skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also a person who sometimes has to check myself, realizing I have a tendency to start talking too much, or take over a conversation. It's just that I have a lot to say. I listen, too; but sometimes I can be a bad reader of when I've said too much. I never learned that "manly virtue" of being stoic and silent.

That being said, it's possible to punish yourself way too much for what you did or didn't say, dissecting every conversation afterwards. I was a very shy kid. I had a lot of thoughts, but I didn't speak up. I would describe myself as someone on the spectrum who figured out how to communicate using a different methodology than most people; it didn't come naturally. When suddenly around 15 or 16 I began to get confidence, it loosened up my tongue, maybe way too much. At certain points, especially in my 20s, I remember thinking that I was going too far (trying to impress, or to make a point) and sounding like an idiot. But I was extremely hard on myself about this, like I think you are being. I would have a great conversation with someone and then wake up the next day feeling suicidal because I was sure they thought I was stupid or annoying. Even when this bore no relationship to reality. Even with people who liked me and wanted to hang out.

One thing that helped me was a year I spent in therapy - specifically, existential therapy. It helped me see that I'm just what I am, we're all just what we are. No one's perfect, and no one spends anywhere near as much time analyzing my social faux pas as I do. That at most, people might think I'm eccentric or a curiosity. And being so hard on myself took away the pleasure of relating to other people, put too much focus on me, and made me too defensive. Why was I always worried about being judged - why did I assume that everyone else was judging me and yet I always accepted them for who they were? So much comes out of your own sense of self-doubt. It colors your interactions in ways you hardly realize, and it can lead to a dark place when you're trapped in your own head that way.
People do this on their own time because they enjoy it! Why is this so hard to understand.
I felt otherwise.
The ATGM also doesn't have the offensive capability of a current tank so you get what you pay for.

If your goal is to just inflict large cost upon the occupiers until they get bored after a decade then ATGMs are great. If your plan involves routing them with a counter-attack ASAP you'll probably find them lacking.
I've had a difficult time trying to find any context on that part of the ledger for this decision. Most of the stories I've seen are slanted in a partisan direction.

From what I can surmise from this link [1], it sounds like the plan is to create new taxes for it. Here's a snippet from that article:

> Fine acknowledges that the local entities where Reedy Creek lies will pick up the Reedy Creek's debt once the district is dissolved, but says those local governments can create Municipal Service Taxing Units (MSTU) that would also "pick up the revenue that would be going to pay for the debt." He insists that "There's no impact to taxpayers."

[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/disney-stripped-special...
These are typical recommendations for fighting obsessive-compulsive behaviors. It's been a long time but I recall reading something like this in The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (2003) by J.M. Schwartz - seems like he has some more recent books out that specifically prescribe remedies (I assume are along these lines).
"The total income of the three amusement parks in Disney World is around $17 billion a year." A 1% local sales on this would be $170 million a year. Then you add property taxes.
A low volume high tech package of incredible sophistication, 80k is cheap! There are cameras that are more expensive made in higher numbers.
For network devices around the house, for example PoE cameras, wifi access points, or wall plate jacks. The patch panel is a clean way to terminate those cables in the rack.
A predator is more in the Cessna/ultralight territory. A reaper though is in the Learjet range.

But yes Russian military drones are in the same niche as American military drones.
What is the significance of Pence not getting in the car?
It looks nice but it's not necessary. Typically in a setup like this, where you have network equipment with ports on the front and other stuff with ports on the back, you'll want either a patch panel or a 1U brush-style passthrough to make the cable runs nicer.
I worry your third paragraph is mostly correlation: conditioned on someone being able to do a lot of push ups they are likely to be healthy and active rather than just someone who trains push ups.
It sounds to me like you have an issue with bad writing, not necessarily diversity of characters or the portrayal of minorities at their best. That's a fair position to hold, and one that I agree with.

It is possible for inclusivity to be executed well, and it is equally possible for it to be executed poorly. I'm not sure we should throw out the baby with the bathwater, though.
Doesn't apply if the parties have notice of the recording. Offer to take notes for the meetings and tell people you're recording for the notes. People making openly racist/sexist statements usually won't refrain when a mic is on-- they do it because they've convinced themselves that what they're doing is OKAY.

Failing that, an illicitly obtained recording can still be used in court in California if its used to disprove conflicting testimony. So you sue over the discrimination, when they lie and claim they didn't say the statements in question, the recording can be introduced.

You'd still be vulnerable to the $2500 fine and imprisonment, but I don't know how likely it is that a prosecutor would actually go after someone for making a recording which exposed a crime. Personally I'd be inclined to get a recording and then decide what to do about it later, since if due care is taken the recording would be unlikely to be known to anyone but you. Obviously you should get legal advice before trying something like that.
Same here. I just bite with my canines now. They seem to be indestructible so far.
> The NLAW may have a maximum range of 600 or even 800 meters, but it also has a minimum range of 20 meters. Below that range its fuse isn’t meant to go off.

> So most likely, the lucky tank was actually too close for the NLAW to work as intended.
"Since this is an essay about the theory of foreign policy, rather than some kind of Moscow-sponsored tongue bath, let us imagine an abstract, ideal Putin." Now that's an interesting argument. It shows how far from "ideal" the real world is, and how even the most supposedly "realist" foreign policy thinking is in fact driven by the exact same "abstract, ideal" model.
How do you protect your time?
I’ve always struggled to protect my time for “deep thinking” things, and end up drowning in meetings. Would love to hear how others protect their time and get things done.
> let's make it harder for the people who have to clean up after security incidents

Uh oh, sounds like you might have to actually do your job too!
"you're more than likely unfulfilled in your current career"

Thats quite a lot of people, personally i would rather be planting trees, it i could pay the bill with that
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« It is physically impossible to exceed the 70-pound domestic weight limit for a small flat rate box.

The interior dimensions (8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8") are ~75.333 in^3.

If you filled the box with pure osmium, the densest substance known to man, it would weigh ~61.48 lbs.»
FYI LXD can do both LXC containers and KVM VMs so it can replace Proxmox in a lot of cases. LXD is packaged in Arch, Gentoo, Alpine, Void, NixOS, and probably some other distros.
Thank you for this. I've made the change, but it looks like it may be several days before github gets around to refreshing the language statistics.
These people remind me of crusaders a thousand years ago, fighting the "infidels" all over.

In fact, the whole body of thought governing them reminds me too much of the Latin Church. I have no words to express how I detest the kind of thinking behind them.
This article covers this history of vcs, and the current standard, git, but I wish it had a section about other approaches and apps, like perforce, Google's monorepo tooling, pijul, PlasticSCM + Unity, or Facebook's Eden. All of these alternatives have reasons for existing, and I would have enjoyed reading more about them.
Sales engineer or a sales-side Solution Architect - lots of fun if you have a good team (and product) behind you, frustrating if not.
It's the phrase "homelab", I suppose. Why not call it "Home IT" or "Home Data Center" or "Home Network Infrastructure". Calling it a home laboratory sounds like enthusiasts are trying to escape some preconceived notions about the topic. I digress...
That's why you buy the last generation of common enterprise components used when industries mass upgrade, which happens every few years.

I built mine in 2018 and I paid $65 each for two E5 2670 v3 ($1600 MSRP, 2014 CPU), and $300 for a dual socket motherboard with 128GB of ram. Yeah it's not the latest and greatest but it's been going strong since then.
If I had to choose, I would take the Stugna-P. You guide it with a laptop and don't have to hold it up to fire (it's mounted on a tripod), and the range is much further (4km!).
You shouldn't really target a particular fab, you should target a sort of "class" averaged from the capabilities of multiple fabricators. Services that shop your order around basically do this for you, if they bother to quote standard rules at all.

This will save you from redesign work, though realistically it's saving you from vendor lock-in and price gouging. Sierra can manufacture pretty much anything... but who can afford them?
You can’t overlook the role that white progressives play in selectively amplifying minority voices. I can’t get on CNN to give the “Bangladeshi guy take” on rising crime by saying stuff most Bangladeshi people agree with. I have to provide a Bangladeshi perspective that is appealing to the white progressives that make the decisions at CNN.

There’s a deep synergy here that exploits the fact that most Americans have limited insight into what minorities think, but generally want to be supportive. White progressives can amplify their apparent mandate by selectively platforming progressive minorities to speak on behalf of those groups. Those progressive minorities, meanwhile, can wield the outsize influence of progressive whites over the media and institutions against other members of their own group.

That’s how “Latinx” happens. Progressive Latinos by themselves have no power to influence what the general public calls Latinos. But if they get Elizabeth Warren to say it, they can turn it from a “progressive Latino” issue into a “Latino” issue and lots of well meaning people will go along to be supportive of Latinos.

Kamala Harris is a great example. She was polling in the single digits among Black people (https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/04/kamala-harris-black...). And I’ll tell you that most desis are closer to Tulsi Gabbard than Harris. Including the Russia stuff—given India’s long-standing affinity with Russia. She’s not Vice President because she’s the one people in those groups would pick. She’s Vice President because of all the white Act Blue donors I know who are thrilled to have a Black-Indian Vice President who just happens to think the way they do.
> Otherwise you end up with a giant ball of wires.

Let's be honest, it's frighteningly easy for a rack to turn into a giant ball of wires too. See r/cablecore for examples.
I was thinking wave function collapse. An SMT solver should be capable as well.
The thing is, the kind of transportation network that in a big city will be a local road or subway, in a rural area is often a highway paid for by the federal or state government, if you're looking at equivalent use cases.

I'd love to be proven wrong though, if you have opposing data.
Given that a homelab is basically a garage for fucking around, arguing for what qualifies for fucking around is rather pointless
This post is nearly 10 years old. I wonder how well these techniques have worked out for the author in the time since. Certainly I’ve seen plenty of interesting posts on their blog and some refer to some kind of habit forming behaviours.
>And we have seen how russian state-propaganda (in part) managed to elect a Russian-friendly president and even start a resurrection.

This narrative is one of the ones that bugged me the most, because I've seen the terrible facebook communities started by the Internet Research Agency and it consisted mostly of Broken English or content copy+pasted from English sources and like another poster said they spent an incredibly limited amount of resources. They did create some large pages but most of the posts were basically just memes with the occasional obscufated Pro-Russian thing thrown in. I really doubt this operation moved the needle in the election by even a tenth of a point.

The only thing I could have imagine actually swung the election to a Republican victory was the DNC email leaks presuming that was done by the Russians (plausible). Yet that wasn't something that could be actually be stopped with censorship given precedents like New York Times Co. v. United States, and thus isn't really relevant. What might have prevented it is more robust cybersecurity, and do people care about creating more robust cybersecurity? No, they care about implementing censorship mechanisms that will do nothing to stop the only real "propaganda" that had any influence at all.

The idea if we create centralised censorship mechanisms we will somehow free ourselves of electoral influence is just not correct given the biggest influencers and astroturfers on these platforms are advertisers whom this censorship only empowers and who have swung far more elections than just one in the United States. It bugs the crap out of me that people are more concerned with a building full of Russians speaking broken english than they are the fact that Citizens United v FEC allows magnitudes more people to work full time influencing the election for private interest than the Russians could ever dream of employing. These censorship tools will also to a large extent be under the control of the special interests that control politics and social media to begin with, which is the people bankrolling both, so you're really making issues worse more than you're solving anything.

It just doesn't make any sense, the only sense I can make about the obsession over the Internet Research Agency is that it's an embarrassing issue for Trump and Republicans. It makes Trump look unpatriotic and it makes opponents of the Democratic Party look like dupes. I mean I get the appeal. Yet I don't honestly see why anybody would actually think, man, implementing broad scale censorship on Facebook, that's what will protect democracy!
> I answered that immediately.

You were conveniently ignoring it in the context where you claimed I was moving the goal posts.

I did not move the goal posts.

> I agree with that idea, but then you said the only way to improve on things was 2FA or SSO which isn't right.

That's an oversimplification of things, at best. I specifically linked to an older comment of mine for those who wanted more detail, and that comment recommended moving away from passwords entirely. You saw what you wanted to see. My summary in this thread was focused on the thread itself, which was discussing how to make password authentication more secure... and the way to do that is to add a second factor. Not security theater like client-side hashing as people were trying to propose higher in the thread.

This discussion is really boring at this point.
Cities literally can’t sustain themselves without outside inputs - food, building materials, energy, etc.

Subsidizing agriculture isn’t a “rural” subsidy, it’s a “population” subsidy.
Cloudflare and Google already have a lot of overlap in the related DNS and Domain Registrar spaces, so why not spin up their own IPFS cache?
I've read a couple of posts over the years from people here who've actually tried to sell to the US military. All of them said the process was highly rigid and politicised, and seemed to be more of a way of funneling money into well-connected organisations than getting the best equipment for the soldiers.
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Should have said densest substance on Earth. Fill it with neutron star and you’ll be approx. 30 trillion kg overweight.

Had to post this correction before @neiltyson popped in with an "Actually..."

I don't have anything to plug, so just try to be a little bit better than normal if you happen to think of it, but don't make a big deal out of it--no one's asking you to be a saint.
"Population thresholds used to differentiate rural and urban communities range from 2,500 up to 50,000, depending on the definition." [1] That page goes on to describe a bunch more details, but the fuzzy idea of what people mean is somewhere with population density below roughly 500 people/square mile and not in commuting distance to an urban center.

[1]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/rural-economy-population/rur...
Funny as paramount+ has done a better job of adding new content than netflix these past few months. The Halo TV show and Picard while C to B- are still miles better than much of the newer netflix content.
Due to these weapons, the current tank does not have the offensive capability of tanks in previous era's
Who the hell do you think you are judging people's interests and hobbies?

I could say the exact same thing about however you decide to spend your weekends.
How can you say unsustainable when rural communities are where food comes from? Mass famine is unsustainable...
Patch panel is where your cable run terminates. Since that part is more expensive to fix, you don't want to touch it. The only moving part is a small cable from your switch to patch panel.
What the h is Urbit? What’s the use of it? No not the use as in tickling the fancy of tinkerers and technically enthused ones - but a general use case for “normal” people like there is - Facebook, BitTorrent, Tor, Google, Amazon, Reddit.

This shit keeps popping up here. The last time I went down that rabbit-hole, on one sub path I was finally led to some websites where some kind of names/handles were being sold for the normal USD (not some make believe money). Now there could have been free ways to explore it but, iirc, it felt either inadequate or temporary.

I wasn’t technically interested in it from a tinker’s perspective but from an end user’s perspective. So that way it was anyway making less and less sense.

What it actually seemed to me, and I maybe completely wrong, it’s kind of thing like people selling land on moon, or an imaginary moon and apparently there enough number of people who like that kind of thing.
I have some friends from larger families with more than 4 siblings. They seem way more mature and socially adapted than my singleton friends.

I also have a theory that people often clump together in larger groups of givers/cooperators versus groups of takers/defectors. The giver groups usually exclude selfish people. The takers still end up in a social grouping, and may cooperate in the short term, but they just seem unaware that they are actually part of a group of fundamentally selfish people (what’s in it for me?) or rationalise their group as givers when they are actually takers (obvious religious and political examples).
Global annihilation is a much greater risk of failing to check Russian aggression now than it is of checking it; the details may be different, but the same reason not checking Hitler at Poland would have made things worse (and that not doing so at the Sudetenland did make things worse) applies.

Sure, the potential cost of getting it wrong is even higher, but the same answer is wrong for the same reasons.

“Letting Ukraine do all the (overt, at least) fighting but flooding them with arms and intel will be sufficient to check Russia” is, OTOH, somewhere between Sudetenland and Poland as a response, and it's a very high stakes gamble.
Some SV folks have bailed and joined companies such as Anduril which is working with NATO/US Mil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0bsW09bUU
Could it be useful to use these to charge long term batteries to be used millennia from now? So that future generations living centuries from now can have easy power when the fossil fuels run out?
Not sure about the younger generation, but TikTok is certainly dominating mine.

Here are all the TikToks I’ve saved: https://imgur.com/a/YuxWObp

The most interesting part is that “educational” outnumbers “lol” by about 5 to 4. I learn a lot on TikTok — more than Twitter. Of course, HN is still #1 for that (especially for depth) but production quality has been ramping up. TikTok recently emailed 10 minute videos, and it’s a matter of time till they do creator partnerships.

The effect is pretty magical. I recently filmed TikTok converting my 70yo parents into users within 5min: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1515056484668870659?s=2...

To get good algorithm recommendations, you have to use the “not interested” button. (Long press on a video.)
You also can't carry a tank on your shoulder...
> each missile typically costing more than the targets it eliminates

???

A cheap tank cost upwards of a million dollars, while a javelin would cost in the low hundreds of thousands.

"Typically", a javelin costs at least 4x less than its targets. On average, I'd argue it's probably 8-10x cheaper.
Most of these small "farm towns" no longer have a majority of their population engaged in agriculture. The economic landscape of rural america has shifted profoundly in the past 50 years and a lot of these places are functionally exurbs now - populated by people who are economically dependent on nearby metro areas but choose to live/remain in small towns for lifestyle reasons.

Also, I happen to be born and raised in the area the Strong Towns guy calls home, and while I don't follow his work closely I can say the abstracted rural community he builds his theses around has a very loose relationship to the actual semi-rural communities he has spent his life living and working in.
A lot of posters here aren't interested in discussing the actual data. They're personally offended, and responding off of that.
I got bitten porting code to Windows that use setjmp/longjmp not only for exception handling (more correctly: non-local control transfer -- the exception was actually handled by then), but also for implementing a thread library.

The code worked literally everywhere else, but it turned out that on Windows longjmp doesn't just load the registers from the buffer but also does some SEH bollocks. If I recall (and this was in 2006), it didn't matter for the exception handling, but it was a hard crash for switching threads.

So I had to write my own setjmp/longjmp for Windows in assembly language (i.e copy theirs and cut out the SEH bollocks).
I bought a g4 laptop for vintage computing, but once the initial excitement retired I kept it on bookshelf. I don't regret buying it because it only cost 50 bucks including postal charge and even the battery still works.

So yeah I agree with a fellow commentor that if you don't know what to do maybe find someone who can pay premium and sell it.
I have a coworker with an early Model 3. He gleefully demonstrated summon when he got it.

Still, it’s not a person in physical control at the drivers seat. No one is even in the car. I can think of a LOT of ways it could go badly.

I agree it’s not as bad as it could be. But that’s not good enough for me. The feature can be dangerous, and not just to people.

Putting a ‘beta’ label on isn’t enough and doesn’t absolve them. They should be held at fault too, in my opinion. Obviously the ‘driver’(?) is at fault too.
TIL: GitHub doesn't attribute the first-ever Git commit to Torvalds
It's the same reason why people like woodworking. Why buy a piece of furniture when you could spend 3x as much and do it yourself?