skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why does the Air Force seem to hate the A-10 so much? Many experts say it is part of the branch’s efforts to replace the jet with the multirole F-35 Lightning II and the F-15EX Eagle II, which the service argues can also perform close air support. But many members of Congress, including former military aviators, say the F-35 can’t hold a candle to the A-10 in the close air support business. The Air Force also argues that the slow-moving A-10, while great against Taliban insurgents wielding low-tech AK-47s and RPGs, would not survive against higher-tech anti-aircraft fire.

It's a cultural issue - the USAF want to move on to newer platforms - I think because they originally pitched the F-35 could replace it and now they want to show that can be the same. My vague understanding is also that at some point the Army even offered to run the A-10 instead if the USAF didn't want it, and then that got the USAF to dig their heels in half-way between wanting to get rid of it and not wanting anyone else to have it either, because they don't want the Army encroaching on their core skill of aviation.

Hence why they're now stuck in a conflicted limbo and nothing is happening.
I don't think white supremacists, vaccine-deniers and election deniers would agree with you. Also you are just picking the easy examples.

And what is a "solid consensus"? Trump was elected in 2016, for example, presumably by a significant number of voters.

Why does YT have to make any call at all? Why not let me see what I want to see?
Well Vista removed support for kernel-mode printer drivers (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/pr...), Vista introduced the WDDM model for video drivers in user-mode, 8 removed support for XDDM so I guess one could say that by 8, things had come full circle.
I genuinely don't understand your starting point.

Since when is society expected to support people regardless of what they produce?
Health Effects of 9/11 Still Plague Responders and Survivors
I work in a company that sends millions of emails every month through our own server. We moved to new IPs last year and didn't see a big disruption. The key is having a high quality list and only ever sending things that people actually asked you to send.
Technology has come so far! What used to take overnight on a very expensive new machine can be done in a matter of minutes on a late model laptop. git bisect run, connected to a script that boots a VM to test the kernel is the holy Grail of... something, not sure what, but looking back at how things used to be, that's a feat of software (and hardware, eg CPU vmx extensions) engineering and progress that blows my mind.
They live with roomates or they live in vehicles. In the bay area there are tons of beat-up old vans and RVs with people living in them all over the place.
This is only true in places like the UK or, I understand, the US, where renters do not enjoy the same protection they would in other countries. My brother rents a flat in Germany, he can't be evicted (unless he stops paying rent) and rent increases are pre-determined and tied to inflation (ie, the landlord can't ask for a 5% rent increase each year). In Italy contracts have a minimum 4 year duration, during which rent increases are capped at three quarters of inflation.
It might be delicious, but the concept of clam juice makes me want to barf.
The README in the GitHub repo for borb is a bit of a better explainer than this landing page (especially for Python programmers).

https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blob/master/README....
If they have the ability to create something like Star Wars, my own personal plan is that they don't sit on their ass for twenty+ years reaping the benefits of a single achievement.

Really, given all the need there is in the world, this is a genuine concern of yours?

EDIT: And I should also note, the people who actually created the film are not the ones who reap those benefits for twenty+ years. It's only the people who control the IP.
These are options, what taxes?
I host my own too.
If the Air Force was truly interested in eliminating the A-10 instead of just pushing its job to an airframe that is less capable it would offer them up to the Army or bootnecks. I am fairly certain that either of them would be willing to take on the cost if it meant they were able to own CAS.
A lot of dunking happening here - titles like this article's can definitely turn people away, as people have learned that money means something (undesirably) different in "crypto." That said, the article does provide a pretty good job documenting the creative process, the path to minting, and the launch of a campaign. I encourage anyone interested in the space to get past the triggering headline and give it a read.

edit: looks like the submission got flagged/removed from the feed on HN. sigh
>I am an adult with a family

Minimum wage is not meant to support a family
The idea of a multi-purpose fighter plane makes a lot of sense for small air forces (it doesn't make it a good idea), but why do the US Air Force care about multirole anything. It's the largest air force in the world, and the best funded, surely they'd want to buy the best tool for every task.
The point is, these people shouldn’t be broke. After all, they have full-time work.
I don't mind the comment above, he's somehow right that html/js is more open to ad-hoc patches than native code. Except when admins forbid you to.

bookmarklets don't allow for injections into the app so it wont work
You’re sort of missing my point. An artist creating a similar work is not equivalent.

If they were atomically identical copies, they would be literally the same. Any idea of “difference” would be completely false. That’s the difference here, these (NFTs) are by all means atomic copies. They aren’t close to the same, they ARE the same.

If we could make atomic copies of the Mona Lisa it would surely drop in value… scarcity is what causes works like the Mona Lisa to be valuable. With an NFT there is no scarcity because unlimited duplicates, each as real as the original, can be produced for nearly free.
This is an important distinction. Companies that never take VC money and generate profits can run indefinitely without having an exit event. If I had a steady profit stream from a company, I wouldn't necessarily want to sell.
> the USAF want to move on to newer platforms

Warthog pilots are aging. It's tough to convince a good, young pilot to train for a frame on life support. It makes sense that the people who have to recruit, train and retain those new pilots would push back against having to do so.
Dassault doesn't work well in collaborative projects. Germany keeps saying that it will buy lots of aircraft to get a large workshare then scales back the real order.
Europe too - I was looking at my 2019 contract for 30 days car rental out of Nice airport - 238 euro. The cheapest one now - 741 euro or 3x near enough.
No good replacement. The military bet everything on the F35 which ended up being a pile of rubbish.

The A10 can fly low enough and slow enough to do close air support for ground troop, with that incredibly powerful Gatling gun.

What I’m not sure about is why aren’t they using Apaches, Comanches, Scorpions (all helicopters) etc instead for close air support?

Must be the power of the A10’s Gatling gun.
I think what this needs is a proper scan and vectorization.

Author has a nice repo with other doodles:

https://github.com/girliemac/a-picture-is-worth-a-1000-words

I really wish there were some way to find and navigate good OERs like these.
I'll give a shout out to Apple here. Swift Playgrounds is engaging (even adults love it). XCode is a forgiving IDE for a 12 year old. And the materials are well grounded in CS. The advantage here is that programs run immediately on Apple hardware, which kids like and makes them feel like a pro.

https://www.apple.com/education/k12/teaching-code/

I grew up with Logo and Turtle Graphics and I loved it. Still obsessed with computer graphics to this day. I think the great thing about those old environments is that it wasn't really about "coding" as a path to a software engineering job. It was more about "applied geometry" and the wonderful patterns of nature emerging via simple iterative functions repeated endlessly ;)
Yes, create a kernel module which registers a custom device, then change those syscalls to ioctls on that device.
Could this high reflectivity work for trans reflective display backgrounds?
The sort of tenets Amazon uses are generally vague enough to abused by management constantly. I wouldn't say they are "popular", rather forced down your throat. They're constantly mocked and poked fun at by ICs.

A good tenet is unambiguous in application and interpretation. There's no way to misuse a good tenet. Some of Amazon's are incredibly easy to abuse: frugality, disagree and commit, be right a lot. Here are some strong ones that may or may not be useful to your company:

If a decision is easy to reverse, don't spend to much time figuring out of it's the right decision.

Prioritize paying for something over building something assuming the annualized cost of an engineer is ~$X (e.g. $1MM).

Document and test internal systems as if you were selling them to a customer.

Simple, repetitive and dumb over complex, convenient and smart.

Plan to throw the first iteration away.

Be honest, and be honest to customers.

Always assume disaster can and will strike at the worst possible time. Better safe than sorry.

Prioritize people over processes. This means don't follow some dumb process if it makes everyone upset. Change the process.

Admit when you were wrong.
I am not pretending anything. I have made no representation of fact about him other than to state a principle based on a logical extrapolation of his behavior.

I guess the laws you refer to are helping, because according to the story he’s been investigated for practicing medicine without a license. But why not do everything we can, as a society, to protect ourselves from irresponsible people?
> There are many evolutionary layers and no formal specification or verification;

There is a specification, but it's very complicated.
> > A10 can fly low enough and slow enough...

...to get annihilated by Russian or Chinese air defences.

> What I’m not sure about is why aren’t they using Apaches, Comanches, Scorpions (all helicopters) etc instead for close air support?

I don't think the USAF operate these platforms do they?
Interesting you say that, I'm trying to buy a house right now and that's the big variable I just have accepted I won't know the proper weight of until I do it myself. I've decided to just take the plunge, it's the only way to truly learn.
Also no one in their right mind would risk such an expensive airframe on defending mere ground troops. The A-10 does its job incredibly well, and is cheap to build, repair and keeps its pilots alive. Not a big plus from a defense contractor perspective.
I just published the rest of the tutorial. It adds the remote/distributed VCS parts plus fixes some of the mistakes and typos I made. ("recusive"?! the shame!).
It's operated by the air force but it doesn't really help the air force achieve any air force goals - what it's good at is supporting the army in army missions.
> A10 can fly low enough and slow enough to do close air support for ground troop

Against a an adversary with no anti-air capabilities. Like the Taliban. Whom we are no longer fighting. For the nation-state level conflicts we're gearing up for, the A-10 is a waddling duck.

> why aren’t they using Apaches, Comanches, Scorpions (all helicopters) etc instead for close air support?

The AH-64 Apache has a top speed of 184 mph [1]; the A-10 439 mph [2]. The A-10 is also more-heavily armored, and can carry more ordinance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...
Furthermore, since this article seems to be in support of raising the minimum wage, if there is literally no place to rent then raising the minimum wage doesn't do much. There is literally-literally no marginal housing stock available to rent.

It is like if a merchant has 4 saucepans and 5 people who want to buy a saucepan. It doesn't matter how much money the people have. They cannot all get a saucepan. The housing market is much more complicated by but $15/hr isn't going to fix that sort of problem; if it exists. Where would the extra housing stock for the workers come form?
I realize, but it's still a pain to do, and how to actually configure TailScale like this is completely undocumented, I couldn't find any mention of this feature outside of a hacker news comment. On the OSX application there's a hidden menu (hold option) which allows you to choose a different master server, but not enter your own, which is so close to being usable but just out of reach.
Investor Vocabulary
Are you new to investing? Then my article with an investor vocabulary is a must-read. Referral commission, RCB, pending – what is it? If you do not understand what this is about, but want to figure it out, read on.
The sibling comments appear to be accurate, but I think it’s more helpful to think of gas in this context as the fuel that powers gaslights.

The deceptive kind, follow?
Why are 99% of US roofs still black? Residential, commercial, they're all some variation of black tar.

It seems almost cheating to simply change their reflectivity for a huge cooling power savings.
There’s a point beyond which such reductions cease to be helpful.

If I wrote a personal fitness book that simply said “be healthier” or a self-help psychology book that said “Be happier”, or a road atlas that said “don’t get lost”, that probably captures the essential goal of the task at hand, but people want/need to know the specific how that the method is prescribing.

Someone who is training for collegiate sports needs different advice than a middle-age person who’s out of shape and 50# overweight. “Be healthier” isn’t enough.

Someone who has just lost a child needs different content than someone who found out their spouse is cheating on them or considering a divorce. “Be happier” isn’t enough.

Tenet statements do change from time to time as business pressures and realities change. That’s good.
Windows "provided" Subsystem "for" Linux. Meaning Windows, the platform, provides or hosts a subsystem that runs/hosts Linux.
Bad Advice on Covid Vaccine Boosters.FDA downplays evidence of waning antibodies
"A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Friday voted to recommend Pfizer Covid-19 booster shots for Americans over age 65 and those at “high risk,” but not for the broader population. What do these public-health experts have against individuals making up their own minds about their own health?

he evidence for boosters is strong and growing. The most compelling comes from Israel, which started giving third doses in July after infections and hospitalizations started climbing among people who were vaccinated this winter. One study from Israel found that the Pfizer vaccine’s protection against symptomatic infection had fallen to 40% from mid-June to July compared to more than 95% from January to April. Those who were vaccinated in January had only 16% protection compared to 79% for those vaccinated in April.

Vaccine efficacy declines because antibodies—the immune system’s front-line defense—wane over several months. A study from the Kaiser Permanente Southern California health system found that vaccine efficacy against infection declined from 88% in the first month after full vaccination to 47% after five or more months.

Some evidence suggests that protection against severe illness is declining too. A study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday found that the Pfizer vaccine was 77% effective against hospitalization after four months versus 91% within the first 120 days."

...
Yes, it would, and it would absorb more heat. It would then radiate that heat and the paint would reflect it.

If the glass gets dirty to the point that it is fully covered then it would have no benefit. But if it is dirty where say 20% of light is absorbed, then it the reflective layer underneath would still be hugely effective.
Studies on alcohol consumption are always flawed due to socioeconomic factors. Adults who can afford to have some beers or wine on an evening are more affluent, therefore are more likely to have private healthcare, can afford nutritious diets and are more likely to exercise regularly. Until we can find a way to control for these factors, studies into the health benefits of alcohol are very misleading
3D printed beam that is as stiff as steel
I have over 15 years experimenting with exercise routines, which has lead me steadily to the 5x5 domain, and for me the most notable difference between SS vs SL is that StartingStrength advocates techniques that are potentially more beneficial if you are already competent, or you are already engaged in a profession where failing at the StartingStrength exercises is a lesser risk than your day job.

By comparison StrongLifts advocates techniques that are less likely to result in injuries for amateurs (less ballistic, less technique sensitive). Personally, I'm quite comfortable with StartingStrength, but I have reservations recommending it to beginners.

Ultimately I don't follow either, but rather my own variation of a 5x5 routine (which both StartingStrength and StrongLifts are variations of) ... but advocating 'what works for me' without supporting documentation would be irresponsible, and I'm too lazy to write it up.

So I advocate StrongLifts.

I would say that a year plus into StrongLifts you should at least evaluate StartingStrength in case it suits you better.
A Shared Epistemology: The Human Pathology of Totalitarianism
> The OP would certainly read differently if he wrote, "How I won $50K in 3 days with NFTs", rather than saying how he "made" $50K.

Well said
I learned a similar way - from typing in programs from magazines like Compute!’s Gazette.
I cannot sleep above seven hours, is the darnest thing, I just wake up five in the morning if I go to bed at 23 and just cannot get to sleep before 22, and if I oversleep or get the pattern disturbed I feel groggy all next day

I think these study searching/advocating for a healthy averages kind of trick people into thinking their patterns are unhealthy, while it seems pretty clear that each person has its own way of functioning, either by environmental or genetic influences, and averaging them might give some insight but not any indication of what's best to each.
I think all countries should be eliminating real estate speculation ;-)

Xi Jinping’s famous words are “housing is for living in and not for speculation.”

When will American join these other countries?

Netherlands: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28422768

China:
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/7/28/in-its-latest-cr...
Exactly what I was thinking and I am pretty sure this is intentional.
Bullshit.

If that were true, it would be legally specified as "the minimum wage you can pay to someone without a family."

Minimum wage was always intended to be a living wage. It just hasn't kept pace with inflation for the last several decades.

There is absolutely nothing that makes it harder to pay someone with a family minimum wage, or easier for someone with a family to get a job with a better wage.
The most truthful and enlightening thing anyone has written about cryptocurrencies / cryptoassets yet.
This is one of those "explanations" where, if it's a concept I'm familiar with I can apply my knowledge to it and see that it mostly checks out, but if it's something I don't already know, I find completely useless.
Digital art isn't scarce by its very nature - NFTs are an attempt to re-introduce scarcity, and it's fucking depressing. My childhood dream of improving the world by inventing things is a pipe dream; every bit of progress gets mopped up by the people who need it least.
They either get terms where they have to make minimal payments if any, and refinance before the due date. Or they take out more loans to make the payments. Eventually they just die and the estate pays it off tax-free.
What programming language fits the way you like to program the best?
Enhancing Team Productivity Through Shorter Working Hours
Sometimes you're forced to live with some truly awful people. It's not always practical to stay with family, e.g. many people moving to the city for work.
There are about two minutes of remarks here that seem pertinent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFph7-6t34M&t=15612s
Learning Mathematical Properties of Integers
I should probably have put some sarcasm markers on my initial comment. I have nothing for/against FL, it seems like a nice enough place to visit/live. I suspect almost all of the new arrivals are there for the classic reasons. Same probably goes for any inflow states.
App for the Examination of Moles for Melanoma
> This is an edge case in my experience. We're talking immigrants/expats that haven't learned the local language (I'm yet to see a restaurant hiring immigrants not knowing the local language for the front desk / phone duty). Not that it's not worth catering for, but perhaps not at the expense of everyone else

I don't know how it is around where you live, but here literally all ethnic restaurants ( Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, etc.) have ethnic employees with the associated native language. Some are fairly fluent in the main language of the country, but a lot aren't, at all.
Music is flourishing - it's the music industry that has been destroyed by the Internet.
Yeah, it's still not 'very low'. The population density of the town I live in, which is not 'very low', is ~400 per square km. The county, which is denser than most of the area of the US, is 12 per square km.
My understanding is the latter list are closer to how tenets are used (per the article and from some arms-length experiences). The three “some of Amazon’s” that you object to are LPs and are indeed not framed as tenets.

I’ve generally thought of tenets as smaller in scope; “on this team/project, our tenets are _____” They would keep overall company vision in mind, but would break it down more specifically to the local situation, helping to guide people to a common understanding of “we have a generally frugal culture/LP, but in this case, we will value speed over cost in this type of trade off”.
Because many, many people are paid minimum wage: wages are not the same kind of distribution as prices.

I don't know exact figures, but I'm absolutely certain that if you plotted the distribution of wages, you'd see a hugely disproportionate number at or just above the minimum wage. Y'know, because there's an artificial pressure (the law) preventing anyone from paying less.

Housing prices, meanwhile, are not subject to the same kinds of constraints. They likely follow a much more normal distribution (though not, I suspect, a normal distribution in the statistical sense).
Anatomy of a Cloud Infrastructure Attack via a Pull Request
Please don't mistake POCO behaviour from a loud minority with what is (or isn't) actually acceptable. Loud outrage is not a good benchmark for, well, anything at all really.
One thing that maybe isn't captured in the "relationship transition" section is aside from "telling your former peers they have to do things they might not like" you have to also tell other people (your manager probably) that your former peers _won't_ do what's being asked or will do it on a later timeline. A lot of new team leads miss that part. In any sufficiently large effort, there is going to be N owners of N priorities, and all of them are going to see the single one they have as the most important and have no real incentive (in most places) against burning your team out to get their pet project done. That's where you come in.
Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward
Good. We still have some heart, even in the places where the leftist cancer is the strongest. It's good to refuse to be drafted into a kind of medical Gestapo. I'll never patronize a place that asks me for my medical papers, and I'll try to support any business that respects my privacy.