skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd attack the premise of the question. There is no single measure.

That doesn't make peace and stability a good measure. North Korea has managed a few decades of that, are they much better governed than the USA (for all its faults)?

Look closely at your measure, the UK has fought 2 Iraq wars, an afghan one, one in the Falklands, another in Yeman, Lebanon, Kosovo, Bosnia, Libya and Sierra Leone all on my short lifetime. So the claim UK Gov provides peace doesn't look great does it? Not compared to say Germany or France (republics).

The truth is, there is no strong justification for any one given form of government or for the House of Windsor.
This is the business that fighter pilots consider themselves to be in, and that shows through in the way they talk about it - I had a history teacher in high school who had previously flown fighters in the Marine Corps, and while he rarely entertained much discussion on that subject, his approach on those occasions was similarly matter-of-fact.

I didn't check to see if the article referenced any sources, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that a primary one was a conversation with an F-16 pilot.
There are many variables involved in radar target detection and usually "stealth" planes only have the possibility to optimize for a few of them. As a simple example, radar absorbing paints usually only work well in a few frequency bands so using a radar outside that band gives a much higher chance of detection. Using "blocky" designs reduces the chance of detection from one angle (typically the front, since that is where the target is) but at the cost of higher detectability from another angle. And finally you will almost always have problems with infrared visibility from some angles, for a jet airplane it is almost impossible to hide the exhaust plume when looking from the rear of the aircraft.

In any case, you are right that OTH skywave radars like the Nostradamus usually have a pretty good chance to detect stealthy planes. However due to the frequency bands involved such detections are typically more of the "there is something in this cubic kilometre" type and not of fire-control quality. You need much more accurate systems to actually guide a missile. Still, it is pretty cool. There are also "passive" systems which use the reflections of waves from normal civilian radio stations and a phenomenal amount of signal processing to determine the position of thousands of targets simultaneously, although I'm not aware of any in active service yet. Like fusion power, this type of "multistatic" radar seems to be perpetually 30 years away from practical use.

Source: Used to be a weapons engineer for the Dutch Navy, at one point specializing in advanced radar systems.
Reminds me when the USSR rushed things = boom time.
Careful proceeding needed all things well verified.
we have been running the promotion for 2 weeks now. just in time to make the last payments for FDA certification:)
Easily self hostable as well
You asked why we weren't being attacked by trolls and you want to attack the premise of my question?

I think the French have gone through five republics in less than the last 500 years for example if you want to compare to them. Also been occupied.

And I’m not sure comparing to Germany is a great idea…

Fundamentally the reason we have a monarchy is because most people like it. It reigns with consent. That's in extremely sharp contrast to the leaders of almost all other countries. 50% of Americans will by design always detest their president.
Oh, then it's very different from what I want...
Yeah.

Its funny how I am always kind of really relieved to come back from the US to Europe. I know there's no guns around in a bar, I know all my friend can see a doctor when they feel sick, and hey, I don't need to ask someone to pick me up from the airport because there's public transportation. And I can switch on the TV and see boobs!
Wouldn't air friction on a flying stealth airplane cause it to be detected due to the heat generated?

It must obviously be more complicated than that but that should be doable nowadays?
I’ve seen all manner of hokey queue implementations in sql going back about 20 years and all of them could handle 25k enqueue bursts. That wasn’t a problem for a Sybase database on a commodity host circa 2000.

I think if I were going to argue against using DBs as queues it would be around: heavy parallel write use cases, latency concerns of both reads/writes and scaling to millions of events per second.

If you don’t have those concerns using a properly normalized and protected schema (which you are doing anyway right? Cause if not you are already shooting your toes off) for queues goes a very long way and removes a very big operational burden and tons of failure modes.
What does "closure rate" mean?
Made up his home in

That big fish ab-do-men

It ain't necessarily so...
Of course you don't follow, because what you wrote was a non sequitur.
One story I remember is some corruption is okay when there is enough to go around.

If I told you that the janitors responsible for changing the light bulbs didn’t wait for the lights to burn out and replaced light bulbs with a few weeks worth of life left (when replacing other light bulbs) and took them home to use them you probably wouldn’t bat an eye. It isn’t even worth spending time thinking about it in developed countries.

However, imagine you are in a developing country and corruption is rampant. I think you would justifiably be less charitable toward the janitor even though you know it is the same act but the pie is smaller so every bit counts.

The royals being corrupt in the UK (I hope it becomes just England and Wales within my lifetime, preferably with NI and Scotland withdrawing) is ok but the royals being corrupt in Swaziland is a big problem.
Yeah, I'd expect pilots to talk like that, it just had an impression on me because I didn't expect a journalist explaining something to have the same vernacular.
Google Chrome no longer plans to hide full URLs
It seems more likely that it was just trying to spit out some garbage.

It's possible the whale doesn't have the ability to clean its mouth as well underwater?
Can Dynamic Sites Go Serverless?
They probably cannot at scale. I'm sure they would if they could; it is very likely a source of embarrassment.
> his website

Since 2018 sites hosted on Weebly not available in many countries due to Weebly's self-censorship.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebly#Censorship
IMO comparing containers to an apartment is more accurate than a tent.

Because with an apartment each tenant gets to share certain infrastructure like heating and plumbing from the apartment building, just like containers get to the share things from the Linux host they run on. In the end both houses and apartments protect you from outside guests, just in their own way.

I went into this analogy in my Dive into Docker course. Here's a video link to this exact point: https://youtu.be/TvnZTi_gaNc?t=427, that video was recorded back in 2017 but it still applies today.
A basic résumé/CV generator out of JSON resume, it also supports inline SCSS:
https://github.com/omninonsense/resume-stylist

I'd generally "print to PDF".it before sending it out. I was in the process of automating PDF generation when 1) I got hired and 2) Chrome was changing up the API in the next release so I just kinda... Lost motivation I guess, especially since I didn't need it anymore either.

https://github.com/omninonsense/spotlight-thief

This saves the windows spotlight images (on lock screen) to a folder that I use for randomised background images. I manually filter out the ones I dislike. It runs automatically on Linux (it's wrapped though).

Interesting that they're both in Ruby. I guess Ruby is my go-to scripting language, even though I usually never write Ruby. Maybe it's the language's ergonomics or something.
Having a separate queue makes sense across application boundaries. If you need queuing mechanisms in your own application you should be able to get by with a dB for 99% of use cases
How fast they are approaching each other
Second that. I even build a Safari Extension to filter out medium.com from search results.
Goldman bankers ordered to report vaccine status before office return
Never ceases to amaze me who is on HN.

Thanks for all the steak science.
There are various Xi frontend implementations[1], some of which are entirely terminal based like xi-term[2]. Xi _itself_ does not implement any UI, but there is an example implementation in Xi-Mac[3].

[1]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor#frontends
[2]: https://github.com/xi-frontend/xi-term
[3]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-mac
in what form do you want to get the data? I have a text from our researchers, but it's on Google drive. will this be significant for you?
I built https://sumi.news so I could read RSS, Twitter, and newsletters peacefully. It started as a local app to fetch RSS, and transitioned to a web app to enable reading newsletters. It’s written in Haskell and hosted on Linode.

I also wrote my own classless UI library. I can drop in a single style sheet and write plain HTML, no classes or anything, and get beautiful cross-platform UI that is accessible and functional out-of-the-box. I use this for a lot of my projects. I plan on polishing it, open-sourcing it, and selling it in the future.
Probably not. Monarchies usually aren't abolished spontaneously but due to revolutions and similar crisis. Since the UK hasn't had one in a while, there just was no opportunity to abolish the monarchy.

Also the UK has only been a democracy since 1928. A democracy without universal suffrage isn't one.
Just point out the attack vectors, with some reference on solving those.

No need to "you're implementing things yourself. bad. use someone else's library". That is gatekeeping indeed, and a rather insulting way to express your concerns.

If you simply demonstrate the complexity of dealing with all security concerns, they'll realize what they need. Prepackaged "always do this" does not teach well.
there are adblocker apps for both iOS and Android. Highly recommended
Rust from a JavaScript Perspective
I should also point out that Bacon-Rajan-style concurrent reference counting with cycle detection[0] can in some cases dramatically out-perform tracing GCs as found in Oracle's JVM, .NET, and most JavaScript engines.

The cost of tracing GC is proportional to the rate of object creation times the number of live objects. The cost of reference counting is proportional to the rate of reference destruction (with batching optimizations to reduce the cost of a small number of objects having lots of references created and destroyed.) If your programs create a lot of long-lived objects that rarely have their reference counts change, then cycle-detecting reference counting can be a big win.

[0] https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bacon/...
Fluent: Localization system for natural-sounding translations
For the scale of most tasks, the existing RDBMS that a small app is using for its data is perfectly sufficient for the queuing needs of said app. This reduces complexity in the app and removes the need to maintain additional tools.

Frameworks like Laravel make this easy because they allow you choose different backends for your DB, queue, and cache, among other things, all or some of which can be an RDBMS like Postgres or MySQL/MariaDB.

When your app's need outscale what the RDBMS can rationally handle, then you can dedicate the resources to switch to a more specific tool as your growth has indicated you should.

I can't say what the percentage of apps that can handle things this way, but the anecdotes mentioned in this thread are clearly the cases where growth outstripped what a traditional RDBMS like Postgres are well-suited for, and so migrating was the right thing. The probably was likely identifying the need or delaying the transition until it was too painful. I don't think there's a magic bullet here, but I also don't think that starting with a dedicated queuing store tool is also always the right thing to do.
how do you know what is produced and called "just mRNA" is the exact same kind of thing that is the mRNA in your body? You can test to verify that it has all the characteristics of mRNA. However, you obviously can't 100% confirm that it does not have characteristics that is not in "natural" mRNA, since the list of characteristics mRNA does NOT have is infinite.
The US should staple a green card to the PhD degree of any foreigner who comes here to complete their doctorate. It increased US competitive potential by shifting the best & brightest away from their home countries and toward here. Likewise, I’d expect all foreign nations to follow similar policies.
Train muscle memory for shortcuts with Anki
I read this as a genuine attempt to assist the developer and protect 3rd parties. If that's gate-keeping, we're in trouble as a society.
I think I'm way more impressed by the website than I am the software itself.
Memories are played back at super high-speed when we're learning new skills
They're a loud bunch, but there ain't that many of them :p
I was right there with it until it got to ... the stock market.

I get it - we live in a money-oriented society.

But presenting a psychological learning model as useful as this one and limiting it to the stock market feels ... narrow minded. It sounds like "being a jedi is nice because you get this fancy tool with which you can cut AND braise sausages at the same time".

Use this to get more healthy. Use this to spend more and better time with your family and friends. Use this to live a more fulfilling life. And sure, use it for the stock market or your day job. But that could be a couple phrases at the end, not the "meat" of the thing.
What happens if the process that performed 2. crashes before it was able to complete whatever processing it was supposed to do?
Don't they recognize that, with somewhat perverse consequences? I remember reading there is a cliff in compliance in France where if you hit 50 employees additional regulations kick in, so companies are motivated to stay at 49.
by certificates, I mean all documents that are issued after passing the FDA approval. including this 510K
The Wisdom of Trauma – Gabor Maté Film
For others, OTH is Over The Horizon. It uses stratospheric scattering, much like extra long range radio.
That + the best documentation in the industry. It is a joy to work with.
The Principle of Charity: Assume the Best Interpretation of People’s Arguments
There is already a bug open for years:

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2283
tbf, the British press fuels this nonsense. In recent weeks the Daily Mail produced one article that suggested a particular (84% white) suburb was a "no go area" for white people, and another that suggested it was a "posh and leafy suburb" that was top of the list for house hunters nationwide :-/
RxJChess
There's providers with unlimited data in the UK for £15/month, 10-15G range is £4-5/month

usmobile.com say 12G is $20/month - about 3 times the price of the UK, but I don't trust US prices as whenever I buy anything in the US the price balloons at checkout with extra taxes and fees and tips and whatever, which aren't advertised, but aren't optional.
Hey, I just pointed out there is no hard evidence linking peaceful power transfer to the house of Windsor (or their previous equivalents). Plenty of monarchies fall apart, plenty of republics don't.
Oh sure, but as you say they're not the same thing. To disrupt at scale you need to be able to grow to that scale. There are too many barriers to doing this in Europe.

I do think Europe has many advantages the US and China don't have, it's not like being able to develop massive scale enterprises is the be-all and end-all of economics, but it is self-limiting in some important ways.
Mentioning US research power here when the main vaccine being used - Pfizer - was developed in German BioNTech is quite weird.

If you look at vaccination percentages[0] you'll also see that US and Europe are very close in that regard. I'm in my twenties in Poland and already got my second vaccine (yes, also Pfizer).

As to the bigger discussion at hand, I don't see how taking vacations is contradictory to ambition and being driven to create something great. I don't like taking 4-week at a time vacations, but definitely want to have ~35 days off yearly, even though I really like my work and put a lot of effort into it.

Creativity and motivation go out the window when I'm overworked and burned out.

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Oh wow. This disclaimer page is a piece of art in absurdity: https://theouterlinux.gitlab.io/disclaimer_mobile.html
OpenSSH Bug 2283: option to execute command without shell
The article is a copy of a Quora answer. Not even sure if there was a journalist involved.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-fighter-jet-lock-onto-and-k...

Edit: Quora link.
Would be interesting if computer games accurately did lock on and detection

Right now it just seems like aiming reticule edge detection
Well, living in a highly militarized US city that sees vendors come in for various presentations regularly, not only is "lethality" a word that businesses use to sell, but also one everyone gets excited to hear. It's definitely weird at first as a civilian. But I see how it quickly becomes CAC/LTV.
> There is nothing wrong or deceptive about making money in this way.

Absolutely incorrect. It's more complicated and insidious than your reductive argument suggests.

These reputation "management" companies are also the ones who scrape public records on a massive scale and DELIBERATELY place this data really high up in search rankings. So, casual searches for someone's name often end up returning vague negative results like "xxx has a criminal record, find out more!". They ALSO spam people at internet scale and warn them about their "reputation" and how they can "fix" it.

In other words, they provide the "cure" for the "injury" which they've caused.

One of the worst and biggest of these piece of sh*t companies is mylife.com. They do the web-scraping and the SEO to get their results up high, AND ALSO charge money to "clean up" reputations. It happens to be legal in the USA because we're in a downward spiral of techno-feudalism, but it's a vile and dishonorable practice.

The founder of mylife.com, Jeffery Tinsely, has become wealthy from these deceptive practices. He faces regular lawsuits (eg https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2020/website-sue...). But somehow mylife.com continues to survive presumably by raking in the cash as well as VC investment (not sure if it was mylife or one of the other slimy companies run by Tinsely).

FWIW, it is possible to remove your results from mylife.com. I did it. It requires a phone call and some firm persistence and patience. You call them on the phone and talk to someone at an Indian call center. Just say that you want to remove your name from mylife.com searches. It costs nothing but they WILL try to sell you their junk reputation management service with boiler-room-like intensity (worse than Verizon or Comcast), just decline for the 2 dozen times they ask. In the end it worked, I am no longer searchable on mylife.com and no mylife.com results show up on google under my name, but I get several emails a day from these MF's telling me that my reputation needs fixing and that "other people can see it".

There's other companies like this. Mylife is particularly slimy but it's the biggest.
I suppose it's a bit more suitable to networked services than sqlite is, since it's natively a web api, and sqlite is natively a local-only solution.

...but, I started writing about clustering and the network API, but, I can't really articulate why those are actually superior in any meaningful way to simply using sqlite, and given the irritation I've had in maintaining them in production in the past...

I guess you're probably right. If I had to pick, I'd probably use sqlite.
That mirrors Orwell's thought when he survived a shot in the neck during the Spanish civil war - everyone kept telling him how lucky he was, but he couldn't help but think it would have been luckier to not have been shot at all!
Fighter pilots are also, by all accounts including my own, very much among the most confident human beings anyone is ever likely to meet - that teacher I'm thinking of certainly was. It can easily make a strong impression; most of the guys in that class had a huge crush on the idea of growing up to be like him, while many of the girls (and I!) just had a huge crush on him.

There is no reason to assume this sort of thing only occurs among high schoolers, or in any case that a Gizmodo writer would be more likely to embark upon a serious consideration of the moral weight of aerial combat than to focus on its literal and figurative whiz-bang, wow-cool-robot aspects, of which there is no shortage.
Take thay money and donate it, or plant a forest. There is nothing wrong with making money and then spending it on all the right things
Lock on target: "Snowflake"
What if there are hundreds of things that are?
Although it's been underfunded for decades now. But even the private healthcare in UK is waaay more affordable than in US. The free healthcare creates a price anchor (because if you can't afford it you can have the less shiny but free version, and still not die)
Countries don't compete, they make the rules.
What’s amazing is that people all over he world are learning about industrial scale grain silo safety issues - despite many never having seen one even in passing.

The internet makes connections and disseminates information like nothing in history, and that’s amazing
The requirement for the project was that the deletion should be handled in as fail-safe a manner as possible. Relying on external jobs, cron, other scheduled tasks etc were deemed a risk.

We were already using Redis for other things, it was the logical choice for this scenario.
They ionize the hull in some way to reduce friction I guess that reduces the thermal signature.
Other than it's absence from this thread, Rabbit still seems to be going strong.
Why use Redis when you have more suitable solutions like RabbitMQ or Kafka?

Obviously depends on the scale and needs of a project, Postgres etc is fine for simple queues.

I often see people waste unnecessary time by writing their own complex solutions, resulting in increasing technical debt, when you already have perfectly suitable open source options available that do a better job..
This is basically a reverse Jellyfin. The server is the one playing the stream and the client the one providing it.
I saw this video a while ago. It’s got interesting 3D animations and explains everything in a very approachable manner. I recommend watching it.
Sorry which people are the wretched refuse ones?
Simulators, DCS in the forefront, have somewhat reasonable radar modeling, both in terms of radar warning systems and target acquisition.
How would double billing occur if the worker dies. The way I would design this, the billing request and bill would be committed atomically such that a request can only be completed with exactly one associated bill. If the worker dies, no bill is created.

Also I'd detect a worker has died by recording the start-time and using a timeout. Furthermore I'd requeue requests as distinct new entities. A requeued entity would have a self-referencing nullable FK to reference its parent request.
macos users might try for a laugh

say -v Fred "(that pages text)"
An Italian village where the houses have eyes
> Due to that, statistically, Europe does worse than the US wealth inequality […]

Do you have a source for the statistic that show this?

Another comment mentioned Gini. Piketty uses the share of the top percentile (1%) or decile (10%):

* https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/pikettys-inequal...

* https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/pikettys-new-...

The US isn't the worst in the world, but it is certainly more unequal than Europe as a whole, and most (all?) EU countries.