skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Afaiu, the solid truth was that higher-up admin people of the Parliamentary Labour Party HQ, which is separate from the office of the Leader Of The Opposition, failed to do the investigating, partly due to the fear and hate of Corbyn in the PLP, but then LOTO took the blame (partly cos Corbyn isn't the greatest of communicators). Novara did various detailed videos on the whole saga, including looking at the PLP WhatsApp leaks. https://youtu.be/G02ZZY_KE4E https://youtu.be/ZjNB7fGc1-A etc
You can only respond to what you notice
> I won’t touch CGI; that’s cheating

Interesting choice. I'm now wondering whether the opposite approach might also be completely viable and surprisingly fast: it looks like the overhead of starting a process is single-digit miliseconds, so having a static binary that looks at PATH_INFO and returns content would work. Of course that's difficult to distinguish from just having a static site ..
Discussing Christian Culture (capital C) in the context of this is particularly apt, because it is supposed to be about walking and growing in Christ, yet it often ends up being about...other things. Certain parts of Christian Culture are just downright weird in their emphasis on hypermasculinity ("Jesus is a warrior who is coming back!"), wealth/success ("God's blessings!"), cultural influence ("we need to fight in the culture wars!"), etc. Or, the never-ending dialogue about what it means to be a Real Man (for your wife and children, of course!).

Note that all of those examples I mentioned are status symbols in the secular culture at large. IMO, we've failed at making an alternative, superior culture, despite having the exact model given. Instead, Christians just seem to soft-fork secular culture, change a few things, slap some Bible verses on it, ship it, and then act surprised when non-believers see right through it.
Even the direction the number suggests can be completely wrong too. A lot of news is just propaganda at this stage, very little enlightenment comes from reading it. As has been argued quite a lot here on Hacker News its also not very valuable either, not knowing the news doesn't cause you much in the way of life problems since you will find out about the big things another way.
Coming from country(Finland) where the buyer does not employ realtor the whole thing of buyer paying someone to get house feels weird. And seller's realtor really doesn't only care about price, but also about the speed they can sell the property, thus spending less time on it.
While the names of the Russian tanks deployed in Ukraine sound like the gear we grew up fearing during the Cold War (T-72/T-80 etc), they really aren't the same anymore than the M1 is still the same as first deployed in 1980.

For example, the T-72B3M Obr. 2016 is a thoroughly modern tank, though obviously based on the T-72. Modern fire-control, modern vision equipment, solid ERA, good cannon.

Where it is failing is in how it's being used, even ignoring the lack of appropriate infantry/artillery support. This is a tank that has thermal day/night sights (not IR spotlights). It should be able to see someone lurking with an NLAW or RPG, but they are continually being sniped.

So why? Well, perhaps the thermal sights suck, or were stripped out at depot by some corrupt quartermaster. Or perhaps the crews are so poorly trained they can't take advantage of them. Or perhaps a lot of the ATGM kills we see are abandoned vehicles that are just getting destroyed.

Also, during the 2014 Donbass war, the UA lost roughly 400 MBTs, the majority of which were lost to mortars and artillery, not ATGMs. We see the videos of the Javelin/NlAW strikes, but we don't see hardly as much artillery. Artillery is the king of war...

Most of this we won't know until the conflict has quieted down, and after action reports are gathered.

Tanks aren't obsolete by any means, but the reasons for the high losses are multivariate, a nd not due to old armor being destroyed by "modern" (30 year old Javelin) anti-tank weapons.
I think the article is very measured about its approach to the purpose and continued value of tanks, and the specific failing of the Russian army in Ukraine:

> The Russian Army has shown that it is not competent in combined arms fire and maneuver. Where is the accompanying infantry with the tank formations, who are supposed to bust the ambushes executed by Ukrainian forces? Where are the suppressive mortar, artillery, and close air support fires? If the Russian Army was tactically skilled, then the Javelin and other ATGMs would be suppressed by artillery or air support and their surviving crews would be swept up by Russian infantry. Thus far, these key competencies seem to be lacking and Russian soldiers are paying a high price for their unpreparedness.
> The reason that projects usually only list the non-Rust deps in their readme is because these need to be installed manually by the user in order to build or run the piece of software in question.

I understand that. It's almost spelled out in my comment. But the ones that can be automatically installed by Cargo are still dependencies.

> There would be no point in listing all direct and indirect crates that a project depends on in the readme, since that list is already in Cargo.lock anyway which is meant to also be committed.

I know. But this should at the very least be acknowledged.

> Really don’t see any reason for this particular objection.

It's entirely reasonable for someone not to want tooling to automatically grab dependencies from the internet. Such people need to know which dependencies they need to provide.
Hear, hear. I keep being amazed how little sanity check is done when it comes to numbers.

I developed a rule of thumb over the years: if you can't Fermi estimate some metric or quantity within an order of magnitude, you probably don't understand the metric very well. If you can't estimate it within two order of magnitudes, you probably don't understand it at all.
In Windows 11 there's also a setting to make the "Print Screen"-key work in the same way as Win + Shift + S. The setting is called "Use the Print screen button to open screen snipping".
I feel like the only rational response is: "all computers have issues". When it comes to attention to detail on their machines (at least from a users perspective of interacting with one), Apple takes the crown and there's basically no one else doing it like they do.

But in terms of actually being a computer? No Apple has a failure rate probably on par with the industry standard. If you don't agree with me then I would implore you to go watch some of Louis Rossmann's content on Youtube.
God seeing C like this again throws me right back to college. I'm only in my 20s, but this feels nostalgic.

While I wouldn't do something like this for production (as most of us wouldn't), it's fun to do in C, especially just with the standard library. Feels like you have the entire world in your hands and you can do anything you want, as long as you don't segfault.
In Spanish you literally say "thousand million" to mean billion so it's very unambiguous.
Basic critical thinking skills aren't difficult, and are pretty much universal. Everybody uses them every day. They're just basic problem solving, for the problems directly in front of you.

When the problem isn't directly in front of you, it doesn't really matter if you apply the skills or not. The effects, if any, are distantly removed from the cause. The vast majority of misinformation (in the sense being applied here) doesn't affect you in a way that you can observe.

That makes it really easy for everything to reinforce what you want to believe. You'd never apply that kind of poor reasoning in your daily life; it would bite you in the ass. Some people do fall prey to that as well, but even functioning people can believe the most obvious crap if it makes them feel better.

Teaching critical thinking isn't the answer -- unless it were taught in such a way that explicitly called out things that are politically sensitive. That would never happen.

As for what is the answer... I wish I had one. I'm afraid that this problem is only going to get worse.
Why not just use https://pkg.go.dev/embed ?
Does Anybody actually use milliard? Here in the UK million is a thousand thousand, billion a thousand million etc. I always assumed that was the same for our mainland cousins.
> Do you audit the HUGE source code of the most vulnerable application you use, your web browser? It's a huge moving target with insane complexity. Didn't think so.

No, I do not. Relevance?

> Do you audit the source code of the compilers used to build your CPU?

No, I do not. Relevance?

> Instead of avoiding dependencies,

I never said anything about "avoiding dependencies". Are you in the wrong discussion?

> dependencies should be locked for a release cycle and audited with automated tools to instill confidence.

Personal preference, open to debate.
Well, yes, if you want to migrate all your data to a new instance you need a copy of the old data. Mastodon does have a takeout option that lets you export followers and your tweets, which you can import into a new account. Though I honestly don't know why you'd expect an account migration to work if the old server is not available.
Not a tutorial, but the unofficial wiki has info on Raspberry Pi and other ARM SBCs: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM
How can you gauge whether a job is easy or hard without being in it?

The reason I ask is that for a job I thought would be extremely difficult, once I started to apply my work philosophy to it, it's actually become the easiest job I've had especially once I conquered the challenges that others perceived to be "hard".

I think work and your career are what you make out of it. The reward is generally the same given you are paid the same each year. Sure you may get more respect from your colleagues or a higher bonus for taking on harder work, but the question to ask is "Does that even matter long term?". If you already know you want to be more involved with your family, then you should seriously consider how wrapped up you can get in new work.

Don't fall prey to "hard life now -> easy life later". This hardly applies to work unless work is your life. New and exciting should never mean "hard". It only means that today because you don't know what to expect.
Yeah, an anti-tank missile would be a pretty bad example of its category if it couldn't destroy a tank.

The point is that a properly equipped, prepared and trained military would have taken steps to use assets like tanks well and not marched them into oblivion, and perhaps researched and developed countermeasures to what is clearly a popular anti-tank missile system.

Such a military would also have conducted reconnaissance by drone, scouts, satellite etc. and concluded from the data gathered that driving a tank into [area with lots of unpacked Javelin crates] would perhaps be impractical, and focused on eliminating the munitions before playing the tank card.

The tank can wipe out infantry and survive anything with less-than-anti-tank weapons, the Javelin user can kill the tank, the sniper can kill the Javelin, the counter-sniper can kill the sniper, the artillery strike or sustained covering fire by infantry can cancel out the counter-sniper, etc.

The point is that simply driving tanks into a city full of people with anti-tank missile launchers and a strong inclination to attack invading tanks is not a good idea without mitigating the risk.

The existence of an anti-tank missile launcher does not make the tank irrelevant. Fighter jets still fly despite the existence of anti-aircraft missile systems.

What makes war technology irrelevant is whether it is prohibitively expensive to replace, assuming non-zero odds that the unit will be incapacitated/destroyed.

This is especially true against an opposing military force that has large amounts of existing man-made or natural shelter and cover, high motivation, *and* supplies/support from multiple wealthy countries, etc. that basically doesn't have to spend because it's defending with whatever it has, tooth and nail.
I would ask both of you where you grew up Catholic, because I suspect that the prevalence of such beliefs is much more regional than strictly denominational.

Specifically, from what I've read, they're likely to be much more prevalent in the US Bible Belt and other places with strong concentrations of evangelical fundamentalists, because despite Catholicism being extremely different doctrinally, the actual Catholics in that area are almost invariably going to be more influenced by the culture around them, including the attitude toward religion and science.
And not just numbers. The overwhelming majority of the times I look up a reference cited in a wikipedia article, it turns out to not at all support the wikipedia text. Very often, when the wikipedia text seems murky, whoever cited the reference didn't understand the source document at all. I guess numbers never seem murky like that, so you don't get those same warning signs as with vague prose.
You don't need to be an evangelical, and certainly not a white evangelical, for religion to pop up in your conversations. Big cities are quite secular, but that's pretty much it... This is also one of those figures where the area-versus-population thing in the US matters a lot. In the vast majority of the land in the US, I'd agree that religion pops up in a huge share of conversations, but this does not imply that it appears in the vast majority of conversations in the US.
Czech is exactly the same - jedno pivo, dvě piva, tří piva, čtyří piva, pět piv, šest piv etc ...
This reminds of the internet classic VerizonMath: http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-...
> When I visited Flores, the most surprising thing about it was that on a 130 km island the inhabitants spoke 5 languages and 80 distinct dialects.

My understanding is basically there was the original indigenous people (who are closely related to the indigenous peoples of that whole island chain stretching from Indian islands in the West, Andamanese, and going all the way east to Papuans, and Australian aboriginals). The subsequent groups came due to economic-religious expansionary activity from East Asian peoples who had taken Java and Sumatera, and also Portuguese activity. This process is also happening in Papua, quite violently as one half of the island is pretty much an open pit mine occupied by East Asian Indonesian soldiers fighting off indigenous Papuan tribes. Doesn't get much coverage here though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMeYD-wFC1o I think recently the level of violence has flared up because Indonesia is sending more East Asian settlers into the area.
The way _Russia_ uses tanks has been dead... basically since 1972 and the advent of the A10. Here a $23 munition, fired quickly, could chew up an armor column. Don't forget the Javelin is still $250k, it's not exactly cheap.

Tanks must be supported by infantry teams. Without capable mortar teams, rifle teams, automatic weapons teams, they are sitting ducks, as Russia has proven.
Would it be possible to implement something like similar using different distributions? I am thinking of Fedora with rpm-ostree, for example.
A sabot round is really two parts, right? You have the shaped charge that blows up exterior armor and then a small penetrator, generally the size and shape roughly of a pencil, that goes in and makes a tiny hole.

Active protection systems like Trophy are designed to pre-detonate that shaped charge so that they actual sabot penetrator just bounces off the normal armor, or is hit by ERA (explosive reactive armor). I'm sure APS work better against most ATGMs than sabots, but fundamentally, many of them are designed similarly. Sans maybe there are no depleted uranium ATGMs.
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This allows only premium users to download which is allowed under premium terms.
Unless I'm missing something, this would have no impact on engineers and other professional employees who are "exempt" from overtime. My nominal 40-hour work week meant nothing if there was a crisis or schedule slip that required putting in many extra hours.
The claim that this law would force companies to be more efficient by having fewer meetings assumes management are rational.
Also, it's weird that it only applied to companies with >=500 employees; wouldn't this be a strong incentive for smaller companies to resist hiring the 500th employee?
in this comment you are doing the exact thing the article talks about, positioning groups as good guys/bad guys and thus signaling your status as either a good guy or someone who at least knows the difference.
They are not, nor is million/billion the main point of the article.
Indeed, but that would be fixable within a decade or so. Lost data would be lost permanently.
> Hi, I would like to know what's wrong with a lot of dependencies?

I'm not saying that there's necessarily anything wrong with a lot of dependencies. It can be, but that's a separate discussion. What I'm saying is that it's wrong to pretend that you don't have a lot of dependencies when you actually do.
What we're seeing is that low cost precision guided munitions can engage tanks from beyond their direct fire range. Within direct fire range they can be engaged by even lower cost munitions fielded by light infantry and light vehicles. The tank also suffers from requiring large amounts of fuel, making supply line strikes more dangerous to armored advances.

The first point is the big one, the future of ground forces may not be built around gunned vehicles. Drone swarms can threaten entrenched infantry, ATGMs can destroy tanks from a distance. A "dumb" artillery round costs $1,000 and is accurate to 20 meters, recent "smart" artillery rounds cost $140,000, a switchblade costs $6000.
A lot of people think there's a shortage of good music and the pipeline for musicians (people who actually learn to play instruments and master composition) is dwindling.
Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance
Could you expand on this? I'm struggling to imagine a realistic scenario where visual confirmation of a target would be a requirement. I also don't see why an F-35 is at a major disadvantage inside visual range of a target. (FYI Visual range is farther than short range air to air missiles and much farther than gun range.)
I wonder if this is somewhere it would make sense to use a non-free license which restricts how people use the code or what modifications they are allowed to redistribute. It wouldn’t stop anyone motivated from breaking the rules by themselves but it makes things like Oggify less likely to be distributed and so would mean librespot might be more likely to survive long-term.
Depending on PoV, you can consider incorporating non-free stuff as making it less accessible.
It would be good to formalize it though.

The best teams and managers I’ve worked on have had an unofficial understanding that Fridays are a slow day.
I couldn't find a good financial planning tool that felt modern, nuanced, and actually fun to use... and I ended up spending all my free time this past year building one: ProjectionLab

https://projectionlab.com

It doesn't involve linking your financial accounts, you don't have to make an account to try it, the free version has a lot of features, and there's a sandbox mode if you just want to see how the interface works.

Last year I posted a prototype here (back when it was called ProjectiFi): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27844194, and the early feedback from the HN community was extremely helpful! I've put in about 1,000 more hours of dev time on nights/weekends since then, and it's pretty much a whole new app. Here are just a few of the things you can do with it, many inspired by the HN commentary:

- Build detailed and flexible plans for your future that go beyond the standard online retirement calculators

- Backtest on historical data and run Monte Carlo simulations

- Model international scenarios with various account types and tax estimation presets

- Experiment rapidly: the simulation engine runs in your browser and doesn't need to send your data server-side

- Control how/where your data is stored: cloud sync, localStorage only, or manual import/export, (client-side by default, no persistence in the free tier)

- Plan for goals like achieving financial independence, taking time off for travel, home ownership, starting a rental empire, etc.

- Create granular models for how accounts/income/expenses/inflation/etc change over time using interactive plots

- Build dynamic configurations using milestones that support multiple criteria and conditional logic

- Create custom plots to visualize the metrics you care about

- Plan separately or as a couple

- Create and manage client accounts with the Pro version

- Track progress over time and see it overlaid on top of your projections

- Cross-compare between different plans, or stage + analyze multiple changes within a plan (and revert if desired)

- Choose your own icons to personalize things

- And a lot more; for a full breakdown of everything that's new, see the version history

If you feel like checking it out, I would love to hear what you think! Most of the functionality is free (minus data persistence), but for anyone interested in upgrading to Premium, you can use coupon code "HN-10" for 10% off any plan :)
Yes, the target will be a moving object, but its motion will be steady and predictable. The helicopter and booster will be the only two objects in the area, and capture should be slow and steady when viewed from the reference frame of the copter that has matched velocity. Aerial refuelings look crazy from the ground but easy but from the pilot's point of view.

https://youtu.be/sL5MxCwkLJQ?t=94
A 10% difference translates to a lot of money for a middle class homebuyer. That’s often enough to buy a new car.
According to the article, the watermarked audio is only on digitally distributed tracks on certain streaming services & FM radio, so no.
The website is an explanation of the law, not the actual law itself. I'm sure the actual law does not require sales tax to be included in the displayed price.
And French tanks have been using autoloaders since before WW2 (back then it was partly to offset demographic problems).
The USMC had become a second land army, and decided they needed a mission and set of capabilities of their own. They've pivoted to facing off against China in the Pacific theatre and decided that tanks just don't fit into their requirements for that mission. If they do need tank support, the army has plenty.
my initial reaction is this is gov't overreach however considering the current state of healthcare-attached-to-employment, this policy will probably be zero sum in the long run.

this allows more employees to hit "full time" status and thus be eligible for benefits. of course mega corps are simply going to re-organize their benefits package to cut out the marginal increase in healthcare and labor costs somehow. those who were scheduled 35h to stay below the cutoff will now only have work for 30h.

the "more true" solution, IMO, is decoupling healthcare and other benefits from employment rather than trying to band-aid the symptoms of this poor system with Sisyphean policy like this.
Pedant here. Copyright violation is not theft. Piracy describes another act entirely, too.
The bible gives a green light to share words and song publicly, and to duplicate freely for the masses what is in arbitrarily short supply.
Even our modern, applicable laws do not mention theft, so you ought try to avoid strawmanning in the future and look up which millenium the DMCA was written for.