skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artillery is surprisingly inefficient.

It takes about 15 rounds of 155mm artillery per battlefield casualty. Each shot costs about $5k.

Robots like this might cost the same as a single artillery shot but have the ability to get multiple kills each.

It’s a cold arithmetic, but I guarantee you someone at DARPA is thinking and planning the future of warfare in these terms.
V compiles to C
https://vlang.io/
Remember that executives are never fired for bad decisions, they are fired for bad press. The Unity business model & strategy changes/price hike were most definitely approved by the board. The CEO's job was to make it digestible to the general public, and he failed at that. Don't expect the new one to pull a 180. He will simply hire better PR firms and do better sugar coating.
simply put, yes. but I know very well that performance can be measured in many different dimensions and ways. I optimize for speed for my own personal use-cases (vim should be fluent as well as notcurses-demo as well as cat'ing large output).

Especially cat-style benchmarking is what YT-channels like to do, right next to `time tree /`.

We do not claim to be THE fastest (unless you find out why, but pssst, don't tell anyone), because I do not want to start a performance war on some metric that is almost useless for the regular and even power user.

Input latency, oof, last time I actually took the time to check, it was similar to KDE konsole. I used some Java based tool to measure this, IIRC I've got this from an LWN article. But now, I'm not having the time to do this again, especially since I feel like there's more important stuff on our plate, that I really want to get done in 2023 (e.g. getting out the next stable release). :)

If anyone of the power users opts to re-visit perf benchmarking on the modern TEs compared to the classic ones, I'd be one amongst the first to gladly read though ;)
This is the issue with saying LLMs have understanding: it leads to misunderstanding how these systems work. Which, can be problematic!

They don't work like people, so diving into that isn't productive.
Definitely has. I sed to love playing with single and double floppy OSes. Im sure you have seen the old qnx4 demo floppy? Full gui, browser, etc.

http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
Stock price is down 22% in the past month:

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/U:NYSE?sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2...
That cathedral you are talking about, has two spiral staircases, one counter-clockwise and the other clockwise.
From the captioned art in the article: "Siege, from the Peterborough Psalter, early 14th century, via the KBR Museum, Belgium.
Yes, those defenders are all women."
I just touch the connector to find the void. It always goes down and this trick never failed me. I have no problem plugging in USB on the first try even in the dark.
The M&M test is a tactic. It's not the only strategy you would employ if you were trying to solve the issues that Fukushima had and money wasn't relevant to how this solution helped Van Halen. Drawing interesting parallels makes for better conversation, I'm not sure anyone needed to be reminded of the differences between a Band's live show setup and Nuclear Power Plant safety.

That being said... you would be surprised to learn how often "cute" tactics like these are utilized by governments to leverage human behavior.
Last 3 android releases have seriously been in terms of new features, especially when you compare it with iOS. It used to be a completely opposite case 7-8 years ago. Is android team working on something big, running out of ideas or just under-staffed? I don't know who cares about a new android logo. I switched to iOS this year because I gave up on android adding anything new that's worth looking forward to.
If you're willing to work with the JVM (i.e. through JNI), there's really nothing stopping you.

You can 100% make entire apps using nothing but C, C++, or whatever, as long as you're willing to interface with the JVM that's created for you to access Android APIs.

But the Android API is a JVM API. There's no getting around that. At this point, it's another OS (i.e. not Android) if it doesn't have Java in it.
Elon Musk, Innovator
I used a Bluetooth analyser once that had a USB-C connector that only plugged in one way. It had a dedicated "wrong way around" LED to tell you to rotate it.

Kind of hilarious. It's the only example I've ever seen though so not a real problem IMO.

The cables issue is real, but I don't really see the alternative. Would everyone really be happier if all USB-C cables had to be expensive thick 40 Gb/s 100W cables? No.
The Giving Pledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge

Chuck Feeney:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney:

> *"I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living—to personally devote oneself to meaningful efforts to improve the human condition. More importantly, today's needs are so great and varied that intelligent philanthropic support and positive interventions can have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed when the needs are greater."

$8,000,000,000 = 8e9
They can restructure the company, but they can't restructure their incentives.
It’s systemic.

If you look around lately, everybody is desperately scrounging around for more revenue and fewer free tiers/accounts/features/etc. Many of the strategies to do so will falter or fail, as here, but they’re being made all over the place.

Either a wave of greed culture happened to spontaneously wash in, or an investment economy built around perpetual exponential growth and potato-tossing is preparing for a bleak future.
On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:55 +1100 jameshart wrote:
> Are there any pre-eternal-September warriors still sticking
> Emily-Post-like to their 1992-era netiquette standards

Yes.

—-
inopinatus
> was there a technical reason for that, or could modern mainboards/BIOSes/OSes detect and correct for that?

IIRC, there was a technical reason in that original mainboards lacked the circuitry to detect and correct for it (I think different mouse vs keyboard interrupts were involved?), and it would have been a extra x¢ on the BOM. But modern mainboards just use two of the same circuit and in fact do work fine if you swap them (tested just now, sample size of 1).
I think it is worth noting that these patents weren't good at all for competition. Stac Electronics proved to be in no way capable of competing with MS Excel, pivot tables are technically not that hard and the lawsuit might have stopped MS bringing them to a huge number of people faster.

They did nothing much, and if they'd done more they'd have retarded progress.
>>I'm a reasonably upstanding citizen and I have basically two categories of bills:
>>Bills that are auto-paid.
>>Bills that are late.

I just mentally went down the list and it hurts me to admit it but that's the exact same for me.
Lookup tables can be insanely fast, if kept entirely in L[1|2] cache.

We found this out, when we were optimizing image processing pipelines (image processing uses lots of lookup tables).

We found that the best way to optimize was to avoid moving out of cache, so we had to rewrite a lot of our stuff, so it never broke cache.

That meant a lot of copy-and-paste repetition, strict (small) static functions, and hardcoded values, instead of properties or even constants.

I don't remember all the stuff we learned, but it wasn't pretty (and applied only to x86 architecture. Not sure how well it would work, these days, on ARM).
Did anyone else find the stair handstand to look like cheating? Extremely neat to see this stuff.
> their voice cannot compete with institution-sponsored propaganda machines

When has the common person alone ever had the voice to compete with large institutional voices? I think never, except today it’s actually easier for a lone person to get a huge platform without owning a newspaper.

Suppose we pass laws allowing the executive branch to limit speech that’s against national security. Who is to say a future government won’t use it against us to limit our freedoms rather than a foreign agent’s? We already can see several laws passed to limit terrorism have instead allowed the government to spy on regular citizens and other such abuses. Now, in the name of “national security” we want to move away from free speech and start censoring things according to the current administration’s wishes? No thank you!
I doubt this will end the scummy money grabbing thinking.

https://old.reddit.com/r/unity/comments/16j23ci/i_know_peopl...

The actual people who should be removed is probably the incompetent board of directors who signed on in 2020.
Gacha games and mobile games in general were the target. Remember that all the install fee waivers that they announced initially were dependent on developers using Unity's own ad broker for mobile games.

Fate/Grand Order is one of the most profitable games on the mobile phone market, it literally makes millions and it's written in Unity. As far as I'm aware, Lasengle (the developers) don't actually have a Unity source license so they'd fall under this deal.

The console/desktop market just... was not a consideration.
I have to say, the only thing more surprising to me than seeing the board actually hold Riccitiello responsible for this (with consequences) is seeing that their interim replacement / transitional CEO is someone with a pedigree that, on the surface, seems even more management consulting / investor / revenue focused than Riccitiello was himself.

To be clear, I know essentially nothing about James M. Whitehurst other than what is readily publicly available (IBM / Red Hat, advisory roles, etc.).

But my read on a lot of the Unity crisis, as a long-time game industry veteran myself, was that one of the increasingly common "management consulting" / investor- & revenue-focused type of gaming executives (e.g. Riccitiello, Don Mattrick [Zynga replacement CEO when Pincus stepped down], Kotick [Activision-Blizzard]) had finally overstepped their bounds and let revenue goals drive decision-making just a bit too far without customer consideration.

So, I had assumed that if Unity did make a leadership change here, it would be in a direction away from that - i.e. a more industry-seasoned executive with less of a pure revenue / "business" focus.

I think I clearly misjudged the situation here in light the Whitehurst pick; while it's possible that is truly just an interim role and they will still pivot to this in the final hire, or that I simply misjudge "the label on the tin" and Whitehurst is very culture / customer focused, I don't think I would bet on it. This seems like the board actually "doubling down" on driving revenue results - and fast.
Those movements are extremely animal-like, to the point of being unsettling (despite that I want a robot like that for myself)
I hope he doesn't mind, but the creator of Rich and Textualize is a good guy, and Scottish: https://www.willmcgugan.com/about/

https://www.textualize.io/

https://github.com/Textualize/rich
There's a reason Chrome is mostly written in C++. Android's JVM system is a collection of Java wrappers around C++ libraries. There's some overhead in that translation layer, and it's unfortunate that you can't skip it. Even Google's own Flutter uses a C++ engine to run Dart applications.

Kotlin (and Java) is fast enough for many applications, but even with the recent advancements in ART, does have overhead compared to pure native code. I can't think of a reason why the API interaction overhead would pose a problem, but if Google themselves can find use cases for almost JVM-less apps, I'm sure there are reasons to give a Rust version a try.
"My partner can take care of it" is the easy, all purpose answer for a small startup.

If they want to dig any deeper, you're probably screwed and don't really have a chance at a sale anyway.

About the same result as with, "I can not tell a lie. I run this business from my basement. I know nothing about business or sales or marketing cause I'm just a nerd and I've never done this before and I'm all you got". What the customer hears is, "I'm so fired if this doesn't work out".

I know because I've been there. First rule of business ---Survival is always job #1 and sometimes it involves some compromise; particularly early on. Those who don't understand this probably shouldn't quit their day job.
He’s sold over $400mn in Unity shares [1]. He’ll be fine.

1- https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1193857.htm
On some IETF mailing lists (and similar communities, like LKML), bottom-posting and plain text messages are still the norm.

But, this requires more careful editing of the email (e.g. to trim irrelevant quoted text), in order to remain easy to read. So as a default for lazy^H^H^H^H^H people in a hurry, top-posting makes sense, IMO.
I don't understand the confusion. Tiktok is under Chinese control and Facebook is under USA control.
If I had access to a dictionary with pronunciation symbols and a thesaurus, I could do it regardless of language.

The LLM not only has access, but has baked both its model. This problem is EXACTLY the kind of problem computers should be good at.

The real issue is that LLMs don’t think.
Haha. I definitely agree that wired loves hyperbole.
If everything is just datagrams, what good are datagrams? Are we forever bound to use deep inspection just to keep acceptable service in our networks?

Having a separate layer for data connections was a good idea for many reasons which have been clear for over four decades.
So, it took me an inordinate amount of effort to get to this point, but I find managing my nixos laptop to be idiotically easy now. And, to be clear, I'm not a developer. I just want an easy to use config that I can port over to a new laptop when the time is right (and maybe port a similar config over to my desktop as well, once I get around to installing NixOS).

It's very weird, because I went from "WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD ANYONE WANT THIS?" to "my life is now measurably better" over the span of about 48 hours, and I have no idea what clicked. Something about adding flakes to the mix (NixOS + HM + flakes) broke the logjam. Or maybe it was simply how damned useful this config was to learn from:

https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs

I went from that to a per-user, per-machine (with defaults for each) config in about an hour, and I haven't fundamentally changed that setup since. I have no idea why it's so compelling to me, but the combination of being able to tell the machine how to configure itself in one place with the ease of adding software ... I'm going to spin up a config this weekend and put it on my kid's laptop. There are other tools to accomplish the same thing, but NixOS is just so easy ... and poorly documented ... and has weird CLI conventions ... and doesn't do a super job of garbage control ... and
Ask HN: Brother printers sending ink data to Amazon?
A most unusual thing. Every once in a while I get an email from Amazon that it's time to re-order Brother ink. I always delete these because I rarely print, but also figure it's just Amazon reminding me to buy something.

Today I decided to opt out/unsubscribe once and for all. Instead I see this at the bottom of the email:

"Click here to view or manage settings, including the option to opt out if you are already using another replenishment service.

This took me to https://drs-web.amazon.com/settings

"The data shown is based on estimated consumption reported by smart devices and orders you place through Amazon."

Here it had a link to "Consumption history" which upon clicking showed me the ink levels of my Brother printer for the past two weeks. Date and time.

WTF?! It is not apparent that I can disable this function. Can anyone else duplicate?

Update : This is part of Alexa it seems, and folded in to the Dash replenishment protocol; note I have never had a Dash button.

Amazon's instructions for this were not very helpful.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201357520

Some digging revealed a Brother help document:

https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/172810/~/cancel-enrollment-%28amazon-smart-reorders%29

This bothers me quite a lot. I never authorized, opted in, or gave either device permission to connect, let alone Amazon to monitor and nag me about it!

Model: Brother MFC-J485DW

Purchased from: Best Buy, an American retailer, after July of 2019.

Firmware: N1901041316
Yes and even worse, now EU bureaucrats have mandated that Apple give up their resistance and support this inferior connector.
Or a golden parachute that’s been slashed with a knife
So Kubernetes is only in this architecture because other systems use it and its required by the parent company but not needed.

That's pretty important context.
Mihoyo specifically has a separate license for the Unity engine and the source code of Unity itself IIRC, meaning that Unity likely already struck a separate deal with them on that matter.

But yeah, the revenue on everyone else is likely what they were after.
The comment you're referencing is claiming that the Switch is non-compliant at the power delivery protocol level.

Assuming that that's true, this has nothing to do with being wired incorrectly, nor is it an implementation mistake that's facilitated by the design of the USB-C plug being reversible. It could literally happen with USB-PD over USB-A/B.
Some UK streets don't have a #13, i believe because 13 is widely considered unlucky
https://archive.ph/WmJHf
Same. I could only access computer at university, so I wrote programs at home and then just typed them in when I got access.
Maybe the castle with both was doing an A/B test
After Mao the Chinese literally had to find 80 year old retired professors living in remote mountain villages to start teaching at university.
The first graduates had to teach the next class.

Any mess can be fixed if the people will it so.
Inline and bottom posting is still very common on software dev mailing lists. It's just that those aren't quite as common themselves these days. :)
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (2022)
HDMI can be a real pain to plug in blind / by feel.
It is not true, N100 system consuming 30w at full load (or 15-25w if set in bios), and around 7-10w idle. Previous generation atoms systems were around 20w max. Even older systems like n3150 - 15w. Anything USB connected can add another 5-10w permanently.
I've used the app from an objective point of view. I no longer use the app.

I don't think the people promoting it for gardening tips are being objective. The app is _designed_ to keep you scrolling.
> You're in your own little bubble and expect people to be mind readers.

Out of curiosity, have you asked questions in Slack or Github? If so, and you had a bad experience with the interaction, I get the sentiment and would offer help. But this comment is not constructive without context.

> I'm guessing that the documentation is bad so one has to pay for support.

The NATS project has been open source for around 12 years, and part of the CNCF since 2018. This is an incorrect statement and very poor assumption to make because the documentation doesn't make sense for you.

I 100% agree it can be improved and we are working on a new docs site, but it is not quite ready.

In case its helpful, there is an increasing collection of examples on https://natsbyexample.com with new JetStream client examples among others. If you have specific requests, feel free to open issues in the corresponding repo: https://github.com/ConnectEverything/nats-by-example
Yes, we're focus mostly on scientific computing. One of our major apps is S3D, which we ported to Regent from Legion C++ [1]. This has been the first time the domain scientists have been able to modify the code themselves; previously the C++ was too much for them. There are other examples of Regent apps elsewhere in this thread.

If by "industry" you mean in areas related to HPC, then Regent is likely to be applicable to what you want. The further you get away from HPC, the less likely that would be. You probably wouldn't use Regent to write a web server, though it's not impossible....

Right now my biggest item is making sure we support all the DOE supercomputers, which means adding support for Intel GPUs. (Regent currently supports NVIDIA and AMD.)

[1]: https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/LegionRetreat22/slides/ch...
Well, you can read it ("MINUS ONE") on the front of the house if you zoom in on the StreetView photo. And the Royal Mail recognises it (try pasting "minus one, clacton" into https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode).

Though it may be a house name rather than a number.
> The 'rendered text' and the whole message may be HTML, but I don't think very many mail clients will carefully construct a version that still has the images attached and so on [when forwarding it].

I'm surprised the author thinks this. I believe most popular email clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, and all web mail clients I know) do this, and it's what users expect when they forward an HTML email, I'd think.
The girth of a power cable roughly scales with capacity though, and there are 3 common pin configurations

- 2 equal size blades

- 2 unequal size blades

- 3 unequal + ground pin

plus a fourth for 20A

- 1 vertical blade, 1 horizontal blade, 1 ground pin

USB-C cables have one form factor, which is what GP is talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector
The metrics they're using (2x its height for climbing a wall, 2x its length for crossing a gap) are weird and don't really relate to the same achievements for a traceur. 2x its height is really more like slightly over 1x its usable body for that maneuver (0.4m length, 0.51cm height of the climb). I agree, not extreme but still pretty impressive for a robot. We're not going to see them doing cat leaps any time soon ;)
> I would argue the only way to change it to allow censorship would be to call a constitutional convention to change it. Adding patches to law hasn’t been working great lately due to complexity.

I think this is the chicken-and-egg situation I'm getting at. We can't update the Constitution because it takes a convention to change it (which won't happen). So it just stays there for centuries, warts and all.

Adding patches to laws is how laws get better over time. States do that all the time when they aren't federally preempted. Other countries too.

IMO, and you can disagree, much of the Constitution is both old AND obsolete.
Wow the new one looks dumb.
Unity has immense potential to become the next meme stock.
Great feature but also a very dangerous one. Few cases of people sharing a spreadsheet with an innocuous summary pivot table, not realising they also, in the process, share the full dataset that supports the pivot with sensitive data.
Nim, Crystal, Nelua...just search for "transpilers to C" and you will get lots of examples.
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"doubling down" indeed...

One possible interpretation of events is that he was ousted not for the initial proposal and backlash but precisely for how he backtracked after the fact -- perhaps the board gave a clear mandate and Riccitiello was unable to successfully change pricing structure to match financial expectations. That would explain the replacement.

Things aren't looking great for Unity right now...
@dang - this is actually pretty interesting, particularly because of when it was written (1997). I'd suggest you add the date in the tile, it's of most interest (to me at least) as a view of where we were all at in the '90s thinking about digital records.