skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>which implies the US had no need to produce them because they were superseded in US’ arsenal.

No, it does not imply that they were superseded. It means that the stockpile of weapons and spare parts was considered large enough to support the US's expected burn rate of material. Supplying Ukraine in a peer conflict changed that calculus, requiring new production to keep parts supplies above a certain desired threshold. The M777 is proving to be....not that reliable in the harsh conditions of the Eastern Front.[1][2]

>Furthermore, just because Ukraine received X weapon, doesn’t mean they received the latest and greatest variant that’s in use — they might have very well received a previous generation of said weapon.

This is supposition on your part....and it's WRONG. That's my point. You're simply stating things that are factually incorrect. Ukraine received M777A2s[3], the most modern variant of the M777 in service with US forces.[4]

>Asking which weapon or system replaced them as is in service does not look like discussing in good faith simply because the systems might change or newer variants may be used.

>Do better.

It's not a question of "variants", it's not a question of whether systems "might change", and it's not an issue of grammar errors. You made a false statement, perhaps unknowingly. I asked you to clarify with specifics, perhaps you know some weapon system I'm not aware of (despite having a rough idea of the IOC fielding plan for Marine fires assets in my AO over the next several years), and you've now made 2 posts bereft of details or references to obfuscate the fact that your original post was completely wrong and baseless. All this does is lower HN's already-low signal-to-noise ratio on military subjects.

US Army and USMC towed Field Artillery batteries are equipped with M777A2, the same weapons platform and variant we sent to Ukraine. We are not "a generation ahead" of the equipment sent to Ukraine. Period.

[1] https://www.twz.com/land/ukraine-is-burning-through-155mm-m7...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/us/ukraine-artillery-brea...

[3] https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/m777a2-howitzer-proves-to-be...

[4] https://www.army-technology.com/projects/ufh/
Program Obfuscation (2020)
They own substantially more than half of the wealth.
> If pirates couldn't access the underlying Netflix etc. bitstream like they've figured out, they'd absolutely be reading the desktop video buffer,

This cracks me up. This is like saying “If our enemy didn’t have missiles, as we are well aware they do, well, they definitely would be buying forks at Walmart and using them to poke us, or at least wave them menacingly. We must therefore place heavy restrictions on the sale of cutlery.”
Lets apply some tournament species theory. It predict that species where both gender apply equal amount of energy to reproduction will look and behave similar. In species which that is not true, the one that spend less energy will have traits that display the quality of genes, while the other one will be the one who choose mates.

If we have a single species where those traits randomly switch, it would follow that which gender that spend more energy on reproduction also switch in an identical way. This can be observed in the White-throated sparrow that the article is about. This would then create a competing theory.

It is not sex variability that produce the behavior. It is variability in reproductive strategy, where tan and white morphs deploy it different. In one strategy is the male that spend more energy, and in the other it is the female. We also get a question with this theory. Should sex be determined by reproductive strategy?
This article talks about “time theft” by employees, and yet wage theft by employers is larger than all other forms of theft, combined.

Plus, to steal from an employer is a criminal offence, but for an employer to steal from you is a civil matter. As in, the former can land an employee in jail with a criminal record, the latter… has absolutely no effect on the employer.

Until employers are thrown in jail and acquire a criminal record for stealing from employees (and I’m talking about the entire chain clear up to the CEO), the employment landscape is tilted severely - and hilariously so - against employees, and in favour of employers.
> That stuff happens in large part because Republicans get elected after talking about doing the things that you mention

Which in turn works because, even if they don't solve those problems, the problems are real and people experience them. So if you would make the problems actually go away, they would lose the ability to run on them.

> But they also get elected in large part because of the highly unequal and unrepresentative system that they perpetuate

This is what I mean by 46% vs. 51%. There are way bigger problems than the electoral college or district lines, which would only change how and where both parties campaign rather than making anything obviously better.

> including a media system built on feeding people falsehoods utterly disconnected reality (which is another reason ~half of voters voted for them).

This was never great but the thing that really seemed to turn it into a tornado full of broken glass is the interaction between Trump and the traditional media.

Major media outlets were used to politicians fearing them, and then Trump didn't, so the media got more aggressive and less cautious. Which was only effective for a minute until people started to realize what they were doing and that set the media's credibility on fire and made things dramatically worse.

Meanwhile the right-leaning media outlets, which were traditionally more partisan but only a little, saw this and their conclusion was basically "oh, so we can just do whatever now?"

> There are a lot of problems with the Democratic party as well, which is precisely why radical change is needed rather than just "pass some garden variety Democrat measures".

The most significant thing you could actually do is replace first past the post with one of the cardinal voting systems (STAR, score, approval), because it would allow for more than two parties. Which in turn would upend the the entire partisan apparatus of both sides which has evolved in that environment and would be maladapted to defending itself and therefore vulnerable to positive change. But it's also a subtle enough change and distinct from any of the usual battle lines that all of the villains you'd be disrupting might not recognize the implications until it has already gone through.
Would you buy cloud computing services from China? At this stage, should anyone feel safer with AWS etc.?
Weren’t some of them educated abroad?
Roadmap: Understanding GPU Architecture
> Like, they say that headphones should use a Harman curve because that sounds 'best' to listeners, but how valid is it as an objective measure?

It should be valid because it's "neutral". IIRC it's basically a conversion to simulate how a neutrally tuned speaker would sound if you were in the same room.

There are many reasons objective headphone measurements aren't actually objective for you though. The biggest one is that they're taken in a silent room, so a single CPU fan or anything near you makes it invalid. Noise cancelling can mean a lot in practice.

The other reasons are that different people have different ear shapes, some people wear glasses so the headphones can't get a seal, your amp isn't electrically compatible with the headphone, your music is badly mastered so you prefer a headphone badly tuned the opposite way, etc.
Fasting in Early Sufi Literature
There are absolutely varieties of lsd, especially nowadays with the legal analogues like 1v-lsd (Valerie) and 1p-lsd which are sometimes more common than the original. Though I agree that set and setting are extremely important
I wouldn't put it that way but I respect and appreciate the reply.
I'll just survey the landscape, and then say it ultimately comes down to personal preference.

So the basic idea is to get an audience and then monetize it. For that, there are different ways. In my opinion it's easier to buy something that gets traffic through this and then monetize it, then to buy a whole business, at least for the purposes of this conversation. Why? Because it's much easier to verify something is getting the traffic a platform's stats confirm, and then build a business on top of that, then to extrapolate correctly from a business someone is selling with a thousand moving parts.

With that being said: plenty of people buy complicated Internet businesses and achieve great results with them.

Also to reiterate from my earlier comment: if you can buy an account (some platforms do allow this) and start with traffic that's already earning a trickle of dollars, psychologically I believe that's 100 times easier than starting from nothing and painfully waiting months to earn a dollar. I recommend it whenever possible.

So without further ado here's how I rank the ways to get traffic. Notice how fractured this landscape this is; most people specialize in one, or perhaps two.

Google SEO: avoid avoid avoid. Not only is it saturated but the search arm of Google is a hard taskmaster. The most frustrating and abstruse of all the ways to make money online imo. I would only do this if I started by buying a niche content website business (aka one with prebuilt traffic).

YouTube: much more appealing than Google SEO but still a grind. However what you will learn here is all useful and the YouTube algo is, in a sense, a great marketing teacher. Unfortunately it takes so long to get off the ground that I'd also only enter this by buying a channel with traffic.

FaceBook: said to be lucrative but I don't know it. This is a great example of what I was saying about secret knowledge. How many people do you know who are enthused about creating FaceBook groups and attracting traffic to them? Yet this is, based on the available evidence, a solid business, maybe even the best of the ones listed here.

Instagram: seems tougher than YouTube in my opinion.

Pinterest: the new hotness, and currently being overrun by AI content lol. But AI + mass producing content is a viable strategy, and your North Star as someone looking to make money online is viable straegies.

TikTok: for profit, most likely better than Insta, and even YouTube. I just don't know enough about specific strategies for it unfortunately.

Newsletters: a good niche but kind of opaque (not easy to learn about and getting crowded). But said to be good.
In addition to leaning mostly on regexps (used in a few ways), the ancient Emacs `font-lock` highlighting also uses "syntax classes" of characters to help tokenize/lex and structure (e.g., is this character an identifier constituent, does it start a string literal, does it start a structural grouping like a parentheses, etc.). There's also some ways to insert arbitrary code to do some things that are harder, like non-regexp lookahead. You can also annotate pieces of text as you go through it, to cache information.

The rules for indenting are actually implemented differently, even though they also involve some kind of parse. And it's not unusual to have to cache context information about the current line, for performance, so that you don't have to look back at preceding lines until you're satisfied you have enough context to indent the current line. The functions to indent multiple lines at once of course might represent this context without having to annotate the buffer.

> you have a syntax error: how does then your syntax highlighter cope with that?

I wrote (but didn't release) an all-new language-specific incremental fast parser for Emacs that recovered from some syntax errors. My general approach was to pick a region of text that included the obvious syntax error, visually highlight it in red, annotate it so that a mouseover would hover an explanation bubble of what's wrong with it, and then continue the parse assuming some reasonable context. You can see screenshots at:

https://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/#meow

For example, for an unterminated string literal, it would error-highlight the opening quote and subsequent characters up to the first whitespace. For another example, a string literal with an invalid escape sequence would error-highlight the entire string literal up through the closing quote. Another example shown is detecting a character that can't occur in that context (a close-paren immediately after a comment-the-following-s-expression).
I always drop this book when people talk about writing or hacking their own OS etc:

https://www.amazon.com/Developing-32-Bit-Operating-System-Cd...

Can probably find it on a shadow library. Getting something to boot on x86 is a little tricky, because IIRC the CPU comes up in real mode, so you have to create your own boot sector and bootloader before you can even execute your kernel.

That book + Linux inspired me to write my own OS in 1995. My goal was to have an OS that booted directly into a modern GUI and fitted (with basic tools) onto a single 1.4Mb floppy, which I did manage.
That is what it should mean, but in image compression people use it to mean "mosquito noise" artifacts, which come from quantizing DCT compression applied to edges. (Nyquist theorem = DCT is bad at edges because they're made of an infinite number of frequencies.)
starts rocking back and forth nervous at how few white blocks are left
> huge anti-pattern in both

That's not a valid argument. Lots of people believed the earth is flat but we now know that's not true. Did you read the article? Explain why it is wrong.
Yeah, the consumer side Teams app is already different in UX than the corporate one. Wouldn't have been terribly difficult to brand that as Skype and market it as such.
On top of those issues there's also a wave of anti-intellectualism and xenophobia from the Trump government.

When the US model used to be to attract top worldwide researchers, that's pretty much the targeted demographics.
how much does a 130nm fab cost? I think 45 and 65 would be better, but ideally the fab could create 6502 and "486" CPUs as well, as those will always be in high demand.
None of the models ingests that data, mostly because there is no way to ensure that personal weather stations are sited correctly. So, for instance, an anemometer has to be around 30’ above ground with no obstructions to generate usable readings. Most people putting a personal weather station in the backyard aren’t going to the trouble to locate the station where it can provide data that are usable.

Plus, surface readings are only a small part of the atmospheric picture; you need weather balloons to generate a more holistic reflection of the atmosphere at a site. There are also data generated from aircraft, but those are more one-dimensional (in the sense that they are only sampling conditions at a single altitude) than twice-daily balloon launches from selected sites. Until someone decides to implement a private, nation-wide radiosonde network, there probably won’t be a numerical prediction model that operates independently of NOAA data.
I actually wasn't that young, I was 27 when I started and I was already "senior level" before I worked there.

Also, the salary was good but not as amazing as people to think. When I started there in 2018, I was making $165k/year; certainly not "bad" but not spectacular.

The stock grants were huge though. If I were still there I'd be worth more than a million now, I think.
Hear, hear. I was also pleasantly surprised how fast a pirated movie appears on a gigabit connection. Last time I had used BitTorrent it was on like 200Mbps.
Who is “person”? As I said, you have no idea who exactly is making what decision or why. There may very well be zero conflict of interest.
I found out about Maestro after I coming across Flashlight. I was looking for something that could effectively give me a performance score for my apps like Google Lighthouse, but for mobile apps. I found that in Flashlight. I found Maestro was relatively easy to pick up, like others have said before.

I'm a performance engineering consultant, but my apps are side projects, so I needed something that helps me do some quick performance testing. Maestro, and Flashlight, help me do that. It's early days, but I'm actually working on a separate product to use both Flashlight and Maestro to test on any number of real devices so I can get performance score trends across devices. Contact me if you're interested.

Looking forward to testing some of the updates with Maestro, especially web and iOS device support.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

Flash Game History - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23922206 - July 2020 (69 comments)
fdsjgfklsfd says>You don't think LLMs are thinking? You don't think they are approaching human levels of intelligence? What part of human cognition don't we understand?

Ans. No, no and the entirety of human cognition.

ChatGPT et al contain collections of words. When prompted they generate word sequences found in known word sources. That's all. They don't observe or reason about the world. They don't even reason about words. They merely append the most likely next word to a sequence of words.
When I was younger, I had "attitude problems" as well. I like to think though it was because I was passionate about what we were doing at Apple — how we were being perceived by the public.

I think I eventually just stopped giving a shit and instead more or less kept my head down. And perhaps that's too bad.
Two guys who I think are posting good stuff are Jesse Cunningham and Jacky Chou. I'm not doing exactly what they're doing, but I notice a lot of overlap w/my learnings and what they're teaching, in terms of principles. So I believe they're directionally correct.

In general though on YouTube think about a business you'd like to enter, then search those keywords and start grinding through videos. If you're not sure what business to enter than start your search with "how to make money online" and again grind through videos. (Note: this won't be very fun). Some of the best videos are by no name guys with like 100 views precisely because they're starting from nothing and are more like you than the big names.
The strongest criticisms against the Obama administration weren't the juvenile tan suit tabloid pieces, it was when he reauthorized the illegal, warrantless mass surveillance of the American public and prosecuted whistleblowers after campaigning on protecting them. That, or drone striking the civilian weddings.

Those were wrong and bad and Democrats should be emotionally honest with themselves about that in the same way Republicans should be emotionally honest with themselves about the fact that laws criminalizing out of state abortions (like the one on the books in Oklahoma) are a reprehensible attack on some of the most foundational values of both western society and the American nation - freedom of movement and states only being allowed to regulate activity within their own borders. That Oklahoma law is more befitting of North Korea than Oklahoma, and Republicans should be as righteously indignant about this moral atrocity as they are about Obama drone bombing civilians.

We should all be honest with ourselves and with eachother when our elected officials do objectively bad things that violate human rights rather than expanding and upholding them. Less partisan mud slinging about dumb stuff like tour bus tapes and suit colors and more serious discussion about the wrongs actually happening, why the wrongs are wrong, and how to make them right.
Maybe we're over-thinking with the monarch mindset. This also smacks of businessman "next quarter myopia" being applied to an unusually large stage.

The domestic slash-and-burn, the foreign policy tarriff chicken, even the minerals deal with Ukraine-- they all take the form of "you can book some great numbers for the next quarter. All it costs you is pesky stuff like 'long-term viability' and 'leadership positions', and those are only a problem for Future You, and who cares about him anyway?

We've basically become Hewlett-Packard as a country.
The Amish radar is accurate but struggles with prediction.
Caching 1B Tweets on a Laptop
Is there any evidence for general impulse control?

I'm seeing papers claiming both increased and decreased impulse control.
A few sq mm at 40 nm is about $20k, and you can only configure it once. I think the Versal also gives you more useful gates at that size (thanks to block RAMs and hard multipliers).
It wouldn't be too difficult to make something even better than flash that emitted wasm files, that could run everywhere. It would give lots of folks a creative outlet that could be infinitely shared.
What are the best private browsers in 2025?
Show HN: What did you do last week? – Evaluates your 5 bullet points
I know it as: If the elephants are fighting or fucking the ants are scared

The context I heard it was politics
Since you’re advocating for increased war funding, I assume you’re not considering diplomatic peace talks as a solution. With that in mind, what does ‘ending the war’ look like to you?

As a follow up, how much do you estimate it would cost? The UK has just announced another £2.26 billion pledge, and we have yet to hear from the EU.
MOSIS still exists, and Skywater has an MPW service that's easy to order from.

If you know the right person, TSMC also has an MPW service (as do most other foundries). Most of the slots on these services go toward high-volume customers and universities, especially at the high-tech PDKs.

https://themosisservice.com/
I get that DRM is important for content providers but it really sucks to not be able to grab individual frames for things like running them through google translate or google image search. There have been a few times I've wished to grab a frame for something like a meme, but mostly it's accessibility things being blocked for no real reason. They don't stop piracy, they just prevent people from doing things like translation.
It is not very common to run in to an error that should crash the application. If you have to write a bit of code to do that, in my opinion that's fine.
Me in Space Shuttle Simulator during liftoff: "I wonder what this red switch does?"

Space Shuttle: bang
Online propaganda is insanely powerful too. Not sure if many noticed, but the English put out by Chinese teams is often perfect these days.
As the other reply said this is literally nothing. The Canadian maple syrup cartel. I'm literally laughing out loud. Common knowledge in what circles?

Most trade between the US and Canada is free. There is a free trade agreement.

Yes. Canada doesn't want to lose its artists so it supports local musicians. I mean everyone still listens to local TV and Radio stations here. We don't have the Internet in our logging camps.

There is no ban on foreign ownership of residential property. You must be confusing us with Australia.
[EDIT: Sorry but as you noted I am at least partly wrong here. Since 2022 [actually 2023] there are limitations on foreigners buying residential housing in Canada. It has a lot of loopholes but it still exists. You can still own residential property if you acquired it before even if you are a foreigner. This isn't really a trade question anyways].

There's some inter-provincial friction. Not sure what that has to do with anything. Gives the US an advantage.

You pay sales tax on stuff you buy online. That's true in the US as well. I know Amazon really wanted to get around that but hey.

The US supports US companies with various subsidies. It also has lower tax rates. Not fair.

US-Canada trade is a relatively free, win-win. It's not a zero sum game. Now the US administration wants to turn this into a lose-lose zero sum game over some imaginary drug and immigration issues with the border.
Most PDKs have an NDA, but Skywater is an exception. Also, most PDKs have some software restrictions on their standard cells because they never tested them with the open-source tools, but with difficulty you can use their design rules in software like MAGIC.
Flying a helicopter under a bridge was practical.