skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have restricted that statement to include the United States of America. PSTN's are still utilized, deployed and actively sold in most of the US. As a side note I recently tried to get a telco to remove a phone line and two poles and they refused to do it. Their excuse was that they might one day run fiber over it despite there already being a fiber network here. I hope they do as my fiber ISP really does need a competitor. If they really do run the fiber over those poles vs burying it that would be amusing.

To your point I am sure some day the US will stop selling access to the PSTN but some old systems will hold on for dear life, government contracts and all. Governments are kindof slow to migrate to newer things.
All of these TFR violations are early/inexperienced Cessna 172 pilots (or similar) who aren't up on TFRs, just lost, etc. They often can't even manage the radio and just go completely silent, blissfully unaware anything is happening until an F-16 shows up next to them hailing them saying things like "US military armed fighter aircraft. Acknowledge this by rocking your wings.", etc. Of course assuming the fighter eventually finds them in the first place...

What's really scary about ATC vectoring the fighters in is a bad actor could just as easily use that open comms to evade the fighter aircraft. Although they're obviously faster and more maneuverable it gets back to the first scenario I mentioned - the fighters can't find a target when they're not actively trying to evade them.

It would be pretty easy and straightforward for a bad actor to get a few hours of lessons, take up a Cessna loaded with improvised explosives of some type, and do a lot of damage. A lot of smaller air strips/fields don't even have a tower so they could get up there before anyone really has a clue.
This post is a bit old now, and might not be entirely what you were looking for, but I wrote about getting my personal blog building with nix, including an example of using an overlay and patching and upstream dependency:

https://rebeccaskinner.net/posts/2021-06-06-nixifying-a-haky...
The policy shouldn't make it mandatory. It would be interesting to see what a free session would do.
No, but they are more of a scam than most taxes. Historically speaking, churches haven't exactly abstained from war or pretty much any other atrocity. In terms of our current reality, they are usually not better value for money than taxes. Any time you can point to corruption, misuse of funds, politics or other issues, it is worth remembering that this applies to the churches as well.
The argument is not "humans never make a mistake".

There's little evidence autonomous combat fighter AIs are better than humans at tough calls of this nature. They may be someday, but given the state of the art in self-driving, that day probably hasn't arrived.
Also the (formerly known as) Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley is named after him after a large grant. It's featured frequently on the Numberphile YouTube channel (as they fund Brady in some capacity).
More discussion over here last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37524158
This approach definitely works, but its not the most convenient imo. At least in my experience, this always resulted in separate commits to dev/stage/prod as you progress through each part of the promotion process. It works, sure, but depending on your exact situation it can get cumbersome pretty quickly (for example, start adding in multiple prod regions, or maybe you want to canary one prod region first).

With Kargo, it looks like it lets you define your preferred promotion process, and then lets you release each promotion with a single click. I think the part that is the most interesting to me though is that it writes the changes it is making directly to the git repo.
Is this more of a scam than the comment it was responding to?
This is like how I use 'ofc' to abbreviate 'of course'. Once upon a time the 'f' may have stood for something, but I never use it that way. For me, 'the F is silent'.
From 2016, so not as bad as I'd initially guessed, but still mostly a mutual pat-on-the-back fest, with very little actual substance.
If you suspect abuse, email the mods since this sort of meta tends to go to thread hell.
So it's like appending a par2
Those incentives will be self manifesting. If every household did this we would have a much smaller labor force, essentially forcing companies to pay more.
Scrip has just been around for forever and so ubiquitous that it would cost many billions to outlaw. It would be outrageous really if the FTC could just outlaw it with a stroke of a pen, and I doubt they have the legal ability to do so, since it should be a matter for elected representatives.

That all being said, I would celebrate the demise of loyalty points, gift cards, Robux, Chuck E. Cheese tokens, and so on. All of it is fundamentally anti-consumer. I'm not sure when countries outlawed paying your employees in scrip why they didn't go one step further since scrip is intrinsically anti-competitive.

I think you can steelman some good arguments for scrip though... both in terms of "why venerate fiat state-backed currency as having a special status" and "some people actually LIKE the inflexibility or having to spend their money on a certain companies products, such as compulsive misers"
No, just do UBI or a version of UBI that's only for kids. That way you get rid of the harmful step function we always pack into social programs.
It's interesting how so many sites deployed cookie banners even if you weren't in the EU, but decided to only display this option if your IP address is located in California.

Yet another use case for VPNs...
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Do you have a link to such a study? My google-fu is failing.

I don't doubt you but would like to read it and try to confirm my bias anyway!

My experience is mainly with completely crap grinders vs high-end burrs which is very distinguishable. Probably low/mid end burrs do okay as long as there aren't too many fines. Grind size variability may even be advantageous :)
Climate Activism and Mental Health
I would love to read more on this.
I suppose I should revise my comment to mean that I don't think living together is a necessity. Just in close proximity.

Moreover I know many who do live close to parents and seem estranged due to broken families/mom and dad can't stand to be in the same room, etc
No.
Doom loops are products of demography.

You need a certain number of people capable of doing enough valuable work and willing to accept a reasonable tax on the value of that work in order to run a functional city, let alone a metropolitan one.

As talent and corporations leave, these demos get worse. As they get worse more companies and people want to leave and the drop accelerates.

This leaves only those reliant on the city/area and drives away the actual producers of value that previously kept it alive.

The trick will be ensuring this doesn't occur again after the inevitable collapse.

Other municipalities should take note:

Keep your % of competent high earners high or your city will die.
Ryujinx uses Microsoft's JIT .NET technology [1] which is best available for C# codebases. Nothing new here since it needs to translate Switch's ARM instructions to x86 machine code somehow.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-ryujit-transition-...
Ok, I see (maybe formally wrong) neuroscience as a part of psychology. (At least some psychologists I talked to, had this position)

And the reason why bridging is not really happening, because of the ethical restrictions. But this is my hypothesis. The other hypothesis might be, that too many careers depend on models that would not hold up by experiments, but I really cannot judge here because of lack of knowledge.
> You don't have enough children, all of you, the fertility rate is below replacement and it is not a blip or a fluke.

How is the population still growing by almost 1% per year then?

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/population
How do you know Putin never wanted peace with the Minsk agreements? Why were they officially ratified, then?
Falcon 180B: Can It Run on Your Computer?
How is this in any way new?

The meme "I can't even choose an option that makes an NPC sad in a video game" is years old.
As is the insight that quasi-parasocial relationships with fictional characters are much, much stronger than empathy towards actually existing human beings that are just "concepts" to us, be they in faraway places as victims of war, natural disasters or the everyday exploitation of the global economic system, or members of an outcast class in our own societies, be they homeless or political opponents we classify as "not really human". As the other comment said, we fell with Michael Scott instead.
Spousal support is an archaic holdover that doesn’t belong anymore and child support should not be a thing offered in at fault divorces. For the latter I’m not sure how you can go about implementing that ethically though. If the dad cheated, fine, he should pay child support. If the mom cheats, maybe the state can subsidize daycare while the mom is forced to work. Otherwise there are no consequences for the mom who can just “divorce him and take his house and half his money”.
Leveraging Rust in our Java database
If I didn't understand I'd be grateful if you could explain it.

As far as I know that file does not get referenced for the users in an external directory server. That's how the systems scale without needing to put the users in the file. Aren't we talking about a high number of users (and their authorization levels) when talking about scalibility in this case?
It didn't work for any query. A verbatim search was very similar to putting every word in quotes. That's very obviously not your experience, so it's either a personalization thing, or Google silently changed it. Anyway, there isn't a pattern to find, it works or it doesn't.

But then, I've seen it work too. And stop working again.
Good point though I anecdotally can say that some these women decide that they'd like a child later in life when it's biologically very late (euphemism here).

Also back then a lot (heard numbers like 25%) of women didn't have children. Not sure what this changes about the equation given that it probably wasn't their choice either, but it sounds like a lot.
Another reminder that Elon Musk routinely lies about timelines. If Mars colonization had followed the timeline laid out here, we'd be three years from having lots of people on Mars.

On a side note, I loved Altman's interview style - he focused on the interviewee instead of soapboxing, which is unfortunately very rare in interviewers.
Two of the things that make me cringe are mentioned. Pickle files and SAS tokens. I get nervous dealing with Azure storage. Use RBAC. They should depreciate SAS and account keys IMO.

SOC2 type auditing should have been done here so I am surprised of the reach. Having the SAS with no expiry and then the deep level of access it gave including machine backups with their own tokens. A lot of lack of defence in depth going on there.

My view is burn all secrets. Burn all environment variables. I think most systems can work based on roles. Important humans access via username password and other factors.

If you are working in one cloud you don’t in theory need secrets. If not I had the idea the other day that proxies tightly couples to vaults could be used as api adaptors to convert then into RBAC too. But I am not a security expert just paranoid lol.
To be fair, the current realistic alternative still has potholes. Maybe we should entertain a tightly limited allocation. Sure, let the people from outside of town donate to whatever (it's free money at best and no gain at worst), but local citizens can only allocate a portion to specific public goods.
The pessimism is unwarranted. As you glibly point out, we have survivorship bias in discussing the history of those who survived and reproduced. So shall it be one hundred or thousand years from now, discussing the rise of whatever culture or cult succeeds in keeping their sub populations fertility rate above the replacement rate.
It taught me what's the One Place That Hasn't Been Corrupted by Capitalism
Assuming that the US ever enters any war directly, guess what their first action will be: take Musk out of the picture, deal with the legalities later on.
You can blame people for "just following orders", if they were unlawful. That was the point of the Nuremburg trials[1]. Here's the some of the evidence used in those trials.[2]

Had the bombs not been used, it was estimated that there would have been a million soldiers wounded, and who knows how many civilians. Based on the information available to them, the crew of the Enola Gay had no reason to believe their orders unlawful.

"During World War II, 1,506,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured, many in anticipation of the estimated casualties resulting from the planned Allied invasion of Japan. By the end of the war, even accounting for medals lost, stolen, or wasted, nearly 500,000 remained." [3]

[1] https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/nuremberg-trial...

[2] https://www.c-span.org/video/?400657-1/nazi-concentration-pr...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart
That's basically short-hand for

SELECT manifest, versionId, max(checkinTime)
FROM version
GROUP BY manifest, versionId
ORDER BY 3 DESC LIMIT 1;

or

WITH m AS (SELECT max(checkinTime) AS checkinTime FROM version)
SELECT v.manifest, v.versionId, v.checkinTime
FROM version v
JOIN m m USING (checkinTime)
LIMIT 1;

It's a bit of a footgun though because there is some randomness here if multiple rows have the same max checkinTime, so I try not to use this SQLite3-ism. You want to also do something to deterministically pick a "best" row, but for that you need to do something like the above.
The claim here is that even with more cars on the road traffic can be reduced if cars are able to communicate with each other. E.G. all the cars stopped at a red light accelerate at the exact same rate as the light turns green, no more brake checking/rubbernecking causing traffic on highways. I think in the long run this effect will probably exist, whether it overpowers the increased number of road users remains to be seen.
> And further incentivize divorce?

One way to give them more money and not incentivize single parenthood (which is the issue, not divorce, and treating them as equivalent has always been wrong and is increasingly so as marriage rates drops) is to go to UBI instead of means-tested aid, or, if using means testing, use a means-testing formula which doesn't punish two-parent families.

> Children being raised by single mothers is not a good outcome.

Its a lot better than children being raised by two parents together, one of which is abusing them and/or the other parent, which any change which does more to avoid incentivizing divorce or single-parenthood more than eliminating any two-parent penalty would incentivize, especially for the poor.
Last week's news, submitted a few times (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37528494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37547828).... anything new since?

Mon, Sep 18th, Taiwan shares tumble to end below 16,700 points as TSMC hit hard

https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202309180011
I would love to be a fly in the wall of Unity or Wizards of the Coast after the reveal of their updated licensing terms.

Did the execs expect blowback? How much was expected? Did they estimate X% of users fleeing would be ok? Or had they just been sniffing their own farts the entire time?
Because 3 is a poor psychological, practical, and emotianal fit for most people. Probably kids, as well.

Alloparenting is great, but 3 parents running the same household would be a nightmare in most cases.
U.S. asks for help finding missing F-35 fighter jet
Accelerating digital block design with Google’s open source XLS toolchain
When we launched in 2017, we went "in-house" with our billing. We found an open-source project and uses that for all billing as it had a recurring option and a billing portal. Fast forward a number of years, we now sync invoice data in the app and have a tiny billing portal there. We can still adjust invoices, keep old pricing, setup new pricing, auto-bill, check balances to see if a customer hasn't paid yet. Total Lines of Code here are like under 2000 for this integration and it's great. Also zero vendor lock in as well. Just another way to approach a billing system.
How do you know what the birth-rate would be without those policies?
Yep, most pentests go through the OWASP list and call it done.
This could have been used as an opportunity to standardize the SQLite3 DB file format.
I've used Flux, Flux2 and Argo for GitOps, and they all had their quirks. In general it seems that most CloudNative projects were kinda set in their own vision with very opinionated devs and a lot of corner cases that are not accounted for and won't be accounted for.

I have a little bit of hope that this one is going to be different with the lessons they got from Argo, but I'm not holding my breath.

Ps. when I first saw Argo, I thought this is it. The solution to all my problems.
yeah, like their proprietary USB connector on iMacs, or their proprietary USB-C connector on Macbooks in 2016, or when they invented Thunderbolt all by themselves, and the time they didn't make Firewire and open standard…

What are you talking about? Proprietary connectors I can think of…

- A bunch of ridiculous digital video ports, necessary because the whole industry couldn't agree on how to move on from VGA.

- The "dock connector" — literally nothing else in the industry, even after its introduction, could meet all the needs of that thing, up until…

- Lightning. USB-C was still years away, and the attempts at small USB were a garbage fire.
I've only skimmed the quickstart docs https://kargo.akuity.io/quickstart/ but this snippet immediately clicks for me as something that I'd want to try

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: kargo.akuity.io/v1alpha1
kind: Promotion
metadata:
name: prod-to-${FREIGHT_ID}
namespace: kargo-demo
spec:
stage: prod
freight: ${FREIGHT_ID}
EOF

Have enjoyed using argo in general in the past, its got a great model for k8s native workflows / events but never got to using it for CD.
You take money that would have ostensibly gone to the citizens of Tokyo and instead provide it to the citizens of town of your choice.

Reallocation and redistribution are synonymous here, one is just used in more headlines (probably because more people use "distribute" more regularly than "allocate"). Nothing different should be inferred by either word choice IMO.
RZK: Experimental proof assistant for synthetic ∞-categories
It is a Russian software!
Bevy Engine: Simple, Open Source, data-driven game engine built in Rust
When the best and brightest cryptobros getting hacked, does the Average Joe really have any reasonable chance of avoiding the same?
Which is partly why the DoD commissioned a second constellation specifically for military use: https://www.spacex.com/starshield/
Nonsense. AI can work well enough for striking certain known targets. But it is simply not capable of following complex rules of engagement or adapting to highly dynamic situations in real time. We are at least decades away from that capability in a general sense. What you see in movies is not reality.

Sixth-generation tactical aircraft (the successors to the F-35) are likely to be optionally manned. They will be able to operate with remote pilots and/or autonomous control for high risk strike missions but most of the time will still have human crews on board.
> Hi, instead of trying to discredit the idea that people are being murdered for defending the environment from exploitation, by pointing out the ambiguity in the word "killed" as used in a Yale e360 article about a report on investigations by Global Witness

That was not my intention. My intention was to discredit a study that provides statistics with no baseline.

Statistics with no baseline to compare with are almost always misleading statistics.
Ukraine Situation Report: M1 Abrams Tank Training Extended
I'm still in the honeymoon phase with this language and learning, but I agree it's a trade off.

For example your LSP isn't going to help you as much while you edit code.

However being able to express arbitrary compile time constraints and pre-compute stuff without having to go through a code generation tool is really powerful. You can actually use all the knowledge you have ahead of time as long as you can express it in Zig.

So far it seems like Zig is carving out a very strong niche for itself.
Had to double check if they are protecting IP (Internet Protocol address) or IP (Intellectual property) by adding some sort of filtering for copyrighted content right in the browser. In any case - nothing useful.
Unconventionally choice of device!

I’ve had decent luck with zen minipcs- though the earlier gen 4700u. Take 64gb but too slow for LLMs realistically. Plus only 8gb max assignable to gpu.
This was the plan the entire time.

1) Announce changes that are even harder to stomach than the bad ones you have planned.

2) Wait for fallout.

3) Backtrack and say "we're listening".

4) Roll out the bad (but not that bad) plan you had in mind the whole time.

5) Customers will be annoyed but relieved.

It's right in the enshitification playbook.
Personally privacy is a strong concern for me; I have many aspects of my digital life set up less conveniently in exchange for privacy.

In this case though we've have on one hand a product that definitely does aggregate data about searches, and doesn't do what I need very well; and the other a product that could, but does not currently aggregate data, and does an excellent job serving my needs.

And importantly there is no option of a product, available now, that is verifiably prevented from aggregation. Even a VPN unless I disconnect and get a new random IP between every individual search does not provide that protection. (And then browser fingerprints even.)
iOS and iPadOS 17: The MacStories Review
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30353182

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618104
From the article:

> Educating children is incredibly expensive. The regions are quite annoyed that they pay to educate their children but that Tokyo reaps all the benefits. This state of affairs has continued for decades.

We see the same problem in USA states. State taxpayer dollars pay for some amount of public college education for state universities. These are typically called "State Appropriations", and varies between 30-80% of the student's overall tuition costs.

Back in the 1980's, taxpayers footed most college tuition using state appropriations, so college was "cheap" for students back then. Now (2023), (at least in my state, Michigan), state appropriations typically cover 20-40% of a college student's tuition.

There is concern with this though, because of what is called "brain drain". Citizens spend all these taxpayer dollars educating youth at colleges, then the graduates from U of M, etc all move out of state to California, Boston, Seattle, etc for big tech jobs.

Then the state of Michigan doesn't see any more tax dollars from those students. Which begs the question, why pay tax dollars for higher education if those who benefit from that education do not contribute back?
Yeah, when we were rewatching it, we were kind of amazed at how well it holds up, all things considered.

I think what makes it likable for me is that it's all on the cusp of believability. Obviously LLMs weren't quite mature enough to do everything Joshua did back then (and probably not now), but the fact that the "hacking" was basically just social engineering, and was just achieved by wardialing and a bit of creative thinking makes it somewhat charming, even today.

With the advent of LLMs being used increasingly for everyone, I do wonder how close we're going to get to some kind of "Global Thermonuclear War" simulation gone awry.