skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But my point is that didn't last as the market punished them for it and made them irrelevant. The market moved to mobiles and web and today they are a good player in the industry.

This was your point and it's also what I addressed:

> The only monopolies are government-granted, otherwise startups quickly eat their lunch.

You claimed that monopolies are only possible through government regulation, because government regulation creates a barrier to entry that's easily surpassed by larger companies.

I provided proof illustrating that monopolies have been built through private agreements absent of government regulation.
The Magnavox Odyssey 2 offered "Computer Intro!" which was something similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGUfEbHt84g
What tool do they use for https://status.ipdata.co ?
why to use a half baked solution than something designed from the ground up for the job?
How do the issues with the F-35 platform stack up against those of earlier models? I've read anecdotes that early on the F-16 and F-15 also had significant flaws, yet those were eventually sorted out and both have become mainstays of air forces around the world.

I've no doubt there have been massive costs overruns (what government program doesn't), but would be willing to bet that the F-35 turns out to be a really good plane and does nothing to threaten the US's position as the premier air power.

Some good discussion:

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-F-35-as-bad-as-many-people-clai...
Isn't the F-35 designed to be used in exactly such an instance?
> DoD has estimated that all training and operational operations over the 50-year life of the program (assuming a 30-year life for each aircraft) will be $1 trillion, making the cost to buy and operate the F-35 at least $1.4 trillion.

A little bit of clickbait there. $1.4 trillion projected over 50 years. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a great fighter. But we haven't spent $1.4 trillion on it (yet).
A little over two years ago, I Googled the name of a local Dodge/RAM dealership (on my iPad, thus no ad blocker) so I could browse their selection online before I ventured over there. That afternoon, I bought a new truck (from that dealership).

For almost A YEAR afterwards, I would constantly see ads about RAM trucks and various dealerships in my area (including the one I Googled and bought the truck from) when browsing the web on my iPad. Not every ad, of course, but certainly often enough that I would notice it a couple times a week and just laugh and shake my head at the dealerships who were just throwing their ad dollars away.
Python is very much not immutable by default, it'd be weird to subvert it in a specific case.
> This is from April 1 2017 and much of what was written in this article does not apply any longer.

I've been reading articles about the troubled development of the F-35 since roughly 2008, and there's always a comment like this: "This is outdated! It may have been true last year, but the problems are fixed now."

One wonders why the articles keep coming if that's true.
New tools for open source maintainers
Sliding glass doors are typically one or two panes of hardened 'float' glass. I put the 'float' between quotes because these days hardly anybody makes float glass by floating molten glass on plates covered with molten tin but instead the glass is cast continuously between rollers. The cooling regime has a large effect on hardness (as does composition), and for extra strength there are other tricks such as lamination.
Ok...?

The point is that companies like Tesla can change their business model at anytime and start selling something new, like they did when they started selling battery packs in addition to cars.
The relevant time window here is the service life of the F-35, which is probably under 50 years and I'd say the relevant probability is still approaching zero on that timescale.
You can `from attr import attrib, attribs` and use those instead of `@attr.s` and `attr.ib()`.
Yes. I called a number back one time when I saw that it had a Facetime option. I figured it must be a real person. Somebody answered my video call and they weren't very happy with me.
It doesn't matter if you load an image off fb.

per GDPR, without consent, fb cannot legally use that data (for EU residents).

And you don't need to trust that; fb knows they're going to be spending some quality time in front of their privacy regulator.
The F-35 is more likely to trigger nuclear war than prevent it.

The country that is at a disadvantage because they cannot compete with the F-35 will simply nuke the other country. We're talking desperate actions from desperate nations at this point. The F-35 is not useful in proxy wars because proxy wars are not allowed to get that hot. If they were to get that hot that F-35 is necessary, then nukes are very much on the table.
.io domains are cheaper on AWS Route53 domains than Porkbun.

$39/year AWS Route53 and $47.68/year on Porkbun.
Ask HN: Are there any online trainings worth paying for?
I'm specifically wondering about Todd Motto's Ultimate Angular, but I'd welcome any suggestions/advice on whether or not it's worth paying for courses online.

I'm usually of the opinion that anything could be learned for free if you have the patience. But I'm wondering if a well-explained training all in one place would just be easier. I'm hoping it would prevent any blindspots in learning a new framework (e.g. being unaware of useful functionality for specific cases) and reduce time looking for and evaluating different tutorials. Thoughts?
One of the key expectations of the F-35 program early on was that "stealth" technology would proliferate further, and the market for exporting the F-35 would be much larger than it ended up. That made it easier for everyone to keep throwing money at the problem, although I'm sure the lobbyist did more than their fair share.

This isn't exactly the first time we've seen attempts at "universal" solutions to discrete military problems. The F-111 program was another disaster in the making, only mitigated by massively changing the requirements and dropping the Navy aspect entirely. The F-35 S/VTOL Marine variant is the largest anchor around the programs neck, but its essentially the same set of problems the F-111 project ran into.

The easiest fix would have been to just tell the Marines and Navy to go find their own aircraft solutions, and let the F-35 turn into a semi-stealthy F-16 replacement. I think we might be a little past that point now, unfortunately.
Source/link? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've heard a lot of crazy stories about what's supposedly on the darkweb, but a lot of it seems to be just that: stories.
You're correct, sorry, I was not clear. The actual value setting that you cite will work pretty much regardless, you could do __class__ = "Q" for all python cares.

The problems would come later when you try to use any functionality of the new __class__ in the manner of the old __class__ for which the new one is not compatible. e.g.:

class A:
def go(self):
print("A ran!")

class B:
def go(self):
print ("B ran!")

class C:
def go(self, foo):
print ("C ran!", foo)

a = A()
a.__class__ = B
a.go()

B ran!
In [11]:

a = A()
a.__class__ = C
a.go()

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-11-b67fe8fb94e1> in <module>()
1 a = A()
2 a.__class__ = C
----> 3 a.go()

TypeError: go() missing 1 required positional argument: 'foo'
Unfortunately usual system-wide settings and accessibility features seem to suffer (be ignored) if those are used, just as with cairo (or SDL). The other methods mentioned in the article seem to be better in those aspects, unless they are explicitly made to be less so.
Show HN: Daisy, a blockchain whose blocks are SQL databases
The infamous cost estimate is spread over 60 years, start to finish. That's conveniently, intentionally left out of most articles that highlight the cost.

So first of all, the US will never buy 3,000 of the planes. You can easily cut that in half or more. I'd wager on 1,000 or less. They'll end the program and move on to the next thing/s, like they always do.

Second, they'll of course never fly for 50 or 60 years. 35-40 from today would be more plausible as an end.

Now you're down to more like $800 billion total including the next 40 years. The cost will move higher per plane, the US will buy less planes than projected, and the total outlay will drop substantially as they shift funding to new weapons programs. $20 billion per year for its life, out of what will probably be a $900b to $1t averaged military budget over the F35's life, or ~2%.
Still figuring out the keybindings for spacemacs... after mastering it, I'll have a look at Clojure & ClojureScript.
CU in 2020
You won't be able to hit targets with missiles delivered by drones in a near-peer conflict. Jamming, GPS spoofing, and the current performance of drones precludes this.
VSCode isn’t clunky. So is Atom clunky because webkit or because implementation?

I think you missed the target on dismissing the first option... i.e there’s a reason html/css/js is the most popular - as in popularity is a good objective median.

To get to the point, use electron with jsonSchema and a form builder of choice (I suggest Vue) but React and Angular could suffice depending on how much functionality your text editor needs.

Point is, your “answer” is pretty much reinventing jsonSchema in Python.
Doesn't the article discuss how it's already been outclasses in real world tests by existing jets like the F-16?

Capabilities on paper are useless if they don't deliver in real world usage.
Drones that kill people in weddings and people attending funerals for those people in the weddings .. and kids .. and the insurgents that the CIA created and paid for to destabilize States.

The F-35 is really a success in its true intention: for those at the top to funnel money into all the people and companies they need political support from. Those company heads gain support from all the people under them, all the way down to the people working in the factories that span multiple states.

Who are the United States real enemies? No one. Russia and the US act like enemies, when both countries benefit in arm sales from their many proxy wars. The US literally has no enemies, except all the enemies it intentionally makes. War machines are essential in keeping people in power, and the money of war machines are essential in keeping supporters allied, by paying for them and their businesses.

You're looking at the F-35 the wrong way entirely, and same with drones. The programs exits to preserve superiority, dominance and empire. It provides funding to cronies all the way up and down the military industry stack. Any hope of it being an actual military tool should have been shelved years ago.

The United States has 11 air craft carriers in service. That is literally more than every other nation in the world combined. Endless war is necessary to sustain those in power, and be certain those in power in the US have only changed in their percentage of influence depending on the puppet elected to be on stage.
Are you trying to point out that Occam's Razor is flawed?

Occam's Razor would tell you that evolution (which has over a century of evidence) is more likely than a designer god (which is lacking in evidence).
The latest DoD budget was (afaik) a ~10% increase to:

$700,000,000,000

But the media's attention surrounding that recent increase was focused on Stormy Daniels and/or some other alleged Trump admin gaffe.

The MIC is very real. But it has been so normalized that few understand how "resource intensive" it really is. So much so (and I paraphrase):

"We spend more on defense than the next 8 nations COMBINED."

POTUS Obama
SotU Address 2016

A former general and POTUS warned us about the MIC and we aren't interested.
If your friend already pursued legal avenues with no results, it may be worth having them reach out to news companies to see if he can get some attention (especially in-light of California starting this investigation). Bad press with case-study sort of issues is always a great way to get things fixed.
Google Ad Grants Report Adwords Script
For some opposite perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GfqB7P6uAE
Translation:

"Things in the universe happen for no greater reason at all, they just happen according to a small and simple set of laws that describe the behavior of matter-energy and space-time"

vs.

"There's a being, which is conscious, all-knowing and all-powerful, sitting somewhere, or actually nowhere, that uses its power to set things in motion or not, depending on its mood, and how it likes some people, but by no means follows a steady logic, and also isn't detectable by any means whatsoever and there is absolutely no evidence of its existence, but it exists and has impact on the universe, even if such impact can never be measured or even detected"

Now use Occam's Razor?
> I am pretty sure the F-35's programmatic justifications were a nod to potential adversaries who were militarily advanced, meaning China.

Yes, but the F-35 was also dreamed up as a way to dramatically reduce costs by sharing components. Parts commonality was supposed to be something like 80% between variants but in reality it's more like 25%. It was supposed to be substantially cheaper than the F-22 but it is almost just as expensive per unit.

And all of that points to the fundamental truth that the F-35 is not as capable as it could be because it was built with a fundamental compromise in mind. In particular, designing the airframe for the V/STOL requirement meant it had a wider radar cross section, worse cockpit visibility and worse aerodynamic performance from the start.

Had they at least broken off the V/STOL requirement into a separate airframe they could've end up with a higher performing aircraft that may have been cheaper to boot. Instead they took the mistakes of the F-111 program and doubled down on them.
I believe it is JSON what is broken.

I do not understand the article at all. We created our own GUI development using Dear IMGUI. It is probably the simplest GUI in the world. For text we use our own rasterizer library.

But it comes at a price: It just continuously draws the screen, 60 times per second, which makes the battery of laptops last very little.

Now our software uses a fork of Dear Imgui that does not update the screen but just when necessary.

Before Dear Imgui, we tried Qt, GTK, Web, Win32. Making your own widgets with hardware accelerated fonts that you control is extremely complicated in those GUIs.
Here's a free Adwords Script that check for one word keywords and other mandatory requirements and sends the result to a Google Spreadsheet.
Isn't Canada opting for the Rafale instead?
It doesn't ruin the experience of anyone except a couple of overly technical users and customers in the wrong locations.

It's very good at blocking malicious traffic though and it's totally worth losing a pair of users for that.
Thanks for the links, he really doesn't understand how exchanges work. I am not sure how someone who wants to be an authority on a subject does so little research.
Elon Musk: just walk out of bad meetings
Well, if nothing else, the Chinese J-31 would probably do the job. It's an F35 with a bunch of the crippling design compromises removed.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2015/09/more-questions-f-...
> Given our ability to precision target planes with missiles delivered by drones

You might be overestimating the quality, reliability, stealth of drones. Up until a few years ago, you could capture (read) drone feeds[0] with COTS software / hardware. I don't mean as a hypothetical, I mean insurgents were doing this.

> Putting a human in the cockpit of an aircraft for any form of warfare really doesn't feel like thinking about future wars to be honest.

One would assume the tech simply isn't ready for a stealth plane without a human driver. AI surely isn't, and one would assume that transmissions for a remote-based pilot, as drones are operated, would be a giant signal that an advanced stealth craft is in your airspace.

[0] - https://www.wired.com/2012/10/hack-proof-drone/
Yeah, it's kind of sad and funny to watch. Did they not pay attention in history class? Makes me mad that in the end all their playing "banking history" is probably going to cost me money in some indirect way.
Kidding... easy start documentation for it is really needed
"There is an app for that" (another view on F-35 program):

https://theaviationist.com/2018/04/18/why-does-the-public-ha...
>there are provisions within the GDPR for it not to apply in those cases where you are not intentionally obtaining data from EU citizens.

I read the entire document a few weeks back and recall no such provisions. Could you cite one for me? I'm trying to be as informed on this as possible.

Article 3, "Territorial scope", lays out where GDPR applies, and it contains no derogations for "but I didn't know they were european, honest". It is not, in fact, specifically about european citizens. It covers the processing of data for "natural persons in the Union", which is a bit unclear to me but I interpret it as covering anyone physically located in a country that forms a Supervisory Authority under section 51.

How this will ultimately interact with your websites and/or businesses if you are not based in the EU is unclear at this time.
The Russian development model has been better, with orders to India paying the bills. They started around twenty years ago on the kit they flaunted in Syria. I see no reason why this development model cannot win. We have pork barrel.
It doesn't cool its fuel; it uses its fuel as to provided a cooling dump for electronics etc.
Basics of domain fronting & how it relates to Signal: https://www.wired.com/2016/12/encryption-app-signal-fights-c...

In-depth explanation of Domain Fronting: https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/fronting/
Why is that? If BTC goes 20x, then the long position liquidates, but so does the 20x short position.
> a form builder of choice (I suggest Vue)

Any particular reasoning for this?
I feel like I've seen a system like this before...
Has anyone used the beta and got any feeling for how maintenance downtime impacts things? A bit nervous about how you can only set a "maintenance window" and not be able to plan ahead for disruption; as far as I can tell, they won't even tell you ahead of time. The HA seems really solid (zero-lag "regional disks"), but it's still a bit disconcerting.
Requiring garden space and car storage for every bedroom built is a quick way to double a project's costs. Why have zoning codes that prohibit the best use of the land?
I agree. https://web.archive.org/web/20021004010033/http://www.chiefe...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/Impa...
> I do so in a building that has a working lightning rod.

On a serious note, all buildings are different so you can't really do this reliably as it is unlikely you will locate the lightning rod before it is too late to course correct.

So please tell me you are joking :)
Or it means nothing, it just means you're doing something, good or bad.
Samsung starting 7nm with EUV production in June
I guess on an Android phone there's no problem, but on my iPhone it starts by asking to make a google account.

So I couldn't test it.
Only if everyone is expected to be wearing space suits.

I wasn't thinking the engineering of the tube, more the vehicles operating within. Assuming that there's a desire to have plain-clothed passengers.

On mars or the moon you might have separated habitats connected by rail, the cars themselves could utilize the mature tech from that old hyperloop thing we've been relying on for decades and millions of passengers use every day, etc..
> What is the Spanish Armada?

Maybe outclassing is only necessary when people fight under the most ideal and conventional of conditions.
Absolutely. I'd originally thought about writing 'attacking a (flying) F-35', as I'm predisposed to thinking that it can barely carry its own weight in terms of the expense of keeping it flying.
It's been done in various ways.

Brasilia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia

England's garden cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement

And later the New Towns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_towns_movement

I'm would guess there are examples from the former communist bloc, but i'm not familiar with them. Would Magnitogorsk count?
False dictums have a lot of exceptions.
Thanks so much for the feedback (both here and in the app). That's something we're looking into, and I totally understand it makes it hard for kids to use the app. Grasshopper is an Area 120 project (a part of Google) which is why that account system is currently used for syncing course progress and achievements between devices.

btw is there a login system you'd prefer? I'd love to forward any thoughts you have to the Area 120 leadership.
I recall a post-mortem for the Superconducting Super Collider that pointed out a painful dichotomy: to build political support the contracts and suppliers had to be spread across many districts and states, but because it was a high tech project it was much, much, much more sensitive to component delays and quality issues.

The big takeaway: with non-challenging, small fry, projects you can play all the politics you want and still land them; challenging projects have a much stronger need to be guided by actual practical project concerns & engineering or you substantially increase the risk of failure.

The Manhattan project, and the incredible post-WW2 military engineering, worked because the brains got money and control so they build to the challenge at hand. When Porky Pig has first dibs the merely 'insanely hard' becomes impossible... Alan Kay said something to the same effect about the golden age of innovation at Xerox Parc: (brains + money) - BS = profitableSurprises.
Seems like air superiority is today's "Ship of the line superiority" or "Dreadnought superiority". Won't be long before the most expensive jets are brought to their knees by something like a swarm of drones, hypersonic missiles, lasers or something else.
>One wonders why the articles keep coming if that's true.

Because they always manage to receive a ton of clicks? If you look at every new US weapons platform for the past 60 to 70 years there has always been huge amounts of negativity. This is really par for the course.

People used to call the F-22 the "Craptor" and I bet if we had the internet in the 50s and 60s that people would be shitting on the Saturn V.
I don't know about Boeing but Airbus uses C in addition to Ada. IIRC they made significant use of Caveat and are now supporting Frama-C.
The war in Syria is mostly about bringing gas from the Persian Gulf to Europe. The civil war in Ukraine is mostly about bringing Russian gas to Europe, too. So the developed nations are already at war over resources, though not yet against each other.
This really makes me want to fire up the BASIC cartridge for my Atari 400.
Would adding federation to Signal help with users behind country-wide blocks? Seems like a distributed service would be harder to censor than a centralized one.
You're actually wrong. It is the responsibility of the website to notify the user. Facebook has placed in its policies a rule that says that you cannot use its code/buttons/images on your site without obtaining consent by the user for FB to place cookies there. They have a reasonable expectation that you have complied with this, or the image/whatever would not have been caused to load by your site.

Otherwise, think of the havoc. You decide that you want to get Facebook in trouble. So you place a Facebook button on your site and don't notify users or ask consent. Then you go call regulators. In this case, you'd find yourself in trouble, not Facebook.
MIC gonna MIC. It's been like this for my entire lifetime. Every war since WWII was at the behest of these industries.