skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are already some extensive collaborations. For example, Dutch divisions now report to German command. And the French and German armies coordinate on a lot of things and we're all NATO members of course.

There are some calls for bringing back military service in some countries. I'm not sure that's needed or a good idea. The reason most European armies are not in great shape is not a lack of people but years of budget cuts and mismanagement. That would be because they don't actually do a whole lot of fighting normally. They defend without ever being attacked and there is the odd mission abroad where some countries send maybe thousands of troops at best. I don't see that change any time soon. And that's a good thing. I count myself lucky to not have been exposed to major wars close to where I live. And I live in the middle of Berlin. Buildings here still have scars from WW II. At least the few that survived that.

The most credible threat on our eastern border was the Russian army. And courtesy of their own ineptness, they seem to be hard at work reducing that threat by expending most of their officers and usable equipment in the Ukraine. It doesn't look like they are recovering soon.

Also, there is the point of this being a remarkably old school conflict. The Russians tactics have barely evolved since the 1940s. They seem unable to use their airforce effectively, their navy is not a factor either. Mostly they are just launching wave after wave of cannon fodder at their enemies. Brutal and it's not working great for them judging from the recent news.

Most modern conflicts are very different. Relatively poorly trained conscripts don't add a lot of value in such conflicts. Europe needs lots of rockets, drones, etc. Keep the fight far away from its borders.

A bigger risk would be an armed uprise within our borders. For that reason getting a lot of small countries excited about building out their armies is not a great idea. I'm old enough to remember the Bosnian war and I've visited Mostar a few years ago. Political populism and armies are not a great mix. A lot of blood got spilled in Europe that proves that.
So how could they possibly start doing it now? Military service is already a cultural expectation and their military is already structured around it because they've been doing it for over a century.
Gallup 2014 survey: https://www.gallup-international.bg/en/33483/win-gallup-inte...

There's a clear table linked at the bottom.
Uhhhmmmm.

"Switzerland has mandatory military service in the Swiss Army for all able-bodied male citizens, who are conscripted when they reach the age of majority, though women may volunteer for any position. Conscripts make up the majority of the manpower in the Swiss Armed Forces."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Switzerland
The woman and the munitions (and the white guy) were all described in various news sources.

The “civilian” run CIA contracted safe houses you may take with grains of salt, yet this is how things have been done for a long while. The CIA actually lost some of their best operatives, assassinated on US soil by this thought control power coup.

Also their navy seals, marine super soldiers, and countless others (who will go on uncounted.)

Whitemanistan America has been the most dangerous place in the world for lawful military assets over the last 6 years.
It’s the engineering definition of “works”: if a solution merely mitigates the frequency or severity of a problem, but does not completely solve it in all cases, obviously the solution is useless and no better than doing nothing at all. Only the platonically ideal solution has any value at all.
He was also an autogynephile[1], something today’s prestige media won’t touch with a ten foot pole, but that was well documented at the time.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/09/12/g...
> the most infamous security breach

The XcodeGhost supply chain attack by the CIA infected a hundred million devices with malware. Quixun Zhaos chaos exploit chain took full control over iPhones from a drive by on a website and was used by china as part of the ugyhur genocide. And the cyberwar mercenary group NSO keeps targeting journalists and opposition around the world with what feels like an endless supply of exploits for apple devices.

But somehow the hype for the iPhone4 starting three month earlier than planned in 2010 is called the "the most infamous". Apple PR at it's best, telling people the worst that can happen is loosing a phone at a bar.
If his comment saved someone from reading any of that terrible website then he has helped humanity.
I remember the DRM ruining it to the point where it was unusable. Or was that the new Sim City?
Are you a troll account? Or a joke? Can’t tell. Either way the sanctimonious rants devoid of facts are entertaining.
Kaczynski didn't feel that the sessions were abusive in any way. Whether he is telling the truth can be debated, but he himself doesn't claim he went through anything more than simple written tests. There's a quote on this topic in this article: https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/19050/retired_fbi_a...
I've been here a while, and I haven't noticed any sudden recent changes. There have always been such posts, and while I do think it's getting a little worse over time, it's changing very slowly: the good posts and comments are just as good, but the ratio of junk is slightly higher as volume has gone up.

I wonder if this might be specific to what you pay attention to. If I remember, you are Indian. I do think that there is more squabbling about Indian politics than there used to be. This isn't necessarily for the worse, but I wonder if you might be noticing and reading these posts more than others.

And while it doesn't quite answer your questions, I think HN Classic still works as a link: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic. This is the front page sorted by accounts that existed prior to Feb 2008. At a glance it looks about the same as the usual front page.
And if such information pops up, I will (with great surprise) re-evaluate my priors. Nonetheless I think history bears out my intuition here. The overwhelming majority of conspiracies likes this, especially ones in fundamentally civilian organizations like science labs, don't survive a year if that.
Cannot find it, which suggests it's proper nonsense.
Who's going to attack them?

Besides, they already have military service due to historical reasons. They don't have to reintroduce it.
I've seen it hinted that the ~half dozen designers had pretty different visions and that seems to have caused a bunch of churn and disagreements.
I like static builders. It's just markdown files and some templates. It makes editing much easier. If your website is about the content and not the presentation, it makes a lot of sense.

I made my own static site builder (typical HN!) and it's just a python package. At its simplest it depends on Python Markdown and Jinja.

The website itself is dead simple and gracefully degrades. It's just text on a page after all.
Yeah I was nodding along with that, and the whole article, really. Explains why I volunteered for first aider.

However, I'm not sure if his one neat trick of mono-tasking is enough to overcome my own particular version of this malody. Just now, after reading this, I thought, why don't I try this monotasking thing right now. And my first task will be to rearrange my KDE desktop to support this more linear mode. Instead of having multiple projects spread out across many desktops and activities, I might go back to one desktop with two windows. I can have the main project IDE open on the left and use tdrop to turn all other apps into dropdowns that shuffle in and out, one at a time, on the right side. I'd press a button and the terminal would be replaced by web browser. Press another and the browser is replaced by the file manager, and so on. Now, wouldn't it be great if the file manager, when it drops down, defaulted to the current project directory, instead of always the same home directory? Yeah! So, I'll need to probably set up an Activity per Project and name it as the project. Then I can run a script on activity change that sets the file managers default directory to the project. Then again, I think, I already have access to the files through the IDE, and home much of my file manager time do I really spend in the project dir, Vs my Documents, Apps, Downloads, Scripts, Books and Media dirs? I guess I should set up a hotkey for each of my main destinations, then I can go to any of those destinations with one command, and reduce the opportunities for distraction. But, which hotkey system to use, the one built in to KDE Plasma? Or, the one in my Stream Deck, or xdotool, or sxhkd, or even break out the big guns with autokey?

Any idea I have leads to a combinatorial explosion of new ideas. And one of those new ideas eventually and inevitably feels a hundred times more important and more urgent than the original idea that spawned it.

So, when I try this monotasking, I think it may work for a while, but without fail it will break down when I'm in the middle of a mono-task and suddenly become convinced that the new idea I have will actually make this current task irrelevant, or so much easier to complete using the new tool I just invented in my head, that it would feel crazy NOT to abandon this task and switch to the new one.
In export-oriented industries, countries often (forcibly) merge all (or many) of their relevant companies into one (or few) companies in order to make them more efficient and internationally competitive. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Almost half of Reddit is American. It’s not nearly as international or globally representative as you think.
It's the year 2023, and the human race cannot simply just talk to fix issues. Incredible.

To kill (or hurt) other human beings to protect "your" land or "your" loved ones baffles me. Yes, I love my loved ones (wow) but that doesn't mean I'm willing to kill people who are 99.99999% similar to my loved ones just because the politicians that manage the countries we happen to live in decide so.

We think that because we can send probes the the outer space or because we can do calculus we are so intelligent. We are still just monkeys who get mad when other monkeys say/do something to us that we don't like.
While your description is clear and linear, it fails some critical practical point.

An explanation - which in this case would count as corroboration, not as causal link - requires trustworthiness instead of provisionality.

Similarly, you seem to come from Eutopia, where Professionals are easily available: people from Dartonmapia do not have that advantage, and all that seems available are «broken computer[s for] diagnos[tics]», with different degrees.

This, unfortunately, makes the hypothesis of remaining «no worse off» an "uninformed" idea.

I would rather encourage our friend to:

-- find some individual with strong background and intellectual abilities for consultancy (exchange, etc.), and

-- be prepared to face a long journey before achieving the identification of said valid Specialists.
Maybe? That's definitely not the case here. He is talking about controlling context rather than content.

A good example is the Pulse club shooter. His motives had nothing to do with LGBT people and everything to do with the US bombing the middle east. This information if publicly available, he makes it really clear in the 911 calls, but by controlling the context of the situation, the public perception is manipulated.
I'd ask the inverse question to you - why would you think it is unimportant to determine the cause of things that happen in the world?
> and the hydrocarbons it takes to transport them/their food etc.

Obviously, if you graze sheep / cattle / goats on marginal land, or even relatively arable land (jumping ahead to your op-cost comments) you don't have to transport food to them.

Transporting grain to feed grass-eating animals is not uniquely a north-American strategy, but is much less common in other parts of the world.

> Considering eating beef is much more energy intensive then eating the equivalent vegetarian diet, there's simply no way cattle farm is energy negative just from bacteria taking carbon from the manure

Eating beef, or raising beef? Again, if you focus on large tracts of relatively non-arable land to run cattle, the numbers are quite different than if you look only at land that can support nutrient- or calorific- dense crops.

I'd suggest Simon Fairlie's excellent 2010 book 'Meat - a Benign Extravagance' for some deeper examination of the logistics / numbers here.
Hospitalization doesn’t mean severity. It has more to do with your confidence in your immune system and health insurance than anything else, though the hospital’s extra capacity and desire to make a buck off you is up there too.

But if you’re here to be put off by the smallest use of rhetoric, sure pop off on that.
They were absolutely laughing at it at the time the bubble popped, obviously now in hindsight they were just ahead of their time.
Isn't weird that Ted hasn't written about this?

I mean, based on his writing style and ideas skipping talking about this experience as a lab rat seems like a missing piece of a puzzle.
Is this exec taking shifts at the floor for the same low compensation? If no, they have no right to say what others must or must not do.
Whittaker: ‘These are the people who could pause AI if they wanted to’
I just tried it and it's exactly what I was hoping for! Unfortunately though the terminal can't run standalone: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/34442
Right? As if any handling or safety gear and equipment is 100% perfect. Never any needle stick or glove failures. Respirators and protective clothing always 100% perfect. Everyone perfectly followed all lab safety precautions with no absent minded failures. Just perfect all the time forever.

I’ve always thought it was a handling contamination that got into community spread. It’s a very parsimonious explanation.
> “Powell kept his job in spite of the lost prototype and worked on Apple’s iOS software for another seven years before leaving the company in 2017.”

There’s actually a photo, taken as a joke, by Steve Wozniak you can find online. It shows him drinking a beer, holding an iPhone in the other hand, and he’s wearing a T-Shirt that reads: “I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.”

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/woz-has-fun-with-lea...

Thankfully, it appears Steve Jobs took his wrath out at Gizmodo than Powell.
With just a backpack, it is already nightmare through security. I can't imagine walking back and forth fishing out that one last thing over and over from all the nooks and crannies.
> What do we want from self driving cars?

I would say, drive me long distances on the high way. The rest (last mile, city country side) I can do myself. It also aligns with the fact that it is easier to make autonomous driving work for high ways than inside cities etc.

This would make taking an airplane less tempting and as my car can fit the whole family we do not need to fill up 4-5 seats in an airplane and we use much less CO2 per passenger.
"Mental fluidity," "mental flexibility," or "cognitive flexibility" seem like better terms.
Changing and growing aren’t mutually exclusive.

While you can absolutely be a manager without extensive IC experience, most people will benefit greatly from having deep IC experience before becoming a manager.
Don't take it wrong, but it's hard to be credible when you mix power and energy
Sorry if I offended by bringing up the AI - I was trying to use it to offer many possible avenues of more specific disagreement, so I could understand their stance better. Less about convincing or arguing.

On the rest of it… I think i asked a bunch of questions last night and am now facing the harsh reality that the answer is “some people see the whole shape of the world and human experience completely differently than I do and always have”. So not too much to discuss lol

To illustrate that, consider “ I strongly doubt anyone would be disappointed that they are not “actualizing themselves” if they were fighting every day for food, shelter, etc.”. I find this absolutely insane (no offense). You bring up poor modern people in the end, and I think that’s a great example of my concerns: being poor sucks, not knowing where your next meal come from feels terrible, and watching loved ones die of preventable causes is fucking heartbreaking. The idea that poverty/primitivism would lead to better self-actualization is so, so far from how I see the world that I think debate is impossible

Thanks for the detailed response! Appreciate the dialogue, for sure.

EDIT: on re-read it appears your point is that if we’re struggling for the lower needs, we won’t miss the higher ones. That’s not my understanding of Maslow, but since his theory isn’t really about happiness at all but motivation, I can’t appeal to the author there. It just seems very counter-intuitive that higher needs would not be missed while struggling to achieve lower ones; for example, does someone without shelter not miss love?
Much easier. I've only visited NYC twice, and both times I took transit into Manhattan. The first time, on my way out of NYC, I accidentally drove over a bridge into Manhattan and it was very stressful.
I think the fundamental creature tech was so expensive (time and scale) to develop that indies couldn't possibly replicate it
Not really. Three-vowel systems are pretty common: they’re also found in Classical Arabic, Quechua, most Australian and Eskimo–Aleut languages, and a bunch of others.

Also, saying that Old Person had ‘three vowels’ while Sanskrit had ‘sixteen vowels’ is comparing apples to oranges a little bit. It seems like Old Persian had three basic vowel qualities, each of which could be short or long; meanwhile, Sanskrit had five basic vowel qualities, each of which could be short or long, as well as syllabic consonants /ṛ ḷ/ which could also be short or long, as well as /ṃ ḥ/ after vowels. It’s bigger, to be sure, but Sanskrit only two more basic vowel qualities than Old Persian (or four if you count the syllabic consonants).
I think GP was being facetious? Switzerland is very well-known for its service obligation…
This will never, and I mean absolutely never, happen in the United States, for three reasons:

(1) Weak Federal Government. The US is more a close collection of small nation states than a single country. The kind of infrastructure you’re talking about takes the kind of planning and funding that only a strong federal government can demand.

(2) Strong respect for property rights. In the US, it takes a lot to take away someone’s private property in order re-allocate it to a public good. By now, all of the cities have vested interests speaking for every square inch of viable property.

(3) Weak labor protections. This is a big one. Labor protections are so weak in the private sector that no one in their right mind would depend on public transport if they could help it. Most Americans are one illness away from being bankrupt, fired, and foreclosed on. To make it in America, by any definition, for a vast majority of Americans (and that includes people not traditionally called Americans, like undocumented immigrants) you must have access to a private vehicle because your work place could change in a heartbeat. You could have to move because your town no longer has any jobs for you. You could have to move into your car because of divorce/eviction/foreclosure etc…

People make fun of the F150 drivers with spotless beds because they’re used as glorified, cramped minivans but the truth is every one of those drivers has made that investment because they’re acutely aware of how precariously close they are having to use that truck to do hard labor.
This has been a mental barrier for me as well. I’m not sure if it’s in the realm of belief or rather fear of failure. Personally more inclined to say it’s the latter.
I’ve heard of the 2010 one, not the other you mentioned.
I’d love to see a source for “people that generate the bulk of the content on Reddit do rely on third party apps” because that seems categorically impossible when you consider the number of users able to post (i.e. subscribed) using these third party apps.
Flick me an email. No promises that I’ll reply, but my email address isn’t hidden.
Victim Signaling and Dark Triad Personality Traits
Overly-speculative information supporting a lab leak:

"Scientists with close relationships with the Wuhan Institute of Virology said it was their belief that there was vaccine research going on in the fall of 2019, pertinent to Covid-19 vaccination"

"Investigators believe the Chinese military had taken an interest in developing a vaccine for the viruses so they could be used as potential bioweapons. If a country could inoculate its population against its own secret virus, it might have a weapon to shift the balance of world power."

In May 2020, one of the key researchers died from unconfirmed causes at age 54.

"On November 19, the safety director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences made a visit, according to the institute’s website. He addressed a meeting of the institute’s leadership with important 'oral and written' instructions from China’s president, Xi Jinping, regarding 'a complex and grave situation'. "

"In the first months of the pandemic, many Chinese scientists visited bat caves in Yunnan to see whether they could find a place where Covid may have originated.... 7 scientists attempting to visit were told the Moijang mine (known source of at least one Covid-like coronavirus) was closed, so they sampled bats in another abandoned copper mine nearby. On the first day of their work, police arrived, seized the samples and took them to their station, where they were interrogated and detained for 48 hours. Officers also went to their hotel and seized the samples they had collected from elsewhere. Even though the team had approval to test in the area, they were ordered to leave. Searching for bat viruses was banned in Yunnan in early 2021"
Everyone's experience is valid, I guess, but way to lose the thread within 2 sentences. You start by saying how COMPULSORY military service would help and end by saying that a military comprised of people who are there because they have no other choice is not ideal. You really don't see the disconnect? Your solution to having less people there with no other choice is by giving EVERYBODY no other choice? Way to solve a problem.
Also, how gracious of you to solve other people's problems. "Youths are having trouble with fitness. Compulsory military service would help them". Cool story. People are too fat? Let them be. Who are you to start solving other people's problems against their will? Did the youths ask for your help? You might think you're being helpful, but what you're ACTUALLY saying is "Yeah, if all you young people would be more fit, it would help ME out in case of a conflict." Mighty altruistic. Thanks for the tip.
So cast iron can not be used by vegetarians? I live with two vegetarians.