skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> he thinks of himself as a visionary leader, destined to make his mark on history

Well put. This seems to get glossed over. Putin doesn't have too many years left in good health and won't go quietly on gardening leave.

I agree with you and would also add that even if the NATO expansion argument is merely a facade, it's not the only one he has to play with.

OP mentioned protecting ethnic Russians in Donbas. Putin's narrative to Russians in fact goes much further than that: he portrays himself as reconquering and unifying the traditional Russian state. Let's not forget the speech he gave shortly after the invasion, in which he described Ukraine as an illegitimate state on Russian soil.

The other narrative he pushes is about neo-Nazis taking control of Ukraine. Iirc one of the aims of the "special operation" is to remove Nazis from the Ukrainian government. Which is obvious bollocks to us in the West, given that Zelensky himself is Jewish. But in Russia the war is successfully portrayed as a sort of rehash of WW2: soviets vs Nazis.
We need a Mega-Maid like in Spaceballs to clean up the mess: https://spaceballs.fandom.com/wiki/Mega_Maid
That's certainly the status quo. One remedy that comes immediately to mind is to simply ban vertically integrated platforms like that and forcibly break them up.
I thought the deal with all these things is that the unit prices on items don't mean anything, and that they tend to be a negotiated total price (for whatever DoD is buying --- not "soap dispensers" but like "the entire C-17 program for FY2024") that's just weirdly spread over everything, so you end up spending like $15/screw, but everyone knows the actual game.

Is that not what's happening here?
I mean... that seems like a very valuable piece of technology but I feel it ideally would be hardware agnostic? If you have a piece of software that takes a video of the camera going over a near-static field and it generates a composite highres image - that'd be very useful.

You could then either have an automated stage, or a hand operated one, or just move your slide by hand under the microscope.

I think the camera can then be a RPi or a phone or anything else
They probably would if they were made in china, and sold in Walmart by the millions.
Lol so it's the logo and marketing. Gotcha.
For better or for worse, some people who can afford otherwise do piracy, out of protest. For example several people I know personally buy music exclusively on bandcamp. If it's not on there, they pirate it. No streaming, no iTunes etc.
Is it enough to have only daily backups? Or it's better to have more frequent ones?
yea ok crypto, metaverse and web3 are going to become a everyday necessity too then
A huge amount of their products require browser access, having a good UX to access them off in their best interest.
If you know so much about Widgets that you don't need to consult Wikipedia about them yourself, you know more than it'd accept anyway. Wikipedia does not compete with passion sites of people deeply into a topic; if anything, it uses them as citations.

Also, counting audience is a thing that matters when you're running ads, which kind of disqualifies you from the passion site category, or as a trustworthy source of knowledge.
I make no claim about what we should do in other contexts, only that mutual destruction of access to orbit is so easy to achieve we're currently careening towards it full speed without what politicians perceive as 'open hostilities'. This particular domain requires an approach more like OPEC than like the Cold War, and the consequence of failure to collaborate is you never get to play around in orbit again.
It's widely used.

Source: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=%22learnings+fr...
CPA is not a great TLA as isn't global.
It is strange how much apologia there is for Boeing in this thread. Why does it have to be somehow the government’s fault or somehow reflective of the actual cost to make the dispensers? Why should Boeing get the benefit of the doubt, especially given their complete failures on their fixed price contracts (Starliner, Air Force One, KC-46 tanker)? They’re so unable to control costs they’re talking about never taking fixed price contracts ever again. Given those failures, it seems safe to assume they’re screwing taxpayers on their cost plus contracts.
I find the Lightning way cooler than the Cybertruck. But apparently it's just me.

And IRL I prefer small EVs. Cheap, reliable silent, smooth drive.
Hi,

I'm an engineer with 15 year of IT experience. Instead of tech stack you should focus on speed. Use whichever tech you are faster in.
The amount of hidden state modern hardware uses is humongous, it's infeasible without abstracting it in a VM. I remember some Win9x software that would let you save the process state to disk and restore it later, but even in that much more primitive era it was hit and miss.
My claim isn’t really that there’s no benefit or utility to math — that’s obviously false — but that maybe its benefits to regular people are more modest than the cheerleaders want to admit.
Or just don't fork Chromium at all and Google can make the upstream their recommended browser.
>AOSP is now unusable. It doesn't ship with most essential apps, including a Phone app.

That's OK: these days, the phone (voice calling) app is only useful for receiving calls from scammers and telemarketers. I wouldn't miss it.
Someone should ban "AI" articles on Hacker News.
lasers. autonomous fan-beam laser sats to vaporize prograde surfaces of debris to lower altitudes.
I think this is just not realistic. "Pretty pictures" are actually more important even in science. The vast majority of the time you're not using pixel values or exact color characteristics in a scientific sense. You just want a clear high res image of what you're looking at so that you can ID the pollen, plankton or whatever it is. The algorithms in phone cameras are some of the most advances available. Sure you could in theory reproduce it in software.. but realistically there are no opensource code bases that can recreate the same level of dynamic range that a high end phone company software stack does

I take a pic with my iPhone and I can ID the things on my slide much better than with the color accurate high end Olympus scientific sensor. And in the end that's what matters most
Exactly. He is not going to and he will not.

By the next election and after his second term ends, we'll see that all the extremely wild claims of:

"Trump is ending the constitution!"

"This will be the last election if Trump wins!"

"Trump will be a dictator!"

"Civil war is going to happen under Trump!"

All of this repeated ad-nauseam, will be forgotten and dismissed as complete hysterical nonsense.
> But obviously many many things being vastly over-specced most of the time.

And sometimes they are appropriately specced.... for 1951, and no-one bothered to update the spec. They just ask for more of part 46-18432, please, and since the spec becomes more and more outdated, it becomes harder and more expensive to provide a part to that spec.
Nonsense, if you understand why df[df.sh ==val] you'll see it's great. If you don't, you can also do df.query("sh == val").
You wouldn't have to sell the business. You could convert it from an LLC to an INC. Yes it's a lot of work but it's a better alternative to selling it.
Sounds interesting!

The first year you learn how hard it is, you spend 80% of your time on compliance documentation and 80% of your budget on tooling. You still don't have a satisfactory product or a mastery of filling out the forms. It drags on into the second year, you're living on ramen but eventually deliver it (if there's one thing the government procurement process is tolerant of, it's delays) and get paid.

The third year you take on a additional contract, for 200 toilet flushes or whatever. New manufacturing challenges, but at least you're getting the paperwork down.

After a few more jobs, you've cracked it. You start bidding for all the military's bathroom-related contracts. At five or six contracts a year, you have a million or two rolling in (and low manufacturing costs - remember, the spec is such that you can produce it for 80x lower) and you've hired five employees.

By year five, the only thing you care about improving is sales. You still have 5 machine shop staff, paid well but not enough to make them wealthy. You focus on hiring ex-military brass and making them sales reps and lobbyists. You're into tens of millions of revenue, that is, profit.

Year 8, you sell the thing to Northrop or to a private equity firm and go retire on an island.
> Why does it have to be somehow the government’s fault

Because they bought it.

> They’re so unable to control costs

I assume you talk about the government here?
This is all really cool, but I just want soft wrap to be fixed
It may be worth considering that a heavier person needs a stronger heart than a lighter one. The heavier weight also acts as a constant load/training. Without some degree normalization we won‘t know whether this is normal or concerning.
Careful there. They'll start voting logically..
Try GDP per capita PPP, the measure that matters for average living conditions
> usually
I will say that in my college classes, the first thing I always do is to download the PDFs of the recommended books to accompany the classes.

Every once in a while one of these books ends up being awesome and truly useful for the class, and then I order it physically because I actually want it in my bookshelf (admittedly I'm not battling poverty).

Such shadow libraries have driven me to buy the books I liked, while rarely opening and reading the ones I didn't need, and also not buying them. It's just like having a "demo" version of a book but without the anxiety of running out of pages.

I think it's already hard enough to engage young people in reading and being into books but without websites like this I think it would be nearly impossible.
Pretty sure it was a joke on the language used ;)
Those are services that depend on Apple servers. If you also make a service, others can’t pirate it (they’ll have to set up their own server, which means it’s not really your service now).

Of course, this only works if you secure your server side properly. I remember using cracked versions of Wolfram Alpha for Android back in high school and those worked like a charm. I don’t think they lose a lot of revenue though.
Hypochondria Is a Real and Dangerous Illness, New Research Shows
Zelenskyy has stifled opposition and politically persecuted his enemies, actually.
How would they verify?
Have you considered how to handle mobile verification codes, graphic verification codes, and "proving you are not a robot" verification methods?
Don’t worry, we can create a priesthood caste with secret knowledge of technology whose purpose is to guide the human race toward a brighter tomorrow!

Maybe someone could write a foundational science fiction novel about this.
Basically, this is an Electron that replaces Node.js with Bun and Chromium with WebView?
It's really interesting how some people seem to take skepticism, disinterest, disappointment, apathy about AI almost personally. I would think if the tools really are so game-changing just let things be, as the cold hard reality will fall upon this guy and he will be left without a job unless he adopts these tools.

I think the real cold hard reality is that these AI tools can't and won't be the revolution they're purported. There's too much messiness in everyday software engineering jobs: tribal knowledge, dismal documentation, company politics, a toxic co-worker, a manager almost seeking to make the project fail, lack of code consistency, apathy, etc.
PWAsForFirefox: Brings back the installation of PWAs in Firefox
If a society can't do construction without leaving nails in the road(!!!) there seem to be some more fundamental issues going on
A vast open source community.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
IMO the best split would be:

- All Google consumer devices and products (Pixel, Chrome, Android, Nest)

- Search

- Ads

- YouTube

Search, Ads and YouTube could all survive and prosper on their own and then the Google devices company can pursue a similar strategy to Apple, have devices pay for software.
+1, if we must constantly teach people how to contend with it... dubious at best. It's not as important as the one who made it feels, IMO

On the whole it could be effectively replaced with existing moderation. Anything sufficiently significant and out of line would be flagged or fixed.

We end up with threads about silly titles either way, I posit the "helper" hurts more than it intends
Your example is a marble soap dispenser. Did you go on Google and search for the most expensive one you could find?
It was funny when they capped the rate at 7% recently. The calculated rate of RPI + 3% reached 14% and it became just a bit too obvious that it's a scam. Luckily I went in 2009 when tuition was 3.5k.
Generic data structures in memory, grab bag of structures and algorithms... sounds more like a programming language or library than an external tool. C++ STL for example would fit these descriptions perfectly.

Doing everything is a recipe for bloat. In a database, in a distributed cache, in a programming language, in anything.
What are the costs (in your estimation at least) to "regular people" (regular by your metric) of not engaging in easy bake low level "mathematical thinking".

* How many have a lower return on { X } through not understanding compound interest, tax brackets, leveraging assets, etc.

* How many have steady net losses through "magical thinking" wrt gambling, betting, hot stock tips.
Node.js – v23.3.0
Weren’t there a couple of anecdotes where Windows couldn’t fix a bug because some popular game (maybe SimCity?) depended on it, so the devs hardcoded a SimCity check inside Windows and made the bug happen if it was running?
Governments around the world must be using it too where a year turns into 3 decades.
Search has degraded substantially in the past 5 years for reasons wholly, completely, and absolutely unrelated to SEO blogspam.

Google of 5 years ago didn't ignore words in almost every single query I made. Google of 5 years ago didn't constantly give me irrelevant garbage because they keep ignoring the words I use in my query.

This is a wholly separate issue from SEO crap. Ignoring search terms is 100% a Google issue and is 100% Google's fault!
What's with non mainstream things having such shitty names? e/OS/ wtf
If your application can't survive the Redis server being wiped without issues, you're using Redis wrong.
They are too terminally online to warrant deleting accounts. I, already, can see the 'I'm going to Bluesky!!!!!' crowd returning and definitely not in single digit numbers.
(Disclaimer: Neon employee)

The 15 seconds start up time limits the utility for production workloads indeed, specifically for multi-tenant apps looking to provide very strong per-tenant isolation. If you need Instant Postgres, check out Neon: https://neon.tech/demos/instant-postgres.
I wonder what's special enough for this to be different from certified aviation grade equipment? It'd be nice it they could either make a bunch of a design (usefully) for the military to fulfill mil-spec, or if they could take an existing design and just make it in a mil-spec compliant way.
Corollary: uptime is part of the defacto spec being relied on.

One of the SRE practices is breaking your service on purpose to bring the actual service level closer to what is promised and supported.
I was wondering about the privacy implications: given a photo, the LGM could decode it to not just positioning, but also time-of-day and season (and maybe even year, or specific unique dates e.g. concerts, group activities).

Colors, amount of daylight(/nightlight), weather/precipitation/heat haze, flowers and foliage, traffic patterns, how people are dressed, other human features (e.g. signage and/or decorations for Easter/Halloween/Christmas/other events/etc.)

(as the press release says: "In order to solve positioning well, the LGM has to encode rich geometrical, appearance and cultural information into scene-level features"... but then it adds "And, as noted, beyond gaming LGMs will have widespread applications, including spatial planning and design, logistics, audience engagement, and remote collaboration.") So would they predict from a trajectory (multiple photos + inferred timeline) whether you kept playing/ stopped/ went to buy refreshments?

As written it doesn't say the LGM will explicitly encode any player-specific information, but I guess it could be deanonymized (esp. infer who visited sparsely-visited locations).

(Yes obviously Niantic and data brokers already have much more detailed location/time/other data on individual user behavior, that's a given.)
tbh the only solution to the problem is to spend the $250,000 it would probably cost in tooling etc and fill the Boeing ~1,000 order and sell another 99,000 to the public. At $10 each and without paying yourself anything you would probably just about break even.
5 years back I helped freeCodeCamp.org in creating their public-key cryptography curriculum: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/CurriculumExpansion/pull/184.

That course never went live on the freeCodeCamp platform.
So I recently built a free, open-source course on cryptography designed completely for developers: https://github.com/Cryptography-for-Devs/Cryptography-for-De...

I've tried covering only those concepts that a developer must know to understand what's going behind the scenes of framework function calls.

For example in case of Django, when a user is created, it uses PBKDF-2 for storing user password. A developer should not know at all how the pseudo-random function inside the KDF works. But they must know that PBKDF-2 is used because modern GPUs, custom circuits are damn powerful at parallel password cracking. This will make the developer realize why we use PBKDF-2 in the first place.

The course builds up intuition step by step. It starts from simple symmetric key encryption then we go to cryptographic hash functions then to password hashing then to rainbow tables & salt and then finally to PBKDF-2.

I'm releasing the first part of the course. The second part is planned to be around public-key cryptography. The tentative concepts that I think I will cover are (lessons in order of teaching): Diffie Hellman key exchange, RSA, E2E encryption, TLS / HTTPS, certificate authorities.

Most of the HN crowd might know about these concepts so I believe we all will step up to discuss how we can make the course's content a timeless resource for developers all around. I am not going to leave it as is, I will keep on iterating based on our discussions. Your inputs / time won't go waste.

Imagine yourself back to be as a beginner programmer... - could this course have helped you back then? - what changes I should make to the course that would have helped the younger you back then?

-vkweb.
Bcachefs technical and political troubles in the kernel
We only have the point of view of becachefs main developer here of course, but some things regarding some kernel developer and the CoC committee seem to be really concerning.
The West is a group of countries characterized by strong institutions and rule of law so Usa, Canada, europe, Japan, a Korea, Australia (it's not in fact a geographical term)

What I meant is that Ukraine is putting up a fight against an aggressor is doing unbelievably, and the west while helping isn't helping nearly as much as it should.
It looks like you ignored supply and demand.
> It's true, the inflation is high, but nowhere near out of control.

I'm not sure how useful that exchange-rate data is when the Russian government has made it harder to for their people to actually trade away rubles even at a price they like. [0]

I'd also expand the time window: The Jan-2022 ruble had already taken geopolitical damage, because of how Russia attacked Ukraine using insignia-less forces in 2014. In contrast, a 2012 ruble was more like $0.30.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/russia-capital...
It requires low level hooks and support from within the JVM, using agents is brittle and difficult to secure, the simplest solution is just to fork. I did spend some time investigating these methods before making the decision.

https://github.com/pfirmstone/HighPerformanceSecurity
But you also get paid for those
Ohh, interesting. I’ve long wanted to do an adjacent project, that is, creating a monitoring system for plants. Like, a single spike in the pot that measures soil composition, nutrient levels, moisture, wind speed, light exposure, humidity, etc. to give both plant care recommendations and optimise growth. Never got around doing it tho…

Do you have recommendations for buying sensors?
think of being kura-murza or yashin, both in jail for being political dissidents, only to find our you are being exchanged evil people you are fighting against.
> „The US military the mightiest fighting force at the time fell in one swoop when the president and command staff all died dud to the unwashed hands of a marine preparing the burgers on Airforce One.“
- Encylopedia Galactica 2424

One can make ridiculous arguments about both values and costs if one goes to extremes. It is instructive to study actual modern warfare. Sophisticated weapons only matter if there is a sufficient number. Meat attacks only work if weapons are of sufficient quality. Neither is one of the extremes.
The crime of polluting information to control it was perhaps the most unforgivable sin of our Information Age.
Add what about macOS (intel)?
malört meaning wormwood, which https://www.etymonline.com/word/wormwood says may be an alteration of

> wer "man" + mod "courage," from its early use as an aphrodisiac
I think that a 'breakthrough' would be to realize that harnessing fusion outside of a solar environment is a hopeless dream that, carefully fed, is very good at provoking research grants.
No.

Another side of the problem is how often we need close a road to dig it up. If we just enforce the quality, we will just wasting more time and money for more works and less time actually using them .

Proper solution would be a utility duct or tunnel.
> Because they bought it.

Fair enough, but I was referencing people taking a Boeing exec’s claim that somehow regulations cause military soap dispensers to cost that much at face value.

> I assume you talk about the government here?

No. Read the whole sentence. I’m referencing Boeing and the tens of billions Boeing has lost on fixed price contracts.
Next is actively a bad stack run by an incredibly shady company would be a good start
I'm back with a new post today on keeping time in Linux, timespaces, network time protocol and how time synchronization became necessity during the advent of railways in the mid 1800s. We will look at how the Raillway mania of the 1840s paved way to time synchronization, how we synchronize time across devices using NTP and a peek into Linux clocks and time namespaces. Hope you enjoy this one !

Do share your experiences with debugging NTP issues and if you have any thoughts on Linux Timespaces and how you use it in production or know any tools which use it heavily.

From what I have learned, LitmusChaos and ChaosMesh have experiments which you can do to mess with the NTP and the kernel clocks, but I wasn't sure how useful people find it really. Do you perform any tests like these for your application ? Have time namespaces helped you in migrating containers in the recent past ?
But did you really scan the items they wanted? Most people in my local community scan their hands or the pavements around the pokestop.
They have a great map of London pavements if they want to do it.
Because MS and Apple ran a bunch of ads painting Google as untrustworthy custodians of user data and that unsubstantiated claim stuck with certain segments of the population?
You probably also really don't want slippery floors at a critical (or any) time.
Efficiency is not about cutting costs