skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Believe your lyin’ eyes this time. Pictures of rusty underway US Navy warships is evidence.

Another evidence point is the poisoning of Hawaii’s water supply with tens of thousands of gallons of jet fuel when a maintenance worker bumped into a cob-job PVC pipe in a tunnel. Thousands of people poisoned and I imagine leaky jet fuel tanks aren’t t great for fleet readiness. The commander who oversaw that disaster was promoted.
> It's fine that this is all new to you, but it's not new to you because anyone has kept this secret. At this point, you've chosen to remain ignorant.

Ah yes. Blame the user for not understanding yet another piece in Google's gargantuan data collecting machinery.

Recent court cases revealed that Google's own employees don't know what's tracked and how to turn it off. But I'm sure it's only ignorance that keeps users uninformed.
I think it's a memory bandwidth thing - a shift in the ratio between on and off chip access penalty. One could imagine though, an implementation with a lot of on-chip topN-of-stack and renaming, but I'm not aware of such.
> Calling the cops on an unattended child" is so very HOA-cul-de-sac American that it's hard to even fathom for a non-American.

It's really not. It's not something that really happens anywhere with frequency, and suburbs are the places you're most likely to see kids roaming around on their own. It's rarer than it was a generation ago, but it's still there.
The point of an LVT is to incentivize the efficient use of land and to compensate the public for the recognition of exclusionary title to use of a location. This doesn't change based on who it is that is using the land or what they are using it for. Take a $20 million plot of land in LA; it makes no sense to exempt a person with a mansion there from paying a tax and penalizing a developer who builds a huge apartment building that can house 50 families! By keeping the LVT flat and not exempting particular uses, you avoid distorting the market and- in the case of a homestead exemption- punishing people who build apartments over single family homes, etc.
because this one is flawed and comes with some racist presumptions made by the people that originally correlated the data (the presumption being that black people moving into a neighborhood decreases property values... a particularly white-biased correlation without causation)
The US will be pushing hard for WW3.
I don't want to hijack this post but I wanted to let people know I am running a Fairphone 4 (5 year warranty, 5G ready, one of the most ethical and repairable phone that exists in the market) with CalyxOS (which is based on Android 13). The experience is pretty amazing, and with a combination of FOSS apps through F-droid and microG + Aurora Store, I have managed to have a fully functional phone without connecting my phone to a gmail address/account.
All my bank apps are working 100% surprisingly (I am in the UK and also have a French bank).

I am really grateful to open source developers spending time doing this, be it LineageOS, CalyxOS, microG, Aurora, F-droid or all the open source apps on F-Droid.
It's also interesting to see how Google is now departing from the native open source Android, making its own version optimized for the Pixel phones (and only releasing their flagship app like Camera for the Pixel) and locking you in with a Google account like Apple is doing!
One clever hack I've seen is Yield Prolog (https://yieldprolog.sourceforge.net/) which basically translates the querying/backtracking execution model into mainstream language syntax - such as JS, Python or C# - using the `yield` keyword and loops. Supports things like variable unification, too.
There are plenty of domestic interests looting us too, I don't think foreign relations are a primary motivator.
In theory, all of the features of Dark Sky are now present in Weather. In practice, it doesn't seem that way.
> America is being gutted and looted by foreign interests.

To the extent America is being “gutted and looted”, its by domestic capitalists rather than foreign interests.
This is ethically dubious: "Chrome prompts you to opt-out of metrics collection on install.".

Because the default should be "opted out by default, let the user opt-in if they so wish"
I hear the comments that Prolog isn’t a “general purpose programming language” but indeed you can use it for a lot of use cases.

Eg Authorization is one such use case. Polar is a logic programming language (like Prolog) specifically designed for authorization: https://www.osohq.com/docs/reference/polar-syntax
The misapplication of that mantra doesn’t justify the design damage done by dogmatically passing everything by ref.

There’s no hard and fast rule here. Even if there was, optimizers still occasionally surprise seasoned native devs in both positive and negative ways.

Glad the author’s first instinct was to pull out profiling tools.
Google maps -> Timeline -> Cities
> It has more rules, but very few exceptions.

... That we know about. It's a dead language, so the exceptions would've been lost to time as it hasn't been spoken in ages.

Your point stands regardless, just felt like being nitpicky
Maybe your posts would get better votes if you made any effort at all to back up your claim on unethical behavior. You provided nothing.
Would such rust be tolerated if the funds for maintenance were available? Based off what (admittedly little) I know of the military from family members, no. They are generally proud of the aircraft/vessels they serve on, and rust appearing on the deck would be there only because they didn't have the time to remove it (other maintenance) and the funds to re-cover the exposed metal.
Because doing your own basic maintenance is an outstanding way to identify issues that you might miss otherwise?

As an example, I swap my own winter and summer tires (mounted on separate sets for wheels; I have my limits) because it gives me a twice yearly opportunity to asses the condition of the brakes and suspension components while I'm mucking around with the wheels off.

Keeping your finger on the pulse of a machine by looking after it means you spot problems before they become disasters and inform how you operate it to make the most of its capabilities and avoid its weaknesses.

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Love. You can learn all the math in the 'Verse, but
you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as
sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta
fall down, tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
The bad stuff went in back in February, 2022, and was adopted in May 2022. Compare the "Limitations" section of S4104 and S4104A. That's what guts the bill. Here's the "sponsor memo" on the amendment:

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION:

This version makes technical clarifications to the bill, including
providing that the requirements will apply to products with a value over
ten dollars, adjusted annually based on the consumer price index. Another adds that nothing in the section will require that an OEM or authorized repair provider make available any parts, tools or documentation if
the intended use is for making modifications to digital electronic
equipment. Others provide that nothing in the section will require an
OEM or authorized repair provider to make available parts, tools or
documentation for 1) public safety communications equipment used for
emergency response or prevention purposes by an emergency service organization, 2) where it may be in violation of federal law such as with
gaming and entertainment consoles, related software, and components, or
3) home appliances with digital electronics embedded within them.

Manufacturers, distributors, importers, or dealers of off-road equipment
are added to the exclusions, those to whom the requirements would not
apply.

Amendments also include extending the effective date of the bill from
120 days to one year after it shall have become a law.
I'm no Navy expert but the carriers seem extremely vulnerable to anti-shipping missiles - especially of the hypersonic variety. In a hot war with a capable near-peer, the carriers will be sunk right away (possibility every single one of them). Seems like the focus should be on the stealthy underwater stuff that can pop up and deliver payloads like missiles and drones but what do I know.
Most important when watching it is to have a drink whenever the butler drinks.
I wonder, could you turn this into a sort if generalized version using coordinate space transformations? Sort of like this:

- design a rope pattern as you like (or any other pattern) as if it were perfectly straight - e.g. design your pattern as if the X axis were the path and the Y axis were the normals.

- now take your actual (non-straight) path, divide it into sections and calculate the normals just as described in the post. Don't do any skewing.

For now, I assume the path has a fixed length, so the length of your pattern must be the same as the length of the path.

- divide the pattern into the same number of sections as the path has.

- now you have a 1:1 correspondence between sections on the path and sections on the pattern. Each section begins and ends with a normal perpendicular to the length of the path or pattern. The only difference is that the pattern's sections are rectangular while the path's sections are trapezoids.

- you can map the coordinate systems between them with a linear transformation.

- finally, you can take the vectors that make up your rope pattern and transformation them into the coordinate systems of the path, section by section. Now your previously straight pattern follows the path!

Caveats:

1) This assumes your path has a fixed length and your pattern is defined over the entire length. It would probably be more practical to have a repeating pattern or a function that can generate a pattern given the desired path length.

2) Each section is transformed individually, so if in the pattern, you have a straight line that crosses a section boundary, the line will have a visible kink after transformation. A way to mitigate this would be to use multiple overlapping sets of sections and interpolate the transformation between them.

3) The shape of the path sections is only determined by the two normals bounding the section - so all the path curvature inside a section is lost. If the path is very "curvy" and the sections are too coarse, the pattern will not correctly follow the path. This can be improved by increasing the number of sections and making the individual sections smaller.
you can't have root access without unlocked bootloader, simple as that

I can access everything as root from recovery with unlocked bootloader without having actual root in system, root just make it more convenient after proper boot
This should be a bot.
Thanks for pointing out. I was confused by parent calling it „communist Czech movie“. It’s a fairy tale FFS, what does it have to do with communism? I never understood that obsession some people have with communism to see everything in the world through their iron curtain glasses.
Being able to work out over my lunch hour is easily one of the best parts of working from home for me.

I suppose it was technically possible while working in an office, but such a hassle. Always resulted in losing some workout time around the edges, too.
https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/status/1231699385525903360
Banning birth control.

I don't support doing that myself, but if you look at the US two of the demographics with the highest reproduction rates are Mormons and Hispanic Catholics. Both follow religious prohibitions against birth control. The progressive left firmly supports the right to an abortion as well as the right to use contraceptives so that answers your question.

From a demographic standpoint what's basically happening in the US is atheist liberals are wringing their hands and dying childless as various religious people produce the next generation that will replace them (Muslims have a very high birth rate too).

All that said, the article was about South Korea which has very different politics. In South Korea I don't think there is a big left/right divide over this and the main issue is probably that they're working themselves to death instead of having kids.
Hmmm...

https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/camp-lejeune/

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064514935/water-contaminatio...

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-aircraft-carrier-uss-ab...

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-uss-nimitz-water-contam...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/06/military-bas...
Ask HN: Best News and Information Sources?
As the new year approaches and some may review their RSS collection, it is also an occasion to check for the best news and information sources around.

What are your recommendations? Also: anything worthwhile that emerged recently?
Except some of the Apple Watch complications. Still missing.
The small scale is pretty obvious; if it's a problem for the local community, then it's a problem to care about.

There are lots of small, local problems. The choice isn't arbitrary - it's whatever you think you are best suited to fix.
Dashiell Hammett's novel "The Thin Man" lends itself well to a similar game.
My bad, I failed to think about it in a context of a personal launcher… now that you said it, it sounds much more reasonable than --!
You can create fully fledged presentations on ChatGPT using LateX Beamer
Is there a global map or similar resource available showing where the US can’t force project without a surface navy? On air refueling, long range munitions, and one of the ~750 foreign soil US military bases (across 80 countries) gets the DoD a long way I’d imagine. Trade proximity for speed and force out of reach of an adversary. Use carriers for humanitarian efforts and soft power project in competition with Belt and Road (China).
For C++ I guess you could make the claim that it's just too annoying to take a dependency on something like google-benchmark or whatever, since C++ dependency management is such a mess to deal with in general.

But yeah I have no idea why a benchmark framework wasn't used for Rust.
I've really enjoyed the BioShock series and I started Metro 2033 in october. It's great.
This happened in 2008 for instance (or at least in the aftermath of 2008)
SHA-224 is just truncated SHA-256 (with different constants, but that does not matter here).
Maybe a silly question, but is superficial rust an indication of deeper issues?
lol. I've read someone saying that if chatgpt can do computer interview questions… maybe the questions are trash. Seems we aren't the only ones with the issue.
honestly, i was expecting much worse from reading the title; this looks mostly cosmetic.

some inpainting should fix this nicely :)
Reminds me of this 10 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34073880
Aircraft carriers are an important component of moving air power.
> But the lionization struck me as peculiar.

It's wrong to speak highly of friends now. Got it.
Sorry, thanks for correcting my misunderstanding.
Pelosi isn't in charge of HSR. That's the California High Speed Rail Authority, created under Governor Pete Wilson in 1996. You managed to get both the level of government and the branch of government wrong in choosing whom to blame.
> I mean, much more.

Because Google is a web advertisement company that dominates many large spheres: search, browsers (including standards committees), email, mobile (Android is 77% market share) etc. All are things that we've come to view as crucial to modern life.

And time and again they've shown that they only view that dominance as a funnel for ad revenue, data collection, and whatever benefits them at this particular moment.
If you need to put a ship in dry dock to maintain it that might explain part of the problem. Scheduling that for an entire fleet would be a hard problem if dry dock facilities are limited.
‘Office Space’ movie gave Zulily engineer a blueprint for financial fraud
"Depending on your needs, you could stop right here," but he doesn't and continues to make it better. What a great write-up and site!
I've been hopeful that the Apple Weather app would improve over the intervening months but have been disappointed to see that it hasn't. This is especially surprising because I live a stone's throw from Cupertino, where I would assume its shortcomings would be noticed by Apple employees!
Capitalism worked the same way under the gold/silver regime. Marx wrote Capital which explains this dynamic in the 1800s when that regime was in effect.
Key phrase here is kill chain. Finding a moving carrier on the open ocean is hard, even with modern satellite technology. And getting a missile launched from hundreds or thousands of miles away to hit it once you do know its position (10 minutes ago) is harder.

Not to say that's impossible, just that it's currently an unsolved problem.
A quick grep shows that there are almost 2.5K domains at 1M rank with “porn” in their name.

The data science teams likely provide a considerable ROI in that industry.
Hmmmm how would the sync work with overlayfs? It sounds cool but I have a hard time picturing it.

Do you mean you'd have a read-only base system, and a remote layer on top so the application data is only persisted remotely?
How dare people get concerned over something so trivial as "having someplace to live"
I really loved the app, the apple weather app layout kind of sucks in comparison. Rather than a simple scroll page to see all the hourly forecast detail the apple app has a stupid drop down.
The issue of course, is we don’t really know.

Sinking an aircraft carrier, let alone most of them, is also such a big loss of life and material, it could easily lead to WW3/nuclear boogaloo.

There are also anti-anti-shipping missile cruisers, CIWS, AWACS, etc. around aircraft carriers all the time.

There is also a lot of stealthy underwater stuff that is indeed ongoing. A big question on that front of course, is how would you know how it’s doing, or what it’s capable of, when it’s by its nature stealthy and hidden.
They are collecting rent as taxes and if you don't pay the rent they kick you out. I'd say they own it.

The homeowner just owns the liabilities.
If you're looking a new weather app, I highly recommend: https://helloweather.com

Edit: Used to use the Dark Sky API, but they have multiple data sources you can toggle in the app.
I’m German-American, and I would say I am culturally much more American than German, but I find German comedy quite funny. I think it is much more observational and satirical than US standup comedy, but it’s also more biting, which makes it funny in a more self reflective way.

German comedy seems to play the role of a court jester speaking uncomfortable truths through humor. American comedy to me is much more surface level by comparison — there are a few comedians like Carlin who seem to have embodied the German satirical spirit.

I think another aspect of German comedy that is very hard to translate is the linguistic structure of it, where the structure of the language often plays a key role in the funniness of the joke.
>poc should be allowed to build inter-generational wealth via housing

IMO, this is slightly at odds with the OPs point that creating housing investments is a bad thing. One of the problems in my eyes is that a disproportionate amount of Americans wealth is tied up in their homes. This creates incentives to protect those "investments" through things like NIMBY policies, tax incentives, etc. An alternative would be to create a system that fosters more diversified inter-generational wealth.
That's not my experience; that is, it happens, but certainly not always. Look at major cities with rent control, for example.
TFA points out it’s going to prestige projects.
Exists everywhere all the time. :s
The whole point of having a fleet is to have a fleet that says "We're ready to fight" and can demonstrate it. Having rusty ships with sailors who are barely trained, and some recent spectacular failures goes against this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being
The United States was never an empire. In fact the US rejected that ambition at the end of WWII, when the world laid in ruin. Occupation of foreign countries has always been tenuous.

What we’re seeing with the Navy is the result of a US disinterested in flexing any sort of naval muscle for but its most strategic allies in the traditional realms like securing shipping lanes.

“Hallmarks of a dying empire” implies, somehow, a loss in territory or capability. Neither is true for the US. There just simply isn’t a compelling reason to maintain the same level of naval readiness that they had in the last.
Since the speed of light can't be exceeded (at least for now), it's a useful limit to put in place if you were designing a simulation. It means we can't escape various sandboxes and if we could exceed this limit, we could explore everything really quickly and the 'game' would get boring and there would be no point. It's as if the speed of light limitation is by design so we don't get to experience everything all at once.
It comes down to pragmatism, not ideology.

Consider you have to 2 groups, A and B, and a set of issues. Each issue has different importance to me and each group has a generally opposing stance on each issue.

One group may have a stance on a subset of issues I generally prefer but more importantly the other group could have a stance on issues that terrify me. Their stance would lead to negative outcomes much worse than negative outcomes from the other group. It could even be that I disagree with many of the stances of the group I vote for but I’m not terrified of the outcomes associated with those stances.

So it is therefore more important to win to stop the opposition group from producing undesirable outcomes.
There are some proteins that directly cause lysis (called "lysins"), e.g. there are lysins taken from bacteriophage (viruses that attack bacteria and are generally species or strain specific) that do kill bacteria effectively.

One major issue with chemical antibiotics (proteins or small molecule) is evolution. Antibiotic resistance is largely the product of the wide and incomplete treatment of bacterial infections, and the resulting emergence of resistant strains. Another issue, shy of evolution of genome modification, is simple gene / transcriptional regulation, and up-/down-regulating surface proteins and sugars that can render such proteins ineffective. It's not as simple as binding a protein target.

Consider that resistance to a novel antibiotic has been observed after a year or two on the market, and it doesn't make sense for a pharma company to invest in bringing one to market.

One interesting avenue is using bacteriophage to treat infections directly. The phage evolve with the bacteria and have a much higher chance of remaining effective. Treating with an antibiotic, or multiple phage, using different mechanisms, decreases the chance of evolving resistance. Phage have been used in eastern European countries for ~ a century, but were dropped in western countries in favor of small molecule antibiotics. There are several clinical trials to bring them back to market.

To bring it back to the article, interestingly phage don't seem to be mentioned, even though they are the most abundance organism on the planet. Surely something has figured out how to eat them...
Whenever I don't want to endure that annoyance, i just copy this single file header only microbenchmarking code:

https://github.com/sheredom/ubench.h
Oof, people tend to way overestimate the capabilities of these tools.

No there are not magic AI tools where you can wave your hands and design proteins or evaluate the properties of arbitrary compounds.
The point originally made was that RSA couldn't practically be used because of how complex the math is to do by hand. So, the parent is pointing out that the Caesar cipher isn't a counterargument.

In other words, the "inconvenience" of doing a Caesar cipher by hand is nowhere near comparable as doing an RSA cipher by hand.