skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In extreme weather, the weather is what is testing your mental fortitude. In many such situations you can’t “just quit” once you have entered the conditions, other than essentially committing suicide by ceasing to protect yourself. You can’t turn off the weather and go home just because you’re unhappy.

In running, it is your own body that is testing your mental fortitude. To be more specific, it is the extreme physical discomfort one experiences while training and competing. And unlike life-or-death extreme weather, you really can quit at any point. It is a totally optional activity at all times. So yes, it requires quite a lot of mental fortitude to keep doing something so physically unpleasant, every day, in pursuit of a personal goal.
I mean, with all due respect, so? An OG ATmega-based Arduino is significantly more powerful than the AGC. A garage opener from a decade ago can easily be more powerful (MIPS-wise) than the AGC. I wouldn’t be surprised if that holiday candy box that plays music when you open it were more powerful than the AGC.

The reality of today’s MCUs is that you can get single-digit MIPS at the price of shipping, handling, and the plastic of the chip’s package. So you see those used where a handful of discrete logic would suffice, like before that you’d see discrete logic where a couple of relays and a handful funny-shaped mechanical actuators would suffice. It’s overkill in the sense that you don’t need nearly as much compute as you get, but it’s completely rational in that it’s genuinely the most cost-efficient approach.

You can also (and thank you STMicroelectronics and before that Atmel for getting Microchip off their collective asses on that) get ridiculous amounts of I/O to drive with that compute. Gobs of GPIOs with individually configurable driving modes? No problem. Multiple DACs and ADCs? Sure. I2C and SPI? You bet. Two or three UARTs? Gotcha, would you like some CAN with that? In a 24-pin package so you can actually use more than a couple of these? Ahh now that’ll be four times the price, please and thank you.

You know what’s also expensive? RAM and (to a lesser extent) ROM. The TRS-80 came with 4K bytes of RAM at minimum. The AGC had about the same computing power, 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM, and still the designers traded speed for program memory by writing a bytecode VM. The cheapest STM8S0, by contrast, comes with 256 bytes of RAM and no external memory interface; and I don’t even want to think about the obscure Chinese 6502 and 8051 clones you’ll find under the epoxy in toys and TV remotes. All that power and all you can fit in there is a glorified flowchart. But if you think about it as programmable logic, in the widest possible sense of the phrase, it makes perfect sense!

Also (and here I could be wrong), my understanding is that the software on the AGC couldn’t actually plan the mission—it could do some specific things that you can’t reasonably to by remote, like landing, but most of the math was done by much chonkier programs on much beefier machines. It was a controller in the purest sense: it could control the hardware to achieve what you wanted, but you had to tell it precisely what, it didn’t figure it out for you. So if anything goes wrong and your comms are busted, you die.

Don’t get me wrong, the AGC is bloody impressive. (Transparent native code / bytecode interworking anyone?.. None of those words were even in the dictionary back then.) But through equally impressive efforts of other people, its computing power was table stakes within a decade. Nowadays it’s a rounding error in your bill of materials.

ETA: Ah, I see, the argument is that the Cortex-M0+ in question is superior in MIPS, RAM, and ROM. Yeah, that’s more reasonable. Low-end Cortex-Ms can also be very cheap these days[1], provided you can source them.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2023/02/16/puya-py32-the-cheapest-flash...
It’s interesting how this has become a concern. In the MP3 era, pretty much every obsessive music fan I knew IRL was signed up to Last.fm and scrobbling (i.e. uploading a recording of listening) every track that was played on their MP3 player. You could then compare your listening to your friends’, meet new people in your town with the same tastes, etc. There were no concerns back then about privacy, because no companies had yet so clearly abused it. But considering how Last.fm has always struggled with monetizing the data it does get, even now the site sparks few concerns.

(For those whose privacy concerns would prevent them from using Last.fm to keep track of their music listening over time, there is Libre.fm. However, all it is good for is keeping personal records, not socializing with many other listeners.)
For me, time (and therefore speed) is a measure of fitness. I don’t care about beating others. I like to see that I am getting more fit than I previously was.

The notion of “could I run 26 miles?” is the same to me as “could I run 26 miles in 4 hours?”
I don’t like how well you described my job
While Orion also has anti-tracking technology, they do not have this specific feature where a custom DNS server is used to block tracking.
Sorry for being dense, but I thought one of the main reason for nixos's existence is reproducibilty. I thought they have these kinds of things solved already.

I have only ~2 hours experience with Nixos, wanted to try hyprland, I thought it would be easier on Nixos since hyprland needs a bit of setup and maybe it's easier to use someone else's config on nixos, than on some other distro. Finding a config was hard too, found like 3 on some random github gists, thought there would be more... and none of them worked, at that point I gave up.
From my understanding, it was more intentional than mindless.

The article suggests that the extermination of the bison went hand in hand with the destruction of aboriginal societies. The nomadic bison were also problematic for expansion, affecting both agriculture and the railway. This was not a case of, "oh, there's money to be made off of their hides. Whoops! Where did all of the bison go."

The reason why so many people take a stance against certain types of development goes well beyond unintentional consequences. It is because many of those consequences were intended to serve a particular agenda.
I'm not suggesting that the observer has a problem or condition. I'm saying that reality isn't just physical, and that we make a mistake when we expect everything to always be physically testable, even if to the observer it might seem at times to involve physical effects.
> (but no data for mortality).

I have seen the data for mortality before in at least one publication if not more, and it clearly showed that the increase rate in diagnosis did not result in improved outcomes for survival, which is precisely why colonoscopy has a very bad ROI right now
I don't know about fire, but here's a video from Corridor Crew explaining Why CG Explosions Suck and how to make them better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPb7yUPcKhk
Even hobbyists should be able to handle a fat pitch part like a surface mount micro USB-B. (I’m talking about once they get over the mental block. :) )

With wings and small holes to help with rough alignment, I’d sure rather buy a kit with micro-USB than mini.
I recall the color green being trademarked by the Dutch Telecom ( KPN ), only in combination with telecom though.

Domain typosquat + brand color/style imitation : IANAL, but it sounds clear cut to me.
The first paragraph put into words what i've always been intuitively convinced of, but it seems difficult to make people understand it who haven't had to live through it.
> Who are "they" shooting rockets at you? The children you're killing? The civilians in a hospital getting treatment form previous bombings?

The Hamas militants that are using hospitals as a base of operations.

If you honestly want to discuss this, then here's my suggestion - let's set aside the factual question for a second. If it's true that Hamas is firing rockets from within hospitals and/or using hospitals as a base of operations, would you then consider it justified to attack back?

If yes, then we just have the factual matter of whether it's true or not and we can check that.

If no, then my followup question is - so what should we do? What other option is there if someone is firing rockets at you right now, if you refuse to fire back? I'm asking in all sincerity, I'm literally running to a bomb shelter multiple times a day as rockets are fired at me, is there something you think is ok for my government to do to try and defend me?
Good to hear !

It's not a problem if Minio is bundled into the self hosted stack as long as it's officially supported (paying for support is also okay).
The following is true for many European countries:

1) citizens do not receive military training so they will be unable to defend the country in case of invasion

2) there is not enough weapon and ammunition

3) the border is not properly fortified and supervised, so it is possible to advance fast and capture large territory with a surprise attack, and it will be very difficult to take it back

> war in Ukraine showed the power of the European countries

No. The war showed that it is easy to capture large territory with a well planned surprise attack and it is difficult (or maybe even impossible) to take it back once there are trenches, minefields and other fortifications. Also the war showed that Europe is unable to provide necessary amount of ammunitions.
Totally agree!

I also kinda hate how suggestion algorithms are not customizable at all, and all your actions are input to them.

It adds a mental burden when choosing a song: choosing a song not just affects what I listen now, but what I will get suggested in the future.

A simple switch "don't feed my actions to algorithm" would have solved that, but of course the company doesn't want that. It wants all the data it can get.
That article describes a hypothetical microphysical model of gravity. It's an old idea which has been done better by others (see e.g. "The Universe in a Helium Droplet" [1]). Whether right or wrong, it has no bearing on your claim that

> Gravity, arguably, does not experience gravity as a curved surface.

Any valid microphysical model of gravity must be able to reproduce the successes of general relativity in the classical limit, including the ability to match the shape of gravitational waves produced by black hole mergers. So if you want to argue that gravity "does not experience gravity as a curved surface", you have two options:

1) show that the non-linear (i.e. self-interaction) terms of Einstein's equations do not involve curvature or

2) come up with an alternative theory of gravity which does not reduce to general relativity in the classical limit and yet manages to reproduce all its successful predictions.

Which one is it?

[1] https://academic.oup.com/book/11557
For those wondering : it should be remembered that the reproducibility of Nix / NixOS / Nixpkgs is only a reproducibility of the sources: if the sources change, one is warned, but it is not a question of the reproducibility of the binaries (which can change at each build). This binary reproducibility of Nix / NixOS / Nixpkgs is indeed not really tested, at least not systematically.

Guix, Archlinux, Debian do the binary reproducibility better than Nix / NixOS / Nixpkgs.

Sources :

- https://r13y.com/ ( Nix* )

- https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.ht... ( Debian )

- https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.ht... ( Archlinux )

- https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-... (Guix, might be a bit slow to load, here is some cached copy https://archive.is/lTuPk )
So you learned to use a command line interface when you were a baby?

I have been programming for half of my life since I was a teenager, but I can still remember how frustrating it was that some things just were assumed. I still remember when software without a GUI was an unpleasant thing for me, I can still remember struggling to understand how all the web technologies tie together and so on.

Understanding that what you know isn't automatically self-evident or obvious even to a person that might be more intelligent than yourself is an important skill in the IT sector if you want to communicate effectively.
ycombinator. You cannot have a mark named Teslo which sells electric cars, as customers could mistake one for the other.
Walk a Terminal File Manager
Well that just goes without saying.
Doesn't contemporary PDF (for example) have something like a built in interpreter? How do you stop someone from, say, making a document that changes the wording after a certain date and then signing it?
Perverse incentives may be at work as well — if these sites are successful in a traditional sense, the numbers of repeat customers will shrink. Growth in sales & services are what investors want, & the current model of shopping-for-a-date brings with it the dissatisfaction needed to keep people trying again & again along with the temporary hope & dopamine hits needed to keep them from giving up (though that will always diminish over time). The current model is conducive neither to happiness nor long-term relationship success.
I bet emigration of young people, especially men, from Latvia will accelerate again.
https://americanprairie.org a nonprofit that is buying land to bring back the prairie ecosystem
There are countless examples of wars were many have sacrificed themselves for nothing. WW1 is probably the prime example.

Of course, while it all was happening, it was commonly described as the most important thing to do.
My response was flagged, but what this person says about creation of farms is just communist propaganda.

Sparkled by insults to victims.

And no, they were not performing better then western alternatives nor an improvement. These states could make liberal reforms, but choosen to go dictatorship way and people pay the price.
What do you use, then? Netpbm?
I dont understand how they can achieve this.
They have given themselves an extreme short timeline.

Military bases must be built or at least extended.
Barracks. kitchens, medical services, bunks. recreation
Uniforms, shoes,
Camping / field equipment for everyone.
Aquisition of weapons and weapon systems for the recruits,
A wide assortment of training grounds needs to be prepared.
Instructors need to be trained and dedicated to the task.
and a lot more.

I would think that would take years not months.

It does say in the article that they had mandatory service for men
that ended in 2006.

If they were really smart, they have kept up maintenance and upgrade
for all the infrastructure they needed back then and its ready for use.
That would be an outstanding achievement for any western government.

Retaining all the instructors and other personal would have been smart to
but I bet they did not do so.

I guess the big question would be "how many soldiers per year".
Are they requesting everyone to show up for recruitment and
will only pick a few for service.
That woud make it a lot easier.

If they take everyone they have a close to impossible plan.
This was my thought too. It's just a matter of picking an arbitrary metric and shooting for it, given constraints that probably don't matter.

I like hiking, and enjoy challenging myself. Sometimes I shoot for my longest distance ever, sometimes I shoot for more technicality, sometimes it's just raw elevation gain over a shorter distance, sometimes it's all of them. I rarely shoot for time, my constraint at that level is typically getting the thing done without having to camp out for the night, but I could just as well do that. I often shoot for time over elevation and distance with road cycling though.
Yes, I can sort of understand an existing law staying in place because of inertia, but introducing a new law in this day an age just seems weird.

You are literally asking men to pay more towards the state (in time) than women.
We're off topic here, but in pyvips (for example) you can do text overlays like this:

https://github.com/libvips/pyvips/blob/master/examples/annot...

tldr: make an image containing your text, composite it over the image you want to annotate.
A surprise attack on Ukraine - when and where did that happen? Russian troops were massing for quite a while.
No Paywall: https://archive.ph/vD3tY
> People with that mindset tend to want it in others

Totally agree, but folks like that will run into the "it won't scale" types and get frustrated with their corner cutting ways for the sake of future scaling opportunities.
The thorax/wings have a "stroke" limit, and are not repairable after the final instar (i.e. once they begin flying, nothing gets repaired). It's not just flightmiles, any wing usage rolls the lifetime odometer (e.g. fanning, flying, dancing).

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Add Dr. Thomas Seely's "Honeybee Democracy" to your reading list.

And may all your honeyflows remain prosperous.

—Two-hive Beeker
I bet it won't. All the nordic countries have it.
> The bells of war in europe are ringing again.

They are only ringing if you agitate the bell
Yes, they’re scammy. That doesn’t mean you can use something without paying for it but it does, and should, mean you go elsewhere.
> Recently a shoe store in France ran a promotion called “Rob It to Get It”

It was a promotion with a funny name, essentially a race. Not permission to actually steal by any means.
There is an important difference: with Last.fm, you choose what you share. If you want to listen to something one time, you could just open the same file in another player and that's it.

With Spotify or Yandex.Music, however, everything is shared, and you can't use a different player.
Worth noting that the article is from 2007. As of C++11 (from 12 years ago) you can write the equivalent code with just C++ and the standard library (range-based for loops, std:function).
My intention was more to express the idea that, when society is discussing an instance of violence like a riot or police brutality, people need to be able to see the violence so that they can decided for themselves what happened.

My concern is that if violent content is scrubbed from social media, then it will become too easy for thought leaders (journalists, politicians, celebrities, etc.) to simply tell people what happened without any way for them to confirm it.
> fought before are idiots?

I don't think they had a choice and the deads don't speak, do they
Laravel has the foundation for these baked in. And they provided a paid admin packages if you don’t want to implement the rest.

My opinion is that once you add a dependency to your project, you own it just like your own code. This means understanding it enough to know how it’s built, but for the time being, someone else is maintaining it. And that a donation every once in a while should be made if it’s a core part of your product.
Being in the zone def is a thing.

The longest lasting and easiest to extend software I’ve cobbled together (and some still running in production after 20yrs) were me designing for 18+hrs straight, share general idea w/team, then furiously writing for 36hrs. Those spurts were always the most productive and setup future work to be easy to add on.
And there were other wars where sacrifices are not seen as pointless. So, never defend anything?
I like the subtle styling changes in comment threads, less so in the submission lists.
Thank you kind sir. I feel like HN should be better at linking directly to sources.
World War I is frequently depicted as a pointless war in e.g. the UK and France because of the massive number of deaths in trench warfare for just a few meters of ground. However, some Eastern Europe peoples view the war as quite a benefit due to the terms that were imposed on the losers. The modern Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, etc. would not have existed if the Austro-Hungarian Empire hadn’t lost the war.
When i've employed people, I tend to be focussed on their ability to get stuff done, and being responsive to requests, especially external users of the system. Hours spent at the desk is just a proxy for the above, and there are better ways of measuring it these days, so i'd think that your bosses will be cool with this unless that have a rather different mentality.

I've worked with people with very strict working hours who will never respond to an email outside of those hours, and other people who would be late into the office most days, but would respond to a support problem at 11pm at the weekend. We're not all the same, and there is strength in depth.
Yeah I always reserve a seat, as that is required if you have large luggage. Luggage in the subway is not really a problem in my experience, it's the same as one extra person going with you.
I get your point, but would also like to add that to a certain extent (and variable by person) pain from physical injuries can be influenced by psychology.

There was a time I was cycling at night down a half-finished cycle route, the kerb separating it from the guided busway had been placed but not the tarmac, but I couldn't see that at night (I had a light but it still wasn't visible).

I tried to leave the cycle path, bounced off the surprise rise of the kerb, and it hurt before I hit the ground. Picked myself up, stopped thinking about it, went on to the cinema, watched the film, when the lights came up I realised quite how badly I'd been grazed.

Sometimes I can switch the pain off on purpose, sometimes I can't. The dichotomy isn't even just with regards to physical pain, it's also a sometimes-yes-sometimes-no with emotional distress, so I can go into a "public performance" mode on a stage and goof about no trouble, but I can't seem to shake my deep dislike of mere phone calls.

People are weird, I'm a person therefore I'm weird. :)
World's Smallest Particle Accelerator
Another possibility is allowing people to sign up for waiting lists, and as soon as you have enough people in certain locations, you let them in. There's lots of possibilities of launching this correctly.
Yep, when everything was available on 1 or 2 services, of course everyone signed up.. Canceling your $200/month cable subscription (for hundreds of channels you didn't watch) in exchange for a few $20/month on-demand services was extremely attractive and was cheap enough that it competed with piracy for many people.

All the big studios licensed their stuff to Netflix because that's where everyone was going, but that wasn't as profitable, and in the process they destroyed the rest of their channel-by-channel and appointment TV business without really thinking about sustainability for the workforce in the long term.

Then the big media companies wanted those profits back, so they started fragmenting into multiple streaming services as their Netflix deals expired, and now we're back to $200/month to get all the shows.

But the workforce isn't seeing any of that money this time around due to the lack of streaming covering in the contracts, which is what led to the current strikes.

It's a tricky problem for that industry: I suspect I'm not alone in wanting to see creators and working class people get paid for their work, but also not willing to go back to the old system of having to over-pay for a ton of content I don't want just to get the fraction of content I do want because it's spread across a ton of different "channels" that all need to be paid for separately.
I don't know what point this article is trying to make, but I guess the author doesn't know much about running since he conflates sprinting and long distance running.
Long distance running is an endurance sport, sprinting is more aking to a very specific application of power/strength training. The stride isn't event the same.

Before doing any kind of data analysis, it's worth considering if your datapoints are even refering to the same thing.
I've had two. They were a breeze. In and out in 45 minutes, no discomfort, not a big deal. But sure, the prep is a little annoying.