skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has been a short term financial bump, but long view investors are starting to see it as an indicator of future long term unhealthy performance. Either from self inflicted damage, or coming to terms with anticipated performance shortfalls.
Well, otherwise it would be a lot more than 30 years.
Clearly they need to lay off more employees.
EDIT: Made a major mistake in my numbers. Reworked the calculations but the substantive part of the argument remains the same.

A San Antonio has ~20,000 square feet of deck space usable for vehicles and cargo. If you stuffed it with TEUs you could fit 125.[0][1] Maximum mass capacity for a TEU is ~21t, let's call it 20t for easy math.[2] So a San Antonio moving containerized beans/bullets/bandaids is only lifting ~2,500 tons per sortie. There are only 12 active San Anontios, and keep in mind roughly 1/3 of any fleet is down for maintenance), so you would need half of all likely available LPDs (4 of 8 available with 4 in yardwork) of the largest (by tonnage, not hull numbers) Navy on the planet.

As for helicopters, you can carry palletized cargo internally on a CH-53 (one of it's few advantages over a CH-47). The K model, with stronger engines (and therefore payload capacity) than the E model, can move ~12t at 200km.[3] Let's just call it 10t at 200km, again for easy math. You would need 1,000 sorties in a day to move 10kt. If you pushed your aircraft to 3 sorties per day (limited by ground crew ability to turn the aircraft), you could do it with ~333 heavy lift helicopters. The US only has ~20 operational CH-53Ks, and ~140 CH-53Es. So no, moving 10kt per day is not a joke, and can't be shuffled by helicopters alone.

It would take both asset classes combined, let's call it 3xLPD for 7.5kt and ~80 CH-53s flying 240 sorties for 2.4kt. That would pretty much be a maximum effort for the Navy-Marine Corps Team, which is inarguably the largest and most capable military power projection and expeditionary logistics force on Earth.

So even in 2024, what they accomplished on D-Day is not a trivial amount of effort.

[0] https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Team-Ships/PEO-Ships/LPD-17...

[1] 20000 / (20ft long x 8ft wide TEU) ~= 125 TEUs worth of deck space, assuming you use ALL deckspace but can't/don't stack them 2 high

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit

[3] https://www.navair.navy.mil/product/CH-53K-King-Stallion
Why, so they can patent it and sue everyone?
Is there evidence-based agricultural research for no-till farming?

No-Till Farming > Adoption across the world : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming#Adoption_acros... :

> * By 2023, farmland with strict no-tillage principles comprise roughly 30% of the cropland in the U.S.*

The new model used to score fuel lifecycle emissions is the Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy use in Technologies (GREET) model: https://www.energy.gov/eere/greet :

> GREET is a tool that assesses a range of life cycle energy, emissions, and environmental impact challenges and that can be used to guide decision-making, research and development, and regulations related to transportation and the energy sector.

> * For any given energy and vehicle system, GREET can calculate:*

> - Total energy consumption (non-renewable and renewable)

> - Fossil fuel energy use (petroleum, natural gas, coal)

> - Greenhouse gas emissions

> - Air pollutant emissions

> - Water consumption

FWIU you have to plant cover crops to receive the new US ethanol / biofuel subsidies.

From "Some Groups Pan SAF Rules for Farmers
Groups Criticize Cover Crop Requirement for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Modeling" (2024) https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/business-input... :

> Some biofuel groups were encouraged the guidance would recognize climate-smart farm practices for the first time in ethanol or biodiesel's carbon intensity score. Others said the guidance hurts them because their producers have a hard time growing cover crops and carbon scoring shouldn't be limited to a few specific farming practices. Environmental groups said there isn't enough hard science to prove the benefit of those farm practices.

I have "The Living Soil Handbook" by Jessie Frost (in KY) here, and page 1 "Introduction" reads:

> 1. Disturb the soil as little as possible.

> 2. Keep the soil covered as much as possible.

> 3. Keep the soil planted as much as possible.

FWIU tilling results in oxidation and sterilization due to UV-C radiation and ozone; tilling turns soil to dirt; and dry dirt doesn't fix nitrogen or CO2 or host mycorhizzae which help plants absorb nutrients.

Bunds with no irrigation to not till over appear to win in many climates. Maybe bunds, agrivoltaics, and agricultural robots can help undo soil depletion.

"Vikings razed the forests. Can Iceland regrow them?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361034

https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/# ctrl-f soil , no-till / notill / no till / #NoTill
Many European countries disagree.
In the Netherlands (40k km2) there are about 400 trainstations and all of them cost a fraction of any reasonable airstrip and can go to the heart of the town.
A semantic difference only. They were "made redundant", "let go", "laid off", "fired", "terminated", and any other set of convenient choices.
Thanks for the feedback boursbenjamin.

The test cases for this library validate against the XSD for the ISO files, which could be extended to handle more test cases.

Banks sometimes offer a test SFTP endpoint they use. Engineers have had to do this from scratch at the companies they worked at in the past. If this is something you're interested in, we should talk more @ svapnil@woodside.sh
I made a tiny shell script that combines tar+age, you may find it useful for simplicity

https://github.com/arcxio/urn/blob/main/urn
China's secretive space plane caught on camera in orbit
For routine fast numerical algorithm dev, Julia is like a modern c++ or fortran. Hyperspecialilzed isn't the right adjective here.

Our team's big mistake was believing blog posts that swept laziness problems under the rug. In hindsight, there's plenty of criticism about Haskell's laziness in complex apps, and we should have taken that criticism more much seriously.
Google monopoly ruling could help Apple defense in antitrust case
This makes sense since now the pixel 8 FINALLY supports video out. Whenever Google makes an about face like that it's always a strategy change.
PLOS ONE study suggests Egyptian pyramids built using hydraulic lift
the only reason i kept using Chrome was because of Chromecast...

what are some good alternatives to Chromecast? (can cast from phone or desktop browser)
This is exactly what I've been wrestling with recently.. it's so disappointingly absent in all the offerings out there.

The solution I ended up with was to build my own pseudo-idempotency around Postmark. It helps that Postmark at least has proper persistence so you can query their API to check if you've already sent a certain email. I had to move away from Mailchimp because, if an email gets queued for some reason, it isn't reflected as sent in the API so there's no way of knowing whether an email is hiding in "queued limbo". Postmark doesn't have this problem.

The only caveat is that there is a delay between sending an email and it being reflected in the API (seems pretty standard across the different services). This means I had to implement a simple database backed lock to make sure I never try to send the same email more than once in quick succession.

It's kind of ridiculous, but.. I couldn't find any alternative.

Edit:

Wonder if it would be worth wrapping something like this up into some kind of a self-hostable proxy service. You'd provide the idempotency key in a header and it would do the rest
In NYC, these drug stores also treat all of their customers like criminals. Everything non-perishable that is worth more than $5 is locked in a cabinet that you need an employee's help to open. The hours had been restricted to mostly operating during daylight.

It used to be nice to go down to your local Duane Reade 24 hours a day and get anything you needed, often for only a small premium on the Amazon price. It's a different story now.

Amazon loses you availability of access, and while it's nice to get stuff by mail, you can't get stuff by mail right now. That availability is going away.
Relevant to the original inquiry — I really admire that you bring up the etcd and consul comparison right up front in the readme. For my own comprehension at least, it makes obvious the type of workloads for which you're optimizing and I appreciate that context as a past user of both of those stacks.
except I know so many out of work that are not in tech. Finance is getting destroyed right now, also media, learning and pharma. Govt jobs and travel jobs lost during covid seem like the only thing thats out there. The economy is absolute garbage right now and the media has been gaslighting everyone saying its all in our heads.
Not sure if heroism is bad.

[1] All teams should have a Jordan, a kobe, a shaquille or a combi. One needs A players and supporting cast. It is not the culture or the org who decides upon the evolution of the heroism. It is the hero who builds a team around him/her.
[2] the scrum or agile saga that promotes that all team members should be able to do what all team members do is just excel-minded-nonesense. Cant win championships with only goalkeepers, or only midfielders. Cant prep one to be good in both either during a lifetime.

Probably google wants weat crops that always look alike and are predictable?
> I’m still baffled why larger VRAM cards haven’t come out more competitive.

Because that would eat into the market of hyper expensive dedicated AI accelerator cards. Wasn't it obvious?

At TSMC you'll pay 20 per square inch of silicon(number I made up for exemplification), would you rather a) print a GPU on it and sell it to consumers for $800 or b) print an AI accelerator on it and sell it to datacenters for $8000?

It's really that simple. What company you know that says no to making more money?
I haven't run into this person but I'd love to hear about problems you've seen people create - I can't even think of a problem I could create and fix.
> the dire warnings that Google present (or presented?) to users

I don't see any warnings when I use Google with Firefox now. Actually I don't I recall ever seeing any, but I don't use Google that often.
> deal with the crazy people on public transit

I've never dealt with crazy people on public transit and have used it daily for decades, everyone else just wants to mind their own business, although I live in Europe. So that problem is something that isn't inherent to public transit.

In the end public transit doesn't have more crazy people than a grocery store where I live, and I don't see why there would be in USA either except if public transit is grossly mismanaged encouraging vagrants or criminals to live in them. If you throw those out just like grocery stores does then the issue is solved immediately.
Perhaps these situations just aren't as dangerous as you think? I can understand not wanting to see drug deals happening out in the open, but it's less of a threat to your personal safety than crossing a busy street.
Whenever I see these google SRE articles, I kinda reduce the message to "don't be a hero in a cost center in an org with nearly unlimited resources."

If you're in a profit center, you might get rewarded for your risk.
Not really. At a mature org, if anyone is putting in over 40 hours a week, management should he investigating. It's a warning flag either way.
That’s hard to believe. Lawns take up such a small space. It had to until recently (robots) be mowed manually, at least for residental lawns. The American West is so devoid of lawns clusters (metro areas) that all of it except the West Coast should have excellent insect conditions, if lawns have such a large impact.

This feels like explaining pollution by studying how many bottles are thrown into bodies of water in Orange County.
Yosemite National Park Is a Mess
Would it be illegal for any one company to not advertise in order to damage its business?

How about individuals? Is my not buying a Tesla in order to deny that revenue to the Musk world considered illegal?
> With the correct encoding, it's just a mechanical limit

This also applies to small numbers and small mechanical limits. Of course, here the small limits come with the nice side effect of efficiency :)
You could take a look at Making Music, partially available (pdf might be free even) here:

https://makingmusic.ableton.com/
Fair or not, a week per year is an extremely common formula for calculating severance at a large company
You don't want heroes at large companies with top down product management. You need heroes at small innovative startups. This write up is more of a documentation on the stagnant culture inside google
Weird. I'm looking at master right now and `config.example.toml` has this comment:

# This is an array of the codegen backends that will be compiled for the rustc
# that's being compiled. The default is to only build the LLVM codegen backend,
# and currently the only standard options supported are `"llvm"`, `"cranelift"`
# and `"gcc"`. The first backend in this list will be used as default by rustc
# when no explicit backend is specified.
#codegen-backends = ["llvm"]

Now I've not messed with the build profiles at all, and I don't have the repo checked out so digging through it is tedious, but my assumption is the library profiles work by copying everything from src/bootstrap/defaults/config.library.toml into a config.toml at the current directory. There's nothing overriding the default codegen-backends value that I can see.

The defaults for the Config struct are set in src/bootstrap/src/core/config/config.rs and codegen-backends is indeed just "llvm" (line 1167).

Nothing in src/bootstrap/src/core/build_steps/compile.rs appears to override that list.

So that's all very curious (to me). Did the gcc backend get built as well?

Tangentially: a year on and the Github interface is still nasty to use – and one of the big motivating factor for me backing off of hacking on the cross build stuff. Every day seems to bring a new WTF moment. If I could get one thing for my birthday it would be for Rust to wean itself off of Github.
I think this attitude is what is driving his complaints. Most engineering work exists in the context of towering teetering piles of legacy decisions, organizational cultures, partially specified problems, and uncertainty about the future. Put another way "the implementation is the spec" and "everything is a remodel" are better mental models than spec-lawyering. I agree that relying on say stability of the common set of compiler optimizations circa 2015 is a terrible solution but I'm not convinced it's the wrong one in the short term. Are we really getting enough perf out of the work to justify the complexity? I don't know. It's also completely infeasible given the incentives at play, complexity and bugs are mostly externalities that with some delay burden users and customers.

Personally I'm grateful the cryptographers do what they do, computers would be a lot less useful without their work.
Yeah, it's unfortunate for X that Musk's "legal theory" doesn't align with the legal theory actually used by US courts
I think that's a proportionally relevant response to inviting extremists and brand risks onto your platform.
Yeah ha, this was literally my thought.
I agree wholeheartedly. I've been following along with the fair.io/sentry launch, and I think this type of licensing is a step forward in creating sustainable code that advances technology.

I was at an open-source company during the big data boom, and even then, it was hard to find ways to convince businesses that the engineers building the open-source software running critical data jobs needed to be paid. The anchoring principle is huge, and the reality is that once something is free, companies value it at zero dollars.

Delayed open source with the source available and changeable now is the best compromise for all that works from what I have seen.
The FAA also has the NTSB investigate every crash and accident, and if it was something as simple as "change the airport patterns to be larger and faster" or "make more airports straight in" it would have already been done.

Fancier aeronautics has a way of letting the plane get ahead of the pilot even faster.
If you stop advertising you may be in their cross-hairs.
I pick a restaurant and go to it. It's almost always fine.

We managed for centuries without comprehensive reviews of every single restaurant from every two bit individual who thinks they have a valid opinion on cooking. I genuinely don't understand, don't you people ever do anything you haven't been recommended by an algorithm?

I have never looked at reviews for restaurants. I will use Google maps to look for "nearby" places, but I will not look at the reviews.
yet another one headed for the graveyard
It's no longer a competitive market. MS can lowball like crazy now
Possibly they were using a pod autoscaler that was keyed off this metric.
> A clarification could be a short sentence, a snipped of code, but no, I get the entire answer again, slightly modified.

This tracks, in the sense that this is what you'll get from many real people when you actually want a clarification.
I'm not sure how long ungoogled-chromium could keep something like that, possibly not long. How Google changes code has to be at least partially intentional.
It's not quite as bad. The Cirrus SR20 and the Diamond DA40 are basically from around 2000, the Tecnam P2010 is from 2011 (all fully certified).
Yeah -- I built a quick movie/show summarizer (easy to do with the latest models with larger than >50k token context window), I got literally 1 customer for $5 haha, but it was a fun little project to learn the various leading LLM APIs.

It's here: recapflix.com (and it's not at all perfect, due to a number of reasons...).

It was actually useful in the rare case that you wana skip an episode or get caught up on some obscure anime/show, but otherwise, meh.
> I think honestly the best solution really is to just use a stock PC and forget all of this crap.

I used to do that, with a Linux HTPC and Plex. I eventually switched to the physical AppleTV device, with all the content on a surplus Mac mini connected to the home network. It's just less work to maintain. On the old setup, it always worked perfectly whenever I was around and had plenty of time to tinker with things. It only ever had problems when I was at the office, very busy, and the kids wanted to watch some show I had digitized from our DVD collection. Granted, the problems were always small and easily fixed, but they were disruptive because of the circumstance.

I've never had that happen to me with the Apple setup. Yeah, you've got to at least partially buy into their ecosystem. But they don't force you to go all in if you don't want to.
Technology breaks everywhere. Wireless is just one more thing to go wrong. Especially for a device that never moves on my desk. Which does not even address the multiple security issues which have been discovered in keyboard protocols.
Add the style only while the menu is up.

I had to do something similar a while ago to implement drag&drop while keeping text selectable.
Yes. I would characterize a company that mainly generates revenue through ads as an ad company.
> Is this an AI generated comment?

“Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like.” --hn guidelines
I assume most of these are salesmen and support people ? It says they have 120k people on staff, but do they have a clearer picture on the various divisions inside ?
That's on top of "two months wages" base, which is already pretty generous. I'm not sure what you're expecting here? 2 months base + 1 month per year?
UBI FTW
I screencasted once to play with video feedback, but never seen a Chromecast device that plugs into a TV.
Danswer (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Full Stack Engineer
one instance I can remember immediately - lead SRE turns off an alert for some DLQ that has been finicky and experiencing periodic issues, often requiring intervention from the on-call team. he doesn’t tell the on call team he turned this off, suspecting that after a day or so something downstream will blow up. Then it does, he appears out of nowhere to save the day with the precise solution and looks like a genius for it.
My Vizio TV calls it SmartCast. I just Airplay to it. I didn't realize until I just googled it that Chromecast is basically Airplay for Android.
ST/SGB/2007/5 – Record-Keeping and the Management of United Nations Archives
I agree. The branding doesn't really matter as long as casting still works. It seems like an odd choice for Google to frame this in such dramatic terms, especially when so many people have already been burned by their tendency to kill popular products out of the blue.

I get the lamentation of the final nail in the coffin of what was just a simple wireless HDMI dongle, and I agree that there's a real need for that. Having said that, I love my 4K Google TV Chromecasts. All I'd ever wanted was something that combined the Fire TV Stick and the Chromecast into one device, and this delivered perfectly. The compact form factor makes it easy to keep a spare in my backpack for whenever I might need it while away from home, which comes in handy often.

My problem with this is that it sounds like they're discontinuing a product that works perfectly well, and replacing it with something slightly worse (for my use case) at 2x the price. Granted, for now they are still selling the Chromecast, so they have time to introduce a future "Google TV Streamer Mini" that retains the form factor of the Chromecast. As long as they do that, I don't really care what they call it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240806142200/https://www.bloom...

https://archive.ph/20240806123645/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Duane Reade in particular is famous for its Machiavellian approach to real estate. Sometimes I wonder if people who grew up in NYC think there are Duane Reades from coast to coast but they are hyperlocal or they were until they got bought by Walgreens/Boots Alliance.
One notable angle I saw on this:

"The most significant thing about X's lawsuit against GARM are not the allegations, but the Texas judge: Reed O'Connor.

He also is overseeing X's Media Matters suit and, in an extraordinary move, allowed discovery to start BEFORE a motion to dismiss was ruled on. (1/2)

That allowed for vast amounts of broad and costly data collection from Media Matters, which the group compared to "harassment," leading to layoffs due to crushing litigation costs - again, before the suit's merit's were even decided.

Now that same judge has the GARM case (2/2)" -- Bobby Allyn, https://x.com/bobbyallyn/status/1820864283665936413

This is more about lawfare, bullying organizations (in this case advertisers) by applying financial pressure via district-shopped lawsuits.
Their competition is online.
Not so. Being included in a RIF (reduction in force) is legally different than getting fired. Ask anyone who knows anything about corporate HR.
Is it just me or does it seem like this change simply wasn't tested beyond a simple unit test?
You’re not alone. I don’t get the contrast either.
Show HN: Generate and visualize color themes for your UI
Tool to help visualize color themes for UI, rather than spending time figuring out what theme to use.
The demo on the website is very cute and a bit unexpected.
"the U.S. currently pays $3,000 for its most modern shells, according to an Army spokesperson. That price includes the charge, fuze, and shell body." [1]

[1] https://www.defenseone.com/business/2023/11/race-make-artill...