skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have good memories of the AN-2 as a skydiving platform.

As part of East German pre-military training of the youth I chose the paratrooper path in the GST (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_f%C3%BCr_Sport_un...).

The skydiving training airplane was the AN-2 of the article. Most memorable were the group jumps, 12 people leaving the AN-2 one after another as quickly as possible.

Image taken from that Wikipedia link, it looked pretty much like this and I was on that same airfield: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Fotothek... -- except that in this picture everybody is in civilian clothing but We were all in dark gray-green GST uniform.

I made 18 jumps. We first had to learn how to pack both parachutes, the main one and the reserve. It was done in steps, each of which had to be approved by a trainer. I still think it was good to pack your own chute. The first 12 jumps were quite diverse and the core of the training. For example, one jump (the fourth?) involved also opening the reserve in addition to the already open main (looked like this but in dark green: https://kameradenkreis-fjb-lstr40.de/wp-content/gallery/flug...). This was for when there was a problem with a not completely open main.

I remember that the only tree on the wide grass plain was almost hit by quite a few people quite a lot - for no good reason, since even though the round chute was not nearly as steerable as a as the modern wing forms it still was plenty good enough to easily avoid any such obstacles. I think it was because the brain involuntarily steers where people are looking, so those people trying too hard not to hit the tree might have involuntarily steered towards it, not sure, just my hypothesis because it made no sense. Or the guy who ended up with a sprained ankle in the only ditch far and wide.

The training involved training camps lead by military paratroopers in their third year. I remember I blacked out during one morning exercise. Discipline was harsh, real military style including group punishments when someone did something stupid and they could not determine who was responsible.

Just to finish the anecdote, the GDR ceased to exist before it was time to join the military, so I ended up in the now unified Bundeswehr as battle tank weapons systems mechanic instead of in a strenuous paratrooper role.
My personal experience strongly disagrees

I got my current job at a medium sized tech company by being fast tracked without a CV or technical interview

The magic of networking

Edit: ah yeah, and at my previous job I got told at the interview “you’re here despite your cv”

I literally wouldn’t have a career without networking
Bootle (a Wordle clone in a x86 boot sector)
> The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the Principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.

Russia wasn’t the only signatory of the memorandum.
> please tell me what is wrong with default browser rendering?

Default renderings, plural, because each browser's default is inconsistent with the next browser, and are generally regarded as ugly. You might disagree and think they are the height of informative minimalist beauty, but given that nearly zero websites use the default browser style, calling a "design trend" the use of CSS, is like calling a "fashion trend" this "wearing clothes" thing that people do these days.
I can't help but think there's something else happening in the background, or that this is part of something larger.

It feels like a distraction because the "goal" seems ... both unclear and not worth the reputation damage.
"cuts baby loss" might be the worst best headline, way to go bbceditors
This would be my exact interpretation - it's not that he needs the money it's that he wants the cachet of being insanely well remunerated
Ubuntu works like a charm on an HP Envy x360 13.
If you're mostly doing digital stuff then definitely pick up a logic analyzer first. The $10 units from China like this one[1] works great with Sigrok[2].

By oversampling, ie using say 10MSps on a 1MHz signal, you can also get a hint if you have signal integrity issues if the pulses are not stable. Of course won't catch everything but can help for blatant issues.

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000174086947.html (random seller)

[2]: https://sigrok.org/
This is the best possible answer to my question at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29631288
Apple earned it - they don't charge you just for the laptop, it's for the entire ecosystem - For example, you can run iOS apps on Apple's ARM device. And what exactly does Lenovo bring to the table other than embedded spyware (which they've been caught in the past for)?

Seriously hard to justify $1000+ for this crap.

References:

[1] https://www.inverse.com/innovation/36136-lenovo-settles-spyw...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/lenovo-tumbles-after-report-...
I suspect its because Singapore has imposed sanction, rather than a willing thing from HQ.
> “nobody wants it and we know what they want instead”

I would feel much more comfortable if they said this; it almost gaurantees that the feature in question that nobody wants will be the headline act at the The Apple Event 2025.

Apple reimagining email - catchall email addresses now available in iCloud+ 25 (now works with copy and paste in iCloud+ 26)
This is the wet dream of old grandpas and their geopolitical games. These are people looking at their map and compare who have the bigger (sphere of influence). Their thinking is stuck in the 19th century. They completely disregard the needs of people. They completely disregard the needs of this planet.

Russia can conquer the whole world, but nobody will ever like it, because internally it is a broken, corrupt, dictatorial system. If Russia doesn't change its internal political system to a free and democratic one it is simply doomed to fail, no matter how many tanks and nuclear bombs they produce.

(And the same is true for China)
Lots of good recommendations in the thread.

I found this one to be pretty valuable: https://www.amazon.de/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-M... (sorry, amazon link)

Because, obviously you're going to get into situation as a manager where you have to have difficult conversations.
I have done something like this myself. I did the simpler thing of simply buying a single 150W high lumen high lux LED bulb. It's very bright. It's maybe an 70% solution.
This is empty gesture, just a symbol of Belarus serfdom. Russian army was already free to enter Belarus using any convenient reason like military exercises so status quo hasn't really changed. Russia might keep nukes in Kaliningrad Oblast so from the security perspective nothing major had changed.
The other hack you can find is to look at "warehouse" lights or outdoor flood lights. Those things are very powerful on their own.
My Thinkpad E14 Gen3 is quiet most of the time. My T470p is boiling my hands and the fan is constantly whirring (I still like it :)).

But I agree, Apples MacBook is of a different kind. The only time I heard the fan was when playing Metro Exodus and when I ran cinebench :). My MacBook Pro outperforms every other computer in my possession.

But I'm still interested in this Thinkpad, because I'm not too happy with macOS anymore. But I assume there are too many limitations with Windows for ARM as well :). And considering the price of this Thinkpad, I'm probably just buying another MacBook, which has better battery life and better performance (and probably a better screen, Thinkpads often have terrible screens imho).
I'd rather not, but it's a specialty design/construction calculation software for the building industry. Userbase is ~1000 and the development effort is in the order of several hundred man years.
Bit of a shock seeing Civ 1 on the front of BBC News this morning in amongst the Ukraine news.
Indeed; that's one of the 3 references listed at the bottom of the article:

> See Also

> https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html

> https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html

> https://github.com/tromp/AIT
Don't forget that legal way to buy Bitcoin is through the certified exchanges that require ID verification. Meaning, these certified exchanges will comply with all the sanctions and getting money back in your bank might not be trivial and risky.
Light as a treatment for SAD has been looked at since 1984, all day exposure is hardly a new idea.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...
Ukraine basically had zero air presence to begin with.
Gentoo 64 bit on Raspberry Pi 4
please tell me what is wrong with default browser rendering

I'll take that bait.

- The default font is Times New Roman. It's hard to read at the best of times, but on a mobile device it's truly horrible.

- By default the color scheme is black text on white with bright blue links. On a page that has links embedded in paragraphs the sharp contrast change makes the links stand out too much, making text less readable.

- Browsers make text expand to fill the window with an 8px margin. On a 4K monitor with a maximised window that means the margin is 0.21% of the available space and paragraphs are usually just one long line of text. Again, it's not very readable.

- Browsers don't apply 'text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;' by default, so the algorithm used for anti-aliasing makes the text (guess what's coming...) less readable, but it does render faster by a few milliseconds.

- Forms can layout very weirdly if you're not careful, with spacing around labels that makes it unclear what element the label applies to.

There's a lot more to add, but I'll stop there.

The fact is that browsers have moved on, display tech has changed, and there's a much wider range of devices used to view pages. There just isn't a set of defaults that works well any more. I'd argue that there isn't even a single set of defaults that could work - websites need to optimize the way content is displayed for the device being used. The defaults for a small mobile device should be very different to the defaults for an 8K HDR monitor. Relying on the browser to work out how something should work for a user just won't work now.
How is that different from today? ;)
Building a gentoo 64-bit system for Raspberry Pi 4.
It doesn't need to be the whole room. Just a small patch would feel like having a skylight with the sun pouring in.
I'll give it a go, looks promising! I have had a great time with Insomnia (insomnia.rest) and pretty much anyone I recommended it to ended up sticking with it. Postman has became way too bloated, it's amazing to see how there's always room for new and slimmer approaches.
> It is fascinating to see for the first time in the modern age what effect modern media consumption and the internet has on a local war.

The Russian propaganda effort seems to have involved the internet a lot, and you can see their talking points come out of the mouths of Western speakers in all the usual places on both the far-right and far-left.

Remains to be seen how well the domestic Russian propaganda effort will hold.

> It's harder to mobilise people behind a corrupt cause once blood starts flowing.

Only if that's your blood. If it's someone else's people are often fine with it. The returning dead Russians could make the country go either way - demands for revenge.

> from a purely geographical perspective, this is the first war on the European continent in the 2000's.

It's not even the first war _in Ukraine_ in the 2000s! Has everyone forgotten Crimea and the Donbass?
Ask HN: Books/Tutorials for generic(NOT AWS/Azure specific) Solution Architect
I started working as a Solution Architect recently but realised that I am lacking high level understanding of many of the technologies. I am looking for books/online materials to understand high level introduction not limited to Networking/Storage/Identity/File Transfer Protocols/Secruity. Thanks
It is a shame this is based on X1 cores not X2 cores. Feels like they are trying to rip off people.
I was looking at T14, but I'm used to having slim laptop, s variants have been slightly powerful but lighter and with slimmer profile. The thing with M1 is that the difference with 8th gen i5 in my T480s is for some workloads 2x, if not more. And difference in some Lightroom tools is easily even more. M1 is amazing. Plus, it's quiet. I didn't know I missed silence so much. It's hard to go back now.
It's funny, I could have written this post almost word for word for my website.

@OP : I often search for CSS illustrations on Codepen and I have never found yours. I usually search for 'pure css' or 'css only' keywords. You might want to add them to your collection name.
Agreed. Burning gas is far from environmental friendly. It might be choosing the lesser evil if at all.

We could also change to electric heating and burn lignite again of course.
Yes, but f-droid.org actually does let devs use their own keys via the reproducible builds process (https://f-droid.org/docs/Build_Metadata_Reference/#Binaries). The only blocker for getting Signal into f-droid.org is that it includes proprietary Google libs.
people of russia have control. they can go and protest or they can go and fight their fascist army. if they choose to do neither - they are complicit, so fuck them.
Held that title (unofficially) in a company. Figuring out "what did we mean by this, twenty years ago" was already a nontrivial task, even with a theoretically similar tech stack.
What the heck are you talking about? Germany also lost WW1 and nobody committed genocide then neither. If you refer to the Morgenthau plan, that lost to the Marschall plan, I think history showed that the world was better of with the latter.

The main reason why Germany had so many foreign troops in the former occupation zones was simple: the Cold War. The French held the Ruhr, the British the North and the US the South. The USSR held the East. All those bases were there in case the Cold War turned hot for whatever reason, and Germany into the first ground battle field of WW3. Always better to have the troops already in theater, just in case.

Germany was left to its own devices since the 50s after WW1 and since the 20s after WW1. Before WW1, Germany didn't really exist as a nation.
> I would just treat them as a device seller

If you believe the things you wrote - weird, institutionally dishonest, hostile to its customers and grossly incompetent why would you buy anything ever from them?
Let's democratize the United Nations and make it relevant again
I think it would not be an entirely crazy idea to suggest it could be a net win to abolish the special veto rights enjoyed by privileged nations.

A veto-free and empowered UN should greatly reduce the need for biased military alliances such as NATO and CSTO.

We only need one universal international organization to maintain peace and security; the United Nations.

This is obviously an extremely complex and difficult system to make changes to, due to all legacy, but hopefully something can be done.

As a Swede, I would much rather prefer fixing the UN, than joining the NATO.

Thoughts?
WSL2, as good as it gets.
Same here. I thought the bottom would absolutely drop out, but now it's looking like it doesn't want to drop more than 25%.
The initial paratroopers at the airports plus fast armor columns all indicated a blitz approach. Those have already been destroyed. It's no longer on the original plan, and the West is interfering. The longer it takes the more weapons we can ship them, and everyone's running around looking for new types of economic sanctions which can be applied against Russia.
My Asus 1215 B, sold with Linux pre-installed has a different opinion on the matter.
I thought it was the usual posturing, maybe take Donbass, until I saw the staggering number of troops in Belarus and the new military bridge they built right from the border with Ukraine. My stomach dropped when the photos come in 3 days before the invasion.
"Watching shit scroll by for hours makes me a Linux expert overnight!"

https://web.archive.org/web/2002/http://funroll-loops.org/
How is I2P different from Tor? It doesn't have exit nodes and thus people can't watch you from those?

Is it still susceptible to tracking if many nodes are compromised?
I don't know who any of these people are, but that is exactly what the article says, so why should we not believe that that's what the author believes?
I really like https://nightingale.rest/
We're taking a hybrid approach right now, where we incorporate IPFS support into our working stack. Then we can transition more and more to IPFS as it proves mature enough to replace the more centralized methods.
Github open source? Nope.
My experience with Linux since 1995, kind of proves otherwise, I lost track on hand holding Linux on laptops, including those sold with Linux pre-installed.
Privacy regulation and the fight against cybercrime
EU's Michel: Debate on Ukraine EU membership will be held
Same but with ricing Gentoo in the early 2000s
Show HN: Net source generator for object mapping
Abe: Taiwan security is Japan's affair and US should opt for 'strategic clarity'
You simply can't. The constexpr environment won't let you have uninitialized variables/memory anywhere. It won't let you access dangling/out-of-bounds pointers either, overflow two-complement types, etc.
Finland is on a fast-track to joining NATO now, a referendum immediately collected the required signatures and will now be brought to parliament.

Also Finland gave permission for Germany to supply some cannons to Ukraine, and Finnish news said we also donate 2000 combat helmets and vests and two field hospitals.
Definitely. I think what matters most, to most teams, is a scheduled consistency and regular contributions, whether that's "full time except for winter" or "30% allocation" or "alternating weeks" or whatever.
In diplomacy and realpolitik there are no permanent friends and enemies and upcoming powers need to toe the line even more carefully. Additionally India, South Africa and Brazil (observer) also belong to the NAM (Non Aligned Movement)
Considering how fast things fell in place within the EU and NATO, those warnings (I doubt it was only the US) weren't in vain.

Why send not the best, brightest and most advanced? Because you only jump as high as you need. And using your most sophisticated gear in an area that is most likely covered NATO detection gear and consultants / advisors doesn't sound to smart neither.
Now you've just generalised the statement until it becomes a truism. So you are now essentially claiming the statement is garbage because it is devoid of useful meaning.
All Russian claims should be completely dismissed. Every single thing they've published about the attack so far has been proven lies.
No one in the parent posts has said anything about "literally zero people".

The OP made a claim ("invented in 2017"), and this very claim is being criticized.

I found perplexing that you interpret the very same words in almost opposite ways.
Let us agree on that one: From the Geopolitical point of view was a mistake, from the practical point of view maybe not.
How does it compare to a $999 Macbook air?

https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

Isn't the apple device more powerful spec wise?
According to what I've found, grow lights can emit enough UV rays to make them (unfortunately) a non-starter for inside your home.
That's why I mute everyone instead (and then never go on Facebook because there's nothing there because everyone is muted). I find it the vastly superior way of using Facebook.
3% comes from internet poll done by one of the newspapers, after the elections, during first weeks of the protests, while somewhat independent newspapers were still publishing.

The independent papers were closed few months later, those that weren't turned off their comment sections and started filtering what they publish.
I'm not an expert in reactors, but I mean the European Pressurized Water Reactor EPR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor) built by French Company Areva and, previously, Siemens. It has a lot of problems from what I hear. I don't know anything about the other ones you mentioned.
Course I didn’t read it, it’s a puff piece about him. I guess he changed his tune, good for him. The nail in the coffin for me personally was that his restaurant in San Mateo was a huge letdown.
I always wanted to build a "periscope windows".

Have a large light-gathering lens on the outside, then focus the rays into a much thiner "sun tunnel", bring them underground (in the same shaft as the water and heating pipes), then expand the rays into a fake window. If this was possible it would completely change the way we build homes, we could have many underground floors with "periscope windows" and a towers of light gathering lenses on the roof.

Unfortunately this is not physically possible, not just a real picture but not even the light can be made parallel this way. (Maybe some quantum tech will make this possible one day.)
- Peopleware

- The Mythical Man Month

- High Output Management
huh

that’s… a great idea.
If you have a T480s now, why do you want to upgrade? It's quite modern.
This is a classic book (related to lambda calculus):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird

This is a very cool article on lambda calculus that relates to it:

https://dkeenan.com/Lambda/
Things I've saved from previous discussions:

HN Question "Advice for a new & inexperienced tech lead?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22255301

HN Question "Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712194

HN Question "I want my tech lead's job" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369535

Useful comments on a leadership blog post link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21376838
Cree is a good choice. The 'smart' versions of their bulbs are also convenient for if you want to set it to 'daylight' 5000k during the day---it looks better (IMHO) in a room that gets some natural light during the day---and change it to a warmer temp at night.
While Elizer certainly didn't invent the thing, just read the references he cites. He was right that its a pain in the ass to build and that pretty much all solutions available are no where near bright enough despite claiming otherwise. Expense and heat, which is really just more expense, aren't the only issues though. Assuming the premise that its good for health, another issue is that we do not know if the health effects require us to match the spectrum. Notably the reliable research on the topic I have read have always used number of hours outdoors in sunlight, not some contraption. He thinks it worked for his wife, but someone depressed is very likely to support their loved ones delusions that their personal effortful attempt to help worked, and if that loved one is persistent and persuasive, often delude themselves into thinking that. Either way, it would be a single sample. Research is very much needed, and building such a rig is a fun project and a great way to learn exactly how much effect your house control systems really allow.
Windows also has an ecosystem, arguably made even larger with WSL2 and Android apps. This new ARM laptop is offering a fanless design and (they claim) 28 hours of battery. Don't forget that Apple have also sold plenty of "crap" laptops for four figure sums until relatively recently (e.g. customers beta testing new flawed keyboard designs).
If you do it right, automated recommendations work also for smaller customer bases. There's a lot of redundancy in customer and product data that can be exploited to generalise the behaviour of groups of customers over groups of products.

Doing this automatically is a huge positive ROI thing over manual curation. In fact, humans are not even that good at coming up with good recommendations. Manual re-arrangement has almost universally been an anti-relevance feature in A/B tests I've looked at.

But of course, almost nobody does the automation right.