skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really irks me when a big company like Meta tries to describe a new project as a startup created by a "nimble team of engineers". In the blog post they link to [1]

>Threads was developed in an environment more akin to a startup.

OK sure, a small group of people broke the model of development and did something new from the ground up?

>Threads scaled successfully to 100 million users without any major downtime thanks to Meta’s underlying infrastructure and engineering foundations, which were critical to the successful launch.

Ah, no. All of the underlying hard parts were done already for them. That's not a startup.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside...
https://archive.today/7D3Mg

Study: Rapid single-particle chemical imaging of nanoplastics by SRS microscopy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2300582121.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2300582121
This is why terminating an employee has to be swift and complete. It's just too risky to bet otherwise.
That’s nice but the name is confusing: it’s not generating a wiki at all, but a documentation website with a Wikipedia-like theme. Wikis are collaborative websites; Wikipedia is only one of them.
(2019) Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965110
> Edit: my next car will probably have mandatory spyware and unlike pilots there won't be a guaranteed no blame process if something happens. It is pretty easy to see how this will be abused by insurance companies and data harvesters.

If anything, the proliferation of dash cams will (and have) lead to bad drivers being appropriately charged more for insurance than good drivers. Previously, if you were cut off and collided with someone, you were always assumed to be at fault if you were behind the other driver.
HTTPS DNS records are now supported in Vercel DNS
There are some useful cases — for example, if you're taking a rather bloated image as a base and trimming it down with `rm` commands, those will be saved as differential layers, which will not reduce the size of the final image in the slightest. Only merging will actually "register" these deletions.
It is not a goal of the type system at the moment, as we will focus on software correctness and developer experience.

However, keep in mind the Erlang VM already uses typing information (from patterns, guards, and built-in functions) to optimize code through its JIT compiler.
And yet, both can project force. Even using F-35s like the US Navy does. Not that any of that would help against Houthi rebels.
1.87km/s to reach low moon orbit

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/29861/how-easy-is-...).
Who backs Iran? Russia of course. Did you not notice the amount of Iranian drones attacking Ukraine? Other agreements between the two must be in place...This is the result of all the appeasement tactics of the last 15 years.
Based on my experiences with modern technology I don’t want aviation learning anything from tech.
Solvers aren't magic. But it turns out that many naturally occurring instances of NP-hard problems aren't the "really hard" instances that the NP-hardness proof depends on.

Solvers can also fail for really tiny problems. You simply have to try to figure out how hard (or how well adapted to the solver's heuristics) your particular problem instance is.
My apologies for the delay, Joe, I was on vacation. Now that I'm home, I gave this a try but at least on my machine writing to /dev/shm/ works as I remembered, even with --read-only:

$ docker run --read-only -ti ubuntu bash
root@3dfdab770505:/# echo "bar" > /dev/shm/foo
root@3dfdab770505:/# cat /dev/shm/foo
bar

So, again, couldn't you just write your binary to /dev/shm and execute it?
Waiting for Intel Battlemage, latest rumors says 16 GB of memory, a 256-bit wide bus, RTX 4080 level of performance in compute for 450$ MSRP. Wait and see Q3 2024. Intel software stack is more likely to challenge Nvidia's than AMD's.
I hope you never have control over people's data. Being good at catching people after the fact is not the same as being good about securing the data in the first place. Seriously, if you had important information that was leaked, it's kind of irrelevant whether the person who leaked it got fired. You still face the consequences either way.
Alaskan Airlines flight 1282: Key questions behind door plug blowout
Companies that already have two copies of their app front-end team will certainly not jump at the first hunch that they might perhaps be substituted by a third line. It's a slow process. But five years from the watershed moment of Apple ending their web push boycott (announced 22, executed 23), I expect a noticeable trend. For now, it's probably just orgs that would start from zero with an app questioning the need for a pair of native apps who might pick PWA over faux-native (electron/tauri wrapping a web UI). And perhaps some who already did faux-native, keep their app-store presence but also offer a third variant of the same running unwrapped in regular browsers.
Basically every async function isn't truly async, async is pretty tough thing to solve perfectly.
Thanks, this is very helpful. You are correct that I'm in the "design for manufacture" phase... and it's somewhat overwhelming.

With regards to the specifics, here's one of the parts - https://i.imgur.com/1oqjQ7r.png - basically a flat (bottom) piece that can be laser-cut and a cylindrical clutch-like bit with a cutout for a "flat-leaf" bolt. The idea is to pass a rotating axis through the central hole and to affix the part to it to have it rotate with the axis. Needs to be all metal as it's a high-temp (BBQ) setup.
I love that video
Up to this point, that's not been a factor considered by anyone in a position of authority.

Starship uses Methane-Oxygen, which burns way cleaner than Kerosene-Oxygen, which is used by Falcon 9.

The thing people should be concerned about are solid rocket boosters, which SpaceX does not use. Solid boosters have polluted every "untouched" alpine lake on the planet. Those have been used by the new Vulcan, Space Shuttle, and a lot of other rockets.

Tim Dodd has an excellent video and write-up on this topic:

https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution/
You should probably reference the up-to-date version which has Taiwan at #7 and Korea at #9.

https://globalinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-...
> Alaska Airlines maintenance workers had been instructed to determine why the warning light had repeatedly gone off, but the work was not done before the flight on Friday. Instead, Ms. Homendy said, workers reset the system and the plane was put back into service, though the airline restricted it from being used on flights to destinations like Hawaii.
Saudi Arabia also attempted to stop the Houthis from bombing Saudi industry, and failed. It's difficult to bomb guided missiles, because they are typically only stored 1-4 at a time in a highly mobile and disguised manner, for example inside a truck, and are only going to be exposed as they're being fired. It's a really difficult task, unfortunately. As far as I known it's never been successfully done without a ground invasion.
A Typography of Reuse
> conflict is actually not far from being constrained by production

If anyone is talking about escalation risk, production isn’t the bottleneck. We are nowhere close to being resource constrained in the Middle East.

> the US Navy may find itself with insufficient stockpiles to defend itself against the PLA

In a production contest it’s maximum sustainable flows, not stocks, that matter. (Stocks buy you time to get flows up.) To the extent challenging the PLA is a concern, boosting production to counter the Houthis is a net win.

> ability to defend against credible Chinese saturation attacks is already marginal

You’re arguing both ways. If their value is marginal, expending them now is fine.

Your broader point—I think—is correct. America doesn’t want to spread itself thin. But that’s a constraint at the CVN level. Once the carrier strike force is positioned, it’s immaterial whether it’s firing off missiles or guns.

Anyone positioning Iran et al v America et al is missing key pieces in the logistics of war.
OAuth vs. JWT: What's the Difference for Application Development
OSH Cut noted, thanks. Do you know what's their pricing level is like? For a couple of laser-cut steel pieces, about palm-sized each.
Seriously wild
I tried with a few variations, GPT 3.5 and 4 seem to be pretty aligned in not expressing themselves when not asked a question. "Our conversation seems to be in a loop, if you have anything I can help you with ..." blah
This can’t be good for inflation, can it?
It's not a rumor, it's reality: https://infrequently.org/2024/01/the-web-is-the-app-store/

> "First, browser engine choice should become a reality on iOS in the EU in 2024, thanks to the plain language of the DMA. Apple will, of course, attempt to delay the entry of competing browsers through as-yet-unknown strategies, but the clock is ticking. Once browsers can enable capable web apps with easier distribution, the logic of the app store loses a bit of its lustre."
Assuming zero impact is the arrogance. These systems are complex and human. You can’t make changes without side effects. Nothing is free and actions can have unintended consequences.
The question isn’t how much each missile/drone costs. The question is, how many of those does each side have and how quickly can you get more?

Maybe $3M missile isn’t that costly to the US, but if you have like 1000 of them and it takes 6 months to replenish the stock, while the other side has 10000 drones that they can replenish in 3 months, you have a massive problem at your hand. (The same problem Ukraine is having re: stockpiling artillery shells that are sourced from US/NATO)
The obvious answer is to deal with the source of the problem - better late than never. Unfortunately the US government has not even figured out that there is a really serious threat to them and have let the situation to spiral out of control for quite long time instead of dealing with it.
Totally agreed. If companies didn’t want to pay for Slack they would have jumped to the alternatives already.
Yeah seeing a lot of Canadian and Mexico hires.

Mexico City, especially -- general consensus is that the level of expertise is good, it's not hard to find a Spanish speaker in the US, better cultural fits, and the timezones overlap better; MXC is on Central Time. Not India-level cheap, but competitive enough.

Canada is even better in that sense, but at a higher price.

NAFTA TN visas are also attractive there, too. No H1B nonsense, and can easily bring personnel over for short (~3 year) tours.

Disclaimer: USA-ian of Hispanic extraction in Canada, so I follow these gigs reasonably closely.
Elixir is already one of the most static of dynamic langages so I'm not too surprised about the quick progress, the language is almost built for that already.

It's much easier compared to typing Ruby or JavaScript in terms of difficulty.
Didn't necessarily say they is something wrong with them :) Though in this specific case the ones I skimmed did not look very useful, and in general they are organized quite differently than FOSS projects usually organize their code, was my impression so far.
Well I think that one flew right over your head. Something Boeing couldn't achieve, so clearly the poster must have worked for Nasa.
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AMD 8000G APUs launch Jan 31, $329 8700G competes with desktop GTX1650 in gaming
Israel has been begging for the US to get more involved.

Like how they are provoking Hezbollah with their "double-tap" strikes.
> They locked down the Palestine border at the request of Israel

I'm not arguing they should do this, but what Israel actually wants right now is to allow Gaza residents to exit into the Sinai, not a blockade.
(Misunderstood the question, please ignore my above comment)
In considering these things, affordances must be made to the new abilities made possible by the computational tools now at our disposal.

Following your line of reasoning if it is perfectly legal to walk into a coffee shop and sit down and listen to what the people next to me are talking about, commit it to memory, even make notes about it, does it then follow that it should be perfectly legal, reasonable, and acceptable for a govt agency or some other organization to put microphones everywhere to record what everyone is talking about, then feed all this data into various databases and modeling systems?

Reciting something in a park is different than selling a copyrighted print of something in a park when you don’t hold the copyright. Which is much closer to what the NYT is accusing OpenAI of.

The training data not “existing” in the model is interesting, but at some point, a distinction without a difference.

If I hire an autistic savant to go to a library and read all the books, then I set up a book selling service where whenever people want to buy a book I have my savant employee type out the book for them, is it then going to pass muster in a copyright case if I tell the judge “It’s okay actually, because the books don’t actually exist in my employee’s brain, merely neuronal encodings of them.” ?

If I have a copyrighted image on which I don’t hold the copyright. But I want to start selling it to people, is it cool if I just run it through a lossless compression algorithm, thereby generating a new encoding of the information and then sell this new encoding along with the software and command to reverse the compression?

Regarding the open source stuff, there I think you might find more favor to your arguments.

But the stuff we are seeing within commercial enterprises like OpenAI and Midjourney is clearly copyright infringement.

And I don’t see copyright law being insane in these cases.
Peter Zeihan predicted that the US will gradually withdraw from being the global security guarantor as it doesn’t serve their interests anymore, and that we will see an increase in attacks on cargo ships on the open ocean.
To be fair, Khozema joined Twilio as CFO more than 5 years ago; it's not like he was brought in externally and knows nothing about the business.

But yeah: Jeff had been working toward GAAP profitability for a while now, but was unable to deliver.

I have my own feelings and biases about the company's trajectory over the past years (I worked there from 2011 until 2022), but ultimately a) Jeff lost his super-voting shares last summer, b) he didn't deliver on profitability, c) growth numbers have been unimpressive for a while now. Activist investors have been saber-rattling for most of the past year. Of course Jeff was going to get forced out, sooner or later.
The point is that they're not really comparable. Mint/Ubuntu/etc all ship the same Linux kernel, that's why they're called distros. They're different distributions (distros) of the same software (Linux kernel, etc).

The different BSDs aren't distros, they are different kernels that are developed in parallel. Obviously there's shared history there, and some shared userspace, but FreeBSD and OpenBSD aren't just two different BSD distros of largely the same software.
And do you google for studies you don't read and use them to prove a point that the studies don't address?
The Qur'an explicitly states that martyrs will die in heaven, and most Muslims believe this.

"Those who leave their homes in the cause of Allah, and are then slain or die,- On them will Allah bestow verily a goodly Provision: Truly Allah is He Who bestows the best provision. Verily He will admit them to a place with which they shall be well pleased: for Allah is All-Knowing, Most Forbearing."

- Quran 22:58–59

The virgins part on the other hand is a lot more iffy. And Muslims generally believe it's not acceptable to kill a single innocent, since the Qur'an says so, so only a very small minority support suicide bombing like 9/11 (on the argument that since US citizens fund the military, they count as soldiers, not non-combatants).

Muslims themselves have claimed not fearing death to be a reason for past military success. For instance the quote "I have bought you men who love death as much as you love life" from one of the early Muslim generals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_ibn_al-Walid . He said it to the Persians, whom the Muslim armies eventually defeated.
Autogenerating documentation that could then be corrected by a human could still have value, in fairness
The exhaust from Starship is just CO₂ and water (CO₂ causes climate change, but that's not a local effect.)

Vulcan is dirtier because of the solid rocket boosters.
Similarly, Vatican City has slightly less than 6 popes per square mile.
AFAIU, LL/SC is the more generic, powerful primitive. In theory LL/SC can be used as the hardware primitive for a much broader range of lock-free algorithms, as well as for software transactional memory generally. CAS algorithms are more commonly seen because it's the lowest common denominator, and the best x86 offered. But because of the limited number of addresses that can be monitored in hardware without sacrificing performance or efficiency, in practice LL/SC implementations are weak and only slightly more useful than [double] CAS.
Mozilla's removal of SSB support (single-site browser[0]) which is the key missing piece here is completely mystifying.

I reckon that CEO salary has to come from somewhere though.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/uwojh7/why_did_fir...
This and "standard deviation" are a couple of those terms for which I'd be interested in a definition that didn't assume quite so much domain knowledge (maybe one step above a totally naive layman's metaphor). I hear the terms all the time, but I only have intuitive statistics knowledge (averages, curves, controls, etc). I recall doing a brief Wikipedia dive once and coming up dissatisfied.
The paper is at https://paperswithcode.com/paper/baldur-whole-proof-generati...
Dollars aren't directly convertible to warmaking power. The factories and skilled labor that make weapons are a scarce resource that don't scale with mere market capitalization.

That the Russian Federation has a small fraction of US GDP but has launched more cruise missiles in a single conflict (~7500) than the US has ever produced (4000 tomahawks) is an important example of this.
I'm actively avoiding many smart devices. I do not want a connected washer/dryer/fridge/etc. I want a dumb TV. I want to replace my Roku with a homebrewed or less tracking option (not sure what). I set up a home security camera system instead of Ring.

I have an older desktop and laptop (10-15 years old), but it seems those will need to be upgraded in about 18 months due to TPM module requirements and Win11.
The US is the largest individual contributor, but the combined contributions of the EU and its member states are larger both in absolute terms and especially as a fraction of GDP. You just hear less about it, because it's generally less newsworthy. Except for Hungary's attempts to stop some EU-level programs.
Indeed. Although Texas is not a primary launch site long term. It’s a development site. The Cape is going to be a primary, with multiple Starship-capable pads.
OP posted a bit more info in this Reddit thread for anyone curious:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/agij7x/remember_t...
Is this (another) canary in the coalmine? That there's no hypergrowth lurking just round the corner for most companies.
Absolutely capable of projecting force, yes. But the commenter above pointed out that it would be an big risk for a country with two (they said one, but it's two very small) ACs to send one of them into a war zone instead of trade ships simply going around. At least that's was my read of it.

Although it's a worthwhile correction to say Italy's navy fields two ACs instead of one, I just don't think it's material to their point.
I am, and several friends in F500s and/or Big4 consulting are too. Esp. the consultants, where they're waiting for the other shoe to drop every quarter.
V8's precise field-logging remembered set
I was also on the front page earlier in the week, and I agree with your numbers. Let's call it 1/s peak.

If a page is using CGI, it's often (but not always) because it's interactive in some way. If users are interacting and generate 10 requests total, on average, you're down to only 100ms per request (which is about how long it takes my system to spin up a new python3 process and `import numpy`).
> extensive experience using guerilla tactics against better equipped occupiers

That’s fine. Let them fight their civil war. The problem is long-range precision warfare extending past their costs. Knocking out that capability doesn’t require boots on the ground.
Please fix the title.

> 95% of container ships that would’ve transited the Red Sea are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa
Shopping less is always a good idea, but it's unrelated to the situation discussed here.
It's actually a 915km trip ending up in the French Alps during winter time, so it's more taxing on the battery. We need some juice left on arrival (30%) You can test it out yourself on ABRP [0]. My trip goes from Lier, Belgium to Les Saisies, France.

With "quickest arrival" setting, ABRP does 4 stops with a total charging time of 1h25min (and 8h29 driving). The stops are 28, 18, 18 and 22 minutes respectively.

You can do it with 3 stops, and perhaps even in 2 stops during the summer and limiting speed, but then you spend more total time charging.

I like the 20 minute stops every ~2 hours. We travel with kids so the bio-break and leg stretching is appreciated. We leave in the wee morning hours so we arrive at the destination in the afternoon and avoid some of the traffic.

[0] https://abetterrouteplanner.com
I have local maker spaces on the ToDo list. One of them has a sheet metal laser cutter, the rest specialize more in woodworking. Worth a talk regardless, thanks for the nudge.
Err - it is an EASA requirement that Boeing already conforms to, I believe.
While the Houthi drone itself is inexpensive, the cost to the economy of a drone hitting shipping is substantially greater than the $3M cost of the US interceptor missile.
If you're just getting started with CRDTs I'd also recommend Seph's "5000x faster CRDTs" post[1] and also his "I was wrong. CRDTs are the future" post[2] for some nice captures of the practical challenges and opportunities in the space.

[1] https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/

[2] https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/
Eh, I get a lot of pushback in this thread. But I'll reply.

We're talking about something like a landing clearance. It doesn't have to be completely off the chart. And yes you can inject a message like that successfully, without the ATC ever knowing.

TCAS is equally broken - doesn't have authentication codes / signatures. It's actually more vulnerable since it has higher priority than ATC.

Digital modes can encode speech more efficiently than analog modes, thus reaching further on the same link budget. For example ADS-B is "audible" as far as the curvature of the planet allows - my own antenna can hear messages from up to 200mi away.

It really is a serious problem.
Does anyone have privacy at work outside the restrooms?
For Europe maybe.

The US uses the Pacific to trade with APAC.

Edit: am wrong. See below