skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the "main battle tank" concept of armored warfare certainly appears outdated, but tactically speaking, the idea of using mobile/mechanized armor to support infantry is still super important

a mobile, armored vehicle capable of things like transporting infantry and serving as a mobile defensive position to fall back to, engaging enemies with direct or indirect heavy fire, serving as a command and control vehicle, etc

the line between "tanks" and IFV's seems to be getting blurrier, because the idea of a relatively heavily armored, big-gun, "breakthrough" tank really is a relic of cold war strategy. the past few decades have seen tank designs evolve to become more mobile and even capable of carrying infantry. at the same time, 'infantry fighting vehicles' are becoming more armored and carrying higher-caliber main weapons.

tactically, an armored vehicle appearing on a battlefield is still advantageous: you've immediately aggro'd the enemy forces and allowed your own infantry to breathe for a second while the enemy figures out how to deal with the armor. you could bait out hidden antitank elements. you could mount some powerful optics and a radio, and you can have a commander remain close to the elements they are directing, while relatively protected. you could use heavier armor as line-of-sight howitzers to clear urban environments.

what's changed is it's now a real bad idea to send in heavy armor as a 'spear tip' in an invasion, you want to support them with infantry, and at the point where you're forced to mix armor and infantry, your armor will begin to resemble more infantry-friendly designs. the example probably most familiar with folks is the israeli merkava tank - for all intents and purposes it's a 'main battle tank' but it can also carry 6 passengers in a rear fighting compartment, which i imagine allows for some really flexible fire-and-maneuvering.

in the context of the russia-ukraine thing, all of this flies out the window; i have no idea what the russians are doing. partly because of the fog of war but partly, from what i can gather, because their military was kinda dogshit going into this conflict. i swear to god it's like they've unlearned stuff since 1988.
This goes way back to the
bad old days of 90s web popups that attempted to look like Windows dialogs.

Luckily for everyone the spammers couldn't resist the temptation to throw in a few brightly coloured police tape GIFs, radiation symbols, typos, bold fonts in about 6 sizes and otherwise generally spoil the illusion.
The ironic thing here is that traditional duct tape should _not_ be used for attaching HVAC ducts together. The adhesive doesn't withstand the temperature extremes, and it has undesirable properties if it catches on fire. UL-listed foil tapes are used for this instead.

It seems like cloth-backed tape started as "duck" tape (as in duck cloth), somehow turned into "duct" tape, and then turned back to "duck" for marketing purposes. It has quite an odd history.
Certainly, the United States had more interest in Iraq and Afghanistan than say Germany, France and Poland.
They offer ProRAW if you have a pro phone. Silly because the 12 and 12 pro have the same cameras except for telephoto afaik
That isn't the ABA's fault and doesn't mandate them to 1st amendment protection. Go complain to the states in question for making participation in a private organization mandatory.
It is a fair point. In making this site, I have come to respect quality furniture makers most of all.

I do think there is a place for cheap furniture. Not just as junk, but as a piece of a home when someone doesn't have the budget they wish to have. While there is a place for cheap furniture, there is not a place for overpriced cheap furniture.

I do also think that if shoppers can feel confident they are getting the best prices, then they might upgrade the quality of they are buying within a given price range. We just help them buy better quality furniture at their price point.

We do intend to add reviews at the product level that will help users discern quality. Where there is enough data, we can even gather interesting data like: what were the reviews of a given item at a given price?
I think this was the point of a comment by Biden (or someone else?) a couple of weeks ago about the US offensive cyber capability. I think it was a reminder: We're not slouches at this. We can attack you, too, and we can do at least as much damage as you can. Don't open that door.

And so far, Russia hasn't opened it, at least not blatantly.
or exceptionally better "Fuck it, we'll do it live"
Most people in big cities don't have cars. Most of the cars in a city are commuters, who go home every night to the burbs. It's the same reason cities have relatively few gas stations.

People who insist on having cars in cities will either find places to charge, continue to own gas cars, or switch to ride sharing plus public transport. It is not a case for Tesla to change their entire design.
Fascinating how greed and the demand for ever increasing profits leads to these cycles of purchase and privacy. First we had physical DVDs but studios’ greed in extending the theater playtime as long as profitable resulted in bootleg recordings so people could watch at home. Then torrenting was the final nail to this physical media strategy. Netflix arose, consolidating content into an even easier experience than torrenting with none of the legal/ISP risks. Then Disney and Warner Bros and NBC caught on, got greedy, and now we’re back to torrenting seemingly because people don’t want to deal with country licensing, platform lock in, fragmentation, or price increases.

Anyone wanting a glimpse at this bill’s future can look at YouTube’s draconian copyright strike engine which ensures artists will live in fear of daring to use a 5 second sample of Major Music Label Intellectual Property.

Attempts to legislate this (rather than curbing corporate greed) will only create a new hydra, one providing ML-resistant protections for media against perceptual hashes, greater anonymity, and the fertile grounds for stronger piracy.
Cascading only works as intended if you don't have third party styles and if the styling requirements of your application never change. What's funny is that CSS itself is subject to the same problems. It was created to help people add emphasis and layout customizations to text-based technical documents. Now it's used for everything from interactive maps to control interfaces on spaceships.

I get why people hate CSS, but I think the underlying issue is that it's impossible to create software that can gracefully do whatever has been asked of it and will be asked of it in the future. It relates to the whole culture of continuous deployment and rapid iteration... a few people are talking about the downsides, but we haven't really reckoned with them as an industry yet.
Does making pirating some software impossible actually increase its sales revenue?
I'd wager that most people who pirate software wouldn't want to, are even have the means to pay for the full price of the software.
I disagree with your statement, because IP is a human construct that was created in order to help creators profit from their works so they can create more, and of higher quality works.

It is a very expensive construct, both in public resources (e.g to create, protect, and enforce the law), and towards humanity's progress (i.e free access to books, inventions, etc would benefit the planet).

So for creators to get the benefits of the letter of the IP law, they should respect the spirit of the law, which is to give gated access to everyone.
Mux is awesome. We are using Mux for Instill. Super reliable and by far the most developer friendly option we found. There is ways to do it cheaper for sure, but when evaluating all the time spent setting up and maintaining all the infra required to do that (especially since we want to get as close to zero downtime, working on almost all device types, fast global delivery, wanted to get Instill up and running fast etc.) we decided it was well worth the cost.

Also funnily enough, Vimeo uses Mux (their analytics offering Mux Data, but still pretty crazy).
Translation based on screenshot: https://i.redd.it/vlj0wyw9apo81.jpg

The pandemic changed everything for the airline industry, which went into recession for two years. Pilots' incomes went down 10% to 40%, so did flight attendants' incomes, and losses were widen.

Last year, one of the "big three" airlines[1] recovered 100MMs RMB of revenue through selling pilots. Yep, selling pilots in stock, literally asking them to find jobs elsewhere. The airline industry is in a mess now, but the public doesn't know.

Young pilots complaining that they won't be able to make their mortgage payments; Low morale in the industry. Much higher attrition rates. What do they all mean for an industry that relies on safety?

1. A Qingdao Airlines aircraft ran over a ground crew staff [2]

2. Runway excursion for a China Eastern aircraft in ZLYL [3]

3. Landing gear pins were left not removed on a Lucky Air aircraft (subsidiary of Hainan Airlines) [4]

4. Cracked windshield on a Juneyao Air aircraft [5]

Those all happened within a year. Chinese civil aviation has never had a safety track record as bad as this. People in the industry feel very bad for such shameful moment.

But what would happen next? No idea. Everyone is waiting for that flight with the unlucky ones.

Translator notes:

* Original post was posted on Feb 20, 2022.

[1] Air China, China Southern, China Eastern

[2] Jan 24, 2022 https://www.sohu.com/a/519204416_123753

[3] Feb 11, 2022 https://news.sina.com.cn/o/2022-02-11/doc-ikyakumy5439933.sh...

[4] Feb 16, 2022 https://www.sohu.com/a/523129276_260616

[5] Feb 20, 2022 https://www.sohu.com/a/524074118_120388781
20% legitimate Conway's law concerns, and 80% cargo culting other orgs' Conway's law concerns in an effort to feel like you're a big boy org with big boy org problems.
Have you tried it yourself? "Wayland support in the KDE Plasma Workspaces is in a tech-preview state. The workspaces have been developed for X11 and much functionality relies on X11. To be able to make proper use of Wayland these bits have to be rewritten." https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland
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The value subscriptions (bikes/ebikes for me in SF) is in not having to worry about it. I can bike to anywhere in the city and generally leave the bike there and walk or bus. Or I can do the reverse. I'm also not on the hook for maintenance.

It's a very different thing than owning.

Edit: I want to be clear that this is about the economics and ease of owning vs renting, not the particular prices. Lyft bikes have memberships+rental fees or just rental fees, and they can be pretty expensive, but so can buying an ebike.
Not yet - I have a pretty generic combined bimodal/global predictor - there's a lot of research on BTCs - it's easy to throw gates at this area - I can imagine chips hitting 20-30% BTC in area just to keep the rest running

My next set of work in this area will be integrating an L0 trace cache into the existing BTC - that will help me greatly up the per-clock issue rate
It is time intensive but not particularly hard to collect data from job postings and types of exits start-ups eventually make. I find it hard to get a good quick estimation since it is hard not to think of key examples that fit my personal expectations.
(Mux founder here)

Yes, Reddit is a customer, but they use Data (our quality of service analytics tool), not Video (our suite of video streaming APIs). So...it's our fault if they don't have visibility into you having a bad time, but we aren't in a place to actually fix it quite yet :)
Yes, I came to learn that microservices would probably greatly excel at sending JSON strings back and forth. Then I wondered why we weren't just all using Erlang
Thanks, it looks great. I'm happy that they didn't rush it. They don't talk much about compatibility with current web frameworks, I think they should. I really hope that it will be featureful enough to support being a target for compiling Svelte components (or even maybe React / Vue components) to HTML modules to be imported at some point, but still stay simple enough to be useful.
I’m unlikely to buy furniture new ever again because of the shenanigans you describe. Facebook Marketplace and others seem to be good but can be difficult if you don’t have a pickup truck or van.
Why don't you address the arguments themselves, instead of attempting to discredit them by attacking the person who made them?

That isn't exactly arguing in good faith, to use your own words.
Go to Z. I had the same thing. I dropped out of an expensive school and just followed my interests, later returning to the school I liked that was nearly free. Zero debt beats any reason. Plus.. MIT students. Shudder.
Sorry, it's hard for me to feel sorry for an industry that moved to California to avoid patent claims.
Now for cars/trucks and we’re in good shape
I guess the question is then, would VCs give money to startups who say "We're using JQuery and PHP" or to startups who say something like "We're leveraging AI and machine learning to deliver product via MERN stack ontop of AWS to give us web scale architecture"
and are completely oblivious to the costs of their way of life (and certainly won't listen to a politician who mentions the existence of such cost)
I can't find any other mention of interior lamps in the same traffic code document.
Not just delivery drivers, this is essential for everyone in India that uses a two-wheeler. India has always been known for its notorious costs of Petroleum and its unaffordability to anyone other than the rich.

We need the EV transformation to make sure people are more economically sustainable. A handsome side-effect of it would be the dramatic drop in air pollution given the population density in India
I understand, my point is that nobody has really thought about this in detail, so you can't just plug in libgdrp to avoid the legwork, like you do with libjpeg or libffmpeg.
Thanks!

We think UI automation has a lot of potential as a programming paradigm accessible to non-coders. Once RPA hype and noise dies down, perhaps a few signals like that will remain.
I totally agree with your assessment of cringe. To me this article elegantly condenses the bias-ridden, ego-inflated and hindsight-smarts that is venture capital. Don't get me wrong, there is some accurate analysis in this piece and the decisions, undoubtedly, but at the end of the day, it's mostly hot air.

> When I saw Rare Pepes, I was struck with the idea of making unique, rare, and scarce digital goods.

Seriously? In this day and age, is this seriously what the world needs? In any real capacity? To me this is bizarre.

And what does it prove?

The analysis might be right in the sense that it's the same dynamic at play like during the Dutch tulip craze: People irrationally desire scarce items for - vanity - social status.

But reading this presented so dominantly as a supposed display of intelligence has me serious doubting how much we progressed as a human species in 300 years. Why is investing money and blogging like this seen as a desirable outcome by people with a highly developed capacity for reasoning?
You mean the Martyrs' Memorial in Çardak? I guess. It still has a big highway going through the town (which is what this bridge connects to regardless), and I would think a suspension bridge would look very nice and respectful in the background of this view:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87anakkale_Martyrs%27_Memo...
This isn't actually new. If you know the biochemistry/molecular biology of cholesterol, this is an obvious question - cholesterol is so central to so many other systems that it quickly seems unlikely. Add to that NONE of the landmark cholesterol-CVD studies have ever been replicated.

Finally the recent COVID experience has opened up new thinking about the "real causes" of CVD (processes that cause micro-clots rather than cholesterol directly - cholesterol and plagues are only a secondary or tertiary RESULT of these primary processes).

Mostly cholesterol links are more linear thinking like "eating fats make you fat" and "all calories are exactly the same" - both untrue.
It's all tradeoffs.

Glue code should really only be tested in your integration or E2E tests, you have those, don't you?

Now, if A would look like below, we might accept not testing it at all, as the initial and upkeep costs to mock B might be higher then the potential cost of the one-time failure in the internal logic of A.

function A(args) {
return B(args) > 1 ? true : false
}

But, if A looks more like:

function A(args) {
const result = B(args);
switch (result) {
case 1:
case 3: return result * .5;
case 2: return result * result / 5;
}
}

I would probably look to convert it to

function A(args) {
return A1(B(args));
}

enabling me to unit test A1 without thinking about B (and without the cost associated in mocking it)
Interesting point. We have only started to look into the international market and want to understand dimensions such as shipping costs, shipping times, quality, etc.

We have considered also including secondary markets for the price-conscious.

We love to hear that you were already doing this by spreadsheet. I hope soon we build the tools for you to transition entirely to our site!
I would be annoyed as well, however if I tweet this instead of say write a well thought out article/blog with some references then I should expect low quality responses.
(Not a Microsoft employee) Even if you do have the feedback, is it worth fixing issues if your boss doesn't prioritize them, and you won't get promoted for it?
That's a quick fix and I fail to see anything engineering specific about it. The same approach can be applied to any other problem in any other profession. Personally, I'm not a fan of this approach.

I also think it's the wrong quick fix. What you want is a rule of increased specificity. Better use a unique id, maybe in conjunction with an element selector.

!important rules should be avoided like the plague
Brand it FISIcal Project Management.
Sure you can, you just need to write mocks that handle constraints, integrity, etc.....
How about "The quest to make a 'contagious' animal vaccine"?

A technology cannot be fairly represented by the intent of its inventors. It's equivalent to describing the Manhattan project as "New technology aims to end WWII and provide cheap, clean power".
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Also native English speaker.

One thing I learned recently is the etymologies of the words for “Orange”.

The Orange Order is a fraternal order in Northern Ireland named in honour of the (Dutch) William of Orange, whose title is from the Principality of Orange (in what is now southern France), named after the city of Orange, whose name reached that after a few rounds of minor corruption from the Gaulish “Arausio” meaning cheek or temple.

The Orange Order likes the colour orange. I don’t know where on that etymological chain the connection stops, but the word for the colour is derived from the fruit, the fruit has the name “an orange” as a corruption of “a norange” (except the language this happened in varies from English, French, Spanish and Italian depending who I ask, so might have been “une norenge” but all the stories agree the “n” shifted), that from the Arabic nāranj, and that is apparently fairly close to the Dravidian root word.

Returning to William of Orange, the Dutch word for the fruit is “Sinaasappel” - Chinese Apple. And of course, “Mandarin” is the English words for both a type of orange and a branch of the Chinese language.
Some people just like to be countercultural for the sake of it, and apparently the author is one of those people. Is there a word for reverse cargo culting? Cargo hipstering?

Not the apt, "The cargo is from a plane!" but rather, "We never needed any of these supplies to begin with! We were better off starving!"

It's wholly unsurprising that the next series of topics the author plans to discuss are mental health. That makes perfect sense, given the rest of the article.
Use timezones as an interface accommodation and not a storage format.

If you're going to do it in storage, keep it outside the ISO/8601 string. Chronology is the most important thing to get right. Locality comes after
I understand your disillusionment. I certainly respect those who choose to buy used.
for some reason https://archive.ph/uAUsz does have the whole article
I do not believe this would make sense. The German 'ver-' has nothing in common with the English 'fore-'.
Maybe the comperator should be pluggable so we could opt for a deep equals, or what I'm thinking along the lines of- (for better performance)

Object.is(..) || deepEquals (...)
This could have to do with something called preference falsification. [0]

[0] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674707580
So... you worked on something terrible that people called a "microservice architecture"? Once a pattern gets popular, people start writing nasty code in the style, and then the pattern takes the reputation hit and people move on to the next thing (or just back to the last thing). Rinse, repeat.

My company uses microservices; deploys restart one service and PRs are one repo at a time. There's a shared library, but it's versioned and there's nothing compelling you to keep on the bleeding edge.
it's nihilistic if you find meaning in microservices, and cynical if you don't think there's a weird tech VC bubble..
This has nothing to do with the BGP failures that FB had earlier. This is a DNS configuration problem. It's much simpler to fix.
And of course, people always forget about accessibility for those with disabilities. Everyone making their own half baked video solutions creating a more user-hostile web for the disabled.
out of curiosity, why?
I really like the way Uncle Bob described Microservices in this article:
https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/10/01/CleanMicros...

He made the point that micro-services are a deployment method not an architecture. A good clean architecture shouldn't care how it's deployed. If you need to move from plugins to micro-services to be massively scalable your architecture shouldn't care. If you need to move from micro-services to plugins to make your app simple to host and debug, your architecture should also not care.

This strategy has been implemented in frameworks like abp.io very successfully. You can start your application as a single collection of split assemblies deployed as a single application and move to deploying as micro-services when it's necessary.
I'm entitled to whatever I can get my hands on.
all is subject to definitions.

even if the vaccine is medically inappropriate, or even contraindicated for millions? the comatose on life support? mandates it for foreign travellers in transit who got stuck in your country? mandates for the foreign diplomatic staff? mandates for military, which has their own medical corps and medical decision-making?

What is all?
A little bit of history note here: the macOS design is in most part copied from gnome 2, which i'm pretty sure was not javascript anything.