skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I talked to an ROTC cadet about recruiting this past week and I mentioned how easy it was to be disqualified. She told me it comes down to the military not wanting to be responsible for your death. E.g., if a soldier with depression enlists, there's a much higher chance of that solider taking their own life. Basically, poor health (mental or physical) means poor metrics.

Like in many things in life, follow the incentives. Recruiters tell people to lie on the medical forms because that boosts the recruiters' metrics. But somebody with a high rank doesn't want unhealthy troops because they'll be grilled if those troops aren't fit for battle, or worse, take their own lives, so they may keep arguing for stringent health screening criteria.
> It's amusing to see this message heavily upvoted on HN when most mentions of Firefox here are welcomed with an avalanche of perfect solution fallacies.

HN is not a hive mind. There are people here who love Firefox, people who despite it, and everyone in between. It’s tiring to always be reading your type of comment, as if everyone is a hypocrite. Maybe, just maybe, the people making those contradictory comments are not the same individuals.

And it’s not like Mozilla is free from controversies, including several of betraying user trust. If every major browser maker is going to break your trust and sell your data, I can see why people choose their poison based on other factors.

I use neither Firefox nor Chrome. Is Safari any better? Or Brave? In some areas yes, in others no. I don’t think there’s a single browser vendor which gets it unambiguously right.
>Political leaders and partisan pundits blame today’s recruiting crisis on everything from so-called “woke” diversity training to kids these days being too fat and lazy to cut it.

>Military brass have blamed an under-educated public, a roaring civilian jobs market and bad perceptions of service fueled by negative headlines.

>But multiple recruiters who spoke with Military Times blame Genesis above all else.

Lol, they're probably all right to various extents.

I'm gonna lose less than zero sleep over reduced availability of cannon fodder for future boondoggles in the sandbox. God forbid the people who call the shots exercise a little more restraint. If there is a true need to have more bodies in uniform then the political will will surely materialize to get it done.
You're right to ask, because I neglected to elaborate. You do want to know what you really want to do and figure out how much you'll need to do it.
"provides upward pressure on wages" is true, but you simply can't get from there to actually demonstrating the "marginal producivity theory of wages".

It is pretty clear that the employment market suffers from severe inefficiency and information asymmetry. It takes a pretty bad economist to look at a market like that and think that its pricing is accurate.

Employees often don't know how much value they bring and thus are severly limited as counter party and other companies have a hard time predicting how much value you'll be able to add for the. These (plus many other factors) mean that you should expect significant mismatches between pay and performance.

Edit: None of this is evidence against performance being a paretor distribution (which makes sense to me), but we're gonna need more than just pay data to determine that.
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> Flowtide is a beautiful, smart New Tab page for your browser.

Than, please, add a screenshot to the repository.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201300
Channels are just another synchronization primitive in your toolbox. They do make some things much simpler, but there's no reason to reach for one if a mutex does the job.

The usage of mutexes doesn't make channels "bad" for the same reason that usage of atomics doesn't make mutexes bad.
I think you are saying that if you are not ready to lie on a form, you do not belong in the military, and thus it is an appropriate control during recruitment?
>But since Bluesky isn’t yet big enough to be considered a “very large online platform” under the DSA, the regulator says it can’t regulate Bluesky the way it does X or Threads.

So it sounds like they are 'breaking' rules that don't even yet apply to them?
They just have to fine every tech company lol
I understand that and I don't reject this sentiment outright, but one makes enemies when engaged in a good faith argument but feels the need to shoehorn their self-described "pragmatic, forwards-looking viewpoint" when nobody asked about it.
>There is endless debate about nuclear vs clean energy vs coal, which prevents any change from happening.

Meanwhile coal has been on a clearly uneconomical trend for decades, and no amount of bitching by 60k coal miners can prevent that fact, no amount of crying about "woke" policy can prevent other fossil fuels from just being better than coal in every single way.

It's infuriating our country has been strangled by these morons.

They all cry about making America great again, oblivious to the fact that America thrives when it shovels public money into infrastructure like a bad habit. From gifting thousands of square miles of public land to bribe the railroads into building one of the best transportation networks for it's time (also why "america isn't dense enough" is utter horseshit. We connected the coasts before there was anyone living in most of the US), to the interstate which is still unparalleled, to the Postal Service way back in our infancy, to the homesteading project which ensured we have some of the most productive farmland in the world, to the highly educated workforce of the mid 1900s who did the electronics revolution which came about largely because the US navy wanted computers all the way back in WW2, and transistors largely exist so we could have ICBMs, to the millions of electronics experts just set free to build after the war...

America has ALWAYS profited from public investment into infrastructure, both physical and mental, but because a bunch of poorly educated (not a slight, an objective fact) people would rather get black lung like their pappys, we aren't allowed to have nice things.
That’s the x thing is higher in higher population areas problem. You have to calculate the probability of your bike being stolen if you have a bike. So not bike thefts per capita but bike thefts per bike owner.
I was really giving them the benefit of the doubt. I don’t think Netflix had anything special above and beyond any other Silicon Valley software company. They just pushed this narrative and nobody questioned them.

Netflix as a business isn’t even way ahead of competition anymore. It’s not better than Hulu or Max or anything else.

Netflix’s platform crumbled handling live streaming a boxing match, while Amazon and the rest of the legacy media companies have no issues streaming NFL games every weekend, and I’m supposed to believe that Netflix engineers are better than the ones at Paramount+ who never made me wait for a buffer to watch Premier League or NFL on CBS.
Yes?

Most mini-PCs are between the $100-$200 price range, and there are plenty of functional AiOs below $350 too.
> Google open source libraries are often a mess when you try to include more than one of them in the same project

Completely agree. In isolation all of their libs are great, but inevitably I end up having to build Abseil from source, to then build Protobuf off of that, to then build gRPC off of that. If I can include the sanitizers under Google then that also becomes painful because Abseil (at least) will have ABI issues if it isn't built appropriately.
Thinking about it I'd really just like a flat_hash_map replacement so I can drop Abseil.
On a meta note, you're right to note that unclear terms undermine our collective reasoning, despite a proper chain of propositions.

I've found Term Logic[1] to be useful for figuring out why certain discussions confuse me. I've also used to avoid unnecessary arguments by seeing if the participants are starting with clear concepts (signaled by terms).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_logic#Basics also this explainer https://adoroergosum.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-three-acts-of-...
I did the same thing back in they day.

I developed on SCO (and, later, Unixware) on a PC, all of the clients were running the gamut of Unix OSes: HPUX, DGUX, AIX, SunOS, you name it.

Most of the time was spent on our box in the office, but I was constantly bouncing back and forth to client systems. Either on site, or over the modem. Having to juggle Termcaps and the whole thing. It was polyglot machine/OS world back then.

Just had to learn to get the best out of a baseline set of Unix tools. vi instead of emacs, awk instead of perl. Master those and never be left wanting on a new environment, so I can hit the ground running. No need to "bootstrap" (if the client would even let you, not always). Couldn't even rely on a C compiler.
The reason Docker Desktop for Mac looks like you're running Docker on Linux is because... you are. It's running docker in a linux VM for you.

Similar issues in our environment, and I managed to swap everything over to Rancher Desktop fairly seamlessly as it does the exact same thing. It runs a Linux VM and if you select the "dockerd (moby)" container engine it runs a copy of docker inside of it. So you get a socket with the same docker API implemented... because it's running actual docker. docker compose and everything else work as expected.

The reason we switched is that Rancher Desktop, along with providing a convenient way to run docker, also includes a full k3s install in that same VM. So we can work on unifying some of our stack/configs on kubernetes rather than docker for local and kubernetes for everywhere else. It also opens up using upstream helm charts and things when a developer wants to deploy and try something locally.

It's also free. Open source and backed by SUSE, who also develops and maintains the k3s distribution among other stuff in this space.
I'm no scholar of Newton's life, but I am aware that Newton became a professor soon after attaining his master's degree at Cambridge. I believe he kept this role for the rest of his life in addition to the later posts at the Royal Mint (which were supposed to be merely sinecures, but jobs that he nonetheless took rather more seriously on his own initiative). As for the alchemy, I think one can reasonably consider that science, as the modern principles of chemistry were still a couple of centuries off - Newton did at least conduct proper experiments, which is basis of the natural sciences.

All in all, I think that he certainly made his living from his success in science at first, even if he could have later maintained himself simply on his esteem and lofty networks at Cambridge.
Those placeholder numbers are super annoying - they don't look placeholders, but if you want to use the same value, you have to enter manually.

Also, is it basically a simple Excel worksheet, with a huge marquee element and 7.3MB Javascript?
I don't think "all-time" means what you think it means...
I don't think most civilians realize just how strict (and absurd) the screening process is. When I went to enlist at 17 I had a cut on my knee that started bleeding during one of the medical tests (they make you walk across a tile floor on your bare knees for 10 yards or so). The doctor running the screening station wanted to make me come back a week later once the cut healed, otherwise they were going to fail me. Thankfully someone more senior overrode him and I was able to enlist. People get disqualified for having used marijuana once as a teenager, for well-controlled asthma that hasn't flared up in years, or for seeking treatment for anxiety, depression, or ADHD. Once you are in the military, you are strongly incentivized to not seek treatment for anything that could get you medically separated, particularly any mental health issues whatsoever. I understand there are standards but the current system basically assumes that any issue is disqualifying until the recruit can prove it isn't (and sometimes not even then).
It’s just one anecdote but I did run a Docker Swarm Classic cluster and a Kubernetes cluster for years on about 10 bare metal PCs in my worklab.

I initially preferred Docker Swarm for its simplicity, and most of the nodes were in the Swarm cluster.

But I quickly noticed ask issue: Docker Swarm had networking issues. I remember that I wasn’t alone experiencing network issues and disliking debugging with iptables.

Meanwhile, Kubernetes with the flannel CNI was super reliable. I actually ditched Docker Swarm for Rancher 1. It wasn’t based on Kubernetes at the time. It had some JVM based networking thing that worked but used a lot of CPU. We also had some Mesos testing.

Maybe the new Docker Swarm works, but it’s too late. Kubernetes won.

Kubernetes is more complex but tools like kompose makes the transition easier.
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more from that package author here:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/bluesky-comments

and their source:

https://github.com/czue/bluesky-comments

original post from Emily:

https://emilyliu.me/blog/comments
> Moreover, they started scrutinizing the basic, popular political beliefs of many of the recruits. Those interested in the Navy tend to be of a particular political persuasion, and even those who do not share that tend to have similar underlying belief structures.

Yeah, completely wrong. Great article on this from one of my former flight instructors.

https://jecurtis.medium.com/ship-to-shore-f0910048c451
Go makes it easier to write concurrent code, but it's a serious chore to iron out all of the kinks in more complex tasks. I've missed some weird stuff over the years.

I don't blame Go. It's an inherently difficult problem space. As a result, testing isn't a trivial job either. I wish it was.
Losing one’s housing can certainly cause major depression and anxiety which can manifest into other problems, though.
The author looks at "observables" of performance without considering whether there might be confounders such as those discussed in great nuance here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joes.12328 .

He cites similar work by William Shockley who taught both electrical engineering and scientific racism at Stanford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley (no swipe at the author, just pointing at the biased motiviations of some of the researchers foundational to the idea of "high performers").

In general, when you see pareto structures or power laws, you should think of compound or cascade effects, which in human structures generally means some form of social mediation. Affinity for a desireable skill might be gaussian, but the selection process means that the people who _get_ to do that skill might become pareto shaped because if you aren't much better than the next guy, you wouldn't stably stay at the top. Similar logic can hold for other expressions.

In general, I wish more people would read https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Causality-by-Judea... or at least the more accessible https://mixtape.scunning.com/ before starting to conjecture from data about social systems - the math will tell you what you can and cannot speculate on.

(fun exercise: draw the causal models of IQ in https://dagitty.net/ and ponder the results)
The discussion we're having is the "demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society" exception to our charter. In my opinion that exception needs to be removed asap, yet here we are.

The quebec covid curfew for example was found to be unconstitutional and the government decided to give itself 'exceptional circumstances raised by public health' just so they dont have to pay $ to each person who ever received one of the fines.

This will almost certainly be wiped out on appeal. Quebec will likely have to pay close to a billion ultimately in the next decade.

Though in the meantime, the CAQ have essentially committed political suicide having done this. PQ leader simply challenging the effectiveness of the curfew and opposing. The CAQ are going to lose the next election because of this and other issues.
Went through this with my son, whom the recruiter recognized as very well suited for a particular specialty. But the lying and the whole rigamarole about being diagnosed once in because "everybody knows what's going on" made him lose any interest.
Yeah, just one layer of functions is enough for everybody.

Let's look next at that "compiler" thing and high-level languages. The hardware-native one suffices, no need for all that bloat.
> "Same or trivially derived" is just a completely false statement

You'd have to ignore a lot of reality to believe this. It's even in the names of the writing systems: Kanji, Hanja, Chữ Hán. Of course they don't exchange, because they don't carry the same meaning, just as the word "chat" means completely different things in French and English. But it is literally the same script, albeit with numerous stylistic differences and simplified forms.
Huh. I take about five.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368528/us-military-army-n... ("Vox: America isn’t ready for another war — because it doesn’t have the troops. The US military’s recruiting crisis, explained.")

https://usafacts.org/articles/military-recruitment-is-down/ ("USAfacts.org: Military recruitment is down. Why don’t young Americans want to join? A diminishing pool of Americans are eligible to join the Army, Navy, or Air Force. An even smaller pool want to.")

https://www.wsj.com/articles/military-recruiting-crisis-vete... | https://archive.today/W23Jq ("WSJ: The Military Recruiting Crisis: Even Veterans Don’t Want Their Families to Join")

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-08-15/military-sexu... ("Stripes: Military sexual assaults far exceed DOD estimates, new report finds")

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/suicide-now-the-primary-cau... ("Boston University: Suicide Now the Primary Cause of Death among Active Duty US Soldiers")

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-sham... ("Rolling Stone: The Shameful Way America Treats Its Veterans")

With my apologies to Jordan Belfort, "Sell me on this job."
By "comprehensive model of the world" I don't mean Common Crawl, but an understanding of how physical reality works, for example "if you push a long thin object into a human, the human is perforated", and by "harm" I mean "when humans are perforated, the important stuff comes out." (And I mean this knowledge as "physics", not language, though presumably the two integrate somehow.)

I don't know how close we are to that, but it seems like a good start!
Related: there is a small college in NYC named "LIM", which used to stand for "Laboratory Institute of Merchandising." A few years back they updated their branding and now the name quite literally stands for nothing.

They are just "LIM" now. A former acronym, reduced to a mononym.
Honestly, with all the talk of desperate folks wanting to go to Mars, I support them building their own spaceship, with their own $$$$ of course, not with public funds; flying there; settling there, colonizing Mars, mining it for all it's worth, polluting it, whatever, etc.

But NOT their wanting to come back to Earth.

Let them go on their one-way ticket to Mars. Leave us Earth-dwellers alone!
> Wambalo, Nathan Nkunzimana and Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan were employed by SAMA, an American outsourcing company that hired for Meta and OpenAI. SAMA, based in the California Bay Area, employed over 3,000 workers in Kenya. Documents reviewed by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay SAMA $12.50 an hour per worker, much more than the $2 the workers actually got, though SAMA says what it paid is a fair wage for the region.

It may be a fair wage, but if you're a middleman and take $10.50 of that $12.50, leaving workers with $2, you've left basic human decency far behind. Yachts don't come cheap, I guess.

Is SAMA associated with... uh... sama?
> The following will download 11 GB of Parquet files.
> ...
> This dataset will be refreshed monthly so expect the disk space requirements to grow by ~11 GB each month as time goes on.

I'm not sure I understand. What's the structure of the data that there isn't a delta file or a way to retrieve only the latest?
> EuroNews is generally pretty respectable

Was. A long time ago. Today they are just propaganda spreaders.
> Then it's just a matter of estimating someone's "compute" from how fast they solve a given class of problems relative to some reference computer.

Heh... "just"...

Good luck with that.
Is there a comprehensive list of such incompatibilities documented somewhere?
Yeah, this feels like a non-story.
Even though climate-wise, the need for trees is overrated IMO – recently the list of benefits that forests provide has been extended:

- More forests protect a country against sudden supply chain crises. It's is just a small protection (and only for the commodity wood) but still

- Forests are the first line of defense in drone warfare as we've seen in the War in Ukraine, where maneuvers are often concentrating on, and gains are counted in, Tree-Lines.
Not the companies that cause the regulation?
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The strange case of disappearing Russian servers
I'm a little surprised (but maybe shouldn't be, given that it's from a publication called "Military Times") it doesn't also touch on the fact that young Americans largely don't think that joining the military is a noble goal or a stable career path. They grew up watching the US get involved in disastrous wars, do some pretty bad shit to civilians and prisoners of war overseas, and then let countless veterans fall into poverty when they get back.

Perhaps not for nothing that "America starts wars for oil" is a well-tread Zoomer meme.
Maybe, though that suggests that there can be no such thing as a ground truth, which seems kinda shakey to me since it can be used to justify practically any viewpoint imaginable, regardless of how divorced from reality or lacking in verifiable proof it may be.
This is a huge issue in civil aviation, too, for people wanting to become pilots. ADHD (if you currently require medication) is disqualifying and there are many illnesses, especially neurological, that will disqualify you if you were ever in your life diagnosed, regardless of whether you are currently displaying symptoms or taking medication. This applies if you want to fly passenger airliners down to a little two person Cessna. And now we have a shortage of pilots throughout the training pipeline.

Government applications for things in general have way too many “have you ever in your life” questions. No recognition at all that people change throughout their lives, medically and otherwise.
> But since Bluesky isn’t yet big enough to be considered a “very large online platform” under the DSA, the regulator says it can’t regulate Bluesky the way it does X or Threads.

So are they breaking the law or aren't they? Sounds like they aren't but the EU wants to be on their back anyway.
Or you use pseudo-localization, which does simple programmatic substitution to make all English strings longer by e.g. doubling letters or inserting random non-alphabetic characters, adding diacritics etc while still retaining readability to English speakers.

Windows actually ships with a locale like that.
I already have the minimal number of features in my new tab in Firefox and I didn't even need to install a 3rd party addon: it's called "Blank page", you can find it in the settings.
What about Firefox? Which is what I am using.