skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I skipped over most of it, but reading some parts in between this "report" is so... sparse. What I read is mostly just "our adversaries China and Russia are bad" and "we should think about space force" and "recruiting has been rough".

Also crazy how the US is still so hyperfocused on Russia and China as their enemies. If anything causes WW3, it's most likely going to be this weird cultural fetish with having enemies.

Its not a brilliant diplomatic position to just exclaim "these are our adversaries".

You dont see an American villain in every Russian movie, so why the other way around? Why is the US fetishizing this hatred so much? Is it that much fun?

Either way not the best report I've ever skimmed over. I expected a bit more factual and a bit less whining.
How can I financially support you?
Agree, I‘d say also the term „mathematical programming“ sounds really old school and never was that fitting to begin with.

„Learning how to formulate problems as integer/linear programming ones“, as another commenter put it, works great if it‘s a natural fit and sure is fun for idk 7th grade math text problems I guess but OTOH squeezing realistic problems into systems of hundreds of equations (or more if dealing with linearizations of inherently non-linear/concave/multi-step problems) to satisfy tool idiosyncracies calls for additional tools in your arsenal.
At least in a B2B context a yearly maintenance fee was covering the costs, without cloud subscriptions. I think the move to SAAS in many areas is just to establish a stronger lock-in.
I flipped through some of the content. It's very well presented, but unfortunately it is pseudo-science gibberish.
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It's not the instant cloning that's the issue, it's cloning and tweaking - I don't think we quite have the methodologies built yet to optimize it.

But we know it does matter - i.e. there's research which shows a good sound quality on a voice call improves whether people believe what you say[1].

Now in any individual session, you probably can't make particularly big alterations, but imagine say, Google or Amazon shipping a modified voice assistant voice as "the default" with every new speaker box? Whether people ask for the default voice, or change it, would all become data which tells you what people are responding to. And so right there, your new "voice of Google" or "voice of Amazon" you use in other places now becomes informed by wide-scale testing of whether people listen to it.

And that's presuming no one simply runs studies where they stick people in fMRI machines and play them an AI voice recording which they module according to neural feedback till it's "optimal".

[1] https://today.usc.edu/why-we-believe-something-audio-sound-q...
Show HN: Simple File Compressor
A tool to reduce the file size of your files. Free online, local, tracking-free, advert-free file compression. Simple and fast.

Now, that the following browser features are implemented by the major vendors:

- Resizable ArrayBuffers (since July 2024)
- transfer ArrayBuffer to a fixed length (since March 2024)
- Compression Streams (since May 2023)

nothing stands in the way of selecting a file, compressing it with the CompressionStream API, creating an archive and downloading it.

Nothing special per se, but it's another thing, that can now be done using only the browser.
I don't we should be admiring such an attack especially after it killed civilians and innocent people (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/funeral-held-for-...).

On top that, this attack just sets a terrible precedent and opens the door to more similar attacks happening elsewhere.
If you are looking for retrocomputers in Akihabara, the place to visit is BEEP. It is the only shops that specializes in that kind of stuff.
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> There is always a shortage of money. Because human desires are infinite and our resources are not.

There is never a shortage of money at the level of overall society and governments because money is a purely social construct and we can always make more of it.

There may be a shortage of real resource, workers, skills, etc.

It's important to understand that money is merely a proxy for those real things, and if that proxy goes out of whack, seriously bad things happen and cause real suffering for people.

Most folks' thoughts and worries are quick to jump to (high / hyper) inflation, which is the bad thing that happens when there is too much money.

Having too little money to go around in society is more insidious because the suffering it causes is just as real, but it's less flashy and often misunderstood -- quite often in fact it leads to people blaming the victims! Just think what happened to ordinary folks in the aftermath of the great financial crisis.
> spin off its microprocessor division into a new company called "Renesas". This new company did not inherit the Hitachi engineers who had designed SuperH

This explaines why Renesas' products are so bad and why the datasheets are terrible.
The article mentions that some primitive of GCP are nicer (than AWS?).

I wonder if you guys have any example of those nicer primitives.
I think that would not have worked with the grid CSS approach.

I guess it is kinda beside the point though as it was just an example to illustrate the point.
That's not the kind of value that matters to the user. Software is not supposed to have value, it's supposed to deliver value. And that is not subject to rot through competition. If some program from 2000 delivered me $100 of value yearly then, the existence of an enshittified competitor from 2020 that produces $100 of annual value for me today doesn't make the 24-year-old program suddenly deliver less value.
That's very far from what I see in practice. Apart from EF, I haven't really experienced any library which forces any of the listed things on you. You can choose some framework if you want of course. But it's trivial to stay away from those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)?useskin=...
The Jetbrain licensing model caused a lot or confusion when it was introduced (as can be seen in posts on their forum and reddit), and when I check now it still seems to be the same.

> as soon as you pay for 12 consecutive months, you will receive this perpetual fallback license providing you with access to the exact product version for when your 12 consecutive months subscription started.

So if you do not renew then in practice you might need to _downgrade_ to an earlier version when your subscription expires. But some of their software doesn't even support downgrade, so you need to uninstall/reinstall it and hope you have some old backup of your settings.

Is this what you are referring to?
Largest applications may well be in power systems (economic dispatch, unit commitment), material requirements planning, transportation networks, but linear programming can also be used to fit functions, think constrained regression with L1 loss.
Not everything I do for the D Language Foundation is fun, but think of it like not every task taking care of one's car is fun, despite liking most of it.

> you design the licence, and more, to enable you to walk away and/or get bored.

It's all Boost licensed, so anyone can fork it, anyone can step up and continue with it, etc.

As D's scope has increased, a lot more of the tasks have been delegated out. I do a lot less management than I used to, and get to concentrate on the parts I'm good at.
A tree interacts with many things, not just human observers. We are not special in any way. This discreteness is only relevant and/or observable when we look at individual particles that rarely interact with anything else.
Wouldn’t you have to consume extreme amounts of iodized salt for it to become an issue? At that point excess sodium would probably be causing significantly bigger problems..
> Just because you lack the imagination or historical understanding to see how else this could have played out doesn't exclude these counterfactuals from possibility.

Enlighten me, how I lack imagination or historical understanding about my own country that is being invaded right now.
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I mean, GTA is one of the biggest game franchises on the planet, which is hard to see as anything other than a success. Gouranga!
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

The first reference in the Wikipedia article is to the original definition in the Oxford English Dictionary. Dating from 1613, it refers to a person.
This is a great question, and useful to many others as well!

In my experience (25+ years), the first step is to realize what your main objective is if you had the big picture in your head. Then you can apply what you want to learn and work backward from there. Effective integration work might be best served by focusing on software contracts. Performance improvements might force you to think about which parts are better or worse than the required capabilities.

I sometimes take on bug fixes, UAT to force myself down paths which I would normally not encounter. This helps me dive in deeper to new areas as well as avoid those that aren’t my cup o’ tea.

I used to be able to keep a lot in my head, now I prefer only to keep the index in my head, but do the actual look updirectly in code. :-)
To be more precise: MS loves to make you think you need those, see also WebSocket support. But in reality you don’t need that, if you know what you are doing. Also don’t implement your authorization server folks, at least when possible.
Have you checked out Mathpix? It's another option.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.
A bit far from the technology related fields, but the beef import agreements are the most explicit on this part [0]. US beef was found in clear violation of the safety rules multiple times, but Japan had to bend anyway ("The government has put priority on the political schedule between the two countries, not on food safety or human health.").

Japan is typically not doing great in its relationship with Korea or China, or even India, nor the EU really (France and Germany are closely friendly, but won't give much economic benefits), so the US have a pretty strong leverage when it comes to negociations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_beef_imports_in_...

PS: there's a mountain of other reasons now, but Japan and Russia were also not doing great as they've been fighting over the northern islands for decades. To my eyes they really really suck at international relations in general.
It can also become a liability and introduce cost, though: For example, if your old program requires emulation to run on a modern OS, or some file conversion process, or network isolation. All these things fall under maintenance costs that you probably don't factor into your calculation. Your "enshittified" competitor won't have these, and may very well deliver a higher net value, all considered.
C++'s ranges came from D, but C++ decided to construct ranges from a (begin, end) pair, which is not as good as D's design. D's ranges are constructed from a (pointer,length) pair.
It seems inevitable the UK will get left behind in AI. We have a low investment, low efficiency, and low risk culture that doesn’t lend itself well to tech innovation.
Thats a lot of red flags to put on your landing page.

Modern C++ standards are the bare minimum you should enforce in terms of software safety and correctness.
Meanwhile we get a loading splash screen when opening a calculator.
Correct, since the competitive edge is in the domain-specific data (which OpenAI, at-least on-paper, shouldn't have access to).

Two things to remember:

1. OpenAI can analyze which "wrappers" or "apps" are most successful, and make better purchasing decisions that way. This is information which isn't available outside of OpenAI.

2. OpenAI can in theory analyze the actual queries and interactions in an organization, record them, analyze, etc - in an attempt to get a hold of the organization's internal data. Unclear on the legality of this, but could perhaps be enforced through a draconic license.
> It's a running joke at this point, because Japanese cannot compromise quality to make costs reasonable.

As someone living in Japan, I don't buy this argument. There are plenty of shoddy Japanese products, number one being the houses (but I guess that is not something that you can export).

> I'm not going to bother getting into how Japanese are horrible with software too.

Here I fully agree. Anybody who has to suffer the software and web services made in here knows how bad it can be.
Come over to the second tier side...

Smaller cloud providers cannot (and do not want to) afford the costs of constant product churn. So you get a smoother, long term relationship with a smaller company that's more likely aligned with your goals.

Disclosure: I work for a European second tier cloud provider.
I love sites like this. I'm always looking for more apps that let me keep using them even if I stop paying for updates. Adding a $10 monthly subscription will stop me from using most products but I'll gladly pay $100+ for some quality software that I can keep
The Cauchy distribution's counter-intuitive behavior
Sched_ext has been merged for Linux 6.12
See https://lwn.net/Articles/922405/ for a description of what it does and https://lwn.net/Articles/972710/ for the controversy it caused that is the reason why it took so long to land in mainline.
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i.e. "open up your market to us and stay silent about our tariffs on your products, or else"
It's a mistake to conflate value with "market price" or liquidity. I have plenty of assets like books, kitchen equipment, and even electronics that would fetch a mighty sum of approximately zero on the market yet still provide me with enormous value (as much value as they did the day I acquired them).

If cars were like software then they wouldn't wear or rust, the only reason they'd "lose value" is if the roads or fuels changed. But the roads haven't changed fundamentally since the invention of the car and newer fuels can usually be used with minor tweaks rather than starting from scratch. It's completely irrelevant if I could buy a "better" car. I wouldn't be on the market for one because my current car continues to deliver value.

The "roads changing" can happen to software too, it's true. If the x86 platform became obsolete then clearly a bunch of software that is too intrinsically tried to that platform would be less valuable (because you can't run it). But that hasn't happened. In fact, we can't even seem to change the "roads" when we want to (see IPv4). Much of the change in software is artificial and created by those profit from it.
No comment on anything else, but the tone of the page is so schoolyard. For a company that targets enterprise and government clients, petty jabs at the weather app look unprofessional.
OprnAI says it never happened. They also took the voice down despite having it front and center at release time. And let's not forget that, if they didn't want people to think of Scarlett Johansson, then there would be no reason for their CEO to tweet "Her".
Humans are not special. Intelligence is. If we create something more intelligent than us, this is the way it should be. Maybe they will build their civilization better than we did — and we did many things that weren’t smart and beautiful, to say the least.
Just yesterday I sketch a solver for a board game: "Search for planet X".

The objective of the game is to figure out what kind of planets are hidden in sector of the boards using clues like: "There are 2 comets between secotr 3 and 7" or "No comet is next to an asteroid ".

Sketching the solver was incredibly fun and rewarding!
The problem with being paid is then the payer gets to call the shots. By not being paid, then D has a chance at a consistent, coherent design.

I sometimes say "hell no" to features popular in other languages (like version algebra, and macros). How do you say "hell no" to your employer?
The dissolution of Soviet Empire and power grab that happened afterwards was definitely a catastrophe for newly formed states and a huge miss for western powers.

Those states could’ve been part of western block and now big chunk of them is slowly drifting to China.
> Am I ever going to play the copy of Dungeon Siege again that I bought in ca. 2002?

On that note, the makers of the Eufloria series from back-in-the-day have started working on a sequel. :)

• https://store.steampowered.com/app/221180/Eufloria_HD/

They have a Discord channel too which people are welcome to join:

• https://discord.com/invite/unsbgkR23z
Meanwhile in reality, the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues with nightly drone attacks and civilian casualties from Russian aggression. That is why Russians are not welcome in the West.
Absolutely! kubesafe is simply a wrapper, so you can use it with any Kubernetes tool by passing the tool as the first argument to kubesafe.

Example with kubecolor:

`kubesafe kubecolor get pods --all-namespaces`
That's an unfortunate decision
2-strokes opposed pistons engine already has a phase shift between bottom and top crankshaft for spooling purpose. Controlling the position of the top crankshaft relative to the bottom crankshaft seems doable.
I don't have this idea fully fleshed out yet, but I feel that the ownership vs. rent preference is like the difference between resource model in StarCraft vs. Total Annihilation (and their respective descendants).

In StarCraft, the focus is on your absolute account balance; you think in terms of having N units of minerals/gas, and spending them on things that cost particular amount of resources to make. In Total Annihilation, the focus is on resource flow - you try to balance how much metal/electricity per second your mines/generators supply, vs. how much metal/electricity per seconds your factories and defenses consume.

In my experience, the two approaches are ultimately the same - you could compute the resource flow for a StarCraft game, and you could pay attention to absolute amounts in Total Annihilation - but they yield entirely different game dynamics, and different player mindsets. Personally, my mind thinks more in StarCraft terms, but I imagine finance people think more in Total Annihilation terms, and in those, subscriptions are the natural mode of spending.
If you defined it as absence of runtime errors, it exists.
> Am I ever going to play the copy of Dungeon Siege again that I bought in ca. 2002? No. It looks unbearable today.

Funny, considering many games I play to this day are older than that.

In many ways, I think they look great still. Pixel art for example ages very gracefully.
It makes sense to have one stanfard across the world. This way good software can come from multiple countries.

But... killing TRON probably helped a lot. Look at consoles - somehow nintendo can come with good software made by good, creative programmers.

Maybe the soft was killed by trade barriers.. and more trivial things - such as software developer being a poorly paid dead end job in Japan?
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I suspect many places where it is congested already has , and this is designed to make starlink less appealing to customers that have a wired alternative.
Now that's just moving the goalposts. Comparing a chat server application with copper wiring isn't just Apples to Oranges, it's Apples to a Torx Screwdriver.

The chat server requires constant network communications with various devices that change over time, suffers from possible supply chain vulnerabilities it needs to defend against, talks to databases, mobile apps—suffice to say, there's a million interactions that may be failing in the future due to unforeseen changes in the outside world.

A phone line introduces but a fraction of the complexity on-site, and thus doesn't need as much caretaking. I mean, ...duh?

And even if you want to pull through with this analogy; phone service customers still have an ongoing subscription to cover for the eventual repairs and wiring replacement. Just think of the transition to fibre in recent years. You pay for the service on the phone line and the maintenance of your infrastructure. It's a bundle.
"Waterfall" is not a development process. But plenty of the processes that give space for planning, also give space for QA. So surely agile, in the broad sense of development processes, is relevant to the comparison.
Oh nice, I also started a similar project about nine months ago - https://payonceapps.com/
It came from my personal experience, where I sold my app for a fair one-time price and decided to give similar-minded people some spotlight.
You simplify it too much. There was a million people on maidan in Kyiv. Nation voted for EU - they were done with Russian kleptocrats meddling with Ukrainian politics and influencing country all the time.

Looks to me you’re thinking about all of this like it’s some tabletop or RTS game.
I rather suspect the game was just boring, "woke" or not.
Apple does many things right but things like Mail.app got thrown to the side for years. There's still many odd utilities here and there that have not seen any love like grapher.
Everyone has their own fears about AI, but my fears are especially chilling; what if AI was used to imitate a person saying something blasphemeous?

My country is already has blasphemy lynching mobs based on the slightest perceived insult, real or imagined. They will mob you, lynch you, burn your corpse, then distribute sweets while you family hide and issue video messages denouncing you and forgiving the mob.

And this was before AI was easy to access. You can say a lot of things about 'oh backward countries' but this will not stay there, this will spread. You can't just give a toddler a knife and then blame them for stabbing someone.

Has nothing to do with fame, with security, with copyright. This will get people killed. And we have no tools to control this.

https://x.com/search?q=blasphemy

I fear the future.
I still have a Toshiba Dynabook lying around. Big and heavy, but otherwise a fine laptop.
That it is copied or soundalike does not matter.
There are preceding legal cases against using impersonators in commercials that would apply here. It has happened to Tom Waits twice, and both times he sued and won: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6y1kc8Equk

The point is that Geerling is doing Youtube videos in the same field as the products this company is using his voice for. That makes it appear as if Geerling would be endorsing their products. If his voice had been used for, say, a nature documentary then people wouldn't have made the connection that it would have been him.
It’s for the hundreds of millions of people around the world who have no wired option.

It’s a game changer in remote Australia, Yukon and Alaska, etc etc
There is kagi (paid search engine) summarizer for youtube videos: https://kagi.com/summarizer

As for the above link, it gives:

"Japan has a large trade deficit in software, importing far more software and services than it exports. Despite having iconic hardware companies, Japan lacks major software giants like Microsoft or Oracle. This is due to a history of government policies that favored hardware over software development, as well as a shortage of skilled software engineers and a lack of software startups in Japan. While Japan has made efforts to develop domestic software platforms, they have largely failed to gain traction. The video suggests there are no easy solutions to Japan's software industry challenges."
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