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Hubble was done in the open, this is an established fact. Since some of the contractors companies were the same, though usually not the same employees, it’s an open question we plebs may never know as to whether some aspects of KH-11 were declassified and shared with the workers doing Hubble.

But if we’re talking anecdotes, I worked at Lockheed as well, though not back then, and one of the stories I heard was that when the Hubble was in Sunnyvale to get tested in the vacuum chamber, one of the KH-11 workers stopped by to check it out. He spotted something that was a unique invention for the KH spy satellites and alerted the government. It took a LOT of paperwork to show that nope, it was just accidental convergent design. It was a tricky thing to sort out, but really the only way of solving that problem given the identical requirements.
From the article:

> Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores *within* Google Play

Right now you have to side-load 3rd party apps.

Also Google must:

> * Stop requiring Google Play Billing for apps distributed on the Google Play Store

> * Let Android developers tell users about other ways to pay from within the Play Store

> * Let Android developers link to ways to download their apps outside of the Play Store

> * Let Android developers set their own prices for apps irrespective of Play Billing
There are several occupant APIs that let you do this
No companies (at least above the “tiny” category) care about anything, they are paper-clip machines and the only thing preventing them from extracting iron from our blood is the law.
Using Python on and off since version 1.6, I always like to point out that the language + standard library is quite complex, even more when taking into account all the variations across versions.

Looking forward to JIT maturing from now onwards.
I don't agree with the premise that people using your platform to post hate or incite violence makes you an 'active part' in genocide in an even remotely similar fashion to Shell actively funding the militant groups engaging in genocide.

It is more akin to a paper company being blamed for the writings on it or a phone company being blamed because the orders to invade were sent over text message.

> It is also responsible for a rise in hate crimes:
> https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3082972

Very interesting attempt to gain causality through internet blackout, but I'm not really convinced by a study that provides no evidence that they pre-registered their analysis.
There's two+ different things happening that are easy to get mixed up:

In the US, after Epic Games v. Apple, Apple is required to open up in-app purchases to third parties.

In the EU, the Digital Markets Act declares the App Store a gatekeeper and requires Apple to support third-party stores.
Thanks for the kind words, Jess!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Pentagon_doc...
I see two AI-related posts on the first page of the HN frontpage right now. Out of 30. You are delusional.
I think the difference is Google's platform is also on other manufacturers devices? If Android only existed on Pixel devices it could be different.
This is great, thanks! crawford's post pulls no punches:

> Teaching students about TCP/IP using the OSI model is like teaching students about small engine repair using a chart of the Wankel cycle. It's nonsensical to the point of farce. The OSI model is not some "ideal" model of networking, it is not a "gold standard" or even a "useful reference." It's the architecture of a specific network stack that failed to gain significant real-world adoption.
I linked to a blog post about Collatz-like problems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41609578

But before that and after I tried to link to another by the same author, which I thought is even more interesting, but for some reason didn't get any attention :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637592

It's about the "first"/"smallest" program (in terms of the number of turing machine states needed to describe it - 6), that humanity doesn't know how to solve.

A codegolfed Python program with its behavior (by mxdys):

a,b=8,3
while b:a+=a>>1;b+=2-a%2*3

Does this halt or not?

Knowing this will be necessary to prove the value of the 6th busy beaver number (the 5th has been recently proven).
> I still can't fathom how Intel thought Arc and/or Ponte Vecchio would pay for themselves on day one.

I don't think they did expect that.
I’d prefer a neutral account. In conclusion, is it fair to say that the leak was a breach of US protocol or law and was publicly-available information?
I remember quite clearly when it was scrapped, because suddenly it was much easier to find a parking spot.
Parts of htmx were yoinked out of the core library into an extensions repo relatively recently, as part of htmx 2.0. That might explain the relatively lower number of stars. More important than github stars is that it is indeed part of the htmx project and is documented here https://htmx.org/extensions/
Their post is somehow even worse quality than the stuff they’re complaining about. To answer your question, a lot of the documents were vehicle/weapon data, thickness of armor plates of tanks and such. Specifically regarding what is best searched as “War Thunder Discord leaks”, as it was, supposedly, a bunch of War Thunder players trying to one-up each other on how knowledgeable they were on military hardware. Some of them (there were a good handful over the years) are detailed here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?l=polish...
Near-peer conflicts have more meaningful targets which favors these kinds of expensive weapons platforms.

A drone that can do meaningful damage to a factory 500+ miles from a front line is either an easy target or it starts to look a lot like a missile with all the associated costs from that.
What exactly does fire-svelte do? For me it looked like a frontend framework but without synced or persisted state?
> It feels like playing with fire

Much safer to burn the rest of the planet instead.
Sorry yes I meant SSE, mistyped!
5th recall for Tesla Cybertruck within a year, latest due to rearview display
Not commenting on anything else about this but only pointing out that the law treats a company that sells a complete widget to the end user very differently from a company that sells a piece to someone who then sells the finished widget to the end user.

A lot of people don't seem to appreciate reasoning from principles around any of this stuff. They just want to be able to do X, Y, or Z and any ad-hoc law or court ruling that gets them there is A-OK with them, consequences be damned. Personally I find that unfortunate. I enjoy well-reasoned debate that thinks through the logical consequences of various policy decisions and how it affects everyone, not just end users exactly like themselves.
Snow Crash made me work on being a writer. Just an incredible book, and I am only saddened that he will never again write another book like it.
I feel like we need more definition of a $4k nice car. Make, model, model year, and miles would go along way. Even better if there is a link or two to someplace like cargurus.com, carfax.com or caredge.com with car in question.
Is Disney Bad at Star Wars? An Analysis
Selling on Amazon requires a registered trademark. If you're a random factory in Shenzhen you don't care about branding, you just want to be able to sell your stuff on Amazon, so you just put together random letters in the hope that your registration won't conflict with anything else. You don't want to have to deal with back-and-forth with USPTO, you don't care about having a meaningful, memorable, or interesting name, you just want an Amazon listing.

Coincidentally the majority of USPTO trademark submissions are literally just random strings of letters now for this reason.
At a certain level, sure, but C++ at least has definitely lost out. In the 90s it seemed like it might really take over all sorts of application domains, it was incredibly popular. Now and for probably the last couple decades it and C have only kept around 10% of the global job market.
Scientists find deep-sea jelly creatures merged into single entity after injury
Perun seems to know his stuff. That said, I’d be curious to know more about his research process, as well as that of other Russia-Ukraine war mappers/vloggers. Determining whether grainy drone footage is current or past alone seems difficult to me as an outsider and fan of their work, though I wish it weren’t necessary and that the war were over.
Hacker News leaderboard with submission and comment counts and average karma
You can now browse hacker news users and see their story points, number of submissions and comments on hacker read.

Edit: sorry, site down temporarily
This is why iridium supports calling their regular PSTN gateway and then dialing the satellite number recipient, then the satellite recipient pays a more palatable $1.50/minute:

https://apollosat.com/support/iridium-two-stage-dialing/
I'm pretty much required by law to tell you that his other books are also fantastic, and that if you like Mistborn, you should (after completing the trilogy) try The Stormlight Archive.

Kidding aside, Sanderson is by far my favorite author, and his fantasy books are honestly some of the greatest books I've ever read. And I read a lot. I highly recommend finishing the Mistborn trilogy, and then reading some more :)
Thank you for this. Many years of browser usage and I never knew this.
And what of the heated and polluted ground water where these data centers operate?

The take is investor-grade BS.
The ACM Digital Library Has a Fake DOI Problem
Air pollution inside Philadelphia's subway is much worse than on the streets
Monopolies are a feature of unregulated capitalism. Every company wants to dominate the sector they're in, competition invariably leads to monopolies.
But that’s not arm on x86 is it? My understanding was that it ‘just’ enables things to work on unsupported intel macs, by enabling stuff that still works on newer Intel Macs.
Also: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=172833371325379&w=2
You can't bring Nietzsche's view of ambition and consider it as truth without even bringing more contemporary criticisms of it, even if you'd like to see it through Virtue Ethics it should be considered as a virtue in a diverse set of virtues, ambition shouldn't trump other moral values.

As entertaining as it was to read "On The Genealogy of Morality" when I was 20 years old I'd say it's rather... Reductionist, at least.

Sloterdijk updates on it even bring up how to consider "will to power" not as an individual ambition but as a holistic way to actualise oneself to give something back to the world, not as a power over others which is the main way corporations are run.

Pursuing your ambitions at the expense of the rest of the globe is not moral.

Please update your philosophical repertoire, you're stuck in the 1800s.
This applies to every app in the Play Store, not just Google's apps.
WoW happened and they realized they could sell a bit flip for $20. After that nothing else would move the needle so they abandoned Diablo (until they could figure out a way to monetize it to the same level) and RTSes altogether.
npx jazz-run sync

Either locally or on your server.

And then point the app to that!

Edit: re pricing

Super preliminary, curious to hear everyone’s thoughts
Sounds like a lot of speculation on your end because we don't have lots of evidence about how much this will affect anything, because until just now it's not been possible to get that information.

> ditto. So that’s not relevant.

Then I'm genuinely surprised you've never once stumbled across one of the many, many use cases where multithreaded CPU-intensive code would be a nice, obvious solution to a problem. You seem to think these are hypothetical and my experience has been that these are very real.
Skimpflation, a Sneakier Form of Shrinkflation
uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address
Marion Zimmer Bradley too.
It’s not fantasy. I’m working on a startup to enable this technology. It’s a hard problem, but not impossible. And the energy needs are not as great as you think. A relatively small patch of the Sahara or Gobi desert or open ocean would be sufficient.
That sounds more akin to a standard exclusivity agreement and seems much different (at least to me) from what Google got in trouble for.
If apple literally hadn't won their own case 2 years ago you'd be right.

If the company that literally doesn't allow users to install ANY application, yet alone a whole store, is in the clear, it's mind boggling that Google's situation is the one they took issue with.

Apple literally has a higher market share in the US.
This would make a great addition to

https://bookmarkl.ink/
> Tech hasn't pursued wars like the oil or food industry but enabled hybrid warfare by omission,

By making everything equivalent linguistically, we lose the language to condemn terrible and awful things.

I absolutely reject the notion that anything tech has done is comparable in magnitude to the actual wars and actual mass killings funded by the oil industry.

Your rejoinder is replacing some customer support roles?
Author here. I do recognize my immense privilege. I was even able to turn the dial a significant distance towards life before my wife died. I had dropped to 80% time (32 hours a week) and stopped managing and was working from home so that I could get almost 100% flexible hours.

But after my wife died even that was not enough. The few meetings I had left were blocking activities I wanted to do, and the job which I had previously loved no longer gave me joy. So, because I could, I retired.

If my wife hadn't died I might have retired at exactly the same time - a 10-year work anniversary is a nice milestone. I almost felt pressured to delay retirement because making major irreversible life-changing decisions after a traumatic life event can be very risky. But I think it is the right choice.
Founder here - thanks for posting this! It’s getting late where I am so everyone who has questions please don’t be shy to ask, will elaborate in detail tomorrow!
Can it out maneuver a missile?
If all you want to do is compile and run c code in the browser you could run tcc in the blink x86_64 emulator, running in wasm.
It would take ~300Kb, less than the js & css used in the average webpage
This doesn't seem right to me. The limiting factor here is the ability of an air to air missile to hit a target (and to find the target in the first place). A drone might be more survivable (if it's better at avoiding missiles because of the G-forces etc.,.), but it shouldn't be any better at destroying an enemy jet, right?

That theoretical highly maneuverable drone with a highly advanced sensor suite isn't going to be cheap either. At which point, what's the advantage? You wouldn't be bound by the number of pilots, but if the drones are too expensive it doesn't matter.
No it isn't, the competition is great and is lowering prices across the board, and no arbitrary censorship exists.

The desktop games market is much heathier and less dangerous for users than the mobile app market.
Perhaps both. But I wonder if the incredible blandness of most chatbots is effectively just a regression towards the mean.

Most AI companies try to train their bots on vast amounts of different data, and I suspect it's very difficult for that to result in very creative writing when you're training on works of fiction, as well as cooking recipes, Reddit comments and technical documentation.
Freedom or any ethical, moral thing is meaningless to any state or corporation. It is a tool to be used to get what they want. US or EU isn’t strong and rich now because they gave everyone freedom or treated everyone ethically, it is the opposite
One interesting thing your team may want to look into (if you haven't already) is compression.

Of course there are a multitude of variables we don't have access from the outside, but Postgres only compresses data that is TOASTed, and based on your description of the table, the data is not being TOASTed (and therefore not being compressed).

Instead, if you could somehow pack your timeseries entries into an array, you would get the benefits of compression automatically.

Given your write performance requirements, using an array may be out-of-question (and you may get too much overhead from dead tuples) -- but who knows? Always a good idea to benchmark.

I actually considered mentioning this at the post but figured it was too long already and could be the material for a future one :)
FTA:

"With victory in sight but not yet in hand, it would be mighty tempting for Russia to launch a nuclear-armed missile on a secondary Ukrainian city and demand Ukraine’s immediate and unconditional surrender or else another major city would be next. Continued resistance from Kyiv would be suddenly rendered foolhardy, if not suicidal. In this scenario, the Kremlin could terminate the war more quickly, with fewer casualties, and on conditions favorable to Russia."

He has the end of World War II in mind. But the key difference is that in WW II, the US was the only nuclear power. Nobody was around to say "Absolutely do not use a nuclear bomb, and we will consider it a global threat if you do."

Russia seems content to grind its way through the war. If they were to find themselves with the upper hand, I suspect they'll continue to throw bodies into the meat grinder. They simply don't seem to care about coming out of this with fewer casualties.

I suppose nothing is impossible. This entire war is absurd, so nothing is off the table. But I don't think this scenario is likely.
Smart TVs are like "a digital Trojan Horse" in people's homes
Yes, they are. This competition means an enormous boom in quality content has been produced that would have never existed otherwise because of the competition.

Choices are great and have resulted in far better services.
Supreme Court denies Uber, Lyft appeal of California labor lawsuits
I loved the _Belgariad_ and _Mallorean_ years ago, and re-read them many times. Eddings then came out with a new series, whose name I've surprised; I read the first book and hated it.

And then, as I got older, I started to realize that most of the "good guys", other than Garion, were deeply-flawed awful people who would not be nearly as funny or heroic in real life as they were made out to be in the book. (Picture Polgara smashing everything in sight as she has a tantrum. Belgarath's no better.) And then I couldn't read them anymore, which is a pity.

It's not that I "outgrew" the genre by the way. I read as much fantasy as ever. But not this.
I've been pretty anti-google on this topic (and a long time fdroid-lover). but this ruling is nuts to me, particularly where it says google "must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps"

I don't think we are going to see a healthy competitive marketplace with 4 years of chaos where every app store has the same apps, there's no curation at all or incentive structure for stores to win over app listings, and app stores get created and destroyed at the whims of a random single person.

Maybe the committee will operate within the confines of this outline to set more structure and make this workable, but it seems very handy-wavey in how this is going to work...
You hate EU decisions because they cracked down on clown monopoly?
It's not a court of public opinion. This isn't a popularity contest; they're not running for public office or something here.

In real court (with real lawyers and real judges), precedent often matters (often, it matters quite a lot).

Informing the court of [what may be] meaningful precedent is important; without this deliberate informative step, the court might not know about it at all. The court cannot take anything into consideration that it has no knowledge of.

(Despite the black robes and literal ban-hammers, judges aren't all-seeing or all-knowing.)
ive found it works for small scripts that are simple, and have easily accessible code or examples.

i was testing a data transform function and needed to pull a couple of different types of data, so i had it give me a simple script to get stuff out of alpha_vantage, yahoo finance, quandl, and a few kaggle datasets, and those generally worked out of the box, or close to.

a few of those actually have code on their site for the API, but OpenAI made it faster. i would have gotten there eventually, but it saved me a couple of hours.

anything more complicated and it gets messy. its like a genie who grants you exactly what you ask for in the most literal sense, and only has a 90% idea what you're talking about to begin with.
Groundhogs are better at predicting weather than sanctions are at achieving their stated goals.
That's exactly the competition that keeps PC from having the hiked prices the likes of Switch/XBox/PS5 stores and having to pay $15/mo to play games with your friends online.

I'll happily have to deal with a few extra launchers on PC in comparison to what the alternative is.
It's definitely in a class above Toyota, but once you account for gas savings, the LR RWD costs about as much as the cheapest Corolla you can buy. People bagged on Tesla being too expensive when their $35K car was only available over the phone. Now, adjusted for inflation, the LR RWD is $28K and comes with 100mi additional range to boot. On top of that, it's $13K below the average car purchase price.

IMO, it destroys its competitors in the value market, and the media is being awfully silent about it. I guess it's far too easy to focus on Elon instead.
Yeah that was going to be my answer too. They're some of the few books I've actually remembered stuff from.

The absurdity and slant on looking at things helps keep life in perspective (wasn't trying reference the Vortex there).

I remember occasionally when really get absorbed in it, that strangely the absolute absurdity almost starts seeming plausible.

And, I start seeing the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation all over the place now....
> Fourthly, and most importantly, as noted above: m(x) is a partition of unity: it “fits into itself”; [...] if we place a copy of m(x) at integral positions, and sum up the results, we get a constant (unity) across all x. [...] This remarkable property can help prevent “beat” artifacts across a resized image.

So, basically the reason why this works better than other visually similar filters is that it happens to satify the Nyquist ISI criterion[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_ISI_criterion
In the “Bicubic: note the artifacts” comparison images, the bicubic version, regardless of the aliasing, is less blurry and has more detail than the “magic kernel” version. I therefore don’t agree that the latter is “visually, far superior”. There is at least some trade-off.
the fact that we allowed non-technical people with liberal arts education, who have no concept of physics and energy, to make nuclear a political issue is a big failure.

Plus oil rich countries lobbying LNG as a greener alternative for nuclear is another fail
In the fictional corner I must place the Nights Dawn Trilogy and Dune.

Other corners don't really have a best book, for me. Recently read 'Emperor of all maladies' and found it a fascinating journey through cancer, both as an illness and as a research subject.

Also recently read 'The Grand Chessboard' which was also fascinating for a completely different reason.
What is the downside for the consumer here? Put all the scary warnings in front that you want, just have a "developer mode" toggle that unlocks the bootloader and lets us run arbitrary code. There's a huge reverse-engineering hurdle to get over anyway, this just stops the cat-and-mouse game of having to find exploits to run code on your device.
I'm not going to engage further because you're coming from a condescending angle that doesn't invite discussion, but I can't help but laugh at a virtue ethicist telling me I'm stuck in the philosophical past. Something something glass houses and stones.