skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US and the rest of the West are not prepared for guerilla warfare deployed by nation states. We've been reorganising our military to face advanced armies equipped with state-of-the-art technology whereas our enemies are not quite advanced. So we find ourselves in a situation where we can deploy a few dozen AT-STs against millions of drunken Ewoks with AK-47s. It's a tricky situation, because we developed weapons and strategies that prioritise surgical hits that minimise civilian losses while the enemies treat people as disposable assets and killing civilians is not a consideration for them. I wouldn't be so cocky if I was Chinese, Russian, Iranian, or Houthi. If the western military switches gears into kill'em all mode all the little shits who want rule the world by terror will find themselves with bigger problems.
It was the early nineties. If you've touched a computer, companies would assume that any skill gap you had you could straightforwardly bridge yourself, on the job.

It wasn't like today where you have to be a perfect cinnamon roll of a candidate who ticks all of HR's required-skill checkboxes before you can move on to the grueling 5-6 rounds of interviews.
This is so?
Making USB devices – end to end guide to your first gadget
Making all vector accesses bounds-checked, as all memory-safe languages do, is a recipe for slow code.
Innovating?

China still seems to be mostly in a catching up and copying phase.

Not to say their accomplishments are anything but impressive. But look at the space station they’re building. Impressive achievement, but a fairly conservative design. Meanwhile the US has worked on inflatable space station modules, and it seems like that USA will make commercial space stations well before China.

For what I’ve seen USA has far more innovate designs in the works for rocket engines, rockets, spacecraft, space planes, space stations, satellites, etc.

There are impressive innovations from China too, in the space of quad copters, solar power, robot vacuums, EVs, etc. But all-in-all it feels to me that their advanced innovations from all of China isn’t much beyond what we see from much smaller countries like Korea, Japan, Taiwan, etc. Not that amazing considering their population size.

Their population is now shrinking, the economy is getting worse, they have an insane level of debt (especially when including shadow banking), they don’t do real immigration, they’re getting more hostile to expats, they have some brain drain, ... I suspect we’re seeing peak China.
Real computers are not turing machines, they are FSMs.
What is the point of this. And what does full size mean? Are there people less than full size? Is the claim that women with normal BMI are less than "full size"?
It's the top headline slot (well, one of three in a rotating carousel thingy) at http://news.cctv.com right now.

(But, full disclosure, I actually read it at Slashdot first).
I’m curious as to how you think the social interaction plays out?…
Like how do you think it’s conducted in such a way that it is so noticeable?
tell me you didnt read it without telling me you didn't read it :)
Just send Lisp.
None. Which is kind of the point. Unlike US, Chinese government doesn't even pretend to be about anything else than it's own benefit.

When US took over Afghanistan, it tried to set up local government modeled on western democracies. That totally failed.

I don't know what China would have done. But I'm pretty sure they wouldn't try to build anything of the sort.

Their most recent conflict is a nice counter point. Spratly Islands in South Chinese sea. It's an obvious land grab in an area that is vital for commercial shipping, important for food production and very good starting point if you needed to pressure Vietnam, Philippines or Taiwan. The only justification is some old map. International arbitration has ruled against them, and they don't really care.

In the meantime they are ramming foreign fishing boats, building military facilities (airports, depots, etc.) and generally acting like they own the area.

In summary, their approach is pragmatic, with obvious material benefit and no pretense of lofty goals. Also very low on casualties, at least for now. It is, in many ways, call back to days of gunboat diplomacy.
I'm really sceptical about the idea of treating people with mental heal issues with MDMA, as the "comedown" from it can be horrendous and causes a period low mood, depression, fatigue, anxiety, etc. Not the kind of thing you want people with PTSD experiencing! Those side effects are of course dose dependant. There is no mention of what is considered a dose, but it no uncommon for people to take a gram or more recreationally over the course of an evening.
Allowing adult content will move them to a state wide ban list in many countries.
Hard disagree on that one. I am daily driving an RDNA2 graphics unit for 1.5 years now and it’s absolutely sufficient. I mostly do office work and occasionally play Minecraft. It’s absolutely sufficient for that and I don’t see any reason why you‘d want to waste money on a dGPU for that kind of load
Yes you can.

Giving players so much freedom that they can easily identify and execute a grindy, brute-force but boring strategy is an extremely common problem in game design. Fault is irrelevant, it is the game's problem if the player stops having fun because they got trapped in a psychological pit tying to circumvent the rules when playing by the rules is ultimately easier.

This is a tradeoff so requires some balance, but OP's suggestion is simple, unobtrusive, and probably effective.
Alot of people, myself among them, hated the new sound that started to dominate rock the mid-to late 90s/early 2000s. Nickelback in many ways was the "flagbearer" given how popular they became, although they didn't start to become all that popular until 2001, and the "blame" if that makes any sense, can be laid at many other, albeit less popular, acts (e.g. Creed)

Also I can't find the quote at the moment, but I believe one of the band members basically straight up admitted they would copy whatever sound was popular at the time so it would sell more - i.e. they were basically businessmen first, musicians second.
Thats about the only area the Pi is superior at this point. For the usecases where a zero is all you need its a no brainer, but many are using them as home servers and such. Even a basic wireless camera feed can be a struggle for the zero so it's usecases are certainly limited, but its power to performance is great for its price.
I remember doing that on my Athlon XP. Had too much issue with cooling though. (Probably my fault)
Axilla
The .NET runtime[1] and C# compiler[2] are both pretty easy to embed.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tutorials/netc...

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/docs/wiki/Scripti...
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Fully agree with your take.

I have no idea what the people guiding WASI are motivated about, but for sure it doesn't seem aligned with the community motivations... which might be hurting the ecosystem in the long run.

For the exact reasons the parent comment mentioned, at Wasmer we aimed for full POSIX compatibility as part of WASIX (a superset of WASI 0.1): https://wasix.org/. WASIX has support for many syscalls not available in WASI: fork, exec, longjmp, setjmp, threads, sockets, and many more.
It's insightful to know that many people, and specially those close to the Bytecode Alliance, neglected the contributions, and try to push down the project, and even tried to make us rename it: https://github.com/wasix-org/cargo-wasix/issues/4
The zero is a cool device and I found some uses for it, but realistically it’s not at all comparable to the raspberry Pi people (used to) love
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+1 for bad support. It’s like they’ve put all their efforts into having a 24/7 system that connects you to someone. But they forgot to train those people on how to use the product or answer basic questions.

The fees and upsells seem to be very aggressive too
Of course, you'll also need to inscribe the whole Chrome source code, since this demo outsources a lot of engine stuff to the browser :)
Yes, this. Because of this, I saw substantial data corruption that had built up over years in live medical databases: The on-disk B+trees had corrupted internal links due to incorrect handling of concurrent updates and rollbacks. This made some queries return incorrect results.

The developers had been writing messy heuristic workarounds for database low-level corruption in application code for over a decade, instead of figuring out the cause and fixing that.

For example, application code had special routines to attempt to detect and ignore duplicate records in some queries (but not others), in response to customer bug reports, but of course that didn't fix missing records or make the data correct. It just patched over an observed symptom. It also didn't fix all the places it could happen, so much of the application still had occasional flaky behaviour, but not consistently enough to be reported in detail and get the (bad) workarounds to hide it.

Correctly implemented transactions are very helpful for database internals and on-disk structures too, not just for the API level presented to applications.
No, but it can be done without rewriting code. There's a lot of C++ out there that was perhaps once performance sensitive but hasn't been for years due to hardware improvements, or was perhaps never sensitive but used C++ just for team consistency etc. Windows is full of code like that for example. But, there's no funding to rewrite it. For situations like that, things which boost safety but don't require rewrites of any kind are waaaay under-rated.

Compilers should definitely have a mode that stops them breaking conservative stack scanning. GC is a drop-in fix for so many memory safety problems it's a vital weapon in the toolbox. Combined with checked array and vector dereferences, you can get a long way without needing Rust or Circle style rewrites.
Amazon Customers Get One Step Closer to Drone Deliveries in US
What is wrong with the font? the site is nearly unreadable.

The font seems to fix itself when zooming in a bunch.
>by the constitutional majority

"Finally, the constitution demands that at least three quarters of the constitutional membership of the Verkhovna Rada vote for the removal of the President in the final step. However, instead of the required 338 parliamentary deputies only 328 voted for the removal of the President." [0]

[0] https://www.montesquieu-instituut.nl/9394000/1/j9vvllwqvzjxd...
If he was the most senior sysadmin it's already his responsibility to keep things safe anyway, so if you trust him for all the rest of the infra you can trust him for a proxy.
Is there a nice outoftheloop summary out there somewhere?

I don't follow these projects closely. =/
The music would also play in malls, Starbucks, on the radio, on MTV all the time. So any retail worker may hear it 50 times per day. It didn’t have bad words like other songs at the time (eg eminem).

So it became kind of like a Christian rock band. Something parents would let their kids listen to
I'm under the impression that Factorio can run on any GPU capable of producing video output at all. years ago when I played it, it ran perfectly fine on whatever iGPU my 4790K had. 60 FPS/UPS with pretty big bases (although iirc I did disable all video effects like smoke to avoid cluttering the screen)
Events are like art.
Very nice and we need them both - but a lot of work (that is usually poorly or not at all rewarded)
Hum, org-mode tables and org-babel should be inspiring in UI/comfort terms...
+1 for bad support. They put so much effort into having a 24/7 system that connects clients to support. But it seems like they forgot to teach them how to actually support you. Very poor product knowledge, sub par comprehension of issues raised

The fees are also aggressive imo
Thank you for this comment. I also had a prolactinoma, but haven't been disciplined about taking my cabergoline .. been stuck in a rut as well. Now I'm motivated to get this sorted with my doctor finally.
Finnish police use classical music to prevent young people from partying
Wow.. all this technology costing 10x the price of a FDM printer, yet the models don't even look near 10x better than what a 0.1mm layer height FDM printer could do.. kinda disappointing. I'm bearish about this company.
Sure, and that makes perfect sense, since earth tech was based on the alien tech they found in the Roswell crash.

Shame they deleted the scene explaining all that. It's still easy to find though.
I identify by the things I love and excel at. If being an artist is a big chunk of who you are, it can hurt your ego to meet q much better artist who is also good at many other things.

Imagine playing the bongos, and you meet some guy who plays it really well… and it’s Richard Feynman.
how can I improve my landing page to build more trust
hello hacker friends,
I am making lit.money to fix my own problem as I have had enough of poorly designed bank apps in India and other accounting issues.

My plan is to start earning money so I can 100% focus on building it.
Do roast my landing page and let me know what I can add to build more trust among site visitors!
'Optimising' for simplicity would often be a good idea, though.

Optimising for speed of execution only matters some times.
Chroma used DuckDB at some point, might not be the case anymore though
Shilling is ok on a topic directly related to my business.

You're right on the Osborne effect though! Thanks for that. We are definitely not doing that.

To clarify: When we started, MI300x was not officially announced yet, so we were planning on buying MI250's. Due to everything taking longer than expected around starting the business and receiving funding, by the time we had money in the bank, it was time to buy MI300x. Going forward, we are buying MI300x today and will continue to buy AMD MI series as they are released in the future.
Yes and not. We had burnt fossils for most of our history without any remorse. If there is an economic value attached just because science, and this value is higher than the value of the stuff as coal or rock will be preserved.

Previously people building a road would just shut their mouths and pave over it. Now they have an incentive to pause the job and extract it.
or "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly."

Meaning that e.g. if you really need a ride, then a noisy, beat up old car will do.
... chided me that it couldn't be done the way I had in mind. Little did they know I had already validated it for a year, ...

I love this bit. It's why I love computing! You can go build something, verify it and have people tell you "that wont work". I have never been the one to say "I told you so" or have smug satisfaction, there is a special kind of warmth that comes when you already have and someone tells you its impossible!

> Now that I have officially retired from my last employer, I still consult and earlier this week

When I was the new kid in my very early 20's I had the joy of working with the sea of Cobol programers who were back from retirement to save the world from Y2k. Most of them were older then, than I am now, and their stories and advice stuck to me like glue! For as much as things have changed, their lessons in the joys of early mainframes (and the books from conferences they let me read) taught me lessons that apply more now today than they should. The more things change...

> Still deciding whether it's best to present the advanced math at a conference this year or next. That I will be able to take full credit for if I want to, and it could be quite popular now that people have the corresponding apparatus already.

You're a gem of a human. Please present your paper!!!
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Rollback netcode might be good for games, not so much for conversations.
I've come to the conclusion that you can't architect yourself out of this.

What you might do is write tests early, so at least you have integrated a test rig to build on if the system actually gets any use.

Most of the work on mature systems is like this, rewriting and refactoring stuff. If it is very concrete, non-abstract, it's generally easier to work with in this phase than if it was cleverly and abstractly architected. Even if it's a big spaghett.
What is the target market ?

The last thing I want is voice messages - please just send me a text.

Also as SE I have calls all day long so I definitely won’t get a device that makes it easier to call me - I want the opposite!
Having to fight the Germans on their own land wasn't the only thing that had massive negative consequences: their own actions after the war (such as Stalin's purges) probably had bigger consequences.
Some times you might even have to bring two whole donkeys to bear on a project.
For algorithms, I would recommend "Grokking Algorithms" by Aditya Y. Bhargava. The reason is that the book contains hand drawn visualization. I believe this will make the beginner easier to learn the concept.

One more thing, if you learn programming. Don't forget to practice, practice, and practice. The book has exercise sections. Please, don't skip it.

https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-algorithms-second-edi...
AFAIK there are some components that are made by TSMC while some others are still made at Intels own fabs
I think for a while there, the only way to be able to use 128gb was to go TR4 or TRX... I kindof stopped looking for a while, but 100+ boards is certainly a nice change.
That's the result of `-webkit-font-smoothing: none`
No issue on Linux / Firefox for me...
Side note, looking at the source there is a spoiler commented out!!!

"<!--<details><summary>Spoilers!</summary>....."
> Always write the simplest thing you can, but no simpler. Finding that line is where all the art is.

As much as I love simplicity, optimising for peak simplicity isn't always a good use of your time.

Simple enough is often good enough.
Landing page on iOS Safari is incorrect, some elements' font size is extremely big.
The focus is on hyperscalers and cloud service providers now. Even Groq stopped selling to retail.
> First up, the Raspberry Pi 4 compute module. From a scrappy little “$35 computer” put out by a charity originally for the educational market, Raspberry Pi has taken over the world of single board computers, socket by socket. Thanks to the financial backing it had from government grants and donations as well as tax-free status as a charity, it was able to kickstart an unusually low-margin hardware business model into a profitable and sustainable (and soon to be publicly traded!) organization with economies of scale filling its sails. It also benefits from awesome software support due to the synergy of its charitable activities fostering a cozy relationship with the open source community. Being able to purchase modules like the Raspberry Pi CM with all the hard bits like high-speed DDR memory routing, emissions certification, and a Linux distro frees staff resources in other hardware companies (like Formlabs and my own) to focus on other aspects of products.

A very succinct description of the Raspberry Pi past trajectory.
> A way less marketed version of this is htmx

Can I come live in whatever bizarro world you're in? I've never heard of Hotwire before but I'm up to my ears with htmx this and htmx that. It's impossible to spend a minute on Youtube without seeing programmer influencers with their moronic thumbnails featuring their face twerks next to htmx.
In this case voice-to-text gone wrong and not corrected within the edit-window, but at least the error is a dictionary-word.
Cool idea.

I often thought, writing speed could be improved quite a bit if we just removed strokes from some characters.
My boss and I had written a distributed transaction manager. Of all the components of our product, this was considered the lynchpin of reliable enterprise software.

The day came when we had to present it at a very well attended product launch. He and I took turns making different points. Then he announced to the crowd that he had a surprise for me (and turns out, to the entire company), that he had changed the configuration to write the transaction log to a removable drive. Then, in the middle of the demo he proceeded to pop the drive. Our careful demo script had got Putin'd. I went numb, our marketing manager nearly had a coronary.

He then announced that if it were indeed enterprise quality, the system should recover once the disk is put back in again. It freakin' did; the system worked!! He got a laugh out of the crowd that if it survives a demo it would survive failures in production, esp. when one goes off-script. He said that we had spent months and months in careful design and implementation and we have no business writing the word 'reliable' in our marketing literature if we didn't believe it in our core. The crowd lapped it up.

It was a huge humbling and learning moment for me. Although I was the primary implementor of that system, I didn't nearly have enough faith in it as he did. In one instant, I realized all the practices he'd been drilling into our team from the first day, the insistence on creating elaborate mock frameworks to induce faults, embracing the idea that if something could go wrong, it will. I realized that if you are surprised that the system works, you haven't reflected on that doubt enough. He would light up like a child when we encountered a real bug, and he'd follow it up with a session of reflection on why it escaped our attention in the first place. That session would result in a raft of new tests.

Rest in peace, Ed Felt, my friend, mentor and guide. Taken too soon (United flight 91, alas).
A while back I came across this self-directed question:

"How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?"

(from Jerry Colonna, according to The Internet).

For me, it has been a sporadic but powerful concept that often sits me on my ass, especially when I find myself feeling ungrateful or put upon.

I was already very familiar with Stoicism which has similar lessons. So not only did I discover that I was responsible for my own situation, I also had the humbling realization that I hadn't actually grasped the lessons I thought I had.