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Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We've had to ask you this many times.

Attacking another user for their ethnicity is going to get you banned here, regardless of who you have a problem with. I realize that people feel strongly in a war but you can't do that here, so please don't do it again.

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Well, I agree, unfortunately. Sabine is smart and knowledgeable, but when people try to engage with her in ways that push the boundaries of her knowledge, and especially when that may be some uncomfortable "unknown" position that we have no certainty on, Sabine will usually (in my observations) double down on her position and refuse to even entertain an outside idea, often in a derisive and short way that cuts off any form of dialogue about the issue.

I don't have examples to hand as it's early and I can't be bothered, those are merely my observations based on a handful of interactions I've seen with her on twitter and adjacent spaces (such as podcasts), and should be taken as such.
> The US is going to have to double it's manufacturing base in the next decade as the world deglobalizes.

A lot of that will probably be more-or-less automated though.
Thankfully politicians don't think of science in terms of "return on investment"

Obviously it must be justified as scientifically important, but they do not expect "something back". Government agencies generally take a more blurry and general approach to R&D, since you cannot predict what comes out of a given experiment. No one predicted an absolute revolution in squeezed light from gravitational wave detection for example. Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will probably both get funded even though the science case is very minimal and they will cost many billions
Moderators and community standards.
Probably not as many as diabetic terrible people?

I'm not saying to kill those unborn children, I'm saying that if this medical field had not been completely put to a stop following WW2, we wouldn't have to kill unborn children but we could do in utero interventions to prevent those conditions from developing.
Is money being made of this situation? Yes, it is. Immense amounts of it - billions and billions of dollars.

This is hardly a Russian talking point. But it is true that the US has long fought to keep Europe and Russia from economic alliance, and it is definitely true that it is US foreign policy to interfere with Europes' growth. Europeans understand this of Americas ruling class, even if the American public doesn't.
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN. Please don't post like this, regardless of how badly other people have behaved or how strongly you feel about it.

Other kinds of flamewar aren't allowed either, but religious flamewar is particularly bad and particularly avoidable.

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Edit: comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33003645 are particularly not ok. Please don't do that on HN! we have to ban accounts that post like that and I don't want to ban you.
I've been baking with them for years now. My favorite accessible apple. (at least on the west coast)

Slightly tart and sweet, good crunch. Good for eating, applesauce, and pie :)
Lazy journalism but we know what it was. It is a Swedish mine clearing drone which was lost during an exercise in 2014.

https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2015/11/analysen-a...
High-performance image generation using Stable Diffusion in KerasCV
Seems like corruption to me, someone is lining their pockets. That is way too much to just be a bad procurement.
Yes usually I don’t change the wallpaper every 2/3 days but I download 10/20 photos and I try to set each as a wallpaper. This one/two time per month about so the average is correct.
I don't think that - short of an underground bunker - there are fire-resistant structures that can survive a "serious" wildfire.

The classification of fire-resistant is usually 30/60/90/120 minutes, meaning that the structure should not collapse before that time, but norms say nothing of the residual structure integrity, and the cost of inspecting, assessing and repairing a structure affected by a fire can in many cases exceed the cost of re-building it from the ground up.

Set aside wood/timber, the other three common construction methods, steel, reinforced concrete and brick/stone masonry are all affected by the heat of a (large) fire (in the case of masonry it is the mortar that loses some of its properties), i.e. the structure won't have the same strength as before.
Are you trying to say that people under 18 should never receive any surgery because they can't consent?

This comment chain is about gender affirming surgeries and _doctors_, not DIY HRT so I won't respond to that
Ultrasound Neuromodulation of the Deep Brain
This is a result of the pandemic and business leaders finally shoring up supply chain weaknesses, not Trump.
Does it mean there’s a market for business communication app where users can set rules to automatic delete/store and obfuscate their conversation at will? :D
> assuming all of these nations record the real-time location of every fishing boat, dinghy, yacht and tug-boat; and can play it back and analyze all of the data

This is a pretty safe assumption to make. The relevent authorities have this data and are certainly poring through it as we speak.

> Your next go-to idea for the failure would be Russia or the US?

Don't put words in my mouth. I did not allude to anyone in particular, just exclude the possibility of some independent group pulling this off in case the vessels behind sabotage this do not get identified very soon.
Good Problems in the Foundations of Physics (2019)
> but what are the things we build on top of them?

Countless other software developers and me build those things. If what I am currently building becomes available for free, as usable open source, I might lose my job. The company that let me go can increase their revenue and reduce their costs. You gain nothing, maybe some clout and fame.

Open source is harmful to the average developer. After years of this, we'd just be happy to reinvent StringUtils, EmailValidator and FileUtils classes every few years and take home our decent salaries.
He ambiguously stated that the US would "find a way to make sure Nord Stream is done for good".

Policy hasn't worked, in years. In spite of the US' worst efforts, Nord Stream was built and completed and could actually be used to peacefully engage in energy economy between Russia and Europe.

This alliance is intolerable to the USA, so: the last act was destruction.

Lets see, anyway. Evidence is going to be important on this case.
I think you're not being very fair when it comes to web apps; I think they're a much lower barrier to entry in these days than native applications, especially if you want to target developers who will demand Windows, MacOS and Linux apps from day 0. There are no good cross-platform alternatives out there, with as big a pool of developers or as big an ecosystem.

I mean webapps suck, cross-platform mobile apps suck, and native apps on both desktop and mobile are vastly superior and I will die on that hill. But I understand the tradeoff.
The problem with Hakko clones aren't just the tips but the handpiece whose thermal contact between the heater and the tip is often unreliable, and the low thermal mass makes it hard to solder bigger tabs without raising the temperature to absurd levels. I swapped 3 hand pieces and two heaters on mine before giving up, reverting for a while to my two 40 years old gun shaped irons (25W and 100W) then getting used Wellers, then finally the Pinecil, which I mostly bought because I wanted to support the Pinephone project, and then revealed itself as a really nice and functional solder iron.
Well that's a pretty week argument. Yeah sure if we killed every baby to be that had a defect I probably wouldn't exist. But I wouldn't care, because I wouldn't exist.

Note I'm not saying to kill those unborn children, I'm saying that if this medical field had not been completely put to a stop following WW2, we wouldn't have to kill unborn children but we could do in utero interventions to prevent those conditions from developing.

"Kill the babies" is the current state of eugenics because it has been at a full stop for more than half of a century. That's my point.
Gitlab provides several web interfaces:

- a basic WYSIWYG when you click on "Edit"

- Gitpod and Gitlab IDE, based on Vs code in the browser, allowing custom settings and extension
Could the explosives have been lowered on a rope from a boat with no diver?
Zfs will never make it into mainline unless someone rewrites it from a blackbox specification.

The zfs license is incompatible with gpl.

That being said zfs is awesome, it is simple to use, about as bulletproof you can get.
FxTec Pro1 ?
An easily gameable strategy is promising benefits to new citizens, whether or not it makes sense to give those benefits or take on new citizens. You encourage the influx, and make the vote choice obvious.

Is this happening? I don’t really know. Is it possible? Doesn’t seem to be much in the way of it in some states.

Readers should also not accept your frame: “reducing competition.” Not accepting arbitrary new citizens is not reducing competition; getting rid of people is reducing competition. The issue of how many, and which new people to accept, is a separate question.
> Europe is staying aligned just fine right now.

Sure, right now. When the winter comes and heating bills skyrocket, there will be those in Germany who want to turn the gas back on. Or... would have been. That option is gone now, at least for this winter. That's what the US might have gotten out of it.

> It would be a tremendous risk to be discovered

The US has taken more severe risks before, such as tapping the undersea cables in the territorial waters of their nuclear armed adversary during the Cold War, in principle risking global nuclear annihilation. The primary rule clandestine submarine operations play by is "don't get caught". If the US did it and did it properly, nothing will ever be conclusively pinned on America.

> Denmark could trigger Article 5 against the United States.

Fantasy scenario, get real.
Please don't take HN threads further into religious flamewar. We ban accounts that do that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33005581 for more.

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> Non-surgical puberty blockers are completely reversible and do not sterilize.

This is also an ideological stance.

Please see https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2... for an evidence-based review that contests this.

Edit: I'm not permitted to reply to the comment below, but I would like to point out that it's a rather shallow dismissal of a well-researched paper. I would recommend actually reading the whole paper, at the very least to challenge one's preconceptions on this issue. Personally, I find such challenge to be an intellectually stimulating experience.
While we're at this topic, does anybody know the Gini index of the world?
Sometimes I use Pocket for this purpose, if a site is obnoxious I tend to just click save and head over there to read. It's annoying but I haven't found a better solution for me on the phone yet.
The report also shows how women are disproportionately affected by inequality – of the current ‘62’, 53 are men and just nine are women.

I don't think that you can claim that the part before the hyphen follows from the part after the hyphen.
NS2 was completed and ready for use, in spite of the US' worst efforts over the years to prevent its completion. The only issue keeping NS2 from usage was policy, and there is a great risk that the US' will not get its way, policy-wise, over Europe.

So destruction ensured the NS2 would not be used for peaceful energy economy between Russia and Europe.
Low-Rated Global Corporate Debt Has Ballooned [pdf]
See Figure 1 in the PDF.

Interesting about this is that companies have apparently borrowed lots of money from financial institutions. At the same time, they were also able to borrow lots of money from the stock market due to high share prices relative to earnings [1] combined with the possibility to sell new shares/hand out options.

[1]: https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
This seems unsustainable to say the least.
This is the same analytical problem with geoengineering climate change mitigations. Unforeseeable consequences while underway and when it stops.
You mean people could adapt to living in yurts or gers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt
It's solved stuff in languages other than Python. Many groups even at google have tried and failed.
Automatic daily wallpapers.
Why not a Pylint plugin though?
No, because it happened in international waters ON THEIR assets.
Not your code; not your bot ;D
Thanks, I'll definitely thoroughly. I can already see that it doesn't actually say "Russian troops raped and tortured children in Ukraine". May I ask why did you decide to lie and misrepresent the report?

Would be curious to compare it with Ukraine's normal numbers.

> Its distance from the countries fighting the actual war, in Iraq countries where fighting a war thousands of kilometres way from them, in Ukraine Russia is fighting on its doorstep and still failing.

Ok, clearly, you haven't read all the parts where I describes the difference of "hit and run" and fighting near the border.
The US can't even secure it's border against civilians and had to build a wall. Even it's border patrol is a branch of customs, rather than a branch of military.
I feel like you ignore the difference between simple "hit and run" and complex territorial defense on purpose.
Don't worry. It wasn't the US. Not really our style. Sure, the CIA pulls dirty tricks, but those are quiet, in-the-shadows skullduggery where no one's paying attention. CIA doesn't do big and loud where other Americans can see it.

Plus, motivations are wrong. The US catastrophically ends European energy dependence on Russia so that... it can compete with the Middle East and Russia and Canada on a more equal footing? Yeah, no. The US is not that desperate for cash.
This was published in 2016. I wonder what it looks like right now, and in the years since 2016.
No, but they definitely have the possibility after the event to replay recordings from their very nice naval radar systems to see if there was a surface vessel doing something in those locations.

Also, I understand the depth of the pipeline is 80-100 meters so you need divers experienced with hypoxic trimix (or an ROV) and you need to be able to carry a 50-100 kg payload in addition to all the diving kit. Just to qualify for the training courses to learn this type of diving you need to have logged many hundred dives with gradually increasing equipment complexity, it takes years and years of training.

I don't buy for a second that this is anything else than a nation-state actor with advanced equipment. The community of people in the world whou could dive to these depths and perform any kind of useful work is tiny and close-knit.
> datetime.date(2018, 3, 4)
> datetime.date(2018)(3)(4)

It's very obvious that the first of these date() function must be a function of three arguments (year, month, day) and the second, if the two calls are meant to return the same result, must be a function of one argument (year) that returns a function of one argument (month) that returns a function of one argument (day) that returns, presumably, a date.

Syntactic sugar to call one date() as if it was the completely different other one would be recklessly dangerous. In particular, there are default parameters: date(1848) might legitimately mean something like 1/1/1848 (defaulting day and month to 1 and 1), not "give me a curried factory of dates in 1848".
What? What assets arent dropping? The two examples below, used cars and real estate are now definitively losing value. Even oil and commidities arent up much any more.
Well said.

As objective as science is it is humans who are doing science, who have emotions, vested interests and so on. So if someone criticises a whole body of people then be prepared -- best case they are completely ignored, worst case they are retaliated. No surprises there.

About opinion; yes sure we all can have it. But please when you offer it then be nice, be open to feedback, be curious. Don't go out all guns blazing.
In my experience, people who struggle with different syntax conventions are the outliers; if you can handle the idea of brackets generally (as we all do regularly), then you can deal with one set of conventions.

Similarly, if you can grasp the concept of a paragraph, or of bullet points, or a bunch of other things in normal text that convey meaning through whitespace, then you can deal with another.

It's only code that (some) people complain about this with. In every other context, we all know that we can work with syntax based either on brackets or spacing. Just in normal communication, all humans deal with a dizzying array of complex conventions without even thinking about it.

The reluctance to use whitespace-sensitive languages (or the other way around) is learned helplessness, rather than a widespread inadequacy.
> Does your L1 contain other sources of redundancy that can be used for error correction?

Never looked at it from this angle. I guess the extensive case system for example, which allows to omit agent noun since the information is contained in the verb, but in reality is rarely omitted.
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. It's hellish, tedious, and off topic here.

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> If you're using an interview that bares 'little relevance to an employee’s day-to-day work' and that requires dedicated prep to pass, then what you're doing is optimising a process for finding people who will tick boxes and jump through meaningless hoops.

You mean all those jobs requiring college degrees? Or is that different somehow? The main reason is that difficult tests has positive signal even if they are partly irrelevant or tedious, and interview prep has nothing on 4 years spent full time, and on top of that you have to pay for college.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar. It's hellish, tedious, and off topic here.

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It is not used for anything predictive (like filtering for ads) because it doesn’t mean anything real. There is no proof of any sort that astrological info about a person has any correlation with anything personality related, life impacting, etc. other then possibly whether they believe in it or not. It’s like asking if mood ring colors can be fed in to a system real time to improve understanding of a user. Nothing more then randomness being added
Just wait for the trickle down...
Then try this one https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ten-richest-men-doub... from earlier this year.

The headline has only become more true, the number of people who now own the same as half the world is likely fewer and who those people are remain the same (Forbes billionaire list is the source for the research).
Hacker News’ preference for the page title conflicts here with the fact that this is a personal blog and implies knowledge of the author.

You either know who Sabine Hossenfelder is (theoretical physicist and educator) or you don’t.
The difference is that I consider McCrystal a vile war criminal and have no desire whatsoever to see his fake 'honor' defended by anyone. He belongs in chains, rotting in the Hague, as do most of his seniors.
Ooh, I remember when this also was a conspiracy theory that it was a crime to mention.
Show HN: Budibase 2.0 – build internal tools and forms faster (OSS)
Anyone else thinks computer mouse is actually a dumb invention? I mean the fact that you have to operate it with your entire arm, and it takes as much space as another keyboard.

Flip it upside down and you have the track ball, makes way more sense.
Ok, fair point.

I agree that the various coast guards are extremely competent and coordinated, and are poring over the data that they have now. I disagree that capture is inevitable unless submarine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#World_income_...
Just look at China. China is a communist country according to the billions of people living there. The word as evolved, but your biases haven't.

What does it take to establish an official definition of a word? An official dictionary, you, me? or billions of people living in a communist country?
Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Budibase, and we're super excited ... and nervous... to be posting Budibase 2.0 on HN. We launched Budibase 1.0 to HN around a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29242466.

Basically, Budibase is an open source GUI that allows you to connect to your database/APIs and build internal tools over the top of your data using prebuilt components (buttons, dropdowns, tables, etc.). It also comes with an automations section for managing logic and automating simple processes (email notifications for example).

Since last year, we've been working hard, talking to users, writing code and improving design. We discovered that Budibase is great for building simple CRUD apps and forms. But, we also found that when the apps reached a certain complexity, a little code was required. Users wanted more flexibility and when talking to our community, this was evident: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/discussions/5518

Budibase 2.0 brings with it a number of new features and more:

- add your own custom components

- add your own custom datasources

- user groups

- a new Budibase university

On top of the features above, with Budibase, you can also:

- connect to multiple datasources such as Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake and more

- run Budibase on your own infra using Docker, K8s, and more

- extend Budibase with its public API

If you're curious how it works - here are the docs:

http://docs.budibase.com/

The university offers a number of videos to explore Budibase in a more visual way:

https://vimeo.com/showcase/budibase-university

Also, you can try Budibase via the website:

https://budibase.com/

Thanks! Happy to answer any questions and respond to feedback.
Once I had an interview because the offer looked interesting. Otherwise I was not actively looking.

The interviewer was borderline rude and not listening to anything I was saying.

I mentioned, for example, that I had no linkedin, so I did not fill it in the web application form. They had a checklist with requirements like Java 1.9 and I said I used 1.8 in x position (by then 1.9 did not exist), but it was not a problem because I was aware of the changes in 1.9 etc.

After a few similar questions where the interviewer was asking for exact versions of software and disapproving of the exact versions of software I used (they were not technical) I calmly mentioned I did not think it would be a good fit for their company or me, but I was happy to have talked to them. We could finish the interview, since I did not want to make them waste any time.

Their answer to this was to panic, telling me they had still 15 minutes until their next interview, pleasantries were exchanged, followed by wishing me luck in my other interviews (I said I was not actively looking, only this one offer I was curious about). They also asked me to share my linkedin profile (which I mentioned not to have). Then they said recruiters are annoying, right? to which I answered I don't have anything against recruiters, just never had the need for a linkedin account.

It did leave a bad impression on the company but IMO if you see there is clearly no fit it is better for everyone to calmly bring it up.
Love this modularity of swapping the compute modules!