skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is good reason for that: the US/NATO war plans are not to get into an artillery war in the first place. If there is artillery in the way the US/NATO plan is send an airplane with a few bombs to take it out. There is still some room for artillery in the army and so we produce some, but that isn't the major way to fight wars.

The Soviet plan - which both Russia and Ukraine are well trained in - was to use lots of artillery. In backing Ukraine NATO suddenly sees a need for some shells that they wouldn't use if it was them. But the Ukrainian generals know them and so that is what they want. (Note too the nobody has provided Ukraine anywhere near the number of airplanes needed to fight a NATO style war - even if all promised F16s arrive today with full training it isn't enough for a NATO war)
That is why Discord is huge in US while the rest of the world telegram, fb, WhatsApp.
> Because, simply, capitalism and the economic yes-men that underpin it can't properly incent women to have kids

Since most "capitalist" countries are really mixed economies (combination of state intervention and free market), I wonder what in your mind would explain the same pattern of population decline in the following places: China[1], Cuba[2], Italy[3]?

Even Norway's population is only increasing due to net migration[4].

Interesting stuff, and I doubt the reason is simply "capitalism does not incentivize women to have children". I suspect the reasons are more complex and interesting than that.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-population-drops-...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/CUB/cub...

[3] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/ITA/ita...

[4] https://www.statista.com/topics/10080/demographics-of-norway...
The two mix well in one direction, but not the other, in my experience.

Think of it like this: Weed * alcohol. (how intoxicated you feel)

Too much alcohol, you puke, feel like crap, black out, bad stuff. Too much weed, you're a little fried mentally, but fine. The consequence of this is if you drink to a point where you're drunk, but not at your limit, then you smoke weed, it gets you past your limit immediately.
Smoke, then drink, though? Now, you get drunker quicker, sure, but you feel it, so you stop before it's too much...assuming you know how to control yourself.

That being said, doing both with reckless abandon is worse than just drinking with reckless abandon. It makes the stupid drunk things you do even dumber.
> While true, Stack Overflow wasn't much different.

StackOverflow has the advantage that, if an answer is wrong, other users can downvote it, and/or leave a comment explaining the mistake.
As much as binary size should be a problem for individual developers to deal with, I've seen how those individual developers treat Electron. There's no doubt in my mind that someone will ship 50 little JavaScript programs inside wasm modules, each with its own garbage collector. Then it becomes my problem.

Promise you won't tell the GC'd language enthusiasts this, but wasm engines supporting the wasm-gc proposal don't need to ever run a garbage collector. A simple bump allocator is 100% compliant, as long as the module's memory gets cleaned up once it terminates. Wasm engines for embedded systems will probably do exactly that, and leak memory rather than collect garbage. The web already has a garbage collector for JS, so not a big deal there either. Bloat has its cost, but at least it's only paid by cloud/edge/desktop and other use-cases that can afford to put it in their engine.

I think wasm-gc is worth it for WebAssembly. The dream is "run any language, anywhere" but it's always been easier for low level languages like C, C++ and Rust, because their binaries are smaller. Maybe with things like wasm-gc, WebAssembly can be great for C, C++, Rust, but also JavaScript and Python, Java and Go, OCaml, Perl, and whatever language gets sprung on us next.
Came here to ask the same question. The OLPC Screen's "transflective" mode was absolutely amazing when it came out EIGHTEEN years ago in 2006.

I mourn that the tech was never commercialized and that some company is sitting on the patents.

I think it's time to boot the little computer that could, see what the latest distro is for it, and turn it into an E-Reader.
Puh no.

They are both roof systems
Yeah go ahead and explain how learning Mandarin teaches you about Quantum Mechanics or how learning Music Theory helps you bake cakes. Cute idea that falls apart under casual inspection.
> Could this be fraudulent? Misappropriation of funds?

Yes, obviously, it could be.

How much of the business does your co-founder own?

In any case: Gather all relevant documents, including bank statements, payroll records, and communications. (Emails, text messages, etc.) Then contact your partner and tell him you want to run a third-party financial audit. If you're in a one-party consent state, record this conversation. These are necessary steps.

If your partner is not majority owner, you should also limit his access to financial accounts once you're done gathering all relevant materials.

Could be that he's done nothing wrong. Could also be that he's frauding you, bigtime.
This focuses on recent history (eg, .Net Core, deprecation of Xamarin, unification, etc.) I had hoped it would focus on the older history of .Net: how it got started, what was in .Net 1 and 2, etc.

There are a lot of stories around Microsoft people sending limousines to sit outside the Borland office to headhunt specific developers, or how WinForms was a clone of Delphi's VCL. (I have heard these stories directly from people who were there at the time.) This kind of history fascinates me.

I'd love to see these as more than oral history, written down.
Hilarious. I love this.

This is the same kind of "safety measure actually increases attack surface" like antivirus programs.
The author seems to be assuming that microservices are only used to break down a single application into different services, in which case their arguments are valid. If you instead consider that a single service can in fact be used by multiple applications, most of their arguments are plain wrong.

For example:
>Why would you ever want to allocate more resources to one particular part? It’s not like the other parts will eat up the extra resources. If your system needs more RAM, it needs more RAM. Why would you care about which part needs more RAM?
One of the many reasons why encryption weakening is a bad idea.

If authorities have access so will criminals either through bribes or backdoors like that.
I never mentioned Apple. Sure, proud of _not_ purchasing is another level of this, and then _accusing_ someone of being proud to (not) purchase rounds the circle I guess.

It's amazing.
Anger is a tool. We get angry for a reason - it unlocks a reserve of strength that we can't usually call on. That strength comes with a price, but that in the evolutionary context of anger (kill or be killed) that price was always worth it. Think of it like in Anime where the hero uses a special power that can defeat really strong foes, but it leaves them spent and vulnerable.

Unfortunately, in modern day life, the power anger gives us is generally useless, so we are paying the price for nothing.
Thomas Midgley Jr.: The man who almost destroyed the planet (twice)
> Not that this should matter in a civilized country.

It should be very clear by now that "civilization" is more fragile than we'd like to believe.

Society, including the systems that protect you from bad actors, could break down, and quickly.

When it comes to guns, the absense of "government" is an under-appreciated possibility.
Hard math problems are far harder and far less useful than the math of computer hardware and software.
I.e. every architectural question in IT is answered by "It depends".

PS: And every single problem is a "problem in communication".
The only laptop that fits the bill is the OLPC XO. The XO-1 is 18 years old...

and yes I did work outside a few times, with rdesktop
In Civil court, all that is needed is a preponderonce of evidence as I recall. There would certainly be enough evidence to get discovery kicked off and have lawyers reviewing internal OpenAI docs.
The real problem is that it's not marketed that way. WE may understand that but most people, heck even in my experience a large percentage of tech people, don't. They think there is some kind of true intelligence (it's literally in the name) behind it. Just like I also understand that the top results on Google are not always the best.. but my parents don't.
I wouldn't br surprised if the macs hardware were still better for local LLMs and other AIs tho.
There’s a Persian proverb, which is a shorter form of a poem by Saib Tabrizi, which says "don't microservice". We don’t live forever, do we? Laying the first brick correctly is the first step to avoid building a crooked wall.
>Anduril says they have a focus on industrial capacity and cost effectiveness

US Military contractors have a very different conception of "cost effectiveness" than most of us.

Anyone outside of Ukraine designing drones right now should simply stop what they are doing and watch and listen and learn from the innovators on the ground there. All of those pie in the sky ideas will probably be completely useless in the face of reality.
Show HN: How I use Coursable to stay informed on economic activity
Ah I get it.

First of my assumption is that solid state will win out. No burning (it's already not really an issue, millions of evs are driving around), fast charging also in winter, cheaper.

A ev is only an electric engine (closed off) and a battery also closed off.
Hence the honey, plus you get magnesium and potassium from honey.

Probably no more or even less processed sugar than packaged and processed electrolyte offerings.
Thats a pretty cynical take. The likely overly optimistic take would be that it would provide a level of usefulness of a highly paid and highly competent personal assistant.
First image based on GPT-4 algorithm XFuturestyle created in Ukraine
It was nice to be able to jot things down in the margins (math, not just notes). Provide yourself the couple steps the author skipped (to show how clever they are).
How do I set that up on iOS Safari?
There's a benefit of microservices that I don't hear talked about. At my workplace, there's absolutely no respect for api boundaries. Devs will monkey patch and reach into other module's internals without a second thought. I can't imagine the monstrosity that would exist if the network boundary wasn't there to stop them ...
Hi HN, I'm one of the devs here at Coursable. We help students augment their learning with LLMs. Today, however, I want to share one of the ways I use the platform myself. One of our products is Coursable Projects - a workspace for students where they can upload materials from multiple sources and use ai assistant to sift through the noise, rubber duck the model for ideas, or test themselves against the uploaded content. Luckily for me, I don't have to prep for many exams these days. But I do enjoy learning about the current state of the U.S. economy. Part of that learning is watching the FOMC Economic Projections conference every month presented by the Federal Reserve. Recently I went beyond just watching.

My flow begins with uploading the latest conference from YT, and since we pull the full transcript of the video, Coursable generates a quick summary of the meeting right away - this helps me identify the parts I'm most interested in. Next, if you have ever watched these conferences, you know that the best parts are at the very end - questions from the audience. I tell the assistant to pull all of the questions from the video and shortly I get back a neatly arranged list of all the questions, including the names of the journalists and their publishers. (You can also upload a bunch of these videos together, pull all of the questions from the specific journalists and see how the dynamics evolve over time, but let's keep it light this Friday). Then, right before the next conference comes out, I come back to the previous project, refresh my memory on the highlights, and go over the questions from the previous meeting(s). Lastly, I have Coursable installed on my phone (PWA for now), so if I ever need to win an argument on the go, I can access all of this accumulated data right on my phone ;)

Oh, and there’s dark mode, for the night owls like myself.

Thank you for reading!
Show HN: Upliance – AI Cooking Assistant
This was showcased in Indias Shark Tank as well, with 1% equity offered for 125K USD approx
If we're still talking about TLS certs, the transparency log has that info (mentioned in the article). I also assume this thread is talking about the domain and any subdomains you're actually using. What would the reason be of setting TXT records for unguessable subdomains?
Setting aside Russia’s own motives, is there any way to take the temperature of Belarus’s own citizens actual preferences around this? I gather their elections have been shoddy for long enough that they’re not a proxy for actual sentiment.
Show HN: MuffInvoice – fast, free, no-signup needed invoice maker
Hi folks - this past week I made a free invoice maker, as I was frustrated with all the other ones out there (most of them required sign up just to generate a PDF, or were too ugly). Happy to get any feedback / thoughts / ideas to improve the product!

You do have to sign up in order to connect stripe to the invoice (I couldn't figure out how to pay you otherwise).

Also, just want to say - HN has been an inspiring community for me. Not sure this meets the usual level of ShowHN, but I'm proud of it. :)
The best advice I got early in my career on this topic was: “Nobody serious is going to take you seriously if you give one option as the ‘way it has to be.’ Everything has trade-offs, you will be much more effective as a communicator if you list a few options, along with their trade-offs (and be honest about these). You can even have your preferred / recommended option but it also must come with trade-offs.”
Back here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39929842 - the US Govt. was calculating that their (funded) pilot project for heated sand energy storage could get 50% real-world efficiency. Or 55% if they used a more-complex turbine cycle.

If true - then this new U-M thermophotovoltaic system will either need a whole lot of improvement, or its use will be confined to corner cases.
Same. Basically an inverse relationship between certainty and knowledge. Sort of like those stories told by entrepreneurs about why their startups were successful.
Microservices are not solving a technical problem. This is related to another issue: many technical people think tech is the hard part. Technology is the easy part. If you think the tech is hard, you have no idea how hard The Rest is. I know it sucks, but the sooner you learn this the better.
Bananagrams Is NP-Complete
The k8s evangelists are operating under the assumption that if your product or service is successful, you're probably going to want to scale it, and if you believe in that vision, then you're probably going to want to think about k8s early in your project, not when you've grown it to millions of users worldwide.

But I get what you mean.
> I’ve listened to 10,000 hours of piano music and I still can’t play anything

I don't think this is a valid comparison. If you'd read 10,000 hours of sheet music I'd wager you'd know how to read music.
>I think I might be going off the idea of e-ink, as a result.

The main benefit of e-ink isn't what you mentioned in the post, imo, it is that it is great to read with in everything from direct sunlight to darkness, which is less straining for the eyes.

Having something mainly for reading is also a nice thing for us that easily get distracted away from that.
But then you're sitting behind the desk again...
> though with the construction of a few 5,000-km-long pipelines, I guess that could change in a few years if Russia cares enough

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altai_gas_pipeline

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/putin-says-oil-pipel...
There certainly are many cases where microservices are used where they are not actually appropriate, but this entire post just betrays a lack of experience working in a large monolithic codebase with many engineers.
Microservices can destroy DevOps teams used to kludging polyglot stacks together.

The issue is hardly limited to training, but rather ignorance of ones own bad habits.

Author probably heard the buzzword off someone else's CV. =)
Yep, I used to be that guy as well. It is easier to see things as black and white because then you don’t need to dive deep and it is easier to sell to management. The really strong engineers/architects I have known can explain the trade offs of the various approaches.

For small teams or early stage development I love a well architected modular monolith. Grow past a couple of teams and maybe add some dedicated ops people and service oriented architectures start making more sense. Get real big and have the capacity to handle the monitoring and orchestration challenges and microservices enable that.

It’s all trade offs and recognizing that allows you to evolve with your operational and organizational needs.
Just look at how useful guns were to average citizens in the USSR during its collapse.

Wait: were guns useful in 1991 to non-gangsters?
I think it's the opposite. The thought of losing even a shitty relationship is difficult to contemplate. You get caught in a trap that's difficult to escape.
Other than a land grab and closer proximity to Europe - what does Russia gain from this?
Microservices (like a lot of things) might just be there to solve human developer problems as much as anything else.

There are times where I'm all "No the authentication service is doing great, leave it alone!!!".
Music Theory and cake baking are both all about strict proportion. (and therefore the pythagorean comma would be the equivalent to how few sigfigs we need to keep when converting recipes in freedom units to g and kg?)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240524065427/https://blog.dani...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xFEbXWstCM
For the 2021-2022 season.

https://medium.com/instant-sponsor/watford-signs-dogecoin-as...
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2759960/2021/08/14/exclusiv...
> Microservices are the Wrong Answer

The author never states the question. This makes it impossible to evaluate the answer, which presumably is stated in the title. The article would be much stronger with a clear statement of the perceived problem that microservices solve and why modules are a superior solution.
I still use my XO-1 for work I can do with a console (via SSH with vi, tmux, etc).

Alas, a web browser is kinda required for modern dev work, and an 18 year old machine with 128 MB of ram doesn't cut it. rdesktop, x forwarding, vnc, etc are all too slow.

I considered removing the screen and trying to transplant it to a modern machine, but it looks like many months work to rebuild the electrical interfaces and custom pixel layouts etc.
Yeah, you just have to know when to ignore the 31 (and as you say, also the 29 and 30 in some cases).
Honestly? Let it go. It seems weird to me to worry about continued edge value to some random corps were you to meet an untimely demise.

I know that sounds dismissive, but really what is the point in continuing to drive marginal capitalistic value after you’re dead? If it’s to take care of family, the answer is a single member saas company is not a good vehicle for intergenerational investments/cash flow. In that case, work in exit/diversification plan and execute it while you’re still alive.
On the Internet, the city has billions of people.

Rural towns are devoid of most things. Every urban area has math PhDs.
Probably the author never worked on large projects that need to scale. Almost no one of his objections does make sense. Imagine Facebook, Uber, AirbNB, Google as monoliths.
Apple WWDC AI and Artists
WWDC is coming up and there are a ton of rumors around an OpenAI + Apple partnership. OpenAI is in hot water with the whole ScarJo episode. Apple also recently tripped up with it's Crush commercial. Apple has historically positioned itself as the company that caters to Artists. AI is simultaneously exciting & threatening to Artists.

Curious to hear the HN thoughts on what would steve jobs do?
Maybe we need to work on Sound bites

- The only thing every project has in common is that they are all different projects.

- Success in one project doesn't guarantee success in another.
I've been paralyzed by the fear of imminent death since I was about seven years old, and I believe that is about the time I decided I could never have children since they would face the same fate. Perhaps for you it is focusing, but for me it is quite the opposite.
> Unable to design and develop system with certain level of uncertainty and adaptability is the real tragedy.

I'm entirely willing to sound like a naive fool for saying this, but the tragedy from my perspective is business not willing to accept that the majority of the risk comes from letting people with less technical experience be in charge of people with more. That's just plain dysfunction and all too common. Many businesses waste so much money on scaling up their teams when they should be focused on hiring or training up the best.
https://hypebeast.com/2021/8/watford-fc-dogecoin-sleeves-uni...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2759960/2021/08/14/exclusiv... (paywalled)

Seems like they were a 'sleeve sponsor' for the 2021/22 season
I agree, but would say it different:

> AI will be a perfect programmer in the future for all NON-niche areas

There's going to be a positive/negative feedback loop that makes it hard for new languages and frameworks to gain popularity. And the lack of popularity means lack of training material being generated for the AI to learn.

When choosing a tech stack of the future, the ability for AI to pair will be a key consideration.
I'd expect research by lumpers would tend to find it true; research by splitters, false.
why not a developer version so people can get Linux on it and you will have the true eink tablet killer?

do you plan to monetize on customer lock in (only reason amazon and google don't open their android forks)? or fear of tech being stolen by having drivers open?
Yep. It’s easier for a simple message to be carried by the wind.

But the process of growing up is one of increasing capacity for discernment. Ie, you learn more subtlety discerning when thing A or B is a better idea in any given moment. Will a hard or soft approach work better? Use my old tools or learn this new framework? Make a long term or short term decision here?

It’s hard to communicate because this kind of learning takes a lifetime to accumulate.
> Chat interface has an advantage of having user-specific context and follow up questions, so it can filter and refine answers for the user.

But it will continue to outright lie to you in those follow-ups.

https://chatgpt.com/share/767d2810-b38f-46e2-8cde-09248bb636...