skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tanks and soldiers are used to occupy territory, but in the face of a well-equipped enemy and/or a motivated populace, they can't hold it.

Not everybody likes wars of attrition. Russia is an outlier in that regard. Copying their doctrine and tactics is a bad idea, as is citing them as a successful example of how to accomplish anything. They are great at beating up on unarmed civilians, but against a modern armed force they wouldn't stand a chance... and no amount of tanks and soldiers will change that.
Much of this has to do with Russian tank doctrine and the lack of sufficient infantry to provide mutual support to armor.
When you say “old” are you referring to the PlayStation game that came out in 2000?

Paperboy came out in 1985: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperboy_(video_game)

It was in arcades. At one point I had it on PC, and boy did I get tired of that quick.
I find it odd that you think that amidst this world of legal tomfoolery and loopholes - a wealth tax could not be conceived that doesn’t force artificial valuations and liquidations.
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‘Course he does as he was a brilliant young person who knew far more than the system is designed to teach. If you don’t need to learn and don’t wish to mentor there’s little point to or value in the system. Most of us, however, occupy regions far nearer the max of the bell curve and profit from the process.
Puts the whole Seoul situation in a new light - there's something about just massive amounts of shells being thrown that's hard to deal with.

And dumb is cheap. Cheap can be king, especially if you can keep making them. The US had the same thing in WWII, the Panzer tanks were better than the Shermans in nearly every way - except cost and repairability.
I remember sitting in the car with my mom outside an Amtrak train station in the late `70's asking her why she was cutting the tops off of several cereal boxes that we had just bought from the grocery store. Apparently they were for a discount on train tickets.
It hasn't found its bottom yet. Bitcoin tends to have these cycles every ~5 years where it goes up by 5x and then drops to below its previous high.
Thx for posting this. I was a young kid when the Odyssey came out, but I have a vague memory of really wanting to rip it apart and figure out what was inside (foreshadowing a career in engineering; surprising I don't do more reverse engineering.)

Our family resisted buying the Odyssey (despite the kids begging the parents) or the Fairchild F or Atari Pong. I think my dad broke down when he discovered there was a blackjack cartridge for the VCS.
> does that invalidate the opinion of all experts involved in both projects

demonstrably, yes?
this is probably related to a tweet i made sharing one perspective of the timeline of git: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1536832603411451905?s=20&t=U... it took 4 days from call to starting the project
Ignoring Africa, Asia and North America more recently, sure!
Yeah, no. This defies credulity. Tanks are complex systems too, with very high cost and long lead times. Javelin production is currently 2,100 per year and ramping up. I don’t know what NLAW production is, but some 24,000 have supposedly been produced in the lifetime of the weapon. Russia started the war with about 3,000 tanks.
It's the scarcity of the parts, not the overall cost. Javelins require rare-earth minerals (which largely come from Russia) and rare silicon chips that are in short supply worldwide. I edited my original post to include a link to an article about the difficulties in replacing the diminishing stock of anti-tank weapons.
A government needs to wage war at some level to exist.

To eliminate war the motives for war created by governments need to be addressed. There is only one logical outcome, once you decide you don't want war.
Yeah welcome to split verb-adverb pairs in English!
It seems like the future of warfare is longe range (eg: firing missiles at tanks from across the horizon) or hyper short range (eg: troops clearing cities block by block) — anything else seems like it'll get wrecked by either the precision of long range or the precision of short range stuff.

A tank isn't hyper mobile, isn't hyper accurate and isn't hyper long range. I don't get it's role — especially when it costs tens of millions and can be destroyed with either a $5k anti-armor launcher or from a missile fired across the horizon.
Thats interesting. I have contracted with multiple entities in the US for many years and they never asked for anything like that.
No, you don't know what you are talking about. The budget, that's EDF. EDF builds things, the ASN ensures the safety is up to standards. Hell, the ASN _is_ responsible for these costs because they are the ones ensuring everything is up to par. There are many EPRs running, in Finland, in China, but none of these have safety requirements as drastic as the Flamanville EPR.

Additionally, EDF offered multiple estimates at the time of construction, from "everything goes well" to "oh dear god so many delays". Many of these estimates were perfectly in line with the current costs. It is, once again, political decisions that only allocated the minimal budget, while knowing full well that it would go over (but that EDF would take the blame, and not the government).

And once again, this is also a result of letting our nuclear industry decay for 40 years, losing every single person that has the knowledge on how to build nuclear plants either to retirement or other countries.
Yeah, it's not just in childhood, it also hits early adulthood as well, when people are just starting out.

I scraped by on ~ $600 / mo in disability until I graduated college in my mid 20s in 2008. My spending habits, my hobbies, everything was ingrained around that age.

Today I make 25x as much, and barely spend 2x. It's hard to change early habits.
giant squid that drags your boat to the bottom of the ocean.
Does infantry have a future, given what WWI taught us about their vulnerability to artillery and machine guns? Do (naval) ships have a future, given what WWII taught us about their vulnerability to torpedoes? Do air defenses or air forces have a future, given what happened in Mole Cricket 19 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mole_Cricket_19 )? Do...

Zzz.
I doubt they'll want to compete in the consumer OS space after the ubuntu phone mess.
Yes. Tableau would have to separate rendering from data select/filter/aggregation, especially because integrating with customer databases live is a key use case. Hence the built-in buffet of connectors/drivers.

It looks like with later versions they switched to kind of a hybrid approach (part-remote, part-local) with Hyper to reduce latency for interactivity.

> there is no sharing of the underlying data set for multiple projections across the same large data set

But that would require some kind of open standard for portability, no?
Modern tanks also use minerals and chips, they're basically armoured computers. They also, obviously, take a huge amount of resources to produce, transport and train to use.
I could see it being useful for jobs that make you a political target maybe? Security contracting, intelligence, or journalism?
iOS made the mistake of conflating wifi with “internet”, it will even attempt to kick you off a wifi if it doesn’t have internet, but it will gladly show you the icon even before logging you into the captive portal.

The current situation is incredibly badly-engineered on so many levels. It’s maddening, really. One of the worst parts is that the modal disappears as soon as you attempt to switch apps (or god forbid you try to respond to a message you received)

Notification + real internet connectivity indicator + a regular Captive Portal/Internet App would go a long way.
On a tangent, I've always felt garbage collection, and, more importantly, safe memory management, was important because it allows you to mostly pretend that memory allocation isn't a globally side-effecting operation, as such operations are difficult to reason about. It's the same logic that leads to design choices that don't explicitly use global variables or global state.

In reality, all memory allocation is still globally side-effecting, and you'll find that out when your program starts GC spiraling, or consuming more memory than you want it to, but being able to pretend otherwise and mostly get away with it means automatic memory management brings a tangible, measurable productivity multiplier to programming that few, if any, other programming language features can boast of.
I'm not sure willingness matters as much in the military as you seem to think.
I'm looking at moving to a significantly nicer [edit: than where I am now, that is], coastal region with excellent schools and within occasional-but-not-daily commute distance of two top-tier US cities, including by rail (some of you may be be able to guess the area, at this point), and the housing prices (4-bedroom with some land, even) are surprisingly affordable. Nothing like that, certainly. Houses within daily commute range of one (but not both) of those cities can be had for way under that, too, some miles away from where I'm looking, especially if you'll accept good-but-not-excellent schools.

I guess if you're somewhere insanely expensive and won't go somewhere that's not, then... you're gonna pay a lot for housing. Go figure. "Here's the 97% of the country that's not like that, just throw a dart at a US map and you'll probably hit a place with much cheaper housing"—"No, I won't, because reasons"—"Uh, OK then, kinda sounds like a choice, good luck"
Anti money laundering would get in the way, right?
Interesting observation. I wonder if it's because chemical reactions read a lot like function calls. Complex reactions look a lot like programs written in some arcane language
Fortunately, this new table-top Higgs discovery was not very expensive.

Anything requiring the resources of the LHC or more will be far from spontaneous.

https://www.livescience.com/magnetic-higgs-relative-discover...
I used to get a copy of Janes Defense Weekly at work. It was always a good read when I was a young kid on the hill. They even used to put out a buyers guide for IFVs/LAVs. If you want to cut through the noise for good military analysis you usually have to drop some decent dough.
Also if you look at a tank it's basically a shell around the treads - you have to hit it directly on the side or a small opening on the front, both of which may not disable the tread.
> what does snap bring that regular debian packaging does not

Snap is like using a python virtualenv, while apt is like using global pip. We all know which one of these usually results in a broken installation.

Apt debs more often than not rely on some specific version of a third party package which becomes a headache when there's another package that needs a different version of it. Snap in theory solves that, making the deps local to the package you're installing.

If I had a dollar for every time I had apt bullshit me with "requires package, but it will not be installed" or something of the sort I'd probably have something over $20 which isn't that much but still infuriatingly high.
Journey (YC W21) is hiring thoughtful engineers
Do they provide an invoice that fulfils the accounting requirements of your country? I suspect not, so you wouldn’t be able to deduct it.
In Europe you'd get issues with accounting, both in terms of figuring out value added tax, in terms of your local tax authority asking uncomfortable questions why you have expenses without valid invoices (and yes, an invoice has to show who is invoicing). The first probably isn't an issue in the US, I'm not sure about the second.

You could try to set up a company to hide your identity, but how well that works depends on the jurisdiction (in many places it's trivial to figure out the director of a company).
No one is suggesting PV alone. My understanding is that Germany already gets more power from wind. Wind still works at night and in the winter, right?
Interesting that he is open about using ghost writers while Danielle Steel still claims to work around the clock authoring her nonstop stream of novels.
Personally - I agree. I don't yet think we're at the point where tanks are obsolete.

That said... I think the niche the tank occupies right now is getting a LOT smaller.

Infantry screening is no longer enough. It's not just manpads and other anti-tank weaponry coming in from close quarters... it's gps guided missiles dropping on the tank from drones miles above.

We're definitely still going to see ground vehicles play an important part in combat, but I strongly suspect it's going to move back towards favoring nimble vehicles with specific utility. Not the current style of armored tanks.
Notion is the new Rainmeter.

It gets a lot of talk because people invest tons and tons of time in elaborate aesthetically pleasing set ups which can be very satisfying. But then the messy nature of "every day life" slowly erodes the ability of said setup to (cleanly) contain the information, and eventually a lot of people give up on it.

Notion used in that way is essentially trying to make a database for your mind. Except programmers know that writing a schema for a well defined business case is hard. Writing a schema for your knowledge of the natural world is somewhere between an endless task and an impossible task, yet that's what Notion will require of you to take on that role..

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If you want to get actual value out of it, keep it simple. But if you keep it simple, imo you're better off using something like Evernote, which drops the whole "database of your mind" pretense and just focuses on letting you write.
We'll see. We have an all-volunteer military here in the US, and that won't change, at this point. The idea, as always, is to get more done with fewer people.
Thanks for sharing stranger, that was a powerful piece.
Both Russian and Ukrainian, also grad rockets. They're pretty much fighting each other with the same weapons.
Indeed, if you value a soldier's life the same as a human's life, you really don't want them on the battlefield any more than absolutely necessary to defend against the invaders.

Spears and catapults and bows make your soldiers effective dozens of yards away from the enemy.

Rifles get your soldiers to a hundred, sometimes two hundred yards away.

Artillery and drones make your soldiers effective up to a few miles away.

The further away you can keep your soldiers while accomplishing your goals, the better.
There's no bright-line "minimum viable population" above the trivial answer of 2. You'll see people suggest numbers anywhere from a couple thousand down, but these don't mean that rebuilding a population is impossible, just that there will be severe effects. We've observed populations of as few as two individuals go on to become invasive, wildly successful populations when introduced to new habitats.
Let's just say I find your comment very on point. I would like to discuss this, but I don't think this is the best venue, and also this is a very sensitive topic and people are likely to be upset. And I wouldn't blame them.

I did want to say your observation is astute.
I sometimes ponder whether we fundamentally just went in the wrong direction from the very start with quantum physics, but we ended up so far down the road it was impossible to start again.

Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist and my understanding is superficial at best.
While that is great and all, California [1] and Washington [2] both have recent laws making non-competes unenforceable so I suspect this decision has more to do with that than goodwill. Granted, the Washington law has a cap of $101k but that cap has moved up and may continue so could start to cover more of their employees. The California law also applies to them if the employee is in California, even if remote.

[1] https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...
[2] https://lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/workplace-policies/Non-Com...
Not the guy you asked, but personally I've been one long enough to know that iterative design/implementation often produces a better design than waterfall. In waterfall, you have to think of everything at the beginning, and you aren't smart enough. Nobody is.

In iterative, sure, you have a design (often informal and sketchy), and you try implementing it, and as you do you find out why certain aspects were a bad idea, and you change the design to fix those, and you find more things that were bad ideas, and you fix those, and so on. By the time you're done, you have either a nice clean design or a total pile of garbage, depending on whether you did real redesigns or just kludged some bandaids on.

Writing the documentation up front doesn't prevent iteration. But it means that you're going to have to re-write it every time you change the design. And it means that you're going to have to flesh out the initial design enough to write the documentation for it. This is somewhat wasteful.
>In D.C. or N.Y. it's completely normal to meet people dancing to a drum circle in the park, or join people in acro-yoga, slack-lining, bocce ball or whatever. There's a visceral feeling of inclusivity and positive vibes.

>In my home town of Dallas, Texas, you're looked at with suspicion if you approach strangers at a park.

I'll admit to no particular experience in any of these cities but that does not exactly comport with their reputations.

>If you want to meet new people you practically have to join something recurring and structured like a Meetup (which is nice in that it at least selects for people open to meeting new people) or join a amateur sports team (kickball, volleyball, etc).

I'm pretty sure that's how it's always been. Either way, when the most exciting thing you could do at home alone was read a book people just did these things because they didn't want to be bored out of their minds. Friendships naturally followed from those shared activities. IMHO, that's part of the problem today. At home entertainment is pretty compelling and it's easy to get sucked into things like WoW but those don't tend to help you build a life like going out and doing stuff does.
I'll go through that, thanks. But so far it still seems that Haskell is an acquired taste and that's a shame. You have to overcome a number of idiosyncrasies to get productive.

As a guy who went through at least 8 languages and 30+ frameworks, it gets tiring. I want something that ticks most boxes from the get go.
Can confirm! Palm devices were generally tested for things like memory leaks by just running them for a really long time.

1 phone call, 1 email per minute… for a week.

I wrote some core dump readers that would look for memory patterns in crashed devices for Palm back in the day, but our QA was largely manual testers. 5-6 QA folks for every dev.
Complains about renewables handwaving at scale, then suggests seawater uranium extraction and breeder reactors.

They have very high double standards in Nuclearstan.
-- sounds like my local hard drive ;=) - jokes aside - it can be a huge pain - but it requires only two things to be successful - you're extremely disciplined about using folder structures - you're extremely disciplined about using the "my drive" function - Company Folder Name (add to my drive) Sub folders > Marketing (don't add to my drive because I don't work in marketing) > Personas > Persona Iteration > a/b testing.doc | Sub Folders > Engineering (add to my drive, I work in engineering) > Release Planning > shipit.doc - etc - you can use notion this way - however in my experience most orgs don't --
Germans chose to build out lots of wind instead of spending the money to refurbish ramshackle old nukes. They displaced a lot more CO2 by that choice.

They could have chosen to continue operating the old contraptions unsafely, but chose not to shoulder Fukushima-style risks.

Armchair second-guessing is misleading. Each euro spent on one is a euro not spent on the other.
If everything had been paywalled from the beginning, the internet would have been less successful. Most of that free information was possible because there was enough print subscription and personal ads money to subsidize it all. That is no longer true.
The only way plants are extended is if they meet current nuclear safety rules, not the rules from 40 years ago. Please do literally five minutes of research.
starting? :) - definitely are. It is also a chicken and an egg problem - until people start shouting they won't implement v6, and people won't want it until there is a reason too (like not getting v4 addresses - which cloud providers solve by just NATing the world)
I remember reading in the last year about one of the crypto companies that hired an anonymous employee. (Maybe it was the Zcash Foundation? I can't for the life of me find the article about what they did.)

Basically, they kept as low as possible the number of people who knew their real identity. That person or persons would verify employment and file the appropriate paperwork.
For many chinese people this is such an emotional issue because the chinese government has been very keen in promoting these emotions. They let go Mongolia and no one is still crying about that. The communist party could at least let off some steam on the issue if they wanted to...but they don't
So basically you have put no thought into this except that you don’t like war.

I think most people will agree with you that war is bad. But if you get attacked, then all you can do is either give up or defend yourself.

Afghanistan chose to give up to the Taliban, and now their rights are being taken away.

Ukraine chose to defend themselves, and the jury is still out on whether they’ll be successful and what the cost will be.

But there is no third option where you simply will war out of existence.

Diplomacy works with certain enemies, and that will hopefully be the outcome in Ukraine too, but that too will come with a heavy price, such as giving up major amounts of territory.
"But gaming companies have identified the best part of work — creative achievement ... The concept recognizes that working without the bother of deadlines or micromanagement can be a lot of fun."

Imagine if we did that to actual jobs. But no, instead we simulate satisfying work conditions for profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
During times of stress many companies will create job postings for roles they're not actually going to fill, just as a way to present an image of success.
Wow. I just lost all respect for Kraken and the CEO (it was probably my favourite of the crypto exchanges for transparency)
It's been a long time since I was given a banknote of any kind in change! It took me most of the past two years to even spend the ones I had in my wallet at the start of the pandemic. Nobody cares what nationality contactless payment is.
GPU power consumption feels like it 2x every 24 months.