skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am guessing you already know this, given all the information that you have posted, but "caliber parity" alone would not be sufficient to penetrate an Abrams/T-90/Chally/whatever.

Today's 120mm rounds are kinetic-penetrator sabot rounds* (link below if someone really wants the details and naming conventions). The point is that this round is way longer than WWII tank rounds and functions completely differently. None of the tanks you listed would penetrate a modern tank from the front (100%), I would guess they are unlikely to penetrate from any aspect, but I am not ready to provide data proving that. Note that even T-72s are currently being updated specifically to be able to use LONGER rounds, and every developed country has chosen to BYPASS 150+mm cannons in favor of using longer 12x rounds.

We can also get fancy and talk about active protection systems (APS), which would defend against slow WWII rounds as well as they protect against RPGs since the 90s. Though, no one but Israel has really fielded APS in serious numbers since the USSR pioneered the concept.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour-piercing_fin-stabilized...
There is no protection for ideas, only for authorship.

So what you write at work is your work's, what you write elsewhere is not, by default.
> Or that we shouldn’t ban plastic straws because it doesn’t do enough when the whole point is we shouldn’t have single use items

I think this gets at what I--and maybe you're with me--really think: these problems are cultural. People don't hold businesses accountable, so it's a race to the bottom in all kinds of ways: worker pay, labor conditions, pesticide use, fossil fuel use, carcinogen use, taxes, single use items, etc. etc. etc.

And you're right that many businesses do in fact at least try to do the right thing. But if you're like, a florist or some SBO who needs a van or two, can you even buy an EV? Should it really be up to you to push automakers to build EVs to suit your purpose?

I find myself of two minds:

1. we're (the US) a democracy and our society should reflect our will--it currently doesn't and that's the problem, whether it's apathy or corruption or whatever.

2. we're a republic because it's unreasonable that every citizen become a change agent; we elect representatives to do that--they currently don't and that's the problem.

> TBH we are fucked so none of this matters.

Yeah I mean, I hear people on podcasts railing against this kind of fatalism. I get what they're saying, we could in fact take action right now to address the worst parts of climate change. I think it's really, painfully obvious we won't do that though. Humans just aren't wired to deal with this kind of problem. The effects are too abstract and distant. Even in this thread, with people way higher than average intelligence you have people scoffing at climate activists, saying they're demanding the impossible. Totally insane.
Would you please not perpetuate flamewars on HN? I understand how the same word can land differently with different people. To the extent that you're making a factual argument, it's fine to make the point.

Unfortunately you also started a flamewar with loaded language and since then have crossed into personal attack and blaming others for what is clearly a co-creation. It's definitely not easy to avoid mixing these things but if we're to have thoughtful discussion, we all need to try.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The first line is one of the questions right? So it doesn't count.

The rest doesn't seem inappropriate to me, I can believe it to be right.
'because it asserts the existence of natural numbers that have no "written form"'

I mean, mainstream axiomatic systems assert the existence of real numbers that have no written form (after all, only countably many entities can have a written form), so how is this any different?
>well, I don't know what to tell you other than that history does not look kindly on partisans.

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

If the only way to stop an act of violence is with an act of violence, allowing it to happen in the first place, as you would condemn the response of violence, ends up being the greater evil.

Also look up 'The Paradox of Tolerance.'

Saying it is to be 'partisan' to call out injustice is the ultimate in hypocrisy.

History has already condemned those who stepped back and did nothing.
Anachro: A Network Protocol, and a PC architecture for microcontroller systems
Elements tend to not degrade quickly outside of nuclear reactors as a general rule.
Why is it wrong to say that the machine halts?
> v2ex

I've heard of v2ex before, I'll sign up now. Thank you! :)
> That doesn't really answer the question.

Sure it does. Maybe not to 5 decimal places, but you're not going to get that on an internet forum of non-specialists. You want more? I'm sure there's a dissertation from an economics student or a master's thesis out there for your digestion.
When you say a week of fast, what are you consuming? Surely you need something beyond water for such a long fast right?
The Webb which was originally the 2000s decade premiere project has be holding up the queue for 13 years.

The next Roman optical space telescope is slated for 2025.
To respond to another part of this, it doesn't matter if we can look at a brain scan and predict perfectly exactly what the scanned subject is thinking. That only answers the question of "how do thoughts occur" not the question "what are thoughts?"

We have no way of even constructing the concept that gets around this. "This brain state corresponds to these thoughts." Okay, but where/what are the thoughts? In order for something to corresponds to the thoughts, they must exist in some capacity, right? So long as consciousness exists at all, which anyone who experiences it can say with certainty that it does. If I drink a beer, I feel a certain way. Neurochemically, we understand exactly why this is happening. What we don't understand is how there are "ways to feel" in the first place.

Understanding how objects interact with one another doesn't answer the question of what those objects are; they just are. Understanding the effects of electromagnetic force doesn't answer the question of what electromagnetism is; it just is. With objects, we can actually break things down into a small number of basic components (particles) that depending on their organization make all objects. But these particles are already a thing with no reason; just an axiom we've been able to use to get a mostly logically consistent view of objects.

Consciousness, we have been totally unable to break down into anything. We can see evidence of it in others, and feel it in ourselves, and we can understand how to make it seem to go away, and also what seems to bring about certain effects in it's space (red, happy, warm, salty, etc.), but our understanding is not of those effects--it's only of how a certain material arrangement seems to bring them about.
The distractions are no better working at home: useless Zoom meetings, constant Slack messages, pointless emails. I prefer to get out of my house.
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> Not only are we already there

We're not.

There are basic experiment that demonstrate it's feasible, but there isn't such a system in production today.

That being said, you are probably correct in that it's likely around the corner and my estimate was overly generous.
yeah but for how long? 10 years? 30? 1?
Contractors don't follow the government scale, the can make different amounts. Government people typically have better benefits and job security, so contractor's salary can be a fair bit higher.

It is a point of reference though, you can know how much many of the people that work with you make.
Multiple full time jobs at the same time? Kudos for pulling that of... though, as a founder hiring remote people from time to time, this is also a bit terrifying.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/business/mastercard-visa-disc...
Have you heard of Navalny?
> Surely no one will get a loan because as soon as you pay your last fee, you can declare bankruptcy?

Well, no because there are lots of incentives for the people who could pay to not declare bankruptcy, because bankruptcy has adverse impacts on employability, housing, etc. And with income contingent repayment available on federal loans, pretty much everyone can stay in good standing with them (people don't, but that's mostly servicers trying to get people not to take available income contingent plans.)

Also, the main lender is the federal government (since other , who lends because that's what the law says they do. The already narrow space of private student loans might narrow a bit further with easier dischargeability, but that’s about it.

> Isn't this the broad logic behind student loans not be dischargable already?

IIRC, private, non-federally-guaranteed student lending was trending upward, with no graduate-and-declare-bankruptcy trend when limited dischargeability for such loans was adopted, so, to the extent it was the justification it wasn’t factually justified, just an excuse for a financial services industry subsidy. (IIRC, it was later displaced somewhat by expanded federally-guaranteed lensing then hit a sharp cliff around the 2009 financial crisis.)

And for federally-guaranteed loans, private lenders have been excluded for many years, as private federally-guaranteed loans have been replaced with exclusively direct federal loans, and when therr was private lending they had federal guarantees, so encouraging lenders isn't a factor in that space, either.

> Some of the "equity" based models offered by a few places (where you pay a percentage of income for X years) seem better to me.

Those seem to a strictly-worse variation of the income-based plans already available for federal loans.
That's not true, fractional scaling works fine both in sway and gnome on wayland. There was an issue with fractional scaling of xwayland windows, which caused blurriness, but I think this has been fixed a while ago (I can't see the blurriness anymore).
Here's a strong suggestion to anyone thinking "goto -> automatically bad". Before you rag on that lonely goto that is used for clearly structured error reporting in some C-source, go and find some actual source that was written before structured programming became a thing. The problem those people had wasn't that single goto; it was the random jumping all over the place that was used for all forms of flow control. If you haven't seen that you cannot imagine what it was like. Today's sad little goto offers no danger whatsoever in the few places where it's still being used, and we should really stop hammering on about it when it has been dead and buried for longer than most of you have been alive.
You have to be running 100% coal power plants before EVs are worse for the environment. For a pure oil fired power grid, which does not exist anywhere in America, EVs would win hands down. Once you get to a mix of natural gas, coal, and renewables, which is actually what the US grid looks like then EVs are massively better than gasoline cars.
The gut biome must be at least strongly influenced by the environment you create - change should be assumed as soon as you change that environment.

But does the change mean anything?

I think this is going to turn out to be an incomprehensible problem that we will never really get a handle on due to the time it would take to even begin to understand things. We just aren’t able to run those experiments and this is the general domain where science for us fails and degenerates to just-so stories and observational correlations “studies.”

To illustrate…

Last year I did 5 months of OMAD to lose weight. I’d gained a bunch in the first few months of lockdown. It wasn’t hard but it wasn’t easy especially because my wife, who is effortlessly slender and eats a ton, needs to eat a big breakfast every day.

I often wonder if a gut biome transplant from her would give me that - I’d love to see someone actually do that experiment.

But not on me.

Her and her brother can literally eat bags of iced mothers cookies per week and stay slender - her GP says she needs to gain weight. It just isn’t going to happen. It took me awhile to understand what’s going on but my observation is they get really warm and fidgety for the hours after overeating and just burn it off sitting there. Her whole family is pretty lazy, they don’t exercise recreationally. They aren’t running it off or whatever.

Whereas my chronically overweight family lives ends up with moderately high boood pressure, they also all live long lives mostly free of debilitating illness until the end. Her family, on the other hand, has all manner of terrible issues once they hit their 70s…

Obviously this could just be “genetics” but whose? Their nuclear genetics or their inhabitants? And do the long terms come out of that?

I honestly don’t think we will ever know without experiments. And given things like the above I wonder if they can be even done, even if you decided to ignore the potential long term…
Yeah sorry I'm not seeing this, what is the difference between a hotel and a building made out of airbnbs?
For a $2 Trillion dollar company, the incompetence on display with this one is astounding.

I wonder will if there will ever be a moment, a moment, where IT Admins revolt and tell the heads of corporate to rewrite their LOB applications as web apps and then deploy Chromebooks or Macs as clients because they can't stand nannying Windows anymore.
Perhaps something like this:

Browsh: The modern text-based browser - https://www.brow.sh/
Also, this line of “EVs are worse for the environment because of coal powered grids” is literally oil industry propaganda.
The true cost of the Steam Deck is higher than you think
Parts are 40 years old and parts 12 years old- fourth servicing mission.
They had a problem with child abuse videos not being taking down in a timely manner, which then spiraled into an international PR disaster, and so they ended up removing three quarters of their content to try and get on top of the situation before it got even worse. [0]

They did have a problem, with no easy solutions, but the particular one they chose managed to remove their dominance in the area. Shortly followed by OnlyFans and others disrupting the space, means that they've lost the edge they once had.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/14/pornhub-p...
Consider only the GS scale. There are many with security clearances. We know what they make. I was replying to the person who said that security clearances required that compensation be secret. That is obviously not true.
Cherish Mistakes (2012)
Fascinating in the wake of Fei Fei Li's lab publishing significant work on embodied intelligence...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02202

Not to mention a bunch of relatively inexpensive reinforcement learning research relying on consumer knockoffs of Spot from Boston Dynamics...

Really does seem like they are following the money and while there's nothing wrong with that it's also nothing like their original mission.
I'm not the original poster, but I have 19,324 cards in my computer science deck and 3,632 in my Spanish deck... so our numbers are similar.

I use my decks to keep topics in mind for years until I choose to forget them. But these cards are things I always have memorized -- they're not something that I restudy when I need them.

25k cards hardly exceed your brain's capacity! That's about the same amount of information as 12,000 words in a second language -- plenty of people are bilingual.

Do I retain them all? Errrr... not really. My retention of cards I haven't seen for a while is about 85%. Further, 1,354 of the cards are "suspended" -- that is, I've gotten them wrong enough times that Anki won't show them to me again unless I un-suspend them.

The most important questions to ask any one who's using a flashcard system are:

- What do you get out of it?
- What are your costs?

For me, I get years' worth of material I no longer need to look up and a good foundation in Spanish, even though I only travel every few years. But my costs are an hour a day, every day, trying to remember things that are just about to be forgotten.

Good luck!
Yes, that's a great motivation. And I think "decent" is a great framing. Chasing maximum money can never be satisfied; it can easily lead to an unbalanced life. But "decent" and "quality of living" are goals that can be satisfied in many ways, and require you to look broadly at what you and your family really need to be happy.

Good luck in sorting it out!
Wilfred Thesiger's The Marsh Arabs is a fascinating look at the natives of the marshes.
It appears that the marshes may be recovering to some degree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Arabs
NFTs are changing the world of art and collectibles
You can get a pretty long way but there are still things that need to be improved over time. For example Clojure still 7 years after the java 8 release doesn't have great integration with java 8 functional interfaces, which is a pretty big detriment to java interop. I saw this patch which seems to have been submitted by a community member https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/CLJ-2637 (not sure if the author is a core contributor or what), but even after month no comment from Rich or anyone else on the team to indicate if this is a good idea, if they'd let it in or what.
Large Telescope captures a cosmic fireworks display
"But of course it's sound to assume many silly things. But why assume those things?"

This goes to the parent comment's point about real numbers though. It's silly to assume unwritable real numbers. Why do we do so?
It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a candidate
That has always been the normal pronunciation in American English — at least where I’m from. It’s not something Bush invented.

I am sure there are also plenty of countries whose names are pronounced differently in Iraqi Arabic than in those countries’ native languages. That doesn’t make it “wrong”.
Url changed from https://hackaday.com/2021/07/17/soviet-scientific-calculator..., which points to this.
I have a feeling it’s not to appear “cool,” but because when you’re writing code there is a tendency to prefer higher density.

Why?

Because higher density makes it easier to see the entirety of a context: more code on the screen makes it easier to spot the relationships.

This happens in other languages too, of course, but it’s easy to see why Closure pushes flow in that direction.
> if you have any equity in it, then it's likely to make you more money long term than arguing for more cash.

It depends on how much equity. If you have a greater percentage of ownership than you do of total salary, that makes sense. (Unless it's publicly traded, because then you can buy more stock with the more money.) But that seems unlikely most of the time. So, yes, it's better for founders or major shareholders.

I don't follow that asking for more money is "playing politics"
To answer your question, not me. To clear my point up, I am refering to the people putting the "Wuhan Flu" as the headline for months, Trump and Fox and the alt-right. No matter how valid the possibility, the discussion wasn't being had in good faith. Like, who gives a shit while we're dealing with the problem? It's like arguing if your stove had a gas leak as your house is burning down, except not only are you having the conversation at the wrong time, you're encouraging your friends to go kill the stove-maker's friends.

Let's just be clear on this: The "opinion" section of Fox "news" is one of the most dangerous organs of communication in society today.
Presumably the manual says that because that’s how Americans pronounced it, not the other way around.
> as one of the top priorities

What if it’s the only priority? How would your answer change?
I think the article should say "died by suicide" instead of "took his own life".
15 drinks a week doesn't make you an alcoholic. That's a Puritan viewpoint not a scientific one.

I don't drink at all anymore but when I was younger 15 beers in a week wasn't some magic alcoholism line.
Not just mosquitoes, black flies and horse flies too. I hate fly bites personally. They hurt and they bleed sometimes and flies will pursue you relentlessly. Even if you go into water, they'll just sit and wait for you to resurface.
Advice for a senior level developer who makes lots of mistakes
I find myself technically smart, able to understand concepts and well suited for early stage development where I can follow the reasoning behind choices that are made. When I join legacy or in process projects, I find myself questioning why choices are made. Like most of you (I guess), a lot of the people I work with don't document anything, or have limited documentation from the origin of the project, and middle / upper management isn't really technical. I can follow high level flows, but I make lots of mistakes on projects with lots of moving parts. I try not to get into the mindset that the more senior people on the project are withholding information from me, but that leads me to believe that I'm not where I should be technically.

I'm starting to second guess myself a lot more, more so on older projects that I'm throw into. I'm reaching out to older teammates and asking them about my past performance and how my current projects are, and they all say I was ok, and that these projects are also the norm.

Is this usually the case? Is there a direction I should go to avoid making the same mistakes? Do you sometimes spend 2 days troubleshooting an error that you caused yourself?
OMAD = One Meal A Day
May also be a consequence of how the games were designed given the GBA screen.

Kind of like how sprites were often designed knowing they’d be altered by a CRT and now look too crisp on modern screens.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27861201, which was the first submission of the article.
skynet never needed a war. Why wouldn't a superhuman AI be capable of outsmarting and manipulating humans?
Freespace 2 (available on gog) has a big community behind it that's rewritten the engine, modernized assets, and created new missions/campaigns.
I should point out that US law protects employees rights to openly discuss their salaries. It is entirely reasonable and legal to forbid a supervisor from discussing/publicizing the salary of all their subordinates. Whether that is a good business decision is a very different question.
HaikuOS running on RISC-V hardware (HiFive Unmatched)
The Most Unwanted Song [audio]
Inside the high-precision world of India's power grid management
TIE Fighter, for those old enough to remember it, must be the top 3 space shooters ever created. The campaign, the secret objectives, the little touches here and there. I don't remember playing anything close to that game. Freespace 2 was kind of but not quite there (it also is a great game, though!)
> So was AmigaOS.

Absolutely.-
Make sure whatever you keep them in has an offline option. I was on the end of handling an outage and confluence blew up.

We're using Markdown in github now with clone per SRE.
Yes, if you know where and when to look.
I mean maybe there is some truth to the headphone jack woes, but a lot of the other stuff is rubbish. I mean he (likely based on the other stuff he wrote) claims (very strongly) that wayland was written because of licence disagreements and libreoffice as well. It really would help to do some research when making such claims.
As you allude, it's rather ridiculous to make certain philosophical commitments but only apply them to natural numbers. I think ordinary finitism will do fine though, no need to go to ultrafinitism.
I suspect it's because at a certain point detailed physics matters and simulating things well enough is really hard. A robotic arm might flex just a bit, a gear may not mesh quite correctly, signals may take just a bit longer to get somewhere, a grip might slip, a plastic object might break from too much force, etc, etc.
Each party has their own exemptions they push. Notice the Democratic support state tax exemption - complete nonsense.