skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it may be true that China has/will have "too many old people and not enough young people", it's still quite the stretch to posit

1. China has demographic imbalances

2. ???

3. "It is sad that so many lives will be lost in the famine that results."
A is for Airfield. C is for carrier. B is for [B]TOVL.
Of course. Still, I thought it was worth clarifying that they are different so we don't automatically discourage people from trying out good content.
please complete the saying:

jack of all trades and master of none, much better than a master of one
Why does the Japanese Air Force is pretty much 100% US aircrafts (with some local ones) while the Indian Air Force is, AFAIK, 0% US aircrafts.

Those things are not governed by the "free market".

"Desirable aircraft" is a subjective term. They bought it so it was 'desirable' by the metrics and considerations at play which go way beyond tech specs and cost.
I suspect all those things are just fairly minor software changes...
The opponent will know it is there the moment it fires a missile. Anyway, that is the only role where I have heard of it being superior to its predecessors. Has it ever been used in that role? It seems like the military is trying to use it for everything but that, since the role is almost never used in modern war.

The F-22 is also far better at that than the F-35. Its production was discontinued precisely because there is no need for aircraft to fill that role. :/
The team at my first tech job did this; I left my computer unlocked and stepped away, came back to find "I" had sent a joking message to the team saying that I forgot to lock my computer. It definitely trained that habit into me, I lock my desktop when stepping away even at home.

I think it's probably a good technique, though it needs to be done with a bit of care to not seem too hostile or humiliating. Changing the desktop background seems like a good idea, since it's harmless, obvious to the user, easily fixed, and doesn't impede actual work.
What’s the point of React Native when things like Ionic exist (webview adapter for React)? I’ve been using RN for years but just realized the JS engine doesn’t have JIT so will be way slower than the alternative I just mentioned (which seems to have similar bridge functionality and all the WebWhatever APIs since it’s a web view)
What would be the point? The car has a huge number of more accurate sensors for nearly every thing you can think of. If you're bored go look at some of the errors people have posted. It measures a huge number of variables directly that will indicate an issue well before ambient noise will.
I’m a data scientist, and it always surprises me how much work goes into fields that do not require a degree — easily just as much (or more) thought is required to solve “daily” work tasks.

I needed to redo a closet in my house where the original wireframe shelves were not installed correctly and fell out as soon as any weight was put on them. First you’ve got to patch the holes. But spackle will show flashing. Ok, so I’ll use joint compound instead. But there’s 27 brands and types, all for slightly different purposes. And there might still be flashing if you don’t use the right type of PVA primer. And you need the right sanding tools and, oh, it turns out I suck at applying joint compound so I have to call someone anyway to make it look like years of expertise went into that.

On to the new shelves. Well I don’t want the closet to look like I did it myself, so I’ll get some floating shelves to make it look nice and modern. Wait, $1,200 for a piece of wood?? Can’t I just find a tree in the backyard and cut that myself? Oh... I need specialized equipment to make that look nice too. Whatever I’ll just order the shelves.

Have the shelves, but now it turns out the tolerances on the walls in the closet weren’t that tight when it was built. It seems like the width of the closet varies quite a bit as you move away from the wall. So now there’s a gap. And the floating shelf metal bracket misses the nearest wall stud by 1/8th of an inch, which would halve its load capacity. I’ll just drill another hole in it. Oh, it’s stainless steel and that requires specialized equipment and fluid to prevent overheating and...

So yeah, I totally agree with this article in every way. It’s amazing anything works at all in society.
Me too on my 286!
Yes, there are big differences between wartime and peacetime operational tempo and maintenance capacity.

I flew and managed maintenance for Black Hawks, and while deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq we flew multiples of the hours that we'd fly at home. While deployed, we ran 24-7 maintenance. We had contract maintenance support to probably triple our organic capacity. We had first priority for getting parts, and we had freedom to stockpile parts or do "controlled exchange" (i.e. cannibalize other aircraft for parts) which we couldn't do at home.

One outcome is that we effectively wore out the fleet a decade or two faster than planned.
I'd argue that they were also invented specifically to do specific mathematical calculations. Many predecessors of the modern computer were designed to do math. Some examples:

The ENIAC was invented to do mathematical calculations for the army.

Blaise Pascal invented a mechanical calculator to do arithmetic in 1642. Leibniz improved on his design and made his own version in 1673. However, not many of either version were made, as it was still cheaper to just do the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division yourself.

Herman Hollerith invented a punch card tabulating machine and patented it in 1884. It was used to process the 1890 US Census. It could increment counters to do addition and multiplication, but its main purpose was to assist with processing large amounts of data using punch cards, the way SQL databases are used today.

In 1930, Vannevar Bush invented a machine called the Differential Analyzer, which was an analogue computer that could solve differential equations by integration. You could store functions in it by adjusting gears. The purpose was to be able to automatically calculate things like the position of a projectile moving through the air after n seconds without having to calculate it by hand.

Most of this I got from the book ENIAC, The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer, which touches on all these predecessors to the computer.
A new "all-hazards" approach for reducing multiple catastrophic threats
Don't know about high end - I literally have the cheapest unit from Midea and it does exactly this when it's cold.
Looking forward to "Pentagon Wars Part 2" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
Well for the USA perspective i guess but for others like me who believes in Alqasam brigades and Palestine moujahedeen i don't like how USA try to tell me what i should think of them or not to try to finance them.
While we're making suggestions: don't bring up "derangement syndrome" if you want to be taken seriously. You ironically used it in a sentence appealing for less polarization. The comment was fine without.
Bash doesn’t deserve the brainspace that truly knowing it would demand.
The "Red Baron" version was just from a company that sold freeware games and changed all the names presumably hoping that nobody would notice.

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Strike_F...
"abused"

Please, this is the entire point of these laws.
>They are leaving because they want the luxuries of the West: [...]

The one you're leaving out is rule of law and not having to living in fear of you or your business being seized by the government when the party feels like it (eg. crackdowns on the tech/tutoring industry, covid lockdowns). That's arguably the "instability" that you're talking about.
Poland buys tanks from South Korea because the answer to these questions above is mostly no.
The F-16 is also terrible in CAS. They tried to replace the A-10 with it, but failed. The F-35 is not faring much better for that.

As for symmetric conflicts, the F-22 is far better for handling those. Its production was discontinued because the military had no need for it. Having the F-35 for a role where there is no need seems silly. It isn't even as good in that role as the existing F-22 fleet.
> influenced by friends at church in the US south

The article doesn't really touch on this much.

I don't know what church culture is like outside the U.S. South, but here in the South its... weird. It's not like Donald Trump is a holy figure or anti-vax is scripture, but at the same time political memes and secular conservative culture have become remarkably entwined with the religious side. Obviously church has a long (sometimes problematic) history in U.S. Southern culture, but not quite like this. Not at such scale, diverging from the central moral/religious teachings and the culture of southern hospitality so much.

This Atlantic piece is based in Michigan, but it similar to what I've seen in the states between Texas and Florida:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/06/evangel...
What we know about aliens, according to science
In peacetime you can ground your entire fleet of a type of aircraft when an issue is discovered (as has been done for almost every model of military plane flying at some point). In wartime you don't have that luxury and you need to go, go, go. If there was a war, none of the following groundings would have happened even if a very serious issue was discovered:

* https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-f156nov06-story.html

* https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2016/12/17/all-navy...

* https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/newsusaf-f-22-rapto...

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsegal/2023/04/29/armys-de...
Yet the standard is to use S(hort)TOVL.
There's good evidence that adults can learn. Studies show that adults who practice everyday achieve significantly better than random scores on tests of perfect pitch.
I think I would happily pay money for an archive of high-quality recordings of what various problems sound like, in a variety of cars.

It would really be nice not to have to go in and try to imitate the sound to my mechanic, and it would help give me an idea what the repair ought to cost.

I've spent thousands of dollars on misdiagnosed (or misrepresented) "repairs," and it would be great to get a diagnosis from the mechanic, look it up, and say, "No, it doesn't sound a thing like that."
It's been worth using for me when I've used it, just not very often.
The Long Lines network used frequency modulation and frequency division multiplexing and was completely analog. It was really only advancements in semiconductor lasers and optical fiber manufacturing that drove its abandonment.
> The force feedback would be yet another layer of tetchy stuff to keep running in a really harsh environment.

Luckily, hydraulics offer a very easy way to do force feedback: Just measure the post-valve cylinder pressure.

That means you can have all your wiring and sensors in the cab far away from the dirt and rain. Makes force feedback pretty easy and cheap.
If you consider becoming a farmer check out the works of Joel Salatin and Richard Perkins. Both have good ideas how to bootsrap your farm business without big investments on a rented land.
I feel the need to be snarky often.
The True Story of the White Island Eruption
Indeed, PPP has a multilink feature which an bond packets from multiple modems into a single bitstream. Both the client (your machine - Windows 98 could do it) and your ISP needed to support it.

I remember trying this a few times while at my parents' store. My dad would tell me which phone line I could use that day - either the dedicated line used to process credit cards (if they were closed), or a spare line off the PBX. But occasionally, I was allowed the use of both - and luckily had a pair of PCMCIA modems with the dongles in different places - and could get speeds well above 56k.
It doesn't have to be "next to" a hate filled post. Also, it wasn't just ads next to racist/misogynist/etc. posts, it was Elon saying a racist and antisemitic post was "the truth." It was the owner of the whole platform saying that. Good targeting can't fix that.
I'd like to add that ICEs need to run hot to minimize cylinder wall heat losses and allow more of the explosion to be converted into work instead of heat, although too hot and they break of course. Ideally the engine block would be at the same temperature as the combustion temperature, but we don't have the materials to achieve that yet.
The Electric 3D Printer
There's a method that's even faster than asking ChatGPT what to type, and that's knowing what to type.

For tasks you do regularly, it's worth the investment to learn.
Why “\(var)” instead of one of the other, more prevalent string interpolation escapes?

Is it a Haskell/Elm thing I’m unfamiliar with?
> The phone network used analog links (typically microwave relay) for long distance

Those microwave links represent layer 0 in the connection which is by definition always analogue, the same is/was true for T-1 which used alternate mark inversion [1] signalling over a 4-wire circuit. It is the type of signal carried over the link which decides whether it is considered "digital" or "analogue". T-1 carried 24 time-divided PCM channels ("digital"), microwave links could and can carry both frequency-divided multiplexed analogue channels ("analogue") as well as time-divided PCM or packet-switched channels ("digital").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_encoding#Alternate_mar...
Interesting, thanks. Speaking of "gamy": I found the halal market near me actually sells mutton, in sandwiches, kebabs, etc. I never saw it in the meat case so I didn't think they had it. Gotta try that.
And also even back then it affected almost no one, there were loads of tests done on this by automotive magazines of the era and found out that usually the last 1-2 minutes of gentle driving to your driveway/garage is more than enough to cool down the turbo properly, the only people affected were those who due to either aggressive driving or circumstances of their location would drive at high rpm, stop, then immediately shut down their engines.
Just passing around closures in Java as method arguments—or “callbacks” because this is a webapp so of course—is too dynamic to me. Even if you are just using it to abstract out something and it isn’t really more dynamic than using methods directly.
> it doesn't match the camera defaults, something that every other RAW processor seems to do.

Actually, none of the RAW processors I've used (both paid and free) match my camera's defaults (2 different cameras). The paid one even had a dedicated page explaining why so that they could direct newbies to it.

There are a lot of cameras out there, and you cannot expect developers to figure out the curve to match the camera for all of them. That's why these SW let you specify your own default curve.
I think you lose some to RF, photons (with a monitor), sound waves, etc. Some of those losses can be reabsorbed and turned into heat, but some stray photons and radio waves will go out the window, never to return.

The majority does go to heat but you'll never hit the 100% threshold like other methods of heating can meet (or exceed)
Eh, the perforated pipe technique can efficiently collect the water and move it somewhere else entirely. It's nice that dry stone can just let water fall through, but then it just runs out at the base. Which might be fine, but you might still want a french drain anyway.
As always, new technology is neutral, but the latency between a new technology appearing and the attention of the law breeds scams that are completely mundane.
I still have the phrase:

Mission Completeorcycle

...burned into my subconscious.
Ignoring everything else about the plane, one of the major selling points is the software which is riddled with bugs. And likely to stay that way given the perverse incentives to maximize costs.
Have you actually tried it? Because this comment seems pretty misplaced with the reality of what ChatGPT can accomplish. I also use it all the time for bash one-liners, and so far my experience has been "80% work correctly on the first try, 15% require minor adjustment to run, 5% require major adjustment to run" and so far none have ever done anything flagrantly wrong or destructive. It also doesn't just print a command with no context: it explains what each flag/step of the command is purportedly doing, which you can (and should!) use to double-check that what you're about to run makes sense. Which is more than I can say for a lot of SO answers!
If you never use anyone elses packages and only stick to vanilla python available on your system it's a great learning language. Many universities still use it to teach programming today. But this is mostly inertia...

...because python has changed in the last decade so that anything ever so slightly complex requires learning all it's dependency manager manager setups (conda, pyenv, etc) to set up an entire custom python implementation with it's own dependency manager (pip, whatever, etc) just to be able to run a single python application or use a python lib. Trying to do it with the actual python your system runs will always end in tragedy.

So yeah... Python is a simple language. But using python these days is so complex I actually chose C++ over it to avoid complexity. And that's really saying something. That said, there's no such thing as system 'go' at all so it brings in plenty of complexity too despite being 'simple' in it's own way.
In theory yes, in reality many of these people are pay little to no taxes, on their personal income. Once you hit a certain level of income you can more or less buy the services and accounting advise that lets you determine your level of taxation. Jeff Bezos famously paid so little in tax that certain government programs designed for the poorest became available to him as well.

One of the more famous Danish millionaires have recently criticized the governments plan to target people like him with a new tax. He already announced that he wouldn't be paying it, opting instead to "reallocate his funds" to keep him out of the new tax bracket.
Gold. Survival food buckets. Whatever else you need to equip a bunker.
Libertarians are just anarchists with extra steps.
> Do externalities not exist, or is the platform (and somehow, whomever leads YC) solely and completely to blame for the users? Why is Reddit to blame, rather than BBSes or Mosaic, without which a platform like Reddit wouldn’t have existed? Do you blame, say, Tim Berners-Lee for the fact that sex trafficking is enabled by the Internet, or only ephemeral “CEOs” and/or “billionaires”?

It isn't about blame. It's about impact.

> Do you think getting laid off, typically with severance, is the same as getting shot or imprisoned? Do you think you are perpetually and permanently entitled to the specific job you currently have?

In fact, layoffs and poor labor options do, in fact, lead to increased mortality rates: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02779....

So, while I'd rather be laid off than shot or imprisoned, the scale of impact of captains of industry on the economic circumstance of millions could have a body count far higher than any rogue cop.
Industrial farming of meat has little to do with that, but instead sating the appetites of a minority of consumers in the US:

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/20/beef-usd...

Other forms of industrial agriculture, sure, meat, not so much.
> The article's viewpoint relies on accepting AML regulations and financial surveillance as beneficial.

You might want to check the last section of the article:

> We are a nation of laws. I’d support reforming some of them; a lot of the AML/KYC regulatory apparatus harms individuals who have done no wrong. Much is not well-calibrated in terms of societal costs versus occasionally facilitating a Bond villain’s self-immolation.

> However, in the interim, one cannot simply gleefully ignore the laws because the opportunity to do so allows you to become wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. [...] I do not know if we’ll ever have a world with this scale of crypto businesses without the crime. The crime was the product.
Yes, that was a good idea.

Hey, are there any tools to search for all zero blocks? Maybe that might help detect corruption in this case.
And a generation before that, it was VB and (early) PHP programmers that earned that critique.

It does feel like the proportions might be changing and the quality of software is trending downward, but I think you have it right that the risk of programmers being too "GPT-reliant" is the continuation of a long, intergenerational pattern.
NIH finds forgotten smallpox store (2014)
Too lazy/tired to work it out in detail but afair IQ is normally distributed so I don't think this linear weighting would bring high IQ much if any advantage vs the average person when weighted by sample count (because there's so many more average people). But the low IQ population would be seriously at a disadvantage vs the average and high IQ populations.
I did not realize there IS an Emscripten port already, sorry.

Nevertheless, I put build instructions in my fork here https://github.com/midzer/sdl-sopwith/tree/emscripten
"I was in middle school in the late 1990s and I read an article about rising temperatures."

I also read about rising temperatures as far back as the 70s. There were decades where the temperate never rose. But this is cherry-picked and ignored in articles like this.

The goal post keeps moving and we still aren't under water. Wealthy people and insurance companies still insure houses on the coasts. When you follow the people that want to protect their own interests (especially money), you get closer to the truth.

This entire article is about someone that was a 'denier' based on nothing but religious reasons and now believes in climate change..still not based on science , facts, or critical thinking.

"An independent enquiry cleared the UEA scientists of wrongdoing and concluded that "their rigour and honesty are not in doubt"."

I stopped reading here. It was in doubt and should be. Lots of universities apologized after climate gate because they were, in fact, using the same exact, data. The emails leaked were also damning.

This should have been a moment where we opened our eyes to how easy data can be manipulated and attempt to get the actual truth. Instead? Unless you are stating that climate change is 100% real and go along with the status quo, you will be banned, ignored, and in some cases, lose your job.

This is the exact opposite of science and is the definition of anti-intellectual.

Update: Downvotes on this proved my point. Thank you.
Wow, that's wild. I feel like you could sue for damages now, but I can't be sure if that was possible then.
Not dissing excel, it’s fantastic, depending on your shop there are plenty of scenarios it doesn’t fit. Windows only, this can be a big one. Deployment and auth difficulties when having connections to custom data sources. Customizing visualization. Displaying side-by-side with some other data. Excel isn’t free either, unless you are already fully invested in it. Your shop has better skills in js than vbscript.
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This is a post about State Farm.
He did, he made a public Twitter post saying he regretted his original actions and wanted the company back together now.
For many of the countries in these lists it might just be working class retirees who sold their modest family home in the suburbs.