skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wind will never not be a problem for airships. At best, modern weather radars and forecasting might allow airships to avoid storms better than their early 20th century counterparts did.

Incidentally, a lot of casual airship fans pin hopes on helium instead of hydrogen to keep airships safe. But the deadliest airship disaster in history was a helium airship, the USS Akron, which was destroyed by bad weather killing 73 of the 76 aboard.
One of the closest held set of beliefs that I hold is that software is empowering when it is malleable, adaptive, not fixed in nature, when it is observable & it's mechanisms are deeply learnable. A lot of these values are mirrored to me in Ursala Franklin's dichotomy of technology as either Holistic or Prescriptive, as tools that empower & enrich the user, or tech/tools that dictate & govern[1].

It's still a small & young community but these many principles line up very closely, are espoused by, in my mind, the Malleable Systems Collective[2]. I don't have a strong presence right now on the web but thank you, and I do want to be better gathering & gardening the digital aspects of my self online.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_p...

[2] https://malleable.systems/
"The foreigners fled to Taiwan" - What foreigners? The KMT, also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party, fled to Taiwan.

It is China that is bullying Taiwan, not other countries bullying China.
The 20" of rain isn't nearly as scary as the 11 foot storm surge that is possible.
>Unaccounted for are the varying bone densities, muscle structures, and abdominal and chest physiologies that differentiate women from a male dummy. For example, the neck musculature of an average woman contains far less column strength and muscle mass than a man’s, making women 22.1% more likely to suffer a head injury than men

It seems to me that there are two possible root causes (assuming the vehicle is constant, i.e. not from women driving smaller cars):

1. The crash test and vehicle designs are optimized around average male physiology
2. average female physiology would be more at-risk of injury and death regardless of crash test design/vehicle design

I'd like to know more about how much each of these factors contribute. The article does not make this clear.
Morocco, rent would be around 300$, same or less for food. These numbers are for a family of 3
None of this will ever happen. CCP leadership has been very clear that any US troops in Taiwan will instantly trigger an invasion.
You should try Japan Air Lines (JAL) or All Nippon Airways (ANA) for comparison. The difference is amazing. With those airlines, First/Business class actually means something besides a slightly larger seat. With Delta, first class means spending the entire flight with the Coach passengers parading up and down the aisle on their way to the lavatories that are not supposed to be available to them. Another very noticeable difference is in the age, appearance, attitude, and demeanor of flight attendants.
Here’s a link regarding the pump outages https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_2f508a9e-06b8-11...
Fully agree, but that comes with tradeoffs around concurrent writes, strong typing (though I hear that's coming), some other functionality, etc.
Airbnb needs to do something about its fraud problem--my wife and I rented a place recently in a city ~3 hours away from our house to stay at while our master bathroom is renovated. We've used Airbnb many, many times over the year with no terrible stories (some odd things, but nothing terrible). The pre-arrival stuff with the host went well until about an hour before our arrival--suddenly, a phone call. There's a problem with the house, it'll be resolved tonight, so sorry for the inconvenience, please let us put you up in an apartment we just happen to have free instead. A classic Airbnb scam. We did everything right--we immediately said no and reported it to Airbnb. This is where everything fell apart. Airbnb messed up every single interaction and customer service interaction with us. It took 2 weeks to get our $5k back and Airbnb tried to dodge us with constant 'oh we'll call you back! only another department can do that!'. Several of the phone reps indicated that it was a common pattern. We had to threaten to sue before they finally acknowledged the obvious scam was a scam.

During this time Airbnb was STILL letting the host (with 40 properties!) continue to rent. We were monitoring the reviews and it was clear that they were scamming people continuously. The reviews were constantly reporting being moved at the last minute to other houses/apartments than what the people payed for. In our case we were lucky because we were driving and could just turn around and drive home. Airbnb is riddled with scams and the company is complicit.

Learn from our mistakes, skip Airbnb.
"China, a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she awakes it will shake the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte
Thank you so much! I'm working on improving construction management with better access to data and I think these insights will transfer very well to my domain.
There is a fascinating story behind this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20569438
> Why are people in the Great Lakes region so paranoid about their water? There are many sources of freshwater in North America.

“Why are the people of the Colorado river so paranoid about their water” might have been a theme 60 or 70 years ago. I guess the answer is: because once that exploitation starts, it will only intensify in the future.
Xi is an authoritarian, but he isn't a totalitarian. If he does anything to insane, like flatten a country of 24 million people and the 20th largest economy by GDP by PPP, he would get removed. This isn't some comic book movie where there are insane supervillains willing to commit wanton total destruction.
> I don't see how these two things are at all related. There's no fundamental reason I can't have distro-independent software that is also able to run with root privileges if the user desires it.

Nope, you're absolutely right; there is no fundamental reason this couldn't work. It's just not the focus of attention and so there's no work being done in that regard. Flatpak's primary goal is to distribute user software, so most/all of the work is done to deliver that use-case.

> So it seems to me that Flatpak has baked-in this limitation (along with a bunch of others, but I digress).

It's not a limitation of Flatpak - at least not a conceptual limitation. It's possible, it just has to be done by someone.

> It would seem to me that not sandboxing something would actually be much easier than sandboxing it, but perhaps I'm unaware of a fundamental implementation detail of Flatpak.

If the aim is to make sandboxing as easy as possible, that doesn't mean it will be easy to _not_ sandbox.

> That specific flatpak, not flatpak in general.

I'm not sure if I catch your drift.
The biggest database unification effort tends to be focused around ODBC compatibility from what I've seen - and the operations laid out by ODBC are quite trivial and easy to comprehend I think.
Having Hurricanes reach maximum average strength about the same time every year isn't that big of a surprise.
After the recent debacle in Afghanistan, the US is seen as weak as ever.

Having abandoned allies also will make future engagements with local allies that much more difficult to accomplish because of trust issues.

All these will embolden actors like China, Russia, etc to see who will blink first.

This perception is very important
Unless you need to do something crazy, like run two nodes of your application. But only Google needs to do that, right?
I think "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang ourselves" is more accurate.
Come on. I literally just caved and got some Bluetooths..
This is what the US did in its infancy and after WWII since their country was not devastated by the war took in all the scientist they could take for their own benefits.
Incubators to hatch eggs, Passes to do more than 2 raids a day, extra storage for pokemon and items, different clothes for your character. All of those can be purchased with in-game money, but they also have special cash only events.

I paid $100 4 years ago, that I still haven't used up. Though I can see how someone could go overboard with it.
How prevalent are extensive "people can't pay their rent" lockdowns currently?
>>> It’s almost harder than physics sex work because

I know its a typo, but I now have this image of Carl Sagan dressing like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, that I cannot get out of my head :-)
One of the more interesting points is the willingness to substitute open source solutions where a local one doesn't exist (eg. since there is no Russian substitute for Oracle, use Postgres).

It would be interesting to know if in addition to the general directive to 'Buy Russian or Open Source', there was also funding being made available for 'Russian Open Source' projects and companies.
Mark Porter: CTO MongoDB on PostgreSQL and MongoDB
They could have been referring to the German invasion of democratic Czechoslovakia, after which the British and French did nothing.
A good implementation of this protocol remembers that it saw this code and won't let anybody re-use it. For example suppose I am standing behind Sarah as she logs in to her bank and I happen to already know that her "Favourite carebear" was "Birthday Bear" even though that's not displayed on screen, and I see she types 123 456 as the TOTP code.

If I am very quick and try to also log in to her bank with "Birthday Bear" and 123 456 that shouldn't work even though that's still the "right" code for the next few seconds. The bank login should tell me that I need to wait and enter the next code. I can't see Sarah's next code because she's done and put her phone away.

RFC 6238 says of this: "The verifier MUST NOT accept the second attempt of the OTP after the successful validation has been issued for the first OTP, which ensures one-time only use of an OTP."
Nurse shortages in California reaching crisis point
> Linux is the OS for people who like tinkering.

This is just flat out wrong. I spend more time waiting for OS X to "upgrade" than I ever do with package management and kernel upgrades in Linux. Ultimately upgrades in Linux are easier, there's no tinkering required. For odd configurations, sure - there may be some tinkering you can do to make things work more how you'd like. For example I have a SFF desktop machine that runs an eGPU. I only want the eGPU for some OpenCV use cases and I run the iGPU for my desktop window manager. Sure, in that case I did have to tweak things a bit, but I actually found an eGPU manager [0] in the process and everything now "just works".

But printing, window management, software installation, etc are all simple and just as easy (if not more so) than what you've described - "...hand-editing config files". I'd say you are not a Linux user or have not tried any notable Linux distributions in a long time if that's your perspective.

> As for corporations - they already control your hardware.

No, they don't. While, yes, Intel and AMD may have things in their hardware that I don't control - the Linux distributions I use don't have copious amounts of telemetry being fed back to corporations like Apple/Microsoft/Google.

> But worse - Linux and corporations have both locked down your imagination to the point where you cannot imagine that your experience does not generalise.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here but I'd have to say, in my opinion, the comment doesn't seem to make any sense given my long-term experience with Linux on the desktop.

[0] https://github.com/hertg/egpu-switcher
Build/Buy a real CI/CD system for this TBH. Once you hit a certain level of complexity, this sort of deployment strategy will mostly just amplify pain.
Trump was pretty woke.
Thanks, I messed up when copying to from the actual site to the Substack, which is the one being shared here. Thanks!
Similarly, the Rhine, one of the largest rivers in Germany, recovered well after cleanup efforts in the 1980s: https://whatsupgermany.de/father-rhines-recovery/
Ultimately, entertainment is just "A time waster". Games from their core commercial history involve ways to get more money or time (often both) from a player. including:

1. Arcade machines meant to be overly difficult to extend playtime and each quarters

2. early console game made to be extremely difficult with punishing systems (limited lives, lack of save states, etc) that artificially extend the playtime of what's not ~3-5 hours on an emulator
with these features

3. early online computer games inflating engagement with horrendously low drop rates, and requiring groups to be formed to very slightly accelerate the rate at which content can be cleared so they can keep a monthly subscription up. Bonus points for the group forming an in-pressure to stay engaged, possibly after you've tired of the grind.

4. splitting of the game into 2 or more "versions", which have minimal differences but require both versions to truly gain completion or some specific rare item. Again, bonus for forcing social interaction amongst peers to give pressure to buy the game (or a different version so you can interact).

5. in the realm of 4), sometimes rereleasing a "director's cut" a year later at full price with cut content (that you can argue was cut purposefully) in order to get more money out of 90% the same content

6. DLC that includes anywhere from cosmetics that used to be available in game to the direct "time saver" item packs that is now often contributed to mobile games.

We're just at the newest iteration. And much of the west is already moving from #7 being taled about today (stamina systems and random chance at drops) towards 8) Battle pass structures to encourage playtime and give extra rewards on a pseudo-subscption system. An interesting combination of 3) and 6).
It doesn't right up until the moment that somebody realizes the reward of profit is worth the risk of operating a mining operation capable of pulling off a 51% attack.
I wasn't posting about the winability of a US/China war, but the likelihood of a surprise invasion. If the fighting's already started, it's not a surprise.

[EDIT] that is, I don't think you can hide a build-up for a surprise invasion of Taiwan given modern surveillance, and fairly free travel to/from China, with no existing state of war. I think any actions likely to improve China's ability to hide invasion prep, would also make it very clear what they're doing and kick things off even earlier, so, still no surprise invasion.
Honest question, why do you care if it isn't secure? What would be the downside of one's internet activity being public?
The iOS mail app has had the inbox bug for years, where it displays the unread messages app before it downloads the messages and sometimes retains it after the messages have been read.

That said, some bugs in Music that I thought would never get fixed (they were there for years also), did eventually get fixed, so I can keep some semblance of hope.
If a person wants to maintain some semblance of physical fitness then they are going to have to work for it. It's astounding that this concept gets lost on so many people, as if having a normal-sized physique should come naturally to someone who lives a sedentary yet gluttonous lifestyle.

I am mostly concerned about health, rather than physical fitness.

Really depends on how hard they "tried". If a person is actually determined to maintain a good physique, then yes they have to work at it AND they need to be honest with themselves about how much food (as well as the type of foods) that they consume. If someone gives up after a week of dieting and exercise because they don't see significant results or because it's just too hard for them to maintain then that's entirely on them. If they want to then view themselves as a victim, then that just shows a lack of accountability.

Trust me, I am the first to sign up for accountability and looking over your health. I exercised fairly consistently and lost 30-40 pounds to the point of being almost normal BMI. Just need to lose like 5 more than I'll be happy.

People really do want to get healthy, and they spent prodigious amount of effort, and failed anyway. Maybe it's something wrong with our strategies/approach then it is something's wrong with the victim.

In the end, I don't really think it's an issue of gluttony either. I love food. I still eat a lot when I can, maybe even too much. However, I basically don't drink soda, or even artificially sweet soda, and excluded most sweets thing. Trying to make sure I eat veggies.
Allen Wu having the seal

For those of us not familiar with Chinese business practices, is this an actual seal? Like someone would use to frank documents, or squish into hot wax to seal documents? Or is it a symbolic seal, like a legal document, or something else?
Tower? Open sourced by Red Hat as AWX, it is a central Ansible hub for exactly that purpose.
> My wish for HN readers looking at this would be to be critical

It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that after saying:

> I don't have time to dig into the details

So essentially you're attempting to discredit this poll while at the same time admitting you don't feel like expending the effort to do any more than what amounts to ad hominem and just-so arguments.

Not saying you're wrong -- you may be right! -- but your argument is pretty low on substance here.
$100/month is a very reasonable amount of money to spend on a hobby!
Hehe, yeah. We run B&R PLCs which are fairly beefy Atom processors under the hood.
Yeah not sure why it's an issue to these people that Airbnb is useful
I've listened to a few US military strategists talk about it, and they generally say that forward deployment is a good way to lose all your forward deployed forces in the early hours of an engagement. So deploying loads of troops would probably not be a good tactic.

The other side of this is the Chinese would view it as intolerably provocative, just as the US would if China started deploying a ton of troops in Cuba, if Cuba was a good deal closer. So you'd massively increase the likelyhood of a war.

I think realistically speaking, China won't ever invade Taiwan unless they are forced to do so by domestic political forces. That is way more likely to happen if they feel already in a cold-war situation. The best protection for Taiwan would be therefore if all the aforementioned US military strategists that go on panels and talk up war just went on holiday for a few months or years or honestly, decades.
The PRC isn’t fucking around. They’re playing for the whole show and the West is bringing a significantly weaker game than it did against a significantly dumber geopolitical adversary last time.

Being England or whatever isn’t the end of the world, there is life after global hegemony, but e.g. the USA should be realistic about the fact that e.g. shit like a legislature whose job is to get nothing done isn’t how you win in full-contact sports.

For all its innumerable faults, flaws, and outright human rights violations: the West of the latter 20th century seemed like a plausible v0.0.1 of some future, hypothetical, benevolent society. Sucked ass if you were a minority but there was movement on that, real wages seemed to be trending ok, technological innovation was on point. It looked to be going somewhere.

I’m not sure when it all went sideways, but the PRC is looking more than happy to design the future, and it seems unclear at best if that would be a net win in the “get to Star Trek as fast as possible” game.
Consider how quickly Afghanistan fell to the Taliban.

Now consider that Afghanistan is like 10x larger than Taiwan, much less geographically diverse, and only like 100mi from the coast of China.

It's totally possible that Taiwan could fall in a day to an overwhelming force.
The different SKUs is a way to get around price matching because they're "not the same". Black Friday SKUs are a similar tactic where the retailer can offer a raincheck knowing that SKU will never resurface.

What WD is doing hits differently and would be like LG using LED panels in the OLED*A line of TVs or if the Ford F-Series PowerStroke suddenly came with an EcoBoost engine. It betrays the trust people have in the line/model that WD has created.
Arm does not manufacture chips. They license IP for per chip or blanket fees. The model of many of these licenses is irrevocable. I've seen a couple different Arm licensing contracts and they're all very different so hard to make blanket statements. The Chinese entity has the right to license to all Chinese semiconductor firms who have the right to sell their chips.
*articles you mean, not prepositions. And almost certainly it was too long.
Guess it's the American Dream of the rich, "anyone can make it (on the Chinese 1.3 billion people market)".
From a traditional amphibious assault? Absolutely, because they are a fucking nightmare to pull off. Amphibious assault basically negates the population advantage that China has.

Of course if China wanted to just bombard Taiwan into rubble, there is nothing Taiwan could do about that. But the cost/benefit of such an action is really bad.
You're the one saying we don't have the data. And trying to backpedal your way out it by highlighting a single sob story.
Presumably he is desperately trying to keep his own fragile and inextricably existentially doomed straight marriage together, now that he lost his holy war and all those pesky homosexuals are busy undermining it by sinfully getting gay married legally now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/01...

>Gay marriage would undermine a sacred institution

>To give same-sex relationships the status of sacrament is to declare holy what Christians have traditionally viewed as sin
> sex addicts, lonely guys, social weirdos

AFAIK, all kind of guys use and pay for porn. Not just social weirdos.
Amphibious invasions are notoriously difficult. Prior to D-Day, the most large-scale invasion in history that went successfully was what, William the Conqueror in England?
I'm curious why my post was downvoted. If there are people out there who think that file descriptor duplication is intuitive behavior for shell redirection, I would love to hear about it! I don't learn anything from silent downvotes.
I also had that purple light vision. Curious if it was the same? Mine was our in space, purple and white lights all over the place, some kind of universal womb with souls.
The HN umbrage also seems to stem from the fact that Apple uses those optics to justify their monopoly over the App Store.

We need absolute control over our platform -> so that we can control the user experience -> so that we can make the iPhone ecosystem a more private, secure, safe, high quality place

If it turns out the reason they need absolute control is so that Apple can milk whales in the same way Zynga did... well, IMHO people are entitled to call hypocrite angrily.
Crazy idea: instead of rebuilding, move. If this is happening every 15 years, maybe that's a message that we should be listening to.
Somebody else said that if we evacuated every time a hurricane threatened, we'd be evacuated half the year. Sounds half right!
Look at everything China have done over the last 10 years. And we in the west have done nothing. One has to wonder if there is anything the CCP even could do to be taken seriously as a threat. I had hoped that with Trump out and Brexit at least quite we might see some action. I was wrong.
Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senne_(river)
Falling in Love with the Stratocaster (Again)
I can see this leading to a whole new category of flash crashes and exacerbating panic selling. Skynet doesn't need killer robots when it has the financial system.
I don't get it, all current ASIC miners are from China.