skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The voyager program was on a somewhat tight budget so I would imagine that had an impact. Having volatile memory is arguably a really good thing since it’s allowed them to patch the FSW on the vehicle in space a bunch of times, which a pretty common thing for spacecraft nowadays but would have been unheard of when it launched.
That's pretty first order shallow near sighted thinking though.

What about the things depended upon by the things upon which we depend?

You have some basic understanding of the general web of life support and codependancy that makes up our environment I would hope.
I remember having to use it at an employer many many years ago. The documentation was horrible and nothing was intuitive about the XML.
In my case not just visual studio but the work it would require to figure out all I figured out on windows. Creating VMs, websites, interacting with system features, lots of trivial and not so trivial things to learn. I have tons of home scripts in C#, would probably need to rewrite most of them, likely using different libraries, I am still stuck on .net 4.8 because of that. I would love to switch though. I just don't have the bandwidth.
here is a short demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rrOoAdC7b0
Reasons you should not use Martini · Stephen Searles
It's worth reminding yourself that there are people at MS actively working to make your lives worse. I'm curious how they feel about implementing such things --- or, when they initially decided to come up with the idea of rewriting the taskbar and removing a bunch of features, was there no opposition from the employees who clearly use Windows themselves? No power users work at MS?

I wonder how long it'll be before someone comes out with a "distro" that combines the Windows 11 kernel with the Windows 2000/XP userland. WinPE 11 exists, and it actually has some bits of UI that still look like Win7.
I doubt one in a hundred have actually read any part of the original sources. They get what they know from fifteen second videos.

This is not their fault, however. Reading long form is becoming a specialized skill.
Related: How a Completely Blind Manager/Dev Uses Emacs Every Day - Parham Doustdar - https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/08/
I'm not sure that's a capability specific to volatile memory, merely R/W memory. R/W memory already existed on prior NASA computers in the form of magnetic core RAM (as opposed to magnetic rope memory which served as ROM).
Earlier HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927682
Where is there no current? The video says 300A if I heard correctly
What's not going to change in the next 10 years? (2019) [pdf]
Whether a video was staged absolutely impacts how funny it is
> Their adversary collects hardware backdoors like baseball cards.

link?
I think I would miss how seamless is RDP too. I have a lots of VMs at home (simplifies backups, or allows to have a machine behind a VPN without affecting connectivity of the main machines).
You're being downvoted on only 1/4 of the points you made, but the other 3/4 is true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307
Seems like issue is a shift from high margin sales representative lead growth to low margin mass where you don’t need sales people to convince you to buy it. Then there is no way to justify the sales team, so they don’t support it. The company is beholden to them, and they sabotage the move to mass market.
After having used Windows for over 20 years (XP to 10), I decided to switch to Linux a year and a half ago and I'm happy for it. The requirement for a Microsoft Account and nonsensical UI changes requiring more clicks to reach the settings I want was annoying but not a deal breaker at first. Microsoft has also been trying to make Windows more like MacOS, or a mobile tablet, since Windows 8 which I don't like.

What really made me worry about the future of the Windows ecosystem is the increasing amount of telemetry and Microsoft's endless attempts at trying to monetise every part of the system at the expense of my user experience, even if I paid for a license.

Making the base OS usable by disabling telemetry (and Cortana) hidden away in the settings has become a hassle. The UX dark patterns trying to make me switch from Firefox to Edge has become tiring for me. Them experimenting with ads in the file system, even if it was an experimental feature that was "never meant" for public release, made me wonder how far they were willing to push it in future Windows iterations, so I made the switch.

Edit: Worth mentioning that I switched to Fedora XFCE and I stuck with it because it doesn't get in the way of my workflow. I also noticed that it doesn't use as much background resources as W10 which is great.
Now do Emacs. 2 minutes od searching didn't hit anything :)
Yes, they are losing users over this. Although I have also heard of technologically capable people running into having their system auto-upgraded somehow and now using 11. Don't ask me how in the world they accept this. If that happened to me, I would reinstall the previous OS, even out of principle alone.

And then MS seems to think they are doing any better with their online office suite. Well no, there are many people, who even want to quit their jobs, because of having to use that shit and how dystopian bad it is. MS losing more reputation there as well.

I feel there is a notion now, that MS is simply no longer able to make any quality software product. They got VSCode, but that will be enshittified before long as well.
In This case it’s individuals owed the money and people like you using corporations to prevent their need to pay them.
> You still can? The binary has to be notarized, but Apple doesn’t take a cut, you can run your own store and sell a game.

Yes, however the binary did not have to be signed back then - and I didn't need to pay apple for the privilege of writing software for their OS.

> Also, about little snitch specifically, obdev now sells are more user-friendly version in the App Store that uses the new user space filtering API.

And again, Apple takes their cut and more or less forced Obdev to go in that direction. I agree with you about dubious kexts - however it's just a trend I note - antivirus / third party software filled that hole in the past.
Switched to MacOS 10 years ago. Never looked back. And I started with DOS, teached WindowsNT on admin level and kept my Windows installations “alive” through fiddling with the registry (while everyone reinstalled it). Nowadays I live more and more in the terminal…
Ask HN: What is the last thing you will trust AI with?
You're developing a product to make money. How are you learning about growth?
If you're a developer most probably marketing and growth is not in your scope.

But building a product for profit requires growth.

How are you learning about it? What are your resources? Newsletters? Blogs? Books?
Another indication that the soul searching and decay inside Microsoft is doing its thing (in cycles). It’s a pity seeing a multibillion company not focusing on its core values.

HN readers of a certain age, will for sure remember Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows Me :-) Windows 11 feels the same for me, and is the reason why it’s not installed in any of my PCs.

Mind you, it’s not that macOS is in a better situation, it’s following the same trajectory for some years now.

This is what happens when a big and established company gets tired and starts loosing its soul (see Boing).
You need to be able debug optimized builds. That's a requirement of the real world if you're a software engineer.

Just learn how to use gdb, it's quite capable.
Essentially averaging. To put it simply, noise is random while the signal is not. So if you average 2x the noise reduces but sqrt(2) but the signal remains. Keep doing that and you have the signal appear out of the noise.

GPS operates at a negative SNR. That also uses code division multiple access to allow multiple transmitters to operate on the same frequency and the signals do not interfere.
We have much better chances of designing a cryptography system today that can survive 50 years of math, and with computers a billion times faster we can make the encryption O((1.something)^billion) times harder to brute force. Nothing in the 70s was capable of resisting today's attacks.

You mention a one-time pad in another comment. In theory they could have sacrificed a bunch of tape space to store a pad for commands.
If anything, this offers utility operators a massive new revenue opportunity. Drone fleets could pay to "perch" and recharge (giving unlimited range and ubiquitous charging), all just by reusing existing infrastructure. No need for a massive new infrastructure buildout, and "nothing left to take away" design.

Big future for whoever can successfully commercialize this.
A patch was sent to Voyager 2 yesterday (Oct) (2023)
The only reason Microsoft still have the old control panel is because they haven't gotten around to removing it entirely yet. The old UI has been slowly being killed off for years now. If you think that they're keeping it around to keep people happy then you're very much mistaken.
By “killed” GP means “cannibalised” not “cancelled”. They out-competed the iPod while it was still hot.
If you don’t mind paying a subscription, I find Roon hugely superior to PlexAmp.
You mean mechanical turks to train AI? Or in what way they are "all the way down"?
Funny, how many GNU/Linux desktop environments allow you to do that easily, while being developed by a handful of people, while MS has probably hordes of people working on the UI of Windows. They just don't seem to get it or have complelety incapable UI/UX designers or something.
Same, but I just gave up after 2 days. I really wish there was a one-click option in VS.net to create an installer that checks/pulls the required version of runtime, installs the target exe, all its DLL dependencies, and all custom files marked for release.

It's what 99.9% of apps need, so why is there no "do the defaults" path? You even need to pass things through the Heat generator to get multiple resulting files listed automatically. This is not an exclusive Wix issue though - no project offers that as far as I can tell and it really sucks.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/10/08/176195/nsas-own-...

MIT Technology Review -- NSA’s Own Hardware Backdoors May Still Be a “Problem from Hell”

"This month, news reports based on leaked documents said that the NSA itself has used that tactic, working with U.S. companies to insert secret backdoors into chips and other hardware to aid its surveillance efforts. That revelation particularly concerned security experts because Hayden’s assessment is widely held to be true."
So they're saying that one memory chip in the FDS has failed, representing 3% of the FDS's memory.

The FDS memory seems to be CMOS, which was apparently novel at the time of launch[0]. I suppose that means it's static RAM. I have a notion that at least some CMOS SRAM came in 8-bit wide chips, storing 1-4 Kb. So that would imply total RAM of between 20Kb and 80Kb. I haven't managed to track down many definite numbers or facts.

It's programmed in FORTRAN77; it's a very long time since I was adjacent to FORTRAN, but as I recall, all variables were global. I'm sure it's tricky to write code that works even if there's a hole in physical memory; but I guess the absence of heaps and caches must help a lot.

[0] https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/voyager-mission-annive...
As a software developer, I think I should be almost exclusively working in the top right (important, not urgent). If there is something I need to do urgently then I view this as someone (maybe me) screwing up.

It's also not obvious to me why "urgent, not important" gets handled any differently to "not urgent, not important", except that you have to be extra vigilant not to be distracted by the former.
Absurd crackpot nonsense it may be, but it does have at least one point.

> So, let’s begin by pointing out the obvious: the Large Hadron Collider is a Large Horizontal Collider. It is flat. Almost all other experiments are horizontal.

I doubt a Large Vertical Collider, stretching 8% of the way to space, would find something different: the main purpose is to give the particles lots of energy. But, I mean, it might. We haven't checked. (For a less crackpot example, as of 2014 nobody'd tried the Michelson-Morley experiment vertically: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/99448/105169) Science is all about checking things: that's what distinguishes the empiricists from the rationalists.

Robert A. Wilson is committing the cardinal, and very human, sin of going "other people don't know what they're talking about, therefore I'm right" – and that's what makes him a crackpot. (Well, that and the incessant prediction-free, reasoning-by-analogy that's like an exaggerated Eliezer Yudkowsky or Stephen Wolfram.) He claims to have refuted things that he simply… hasn't. But he's not wrong about the "other people don't know what they're talking about" bit.

Robert, if you're reading this, I'd appreciate an explanation of "I looked at the mathematics, and that’s what they are, real honest-to-goodness Standard Model common or garden gluons." from https://robwilson1.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/god-spins-coins/. I'm pretty sure you just imagined it, because your writing style matches the way I think when I'm overexcited and imagine things, but if you do have some kind of mathematical argument, I'd probably find it fun to read. (And perhaps enlightening: by my lay understanding of the standard model, they should be photons, but I don't really understand anything about particle physics.)
this assumes the programmer knows how to change app settings; ive seen many a great programmers know quite little about the actual apps they install (or comes with) and use; dont even get me started about folks who "program" but simply just edit a file and dont use the actual app to test things (and instead rely on build-systems) - strange i must say, but it happens so much im not surprised by it, just forever saddened
as someone with about 15y exclusive (and then on and off basis) windows experience and then 10y of mac experience I'm finally contemplating moving to Linux... before I moved to mac I already tried to use open source, multi platform apps (libre office, thunderbird for example) so the switch was relatively painless. And I also stopped playing that many games (age and mac limitations). I also use a lot of Linux (mostly servers and mac shell) and got steam deck recently and oh gosh it's so nice - everything just works, you can run virtually any game and it's not so imposing as windows or mac
Your dupe link goes right back here
Why AWS Supports Valkey
Difference is a crawler paces the requests, respects robots.txt and rate limits, and doesn't typically invoke 50-100MB disk I/O per request.

Like I don't mind automated access to my search engine, I even offer a public API to the effect, that you can in fact hook into SearXNG. What I mind is when one jabroni with a botnet decides their search traffic is more important than everyone else's and grabs all the compute for himself via a sybil attack.
You clearly have no idea how complex routing is if that is your take on this.
Nah, we offshored too much and are bringing enough back. The cycles are good. As a leader we need to bring up the rest of the world. We’ll always be in the “losing” position because there’s nowhere more up to go. Basically normal cycles are happening, there’s room to criticize but overdoing it and correcting is expected, life is a big sine wave in so very many ways, we’re taught to expect constant small growth but that’s just not how the universe works.
A proof of concept is t really the same thing as a lot of the stories here because the entire point of a POC is to literally prove if a concept works (the clue is in the name). If a concept doesn’t work then that’s still a successful POC because you’ve then saved more time that would have been spent building out a MVP.
Crazy, Huh?
So true.
The only moral dev tool is a HEX editor.

Or, for those less capable, also add a C compiler, as any newer language is guaranteed to have either runtime overhead or wasteful compile times.
I'm not a professional Office user, but I personally found OnlyOffice to be a very suitable replacement (you can get the FOSS version on Flathub)
[[gnu:: artificial]]
You can disable the AI
Sorry, I don't know about an Emacs plugin. All the plugins/extensions I'm aware of are listed in the Readme.md: https://github.com/andreasfertig/cppinsights/#c-insights--vi...

I'm happy to add an entry for Emacs once somebody develops a plugin for that editor.
The more of this the better.
I have read at least a dozen strips of Dinosaur Comics, but only one at a time. (Mostly end up there through the link on xkcd)

Until I read your comment I have never noticed that the artwork of the strips is indeed exactly the same and only the text differs between strips.
Wonderful stuff!
>The ore is sitting right there, in coalesced lumps, on the floor

So then we're going to gently pluck them off the ocean floor, without disturbing anything else?

Or would it be more of a "grind up everything and spit out the lumps" job? :-\

Be honest, now...
In reality, the number of dimensions will always be more than 2, often several magnitudes more. Is there a good way to visualize the Pareto front for higher dimensions?
I feel if there's more nuance on the urgency dimension than just "urgent" and "not urgent".

I judge problems in the urgency dimension by "what will happen if I don't do this?" Will my boss be angry at me? Will I get fired? Will there be fines (e.g. tax paid late)? Will a potentially incurable disease be detected too late if I delay this medical appointment? etc.

Two tasks due next week, one of which will officially miss a deadline but not much will happen if I do it a day later, vs. a tax deadline, I'd better work on the tax first, so if it happens that there isn't enough time to do both then at least I've done the one which would have the worst consequences for not doing it.
> accurately

Not nearly accurate enough to make insulin dosing decisions, which is all diabetics care about.

For the foreseeable future, non-invasive glucose monitors will be like the scales that measure your body fat through electrical impulses. A neat toy, but not actually useful for medical purposes.
Could this eventuality happen to Google, Nvidia, or Apple?
Do you guys remember that blog whe a guy describe his worst project which started utterly complicated and ended with a static web page with a phone number on it ? I Think it qualifies
"Startups for the rest of us" podcast is alright.
Replacing Complicated Hashmaps with SQLite
I've always been fascinated by forum up/down voting patterns. It's a lens onto human group behaviour.

I've said things that are totally wrong and been voted up, and said things that are essentially correct except for some tiny detail and been voted down into oblivion.

What especially gets people riled up is if there's an element of tribalism involved. Can be anything: text editors, political party, operating system, programming language, or whatever. You don't even have to be pro/anti any specific tribe. Just mentioning anything to do with such a topic gets people worked up and angry even if your point is strictly neutral or objective.

It's always fun to watch this play out in the microcosm of some obscure topic...
Hey, I'm one of the creators of the printer, and I'll take your skepticism as compliment :)
Yes, there were tons and tons of design challenges, but by strategically focusing on the important parts (like the laser) to concentrate our development efforts in and coming up with some clever solutions along the way, we were able to overcome most of the challenges. Remember when formlabs came out of nowhere back in 2011 and blew up the whole SLA world? We are just doing the same for SLS!

Currently, we are working with beta testers and will be sending review units out to content creators before launch so you can get a better idea of how it all works. In the meantime, if you submit a part on https://www.micronics3d.com/quote, we can print it for you to see for yourself!

This is our first video coming out of stealth and more will come in the future, so get subscribed!
The gripper has several modes. There's a mode for charging the battery and providing holding force given AC powerline current, a mode for just holding the drone without charging given AC powerline current (if battery is full), and another mode where a small current (about 1W power) is taken from the battery and used to provide holding force in the case where there is no powerline current. Additionally, the gripper can be designed to fail open or fail closed, whichever is deemed appriate for the end-user.
And yet there are stories of people ignoring the company direction, continuing work, and saving the company.

See: The Blue LED
https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M?feature=shared

So it’s not clear that the company knows better. Feels like educated guesses but a lof of luck involved.
I feel like this exists so that people who use their kindle will pay trn bucks to turn it off.
The Grand Tour alignment was less about being able to visit the outer planets, and more about being able to do it cheaply. One spacecraft was able to visit four planets! That's rare! If you're willing to launch four different probes to visit those four planets, it's not trivial to do, but it's not hard. (Jupiter's position basically sets your launch windows.) And just hurling something out into the black as fast as possible pretty much is trivial.

If you can round up the money for the spacecraft.
Google’s entire business is based on scraping stuff no-one asked them to so they can go fuck themselves if they don’t like it. The same applies to Facebook. The gall of these companies trying to “ban” public web scraping when they’re the prime movers in that domain is quite something.
I don't think the right solution for feeling hostage of a proprietary OS is to switch to another proprietary OS.
The Peter Higgs example that people throw around is just not a good one.

Higgs was simply among the first to publish an idea that several other people came up with basically simultaneously. He then essentially sat on his hands for the remainder of his academic career, at least scientifically, with a dismal output of less than one not-too-impressive paper per decade - at what was arguably the most exciting time for particle physics.

For all I know he was an admirable teacher and colleague, but I really think that in a world without Peter Higgs we would not have seen a noticeable regression of theoretical particle physics.

There do exist Nobel prize winners from that era who really changed the field, often beyond their prize-winning work: people like Anderson, 't Hooft, Wilson, Weinberg, Gell-Mann, and many others. But Higgs is just not one of them.
Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers.

The intent of SearXNG is to be stateless (with no sessions on the server) and to work without JavaScript.

However, this approach limits certain features because of the restricted size of cookies (and other forms of browser storage require JavaScript).
Microsoft will provide Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10, start at $61 for first year, $122 for second year and $244 for third year.
I used to be a part of a 40-person strong team trying to deliver a glorified contact form based on an MVP which was originally done in Ruby on Rails in three months.

Spent half a year there, after which my sub-team's component was removed from scope and the sub-team in question dissolved.

I'm still in touch with most of my squad several years after that, as we had great chemistry, but the project itself reportedly went way over time and budget(despite shrinking the staff to less than half), costing the department that was responsible for it a significant chunk of its budget.

I guess the real use of the project were all the friendships we made along the way.
> Don’t use adverbs