skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get into arguments with pro-Navy people about the laughable waste of Naval surface ships.

As you state, antiship missiles are unremarkable, I believe 1980s pop and drop from above are undefendable. I got argued down about antiship ICBM/IRBMs, but I still think they will work. And drone subs will make any nearshore unnavigable to capital ships, if the cost of your carrier is 10x the cost of a fleet of 100 drone subs whose only job is basically fire a couple torpedos.

Drones/infantry portable weapons are being tested in real time by the pentagon with the Ukraine war, against a reasonable facsimile of a peer war.

The only thing lacking is high altitude anti air, but I think this war will result in the true air superiority denial weapon: the cheap air drone. Hell, it could be a solar balloon-drone hybrid: stay up as long as you want, relocate with "acceptable" flexibility, fire missiles at aircraft.

That will push more emphasis to Space superiority I predict.

The other aspect of force multiplication of drones hasn't been properly explored or used yet in this war: drones are currently used as CENTRALLY coordinated weapons. But if you also have combined arms drones coordinated by boots-on-ground infantry, that means your ten man squad can direct (with low casualty risk) ten faster, better armed, more capable drones in helicopter, grenade shelling, scouting, and direct fire. And if you can give basic AI orders to a drone once you get it place and then direct other drones into position, then a 10 man squad may be able to direct 20-30 ones. And they can have reserves to deploy if their controlled drones get damaged. And they are probably more durable to fire.

Truly effective infantry forces have sergeants and officers with ability to adapt tactical battle plans on the fly. Current drone organization doesn't strongly support this, but then again we are in the stone age of drones.
Because "over the counter" is a bit of a misnomer. You must go to a pharmacy and speak to the pharmacy rep or pharmacist, who has access to the standing order that creates a prescription that's automatically rubber-stamped by an issuing physician.

Now you've been "prescribed" Narcan, for all intents and purposes. The pharmacy now fills it via the normal procedures, including submitting to insurance as required to obtain payment for it behind the scenes.

So... your insurance knows now you have (at least) once "taken" Narcan.

Same thing happens when you go to a pharmacy for a flu or COVID shot or other vaccines: a remote physician "writes" the prescription for the vaccine, to which the pharmacist then draws and administers.
The fortunes of the front lines in WW1 varied directly with which side had air superiority at the moment. Not because the airplanes were effective at ground attack, but because of aerial reconnaissance. The defeat of Germany came because the Luftwaffe was defeated.
I suspect the cheapest option would be cameras mounted on artillery shells.

https://www.afcea.org/content/artillery-eyes-provide-sight-g...

The U S army worked on putting cameras in howitzer shells as far back as the 70’s, so short-ish range (10 miles or so), but cheap by military standards.

Though these days a cheap plastic drone might easily be less expensive if mass produced.
I'm saying if you really need to criticize an opinion article based on its source, don't quote such a laughable authority as "mediabiasfactcheck.com"

(Now, an actually good criticism of this article would be to ask: aren't bankers actually doing their job for once with wheat futures, if they're preventing a shortage by increasing prices in anticipation of it?)
Have you ever tried to catch a sparrow with a drine? Imagine how hard it is to hit a target that is actively avoiding you
Couple ways, for example on the github page [1] , click the "tags" link [2] above the file list, find the tag for release 14.0.0, which is llvmorg-14.0.0, and now you can do any commit operation with that name instead of a commit.

If you have a checkout, you can find the tag name by doing a git tag -l *14* and looking through the output; I'm intentionally providing a very general glob because one may not know beforehand their exact tag name conventions.

[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project

[2] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tags
I use tree style tabs and though my browser is full screened, I sometimes get popups from people and websites trying to be clever, thinking that the only reason a window seems full screen but isn't must obviously be those darned dev tools.

I quickly close websites like that (and blacklist them in my pihole if they're particularly offensive in their messaging) but for people like me these protections do actually help.
A paycheck, meaningful work that aligns with your values or goals in life, getting experience in a more mature org before jumping to a startup, job stability of a large company, interesting work, off the top of my head.
Right, but since they have to pay out sometimes or the ponzi[0] stops as people stop contributing, then this could only rely on the public lack of empathy towards "drug users"

[0] replace "ponzi" with "scheme", "mechanism", or any word you coincidentally apply to financial concepts you happen to respect
There's not a line in this that makes any sense. Sure, maybe you're only TA'ing 20 hrs a week max, but you're also doing research work well beyond those 20 hrs regardless of whether your advisor has enough grant money to let you escape the TA time sink by putting you on the clock as an RA for work you were already going to do.

And it's a joke to pretend that you should owe tuition. That's nothing but a tax dodge for the university so they can pay you even less (pre-tax) for the same post-tax take-home.
I feel it's better to use "fired" or "have to leave your job" or "layoff" or "terminate the employment contract" than "let go".

Because "let go" is to "allow someone or something to escape or go free" so it implies that you are the owner of the employee and you allow him to leave, just like as an ultimate humiliation he has to have your permission to go.
Right, but there are different monitor sizes out there (1366x768, 1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160) so that's still a fingerprinting vector. In addition, because of various user settings (eg. whether they're using compact theme or not, various OS settings), "full screen" on a 1920x1080 monitor for one person might result in a different viewport size for another. That also becomes another fingerprinting vector.
The greatest Simpsons car-and-measurement-unit bit is of course this one: "She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene" which maybe makes sense if you're plowing a field... Part of a pretty amazing 20 second bit. Pure old Simpsons gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vdtBMG4Kg
What is this, someone reasonable who actually has relevant experience? Get out of here!
Eh, many of the stakeholders of the Hanhikivi project were individual municipalities which very much would have liked to get their carbon-free source of electricity. In the case of OL3, the only winners were probably lawyers due to the years of court battles between Finnish stakeholders and the French reactor supplier Areva. Everybody else lost.

The Greens' new position is mostly relevant in the context of small, modular reactor (SMR) units. Whether or not commercial SMRs ever prove feasible, I'd wager that right now their future looks brighter than that of huge gigawatt-scale reactor projects.
Hot Chips 34 Reveals Intel's 3D Foveros Ambitions for Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake
It definitely takes some time getting used to the quirks of Airflow. I know it took 6 months of running it at my last gig to really understand what was happening underneath the UI.

With great control comes great responsibility.
Note that they are not require to negotiate notice, pay, etc. which are already specified in contracts and statutes.

What they are required to do if they plan to make more than 20 people redundant is to conduct a formal 'consulation', which means that they have to discuss with the employees potentially concerned about the reasons and how to keep redundancies to a minimum.

Companies may offer more than they have to for the sake of their reputation and for goodwill, and (maybe especially) to make employees sign terms that they won't sue and won't discuss the matter.
I should have been more clear perhaps.

"Docker Engine wasn't otherwise available on Windows or macOS" - when was this?

The first version of Docker Desktop for Windows that included support for Windows containers was released on 2017-01-19. See here: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/previous-versions/archive-wi...

Previous versions of Docker Desktop for Windows were just a lame wrapper around the so-called "MobyVM" Hyper-V VM they created for Linux containers.

There have been _instructions_ on how to install "Docker Engine" on Docker Inc.'s website as early as March 2017 and probably earlier. See here: https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/blob/f9d6b41fcf26...

I'm still looking for the page I remember (which is not the one I linked above), but I have used Docker on Windows without Docker Desktop from day 1.

DockerMsftProvider which is officialy used to install "Docker EE" on Windows Server but gives you the same ZIP that runs on Windows workstation was published to the PowerShell Gallery on 2016-10-13 (https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/DockerMsftProvide...).

I believe you either recall incorrectly or were misinformed or unaware at the time, but you did not have to use Docker Desktop to get Docker on Windows.
Moreso, when only seed money is needed to start a project, and money added translates very directly and visibly to increased capacity, the need to pay graft to those who could veto the project falls away. Probably a strict majority of money spent on huge lump-sum public-works projects such as nukes and tunnels goes to pay such graft.

"Small modular reactors" installed presumably incrementally threaten the graft infrastructure for nuke procurement, so will be unattractive to those involved in nuke finance, even where the alternative is no new nuke projects at all. If you can't block a nuke project, you can't profit from unblocking it, and then why be involved at all? For renewables, the prospect of graft is not what attracted most people to the field. That may come in time.
A word of caution: Uber uses `zig cc` toolchain to compile C/C++ code, not Zig language. Moreover, from the article itself:

> "Uber does not have any plans to use zig-the-language yet."
> most things you learn in high school don't matter.

> I learned a lot at school

These aren't contradictory statements. You aren't considering all the things you forgot from school, for a very simple reason: by definition, you forgot about them and didn't learn them.
> Even worse than the previous paragraph. Aircraft carriers did not render battleships obsolete at Pearl Harbor, which involved a fleet of old battleships at a state of low readiness. If the Japanese thought battleships obsolete, why did they bring them to the Battle of Midway 6 months later?

Look at the Battle of Taranto in 1940. The British sent a bunch of old, WW1 biplanes against the Italian fleet in port. Three battleships, a heavy cruiser, and two destroyers were disabled. The British lost two planes.

Three days after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese hit two of the most powerful battleships in the Royal Navy (Prince of Wales & Repulse). Both battleships sunk, at a loss of six Japanese planes. Those ships were sailing and fighting back - they didn't fair any better than the ships at Pearl Harbor or Taranto.

Battleships were now obviously sitting ducks without accompanying airpower. They were obsolete in that they were no longer the ship around which the rest of the fleet was organized. The aircraft carrier was the now the most important ship in the fleet.
Wholeheartedly agree with your analogy. Americans share a federal political system, but not much of a collective culture, at least not too far beyond that shared by liberal societies around the world. It's one of the best thing about the states. You're 100% right that the Federal govt should step back to allow local government to handle issues differently. Local people care about local people and understand their needs/concerns.
Cryptonomicon (a fictional book) basically argues cryptography won the war.
The way I read it the first time:
"As much as we may like it to be the case, Klarna cannot exist in a bubble (that has exploded)"
I think the goal with this method could be to train the hawk to carry an object such as a net or dangling string that the hawk would drop into the propellers of the drone, thus disabling it.

One could also use a hawk as a platform to carry electronic means of disabling drones.

The problem with hawks and drones becomes one of teaching the hawk to recognize enemy drones since it is likely in future wars that all sides will use drones and that it may be difficult to identify who controls a particular drone without monitoring that drone to map its communication path.

It's cool to use a bird that instinctively hunts other birds but we need to understand that hawks are not hard to see and to eliminate so their utility on a battlefield is limited.
yes, that's exactly why it's comparable
It didn’t sink, it literally pulled into port 4 days later.
This is disinformation posing as analysis.
I went off on a total tangent, thought the reference was for the "Fir Bolg".. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir_Bolg

In fairness, I guess those guys probably had chariots.
Volunteer armies have much lower death rates, because the commanders cannot afford to squander their lives.

Conscript armies get treated as cannon fodder.
Mindfulness Hurts. That's Why It Works
It can auto decline the canvas request and return fake image data from the API by default when privacy.resistFingerprinting is enabled. privacy.resistFingerprinting.autoDeclineNoUserInputCanvasPrompts must be set to false to always show the popup, and even then they shouldn't serve fake data when the user declines the request, but throw an error for the API call.
> 5GW of solar [in Finland]

Okay I'm afraid that's it for me. Being on a discussion board that has to debate "is deploying solar in Finland a good idea?" is not worth it.

Incidentally, yes, it took Finland 10 years to build their last reactor. They commissioned it a week or so ago, mere days before Russia disconnected them. Literally nothing we can effectively do to mitigate climate change takes <5 any more, including a fair few GW-scale wind farms I know of. Refusal to face that is why we are facing the calamity we are. Cheers.
Back in 1978, with 300 baud modems, we wanted to minimize the number of characters transmitted. Peterson, Bitner, and Howard reported[1] in Communications of the ACM their algorithm to optimize the tab stop columns for a text document. They observed reductions of 7 to 30 percent of the number of characters transmitted.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/359657.359661
This is abuse disadvantage for nuclear, not an advantage. Current high costs are locked in for a very long time.

Whereas with solar and storage, after 15 years (for the storage) or 30 years (solar) you can take advantage of technology advancement. And of technology has not advanced much, you can simply maintain or repair the existing infrastructure, just like nuclear or other large capital expenditures.
On a somewhat related note, I was stuck behind a Tesla on my morning commute and it was behaving like a teenage driver; constantly breaking without reason and dangerously slowing to a halt as soon as any vehicle got into the lane in front of it. When I passed it later, the driver didn't have his hands on the wheel, and the car was (very poorly) driving itself in AP or FSD.

I've seen Teslas drive somewhat better than that before, so it appears their latest update in response to last week's fatal crash has some serious regressions.
"In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?"

George Orwell, 1984

If one grants primacy over their own mental faculties - believing that anybody else's word has more relevance than their very interpretation of the world - then that other group now has the power to make one believe, and ultimately do, anything. At scale, that is a recipe for horrible things.

A society with a freedom of thought will never have a utopia because we just can't stop finding falsehoods appealing. But you will also never have a dystopia because society will always trend towards the truth as the past of least resistance, even if the road there might be quite bumpy. But in the grand scheme of things this is the state mankind has been in that sent us from being glorified apes to to being glorified apes with vast cities, neat toys, and being on the verge of setting out in exploration and settlement of the stars.
Getting a PhD is an investment. How do you delineate a bear market for skills? Is it generally congruous with a bear market for assets/investment?
That I changed your perspective, well thank you for saying that, because, well, just because.

I just cannot explain the difficulty. First with working. My mood disorder throws me into instability that is catastrophic. I was an accomplished photographer (published) and was selling photographs locally making some extra money. I had an episode where I destroyed thousands of my black and white negatives. Years of work, gone.

I could move to the middle of nowhere and afford an apartment for say $700/month (if they rent it to me), but then I will not have healthcare. The places I can have healthcare, I cannot even afford a small studio never mind the first, last and despot needed to get the apartment. And many of these apartments have minimum income requirements that I am nowhere close to. And then it means I have to move away from the already meager social support I do have.

Then when I am paying 60% of my income in rent, how doing I afford my car, meds, doctors, heat, etc?

There are just so many roadblocks that people do not appreciate. As I said I had four homeless agencies trying to help me find housing and they could not help me, so it was not a lack of trying.

And renting a room is impossible. How many of you would share a house with someone you did not know who was on disability with a mental illness? I would not want to even put someone through living with my suffering if they did not know what they were getting into.

I have just turned 55 so I am lucky that more option are opening, but there is so much competition for low income housing.
I use a concept called timeboxing combined with deep work. If you wanna learn something, estimate, how much time you gonna need, how much time you really have a day and then split the estimation into timeboxes of at least 1h, better 2h or even more.

Focus on your work / task and if you finish early and are still interested, dig deeper. If not, stop as soon as you get where you want to.

Works pretty well, but Focus is the main point. No tiktok, youtube, twitter, smartphone or whatever ;)
It doesn't vary enough to make a big impact. Regular gas in Alabama is only about 8-9% cheaper than the national average. So it almost cuts an hour off.
> There’s an admin costs problem in this country.

The money goes to the college administrators. They're major bureaucracies that plague and control universities money supply and more or less dictate universities' policies.
Of course, “trust us wink” is part of this.
"It's difficult to take direction from someone who doesn't know (or can't explore) the problem space as well as I do. I find I'm managing up so much that there seems less and less benefit to the current reporting structure I find myself in."

How often do people complain themselves into a new post?
Druid: A Real-Time Analytical Data Store
Blogs need a "emotion-meter" metric that auto-delays publication for a set time. Probably true for every communication method in existence.
I actually found it a humane way of dealing with the situation.

They let everyone know in advance. Have the decency of individual communication. Anticipated what type of invite to expect. Promised to roll out quickly, in a matter of days.

I mean, probably not the "perfect" layoff, but certainly not close to worse, or even "terrible".
If the site notices your canvas data is returning garbage, but your timezone is somewhat legit (ie. not UTC), then they can conclude you have canvas protection enabled but not timezone spoofing. That can be used to build a fingerprint of your browser depending on what fingerprinting protection settings you enabled.
>Schools in the US charge an absurd amount of tuition compared to schools in Europe/Asia

US schools get far less from the state than Europe and Asia. You can find many school budgets online, including sources of revenue. So this is easy to check. [2] lets you look at country per capita spending on tertiary education - the regions you mention tend to spend significantly more tax dollars than the US does.

The result is that most European and Asian schools get funded by taxpayers, i.e., those not attending university end up helping pay for those who do, while in the US more of the funding is paid by people that attend schools.

Also, the US, as a result, also ends up with a higher percentage of adults with college degrees than those with state sponsored schools [1], since those places tend to make it harder to go to college, since taxpayer pressure on cost reduces opportunity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TERT.PC.ZS
Fired means you did something wrong. Let go means you were let go of your job through no fault of your own.
actually I concluded it was just not that great a workflow engine. It's probably just intended for a different use case than mine.
The post I was responding to was the example.

I wanted to claim that you shouldn't make vague criticism. I immediately expected that people would respond as if my claim was that you shouldn't criticize. And sure enough, that's what the post I responded to did.

Me: "You shouldn't make vague criticism"

Response: "OMG you're saying university professors are above criticism."

Do you think I'm being vague here? :-)
They should have done a better job in the article but the dangers were explicitly mentioned in the first video talking about how the air pressure greatly changes under the bridge accelerating the wind speeds and can suck you out, which happened to a news crew in the 90's sheltering under an overpass.
To be fair to the internet at large, I'm 100% convinced that whoever develops the Reddit website intentionally makes it obnoxiously unusable. Even on a relatively beefy desktop I can't scroll past more than five or six videos before the video player becomes unusable. Opening a reddit link on mobile is a guarantee to get an ad for their app that requires several click to bypass.

It's like they're deliberately ruining the experience in everything but their app to feed their ever growing hunger for more user data. It's the worst website I regularly visit by a mile.
The worst possible way to handle it:

1. Tells everyone that they’ll get an email in the next few days about whether or not they’re to be fired — days of anxiety ahead for everyone, and even those who aren’t being let go will be looking for new roles

2. Asking everyone to work from home, so those who are let go are isolated from their peers who they very probably want to commiserate with and say goodbye to

What a terrible self-inflicted error.