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This is why I see D-Day not so much as the end of WW2, but the first battle of the Cold War; it wasn't necessary for the defeat of Germany, but it did ensure that western Europe was liberated by the western allies, instead of by the USSR, which I'm very thankful for.

> You'd be saying how thankful you are that germany gave you freedom from the anglo imperial economic world order.

No. Very few people were happy with the German occupation. Many occupied countries had very active resistance movements. The only people who were happy with the German occupation were fascist collaborators.

The western allies gave the countries they liberated their freedom and autonomy back. Neither Germany nor the USSR did that, and that matters a lot.
Ask HN: Is there a good framework for an interactive user manual?
I need to deliver a technical user guide for field technicians to follow for configuring some devices. The current solution is a word doc which requires some brain power to fill in appropriate values (naming, IP, etc) as you progress in the steps.

I'd like to replace this with some kind of self-contained HTML where they can fill in the "variables" at the top and have it auto-generate throughout the doc. This is pretty simple with HTML/JS, but the code can get messy if not done right.

Is there some framework like ReadTheDocs where I can easily write out RsT or Markdown, inserting variables with jinja2 (as an example) that can be input in an input field, and have it dynamically render live in-browser (which I believe then rules Sphinx out)?
Hatch is the CLI, Hatchling is the minimalist build backend
That's a lovely design, I thought of an improvement: adjust the flow rate with the same servos that control the slide, that shouldn't be all that hard.

Verrry tempted to spend time on this.

I also still have a slide trombone sitting around somewhere... hmmm...
And Canadian law. The Great Lakes Compact is an international treaty.
Basically everywhere beside Chicago and NYC went up >10%.
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> The game should be integrated with the blockchain directly, if I was unclear I apologize.

But it could just as easily be integrated with a non-blockchain central authority.

And you are still trusting their code to integrate it, so you haven't solved any trust issue. Nothing stops their code from saying "asset transferred" when the asset wasn't actually transferred.

Blockchain solves nothing here. All of this could be accomplished just as well or better without it.
>"similar" is in the eye of the observer!

Nope, also similar in algorithmic complexity theory (e.g. counting compressibility).
My Garmin forerunner music can load up Spotify music and connect to a Bluetooth headset. Will need a phone to setup and update
Woo, black and white update time is down to about 3fps now! Three very flickery frames a second.

sigh

I have been wanting a color e-ink Mac I can work with under direct sunlight for so long now. I will be waiting many years longer.
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That’s what I assumed, they didn’t want to take any downtime….and just left it open until they had their apps fixed.

Bad choice.
Wasn't this exactly what the Project Mogul, the project thought to have sparked off the entire Roswell alien saga, was doing?

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

Is this the first time that the channel has been publicly verified? Or, in other words, has the data for the existence of this channel been known for some time and kept classified? Or, is there something else going on?

edit - yes, I've read the article. And while the article mentions this. It doesn't seem to go into detail about what Mogul actually found, and how this diverges. At least not to my understanding of the text,

> After geophysicist Maurice Ewing discovered the SOFAR channel in 1944, he set out to find an analogous layer in the sky. At an altitude of between 10 and 20 kilometers is the tropopause, the boundary between the troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere (where weather occurs), and the stratosphere. Like the marine SOFAR, the tropopause represents a cold region, where sound waves should travel slower and farther. An acoustic waveguide in the atmosphere, Ewing reasoned, would allow the U.S. Air Force to listen for nuclear weapon tests detonated by the Soviet Union. He instigated a top-secret experiment, code-named Project Mogul, that sent up hot air balloons equipped with infrasound microphones.

> The instruments often malfunctioned in the high winds, and in 1947, debris from one balloon crashed just outside of Roswell, New Mexico; that crash sparked one of the most famous UFO conspiracy theories in history. Soon after, the military disbanded the project. But the mission wasn’t declassified for nearly 50 years. By then, Cold War tensions had settled and research in atmospheric acoustics had all but died out, says Stephen McNutt, a volcanic seismologist at the University of South Florida. “All of a sudden, the rug got pulled out, and infrasound wasn’t funded for 30 or 40 years,” he says.

> But Sarah Albert, a geophysicist at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, never gave up on the idea. She was intrigued by the potential of new solar-powered balloons that can float passively at stable altitudes and wireless telemetry that can broadcast data continuously over long ranges.

I raised this because the article seems to be a bit incorrect, because geophysical MASINT continues to be an important part of intelligence gathering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysical_MASINT

The DNI has a public primer on it, https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/21-113_MASINT_Prime...

Directly after Project Mogul, there was Project Skyhook, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_balloon , which IIRC included a number of sensors including microphones.

I'm struggling to understand whether or not they actually verified something that seemingly was known since the 1940s?
„The findings should not be used for clinical or public health decision making and should not be presented to a lay audience without highlighting that they are preliminary and have not been peer-reviewed.“

The blog-post doesn‘t follow this advice. So i will not consider it as trustworthy.
Why the Halo Effect Influences How We Perceive Others (2020)
Yes, yes. The only truth seekers are computer scientists.
Sounds like a whole lot of nothing. Which is honestly unsurprising because this was probably drafted in majority by those with no idea how the Internet fundamentally works - the onus will be on developers to fix this. Most of those capable of addressing concerns work for corporations, so roll the dice on whether or not changes can be made for the greater good.

As a Canadian, I'll believe the "more affordable" service part, well, never.
Ask HN: Do you think remote work will hurt Americans?
I've been noticing a trend lately of US companies hiring outside of the US to save money. I'm not talking about outsourcing, I'm talking about hiring capable full time engineers in places like Canada, Central America and Europe. (The first two have no time zone issues; Europe is manageable for East coast companies). Some companies still hire in the US, but prefer low cost of living regions.

Isn't that worrisome for US based people? I'm wondering what will be the impact on US salaries, esp in tech.
How does it give you privacy when all your transactions are visible to all on chain?
Paranoid schizophrenia and manic depression are common among that group. The antipsychotics (or similar) help them distinguish reality from fantasy long enough to consent to further care.

There are many types of mental illness, but most don't (usually) lead to living on the streets in the long term.
That cohort is still a numerical minority and while they may own the majority of civilian firearms, the United States government absolutely owns the majority of effective weapons. That said, calling the potential conflict a “domestic insurgency” is not much of a comfort compared to “civil war” even if the former is unlikely to be an existential threat to the country.
Here's my guess.

Gowers wants to understand how the typical mathematician comes up with a proof. How is the proof found? Where do the ideas come from?

To some extent, this is orthogonal to whether or not you do maths constructively. But since 99.9% of mathematicians have never heard of constructive mathematics, and just use AoC or LEM all over the place, I am quite certain that Gowers is very much interested in how to find proofs in the "ordinary" sense: including the use of AoC and LEM.
This. Economic consequences do not necessarily track our moral preferences.
Depends on where you live. It's pretty common that companies don't want you working for competitors. How they implement that depends. Some have non-competes, while some states don't allow them. My company requires approval for compliance reasons (regulated industry).
It is also a part of the family histories of many Americans. Many of them are descended from people who made the decision to flee 1000s of miles before things got really bad.
Interesting comment. Personally I would say this hasn't been entrepreneurial community for a few years now. Mainly because a lot of people figured out it's easier to go make $X00,000 at Big Tech Co. than to take on the risk of a startup. Secondly the "market place" of ideas is pretty heavily saturated nowadays (imo), seems like unicorns are becoming less common, and the domains a lot harder where there are.

And when you do work at Big Co, there's a whole lot of Dilbert-esque stuff like this. Hence the prevalence of this type of material.
What Is the Fediverse?
For me lately, the wealth of information on various firearms is immensely useful. Other than having someone in your personal circle, or going somewhere with a concentration of people who know what they're talking about and bothering them, there wasn't detailed information that was easily accessible on the topic. Sure, books existed. But you can only fit so many diagrams in a book.

Now, with web articles, and YouTube, it's so much easier to fully understand what you're operating, and how to maintain it.
> There are people that goes around in circles for months doing research for the perfect soldering station or oscilloscope

Guilty as charged. In my case, I don't so much as lust after the perfect machine (anymore) as I want to make sure I'm buying a durable, well-priced product that is sufficient for future tasks. There are many dimensions to consider in a purchase so as not to buy twice.
I wish the article spent more time explaining why the Chesterton's fence even exists. Fake news, trolling, etc require disproportionate effort to counteract with logic and reason. In essence its a denial of service attack. A troll can leave an inflammatory and distracting thread, at no cost to the disruptive power of the thread, to create another while the debate still rages on the old one tying up resources and attention.
ah exactly the detail I was wondering about, thank you
>Oh yeah, remember the civil war of 1982? When inflation was 14% and The Fed raised rates to purposefully start a recession?

High inflation and raising rates going into a recession is not going to trigger a civil war or even really unrest in any major way.

>Give me a break, we’ve been through much worse. Let’s stop with the FUD please.

political polarization in the usa has never been so bad except for ...
No this is completely and utterly wrong. Entropy is not a function of knowledge.

Two people with varying and different levels of knowledge of a system does not mean the system has two different entropy values. Even if I knew the exact position of all atoms in a cup of water, the temperature of that water does not change due to that knowledge.

Entropy does rely on what your picked configuration of macro states and microstates. Temperature is an arbitrary choice of macrostate.
The scale of this problem, and this offence, seems so vastly different from the potential catastrophe that the PRC would wreak on all these countries and their neighbours if they're allowed to operate unchallenged in the South Pacific that, again, it just seems like a footnote to the real story.
In my (also limited) experience I was able to get by with just a high-impedance piezo earpiece I could listen to in order to debug audio-frequency circuits. Ears are surprisingly sensitive detectors and can provide quite a bit of data into your brain. Some higher-frequency circuits you can still debug, but not well or at least not as thoroughly. It's not a perfect solution, but dirt cheap, and consumes a tiny amount of space. It's instant feedback and after a while you can start recognizing (guessing at?) different waveforms and types of signal quirks. I've found that a surprisingly useful part of my kit over the years. Just stay away from high voltage!
What do you mean curl doesn't do that? Terraform is literally just calling a REST API. Curl also just calls a REST API.

#!/bin/sh
curl -d '{"some key": "value here"}' -H "X-Some-Header: Foo-Bar" https://some-aws-domain/some/rest/api

Put that in Git; now you have Infrastructure as Code. IaC is not some holy scepter ordained to us by God. It's literally just a version-controlled list of commands that call SaaS APIs. It's not special or magical. And Terraform doesn't do it any better than a bunch of curls in a shell script.

The only reason to use Terraform is it's a standard way for a large group of people to make changes to the same thing. But if an entire team standardized on a shell script full of curls, that would work just as well. (Better, actually, because you could actually have error handling, auto-healing, importing existing resources, checking if they exist before trying to apply changes... you know, things that are useful for IaC that Terraform does not do)
I see these symptoms most when the Venn intersection of “Doers” and “Deciders” grows too small.

The marriage of “I have money, you have talent” is all too often one sided. If the two parties can realize it is a marriage of convenience where they can play off of each other’s strengths, then it can be mutually beneficial.
As the saying goes: Nazi Germany was defeated by American equipment, British intelligence and Russian blood.
I asked Van Gogh, Picasso, Munch and Da Vinci to each paint a nuclear inferno
This is more my experience too. I've lived in the midwest my whole life and honestly cannot understand it why people actually like it here. Maybe if you're really into winter sports I guess. For me, I can barely stand going outside for more than a few minutes for 5+ months out of the year.
It seems “passive income” now is being used to mean anything I don’t get a W2 (or country equivalent) for.
Have you tried the command: "Paste from history..." I have it bound to Opt+Y in IntelliJ
oh sure, it's kind of cool if you're only seeing it occasionally... but not something I'd enjoy for anything that updates more often than a powerpoint presentation (which is fine as a known limitation)
Nobody can answer what you should do because you haven't mentioned what motivates you.

You say you're good at managing and strategy but have founded five businesses that are at best treading water. Are you perhaps "teaching the birds to fly" and should return to the basics in order to speak from authority? Find a technical co-founder and bootstrap a business focusing on growth and profit metrics?
The US has a lot of problems. For one thing, we have a Presidential system in which control of Congress can be held by a different party than the Presidency, which leads to a situation where there are two "plausibly legitimate" elected governments that are in conflict. In many other countries this has resulted in coups and instability (usually in favor of unilateral executive power.) The US is unique in that we're basically the only country that has thrived under this system. For what it's worth, the alternative is a Parliamentary system where the legislature elects the executive.

The US also has a lot of gerrymandering of Congressional districts, and far too few of them (don't get me started on the ridiculous Senate.) Plus it has lots of minority veto points like the filibuster requiring 60 votes, the electoral college, and the Supreme Court. Some of these exist "by design" and can be beneficial, but they also present the possibility of legitimacy concerns.
Like other have said javascript makes it slow. sourcehut.org: great. twitter: unsuable. mastodon: barely. github: ok-ish. gmail: ko. protonmail: ko. I use a rpi400 with 4GB of RAM. I forgot to mention the builtin wifi does not work great. I am using Ethernet. I am using the rpi400 to write this message, and I have been using it for two weeks. I tried ubuntu 22.04, 64bit raspberry pi OS too. And I intend to keep using the rpi400, and build my projects on top of it.
Yes I sometimes feel overwhelmed. That's the natural reaction to information overload. Analysis paralysis as you say. On one hand it's easy to fall victim, but on the other it's also easy to leverage the shit out of all that information and build something magical. The artists of olde would be jealous of our modern Internet.
> Do the various riots in 2020 America or the Jan 6 storming of the capitol count?

They do. So does Occupy Wall Street. It's actually been a little over a decade of people of many political stripes having the general impression that there's a significant disconnect between the will of the elected officials and the will of the people. People disagree about root causes and remedies.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't recognized.

Do they recognize Georgia Tech? If so, then they recognize the online Masters since there is no distinction between the online and the on-campus.
I have no idea what's going to happen with food, but it's very common for Biden to say something and then Psaki or other administration officials to walk it back.
And they were trivially solved by trust.
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I think a lot of people just don’t really know what they want their career to be when they go into university. Or they think they do but are incorrect. That was certainly the case with me.

I started in General Studies, then decided I wanted to be a doctor and was in Computer Science for undergrad then flunked out and went into Nursing then flunked out and ended up ten years later with a General Studies degree with a minor in history. Now I do systems integration and love it.

When you think about it, how many people can say with certainty that the plans they had as a teenager were what they ended up doing? Not many, I’d suspect.

I think that’s how people end up with degrees that don’t relate to their employment.
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Could also be an artifact of a global economy based around the dollar.

Quoting Asimov's description of Trantor in Foundation.

> This enormous population was devoted almost entirely to the administrative necessities of Empire, and found themselves to be few for the complications of the task.
> supply is constrained

and money is not constrained. What could go wrong?
I briefly tracked water intake since it was a feature in the Garmin app I was using for activity tracking. Ironically it made me worse off, because it interrupted my (extremely simple) natural hydration process.

There were 3 customizable preset capacities, but even using those required a couple taps each time. Drinking a non-standard amount and manually adjust it required extra effort and taps. Sometimes I’d forget to record it right away, then have to try to remember if I was double-counting a refill. The mental burden was clearly out of balance with the (practically nonexistent) reward.

I quit tracking it when I found myself adjusting my behavior, like avoiding the natural habit to top off my water bottle when it was less than half full and I was getting up from the desk anyway. Ultimately it would be interesting to have that data, but it’s only worth it to me for zero cost/effort.
How do you know the process is not managed? That is fascinating thing here - the argument is not that "I looked at nursing work in hospital and it was unmanaged" it is "I worked on IT project and since it was unmanaged, I am 100% convinced the same situation is in hospitals".
To be fair, every sudden change of hands brings a risk of layoffs with it. And disgruntled people have been known to sabotage their former employers.

In their place, I would be very careful too.
Concerning but unavoidable. Interest rates must rise to subdue inflation, and an economic contraction is inevitable. Slow and steady deflates the bubble carefully.
Ditto. I prefer progressive rock or classical music while doing deep-work. Instrumental, specially ambient or Middle-Eastern, is nice too.

English vocals are distracting during work, but strangely I don't mind any other language (Turkish for example), because my brain cannot fathom it, and remains focused.
In my neck of the woods, by far the largest and most impactful inflation has been in the housing sector - 50% price inflation over the past two years. This is entirely attributable to the Fed's pumping of soft assets like stocks, leading to a bunch of paper millionaires cashing out.
Is this related to [Secure] Scuttlebutt (SSB), or just using the same name?
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I probably would have pee’d on him. His fault for surprising me whilst mid-piss.
Could you share a few of them?
I'm not sure it is possible to have a more flawed understanding of capitalism or Africa than this. Have you ever even been to an African country?
The difference in your experience from that of your neighbor is not a case of racial discrimination. Even if this afflicted more black people in general, a racial disparity in the impact of a policy is not evidence of it being systemically racist, so would not validate the claim that the US is systemically racist toward black people.

This can be trivially demonstrated: ten times more men are arrested and incarcerated than women, yet no one would claim this suggests the US criminal justice system is systemically sexist toward men.
>No government would want such a thing if given a choice. However, when a country's fiat currency becomes worthless, the choice is a different one.

That's true. They then peg their currency to a stable fiat currency, or simply adopt one (usually unilaterally). They don't go for a "perpetual novelty" technology that has fundamental technical issues making it largely unsuitable for use as actual currency (as opposed to speculative store of value, or a money transfer mechanism).

>As far as governments are concerned, that is absolutely correct. However, given the choice between a currency nobody controls and one controlled by another government, the former is clearly less onerous.

Undoing most laws is likewise going to be "clearly less onerous" for a lot of folks. That in itself does not make it a good idea.
Suppose you were a bookie and somebody wanted to make a million dollar bet on it. You'd love to take the money, but obviously you need a line. How do you pick it?
This sounds almost like some version of the broken window fallacy. But there is no way that ~1 million dead Americans from COVID has helped this country economically. Supply chains have been hurt by COVID. Hospitalizations means unproductive workers. Deaths means unproductive workers. We are not thriving at all right now.
Animals As Leaders is a pretty good choice. Their music is instrumental, and so complex (yet enjoyable and very heavy) that you won't even bother to analyze it :). For music with vocals, I find black metal good for focusing. Cthonic is one of my favorites!