skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a 10 to 15kg gas-powered model aircraft, a simple 4m launch rail is sufficient. For launch assist, that could be a spring or catapult system, or a small solid rocket motor. Can easily be mounted on a truck or small boat.

Something like this should be sufficient (peak thrust 131N):

https://www.rocketryworks.com/h100w-14a-dms-high-power-singl...

Larger motors are available for not much more money.

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No one is going to try to take out a carrier in the middle of the ocean, but there isn't much need to do that either.

Carriers are primarly used to attack land-based targets these days. So either they have to stay waaaay off-shore and rely on tankers to refuel planes for combat sorties (which reduces the cadence) or they will get within (for example) 500NM of land. Low and slow gas-powered drones can achieve this now.
The ability the stifle conversation will always end up being applied in the wrong situations and it’s better to do nothing at all then to get it wrong.
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Do not read the book SEO 2021 by Adam Clarke. Despite 4.5 stars on Amazon, this book is too surface level and introductory to be useful.
I think the fact that people are trying to "Make America Great Again" means a lot of people would go back in time, especially men.
I have two thoughts on this:

- old people should have less voting power bacause they wont live to see the results of their votes

- old people should have more voting power because they are older and have seen more of history

I guess they balance out and everyone gets an equal vote.
I agree with this approach. Fortunately, there are managed services specifically for Wordpress that handle all this stuff. Cloudways, WPEngine, there are several others too. Cloudways lets you set up and manage WP using Digital Ocean, Vultr, AWS or GCP if I recall.
If you don't mind me asking, what do you do for work that requires astrophysics?
It sounds really interesting!
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You maximize surface area if you want to minimize sink rate. Glide ratio is a different beast, where you want long and thin wings. Glide ratio is fairly independent of speed up to Mach 0.5 or so, so you’d want to maximize wing loading to go fast.
Auto-filling on page load in Bitwarden is an opt-in feature.

Additionally, if you have Bitwarden in your toolbar, you can click the Bitwarden icon, then click the entry for the site, and it will auto-fill in the page for you.

I'm surprised anyone uses context menus to do this, though I agree with you that it's probably safer.
Fantastic :)

It would be nice if you could change the scaling to use nearest neighbour on the players so they don't look all smooged,
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Wow. That would explain the perception about IE being so slow. That's really hilarious to think about. Also might explain why XHTML needed to take off back in the day.
If it's not the proceeds of crime, but just money leaving because of unfavourable domestic policies, it's normally called "capital flight" rather than money laundering.
She did it at a time when there were zero incidents of COVID in the US and before the Republican party decided that to get ahead of the issue they'd create a racist flamewar instead of trying to handle the problem.

Doing the opposite of what reality dictates was Trump's schtick, not Pelosi's.
There are a lot of people inspired by representation and wouldn’t know of it if the headline didn’t say so

It is the other people that don’t understand that and are also triggered by it that boost the engagement by orders of magnitude

Publicists do more representation posts because of the engagement

Publicists are aware why the engagement is so high

Is it unethical manipulation if the publicists aren’t aware?

Is it unethical manipulation if people weren’t triggered by representation posts?

Is it unethical manipulation if the platforms themselves didn’t rely on and enable commenter controversy?

But go ahead, gnaw at the messenger who hired a publicist and is telling you how the whole network of publicists operate right now
Ok but you have to do it immediately or you lose the ability to re-play the audio
While I don't disagree with your point, whenever this point comes up I do feel the need to point out that getting a clear, high resolution photo of a (relatively) small moving object in the sky is actually a really hard problem for photography, especially at night.

If you've ever tried taking a photo of a particularly pretty moon with your phone, you'll know what I'm talking about. The striking orange harvest moon that seems to dominate the night sky suddenly becomes a little smear of light when you look at the photo on your phone.

Most phones or other cameras that people casually carry around have a relatively wide angle lens and accompanying FOV. That means anything at a distance will end up looking even further in the distance (ie, smaller) once you take the shot.

So to get a nice, clear picture of a distant object in the sky you're going to need a telephoto lens. That's fine, and there are plenty of people out there casually carrying around a telephoto. Except now you have a new problem: you need to track the moving object through your telephoto. Not impossible, of course, but not easy for typical person who happens to see a strange object in the sky while they have their camera with them.

Also, if the object is moving, you'll need a fast shutter speed. And if you increase your shutter speed you're going to have to increase your ISO as well. If you're seeing this strange object at night, that means you're likely pushing your ISO into a range where your photo starts to get pretty grainy.

All of these aren't insurmountable problems, people that shoot flying birds and planes do it all the time. But it takes a combination of equipment and photography skills that aren't exactly common. So now we're looking at a venn diagram of "people who see something strange in the sky" and "people who have the equipment and skills to get a good photo" to calculate our odds of having a really great photo of a UFO by now.

All that said, the point is still valid ("why don't we have more photos now?"). But at the same time, it's not as easy of a problem as many seem to think.
So go. Thank you!
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Having a standard doesn't mean you're not allowed to innovate and create another one.

SCTP dates from RFC2960, first draft was published in 1999. It had enough time to get traction, and it didn't. Why would anyone build something new with it now, knowing that it doesn't answer some of the issues with the current Internet?

Even WebRTC's DataChannels were introduced at the IETF in 2012, that's 9 years ago (although ironically, the RFC just got published in January...).
The oceans are big. Think how many floating (or submerged) apartment could exist, each a pressure vessel with links to air, power and heat, fresh water, and a personal shuttle to visit other modules.

Of course, that's all the same tech that space habitats would use too, so why not do both?
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Am I concluding anything?
Not speaking for others, but having fringe groups as security during official business, doesn't speak well of what other uses there might be for such groups.
You're right, and that's why whenever I want really good legal work done, I make sure to walk in to my lawyer's office every five minutes to ask him about articles I read on CNN. I think white-collar professionals work best in an environment with loud noises and constant interruptions, with the exceptions of sales and business development who need to be kept in a state of silence and isolation.
> unfortunately the false positives with our PCR testing is abysmal

I keep hearing this argument, but it's unconvincing. Here in Alberta we've seen positive cases and hospitalizations and deaths move in relation to each-other. If the false positive was so high we wouldn't be able to make out that pattern from the noise, but it's incredibly obvious. Also, in the early days we saw case rates much lower than the false positive rates I saw talked about, and so that doesn't hold water either.
This seems to be opportunistically timed with Biden’s immigration bill that will give all PhDs in STEM from a US institution a green card. Biden has already asked that the Republicans pass the law by piecemeal. As someone about to finish their PhD, I’m hopeful this portion will pass.
Yeah that felt kinda sarcastic
https://www.prusaprinters.org/ has some curated competitions for designs. I've printed several winners. (I have a Prusa, but it's obviously not required.)

I have an RSS feed on the most popular Thingiverse models.
> it's really true for many kinds of knowledge work

I would argue not just knowledge work. Imagine a painter or a tattoo artist or a pilot or many others who are trying to concentrate and someone constantly interrupts them.
Your link just says what I said.
Then that is not a brain drain, in many places (like my own country) very few people come back.

In that case whether justified of not, whether it should be stopped or not it is not a "win" for the home country people are leaving.

I am not arguing for or against, I am arguing that the pointed problem is not fabricated.
They used to include a blurb about it on all NPR podcasts. I think they removed it because local stations were complaing that they were diverting their listeners away from the local station to a centralized app. So it’s been more low key since then.
I feel the Blue makes it feel a bit blue movie.
Yep. Couldn’t agree more.

There really is a time and efficiency cost to all the task switching g.

But equally, and as another poster said already, software development really does require having meetings to get a good outcome.

I think it’s missed by many people that see meetings as an inconvenience, but very very often I have found that a meeting has radically altered the goal, or the plan, or the context. Pushing back against the meeting would be a crazy thing to do.
Is that a problem with globalization? Compared to what? Without globalization, most of those in the global middle class wouldn't have gotten there, and wouldn't stay there if globalization ended.
Many (most?) students change majors after entering college, so there would have to be some way of dealing with that. But in addition, colleges philosophically still push the idea that their purpose is to produce well-rounded human beings, and bristle at being reduced to hyper-specialized vocational training, even if in practice a lot of that actually happens.
In order to weaponize it you’ll probably need to add a high explosive payload, and ships are pretty big targets so you probably want at least a couple hundred pounds of it. Probably need some smarts onboard to keep it gliding autonomously all that way, too. Of course, if you’re aiming at ships, then those will move while you glide there so maybe add some sensors so it can do terminal guidance when it reaches the target area. It would be expensive and take a lot of battery power for every glider to have sensors that can reach 100’s of miles to track the target, and they’d always be blown up at the end of the trip (which seems wasteful), so maybe we can network the weapons and broadcast course corrections to them along the way. We’d hate for the targets to see it coming too early and shoot back, so low observability would also be nice. Of course, all this is starting to sound expensive…and if we’re gonna buy something like that, then maybe it should have a long shelf-life and we should be able to periodically inspect and maintain it so that when we finally use it after 30 years on the shelf, it works exactly as intended.

It doesn’t really sound much like a drone anymore though, more like some kind of “glide bomb”. Hey! Look at that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-154_Joint_Standoff_Weapo...

(FWIW, I mean this in jest, not condescendingly.)
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Nothing any more, but I used to work on such systems at Facebook. The public name was Tectonic; there was a paper at FAST this year IIRC. As time goes by, this kind of scale is going to be more common. I still remember when having a single petabyte was something to brag about.
There you go: https://vbsd.github.io/chimp-game/

In medium mode, the numbers are hidden only after you click on 1. In hard mode, the numbers are flashed for 210ms. I couldn't succeed with that one, not even close.

The game is very rough and not mobile-friendly though, sorry. I know nothing about front-end development and my interest quickly waned.
There has been a massive amount of embedded rust activity for at least 5 years.
Doing a very, very, rough Google search, doesn't seem like that's always the case though.

I see some articles where 10-15 IAI Harpy drones have been purchased by countries like the US and India for $100 million.

Versus a late model Tomahawk missile being ~$1.5 million each?
And shortly after all countries would collapse...
That is clearly not logically consistent. I also know that the following will be very bothersome to hear for many people and I hope to . Nothing would indicate that unvaccinated would lead to mutations, especially over vaccinated whose vaccination does not actually perform as well as natural immunity developed from the body naturally building immunity.

What is actually bing discussed in the non-corporate medical community and research is starting to validate the very well understood theory that relatively poorly performing vaccines are actually going to lead to mutations if they haven't already. It is the same concept that has led to "antibiotic resistant bacteria" when antibiotics are either overused or not used as long as they should be, leaving the most resistant bacteria to reproduce.

I realize it must be difficult to accept such a contradiction to what people are told by the corporate media and corporate medical industrial complex. It also requires accepting and acknowledging that may have been injected with an untested/risky novel experimental medial compound for no good reason, but that it will likely also lead to even worse variants that will require ever more vaccines that are ever less tested and will increase risks of adverse reactions with every single event.

No matter what, we have clearly cast the die and things have clearly been fundamentally shifted in ways that are clearly carry unknown outcomes. THAT should really worry people, even if we all survive this particular event, scathing by relatively unharmed. What happens when the next virus comes around that may actually be as dangerous as we were scared about and some or maybe all of the next rushed vaccines trigger antibody-dependent enhancement or some other mortal effect that kills millions with no way to prevent it.

We ARE playing with fire here. No matter how we look at it. Someone, possibly many, will be get burned at some point probably far sooner than one would think.
> Edit: Glad I'm being downvoted

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would pay for twitter if they gave me filter to mute out all the rage mob topic of the hour.
I try to avoid Twitter as much possible, is there an option where I can pay to never see Twitter again?
But most people's account of any national, state, or city history for any event whatsoever cannot beat a quick search on Wikipedia. I'm not sure how much value there is in informal recollections of past events.

Have you ever heard a great retelling of history? It always seems to come from those who have invested Serious Effort to master a historical narrative, especially when they work with a community of fellow peers.
I'll use direct NASA/NOAA data so there's no attacking my sources this time.

Here is a report published in 1999 by NOAA and NASA showing temperatures much higher in the 1930's with cooling through the end of the century. Temperature data outside the US wasn't very reliable in the 20th century, so it's best to focus on the US. Skip to page 37 and look at figure 6. Make a mental note the high point of 1.5 degrees C in the 30's from 1999 data.

Warning, PDF file: https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1999/1999_Hansen_ha03200f.pd...

Compare this with the same data today and you'll miraculously see the 1930's as much cooler with a warming trend (again, NASA direct data - note the new high point from the 30's is 1.2 degrees C, not 1.5): https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/graph_data/U.S....

Here is an article summarizing the alterations in case you do not want to read the NASA/NOAA report, but I published the direct data from NASA so there would be no attacking the source: https://realclimatescience.com/2020/10/alterations-to-the-us...

My point is that the "climate science" we're bombarded with in the mainstream media isn't hard science. It's a political narrative fueled by financial conflicts of interest and grant money. That bothers me because 1) I like to understand reality, and 2) it is leading to massive misallocations of capital, just like with COVID over the last 1.5 years. I think we should be concerned with climate, but we need to focus more energy on our own sun. I think our sun is far more dangerous than all of the anthropogenic climate change theories combined.
This is dismissive of gained wisdom over time, and probably the most unapologetic generalization about a group I’ve read recently.

My guess is having lots of older voters would make it so people stop falling for the same scams over and over, and are less prone to hysteria.

If that were the case, governance should improve dramatically.
Maybe you should collaborate with someone instead of insisting that you must be left alone without interruptions to succeed. Or maybe you (aren't garbage but) need more practice.
And it takes a few weeks after that second shot for full immunity to kick in. My vaccine details said two weeks after the second does for maximum immunity, but Moderna might be different.
Didn’t fact checkers also reverse their opinions, which primarily backs FBs misinformation enforcement? I have a hard time personally squaring my desire to limit misinformation spread on social media (Holocaust denial, etc) with my lack of desire for SM platforms to become truth deciders. This feels like a normal occurrence of the system working mostly correctly: experts widely discount the lab leak theory and FB decreases the spread of perceived medical misinformation, experts reverse that opinion and FB stops enforcement.
I wouldn't be surprised if they xray the package. They will still deliver your kitchenware, but will arrive "Postage Due", requiring you pay a fee.
honestly, if they take out the ads and stopped selling my data, i would pay 3 USD without any issues.
Wow my mental health seems to have improved significantly since they added this feature!
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Can you provide some evidence that this happened now, or for earlier diseases?

Manaus in Brazil doesn't count, FTR. It never ever reached herd immunity: the data was a large overestimation.
This raises an interesting point.

I think we already live with this kind of tension much more than in the past, as made clear by the voting patterns of young vs old.

Sharing a country with people of such different values is hard. Particularly when the older generation is always the shrinking demographic and feels its way of life is at risk.

What can alleviate this? More federalism? More geographic clustering by age? A culture that puts empathy over shame?
Bad example. They aren't going to interview your son, but _most_ will take his high GPA and certificate of completion of Driver's Education class, and give you a discount for it, which is the next best thing without spending the time to interview him.
Yeah, but we live in society and society doesn't operate on "whatever nature says"...
I dunno, someone I know got into a particular conspiracy site where the "theory" snowballed into "covid was bioengineered by china, and once everyone gets vaccinated they'll release a second engineered virus that kills vaccinated people due to Antibody Dependent Enhancement, therefor it's safer for me to not get vaccinated and just stay indoors for the next 2-4 years instead"

Imagine if that kind of thing went mainstream before the vaccine rollout.
The culture here is fascinating. I comment (sincerely, and thoughtfully) in one topic criticising naive interpretations of AI -- heavily downvoted. OK, we're AI fanatics here: programmers are gods. Intelligence is just a program we're yet to write.

So in this thread I comment to defend how demanding programming is on the intellect. Again, many downvotes.

I have no idea what this community is.
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Maybe they're all just Johnnie Walker fans.
Yeah, there's been a lot of re-hashing and people are conflating the several different videos together along with the verbal descriptions by pilots and piecing together entirely made-up narratives.

In particular, the Alizondo character keeps popping up as some kind of head of a government research project. He's been trotting this stuff around for years, but according to a 2019 story in The Intercept, the dude's employment story doesn't check out: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history...

I suppose the news outlets are hungry for clicks now that Stable Genius isn't around to send them a zinger everyday.
> I would go so far as to invite the downvotes with a comment like this: WordPress may now be the most powerful (low-code/no-code) application development platform ever created.

And you would be correct.

The WP API is mature and stable, so much so that tools around fast WP scaffolding are already available. You can create a site in Webflow, export the HTML and use a tool like Pinegrow Theme Converter to attach WP functions to HTML elements, such as Posts loop, ACF fields, WP Customizer, etc. No PHP knowledge needed. Pinegrow will export a fully featured WP theme to your site folder, and handle enqueuing the functions and stylesheets. You never have to open functions.php again.

Add to that the vast library of plugins for things like Ecommerce, online courses, appointment scheduling, user accounts, social networking etc. and you can create a pretty complex prototype.
I guess this is their admission that you cannot monetize engagement if your community is highly toxic and mostly just produces shitstorms, lynchmobs, perpetually enraged morally superior idiots and professional victims.

I know that there's also good posts and good people on Twitter, but in my opinion it has been a net negative for society for quite a while now.

What I would enjoy would be a button to hide all the accounts that post more often than once per day. Because chances are the people who talk too much have no time to think about what they're saying.
It’s not about specific historical events and narratives.

It’s about the general tendencies of humans, patterns, that you start to be able to perceive when you live a lot of life.
Absolutely. Housing wasn't ever 'midwest cheap', but cheap compared to coastal cities. That was generally offset by highish property taxes and insane house insurance rates. As an example, I remember looking up a house in Vero Beach selling for $720k, which I thought was a bit insane for the area. I found it last sold for $280k in 2012. That kind of growth is untenable for any area, and it has no signs of slowing.

Moreso than that, I would only really recommend most parts of Florida to introverts. The people are generally unpleasant and cold compared to anywhere else in the whole Southeast. I think it's a state full of transplants, and well, people with a big family or friend network are less likely to up and leave their home. So we get the loners and the hated, so to speak.
The point is that the people who barge in and do the interruptions usually don't have jobs requiring "flow state" and therefore have no understanding of its value.