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I'd like to see an analysis of the rise of self promotion on HN.

I define self promotion on HN as a "Show HN: I ..." post vs "Show HN: Something ..."

Examples from the top 100 right now

* "Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun"

* "Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software"

These are not self promotional titles. The subjects are the exploration and the software respectively.

* "Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT"

* "Show HN: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons"

These are self promotional titles. The subject of each is "I"

My own simple check just via algolia search results checking for titles that start with "Show HN: I" gave these results for years starting April 1st. Graphed divided by the total number of results for that year

2023 ****************************************
2022 ***********************************
2021 ***************************
2020 **************************************
2019 *************************
2018 *************
2017 *******
2016 **********
2015 ********
2014 ************
2013 *********************
2012 *****************
2011 *********
2010 ***

I feel like maybe I grew up in a time when generally, self promotion was considered a bad character trait. Your actions are supposed to be what promotes you, calling attention to them is not but I feel that culture is changing.

I wonder if the rise in self promotion (assuming there is a rise) has to do with social media etc...

I perceive a similar rise on Youtube but I have no data, just a feeling from the number of youtube recommendations for videos of "I....."
I think the plans shifted as the cold war progressed.
NATOs doctrinal reliance on air is precisely the reason why russia has tremendous amount of aa systems deployed
Ironically, "breeder" is (or used to be?) a slang denigration of heterosexuals, within the homosexual community.

I didn't interpret the original comment as contemptuous of either opinion. But it is undeniable that both groups are sensitive about their choices (or unfortunate inability to choose differently).
Doesn't it depend on how stealthy is the F35? That will soon be almost the only game in town in Europe (outside of France).
Ukraine actually uses Russian fighting tactics.. that's the way they trained and were equipped. They're also very poor, with a gdp per capita (before the war) of 1/3rd of Russia's. So it looks exactly the way these countries are equipped and trained to fight: lots of artillery, loss of life, trench warfare. Ukraine has neither the training nor equipment to do combined arms warfare. So I wouldn't necessarily assume that a war with NATO will look like the war in Ukraine.

As far as drone defense, we already have KuRFS/Ku-720(mobile version)[0,1] radar to track drones/etc that works with a phalanx, 50-caliber guns, 30mm cannon, and coyote drones. We're also deploying a 50kw palletized laser (w/ KuRFS) with the DE MSHORAD program[2].

All of these programs predate the 2022 Ukraine invasion. The Coyote (designed at the start to take out small drones) first took flight in 2007[3].

0. https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/what-we-do/integrated-air-and-m...

1. https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/news/2021/10/11/rmd-proves-coun...

2. https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/what-we-do/integrated-air-and-m...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_Coyote
> saves 1% of old, obese, and sick people

It was never about saving lives.
I got off Google Photos in 2021[1]. Even with some automation, I spent days deleting the photos. Very soon, with the new changes, the steps will likely become redundant.

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/how-to-delete-all-photos-and-get...
Yes, Minister is amazingly relevant and fresh for a TV show from the last century. Human nature rarely changes, and bureacracy changes even more rarely.
I disagree with this other than that Ukraine will definitely lose if its backers stop supporting it.

It's not really clear that Russia would surely lose the war of attrition. A realistic scenario, assuming Ukraine's sponsors sustain its support: Ukraine and Russia continue sustaining losses as they are, Russia ramps up equipment production to offset what its needing to take out of storage, still the war slows down into more static trench warfare, Russia is able to maintain the willpower to stay in the fight, and Ukraine runs of out military aged men before Russia does.

I'm not saying the above will happen. I'm just saying that the above isn't a contrived, unrealistic scenario. No matter how much Ukraine's sponsors supply it with equipment, unless they themselves enter directly into the war there's no way to offset that huge attritional asymmetry.
The fun thing is that prestige rots. Unless someone can buy it and brandish it as their own exclusive possession. Maybe billionaires will invest in universities and treat them like the sports teams and journals they own these days.
That’s not what air superiority means - it’s not a relative measure of opposing air capabilities
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Moronic. At some point, there will be an emergency, and people will want their VOIP traffic or texting traffic given a higher priority.

By the way, this isn’t theoretical - it happened in the Texas ice storm last year. Under these rules, it seems that’s illegal.
Bypass capacitors aren't really used to prevent a whole-system voltage sag - they are there to deal with the effects of high-frequency signal switching.

The traces supplying power aren't theoretical, so they have a nonzero impedance. This means that when there is any change in power demand due to transistors switching, the trace will try to resist this change in supply current. An increased power demand leads to a very local voltage drop, a reduced power demand leads to a very local voltage spike.

Bypass capacitors are placed as close as possible to the individual chips to reduce the impedance between the capacitor and the chip. You even intentionally use smaller capacitors because the bigger ones have a higher impedance.
> It's likely to be an obsolete concept in any sort of peer to peer war due to widespread anti-air weaponry, yet it's very near an assumption in NATO war doctrine, because that doctrine has been developed over decades of invading countries with no ability to defend themselves.

That's too strong an assumption. The USAF 's bread and butter is supersonic stealth jets that can enter a territory, fire RF missiles to take out anti-aircraft radar, and leave faster than anything can catch it. Repeated hit and run attacks that wear down ground defenses until they can fly unchallenged. That's on top of the massive arsenal of precision guided missiles that will take out any static installation identified by constant global satellite surveillance.

NATO doctrine has always been geared towards countering the Sovet Union/Russia, despite the counter-terrorism detour the US took.
> NATO countries rely on massive air superiority. Something neither side in that war has, hence their stalemate.

Vks has superiority at least along the front line since this spring maybe winter. What they dont have is supremacy
Price isn’t immediately obvious, but it’s $395 USD

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Most of what was given to Ukraine wasn't cash. The US gave mostly military equipment that would otherwise have been decommissioned (which would have cost). The media just likes to list summarize this as a dollar amount which is somewhat misleading but understandable.
They are doing the prelim work for a possible service mission to hubble at no cost. I'm sure it won't be entirely free if its executed.
What's worse: a bomb destroying everything in a certain radius, or a drone killing all enemy combatants in that same radius with a 10% false positive rate?
No, will check it out, thanks!
Surely you can open a mainstream news website and find obvious nonsens or disagreable material. You dont have want to talk about it but it is the idea you are not suppose to that can already change you.
the micro view of technology is that it improves things. how could it be otherwise? the things that used to take a painful ten hours can now be done in six, without painf. it's not until you look at capitalism, realize that we're not all on the same team, that things go awry. see, we invented this thing called money, and things have gone downhill ever since. there have been some good things to come out of it, sure, but the thing of it is, we're already at a place where we can make enough food for everybody yet people die of starvation every day because we can't get over ourselves because they don't have money so they don't deserve to eat, even though there's food right there! so technologists keep invention new technologies and society just has to deal with these technologies. because we can't just have a society where everyone is fed and has a roof over their heads and can do whatever else they want to do with their time.

so the macro view, that some technologies have actually lowered our standard of living, is difficult, because it's not the technology's fault! it's only when you have to deal with other people that there are problems. throw in 7 billion other people and of course things are bad .
> TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE

I'm yet to find a use case for "WITH TIME ZONE", in all cases it's better to use "WITHOUT TIME ZONE". All it does is displays the date in sql client local timezone, which should never matter for well done service. Would be glad to learn otherwise.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_a...
The Mega-Donor Who Colluded with OPEC
bipartisan graft ftw
safety isn't achieved by adding capabilities, but by omitting capabilities. the hard part is how to avoid omitting necessary capabilities

> In particular I/O is something that lots of language have as part of the language and C doesn't. So it is in many ways obvious why C a lot smaller than PL/I without losing any power.

that's not why; often obvious things are wrong
You misunderstand, I'm not making any kind of direct connection between human speech and bird song.

I'm saying we will probably discover that the "overall performance" of different vertebrate neural setups are clustered pretty closely, even when the neurons are arranged rather differently.

Human speech is just an example of another kind of performance-clustering, which occurs for similar metaphysical reasons between competing, evolving, related alternatives.
The Russian way of war isn't a bad way to go, but of course the units that know how to best fight like the Russians are actually(or used to be) the Americans.

I don't think it's necessary true that the war devolves into a lot of loss of life and trench warfare. That's mostly the result of a stalemate. The Russians expected Ukraine to be a pushover. That didn't happen.
Generally, a tendency for a type of animal to eat its young correlates to a strategy of producing a lot of them. Rabbits, for instance. I'm blanking on the name of it but this is one of a pair of strategies where the other is to be long-lived - like humans, or at the extreme end, the greenland shark, which has a very low metabolism. That's the alternate way of persisting as a species: do nothing, and especially don't die.
To be fair Ive been using for git for 8 years and I still dont quite understand it beyond the basics.
Music Assistant 2.0: Your Music, Your Players
The risk I was talking about wasn't "I did the work myself and caused a problem", it was "oh sh_t, I need $20,000 in repairs this year".
Is that the empathy you showed to a Holocaust survivor because you didn't like his opinion? You don't even know where your holes are.

I thought the comparison would make you stop and think about what you're actually saying. But when Palestinians have been successfully dehumanized then it becomes easy to compare their "risk of harm of genocide" to a simple case of stolen property.

Yes, after killing tens of thousands of women and children in six months, destroying universities and hospitals so it erases all culture and make life impossible, Israel is the real victim here. I have failed to account for how bad they must feel as they commit those atrocities. Maybe someone from the IDF can in 20 years make a movie about how they can't sleep and can't remember their past, let's call it Tango with Ahmed.
The new lowest level pls (zig, rust) have ditched class based inheritance. Higher level PLs are going more functional, to include JS, where entire frameworks are encouraging functional (not to mention how everyone complains about the opacity of trying to use inheritance in place of declarative i.e. Amazon CDK)
In theory, sure, but those swarm shows are pre-programmed: they aren't reacting dynamically to a (chaotic) situation on the ground and they aren't communicating with operators.

There's some far-flung future in which drones are fully autonomous and in fact don't even need antennas. At that point it's possible they can be massed. But it's a bit of a science fiction. At least, there isn't any such product available (commercial or military) and this isn't how drones are being used in war.

For economies of scale - true also of artillery and other equipment! The more you can scale production the more cost-effective the weapon. As mentioned, drones in the Russo-Ukraine war are starting to see their cost-effectiveness wane due to having to become larger (larger munitions, large antennas, etc), heaver (bigger batteries, larger munitions, etc), and non-disposable (high cost frequency hopping gear, difficult to find munitions, difficult to source batteries, etc).

Giant technological leaps could happen, but it's nerve wracking to bet the outcome of a war on something like that.
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Russia can't ramp up production sufficiently - not for the scale of war that Putin is waging now. And this is only going to get worse for them. It's a key factor - shortages will kill its military potential eventually. While allies can sustain production as long as they are willing to. So Russia bets on lack of will on their part.
Any American who likes Tom Petty.
unfortunately war with russia would very likely be the last war as we and they would be nuked back into the bronze age
Object oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011)
> they hope this will frustrate you into a subscription.

Imagine a salesman trying to trick you into buying something. We immediately get wary of their behaviour and want them to go away. Sadly we have built huge tolerance for apps. They trick us into subscriptions. If not that, they trick us to use the app for hours at end so that they can show relevant ads. It's incredibly toxic behaviour but somehow we don't mind it when it's coming from app.
Cold war era NATO is a different beast than today's, and we're talking about something like the timespan of 50 years.
> I believe is already in place as Israel is using it already, and apparently failing miserably with all the civilians casualties.

I don't think we have the data to reliably determine the impact of Israel's AI usage on civilian casualties. Sam Harris this week had an expert for urban and subterranean warfare from West Point on. He explained that it's impossible to get accurate numbers this quickly. In Mosul we apparently didn't have any numbers till a year after the battle ended. The ones we eventually got had huge error margins. This is before we even talk about ability to trust the source of the numbers. He further makes the point that the reported numbers we have right now are astonishingly low given we are talking about a war in a dense urban area, especially once we consider that Hamas has dug a huge tunnel system under civilian infrastructure to which civilians don't get access for shelter.

The expert's explanations on the show are worth every minute of it.

Sauce: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/366...
If we applied last month for Front End, but we did not hear back, should we apply again for Front End?
I think I trust the numbers for China more than your estimate of China's population which is out by 43%
Of course they are going to have to change as they grow. The question is how big the changes will be.

We already see this in Israel - a big increase in Haredi women pursuing secular careers. In other communities worldwide, that development ended up significantly undermining the patriarchal culture and producing a demographic transition to lower fertility. But, will it necessarily have the same consequences for the Haredim? We will have to wait and see: maybe it will, maybe it won’t. Precedent would suggest the Haredim won’t be able to avoid that outcome, but the situation on the ground suggests that maybe they will

I’m not claiming any of this is inevitable, only possible, plausible. Nobody knows for certain what the future holds-we shall find out
You can deduct that NATO countries except US won't achieve air superiority against capable opponent(Russia, China), and their doctrine is not effective if new US president elect will decide so.
It's always the highlight of my day when it happens, almost as nice as when someone chimes in to educate John Carmack on 3D graphics and VR technology.
Supersonic missiles are very vulnerable to a debris in the sky. Instead of catching of a missile, a drone can be blown up in advance on predicted trajectory of the supersonic missile.
RQ uses Python's Pickle and it doesn't have any serialization protocol so it stays Python only.
Mega-constellations also mean that access to space is getting cheeper. Bigger and more plentiful space telescopes should offset the loss from ground based astronomy in the long run. It's no consolation in the near term. But imagine the possibilities for a Starship sized telescope, or many of them.
> The USAF 's bread and butter is supersonic stealth jets that can enter a territory, fire RF missiles to take out anti-aircraft radar

F-35 can't super-sonic cruise. The choice was to be slow but stealthy.
I see, I could stand by that.

I don't exclude the possibility that resale could exist (if I sell the whole account, for example), and the concept of borrowing games might be nice, depending on the pricing. For now, the family view allows me to live happily.

The recent huge improvement (still in beta) is that family library is made of all the games in the family, multiple copies included, and finally the lock of the library is not global, but per game. This essentially fixed my major complaint with steam, the second one being that I want my children to inherit my account (I love videogames, I want to give them my collection)
Thanks for the recommendation. I've checked this out and looks like a good alternative with much simpler configuration and less foot-gun than Celery.
But Certbot is already right there and most people running homelab setups don't use Kubernetes.
I've also talked to a person who was in the Pentagon when some disks went "missing" from a room because it had poor locks on it. He had tried to tell someone that they were the wrong locks for the security level of the room but was told "that's not your business".

Kissinger became aware during the SALT negotiations of how much the Soviets were misinformed about US nuclear capabilities, and that they tended to overestimate. That imbalance helped him negotiate those treaties. One can assume the State Dept. would want to keep that advantage if they could. The USSR was also concerned about how they would defend themselves against a Western attack. If they weren't they wouldn't be making these treaties. Everyone assumed that if war broke out both sides would be wiped out. The point of the arms race wasn't to win in a war, it was to see who would fold first.

Don't forget that "SDI" was an umbrella. If you had some project and could slap that tag on it you were guaranteed a substantial contract for it. That you could get away with promising an arbitrary delivery date made it that much more of a cash cow. And the Pentagon was fine with that since it would never need to be finished. It only had to look convincing.
The US is the greatest air power in the world bar none, and they're trained to disable and dismantle the opposition force's air defense and capabilities. It would be a mistake to think the US is weak in their SEAD game.

And that's not counting the rest of NATO.

I would not say that they will succeed in a peer to peer war, but NATO have the greatest chance to achieve air supremacy against any peer opponent.
iPad Pro: Emerge (cue Fischerspooner)
Does the Universe expand by stretching or creating space?
The arms race itself is a recent evolution that required a few conditions to kick off.

The debate on this will be never ending, and however much I personally value the benefits of international trade, the movement of well paying blue collar roles is the initiating factor.

This arms race didn’t exist here back in the 60s and 80s for example. However it was alive and well in Asia and the Indian subcontinent.

That runaway competition for certification is just… enshrined in the socio-economic fabric there. That structure is why there are so many doctors / engineers and graduates from the region.

If anything, it’s remarkable how long it took to get started here. The upside is that if there ever a chance to slow it down, it’s now.
This is why I love this place
We aren't allowed to celebrate any victories anymore?
> I’ve read beautiful, elegant code that expressed powerful ideas in ways that made them seem obviously correct.

Oh no, don't confuse the brush strokes with art.

A computer program isn't an idea: It's a set of instructions to the computer to accomplish that idea. The "elegant code" is merely the brush strokes, the idea lives in your head and in the resulting program.
AFAIK the only way is to always run a remote X server (i.e. Xvnc) and always connect to it, even when sitting at the local computer.

Maybe you could do something with dpms but that leaves the keyboard active still.
As someone who has had cochlear implant surgery myself, that is 100% true. Luckily as a member of the Deaf community I knew full well what to expect so I didn't expect to hear straight away and just looked forward to taking my time learning how to hear. Even now I still can't hear 100% (and will never be able to) but that is fine as I still use our national sign language which will always be the language I can communicate best in. It took a bit of adjustment for the hearing members of my family. Even though I kept explaining I won't be able to hear perfectly from day 1, it was still a shock for some who realised the switch on was only the start of an incredibly long journey which I am still on. Ironically, only those who had deep involvement in the Deaf/sign language community understood exactly the reality of cochlear implants -- showing that even with medical advancements, the Deaf community is still an important part of any Deaf person's life and sign language will remain a useful toolkit for all Deaf people.
Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative
The issue with LEDs is that they are broad spectrum, whereas sodium lights always fall in a very narrow band in the spectrum which is easily handled with a physical filter.
Thank you for agreeing with me that the second amendment makes direct reference to the articles I highlighted.
Japan enacts revised law for quick deletion of social media posts
Global warming can be stopped by nuclear winter only.
Well, yeah. That's how it goes for most of us, regardless. I'd rather die at home in my own bed than rot in a nursing home for an extra few years.
All the outcry from the studio closure may eventually turn out to be wrong. We don't know the real reasons those studios were shut down.
I doubt the libc default in established systems can change now, but newer languages and libraries can learn the lesson and do the right thing. For instance, Go sets TCP_NODELAY by default: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34181846
> But it doesn't really matter: collective defense is the whole point of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

I am not certain US will enter war with Russia in case of some escalation with European countries, especially if Trump will be elected.