skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to guess, it's because from the Iraq War to modern day border theater, popular image of the military ain't what it used to be. It also seems like tech intended for defense is adjacent to civilian intelligence and law enforcement use, of which there is also cynicism and fears of surveillance- see Palantir viewed as the commercial equivalent to PRISM, for instance.

The public has had substantial loss of faith in its institutions in the past couple of decades, and the military is not exempt from it. America's foreign policy has come a long way since WWII.

Politics aside, I've also seen cynicism towards Silicon Valley tech from the defense world- USAF vet and commentator Mike Black's vitriolic criticism of Anduril and other defense startups, for instance (e.g. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575677683211505665.html https://twitter.com/mikeblack114/status/1730453326817276026 https://twitter.com/MikeBlack114/status/1736481633358770353 https://twitter.com/MikeBlack114/status/1741366626006560864). Though that is tangential to your point.

But I don't think all is lost. I'm pretty sure solidly civilian organizations like United States Digital Service and 18F have good reputations, much like the Postal Service does. But all of them receive a pittance of investment compared to defense spending.
Can't wait for the next genocide in the region, all in the name of freedom
We were heading into an ice age, which would be just as bad for humans. The issue is that we built a bunch of things that depend on the current climate, but the climate has been changing for a long time and will keep changing. We need to adapt to it or find a way to adapt it.

The holocene is an incredibly small period compared to the age of the Earth. Nature doesn't gaf, it'll cycle in and out and we'll have to adapt.
Ubicloud cofounder here.

Thanks and yes, the magnitude of it was surprising to us, and that for a common use-case. The default runners you get for Github Actions if you are compiling ARM code is x86, which uses qemu emulation. That default is 10x slower vs native ARM.

Combined also with 10x higher prices, a 100x price-perf gain vs the default was unusual.
I never really thought about it, but, looking them up it looks like they're basically the equivalent of the FBI(+ATF), but also sometimes are contracted for local policing by towns too small to maintain their own department? Is that accurate?
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Well, not a developed country, but in Brazil the government can only disclose convictions (outside of the government, internally there are a few exceptions), only to the person or a security-related organization, and it's illegal to even ask for a record in a work related process unless it's about one of those security-related organizations (the Federal Police maintains a list of them). Also, the data stays there starting at the conviction and only up to the point the person is found innocent in another ruling or the penalty ends.

But the one things that keeps surprising me about the other countries isn't any of that discrimination against minor misbehaving. It is that justice promoters so often see their roles on society as harassing suspects until they break down. This seems to be the norm, and it's completely ridiculous.
Ignore the blame-the-Boomers angle. Over the past half-century or so, the ratio of Americans to square feet of residential housing has been falling relentlessly, while the cost per square foot of residential housing has been rising relentlessly. No matter how you try to slice that pie, there's gonna be a grim shortage of housing for the 99%.
https://archive.is/5Popx
+1

I thought Shop Class as Soulcraft was excellent and found the author's theories on the lack of job and life satisfaction among those doing "knowledge work" compelling.

It reminded me of the movie Margin Call when Kevin Spacey's character, who manages a trading floor for a wall street investment firm, laments that if he'd been a ditch digger, at least he'd have a bunch of holes left behind as evidence he accomplished something.
Missed a detail! It should be an IE4 (or so) window half obscured by a stack of junk "toolbars".
I believe this is implemented in Russia: I did not check that but when I sign up for some streaming service, after some time they start begging me to watch something and then stop charging me. I guess they may only charge on the months when I've showed up. They may resume it immediately when I come back, though.

Myself would like to know how that works in detail.
I have no idea what you mean. Can you clarify?
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The EMVCo link is actually more interesting. The payment tokenization scheme means that the merchant never gets your card number (the PAN), they get a token.

> EMV Payment Tokenisation enhances transaction security by removing the most
valuable data to a fraudster within a transaction, the primary account number (PAN), and replacing it with a unique alternative value, a payment token.

> This reduces the value of payments information stolen in the event of a data
compromise, as a payment token should not be able to be used beyond the
environment in which it was intended. Payment tokens support both face-to-face
(F2F) and remote payment transactions.

Basically, if Amazon leaks my credit card data, thieves can’t use it because the number is associated with my Amazon account only. That one token can be cancelled and the next time I buy something a new one is issued and I don’t have to replace my credit card just because one merchant leaked my info.
They may need a trucking job, though. It depends quite a bit on where they turnover to.

If they're largely jumping from trucking company to trucking company, a strike is still entirely feasible.
Upside Down Glasses?
Well, it's impossible to say without the opportunity to experiment. It's certainly difficult to believe nobody would take advantage of this if they could.
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Well, your opinion is not grounded in reality. Nearly every item in space that is man-made was put there for commercial purposes. The space race may have started out with government/exploration, but it was vastly propelled by commercial interests seeking to deliver services around the planet.
As someone whose been accused before of something I didn’t do, by people who were damn sure I had done it, it can be a very stressful traumatic experience, it doesn’t sound like a big deal until it happens to you. Don’t just hurl nasty messages at someone you don’t know and don’t even have 100% proof they have wronged you.
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This sort of thing exists in many areas, not just subscriptions.

Starbucks has over $1.5B (something like 17% of its free cash, don't quote me though) in the form of spare change lingering on Starbucks Cards. It fundamentally affects their financials, but is also perceived as just spare change slipping into the couch.
Yep! When I was in school and learning about semiconductors I was so interested that I went to the library for further reading and dropped by the physics department to ask questions, purely for my own edification. But I chose to pivot towards software due to the career prospects.
Because there's not currently a genocide happening in the region?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
If you clicked on the video it was the DIY perks video...
I am not saying it is a silver bullet.

I'm saying it is making some development - those that are well aligned with the frameworks qualities - particularly efficient. Efficiency and productivity are everything. Productivity is often a major contributor in bridging the gap between cancelled and released, between painful and pleasant, between under-featured and full-featured, between abandoned and maintained, between unprofitable and profitable.

So while not saying things are simple to describe and compare, they are not, Dear ImGui focus on high-productivity is the reason why it has been adopted by some people.

> without ImGui the authors would have abandoned the idea of creating these tools in the first place.

It is probable those particular authors would have, yes.

I meant, it's not a secret that many engineers are totally afraid or uninterested in UI programmers. A common feedback is of certain people saying "hey, dear imgui made UI programming fun for me". So I'm confidently saying that SOME software wouldn't have existed without dear imgui. It being so brutally different in term of philosophy, coding style, culture, by definition makes it reach a different crowd.

> implies that ImGui is either more full-featured or (if you meant time) is faster to develop with compared to a traditional retained mode GUI.

Dear ImGui is clearly LESS full-featured than e.g Qt, but for some uses is is faster to develop with than most other frameworks.
The description of people migrating from developing countries (that to a large extent are still reeling from the West's previous colonization efforts and current neo-colonialist control) as "colonizing" the foreign country angers me on so many levels I can't even explain it in words.

I hope one day humanity will surpass its empathic barrier of societies. It might be too much to hope for, I suppose.
Why should they have to leave their homes? It isn't on them to provide for "young families" and according to the article they own a quarter of large homes.... that leaves the majority of said market out of their hands.

This reeks of populist nonsense from CNN.
No, it implies they were willing to pay more than the alternative user. Makes sense, a retail customer will always pay more for a tomato than a canning factory.
The only mention I can find that gitea is open core comes from forgejo. Do you have some kind of proof that there are parts of gitea that are not MIT licensed?
Because once you're inside the country you will never get kicked out, unless you actively cooperate with the authorities.
You issue a chargeback. It's been a while since I've worked on these systems, but IIRC back in the day you would get a refund and they would be penalized an extra $25 or so on top of it. If they get too many they can loose their merchant account.

We always made cancels easy in our system, and if someone issued a chargeback we would ban their email from signing up again.
why do couch cushions sag so much? Is there a certain type of cushion that holds up better or something we can do? So many couches just look horrible because the cushions have lost all their shape after a year.
so? btw i did briefly (on mute) and was wondering it the commenter was joking or trolling, but it doesn't really matter.
That's the idea with the expiry date, and the CVV, and the zip code. The problem is, it doesn't seem possible to convince businesses not to hold on to whatever security info is required to charge the card in plain text, so whatever the relevant details are inevitably get leaked from some hotel or eCommerce giant that really shouldn't have them in the first place, but hasn't set up a way to securely verify credentials with the bank without literally recording them.

You can keep adding on additional pieces of bullshit information customers need to remember all you want, none of it will matter as long as banks and credit card companies don't force businesses to treat them as actually sensitive information.
My nostalgia is mostly for the Bitnet chatrooms from the mid-80s. Especially the "hot tub channel". I didn't know it was possible to be that lascivious in plain text!
This requires government regulation. Sorry but the free market incentivizes bad behavior in this instance. If it means that the price of a subscription will go up cause they can no longer extract payments from the lazy/forgetful then so be it.
Just did this with Xfinity an hour ago.

I didn't even _forget_, per se: been trying to cancel online for months. It says they'll call you, then they never do, and _then_ I forget until I see the next billing statement. Finally went into the store this morning, but without any proof of previous attempts on hand, all they could do was cancel as of today.

Frankly, they couldn't even give me a paper confirmation, and they say the email confirmation will come in a day or two, so this probably isn't even over yet.

I actually did get a screenshot of the most recent attempt, but everyone involved knows I'm probably not going to find it worth my time to fight it. They win.
Good context, but not a geopolitical crisis, it was an internal civil conflict.
Oh please, you have a right to privacy in your own homes, but not in shared roads where your driving can endanger others. I welcome this news and hopefully one day we have traffic cameras across every block in the country, that have already proven to reduce speeding/reckless and driving, and to directly impact the ~40k deaths we have on the roads each year.
> it literally cannot fail at this point

Ahh, the magic words that cause any venture to fail
> You are correct, but you are also ignoring the fact that we are no longer living in ancient greek time.

Even today, people still read and are influenced by Plato and Aristotle.

> I did not claim that Christianity invented good & evil. I claimed that it is a central concept in Christianity.

You claimed you don’t believe in evil because you are not a Christian. Not being a Christian and not believing in evil have little connection with each other, given billions of non-Christians believe in evil.

> Your way of reasoning here is often referred to as a straw mans argument.

You argument was too unclear to strawman.
Virtualization.framework does most of the things Firecracker does on Linux. It's not literally the same, of course, but it does a comparable amount of the work for you. Here's an example application which uses it:

https://github.com/apinske/virt/blob/master/virt/virt/main.s...

And yes, that's really the whole thing. Once the VM is configured (which is what most of the code is concerned with), running it is fully handled by the framework.
>He is from the secular demographic

This is an understatement. He was purged from the military and jailed by Islamists/Gülenists/Erdoğan using fabricated evidence and cultist judges, for "attempting a secularist coup".

I don't think it is "essentially" for propaganda. This would happen regardless, propaganda is just a side-benefit. Saying that he's "just a space tourist" would be like calling scientists that go to Antarctica for experiments "polar tourists". It is definitely overblown by the government media though.
I still don’t understand the process of learning ML, like sure we build micrograd but is it only didactic exercise or can we use it to train it to do something serious on our own hardware?
I had to lookup for that too: milque·toast: A timid or feeble person.
You probably also want to live in some sort of building, at least during Winter. Which is pretty much impossible to do frugally now, at least round here. I know people who live in vehicles etc, but it's a pretty challenging life, especially once you're older (and those people also work).
The sharp ramp up of US oil production happened under the "all of the above" energy policy of Obama, who famously opposed that burning and bombing.

Energy independence is vastly preferable to waging war, and may be worth making some environmental tradeoffs for — even if we would like to see cleaner alternatives to fracking in the long run.
To be fair, the System76 laptops aren't comparable to the desktops (Thelio line).

The laptops are whitelabeled iirc. Whereas the Thelio is designed in-house. I love my Thelio personally - nice form factor + easy to open up and add drives etc.
This also keeps me away from sourcehut. I like everything else about it but this is a deal breaker.
OK, so you agree that most consumers have more money and therefore are willing to tolerate higher prices.

This seems like the only explanation given that a minority of consumers cant eat all the eggs, beans, and produce to drive the market.
There was a very large (20-40M tons) deposit recently discovered on the border of Oregon and Nevada. https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2023/09/22/report-of-giant-lit...
Do you run the model locally on your computer or how do you use it as an alternative to ChatGPT?
Note that System76 laptops are not built or designed by them. They're whitelabeled.

These Thelio desktops are in-house, and they are way better than the laptops.
Atlas Air Flight 5Y095 is a Boeing 747-8.
My advice would be never to purchase anything from Haier, IoT or not. We had a washer drier that had to be repaired three times because of an enormous design flaw causing it to overheat to a dangerous extent. I did eventually somehow manage to persuade them to collect it, after more than a year of back and forth with their nice, hardworking and entirely powerless customer service team. After the device was collected it then took more than six months for me to get my money back. Never again.
> I cannot imagine passing the math tests based on rote learning.

why not. Its not exactly rote learning like a parrot. You just learn tricks and patterns in problems. Tests usually have a limited amount of patterns.
white bread

prudish

square

no fun
It has to do with the company's balance sheet - their list of assets which they use to borrow money.

If they have 1000 units that they say are worth $1 million each, they can borrow from banks as if they are sitting on $1 billion of assets.

If they sell one of those units at $500K, they now look like they have $500 million, which not only impedes their future borrowing but can trigger obligations to their current lenders.
If we're being particular about definitions, then I wouldn't say that space tourism or any kind of tourism market is promoting capitalism.

I think the criticism upthread was aimed more generally at large undertakings for the sake of profit with barely anyone getting goods/services out of the deal, which does fit space tourism.
Discussed at the time:

Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10148064 - Aug 2015 (9 comments)
What’s the alternative? Everyone knows it’s the eventual ruin and end of Germany (and much of the West has the same problem) but that’s still generations away. The current existing people who understand that the entire government run social system can’t work unless more people can pay into it are obviously making the best out of 2 bad choices. And the locals aren’t reproducing so they’ve essentially have said that the idea of Germany (and more generally the west) isn’t important. At least not as much as ensuring they can continue to receive state run benefits that only work with growing populations generally.

So what’s the solution if not this? The entire developed world is seeing a drop in fertility and reproduction so they’ll all eventually be fighting for people from places that are - Africa and Middle East and some other regions.
There's apparently some kind of service that automatically updates payment processors when you get a new card. Seems kind of stupid since one of the main reasons to get a new card is that is compromised and you might just end up sending the new card info to the same company that lost it or is refusing to cancel your subscription.
Apple does this for older devices signing into iCloud!
I guess their selling point is the container registry?
No, but all the code generation was happening in the server itself so I dont know how hard and fast it applies, iirc SQL Server's limits are like 64k x packet size.
Sounds like a multi-million dollar business opportunity for a relatively cheap monthly service that automatically cancels services you don't use.
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Completely agree with this. Did you work at Google?

Let me explain this a little more in concrete terms: are you passionate about what you do? Do you have pride in your work and want to create great, valuable (to users of course, but also profitable) software? You will probably dislike working at Google.

First, if you’re an engineer, you’re basically not going to be empowered to make important product-level decisions on anything people care about until you’re a well-established L6 or L7. Even then, you’re more of a voice in the room with the Product Managers and Directors/VPs (you might have 5 directors+ VPs who also are on your product) and business stakeholders for the little chunk you’re actually responsible for. Google is extremely hierarchical, not just in terms or a deep org chart but in empowerment, for a variety of reasons I won’t get into. Nobody will listen to you or care until you’re at this point, your ideas and suggestion will be treated like a child at the Thanksgiving kid’s table asking for a glass of wine.

Ok, so become a product manager. Well then you have to deal with the fact that you are amazingly constrained by things outside of your control, like the headcount and capacity of engineering teams who have to handle a bunch of internal migration bullshit, want to refactor or rewrite something for no business reason except because it’s easy coasting material, and handle requests from a dozen other PMs. You have to deal with a ton of bureaucracy and process bullshit just to get your product ideas turned into reality. You have no idea what’s easy and what’s hard because engineering at Google is different than at other companies (the “impossible” is just hard, but the “easy” is also hard). You’re not empowered to step in and code and design even if you can and want to. You are gonna spend a lot of time writing SQL and docs nobody cares about and still need to make it to a high “level” to matter.

Well what happens if you do get to that high level? Then you’re in charge of a million and one things and mostly doing performance management. You don’t have time to care about a product - you are the gatekeeper of it and can have strong opinions, but you simply do not have time to be passionate about it, because you have too many responsibilities and are too far removed from the actual work/product/users. You still have a deep management chain above you to contend with, you play political games for HC and need short term wins to secure it, you’re probably in a different stage of your life where your passion project is either career (not product) and/or family.

It’s still a great place to learn, the pay and benefits are still good, you still probably get to work on something cool. But your ambitions and passion will be crushed unless you can endure a decade+ of being a ~nobody. If you truly want to build something amazing you’ll have to go elsewhere.
https://archive.ph/RrXWo
unfortunately it's much more insidious, they are both priced exactly the same. no one's the wiser until the police hit you up, or you try to fly abroad.