skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The military is the biggest social welfare program. For some reason most of my fellow conservatives aren't willing to admit this. The democrats do but then want to extend the program to everyone, even those not in the military.

In reality, none of this is necessary. America can use a smaller military and then use the draft and calling up the national guard when necessary.
The article talks about solutions at three different levels, though perhaps more indirectly than you were looking for.

The end of the fourth paragraph and beginning of the fifth paragraph talk imply a solution: use crash test dummies that accurately simulate women's anatomy. (This is made a little more explicit in the ninth paragraph, as it mentions "requiring updated and more equitable dummy implementation tested in every seat".)

The seventh paragraph mentions that insufficient regulation of the auto industry has allowed them to build very large cars. It is thus implied that regulating the auto industry to produce smaller cars would help.

The eight paragraph talks about how the exclusion of women from automotive design decisions has lead them to ignore women as consumers (and crash victims). The implied solution is for auto companies to hire more women.
I mostly deal with UI code so of course I like it how it is but couldn't anyone create, say, a BackgroundTask<T> that extends Task where ConfigureAwait is defaulted to false?

Seems like a clear way to add it to the method signature and inform the caller and solve the issue with minimal work. Does that not work?
> The different SKUs is a way to get around price matching because they're "not the same".

So then the customer can just order from his phone right in front of the cashier the item he doesn't want to price-match?

I don't get how that's helping anyone.
During the trump administration we were energy independent. Being independent of foreign oil is a paper problem
Agreed. The recent splurge in VC money for dev tools startups is going to lead to a lot more articles like this one. I hope developers read it with an eye towards that bias.
Why? The pumps are not used a majority of the time. They are only needed when it rains.

They are usually not working, so maintenance should be easy.

...which it is because 96 of the 99 pumps are currently operational.
Thanks for writing this. I've been noticing the same disturbing trend - and I hate it because people don't realize how easy it is to end up in a dumb war by accident.

If you have a whole load of talking heads talking war, politicians feel like they have to forward deploy troops on both sides, then there's some stupid accident, and suddenly you're in WW3. There is no rational reason for China to invade Taiwan, and there is absolutely no realistic military way for the US to defend Taiwan, especially when you start thinking about stuff like missile bombardments or blockades.

The most likely outcome from talking tough on either side is that Xi Jiping, or the US president, gets forced into unwise strategic decisions by domestic political pressure. Then you get one of the aforementioned accidents, then all hell can break loose.
Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests
Relational algebra comes from my study of constraint programming / optimization (a closely related field to 3SAT solvers).

From this perspective, the study of relations is more about solving these NP-hard problems. For example, coloring a graph. You can solve things "locally", such as:

Texas | New Mexico | Oklahoma
-----------------------------
Red | Blue | Green
Red | Blue | Yellow
Red | Green | Blue
Red | Green | Yellow
Red | Yellow | Blue
Red | Yellow | Green
Blue | Red | Green
Blue | Red | Yellow
Blue | Green | Red
Blue | Green | Yellow
...
(etc. etc. for all other valid combinations)

And so on for each "locally valid graph coloring" (looking only at a limited number of states). You then combine all of these relations together to find a solution to the 4-coloring problem.

We can see that "solving" a 4-coloring problem is as simple as a cross-join over all these relations (!!!). That is: Texas_NewMexico_Okalhoma cross-join Texas_Oklahoma_Louisiana cross-join Louisiana_Mississippi_Arkansas cross-join ...

We can see immediately that "Texas_NewMexico_Okalhoma cross-join Texas_Oklahoma_Louisiana" will create a new relation, a "Texas_NewMexico_Oklahoma_Louisiana" table, though with the information from just two earlier tables, this new table is "incomplete" so to speak (you'll need to join this table with many other Texas, NewMexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana tables to ensure global consistency).

We can imagine a big 48-wide table consisting of the 48 states of USA as the final solution to a graph coloring problem. Successful calculation of this massive table will enumerate all possible solutions (!!) of the graph coloring problem.

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Somehow, I find it more obvious to understand relations from this perspective. If anything, learning about constraint programming has made my relational algebra better (and as a result, has made my database skills probably better too)

Its also a funny corner where if you "study relations" hard enough, you eventually reach NP complete problems. 3SAT is easily written in the form of database relations after all :-) (But using a database as a 3SAT solver is probably a bad idea, despite being mathematically connected)
TBF. all online games are annoying regardless in terms of respect to time. At least you have a choice here between saving money or time, instead of neither with an MMO.

Guess that's just the literal cost of wanting a game that constantly updates. People can argue that single player games are the best bang for their buck, but it really depends on if you're the kind of people who will play a snigle game dozens of times or if you're one who want to mostly experience the main content once.
Please Cheer Me Up
I’ve lived in New Hampshire and spent a ton of time in Vermont and Maine in all four seasons. Yeah it’s cold, especially during cold snaps. Most people actually like it and enjoy the skiing and other outdoor activities it affords. And the summers are marvelously mild!
Ask the Netherlands that question.
You're also missing an obvious donation link. Might want to link to Patreon, Paypal, a *coin address. Something.
Afghanistan is about as irrelevant of an example as I could think of in this case. I struggle to think of ways in which it is even remotely related.

War is about supply chains. Even if (big if) you managed to land several tens of thousands of Chinese regulars onto a Taiwanese beach, they are toast if you cannot resupply them. To establish these supply lines you would have to basically eliminate all enemy submarines, surface fleet, aircraft, and nearby airbases. It is a near impossible task. If the Chinese managed to do this, it would easily be the greatest military achievement in human history. It would make D-Day look like amateur hour.
Or NOLA after the Great Fire of 1788, or NOLA after Katrina. :)
Wind is generally able to be forecast fairly well today. Applications sensitive to wind, especially to gusts, as light weight large side area vehicles will be, are going to be not usable when it's gusty. But that doesn't mean they're going to be not usable often enough to not be cost effective, and there may be options suitable to the specific mission to, for example, deliver a package simply nearby instead of at the destination.

There's also other design shapes, one of which I'm a little familiar with being Skylifter, that is saucer shaped. Their target audience is heavy lift, but they were very intent on minimizing wind effects and so chose that shape.

This specific shape though will be suitable a lot of the time for a lot of missions, and may even be more cost effective than a different shape - my non-CFD'd thought here is that the long skinny shape will likely get more lift from flow than a saucer. Maybe someone has done that research, as I'd love to read through it.
I never seen degenerate to be used for mobile gaming whales. Why so much hate toward customers of OF?

But like, going to strip bar with guy friends is no better in anything.
Agreed. This is sensationalizing. As it is, there is no competition to the USA. China is doing well now but the spectre of demographic misery is haunting them. People won't work when they don't have children.
How is running in a VM, on modern hardware with virtualization supported natively by the CPU, not the "real thing"?
The reviews are public right? As in, you would have read them prior to paying $5,000?
I saw this come across on ExtremeTech a few days ago. I believe they broke the story. It was Western Digital AND Crucial that were caught doing it.

That means you should buy Intel or Samsung products, neither of whom have been caught doing this. I was going to get a WD SN850, thinking how nice it was that an American company beat out Samsung finally on performance. The first time since Intel reigned some years ago.

But not now. I'm going with a Samsung 990 Pro when those drop later this year. Intel abandoned the high performance consumer space, but my Intel X25-M 160GB that I bought in January 2010 is still in-use to this day, and it was punished in my personal machine for 7 years straight. I would have no qualms buying anything they put out for laptops or any system that isn't my i9-11900K.

It's a real shame. American companies just don't can't think past the next quarter. I recently read that Ford has been putting plastic oil pans on trucks, and I know a guy that has a brand new one- it cracked. I've been doing my research and was determined to buy domestic but found enough stuff like that, that I'm going with Toyota from here on out, and I've never owned one before.

Crucial/Micron was one of the better quality manufacturers, it's a shame to see them lumped in with this scandal. Looking forward to an Intel Arc GPU next year paired with my Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD which will sit alongside my existing 960 1TB Pro.

I'm also looking for some more external storage, and was determined to with Sandisk-WD. I am waiting for Thunderbolt 4 drives or USB 4.0 as my system supports both, but the Seagate FireCuda USB 3.2 Gen2x2 is what I'd reach for if I needed one right away. I'll be skipping Sandisk.

If you hate America, run a company like most of them operate. No quicker way to hollow out what's left of our economy. Maybe we can just sell each other loans and insurance.
Supporting people using OF is about supporting a safe place for sex workers, your tangent seems as you say, tangential.

Para-social relationships are potentially troubling, but have nothing specifically to do with OF: they exist on YT, Twitch, insta etc.
But it does exist on HN. I can see you karma and after a while, the upvote count is visible.

When I ask a technical question on a forum, I'd like to know if a user who is deemed helpful in the community (by like count or `solved` count) is replying to me.
The war in Afghanistan is what happens when McKinsey types run everything
Good stuff. One pernicious "lie through technology" that is out there is that TOTP et al are something special that must be done through some sort of secret or proprietary app or worse, hardware key device.

Nothing wrong with having these as an option -- but e.g. recently my workplace mandated using Duo (the 2FA thing, not google) for our 2FA stuff -- which doesn't let you keep your own generating keys. It's literally the only 2FA thing I have that won't let you do this, and its infuriating because I use oathtool for all the others.

And this is at a university -- so effectively this means you must have a modern cell phone with a particular app or buy a dongle or you can't do school.
Push-Button Installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra in Virtualbox
In a possible future, thousands of gargantuan wind turbines, semi-submerged,10-100 Megawatts each, are going to be scattered all across the oceans. Some of them are going to be connected to the global power grid, some of them are going to become charging stations for liquid-air powered cargo ships, and some of them are going to power offshore desalination plants. Those will pump potable water through deep-sea aqueducts, eventually connecting to vast, transcontinental aqueducts providing drinking water to what was once large deserts.
Not true, if you buy one of those insane chunky "gaming laptops" it'll outperform the M1.
When they open physical stores they'll become Staples, Best Buy, Sears, ...
The Color Rendering Index [0] measures how well a light source shows the colours of various objects faithfully compared to natural light.

Perhaps we also need a dual index that measures how well a pigment retains the same appearance under various light sources.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index
So, you contend that because the United States did something questionable 200 years ago, it's OK for China to do it in modern times.

Got it.
What is the interesting Chinese take on it?
> "I've noticed you've been committing code less frequently than normal. Is everything okay?"

If my manager had asked me this yesterday I might've said that my gf left and I was recently diagnosed bipolar, which is the truth, but he didn't. He just took me off the engineering team.
Or maybe hungry and desperate enough to find one of the abundantly available job opportunities, or start a business, etc. to pay for their future. Why wish for conflict?
For me personally, Microsoft Authenticator started ruling as well recently, after 5+ years with Google Authenticator. Why? I have already mentioned it in other comments before, and it is due to Google’s insistence on not implementing recovery from backup.

If i store my 2FA in google authenticator and something happens to my phone? I am in a world of serious pain. If i upgrade phones? I have to disable and re-enable 2FA on my new phone manually for every single service I use.

Microsoft Authenticator solves both of those problems, as they have recently (less than a year ago iirc) added a “backup to cloud” feature. No more stressing about something happening to my phone, as long as i have my (single) primary recovery key stored on a piece of paper somewhere safe (as opposed to having a paper recovery key for every 2fa service i use).

Prior to this, i was seriously considering getting a cheap backup phone to which i set up all the 2fa codes simultaneously with my main phone, then put that cheap phone in a bank cell/safe/etc., and then rely on it in case something happens to my main phone. That would still not solve the problem of manual transfer and disabling/re-enabling 2fa for every single service, but that would be much better than losing the device.

Note: I know Authy exists and had this functionality of cloud syncing 2FA keys between logged in devices for years, but for some irrational reason i was sticking with the “simpler is better, and i somehow trust google more with this one”, but luckily, I trust MSFT with my 2FA no less than i would google, perhaps even moreso. And the biometric 2FA for services that support it (so far, I’ve only seen it used with certain corporate MSFT services) are a nice cherry on top.
I more thought of a cli wrapper to enable simple file-like management of databases with operations like copy, list and not having to setup auth, but rather just provide the local path to the database. However, ODBC looks interesting too.

ODBC might enable the creation of such a cli wrapper in a database-agnostic way. An authentication library retrieving the correct credentials based on the local file path may make the local use as seamless as with Sqlite. To get the best from both worlds.
YouTube, FB, TikTok, Twitter etc. do make it easier to share and unite around feelings or emotional reactions. However, these platforms don't facilitate the sort of careful, thought-out organization and planning that historically has been necessary to make lasting social change. It's the difference between liking a tweet and maybe going to a protest vs. showing up to weekly meetings, having a long-term legal or political strategy, and executing on that strategy step-by-step.
It's almost like China wants to make sure nobody ever lets them near useful IP again. This just seems counterproductive for them in the long run, though if you understand geopolitics better than I do, please help my understand how this is a good long-term strategy for China
Chartists 3.0
I use a DSLR with a lens cap on it when not in calls. I also enjoy the light sensitivity; ISO 6400 looks fine in Zoom meetings, and it means I can sit here in total darkness which I enjoy.
I capsized in the Charles one summer around 2007 or so (and swallowed some water) with the MIT Sailing Club. I didn't have any immediate ill effects but about 5 minutes after I got back to the dock I was afflicted by the most painful earsplitting headache I have ever experienced even to this day. I curled up in a ball and thought I was dying of a stroke.
This article repeats “安谋科技” so many times but as far as I can tell, doesn’t mention even once how I might attempt to pronounce it or recognize when anyone else mentions it in the future. Can anyone at least provide a transliteration?
> Wish them the best but I don't care to bring the government in and regulate everyone's behaviors

"We live in a society"

And people's behaviour is a function of their environment: blaming "personal responsibility" and leaving it-at-that is a position taken out of either ignorance of how society and complex-systems operate, or out of callous disregard and suggests you lack empathy.
Their Launch HN thread from 4 days ago has some interesting discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28278515
"What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Uprising in American History?" is 86 characters long - 80 is the limit.

Could do "Why was battle of Blair Mountain the largest labor uprising in American History?" 80 characters.
Instead of using the browser scroll bar I use the thread scroll bar. Thread scroll bar is not affected by dynamic loading.

I think Discourse remembers where you were in a given thread and takes you back there when you enter is again.
I still don't get why they lied about SMR.

SMR drives aren't bad; you just need them for different applications and they require different software support.

They knew that it was going to end up badly with storage arrays that were not SMR-aware.
Well, you either don’t freak out, or your freak out and freak in again. History has proven that the former is much easier than the latter.

Bottoms occur when the last people panic sell. People tend to extrapolate trends poorly.
Nim compiles to C, but can also compile to JS:

https://nim-lang.org/docs/backends.html#backends-the-javascr...

It appears that the way it does that creates a lot of global vars and functions.
CloudApp: One of my top CEO productivity tools
All those centuries of authoritarian rule also coincided with technological and economic stagnation. That might not be causal, but I think it is. The industrial revolution came after a number of liberalizing political movements in northwestern Europe.
Although I’m very skeptical of their intentions, I don't share that priority
Commonwealth doesn't mean anything. It's a very loose association of counties with shared history not a defence pact.
The mattress business is notorious for this. Every mattress store offers price matching against any other mattress store... but only for the exact same item, by name!

Let's take one manufacturer, I'll call them Sorta.

One store will sell the Sorta Beautysleep, another sells the Sorta Quietrest, and a third has the Sorta Hamptonshire. All three are identical design, materials, construction, and appearance. The only difference is the label Sorta attaches before shipping to each store's distribution center.

So when you ask for a price match on that first store's Sorta Beautysleep, no price match for you! It's an exclusive product available at our store only.
Bye, Bye, Little Susy: The End of String Theory
I made a web game that has been played by around a hundred thousand people so far and net a few hundred dollars. Now that the idea is validated I'm releasing a huge update soon that will tie in with a Patreon page and I expect it to earn some decent monthly revenue.
A lot of it is power games. Nations not competing for hegemony are not as vested. They will be subservient either way.
I’m an economist who does research with sensitive data, though not in finance.

I don’t know if I can assuage your concerns but…

- any project like this goes through layers of lawyers on both sides (mit and the brokerage). They are extremely careful about exactly your concern.

- mit has infrastructure to securely hold data. They do a ton of defense work, for example. They take it seriously. In the non-defense context, accidentally exposing certain health data can (iirc) lead to the entire university losing eligibility for NIH funding. At MIT that might be a half billion dollar hit. They don’t mess around with that. (Compare to the private sector where there are effectively no meaningful fines or consequences for data breaches.)

- none of the researchers care about you as an individual enough to try to deidentify you in the data. I work with health data, some of which includes addresses. I have never thought for even one second that I should find out who lives at the address, even when dealing with data which includes the city I live in (so potentially my neighbors, eg.)

- everyone involved in the project also separately promises not to de-identify anyone. Again: I really doubt anyone I have ever met in my field would care identify someone, but we do promise not to.

- any data which is going to be merged with whatever the researchers got from the brokerage will be outlined in great detail in advance.

As another point of comparison, how many breaches of university research data are you aware of? These things happen in the corporate world all the time with extremely sensitive data but I have not heard of university data beaches myself.

Finally, there is generally some scientific benefit to the work that the researchers do. We know something from this paper about panic selling which we didn’t know before. That may be valuable.
I said Bitcoin's survival was not predicated on centralized mining facility. You seem to be agreeing with me, because your scenario is one of a 51% attack predicated on a large centralized mining facility. You are overlooking the number of actors capable of pulling off illegal mining, and the difficulty in coordinating all of them.

You are acknowledging even under clamp downs, mining will continue. If you think about 30 seconds further, you'll realize it will be widespread and it is likely not just one clever 51% attack hopeful will come up with the bright idea of running an underground mining operation. Prisoner's dillema keeps all the decentralized nodes from colluding (risk losing your mining reward against the hope everyone will stick to the deal and hash a dirty chain). Prisoner's dillema acts the same way against more centralized groups so long as no one of them controls a large portion of the available hashrate.

Basically your statement is "people will pull off scaled mining operations even if illegal, and bitcoins demise is predicated on centralized mining operations" and I agree with you 100%.

If your argument is that Bitcoin is susceptible to a 51% attack, the answer is you are correct and you always have been. It is built into the protocol.