skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great primer on one facet of the Navy and "technology".

So much of early computing has some tie back to the navy. It isn't an accident that Grace Hopper was an admiral and not a General. Much of Cray's early work is littered with "Navy" (including his transfer from Europe to the Pacific).

It's a fascinating bit of WWII and Post war history that is worth exploring.
Then refactor your app to make it easy. If it is hard in your tool, choose a different tool that make it easy.
I'm not sure that reason is all that common. People like cars primarily for the flexibility I think.
It is good you are trying to appreciate what he is saying.

For another attempt at explaining for you in a simplified matter: Dragons and monsters are for fantasy genre even if they wear a spacesuit, relationships and drama for romantic novels even if they wear a spacesuite, science and technonology are for science fiction.

Hugo awards core description is sci fi and fantasy as per their declaration.

Hugo awarded novels core prediction is whether there are gender multiplicities in the novel which is not that scientific of fantastic. It has danger of killing the scifi genre or the awards. Although I sympathize, I find it boring on a scifi or fantasy perspective
It's all there, except the ability to leave. Leaving a corporation is easy. Leaving East Germany... not so much.
> Looks very polished, also glad to see a launch with a mac build.

And it's definitely great! I just hope they get a universal build soon, as if you are on Apple Silicon (M1+), the game runs under Rosetta. There's a bit of a performance hit because of this, although you can still run really high resolution (5K) on low fairly effortlessly! And it looks absolutely beautiful.

Side note, I was a tiny bit confused about the "tutorial" when you get the two checkboxes, one of them saying something like "Don't destroy buildings".

I thought it meant you should reuse your structures and not destroy them, which after a few milestones is just not possible at all.
Thanks for doing that, Ernie!
> Why do people have this idea that it's the language's job to protect you?

Because we have the benefit of hindsight. We tried putting the responsibility in programmers' hands. It didn't work. We're now learning from that experience and building better tools that can do the same job, more safely. It's foolish not to use them.

> Whatever language you believe in probably depends on C. You live in a C world. The value prop of the programming languages other than C/C++ for systems programming is that they build cohesive social communities and C is in the background serving them all. The whole "we're going to save you from the bogeyman" is just kool aid.

No one is expecting the new languages to make computing suddenly error-free from top to bottom. It's about reducing the size of the surface where errors can be introduced. You're attacking a strawman here.
In terms of feudalism.

Feudalism was an economic system borne from the Divine Right of Kings [1]. But this was really just an excuse, much like every religious war isn't really about relilgion. Religion is just an excuse to seize land.

Anyway, under feudalism, a King controlled some portion of land. That King would typically have vassals who control part of it. Depending on the size, those vassals may themselves have vassals.

At the bottom of this totem pole was the serf. A noble would control all the land but would grant a serf the ability to use the land to grow a harvest and feed his family. Often the serf would live on that land. In exchange for this the serf would give a portion of his harvest to his lord. The serf may also owe the lord military service in times of war.

By late feudalism, instead of giving crops, the serf would sell their harvest at markets and pay the lord money. This led to the rise of the merchant class and ultimately paved the way for capitalism.

So what's going on here? In feudalism, the lord owns the means of production (being the land). The serf, through his labor, creates value by sowing and harvesting a crop. There is no value to the land without labor. So one can say the the lord is extracting the surplus value of the serf's labor. This framing and understanding was really formalized by Karl Marx later but the origin of the Labor Theory of Value [2] goes back to Ancient Greece and probably beyond.

So what is capitalism? Capitalism simply replaces the noble lord with a capital owner. That's literally it.

As the world industrialized the means of production expanded beyond farms and mines to factories. But everything else applies. A factory extracts the surplus value of the workers' labor to enrichen the factory's owner.

Instead of kings, we have Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the like.

So what Marx talked about was the workers' relationship to the means of production. Socialism in this context simply means the workers own the means of production.

So if you look at your local town or city, Walmart represents capitalism. The value of that labor and from that community is extracted to distant owners. If your town has a local family-owned restaurant, well that's socialism. The restaurant is the means of production here. The family who works there owns it.

A Monsanto-owned agribusiness? Capitalism. Family-owned farm? Socialism.

The crazy thing is that people like boutique hotels, farmers markets, family-owned farms, locally-grown produce and so on.

Some theory wonks migh tyell at me about syndaclism, Marxism, Marxist-Leninism or Mao third-worldism. Don't get lost in the weeds however.

The key part of this is that capitalism has almost nothing to do with markets (let alone "free markets", which is an oxymoron). Markets existed for thousands of years before capitalism did. Markets exist in non-capitalist countries.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
I downloaded movies in the late 90s on a 56k modem. The movies were generally compressed to fit on one or two writable CDs, you can download 700MB easily overnight (about 3.5 hours if your ISP is good). The quality was much worse than what we're used to now though.
I thought go binaries were purely static, aren't they ?
> Haha fair enough, maybe you're not using all these things.

Oh, I am - just not very happily :)

Not to get too into the weeds here, but I could live a long and happy life if I never had to read or write yaml that controls our build or CI pipelines, or troubleshoot layers of Helm and Kubernetes to figure out why our database migrations fail but only when running `alter` statements, or if I never had to manually search for `<FooBar` to figure out where some parameter is being passed from through twelve layers of React components down to FooBar itself.

But I also remember working in a world where Junior Engineer me FTP'ed code directly to production, hoping that `index_new2.php` was the latest, correct file on the shared network drive, and that nobody erased `index_old.bak` over the weekend because I still had to port some functionality over on Monday. (Joke was on me, by Monday the numbers had already come in, and it turns out that using Javascript to do financial calculations was a Very Bad Idea, and the functionality was no longer relevant. Plus, by then, I'd forgotten whether it was in `index_old.bak` or `index2.php.bak`.)
You can read about all the main differences in this document: https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/blob/main/docs/DIFFERENC...

One could argue that a plugin version is more than a minor feature.

Cardinal is not affiliated with VCV in any way. We use the upstream Rack source-code as a base so any support towards VCV will ultimately "trickle down" (in the form of code) back to Cardinal as well.
I disagree on that—in the YouTube example specifically this isn't necessarily a problem, but the toast serves a valuable purpose in the archive in that it tells you again which button it was that you pressed. There have been countless times in cases like that where the toast has saved me and allowed me to undo a misclick.

I can see the argument that there are certain places where people use toasts that are unnecessary and provide information that the user doesn't need. But that's not the same thing as toasts being bad UX in the general case.
FWIW the universal build works with the right mouse button click trick
I’ve been a developer (primarily back end) and I never heard the term toast until now. Perhaps I’m just simple, or maybe I stopped paying attention after “hamburger menu.” I’m probably too old to hang out with the cool kids anymore.
> also glad to see a launch with a mac build

Performance on my M2 Max is pretty poor, even just in the tutorial levels. I wonder if it's a Rosetta build...? Playable on Medium-High or so but laggy on higher settings right off the bat.

(On the other hand, it also launched on GeForce Now, and is silky-smooth there.)
Why GM Just Laid Off More Than 1k Software Engineers
Write instructions for use of your countries nukes on handwritten letters in sealed envelopes and put one copy in each submarine!
A similarly interesting video in this pedagogical style is 'Around The Corner - How Differential Steering Works (1937)': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
>The researchers behind the AWOW project wanted to see if another, similar signal could be found, so they looked over data gathered by the Arecibo telescope from 2017 to 2020.

Up until the year the telescope collapsed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLYVix5DLU
South Korea: Housing and Education Drown Out Economic Effect on Birth Rate
It is better, as others have written, because it preserves integrity constraints.
Financially efficient is resource plus labor efficiency. Money represents resources and labor. Financially efficient cant be anything other than labor and resource efficient.
Combinatory Tetris
I interviewed with them once, they strung me along for about 6 months then ghosted me.
Wouldn't it be nice to have recommendations that effectively address both levels and understanding not just your general preferences but also your current emotional state
Ironically, I can buy a used DVD online in a lot of cases for less than the Apple/Amazon/YouTube rental price: https://nickelflix.com/collections/genty-used-dvds
> is it the case that paediatricians/pediatricians are referred to as paedos/pedos

No. It's just stupidity.
The open/closed decision is a current weight on my mind right now. Our main competition is an open source product - it feels like it will be a tough sell to not also have the core of the product be free (Robotics framework). I might shoot you an email.
HJ is Homeless Joe, an inference that a 12b stochastic text generator would not have missed lol. But sure, ill reflect in 10 years.

TBH I hope im wrong, and that there is magic in HJ that makes him special in the universe in a way that GPT26 can never be. But increasingly, I doubt this premise. Not because of the "amazing capabilities of LLMs" which i think are frequently overstated and largely misunderstood, but more because of the dumbfounding shortcomings of intelligent creatures. We keep moving the bar for AGI, and now AGI is assumed to be what any rational accounting would classfy as ASI.

Where we are really going to see the bloom of AI is in goal directed systems, and I think those will come naturally with robotics. I predict we are in for a very abrupt 2nd industrial revolution, and you and I will be able to have this discussion either over a 55 gallon barrel of burning trash, or in our robot manicured botanical gardens sometime in the near future lol.

good times, maybe. Interesting times , for sure.
At least with spotify I regularly get sent into artists with triple digit numbers of monthly listeners.
Don’t underestimate exponentials. Tesla produced 6.5 GWh of battery storage in 2022, 14.7 GWh in 2023, and will probably double again in 2024.

And other battery manufacturers such as BYD grow fast too.
Also, one of many digital sundials:

http://www.mojoptix.com/2015/10/25/mojoptix-001-digital-sund...
> You can amend it, but you can't edit it

The Constitution is mutable. By your definition, nothing is immutable because technically the data on the disk is overwritten in a manner technically recoverable by theoretical means.
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Love the DHARMA Initiative feel of it!

Excellent, particularly the differential computing aspect. Thanks for posting this.
Previous thread, specifically a critical question:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39137491

Also, if this data is for sale then it's a reasonable bet that other governments have bought it too (i.e., Russia, China, etc). Is that "legal", then? What's the difference?
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Maybe the content of what their official agreement provided differed to what the tip-off was offering.
https://www.wussu.com/poems/lctlq.htm
UK aerospace company tests precooler for hypersonic drone
> I know this isn't necessarily a crowd primed for this comment, but it's the truth so here we go:

It's implicit in every comment that what they're saying is the truth! This is setting up for a rejection of any disagreement in a way that I don't think is conducive to a useful discussion.

As for your substantive point, it's true that you can use the part you quoted as the basis for some kind of paternalistic totalitarianism. However I wouldn't say that's an issue necessarily. For example something like "we should organise a government and allocate resources to some things and not others" is another site you could build your undesirable political philosophy on.

Acknowledging human fallibility and the broad range of aptitudes across society doesn't seem like it contains the seed of evil.
Just FYI, it's out on Chrome, Firefox and Edge too in addition to MacOS and iPadOS. Links on the site gosinkit[dot]com Disclaimer - I made this.
Cancel culture does a huge disservice to real progressive causes. It's hard to attack a political party built around creating a more equitable society, it's easy to attack people who are willing to burn free speech to the ground and ruin people's livelihoods for having different opinions that you somehow in some fit of intellectual contortionism perceive as "hate speech."
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Cross-posting blogs for backlinks can destroy your website
Today I learned that cross-posting blogs for getting backlinks can destroy your website authority.

If you are cross-posting on high Domain Ranking sites then even if your URL was indexed first Google may still associate the content to the high DR site and attribute your original post as spam.

To avoid this add a rel="canonical" link on the site you wish to cross-post to indicate to Google that your page is the original source and all credit for content on the cross-post page should go to your site.

Medium and Dev_to I have found out allow you to add the canonical link. But To add this you must go to settings and set these links.

Another way to avoid being marked as spam by Google is to only publish your content on other sites and not your own.
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I use a computer mainly by using a zoom tool to magnify the area around my text and mouse/finger cursoe. I miss almosst all toasts and most notifications because they not where I’m working. For my use case, feed near the item I’m interacting with is the only valuable feedback.
Ask HN: Help with Glioblastoma
Back in December 2023 a family member was diagnosed with grade 4 glioblastoma. The median life expectancy from diagnosis is 12 months.

Two weeks after the diagnosis he had surgery which was successful in removing the tumour without a huge amount of cognitive impairment. The then had the standard radio and chemo therapy for six months.

In July of this year he had another scan which showed two more tumours, which were also surgically removed successfully.

In between the two surgeries we found a treatment called DCVax from Northwest Biotherapeutics that had good clinical evidence, but not enough tumour material was recovered from the surgery in able to move forward with this treatment.

We're now looking at other treatment options for this in addition to what his oncologist is recommending which is Avastin.

The whole experimental medicine field in terms of glioblastoma treatment seems to be a bit a minefield full of snake-oil salesman so I wanted to ask everyone here if they have any personal knowledge of any clinic or treatment that helped or may have helped.

Any advice would be helpful, including herbal remedies or alternative treatments. The situation is pretty desperate now so we'll try anything that has a low risk profile. We people with medical backgrounds in the family to try and make sure we're not doing more harm than good, and the patient is coordinating all this with his oncologist.

Also as a warning to others who might find this post in the future; a few months ago we spoke with a seemingly reputable clinic in the Middle East which offered some experimental therapy. They wanted us to pay about $1000 for the initial consultation but we asked them first to give us a ballpark figure for what the treatment would cost and they told us about $50,000. We then proceeded to pay for the consultation and were then told the whole treatment would cost about $500,000 and would involve travel to Central Asia for the treatment. I felt that we got taken advantage of while in a desperate and vulnerable situation.

Anyway any advice anyone could give would be super appreciated.

Thank you.
Query Builder in Golang for Opensearch
I think fixed point would be used a lot more with proper support in programming languages
SB 1047 Is Amended
I don't know what people expect really. Discovering music that resonates with you is not easy. I find spotify gives me about one band I really like every two months and I think that's actually really good. I dislike the vast majority of what it recommends, but I don't think that's a problem.
Disney reverses course on bid to block wrongful death lawsuit
> I never paid a cent for the product

I would love to contribute and pay, but, as a single personal / private onprem user, it's impossible. It's $49 per user with a 50 user minimum.

Sourcegraph doesn't make it possible to contribute in that circumstance.
Yeah, but I want to hear the long tail of good music with bad promotion and under 10 monthly listeners.
I think you get root with DigitalOcean VPSes
> Ah yes, 1.5B users, absolutely tiny :)

I meant in terms of employees. About 4.5k in my recall, for running FB, IG and Whatsapp, as well as all of the ads products.
Exactly.

Consider the Roman military [1] (emphasis added):

> From c100 BCE, Roman legions were reorganised into 10 cohorts of 400–500 heavy infantry, each with six centuries of about 80 men. These continued to provide their own weapons and armour until the first permanent and entirely professional Roman army with a central command and logistics structure was formed in 31 BCE.

In fact, one's position in the Roman army was largely determined by what one was wealthy enough to provide. Consider the cavalry (equites) [2]:

> From the beginning of the 4th century bc, non-senators were enlisted in the cavalry; they provided their own horses (equites equo privato). By the 1st century bc, foreign cavalry tended to replace them in the field and thus to restrict the equestrian order to posts as officers or members of the general’s staff

A military doesn't have to provide equipment. It doesn't have to fulfil basic needs. It doesn't even have to be voluntary. Or paid. But modern militaries in developed countries do basically all of those things.

[1]: https://jmvh.org/article/roman-warfare-ships-and-medicine/

[2]: https://www.britannica.com/topic/eques
But you have to select an obscure artist first. Hence why the music attention economy is winner-takes-all these days.
Why? Getting operational experience with the product that you might then pay a lot for seems very important. Especially if you end up liking the product/service but not the pricing changes that might then happen, so doing some exploratory fact finding for a backup plan doesn't seem to be waste of time.

For example when we used Jira on-prem and it was snappy and we were happy ... and it was a rather important point of difference compared to the slow shitocumulus version.

Also, when people are using GitHub issues to ask questions the problem is usually a lack of clear documentation. (And if spending time to link FAQ answers to potential customers is a waste of time ... then maybe it's not surprising that Sourcegraph CEO is doing damage control on HN instead of focusing on focusing or whatever.)
I get your reasoning but still why use food terms for jargon in UX instead of something else.

Your example of a "P-trap" is good but its not like plumbers are going around saying, get me the "slinky hotdog" to bend a copper pipe, or you need a "banoffee pie" to seal this joint.
Oh, I 100% agree that IP laws are too strong and last too long, which allows media companies to charge too much and stifle competition.

It actually also hurts the content creators themselves. The music industry spent too much time fighting "internet distributed" music and the only alternatives they pieced together were too restrictive to the way people actually consumed music. "Want to listen on more than one device? Pay multiple times!" was their attempt back in the day.
Wow, I think it's really annoying to see music that you disliked on your recommendation list
Author here and NixOS user.

This works even in NixOS, because `go` toolchain is statically compiled.
For comparison:

https://www.iventoy.com/en/index.html

I haven't tried it but I use its USB cousin Ventoy almost every day. It's fantastic.
The languages where typing takes more time also tend to have IDE support to mitigate that --- in a deterministic way, unlike CoPilot.
I guess you're referring to this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chinese-drivers-kill-pedes...
What's the liar's dividend? I mean, is it used in common parlance?; it's new to me.
Won't load right now where I am. (I'm at a library)
This has not been my experience. I have used various generations of Pi for various 24/7 tasks over the years, and I've not found them to be particularly crash-prone.
I assume you don't want a full screen reader if you're not already using one, but if toasts are properly implemented (big if), screen readers can actually present them accessibly via the ARIA alert pattern[0].

Wanted to mention in case you're not aware and maybe there's some tool somewhere (or some way to configure a screen reader?) so that you can keep your simple zoom workflow but still benefit from the ARIA alert pattern.

[0] https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/alert/
> I wonder if it's a Rosetta build.

It is, I tried to raise it up on Steam support forum, hopefully they'll address this. Especially since they showed the game a few times running on M1+ macs, I definitely was surprised.

> Performance on my M2 Max is pretty poor

On my M1 Ultra I found reducing to the "Low" preset worked great and lets me play at 60 FPS/5K resolution. It still looks fine. Just avoid Minimal which is visually jarring (no shaders and extreme contrasts/bad readability).
I listen to them sometimes. I have two decks and a busted portable Net-MD recorder. Both of the decks are next to media players of various sorts so I don't really need them, but they are fun. Without the Net-MD player, however, it is a hassle to record disks because the track labels don't get transferred.

I remember reading about Minidisc around the time I started grad school, I didn't think about them much until a few years ago when I started watching Techmoan. First my nostaglia for tapes was activated but I concluded that tapes sucked compared to minidiscs so I started collecting minidiscs.

Funny my son has a '96 Buick which had a broken CD/tape stereo when he bought it, he replaced that unit with a tape only unit. So now I am in search of a decent deck to make recordings. I have a two deck, two head unit that has a busted record deck and that's what I always find at

https://ithacareuse.org/

I may have to break down and get a refurbished three-head deck on Ebay.