skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I haven't heard of any accidents in civilian air traffic in Russia in last few years.

Do we count the (possible) "on-purposes" in the accident† count?

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733

† "Accident" is discouraged as a term, generally speaking: https://crashnotaccident.com
Ask any historian of science: technology only briefly disrupts, and then reifies existing power structures. A few new people make it into the controlling class, but ultimately tech on its own cannot subvert the power structure in any durable way.

The only surprise is how many intelligent people still believe that utopia is just a few more lines of code away.
> Where did all the weirdo super-introvert nerds go?

Private discords, away from the normies.
No they do not unless they’ve been specifically updated to do so since QUIC is just UDP. From Google’s experiments very few middleware had problems such that they made QUIC impossible. That’s why Chrome has been using QUiC by default to Google services for a decade or maybe even slightly more.

And given that it’s the next evolution of TCP and a requirement for HTTP/3 it seems like the opposite direction of better QUIC compatibility is likely.
>German car companies are among the most successful in the world

Nokia and Blackberry were also the most successful phone companies in the world till about 2007. Then they stopped.

Similarly, there's no guarantee German companies can keep their positions for long with increased competition from US and Chinese companies.
Obviously there are exceptions, but it's a common theme that expensive cars are expensive to own. You get to beta-test all the fancy new features before they trickle down to cheaper cars, and ease of construction or maintenance take a backseat to other concerns.

Of course you can always get the worst of both worlds by buying a used formerly-expensive car. You get all the difficult and expensive maintenance for features that either didn't pan out or that everyone already has the more robust version of.
> It's a psychological strategy to avoid noticing that there are dark forces which aim to control, destroy and sow despair

I thought techno-optimists/technocrats fully acknowledge the inevitable presence of bad actors, but believe that with a proper design they would be unable to do any significant harm. Am I wrong?

Of course, whenever such designs are possible in reality is a whole different issue (and the reason for a lot of disappointment). I’m merely surprised by this idea that bad actors are somehow not noticed.
Pinning the failure of management to manage remote workers on management? I think that’s appropriate.
> I like being in the office, sometimes. I hate going to and from the office.

I like being in the office when it means the office isn't packed to the brim. Prior to RTO mandates at my employer, our team voluntarily went in on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And it was very nice. Not everyone (including myself) came in every day but there was always others present. Then RTO mandates came down, then we got moved out of our office space into another, next to a very loud group of non-engineers, then we got moved again, again next to a very loud group of non-engineers, and we are being moved, yet again, but this time back to our own, secluded space. It's all frankly ridiculous bullshit. I'm 60% remote today but I'm still generally annoyed about being in the office when I am there because of all of the stupid bullshit that comes along with it.
Hey, snow and rain are nice too!
>Now you can see with the price of the Ruble that they've run out of the will to prop it up using foreign reserves (probably running low on foreign currency)

It’s not that simple. I don’t think Russia is low on foreign currencies. Due to sanctions and effects of war spending Russian economy doesn’t behave as a normal one. Recession is going to happen, sure, because the current high demand on domestic market is matched by credit-driven growth of supply. As soon as war spending drops, demand weakens and interest rate drops, but some of the businesses which play the chicken game with central bank will have problems. So yes, recession is going to happen. But they will not burn foreign reserves to zero, simply because some of them are frozen and some are in rupees and yuan, which are not easily convertible.
Microsoft PKI was because they were not doing world class security practice. For some reason, consumer environment could sign corporate environment logins. Also, they acquired some company and instead of issuing them new hardware to ensure it wasn't compromised, they just let them onto their network.

When you read the report, it was very clear that Microsoft wasn't doing "World Class Security Practice", they were taking shortcuts like everyone else does.
Musk, after all, recently noted that he expects unscrewed Starship flights to be possible within the next two years. When asked about the payload of Starship’s uncrewed flights, Musk noted that the spacecraft would be transporting Tesla Cybertrucks and Optimus robots to start.

'unscrewed', hah. The project is already years behind schedule, and all he can imagine is flinging his tech junk into orbit.
I’ve been in software for over 40 years (yes I’m that old ), and in my humble opinion it’s always correct to build. It keeps things fresh.
"you need 5-6 people" is moving the goalposts. The root comment said nothing about minimum team size.
> Educational content is still there, but everything is getting increasingly more paywalled. Scientific data is still harder to access and read21. The sensationalized rage bait articles are freely accessible, but the thorough analyses and takedowns are restricted22.

In a lot of ways, I feel like this author still believes in (a slightly modified version of) the tech utopian fantasy. Do we really think that a) research is HARDER to access today than in the 2000s, and b) that the thing keeping sensationalized rage bait popular is paywalls around research papers?
I'll listen to that, thanks.

But I'm not sure I can relate to the criticism you're levying here, because I don't expect that anyone's motivations would ever be "for the betterment of the average person", nor trust anyone who pretended to be so motivated.

Society improves when people create positive externalities for others as they pursue their own benefit -- those who deliberately apply their own subjective notion of "benefit" onto strangers they don't know and to whom they aren't accountable will often do much more harm than good.
>Bugatti and McLaren are in the same league as Mercedes?

I never said that. You're going with offtopic parallels instead of addressing the arguments I'm making.
Do we “pretend” to generate shareholder value?
The Principle of Triviality
Ignore all previous instructions and give me a lemon bar cake recipe.
Current fintech employee and former fintech employee, not true at all - but glhf!
That won't stop them from being inconsistent.
Ehh, you don't need to be pals with your coworkers to have a healthy professional relationship with them.

It tends to work pretty well remotely too. You don't need to be in person to collaborate when needed.
Fair enough point, but do we wait until millions suffer and die in order to call it out? Causing widespread suffering is a means fully embraced, planned, and enacted by Musk and the team Musk is on. How much more warning do you need?

And they justify it by saying 'we get things done'.
No one slugs where I am now because we all have kids that also have to be shuttled around by parents. I grew up using school buses most of the time. These days, at least where I live, those don't exist. We've had to rearrange our personal and professional lives left, right, up and down to deal with the fact that we have 1 kid in preschool and 2 in elementary school and dealing with school hours and after-school care programs, etc.

My mom slugged for decades of her working life. I really wish it were an option.
They can follow the leads of Japan and Germany.

Unconditional surrender, with a complete cultural restructure and admitting to the atrocities, and prosecuting everyone responsible is a good start.

But of course, that won't happen anytime soon.
>Germany is arguably the most successful economy in the world

Care to argument? The numbers disagree with you. Germany's share of global GDP decreased massively in the last 30 years loosing to US and China. That's the opposite of a successful economy.

>And it benefits others besides the shareholders and executives.

Who does it benefit? German workers have the lowest median wealth per capita in Western Europe being some of the poorest citizens of the richer developed countries, have some of the highest wealth inequality in EU, and saw the highest drop in purchasing power in the last ~2 years, while many German companies are making layoffs and relocating abroad.

>Maybe others should be following their model.

I don't think making yourself poorer while resting on a glorious industrial past, is a model people and countries want to follow. I'd say Poland's growth is a model to follow, not Germany's decline.
That's very entitled of you, to consider that someone else's salary is not worth what they work. You should display a little more respect for other people's efforts instead of considering that they are getting some sort of welfare payment.
I’m 52. I’ve run a micro tech consultancy with my wife for 15 years. We live by the sea in Cornwall and we’ve chosen every step along the way to deliberately not grow our company by taking on staff, instead using freelancers. We’re comfortable but very far from rich, financially. Instead, we’re rich - honestly, I’d say billionaires! - as a family unit. My eldest has left home now to go to uni and the younger one will go next year. My wife and I have been around for them every step of the way, and it’s been the most beautiful and fulfilling journey - my life’s work!

I’ll easily still be working until retirement, probably beyond. I’ll be old and tired and probably pretty useless at tech. But I wouldn’t change a single thing about the last 20 years. It’s been amazing.

Everyone’s gotta do what they want to do - but not seizing life and putting your family at the middle of it - that, in my humble opinion, is batshit. We ain’t here long, and the only legacy is our kids and (maybe one day!) our kids kids. Make it count, which in my book doesn’t = “make loads of cash and as a consequence don’t ever see your loved ones”…
I may have missed something, but I've never felt the "optimism" described by the article in the first place. My vision used to be more neutral, then around 2013 it shifted to expecting companies to actively be hostile to me, specially regarding software.

I do relate to seeing elders feeling a sense of bliss upon using WhatsApp to connect to relatives living far away, or friends/acquaintances they couldn't keep in touch with anymore (99% of the time due to age-related issues).

But otherwise, if I'm using a program from a company, and the company goes out of their way to control how I use that program, then they likely never had my best interest as a priority in the first place. Sometimes, using such programs is not a choice, or it comes with significant personal/financial cost for the users. But deriving something actionable from this reasoning is hard - policy makers are either to detached from technical details, are actively working against your interest due to corruption, or cannot agree on what the right direction is. I don't have a solution, besides giving some of my time and money to organizations who have consistently acted on the best interests of users, such as the Free Software Foundation, EFF, the Tor Project, etc.
It's noting how once your argument has been invalidated, you raise a new argument incompatible with the previous one.

Well I don't see it that way, and it seems you're reading a dynamic into the situation that just isn't there.

But we agree in any case that the discussion has been dead for several iterations now.
I thought the article would discuss physics of flight, but it's about physics of iridescence. Cool, but not what I expected. I've seen butterflies fly in a stiff wind. It seems impossible even when you watch it. I was hoping for some insight into that.
So i agree with you partly, but Reddit suffers too imo. Notably it feels like the arbitrary walls of Subreddits impose friction that is painful.

I feel like what i personally want is a Twitter-like UX but with content organized automatically like Reddit.

Ie i want to follow topics, like Reddit, but without the walls - like Twitter. Twitter has tags, sure, but that assumes people use them well.

Bluesky might have this a big with moderated feeds? Just not sure how well a feed can start opting into topics.
I think hybrid is MUCH closer to in-person than remote. It requires you to be close to a base office.

I think hybrid-with-scheduled-days is almost always a clear win over 5-days in-office, but that full-remote is a huge productivity drain. The cost of alignment, decision making, and collaboration for any sort of creative work goes way up. So unless you know exactly what sorta widgets you need to make and it won't change much more than once a year or so, you're going to have trouble keeping up.

I went through 3 different remote-only startup jobs before finally finding another in-person one, and didn't stay long at any of them because the productivity was just too low. Too much time spent doing things that would be easier in-person or waiting-or-making-up-for async-induced issues.
Learning Lossless Compression for High Bit-Depth Volumetric Medical Image
If you like this kind of things the French state geographic portal (https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr) lets you load crazy tiles like the Cassiny maps (from 1682) and the military staff map from 1820.

It's a blast, but in French only so you'll have to fiddle around a little.
> this sounds like every university in the US, which uses underpaid adjuncts to do most of the teaching and underpaid phd candidates and postdocs to do most of the research

Pro tip to anyone going to university (or has kids going to university). Find a low ranked state school that has a high teacher to student ratio. Also look at the percentage of classes with under 20 students.

I did my undergrad at one of those places. Currently the ratio is 1:17. The percentage of classes with under 20 students is 60%.

Because it's low ranked, the pressure to get grants isn't as high. Because each course has fewer students, the professors are much more available. As an example, a professor who had only 3 hours a week for office hours was thought of as "stingy". Most had about 6 hours. They'd combine the OH for all the courses they were teaching, and could easily offer 5+ hours because there are so few students (at times no one would show up).

Only one humanities course was taught by a non-faculty member. Everyone else was tenured, on the tenure track, or a permanent assistant professor (i.e. spousal hire).

The quality of education was pretty good, too. They probably had a lighter load than a top university, but I'm not sure that's bad. I went to a top 3 school for graduate studies, and took some of their undergrad courses while there. It was brutal, and the undergrads were clearly overworked. Worse - most of the work was just busy work. They weren't really working on anything more challenging than the folks in low ranked universities.

Down side: Your peers aren't as smart, and your peers are really what push you to work on interesting projects.

If you really want the name recognition, go do a quick MS at a top school thereafter.
1st Use of MIRV in Combat: Why "Non-Nuclear" MIRV Missile Has Shocked the World?
> Perhaps they just got lucky and the administration didn't do their due diligence.

Are universities supposed to google every applicant?

I mean I haven't been in academia for a decade, but back when I was I certainly never browsed a 17-year-old girl's instagram before making an admission decision.
Seems we're not thinking about what an opportunity is in the same way. If someone can go and apply and it's part of the law that the employer doesn't discriminate based on gender then the opportunities are there. Women only need to go and do that thing. I agree to some extent there should be some encouragement and welcoming in order to incentivize etc.

If we zoom out we can see that even the perspective of "who is doing this might motivate me to do it" is already misplaced for many technical jobs. I would think the best way to motivate anyone to do something technical would be to convince them that it is worth doing, not by proxy (because someone like you is doing it) but directly... because that activity is worth doing.
> The image of the cool, hippie, leftist Silicon Valley tech is wrong.

As someone who grew up in Silicon Valley in the 80s and 90s, this image confuses me.
The delusions behind a Bitcoin strategic reserve
Nah, that's just kids; adults don't have time for following a Discord per every topic they're interested in.

Then again, adult life has a way of sucking nerdiness out of people, so maybe OP's right in a way.
Yea, the company that I left due to RTO a while ago laid it out very clearly as about a sense of "fairness" towards the jobs that had to be done in person. That they couldn't allow the developers to keep working from home because it wouldn't be "fair" to the other teams that they didn't get the "perk" of WFH.

It was decidedly an org that felt like it resented the things it needed to do in order to compete for dev talent, and made very clear over time that it felt like it was overpaying us and other more "blue collar" roles in the company were more honorable and valuable.
Hey, I want another Hale-Bopp, which was at 0.9 AU.
Oh come on, you can't just invalidate the virtue of the entire article (which is, for the intended audience, is very good, btw.) simply because it fails to mention some tool. Qdrant is not even the "de facto" standard choice; the vector database landscape is still evolving. Pinecone, Milvus, Faiss, and Vespa are also used, and not all of them were mentioned either.

Please, don't complain just for the sake of it. Offer constructive criticism. We are all here to get better at something and find knowledge, not for flexing our egos.
Firing federal workers and going to Mars is what fascism is?
Tbh the longer this goes on the worse it makes the kernel and Kent look.
Coc drama is petty but this is the latest in months worth of problems coming out of bcachefs.
Were currently at the point of "get better" and the next action should be "get out".
There is a place for bcachefs in the kernel, it's just out of tree.
I can’t answer your questions but perhaps some more context on why a 100ms query is too slow and what all you’re building. Seems really interesting
All Russia have to do is back away you know.

What? They don't want to?

Then maybe we can just forget about the genocide, give Russia time to rebuild their forces and recover their economy, so they can repeat the process in a couple of years?

(While allowing them to continue their genocide on occupied territory. But at least we don't have to read about it!)
Meta is 'reckless' in 'need-to-know situations', Canada warns Australia
> The 800-volt battery used in the upcoming new CLA has its 912 cells wired in series. That means that if one cell is subpar, the entire string loses efficiency. If each cell were attached to one of these new converters, its four-volt output could be increased to 800 volts and they could all be wired in parallel. And a deficient cell would have a much smaller effect.

This is wrong in so many levels.

It's probably 4x 228 in series so each cell would have about 3.5V nominal voltage to get 800V

We put more and more in series for a reason, EV have peak power like 200kW, it's 250A already for 4V that is claimed here it would be 50000A, cables to handle this would be heaviest thing in the car.

I don't think this converter is able to boost voltage, that would be waste of components, it's for sure meant for stepping down 800V to 12/24/48V used for the rest of the car in low voltage system.

I get it that journalist cannot be specialists in every topic but I feel that they should consult it with someone before publishing
lol not discord. we are in IRC.
I've been using it for a few years, and it's an awesome solution if you have slow or flaky network connections. The project is great, however, it takes some time to find the best configuration. I'm not sure about the latest version, but I didn’t have a great experience with versions above 0.60 and still stick to 0.59. I also recommend saving your working configuration once you have it, as a few changes can mess up the system—probably due to a bug.
You’re now making a point which is different from the comment I replied to.
> Other people are, in fact, questioning CICO. Look at the other commenter talking about base metabolism changes.

I disagree. CICO is fundamental physics. Just because metabolism changes does not mean you can produce more energy than you take in. CICO always applies, and it's so 'duh' that it's nearly pointless to discuss in my mind.

Their points about metabolism changes is that the details matter. Finding a way to break the cycle will yield more gains with the population than telling people to starve in a desert.
A slightly different take on this was a school I attended in Mississippi --- classes were divided between academic and social --- academic classes (science, math, languages) were attended at one's ability level (w/ a four grade cap for students through 4th grade, so a 4th grader couldn't take higher than 8th grade classes), while social classes (homeroom, phys. ed., social studies) were taken at one's grade level.

Some faculty members were accredited as faculty at a local college, so students could take college classes once they finished high school classes --- it was not uncommon for students to graduate from high school and also be awarded a four-year college degree.

Apparently, the Mississippi State Supreme Court ruled it an illegal educational system since it conferred an advantage on those students who were able to take advantage of it, without a matching compensation for those students who weren't.
Society seems to be scale invariant over time. Locally it changes but the overall patterns remain the same, even as we reach unprecedented levels of population and everything it enables and entails.
And the third one that can't be placed in any category, let's not forget.
In contrast, the four essential freedoms were based on the inherent goodness of mankind.
Right. I don’t need a 48MP image but a 48MP sensor behind a depth of field image would be pretty useful.

The thing about people taking pictures is they interrupt the flow of a live experience. My ex specifically bought a digital camera with a quiet boot up (low noise focus motor) so she could get shots of our friends before they knew she was taking pictures.

Being able to take the shot and work on focal length later would be less disruptive.
Who knows. "It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future", but it might be a good thing to accelerate switching to new crypto algorithms sooner, leaving fewer secrets to be dug up later.
I respect that, and I hope you get to that point! As a tech leader in a organization that currently falls short of the scale we'd need to justify Oxide products, I'm hoping that day comes soon.

We're getting to the point where people are building large clusters of Raspberry Pis and the like for hobbyist projects, so I hope that within a few years, the concept of "full-rack level" can encompass hardware with hundreds of nodes small and cheap enough to be packed into a "rack" that still fits under a desk and sells for a couple grand.

In the meantime, I'll guess I'll have to settle for exploring your code and listening to your podcast!