skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one would bat an eye if a Carrier Strike group launched F35 fighters to attack the Chinese mainland to disable missiles before they were used. In fact, this is 100% expected strategy for this situation.

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What about a Marine WASP-class assault ship launching helicopters to do the same thing (except cheaper)?

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What about a few Marine Special Ops units infiltrating the beaches under the cover of darkness to support those helicopters? If they're discovered, they could be "plausible deniability" units and arguably the USA never even landed in China.

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What about the regular Marine infantry establishing a beach-head to support those Special Ops units, but never advancing further than just the beach?

Etc. etc. Its a smooth and slippery slope. Its not exactly clear where or how to draw a line. In any case, the Chinese missile forces are going to be a severe issue. I expect at a minimum, F35B fighters from Carriers to be utterly destroying any missile-site they discover. That absolutely means attacks on the Chinese mainland.

Something like this is almost a necessity, so that US Marines could do "something" to support the US Navy. Its probably too much to ask the US Navy to solo all of China by themselves.
That's part of the goal, in a way. It used to be called Vigilante - no joke - and the goals remain similar.

Look up the Fast Company article describing them.
If you live in an area that primarily gets electricity from coal plants, the break even point for a Model 3 to gas cars is 80,000+ miles [1]. EVs aren't some magic carbon-negative solution, and the politics Musk plays to get raw materials are a net negative for the planet as a whole.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lifeti...
The thing is, smart people can be wrong ( or being bought ) as well, and if OP is looking for facts (things that actually happened) "smart people" could easily present a different version with hidden biases of what happened. I hope by smart you didn't meant "people I agree with". I would try to find news sites without opinions, or social media posts from people that live in the place where the event happened and/or opposite takes showing different evidence, most of the time the "truth" lies in between.
100%. Every Little Thing She Does by the Police has only two chords in the verses but Stings choice of bass notes make it sound like 8+, root notes be damned.
If he closes that guy's account, that would be egregiously hypocritical. But I don't see anything wrong with merely offering somebody money to shut up.
"they use their software nearly exclusively internally"

This isn't true.
Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released
We have more alternative data in our roadmap and these will be available only for paid users.
There's a lot to be said for Mediawiki's battle-harened-ness. What makes this so much better, particularly when both could be spun up with just docker containers?
The Black Box Down podcast has a great episode on the crash of the Akron[1]

[1] https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-2020-5-28
I've been an Android user since my first smart phone, but when AT&T dropped support for my last phone I decided to just give it a shot and get the new iPhone SE. I have a 12 year old MacBook that I got after an old job retired it but I never really bought into the Mac environment, so I thought maybe this could sell me. So I get the package, I open it up, ooh ahh, pull out the phone, pull out the USB-C cable, uh oh, and then lift up the cardboard liner annnnd nothing. The phone was charged, my girlfriend had cables and I could get a power supply overnighted, but I really sat there for a minute just thinking "man, fuck this." Not a good start.
The problems start with the AppleID that you have to share with colleagues ...
I'm not saying the current publicly traded, previous/future private ownership, publicly regulated utility, non-profit, or any other form of ownership and governance would necessarily yield a better result than others. There can be benevolent dictatorships and oligarchies and malevolent democracies and republics. I'm more interested in why we (US specifically) celebrate democracy in public governance but seem to prefer oligarchy or autocracy in corporate governance.
Cars/trucks, diesel-electric or electrified freight trains, diesel ships, jet planes, electrical wires, and pipelines, (and tracked vehicles, helicopters, nuclear subs, rockets, cable railways, etc. in niche roles), are practical means of transportation given our particular available resources, history of infrastructure investment, etc., but they are familiar and boring to make a speculative fiction story about.

Coming up with an alternative set of constraints where other kinds of transportation (zeppelins, space elevators, pneumatic tubes, conveyor belts, ornithopters, futuristic sailboats, teleporters, ...) are economically/physically viable is fun for authors and readers.
I like cursive italic a lot.

+ beautiful; consistent letter forms between printing and cursive

- better with chisel vs. round tips; joins are still somewhat complicated
We Have the Technology to Stop Superspreading Without Masks
considering how small a % Norway is to apple they probably don't care about eating the cost
> I just assumed Einstein-tier people had discovered all the optimal ways to do things by now.

This is the answer to your question, almost everyone makes the same assumption you do.

There are a surprising number of problems in computer science that no one works on because everyone assumes that other clever people are. Relatedly, people assume the set of possible solutions has been exhaustively explored because there have been no incremental improvements in decades. Or people assume the scope of optimality of a well-known solution is much broader than it actually is.

The vast majority of people in software never test or revisit these assumptions. If you do test these assumptions, you will be surprised by how often you find low-hanging fruit.
I tried the same with a mini disc player. Knowing what a product does and how it does it is kind of key though.
See also: oil "capital discipline" right now
It seems pretty popular to me. You're misconstruing "that's popular and people watch it" for "I agree with what the person is saying".

Many people watch it. It makes money. Anderson Cooper makes money. Ergo the market is speaking quite clearly.

For example, as vile, absolutely stupid, and wrong as Tucker Carlson is, the market is clearly speaking and he's quite popular.

Now if you want to change your definition or raise your bar or something, sure go for it, but without any parameters I think anyone on prime time on CNN or any major news channel is by definition popular.
None. They are noticing the NFT hype starting to die down, and now need to keep the ferris wheel running with something. Crypto is only marketing, there is no actual value created.
Dilute is better than zero I suppose. Presumably the play is that SpaceX might end up controlling an extremely profitable Mars colony, creating the ultimate gigaunicorn, and making that 0.66% seem much bigger. This influx of cash will also allow Musk to become President of Earth, at which point even those with dilute indirect holdings in SpaceX will be sitting pretty. It's a classic long-term play really.
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.04.21-162502/https://www.nytimes.com...
> tl;dr It's got nothing to do with being a BitTorrent client.

That's simply not true. It's got everything to do with it being a BitTorrent client.

> Microsoft uses specific categories and the category definitions to classify software as a PUA.

> Torrent software (Enterprise only): Software that is used to create or download torrents or other files specifically used with peer-to-peer file-sharing technologies.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/inte...

Microsoft explicitly include "Torrent software" in their article for what's considered by them to be PUA.

> In a background article on what’s considered unwanted software, torrent clients are specifically mentioned, along with advertising software and cryptominers. The article suggests that it applies to “enterprise” only, but the complaints we have seen apply to other Windows versions as well.

https://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-continues-to-be-flagged-as...

As pointed out by TorrentFreak, the Microsoft article suggests that it only applies to the "enterprise" version of Windows however as we've seen this doesn't appear to be true. It at least explains why some experience this user hostile behaviour while others don't.
It's not an iPod, it won't be advertised to a general audience. People that visit the TE website will usually have heard about it from word of mouth.
pirating psx games and doing disc swaps made me feel like a super hero. the xbox memory save hack was also amazing.
+1 on being interested in seeing how LocalSolver performs. They seem very self-confident in their benchmarks (https://www.localsolver.com/benchmarks) and so it would be very interesting hearing from someone with hands-on experience from real-life applications using LocalSolver.
I had a friend who had their bank account cleaned out by a wire transfer of 200K in the same week he is trying to close on a house.

The bank executed on their promises of no disruption to his transfers; they told him he did not have to worry and the customer service was so terrific, he said he was going to stay with the bank.

"Did you ask if there were other accounts at the bank that had been accessed in this way?"

"A wire transfer to an international location went through with no red flags and 0 notifications?"

"Can you ask your security department to produce a report of their investigation into the matter?"

Nobody asks those questions.
I remember making someone on arduino.cc angry because I pointed out that it was very unlikely that Omron actually made the relays on their $6 relay "shield." Or, if they were genuine Omron relays, probably were pulled off other equipment.

My first employer (early 90's) would buy large lots of "pulls" for a fraction of the price that Arrow, Future or Digi-Key charged for new components. I'm guessing those sources are still available, just not as widely publicized these days.
When you're one of the largest data center owners in the world, its pretty close? Its not like they're colo'ing? How do you define cloud?
Let's talk about supply chain attacks and backdoored dependencies
Yesterday, I downloaded from sourceforge to build, but then stopped and did apt-get install instead. I assume the binary I installed was built from the same source I downloaded. There are no absolutes.
I was referring to the future, the demographic situation is guaranteed to raise costs. I'm sure the extra leverage China's citizens have from their earned wealth will play/is playing a part as well.
Clearly a response to Paradigm funding much of the best crypto research. Hoping that, like Paradigm’s efforts, this actually leads to meaningful new research and public goods.
Servicing outdated hardware is completely against the Apple idea of providing an excellent customer experience, which requires helping you select from the current product offering that meets today’s performance experience goals
In Boston I do see a fair number of birds of prey. Most memorably I was biking along the Charles in Cambridgeport and stopped to observe one (a falcon, maybe?) feasting on a squirrel not five feet from the path, unperturbed by the passers-by.
No, I know -- that's my point. They hadn't reaaaally been tested before, and they probably won't be tested again for a long while.

Regardless of whether it is correct to account for the risks of globalization, it's very unlikely that people will -- again, particularly when those people are participants in market economies -- because the risks are so infrequent, unpredictable, and catastrophic that people just don't like to think about them.
What do the clouds use?
From a systems point-of-view the main problem is that there is no redundancy in a single balloon. Once materials are designed that are lightweight, strong and cheap enough to design one of these with many small balloons, they would be less vulnerable, especially in warfare.
Interesting! As ClickHouse is not the fastest in this scenario, we can improve it! Probably initialisation of clickhouse-local process takes more time than jq.
Hah, that is indeed a good description of most “Data Science” work.

At the end of the day, the point of corporate analytics is to provide actionable insights to improve a company’s profitability.

Descriptive analytics are the lowest form of analytics. If it is appropriate for your problem, and if you have the brainpower to do it, I am much more in favor of prescriptive analytics.

What’s better:

1) a dashboard that shows me inventory levels of various commodities at dozens of locations, from which inventory management employees are supposed to come up with a resupply schedule.

2) an optimization model that is specifically formulated for this problem, that runs every morning at 7am, with a quick double check (indeed, maybe visualized in a dashboard) of the output by a skilled human.

A company that uses the latter approach will dominate a company that relies on humans staring at graphs and charts.

If it’s a regular decision, it should be automated (with human double checking, absolutely). If it’s an irregular decision, a slide deck with matplotlib or similar visuals is fine. If that decision becomes more frequent, it should be built into an automated tool so humans don’t have to sift through dozens of charts and tables to come up with what will still be a suboptimal solution.

So perhaps I should have clarified my initial point. Most dashboarding that I see is purely descriptive. Descriptive analytics are neat, and absolutely have their place in exploratory data analysis and sense making about the basics of business, but are horribly slow to translate into actions as they must be filtered through humans who are getting deluged with visual information.

This reply is getting long, but it comes down to “what is the role of an analyst”? In my opinion, an analyst should tell me, the executive, what I should do. Or they should build me a system that makes this decision for me regularly. What I don’t want is to have an “analyst” merely present me with graphs and tables of my data. If you are not actually doing anything but visualizing the data, you are not analyzing it, and are therefore not an analyst. A data visualizer, or BI developer, but not an analyst.
> Rams look

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams
Blah.. it’s a bit like “What words you need to write a book”

It’s about how you combine them in a sequence, how you arrange the instruments, how you voice the chords and do voice leading, and how you combine them with the melody and rhythm
Wolf says shepherds should leave sheep alone
Everything in the enterprise env is likely MS based. Active directory, Office, fileshares, etc. I don't even try to integrate Mac's with that stuff, they are on an island.
In Portuguese, Germany is called "Alemanha". And "germanada" means "set of siblings". I always thought "german(y)" and "germanada" had the same root.
The point is that people would have the option to opt-out of or opt-in to privacy, when that makes sense. Not every company would offer those options, but no company can today, except for cloud storage where client-side encryption can be considered practically secure in many, but not all cases. For a database client-side encryption unfortunately cannot provide adequate protection.
This is the primary reason why I stopped using my bank card for anything but the ATM at said bank. A scammer wiping out my checking account is more than an inconvenience, even if the bank only needed a day or so to replenish the account.

Now I use a "proper" credit card for anything. If a crook manages to run up a tab on that thing I still have all my cash for whatever scrapes may come along.
Most of the tech here is about the servers & services. So so so excellent seeing a 1 man shop (now 3) hoist up such an impressive backend system, take such off the shelf open source tools & snao together such neat gaming infrastructure. It's really happening- small operators can diy a real world environment together easily-ish.

Great to hear a very positive report on the Kubernetes based "Agones" game-server operator. Builtin metrics that get dropped i to the other snap in observability tools... everything looks so slick, so visible. Plug & play!
It is nice but I could do without the bear that demolished our compost bin in the backyard twice last week (I live in town in a small village in Western Massachusetts). Seeing bald eagles fly right over your head with a fish they just caught in the Deerfield River is pretty cool though.
Hours and hours of my childhood were spend amassing Carriers in Starcraft 1, on moneymaps. My friends and I would build massive defenses (because moneymaps favor that sort of thing), then stomp the computers, inevitably betray each other, and have to try and wear down each others' defenses with wave after wave of carriers, battlecruisers, guardians, etc... Never learned to play the game properly, but it was great fun to throw around massive resources like that.
> Because you cannot simply call it a programming language that's for sure.

Programming language +
windows, icons, menus, pointer +
editor +
source debugger +
source libraries (including compiler, wimp, editor, debugger) +
graphics libraries

Back when each of those cost extra, Smalltalk/V 286 was an affordable development tool ;-)

March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V can upgrade for $75 until June 1."

https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA25&ots=...
Are you thinking of the "Clean Network" initiative? It wasn't a Great Firewall, it was about not using Chinese telecom equipment for the internet.
And I thought having less salty air makes it easier to build a fab ...
Thanks for doing all the research. I will keep this tab open and catch up on it later. One comment:

> Nothing I've stated is really that controversial and is pretty well known by anyone that looks at crime statistics. I think it is also relatively easy for the average person to buy because everyone knows where "the bad part of town" is.

'What everyone knows' is not knowledge; that's why we need data, research, etc (which you have amply provided). Look at what BS people 'know' about all sorts of things. IME the 'bad part of town' is usually not so bad, if at all, and it's often conflated with race.
It's a very significant part of combating climate change, without which there is no hope of achieving zero carbon, and no company has done more to make that happen than Tesla.

One can praise Tesla while still acknowledging that it should not be blinded trusted to always work in the public interest, and also while recognizing Tesla's contributions alone are not enough for human civilization to get to zero carbon.

Minimizing how significant Tesla's contribution has been relative to other carmakers', and in fact, the vast majority if not all other companies in general, is not an honest way of addressing these inadequancies and challenges you highlight, and suggests to me a motivation unrelated to environmentalism behind it.
An informal perspective on some implication of Monte Carlo on integral:

One of the most intuitive (and used in applications) definition of being integrable is Riemann integral based on the geometric idea that you can compute the area/volume by dividing region into pieces and summing them all up. Now you can (mathematically) prove that for any such integrable function, its integral can be approximated by Monte Carlo and the results are consistent.

Now what about the other direction? You can theoretically run Monte Carlo approx on wildly zigzag functions that does not make any geometry sense (i.e. not Riemann integrable), if the "probability" in the space is well-defined. The idea that uses probability, instead of geometry, turns out to give a broader class of integrable objects.

One interesting observation is that these ideas are intuitive and meaningful if put informally. But when you formally look into these ideas (integration/measure theory) it suddenly collapses into lines of terse mathematical constructs.
"you can't use your BIOS firmware video cards"

Actually you can, you just don't get firmware boot support. Plenty of those boards work just fine in linux/etc because they reprogram the entire board using AtomBios/etc when the ati/nouveau/etc drivers load. The Arm/PPC/riscv people are all running the same PCIe boards as everyone else, and outside of a few cases they are doing just fine not running the x86 option roms.
Even as early as 2008, it didn’t make sense for a small company to host their own e-mail servers. Hosted Outlook was a much better choice.
The loans have different risk characteristics than his equity stake, he balances risk by deciding how much of his own money to put in vs. how much borrowed money to put in. (There is no doubt a ceiling — how much of his own money he is able to put in — but there's no reason to assume he wouldn't invest less than that ceiling.)

If you have enough cash to buy a house, you might sensibly still take out a mortgage, and you'll need to decide how much cash to put down as a deposit vs. how much to borrow. (The bank will likely set a lower limit for the amount of cash, but you might choose to put down more.) Someone could ask you "why did you choose that number", and you'd give a similar answer.
I was curious about their hunter biden coverage. I don't watch it by heard they did a lot about stuff with China and other countries supposedly in their alternate reality doing deals with him that he may not have reported / paid taxes on etc.

I know WaPo called the claims there was a laptop with dirt a russian misinformation campaign. I think facebook downranked stories about stuff with Hunter Biden as misinformation. I think twitter cancelled the NY Post's twitter account because of this. So the misinformation got shot down.

My problem was (as a max dem donor) I worry that the claims that anything negative about dems is misinformation or an alternate reality means folks might miss some actual problems.

Again, glad to see Hunter was cleared - but eventually someone on the left will do something dicey that will be true, and then you start to lose trust if you call things you don't like misinformation.

Fox is doing something right that is getting folks to watch them.
Urm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – made up of 17,000 veterans of the United States in World War I, together with their families and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.

On July 28, 1932, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shot at the protestors, and 2 veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the U.S. Army to clear the marchers' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded a contingent of infantry and cavalry, supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.
We purchased the Server app back in 2014 because it was an inexpensive and very functional MDM solution for our corporate Apple products. After all, it was only $20 and we could easily run it on a Mac Mini on our network.

It worked incredibly well, but Apple really didn't evolve it much since then and we eventually ditched it entirely in 2017 for Jamf. Since then I've regarded it as a lost enterprise management opportunity for Apple.
They can honk a bit when excited or growl. Probably won’t see a wild rabbit doing any of that.
I think you are overlooking the use of personal knowledge bases, including wikis.