skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Afaict you don't send your location data to Google. You just made that up? Do you have a reference?

(In general, I think it'd be a far bolder cultural victory to go create their own new thing, rather than focusing on a modest punking of the appstore. I also think that's a much harder task! They do seem to have some interesting innovative distributed systems ideas that could become a powerful next level experience, called DSoftBus. But what an undertaking!)
Maybe weaker than Russia before the war? They have been bled dry since.

But it doesn't really matter: collective defense is the whole point of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
>US has air superiority. Other NATO air forces are likely weaker than Russians.

A superior air force and air superiority are different concepts. The latter refers to a conflict-time status in a particular theatre.
The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)
I disagree that failing to hit targets is a significant tactical victory.

But I agree that they should continue the strike campaign. They can't do much else on the battlefield right now. It's the right thing for them to look at areas they can raise cost and complexity for the Russians. I just wouldn't round it up too much...

I disagree that Russia is losing a war of attrition on economy (look at Russia's economy vs Ukraine's!). On a materiel side, maybe, Russia is using a lot of its stockpiles and those will eventually dwindle. But Russia is not somehow out of the fight when those stockpiles get low. On the other side of attrition, Ukraine is low on military aged men, artillery, fortifications, air defense. There's a strong argument to be made that Russia is the one winning the war of attrition, at least for the foreseeable future.

Russia is winning right now. But that doesn't mean it will win. The future isn't determined. I agree with you that a prolonged war won't necessarily go Russia's way, and that it may eventually lose the will to continue.
Indeed. I’ve relied heavily on SQS for years and never regretted it. I question the comparison to SQS for this add on — it’s not really in the same ballpark.
NOAA Aurora Dashboard (aurora predictions for the next two nights): https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper...
assuming exponential growth in capacity is a big assumption!
The problem is that universities can't really be "disrupted" by newer, leaner startups, because what they sell is intangible prestige, not something more concrete and objective.

If the purpose of university was only to prepare you for professional exams, or something similar with projects, it would be straightforward to start a new one that managed better results for its students on less money. But how do you rapidly develop prestige as a new business, on a budget? It's practically impossible.

The system as it is massively favors incumbents. States can still start new universities because they can easily subsidize them, and people usually have some trust in their states to provide an okay education. But a new private entrant? Good luck!
We should be ashamed of every dollar wasted on this lazy-middle-class-New-Deal that wasn't spent helping children in poor schools in the same nation. Luckily, the research for how best to help those schools is being done in Universities.
One thing I always think about with these kinds of codes: what would they have said if the snow conditions were actually bad and they had to abandon their base?
But they don't do anything useful?

What is there to "administer" to this extreme extent?

In the past, there were very few of these administrators, and more professors. And we made lots of really great advances then, as now.
Some feedback: In the readme file at the top you want to describe the problems that Grace solves. This is what I read and parsed:

> cloud-native version control system.

Not a problem I thought I needed to solve, but okay. Also this means I can't easily run it locally?

> easy to use, easy to understand

I already understand git, so does everyone on my team, and everyone that interviews...

> And it's powerful, ready to handle large repositories and large file sizes.

Is large files the main problem this solves?

> Grace Server scales up by running on Kubernetes and massive PaaS services from large cloud providers.

Even when I was running Git servers for large companies this wasn't a problem I had ...

> Grace Client runs in the background, making it ambient, faster, and more valuable to your everyday work as a developer.

How is that more valuable?

> Grace connects you with others working in your repository, across the globe,

So like every revision control system?

> in real-time

So it behaves like Google Docs? And maybe requires an internet connection?

>, enabling new experiences and new ways of sharing.

Maybe this is for pair programming?

So I want to use grace if I want to pair program on large files?
Enough of my (technical and non-technical) friends have struggled with this and caved to the dark pattern that it has become a topic of discussion at dinner a few times. This probably means there is a significant amount of ARR tied up in it.
Someone explain to me why these not for profit institutes charge so much money?
> If there’s any directly relevant student benefit, it is certification - a fairly benign benefit.

That might be a benign benefit for the direct recipient. But it's a poisonous arms race for everyone else.
Yes, the lag is the main problem. Certain distros and setups don’t work with wine. Mine doesn’t, but I’m sure it’s a tractable problem.
Curious what you had in mind?
Nodejs will also move on if io is blocked.

However, since Nodejs queues bits of execution, rather than messages, errors can get lost. So then you have unhandled promise rejections… and then relying on a linter to look for those times you did not write something to catch the error. I was told this is a good feature of the linter.

Contrast that with the BEAM languages. An unhandled error crashes the lightweight process. Any linked process (such as a supervisor) can decide what to do about the crash (restart, or crash as well). We don’t even need liveliness probe (like in Kubernetes) because the supervisor is immediately informed (push, not pull).

You don’t need a linter to make sure it has a sensible default, because this is handled by design.

Nodejs, on the other hand, is error prone, _by design_, even though it does not block on IO either.

No amount of typespecing is going to fix that.
It's really no different from immigrant families where the parents don't speak English, but the children speak both languages.

I've known plenty of people and families like that, it was never an issue.
Legally speaking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person
Most games use UDP.
Both things must be true.

On the one hand, you'd expect humans (animals) to have completely bred out all forms of infertility -- except that there are non-heritable causes of infertility. (In fact, all causes of infertility must be non-heritable, or at least not inherited! :)

On the other hand, it's surely true that characteristics which deprioritize or diminish the likelihood of reproduction are bred out, however incompletely. Whether it's a sense of taste that enjoys poisons, a risk-taking brain that kicks in before fertility, homosexuality (in males at least), or just not wanting children.

These characteristics are bred down to a sustainable level, obviously. But they are clearly not bred out fully, nor are they consistently bred "up".
I think if EVERY tool you use at work is in the Office suite, teams is just better. If you have any other tools like one off SaaS or devTools, Muddy could be a fit.
Because profit isn't actually as 'evil' as it's made out to be?

Profit isn't a major component of costs (in most industries), despite all the bad press.
The attacker in this case is investing significant resources and the defender isn't investing crazy amounts of resources.

I see your point but I don't think the hypothetical as stated is a fair depiction of the dynamic.
This isn't what air superiority means. It occurs when one side is able to safely fly, and their opponent isn't. It's likely to be an obsolete concept in any sort of peer to peer war due to widespread anti-air weaponry, yet it's very near an assumption in NATO war doctrine, because that doctrine has been developed over decades of invading countries with no ability to defend themselves.
TheForger's Win32 API Tutorial
How to Deal with Technical Debt
There's a crucial difference in fact, which is that the peer you're defining connectedness to is a single well-defined peer that is directly connected to you, which "The Network" is not.

As for the analogy, uh, this ain't water. Monitor the line voltage or the fiber brightness or something, it'll tell you very quickly if the other endpoint is disconnected. It's up to the physical layer to provide a mechanism to detect disconnection, but it's not somehow impossible or rocket science...
This post is a right of passage
Huh? Companies have successfully invoked the first amendment over and over again.
That's partly the point yeah. Every war is an iterative set of actions and mitigations. The point I'm making is that so far the actual effect created by the strikes hasn't come close to winning the war, and its hard to project the numbers culminating in a war-winning economic catastrophy.

None of that is to say Ukraine shouldn't try, or that it doesn't have some "annoying" affect that increases costs and complexity for Russia. It does. Just want to be accurate about the level of affect and its potential.

And again, I think November after the election is going to be the best show of what Ukraine can do.
Good for the author to have connections within Meta to get this resolved. For anyone else, this would’ve been the end (and probably worse, if Meta did inform the authorities with whatever information it genuinely believed it had). In my experience, Instagram has more rogue bots and algorithms that ban accounts for nothing than Facebooking does.

I don’t get the author’s glee towards the end of the post. If the author’s livelihood depended on Instagram, sure, go back to the platform and be thankful the account was restored and that the connections in Meta helped. If not, time to move on. It’s not like Meta has been a benevolent corporation that deserves more chances.

BTW, other platforms aren’t safe against such actions either. The main competitor of this platform on the Fediverse has an official instance where your account could just go poof without any notices over emails, without any appeals process, without any response from the single admin, etc. I presume many Mastodon instances would operate similarly.

If your social media account is extremely important to you, your best account-and-content-preserving choice is to host it on an environment you control and hope that other instances don’t block you for their own random reasons.
Previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21459616
Beautiful idea, but of course people have thought about and wished for an alternative and less viscous world for thousands of years. The current paradigm is the worst possible, except all others.
Because they focused on all the wrong stuff.

The designers focused on increasing realism further, instead of making a more _fun_ game.

They did not look at competitors (Juno) for ideas, so they managed to fail miserably at implementing new fuel tanks, they spent an enormous amount of time and resources to implement intra-spaceship-insane-physics which sounds cool, but in the end it was the frustrating part of KSP.
nobody liked when you had to add even more struts because the spaceship would crumble on itself.

Interstellar travel is the big deal for me. I dreamed traveling to new planets because what I loved about KSP was building an insane flight plan to get in that crazy place, with the self-imposed requirement of: being a manned spaceship and the astronauts must all come back alive.

The first time I landed on the Mun was an insane feeling.

They could have recreated that by just releasing more and more planets around the sun (further and further away, with more stuff and weird features), but they did it only with the asteroid dlc, somewhat.

Now where we are at? I bought this expensive game and I never played it because the physics for space planes was completely broken (they would randomly turn left for no reason).
Going to far places was hard or impossible because the physics forced to a low amount of engines, while having huge flying creatures is part of the fun.

Is this it? A 70 cad game that has NO CONTENT?
Russia can win the war of attrition only if allies stop backing Ukraine, which is exactly what Russia hopes to achieve through bought shills and "useful idiots" like those who delayed aid for Ukraine in US Congress for instance and the likes of Orban and Co.

However if these shills would fail to stall the allies, Russia would surely lose in the long run. I.e. Russia can't sustain long war of attrition, despite smokescreen of having supposedly infinite supplies.
Air superiority means nothing when the opposing side has meat for the meat grinder and it's widely spread out. The West has gotten ridiculously invested in "smart bombs" which cost a fortune and as a result we have less of them. Meanwhile the enemy has no problem sending tens of thousands of waves of small squads to their death.

In fact a study came out in 2022 that made the Pentagon panic because it's estimated in a war with China, the US will deplete its entire anti-ship missile stockpile in only a week.
Is this in the same space as Windmill.dev? Love to hear from anyone with experience with both.
Nope, they generally cause ADHD by chelating zinc and the resulting zinc deficiency drives the ADHD phenotype. I should also note that zinc deficiency can cause insulin resistance, but this causes the opposite of the described effect.
welcome to hn and the latest tech bubble. why communicate in anything other than coded language
It's less about sticking it to the US and more about having access to that data themselves.
> [...] with the idea being that university attendance is correlated with higher income, so more degree holders = better economy.

That sounds a bit like buying a Lamborghini in order to get rich? Lamborghini ownership is highly correlated with net worth.

> I feel that instead we should have promoted self employment / small businesses and created the environment for that.

Or just not done anything. At least that wouldn't actively waste resources.

> The focus on credentialism is backwards in my view. Most employers don't use it other than as, basically, a glorified signifier of IQ.

Alas, employers do use it, to a degree. And for good reason.

See Bryan Caplan's Case Against Education for some background.
Have you tried Heptabase? (https://heptabase.com/)
What do you do for party entertainment with it? Fog machine? Smoky cocktails?
yes, did you miss the last back-propagation?
We didn't think that we were going to have to fight Russia, or to help our allies kill Russians by the hundreds of thousands. Generals are often criticized for wanting to "fight the last war," but it seems that contrary to all conventional wisdom, that is exactly where the West is headed.

At least, if somebody doesn't take Putin out.
I'd recommend everyone to try out `cosmic-store` when they get a chance. Whether you use COSMIC or not, it's fully functional with any desktop environment. It's packaged by default in Pop!_OS 22.04, available in Fedora 40 via ryanabx/cosmic-epoch, and the AUR.
Nice to see that the Nitter instance at poast.org is working again without CAPTCHAs.
The only indirect way student success and benefit plays a role is in 3, 4 and 6. Having personel on grants that comes from "prestigious" universities was seen as a plus by some of the grant reviewers I was sitting with in committees. It also plays with the brand to attract students and donation money (which play a big role still in some places).

There is an interesting movement now where universities are getting out of the rankings they have been avidly optimizing their metrics for in the last decades. I have sat in another kind of committee where one of the administrator rejected a project because it would divert funds from something that would improve the ranking (something about facilities that needed updates can't remember exactly what it was).
I was using that as an analogy, but there's no reason you couldn't have a weird hybrid car with a generator, a capacitor and electric motors. No batteries.
"everyone knows what universities are for"

Non profit reits?
Sports teams?
Partying?
A degree
NATO I believe isn't really setup for a long and wide ww1 style conflict like in Ukraine. I understand the plan in case of a russian invasion was always to use nukes at one point.
No. The moon is tidally locked to the Earth, so its rotation exactly matches its orbital period. If you put a telescope on the far side, it'll always be pointing away from Earth.
>"Six days a week – they take Sunday off – his team of 36 employees can produce an average of 360 drones per day. But although they have a manufacturing capacity of 10,000 drones a month, they’re producing just 3,000.

The Ukrainian government doesn’t pre-pay for orders, leaving manufacturers to come up with the capital to produce their drones. Without more funds, they’re unable to make more than a few thousand a month. This lack of upfront money is a problem, Mykhailo said. "

10's of billions were given to Ukraine. How come there is not enough money to pay for what seems to be very cheap and effective weapon?
Huh? It goes to the UK Boots site for me. Where Oral-B toothbrushes are definitively called "Oral-B".

Does Boots even operate in the USA? They're part of the same parent company as Walgreens so I'd be surprised if they did.
It’s capitalism in that it’s economics and competition.

1. Competition for federal research dollars

2. Unlimited student loans removed price controls as a restraint on demand, which just applied upward pressure on the price since the supply didn’t increase as rapidly.

3. Because of 2, there’s a need for constant building and construction to add more space.

4. College rankings have the institutions competing with each other on all sorts of criteria. At Clemson 25 years ago there was a big push to get into the top 20 public universities. On of the rankings was student to teacher ratios…so they just had classrooms that weren’t full to help with the metric, just as other schools were doing.

5. The metrics that are used for competition sometimes involve spending money.

6. In order to keep up with all of these things, a lot of administrators are hired.

7. College football has really created an entire culture around universities that keep alumni together for their whole lives well after graduation. It drives alumni events, esprit de corps, and most importantly…advertising. Applications to Clemson are higher in years where the football team does better. The 2010s were crazy.
> less viscous world

This would be no land of milk and honey. Maybe just the milk.
The first university, the University of Bologna, always seems like the ideal to me. It was a guild, or what we might today call a trade union, of local tutors, who colluded together to regulate prices and amount of time spent teaching for their own benefit. Out of this emerged the modern concept of the research university, because having colluded on acceptable prices and labor limits, the professors then had amply ability to work on whatever problems they wanted to. And being smart people they started to work on unsolved problems, began traveling across Europe and helping similar institutions, and collaborating across the continent in Latin.

Fundamentally this seems the best approach, the professor-centered one. The professors who are extremely knowledgable in a single field exchange some of their time to undergraduates who provide them with enough money so that they can continue learning about their specific field. This professor-undergraduate relationship is mutually beneficial, and also aids society by increasing the number of experts in the world. Things begin to deteriorate when other influences such as administrators, real estate agents, financiers, donors, politicians, and so on get in the mix, because their goals are oftentimes only tangentially related to increasing the total amount of knowledge in the world.
> This, more than anything, is why we need student loan forgiveness.

What? That's crazy!

By all means, give money to poor people, please. They'll need it.

Don't instead select the recipients of government largesse by 'who was middle-class (or better) enough to go to university, _and_ hasn't paid of their loans, yet?'

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If you want to fiddle with student loans, I would suggest making any future loans dischargeable in bankruptcy (and removing all government guarantees for these loans).
Programming sure has come a long way. This is all common now, he was completely right, and it's exactly as awesome as it sounded when it was new.
You're supposed to be generous in interpreting other's statements even[1] when you think they're wrong.

This is a great opportunity to "converse curiously"[2] instead.

1. especially

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What's the better way?
"signifier of IQ"
I believe I read that in the USA, the average IQ of college students is 100.

But with the student loans they have to take, I'm not quite so sure it can be that high
There are a few cash-only medical practices. I know of one personally. They have been operating this way for nearly 20 years so it must be working for them.

I would guess that most of their patients are quite well off, given that they have the cash available to pay out of pocket. That probably eliminates quite a lot of issues for the practice, as that would tend to select for reasonably educated and high-functioning patients. They also don't have to deal with insurance companies or collections.
Occlupanid
> swarms of drones are being developed such that they can fly to a designated “kill box,” find and identify enemy tanks, then destroy them – all without any human pilot interaction.

I remember I mentioned that this the future of drones few years ago and everyone in the seminar laughed about it, but it’s a reality now. The next one is AI deciding what to target, which I believe is already in place as Israel is using it already, and apparently failing miserably with all the civilians casualties.
> Drones cannot be massed because they interfere with one another in the electromagnetic spectrum. They also require a significant number of people to operate compared to artillery.

I think we've all seen these drone shows, where a large swarm maneuvers to make shapes in the sky, right? We're not far at all from one operator controlling a swarm, capable of pre-programmed formations and maneuvers.

The economies of scale work overwhelmingly in favour of drones -- small, light, disposable.
And the volunteers were probably trying to get some hours to be finally accepted in a program...