skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That means that breaking changes is a refactor and single commit, whereas with a service boundary you need a whole migration.

This decoupling-of-updates-across-a-call-boundary is one of the key reasons why I _prefer_ microservices. Monoliths _force_ you to update your caller and callee at the same time, which appears attractive when they are 1-1 but becomes prohibitively difficult when there are multiple callers of the same logic - changes take longer and longer to be approved, and you drift further from CD. Microservices allow you to gradually roll out a change across the company at an appropriate rate - the new logic can be provided at a different endpoint for early adopters, and other consumers can gradually migrate to it as they are encouraged or compelled to do so.

Similarly with updates to cross-cutting concerns. Say there's a breaking change to your logging or testing framework, or an encryption library, or something like that. You can force all your teams to down tools and to synchronize in collaborating on one monster commit to The Monolith that will update everything at once - or you can tell everyone to update their own microservices, at their own pace (but by a given deadline, if InfoSec so demands), without blocking each other. Making _and testing and deploying_ one large commit containing lots of changes is, counter-intuitively, much harder than making lots of small commits containing the same quantity of actual change - your IDE can find-and-replace easily across the monorepo, but most updates due to breaking changes require human intervention and cannot be scripted. The ability for different microservices within the same company to consume different versions of the same utility library at the same time (as they are gradually, independently, updated) is a _benefit_, not a drawback.

> a library call[...]is much more performant [...than] these expensive boundaries

I mean, no argument here - but latency tends to be excessively sought by developers, beyond the point of actual experience improvement. If it's your limiting factor, then by all means look for ways to improve it - but designing for fast development and deployment has paid far greater dividends, in my experience, than overly optimizing for latency.
Interesting read, even if you don't believe in the supernatural. A good reflection on how we see fear and how it is wielded.
The video sites are gonna be way better for this. Or reddit. I don’t know how much longer that will be true with AI video generation becoming cheaper over time though
Convoluted how? I have literally installed third party app stores on Android many years ago and continued to have done so in the same manner to this very day. You download the APK and when you install it, you have to click two buttons to confirm (one to go to settings, and one to turn on installed apps from untrusted sources).
When I volunteered at a soup kitchen in Newfoundland, we got in just/nearly expired food fairly regularly. Some got used, some (fresh stuff) got frozen, some got tossed.

Definitely a large amount of it went to perfectly fine meals. The cook was very skilled at making good meals with an odd selection of ingredients.
Thanks! Lots more links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724087 (from that thread).
I wonder how many people will see this and try to smuggle in fertile cats. Probably a non-zero amount, though I suspect nobody will volunteer to move there to take care of them.
The decreasing human population is the problem. Rather than let the cats suffer and starve after the last human leaves, they sterilized them so there would at least be less needless suffering.
Legacy of the Wizard on NES. It was sort of an RPG precursor with multiple characters and different abilities that you would needed to use to make progress through a dungeon. I was too young for the game and never finished it but I’ve always wondered what happened at the end. Obviously I could look it up but I don’t mind it being a mystery. The box art was cool and the soundtrack still sticks with me today.
All this theorizing :) Why don't you try it out for yourself, and get first hand experience in how it works, and feels? By installing some Linux Distribution which supports it, and offering different desktop environments running on top of wayland?

For me, with current Plasma/KDE this has reached a state which feels almost like the golden days of KDE3 at its peak. Or even more so, because way more powerful hardware now.

In practice this means the desktop environment itself, and any applications which support running in/on/for that 'toolkit' run ultrasmooth without a running X-Server.

For 'legacy' X-applications which don't, a thing called X-Wayland is seamlessly started, and they run under that, also seamlessly.

That should happen the same way under current Gnome, but I havn't tested that so far.
Anyways, stuff like Gimp, Inkscape run absolutely stressfree this way.

Everything I really need, like Firefox or derivative, Chrome, Chromium or derivatives, mpv runs absolutely smooth. Firefox in one tab playing 1080p youtube for music without noticable load or stuttering, while having up to hundreds of other tabs open. Doing other stuff, reading pdfs, torturing LibreOffice, updating the distro, discovering what's there, and so on.

Since about a week. No crashes. No glitches.

Watching movies with VLC in Full-HD(1080p) also absolutely smooth, though I'm not sure about VLC supporting wayland right now. Doesn't matter, it worked.

Everything (I tried) just works.

All of this on rather obsolete hardware, a Kaby Lake core i5-7500t with HD630 iGPU, which can be bought refurbished with 32GB RAM and some SSD for about 200 to 250$/€ at the moment in form of a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q tiny or similar.

I'd guess it can only get better with later hardware if the (i)GPU is from Intel because the driver situation is excellent.

Don't know about AMD, should work too.

Know nothing about NVIDIA at all.

edit: I should add that I reverted to things like FVWM2 and IceWM, or XFCE at the most, after the catastrophe that happened to KDE after 3, or Gnome with 3. So I wouldn't give a shit about wayland, because why?

But that Plasma stuff feels really comfy now. And it doesn't matter that it is running on wayland, without X. It just works.

edititagain: One more thing to add, while doing this all the cores mostly 'idled' at 800 to 900Mhz, rarely peaking 1.0 to 1.1Ghz, because I set the powerprofile to powersave, by just moving the slider to the left in the Plasma gadget. So apart from the 32GB RAM that machine isn't just 'obsolete', but intentionally underpowered.

Still supersmooth.

(...cackling madly...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_slug
I have very few issues with Firefox. The two that I suspect are:

1) Google-owned sites seem to just chew CPU on Firefox. In particular I'm thinking of GMail and Youtube, both of which I'm a heavy user of, and also Maps. But no non-google sites seem to have this problem.

2) I'm constantly getting websites saying "This is your first time using this device, are you sure you're you?", and I haven't tried whether it's better on Chrome, but it's pretty crazy because I've literally never used your stupid site with any other device, and I used it with THIS device just last month you idiots. I'm just blind guessing that this is some kind of problem as a result of Firefox privacy choices, like maybe the site doesn't know how to use cookies in a way that doesn't trigger anti-tracking. For example banks.

But Firefox can keep thousands of tabs open at once (thousands. plural. not kidding, not exaggerating.), it has working uBO, and the frequency of "just because we wanted to" UX changes is much lower. It's just a better choice all around.
>Is there anybody local that wants the cats to stay?

There are five locals. One is the "cat mama" mentioned, who presumably likes the cats but realizes their fate without her is grim. The other four probably don't care that much.
The unique context of being an island with only a single ferry transport made this possible.
What happens to all of 23andMe's genetic DNA data?
I don't remember how far back, but I remember third party apps working just fine at least, say, 5-6 years ago. The case was brought 2020, so I doubt this is true.
How's the bird population on that island?
According to Wikipedia [0]:

> The events and initial actions on Epic's lawsuit against Google were brought on the same day as Epic's suit against Apple, but Google stressed the legal situation around their case is far different. Google asserted that the Android operating system does not have the same single storefront restriction as Apple's iOS, and thus allows different Android phone manufacturers to bundle different storefronts and apps as they desire. Google said they are negotiating with Epic Games far differently from Apple in their case.

I have no idea how the two cases are different, but Google said they were. And it sure sounds like Google specifically chose to take a different path, which ended up being a loser. Cautionary tale of hubris and stuff.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple
The notion that an LLM will be used or can be used mostly for a one-shot request/response has been one of the most idiosyncratic things about the first and second waves of this tech.

Like, not only can it not “make a complete app in 45 seconds,” I almost never even want that.
To be fair, the author is definitely not arguing that America was discovered by Africans 3000 years ago. He is just providing some background regarding the controversy of who discovered and named the Americas. He also writes:

> Further, other discoveries of America have been credited to the Irish who had sailed to a land they called Iargalon, the land beyond the sunset, and to the Phoenicians who purportedly came here before the Norse.

I think his use of "it has been argued", "have been credited to", and "purportedly" in this context are not weaselly, and are fine in reference to unsubstantiated arguments that people have made. The author is clear though that the only two undisputed discoveries of the Americas prior to Columbus were by the Asian forebears of Native Americans and the Norse:

> They were of course preceded by the pre-historic Asian forebears of Native Americans, who migrated across some ice-bridge in the Bering Straits or over the stepping stones of the Aleutian Islands.

> the remains of an 11th-century Norse settlement in Newfoundland, excavated in the 1960s, that forms the only undisputed evidence of the first European presence in the New World.
What does that mean for potential damage? Is there some kind of measure of how far inland water can travel?
> synergizing with its platform

That's some beautiful corpspeak.

"Your honor, it is not anticompetitive practice, it is synergizing with our platform"
Well at the end of the day the underlying metrics are still just heart rate and movement which can only tell you so much.
I guess not. in my mind him and Rodney Kind both having lived situations does not constitute a comparison. Situation is far too vague. There needs to be some feature that is inferred to to be similar.

George Washington once was alive, and people are alive today too.
> How is CST ambiguous?

- CST: Central Standard Time UTC−06

- CST: China Standard Time UTC+08

- CST: Cuba Standard Time UTC−05
> here was a hard push to just swap "black" for "African-American" no matter how little sense it made, because "black" was considered offensive.

This was a hard push from white people toward other white people, about being offended on the behalf of black people. Black people have never liked the term African-American, and most don't use it. The reasons why white people on either side of the "debate" wouldn't notice this or would operate as if this weren't true are left as an exercise for the reader.

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1991: Poll Says Most Blacks Prefer 'Black' to 'African-American'
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/29/us/poll-says-most-blacks-...

2021: New Poll Shows Black People Prefer to be Called Simply ‘Black’ Over ‘African American,’ Hispanics Aren’t Keen to Newly-Formed Label ‘LatinX’
https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/08/11/new-poll-shows-black...

Here's a stupid article pretending that black people who still call themselves black in 2012 are space aliens or Amish, when there was never a point when black people didn't call themselves black: Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American'
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna46264191
Contradictory rulings are fodder for Supreme Court dockets.
Two 'monopolies' in app stores aren't a monopoly. They are at most a duopoly..
I think the thing to note is that both of her primary partners were chiefs. I think such high-ranking men are probably not representative of the typical Yanomamo man. Rising to the top of such groups likely requires a good deal of psychopathy. A measure of charm, but also a reputation for intolerance of sleights, volatility, and gratuitous violence. The article also explains that she didn't accept any husband except the two men that explicitly threatened to kill her if she refused--so in a sense she was indirectly selecting for this type of man.

An interesting read on this topic is the very book being dissed in the article--Napoleon Chagnon's "Noble Savages". According to this article, Chagnon met the Yanomamo in a state more exposed to our civilization, but even then many of the high-ranking men come across exactly as I described above: charming when they want, but volatile and gratuitously violent. Two episodes from the book stand out in my memory.

- A chief encounters two young men from a rival clan. They are nervous because of this man's reputation, but he calls out to them and offers them food, charms them and puts them at ease. Then he walks behind them and kills them. In his opinion, this is hilarious.

- A man suddenly believes his wife has cheated on him. He drags her out by her hair, punches and kicks her head repeatedly. Chagnon is aghast and almost intervenes. I don't recall whether the woman survives.
For comparison EU mandates liability policy of 1.22M euro for property damage and up to 6.07M euro for injuries. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...
Only: the iPhone did not have first mover advantages.

There were plenty of mobile phones out there before that could download and run apps, and Apple didn't even have their famous app store at the beginning of the iPhone, either.
This may be the first time I’ve looked at an article and realized that it is AI slop.
A near-peer conflict involves a nuclear exchange

Respectfully, I think you're misunderstanding the term. The term is meant to represent the level of resources and weapons each combatant is bringing to the theater of conflict.

It does not mean that the two sides are necessarily using the most destructive possible weapons in their arsenals. A hypothetical US/China armed conflict over Taiwan (god forbid) would be "near-peer" even if neither side goes nuclear.

"Near-peer" is meant to distinguish that sort of conflict from, let's say, US vs. Taliban in Afghanistan where the two sides had vastly different levels of technology and capability.

Or maybe you're making the point that two nuclear states would be hard-pressed to fight an open war that did not devolve into a nuclear exchange. Which is a very valid concern. If that's your point, I apologize.
What do you use to enforce this? Is it something that's going to break with Manifest V3?
Cases aren’t decided purely by the law. They’re also decided on the facts, and the facts are what are entered into the court record.

It is also a fact observable to anyone outside any court of law that while Google sells phones, their main relationship with Android is as a vendor-neutral OS developer that licenses the OS out and takes responsibility for its maintenance and a services provider that required favoring their own software and services over that of their competitors as part of their agreement with phone makers.

Apple makes and sells phones, including the OS, and services for those phones including the App Store. They’re not telling Samsung they must favor Apple services in order to receive an iOS license because they don’t license iOS to Samsung for Samsung’s phones.

Google and Apple both chose their own business plans here, which is their right, but it also put them on different legal footing when Epic came calling in Court because in theory, Android was supposed to be an open ecosystem that third party app markets could thrive on and it just wasn’t that, in particular because Google was putting their thumb on the scale.
60hz lmao
Poor Charlie's Almanac by Charlie Munger is one of my favorites. It keeps on giving. Amazed that Munger had access to all this wisdom 40 or 50 or even more years ago.

Even wrote a review in case: https://krishna2.com/munger
I'm not sure the legal system cares about that?
Good old metric hacking.

People seem to frequently forget that your measurement is always a proxy. A proxy for what? That's for you to decide. But you can't ever measure anything directly.

It's sadly common even in data science but the biggest offenders I see are business people. You can't use metrics without understanding what they're for otherwise you'll just enshitify your product. Be that number of clicks, time on page/site, number of academic citations, whatever. They're meaningless at face value. A good example is time on site. That's great for social media like YouTube where it generally correlates strongly to "using the website for what the website does" but even then it can be "scrolled for 20 minutes looking for something to watch, gave up. But on a news site, no one fucking cares about that. Your job is to provide information, so time on {page, site} might actually be a negative because it doesn't necessarily mean people are reading that whole time but they might be struggling to find the information they are looking for. A confusing UX also optimizes time on site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
"Almost unthinkable" according to the Project Phoenix report.
Hey not sure why you're getting downvoted, you had a genuine question and I think it's a common misconception.

If you play out the drones, standoff weapons, ICBMs, whatever...at the end of the day war is about taking something from someone or stopping someone from taking from you. All the tech nets out and it's you face to face with another human.

All of the tech is context of the face to face.

And your comment about battles vs wars isn't wrong, but reducing "supplies and support" just sets you up to have a an easier battle. Maybe you reduce the other side's capacity to do battle so effectively that the next "battle" is just you walking into the other side's capitol/village/home, but you still actually need the boots on the ground to go do that thing.
Run Llama locally with only PyTorch on CPU
Peel back the layers of the onion and other gluey-mess to gain insight into these models.
I currently have a detached garage that wouldn’t be a good place for a printer. If I had an attached garage I could see it being a different situation.

As far as development goes, it seems like there has been a lot of advancement in just the past 5 years. Seeing what some of the high end commercial printers are capable of, I think there is still a lot of development left for what home printers can do. The Bambu printers are bound to get some competition. There are also a few competing technologies, and I’m willing to give it some more time to shake out. It still feels very much like a hobbyist tool for people who want to tinker a bit. I want to design and print without a lot of fuss.
You may as well use rifle bullets then.
Ewaste makes me super sad. I was in an electronics stores recently and found myself bored and even a little bit disgusted - new macbooks! new ipads! new laptops! new phones! Every year, new new new. But I have a lot more fun in the used electronics shop in my city (Guanghua digital plaza in Taipei). I find it a lot more fun to find good deals on parts punching above their weight for the price, e.g. if I find a used computer with a great processor in it that's selling for cheap because the specs are otherwise bad or whatever. And, in general, I find the thrill of the project much more fun than new new new. Can't wait to install linux on this used laptop, oooh a used pixel phone, the camera is still pretty good, maybe I can use this for a pet camera for my lizard, etc.

New phones especially I just don't understand anymore. My phone's been able to do everything I need it to do since like, 2016. New AI "feature," better processors, bigger screens, I don't get it. I have an excellent camera (fuji xt5) so better cameras don't excite me.
Every filesystem ends up being a worse version of writing to the disk by hand with a magnetized needle.
Gunship 2000 here!

I loved that it had a dynamic campaign where the frontline moved according to how well you did.

Before that, I also enjoyed LHX.

> Best part was the instruction manual that came with it that was basically a guide of all the military equipment of the Soviet Union that you could target in the game.

Do you remember what the copy protection was for MicroProse's F-19 Stealth Fighter? It was the silhouettes of US and Soviet fighters and bombers from the Cold War era: "identify this aircraft". Somehow they thought my teenage self, obsessed as I was with Cold War military tech, wouldn't learn the shapes. It's how I learned the shapes of most fighter jets.

Yes, I had a pirated copy. We all did back then, legal games were unheard of.
My monthly Hetzner bill is around €15000. I have been a customer at Hetzner for nearly 10 years. In the beginning I served traffic directly from Hetzner servers, but 4 years ago I switched to a caching system hosted at a different provider. Since then I have not received any copyright claims through Hetzner.

I can't think of a reason to cancel my account except that they want to free up resources for their own storage service. I am using a lot of disks and bandwidth. They might have been looking for a reason to kick me out and the launch of their own storage service could have been the final straw.

Keep in mind that the account cancellation mail arrived almost exactly one week before this announcement. They are keeping their lips tight about the reason of my account cancellation so I can only speculate.
You were near Microsoft. Surely, it was legacy from a previous abode but also too much work to expect any visitor to update.
Who are America's near peers then? Afghanistan? Vietnam?
> Additional point: we can't have a balanced community discussion if only a small percentage of viewers have access to the full article

It's pretty common on non-paywalled articles for only a small percentage to read the article, yet we often manage to have balanced discussions of those.
The return of Britannica hard copies?
The FPV impactor types have some kind of approach phase I'd imagine.

The loitering "drop grenades on cars" kind are probably much easier to knock down.
The funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions
Original, too long title: Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms
Soldiers exist, but expensive western soldiers are basically a different species compared to the cheap militia of the third world.

All the strategic decisions of western militaries is based on the sheer expensiveness of their foot soldiers, which means reluctance to fight ground wars, extreme aversion to casualties etc.

It also meant advanced militaries generally shrunk massively in terms of soldier count, ending conscription, making the existing forces more elite and more equipped (Since the meat solider is so expensive anyways).

So helicopters, given their decreasing cost effectiveness, is likely to entirely disappear as a tactical weapon. They will be transport only going forward, or some sort of a big drone carrier.
Each of the articles linked upthread separately explain why everything you said in your comment is incorrect.