skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And he is clearly not celebrating this violence, he’s saying he is fascinated by it.

Okay then it was what I thought (see previous). Done?

> Would you feel this way about a woman telling you she watches a lot of True Crime documentaries?

I would think that about anyone who takes the time to frame the conquest in that way and then do a heel-turn in the next paragraph. This is not me saying that the conquest was evil and blaming someone for being interested in it—this is the author framing it in terms of the suffering and then “And yet” (note conjunction) thinking that it was awesome. This is just what he himself chose to write.

Would I judge someone—or I guess specifically a woman—for explaining their fascination with True Crime in the same way? Uh. Yes.

> I consider both interests to be perverse; it just seemed like an odd thing to fixate on

You’re just casually policing off-hand comments. But that’s not odd? My comment, ill-contexted as it was (and sorry for that to the gamer author) was in response to someone focusing on the crimes the conquistadors. Both my response and the quote from the author (on another piece) was relevant to that point.

Considering that I also made a response to the whole article here (which you have replied to by the way) this is clearly not a fixation.

> when the article had quite a bit more to it than that.

It certainly has a lot of volume.
There's always Windows 11 LTSC

https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links
That's been a big deal in industrial automation spaces. To have safety critical distributed applications, you need a way to say that a message is stale or something you can't respond to since the state of world might have changed since the data was acquired. As a result, there is a heavy need for some bound on time accuracy from wireless nodes, even if it's a bad bound (several ms instead of single digit us or similar), that still lets you do safety case decomposition.

This is one of the core pieces of tech in automotive for distributed safety cases, think sensors on different time scales with sync'd local clocks allowing for timestamping for staleness/aliveness.
> many people don't really have a grasp of the state of things at the time.

> If someone is unaware that these were ubiquitous, they have no understanding of the time period.

I suspect the reason you are obliquely implying I am ignorant instead of making an actual argument is because you don’t have a compelling argument to make.

> The Incan Empire didn't have a judiciary, didn't have codified law, didn't have currency. They didn't have a written language, but used a system of knots for record keeping.

These are technologies. I already told you I don’t care about technical sophistication and I have not contested that the Incans were not technically sophisticated when compared with the Old World. The Incan Empire was governed better than contemporary Haiti, even if the Haitians have typewriters; the fact that it was all organized without currency or codified laws makes it more impressive, not less.

What I am asking you is if you can point me to a state in Europe contemporary to the period that was approximately 2 million square kilometers, with a population of at least 6 million people. I can think of perhaps half a dozen states that fit this criteria, which in world historical terms makes the accomplishments of the Incans quite impressive.
https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links
We're all in agreement there it seems.
I'm so glad my motherboard doesn’t support Windows 11. That's the one 'secret hack' that seems to work.
There are so many legacy apps being used in the corporate world, I don't see this realistically ever happening.
If you skip over the trial (or other checks) portion, you can't be sure they aren't citizens. That's part of the point. That why you extend rights to everyone, so a political party can't use the excuse of "oh, it's ok, they weren't citizens".

Otherwise, it's it's a group of people collecting un-named people, deporting them, and them saying "trust us, we got it right".
Sales tax was already paid when it was new, the state got its due. That kind of idiotic policy is how expensive and collector cars get owned under an LLC and the LLC changes hands rather than the title. Thus the rich bypass all that BS it's only for the gullible plebs.
I think "implementing higher level features as extensions on top of a smaller core" is a hallmark of the Lisp family. Check out Fennel [0] or Janet [1] for two different approaches. On top of everything, Fennel is 100% Lua-compatible.

[0]: https://fennel-lang.org/

[1]: https://janet-lang.org/
Gosh, they should adopt the slogan - “Run baby run”.
The bandwidth is low, but the latency requirements are stringent since PTP does a wire delay calculation with multiple back-and-forth messages. If that gets affected by, for instance, jumbo frames being on, your bound on the clock value is much worse than if you have a relatively uncongested link.
Thanks. The subscription model is now almost the default for everything. Investors like the steady stream, which makes sense financially. But unfortunately it has resulted in much lower software quality, because software shops now don't have to make a high quality, solid version that they sell once; they can just ship MVPs with bugs or missing features and tell you that we'll work on fixing/adding those features, just keep your subscription and you'll get it.

I miss the days when you bought a high quality version of something that you kept using for years.
The lack of agreement on how to spell chord symbols is a genuine problem. Brandt and Roemer's 1976 Standardized Chord Symbol Notation provides a reasonable standard, which was adopted by Sher Music in their "New Real" line of books, but it's not quite the same as the style chosen by the original Real Book authors that was mostly kept in the Hal Leonard editions. iRealPro uses a slightly different style. Chord chart readers have to be prepared for a variety of styles, unfortunately.
Hey folks!
I'm a Principal iOS Engineer working at a Fortune 100 company, with 10 years of experience building real products in production. But despite the title, I still write code daily, mentor teammates, and actively explore new tools and architectural patterns.
To stay sharp and give back to the community, I recently launched The iOS Weekly Brief - a free newsletter for developers who want signal, not noise.
Each Friday, I share:
• The most relevant Apple developer updates (not just iOS)
• Carefully selected articles I actually read and find valuable
• A tool or library I've tested or bookmarked
It's not AI-generated, not recycled - just top-notch content I'd want to read myself. No fluff. Just the good stuff.
Here is the link to my first weekly brief:
https://vladkhambir.substack.com/the-ios-weekly-brief-issue-...
> scaling up to handle more concurrent requests, hitting your SLA uptime, reducing defects or memory usage by avoiding statefulness, reducing latency, separation of concerns to improve maintainability, etc.

> Are these not immediately obvious impacts to the business?

Depends; for b2b loads all those concerns but the final one can be be met with a single beefy server for DB writes, with multiple read only replicas.

Run multiple instances of your monolith app behind a load balancer and you should be good for maybe 100k users working on that app at mostly the same time.

With care (redis serving session data) this is fine for even very high loads.

Once you start doing b2c and have millions of users logged in and doing stuff at the same time then those concerns are valid.
There should be an antitrust forcing Microsoft to sell Windows, at least the part of it that’s useful for gaming.

It’s shameful what the do to the people locked into their platform.
New scans enable life-changing surgery for epilepsy patients
ITT: People missing the point of the article and talking about Microservices
"In Philadelphia, it's worth 50 bucks."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlOIKtYsos
Pretty sure the TPM requirement was just an excuse to sell new PCs. They ended up allowing older platforms for 11
Until they need new hardware, for which there will (and can) be no drivers anymore, as Microsoft stops crosssigning them in the Hardware Dev Center after a while for old Windows versions.

Microsoft does have the leverage in this case, as long as folks want to continue using Windows.
Industrial-Grade Sensor Simulation via Gaussian Splatting
That's true, and in the last two months it's done worse than all of those put together!
The title should really be

# Avoiding learning the command line _ is like walking with rocks in your shoes
Maybe the training set had too many zeroshot patients.
What is it about unmaintained software on a personal device that somehow makes the attack service non-existent?
Think You're Right. Then they'll justify price hikes with AI shit nobody asked for.
'they didn’t even define what engineering is or why it would be significant if the chimpanzees were doing it'

Do you mean literally "I don't understand why it would be significant if animals were doing engineering." ...?
Right, but the point still stands. Go read “Empire of the Summer Moon” and tell me that the pre-Columbian natives were peaceful.
thanks for that, i'll update references.
It seems your editorializing had a bigger impact than you thought!
Evidence? I have a laptop I purchased refurbished and upgraded to Win11 almost immediately. It cannot be updated to 24H2, apparently because the TPM does not support the required version for that Win11 version.
Link behind paywall.
As someone who was personally a victim of the 1-2 punch of vulnerable HW and unquestionable malware that took advantage of said vulnerability from the same vendor (and I have the pcaps to prove it), I have sworn off CN garbage forever, I don't care if I have to pay 3x the price.

No one stops you from doing so, just know you will probably be part of a botnet sooner or later.
I hear you, but some people just want an easy high-paying job where they essentially work a few hours a week. Not everyone wants to fold proteins.
Published doesn't mean paid
The point of many scripting languages is quick tinkering, mucking with stuff in a REPL, on top of a complex contraption of already-live objects. This works well with duck typing. It does not work with nice static type inference, because once you change something high upstream, it potentially invalidates everything downstream, your entire current session you've spent an hour building.

"Everything should be built top-down, except for the first time" (See #15 in https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html)
It's not just noise though; clients are actually experiencing crashes and other issues because of it. I wrote an in-depth article on the Google Translate extension's interference of React (and other webapps): https://martijnhols.nl/blog/everything-about-google-translat...

It's no wonder frontend has a lot more errors, after all it has to support so many more client variations than a typical backend. It can be very hard to make a big webapp that works well for everyone.
Will internet connectivity be required only when installing Windows 11, or every time you log in to the computer?
You're right. Not nuts. Utterly nuts. By any reasonable definition.
Which is why it’s so depressing to see the U.S. backslide into this so quickly and willfully.
They're rather different: In Rust types only exist at compile time; dyn Any is a normal trait object, so you can only call the trait's methods. With C#'s dynamic, you can call arbitrary methods and access any fields with type checking of those accesses being delayed until runtime, which works because types exist at runtime too.

Rust's dyn Any corresponds better to C#'s Object; dynamic exists to interface with dynamic languages and is rarely used.
During install
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1551) slightly later leaves out the lionization and describes the atrocities and abuse of natives and imported slaves. It should be required reading as it was driven by greed without morality on multiple continents, eventually consuming c. 150M human beings under all colonial powers.
Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religions
I need advice on getting my first angel checks
Hi Everyone! I can seriously use your advice in getting in front of investors. I have created a new startup that has grown 940% in the past few months. We have made over 2k with 120+ customers. Plus we have 2 ex uber folk helping out.

I know we are super fundable but I have no connections and am not sure how many bespoke cold emails I can send. I would love to hear your thoughts on how I can meet more investors. (I know warm intro's are best but I dont know anyone who knows anyone).

I also tried to do friends and family and they simply do not have enough money, I send 200+ cold emails, and now I am going to startup events to meet them but I simply have not been able to meet more than 4 investors. I also live in LA if that helps
Modern authors should publish on their own websites,

And spend 6-12 months time before launch in marketing and talking on social media.

We need more empowered authors.
You can turn off TPM on any motherboard.
Since when does the verge need a subscription? Wth happened to the web
The strategies will change, but it is not certain to be more “intricate”, it could go both way.

It is probably more likely that adding the other physical limitation of the human body causes one strategy to be vastly more effective, and the game becomes less intricate. The reason is fairly simple: a game does not become “intricate” or “interesting” by accident. We iterated through a lot variations before we settled down on this version of chess that has the suitable intricacy for us. Adding a new factor probably needs a couple more decades/ centuries of refinement before we get to a version that has similar property to the current one.

The similar situation in Starcraft: for machines that plays the game, certain units just become the only way to play (mostly long range high damage units). Human can’t choose 100 targets at once, machines can. If you balance the game for machines, then those units would be useless for human players
It's machine learning until you understand how it works, then it's just control theory and filters again.
There are companies that specialize in studying semiconductor chips made with recent manufacturing processes.

They write reports with the results of their investigations, which are sold at hefty prices.

So the competitors in this domain certainly know exactly what metals are used. This does not mean that these facts are published anywhere in the open literature.

In general, trade secrets about what is in a product have rarely any value against well-funded competitors. They may work only to prevent the appearance of new entrants in the market.

The secrecy maintained by many companies about how their products really work is very annoying, because it hurts only their customers, never their competitors.

The only trade secrets that are enforceable are those about how something is made, not about what it is or what it contains.
I prefer &c
Yes, but they were describing an implicit conversion going the other way around, eg. String <: String?.
xAI is not a private company.

The AI company is public, but he social network was private.
> needing to spend hours installing and configuring Arch

In my experience the diff from cold install Arch vs Manjaro is certanly not "hours". You need maybe 30 min to bootstrap Arch and once you have pacman you quickly have DE and you are practically there.
I'll bite.

Suppose an imaginary private buyer was willing to buy the Crown Jewels for £5 billion. It's absurd to believe that the Royal Family would even entertain such an offer because (a) it's not like they would be incentivised by the money and (b) it would be a remarkable act of self-harm to the extent the deal would be so shockingly unpopular that it would only serve to threaten the Royal Family itself. So why on Earth would they agree to that? Responding "OK, how about £10 billion?" does nothing to resolve that calculus. In that sense, no price exists for which they could be sold - they are literally priceless.

The idea they "are worth between 3 and 5 billion pounds" is so daft that I'm pretty sure you just got that from ChatGPT.

Actually for fun i just asked: I got a material valuation of the stones at "several billion pounds if assessed purely by their material worth" (so about the same as your claim), but that "their true worth is incalculable".

What's another word for a price that's incalculable?
The issue with discussion is that many people (see refurb in above thread) are doing so dishonestly.

It's easy and cheap in terms of time to whatabout, while costly in terms of time to cite ones sources.

Consequently, it's time-effective to troll via whataboutism, without any intention of having a substantive discussion.

For example,

> ... new vaccine technology that hasn't been tested widely... There are many studies with different results, that can be interpreted in many ways, could have been mangled with / cherry picked, has many parameters influencing it, etc.

That's easy to say, in the same way I could say,

'All vaccines that are approved for mass US use go through rigorous safety studies and demonstrate negligible to no safety concerns at scale.'

I've done a lot of research too.

Given our contradictory opinions, only facts actually matter.

Unfortunately, media-style driveby fact pulling has become the standard there as well. I.e. 'Look at this one study I found that supports my position.'

With regards to the measles vaccine and similar widely deployed ones, it is scientifically defensible to say there haven't been issues at scale. (Because we would have seen them)

And with regards to newer mRNA platforms, the irony is that they're conceptually safer than traditional vaccines, because we're skipping intermediate biological steps and directly creating the outcomes we want, rather than trusting our (incredibly complex) immune systems to get things right.

Time will tell on long term results, but from a pathways perspective I'd take a newer mRNA vaccine over a newer live/attenuated vaccine any day of the week.
Show HN: Calcuchord – Reverse search for musicians and songwriters
I like experimenting w/ open-tunings and making 3-4 string cigar box guitars sometimes but its hard finding good resources for chords and stuff so I made this little app that finds (a lot of) them and can work for any stringed instrument and/or tuning!

You can play with the web assembly version here (its slower than native and slightly buggy from android I've noticed fyi):

https://tkefauver.github.io/Calcuchord

Source is here:

https://github.com/tkefauver/Calcuchord

Try it out and let me know what you think!
If you like the humor you should watch the linked video!
The Drone-Delivery Service Beating Amazon to Your Front Door
I think you may be right. Anonymity is fundamentally different from privacy though and it's a large error to conflate the two.
Weird to see “it’s like Vercel” as a virtue.

The times for-profit dev tooling has worked, it’s almost always when the profit is a means to providing value (e.g. Jetbrains), but that’s very rare.

For profit is generally a stronger signal of an impending rug pull than longevity.
Windows continual slowdown and incompatibility is intentional to sell new hardware. This has happened since the 90's.
On what basis are you asserting that no explanation for her detainment was provided? Or by explanation, do you mean a public announcement?

But let's say for the sake of argument that no explanation was provided, even privately to her and her attorney. I would agree that's bad, even if it's legal in the case of visa holders.

But why should that cause us to make assumptions about the reason? And if we're going to make assumptions, why this particular one? Why not assume she was detained because an officer didn't like the color of her shoes?
https://archive.ph/o7qAI
Also - the wording on the deal:
xAI being valued at 80B
X being valued at 33B
Is the xAI 80B number inclusive of the 33B (45B including debt)?
That would back into xAI's valuation moving backwards since the December round.
Usually when venture-backed companies tout a valuation after a capital raise, it's post-money... and they're not chest-thumping a 113B number (which they surely would have given 9 figures)
For gaming I usually use cachy os but occasionally need windows for certain games and FSR4, I’ve recently have been using those stripped down windows isos. Such as Optimum 11.

So far the experience has been nice, it doesn’t even come with a default browser so it’s pretty stripped down. Note that I only use it for gaming so I’m not sure if it works well as a daily os. Never had it asked me to sign in, even during installation.

https://windowsxlite.com/Optimum11Pro/
Microservices keep happening because we are bad at managing teams who's output is a library. We lack the tools to measure the "impact" of libraries during performance reviews. We can measure the number of calls to a microservice, but it's rare to measure library usage directly. When your library team needs to justify its budget, it doesn't have as much to point to.

It's also harder to assign blame for performance issues when your teams write libraries. In microservice, your team can isolate exactly how much CPU usage your code takes. But few companies can isolate the performance cost of a library. When your main service goes down, it's tricky to assign the responsibility to a single team to fix.

Finally, microservices give you ironclad control over your API surface, while in many companies other teams can often call into any part of your library. As other teams grow tendrils into your team's code, your support burden grows and you have to keep supporting unintended parts of your API.

Now all of these are fixable, and I think we should fix them. Writing and using libraries is easier and lower overhead than putting network calls everywhere. But until you fix the above issues, companies will keep sliding into microservices.
throws faeces

Nonsense!

Source: Engineer
What I've always done is just not connect it to the internet during the install process. I imagine this has implications for Rufus and tiny11, but... It's more annoyance than anything else.

If you knew enough to use the command (or look up a tool/installer that makes use of the command), you likely already know or will be quick to find the install without internet workaround.
Lol, who did the adjusting!? ... Good old "adjusted EBITDA".
> The language can just have an implicit conversion rule for convenience

By "it is ok pass a String where we expect a String?", I think he means that no such program can go wrong, therefore this is sound. Whether you do this via an implicit conversion or a subtyping relation doesn't really matter.
One thing I have trouble wrapping my head around is blatant scams being advertised on reputable sites and apps. As I understand sites run ads through advertisement networks, but why are those networks not required to vet the ads that are bought for obvious scams. There should be regulation that requires these networks to vet each ad that is bought.
With that in place at least the scams would not follow us everywhere on the web.
They started selling FSD back in like 2017 and it was supposed to be self-driving ALL THE TIME by 2019. It’s 8 years later now and the best you’ve got is “upgrade the hardware to version 4 and you can make a 25 mile commute without disengagement” when Tesla was promising cross-continent summoning so you could fly somewhere and your car would drive there to meet you, charging along the way. That’s L5 autonomy. The delta between promised and delivered is so far apart it’s ridiculous. Mercedes’ autonomous system is the only L3 even, Tesla’s is L2. They by my definition did not deliver whatsoever on their promises.

Another thing is a lot of people don’t even keep cars longer than 8 years (and people who are buying new, $100k electric cars are more likely going to upgrade sooner than someone who’s buying a $30k civic.) they paid for FSD thinking it would be ready soon.