skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There hasn't been a successful air assault at scale for some time. After Crete Nazi Germany never tried again. WW2 lessons abound for the limited value of deep penetration by air to supply ground troops. Helicopters are vulnerable to manpads in landing. You think nobody is going to notice the landing craft, Helicopter ships or the mass fleet air arm? Or the 3 day pounding to take out radar?

Insertion of targeted special forces? Sure.

Taiwan needs a more integrated defence strategy for sure but can we not pretend this is one and done seize control? You think the Taiwanese defence forces have failed to war game the scenarios?

Without wishing to give in to ad hom what's your goal here? Pessimism to defeatism? Some kind of nihilist decision not to contest?

Obviously for enough blood in the streets China will win.
Auto update with what ? What is the process
There's a TV show called parks and recreation which has that exact premise.
I'm convinced Herbert had some deep knowledge of psi phenomena. His descriptions of truthsayers reading people, timelines, race consciousness, and prescience are very similar to real experiences. His emphasis that it emerges through a combination of genetics and training of subtle awareness, plus the suggestion compounds could provide access to a state that could be sustained without them - also ring very true. The exploration of its paradoxes (destructiveness and utility of prophecy), and the contrast of those intuitive skills with the pure analytical ones of the mentat (or even of thinking machines) are also very deep. I think the idea that humanity's future involves a deeper engagement with and interplay of all these forces is also super likely. Perhaps he was friends, through his naval service, with people in the UK's version of Stargate (US psi and remote viewing programs). Surely there was such a program, tho I'm not aware of any releases of information about it.
Until you posted this I was non the wiser what an acoustic bike would be.
No. Electric cars as a class (when done correctly) are cheaper and better than petrol cars. It makes business sense, primarily. Also good for climate change, but that’s an irrelevant side effect.
There is something poetic, about the last charge of dying ideologies being an attack and defense of windmills.

We will see a return of composure as central element communications culture. If you get emotional or irrational angry, you are considered possessed, ridden by loas and not worthy of communication.

"I say Sir, the rabble seems to be quite in tatters and without a plan, all back and forth on windmills, but ultimately in the dark."
Its 0% for me, no wonder they sold to train their content for ai
Russian lost hundreds of thousand men, I'm not sure they'll be willing to ally themselves with the US to contain China anytime soon, they'll pursue what's in their best interest and play every side.

Time for Europeans to wake up and do the same.
> It's quite strange why Americans tolerate that an unelected ...

They literally voted for this nonsense. Trump won by an undeniable landslide. His previous administration, campaign, and his constant stream of consciousness on X provides all you need to know about his plans, ambitions, intentions, etc. He's not doing a bait and switch here; quite the opposite. So, people can't really claim ignorance. Or that this isn't exactly what they voted for.

As for all the outragism, end of world nonsense, and general level of panic visible among (mostly) the minority of people that didn't vote for this, I don't think it's that helpful, constructive, or persuasive. This constant level of "OMG we're all going to die!!!! Boooohoooohoooo!" is just endless variants of the boy who cried wolf. It's having the opposite effect of training people into learning that this is all fine. Who even listens to that stuff anymore? Probably not a majority of voters. That's how we ended up with this situation.

And given that there are mid term elections coming up November next year, now would be a good time to come up with a better plan than just handing that on a silver platter to Trump. Again. There's a sense of urgency that is a bit missing here. Democrats are in full on panic & headless chicken mode currently. That's worrying.

There's a real possibility to win back the house and senate for Democrats. But that will only mean something if those two institutions can live up to their constitutional responsibilities and not be deadlocked into inaction; like they have been for the last half century or so.

Is there a plan beyond just trying to restore the status quo that lead to all this? That doesn't sound like a very good plan to me. Why should people vote for that? If there is a plan, can somebody please articulate what it is? All this reactive outragism is wearing people out.

I'm btw. a European moderate (in case you thought otherwise); I don't vote for populists. And I have no vote in this. I do have a stake in the outcome. All this nonsense is threatening to throw the world into big recessions, war and chaos. So, I am kind of grumpy with you people in the US. Get your shit together please. This is embarrassing.
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> I have HomePods gen 1 & 2 (and a few mini’s)

I have mostly HomePod Mini pairs, and a couple individual Homepods. I do have quite a few rooms, but my network is solid. Perhaps having a series of wired WiFi repeaters gives Homekit trouble, but nothing else has issues.

> almost always use a phone to start the music

This works better for me too. I still have (much less frequent) trouble casting to some random room's speakers.

But that is cumbersome compared to just asking, especially for multiple rooms. Since "Zones" don't show up in the iOS and macOS volume/speaker-group interfaces at all, as far as I can tell.

And then there is Apple's design choice to only let each room appear in one "Zone". No idea why each zone can't simply be its own set. Leave it up to users to care if two people are fighting over what plays in some joint room - it would be a problem that reflected editable zone definitions, not a bug.

The whole system is inexplicably janky: by design, lack of original effort, subsequent inattention, and bug.
yep, API's are slower than my patience also...

making all the demo presets at once becomes expensive quickly. (I'm pre-filling them day by day)

Total possible combinations: 11,340 (based on default settings)
- 12 locations
- 7 duration options
- 15 month options
- 9 trip type options
For such low level shenanigans one can also fiddle around with dpdk. ARP disabled by default.
Every used car was a new car at one point

Every scrapped car is a used car
Ireland followed Britain down this disastrous planning hole and now has a matching housing crisis.

For most of the last sixty years, a good idea about how to run an economy should have involved closely scrutinizing what the British were doing. And then not doing that.
It always amused me that people were voting for the clowns in Westminister to have more say. Even before Brexit they were showing how inept they all were so it was crazy to have confidence in them
There is no data indicating this.
Based on your logic capitalism shouldn’t work since all private companies are making margins, which is the basic incentive.
No judgement from me, sorry if that wasn't clear! Just an observation on how I work, vs what I see in the world.
> The housing shortage traces back to the postwar period, when a frenzy of nationalization swept the country. ... Rates of private-home building never returned to their typical prewar levels.

This is obfuscation to the point of dishonesty. The postwar public home-building project was the largest in history, and provided a previously-unbelievable increase in the quantity of cheap, good-quality housing.

> With some spikes and troughs, new homes built as a share of the total housing stock have generally declined over the past 60 years.

Again, very disingenuous wording. It is equivalent to saying "the housing stock grew less than exponentially over the past 60 years". For instance, a constant rate of house building would result in "new homes built as a share of the total housing stock" declining. Note also that 60 years takes us back to 1965, leaving an unmentioned 20-year postwar period.

Incidentally, wtf does planning permission have to do with nationalisation? The US has zoning laws, am I supposed to think they've nationalised their housing market? Does the author think we still have nationalised housing?
The German language broke my website
Have you ever been there? Can you emphasize on the destroyed economies?
EU is a tiny portion of the global population (as is America)

But you’re right, increasing urbanisation globally leads to more public transport which offsets countries getting richer.
> They don't work at all? How the heck did something that important get past testing?

Because that's how all hardware is; I complained about this sort of thing a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202090

> Guess I'm not moving on from the RP2040 anytime soon...

Doesn't matter what you move to, there's still going to be 2000 pages of datasheets+errata, and one line in the middle of all of that will tell you "This does not work".

That's why for hobbyists it's best to stick to devices with a large community around them, who surface niche problems in community forums.

However, with everyone moving to Discord, this will no longer be useful too...
There was a lot more nations in Afghanistan than those listed, including many non Article 5.

When the US requested assistance, Europe provided.
"To do a thing young is a shortcut to greatness. Everything you do right is evidence of your great potential, and all your mistakes are the mistakes of inexperience, which will be corrected, surely, by the passing of time."

--Missing those days... Every mistake I make will be forgiven... The pain as a grow-up grows as I age. Responsibilities never fade.
The idea that Brazil, South Africa and fucking India would support the PRC against the USA is absurd.
After updating to iOS 18.3.1, my iPhone 14 Pro Max has encountered many strange bugs. For example, the camera's balance indicator randomly disappears. Additionally, the battery drains significantly faster. I hope Apple can fix these weird bugs as soon as possible.
Calling it "the endless war" makes this a loaded question. You might get a more productive response without that.
WTF is that press release. It says that "AccuWeather does not support Project 2025 Plan to fully commercializing NWS operations" and that "NOAA has critical role in American Weather Enterprise", but then it follows by basically saying "NOAA is just one of 190 inputs for us, NWS suuuuuuuucks; we're proud to be collaborating with them because we're better than them at everything; look ma', we have AI and Superior Accuracy™."

This is not a statement of support, it's a fucking ad. There's no actual "vehemently objecting" - in fact, between the lines, it basically says they don't think disbanding NOAA (as per Project 2025) is necessary - just cutting down to bare minimum will suffice.
>Memory Management Problems

I suspect some quadratic or worse algorithm in the handwriting curve rendering.
My understanding is that you are outsourcing the work of grinding Russia’s military down. You get to deplete a geopolitical foe at a bargain, without spilling American blood.

There is also the moral argument that you are supporting Ukraine in a war of aggression started by Russia.

My fear is that conceding anything to Russia just gives it an opportunity to regroup, rearm and finish the job. Appeasement has not worked before.

Then there is the whole minerals thing. Now you’re not merely abandoning an ally, but kicking it while it’s down. It’s not a reassuring message for anyone thinking of allying with America.

As a national of a country Trump has threatened to annex, I am wondering how many more allies America can antagonise and how long and costly it will be to rebuild a good reputation.
Mine is, on iOS:

* in safari private mode, open image picker

* switch to different app (e.g. go to WhatsApp to save a new image)

* go back to safari

the image picker can now no longer be spawned from that safari private tab, you'll have to open a new tab to re enable the image picker.
At what price? Privatization always turn into either monopoly or cartels, that is, price inflation. Those believing that privatization will help them also to pay lower taxes either don't know how it works or are part of the plan.
> I think he took things happening in small scale and used them as filler/detail to a story he wanted to tell in large scale.

I think this must be a common thing that good scifi authors do. I saw a talk by William Gibson many years ago where he mentioned something very similar, he called it "part of his science fiction toolkit".
How about a car that doesn’t spend most of its energy on transporting its absurdly heavy self rather than the payload? It’s not like sedans suddenly aren’t a thing anymore.

That, or accepting that you drive an SUV because you like to drive an SUV. Either is fine.
This is super cool! Thanks for sharing. I'm stuck on level 5 for the first room. Any chance I could get a hint to nudge me along...?
I would hardly call it "utterly irrelevant" that in a discussion about "killing birds is bad" someone mentions that it is not usually considered bad to kill birds for food.
Yes, but 10-15 kg is still comparable to a regular bike or a heavy bag of groceries. I rode a 19 kg one (50 km range, street legal), carrying it up to the third floor at work wasn't a problem.
Huntsville Alabama has some
Kim Stanley Robinson is carrying the story forward.
If China has a seriously good-enough, home-made processor and storage chips, it could gain from a war with Taiwan. If this would mean to cripple the EU's and possibly also US's and to a lesser degree it's own economy through the absence of chips on the market, having that good-enough, home-made processor would be what keeps China afloat, while the rest drowns. And if it could get Taiwan and its chip manufacturing capabilities, it would have won the war with even bigger gains.
At least the EU has no way to survive without Taiwan selling them chips.
Not sure why you are trying to veer the convo in another direction, but to address it - it's been 3 years, hundreds of thousands died, and absolutely nothing achieved. Please correct me if I am wrong.
... the same thing will apply later on after the successful "non-invasion" of Taiwan.
While we're on this subject Imam Shamil had an interesting contemporary counterpart figure that I think deserves more recognition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunta-Hajji
I don't know if go counts as "systems programming" like the other commenter mentions.

But I have been recently using it for some tooling and small servers on personal projects where I'd have used python before.

Frankly it's been a joy and I wish I'd started earlier. The concurrency primitives are great, and the static binaries make deployment easy (raspberry pi in this case).

Struggle to use anything other than python professionally, the need to settle on a common denominator trumps pretty much everything else.
I thought that the article would be investigating how Thatcher's policies caused disastrous results. Her right-to-buy policy led to councils not having an incentive to build housing and encouraged landlords to buy up housing and thus contributed to the over-priced housing we see today

https://www.ft.com/content/8d5f2952-3c17-11e8-bcc8-cebcb81f1...
https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/the-housing-act-from...

Fun fact: there's a popular pub question to ask tories - "name one successful Thatcher policy" which on the face of it doesn't have an answer. However her "Enterprise Allowance Scheme" was ironically a big success

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jul/26/thatcher-ent...
Keeping Up with the Zizians: TechnoHelterSkelter – The Manson Family of Our Time
That is impressive. Thanks for the very thoughtful answer. Many times before, I have seen utterly bullshit tax minimisation claims on HN, but rarely an answer as good as this one!

Deeper question: Now that you provided a reasonably scenario where a household earning 300K USD combined income can "only" pay 12+% in federal taxes: Does this make sense from a policy perspective? My point: Should it be higher? It seems hard to pay for what a highly developed nation needs to pay for where 300K USD households are paying such measly federal taxes. (To be clear: I very well understand this is one component of total tax burden, but still a worthy discussion.)
I think that AI won't replace programmers, at least for now. All those codes written by AI still need review and more attention within security. Here is a good article about Copilot: https://gitprotect.io/blog/github-copilot-introduction-an-ai...
Don't get me started on the water companies
Russia is out of the AI race. That has been lost and there's no way to reverse it.

If Russia wouldn't have started a war, it could have focused on building huge datacenters. It has all the energy it would have needed, now all it can do with it is sell it to China for cheap.
While indeed irrelevant for the original point. I would encourage you to educate[1] yourself on the life these birds have before you make claims we're doing them a favour by bringing them into existence.

[1] https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch
Coal and oil also solve nothing when you can't mine it or drill for it… and those who can, refuse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_Kingdom_miners%27_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
You gotta wonder if this has been a reaction to a shrinking Cocoa/ObjC and SwiftUI talent pool
I wish there was some logic to the O'Reilly's website, I occasionally stumble upon great material such as this, thank you.
Sure, I'm not saying Brexit was the solution to any of it, quite the opposite. But it wasn't a binary choice between X populist saying "Brexit will fix it immediately" and Y mainstream politician saying "here are the complex factors causing this issue, here's how we as a country can address them over so many years". It was a choice between "Brexit will bring sunlit uplands!" and "the country's doing well, don't ruin it!".

It's not hard to understand why, given that choice, someone stuck in a Northern ex-mining town facing zero prospects, poor housing, no local amenities, massive regional unemployment or unstable employment would listen to the one pretending to be listening to their issues. Again, we'd had 30 years before that where FPTP allowed the main parties to more or less ignore huge parts of the electorate.
So if they were using waterfall, they would produce fewer bugs? Or what are you trying to say?
That would not work. Just include a few million in your budget to convince the population of SmallVille and you can start building your coal-fired power station.
That sounds dope, I'll be there!
Researchers surprised less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster
i also saw the full 1 hour segment and i think it was overall pretty cordial. I’m specifically referring to this heated exchange (the short clip).

I guess we all see what we want to see. We have biases after all.

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter whose fault it is, I just find it interesting that Zelensky is having no problem talking politics with other countries (excluding russia). See the recent emergency summit in europe as an example. Why is that? Are we as americans that difficult to work with? If so - why is that? Do we want to be left with 0 allies after all is said and done? As Zelensky alluded, nobody is #1 forever, and pretending you will be (and treating all your allies like shit) is probably not a smart long term strategy?
Free market isn't going to solve it because there's no profit in it. Quite the opposite.
dude wants to get us off HN
No successful air assault? How about Panama or Grenada? Even russia was able to secure hostomel despite losses.

To be sufficiently vulnerable to MANPADs you need enough of them in enough trained hands. If there is the element of surprise this does not happen. I envision a surprise air assault they flies below radar and establishes the coup before the army can get out of their barracks. The Taiwanese are not the 'rifle behind every blade of grass' type of people who have embraced total defense.
If anyone know of similar feeds like the OP's, kindly paste them.
The old, which have been ‘criminally’ favoured by Britain’s mistakes, have overwhelmingly voted for Brexit. While the young, who have been royally screwed, voted Remain.
Google make up a significant part of Mozilla's income, but Firefox development doesn't make up a similarly significant part of Mozilla's expenses. They could keep browser development going without issue even if Google ditches them.
> China doesn't care at all about chips

My apologies, I should have been more clear. Here is my read of the situation:

China doesn't care in the sense that the threat of destroying fabs isn't going to factor into the Chinese leadership's desire to reunify. The issue of reunification is ideological; many Chinese people themselves view Taiwan as a break-away province.

China also does care, at least a little bit, in the sense that having access to Taiwanese chips will free up some economic resources within China itself that could be used in another strategically important industry instead. Allowing chip trade between Taiwan and China also encourages some Chinese economic dependence on Taiwan, though still not a decisive factor in whether China wants to reunify (by force if needed). But it buys Taiwan a bit more time, at least for now.

Banning chip trade between China and Taiwan weakens Taiwan's national security because it immediately removes even that smidgen of Chinese economic dependence on Taiwan (thus possibly accelerating Chinese plans for reunification), and it makes Taiwan much more dependent on the US, which has in recent weeks thoroughly proven itself to be an unreliable partner.

Is there anything I'm missing?
It seems fashionable recently for analysts to leave "why" for future speculation. No one wants to bluntly say that Trump is in Putin's pocket. But that's not really what's important here.

Trump and Putin could hate each other or love each other. What matters is that America and Russia are on the verge of signing a redux of the Hitler/Stalin pact, in which Poland was conquered and divided. One can wonder who bullied whom, or who will be the first to violate it and stab the other in the back. But the point is, these agreements do not happen when either of the parties is a free county. They happen between autocrats.
I don't know how you define asset but it seems beyond doubt that Trump and Russia do each other favours.
> Russia has won the Cold War without direct military confrontation with the US.

Let's not rewrite history just to score some cheap propaganda points: the USSR lost the Cold War, and lost it badly. Russia (or rather, putinism) might be winning Cold War II, or The Oligarchic Wars, or whatever you want to call this new conflict, but the actual Cold War ended in the 90s.
Tell me about it. My iPhone cannot backup up, neither could me predecessor phone.

Escalated all the way to developers. Their 'analysis'. Whatsapp is supposedly blocking 4TeB on my iCloud account which is not available.

I asked whether they might have misread that as WhatsApp says 4GiB and even if , that would still be an iOS bug (why allow that?).

No reaction anymore.
> It's quite strange why Americans tolerate that an unelected, and even unappointed foreigner would destroy their country piece by piece.

The guy is certainly unelected but he's a citizen of the US who happened to be born overseas. When do you believe someone stop being a foreigner?
Been there. It’s a hazard of biking in general. I love riding though.

There are fatal car crashes all the time.
Stuff went downhill since iOS 13 and macOS 11