skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
since when is the a-10 sexy? its old and ugly but effective.

there is no aircraft on the planet that provides close air support as well as the A10. not even most military brass that want to get rid of the A10 will admit otherwise.

troops want the a10 because they dont want a friggen bomb dropped on their head, not because of nostalgia.
No way dude, I live in semu-rural Pennsylvania and the freight train that passes 10+ times a day does 45-50 mph. I've driven alongside dozens of times.
I didn't quite catch that...
My cousin was much more impressed by a plane that could stay over their position for an extended period of time in Afghanistan. The A-10 that showed up could do that and that gun could keep a large number of enemy pretty occupied. CAS actually requires being able to stay over the troops, and the F-35 just is not that type of plane.
Awesome! I saw the F-35 in Duluth MN and it was the most impressive takeoff I've ever seen, so I'd be really excited to see it again now. Thanks for the info.
The Phelps people are disgusting, but they are not terrorists. The thing that is missing from most conversations about white supremacists is that their hate goes beyond words. These are terrorist organizations whose members have committed one violent, murderous act after another, year after year. Banning white supremacists is no different from banning ISIS.
Which seems to be an argument against creating the conditions which generate that particular kind of angry and bitter people, out of either self-interest or the moral desire to avoid the results it produces.

Which is precisely why the wealthy need to be voluntarily building up society, such that the fabulous potential of the world in 2019 is available to everyone, in the form of a noble, everywoman/everyman life.
The Aurora project and TR3-B were successful. There's no chance we don't have a few of them in Dreamland or off the intercontinental self where we simply use them for reconnaissance. Just look at the old F-16 pilot footage from 2007, it was a controlled leak to see how the government would react to such technology, just like the disclosure of Area 51 (Bob Lazar) after satellite imagery was beginning to become popular.
A Chinese friend once had a wisdom tooth taken out and was back in the office that afternoon.
A separate question is whether the jack of all trades concept of the F-35 makes sense.

(I mean, that's a source of lots of the problems with the program)

A plane different than the F-35 doing CAS doesn't have to be the aging A-10.
its hard to take the opinions of the pilots that fly them with complete confidence. they have a vested interest, their career is over if the f35 is over.

On the low end, the f35 costs about as much as 5 f16s, which also have twice the range over an f35. the f35 is the bf109 of the modern era.

military brass keeps wanting all purpose aircraft, and 100 years of military aircraft experience has shown that never works.
Not everyone on the orange website is a ‘free speech absolutist’, or foolishly conflates freedom of speech with platform access.

Good on them for finally cracking down on bad ideas.
I can definitely see that. Even though I’ve officially been working in the field for over 20 years, I was a “dark matter developer” who stayed at one company two long until 10 years ago.

So my salary and career progression over the past 10 years looks about like you would expect from someone who graduated from a decent school in 2008 and worked in a major city that is not on the west coast or NYC.

I changed jobs 5 times over the last 10 years and saw my pay go from a slightly above average junior developer in 2008 (because salary stagnation is real) to about the median for an “Architect”/“Principle Developer” for my market. I’m not bragging, we are talking about less than the first year salary at Facebook.

But then over the past two years, I changed jobs which was basically a vertical move. For the last two years and for the next two, I’ll probably be hovering around the same $10K range.

It’s also a very real possibility that after three or four years, my salary at the company I’m at now will be above market value because I have a combination of skills as a developer that is more valuable to my company than they will be on the broader market - the same thing that happened to older IBMers.

If I see what I am doing at my company as not helping me stay marketable, I have to leave. I can’t put myself in that situation at 50 that I was in at 35.

I also can’t get use to an above market salary if I intend to stay in development instead of going into consulting.
Small fish, the lot of them. We'll soon see if the law works, if it does, both Elizabeth Holmes and a Boeing executive will do time for 10 years.
It’s true, some people don’t. I went to a top program though even there I’d say we graduated some that weren’t great critical thinkers. That said I’d say that the closer you are to a “wet” bench in a basic science the more likely you build those skills. The more time spent dealing with in silico data or with theory the less feedback from cold hard reality you get. Nature doesn’t care if you graduate.

I’d also say that 30% is still not a bad ratio and better than most training sources on average.

Still it’s not a perfect screen by any means.
>implicitly

Jihadis don't do it implicitly they do it explicitly.
There are new medicine/procedures/tests coming out all the time, we (as software engineers) are just not aware of it.

On the other hand is winforms development that different from react/node.js? On the surface it is very different, but good UI principles -which I argue is what truly matters- didn't change all that much, if at all.
For instance there has been massive periods of terror and destruction in the Middle East. Americans in general agree it as a price for freedom from Saddam and the Taliban -- followed by the Islamic State.

There are many who opposed the war, and feel that the American public was sold a bill of goods and lied to. There are many that would rather all that never happened.
Detailed poll data on political 2020 head to head match ups by the numbers
Fair dues to Office Max in New Zealand, they aren't like this. Instead, I get treated with cold indifference. To be honest, I find it preferable; if I'm going into a stationery/office supplies store, I know for what reason I'm going in — a personal tour guide certainly isn't necessary.

I go in, I get what I need, I pay, I go out. Might be a different company with the same name and logo.
There's a lot of people saying that alexa is a girl because it's perceived as more helpful. But have we thought about the fact that maybe it's perceived as more nice or as less threatening? There's a reason movie villains are stereotypically male voice actors - deeper male voices sound less friendly, forget helpful.
I had an excellent Calculus teacher in high school, and I did very well on the AP exam. It was still vastly more challenging than the trigonometry class that preceded it. Even today, I use trigonometry all the time almost without thinking, but I can't for the life of me remember how to long-divide polynomials (or picture a scenario where I'd need to).

There's just so friggin much deeply abstract symbol manipulation in calculus class (which in school also covers essentially "advanced algebra"). It's a different ball game.
I said "harder" not "impossible." Yes, white supremacists are still going to use Facebook and are still going to try to radicalize people, but it will be harder.
I have a bachelors degree in physics, but ended up developing iOS apps.

Physics turned out a little more dull than I expected (I wanted something with more creativity), and an app I’d started working on as a hobby turned into a full time income, so I started pursuing this instead (https://classtimetable.app).

I took a few full time iOS jobs, continued to improve my engineering skills, and I’m currently working for a top five tech company on a popular iOS app.

Physics certainly taught me a few skills that I use on a daily basis - math and problem solving are good examples. I didn’t move to software specifically for the money, but comparatively physics seemed a little more dull, and software seemed to have new and exciting opportunities (like the app that I started building as a hobby).
I don't think you know what China's legal requirements in censorship are. I think you're trying to infer what they are from the fact that the censorship of other content sources works somewhat differently. But these look like differences in implementation details.

> ...censoring news voluntarily...

That just doesn't make sense. If Apple wanted to censor their News app, there's no reason they would restrict themselves to China. They could "block" it everywhere, if that's what they wanted to do -- by simply not having a News app at all.
> I don't know where the unwillingness to fund them comes from

The Air Force. Air Force brass has less than zero interest in maintaining the A-10 fleet. Just a few months ago a friend of mine recounted a conversation he had with a base commander. Basically, the Air Force believes the F-35 and UAVs provide superior capabilities than the A-10 for every conceivable mission.

I asked him why the Army doesn't offer to takeover the A-10, but I just got a big shrug. I don't think that possibility is on anybody's radar, by which I infer not even the Army is particularly keen on the A-10.
My bad, I'm sorry to misinform people!
hey man! used to follow the scene too! I remember cardrunners and deucescracked! Tri Ng also had his 99$ book w/c i beleive was scammy. Did you win a lot?
Which nonproprietary plattform can I use today, to reach the widest audience?
tech is sociopath food
Might as well save 3 bytes and just call use “c”.
> - Constrained supply means protection against inflationist central banks.

This keeps being touted as a feature, but unless you are Zimbabwe it is a bug. "Supply-constrained" means "demand-driven price" which means "volatile." A useful currency is one that measures wealth consistency, like a meter stick. You don't want your money to mis-count your wealth. Hoping that it will mis-count your wealth in your favor is speculation, which is a bad, dangerous role for currency. You want to know that you can afford rent/bread next month (to say nothing of being able to pay your workers or business partners).

These are more fatal, fundamental design problems than low transaction rates or questionable usage-- they are built into the very philosophy of cryptocurrency. Explained in more detail here: https://www.bzarg.com/p/what-bitcoin-shows-us-about-how-mone...
I don't follow your logic, but perhaps you can't answer my question in public --

For someone like the Army, it seems like a drone version of the A-10, which drops a lot of the pilot armor for increased munitions and dwell time, would be a decisive factor in CAS.

If you look at say, the ambush on American forces in Syria by the Wagner group, substantial amounts of fire were provided by helicopters and AC-130s.

So I'm just lost at how a plane which can reach target faster than a helicopter, but provide similar close in support doesn't have a role in such engagements.

That's not to say that stealth penetration, ECW, and targeted strikes aren't important -- eg, providing openings in IAD, hitting fortified targets quickly, etc. Just that given how things with Wagner went, it seems like long-dwell, high munition count CAS is useful.
Preventing ASICs doesn't prevent those with more monetary resources from consolidating in the hardware space.

The ASIC-resistant coins aren't that much more profitable to mine for a home miner, and if they were you'd just get edged out by more people with warehouses full of CPU's & GPU's in Iceland and China and what have you.
I’m 45 and the last thing I want is a union. Unions tend to make all workers equal even those who work harder/smarter. If I am 50, staying current with technology, kept my resume up to date, and kept my network strong, why would I want to be lumped in with someone who has done none of those things?
yeah the phds i know aiming for tenue only try to get positions at unrecognized schools
These gender stereotypes are the reason why this voice exists.
What about the UK and Shamima Begum losing UK citizenship?
you financially benefit from ensuring this behavior continues

you are part of the problem
I've had some visibility to big networking equipment manufacturers... the security or even stability on their web interfaces is terrible. It's like a strange rule of thumb for all the networking equipment manufacturers. If you have choice, disable the web interface.
>However, this legislation was specifically put together with co-operation of all members of the five eyes, so there's a reasonable possibility of extradition. The Department of Home Affairs even made a public statement confirming as much. It seems to have since been pulled from their website, but is available at: [PDF link]

I read the PDF and didn't notice any mention of extradition. Am I missing something?
Taking naps during lunchtime is very common in Chinese offices
The actual complaint: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/office_depo...
> Typically very expensive, either directly through tuition or indirectly because they are public schools but only serve students in very high net worth zip codes

It's news to me that Stuyvesant considers zip code for admissions. I thought it was a standardized test open to all students in the system.
I've had cases where I exercised and I couldn't sleep because I felt like I was burning up. My body was putting out loads of heat and I couldn't relax. This is at least 6 hours after. Maybe I need longer?
Context for those outside of Australia - The Australian government developed a digital health record system, My Health Record, without ensuring proper protection of the data (42 data breaches in 2017-18 [1]).

There were also no safeguards or legislation in place to prevent employers, insurers or authorities from being granted access to your health record at launch.

1: https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/about-the-agency/publicatio...
Building Personalities for AI
>semi-mythical "nazis"

wat
Plane seems like a really good fit for it's role. Would be pretty cool to meet the engineers that designed it.
Is that natural instinct or societal training? If we start using non-female voices for voice assistants, maybe we can train people that a voice doesn't have to be female to be helpful. Otherwise if we use female voices because society is just used to it, then we're just reinforcing an unnecessary stereotype for convenience.
I think it's pretty reasonable to ban jokes about killing people. Maybe it was an overreaction here, but I certainly try to avoid even jokingly saying things that could be interpreted as a death threat if taken seriously, especially on the internet where it's easy for tone and context to get lost.
I like this, but it's probably too late for all tech companies, except maybe Google.

I was pretty disappointed that all the major voice assistants have female voices and most of them have explicit female personas and names. I find it a little creepy to be honest.

At least Google didn't go for the whole personality crap. They could switch Google Assistant to this type of voice and it'd fit in. You can't switch Alexa to this type of voice while keeping that name.
Go to thepiratebay.org, download a torrent, look at all the hashes within.

(note that there is basically no way to realistically filter content based on file hashes alone)
Lack of sleep causes lack of sleep for me.

I can't get anything done, so I lie away worrying about the things I didn't do. Repeat.

The only fix for me seems to be adrenaline. Working on something exciting, playing games, exercise - I don't feel tired. But brain work is hopeless and I struggle to get through the day.
Funded Fintech startups list 2018
Back then we used to say that women were like men, only better.
Most aircraft, really. That's why jet engine "air start" services are provided at most airfields and airports.
"harder" not "impossible."

The Rhetoric Tricks, Traps, and Tactics of White Nationalism
https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-an...

the overt white nationalism content you think of doesn't really exist, i guess maybe if ur a boomer it still lingers? idk
The average suburban American doesn't have fully automatic weapons or RPG's.

The Taliban also at one point did have surface-to-air missiles (specifically MANPADS) but most references to that are old enough that they might have run out by now unless someone's been resupplying them.
I'm confused, the article does describe Potts-Kant as a researcher, not a lab tech (rather, the whistleblower was a lab tech). Also, it sounds like this was not a penalty, but a settlement, which to me suggests it is simply proportional to the value of the grants given to Duke as a result of the fraudulent research.
You just wait for Edge-based-on-Chromium's User-Agent :D
99% of the traffic has the correct user-agent which is useful in tracking down issues that are browser specific. The other 1% will just get ignored as noise. And it's not like we can't tell what type of browser they are using with browser specific objects that we can pull from javascript. We just can't infer the version of the browser which is critical for debugging issues.
I think it happens on the first day when you fill out the I-9 form and provide proof for identification and employment.
I was very curious to see how this sounded.

They did a "great" job... for me, it's exactly ambiguous between a high-pitched male voice and a deep-pitched female voice. It's like the old "is it a vase or two faces?" illusion, or "which way is the ballerina spinning?" It keeps flipping in my brain.

But for the same reason, I would never choose it because it sounds so out-of-the-ordinary, an extreme outlier for human voices. When a computerized voice is speaking, I want it to sound "natural" (e.g. common, unexceptional) so that I'm paying attention to the message, not the voice.

Unfortunately a single "gender-neutral" voice turns out to sound quite uncommon, very exceptional. I only know a couple of people who sound like that, out of 1000's. I applaud the intention, but unfortunately I don't think it works in the end.

Regularly or randomly alternating between "average" female and male voices feels like perhaps a better practical solution, matching the two "humps" in the bimodal distribution of actual voice frequencies. [1]

[1] https://erikbern.com/2017/02/01/language-pitch.html
I'm struggling to find analogies here.

Everyone, you need to drive the Ford 35 Mustang. It's not the fastest car but it's pretty fast. If you strap a trailer on the back then sure it now loses all it's maneuverability but it's now a truck, right? So we don't need trucks any more.

Since it's invisible you don't need any combat capability, unless you load it out with 8 pylons and now it's not invisible any more, so now it does need to outfly the enemy. But it can't because it needs to carry all this load.

It needs to take off and land vertically which means it needs a small cross section but it needs to be able to have a high wing load to turn so it needs a large cross section.

It needs to do close air support but it can't get close. It needs to be slow but it also needs to be fast.

It needs to be a bomber and have long range, but needs to be a fighter and have high performance (or energy maneuverability).

It's what Boyd warned everyone about during the last generation, you need to avoid mutli role aircraft as they're not good at anything.
It's simply not an invention or even something to go on about.

You hear 'genderless' voices every day, which is to say, voices which one couldn't place as being male or female with any reasonable accuracy.

You'd be surprised at who in your immediate vicinity has more or less a non gendered voice if you didn't have all the other 'clues' as to their gender.

In the production of synthetic voices, surely we've come across many which are de-facto genderless already.
Sales. Always ask about sales. Specifically, what’s the sales culture — who’s responsible, what’s the acquisition model, how well do the sales folks understand the offering, how do they manage the funnel, and so on. At the end of the day, unless you’re talking to speculative R&D-driven startups whose future success will be driven by technical breakthroughs, everything comes down to how effective the sales org is, how well it meshes with the company’s aims and mission, and how well they will work with the other groups. An immature or poorly-structured sales org will kill the best technology in the market, and ruin your enjoyment of a job.

If you can, see if they’ll run you through a client pitch, give you a chance to poke some holes in their approach. Get a feel for how much they care about solving customer problems, their ethics in client capture, what they’re promising the market, and how you feel about them as people. Tells you a lot about a company.
> when that thing strays anywhere near social and cultural issues rather than a shiny new startup or web framework.

I don't know what you're reading, but HN is generally highly skeptical of those too, perhaps overly so. This is especially true with your web framework example.
Point 3 is incorrect because there will never be exactly 21M bitcoins. It will end up being slightly [1] less than 21M.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply
What do people think about the recommended sensor?

Is it reasonably accurate? Are there better alternatives?
This has to be the worse piece of advice I’ve read in a long time and I read r/cscareerquestions.

If you stay at a job you love one of two things will happen.

- you will get cost of living wages while people doing your same job will come in and get market wages.

- you will “love” your job and your job won’t reciprocate and you will find yourself unable to find a new one because you haven’t kept your network strong, your resume up to date, or your skillset current and you will be crying “ageism” while people who have done all of the above won’t have the same issue.
That's problematic though, it's the only reasonable implementation (reasonable as in: don't need to spend an insane amount of money on it) for any startup. Performing video/audio/images or even text comparison it's a business on its own.
It sounds weird that it's not possible to get such a list
Meaning twice as big as an ordinary train?
Tests must not be robust enough, then.
Then I'm an idiot too. There are a whole slew of cognitive biases that cause us to prefer our in-group.
That heart attack incident is terrible. The nap part, however, is not particularly concerning. Nap after lunch is encouraged in the Chinese culture, and schools have a dedicated “noon nap” slot. Your Chinese coworkers likely nap not because they are so tired they have to, but because they and everyone else have done it their whole lives (and why not, napping feels good).
I was mainly talking about outsiders who Facebook presumably tries to please, like commenters in this thread. It could be that any number of Facebook employees personally wanted to get rid of racist content, but Facebook thought that would be an extremely unpopular decision. Assuming the sentiment across this entire HN thread isn't unique to HN, I can see why they might have thought this would be an unpopular decision and maybe a bit of why they took so long to make it. I'm very glad they decided to do it.
Mercenaries vs. Missionaries: John Doerr (2000)
Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few