skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy to talk to people about my experiences in Afghanistan, but yeah, I only have a few minutes worth of "war stories" to tell.

One of the things that most non-veterans don't grasp is just how mundane day-to-day military life can be, even in a combat zone, like how people without a security clearance can't imagine how mundane most SECRET material really is. I find it hard to explain, but life is both different in quirky ways (various restrictions on freedoms, being judged professionally by your height/weight and 2-mile running time, random attacks by mortar fire, etc.) and dominated by many of the same experiences and concerns of civilian life (time spent just acquiring and eating food, dealing with traffic and bureaucracy, being frustrated by your assigned Windows machine on the enterprise network, etc.).

One of my personal takeaways from my time in Afghanistan is just how widely variable everyone's "combat" experience can be. I flew helicopters, so I saw the whole range of living conditions on a daily basis: everything from the smallest observation posts where squads lived in filth and got attacked routinely by well-aimed direct fire, to the large airbases like Bagram where people worked 9-5 in a cubicle and had many amenities that were even nicer than what was back home at Fort Bragg. And where you ended up on that spectrum seemed quite arbitrary and luck-of-the-draw. Some otherwise interchangeable helicopter units just flew VIPs back and forth between Bagram and Kabul while others flew SEAL teams on very-high-risk raids every night. So when someone says they did a tour in Afghanistan (even if they earned a Bronze Star or a Combat Action Badge), that doesn't mean much to me, in itself. Edited to add: I think the variance among people who "served in WWII" is orders-of-magnitude greater. There were just so many millions of people in uniform in so many diverse places.
I was thinking something similar. A cow with x's over the eyes, possibly glowing red; with antennae's instead of horns with wifi waves coming off them.
Naval's Mind
Dangit, I do want to play Cyberpunk maxed in 4k. Sorry kids, I guess you'll have to take a gap year before you can go to college, daddy's gonna upgrade.
That's simply not true, because wind output never goes to zero across the whole grid. Even assuming the pessimal case[1], wind needs to drop below 5.5% (1/18th) of its average capacity before nuclear even reaches break-even!

What fraction of the time is whole-grid-amortized wind capacity running at 5% of average? Has that ever even happened? I don't have numbers, but I'm willing to bet that this has never actually happened.

What you've done is try to counter my overwhelming quantitative argument with a qualitative hedge ("but storage"). Please, (please!) look up the numbers here.

Nuclear is a borderline scandal. If it was some other federal subsidy of an industry you disliked, you'd almost certainly call it fraud.

[1] i.e. no use of gas peaker plants, legacy nuclear, solar, pumped hydro, batteries, etc... Literally trying to run the whole grid on wind and wind alone.
Contrary to the parent /s
Consciousness vs awareness vs sentience are terms that really need some society-scale effort to nail down what we mean by one or another. The conversation circles round and round because many folks talk past each other or interpret discussions in ways that the writer didn't intend. (I'm not saying the answer is available today if only we solve this dialectical issue.)

Philosophers of consciousness define "consciousness" as "phenomenological experience" in the barest, most unqualified sense, ie, the experience of "yellow" when photons of wavelength ~580nm strike a visual sensory organ of some kind of cognitive system.

Note that the above does not automatically imply that the experience is understood or even recognized. A lot of armchair philosophers and intellectual hobbyists conflate the term "consciousness" with the notion of having some kind of mental model through which to comprehend the experience (what I call "awareness"), or an understanding of the dichotomy between self vs environment (what I call "sentience", ie, "self-awareness").

Acting through anthropocentrism, it is easy to assume that the three are inextricable, but I don't think that perspective is the way forward toward understanding of consciousness per se.
what is the average rise in prices since last year?
I looked at the F150 Lightning and originally thought, "This might actually help people who are against current EVs" until I discovered the estimated mileage while towing. It's absolutely awful. That puts it squarely in the Tesla market as a luxury vehicle as opposed to something useful. https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/ford-f150-lightning-elect...
Cryptocurrency companies need writers because they are participating in a global pyramid scheme which is entirely based on a constant need to lure in more suckers. They need to shape the narrative and create a false aura of respectability, and hack into the emotions of gullible people.
it's been decades, but my experience was that places with commission would only be better if you change large sums of money, which, being a student on a budget, i never did. and if the commission is a percentage, then how is that different from a bad exchange rate? it's simply a matter of math.

i remember annoying my hosts once because i insisted on checking 3 or 4 places to compare rates and make sure i didn't get ripped off.
Democracy doesn't throw useless popups in front of me
The nuclear plant can be relied upon to produce its full rated 1.2GW 24/7/365 absent maintenance periods scheduled well in advance.

Wind power etc will produce its rated power only when it feels like it with no warning or predictability. To get actual continuous reliable power you need either massive grid-scale storage that nobody's even seriously proposed constructing, or massive over-capacity distributed over a continent-sized area with enough grid capacity to transfer sufficient power from areas with access to areas with shortages, which we also don't have and don't seem to have seriously proposed constructing. Probably both actually.

IMO there's no question that we've gotta get out metaphorical shit together and build lots more nuclear faster if we ever want to actually decrease carbon emissions in our lifetime.
BTW: when you outgrow it, it will be sudden. It’s performance fails in a very non-linear way.

Edit: keep the index in memory
Some reddit post looked at the % differences in core count and clock speed relative to each generation. It most closely fit in the spot a 4060Ti would fit in based its specs relative to the actual 4080.
I agree about the danger of disinformation. But writing a law and claiming it combats disinformation is not the same as combatting disinformation.

In Russia today you can go to jail for up to 15 years for stating that Russia is at war. Why? According to the ruling powers this is disinformation. It doesn't matter that they are lying and you are telling the truth. What matters is that they decide.

My point isn't that there can be no law combatting disinformation but that you cannot take the authorities' claims about their law at face value.
Tracing is the what and logging is the why. Sure, you have the names of the methods for the spans, but do you have insight into the internals of that method in the trace? Probably not. Logging gives you that extra fidelity in a more human context.

Together, they are extremely powerful.
COD, the fish that changed the world. Amazingly well written book.

Apparently Cod used to be MUCH larger than it is today. for the same reason, they dont grow very old.
I think it's still not pushing anything to the grid, it has just reached crusing power: "Regular production is expected to begin in December 2022."
Intel all but rebadged dual-core i3's as i5's and i7's in mobile for years.
or use couchsurfing or an equivalent
> What is crazy is that my and my wife medical costs per month are higher than the country mininum wage, I literally have no idea how people poorer than me take care of their own health

Health care must be really expensive if you spend so much on it at 35, unless you have special health conditions. I assumed you don't, since you're comparing it to the national average. I'm in no way criticizing your situation without context, it was something that called my attention.
> The current difficulty in Russia with actually mobilizing many parts of society gives one a glimmer of hope: they have a handle mainly on marginalized and poor village dwellers. Maybe the modern living standards and communications landscape does ultimately make people more resistant to being mobilized for dumb wars, even if for 100% selfish reasons and (sadly) without necessarily getting rid of imperialistic nationalism. This one of the crucial reasons defending untampered speech is important, and why communist China has the information policies it has. (To be sure, draft evasion was very much a widespread thing even in republican Rome.)

Despite the wartime propaganda efforts, Fussell notes in this piece that one of the things King George VI may have been ignorant of was that all his jails and prison-camps were full to bursting with deserters and draft-dodgers, as D-Day approached.
> Zig usually gets in the comments when other languages are mentioned because the author of the language is pushing it on HN.

Andrew doesn't really post all that much on HN, I think there are better explanations for the interest that HN has in Zig.
This blog post is a nice guide! Some additions:

* Pack immodium for food sickness, this style of travel guarantees it. Add some ORS packets to your bag too (don't just trust gatorade or whatever)

* The new iPhone SE blends in remarkably well everywhere, it looks like a 7 year old phone.

* I feel much better in foreign hotels than AirBNBs. They generally adhere to some form of security backed by a legal standard, as far as door locks, and having guards on the property goes. AirBnB is great in trust-based societies, which travelers on the beaten path are not visiting.

* As cheap as possible for flights isn't the wisest choice, especially after covid where a lot of low cost carriers have cut corners on maintenance (see google news for spicejet over the past few months for more)
they are big countries, they don't need to go all in
Crypto-currency companies place a premium on writers who can produce convincing fiction, it's sort of their business model.
Can you try to make that argument with price numbers and not rhetoric? I used to think like you did. Then I started looking up quantitative stuff. Please do the same.
PyPI Packj flags malicious/risky dependencies
No, if only because none of my employers have been using Julia - I don't tend to do a lot of coding outside of work these days so I kind of play the hand I'm dealt.
Ask HN: How to think long-term in terms of professional life?
On-demand wildcard TLS certificates
Many crypto companies are scams/Ponzi schemes that needs users to believe in the product to have any value. They need continuous community engagement in order to maintain their fans, reinforce the idea of their value, and prevent users from jumping to the Next Big Thing. Most technology exists to solve a problem the customer already has. But crypto many times has to both convince users there is a problem, and that they are the solution. There are a million shitcoins, NFTs, and Web3 markets that need to convince users they are better than the other 999,999 crypto products out there.

Not sure what you mean by EA, so I cannot comment.
If companies choose to use proprietary software for needs that FOSS can and has served well for years, it would seem that those companies are cutting their own legs.

I speak primarily of Slack and Zoom and other “low hanging fruit” of already solved problems that feature VC-funded wheel reinvention made popular by their VC-brethren dogfooding said products, when threaded messaging and webRTC don’t necessitate proprietary solutions.
https://meet.jit.si for example…

I don’t think mindless cargo culture is a trend to follow, nor will tech savvy devs disappear nor will the need to remotely administer servers via command lines tools disappear.

Remote Desktop solutions are not realistic tools for server administration in any sort of serious way, so I’m pretty sure that’s a niche that will always exist…

Seeking to browse the web exclusively through a cli browser, however, is probably not something one can do while working in the field of web development.
The web is primarily graphic lauout based
I mean more that I would like people to remember that the terminal can resize larger and develop more apps as TUIs.
...gcc-rs. thanks autocorrect.
Development Speed over Everything
I dunno. I think only a tiny fraction of people with mechanical engineering degrees become Professional Engineers.

It's mostly Civil Engineers who bother to get PEs.
This guy has shouldn't have any credibility left even if you couldn't recognize his pro-Russian bias (actually more like awe than bias) from the beginning. Look at his appearances at the beginning of the war. His predictions are consistently wrong. He's been severely overrating Russian power from the beginning, and unlike others in the face of reality hasn't adjusted that take at all.
My mindset is "I don't want work for $FAANG_CO, I want to start the company that puts $FAANG_CO out of business." And I'd rather die trying (and possibly failing) to do my own thing, than be just another fungible cog in a machine engineered to make other people rich.
It's not about efficiency, it's about convenience; and this is where the damned hydrogen conversation keeps going off the rails!

A tesla converts nearly 100% of it's potential energy into kinetic energy, but "refueling" is not convenient as an F150; which converts something like 15% of it's potential energy into kinetic energy, but can hold a _ton_ more energy and refueled in minutes.

It's ok to be far less efficient if convenience to the consumer is increased, as long as the power source was carbon neutral.
Bolt it on! Here's XMosaic 2.7b5 with TLS 1.3 on my own SPARC. (Disclosure: my project.)

https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/07/crypto-ancienne-20-now-b...
It's time to upgrade this folk philosophy of mind and its obsession with ever-elusive "consciousness" with theories of intelligence build on neuroscientific, cellular and developmental underpinnings.
Good old days at college when I used to code in notepad :p
How do you envision energy storage of the future? Where are you going to get the metals? How much fossil fuel is going to burn in order to extract it?

Also, why are energy prices locked for 40-60 years? The energy required to create a nuclear plant is equal to what it can produce in ~5 years.

I don't understand how you believe the future is "very unlikely to include nuclear". How else do you provide base load requirements? It's naive to think we can transition to a "green grid" without nuclear.
> Corporations are learning doing business in China is more likely to get your business nationalized by the CCP than enriched.

I can think of many foreign companies that are doing a massive amount of business in China (VW, GM, Toyota, Starbucks, KFC, McDonalds, Coca Cola, Apple, just to name a few).

I can't think of a single one that's been nationalized.
>There is no point in discussing fluctuations if we can't agree on the notion of equilibrium and the corresponding macrostate defined by its (average) macroscopic properties.

You mean microscopic. Equilibrium would then be the temperature that the thermometer is most likely to read at any point in time given infinite time. Do you agree or disagree. If you agree it's fine.

So with time eventually the particles will configure itself into a macrostate that reads 0 on the thermometer.
Can I use an officially released build of Caddy and have that official Caddy executable load FrankenPHP?
The solution is not to get religiously terminal.

I keep two desktops open and can flip with a keystroke.

One of those always runs a full screen browser on gnome desk, and the other is the shell.

I flip between those. Email is webmail but on the other screen code editor is vim.
I think we’ve demonstrated that we can change the world in unintended ways, whereas your “meh” above assumes we can change it in intended ways.
Wait, when did we solve power storage? I must have missed the memo...
See how this strategy is turning out in Germany right now, turns out this "cheap cheap cheap energy" was not including the diplomatic, environmental and financial costs of the gas backups.
Ha, I remember ages ago, some guy in my computer science class was being a jerk to me, so when he wasn't looking, I leaned over to his Turbo Pascal IDE and spaced out past the right margin of the first line, and typed begin end. Which made everything below that in the entire file a comment. His program executed quickly, and never did anything, and you had to really pay attention to see the UI hint that suggested there was text to the right of whatever column was the edge.

I thought it would be a good prank as a form of revenge, but he kept getting angrier and angrier and eventually I was too afraid to confess. The teacher had wandered over and was getting exasperated too. I think eventually they assumed he had a corrupted network drive and just nuked his entire network account and set up a new one with a new username, and now suddenly his compiler "worked" again. Heh.
Do you have a Venn Diagram of those golden shores AND global climate change oases AND less-likely war targets?
Yeah, here's the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor#Lists_o...
> Citation needed. I have never heard of mushrooms as sexy - back it up,

Be inquisitive, not dismissive: https://www.google.com/search?q=mushroom+aphrodesiac
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> - Mutt doesn't handle multiple email accounts natively for work/personal. The solutions are hacks at best.

I don't know about Mutt, but I've had no problems handling multiple accounts with mu4e on Emacs. `emacs`/`emacsclient` can be forced to use the terminal by using the `-nw` option.

isync/`mbsync` can also work with multiple accounts. Although, this program just sync's an IMAP account with a local Maildir that clients like mu4e can use for reading mail offline. It's an MRA[1] rather than a whole MUA.

There are many other terminal email clients you can also try.

> Email servers are starting to use more complete auth mechanisms that don't work well with mutt.

Google can support standard auth by activating 2FA, then making an app password. You can do this here:

https://myaccount.google.com/security

Google specifically needs "more complete auth mechanisms" because its regular password gives access to much more than an email account, since Google accounts are a huge platform. What other servers are moving away from standard auth mechanisms?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_retrieval_agent
The cheap and easy route is wind+solar+battery?

And what about fusion, we spend a lot on R&D but it's pretty clear it will be even more expensive than fission, if you were in charge would you cancel that effort entirely and shift funds elsewhere?
glibc have versioned symbols. A glibc library can claim itself to be compatible of multi (old) version glibc. But it seems except some long term support versions. It didn't actually claim to be compatible with every old versions? The one shipped with Debian 11 have symbol of 2.2.5 and then there's a big gap and jump outright to the range of 2.3.x
What is the difference between this and Roadrunner? It seems to do the same stuff.

https://github.com/roadrunner-server/roadrunner
The terminal is still the most efficient control center for the machine. We have less control than before so we get dragged into the cloud, onto centrally coordinated networks.

There are converging factors that will give back some control but I think people should be treating that convergence with more urgency than we do now.

Of course the terminal should also evolve, new standards need to be set.
How about you provide some of this "quantitative stuff" you've found then.
Loko Scheme (https://scheme.fail/) is similarly written largely in Scheme, with a small amount of assembly code.
Nice to see our technology, CheerpX, cited here. Running Wine on top of CheerpX/WebVM is in our plans by-the-way.

https://webvm.io
Indeed Zoopla shows 16 properties at that price.

Official stats indicate you are right about the poverty line not being what i said:
https://data.london.gov.uk/blog/poverty-in-london-2019-20/

Still i dont understand how someone can live on 38k in london considering how expensive _decent_ housing and public transport are. Monthly take home seems to work out at 2400 which is not bad indeed. Oddly enough a 90k per year salary works out at 5100£ despite it being more than double. Unfortunately taxes are real high and take home income is still low even on a high wage.
I would guess they are planning to offer ML infrastructure as a service type stuff for chem simulation to various firms - would make sense they would need a few people in house to help build the systems and act as the "sales engineers" types who can interface with the chemistry super nerds they are trying to sell to.
One of the best cheeses, too
I was thinking The Terminal Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Man_(film)
Collapse OS: Winter is coming
I generally would agree that touristy city centers tend to feel similar to each other, be polished and therefore boring. However, your example of Hanoi couldn't be more hilariously misguided. Your characterisation of touristy areas ("places of quaint storefronts mobbed with American retirees, hip bars filled with plastered 25 year old Brits, and a few monuments with millions of Instagram posts.
Despite being in very different cities, they all feel the same. You have your five star hotels. Your restaurants that everyone says you have to go to. Your buildings plastered with historic plaques") is completely off the mark. The old town of Hanoi is precisely where locals go in the evenings for a cheap beer on the streets - it doesn't get more typically Vietnamese than that. And the old town of Hanoi definitely does not feel the same as anywhere else, even just within South East Asia, Hanoi is known as a very special place.

Don't get me wrong, exploring other areas of Hanoi is a wonderful experience as well.
"should not" doesn't always mean judgement; it speaks of probability: "A cat should not have five legs". Or to speak to human emotions: "Your partner cheated on 5 out of their last 10 partners. You should not be stunned that they cheated on you". Also, in your poetic musings on the human condition and the validity of emotions, I think you're confusing being upset with being stunned. We can be upset at something, even if we shouldn't be surprised it happened.
I think you need to at least also consider the generation along with the bucket for Intel CPUs. For most users a 12th gen i3 is better than a ninth gen anything, yet plenty of retailers kept old laptop skus around long enough you would see both side by side at a retailer
What about farmed trout? https://www.clearsprings.com
IP rights assignment.

The difference between being understanding because rescheduling meetings because someone's family is sick vs they want to take a meeting for another job.

If they just got a second job I can fire them before their performance dips.

It's a reason to skip past six months of a PIP

There are lots of reasons.
Medicine Dosing Spoon Discontinued, Made 3D Printable Instead
Yeah it's horrible. Autocomplete randomly doesn't work. Debugging symbols randomly disappear, and you get thrown into an assembler view. Or even if it works, you can't see the values of variables sometimes. Sometimes it gets better by restarting the IDE...
I'm still mad about CUDA cores. I thought I was going to be able to write some epic 1000x level parallelism running individually on all cores.

It turns out, a CUDA core is not actually a "core."