skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That assumes that China just keeps firing an infinite number of missiles. In reality, there is some ratio where the tradeoff no longer makes sense. If one cheap missile can sink a multibillion dollar aircraft carrier, that's a good deal. If it takes hundreds of these missiles, that's significantly less useful.

Countering anti-ship missiles requires multiple interceptors, which are also very expensive. Tradeoff typically advantages offense, especially closer to land based assets. US carrier group will have limited magazine depth, and any missile dedicated to anti-AShM will take away missile cells for offense. Even hundreds of missiles per carrier group = a few thousands missiles to destroy USNavy capital assets / global hegemony. That's cheap.

>There is no logical reason for America to back down first in a game of geopolitical chicken, and everyone knows it. The only winning move for China is not to play.

The opposite, caveat being China can't afford not to play with respect to domestic politics especially if initiated by US/TW. That said, general trend of force balance has shifted so much within 1st island chain that US is no longer able to defend TW without pyrric costs. US has every reason to abandon Taiwan, because the prospect of trying to defend TW but failing is much deadlier to US hegemony than abandoning TW (for the 2nd time). US abandoning non security commitment partners is not new, modern US losing a peer war even at theatre level will is. The last thing US article 5 partners want exposed is US security commitment being insufficient for domestic politics. Or the scenario where US succeeds but loses so much assets that they don't have enough to honor security commitments. Which circles back to Chinese AShMs and relevant work on hypersonics. We're approaching the day where PRC will aquire conventional prompt global strike capabilites to strike carriers / capital ships in port, i.e. US naval assets is one deployment away from becoming scrap. Folks are preoccupied with PRC now, but the danger is proliferation of cheap, mature ICBM / AShMs to mid tier countries that eventually, even Iran and North Korea can stalemate USN, across the globe, with very little consideration for kill chains.
I've heard unreliable and whispered rumors (from the tech grapevine) that the accelerometer was a bot-farm mitigation strategy.

The idea is that a bot farm with thousands of phones on racks won't have some signature that the accelerometer should see when the screen is tapped (for example, when typing a message or hitting a like button).

I happen to believe this theory.
The SQ2 has been out about a year. It was only about 12% faster than the SQ1. Neither is a particularly fast chip. To make matters worse, most popular Windows applications still don't have ARM builds and run under emulation.
So no excuse for .Net 6 since there was no ASP MVC 6 right?
I know you're arguing from a very partial perspective, but if you'd read the 972mag article it's insanely clear that the accounts' testimony would be thrown out as hearsay in any real court of law. They weren't involved in the supposed activity the other organizations are accused of doing based on their testimony, they didn't see it happen, they just "know" that it happened.

But I feel like there is no use continuing to argue this with you, so peace out.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/visualizing-time-ser...
But why would you want to build the career of someone who just scans websites with automated tools reporting vulnerabilities?
I've been on HN almost daily pretty much since it started and this is the first I've heard of it.
The default font for emojis on Windows doesn't support flags — they're replaced by the national identifier letters. Frustrating!

https://newbedev.com/flag-emojis-not-rendering
Agreed. I think most people, even technologists, missed the problems that drove blockchain's design. Namely, the desire to decentralize administration of the ledger (socially as well as technically) and dealing with untrusted actors attempting to modify the blockchain.

If you authenticate all users and retain central administration, then blockchain's constraints simply don't apply.
1984 looking more and more like an instruction manual everyday.
Yes, this is exactly what we are working on for 16 years now. Longest running torrent, trust and Tor-fork project: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki

Its as hard as making a decentralised Google and decentralised YouTube at the same time. Over 75 master students and PhDs put their coding efforts in it at Delft University.
>My whole extended family runs on vanilla Fedora. Even my two surviving grandparents use Gnome as their desktop.

And then everyone started clapping
Putin is the richest person on earth because of the money Germany pays him to dump nuclear waste in the urals.
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It is about the tone of the message.

If you had instead written something along the lines of "for those who have mighty adversaries and who actually need this for their own security, one should be aware that things like hardware switches only go so far" and then an explanation.

Instead you wrote it in a way that I and probably a lot of others took to mean: even hardware switches doesn't matter.
Well that's great news!

Sadly, the camera is still a potato, relatively speaking, compared to ie Pixel 6 Pro or S21 Ultra.

And the camera is pretty much the main criteria of choosing a phone for me, because I like the outdoors a lot, and I take many photos (and I can't get myself to carry around a 'real' camera - or getting into that whole topic.)
I agree with all of this.

But if Xi's internal situation with his party denigrates to the point where he needs to take some kind of major action that boosts his stature, that is when trying to invade Taiwan becomes a possibility.

China basically gains nothing from invading Taiwan, but Xi might have some things to gain politically to solidify his position in other words.
Sounds a lot like some stories in The Radium Girls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls and those were adults.
I would love to hear about some recommended reading and other sources which could help hobby traders like me to develop their own algorithms.
I think you are correct. A couple things probably at play:

1) Region (for example, my data point is from Boston)

2) Framework language choice (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021)

3) Ecosystem (i.e. Microsoft vs. Unix)

4) Experience level (probably)

If anyone has any SF data points I am extremely curious.
> being social in permanence

That's a really important point. Joining an online community has become much lower effort than joining an in-person one. Just finding a time and place for everyone to meet is more of a chore than even running a small site online. Depending on the type of community you might also need to deal with recruiting speakers, storing/maintaining shared equipment, etc. My family belongs to a ski club, and it's a commitment in both time and money. It's not a full time job or anything, but it's on the same level as a typical four-credit college course. If not for the fact that the underlying shared interest is physical in nature, the online alternative would seem very compelling.

The downside of online is that the conflicts and competition for "internet points" often colors the conversation or even drowns it out. People start to show up who actually don't care as much about the shared interest as they do about having another arena in which to fight. Without the real-world mechanisms that tend to curb the most outrageous behavior, and often with substitutes that encourage it, the need for explicit moderation becomes greater ... but brings its own share of problems. In my thirty years or so of online experience, moderation and moderators have exacerbated conflict and degradation more often than they've helped. Just read the news and you'll see it happening today on all of the big sites.

The solution, IMO, is to pay attention to the actual science of how people coexist, and apply its lessons. What are the empirical effects of upvotes and downvotes and other reactions? Of showing or not showing view counts? Of hierarchical vs. flat conversations? Of content restrictions or moderator behaviors? Unfortunately, that kind of examination will never happen where "soft" sciences are disrespected, which is every place where these decisions actually need to be made. Everyone just flies by the seat of their pants, and most of them fly into mountainsides.
94% of people aren't current college enrollees and aren't paying educational prices they are paying the prices listed at store.apple.com. Looking at store.apple.com the 999 model is a dog nobody should buy because its forever locked in at 8GB of non replacable RAM and it comes with an anemic 256GB of storage.

The minimum configuration anyone ought to buy in 2021 comes in at $1400 for 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage or $1600 if you want to bump it up to 1TB. Meanwhile the average PC is bought for between $600 and $700 meaning half of people actually pay less even than that.

Here is an example of a typical PC one can find at Walmart where an average user buys their tires, green beans, and their computers.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-2021-New-Touchscreen-laptop-i3...

It comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB storage for $649 or 1TB for $719. I do not herein assert that it is an equivalent machine its not. However it is a very typical PC.

Here is another with 16GB of RAM but only 256GB of storage but its also only $449 and you wont have to close some applications before opening others partying like its 1998 with your windows CE portable machine.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Gateway-15-6-FHD-Ultra-Slim-Noteb...

Yes its a gateway. Gives you a warm fuzzy right.

The point is for the majority of PC laptop buyers the M1 macs even the economical models aren't competitors anymore than a Tesla is really competing for the same buyer as KIA even though the goods are absolutely in the same category. PC's are a largely a huge mass of very cheap machines with a minority that compete directly with apple.
Boxing body uses AI vetting of judges to restore trust
But now the question isn't specific technologies it's in entire domains.

The counterpoint is that if I am proficient in Ruby, and senior level in Node, and work well in Java, I can figure out and be fluent in Python or PHP within a week or so.

Sure if you had someone that was working as an aeronautics engineer designing planes for years they probably would require more ramp up before being able to work on ICBMs, but they would do just fine moving from Lockheed to Boeing.
This is probably the best and most relevant argument. But still - aren't the companies still pulling the strings? If FB wanted to prioritize things that got people outside and interacting with their community (and off FB), could they? It seems like it's always the humans picking the ethical parameters, not the AI.
Show HN: Launched a beta app that helps users save time and grow on social media
But that's not intelligence. Viruses autonomously evolve and adapt more successfully than humans. "Reasoning about [some] features of a program" is also long done much better by machines than by humans.
> Similarly, stuff like organic, grass-fed milk tastes much different than conventional milk.

That's because the cow is eating grass, not because it's "organic"

> organic makes sense for certain types of products where you eat the skin and all, e.g. apples, vegetables, etc.

I feel like that would be true if there was any legal definition of organic that meant "pesticide-free", which there isn't. Organic farms use ancient pesticide technology, which isn't that good and requires MORE pesticides to be used.
Imagine the timeline where Tcl, Scheme, xlisp, or any of the dozen other existing, mature, available, non-turrible programming languages was chosen for DHTML.

Versus the poorly conceived, poorly implemented, from scratch rush job based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Self.

In fact, we could have ended up with Self. Imagine that timeline.

Worst is better.
> Else those remote works are just going to increase even more housing costs (both rent/real estate)

I'm not sure that's true. Remote work does not require workers to be at commute distance from anywhere, and it only requires them to have a reliable internet connection. Everyone I know who switched to remote work moved out of city centers and into places where both rent was lower and quality of life was higher.

What exactly leads you to believe that fleeing tech hubs and urban centers leads to higher rents?
You are being setup. You are one of three founders, so you are in the minority. They may be looking for a way to revoke your shares. I would consult an attorney / estate planner and make sure your stake is untouchable. (see Balmer / Gates and Paul Allen for what could happen). The investors want less founder allocation as well so everyone is going to try to get your allocation nullified.

You are in a no-win situation, other than preserving your equity. Any short term victory vs the CEO will be short lived. "Win the battle-Lose the war..." The war here is to walk away with your sweat equity in the company. Being nice, or making someone else be "nice" is not a win.
Basic flaw in this argument --- the assumption that evolution is just a purely random event.

COVID-19 evolved to spread easier/faster in less than a year --- and technically, it's not even alive.
Yes, if 5% of your population has had Covid and long Covid is 10% of those, 0.5% of your population has now Long Covid.

With the small caveat that Denmark is a bit special as they have been testing like crazy so they might have less actual cases than other countries, compared to the amount of positive tests.

But I don't know of any great sources pinning it to 10%. Could be higher or lower.

Some samples:

50%: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211013114112.h...

Over 25%: https://time.com/6073522/long-covid-prevalence/

One more thing is different now, that many people now get a positive test result when they have been vaccinated. The percentage of long covid might be different now, if the symptoms are milder too.
For Android a fun toolkit to play with the accelerometer is phyphox: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.rwth_aachen...

My favorite trick is turning on the spectrum histogram history graph and placing the phone on a computer with a spinning HDD - you can trivially determine the RPM of the HDD from the spike in the graph just by eye.
Show HN: Document and automate your operations playbooks and business processes
Workflow86 was built based on my experience as a consultant and then running ops in my own start-up.

All teams develop specific ways of doing things - how they handle pull requests, respond to incidents, handle bugs, hire new employees etc. These processes are important, but they often don't get documented, rely on lots of manual handling, and jump between multiple SaaS tools.

Workflow86 is an all-in-one platform for building, automating, and managing your team’s operations playbooks and business processes. It comes with lots of built-in functionality so you can do more with just Workflow86, while still making it super easy to integrate with other tools when needed.

You use drag and drop components to build out your process step by step with forms, business logic, document templates and more. It's no-code, so non-technical team members (bizops, HR, admin, legal, risk and compliance) can set up playbooks and processes on their own.

Once a playbook/process has been built, you can run them automatically and at scale. Trigger playbooks automatically on a specific event, time, submission.

I also noticed that sometimes the problem is a lack of established playbooks/processes to begin with. So Workflow86 also comes with a bunch of pre-made playbooks you can download and run straight away in areas ranging from Cybersecurity to COVID-19 response. This is the other big feature of Workflow86 - the ability to easily package and then share entire playbooks and processes like a Notion doc.

Try it out and send any feedback our way.
Kinda relevant: Here's a thread about a group of aircraft flying in the U.S. that were trying to hide their identities by using the FAA's "Privacy ICAO Address" (PIA) program. Under the PIA program, aircraft can broadcast ADS-B but they don't use their real registration info, so theoretically you're not supposed to be able to tie the aircraft to a person or company: https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1456377882582798338

But because it's still relatively rare for aircraft to use PIA, and even more rare for a group of several aircraft to use PIA and take off from the same airport and fly together, they attracted the attention of a few people on twitter who suddenly got very interested in these aircraft and who was flying them. People quickly figured out where the aircraft where flying to, and realized that airport had a public webcam. As the jets landed, people confirmed the tail numbers of these aircraft that were trying to fly under the radar, so to speak.

The thread ends with the identity of the aircraft and their owner having been discovered, some hypotheses about the reason for the flight, figuring out which resort the passengers were staying at, and... the airport having apparently seen what was happening on twitter and sending someone out to put a plastic bag or something over the webcam to block everyone's view.
Of course it will run out of memory if it's taking more than 16GB of ram.

Most Linux distro suggest you to setup swap so instead of crashing it could use the swap.
I personally don't use swap, because if something is consuming too much ram I most likely want it dead.

I don't know what are you compiling, but requiring more than 16GB of ram for compiling something sounds lazy and unneeded.
Likewise you can use a browser extension which reclaims ram from unused tabs.

I can understand the need to have 64gb to do video editing or rendering, but most of the times we need that much ram is because our software is badly written and we don't want to face the problem, not because of the complexity of what we're doing.
A plane that's obviously not what it claims to be to experienced observers will only make people more curious.

edit: for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29152224

It would be just another government plane, but they went and made it interesting.
I had a fleeting brain fart. Thanks/sorry for catching it. I know Ukraine's capital, but what's done is done.
> The WORST thing you can do for social anxiety (or any anxiety) is to avoid trigger it

No point triggering for the sake of it.

You need to bring the socially anxious person in a very easy enviornment.

A scenario in which they can easily "win" the social setting.

Like a pre-season friendly game against a minor league team. You put 30 runs on them, and of course you'll start the season full of swagger.

It's called the "winner effect"

Social anxiety is essentially triggered by not being in control of social outcomes.

Repeated winning outcomes do lower the need to be in control and thus should reduce anxiety
I had much the same reaction when reading this, as someone who corresponded with one of these individuals this week.

The institution of bug bounties is structurally reliant on a huge wage gap between countries. “Picking the wrong country to be born in” is not a moral fault. Yes, many of the people engaged in bounty farming at scale are low-skilled relative to the average HN reader, but they are probably not low skilled relative to the average HN reader at the lowest skilled portion of your own career, and when you were being paid for your labor during that portion, you earned a month’s wages for this guy in ~hours of work.

It is also true that they don’t conform to our class norms in communications styles. That’s also something I’d suggest moderating one’s emotional response to out of noblesse oblige.
>to which I would ask why he cares?

Do you think he didn't think enough about the reasons he stated in TFA for why he cares? Or they're not good reasons?

He says, from the employer's perspective,

"$200k a year can attract people who actually know what they’re doing. Maybe a math or econ PhD. Maybe a Microsoft Excel pros with 10 years of finance sector experience";

from the prospective employee's,

"The aggregate effect of this practice being widespread is that talented people with unusual backgrounds get gatekept out of good paying jobs that they’d be exceptional at. ... The job post excludes people not based on aptitude, but based on whether they have previous experience and familiarity with a tool they could be introduced to and then master in under 15 minutes."
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> I'm paranoid about my devices listening to me without my permission

"Your devices" aren't listening to you. What is listening to you is hostile third party software that you've been goaded into running on your devices (whether by javascript, apps, chipset, or as part of the OS), that has been insufficiently sandboxed. Hardware switches are just mitigations for an insecure OS that violates its fiduciary duty to the user, and a less good solution than having those capabilities built right into the OS. If sensor switches became popular, then hostile apps could just refuse to work when those sensors were off - just as hostile apps will refuse to work if you do not grant them requested permissions. Whereas a real user-representing OS would allow one to designate that an app should receive synthetic data for any sensor - eg set a fixed "GPS location" and then add some plausible sounding noise so that an app couldn't tell it apart from a stationary phone.

But what is really needed for sustainable user privacy is user-representing software that talks to adversarial counterparties solely through well-defined protocols. This isn't necessarily workable for new innovations, but for all well established technologies (messaging, pictures, video chat, social networking, message boards, etc) there should be Free clients that interoperate with the proprietary systems. Much has been said about "breaking up" Big Tech to constrain their power, but mandating such interoperability would be a much better approach to antitrust.
This is a brilliant answer and I learned a lot from it. Thank you. I plan on sharing this with my kids and wife. Wonderful.
Except, it never works that way for houses. Banks are reluctant to give mortgages when the roof is EOL, or the siding has dry rot or there is some black mold basically anywhere, etc. Giant Corp may be able to buy quickly and efficiently but Joe Homeowner can't get his loan approved until A, B, and C are fixed. Good luck getting 3 different contractors lined up quickly and under budget while in escrow.
Worth noting that their public funds don’t return anything like the rumored Medallion fund returns (though they are generally pretty good).
In my case there is no incremental improvement to "stop using this solvent because no amount of it is acceptable in your experiments because of the artifacts it causes"
I think the issue is around labor.

When a contractor g team has the skills necessary to do a house renovation sufficient to flip, then Zillow is really just financing it. Financing is not really an issue for house renovations because homeowners provide the financing, or small-scale flippers self-finance. In any case a loan is really all that’s needed. I can’t imagine a contractor ever doing contracting-for-hire by a mega corp when there’s so much demand from homeowners flush with cash as-is, to the point where skilled contractors can basically name their price.
The Entity List isn't an OFAC hit, it's done by the Bureau of Industry and Security and is much less severe. It only bars certain exports, and the financial industry isn't exporting anything.
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Because not everyone has the education to know that it's dangerous. If you left school at age 12 to support your family (assuming you made it that far), it's not likely that you'd know what the symbol even means.