skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The company projects that it will bring an economic output of $9 billion to Arizona in 2024, along with 15,000 jobs across its own operation and via demand induced through suppliers."

Between Lucid and the Semiconductor industry (Intel, TSM, etc.) expanding in Arizona it feels as if the area will become a sort of the Rust-Belt meets Silicon Valley.
Strava famously outlined hidden military bases.
Semiconductor manufacturing needs constant power aside from AC though, it presumably doesn't stop at night due to high automation and the capital involved.
If all national currency is doomed to fail what makes you think something like blockchain projects are built to stand the test of time?
or https://matrix.to/#/#space:ansible.im for Ansible :)
Industryhenge?

Amazing story!
It needn't even be in hindsight. There were plenty of us arguing at the time that this was a terrible idea that would lead to problems. From a user interface point of view, it creates a grey zone where it kinda sorta works but not in a bunch of edge cases and that's where danger awaits. It's like having no input sanitisation then hoping users just follow the input requirements manually so that your program doesn't crash.

It was immediately clear at release that it would be an issue and their initial promise of just making it better over time put end users in danger as beta testers. Applying those sort of 'move fast and break things' software engineering concepts to the real world where there's tonnes of metal hurtling around is manifestly irresponsible.
Jesus christ. The author said he needed the money to help support his wife’s medical bills. Show some compassion if you’re going to comment.
It's following some business wank advice to stand out from the crowd like printing your resume on A3 card stock.
Haven't all large domesticated pets (i.e. those that can't be kept in a cage) been used for practical purposes for hundreds of years before they became mere pets in modern times? Like cats were used for pest control and dogs for all kinds of workloads.
Excuse me stavros, this is brilliant. I have no real intention of using the service but I got a subscription because this really cracked me up. I love every little bit of it. Great work!

Or maybe I will use it as I have an account now. We shall see.
I would think a conservative estimate for n is roughly (number of surface-to-air missiles ready to fire in the battle group) + (number of hits needed to sink a carrier) / (probability of hitting). I suspect the first term will dominate.

If the battle group has one Gerald R. Ford class carrier, two Ticonderoga class cruisers, and three Arleigh Burke class destroyers, then it has up to 2 * 8 + 122 * 4 + 96 * 4 = 888 RIM-162 ESSM missiles and 2 * 21 = 42 RIM-116 RAM missiles, for 930 missiles total.

The carrier also has Phalanx. Three guns, 1550 rounds each, maybe ~100 rounds per kill, effective range just under 1.5 km - a distance which a missile doing Mach 0.7 will cross in under seven seconds. My vague impression is that these can't be relied on to make much difference to the numbers.

Maybe there are lasers and whatnot around now. Not enough to make a significant difference.

Note that these numbers assume that the escorts' VLSs are loaded entirely with ESSM, and that all the carrier's weapons can be brought to bear on the incoming missiles, neither of which are realistic assumptions. But it's also assuming the carrier's air wing doesn't get to do any air defence, which is probably also not realistic.

Anyway, given all those assumptions, 1000 missiles and you have a very strong chance of a kill. 2000 and the carrier is toast.

If cruise missiles cost 1.5 million dollars each (roughly what Harpoon and Tomahawk cost, although what things cost in defence budgeting is a bit of a metaphysical question), the toast option is 3 billion in ammunition, plus there will be costs for launchers and various other sundries. The carrier alone is 10+ billion, so that looks like decent value.
The current legal environment, sure. But I think government can and will change those things, especially while holding in its hands the future of massive corporations which show themselves willing to engage with a reasonable social contract. Gov > biz is making and will continue to make a huge comeback in the US.
Who invented "clickbait". What is the purpose of "clickbait".

Non-profits supporting investigative journalism like MuckRock are to blame. MuckRock is not selling advertising, but don't be fooled. Investigative journalism will just create more clickbait.

Whereas Big Tech companies have nothing to do with clickbait nor advertising. They are not spreading clickbait like non-profits that submit FOIA requests. Tech companies do not make money from clickbait nor eyeballs. Tech companies have sources of non-advertising revenue and legitimate business purposes that benefit society.

In 2012, EFF filed over 200 FOIA requests through MuckRock, for information about drone usage. EFF should stop participating in these clickbait campaigns. EFF should be protecting Apple from low hanging clickbait.

We should be thanking Big Tech companies not scrutinising them. They mind their own business, they do not try to learn what their users/customers are doing. They respect user/customer privacy. OTOH, these non-profits submitting FOIA requests do not respect the privacy of Apple and governments, who deserve to be left alone, to do their work in private. This is a basic human right.

Why don't people trust Big Tech. Tech companies have done nothing wrong.
Its pretty simple really. Just issue the phones with a custom OS that will instantly corrupt the application if it is installed.
I have seen interference from one part of set top box to cause noise on flash input lines and sometimes issue a command to clear flash on the device.

Months of debugging, dozen people involved, tens of thousands of devices bricked, tens of millions lost.

All due to a single line of code that configured flash to not require special magic before each command. This feature made to improve resistance to interference also hindered performance. Somebody thought it a good idea to disable to get some points for improved performance.
> I hate red squirrels.

Since most of HN doesn't know, there's a big difference between grey/fox squirrels that most people see running around outside and these red devils. I would argue most haven't even seen these, they are smaller, more skittish, and typically only live around areas that have a lot of pine trees.

For one, red squirrels aren't quiet, they bark and chitter all the time for warning calls or territorial challenging. They aren't social so much as combative. Extremely territorial and destructive to housing. These are the ones that will eat through wood siding then destroy attic insulation on their quest to overwinter indoors and store tree nuts inside the walls. When it's not pecan nuts rolling by in walls, they are beating the shit out one another or barking and chittering as you or your pets are nearby. Sound, smells, ultrasonic, predator calls, all ineffective to get them to leave a space once they settle in. If they have young, you can't remove (either by relocation, plugging up the hole they made, or killing) until the young is out or they'll die and stink up the house. Even if you do plug a hole, they'll spend days trying to get back in barking and scratching the whole time.

I can't think of a wild animal I hate more. Exterminators don't have a high success rate against them, traps are rarely effective (and they learn fast if they escape), and the amount of damage they cause is obscene.
The lack of clearly displayed specifications suggests that the product managers in charge of this product believe that this product will be unappealing to potential customers who look for specifications.
Server side copy only works within the same service provider, not across service providers.
In the productivity jargon, first things first.

Which is right. You can't develop useful atomic habits without knowing their intended use.
yes. synapse’s reaource usage has reduced massively in the last few months.
This is a much better framing of the problem. And a much clearer case for automation.
It's tempting to dismiss this as superstition, but have any studies been done to determine whether or not bees can identify specific humans? Cats and dogs certainly have the capacity to mourn. It would certainly be a surprise to learn that bees could mourn a human as well, but I don't think it's completely out of the question.
The TikTok app may have camera access and location access. It could capture images and send them to China when it detects its on a military base without the user even knowing. It’s so annoying to see “what about X” comments on every story with almost no thought put into the response.
There is nothing wrong with using your phone for GPS. You just need to also use a mapping program that is optimized for offline usage such as OnX [0].

[0]: https://www.onxmaps.com/
The Cochrane review only looked at randomised placebo-controlled trials. That's reasonable, and a good and necessary thing to do. But by definition it hasn't looked at non-randomised trials, or pragmatic trials (i.e. under "real world" conditions) or circumstances where a "pure placebo" is impossible or unethical (e.g. suicide prevention programs, pregnancy termination procedures, etc).

It also does point out that "pure placebo" can have a small but real effect.

Clinically meaningful effects are important: if patients feel that something doesn't work well or they don't like it, then it doesn't matter how convincing the statistical analysis is, the intervention will have poor uptake.

Outside of pharmacology trials, "pure placebo" is rare. Every intervention contains a degree of placebo and nocebo. This is normal and we shouldn't seek to deny it, or we risk wasting resources on meticulously designed interventions that work well in tightly controlled lab conditions but fail horribly in the real world.

Caveat: I fully believe that most modern medicine generally works (although often not for the reasons we think) and wouldn't want my comment to be misconstrued as bashing medicine.
I'm highly skeptical that static analysis of maximum stack depth will work, because of higher-order functions.
The Great Fealty Test
Precisely, if Mark Zuckerberg could delete pictures from the internet the photo of him wearing sunscreen[1] would never have been allowed to spawn so many memes.

1. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-04/27/2...
This is the first time I've ever heard anyone refer to the Houbei-class missile boats as "stealth ships". The author, HI Sutton, has a very good reputation for his knowledge of submarines so this seems like an odd "miss" from him, IMO....Working some basic low-observable features into your superstructure design is common for any vessel these days.

Cool satellite imagery though. 50cm resolution? I wish I could get my hands on some free global elevation data with <1m resolutions....
Apple: FY 21 Fourth Quarter Results
If you're using user namespaces and allowing a previous root only API to be used by a user, it's possible that some escape in that which provides root access (which wouldn't be as huge a deal if it was only ever able to be run as root) allows root level escalation outside the container.

That intermixes with security concerns about what's possible if running as root directly in different ways, and be more or less problematic than a root container depending on the use case, and also more or less likely based on how well those APIs are exercised for the specific use case.

It's not that these should be avoided, it's just that people should be aware that it's not necessarily a pure security increase at the expense of a bit of extra CPU due to kernel checks. There's a bit to consider. Maybe later everyone will consider this tested enough that's it's mostly a pure win. Maybe it's already at that point but people haven't internalized it. I don't know enough to know what stage we're at, but I thought it was worth mentioning, as it took me by surprise when I learned of it.
You’re missing the point. The GP was commenting on their impression of the slant the article was taking (and I agree with their point there). They were not suggesting the article’s slant was correct, in fact they specifically stated that they disliked the way the article was slanted.

Maybe they could have been more explicit in the way they worded their reply. But I think given the question they were responding to and the typical audience of this forum, it should have been obvious to most people that the GP wasn’t trying to imply pictures can be deleted from the internet. Or at least obvious to anyone that read the OPs question and the source article.
Are there any modern tech magazines that capture anything similar to the wonder of these, instead of feeling like a collections of advertisements and ego pieces on Elon Musk?
I worked for satellite television. One of our servers would freak out once a year. It was found that the actual satellite was in line with sun at that time causing large amount if power sent over cable close to the server due to need to use backup antenna.
But that’s the only argument they have
Assuming that the water supply holds up. Unfortunately one of the largest semiconductor inputs is clean water.
Do they anywhere? My neighbor works at a government facility for building and repairing … machines and he surrenders his phone every morning. Something smells weird here, but I suppose not everywhere has perfect security all the time. I just wouldn’t want to be the person that proved that.
Part of the reason squirrels went out of vogue was crop damage - there was a large campaign in California to hunt squirrels in the early 20th century:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-1918-california-dra...
If you go to here to the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/boysbookofindust00noyc and view or download the book titled The boy's book of industrial information by Elisha Noyce published in 1858 — note I said 1858 - 163 years ago — and then turn to (book page 58, not the PDF #) then on the topic of WHITE LEAD you'll read this amazing statement:

"White lead is a very poisonous substance, and produces the disease called painters' colic, when taken into the system in minute quantities and for a long time, so that all who have much to do with this dangerous substance, as house-painters and artists, should be extremely careful that their hands are well washed frequently, and especially before going to meals. Cisterns of lead, used for containing water, very soon become coated inside with a thin flim (sic) of sulphate of lead, this prevents the water from acting further on the lead, and the water from such cisterns is never found to be poisonous; but, if distilled water were used, it would act rapidly on the lead, corroding it, and causing a deposit in the water of white lead, which would render such water dangerous in the extreme."

Remember this book was written for the information of boys; it wasn't in a new learned research paper from the Royal Society, etc. which means that 163 years ago it was very common knowledge that lead was very toxic. So how the fuck did we get to the point where we let the likes of Thomas Midgley Jr. and Big Industry introduce tetraethyllead - leaded gasoline ca 1923 and then pollute the world for another 70 or so years? Why weren't there more stringent regulations on white lead in paints, especially during its removal (somewhat like the asbestos regulations of today)? I acknowledge that avoiding lead in paint until about the mid 20th Century would have been difficult but at least some attempt to reduce its spread much earlier than when it was removed from paint should have been undertaken.

This is the same old story with industry doing its thing and to hell with the consequences. Lead was known to be dangerous in Roman times, so was mercury and asbestos and some 2000 years later we're still cursed with the mismanagement of these dangerous substance. Moreover, it doesn't stop there, we knew cigarettes and tobacco were dangerous long before the 1950s and see the fight we had over that. ...And there are many more such examples without even having to look for them.

It's a never-ending battle with Big Industry, Monsanto, Bayer, etc, etc. I'm beginning to think it'll never end whilst we have the current political mindset.

BTW, there's some truth to the 'cisterns of lead' being less poisonous although that wouldn't be tolerated these days. Not that long ago I've stayed in houses with lead water pipes. As far as I know they've not been changed, so until recently it was a common practice to use lead for water distribution. However, note carefully Noyce's caveat about the type of water that should be stored within them.
Yeah, unfortunately the image is really hard to read because it's so blurry. =/ Please try to fix it!
Did you watch the video? Someone is clearly recording this object intentionally. The camera pans and zooms to follow the truck. Whether this is secretly being sent to China via TikTok is somewhat irrelevant if an individual is breaking protocol by intentionally taking video on their smartphone.
>It's not clear why TikTok is singled out here, this could just has easily been posted to Facebook or Instagram or one of the other myriad of social media platforms, or pushed automatically to someone's open photo album in the cloud.

There's an additional layer here that's often ignored: that specific piece of information that leaked is the same regardless of what platform it was released on, but if it was released on a foreign government controlled platform, that government might start monitoring aspects of data being collected by TikTok that aren't being posted for the user or look at historical data if it's being collected. More detailed location data, who their friends are, where they typically go, and so on. Not all of that additional data is probably going to be available to them on Facebook, just the video. The information in the video may be more valuable when it's incorporated with a series of other data points that may be attainable from TikTok for that now closely monitored account.

Sharing this information to begin with isn't good but it's even worse if you're now potentially leaking additional data unknowingly. Maybe the guy who recorded that begins taking photos at some specific base, maybe their TikTok friends include some coworkers that include some videos in on a boat in the South China Sea... it's possible to start linking more information together that could be valuable to an adversary.
> I heard on reddit that some thought it could potentially be the fuselage for the new B-21 Raider, the replacement for the B-2 bomber that already kinda looks like a pretty futuristic aircraft.

I thought the B-21 was going to be a pretty conservative program, so it's design will mostly follow the B-2's. It's a weird angle, but this doesn't really look like that to me.
Must be for the remake.
The only people asking for this are Accenture or IBM or whatever software company is trying to get a fat contract to pitch some multi-billion dollar monstrosity to a premier that sees the job as a way to enrich himself and his friends. I actually had high hopes for Ontario after they changed governments but only understood recently that Doug Ford is the worst kind of populist because he doesnt actually have any principles, he just cares about using government money for his own purposes (in the sense that an entitled CEO would do the same with his position by rewarding his friends and taking advantage of the perks) and getting elected.
Show HN: Siftrics
How to use a lot of water:

a) Water the lawn (in the summer)

b) Take a long shower
I was responding to the comment asking why TikTok should be banned vs. other social media.
Is Apple's investor relations website powered by Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)?
There's overhead to a process that doesn't exist with threads. You can definitely split your work across threads in JS using Workers, ServiceWorkers and the main thread. Most apps don't take advantage of this very well though.

Using a separate thread gets you the same GC benefits.

There have been some attempts to make it easier to use threads on the web like the excellent Comlink library:
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
IC part numbers. Service manuals for various equipment (now all you get are sites which may or may not have one, but are willing to collect your $$$). Error codes (filled with pages of results for a different code).
Not discounting the possibility wages have declined. However, just comparing hourly rate in trucking is over-simplifying. Does the company cover any expenses? Does the driver own the cab? Is there a federal mandate on rest hours per day/week/month? And it is always misleading to compare wages "in today's dollars" as if every item and wage and asset inflates perfectly evenly.
> The promise of this technology being on the horizon has led to pressure from the trucking companies to keep their costs down, lest they be replaced.

I have a strong suspicion that the pressure from another company willing to haul for a nickel a mile less is 100x a stronger pressure on costs than the future promise of a not-sure-when self-driving technology.
6th paragraph, he was already fully insured at his previous job.
A visual interface for writing and evaluating ClojureScript
Facebook will eventually lose market share to one of these. The more the merrier.
Indiana Jones discovering the location of the Ark.
From a tweet[0] in the article:

> I showed this to Gen Mark Kelly, Air Combat Command chief. His immediate reply was that he had no idea what it was. And then he took my laptop and stared at it for about 20 seconds. His expression was (WARNING: my impression) somewhere between confused and impressed.

Idea: He was confused because it wasn't lensing. It's probably a target drone for craft which can lense, and which are dropped off at their destinations not by truck, but by theoretical gravity physics.

(The above is tongue in cheek)

0. https://twitter.com/TheDEWLine/status/1440806852560707587
Detecting anomaly and fake is the foremost killer application of AI. Given enough 'ground truth' data with enough details and dimensions, AI algorithms should be able to spot anomaly or fake much better than any human and it can be easily scalable unlike human.

Ironically, however, the thing that make AI popular to the mass is deepfake. For this purpose, AI is then being used recursively to accurately create and detect deepfake in a useless vicious cycle.
So the same prey saturation strategy as cicadas? I wonder if that also produces a prime-number cycle preference
Yet another feature of Amiga that we don't have in more "modern" systems. You can actually tell the OS how big of a stack to provide to a new task and it'll provide it.
love this app and especially the api integrations
Insurance does not cover everything. There is a wide variety in coverage.
I've been following the IceStorm project for a while and it's some really impressive work. Now if only we could get a decent open source SystemVerilog simulator to go along with it. As someone who works in the ASIC design world, the thing that makes my side projects die out is usually the state of the open source simulation tools. I have tried to use both Verilator and Icarus, and both have so many limitations and quirks beyond what I'm used to with the commercial tools gave up on them.

I keep telling myself I need to dig into their source code and start fixing problems, but going from user to developer on these kinds of tools is a big jump.
that's pretty non-sequitur to the situation at hand to the point of wondering why it's being mentioned.
Yes. I was agreeing with the parent comment that the social media platform is irrelevant. Presumably, video taken of secret military hardware is not ok in any circumstance. It's the smartphone, the attached camera, and the individual that is at fault.