skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d argue the US government/military involvement was crucial in both Japan and West Germany. The US military ran their governments for a few years, eliminated their domestic politics from being involved in war/defense decisions, restructured their governments, made excellent choices when it came to social, education, healthcare, transportation, and industrial policies.

I would argue that local values played a part, but an emphasis on education, long term planning, and a lack of US political dysfunction were much more impactful.

Also worth mentioning that the wins over Japan and Germany weee pretty decisive. 1960s South Vietnam, 2001 Afghanistan, and 2003 Iraq (and potentially 1991 Russia) were all pretty ham fisted efforts and there was no US consensus about what to do with the country.

I don’t know enough about 1951 S Korea to say anything useful, except it was a military autocracy until the 1980s, at which point it made an incredible shift towards democracy and the economic growth story was one of the world’s most amazing.
> The US has had total air superiority in every conflict since the Korean War. That's over. The Ukraine war makes it clear. Against a competent opponent, most of what flies will die.

Not sure how you work that out. The state that spent half a century focusing on air defence to take out the USAF hasn't even substantially reduced the pathetically small and outdated fixed wing capability of the Ukrainian air force, and neither side has done much damage to the other side's airborne logistics, which is where this would fit. It's not been a great war for helicopters, but neither this project nor the US fighter capability that their superiority rests on is going anywhere close to frontline portable air defence systems.
I didn't watch the video then but I will for you.

It's about the Chicago Parking deal in 2008 with some machines for parking. Daley gave control of parking meters to a private company until 2083. Sold out his citizens. For a super discount. And now, in a shocking twist, the private company is squeezing the citizens
and government.

It's a pretty good watch.
Obviously this is not the intent of the article, but it would be interesting to compare actual decibel levels of the mediaeval world and today. I strongly suspect that despite all of the sources of noise noted, the world would on average have been much quieter.
Now, or soon they will be beaten in the streets for not wearing head concealing clothing. Can't do it right.
The Constitution Prohibits Trump from Ever Being President Again
In the book "soul of a new machine", one of the engineers burns out.

> He went away from the basement and left this note on his terminal: "I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
Sure -- phishing is a huge problem, but it's also an argument to never build anything ever, because QR codes, sites, apps, emails, etc. can all easily be cloned and used as a phishing attack vector.
This seems to be consistent with the Copyright Registration Guidance for Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence [0] previously discussed on HN [1].

[0] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191206
https://archive.is/AwZcx
I know it isn’t popular to have this point of view, but I think Gates was right at the time. The work Microsoft did on BASIC back then was good, and it made computers usable. That people wouldn’t pay made the entire thing worthless. This ended up being why Microsoft went for hardware makers and BASIC came on ROM and MSDOS came with your PC: it was the only way to make any money on software. Today, everything people use aside from an OS (or in the case of the Linux or BSD folks, including the OS) is open source or it’s SaaS. The SaaS phenomenon gets people to pay EVEN more for software, so it will never end. The same with crappy apps on phones that are charged monthly or annually.
Global namespace shared resources, regional namespace shared resources, then each app provisions its own bit, consuming/linking the two aforementioned layers.

Everyone gets here eventually and you can just fight over stuff like “is an alb shared regional or app specific”
Actually as a consumer I prefer self check out. I am much quicker and it is more efficient because now you can have many of these tills in the same area that only a few would have fit, resulting in much faster experience than waiting in queues.

That experience aside, I don't believe there should be jobs where you simply don't think. Manual labour jobs are unfair because they don't reward the brain whatsoever, no creativity, no one loves to do them, and they create a market of labourers with little to no transferable skills thus putting them in an unfair situation if they want or are forced to get a different job.
> When has that ever been the case?

Not the OP, but let me reframe the point here: I do not dare to say that Google hire the best; but what they goes quite close to get the top talent from some demographics and with certain skills and give the resources, some amount of freedom, and guidance and then collect the astonishing research results.

Personally I do not think that Google Brain has more talent than TU Berlin/TU Munchen, but the main difference it’s that the former has more access to resources and certain amount of intelectual freedom to spend a bit of time in something.

End result: The top conferences in AI, Machine Learning and so forth are dominated by Google and other big companies.
Well put.
Most societies seem (my limited perspective) to value quantity over quality. And nations and tribes recognize that if they volunteer to scale back and others don't, they will lose influence and/or disappear. There is a lot of ego wrapper up in feeling that the future generations of your group are so important, but it is a real fact of humans. I expect the less-industrialized nations would balk at scaling their populations back when they contributed much less to the damage to the environment, though by now pretty much everyone is doing it somehow.

Separately, whether related or unrelated, there are influential voices that say "Malthus was wrong, we will out-innovate every obstacle" but that really seems like hubris.

We will invest in more tech and some of it will be worthwhile, some of it will not pan out, and if public money is thrown at must-succeed problems there will also be some graft.

I'm only talking about the human response. It would be so much better if we didn't base our economies and societies on a population pyramid scheme. Bringing 8 billion people around to cooperate when only a few are ready now will take a lot of work and time, probably multiple generations' worth that we may not have
A little scrolling ticker on the top bar showing posts on the front page. Sadly marquee was discontinued, so I doubt this could be done.
Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea
A really nice (IMO) solution would be to build a wasm blob reproducibly and to ship the blob’s hash, along with a way to download the blob, as part of a release. Then distros could build the blob, confirm that the hash matches, and ship a package that is built from source and nonetheless bit-for-bit identical to the upstream binary.
You can also imagine a world where you have a single phone number saved. You text it "I'm at XYZ parking lot in ABC city, how do I pay?" and it gives you the easiest possible option.

Definitely standard no. 15, but there's room for something better to win out here right?
SDXL uses OpenCLIP, and then OpenAI CLIP as a backup basically to allow it to spell words properly, but I think you could replace the second one.
Cant you then declare your car stolen and you get notified your car is here ?
What's weird to me is once upon a time the home feed was your subscriptions feed.

They eventually started trickling in suggestions based on watch history and today that's most of the feed.

I can see the argument that not having watch history means they shouldn't be building the per-user dataset to feed into the model to get the history based suggestions. Sure, but then... why not use the subscriptions, the information that users have provided you and what they thought that feature was for?
62.8% https://vole.wtf/clone-a-lisa/

EDIT: Oh, I thought it would embed the results in the link. I think you should add that as a feature so it’s easier to share
Do you write a try block around every call you make? How do you know what calls will throw exceptions and unwind the stack?
How many points should there be to simply pay for your parking?
I’d say this letter is not that far from OSS maintainers that have quite often breakdowns because no one wants to pay and everyone wants bug fixes.

It is perfectly fine to want to be compensated for one’s work.
It pre-fills a text message which you can send to authenticate yourself. If you don't have a saved card, you're prompted to enter one via a web url.
It isn’t compatible because it adds additional restrictions regarding patented code. The CDDL was made to be used in mixed license distributions and only affects individual files, but the GPL taints anything linked (which is why LGPL exists). Since the terms of the CDDL can’t be respected in a GPL’d distribution, I can’t see a way for it to ever be included in the kernel repo.

I don’t think there’s any issue with canonical shipping a kmod, but similar to 3ᴿᴰ party binary drivers, it would need to be treated as a different “work”.
Wait til you reach 250%
I'm worried that the next skill to invest time in will be.. financials/investing.

:(

Seems super boring to me.
Go is the prefect enterprise language for much of the reason pointed out in this article. I think Google created it to essential turn programmers into high performance robots. You are very limited in what you can write. It's simple to read and learn. It's easy to deploy and maintain. It's pretty much fast by default. All the tooling is built into the language. It probably a great language to have a job in as well for these reason, but there is almost no room for fun and creativity in Go.

If you want to have fun and get creative programming no way you are picking Go. It has to be the most boring language I have ever used. I think that only cool thing I did in Go that made be say "Wow this is cool" was building code generation tools.
> I don’t really see US foreign policy in that era as imperialistic.

US has been imperialistic from birth. Heck the revolutionary war was fought to secure our right to be imperialists and commit genocide against the natives. Our reason for existence is imperialism. Or maybe history is right and a bunch of racist slavers wanted to birth liberty and freedom into the world.

> That’s giving it too much credit as it implies a degree of even Machiavellian intelligence.

From a ragtag group of 13 colonies, we've taken over the world. Not only that, we've taken over the world while having the world believe we are the liberators. There are idiots all over the world who legitimate look to the US as saviors and liberators. Doesn't get any machiavellian than that.

> turning billions away from Western democracy and toward backward totalitarian ideologies that are in the end more hostile to us than the USSR was.

'Western democracy' was the excuse invented to invade and murder tens of millions across the world in the 20th century. Whereas the brits advocated 'white man's burden' in the 19th century to murder and steal. We came up with democracy. Nothing more imperialistic than the cause of spreading democracy.

> Like I said in another reply it was mostly driven by paranoid overreaction to communism.

No. Communism was just an excuse to continue our imperialism. If communism never existed, we'd make up another excuse. What's our problem with Iran now? The USSR has been gone for 30 years and our relations with Iran is as bad as ever?

Stop accepting what dumb historians on TV or news tell you. Try to think for yourself and see if an assertion makes any sense.
25%, very cool. Is it possible to see other people's submissions or is it all client-side?

P.S: I thought it'd be an entry about cloning the 1983 Apple Lisa computer...
It's entirely possible to write Java without an IDE. I've done it, and one of my colleagues has been using VSCode quite happily (we've bullied him into stopping because it doesn't have a formatter and he keeps checking in wonky code - but that's another story).

But writing any language is much more productive with a good IDE. For me, the added value in using Java 21 now rather than in a few months is not enough to outweigh giving up the use of an IDE.
Was it not as follows? Mossadegh wanted the control over Iranian oil back, therefore the US and UK got rid of him which allowed Pahlavī to become dictator and he was supported by them to gain influence, oil, and defense against the Soviet Union. Especially with weapons. But the way he treated the people eventually made them unite behind Chomeini and that was the end for the Shah. This was of course not good, so the USA supported Hussein in his war against Iran. He became the enemy when he decided that Kuwait would be an easier target than Iran.
I'm just starting out onto a motorbike and this is a stupidly brilliant idea, and I do have a 2.5" IBM receipt printer...
I don't know if this case per se is the same, but people have tried to game spotify monetization in the favor of certain artists before. For example a band released a sleeping album with only silent tracks and asked their fans to listen to it over night, so they'd get higher stream counts. Fans did that at little cost. The album was eventually banned. This just might be similar. I wouldn't assume any humans actually hear the white noise or the ads.
for a few bucks, you can roll your own:

https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/raqs/raq-issue-154...

https://circuitdigest.com/electronic-circuits/simple-white-n...
Yeah it’s funny. Same here. I just want simple things, maybe with an occasional link with my phone.

I don’t want 500 knobs, a touchscreen on everything. I don’t want your app, I don’t want an account.

The example of car parking.. the technology is there to make is 100% automatic. But then you can’t fine people
Not required, but achieving meaningful things is certainly easier after the type of growth that comes from overcoming challenges.
The auto dupe detector only really works if it's the same URL which is not the case for the dupes of this one (4 discussion posts, 1 different news site link)
Funny that Gates mentions "$40K of computer time" when he and Paul Allen were hacking the computers paid for by someone else, and figuring out how to get themselves ... free computer time.

See comment and reference at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18279370
Another one is https://mynoise.net/, which has a neat mode where the sliders will very slowly move on their own, so you get slowly adjusting soundscapes.

I don't know if it works offline though, and probably not when your phone is locked. They also published recordings on spotify though; some are an hour long, others you can probably download them and loop them though. https://open.spotify.com/artist/1gRJBUyCeihBrgcCtDdEfv?si=yL...
It feels like the consumer base is much less diverse than it used to be. Tech used to look like a cornucopia of different shapes, colors, features. Now it's all the same. Twenty years ago the "gaming phone" was an Ngage and the "fashion phone" could pass for a tube of lipstick. In 2023 the "gaming phone" has an extra pair of invisible touch sensors and the "fashion phone" comes in pink.
Most of these shitty apps pay over 10 dollars to the payment companies to process a chargeback. And if they get too many their rates increase or they get kicked out.

So chargebacks for bullshit "fines" is a great solution to teach them not to charge those.
0.1% off 'nice' feels a little bit unlucky.
Okay and we can agree that with photography copyright exists even if it just requires the press of button.
Totally fair. It's entirely possible to have a fallback web url here though.
Seattle could try (I don't think it would pass constitutional muster), but that wouldn't help here. The person is describing privately-owned parking lots. Paying for storing your private auto on the public street can still be done by hand at a machine.
Would've been nice to do that (& maybe play back the drawing process), but I was keen to keep the project small & get it launched (took 2.75 days in total, I tweeted the dev process).
The combination of the operating system (Linux/MacOS/Windows) and the particular hardware it has access to. With different hardware, /dev/(u)random has different qualities of entropy.
I can't speak to Cruise, but I strongly believe Musk set Tesla back a decade or more with his demand to use only video cameras.

We have lidar, infrared lasers, polarized ultraviolent imaging, multi-microphone 3D audio sensing, triangulating RF antennas. Why limit yourself to the limits of human perception?
Someone recommended NewPipe, it's a great app for Android.

If you watch videos on your laptop or your non-Android phone, invidious is quite good. I self host but I believe you could use any public instance and create an account there if you are fine with this public instance having your history and subscription list (which are separate from those you have on YouTube itself).
I don't think we've had anything like the 2020 fires in a long time (though the 2017 Gorge fire was pretty bad). Maybe the Tillamook burn was comparable?

Field burning used to be a more common thing though, so it was a regular annual occurrence that you'd have a lot of smoke in the air during field burning season.
You make decisions. Sometimes the work out amazingly. Sometimes not. But make sure that when they do not you're not screwed.

I think of it as playing xcom. There's always a 5% chance to miss. If you put yourself in a position where a random failure destroys you, you should look for a better position.

I feel like it has been an okay framework for living for me.
This is a Ycombinator site, the traditional term is Blub.

And they're right. Python is not a well designed programming language - it has exceptions and doesn't have value types so that's two strikes against it.

Of course, C++ isn't either.
> Heh, neutron stars have magnetic fields too

While you're still able to edit your comment, you might consider something like quoting the relevant part of the article at the top:

"Some stars, though, have much more powerful fields [...] neutron stars have magnetic fields 1 trillion times stronger than the Sun’s. As the massive [progenitor] star collapses, its magnetic field lines are packed into a much tighter space, and the field strength increases. But then there are magnetars: These neutron stars have fields 1,000 times stronger [...] and, given that most stars aren’t all that magnetic to begin with, those are more difficult to explain."

Or indeed, from the subtitle near the very top:

"and it might explain the origin of highly magnetic cinders known as magnetars"

and then suggest your physics SE link (or rather, the accepted answer) for more information on the magnetic fields of neutron stars -- including theories about their origin as "fossils" of the progenitor star (like, but not quite as magnetic as, the star discussed in the article, which may offer support for the "fossil" theory) and internal dynamics during the collapse into the neutron star, or even after the neutron star has formed.

The accepted answer there <https://physics.stackexchange.com/posts/526296/revisions
> is a decent short read that is related to, and expands upon, the paragraph extracted above. However the answer and comments there are now several years old now, and are about an area of active research -- for example, one of the linked academic papers was less than a year old on the date the answer was submitted.

Or, perhaps you (and others) might do something like that next time, to do justice to an interesting and relevant link.

Finally, here is a link to the (open access) PDF of the paper published in Science, courtesy of the European Southern Observatory (and several of the authors' Canadian and European funding agencies): <https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/e...>
> And statistically, the chance that you would be someone who is remembered 100 years from now is kind of slim

FWIW I've been building a family tree recently and I've made it back to 1890. Don't know a lot about those folks but I do have pics. And they're the only tie I have to some family in Germany who I met just recently.

Bit of a tangent though. I don't think I'll optimize for rememberability.
It is accessible through Control Center (the pull-down screen with radio toggles and brightness and stuff)
At least that part of California. It's a gigantic state and some areas see fairly significant seasonal rain. This storm, however, will impact a region that includes the Mojave Desert - the dryest place in North America.
There are some weirdly hair-shirt beliefs about development practices in this industry.
It feels a bit off to me. I'm sure all these sounds exist, but this makes it seem like the norm is the peak of a workday in an industrial area or market, which would be noisy now too.

Country farms, even with animals, and horses pulling carts and whatnot are nothing like the 10,000s of cars a day going by in the background of a modern city, nonstop gas powered road construction and yard maintenance, etc. I'm sure there were loud times but the article doesn't convince me, I think it would have been way more peaceful, especially on a farm.
It's extortion. You're paying protection money.
Which is to bring up Peak Design, and that whole debacle.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/3/22311574/peak-design-video...
I always assumed it was supposed to be sounded out like dog-e-coin not doge-coin, but people did it the other way as a joke and it stuck.
By T1 I assume you mean “Tier 1”, not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-carrier
What if you just send the police after them if they tow your car?
Convenience, "it's there". Tons of people use youtube to listen to music even though there's dedicated music apps. Loads more people consume Reddit via computer voices reading them out on Tiktok while a random recording of a GTA race or Subway Surfers plays. Others watch Tiktok videos on Reddit.

I don't have an answer, but I'm fine with not understanding. Let people have things for their own reasons.
I would do this, but I am very unsure on the legality of this.
1. Why do I want people to contact me while I'm out? It's almost always spam, and assuming it's not, it's almost always a them problem.

2. If I did want people to contact me, a flip phone would work fine for that.

Without a smart phone with a data plan, it is becoming harder and harder to navigate the world made for advertizers and cellular providers. And these parking companies don't want to make it easy for you to pay for parking. They'd much rather you have a frustrating experience, take the risk of not paying and getting impounded.
I don't know everyone else, but this is certainly not how I expected technology to evolve in general. A completely unnecessary over-engineered world. For me no technology has to negatively interfere with what you're supposed to do and more important, there always has to be a human back up alternative. Is infuriating to assume that every single human being is supposed to have a smart phone to pay for parking. I do really feel sorry for the elders the way they are being technologically-excluded.
Are you seriously asking this question in 2023? Nobody makes web pages anymore, just make an app and require access to a ton of user data just to sell them for shady purposes.