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> an article from may 2023 that accurately predicts that ukraine could end the offensive with less land than it started off with

Everyone I read made predictions conditional on aid, specifically, long-range strike capability and air defence.

Here is Phillips O’Brien on 28 May: “Ukraine has had to fight this war under a series of great handicaps. Its aid has been often technologically limited and always politically limited by NATO countries, primarily the US, with the goal of preventing Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil. By compelling Ukraine to fight almost exclusively on its own soil, Russia has been handled a major asymetric advantage…Ukraine has has to fight this war with one hand tied behind its back while Russia has been given a major advantage in not having to use many resources to defend its own border with Ukraine.”

Which makes sense. That is the operating variable. We didn’t provide that aid in time. So Ukraine mostly held ground. (Breaching the Dnipr and pushing Russia so far back from Sevastopol that its blockade enforcement is now poorer than the Houthis’ should not be understated.)

If you’re seriously following this issue, stay clear of Yahoo! News and ad-funded sources. They’re mostly mouthpieces for influencing domestic aid deliberations. At any given time, you can find sources confidently predicting imminent success and imminent defeat.
An NFC tag with the same contents as WiFi connection strings also work.
I'm not sure how old you are but congratulations on living this long without encoutering the unmitigated hell of Apple plist files.

I remember seeing when I first started using OSX 10.0 about two decades ago and my reaction was about the same as yours. At least now `plutil` can output (and read) JSON, along with lots of other enhancements to make it slightly less insane to use.
Thank you for a great response! I agree with you on communication-styles. Math education could definitely use some more clarity in exposition of procedures and notation. With regards to reason 3, this is true for me at least! Much of my learning during and after bachelors was self study.
I believe an iOS update triggers it.
Who else’s dad would have made this exact comment on the topic if given the chance?
Yes, that’s the point, everyone has these expectations of Tesla to make it impossible to circumvent safety features, but the same standard isn’t applied to other car manufacturers; HN just loves to bash on anything related to Elon.
This sounds similar to a build I'm planning. I cannot find the workstation mainboards at a reasonable price though. They start at like 400€ in Europe.
You can very easily run docker containers on it. That’s why I went with a ryzen chip in mine.

You could always use an rpi if you want to go with ARM, and you’ll want something with ARMv8.
It sounds also like a nightmare but it would be interesting as heck to me to have a bunch of folks ambiently co-working on code at the same time. Render all the open windows into some kind of 2d or 3d space, then show avatars viewpoints shifting across different files as they go.

Alternatively, it'd be interesting (albeit again difficult and confining too) to have 2 or 3 folks working on the same desktop. Get a 8k 85 inch TV, with a long desk in front of it, and set it up with multi-pointer-x or some such, and let everyone work on the same shared surface.

Good write-up. Hypothesis is one of the greatest damned tools on the net; I wish we saw this stuff getting traction & iterated on, saw it rising. It feels like it afforda so much more to us than anything else people have done.
Monticello lets you export/import code between your image and text files which can then be managed by a vcs like git. Created by Avi Bryant.
You can do it with GNU tar -T but it often requires shell redirection or spawning a process to be concise.

tar zcvf tarball.tar.gz -T <(file_name_generator_function_or_process)

Or

echo /etc/hosts | tar zcvf tarball.tar.gz -T-

I'm long in the tooth enough to remember when tar on SunOS was used for system and data backups to SCSI tape drives.
> humanly navigable

This is Sweden; I would bet that there are hiking trails connecting everything on that map, although maybe not a single one for all the planets. Roslagsleden (13 day hikes) + the first 9 etapper of Vikingaleden bring you from (close to) Mars to Uranus. And these are some nice hikes:

https://www.roslagen.se/roslagsleden

https://www.roslagen.se/vandra-vikingaleden
I wonder if the current refresh cycle for school buses is a barrier for these. Schools are used to keeping a bus in service for 12-15 years or more. And the bus budget is built around that longevity. I don't know if the electric buses, battery, etc, are built for that, or if they have enough runtime savings to offset the capital cost.

One source: https://www.ridezum.com/blog/school-bus-fleet-age-the-hidden...
That's not how it works. It's literally in the article. For undivided attention on a script for a couple of weeks, for a movie that might have a budget of tens of millions of dollars, this is completely reasonable. The article also says he's worked on scripts for 60 movies in 20 years. So yeah, maybe 3 per year. How much is it worth to the studio to have Saving Private Ryan be a better movie?

For such assignments, which are generally uncredited, he commands a fee that he acknowledges is “insane”: three hundred thousand dollars a week. Most jobs last a few weeks.
Migadu used to do this till they forgot to renew the signing certs for their profiles, and felt it was too much hassles.
The internet is about to get more censored
Valve adocates are the ones failing to learn from OS/2 history, "it does Windows better than Windows".

Studios don't care about native GNU/Linux, despite the games being shipped with Android/NDK, PlayStation POSIX environment, and the available APIs on Switch OS.

All of them much easier than porting from Windows/XBox, almost straight ports if coming from Android/NDK.
It's important to priority quality and consistency over quality.

That way when there it's 2-3 people or 10-15 the type and depth of conversations can vary.

It's a treat either way to have a few longer and deeper conversations, or maybe a different format with more people available..
Neat. A tool like this but for VPN profiles would be nice. I had to manually create them to connect to my internet router. The number of available options is quite intimidating.
CDC study: repeat flu vaccinees more likely to test positive for a strain of flu
No quick-disconnect steering wheels don't have airbags.

And it makes me wonder, even though I'm at fault for rear-ending someone, should my insurance (or me) have to pay out MORE because the person in front of me removed mandatory safety equipment?
i thought this was going to sync lyrics containing a specific time to that time in real life
> They have nothing to hide.

Most people would take umbrage with this portion of your argument. They clearly do have something to hide; whether it's from shame, embarrassment or politeness.
It might be neat if upon re-submission every few years, the system auto-pins these.

They are all valuable including the current view to see how it might change/evolve.

I'll have to look into HN's experience with helpful bots in the past (or not)
I don't have FSD speed over bumps anymore, however i wish it was adjustable as its gota pretty hard set at i think 15mph for speedbumps which is just a tad faster than what my wife feels comfortable with
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here. Regardless of what you're battling for or against, it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not sure that's really all that easy.

My friend has a 2020 I-PACE sitting in his garage and wants to disable remote tracking. Exactly which wire, fuse, antenna, or bridge should he disconnect in order to do that without negatively impacting any other functionality of the vehicle? What tools will he need to do it? How long will it take him? What damage might he cause to his car if he makes a mistake because he's never done this before? How will this modification affect his warranty?
You're trying to make pointless semantic distinctions, so I'll put it bluntly: I think a screen where I can see a lot less info all on the screen at once, and where I need to scroll and scroll to see more info, is less efficient and useful to me than one where I can see more on-screen at once.

You can make all the arguments you want about what "semantic density" really means, but I don't care. The other site is objectively worse for me, and many others, so we don't need to be lectured to about what "proper design" is. If you like it better, congrats, knock yourself out.
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would be a weekend superpower, for a very short amount of time
I was recommended a distro that doesn’t use Gnome (Lubuntu). The system I was working with is very old and some light research made it seem like Gnome is pretty resource heavy.
TBH for an original IBM PC i'd use at most TP5.5 as it is faster and you do not lose much in terms of functionality (IIRC the biggest loss is the inline assembler).
> The A/B upgrade sounds a bit overkill, you can always just pop up a live distro or install a recovery system (on an old version) in a partition in case something goes wrong.

You and I can, the overwhelming majority of computer users cannot. Valve clearly focuses on building for the average person, something that Linux distributions (as much as I love them) still don’t really do (well).

The system automatically recovering from a failed upgrade is essential in a low-maintenance OS at this point.
And I just finished almost three months of emergency military service and my credit card was just cancelled before due to my own mistake. Had I been two weeks into that three month window, I would have missed the renew date.
That's discussing security. In the context of driving, blame is almost always placed on individuals.
>Unless if the fan is placed by an open window and it pulls in cooler air inside.

Which is how many people use a fan, when it's hot out I open the windows in the evening and use 2 window fans to pull in the cool air, then close up the house in the morning to keep it cool. I haven't done the math on the COP, but I'm pretty sure it's much better than running the AC.

A fan in a room may not remove heat from the room but it can make it much more comfortable at a higher temperature, reducing the need to run AC.
I mean what they're forcing tesla to do is annoy their drivers more, not actually change anything, mostly because tesla is actually better than most cars when it actually comes to safety.
...except in the absolute most-common case, as the article mentions: making or restoring backups of disks.

Not because dd is needed for this case, mind you. Rather just because disks are big, and so it's a lot faster to (be able to) specify a big block size. One much larger than the disk's own sector size; one much larger, even, than the current 128KiB default of cat(1)!

Consider: cat's design principle is that it's reading a stream (or series of streams) serially, and writing that concatenated stream serially, as a synchronous back-and-forth process. cat(1) aims to have a low, fixed memory usage: it reads data into a buffer, then writes data from that buffer to the output. It only ever uses the one buffer, and that buffer is static — part of the program's .bss section.

dd(1), meanwhile, is an asynchronous pipeline between the read and write ends. It doesn't care how much memory it uses; it'll use however much is required to do the job you've configured it to do. It doesn't mind submitting a bunch of simultaneous read requests; assembling them out-of-order into a buffer as large as you like; and then writing out the buffer with a bunch of simultaneous write requests. And it doesn't need to fully assemble the "read batch" before turning it into a "write batch" — dd(1) uses a read-write ring-buffer, so as soon as the earliest contiguous read-results are available, they get fed into the write queue.

This design means that dd(1) can take strong advantage of devices like NVMe that use high internal read/write parallelism when slammed with a high IO-queue-depth of read/write requests. Which is exactly what you're doing when you specify a `bsize` to dd(1) that's higher than the disk's sector size.

Try it out for yourself — do something like:

for p in $(seq 5 20); do
bs=$(echo 2^$p | bc)
echo "bs=$bs"
time dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/nvme1n1 bs=$bs
done

And, while each one is executing, do an `iostat -x` and look at the `aqu-sz` column. The speed of the copy should peak at exactly the same time that your aqu-sz hits the effective limit of the read-parallelism of the source disk or the write-pararallelism of the target disk.
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I used Arch for years, and left it due to poor stability. Every time I would try to use an AUR app it would be broken and need re-installing. Sure the non-AUR stuff was mostly fine, but a lot of necessary applictions are in AUR, and AUR is touted as a major selling point of Arch. When there was an issue during a system update, recovering the system was a mess. I also cannot call it stable when you can't update one application without updating the rest of the system.

I switched to Gentoo and it fixed all the issues I was encountering with Arch, and was more stable. Now I'm on NixOS, which is far more stable than Arch or Gentoo were.

Now, that said, the way SteamOS uses it, I don't see any issues. With an immutable system, A/B updates, and tested images, the compatibility and update issues are solved. Using flatpak for user applications solves the rest of the noted issues. Would be ideal if I could install with Nix instead of Flatpak, but ran into some trouble there.
I am definitely considering it when my current car dies. Do the insurance premiums rise for these electric vehicles rise since they are more costly to repair?
Discord does this, if you change your password it invalidates your Authentication JWT
Soviet dreams was not more than abstract dreams, without any connection to reality.

ESA, from historical experience is extremely pragmatic, and most cost effective from all space agencies at Earth.

But must admit, few times ESA very seriously worked on projects, which has closed at early stages, without any visible effect.

Will see.
Its another case of journalists knowing 0 about the product they're actaully talking about, FSD = Autosteer for them
The secret to HN is YCombinator, so I guess fund a wildly successful startup accelerator and get the people orbiting those startups to participate.
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I'm a big fan of the Soviet-era books, though they often require a degree of independence to fully appreciate. Perhaps schools should focus more on developing students' ability to self-teach.
I can too, but I have better things to do than fix boot issues on my Steam Deck. I just want it to work.
Super curious if there's any kind of contractual recourse where theaters can recoup the lost income from Sony.

It's one thing if a projector breaks mechanically or due to a pre-existing bug; it's another thing when an update breaks it.

In an age where updates are increasingly the norm, I wonder if there's legislation needed to hold manufacturers accountable for updates that break otherwise perfectly-functioning hardware?
I like the look. But make it obvious comments and titles are actionable.

Edit: the readme lacks any information about how it can be installed
Both, but they cheated a bit on the Sun. Per TFA:

> To respect the scale, the globe represents the Sun including its corona.

That's not really a meaningful measurement as the corona could extend anywhere from a few hundred thousand to a few million kilometres. If the Avicii Arena represented a more normal measurement of the sun, the rest of the planets should be ~50% greater in diameter and ~50% further dispersed. Sweden would still have room!
It’s pretty universal among my friends in their early 20s, spanning across the country.
I like high information density, but HN does have troubling click target density. On a phone I often misclick links if I don't zoom in first to make the target bigger than my finger. A design change that made UI links (not UGC links) more like buttons, without adding padding elsewhere for that trendy sparse look, would be quite nice. I think it could even be applied when a feature detection script sees a touch screen, so as not to inconvenience mouse users.
Good point. Was it mostly just theory? Or did you get a chance to implement anything in code or an actual machine?
It sounds like you welcome diversity, but have high standards on what folks might call "token diversity". Did I get that right? I'm not exactly the right way to phrase this, but you might say that token diversity isn't grounded with in-universe explanation, or something like that?

If that's true, how do you approach topics like sex and gender? How does one justify a character being queer, trans, &c? On one had I can see, "their identity should add to the story," but on the other hand in real life plenty of people simply are queer or trans or whatever and completely and have stories to tell that don't relate to their identity.

If that's not true, please disregard. :)
At scale distances from the 27m sphere planetarium (as the sun), earth would be a 24 cm sphere at distance of 2.8 km. From looking at a map, this could be a basketball somewhere a few blocks NNE of Times Square. (Pluto, however, would be 114km away. Dunno where that would be. Maybe Allentown, PA?)
There's a huge reason why for many (myself included), the last competent (aka good) NYC mayor was the late David Dinkins. 30 years ago to the day he left office.

That's how far NYC has fallen, maybe you can say it has been like that since the 1970s if you go that far in history.
THere seem to be a lot of engineering & technical people doing martial arts - perhaps because we believe in the efficacy of technique. It's also good for getting hour head out of abstraction and focusing on the present.

Classes provide structure and a community. Maybe not too different from ballet.
The "weird hostility" probably has more to do with your opinions being presented as "proper typography and design" followed by frankly incoherent arguments wherein you try to tell people their preferences are incorrectly stated.
Seconded. I have a friend group from college that moved from a Facebook group (due to several people quitting facebook) through a couple different services before settling on Discord.

When we were initially discussing moving off Facebook I looked at self-hosted options, including mastodon, but we explicitly did not want federation—just a private group for us.
> Somethings not right with this article. Cable news never cracks the top 20. Wrestling routinely beats it.

TIt's specifically about ratings for cable news channels, not TV generally; basically that's just Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, maybe a few others.

So, Fox most popular cable news channel, overall viewership of cable news is shrinking.

Edit: the story is confusingly written, as it happens to mention that FNC is the most watched cable channel, but then just discusses relative performance of news networks specifically.
I do the same. Loads of people do it with me. Folks on Android get it on Google Maps. Folks on iPhone get it on Find My Phone.

It's been years we've been doing this. Honestly, I can't imagine not doing it.
That's basically what StumbleUpon was, and it was great while it lasted. You clicked like on stuff you liked, and it would show you more stuff that other people who liked similar things liked. If someone could make something like that again for 2023, I would use it.
Honestly, the "I have nothing to hide" line is flawed in itself, regardless of whether you actually do or not. With enough data about someone, a narrative can be built that they are guilty of something. And even if it is finally determined that they did nothing wrong, it is a massive waste of time and energy to prove that. See "railroading", the US Law Enforcement's greatest national past time.
>Information cannot be owned / be the subject of material property rights

Pragmatically, no. But legally that's the exact point of copyright.

We consider certain information as being capable of being stolen (identity, deeds, various military secrets), so it needs protection and punishment for trying to steal such information. Else there's no disincentive for identity theft nor hacking a private database (and there should be, in my opinion. Once again, information does not have to he distributed to be extracted).
One of the 'boxes-in-boxes' was the arrangements for Northern Ireland. When both the UK and the Republic of Ireland were in the EU, there was no need for a customs border of any kind, and so one side of the NI community could pretend they lived in a united Ireland, while the other could pretend they lived in the UK, as no obvious border existed on either side.

When the UK left, this became a problem, as a customs border would need to be erected somewhere. Thankfully the UK was forced into putting it in the only reasonable place, in the Irish Sea between NI and the rest of the UK, so limiting the damage to the Good Friday agreement. Effectively NI has been economically annexed by the Republic - formal unification is probably not too many years away.

It would do you well to appreciate some political history before 'feeling confident' about things like Brexit.
Did you even bother to look at the figures for the rest of the world? During the Great Depression, even if one got a salary cut, that was far better off than losing the job. If the US is "much, much poorer", every other country (developed or not) has been evicted and moving in with the parents if lucky; homeless and on the streets if not.
On a 14" MBP the new version has 6 posts visible on initial load while the old version has 22 posts, a -73% reduction in information density. Not ideal.

It looks like the vote buttons were moved to the right to so that there would not be both vote buttons and post type icons on the left side of the post title. I would argue that vote buttons are more important and should get priority. Maybe remove the post type icons and instead add tags to post title? Then you can put the vote buttons back on the left side where they belong. If you do decide to keep the post type icons, there is way too much white space inside of the circles.

I don't understand why there is a "#" in front of the usernames. Hashtags are typically used to indicate topics rather than people. Unless this is sort of callback to IRC days where operators in front of names indicate server hierarchy.

If you are going to do all-white background I would like option to switch to dark mode.

I do like the timestamps though.
In my first year of law school, my criminal-law professor often mentioned that a fundamental value of the US justice system is to "punish bad acts, not bad people." I took my professor's statement on faith, but 30+ years later I wish I'd asked for a citation. It seems like your cop friend would have twisted the value to "use bad acts as an excuse to punish bad people." I'm sure it's easy to find plenty of Americans who think that's an excellent mission for their neighborhood police force. Which makes me sad, because it means that one's "badness" isn't defined by one's actual choices.

I agree that bad people do exist. And I'm sure that prosecuted crimes are committed disproportionately by those we'd define as "bad people." But I don't think that bad acts committed by good people are any better than those committed by bad people. And I don't think that a bad person who resists committing bad acts should be treated worse than a good person who also resists committing them.
Even that uses Broadcom 10gbe, not the embedded AMD Ethernet. It’s really strange, I can only assume there’s something fatally wrong with the AMD Ethernet.