
LNG imports won't make chemical manufacturing viable again in Germany. Too expensive. Those industries will relocate closer to the sources where they can connect directly to pipelines.
> this approach allows J&J to determine their maximum liability by only spinning off a certain amount to the subsidiary.

This is not what they did.

To quote Levine's piece:

> the box where J&J put its talc claims — could draw at least $61.5 billion from J&J to pay off those claims. The point here, the bankruptcy court concluded, was not to keep J&J from having to pay talc claims; the entire value of J&J’s consumer business was still on the line for those claims.

For emphasis: the entire value of J&J’s consumer business was still on the line for those claims
I have been teaching coding to adults learning programming (E.g. managers).

I've tried Java, Python and LOGO. LOGO had by far the best results as a first programming language.
What is the significance of this very bland '74 production vs say the more engaging IBM one from 1983?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28669095
No, I literally use the new website. It's fine for me.
I don't believe the first example is created by Soundstorm. It sounds coercive and modulated to me.
According to J&J, literally millions of dollars:

> LTL's lawsuits allege that the doctors' research allowed them to collect millions of dollars from plaintiffs' lawyers to push a "false narrative" about J&J. The complaint against Moline, for example, said she had made a "small fortune" testifying as a paid expert in lawsuits, receiving over $3 million from her work on asbestos lawsuits. LTL alleged that Kradin also made more than $3 million testifying as a plaintiffs' expert.
Absolutely.

Also the person that ties down loads with multiple ropes | straps truckies hitches and stoppers. Not to mention stopping every few hundred miles to check tensions and reset as required.

Loose loads are a pain in the arse and often dangerous.

A soup can rolling loose and jamming up under a brake or accelerator pedal is something that really happens .. and it's no fun when it does.
This reminds me of how the potential danger of living next to electrical substations is described.
Yeah it's definitely something we take for granted now. It's changed our brains.

I used network services without hypertext, in the form of BBSes, and it seems like worlds away. I guess we just described in English how to find things online back then, and didn't link to them? I think there were FAQs of the era that were like that?

Would be interesting to read early FAQs on Usenet, pre-web (anyone have an archive? [1])

It's funny that there used to be entire hypertext conferences back in the 80's. I guess that field is "dead" simply because it's been absorbed into standard practice? (the web)

Then again Nelson's hypertext had all sorts of bells and whistles. I'm tempted to say that the web gives you the 90% of the functionality that actually scales world wide, for 10% of the cost

Though certainly there could have been better outcomes

[1] Hm not sure if there are any pre-web ones here - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-category.html
Your absolute best way to make a programmer productive is to give domain experts the tools to build an executable prototype themselves. This was the true value of Hypercard, GW Basic, Visual Basic 6, Office/VBA, Excel, Delphi, etc.

They know what the actual details required for the inputs and outputs are, along with all the means to do the computations. Once they give you something that works (no matter how slow or kludgy), you have an executable specification to refactor, or rewrite, and you can A/B test to make sure your code works correctly compared to their reference/spec.

You spend some valuable time on the part of the experts, but you more than make up for it in saved time doing the wrong thing across possibly years.
I live in Canada and certainly in Toronto that is my way of getting taxis. If you're anywhere downtown they are cruising around and you just have to wave. And hotels and transport hubs have them waiting.

When uber and Lyft came out, I suspect taxi business went way down both because of lower prices and better service - taxis really sucked for lots of reasons. But now there is no price difference and taxis have approved while "ride sharing" has gotten worse. In most cases now I only take taxis because I can get one quicker and because I don't have to deal with uber's abhorrent customer service in the event of a problem.
I think there’s more nuance than that. I’m guessing you work in a job like tech where incentivizes are typically more carrot-based.

IMO the effectiveness of carrot (variable bonuses/pay, a many-tiered level structure with promos between as “carrots”, being disciplined or fired as “sticks”) incentive structures depends on how easy it is to evaluate good vs bad work at a job. In tech it can be hard to distinguish mediocre vs bad work which is why we don’t have a lot of stick incentivizes; good work is a lot easier to recognize so instead we have carrot incentives.

While for some medical jobs like being a surgeon good work is easier to recognize vs mediocre work, it’s a lot easier to identify bad work: bad medical outcomes, low patient satisfaction, less patients seen per hour. So as a result you don’t need as many carrot incentivizes as in tech and can probably get by with more stick incentives. Fwiw I think carrot incentives often have a lot of drawbacks as people optimize for the carrot directly rather than “doing a good job”. With sticks you optimize against sticks, but when you have signals like patient satisfaction to account for, you have a very strong stick signal.
500K-1M seems about 1-3x a typical restaurant. I'd also be surprised to learn that running a vet is more expensive than a restaurant. The margins are seem like they'd be way lower in a restaurant.
To add to the pile of task runners here, I made this one: https://code.ofvlad.xyz/v/lightning-runner . I like it, and currently use it for all personal projects. Mainly, posting here for some feedback!
The complaints outline substantial profits that the scientists are alleged to have made as expert witnesses. All four are alleged to have made hundreds of dollars and hour, hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, or more than $3 million over multi-decade careers. According to the linked complaint, at least two have profit sharing in Peninsula Pathology Associates through which some of this litigation work flows. On quick read, it's not clear how much of this is directly talc related or even what fraction is related to more general asbestos litigation though.
Was the Red language / environment using a non-free license some time ago? I see now it's basically under BSD 3-clause license; am I mistaking it for something else?
The function of CEOs and board members are closer to being replaced than, say, roofers or garbage workers.

It will be interesting to see what happens when that pressure is applied...
I’m getting to learn use vim better. I liked spf13 until plugins started to give issues, very annoying.

I compiled vim 8 recently, looks even better that my distro package by default. Its a new fresh start to me.
> a master carpenter

master carpenters produce artisanal works. those works are valued for the craftsmanship itself rather than the utility. so it makes perfect sense that master carpenters would be incentivized to put thought and care into their tools. me? i'm just a tradesman/laborer. okay not really but there's still no such thing as "artisanal software", at least for sure where the code itself has intrinsic value (instead of it generating value). anyway if i ever hit it big, make it to master software developer, and have enough freedom/time that i can afford to spend it on things like personalization, maybe then i will.

> This is somewhat ironic to me

double irony: i'm a compiler engineer and i chose to work in compilers in order to be able to have more control over what my progams did. but i still don't have time (or care) to personalize my IDE (or vim).
The British Flat Earth Society is a joke society in this vein. They amuse themselves by writing very erudite debunkings of the nefarious Spherical Earth conspiracy theory, and sending strongly worded Cease & Desist notices to NASA.
The NHS has been underfunded for about 40 years, but especially under Conservative government.

Blair’s Labour—for all their faults—at least stopped the bleeding, but there wasn’t enough political & popular support for significantly increased spending.

Then Cameron & his bs “austerity measures” cropped it
To be fair, the first gen Nissan Leaf was a piece of crap though.
The Code Behind Arrival (The Movie)