skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s too early to tell what role they’ll fill in a symmetric conflict because Russia is increasingly cut off from high tech supplies. The fact that consumer drone videos of Russians getting bombed are coming out means that most infantry units don’t even have basic SIGINT to detect enemy RF emissions. That’s table stakes for a modern well equipped military with cheap civilian equivalents (Software defined radios). The smaller drones don’t seem to have any sophisticated navigation and targeting yet (the fixed wing loitering munition drones seem to be more advanced though). Otherwise they’re no less useful than the drones the US has been using since Afghanistan, just scaled down in size, capability, and cost.

The US and China are no doubt closely studying this conflict and evolving designs for both drones and counter measures since its obvious they’re a significant development in modern warfare that will be used in increasingly clever ways.
-brrt- Drone swarm, what drone swarm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb5_F4_Eod8 And this is simply the first iteration of such systems.

Drones are slow (slower than WW2 aircraft), short ranged, and not particularly stealthy. Improving any of those aspects raises the price significantly, defeating the point of cheap drones. They are a threat but not as magical as some seem to imagine.
It's not actual software it's just a design right?
It's tough, but what I've seen is low performers weigh the team down. They constantly ask for the high performer's time, and if we give them bug tickets, new feature work, they constantly stumble and always report status as blocked. They don't add value. They can't get to the finish line with anything. It's not a kind thing to point out, but trying to angle it as "oh there's this other benefit you're just not seeing" is trying to work around the fact they can't competently fulfill the job function after exhausting all of our options (training, pair programming, etc). They might be friendly people, but the social boosts don't counteract the losses incurred, it's still a net loss.
Yeah that's the one! Thanks for finding the reference.
With that kind of money I reckon you would be better off just hiring someone to either share the workload or bring in a skill set that you don't have yourself.

You can spend relatively small amounts of money that will improve your own productivity but your future earnings are very much limited by your own abilities.
I imagine the next step is to allow texting like an inreach, then maybe other services like weather.
Extensions in Gnome 45
That's a vast exaggeration. At Denver's altitude, 1608m, there's about 85% as much atmosphere as at sea level. To get down to 50% atmosphere, you'd need to climb to around 5500m which is higher than Mount Elbert.
Andy Warhol's Amiga computer art found 30 years later (2014)
Well, large area jamming is kind of a solved problem. But then, you'll need to protect the jammers, and that's an arms race.

If nobody is developing large area jammers and autonomous anti-jammer drones on that war, it would be from lack of perceived benefit, because neither is a ground braking engineering project.
I thought that the current wave of compiler correctness checking, zero-cost abstractions, JIT compilers and speculative processor behaviour were all about removing those "unnecessary" runtime asserts and invariant checks to get better performance.
Possibly the leading greater-than sign, a symbol used by a lot of software to indicate quotes.
Generators are a super clean way to do stream processing (in fact, in modern node, streams are async iterators, and can be used with “for await”). The really nice thing is that you can chain together a whole pipeline of generators to do transformations on a stream which are much more complex than map.

For example, do you have a stream of chunks, and want to turn it into a stream of lines? The implementation of this with generators is super clean and readable, because it’s like you’re just iterating over a list.
I’ve met a lot of project managers who are competent and see the bigger picture. They actually pay attention and understand why the numbers are what they are. They respect that the numbers are a very flawed tool and cannot be utilized without context or understanding.

I’ve also met a lot of project managers who are there because they’re incompetent. They lean heavily on “agile” and “best practices” and say moronic stuff like, “can you show me how many lines of code each developer has added this month?” (this happened to me. I fought it hard, explaining that it’s not a meaningful metric. I showed him a month that I wrote -1500 lines of code).

I feel like I could say the same about managers, coders, executives. The incompetent exist everywhere and they lean heavily on bureaucracy to protect their existence.
I disagree with sibling comment; that’s definitely too low for a high-demand skilled position where you’re handing the administrative overhead and contract risk. With the enormous caveat that I’m not in the AI/ML space, I’d expect a rate 2-4x that for a staff augmentation arrangement. YMMV, I don’t know if you have an agency or other intermediary, etc.
> Very senior dev: ... that should take about an hour.

Red flag!
I've been following the ISW blog on Ukraine quite closely. It really does seem like small, cheap, commercially available drones are increasingly widely used on both sides. They're used not just for direct strikes, but also reconnaissance and transporting supplies. They're more expendable and easier for teams on the ground to deploy. They typically can fly at lower altitudes and therefore are better at avoiding modern air defence systems. Also they're a more recent innovation, which typically means the enemy has fewer strategies already in place to defend against it.
You also need a fertile soil. In many many places, curiosity, exploration is passively frowned upon.
Yes, I think it's equally weird to be embarrassed of your own country.

I don't think you can or should be proud or ashamed of something you had no influence over.
Nobody who actually understands warfare believes that aerial drones will obviate armies and navies.

Among the definitional characteristics of air power are its impermanence and dependence on logistic support, and you bet your ass NATO countries know this. It's been established doctrine for years. Decades.

But predicting that $thing will render boots on the ground obsolete is a tradition dating back to time immemorial.
Yeah, one of the problems with being too abstract is that it's open to many interpretations, most of them incorrect. Also, a few pages or paragraphs won't stick; I need examples. I'm not a computer; installing new ideas in my brain isn't like installing apps. My brain prefers storytelling to better grasp ideas and make them its own.
> Now if you do inherit a larger project that you don't like, well, you either work on it or you switch jobs.

Which you wouldn't have to contemplate if your predescessor had simply used the right tool for the right job, right? Such as not using an over-engineered framework for a problem that didn't need to use one. :)

Cheers!
I've been following this "good example" for both my kids who are 10 and 2 years old and I can say it works very well. At least for the addictive behavior. We still allow them to watch movies and cartoons plus games in TVs and iPads but no phones for them.

My wife and I have a policy that when we're eating no screens are allowed unless it's an emergency. I think this probably has the biggest effect of all. Also we have zero social networks (except professional ones).

I'm so tired of going to restaurants and seeing the entire family looking at their screens. The bigger the kid the bigger the screen. Technology really has killed social interaction and I try my best to raise my kids out of this mass hypnosis everybody seems to be in.

When we go out to eat my table is always kind of a mess because my two year old is all over the place. And that's fine. We can deal with it and we have some fun. I really don't buy he argument to giving kids a screen during meals so the adults can talk. Kids must engage in any conversation they want or simply sit and listen to adults talking. That's how they learn. If they're constantly zooming out then they won't learn how to behave properly.

I find it too convenient that adults who never had problems with this kind of addiction (because those devices did not exist) continue to feed their kids with algorithms.

Once my kids get to an age that they are more responsible I'll handle them a device and set boundaries. Since we (the adults) have been showing boundaries since the beginning I think it will work just fine.

So yeah, lead by example!
Usually I end up adding more lines of documentation and tests and removing lines of application code so it's not easily measurable- on theme for this thread, heh
>As customers start to realise that the competition offers better functionality at a lower price, by negotiating a better subsidy, sales will stagnate. After a year a new version will be launched, but it will lack the innovation of the first and quickly vanish.

Any other great insights Bill Ray?

>Mobile phones are not complex to use because of bad interface design, they are complex to use because they are complex devices with a myriad of features.

Reminds me discussions about how "shells are fine" and couldn't possibly be much better.
> Making more lethal and cheaper weapons is one way, sure, but one key goal of a standing military in peacetime is to maintain peace, and that can be achieved in many ways cheaper than that.

Looking at an a propos use case, how would this approach have prevented the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Bcrypt at 25: A retrospective on password security
In automotive, we've had to conform to Right to Repair laws for 10+ years. We handle encryption by facilitating access to tools that allow users to encrypt/unencrypted the data so they can make the repairs, but without exposing how the data is encrypted/unencrypted.
Soft power doesn't work when a single viral propaganda video on TikTok or Instagram can convince a 3rd world country that country X is to blame for all their problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit

Not all books in the state libraries are equal. Historical copies and popular authors (popular among researchers, a much bigger set already) are exhibited and get attention, John Doe's book of family recipes gets sent to some giant dark warehouse people rarely visit.

It is easy to forget that it is an 18th century solution born from 18th century approach to knowledge. Back then, bibliographies of everything printed in certain year in certain country could be compiled, and they were supposed to be more than just lists, to help other men of books keep up with Progress.
This pedestrian bridge is 2 blocks east of the Nicollet Ave bridge over 494 and about 5 blocks west of the Portland Ave bridge over 494. Both Nicollet and Portland Ave have sidewalks on both sides of the bridge. The bridges are old and not particularly pedestrian friendly, but pedestrians do use them, I’ve walked across the Portland Ave bridge a few times and didn’t find it dangerous or scary.

Anyways, this section of 494 is being reconstructed over the next few years, I’m curious whether the pedestrian bridge will survive or not.

Here is the physical location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/TXfx7smGDDym3V46A?g_st=ic
Looks like it wavers slightly between 3.5 and 4.5%, depending on whether they're actively invading a middle eastern country or not.
This is why there is a paid app that gives you summaries of books everyone is talking about so that you don't have to read them but also won't be left out. For most popular books these days, totally sufficient.
Glad I dodged a bullet there by not buying Apple stock back in 2006'
I think there’s a bug on mobile: the user is initially promoted with a list of feeds, but nothing happens when they select one. It looks like there’s a button at the top right of the screen that you need to press to actually view your selection?
I remember times at a few of my jobs, just absolutely cheering for someone’s PR that was filled with red. Good times.
Wasn't it the NYPD that bitched and moaned about having public oversight of their drone project because they "couldn't do their jobs while being watched" or something? I swear that was a thing a few years ago but I can't find the quote due to the internet being spammed with numerous clones of this article.

Edit/addition: Thoughts of that aside, I am fundamentally okay with the idea of police orgs using drones for something like this. Conceptually. I see this as a preferred outcome to "Annoying bitchy neighbor whines about totally legal backyard party, event #8962376340" where an officer has to physically go to the party, it's some level of disruptive, it wastes the officer's time, it wastes the partygoers' time... As long as the police are willing to provide an itemized list of every drone deployed, available publicly, with exact GPS pathing on an easily-viewed map.
Better yet, don’t install apps. Cell phone apps are the enemy of good software and ethical computing and a threat to human freedom. They are well established as national security risk and the source of emerging health problems for our youth. If you are a programmer, consider whether working on cellphone apps is ethically sound. The entire industry from sweatshop production of the devices to the addictive mind numbing video game apps, it’s all very anti-human.
The author has a “lab” Patreon where he works out more of the specifics and also builds proofs of concept for the different functions he describes.

The prototypes he built so far are very impressive and he’s been using them as part of his workflow.
I think the article is pretty clear that he sees the ADL as an entity that engages in extortion and free speech suppression.

i'm saying that it is all in the service of helping the Israeli government finish their genocide campaign.
Have you ever been wrong on anything, and should you still be listened to?
I wrote a sibling comment alluding to the same, having been that person across a few different employers now. The struggles I had certainly, to a large degree, boiled down to a lack of trust (walking into a new team/department/company is hard on both sides!), but that wasn't the full story. IMO, management needs to have the right mindset to establish culture, too.
"Resolution Criteria: On questions that may have ambiguous answers, I will clarify the acceptance criteria. Here, for example, I will copy/paste the code to a file called index.html, open the page, and I expect to see a US flag. If I click on the flag it should change color. The flag must be immediately recognizable: red/white stripes, blue background, 50 stars. It does not have to be dimensionally accurate, but it should be better than a flag I would draw by hand."
May I ask how you found this role?

I find networking confusing

I’ve been sending connection requests to people on LinkedIn to no avail
Are any of them writing tools instead of publishing tools?
I've been both a Toptal contractor and a client. While they're an arguably high fee, they provide valuable services for the contractor, first and foremost access to high paying markets and clients. For a high skilled dev in developing countries this means rates that are still much higher than local rates, thus they tend to attract good talent. Also they handle all burocracy and ensure you get paid, very important when working overseas.

For clients they provide very good corporate customer service, and generally do a good job of screening people. My rate of "bad" contractors coming from Toptal is low and replacing them is quick. And every now and then you find some amazing devs.
I read the whole article, it’s enthralling to me because of how heartwarming the impact was from the engineering to the users. The part about the foresight to add the little bike gutter just makes me tear up. Such a simple piece of steel, and yet it enabled so many good memories for those children writing in. I’m thankful the author didn’t get his answer from his couch either!
Yes, you're right, my mistake.
Congrats. Here is my thing which is somewhat related: https://github.com/runvnc/smartcat
I would have guessed the bridge was built for future development, which then wasn't done. In Vienna there is a bridge that's a bit similar that for a long time was just leading to an empty field. It goes across Grenzackerstraße, which could be rathly translated to field border street. It took some time for housed to be built on the other side. There would have been the possibility that there would be just industry on both sides and then it would have been mostly useless.
Something that would help speed up development of new interfaces would be applications having more extensibility in general. It happens so often that I come across a piece of software where I want to change just one thing, but there's no easy way to do it with plugins or extensions. The alternative is to create the software mostly from scratch myself, which is way too much effort that's just not worth it. Imagine what would happen if you could see all those small changes stack up, we could have so much more interesting functionality.
New-Yorker-style long-form articles are a different reading experience compared to an article intended to deliver factoids. These articles are not meant to just deliver news. They are meant to be immersive and also educational. They end up being long-winded because they paint a more comprehensive picture of a particular topic's history, outlook, and also the proponents and detractors involved. The descriptions of the people are intended to give you sense of their mentality and what drives them to champion or fight the article's topic.

Quality can also vary wildly of course. Tight writing also applies to long-form. You do not want to end up meandering.
Thats 420 gbp a day. For a contract thats a low rate.
That would depend on the culture of your team and larger workplace. Healthy teams should be checking in frequently to talk about ideas, reviewing big things, scoping upcoming work, etc. If there's time reserved for deeply technical but loosely structured discussion like that, then everybody takes turns being that person. In that env someone could "specialize" in it and help inspire others to do great work.

It's the team that creates that kind of opportunity for feedback though. If the team has dysfunctions like rejecting deeper discussion or not working beyond jira tickets or checking out at meetings, etc. then it's not going to work. Someone that's good at that kind of supporting discussion will feel push back when fostering those discussions so it will fall off over time.

The teams that do the best work and are the most fun to be on can host those types of discussions though, even remotely. It's worth experiencing if you haven't!
Indeed. There’s a pervasive social media-fuelled notion of superiority in this area that does not reflect reality. It hardly gets more one-sided than /r/RussiaUkraineWar2022.
Also "deduce it for yourself"
Stories like this happened is because managers
The US already has a lot of soft power. It is more about Hollywood and McDonald's though.

Turning the country in a role model, although obviously a good thing for its citizens, is no match for propaganda with regard to foreign relationships.
This brittanica article summarizes the general concepts:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/dialect/Social-dialects

These 2 papers are more at the language level rather than the dialect level, but acts as a good jumping-off point for research and ideas about how social structure affects the development/evolution of language:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5805949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2798932/

Neither specifically address the development of dialects as a reinforcement of social subgroup differentiation, and right now I can't find the original place where I read about this idea.
The fundamental problem with HN and fun little competitive games like this that show you how you stack up is that the comments will be full of people complaining/nitting about the grading/system/etc. because the typical HN commentator is often the type of person who doesn’t take being not great at something well.
My apartment building’s laundry uses quarters and just has a change machine in the laundry room. It is almost a closed loop token system since people tend not to use the quarters for anything besides laundry. You stick a bill in the change machine to get quarters, put the quarters in a laundry machine, then every few days the staff empties the quarters from the laundry machines and uses them to refill the change machine.
Freedom is the key component of capitalism, in the purist sense. Including the freedom to trade the "right to repair" for other benefits, such as a superior vehicle due to higher integration, reliability and peace of mind knowing that any work will have been done by authorised repairers, lower up-front cost afforded by vendor lock-in, etc.

If people wish to voluntarily trade vehicles without the "right to repair", that's their choice, that's capitalism. The state intervening in transactions one way or the other is a violation of the capitalist ideal.
Wrong? Plenty of times.

That wrong? No.
I'm just coming out of a very stressful period that encompassed nearly every waking and resting minute of my day for several years. After a fairly major life change and quite a few problems clearing up I noticed that I was suddenly dreaming again.

I hadn't realized that I had stopped so I'm not even sure how long it's been, but now that I'm doing it again see how damaged my sleep has been. After just a few good sleep cycles with dreams I feel like my mental state has been turning around significantly.

What are dreams for? I'm not sure the specifics, but they definitely make me feel better.
The second Apple debuted that smooth as fucking butter interface it was clear as day how badly behind people were at the time. Pre-iPhone the form of phones was incredible but the function was dogshit garbage. Small displays rendering everything in software and failing to hit 15fps on a good day because these poor little ARM chips were being abused to within an inch of their lives. If you were seriously lucky you might get blitting in hardware.

Then iPhone comes in with a high spec ARM, a GPU, and Core Graphics. If I was Nokia/SE/Motorola I would have been shitting myself watching Steve demo the iPhone knowing that I'm at least five years behind now.
> He would not crowd them or railroad them, but let them take the time to learn whilst carefully crafting moments of insight and learning, often as Socratic questions, what ifs, how elses.

I do not like people who do this. just tell me the answer. this is such a gigantic waste of everyone's time. you figured something out months/years ago, great for you. give it to me NOW, so I can get on with my day. if we BOTH run into something unknown, we can tackle it together. but dont force me to go through the same painful learning process you went through. YOU suffered, because at the time no one knew how to do whatever it was. now that someone knows (you), your job should be to spread that knowledge across the business as quickly as possible, not hoard it to yourself until someone is deemed "worthy" of knowing it.