skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn't a one-size-fits-all replacement, though there are a couple of ideas. The USMC has their expeditionary advanced bases concept which is certainly an option. The idea is to leverage the fact that the F-35B can take off and land on improvised runways, like a parking lot or a flat grassy strip somewhere. You have a flight of F-35Bs and maintain 3-4 of these improvised bases, each meant to only support a couple planes. And every few days you pack up one of these bases and move them to another spot. Since you're always moving your opponent has to continuously search for these bases, and even if they find one and destroy it, they've only destroyed some supplies and maybe 1 or 2 planes that happened to be on the ground at that base at the time. And locating these bases will be difficult since they will be small, and there's a continuous CAP looking to shoot down surveillance aircraft, as well as SAM batteries. The big question is if they will be able to transport enough fuel, munitions, and spare parts to these bases to support them, and if the F-35Bs will be reliable enough. It also requires that you have friendly territory, or at least secured territory, to operate from. In the case of a Sino-American war, I believe the idea is to use islands in the Philippines, or Japan. This has some info on how it could work: https://warontherocks.com/2019/12/expeditionary-advanced-mar...

That isn't really a replacement for a carrier, though, more of a supplement.
From my understanding after reading the research:

+ A big part of anxiety is a neutransmitter called GABA which is tied to stress control (GABA is a cortisol antagonist). Less GABA is typically associated with more anxiety and stress.

+ Alcohol acts like a fake version of GABA, giving you temporary euphoria and calmness when you drink.

+ In being a faux GABA, it fills all your GABA receptors and your body stops producing more GABA, thinking it's already full up.

+ Having less GABA and no longer consuming alcohol, you feel anxious.

+ Eventually your body produces normal amounts of GABA again (in healthy people)

What initiates the drinking can of course be chasing that GABA-ergic feeling to begin with, and this may be part of the mechanism of alcohol abuse. Ultimately this can be a spiral of behavior where having an anxious day makes you want to drink to "calm down", which in turn makes the anxiety worse the next day, on and on.
I get the sentiment, but if this occurs 99%+ of people will definitely go remote, which is possibly not what companies really want.

What's the incentive to stay in the $1k/sqft Bay Area if our coworkers in $90/sqft Michigan are living the lives of kings and queens?
>"playing games" was using assembly language and pascal with s3m libraries to program a game.

None of which is possible on iPhones and iPads these kids are growing up with. Even if they did escape the attention algorithm long enough to get bored and explore there is nothing to discover it's a locked black box.
No, the guy who picked the name "master", Petr Baudis, explained why he picked it:

> "master" as in e.g. "master recording".

https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441
What e-reader software for desktop computers do you recommend that doesn't look bad?

It seems like a waste to read a carefully crafted ebook using Calibre, which is pretty bad from a graphical/aesthetic perspective. Foliate is better, but not great either.

I'm thinking of running a Windows VM just to run Adobe Digital Editions and read epubs comfortably. Is there a better option?
A Web Map from Scratch
TFA renders blank w/o JS. https://archive.is/GMZs4
I enjoyed the trial of the service, but couldn't bring myself to subscribe. It's irrational, but knowing that I just wasn't in the "right place at the right time" to get a widely-available good deal on a lifetime plan makes me have negative emotions towards signing up for a subscription.
Intuitively I would imagine it depends on the person. If you’re a person with a weak liver or kidney, there is probably no positive. If you’re a person with thicker than average blood, I could understand how alcohol might alleviate the amount of work the heart has to do, at least for a little while.
Yes, and if you look at the at the IHS it looks like it was intended to cover the RAM, but couldn't, so they just chopped that part of it off.
Try NoiseTorch. Don't run on GPU, but I not noticed any drop of gaming performance using it.
Nearly 300 US companies are now bankrupt despite $100s of mln in stimulus aid
Their GPU review done on windows[1] is also worth watching.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMz-5uP8sBw
Yeah :-/ I know, that's why I'm asking if this can be reconsidered. As a non-English native speaker, I think it's a shame. Rather than read the English translation of Les Misérables, I'd rather read the original French text, and having Standard Ebooks as a source for non-English books means I can:

1. Discover / browse / search.

2. Expect high quality text & typography.

3. Be part of a high-volume community that archives and refines texts year after year.

"Then build your own similar site with high-quality titles in French!" , I hear some say. Sure, but I see tons of excellent marketing & infrastructure already done by Standard Ebooks, which could be reused for non-English books!

Said differently, mid/long term I see the greater good being achieved by supporting non-English titles in Standard Ebooks itself, not in one satellite mimic site per language, of varying maintenance quality. To compare with the domain of online encyclopedias, these are the same reasons to have en.wikipedia.org and fr.wikipedia.org maintained under one (Wikipedia) umbrella sharing infrastructure, not wikipedia.org and frenchwikipedia.org maintained by entirely different teams.
Yes, that is implied by what I’m saying.

A lot of people complain about how hard it is to make money on the App Store. Typically we hear only about the 30% as if that is the cause of people’s woes.

Clearly the 30% is a factor, but there are other more significant factors that determine success.
Yeah, Milton Freidman has a lot to answer for.
Rebuilding Apple Seamless Headphone Switch Feature with Kotlin MultiPlatform
No it hasn't https://apnews.com/article/f1f81ade0748410aaeb6eeab7a772bf7
Honestly, I feel like the maths and science lecturers are the source for reinforcing the paradigm that their job is simply to teach maths and science, not effective communications of the topics. Many of them likely feel the same way as their students.

At the bare minimum, they should explicitly and repeatedly mention in their courses the importance of taking writing classes, if not have an entire part of their own curricula devoted to these topics.
Obviously not that trivial considering Epic added Fortnite back to the Playstore after seemingly giving up on getting people to side load it.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/22/fortnite-...
Legal protections for marginilized or protected classes is generally based on categorizations that can not be changed about a person. You can't just wake up one day and change your perceived race, or decide to be 20 years younger.

Geographic location is not a category for protection, nor is it going to become one. First, it simply isn't something that can't be changed, and second, our elites in general want us to be able to move around freely, so they aren't going to make it one.
I downloaded and took this for a spin. I haven't been a serious user of FreeBSD since the 4.x and 6.x days.
Your "Hello" distro is an absolute pleasure to use, and reminded me why I used to exclusively use FreeBSD. I am now thinking about installing it as the main OS on an older laptop that I have spare. Excellent work and best wishes.
I believe HN prefers entries to have the same title as the article.
This is a good one. It is all too easy to spend years casually "interested" in a topic without developing a true foundation of the important ideas in the field.

In my case I spent two decades casually reading about economics. But then one day I ordered an economics textbook to work through the problems, and found out that I basically knew nothing and couldn't do any of the problems. A few months of slowly working through the textbook gave me a much deeper level of understanding. I could do the problems now.
You gotta keep the military industrial complex running, there is a lot of people making a lot of money from it. Not much changed since the end of ww2, the US is constantly on the look for enemies to keep the machine running, it's all a spectacle. They lost Vietnam and Afghanistan fighting literal farmers equipped with soviet era guns, what do you think will happen if they ever go against China and it ends up in an ICBM war, can they stop one ? ten ? fifty ?
It is not a given that it will be milder, just estimated to be more likely once everything is taken into account.

As an example of why, the comment you are responding to mentioned the spike being functional (it is used by the virus for cell entry) and it is also targeted by our antibodies. So, for the virus to evade antibodies, it would have to change the spike enough so that antibodies don't detect it anymore. But, by changing it would likely lose some of its current efficacy.
umm this seems non-ideal. I assume people want to be vaccinated against the damages covid causes, neurological, cardiovascular, etc, not just against the symptoms of covid.
I don't understand why it doesn't apply to knowledge workers. Negotiating power is a variable quantity, not a binary property ("you have it or not"). The writers guild is a good example.
Whether they use this better position for the overall good is another question. I am not sure letting all the power to the GM leads to a better result from a moral point of view.
In France at the moment unions are negotiating common rules for home office (insurance policies, etc). In this case I think having unions is better for everyone.
Such a great idea, thanks for sharing!
Possession of num_interceptors > num_counterparty_ICBMs leads to a few undesirable behaviors.

- Increased counterparty desire to build more ICBMs

- Increased belief in a successful first strike / acceptable response casualties

Both of these make the world a more dangerous place. Better to agree on what we're targeting (smaller nuclear states), and preserve the status quo.
> That's thanks to competition between companies. That's market forces at play. You want it there? Accept it on salary negotiation too.

This is itself a bit naive. In a basic market with voluntary transactions the distribution of the gains from trade is undefined.

If your labor sells for $100/hour and costs you $10/hour to produce (basic food, water and shelter) then it is a perfectly legitimate equilibrium for the company to pay you $10.01/hour and take the other %89.99 as profit.

It's only through politics that we can make sure that the gains from trade are evenly split. The math of markets doesn't define it.
The great defense against COVID is renewing your World of Warcraft subscription...
Let's run some numbers,

Roughly 80% of App Store Revenue are from Gaming. I would not be surprised if 95%+ of those Gaming Developers does not fall into Sub $1M Annual Revenue. What is left are Apps which many falls into this category. Even if half of the remaining 20% of App Store revenue fall into Sub $1M AR, Apple is only looking at a maximum of 10% hit from its Total App Store revenue.

This is even better than my idea of splitting Game into a separate Game Store and retain its 30%, while letting App Store with 15%. This new system gives all the incentives to low revenue developers which really needed the help, without sacrificing more revenue than needed.

Although I really wish they had done this earlier, and now it is looking more like damage control than anything. And it still doesn't fix their App Store review process becoming increasingly hostile. Along with many other complains.

Edit: I am reading into it, it seems like once you cross the $1M this year your next year will remain on the 30% bracket. And only if your next year revenue drop below 1M will you be move back to 15% the year after.
I share this opinion. The parental controls are so bad it almost seems intentional. Look at the mishmash of trash you need to deal with between a Microsoft account and an XBox account (which are sort of the same thing). That's with a company that IMO is trying to make it work, but the experience still sucks.

Then add in the need for a parent account (or two) plus a child account (or two or three) for every service / app kids want to use and all of a sudden you're asking people to manage dozens of accounts. Throw in multiple platforms and you could literally be trying to manage two or three dozen sets of parental controls and it's not static. The apps / services are constantly churning.

It's easy to criticize the OP of this article, but I know the feeling. The intent to be a good moderator is there, but the tooling isn't and after a while you just give up, turn a 10 year old into an 18 year old, and moderate over their shoulder instead.

The distinction between apps is huge too. Things like Minecraft, Roblox, educational games, etc. are pretty harmless and somewhat creative. Apps like TikTok and Facebook are worthless and should be banned (by parents) IMO.
Every time there is discussion about kids on HN, someone wants me to leave the work and stay at home. Usually someone who would not do it himself. I did not downvoted, but I see how it is getting old.

Also, middle school that is from morning till 18:30 is definitely not the norm here. There is also this part where every single flaw of every educational system is assumed to be unchangeable and universal.

So it is not even like the argument would made sense.
This was one of my favorite articles on the topic: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/10/smartphone-camera-vs... (See the graphic, and his explanation).

One of the nicest things about learning, is powering through the "Jon Snow Trough," and becoming a lot more confident. We often give up, at that point, and that's a tragedy.

One of the things that I always need to accept, is that there's probably some kid in a Hanoi Internet cafe, that can totally smoke my best, but that's OK. Maybe, one day, I'll benefit from her contributions. In the meantime, I just keep doing the best I can, with what I have.
That's incorrect. Petr Baudis explained why he picked it:

> "master" as in e.g. "master recording".

https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441

That's straight from the horse's mouth. The thread you linked to is pure conjecture.
First off, I think any innovation in the tech hiring space is good, so glad to see new models being tested. Couple questions:

1.) How do you discourage companies from intentionally using these fellows to do "grunt" work? Given that these are only 4 week projects, for a lot of complex projects, that isn't enough time to ramp up even a senior engineer to deliver a finished working product in that time.

2.) One of the huge barriers to this kind of "contract" work is the potential for a whole bunch of unmaintained code to be written. A big reason that smaller companies don't have interns is because of the time suck in terms of ramp up and long term maintainability of the code. How will this program deal with these issues?
You should 1) follow submission guidelines as to providing original links and 2) not aggressively promote your own domains and projects.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>There's nothing they just clearly do better than the competition

As far as I can tell, they're doing better at power efficiency, open Linux drivers, performance vs price and availability (stocks instantly ran out, but their supply chain is supposedly much better).
A delightful moral dilemma: There is concern that the vaccine stops you from developing Covid symptoms but not from becoming asymptomatic. If it turns out that the vaccines do not prevent you from being asymptomatic (you can still spread Covid), what is your obligation to wear a mask have continued lockdowns to protect people who refuse to get the vaccine?
Not sure the size of your addition, but Panasonic makes a small ERV for around $400, I use it in my 500sf workshop. They have a larger model that is around $1000.
I guess that makes sense. They’re pretty rigorous about conforming to style and it’d be hard for the (presumably English-speaking) editors to uphold the same standards for a language they don’t share. Not to mention each language would probably require its own style guide. I know French literature often uses guillemets or a leading em dash where English uses quotes.
China's Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission is launching next week
What is the rational risk/reward that shows the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease?
I think this is actually making a comeback for the server room; https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/tls.html for example. I _think_ the point of these is hardware TLS accelerators.
1 million Chinese soldiers or 10 million it doesn’t matter, America will not respond with a measured response to a nuclear strike on its soil. It will respond with an overwhelming nuclear response. If China wants to send their men to die that’s on them. MAD is the only thing keeping the world relatively peaceful right now, and if one side blinks and refuses to respond the whole system crumbles and all out war breaks out for the 3rd time in recent history.
Oops, you are correct.
It was a trivial problem until remote education. Simply remove the network connection.

As a kid I had a computer and a few precious programming books. I could program, or... not much really. I guess I could have enjoyed WordPerfect.

As a parent now, I really need an answer for the remote education. I've tried keeping screens visible to parents. That really limits the parents, who have other things to deal with. Parental availability causes a massive reduction in time for online classes.

For reference in case somebody has ideas of a technical nature, mostly I'm dealing with Chromebooks going via DD-WRT, and I don't know much about either. There's also Android and Windows 10 and Ubuntu. Problems are web games, pointless videos, and reddit. Classes are at FLVS, EFSC, Khan Academy, and various textbook publishers like Pearson. Class video appears on all the popular video platforms, not counting the NSFW ones.
Ask HN: Are Google products getting worse?
I'm hoping to avoid an old-fashioned product-fanboy flame war, but I don't know any other forum that might notice the same things I've noticed.

I am a diehard user of Google Drive, Google Images, Google Search, Gmail, Android/Pixel UIs, etc. But over the past 3 years, I've noticed that these services are functioning more and more poorly, from lagged upload times all the way to increased delays between clicking a button in Gmail and rendering the next object. My Pixel 2 now has so many bugs I can't even keep track of them. The UIs and menus for all of these Google services get more and more hidden, convoluted, and inaccessible with every update. Google Search at this point is a joke, to be avoided unless looking for PDFs.

Am I crazy, or has anyone else noticed this trend over the past few years?
How I read the Scrum Guide (2017)
The product provides searchable transcriptions.

It's the second heading, right at the top when you click the link - "Cut down on meetings & calls with voice messages, searchable transcriptions & async screen sharing"
It would take a lot of dust to block enough air to lower the cooling performance to a macbook air.
There many benefits of the closed model:

One benefit is that if an app is successful but expensive, it opens up for competitors to undercut by price. With piracy, many users would rather pirate the expensive #1 game than to run the lower cost #1938 game. With such a closed system, users will choose cheaper applications and it will help #1938 to rise to #45.This is very good for indie developers.

Another benefit is for the consumers. When developers overprice their software, and users can pirate - they might. Then the developer blames lack of sales on piracy. However, when piracy is impossible, the developer can't blame piracy and must seek the true cause of poor sales, be it a high price or lack of quality.

There's a lot of coverage already on the negatives with a closed store.
They nuked the lifeboat connector as well that was potentially useful for actually recovering data if your SSD died. If you lose your CPU, you now lose your SSD.
Looks like a great idea. Perhaps have a thermal power plant work in tandem with an iron battery system.

Say a 20 MW solar plant, works for 6 months to generate powdered iron. Then start the 10 MW companion thermal plant, burn the iron powder instead of coal, generate electricity as a base load plant. Meanwhile the rust ash from the thermal plant is the new fodder for the solar plant.

I can see that the overall cyclic efficiency can be lower than existing plants, but definitely carbon neutral.
It’s a sad state of affairs when language is censored because of political correctness being taken to extremes. Context is important to understand the meaning of words. Outright removing the use of certain words, such as "master", regardless of context sets a dangerous precedent.

Furthermore, the meaning of words change over time. To assume "master" always refers to a slave owner is assuming the worst possible intention behind use of the word and overloading it to mean something it no longer does. There's a limit to the degree you can expect other people to participate in your world view.

Unfortunately, most tech companies and organization (especially American ones) are spineless and have already bent to the will of the mob.
I’ve created a webapp for Gutenberg catalog if anyone’s interested - https://bookdark.com

Features:

- works in all platforms with pdf format

- faster navigation

- faster search
I call it review roulette

Something around 1 out of 10 updates to our app gets rejected for some random old core feature. So far it's always been resolved, but it's nerve wracking every single time.
There's almost a infinite number of things they could do that would be illegal that you might also call 'anti-competitive'.

IMO, as long as there are viable competitors to Apple, and as long as Apple is not colluding with its competitors, Apple should be able to implement any lawful policy on its own device that it chooses.

Apple can't violate its existing contracts with its customers or developers (e.g. threatening to kick off all Unreal Engine apps, e.g. lock customer data unless a ransom is paid). Apple can't use App Store policy to commit crimes, like extortion (e.g. offering to buy an app developer, and saying they will ban them from the store or increase their commissions to 50% if they don't accept the buyout).

As long as their policies have a justifiable and legal business purpose (whether you personally agree with the policy is irrelevant) that's applied consistently (within human limits of consistency) they should be free to make their own product however they want, and charge what they want for it.
This seems to be a growing trend in parenting literature, enforce things more laxly, teach good habits, and let kids self-regulate.

https://www.mother.ly/news/should-you-let-your-kids-eat-as-m...