skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
F-35 has a few very strong points. For instance it has best available radar and other sensors, so for a country that does not have dedicated AWACS plane, it can serve as (not so) poor man AWACS. Being somewhat stealth and being able to carry JASSM/JASSM-ER missiles it is useful for the not so great army that want to attack the opponent on the opponent's territory (not really US army use case...).

F-35 sounds like a good solution for, say, Poland, since Polish F-35 (Harpias) maneuvering unnoticed near Belorussian border will be able to attack Russian forces, supply lines all the way to the Smolensk Gate (50-mile-wide territory between the Dzwina and Dnieper rivers), which is a main attack direction for Russian army.

Similarly, planes operating in the middle of Poland can attack targets in Kaliningrad - another crucial strategic ability for Polish defense.

Note, that dogfight capabilities (in which F-35 is worst than F-16) does not matter here, Polish or Finnish army will always avoid confronting Russian air forces in the direct air strike, as they will be outnumber by Russians.

Strangely, it seems that F-35 is much more useful for other armies than US army so no surprise US army wants something different.

Another thing is that F-16 Viper has sensors almost at the level of F-35, can carry JASSM missiles, but it is way, way, cheaper to buy and maintain...
> It is simply a certified, non-forgeable stake in a crowdfunded endeavor.

No it's not. It is not non-forgeable (blockchain can always do a "Vitalik" and rollbback whole database), it also doesn't certify anything because there is literally no space inside NFT for certificate of any kind. (technically there are a few bytes, but that's not enough)

> NFT's can thus be used to promote openness

No they can't. Again, there is nothing in the NFT to facilitate this.
Court: German websites may not set US cookies
> for instance DELL thunderbolt docking station are not solid yet

Neither are their USB-C docks. IT wraps the USB-C connector with tape by default, because it will otherwise break in 4 weeks after handing it out. It's a shame considering the price for those docking stations.
Who's point?

The whole point of Google, to some people at Google, might have been "don't be evil" at one point in time. Decentralisation was the whole point of the WWW.

Different people have different goals. Largely, it's just about making money.
remember in many part of world $150 is like 1 month income. People might have privilege to destroy phone but 90% of people are simply going to repair it.
This and not being able to track deleted records requires a solution like debezium.
Cyrus the Great gets a lot of great press. Partly because he replaced really unpopular empires. And party because those that he really didn't like didn't give us many sources.

Its very questionable if he was all that nice to the Medians and Assyrian cities.
>unironically quoting Pierre Sprey

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense
> The number of rubes you could convince about tulips in Amsterdam was finite, but on the Internet...

I think a lot of "investors" (gamblers) know it is mostly a scam, but are hoping they're not going to be the ones left without a chair when the music stops.
More on SLIDE for those curious: https://twimlai.com/slide-the-algorithmic-alternative-that-o...

It's a CPU-based deep learning training algorithm that beats GPUs for some tasks.
Two changes I would make:

* use -t ed25519 to generate keys, much more efficient for same security compared to RSA

* don’t use ufw. It easily becomes a big mess and is a pain to manage with ansible. firewalld is a much better high-lever firewall. Preferably with nftables backend.

If you have a bit bigger fleet and manage a CA you could look into using signed SSH certificates instead of public keys. That way you can provision access centrally without adding individual keys to individual servers.
I always imagine the board game as essentially being SM's Civilisation but really, really good in an indescribable way - with some card games inbetween.
Sad fact: Lee Sedol retired after AlphaGo defeated him.
I'm going to just go ahead and inform everyone that experimenting with psychedelics is doing drugs.

I do hope to live in a world someday where informed consent is sacrosanct and legally protected; and people don't feel the need to split hairs like this.
And where you are fighting. A fighter to defend your own airspace has very different requirements from a strike aircraft that can take out enemy air defenses.
I noticed that as well just now. I have to say, emphasising open source remote desktop when in fact the server is closed software is a big antipattern and leads me to avoid the software already.
See also this discussion when FerretDB was still called MangoDB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071623
I've had this page bookmarked for years now, so major kudos to the author. 5 years on, it's still the best of explanation of all the different USB-C modes. I would love to see an updated version to include Thunderbolt 4 and USB4.
You could add the matrix. We used to wonder if we were living in a simulation. I run often into teens running after VR goggles and explain they want to live tethered into virtual life to enjoy whatever life is possible without fear of death. And just last week a dude was too proud to explain that playing video games was better than looking outside because his neighborhood was too sad. Talk about escapism.
Forth is much better for creating tiny executables than C on 8-bit ISAs though, performance takes a hit because of all the calls/jmps, but it's still surprisingly good. C compilers on the other hand often create "obviously" dumb and inefficient code, at least in my experience (6502 may be better than Z80 in that regard though).
I think it's a bait and switch scenario where the institutions build something bitcoin like infrastructure but in reality it's just centralized infrastructure for credit cards 2.0.
> doing nothing of any practical value while greatly helping out with destroying our planet

Serious question, where does this line of thinking end? Gaming rigs use upwards of a thousand watts, no practical value in gaming. Watching sitcoms on a television has no practical value. Phones capable of doing things other than making calls have no practical value, but we charge them all the time.

Honestly I think providing an alternative financial system is more practical than most of the other energy intensive things we do these days.

The idea that we should do less stuff and be miserable because climate change is fatalist and just silly. We should be building nuclear power plants at a drastic rate to meet supply.
SaaB have been putting this philosophy into production planes for close to a decade, and it's been talked about a lot within the eurofighter consortium.

We don't hear much about how say India or Israel does thing but both have a record of performing significant modifications/improvement to existing airframes.
Embedded targets:

ARM6-ARM8, even older (STM32) in some cases.

Consider the places where libiberty and the now very long in the tooth RedHat Newlib is in use.

There's a lot of places where llvm is used but where a good libc is basically gone or is mostly implemented as a bunch of messy assembly routines.
+1 to boardgame.io. It provides very good abstractions for turns, phases, players, and partial information.
I’ve implemented small games with a few hours of effort, and that includes a UI.
hotels.com gave one free night for every 10 nights, effectively a 10% discount. Change in contracts at work means I now book with ihg with massive discounts over hotels.com rates and get the points from them instead, but before then I'd get several weekends away for free each year.
I wonder, why e.g. S-400 then is so popular. Even Turkey, a NATO member purchases them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-400_missile_system#Turkey

Why India has signed an agreement to produce over half a million AK-203
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/deal-for-a... ?

Even if we take nominal GDP, Russian GDP is roughly 17% higher than Spanish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

If we take GDP by PPP, then it's more than twice that of Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Are there other foods with similar effects?

I'm heavily concerned that this is a possible factor behind the stories mentioned at ritalindeath. It makes me sad that those grieving parents end up promoting crap like homeopathy for "treating" ADHD as an alternative method.
The monetary system in many places was already mostly private, most money is created by commercial banks and we have institutions like central banks with private ownership in many countries.
Well those pesky contractors on the east coast have to make their living. I remember working in SF on a salary I thought was extremely good when a defence contractor firm approached me with a nearly 2x offer.
Yes. We did. But it seems to be back now.
> In a real war there would be a much sharper focus on building planes that can fight and win. But that what the enemies of the US are already doing and it’ll be too late for the US when it needs the right planes.

I think this is partly because if you are not currently at war then you don't know who or when you will be at war with and what exactly the threats will look like so you end up designing for a range of scenarios. If you're currently in the midst of a big war than the requirements are clearer (but certainly not clear!)
All design trade-offs have a cost. In this case the costs are reduced usability and async struggles.
It also violates the single responsibility principle.
A cheap one that I had good experience with is https://contabo.com.
I had a problem, too. Intermittent 500, then Offline. Seems to work right now.
Did Facebook ask them to write this letter so investors still think kids are on facebook? With the kicker that the only reason a kid would go on facebook would be if it was banned, as bad for you as drugs or otherwise made to look sexy and dangerous.
Seems like an intermittent issue... Got one or two 500 errors in the past 5 minutes, sometimes just loads very slowly.
No, they aren't even close to what Trump tried to do - overturn a result and hang on to power after a loss.

This is wilful blindness.
I doubt rabbits are a good model for peanut butter in humans. Rabbits seem to restrict their diet to salads whereas humans are omnivores. Also, kids in north america at least, eat a ton of peanut butter and if there was a problem its very likely that epidemiology studies would have sussed this out by now.
Yeah an imprint of tears
Fighters with on board pilots seem pointless.
Mass beats intelligence
correct me if i am wrong but imo sspl is a superset of AGPL, because i have read somewhere that agpl fails if kept behind an api. you don't need to publish source and all that.

the problem with non-sspl licenses is, lets say with bsd, that you give the downstream developer the right to decide if your work is part of software which gives source to users when the concern of "Free software" is that end users MUST be given source.

when it comes to cloud providers, even if this agpl license is true, google already bans AGPL software but not aws but i'm not sure but that means they dictate to the end user with vendor lock-in and stuff.

anyways SSPL aims to accomodate even this loophole by making sure if you are a provider, you have to provide source code to ALL software you use. this means, for an end user you can't be forced into a small free software carrot but still subject to rest of closed source.

i'd say this is a win-win for end users, intermediaries and developers don't matter when it comes to freedoms of end users
County's infrastructure is falling apart but we had plenty of money for that piece of shit
The only thing scientific about astrology, even generously speaking in historical context, is the observations and measurements of what would now fall under astronomy.

Astrology in the context of personality traits or "archetypes", as you put it, has never been a science and has always been a pseudoscience.

Smarter minds than me understand the workings of quantum entanglement about as well as they understand the workings of gravity. There are plenty of things we don't know.
Most small businesses also don't do well with online advertising. For example, if a kebab shop near me paid $50 on adwords, they would probably only get $10 of extra sales.

Whereas if they print $50 worth of signs and tape them to every nearby street pole, they'll sell $500 more.
I like:

"If you were to go back to the year 2000 and somebody said, ‘I can build an airplane that is stealthy and has vertical takeoff and landing capabilities and can go supersonic,’ most people in the industry would have said that’s impossible"

How anyone thought they get a cheaper plane which at the time was "impossible" is beyond me.
If you're using solar, you're still wasting energy that could go into replacing coal or gas elsewhere. Fully green bitcoin mining is still hampering our efforts to tackle climate change.
I was expecting a picture of Senkaku Islands from Apple maps.
I've always found it interesting how many different basic words there are for "boy" or "girl" in IE languages. Consider the most common word for "girl" in each language; do any of the following share roots?:

- jente (Norwegian)
- pige (Danish)
- Mädchen (German)
- stelpa (Icelandic)
- famke (Frisian)
- flicka (Swedish)
- tjej (Swedish, younger girls/more informal, included since it's very frequent)
- girl (British English and other dialects)
- lass (Scots English, which might also use quean/quine)

And that's just the Germanic branch …

Most common words stay very stable across language change; this one seems to reinvent itself all the time.
> C translates directly to ASM in many cases.

But usually much worse ASM than what a human would write on such CPUs, because the C compiler is still restricted by artificial high-level concepts like calling conventions, and it needs to wrestle with instruction sets that are not very compiler-friendly and tiny non-orthogonal register sets. C++ just adds a whole level of code obfuscation on top, so it's harder to tweak what code the compiler actually generates.
I hadn't heard this before, and was curious (especially since the paper being discussed is from 1996, 25 years ago) so I did a quick Google to see what was out there. This paper [0] describes how Goldberg first mentioned the idea on the PsyCom BBS (which he founded) in 1995, apparently as a response to his issues with the DSM IV, which had just been published the year before.

So, I learned that today - thanks, 'bigger_inside ;)

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776584/
Are decentralised protocols really more reliable? I highly doubt it.

The reason the dollar is so strong is because it is backed by a goverment which will use its power to guarantee the dollar does not collapse. The same goes for the Euro, yen, RMB etc.

When hyperinflation kicks in, will a decentralised protocol step up and try to curtail it?
Potentially, I've looked at Asana, Shortcut, Jira and a couple of others and this pricing seems accurate. Are there some features you are currently using that are missing? I'd be super keen to find out!
I think the only problem it tries to solve is skipping the potential middle man. And "freeing" the people. To be honest, even though i'm mostly a non believer (but invested) I think there's a chance it shakes some of the practice of the current financial system and may allow for some organic useful flow between parties. It might also very well lead to nothing :)
We Cut Cost on 55% of Our Storage Without Deleting a Single File
In the words of Matthew Garrett "There are many AGPL projects where you literally can't pay someone money to avoid the AGPL. There are zero SSPL projects in the same position."

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1354698533094318082
its a bit odd that they don't mention any of the other projects that are being worked on today that don't rely on cryptocurrency, the "SAFE Network" being one of them
Embeddings to Identify Fake News
Already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29482573
The drones have a big problem in that they can be knocked out of communications with the ground support infrastructure using fairly cheap portable ECM equipment so have a limited scope for usage limited to friendly skies or roles that is being filled efficiently by current-gen missiles as it is.

The days when manned bombers played any role in the first strike against an capable foe ended decades ago, today's fighters are used when you need on the spot decision making whether it is to interdict errant civilian planes or provide close air support to infantry.
yeah, that's what I mean! The OS should explain the situation.
How does programming with "effects" actually work? I've read the linked page, and I understand the advantages they're claiming, but I don't see any explanation of what effects actually are.
so this is what Grimes latest song is about?
The real problem is government procurement program structures.

There's an insane number of layers/middlemen who need to get their "fair share". Congress isn't measured in budget but measured in "rah rah factor" and military know this thusly feed into it.

NASA during the shuttle era was no different. The shuttle was an absolutely terrible design of compromises given towards different military branches to gain funding.

While painful, the best thing was Bush defunding the shuttle program and pushing it towards privatization. I'll be the first to admit, if SpaceX wasn't around, this would probably be a dubious move and no better than NASA contracting it directly (looking at you Starliner).

Basically we want a "SpaceX of military fighter jets", which sadly can't exist.
Can we please stop with the "existing tech can do it better" that sometime technologists have convinced themselves of for some reason.

The whole point of these systems is to be permissionless and censorship-resistant. Simple yard stick: If your proposed alternate "distributed system" is harder to use successfully for extorting ransomware payments, then it does not do the same work, and it does not do it better.
The demonization of the other is a base tribal instinct. There's some irony when it comes from people who celebrate themselves as "inclusive". Otherwise, it isn't especially novel or interesting.

It is a useful tool for politicians. Like other manipulative techniques, politicians who do not use it may find themselves at a disadvantage.

A more interesting discussion might revolve around democracy incentivizing these base, short-term time preference behaviors. This calls into question the popular premise of democracy being a virtue unto itself.
No, we cannot produce anything even close to as capable (and versatile). There is obviously work being done in this direction, but what I've seen has at best been able to augment parts of the operation envelopes.
Can you elaborate on what infrastructure is falling apart?
The animation is actually 3 seconds. ;)

Understand how it could conflict with the "fast" adjective though, is anyone else put off by the animation?
Gaming and TV shows use a fraction of the energy to bring joy to far more people. Even if your enjoyment comes from watching numbers go up so you can get rich quick, it's literally burning through power and advanced components to do it at a rate like nothing else ever conceived. And it achieves basically nothing. Crypto is currently useless at doing anything other than making some people rich.
Here is the clip of the British F-35 failing take off and instead crashing into the sea:

https://twitter.com/sebh1981/status/1465351592018956295

No doubt a technogical marvel but maybe too complex for practical use.
> government or industry backed digital currency

That's your bank account and credit cards etc..

The whole point of cryptocurrency is to not to be backed or controlled by any single entity.
Or centuries. Back in late 17th century, people thought the Ottoman Empire will fall apart any moment now, but the "falling apart" took like 200+ years.
Yep definitely, thanks for the feedback I appreciate it.
NGS – Next Generation Shell
One of the best, and executed to perfection! You can sort-of-see the point coming for a long, long time in the book, as he gradually builds the suspicion by dropping the occasional hint here and there, but it's always so that it must remain a highly uncertain speculation until he drops the reveal. Just the right balance between "How should I have suspected that?" and "Those hints were too much on the nose!".
Our other uses (which may need to be curtailed, not arguing for or against that here) have comparatively fixed costs. Proof of work inherently increases energy consumption to keep difficulty up.
Ask HN: What do you guys think about adding a new plan as an offer?
We did that on black Friday and added a new plan for limited users (Which was a successful plan) but we are not sure if it is going to backfire and if it is going to, we are not sure how

Does anyone have previous experience with something like that?
It’s all still what I’d call “good advice if you refuse to take some better advice”. The caveat at the beginning acknowledges that this is a pragmatic approach rather than the best approach, and I think in the intervening time I’ve become more convinced that the better approach is the only approach: namely to automate a lot more of these things, which is alluded to at the end.

I’d also ditch the use of any shared credential other than the emergency root password, which should be locked away and not actually known by any people. Your mechanism for syncing ssh pubkeys (which, btw, isn’t specified in the article, which in my experience means it doesn’t really exist :D) on the shared account should instead populate the user keys directory and there should be one logon per user.
Corrupt or semi corrupt governments? (more than 50% of the world is impacted).
Just want to say the language looks beautifully simple.

I love how you can move a function definition from a class to outside of a class or even into an object “literal” without breaking syntax.

And same with variables, you can restructure it from a global into a class property or as a property of an object literal.

It looks even more intuitive and forgiving than lua and lua was already a joy
Ubisoft is bringing NFT gear to Ghost Recon
No workflows as of it, I'm currently scouting out what the next "big" feature should be:

- Workflows

- Timesheets

- GitHub et al integrations?

Do you use workflows right now, with which piece of software if you don't mind me asking? :)
I'll bite... how long can an F-35 maneuver unnoticed near the border? And if they have weapons that can hit Kaliningrad usefully from the middle of Poland, what benefit do these weapons derive from the F-35?
Yeah current situation is kinda similar to 1900s where dandy officers supported cool pricey things that had very limited place(horses) over more modern but mass produced and not so sexy things (machine guns and modern artillery).
A question to ask is: As long the west (the US) only goes to war with nations whose military is vastly inferior (like Iraq or Afghanistan). Then why do we need the F-35?

An F-16 will do just as well against someone armed with an AK-47.
I doubt it. It sounds like it has to be “charged” with visible light or something. That means it’s unlikely to be useful some time after sundown, or after being used. I don’t see a military springing for that because it would put constraints on the types of operations they can run unless it adds significant upsides (such as an increase in FOV or something). I do see it being more useful for civilians though, who don’t need them at any random point of the night.
i am! kia ora
Yeah sure but it's still better to lock the root account and create a sudo admin account for all root tasks.