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> The missile-defense system work by using SAMs (Surface-to-Air Missiles

SAMs aren't an alternative to nukes because SAMs can be nukes. The (retired) US Nike-Hercules (intended for anti-bomber) and Nike-Zeus (anti-warhead and, at least in testing, also anti-satellite for Zeus B) are examples.

(Note, if you live in the Bay Area there are a whole bunch of decommissioned bases for these missiles around.)

> Having a nuke counter an ICBM will lead to far worse fallout.

Nuclear airbursts that aren't in close proximity to the ground relative to yield have essentially zero fallout (fallout is basically irradiated debris from the ground kicked into the air by the explosion.) It may or may not increase the amount of flash radiation, but that's a shorter-term, smaller area problem. But the US doesn't (at least officially, and I doubt this could be effectively concealed) rely on nuclear air-to-surface defenses any more.

But any nuclear attack has an EMP risk, and I don't think a plane is where you want to be during an EMP. Plus, people on the ground when a threat is confirmed have a better chance of being able to follow an order to shelter than those in the air.

From a civil defense perspective, “ground the planes in the potential target area immediately and unconditionally on launch warning” makes a whole lot of sense.
Signal to noise matters. Radar has an inverse fourth power (vs. distance) return energy. So you are dealing with -really- faint distant returns and much, much stronger close returns.

Getting rid of some of that clutter sounds really nice for performance.
I'm in my 50s, when I was young 15% was normal at restaurants.

The graph at the bottom of this article may be interesting this context, it's from 2014, but it's all I could find with a quick search: https://www.epi.org/publication/waiting-for-change-tipped-mi...

The tipped minimum wage hasn't changed since 1991. At around 88-89, the difference (in 2014 dollars) between tipped minimum wage and the minimum wage was 40% in 2014 it was 71%.
Why Covid Testing Is Still Difficult Two Years into the Pandemic
What's crazy is that all these (costly) measures apply to 0 risk travelers.

Think about all the things we could do with that money instead.
I like how the Japanese do it. No street parking. If you purchase a car, you have to prove that you have parking for it. The parking spot can be on your property or a rental spot, but it had to be accounted for.
I use paybyphone on the reg.

background: I'm friends with Kush.
Upgrading or switching the OS is a major undertaking.

I appreciate that Mozilla has fewer resources than Google, but having the latest version of FireFox working only on macOS versions released within the past two years is unnecessarily restrictive in my opinion. I'm an independent software developer far more financially constrained than Mozilla who supports macOS releases going back 10 years. It's just a matter of not using the new API calls shipped with each new OS release and optionally dynamically loading the API calls that are not present on all OS versions.

EDIT: My original post was wrong. Mozilla still supports Mojave. See details above.
Well, if you have infinite resources sure.

If you wanted to do a non-air and non-boat link your only cost-effective option would be to do surface rail to Alaska and then cross about ~80 kilometers by bridge or tunnel (which is about the same as the Channel Tunnel)

Sure as hell a direct tunnel from San Francisco to Tokyo wouldn't be doable. (The US cannot even finish their California high speed rail project)
NIMBY. Asking people if they want the poor in their wealthy neighborhood and school district is like asking if they want a nuclear power plant in their neighborhood.
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Thank you, I forgot the name of the ABM missiles. SAMs are conventionally used as anti-aircraft missiles.
If you want a payoff for working hard, become an owner. Also, your boss will always agree with you. ;)

EDIT: "become an owner" could be a startup, a contracting firm, joining someone else as an owner, etc.
Couldn't agree more. My trust in third parties holding my data is approaching zero. Anything that holds deeply personal information like this without e2ee is a non-starter.
Lions among other large cats regularly engage in surplus killing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing

A local rancher lost a number of sheep to a mountain lion that apparently enjoyed surplus killing. After the first spree, the cat was captured, collared, and relocated but it came back and took out 11 more sheep plus an alpaca, after which it was culled by the state. Big cats are certainly interesting creatures, but it would be foolish to assume a given cat would care for something, eat it, or kill it for sport. They are all possible outcomes, and depending upon one's perception of cat psychology is a good way to get Roy Horn'ed and end up in a wheelchair.
Great, finally one real example where AI can really help with this pandemic
Prometheus Stack Review – Operating metric system on a sizable K8s cluster
The US does have a modest missile defense system, about the size needed to stop an attack from North Korea. One of the launch sites is Vandenberg, near Santa Barbara, CA. Most recent test launch was in 2021.[1]

Those don't have nuclear warheads; that went out with Nike-Zeus in the 1960s.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI7o5exA0tI
> Failing like this also gets a lot of attention which will motivate people to fix whatever the issues were that lead to it.

That's a really fantastic point! What may initially be perceived as government incompetence is _really_ just a self correcting negative social feedback loop! Thanks for the unique perspective on this, have you worked in any of these agencies?
Top colleges sued for alleged colluding on financial-aid practices
Have a look at what the Mondragon Corporation is doing.[0][1]

This is an attempt at Syndicalism (sorry, another *ism). So you have (free) markets and you have exchange of labor for salary, but profit is reinvested and shared between the shareholders which are the workers of the cooperative.

https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/[0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_Cooperative_Cor...
I'm fairly certain they're using a mathematical meaning for bias. Yes, all preference in this case is "bias" because it affects the system in a consistent way.

If you're an engineer, you're probably already familiar with this form of bias: a system that always exhibits a preference for some type of inputs, for example, a computer vision system that always categorizes green-tinged images as "cats", is exhibiting bias, not "preference" -- as in this simulation, there's nothing personal going on, it's literally just numbers in a matrix.
In 1999 when I was flying all the time there were metal detectors, but when they found my pocketknife (not every time!) they just waived me through. At my "home" airport (DIA) I would park the car 15 minutes before flight time and then run to the bridge. (Back then I had clients who would pay for parking in the garage.) There were "controls", but they were very low-stress.
My reasoning is from first principles of dividing x resources amongst y number of recipients.

I want everyone in the world to have everything they want, but that is not compatible with the constraints of nature.

I am also aware that I and almost everyone else in the developed world consume far more than our "fair" share of the world's resources.

I have not read that book, but the caveat that throws cold water on egalitarian solutions is that we all want to maintain our disproportionately high standard of living while also increasing the amount of resources others receive, which is not going to happen without redistribution.
>no conceivable threat from a random North Korean missle test to an airplane in Burbank, CA

I assume it is more about anti-ballistic missile activity and not wanting a mistake to happen where the US gov't takes down a passenger flight(?)
Congressional oversight committee releases new NIAID and NIH emails [pdf]
I used to be greeted at the gate by my family when I flew as a kid. This was ~1983. Yes, people put 10 year old kids on flights across the country without a worry.

There was one scary time for me- I visited Germany, and flew on a different flight from the rest of my family (as a 14-year-old) and I didn't udnerstand I was supposed to exit the terminal. It was worrisome because there were guards openly carrying powerful looking rifles. The whole experience made me a better independent traveller when it was time to go to college and then travel for work.
For employees this is certainly true.
> I think non-residential street parking, paid or not, should probably be illegal. Or at least eye-wateringly expensive and limited to a few minutes at a time

So basically you don't want me to go there. Ok, I won't. I'll take my business somewhere else.

I personally never shop at small local stores in my area because of lack of parking. I go to the huge stores 10 minutes away that have parking lots.
Outside of restaurants mostly serving the unbanked, hardly anyone pays or tips with cash in 2022.
Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?
I have worked in tech for about 14 years at companies big and small. I've worked in startups, big tech, consultancies, and I've been a freelancer. The one thing that's been pretty consistent is excessive technical complexity (aka tech debt). Probably < 10% of codebases I've seen used proper abstractions and commonly accepted software engineering best practices. The exceptions to this are newer codebases (< ~3 years old), smaller codebases (< ~10,000 LOC), and smaller development teams (< 10 contributors).

I've pondered this problem quite a bit. I initially perceived it as the result of engineers compromising in the face of business pressure or engineers making mistakes due to lack of experience or foresight. But as I've become more experienced (and worked as a manager), it seems like a tech business problem. Tech businesses face undesirable situations that result in low quality code as a side effect. Examples include critical employee departures, hyper growth, critical customer demands, and even changes in government regulatory requirements.

Can this be avoided for codebases that are old and large? Does anyone know of examples of codebases (public or private) that have maintained a high quality codebase that is large, old, or supported by a large number of contributors? If so, how is it done?
Not exactly "finding out", but rather estimating. It's all about prioritizing testing through detecting suspiciously "good" and unexpected outliers popping up.
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Modern slavery is a fact [0]. Wikipedia specifically mentions Xinjiang. Wu Mao also has an entry on wikipedia [1].

You are calling people idiots. Please be respectful. This is not in the spirit and guidelines of hacker news.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29893724
> It's for someone to do the same deal of selling the default search engine to the highest bidder, but then commit to using all of the money for promoting and improving the browser instead of all the non-Firefox things Mozilla does with it.

That's a really, really minor part of the costs of Mozilla. Most of the money, by far, is spent paying engineering, design and marketing.
Passing an enforceable law against that will be a lot easier, since the companies responsible for self-driving car algorithms can be bashed upside the head with it.
So we are back at the point were some medical details are essentially made public which leaves a bitter taste. I am not so sure that there is no way to protect that data at least to some extent.

Most countries didn't even try, while some countries have at least systems in place that try to reduce the privacy impact. Will all these countries ever delete all this fine-grained contact tracing, testing and vaccine status data? Of course not.

In Germany it just made the news that police was unlawfully accessing contact tracing data.
Members of the security community whom I trust gave their recommendation to those two products and went out of their way to suggest not using other products. I trusted that advice and picked 1Password. Also, AFAIK, even though 1Password is closed source, it has been audited.
Bias is the mathematical term for consistent behavior in one direction of an engineered system.

The polygons are not people, they are trivial mathematical agents with explicit bias, they do not have preferences.

It is absolutely deliberate and not sloppy.
Do you have sufficient expertise in this area that would make you qualified to assess such a thing?
We don't want our anti-missile systems to mistake our aircraft for an enemy missile.

I'm not an expert in any of those things, but that's the best I can come up with.
> But Serbia's system seems flawed, the EU system has all the data encoded in the QR-code, including name, the date the test was performed, the sort of test (PCR or antigen), and the result, plus a digital signature to prevent changing of those fields

(I'm in the EU): I can get a free "gargle" PCR test - either via walk-up test centre or via collect/test-at-home/drop-sample-in-collection box any time I want here, and in both cases there is zero verification that the sample I provide for the test actually came from my mouth.

If you have a friend who is Covid19 positive, it would be trivial to get yourself a positive result.
Awesome! I hadn't heard of GLFW before. My main use case is wanting gamepad support which it looks like GLFW has.

From all my user research, it looks like nothing beats up, down, left, right, confirmation and cancellation actions, so that's all I really need.

Are those gamepad events accessible through addEventListener?
Haha, yeah, that is not at all what happens in a moment like this. Instead, as we are seeing right now, the playbook is to deny, to obfuscate and to delay.
I'm not an expert or even novice on military weapons or defenses, so this response might just be Hollywood talking, but couldn't taking the planes out of the sky allow for a clearer shot of any deflection missiles/anti-air missiles or something like that?
I’m just wondering what our air travel has to do with a missile attack. Maybe a concern that our anti-missle defense would hit a aircraft?
Or inherit stock ;)
"These sites should be penalised for click-baiting and they have been doing it for years."

If SEO works and a result appears closer to result #1 in the SERPs, then the "true", non SEO-assisted result it is displacing would appear further from result #1. Apply this across the board and what we have are many, many non-SEO results that are pushed down in Google's ranking. No one is "penalising" these pages, however they suffer visibility problems because they have not engaegd in SEO. The incentives created by Google's secretive ranking system and online advertising commercial focus are perverse or at least in conflict with the user's goals. Google discourages and even prevents any user from looking at results that were hits but were not ranked high. Pages that may not succombed to the the influence of such incentives may "disappear".

What if a user understands this and wants ignore the Google ranking system. What if the user wants to see the true, non-SEO results. Google actively limits the user's ability to see those displaced results. For example if a user searches for a common term, such as "example", she will not be able to view more than 200-300 results. Elsewhere in this thread someone also noted even with a paid API, Google limits users to 1000 results. If the user wants to the see the full range of pages that have hits for the word "example", she cannot do so. If the user would like to perform a single search for all pages containing the term "example" and then sort by some other objective criteria such as alphabetical by domainname, date, page size, etc., she cannot do so.

Under Google's model of the web, pages that do not acquiesce to an online advertising company's secretive ranking system may become nondiscoverable, despite the fact that they may indeed match the user's query. Computers assist us in searching through data but "relevance" is ultimately decided by the user. That is why we can have HN threads that claim search result quality is declining. Though they may be slower, humans can determine relevance better than any computer. From the disclosures of Matt Cutts and others we know that humans are involved in Google's ranking implementation. Penalties are used. The search process is not 100% math/computer-based. However, in Google's model of the web, filtering results is the exclusive domain of the online advertising company and only the humans on its payroll, not the user performing the search. There is no option to disable the online advertising company's "assistance" in filtering.
Maybe they've developed an intercontinental anti-aircraft missile? b^)
Dust also greatly degrades earth based telescopes abilities.
TSA PreCheck - The green checkmark is part of the name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSA_PreCheck#/media/File:TSA_P...
It's not about the risk of your aircraft. It's the risk to your aircraft. In an actual emergency involving airspace violation, anything in the sky becomes a potential threat for interception.
Who was paying for the parking before?
An atlas for endangered alphabets could save them from disappearing
Data centre outfit Interxion hit with outage at central London facility
Someone realized it's services and APIs are working faster and cheaper when not deploying it on a ServerLess platform ! yey !
Bad infra design. Move on :)
I'd recommend the book Creativity, Inc. as supplementary reading for anyone who hasn't enjoyed it yet. Covers a lot including an insightful (albeit very high-level) discussion of how Pixar's stories are transformed from these simple ideas into great films (lots of iteration, lots of early prototyping and feedback, etc.).

This article leaves the impression these were brilliant ideas that came out well-formed over the lunch table. The book led me to the opposite conclusion: Pixar has such a high hit rate because they have a well-crafted process that can turn almost any idea - no matter how rough - into great film.
> Knee-jerk "better safe than sorry" decisions often do more harm than good.

Isn't this kind of a tautological statement? If there's a low probability of high damage, and that high damage ends up not happening, then two things happened. First, a small amount of "harm" happens from the extra caution. Second, it did "no good" since the bad thing didn't happen.

So, by definition it did more harm than good. Which is a good thing in the big picture. To believe otherwise is to basically invalidate any scenario of applying caution to low-probability high-damage scenarios.
I did express my self poorly there. By "Sometimes they have no choice but compromise to pay their bills" I mean:

Some people will take a low paid job or crazy hours to stall for time until they finish a course or to save money for one. I did that back in the day too. That is why, at least some, I can't blame.

You are right on the second part though. Some people don't want or can't be bothered to try... and some or just tired of it. Either of these categories I don't defend in any way.
Updated and outdated reservations re: resrch on stratospheric aerosol injection
There is also a third place to go where you respect good design, designers, and their work. You learn enough about it to enjoy it, but maybe not enough to do it well yourself. You accept that because you invest time in other things.

You can enjoy music without being a professional musician.
Very glad to hear that I'm not alone in this line of thought.

Keep us posted on your SKU success. I wont pretend to be a wizard in the area, learning as I go along so stories from other ventures are a big inspiration.
I don’t really agree with your premise. Software quality wasn’t pristine a few decades ago. It wasn’t hard to find messy codebases, apps that barely worked, and developers who simply fumbled their way through code until something compiled.

If anything, it feels like common softest quality has trended upwards as software engineering learning materials have become more widely and freely available across the internet and we have so many more open-source projects to learn from.

> The one thing that's been pretty consistent is excessive technical complexity (aka tech debt).

Technical complexity and tech debt are two entirely different things. Do you think it’s possible that you’re simply missing the “good old days” when computers did less, Software expectations were lower, and it was possible for a tiny team to completely understand and operate a useful software package by themselves?
There were metal detectors, but you could go anywhere in the airport that normal people could go without a ticket. The security people never asked to see your ticket. It wasn't until you got to the gate that you had to show you had a ticket. So, if you were into planes, you could just go to the airport, go to any place in the terminal and sit down and watch the planes all day long.
...the thing that creates a better experience for end users often also creates more pain for the developer.

You mean I have to write a bunch of code for that! Yes, that's what computers are for, to do the stuff that people don't want to do. And developers exist to program the computers to do those things. Sometimes it sucks, but the product is better for it and life is a little better for some people.
>I would have liked this as a 25-year-old

I'm at this age and I turned from super eager to jaded in just a few years.
Hi thanks for sharing. What was your process of soliciting feedback?
The hover effect on the buttons on the home page are so nice. I haven't seen it before and absolutely love it.
This would be an excellent point IF these were like other vaccines (and in fact wouldn't even fall under that label without the change to the definition made last year). As it stands this is more a rhetorical argument you've made, which does nothing to address the actual unknowns and long term concerns, but merely appears as though it does if you pretend these treatments can be represented by broad aggregated tendencies regarding "vaccines."
> PLZT (Polarized Lead Zirconium Titanate) flash blindness goggles

Wow, I've never seen those before. The appearance instantly brought to mind the Bith cantina band from Star Wars. :)
It's not the 'owners fault' if this can be done easily without very specific and problematic actions by the driver.

It's a product problem, not an 'owner problem'.
The reality is that it's unreasonable to expect users to maintain passwords that are both unique and memorable. My password manager tells me I have over 400 credentials saved. There's no way I can keep track of that in my head.

To solve this, you can drop either one of the "memorability" or "uniqueness" requirements. Most people naturally drop "uniquness" and reuse the same passwords everywhere. Or you can use a password manager and drop the "memorability" requirement. It's safer and more usable to do the latter. Even writing it down in a physical notebook is an improvement over reusing the same password.
The original Uber "no-tip" model was just great. For the users but the drivers as well (not getting exploited by the medallion racket). Sad to see we’re reverting to tipping.
I do not want my access to information (correct or incorrect) to be limited due to others attempts to protect "mental toddlers" from themselves.
> it’s even easier to not spend the effort reworking your workflows and ways you use password tools.

Yeah, this. I've been using LastPass since 2012 - four years before BitWarden even existed. BitWarden actually looks excellent and I'm tempted to switch, but the easiest thing is just to not do anything.
Thank you for your amazing work. Discovering Rhasspy is what made me realize that replacing Alexa with something completely local is actually possibly :)