skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WW1 was a powderkeg that was getting matches flicked on it for multiple decades[1], that was then fanned by the incompetence of the diplomats involved[2].

[1] France wanted revenge since the Franco-Prussian wars, Germany wanted a repeat of the Franco-Prussian wars, Russia wanted revenge since its humiliation in a prior conflict (It was ready to go to war over another crisis in Serbia, but then backed down when it became clear that it would not win), and Austria-Hungary wanted to bring its unruly Balkan subjects under its heel.

Everyone involved was itching for a fight for decades.

[2] The British did not make it clear to the Germans that they would actually enter the war (Which probably would have dissuaded them from starting it.) The Germans gave the Austro-Hungarian empire a free hand in deciding German foreign policy. The Austro-Hungarian empire counted on the Germans bailing them out, and for a repeat of an earlier standoff with Russia. (Without taking into account that Russia, instead of standing alone, as it did in their previous conflict, picked up France and Britain as allies.)

All of this played out in slow motion, over the span of a few weeks, prior to the war beginning in earnest.
I, for one, wouldn't support practicing social distancing every year to prevent the flu season. And this always has economic effects as well.
I dunno. I sort of get where you're coming from, but I think "describing the image with words that evoke that mood" is a bit like explaining why a joke is funny.
Not really. Hospital overload here is defined as people being unable to get healthcare because no hospital can take them. This news story covered Spanish hospital 'overload' at the time, which basically meant they converted some beds to ICU/COVID beds.

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-04-07/spains-intensi...

It discusses one of the hardest hit hospitals. However the absolute numbers were small and they never turned people away.

This sort of bed conversion is known to happen even in normal years, so it doesn't mean much by itself. Dramatic language can be misleading. Unfortunately it is standard for health officials to describe hospitals as "overloaded" or "at breaking point" simply due to seasonal flu outbreaks, as in these articles from 2017:

https://www.thelocal.fr/20170111/french-hospitals-stretched-...

https://www.euronews.com/2017/01/12/struggling-to-care-hospi...
In Civ 6 you can create corps/armies with 2/3 units. Still one unit per tile but a bit better than the Civ 5 system.
I use and like a lot of this stuff.

I use Messenger with a group of friends because it seems to be a pretty reliable way of group texting between iOS and Android (text messages were coming in out of order) and we all have Facebook accounts.

We all use Facebook to plan group events. Things like birthday parties, vacations, and where we're all going to stay for weddings.

I'm in a few local Facebook groups for things like trail running and hiking. They're great for getting information about current conditions.

Facebook Marketplace has been better than Craigslist or Offerup since it's a little more likely to be a real person (or at least it's a little easier to tell if they are based on their profile.)

It' also nice that I don't need to have a dozen different accounts to do all this stuff.

I'm not a teenager, but all the teenagers I know use Instagram.
Could it also be that they are counting flu as something else?

I am reminded of this quote from Demolition Man "In the future all restaurants are Taco Bell"
Money probably exchanged hands.

"I forgot to ask that question, see it's here in my notes"
Crypto Open Patent Alliance
Isn't the Nvidia flagship the RTX 3090? The overclockers uk website has the most expensive 3090 (Asus one) at ~1600gbp. On paper this should destroy everything else available atm.
Well, parler is seeing explosive growth for a reason (though parler is more of a twitter clone). Looks like the two tribes just can't handle being on the same social networks together anymore. So we're retreating further into our own echo chambers.

This should end well.
> the illustrations of women bathing strongly suggest that the work is concerned with distinctly European traditions of balearic treatment of illnesses

I assume the author means "balnearic", but i certainly prefer to imagine that he is referring to the foam party at Amnesia.
My original title was "orders city's surveillance camera network shut down." HN likes to defer to original headlines, which is understandable.
Do you mind if I ask what the reasons for the move are?
Sometimes, not always. If I improve my temperament, or if I help get someone an education, or if I help get an unjust law changed, or I raise awareness on some issue, these actions don't cause someone to get meaner, someone to lose their education, someone to make a bad law, or someone to hide an issue.

For environmental issues, I see your point. I hope that actions on conservation don't get 100% canceled out. Even if they're 90% canceled out it still buys us a little more time.
I think their point was that these organizations are supposed to be filled with public servants, civil servants, and military/former military whose aims are the furthering of American interests. That's why they were started, and for at least some period of time (not necessarily through recent history, but maybe?) that's what they were. Honestly that's part of the argument for public servants making less money than their private sector counter-parts, that a big part of their "compensation" is being part of these huge organizations "saving America" or whatever patriotic spin you want to put on it.
> I personally prefer tools to handle there things for me. Don't like writing script manually to achieve them.

That's what configuration management (Ansible, Chef, etc) is for.
This article has nothing (zero) do to with crimes. Not sure why you went off on that tangent.
Don't forget that the Apple I was basically a glorified video terminal, so the text mode came first. Also in the Apple II. That's the reason there are 7 pixels horizontally per character.

The graphics mode is just a juiced up text mode, so the 7 pixels were kept.

And for the video shift register, it's no difference if the input comes from the character ROM, or video RAM.
I stand corrected. The interior ministry themselves consider it a failure.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/warntag-115.html
I wonder if for NY not being as high as CA or MA it's because Long Island is maybe a place people in NYC are considering. So although they want to leave the city they are choosing to stay in the state by virtue of moving to Long Island.
You haven't worked in operations, have you?
I don't really agree with this. I'm not sure what my definition of lying is but of course it entirely depends on the purpose of the photo. A photojournalist cropping out an important piece of context is definitely lying. Me cropping out another tourist of a photo I took of a friend is not lying.

If I'm editing photos and someone has a temporary blemish or a pimple, I'm more than likely to edit it out. We don't remember faces to the same level of detail as a camera can, so it feels more correct to touch up such blemishes.
I've always wanted a really simple scripting or rules engine tools for my workers to automate them.

Just a simple if-then block like:

if (floodplains) { build farm }

if (forest) { build lumbermill }

if (jungle) { do nothing }

It wouldn't be perfect, but is obviously some sort of crappy version built-in to them that often does not do what I want, to the point that automating workers is counter-productive.

Or I'd love to be able to plot out a road/rail tile by tile and queue it up. Or heck, just a general worker queue would be an improvement even if manual.
YT channels with frequent update formats are 10-20% filler with intro/endcard/credits/sponsors. Most talk slow enough that they can be comfortably watched at 2x speed. Channels like contrapoints - irregular long form content that's usually demonetized and funded via patreon doesn't waste your time as much. But they're still paced differently than TikToks which bias towards brevity. There's still some tedious videos... lots of old codger maker content that takes the full minute to show 10 second worth of content, but from my experience, that's still shorter than sitting through youtube filler.
Laplace Transform: Basic theory and examples
"I hope I'm not coming off as anti-children"

Sorry, but that is exactly how you are coming off. Your argument is basically that people with children should leave their jobs or be paid less for no reason other than that they have kids at a time when, through no fault of their own, the childcare arrangements they relied on have all been cancelled or become unreliable.
Yes; and it's a deal-breaker for some of us unfortunately :-/
Seems like with only 2309 total respondents (nationwide) that reporting per-state percentages down to the tenth of a percent is not the right handling of significant digits of information. That's an average of fewer than 50 respondents to a yes/no question per-state reported to 1 part in 1000 precision.
Let's not excessively gatekeep things. Someone who is curious and wants to try a satellite once shouldn't need to buy new equipment. A dumb HT with a simple whip is enough; just keep your transmit duty cycle low and try hard to not step on people.

If I followed this advice a couple decades ago I'd never have gotten into operating sats. Yes, now that I'm equipped for FD I'd never operate without it, but..
That doesn't seem all that high. I saw a government figure (Census?) which stayed that 30% of Americans move in a given year.

So about half of those moves being out of state doesn't seem out of line.
It is increasingly "both, and do nothing about it" or "both, and be vocally opposed to it, and potentially cause issues for yourself x years from now."
Actually the largest cities are shrinking, and have been for the last couple year. It will be no doubt be exacerbated by recent events.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/americas-t...
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OK, thanks—checking it with real users is the main thing I still wanted to do with this, and I was hoping someone in the know would respond! (I was going to have to find someone to ask if I went ahead with the mentioned article, definitely couldn’t publish without that.) But my problem is this: I see no reasonable value for the alt text; every option available to me is claimed to be wrong for at least one reason: you shouldn’t duplicate the figcaption, and you shouldn’t omit alt, and you shouldn’t have a blank alt, and you shouldn’t just say “photo” or even “the photo described by the caption”, so… what’s left? I can think of no other reasonable alternatives. So blank alt was feeling the least bad to me.

What would you do? For a concrete case, let’s say you have a bar chart in a <figure> with the figcaption “Figure 3: results of Benchmark Q, showing X to be 40% faster than Y.” What alt attribute would you give the <img src=benchmark-results.svg>?
The coolest feature for me back then was seeing how you were related to another profile through the friend graph.

It felt like you could click on any person in your school and find a path of friends that connected you.
Was it not disturbing to see blocks and blocks of the city burnt to the ground by rioters?
His point is that you need to defend yourself. There is overwhelming evidence that lockdowns have saved negative lives: that is, they killed people outright who would be alive today if not for lockdowns.

Consider that lockdowns cannot stop the virus forever. They were only ever pitched, even by advocates, as a delaying strategy to reduce pressure on hospitals. Total numbers of infected were never meant to change, as logic dictates. However lockdowns and other restrictions, when as long as they have been, do create new deaths by e.g. delaying cancer checkups and treatments, by causing job losses and subsequent poverty related deaths, by stopping the elderly from seeing their family - deaths by loneliness are a real thing in elderly care!

If you're going to assert that lockdowns can actually reduce the death rate rather than increase it you will need to give arguments for why that's the case, especially over the long term.
Anatomy of a Rule
Planes are checked between each flight for basic issues, have a lengthy checklist to go through before using and are often under support contract from the manufacturer.

If you want that level of support you need to pay for it, and you can by using other CA:s. The rest of us we can use letsencrypt.
I didn't want to jinx it, but no one in my family has had even a sniffle since March. And I have a 3 and 5 year old. Usually the sniffles don't stop.

I would love it if after this is over, masks were required in public from say Nov 1 to Mar 1. No shutdown or anything, bars and clubs can be open, etc, go eat and drink, whatever.

But when walking around or waiting for your food, have a mask on.
I like your idea of putting everything inside the bell. I wonder if you could replace the solenoid with just an electric magnet that would pull down the button from inside.

Totally unrelated, I have one project that I keep thinking about starting every time I turn on my monitor in the morning...

I want to connect an RPi Zero to the serial port on my monitor, so that instead of pressing multiple buttons to change the input or color profiles (for day vs night), I could hit a dedicated set of buttons instead.

One physical button might issue multiple commands over serial to the monitor.

I'm thinking of doing this with a Raspberry Pi simply for convenience... I'm sure someone here will suggest doing it with something much smaller, and they'd probably be right.
Yes. I run a web service that provides a free trial period, and I can't see anyway around it other than forcing a sign up. I'd love to know if there are more friendly ways to do it.
Access Linux filesystems in Windows and WSL 2
I didn't know the new Mini still could have its RAM upgraded -- that's good. I'd still like to see the 21" iMacs have upgradable RAM, too, and to have the storage upgradable without the "although terrifying" qualifier. :)

You're probably right about the Mac Pro and its chassis; to go cheaper they'd have to be willing to go a little exotic. I suspect the Mac mini is supposed to be in that space. I suspect that rather than a cheaper Mac Pro, we'd be more likely[1] to see the Mini divided into "Mini" and "Mini Pro" lines -- I know the current model is more "Pro" than the previous generations, but they could be split in a way that lets them go down a bit more on the lower end and adds a few more options on the high end.

[1] More likely than a cheaper Mac Pro, but still not actually likely to happen. I know it's a bit of dreamcasting. :)
Wow, my comment about how devious people with NPD/APD are just got flagged. Does anyone know why this has happened? Have I broken any of the site rules here?

[Update] Double checked the site rules, not sure if mentioning that she might have a PD is against them or not.

It wouldn't surprise me that there are quite a few people out there who want information about such disorders suppressed. But I'm not really sure if that's 100% the case here.
Carbon credits are bullshit, just like additional 10 cents for a plastic shopping bag at grocery stores. Consumers will easily swallow the costs and things will continue as usual, unless of course, carbon credits are actually used towards initiatives that move the entire planet towards sustainability.

A decade ago, you could buy these credits to offset your own carbon footprint with the promise that they would be used to support reforestation efforts across the globe. Years later I found out through a friend who would help charities that received those credits, that they would definitely plant trees, but the number advertised on the credits and the actual trees planted were different. Also, no one would take care of the trees for long and only few would survive.
obviously we know why. they count the flu as covid. just like in the us where you can get funding by classifying a death as covid.
Sure, and when they do capture in RAW format the quality is horribly bad and quite soft because no tricks are applied there, and the softness of the lens as well as the low dynamic range of the small pixels really hurt.
Xbox's financials last two years have been flagging at roughly -2% revenue over expenditures both years, making them the least profitable division within microsoft. This, coupled with the fact that their games software itself had a +30% margin in the 2019 shareholder report, and it's not hard to see the Series X as a possible last ditch effort by the hardware teams.
I still haven't decided which one is better, "buying in" fully on Hyper-V or sticking with a set of separate solutions, eg. MSYS2 instead of WSL2, Docker Toolbox vs. Docker for Windows, Linux VMs in VirtualBox on an as-needed basis, etc.
That's essentially the same point the parent is making.

If they had a clear, viable strategy they wouldn't be playing the twinkie defense or trying anything that might work.
It's true there's a lot of ambiguity on whether the AI succeeds at "strategy" in Starcraft. But Civ would probably be an easy game for an AI to succeed at. Almost every iteration of Civ has had a fairly clear dominant strategy for the first large chunk of the game, and often the game ends before reaching the latter half of the game. How much adaptive strategizing really exists in the game?

Notably, playing with a very competent AI that was trying to win the game probably wouldn't be fun for most players. Players don't like to imagine that their opponents are trying to win the game of Civ, they tend to imagine their opponents are leaders building a civilization for its own sake.

When we criticize the AI in Civ, it's mostly due to dumb diplomacy (which designed to be fun, not cunning) and dumb military tactics (for which an exceptionally low bar is set). Both of these are fairly easy to remedy.
Well just look at the wording - "considering". Probably 99.9% of the things I've considered I've never done.

It's a poorly worded survey question. It would have been more helpful to ask "are you planning on leaving your state in the next 12 months?".
Probably 20 years ago I did this for 6-9 months. I had a CDPD modem for getting access to the Internet, which was ok for doing e-mail, chat, web browsing (though slowly), and SSH remote access. At some point IIRC I switched to some sort of a hot-spot. My job at the time was managing a number of sysadmins and the projects they were working on. I would also do some amount of sysadmin work, but it was mostly text based.

It was wonderful to be able to spend a week out at a camp site by a river, or out in the woods. My setup was a VW camper van, specifically the Adventurewagen. It was quite comfortable for 4 season camping, but you needed to be economical with water. Power was also an issue, it had 2 "golf cart" batteries, and a tiny solar cell, but no generator. I would often end up running the engine to get power enough to run my equipment, which I didn't like doing for various reasons. YMMV. I rarely had access to plug-in power. Often I would charge up while driving, but it made it hard to park in the wilderness for a week.

Today with better Internet availability, it should be even fewer technical difficulties.

If I were to do it today, I'd probably get one of those "solid state generators" that is just a giant LiPO battery pack. Charge it up using an inverter while driving, or at a plugin. I suspect that cafe's wouldn't love you bringing in a giant battery pack to charge. At the time, in CA, cafes were requiring people plugging in to pay, not sure if that is still the case.
Well, yeah. It was college only for only 3 years. For about 2-3 years after that it still skewed younger/techie, but past that has turned into a hellhole of vanity, inspirational posters, fwds from grandma, and politics. So, let's say fun for 5, awful for 12.
Looking forward to reading the first conspiracy theories/Facebook memes about how the wildfire is a hoax, the photos of the orange sky were doctored and the gray photos are the real ones...
Still there are xservers for both windows and Mac. How comes?
How do you avoid getting spam to random addresses using catchall?
Yeah I wish TikTok has variable speed / fast forward option. Another factor for ML to train and automatically speed up to the juicy bits. There's a lot of room to waste even in 1 minute formats. Though TikTok itself is mostly time wasting and this remark is more an indictment of my attention span.
I never really gave it a fair chance because it seems like more like an optimization exercise than actual experience.

The absolutely mind blowing part about CK for me is that I DO NOT MIND LOSING at all. Of course I am playing on Ironman always so there is no /save/reload. It is so AMAZING damn.

For example: I would start the new dynasty and the whole thing collapses spectacularly after 3rd generation - great -wow - I had a blast.

I spend like 2 weeks on and off conquering half the world, then one evening I get bored, start doing crazy stuff and everything collapses - wow - what a ride.

I start out small, my wife dies can't find a fertile concubine my brother assassinates me, my game session is suddenly over in like 30 minutes. I am absolutely delighted. I don't feel like I should correct it all, salt the earth, become the richest king ever etc. etc. It just doesn't matter.

Any other game was always - win win win. Crusader Kings is really a masterpiece. I think it's probably the most innovative game since 1990s when RTS / FPS / MMORPG / MMOFPS etc. were suddenly invented seemingly overnight. Sure it's possible to make an indie title that focuses on one interesting mechanic, or produce a game with a decent story and touching dialogues or create a memorable character. But to take something as ancient as a grand strategy (+RTS) genre in all its complexity (economics, armies, diplomacies) and to make something that feels REALLY brand new and also is an absolute blast to play and has one of the strongest "one more year (turn)" hook? Wow.

I didn't experience a joy of revelation the first contact with CK-II gave me since maybe Dune-2 when I was blown away by the fact that each of those little soldiers and vehicles are living and breathing and are following my orders in real-time.
Anecdotal, of course, but in my experience many people won't sign-up using their email because they're tired of getting added to mailing lists and receiving spam. Now, you could use fake emails when you sign up for these, partially as a way of avoiding spam and partially to find out which services are the most annoying with their mailing. However, this gets tiresome and if I can find an alternative service that doesn't require me to give as many personal details, I'll choose it over that one.
I love the cheesy informercial [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG8VpN6Z_YA
yeah sure. and lets build some camps for the sick ones.
Yeah, but those problems affect people differently, making some places more attractive on an individual basis.

For example, if you are a gun owner you would find the laws in places like NJ, NY, and CA to be very problematic. The same way that if you value access to abortion you will find those states less problematic.
>the US has a... sane definition of what speech should be protected at a national level

The US has a more extreme view of protected speech than almost all of our peer nations. Whether that is "sane" or not is a matter of opinion. Many Europeans would scoff at our campaign finance laws for example.
Thats understandable, but the edit also left out the 'surveillance' bit from the original
Ask me email, but don't force me to verify it before letting me in. While I'm browsing, show me a prominent warning that my email is not yet verified. Include my email address in the warning so that I can catch possible typos.