skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not likely. There is a lot of nuance to the way fee schedules are actually (from a legal perspective) created and applied. Having created many such fee schedules and been resposible for operations at many facilities large and small they are done in compliance with applicable laws even though it may seem byzantine. There are always a handful of fraudulent operators though.
That also matches terrorist attacks.

As the frequency increases, the scale of them decrease
I think it will be a combination of drones and cyber/electronic warfare capabilities.

Drones have already shown their potential in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict recently. From large swarm based attacks to kamikaze mode, I think drones should overtake frontline fighter planes in capability soon.
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If it's not clear, here's a summary. FireEye acquired Mandiant a while ago for ~1B. FireEye had all the jazzy physical tech of the time like good, hardened sandboxes, sensors, etc, stuff you physically sell. Mandiant had the incident response and threat Intel expertise to analyze the telemetry from those physical appliances. Pairing made sense.

Now a days, Mandiant's IR and threat Intel offering is strong as ever, but people don't want just 1 companies sensors and telemetry products, they want to use whatever they want. There's also been new strong players into the physical sensor business like Microsoft and Crowdstrike just to name 2. So by splitting Mandiant can gain freedom to do all the things they do best but also integrate with other companies products, while FireEye can still develop leading products sold as standalone items. Mandiant has sold the big parts of what used to be FireEye for ~1.2B. So total Mandiant -> FireEye -> Mandiant

It's a good move that splits both organization segments in a way that makes sense for each. Disclaimer, I work for FireEye.
> This article contains no new information

Actually, it does for me:

"Just imagine how the F-16 program would have been covered today when they were crashing an aircraft almost every two weeks during several years in the ’80s and ’90s (the F-35, by comparison, has only crashed 3 times in over a decade of flying)."

I had no idea that an F-16 crashed roughly every two weeks while being debugged. I imagine I'm not the only one.
I think it is wise they are specifying specific days.

My org has been endeavoring to make a hybrid model work with the notion that if a partial workforces is only ever on site we have more space both to social distance and for other reasons.

But there are proving to be some really distinct problems. Primarily that hybrid meetings actually suck a lot more than all-remote or all-in-person. The minute the critical mass shifts to in-person there are all kinds of random one-one interactions that the remote attendees can't be aware of. And on the other end, it becomes impossible to share space with others if you are constantly in video calls.

My personal order of preference is now all-remote, then all-on-site, then hybrid a long way behind.
EteSync (an open source, end-to-end encrypted contact and calendar syncing service) developed a browser extension called Signed Pages to validate the integrity of its web app. This mechanism also works for any other website that implements it.

https://github.com/tasn/webext-signed-pages

HTML pages are PGP-signed by the website developer, and all of the resources embedded in the pages are validated by the browser using the Subresource Integrity feature:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
You can fire someone for not working no matter where they're supposed to work.
The F-35 deserves the bad press. Development has been a mess because it is trying to fill every niche for every branch of the military. We could have developed several specialized planes at a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time that it took for this one plane to come into production.

While I don't doubt that it is better to fly than the F-16, so would every other plane we would have developed instead of this nightmare. I also am worried that it will be obsoleted with the development of advanced military drones. Why risk a human life when you can just send a robot to the battlefield instead?
Interestingly, I tried to track down something more scholarly because I think you're asking a fair question. I couldn't actually find anything.

This was the closest I could find:

https://janes.scholasticahq.com/article/2238.pdf

It doesn't really answer your question although it does point to a genre of Sumerian humor involving sexual disgust. Some of the lines are vaguely similar to the one in the article.
Have you contacted any universities?
I wasn't sure if I had my phone/email purchased by recruiters or something. I get cold calls and emails every week now. I ask them where they got my info, but no one's clear.
“ The F-35, along with the F-22, is now the premier fighter aircraft in the world.”
> Really? There's nothing in between expert level and being able to judge if data was shoehorned or was a natural fit? Only an expert in a specific field can determine if logical flaws exist? If there's possibly hidden variables impacting readings, or incomplete models?

Generally, yes. If you don't work in the field, I doubt you can even read a single paper, let alone identify errors.

> Has the scientific world become that black and white? You're either an expert or your opinion is not worthy of discussion?

That's always been the case. But yes, if you are not an expert or knowledgable about a topic, your opinion generally does not mean anything. I know this is hard for people to hear.

> I'm glad that of the many things I want to rant about, one I chose was the PCR cycles. Because the creator of that technology, Kary Mulis, specifically warned about it's misuse in that manner. Now for anyone just wandering into this mess going to search him for the first time - be warned, he did hold a very controversial opinion about another disease. But I don't think anyone could appeal to a higher authority on PCR testing at its core.

Kary Mulis can have an opinion. You not just being an expert is repeating something you don't understand.
> the protagonists only initially survive because their ship eschews network connections.

I always wonder if the next big military development is actually going to involve more technology, rather than less. America’s main military weakness is that it is very reliant on things like GPS or connections to other devices. What’s to stop a foe from developing jamming tech and counteracting the US’ lead? From what family tells me, the army still teaches people to dig trenches and use old-fashioned maps (among other things) just in case.
I used to follow a Freedom of Information blog (I think it was this one [0]) and I remember a case where after a long drawn out battle they received a heavily redacted document... that it turned out had been publicly available for years.

[0] http://foi-privacy.blogspot.com/ gah no https!
> This article contains no new information

True.

And also, the author is an operator, but not necessarily someone involved in the engineering or acquisition.

Nonetheless (and I say this as someone who was severely soured by my involvement with the program), people get tribal as to whether the JSF (provides an unmatched capability) XOR (is the zenith of acquisition malpractice). It's not either/or; both are simultaneously true.

No one in DoD R&D/acquisition fails to appreciate how expensive these things are and this realization is certainly driving long-term decision-making.
Amusingly enough, apparently the YF-16 prototype could do it, before they changed the design for the final F-16A spec....
That's a relevant question. "In her husband's lap" could be interpreted as girl-on-top, making pretty good odds for hilarious noises. I'd be interested to know how they did the translation.
> The F-22 is the only operational fighter with real sustained supersonic capabilities

Can’t the Eurofighter Typhoon supercruise?
It's just mac. On my Windows desktop OBS purrs like a gentle kitten while streaming games, running Unity, and pulling in windows from 3 4K monitors (and my CPU is from 2014, and a GTX1080).

It crashed the first time I tried to set up the most basic stream on Mac, so I never tried again.
Hopefully we will never find out.
Amazon (amazon.com side)'s revenue depends on consumer behavior. If marijuana use in the general population is thought to change consumer behavior in their favor, then they would be foolish not to support it. This effect probably outweighs any worker productivity issues that might be introduced.

Use has been correlated with increased impulsive behavior: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330120/
> When the F-35 debuted, it was inferior to the F-16 and other 4th generation aircraft. However, its potential has been steadily unlocked by the engineers, and several years ago, it surpassed the F-16’s capability.

Sounds like the national defense equivalent of rewriting your website from scratch in $LATEST_WEBSHIT_FRAMEWORK. Sure, it's a worse product, but just imagine how great it _could_ be if we halt development of the working version and spend a trillion dollars making the new one work. See? It's better! And the customer is paying hand over fist, so everyone wins.
I think the point of the F-35 is it's one jet that can do it all. Maybe it isn't as stealthy or fast as an SR-71, and maybe it's VTOL isn't as good as a Huey, and maybe it's sensors aren't as good as a high-latitude balloon or satellite, but that's the point. It's versatile, so you can use it as the bread and butter and deploy various more specialized equipment if needed. The bad press about the jet is stuck in a 1980s mindset - no, not even that, they're stuck in a 1960s futurist vision of the 1980s that never came to pass (you can count on one hand how many "dogfights" there were in the 1980s, and they were pretty meager examples of such).
I’ve been in both positions and know the feeling! Whenever I pair with someone now, I usually try and slow things down in the beginning and ask questions along the way to see if they follow me, even if I think what I’m doing is ‘simple’. No point in pairing if the other persons eyes are glazing over :)
That wouldn't explain cutting off the pre-show before the final act hits the stage. The blog failed, and any gap will just further himself from any potential audience.
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> I had a stronger work/life separation. I rarely turned on my work laptop at home.

This is single biggest reason I want to go back to office.

In fact it already has started to feel weird that my home is my work place as well.

Even if my work place remains fully remote I’ll find some other place to work from but never some place as shitty as WeWork. Maybe I will rent a cheaper smaller place nearby if I don’t find a sane coworking space.
Wouldn't most people rather work 3 consecutive days? Then you have 5 consecutive days of not having to be in the office. Wouldn't that give people a ton more option to see family and friends and whatever else?
I think the title would be more accurately written as "Apple requires staff to return to office..." rather than "Apple asks staff to return to office...."

The latter seems subtly disingenuous to me. Yes, they are asking, but it's not a request an average Apple employee is likely to be able to refuse.

It may just be some weird quirk of mine, but I notice things like this.
If I see one more freakin' nordvpn sponsored youtube video... grrrrrrr
> "Simple confusion of RGB vs. BGR" is not something that should seem natural to programmers.

These kinds of errors are extremely common in much more mature libraries, including OpenCV, as well as HLSL or GLSL. No disrespect, but it sounds like you've never really touched graphics programming before. Color spaces are literally just a bag of numbers.

A good analogy is coordinate systems. There's no type difference between an x-coordinate or a y-coordinate; they're just numbers and are defined by their ordinal position in an (x, y) tuple.
I don't think GP was suggesting women don't fart. It's a relevant question.
You do, but the closer they get to the target the greater the likelihood they have of getting sunk. The likelihood approaches 100% as the distance to the target is reduced.
What military role does the F-35 fill in the modern world that unmanned drones can't?
I would probably agree with you but one thing that offset all the benefits of going into an office, for me, was having a really long commute. I tried to get things done during the commute but it really didn't work well. Being stuck on a schedule so I could use public transportation also wasn't beneficial for me.
I work in Japan. Before 2019 It wasn't even figuratively everyone, and it wasn't all the time. Wearing masks was done for many reasons sure, the most common reasons being:
-If you genuinely felt sick.
-If you wanted to avoid wearing makeup.
-If you wanted to conserve moisture/heat for your face.
-If you had some kind of social aversion.

Most of my Japanese coworkers take their masks off at their desks these days. People don't like wearing masks all day, even when it was already part of the local culture they grew up in.

I don't know how masks will affect non verbal communication. I imagine the next generation will come out of this having adapted more to detect expressions in the eyes and shifts in the corners of the face. For children with severe ASD I would expect it to seriously impede their growth in interpreting facial expressions.
Regulations require all nuclear reactor containment domes to be able to withstand the impact of a fully loaded passenger jet. It is literally a requirement - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_building. You can also check out this video of experiments investigating the strength of containment-dome-like reinforced concrete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4CX-9lkRMQ
I think in a recent gates documentary they were planning on building a dozen of these in china for economies of scale. They specifically didnt choose the US because they would not have been able to build as many
>> 80 per cent of tech professionals don’t think they will be working for the same company in two years.

That is a lot. I am of the current opinion that I will try to get a job offer every year and if I can't refuse it, I won't. Some people warn me job hopping looks bad on a resume, but I disagree and I think the article makes my point

>>“People changing jobs every year or two can be seen by employers as a red flag but, actually, it shows these people are ambitious, adaptable and knowledgeable, traits that every employer looks for.”

Plus this is the sort of thing that works itself out. If it looks bad on a resume no one will hire me until I have been in a place long enoungh
What makes app whitelisting hard to use on an employee's corporate issue laptop? They shouldn't install anything that doesn't have a business purpose, and these days there are hardly any native apps people want to install anyway.
How did you get into doing 3D Max professionally? Have you used any other packages like Maya, Lightwave, or Alias's offerings way back when?
It's a century plant, and it's flowering. That's the stalk.
Preferring to spend time with friends and family doesn't mean someone can't stand their coworkers.
Some people have a gene that makes broccoli much more bitter than it is to other people. Some people find 8 hours in the office harder to take than others. I agree with your point that sometimes we have to teach children to do things that are not fun in the short term for long term gain but not everyone has the same requirements.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4235829/

There are plenty of people who have found remote work much more productive and others who are really wishing they could be back in the office. I hope that employers take the pandemic as an opportunity to learn about different working styles and create more flexible working arrangements that can accommodate all types of people.
Not necessarily, the US has land bases in the pacific.

If you're going to base your availability of air power, which is the main determinant of success given the American military doctrine, on having a secure and available carrier at all times, you may be putting yourself in a bind when anti-ship weapons start proliferating and you become forced to increase distance between those defenses and your carriers.

It also puts a hell of a single point of failure.
>>>Personally I don't want to subsidize these quote unquote elite universities but if people choose to use their money to go there that's great.

> That's an incredibly individualistic approach that I don't agree with.

You do realize that there are other reasons that people don't want to subsidize universities than just believing that people shouldn't get free education on principle?

One really good one is that modern universities are incredibly wasteful. K-12 education has almost tripled in cost over the past 50 years, with virtually no improvement in student reading scores over the same period. College has increased by far more than that. I'm personally happy to pay for other peoples' school with my tax dollars as long as that education is reasonably priced - and so would tens of millions of other Americans. Consider trying to fix the rampant cost metasizing in the education and healthcare systems before trying to subsidize them.

Slate Star Codex has a really good article on skyrocketing costs in various sectors: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

A second really good reason is that many elite universities are actively pushing murderous ideologies on their students. Marxism literally led to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which killed tens of millions of people, and these universities are actively cultivating it in their students. I don't know how to describe this except for "evil". These institutions don't just not deserve my money - I want them disbanded, and their leaders' citizenship stripped, for trying to incite violence on a massive scale.
He's a former Java developer who is now accustomed to Scala, obviously he prefers that to Kotlin because it's what he knows...
I'm sure you did but again, that is not an average case. You've evidently chosen a different trade-off.
So, you like office politics. Enjoy the commute.
Curious to see how many quit over this. A lot in the tech industry (myself included) seem completely done with not working from home, especially when there is no excuse for working in-person. Tech offices for pure-software projects have also become morally indefensible from the perspective of resource consumption and climate change.

That said it's true that Apple does do some R&D that requires an in-person presence, but the number of people doing that stuff is tiny, and the vast majority of it is done entirely in software anyway.

Why is FANG trying to go back to the office? Because they all recently paid for multi-billion dollar headquarters. In the new remote economy these are useless plots of real estate, and they either haven't accepted this yet, or need to save face.
See what I mean? [0]

Another day, another daily drama on Twitter making it to the newspapers. This time a witch-hunt to cancel a user, due to ‘past crimes’.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27369715
Agave is a monocarpic plant [1] which means it flowers once and then dies. These plants essentially store energy for years (decades in the case of agave) in their leaves until they decide to spend all of it on a single bloom and that stalk/trunk means it's at the end of its life cycle. Once its done growing, you should see yellow (IIRC) flowers all the way at the top.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocarpic
Why is low population density a good thing?
> The last major reason the F-35 has seen so much criticism is that it was the first jet developed in the social media age. The paradigm shift, cost, and early problems, coupled with concurrency, led to an explosion of negative social media that grew into mainstream media coverage.

Whether the F-35 will be successful or not does not matter whether there are armchair journalists or mainstream reporters covering the project, but in this case we can enjoy the increased accountability. This should be seen as a positive effect of social media, if anything.

This had me wondering how many mistakes in previous projects were smoothed over by clever marketing, and how many are being exposed now. Does social media make it easier or harder for the general public to get accurate information on this sort of thing?
Search for: Agave plant asparagus

https://www.coastkeeper.org/super-bloom-lifetime-agave-watch...

It's their death bloom.
Maj. Justin Lee, USAF really is, or was, an F-35 pilot.[1] Since he's now on the motivational speaker circuit [2][3] he's probably out of the USAF.

[1] https://www.aetc.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2002209050/

[2] https://thedealerplaybook.com/justin-lee/

[3] https://www.professionalsplaybook.com/listen
So I'm going to use the GameCube controller with the keyboard in the middle or I'll make a custom controller board or use a high end fighting games pad.

Though an original NES controller speedrun coming close should definitely be a legit accomplishment.
First - Backups! Proper backups make a huge difference in the damage these attacks can do.

Second - Copy on write file systems like BTRFS and ZFS further mitigate things when setup to retain snapshots/checkpoints of past data on disk. Since these can’t be modified by subsequent writing of encrypted data preventing ransomware from locking you out of your data.
Relevant: the list of integers you can convert to float, invert twice, and don't get the same number back.

https://oeis.org/A275419
You’re not the only one, and contrary to sibling commenter’s experience it hasn’t had anything to do with seniority for me.

Caveat: I’m ADHD/ASD. I find it hard to focus on multiple
sensory subjects at once. Pairing in an office means I’m focused on the screen; the human’s body language; the human’s verbal communication; interaction around concepts, design, mechanical stuff like what actually gets read/written/executed; a second screen because sometimes it’s more effective to computer for a second than engage all of that. Remote pairing condenses a lot of that.
A couple of things make that not so easy:

1. Ship- and ground-based transmitters are ridiculously powerful, and use lots of jamming-resistant tech like spread spectrum.

2. Viewed at the right wavelengths, jammers are like looking at Las Vegas at night. They’re very visible, and attractive targets for RF-seeking munitions.
It's funny, all of the things you mention are things I would cite as perks of working remotely at my current org. I guess it depends on how you implement remote work. For example we typically have multiple departments running one or more "open calls" all day that anyone can wander into and hear what's going on. Engineering in particular makes heavy use of this, especially those who like pair programming.
Looks like it's flowering and will likely die shortly after. They're also known as century plants due to the length of time to flower.
> I’m sure the next war will be different.

With the advent of UAVs (ex: from the ordinary to the RQ-170 and beyond), hypersonic capabilities (ex: SCRAMJET), and even action in space (ex: destruction of satellites enabling GPS & remote communication, to severely limit an opponent’s capabilities), I have to agree.

I imagine the “next war” will be one with severe consequences, perhaps through means which the general public is not even aware of, despite those known & listed above.