skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That must be fun over SSH/Telnet. 43 hours between every key press

Joking, but thanks for the interesting info (and Frost1x also).
Author here - like one of the other commenters said, I don't think there's anything wrong with your approach, or any way of thinking for that matter. I don't think there's anything particularly "right" or advantageous about the way my brain works either. I don't have any reason to believe I'm better at math than the average engineer - definitely not a math prodigy or super genius or something like that.

With that being said, trying to think a different way for the challenge of it is definitely interesting. Reading through some of the other comments here and trying to taste words or replicate other people's minds is a weird, fun exercise :)
I have this as well, including the loops for time units (day, week, year) and varying “camera” perspectives. Sometimes it’s labelled as “space-sequence synesthesia” (or “space-time”, which sounds cooler but doesn’t cover the non-time sequences like temperature). Always fun to find someone else with it in the wild!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
Sanctions are necessary to hold back the steppe warlord sitting in the Kremlin.

For humanitarian reasons we should make it easy for Russians to defect to the west if they want no part in what the Russian state is doing.

I don’t want to economically hurt Russian civilians more than we really need to in order to save Ukraine.
> Also, I wouldn’t put too much faith into Russian numbers for their nuclear projects.
It's not propaganda because we are talking about a free market here. Countries around the world buy nuclear reactors from Russia. They are by far the biggest exporter.

Russia is not needed though, China is very cost effective and their popular model is in fact American based. Their other popular model is a french derivative. Their secret sauce is to build refined second generation models with added safety instead of building 4th generation economic ineptia because of absurdly high safety bloat. The answer to how to make nuclear reactors costs effective is simple: 1) Do not fire all competent and trained nuclear engineers 2) Make nuclear reactors maximally secure, not absurdly secure.
I don't think people are advocating that education itself is just a signaling of inherent ability. This would be like saying it's pointless for an athlete to train because their maximum athletic ability is pretty much determined.
Maybe on the backend but on the front end they're using React, Liquid templates, etc...
I agree that we live in an era with a pileup of huge undertakings put off too long, but disagree that this is really a new thing. Meanwhile, treaties to dismantle nuclear weapons have been around for decades and have reduced arsenals and proliferation a bit, but not as much as anyone might hope. Sanctions don't appear to be stopping people killing their neighbours right now, so I must admit I am doubtful that they can stop people preparing to potentially kill in future.
That is not true. They do not compete for the some market segment.

The problem is most renewables fall off before peak load subsides. That's why cheap energy storage would be a huge boon for transient renewables as they could keep providing energy after the sun is down and the wind has subsided.

Take a look here: https://nuclear-power.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Base-Lo...
Do you think the opposite is true? That every immigrant or racial group places an exactly equal value on education, and any disparity we see is due only to systematic racism?

Personally, I think the answer is somewhere in the middle.
> Predicting the next war now prior to any such planning/moves is a silly expectation of people, even if they're experts.

Russia threatened Finland with invasion if they join NATO. Are the Russians actually going to invade Finland when the later joins NATO?
I feel you, because my story is somewhat similar to yours. I was an engineer for like 20 years, but always wanted to make my own business work. Started a couple of companies, but nothing panned out long-term, and ended up back in jobs after a year or two. Eventually transitioned into product management to focus more on understanding customers and figuring out how to build what they want.

A bit over a year ago, I quit my job and made another stab at starting a company. A friend and I built a prototype for a new product, but when we tried to get people to use it and did customer research, there just wasn't enough validation. Tried some other things, but couldn't land on anything that felt compelling enough. I even did consulting for a while, hoping that I could identify a strong enough market need through that path.

I got married last year, and we want to start a family fairly soon. So, at the end of the day, I realized that this isn't my time to build a startup from scratch. The job market is pretty hot, and I recently accepted a full-time role. I chose a startup that's late stage enough that I get a reasonable salary but early enough that there is still the opportunity for some upside.
after you have a gun pointed at you, or a crowd of young men chasing you alone, you can correct my grammer
I mean ... just as an example, what happens if what you are adding are not numbers?

For example, a string concat can be understood as an addition operation:

1 + 0 = 1 (identity)

1 + 1 = 2

1 + 2 = 3

2 + 1 = 3 (communitive)

"a" + "" = "a" (identity)

"a" + "a" = "aa"

"a" + "b" = "ab"

"b" + "a" = "ba" (non-communitive)

There's this whole intuition about addition itself that can be applied to something other than integers, and being able to reason about that is applicable to how you design software, particularly function interfaces.

Just as a note, my mother made me memorize the multiplication table when I was a kid, and I had ended up memorizing additions just through sufficient practice. I was able to intuit what additions and multiplications meant, but for the purpose of taking tests in school or doing homework, additions just pop out as answers because of the memorization. It wasn't until much later in life that I started encountering ideas such as, what if you were adding something other than numbers.
Even when they separate the special education vs regular spending it's still expensive in my opinion.

At least in my area there seems to be a huge preference for new or fancy infrastructure. Many of the buildings are only built to last 20 years or so. The new middle school around here has a 2 story by 100 foot glass front to it. The glass panes are massive. Who thought that was a good idea (hearing/cooling, cost, possibly safety)?

I went to school in buildings that were 50+ years old and made out of cinder block. No artificial turf fields or fancy stuff.

Edit: why downvote?
Hah, I had exactly the same experience with Wal-Mart when working at an enterprise software company about 2-3 years ago. They scheduled a weekly meeting with a top support member and constantly asked for changes to the software.
Awesome interpretation! I did not think about numbers interpretation for a long time, but numbers were always my passion, especcialy as a child. The fun fact is that I gave any number some kind of uninterpretable personality, some kind like information about its historical behaviour. and its allows me to like them more or not, give them positive or negative judging. So in case of addition, multiplication, etc (which I can do blazingly fast from my youngest) I see it as some kind of story in which numbers really meet each other and produce some results.

There is no other feeling in my mind which give me that amount of understading,but it is an understanding which cannot be formulate properly to other person. I feel it as an phenomena which origin started in my mind and grow there for my whole life (which is highly correlated with my introvert pov).
Thanks for that thoughts, all best.
While the spectre of nuclear conflict should not hold us back from use of nuclear power generation, there is plenty of real evidence here that we have been extremely lucky so far.

There have been many times where we have come very close to global nuclear war and it had been adverted by chance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

Also take a look at past 'broken arrow' events:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...

One day we are going to roll a critical failure.
"The problem of educating the educators is a problem which the democrat forgets in his enthusiasm for educating the pupils."

When's the last time a single person on hn dared to look at the curriculum of the average degree in education? It consists of courses that any person with the slightest degree of intelligence would run from screaming. I'm interested in education but you couldn't pay me to attend one - it's 99% fluff and nonsense.

Because the bigger problem is not the existence or nonexistence of exclusive institutions but of the kind of people that would render such an education educational. Because neither the gifted nor the wise - particularly if male - go into education today.

Perhaps a reason for the poor track record of modern education in producing any geniuses on par with those of the past and the long-standing dry spell of great works. And the larger trend of exclusive education producing little but "really excellent sheep".

"Our system of elite education manufactures young people who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it."

In which case perhaps it's best it's done away with. It appears past fixing, the rot infiltrating to the core of the bureaucratic machinery.

Edit: fixed/clarified/extended ending.
Which data would that be? We don't know if anyone is willing to use nuclear weapons against a nuclear power because no one has ever done it.
It’s one of the best short term sanctions. In the long run it will only drive Russia closer to China and make their anti-western, anti-Nato alliance stronger.
So this is basically saying that it's extremely hard to estimate these tail-event probabilities reliably, and therefore conclusions should not be taken as gospel. But we mostly knew that already?
Those propagation maps are cool, was learning about them 12 years ago for FPV
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I don't know where you got this info, but it's not difficult to tell a drill from an actual emergency. That said, it's not a problem because most launch techs would do their job.
If that’s actually a problem, they could call it a free download with donation.
You’re starting a family. Unless your spouse has a nice, dependable job, then you need to be the reliable one.
How? We had no nuclear war yet. How can you know that leader is willing to?
It's not though; I thought that too but the UIs are not the same and previous articles confirm it is Windows XP
Ask HN: Mobile App for Emergency Communications?
Can a smartphone be of any use if the internet/cell service goes down?

Most messaging apps depend on having an active internet connection. All modern phones have WiFi mesh and Bluetooth/BLE hardware capabilities, but it seems there are very few apps that use them.

The existing apps have little overlap across platforms. Bridgeify is the only one that exists on both iOS and Android (although I didn't manage to make it work between different platforms).

I'm looking for an app that could help people communicate using their iOS/Android phones without internet connection by relaying messages peer-to-peer.

If it doesn't exist, any ideas why? How would you build one?
I think it’s nostalgia but that’s not necessarily bad. Yeah, it’s true that magically music stops being good the minute you get your emotions under control as a young adult but again I think that time is to be cherished.

Just be wary of letting people manipulate your nostalgia.
The screenshots look way higher resolution than 320x200; anyone know what's up with that?
CW: TV Tropes...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool
You can easily and cheaply bottle your own water. If you rotate it yearly, no additional treatment is needed. If less regularly, get a treatment kit.

Aquatainers are good for small amounts (and good for camping), but you are likely looking at food grade 55 gallon drums for this kind of scenario.
Thanks. I was wondering what is wrong with India (saw a bunch of social media posts by Indians). "Interest over principles" explains it.
No one knows. That's crystal ball stuff.

If Russia starts moving troops towards Finland, and intelligence agencies start getting indications from electronic and human intelligence, and the rhetoric starts ramping up, you start being able to make more educated predictions.
Yes -- edited my comment. I'm really just dragging it off topic and should be ignored :-)
If you are a well-off resident of a high-income country, are open to moving far from your current place of residence and preparing appropriate shelter and stockpiles, you can certainly prolong your life as a biological organism.

But can you meaningfully prolong your life as a human being, the inheritor of a specific culture and history? No. You could have no meaningful future after every human being's past had been rendered meaningless by the war.

If you want to understand what the world would look like after a global nuclear exchange, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a good starting point. The movie Threads does a good job focusing attention not on the "day after", but the abject misery of the decades that follow, about which nothing could be done.

https://thebulletin.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Srqyd8B9gE
Code Comments Are Lies
Rockchip is a Taiwanese company, as is MediaTek - I won't use mainland China companies where possible, and some Taiwan companies run afoul of my ethics, but the distinction is important if you're concerned about these things.

Taiwan uses "made in China" for various reasons, which clouds things, too.
Also, the question is: if Putin orders it, would it happen?
The counterpoint of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is that nuclear-armed countries are more free to start minor wars with non nuclear-armed countries, confident that there won't be direct intervention by other nuclear-armed countries. These wars become proxy wars between the nuclear powers.

It's referred to as the Stability-instability paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability%E2%80%93instability_...
I've been seeing a lot of stuff like this over the last few months. (Mostly because I've been looking for it.) The tagged memory possibilities in RISC-V and aarch64 v8.5+ architectures, combined with the natural suitability for vectorization that lisp programs seem to have make the Lisp machine a natural fit, and IMHO something that will come to us sooner than later. I'm very excited to see these and work on them, and intend to throw my own hat into the ring on it, sooner rather than later.

Maybe I'll start a blog. Anyway, godspeed lisp hackers!
Ideally we find the number that still effectively guarantees MAD but is currently smaller than what we have now, so at least it won't cause extinction but will have the same deterrence capability. Do we really need 1500 nukes on either side for full deterrence? Wouldn't 500 do the job?
It depends. They have more discretion in most cases. The public schools are stuck with more stringent adherence to procedures, specifically about getting police involved.
my advanced placement programs were evaporated and replaced with "no child left behind".. there were more than forty languages spoken at home in this school district. You can read for yourself the other parents' comments about the results. Good on you for getting the benefits of this society and escaping the slums and their ways.
> My problem is guys literally working 9-5, expect "lunch break" takes 2-3 hours since they are playing a video game.

You missed the entire point of my comment. If they take 2-3 hour lunch breaks and meet/exceed their company and performance goals, then it shouldn't matter how long they are working. Results matter, not time.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program
With fresh VPN account for good measure.
Maybe 3 can lead to important people changing nationalities. Which would be super embarrassing for Russia.
> It's not usually about the presented issue. The relationship dynamics are the real truth.

Absolutely. I was on the wrong side of such a dynamic until recently, by the end of it (thankfully I switched teams) it was a straight up bullying situation.
And much like an abusive romantic relationship, it escalated slowly in a way that was difficult to notice.
My point is, yes, do whatever you can to stay away from these kind of people.
> When this design doc situation arises, it really is on the author to figure out why that person objects no matter how it's approached. Fresh ideas are often hard to express and for people to process

Sure, I think I would do that for one or two rounds. But at some point I realize this is just someone who is being willfully ignorant or lazy and trying to make it seem like it's my fault.
Wouldn’t the targets mostly be military (sites housing nukes or otherwise militarily important) and perhaps a few cities to largely neutralize them from doing anything other than kick their wounds (NY, DC, LA)? I don’t see why they should want to destroy more minor cities as well (Baltimore, Miami, Charleston, etc) for no reason; seems like it doesn’t meaningful add protection when doing a first strike
I don't think OP means "politicians" when they said "people in power".

I think they meant people with (lots of) money.
> mass societal panic about Covid

If anyone with clairvoyance predicted in 2018 that one million Americans would die from a contagious disease, while a third of the population would go on protesting anti-spread measures and wouldn't even let their kids vaccinated ...

... it would have been widely panned as unrealistic disaster porn aiming to undermine Americans' social trust.

Sometimes a disaster is actually a disaster.
my language choice is specific and well-earned; the city I am describing is consistently top ten in murder rates in the general population, and has some of the lowest graduation rates in the USA.
Yelp is still plenty good as a rough approximation for quality for me. Anything under a 3.5ish is buyer beware and anything above a 4 is a pretty safe bet the restaurant is good enough.
>If an airline cancels my boarding pass because they don't like my email address (?), too bad for them, they just lost a sale.

Trust me, they don't care, I say this from experience. They don't seem to even have insight into these bans or the volume they're happening in. I had to spam Amazon support on and off for two years to get my account unlocked. And we all know how much Amazon cares about the customer... pah.

Standing your ground as a customer doesn't do anything but make life a misery.
Another potential unintended consequence: Russians come to the conclusion that Putin has failed to protect them from the sanctions, so they oust him in favor of someone even more hardline.
This is a good point. Children from large families have the opposite problem of being lonely or needing socialization. They struggle to find time to themselves. And then all the siblings often have friends, so your actual socialization group ends up quite huge.
Author here: was definitely not trying to frame this as a tutorial or anything like that. I don't think that my "methods" have any particular advantages. It's just how my brain works.
That would be f^2 => m^2, wouldn't it? You divide by ... 35 to go from cubic feet to cubic meters.

GP did that while also going from day to year, and the math checks out
I Agree. The separatist republics of Donbass and Donetsk have been under attack from Ukraine for years. The Ukrainian army shelled residential areas and killed civilians in the complete indifference of the west. If we really want to force a comparison, Ukraine has behaved like Israel here. With the exception that in this case "Palestine" has a powerful friend on their side, Russia.
That's the point of the "crying wolf" story: the boy cried wolf so many times, that when a wolf (emergency) actually appeared, the townsfolk response was not appropriate. That's the risk you run when every story is hyped up for maximum engagement.
yes, plenty of statistics.. the school administration is required to collect statistics.
This doesn't happen to most people so you have a clear personal identity problem. Maybe your name is on a list (when I worked at a brokerage, we had to do identity screens and close accounts if someone was on some sort of international security list... I wasn't a member of compliance so I don't know the full details). Possibly your identity has been stolen and is being misused. Or maybe it is just one specific rogue email account that you are using that is causing you problems. I would recommend reaching out to customer service at some of these companies, possibly Fidelity first as they are a financial institution with strict requirements and might be able to tell you most directly what your problem is. You should probably also make an attempt to check / lock down your credit and any other important accounts you have.
In that post he links to "the 6th most 'notable' Mac ever" over on Six Colors where they created a Top 20 of all-time list.

How that list failed to include the "Jurassic Park" computer, the gorgeous Quadra 700, truly made me sad. It's a machine where, if you need to take it apart, you can remove every single component - even the PSU and motherboard - with only ever needing to remove a single screw. (You can even remove the PSU's fan w/o needing any tools.) The rest is so beautifully designed that you can pop release all of it: floppy drive, hard drive PSU, speaker, motherboard, etc.

The 1 single screw holds the drive caddy to the case. That's it. And it's a design strategy that I'm willing to bet at least 50% of Quadra 700 owners back in the day didn't even realize was sitting on their desks.

By the way, the mini-desktop machine could be stood vertically or laid on its side - it was up to the user. Simply breathtakingly incredible design.
I mean, sure, the world had just built a new vaccine in 20% of the usual time, using an entirely new platform, but other than that...

And sure, understanding of the immune system has exploded by leaps and bounds in the last two years, but other than that...

And fine, we now have a reusable launch platform giving us relatively cheap access to space, but other than that...

OK, and carbon capture/terraforming are rapidly improving, but really, other than that...

And quantum computing has progressed by leaps and bounds, but other than that...

Sometimes, when this argument comes up, I feel like I'm in a Monty Python skit.

I'm terribly sorry that CS applications in a work context aren't moving as fast as the author would like to. I would like to see progress there, too. But I really think that the extrapolation from that tiny domain to "nobody is inventing anything" is maybe failing because it's lacking a whole number of steps.