skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a short, brief headline for what I, along with many others, would describe as a seismic shift in the world's military configuration.

Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it would have been almost unthinkable that Sweden and Finland would want to join NATO.

Putin and his acolytes must be looking at all of this in utter disbelief.
Politics aside it gives him no expertise in moderation queue management?
Tesla doesn't seem that well run?
Go, Generics, and Concurrency
I dont see how slower speeds or lower altitudes invalidates the point that doing dangerous stunts in planes isnt some recent development caused by "idiocracy". Thrillseekers have always existed and Red Bull is just capitalizing on them for marketing. There's no reason for Pearl Clutching.
He probably isn't. But IIRC he also didn't like the the billionaire tax plan. There is this incentive. I dunno enough to say if that's worth $43 billion.
Scaling Beyond Cities: Measure Effects and Interactions Beyond City Limits
That's true, but also not the criteria the original poster proposed.
An excellent board game review
For a startup-oriented discussion place, it's shocking how little users know about how mergers/acquisitions/takeovers actually occur in the market.

Don't they teach this stuff anymore? I had to learn this in college, many years ago.

Of course, it was a little less likely for eccentric billionaires to just "shop" in the market like this for ultra-large corporations. Still. We at least knew how the processes worked.
Print it out, make it into a painting kinda, sign it and enjoy it on your wall :)
In very hot markets such as the one we are currently in rational long term thinking is brushed aside rather more often then is responsible so the assumption they correctly quantified the risk in this transaction isn't fully supported by their past history of actions.
Fantastic idea. Probably doable as well.
I find it hard to believe that Open Sans has the worst readability of all the tested fonts. I'm pretty sure the humanist Open Sans is faster to read than the geometric Avant Garde.

With Garamond winning, what about Palatino and other old-style typefaces? There's a million generic sans-serifs in the study and not a single Didone? Mind, I wouldn't bet on it, but it'd be a more interesting comparison...
I generally start using -std=c++XX switches in compilers before the standards are actually released ; I don't remember the last time I've seen a project that wasn't at least c++17
Absolutely. There are block lists out there that can help but they are unlikely to be perfect. This guy seems to be up to date; https://github.com/oneoffdallas/dohservers
>It shattered my cliché view of the german army as first and foremost an organization built on discipline.

Discipline is not orthogonal to creative thinking. Wartime activities are not like they read after the fact. As the saying goes, "no plan survives first contact with the enemy". This means that junior officers and NCO's and even soldiers are expected to assess their changing situations and needs in order to satisfy (or retire from) the mission.

What kind of discipline is needed to start following the platoon sergeant when the platoon commander is down? It's even more critical at this point.

Fielding troops in a fight where they have incomplete knowledge requires empowering them with the authority to act in order to fulfill their potential.

Then there are militaries militaries where officers are chosen by some system of prestige (like a watery tart lobbing scimitars). These require absolute adherence to structure so as not to undermine the authority of those with the divine right/political connections.

Now, while this is all idealized, there comes a rank, above which promotion tends to be political as well as about success. The German military certainly had their issues with this, where there was a very real fear that went beyond merely not getting promoted.
> Bridgerton (playing on my TV right now) and observe how half the people in regency England, including the Queen, are now black.

Do you also get mad when the characters speak in modern english, or is that just fine?

Is it woke, or are you sensitive to race?
sounds like you are coming up with excuses not to start a company
What claims am I making? The article is the one that's claiming causation. I've merely said that its evidence is insufficient, and also that the title misstates the claims made in the article. The point of mentioning "those who get solitary joy with no social life" is that the title says this is good, but the article says it's not good—and therefore, even if we believed the conclusions the article tries to draw, the title gives bad advice.
From abstract: Here, we analyse the scaling behaviour of cities beyond their boundaries by considering the emergence and growth of nearby cities. Based on an urban network from African continental cities, we construct an algorithm to create the region of influence of cities. The number of cities and the population within a region of influence are then analysed in the context of urban scaling. Our results are compared against a random permutation of the network, showing that the observed scaling power of cities to enhance the emergence and growth of cities is not the result of randomness. By altering the radius of influence of cities, we observe three regimes. Large cities tend to be surrounded by many small towns for small distances. For medium distances (above 114 km), large cities are surrounded by many other cities containing large populations. Large cities boost urban emergence and growth (even more than 190 km away), but their scaling power decays with distance.
"Recent opinion polls have shown as many as 68% of Finns are in favour of joining the alliance, more than double the figure before the invasion, with only 12% against. Polling in Sweden suggests a slim majority of Swedes also back membership."
This currently has 2.2k comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706993 3.8k

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25359003 3.2k
> Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem?

He can't and he is unlikely to want to.
What is "regular liquidity events"?
>But everyone learns other crew members' weaknesses and ruthlessly exploits them if necessary.

This is literally my worst nightmare. Highschool bullying 2.0 except with no escape. I know for sure I'm not military material.
I'm with you. Lifelong Democrat and now confronted with people calling themselves liberals who are trying to dismantle democratic ideals like freedom of speech and equal treatment under the law, and they fancy themselves Progressives.
I mean, if we aren't okay with this dataset existing under new ownership, why were we okay with it existing under the previous ownership?

If this dataset is dangerous, regulation is the way to solve that, not relying on the benevolence of corporate boards and shareholders.
Europe Cancels Joint Moon Missions with Russia
Well, if you look at Kasserine Pass, for instance, you see a US army that is poorly commanded and can't respond fast enough to the German attack. That may purely be bad leadership, but I see it as at least partly lack of independent thinking.

Don't read too much into my answer. I'm not an expert, and I hadn't even thought about the question until my first reply on this thread. It's an off-the-cuff impression, not a well-thought-out position.
>Some participants went on to become successful businessmen, doctors, lawyers, and others ended up as schizophrenics or alcoholics, but not on inevitable tracks.

Why was this assumption made? If the goal of the study is to analyze the potential for biologically determined outcomes in people's lives, doesn't this sort of undermine that foundational question? Why wouldn't genetics play a role in determining personality, and make some people more outgoing and willing to embrace a community?

>Researchers who have pored through data, including vast medical records and hundreds of in-person interviews and questionnaires, found a strong correlation between men’s flourishing lives and their relationships with family, friends, and community.

This doesn't tell us why. Why is that the case?

>Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too.

Taking care of your relationships IS taking care of your body. Our mind is a physical organ like the heart or lungs. Our entire personalities, our thoughts, our dreams and everything that comprises consciousness is just a series of abstractions built on top of flesh.

IMO, the real lesson these researchers should've taken away from this is that the mind is not separate from the rest of the body.
Nix Camp – A Small Hangout/Unconference for Nix, in Wales
If you're enthusiastic about Nix, are able to travel to the UK, and want people to hang out with over September that can teach you Nix, this event might be for you.

https://nix.camp
>I'm sure there's plenty of demand for non-rage-based engagement, and in fact there are a lot of platforms that offer that (HN being one of them).

I mean, the three threads with the most comments in the past week (by a significant margin) have all fallen under "rage-based engagement" (two threads on Elon-Twitter and the thread on Google Docs' new inclusivity checker). So while HN may be better in that regard, it is by no means exempt from that same influence.

People are inclined to argue in comment sections, and Twitter is one big comment section.

(It's also worth noting that HN enjoys its comparatively high signal-to-noise engagement because of its fairly heavy moderation; it seems self-evident what more "free speech" would do to that)
Flights are clearly not public information. I cannot look up where you've been flying on regular airlines recently and that's how it works for virtually everyone.

Reality is, governments and the airline industry could make this system be sufficiently private if they wanted, or at least a lot harder to abuse. There's no particular reason personal details of jet owners have to be linked to the radio transponders.
> that would have been released anyways

By any chance, does money change hands? "Carbon credits"?

Guess what! I'll start a brewery and brew billions of tons of CO2 unless you pay me!

The carbon credit industry is a scam, and it does not actually affect the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
>Offer "real person" twitter filter.

So basically make people's Twitter experience even more of a bubble than it currently is?

Not even going to address the issue of the "real person" filter not actually filtering out the realness of the person, but rather if they can afford to dox themselves to Twitter.
Tailwind specifically recommends creating components with a JS framework that look like the former.
Incorrect. There is no equivalence. Selling books is different than actively targeting and lying to people you know will believe you.
I like tailwind but I wish we had a Figma plug-in and be done with it.

Edit: nvm there is a plug-in.
Just learn python, it has general applicability and is fairly easy to pick up.
Every time I have made a twitter account, I have seen a box along the lines of "Viewing your Home feed. For the latest tweets, switch to Latest."

I think in this case it might be that you clicked through a pretty hard to miss box.
That's a definitive 'yes'. He is extremely good at finding great and very qualified people, placing them in the right positions and getting 110% out of them.
Switching to PoS before mid-2016 seems unrealistic
> You may have that kind of pull; I don't.

I meant: one could do some of the work needed to make it ready for use. If not done, the language fizzles. Fizzling is the normal fate of any language, absent the miracle.

Hare looks a tiny bit better than C. That was D's problem: it was a tiny bit better than C++; now C++ is much, much better than what D had targeted. If you make Hare enough better than C to merit attention, it will be different enough for the C stalwarts to reject, but not powerful enough for C++ and Rust refugees to wash up onto.
Pressure washers are the current solution to this problem. Here's a news article about the LIRR switching from a 4000 PSI pressure washer to a 20000 PSI pressure washer: https://www.amodernli.com/lirr-launches-new-tech-to-fight-le... (From 3 years ago.)
The Second Coming – William Butler Yates
Verification and anonymity aren’t mutually exclusive. Spooky23 is a persona on HN. If I were to post under my real name, I would want a way to verify who I am.

Facebook pushes “real names” because Zuck thought it was a good idea, and it makes them more money.
It seems perma-fatigue could be a serious problem on a warship. Any idea why the Navy doesn’t restructure the working/waking hours to better optimize crew alertness and focus?
One of the blogs I read has recently been pulling in this AI art stuff as story images, and I have a really strong reaction to them. They are almost obscene and gross to me to the point where I'm considering unsubscribe. Does anyone else feel this way about these?

It kind of reminds me of http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
I don't think this is about flash.
Wow. The word captain is only in there twice.

Compare and contrast with the rest of the Navy.
it opens a websocket that seems to be receiving touch events over the network, so my guess is: yes
Not today FBI!

If you’re not joking, that’s a No no topic.
I might actually get to use my three character username.
Elon Musk acquires Twitter for roughly $44B
Isn’t that the entire argument against gay marriage and the gay lifestyle in general - that the purpose of marriage is reproduction?
No-one got their bank accounts frozen for "saying mean things".

People did get their bank accounts frozen for playing key roles in protests that shut down critical infrastructure for a prolonged period. Protests that were at least partially funded by foreign interests. Protests that cost Canadians millions of dollars and posed a safety risk for many people.

Whether you like JT or not, at least on the surface the government had justification to do <<something>> to stop the protests after so many weeks. Some governments would have gone in with clubs, rubber bullets and teargas. Ours elected to shut off the funding tap. And it worked.

Whether the emergencies act should have been used here is definitely up for debate. For what it's worth, an independent inquiry has been established to look into this. I for one hope they recognize the slippery slope that such a blunt tool represents and put in better controls and oversight.
I think it's just the script doing this itself, when you're not interacting? I'm not sure, I didn't make this, just found it and thought others would enjoy it. But the random interactions are indeed pretty annoying.

edit: seems like there is a socket syncing it.

I tried to disable it by entering 'window.demo.ws.close()' in the console, but the script just reopens the socket.

edit2: Ahh, if you "swipe" up it says "you control x screens" (x=126 in this case). Seems like there's always one controling it? Sometimes it outputs "control is busy". Weird thing.
> How do you? You read it, and decide.

Right, but you said...

> I've always wanted a feature that just bins similar reactions together, so I don't have to read them.

You've presented a contradiction. You said you want them binned together so you don't have to read them, but that you decide how to bin them by reading them.

Using AI as you suggest could work. Could also possibly eventually be gamed.

> I basically want a killfile++ for twitter.

I've said in the past that I wish I could just never see any tweet by someone whose username takes the form of a first name followed by 4 or more numbers, like "Joel47871". Those are bot accounts 99.9% of the time.
Solving ML Model Reproducibility: Lessons Learned from a Covid Hackathon
It's not just web developers. The back button is the single, most-used, UI element in the browser.
Dead Man's Switch for Linux
The trains would run slower or be cancelled entirely depending on whether they needed their adhesion to stop in time while going fast, in case traffic backed up and they'd be about to participate in a pile-up if they didn't stop fast enough, or whether they needed their adhesion to drive up/down slopes without slipping.
I've never seen the algorithmic one in the first place. Probably because I have an old enough account?
I think that would objectively be bad for Trump, what's the point then of his Truth Social app, the whole SPAC crazy valuation. Getting the popcorn ready.
What’s the consequence for employees? People with 3 years left of vesting RSUs. Will those keep vesting somehow? Or they’ll get an upfront payout? And what’s my incentive to work for an established private company with no stock growth prospect? I guess Twitter will have to pay 500k senior eng. salaries in cash instead of stock?
Interesting, that's super cool to read.

Tooling for dumping and restoring into a new schema are easy/simple/fast.

Any resources you can point to that expand on this? Is this standard SQLite tooling? I'm curious how it would perform with large-ish databases - a few hundred GB or perhaps several TB.

(This is one of those things where I can "just Google it" but I was wondering if perhaps there was a particularly useful article that points out potential gotchas, etc)
> I ... always have an (...) English monologue going on (..) The monologue becomes more sparse and simple the harder I’m thinking.

This! I feel like I’ve been talking to myself (internally) my entire life, but some in this thread described their thoughts as relationships of topics and concepts, which I also experience.
For better or worse, free-speech ideology in the U.S. is very focused on avoiding 1) prior restraint and 2) content/viewpoint discrimination by the government. So a lot of the things you identified tend not to strike people steeped in American legal thinking as free speech problems on the same order as categorically banning certain symbols or messages. I happen to think that this focus is correct, but I could be convinced otherwise. I don't think its at all obvious what the best approach is.

But I agree with your more general point that Americans should be a bit less smug about the superiority of their free-speech rules.
The content moderation team needs to be fired
You have a guy in town that is powerful because many people support him. His opponents call him the "crazy chicken guy" and get him banned from the town square. They also try, and sometimes succeed, to get other people in the town banned from the square. Several business owners are fearful of this illiberal group. A Saudi prince and his family control access to the square, along with a group of incredibly rich investors. Criticism of them is strictly controlled.

That would seem a more accurate depiction. Regardless, Trump has not been stuffing chickens into bins, you're comparing speech to actions other than speech in order to justify that speech being curtailed because you don't like it. Are you okay with the Saudi royal family controlling Twitter too?
> You can't resolve a disagreement of two sensors.

Two sensors are still useful when all you need to know is if there's a disagreement.
Agreed, and it also seems to me that most adults, at least the ones leading something like meaningful lives, don't have a lot of time to "just sit and chill." When my kids were young I rarely did, there was always something going on. Now that they are older and out of the house, I have more time for myself but I'm using that time, not just sitting around (mostly not, anyway).
Canceling is a good thing. People should be held to account for their actions. Further, people should be willing to take responsibility for their actions.
I wonder how this works for options. I bought a couple of calls.
Noone could have known social media moderation could be hard! Just like in 2017 he had no way of knowing his cars wouldn't drive themselves cross country by 2018
One could imagine something like an industrial robot arm that can swap implements being able to manage a relatively large variety of recipes given some staple ingredients in a limited amount of space, but it would be tremendously complex to build and cost more than an industrial robot arm. Keeping it clean and well maintained would be a nontrivial effort, even if the arm includes programming to clean up after itself.

Probably like a billion dollars to develop the first prototype, and each copy would be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars range, maybe eeking down into the tens of thousands of dollars range if they work really well and become inexplicably popular. Even then it would be up to the customer to keep it stocked with ingredients in a specially designed containers in the included pantry and refrigerator.

It's really the same reason McDonalds never really went through with that fully automated restaurant threat. A person can do the same job for minimum wage, so the robot will never be cost efficient unless someone else does all of the R&D for you, and even then it's highly dependent on being low maintenance.
It’s official: Elon Musk is buying Twitter
LLVM itself has only just now green-lit using c++17 [1] so I find myself using c++14 most of the time.

[1] https://discourse.llvm.org/t/important-new-toolchain-require...
Humor, and the feeling of where it is appropriate, can be highly subjective. It therefore does have the potential of being divisive. For example, not everyone likes being jokey all the time, or may feel that it detracts when important work is being discussed. I guess in the author’s experience and assessment there’s more often too much than too little.
I have a habit of modernizing (and functionalizing) C++ codebases in recent jobs I've taken, which tends to fix a lot of memory-related bugs as well as improving performance and readability. When an organization is hidebound in some way, someone has to push to make the change, but it definitely can happen if you can demonstrate the benefits
Seems like it's a standard practice, and the news just overhyped the whole thing.
You'll have to link the videos that accompany those texts so we can decide.
e.g. here:

https://www.hotcars.com/largest-car-manufacturers/

Statista has similar numbers.

Edit: Turned out it was more like 2017 numbers... This source here has 9.5 million units for Toyota, 8.8 million for VW, both after steep drops in 2020. Ford is down to 3.9 million, I am honestly surprised by this. But then I undersetimated the drop in car deliveries in 2020.

https://www.factorywarrantylist.com/car-sales-by-manufacture...
>You can become a registered nurse with only a bachelor's ($100k+ salary).

Where are you getting this number, that is not even remotely close to any of the nurses and lower level health practitioners I know
lots of guardrails!
That's also helpful to know, thanks for sharing. I think my mouth generally defaults to being open, and I always assumed that was just the natural consequence of gravity once I'm asleep and my face/mouth muscles relax. All the more reason to get that sleep study done lol
Wanna bet Elon will try to shut down the account tracking his flights?

To think this is about freedom of speech is naive. This is about restricting and allowing different speech, but I can promisee you it'll be just as limited.

People are looking for alternatives because they don't like the idea of their speech being controlled by an unstable manchild that calls people that point out his ideas are bad "pedo"
Last time this happened, dang asked us to log out while browsing and not commenting/voting which greatly eases the server strain.
Personal and work ToDo's - Todoist (I like how I can add tags to things, e.g. #CHAT, #RESEARCH, #BUY, etc).

Larger work projects - Separate Todoist folder with a ToDo for each item (e.g. "Increase modal by X pixels")

Jira tickets - Obsidian.md (I create a page for an in-progress ticket and add personal notes, Q's to ask about (I include the answers), etc.)

Simple things - White board on my wall
I may actually start using it depending on what kind of platform it turns into, to be honest.
Road network extraction from satellite imagery