skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's helpful to keep in mind Russia's grand global strategy, which is simple and informs everything from supporting insurgencies, climate change denialism, election interference, etc.

Putin has been in power for 20+ years and he'll remain in power until he dies (he's only 68). During this time, Russia has not seen great improvements as a society. For a few years in the early-to-mid naughts things were getting better as Russia was riding high on high oil prices and recovery from the dismal 90s. But this didn't last long - it all came crashing down in '08 and things have not recovered. Russian gdp per capita was the same in 2019 as in 2008. Covid killed masses of people which they've "cleverly" hidden with stats (it's not clever at all, you can just see the excess deaths). As the world shifts away from fossil fuels, their heavily oil-dependent budget is only going to get harder to manage. Politics-wise, any opposition figure will be killed if they become high-profile enough

Things are grim and there's no realistic hope of things improving. For all their many, many, many faults, the soviets actually aspired to improve the lives of people. They ultimately proved inept at it, but they did believe they should and could improve people's lives. Putinism has no such aspirations. Instead the idea is to breed cynicism, fatalism and nihilism into people such that no one should ever expect anything better. To have hope, to act morally and ethically, to dream is to be a fucking idiot.

Thus, Putin's MO is demonstrate to his people that the rest of the world is just as shitty as his Russia is. That no one is better than him, because everyone is a hypocrite, everyone is corrupt, everyone is a murderer. This worldview is very useful for many people in the West, hence the charges of "Russian bots" are not quite right. The scores of people defending Russia are not Russia bots, they're regular folk, they just find this worldview useful and want to import it. It's like the IRA and their trolls created a self-sustaining cycle.
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> So they are ok with their vacation homes and the other half of the state burning down as long as their campuses are ok?

Apparently!

> Not much money to be made by saving lives and billions of dollars in infrastructure damage?

No, there's not. Where would the money come from? The public? Good luck with that.
I have a pretty good view of the European investment / M&A / Start-up world and while Sweden is definitely a player I think that calling any European country the 'Silicon Valley of Europe' is based on a signal that is well below the noise floor. If someone truly believes this it could mean several things: they have an agenda, they have no idea of what is going on elsewhere in Europe and/or they have never been to Silicon Valley.
On your second bullet point, did you mean to say

"but it's thermodynamically and metabolically far easier to cool than to heat"

Because that seems to be more in line with the point you are making. Sorry to be a pedant, I'm asking because your comment is very interesting.
I'd also add that you need at least one pretty good technical university nearby to lure talent from. Stockholm does indeed have one (KTH). Other candidates would be Zurich, London, Munich, or somewhere near Delft.
> in Europe, you can be the wrong kind of white in your OWN country

You know Racism is about ethnicity (+culture) not the colour of your skin, right?
Is the direction in which all software development is heading?
This is incredibly wrong and I hope you get an opportunity to meet people to change your mind.

I had an older employee in his 60s work as a dev even as he was slowly dying of cancer and receiving treatment. He showed up every day, doing his work, proudly contributing code even at deaths door, until his last day. He had worked 30 years in IT and was a senior dev and there was nothing wrong with his productivity, attitude, etc.

I was blessed to know him. I hope you find strength to open your mind and realize there are wonderful people of all sorts and ages all around you.
It used to be a really dodgy language, but I heard it's improved a lot. I've only ever fixed other people's PHP code or written small plugins for wordpress, so I can't give a good opinion, but a few people have told me I should give laravel a go over the years.

One of the common complaints was that a lot of the core library had inconsistent function signatures[1], did they ever fix that? Always seemed to me that it would be an unfixable problem.

[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3254...
Here's a discussion of heat index and wet-bulb temps, with records from around the world.

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/record-de...

The most dangerous / frequent occurrences seem to be measured in the middle east near shallow gulf coasts. Appleton Wisconsin holds the continental US record, apparently?

This is from 2011.

Here: https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/hi

says:

> The highest dew points, and therefore the highest heat indices are usually found near warm bodies of water.

> In the world, the warmest water is found in the Persian Gulf where the water temperature typically reaches up to 90°F (32°C) in summer. Therefore dew points will be that high as well.

> The highest dew point ever recorded, 95°F (35°C), was recorded at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on July 8, 2003. With an air temperature of 108°F (42°C) the heat index was 178°F (81°C).

> In the United States, the highest dew point ever recorded, 90°F (32°C), was recorded at the New Orleans Naval Air Station, on July 30, 1987, Melbourne, Florida on July 12, 1987. Heat indices were in the 130's°F (50's°C).

> Appleton, Wisconsin also had a 90°F (32°C) dew point on July 13, 1995 with a heat index of 149°F (65°C)."

So, it happened once.
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Haven't used Perl but they're in a lot of languages, Lisps, Python ("""), Ruby, PHP etc. but C# does at least have the verbatim-type of strings which would be good enough. Don't use the interpolation features though, use the @params and let the SQL driver do the replacements.
Jetbrains has a hosted-IDE pilot project: https://lp.jetbrains.com/projector/
Can you comment on the loss of iCloud syncing? That is going to be the reason I leave if it's confirmed.
Yes. Though I would hope that some people would use remote as an opportunity to work from other cities, and not just from the suburbs.

(I work from Singapore for a London based company, for example.)
Definitely not just you. He's insane, though maybe later he'll say his accounts were "hacked".
Are their vacation homes and the places they like to spend time with their families away from the office close to the wildfires?

I don't understand. Do you mean to say they are ok with half of the state burning down as long as their offices are unaffected?

Air quality will affect the output of their workforce. They can probably measure it in dollars.

Better offense is needed. Yes it's good to understand fire dynamics but not very useful when nothing can be done about it.

I was hoping we'd figure out a better way by now than throwing more firefighting humans at the problem.
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There is _zero_ doubt that these types exercises can work. I play tennis with a guy that used to wear glasses, with a decent level of myopia (slightly worse than -3), and over the course of several years reduced his myopia to the point he can easily play without glasses (it's something like -0.5 now). The only time I ever see him wearing glasses is at night. He worked off the methods in Bates' "Better Eyesight Without Glasses". I wear glasses myself, and am myopic. I would go through the effort myself, but on top of normal myopia I also have something called Nystagmus (shaking of the eye) of which the net result is additional blurring, so it's pretty hard for me to function without glasses at all (my vision without glasses would be about 20/400, with glasses it's 20/40).
You can also use VS Code on a remote VM directory. Our devs do this.
Is it just me or VSCode is dauntingly complex? There are so many configuration options and I often get lost in it.

I've been using Sublime Text for a decade and it has kept the scope creep to a minimum. I've also used JetBrains IDEs and while there is a massive amount of complexity, it is well organized I think. I just get anxiety from launching VSCode, may be it is because of not being familiar with it, I don't know.
Doesn't VS Code essentially run in a browser anyway?
isn't system F (with some extensions) exactly this kind of VM? some functional languages (more or less) use (something like it) as the last functional intermediate language for compilation
So you're telling me that the next GitHub outage could take out my dev environment and give me an afternoon off? Time to convince management that we need to switch to Codespaces!
I don’t believe the PUC will allow PG&E to have a guaranteed rate of return on undergrounding. My understanding is that ratepayers are the ones who are going to be funding this project, not the shareholders.

So yeah PG&E gets to avoid liability and also sell more electricity (there’d be no more PSPS events). But they won’t be able to charge higher transmission rates beyond the cost of undergrounding.
Review of Possible Unintended Consequences of mRNA Covid Vaccines
Staff, principle, fellow?

More seriously I think something that can happen with older folks is they might fall into working in a single place with a single set of tools for a very long time so when they transition to something different it may be hard to adjust. Not necessarily because “they are old” but because if they did one thing and only that thing for 15 years it’s hard to change.
Yes I feel more productive than many of the younger, childless colleagues at work. In fact I really don't like going to the office due to people talking WAY too much. I have 8-9 hours and then I need to pick up my kid, not using those 8-9 hours to the fullest is something I simply have to avoid. And incidentally my least productive days are the in office days.
I wonder if that's against your employment contract.
Devil's advocate: 2008 was bad because of regulatory failures (specifically deregulation). Lack of transparency was only part of the problem. So if you want to avoid 2008 in cryptocurrency, the answer would be more regulation, not less.
Jetbrains Project support for this would be fantastic.
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You're essentially saying the FBI will audit themselves and find they did something wrong, then fix it.
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I’ve written PHP in the past. Frankly I don’t hate it much more than any other programming language that sees industrial use.
#buildinpublic
It's a start at least.

But from the best and brightest in the world? People who put rovers on Mars but don't want to put a fire out that could destroy half of their state?
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I'm doing that as well. Works fairly well.

(Much better than eg PyCharm's attempt at remote development.)
I was curious about the cost. The pricing and compute resources just about correspond to an Azure A series instances, but the ram corresponds better to the v2 series, which is cheaper than v1. I wonder if they're upcharging for v2 machines.
Sure, but the water in commercial AC is just to cool the compressor coils. It still uses a phase change system like any other AC, so it’s not limited by the wet bulb temperature (although the warmer the ambient temperature is, the less efficient it is).
That seems unnecessarily complex and time-consuming. Unless your company's work machine is locked down and you can't be productive on it...
> it is genuinely hard to write an abstraction that provides adequate control of advanced GPU features (such as the compute capabilities) across subtly different low-level APIs.

That’s a solved problem in C++, see this library: http://diligentgraphics.com/diligent-engine/

> The rasterization techniques used in 3D are poorly suited to 2D tasks like clipping to vector paths or antialiasing

That’s subjective, I think these techniques are awesome fit for 2D. See this library: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac#2d-graphics BTW I have recently documented my antialiasing algorithm: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/Vrmac/Draw/VAA...

> these traditional techniques can start to perform very badly in 2D once there are lots of blend groups or clip regions involved, since each needs its own temporary buffer and draw call.

One doesn’t necessarily need temporary buffers or draw calls for that, can also do in the shaders, merging into larger draw calls.

> What this comes down to is instructing the operating system to embed a video or 3D view in some region of our window, and this means interacting with the compositor.

That indeed works in practice, but I don’t believe the approach is good. Modern GUI frameworks are using 3D GPUs exclusively. They don’t need much efforts to integrate 3D-rendered content.

As for the video, one only needs a platform API to decode and deliver frames in GPU textures. Microsoft has such API in the OS: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/mfmediaen... Once upon a time wanted to do the same on embedded Linux, wasn’t easy but still doable on top of V4L2 kernel calls: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo
Authorities launched an investigation of Maynard on July 20, and when he was stopped by police in Susanville on Aug. 3, a U.S. Forest Service agent placed a tracking device under his car, the Bee said.

Soooo many details left unspoken. Why was he stopped, and moreso, what prompted the cop to put a tracking device on the car? Is there some flag that pops up when the license is run that says, "put a tracker on there"? That would require a warrant, I take it? Why was Maynard a suspect to begin with?

I'm sure it will all come out later, but that one paragraph set off a bunch of questions in my mind.
"1) your certainty of failure if you go the wrong way, 2) the harm to the business/team given a failure, 3) your role in execution of the task."

Relatedly, I use a very similar analysis when giving tasks to junior engineers. They almost always want to do something that isn't exactly what I would do, for a whole bunch of obvious reasons. Sometimes I need to override them, but it's a complicated analysis that sums up to what you wrote above. I will even sometimes let them do something that I think will lead to some negative, but recoverable consequences, because the best learning is from your own mistakes, but to learn from those mistakes you must first be allowed to make them. I just have to make sure the positives of learning outweigh the possible issues the mistakes could lead to. And sometimes, I'm wrong about whether it was a mistake or not, of course. :)

An example of something I'll generally override regardless is a security issue, because the consequences of that can get pretty negative. But merely layout out the code with the IO & business logic more tightly coupled than I'd like is something I may let slide, especially if they're going to end up having to write automated testing for it anyhow.

When I do let something go, I generally give a heads up about what negative consequences I expect may transpire, and then let them do their thing. I think that in general, "wisdom" can't be taught in the conventional sense of the term, but I do think you can sensitize people to the existence of certain patterns and accelerate the process of acquiring such wisdom as a result.
Wall area is O(n^2) not O(n).

A 50x50 building with 8” CMU walls (0.2 meter) enclosed 2460m^2 floor area.

With 2m walls only 2100m^2.

A more dwelling sized building of say 25x10m is 246.5 versus 110m.

Until I designed tract housing to with floor area targets, it was not obvious how much difference a few inches here and there made. But that’s literally how an initial design that works out around 1900sf is made to fit into the 1700sf gap in the product line…it’s not like you can lop off the kitchen.
Could you elaborate on eco architecture's advances? I always liked the idea of the earthship but, y'know, humidity.
IIRC, Denuvo isn't added by the game devs, they ship off their code (or compiled binaries?) to Denuvo who implement it for them.
If anyone has the issue with Windows and it taking forever try uninstalling, wiping all your user data in AppData and then reinstalling. Worked for me at least after being extremely frustrated. I think they are converting the windows version to the same platform.

Not saying it doesn't frustrate me with other things. I haven't used the Mac client in a while but I remember it being really good though
Although this isn't the usual use of the term, your comment is a great example of the importance of a manager that values diversity. You can overlook, and drive away, really good employees for really bad reasons. It's not likely that a response to a random slack in the middle of the night had any value to the company's bottom line. Managers that can't accept that not everyone should be like them are bad for the company.
Sort of off-topic, though I'm looking for a role similar to what you described. If you're open to chatting about it, please do shoot me an email: notsure_12 at protonmail.com
This title is misleading at best - Apple call centre workers may fear AI-powered surveillance cameras, however Apple is not doing this, nor is the subcontractor on the Apple contract, as Apple has explicitly banned their subcontractors from doing this.
No, I don't forget about West problems.

Number of Russians in neighboring Ukraine is a pretense. The real reason is so called "imperial phantom's pains", the worldview of the Russian power about how everything works, the Cold War era division into "them" and "us". They don't believe in the democracy, they never experienced that and were trained to be suspicious about it. For just about everybody - Russians on both sides of the border as well as Ukrainians - the conflict made things worse, and for a long time. Kremlin lives in a bad illusion, which it tries to induce into others.
How would Nix solve that?
Do you similarly feel that comparisons across different populations are invalid for arguing the affirmative?

e.g. arguments like "we should try masking / UBI / $15 minimum wage / free healthcare / universal pre-k because it worked well in ${location}" are also "not how this works" because we can "only compare with the future that wasn't?"

Do such arguments need to control for the infinite number of confounding variables before having any value?
This argument is akin to claiming that the availability of
sawed-off shotguns implies that a "significant" number of people are buying them and shooting people with them. It's not a substitute for statistical evidence of use and lawbreaking.

Besides, "significant" is a classic weasel word - it could mean one, for all we know.
WFH changes the dynamic in that Google can now recruit from anywhere in the US, thus the competition for a given job is higher so in normal times that will mean a lower wage over all

People keep saying this, but it's only true in an employer's market. In an employee's market, it works the other way around, because now the good employees have a wider choice of potential employers. Which kind of market do you think software development is?
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat#Origin_and_history for going back even further.

> He said Europe, not Germany specifically.

My point was that continents are not a naturally unit here. (Especially since Europe isn't even a proper continent.)
One mechanism could be that masks cause a false sense of security that increases risk overall—even if each interaction is slightly less risky.

A lot of people think masks are very effective.
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(googler, opinions are my own).

Google allows for normal desktop IDEs, plus having a web based one. The funny thing is, many people move to the web based one because it is so good.

But Google is also unique in how piper/citc[0] (our source control) works. It's effectively designed for web/cloud based style development, so the workflow for web based dev and desktop dev are effectively the same.

So web dev can work, but I don't think the existing tech that most of the software industry has is built well to support it.

[0] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
In my case it was Active Directory having the time service fall into a bad state and propagating throughout the system. AWS instances don't have a proper clock and will fall out of sync by minutes within a day. Installing Meinberg's NTP works better than Windows Time out of the box.
An internet connection is already required for dependency management and stack overflow. I already develop with an always-on connection.
No, mercenaries https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-africa-679a6d6fc549bd...
You really thing Giuliani is intelligent enough to browse through a mac disk image using a PC given all the rest of the absolute utter nonsense he's been spewing over the past year?

I have no doubt that somehow Republicans got their hands on some of Hunter Biden's data, but the story they gave is idiotic, the person they chose to promote it is a loon, and overall this was nothing more than a political smear campaign because Trump's people were afraid of Biden and thought they could Benghazi him.
> There is almost no cash value to an article one day later, yet we completely impoverish the public domain for its sake.

We're not imposing publishing restrictions on past works in order to preserve their cash value. We're imposing publishing restrictions on past works in order to stop them from competing with present works. It keeps the cash value of present works up.
Just a couple of years ago some kid gained access to every repo on github.

Now githubs code is going to be developed on an online platform, which works by sharing code others have uploaded.

I have a feeling that this is not a good recipe.
In my experience, even with simple flask projects, I've found just the difference between Ubuntu and Arch to be irritating:

1. Ubuntu seems to have trouble with psycopg2 while Arch does not, so I often use psycopg2-bin just so Ubuntu developers can easily install the requirements (learned the hard way).
2. Some older (supported) editions of Ubuntu create extra lines in `pip freeze`, including `pkg-resource=0.0.0` which throws an error when installing on nearly any machine (including cloud versions of Ubuntu in Github Actions.

I have an application that uses docker-compose and has Elasticsearch as an image. In order to run it, I have to expand the vm_max_map (or something, I forget). But there are different ways of doing this in Windows vs Linux.

Differences between environments are legion. Unless a company wants to just send standardized laptops to every developer, it seems way better to just spin up a cloud vm that is already set. Plus, there's easier reproducibility in a cloud vm vs a physical machine (unless you want to reach for something like nixos, but hell, what company is equipped for that yet?
Where/how did you check this? >50% of USDC sounds unreasonably high.
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My electronic devices are extensions of my biological memory. Just as I don't want my biological memories to fade (and, as you say, that thought is upsetting to me) I don't want my electronic memories to fade either. I don't have life experience that makes me wish to forget. I recognize other people do but I also can't honestly say I understand it. Hopefully I never will since I can only assume the wish to forget accompanies traumatic memories.