skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enrolling all NPM publishers in enhanced login verification and next steps for
SOME of the dive bombing at Midway was effective, a lot of it was not. This was the first combat mission for many US pilots and so their dives were slow and shallow.

Yes, it was bungled. The odds were hopeless at a certain point - which is what makes this operation so interesting to me. When did the odds become hopeless? October 1941 or December 7th or 10th or ... 1941?

For poor navigation - it's not all on the pilots, this was hard throughout the war for all sides, but specifically I mean that different groups went different places.

For Midway, I highly recommend reading Shattered Sword or watching any number of the presentations the authors have given.
> It's unacceptable work from our vendors and procurement processes… It's as if our procurement process and the vendor collaborated to absolve themselves from any responsibility by serving us such an aggressively unhelpul[sic] tool.

If subs were companies, competition would solve this problem. Some enterprising engineer says to herself "I can build a better VMS" and does. Since it's 10x better than the existing VMS, some submarine crews adopt it, and pretty soon it's in widespread use across the fleet. Engineer profits, sub crews are more effective and probably it's cheaper too.

But it's the government, even worse it's defense. So regulations and secrecy (some reasonable, some not) muddy the waters until everyone's blind, including apparently the VMS.
The Grady Hill House? Why do you want to know about that, no one ever goes up there since the...incident. Say, you're not from around here are ya? Well, I'd stay far away from there.
> the navigational software on the $3B warship is far less capable any maps app on your phone. The software, called "Voyage Management System" (VMS), is the hub of all the ship's planning. But it can't even do basic safety-of-ship alerting.

My phone can do "safety-of-ship" alerting? I'm the first to shit on defense software, it's my background, but map software for a submarine is safety-critical. While submerged it's basically their eyes. It has to be more reliable and trustworthy than possibly any other map software. Not only this but navigation information would have to be fused together from GPS as well as INS (inertial nav).

My 2 cents. Background in defense but not submarines.
I think it's pretty unlikely that both Google and Facebook are affected by this minor AWS outage, whatever DownDetector says. I even did a spot check on some of the smaller websites they report as "down", like canva.com, and didn't see any issues.
+1 for the TP-Link EAP225 and its brethren (they have a cloud management portal, but with just a handful of units they can be managed individually or via self-hosted management server).

I use mine with a Mikrotik RB4011. A very stable and reliable combination.
I should probably delete my comment, and almost certainly shouldn't have posted it in the first place. I hadn't read the article. I just posted an aside which I probably believed would be well received on HN because I've seen it expressed around here previously. Additional discussion of my top-level comment will probably de-rail a productive conversation about this particular article.

To engage with your presumably good-faith prompts:

While I personally believe that something I would call a mass extinction event is occurring right now, I'm not sure how it compares in severity to other past events which we've labeled "mass extinction".

Now that I've read this particular article, I don't think it's a good catalyst for discussion on the topic. It's not clear why they chose to write this particular article at this time -- usually there's a linked study or at least press release or something but there's nothing like that mentioned in this article, or I missed it. Perhaps I could find such a kernel if I DDG'd around.

Taken in isolation, this particular article seems to provide little substance of anything.
Every port on the machine, or every port on the container?
CIWS shoots bullets, which are cheaper than drones. Much much much cheaper than drones.

EDIT: CIWS shoot 20mm autocannons, which are estimated to be $30 per shot.
Going down the rabbit hole indeed... Kalman filters are Linear Quadratic Estimators (LQE) in control theory. Very rich field with very powerful techniques.
Soil compaction has been covered in a couple of other Practical Engineering videos.

It seems several people are complaining that a transcript of a ~10 minute video isn't an entire engineering education in all possible details of how to create retaining walls. I think that's asking for an awful lot. But at the very least let's credit the things already discussed elsewhere.
> I think the dragon-tyrant here should be interpreted as a metaphor specifically for death through aging

That is explicitly clear in the essay, yes.
With how quickly OS's and browsers update it reminds me of learning to stand on a windsurfer. Then trying to pull up the sail. Then control the sail in the wind. So many unpredictable forces one really has to have a strong and nimble base to work from.
You disagree with what I said or how I said it?
Anyone can create a fork at any time whenever they want. What they can't do is get users to use their fork and call it Bitcoin.

Wright has already attempted this: He has a fork of Bitcoin called "Bitcoin SV" (satoshi's vision) which he claims is the real Bitcoin and that Bitcoin is an imposter. Today it has well under 1% of Bitcoin's hashpower, well under 1$ of Bitcoin's price (and has fallen a LOT relative to Bitcoin), and it's now down to less than 40 reachable nodes. Most of the few exchanges that have ever had it have dropped it, and it has recently had suffered some extremely severe reorg attacks -- causing millions of dollars in losses to at least one exchange.

For the purpose of Wright's backdoor demands miners are irrelevant. If contributors were all anonymous you'd have the problem that they might actually be wright. He's even suing former developers like me, who haven't contributed for a couple years (or more!) ... really the targets of the lawsuit don't have much connection to reality. And the more obscure you make it to get the software the more ability he'd have to just setup impersonation sites to get people to run his malicious version instead.

Also, anonymity hasn't helped that much in the case of the owner of Bitcoin.org-- being anonymous just caused him to lose in a default judgement when Wright sued him because the UK will not allow an anonymous party to defend themselves. Ultimately they'll likely have to deanonymize to prevent Wright from seizing Bitcoin.org.

Addresses being private wouldn't really change anything about Wright's attack. He'd still demand to be given coins just the same. In fact, as of the moment Bitcoin is anonymous enough to severely frustrate his efforts: He claims to "own" 1.1M BTC but right now he's only suing developers for a backdoor to acces 0.111M of it, because whenever he'd claimed specific addresses for more he's gotten nailed by the true owners signing messages. So right now he's only going after a smaller portion where he can be confident the current controlling party won't speak up (the bulk of those coins were stolen from MTGox and haven't moved since).
Image Resizing is technically a separate product, so I apologize if this is off-topic, but it appears to be missing the most useful `fit` mode – something like `fit=cover-scale-down`. I never want to enlarge an image on the server, since I can do that client-side. If I request a version with the dimensions 512×512 (square), but the source image is only 400×600, there should be a way to get a resulting image of 400×400. Am I misreading the docs?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/image-resizing/url-...

Edit: Changed suggested name of fit mode for clarity.
In a way this is common sense - any selective pressure will force evolution. And it's obviously not an argument against vaccines.

It's pretty scary though to see that they've added a religious statement (I dont know what else to call it) about how this doesn't apply to covid vaccines at the beginning. The whole thing isn't an argument against vaccination, so why would they bring that up? Its along the lines of "well of course we know god created the heavens" or something at the beginning of an astronomy article
Metaverse Enthusiast Paid $450k to Be Snoop Dogg's Virtual Neighbor
Why would I want to triple my capacity?

Most people don't need to scale to a billion users overnight.
Companies will go bankrupt. Their business models will break down. Yes. That's intended. There's no need for these middlemen in the age of the internet.
To be honest, the title is misleading. The only thing the article says, is that some people have a plan to include rust in the kernel.
Steam has a great status page, companies like that and cloudfare will eat Alphabet's lunch in the next 17-18 years.
Very excited to read this series. Semi-supervised learning seems currently under-appreciated, especially in medicine.
> I had written a thoughtful reply

Ah yes. The fictional thoughtful replies that are as rare as examples of projects where blockchains solve anything.

> or the gap between us is bigger than can be solved in this medium.

Or, perhaps, the reply wasn't as thoughtful as you thought it was. Or, perhaps, you could post it as a blogpost to narrow the gap.

But nope.
This webpage could be a few lines html and css, but uses 172 node modules. 4240 files. The repo is 17.6 MB.
We Deserve Much Better.
What I was getting at is:

cpu: 0.2
kw_read_s: 0.12

is describing a single 'object'. How do you describe an array or list of these objects? Something like:

cpu: 0.2
kw_read_s: 0.12

cpu: 1.3
kw_read_s: 0.4

Do you use a blank line to denote a new 'object'? In JSON it would be done this way, and this conforms to how the vast majority of command output maps (as they tend to be rows of columnar data):

[
{
"cpu": 0.2,
"kw_read_s": 0.12
},
{
"cpu": 1.3,
"kw_read_s": 0.4
}
]

The other benefit to JSON here is that the formatting doesn't matter. This could also be expressed as a block of text with no spaces or newlines between elements:

[{"cpu": 0.2,"kw_read_s": 0.12},{"cpu": 1.3,"kw_read_s": 0.4}]

Finally, this can also be streamed, using JSON Lines:

{"cpu": 0.2, "kw_read_s": 0.12}
{"cpu": 1.3, "kw_read_s": 0.4}
Norwegian archaeologists find late Iron Age longhouses
I was a bit confused because the article picks those 3 items as if they're related, but they're just the first items of many from the linked tweet, and most of those aren't related to social media.
I started two music-related websites:

1) https://www.indieshuffle.com - a music discovery blog

2) https://www.submithub.com - a service that connects musicians with music curators

I make my living off these platforms (primarily the second). So in essence, my discovery-centric services are viable products. That said, I'm not sure that's 100% what he was after in the Twitter thread this article was based on: https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/status/1466078600822677513
Well, yeah, but those men could be really healthy if at an advanced age they don't need viagra?

My grandpa whom I've never caught lying, told me that in WW2 Romania, as a very young conscript, he was given a medical examination... consisting of the nurse fondling his junk.
Apparently they decided very fast he was healthy and the same for every other conscript, except for the only son of an aristocrat(most were tough peasants such as my grandpa) who would not get an errection.

A couple of weeks later, that young man who did not pass the "physical exam" got really ill and only my grandpa took pitty enough to carry him on his back to a hospital, where they guy died a couple of days later.
As far as I understand, no Wi-Fi 6 routers actually run Openwrt. The only way to get somewhat open software on your Wi-fi 6 or newer device is to use Merlin's fork of Asuswrt. Merlin is pretty big on not making large modifications though, so, for instance, it's very difficult to get Docker running on the device because the default Kernel doesn't ship with a lot of necessary modules. There are some nice apps that use the router directly like Diversion but I would really love a little device that managed everything from VLAN tagging to running little docker appliances and also provided a fast modern AP. Imagine an app store where the moderate power user could click and install apps on their router that all lived in little containers.
The best exercise I had in our sensing & estimation class was to derive the Kalman filter from 'scratch'. It's actually just the series of steps used to perform a minimization of a convex cost function, where the cost function is the inverse likelihood of the measurements given the data.

Someone once joked that all of sensing and estimation (and path planning and optimal control) is just applied convex minimization.
i dont doubt this! someone is accepting this work despite decades of submarine officers losing their minds at it
Console has lots of us-east-1 dependencies.
Betting on dynamo again
I believe if you select as a starting point, a point where the derivative of the function is 0, then 'classic' newton raphson will not converge (since you select the "crossing point" of this tangent line for your next iteration, and that is undefined when you have 0 gradient.)

e.g. y = X^2 - 1
choose 'starting position' X = 0.
I am very skeptical that you have seen Nick Bostrom do this. Certainly you have never seen me do this. So I think your argument rests purely on bigotry against a stereotype you are projecting onto people whose beliefs differ from your own.

Even if you were right about Nick's personal vices, it would be irrelevant to his reasoning. The vilest grifter can tell you the Sun is a ball of plasma rather than truly the chariot of Apollo, and the Sun will not transmute; truth does not become falsehood merely because it is spoken by the unvirtuous.

Such arguments are deplorable and have no place in decent society, or even on HN.
But given that a universal cure for aging necessarily requires universal distribution of that cure, isn't it worth asking if you're putting the cart in front of the horse here?

You say the homeless problem "can be solved the next day should we decide to"; but we haven't decided to. So either this isn't a simple political problem and there are practical concerns we haven't figured out yet, or there's a worrying gap between what is possible to do and what we're willing to do. And if there is no mechanism to close that gap, then you just can't solve aging universally. At best you can only solve it for a very small select few, at which point you might be doing more utilitarian good by just helping the homeless right now.

The current lack of universal housing, universal health care, suggests very strongly to me that curing aging is not in fact an effort that "affects everyone universally"; because I don't believe that universal distribution of a cure is simple or a straightforward question of political will, and I wonder if it actually does have massive social/political/practical complications behind it that are going to be very difficult to solve, and I wonder if (under a strict utilitarian perspective) solving that problem of universal access to basic resources is not the more important priority.

If we're all just working on our own stuff in parallel, fine. I actually think the utilitarian way of looking at this is kind of nonsense, and I would encourage people not to use this lens. We should not be ranking social problems in this way, it's fine for some people to focus on technical problems and its fine for some people to work on social problems. But if we are going to use this lens and we are going to rank problems, it seems like fully solving the aging problem is almost strictly dependent on solving the political problems first.
I live in the Southern US and it's extremely humid and hot in the summers.

Only certain systems are fine with being in the garage. For instance, a Supermicro chassis I put out there began rusting in a few spots after a few months, but my custom system that I built was perfectly fine. I suspect the metals Supermicro uses are treated in some way and then cut, but the edges aren't re-treated, allowing rust to form on all of the edges of the chassis.

I never put spinners out there, only SSDs. My bulk storage lives inside my house.

I have an HP Sandy Bridge Xeon box that lives out there and it's always super quiet, but I don't push it hard either. Raspberry pis are super okay with being outside. I'd say if you can make a small Pi cluster, it's a good fit.

I use an open air rack next to my water heater. I don't do any woodworking or anything, so the dust isn't too bad.
So why are we creating more forms of money instead of moving towards a post-scarcity society where its no longer needed then?
I'd place that as his second biggest error.

And yet... Stalin was going to attack Hitler eventually, maybe 1942 or 1943. So the pre-emptive attack has it's virtues. Could he have conquered England in time to get be ready for war with Russia when it came?

And, could Russia have done as well as they did without US materiel? (I freely acknowledge that Russia did most of the bleeding in World War II. I don't want to minimize that at all. But US materiel was also essential to them.)
SSH Key Rotation with the Posix Shell
This is as close as I’ve ever come to HN celeb status. I posted the “how do I get the original image” the article links to.
Yeah, I'm a big fan of his. Bullshit Jobs kinda changed me, honestly.
yeah 100%. I do wonder about the energy requirements though because intuitively they don't totally make sense. I still don't understand why it couldn't be used as an infinite energy generator. Is it really just that the ship would move without gaining any momentum since it's the space around it moving instead of the ship itself?
Former AWSser. I can totally believe that happened and continues to happen in some teams. Officially, it's not supposed to be done that way.

Some AWS managers and engineers bring their corporate cultural baggage with them when they join AWS and it takes a few years to unlearn it.
> This was an intentional placement. This locations was as far away as possible > from the nuclear power plant for a close local directed-explosion attack.

> It was then ignited, and ended up causing serious damage to the bow of the boat > and a complete loss of sonar sensing ability.

Surgically disabled by blowing it up.
you offer a largely technical[0] answer to a business (and a politicoeconomic) problem. this is a common perspective bias of tech-focused folks of all stripes, and leads to incorrect, or at least incomplete, solutions to the problems faced by businesses. some of those technical aspects support youtube's strategy of dominating the online video provider market, but none of them are (even collectively) the reason why youtube dominates. for instance, vimeo has all of those to some degree and doesn't dominate the market.

youtube's strategy (e.g., 'the reason') was to leverage google's resources to undermine the revenue-making opportunities of the whole market so that it could outlast them to domination. it used google's (monopolistic) advantages in search and online advertising, as well as its capital warchest, to effect this strategy. that warchest, for instance, allowed it to offer free hosting/streaming, something that was difficult for smaller players to do. google's dominance in search allowed it to offer premium advertising to youtube videos. google's dominance in online advertising (again, monopolistically) gave youtube an advantage in monetization and targeting.

in short, this wasn't a story of a scrappy competitor overcoming the odds to become the market leader. it was hoarded capital and monopoly advantage being deployed to corner another market. that is, it was an (unprosecuted) anti-trust violation.

[0]: note the broader connotation of 'technical', not limited to just technology
In my view, doing that is a poor test. Evaluating the people in real world context is the best. Yes, doing that does have costs and risks, no doubt. But, this is about personal agency being potentially denied. It's serious enough to discuss.

An elderly person simply may not find themselves able to adapt to VR well enough to perform, "as if..." and would be denied agency despite being able to drive just fine.
Very few organizations will willingly apply decentralization to their system when they make insane amounts of money off of their centralized assets. It's a lose-lose scenario in their eyes, so the majority of successful companies eyeing the blockchain are really just pointing and laughing. "You mean they can buy our Netflix originals and not have to pay us a monthly fee to watch them? What a joke!"
> large publishers would probably just wait out artists and steal their work

But it's public domain. You can't exactly "steal" something that already belongs to everyone, including you.
Not sure why this flagged so I vouched for it. Your comment admittedly doesn't add much but it seems like good context to correct an article title which implies "we might be headed for a 6th mass extinction" to "There is already a designation for an official 6th mass extinction which is considered to be ongoing".
I think people expect other people to be on edge, and some people are on edge, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is the first time I’ve been out in more than a year, and you’re going to be a jerk? NO! I get to be the jerk!
Impactive (YC S18) | Senior Software Engineer (Rails Focused) AND Senior Software Engineer (React Focused) | Full-Time | Remote | $120-$170k plus equity and benefits

Impactive, a leading progressive political tech company, is hiring front-end and back-end engineers.

Come work with us to build digital organizing tools for leading political campaigns and advocacy organizations, from the DNC to Planned Parenthood and SEIU. We're a fully remote company: work from anywhere in the US (or internationally as a contractor). Plus, we have generous benefits including unlimited PTO with a three-week minimum, revenue-sharing quarterly bonuses, professional development stipends, and more.

Find out more about our Senior Software Engineer (React Focused), and Senior Software Engineer (Rails Focused) roles at impactive.io/careers.

To apply, feel free to use the application forms linked within the job descriptions at impactive.io/careers, or email katy@impactive.io and mention HN.
Ratings agency says Evergrande default ‘inevitable’
Amazon is having an outage in us-east-1, and it is bleeding over elsewhere, like eu: https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Partes de Trabajo app Android - iOS
Yeah, that’s the “norms” part. After a while you get a feel for how long you need to stick around after you’re no longer part of the conversation.

All that said, I love how Mattermost is coming along. Open source + on prem is a huge win in a lot of settings. For instance, I don’t think you could use Slack at all for HIPAA-covered talk. Last I looked you couldn’t sign a business associate agreement with them. You could use a properly secured internal service for that, though. For example, I know medical offices using Synology Chat for inside conversations like “we need to reschedule Joe Smith’s appointment”.
Antarctica Eclipsed
Any ISP-provided gateway will be closed source.
Cisco products are closed source.
Netgear products are closed source.
TP-Link products are closed source.
Aruba products are closed source.

To my knowledge, the only viable open-source project is that one Linksys router/AP combo, and that doesn't necessarily fit the features someone might be looking for.

While it's nice to think everything could be open source, in the hardware/firmware world it's just not common.