skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a "spin", that's exactly what happened. The Hague has no bearing on these facts whatsoever. Khodorkovsky at the time owned half the Duma (Russia's Congress) and was basically writing his own laws. Imagine, if you will, Charles Koch or Jeff Bezos deciding unilaterally how to spend the US tax revenues, and what regulations to have. That's what Knodorkovsky was. Ask a Russian who was there at the time about this, they'll confirm. "Regular folks" outside liberal intelligentsia wondered the same thing as Bershidsky - why the fuck aren't more of them in jail. I was wondering the same thing, even though the obvious political motivations and the sheer speed and mercilessness with which this was carried out irked me a bit. Yet the fact remains - the dude deserved every bit of what he got just on the stated charges alone. Every single Russian oligarch evaded a shit ton of taxes illegally - it was not possible for businesses to operate without that back then.

The reasons became clear later on - the government understood that oligarchs can serve a useful function in the power hierarchy and so it wasn't interested in eradicating them as a class, which they could do, by the way, with very broad popular support (at least 90%). They have extensive kompromat on every single one of them, without any exceptions.

Putin, at the time, wasn't entirely in charge either in spite of nominally being the president - the national security apparatus has just installed him, so I doubt the decision to make an example of Khodorkovsky in particular was entirely his own. But this was a success in the end, and now the oligarchs know their place and do not try to undermine the state like they used to in the 90s. Boris Berezovsky (another odious oligarch who could, in the 90s, do whatever he wanted in the Kremlin) "hanging himself" in London in 2013 might have done something as well to reinforce their non-interference.
The IDE I use has a line set at whatever your acceptable line length is. I find that's usually enough to keep me in line (ba-dum-tss)
It's human nature to do this, why would you do something earlier than required if it takes effort? We only have a certain amount of energy / attention at our disposal.
There is a large and growing group of technology companies working to address and mitigate climate change. I work for one, and you can too.

For me, discourse and persuasion around climate change has taken a back seat to making a rapidly decarbonizing electric grid an on-the-ground fact. If you’re tired of the endless arguments, join me in working every day to shift the material conditions of the debate.

https://climatebase.org
A single candidate for Planet 9 survives !

But then I read at the end of the .pdf:
Their preferred planetary mass, 6.2 +2.2 -1.3 ME, and perihelion,
300 +85 -60 AU, are now quite close to those of my Planet
9 candidate. However the preferred direction on the sky for
their Planet 9 object is very far from my candidate, so my
object, if real, may not be the cause of the orbit clustering . . .
What would happen if you stole $1bn in Russia and escaped to the US?
I am not deliberately ignoring those. They just aren't as relevant to the topic of vaccines.

Vaccines are being marketed as the only reliable ingest-able product, that works against COVID.

And all of those things you mentioned: social distancing, masking, congregating around stale air- they've all actually been compromised since vaccines came onto the market. Have you not been to a single bar since vaccines came to market? At least in Northern Virginia and LA, people have started going to places without masks, spent more time in rooms with people in higher populations, and distanced less. In fact, do you remember the time the CDC contradicted themselves to people telling them that yes they have to keep wearing masks then saying no they don't?

So, Yes, all those things have gone somewhere since vaccines became mainstream.
It is really all the lawsuits, environmental impact reports, and bureaucracy that slows infrastructure down.

We used to be able to build things quite quickly. E.g. The Bay Bridge was built in 5 years for $77 million (~$1.5 Billion today) in 1931-1936. This is not ground breaking, but law passed to bridge opening.

Just replacing the Eastern span cost $6.5 Billion and took ~18 years to build (1995-2013) from law passed to section opening.
Nvidia Announces Platform for Creating AI Avatars
Can you explain why you think so? I'm curious cos I was experimenting with this recently
We get it. Every day we have one day left to keep climate change from getting worse.
Am surprised sites like the one linked don't get dis-incentivized from running so many ads by aggregators like HN with some formula that essentially makes it harder for links with more ads to get to the front page?

Maybe thats unfair and just "let the people decide" is the best method but 'wow!' am running adblock and that thing is still a sensory overload.
RMS famously campaigned against passwords in his early pre-GNU days at MIT (though I'd say his perspective was specific to the computing environment then; it was more of a matter of how a small group of hackers should cooperate to use an expensive machine, he wanted everyone to have access to everything).
What do you mean by "failed"? It is an active project: usable and still in development.
Where do you find and use this mode?
They don’t look anything like filters it’s actually super impressive just how clean the results are.
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Some color blind people will have difficulty seeing the differences between some of the different simulations, between the simulations and the original, and both.

Someone with normal vision will have no problem with ambiguity throughout, and wouldn't be asking to be presented the images in a different way to help them see the differences.
The simplest energy storage solution is your hot water heater. Turning on everyone's hot water heater when there is surplus electricity, and turning them off when there's a deficit, is a very low cost solution.

The next level is using residential HVAC systems the same way. Comfortable temperatures are a range, so heating/cooling can push the temps to one end of the range, and when there is less electricity available, they can drift to the other end.

The charger for your electric car is another very practical sink for cheap electricity.

This is accomplished by having a spot price for electricity, and then people buying thermostats that query the spot price and turn HVAC, hot water heater, car battery chargers, etc., on and off.

This can be extended EVEN FURTHER by heating/cooling a pile of rocks to later use to heat/cool the house.

A battery consisting of a pile of rocks can't be expensive.

The idea is to not only adjust supply to the demand, but to shape the demand to the supply.

I am utterly astonished that this is never, ever discussed when talking about solutions to fluctuating supply. Having fixed electricity rates 24/7 is simply madness in today's electricity generation situation.
It doesn't exist for the majority of the US either...

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/computer-programm...
IME is almost all highly skilled/(relatively) highly paid work in NZ is done by contractors. It's almost a right of passage for devs here.

For US HNers - it's different than in the US where health insurance is tied to employment. I typically have the exact same health coverage whether I'm employed, self-employed, or un-employed.
Look at the red line it dips at on the second Monday just like coal and natural gas. The drop wasn’t as severe, but it was significant and lasted several days.
Both meeting A and B start at 2pm and end at 3pm.

After you're done with that corner case, you may find it better to determine if they don't overlap and negate that.
Since you couldn't realistically replace all ICE vehicles right away, it'd help ease the transition and especially in rural areas, air quality might not be a big concern anyway. If you end up with a surplus of clean gas, you could just burn it in dedicated plants and take care of the NOx there, or use it for aviation and in agriculture.
The day I started work, we had the ability to browse and restore backups on our Solaris system via a Windows GUI. It was useful to retrieve archived data and job state like old logs.

Within a month another graduate developer had accidentally restored the whole FS. We got to go home early, but had browse-only access from then on.

Of course, we still retained write access to the whole FS because prod and dev were just different root directories and our deployment process was "cp" if you had CLI skills, or copy/paste in Windows Explorer if you like GUIs. We got an rm -rf runaway a little later, though only on home directories IIRC. The early 2000s were wild.
"Life is a piece of shit, when you look at it" that is from Monty Python and it isn't wrong, and it isn't toxic positivity.
> The actual distinction is: a skin is something you use. An NFT is not.

Is your assertion capable of being proven false, like for you to change your assertion? From where I sit, it only takes 1 person to use an NFT for your entire perspective to be invalidated, but it's not clear to me if thats satisfactory for you.

On the off chance you rely on an unfalsifiable view then this is only for anyone else passing by:

NFT collections were used during the NFT.NYC conference last week for access to exclusive parties that were not coordinated by the conferenced. Owners of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs were able to prove ownership for access to an actual yacht. Many corporate entrants to the space are aiming to replicate this. This will conitnue happening, it will happen at Art Basel, and some people are willing to forego other luxury status items to purchase the relevant NFTs for status and access instead.

If one were to move a goal post, would we be debating "use" here? I'm not sure.

In the digital space, people use NFTs every at high volume, with games like Axie Infinity having people earn access, and skins and upgrades for characters. Which can be traded off platform because they were NFTs being earned or generated (minted).
So turns out you can configure it. On Windows under file -> options -> appearance button at the top -> Main Editor then change the default editor width. I assume it is at least similar on Mac though the tutorial I saw said the first part was Scrivener instead of Windows.
My understanding is your understanding is correct. I've also been told that's why NYC tends to be quite unique, the buildings are mostly owned so there is more leeway in finding something as you can go directly to the owner. That said, a startup I consult to is in the basement of a building in Vancouver, I talked to their landlord who owns the building free and clear for 3 generations, same deal, no reason to rent it, just let it sit till the market rebounds. Curious to see what will happen.
If you want to play with PAM, the best thing to do is to create a test program which links to the PAM library and which uses a different PAM service name so you can play with a config file which is different from the ones which ssh, su, sudo, etc., rely upon. That way you don't have to worry about screwing up your system and not having a way to recover.

An example of such a test program can be found at http://pamtester.sourceforge.net. I haven't tried using it myself, but I have taken a quick look at the source code, and it appears legit, if a bit over-engineered. Creating a test driver program which links against libpam really isn't all that complex, especially if you use the "configure the program by editing /tmp/foo.c and recompiling" methodology. :-)
Deno can compile into self-contained executables: https://deno.land/manual@v1.16.0/tools/compiler
Thanks! I think it's just a combination of the limited graphics character set on the Heathkit, plus eight years of practice (at the time) making games using it.

The stuffed animals are from my childhood, so I kept them on my childhood computer. I think they're happy there. :)
Why does everyone need to agree? Is this a religion? (rhetorical - of course it is)

Science is about making predictions (hence hypotheses). When your predictions are always wrong 100% of the time I think it's time to go ahead and retire. "Climate science" predicts nothing correctly. In fact, it's so incorrect, that now there is a global initiative to attempt to censor information that counters the narrative they present. I wonder if this has anything to do with a GLOBAL EFFING TAX that these same exact people want to levy on the entire population of the planet. No chance there's any kind of conflict of interest there…

Good grief.
Fun fact: in the very early days, people actually suggested that it should be pronounced "sexy" but its true nature asserted itself and "scuzzy" won out.
It should be stated we need to do x starting today to improve by this rate to avoid X. Then we could update the rate. Less sexy, but more accurate.
> With Go 1.17 it took 56 seconds to format all files

This sounded extremely slow to me - go fmt is normally instant. Granted, cockroachdb is a big project

But I had to download and try, and on my computer (Ryzen 5950X) it only took ~3.1s on Go 1.17. I didn't bother trying tip.
We can't even get people to wear a mask to help stop the spread of a respiratory disease let alone take a vaccine that may save their life and will unquestionably save the lives of others.

So there are two possibilities here:

1. This claim, unlike all previous such claims, is true. In that case, we're screwed anyway, so what does it matter?; or

2. This claim is false, in which case we just further teach people to distrust science.

I always wonder when I see these alarmist end-of-the-world predictions: Do those making these claims believe them? As in, are the claims made honestly or dishonestly? It could be either.

A good way of thinking about any claim is to ask yourself who the audience is.

So when a company or university makes a claim about new groundbreaking battery tech that if it ever reaches the market and all the naive assumptions hold true in the most optimistic way then it'll be 1,000x better than current batteries, the audience is investors, donors, those who provide research grants or decide tenure and so on.

So we have climate deniers who won't believe any of this anyway and those who are to varying degrees believe in climate change who don't really need to be convinced. Additionally, extreme or alarmist predictions tend to have the opposite of the desired effect. It tends to entrench opposing views and alienate the more moderates.

But I imagine there are certain political and academic circles where alarmist predictions and the associated publicity are good currency for "street cred" with their contemporaries.

For the record, I believe humans are having an impact on climate change, that change is likely to have some hugely negative consequences but, most importantly, there's really nothing we can do about it altruistically. Any solution will be purely economic. Fossil fuels will be replaced when it becomes cheaper to do so and not a moment before.
The QA is extensive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBSAFE
I am not sure this would work for me - one of the important challenges in writing is to keep each sentence readable and not too complex, while not making the writing boring by avoid any complexity whatsoever. So thin columns would make this harder, it's easier to scan a sentence if it's just on one or two lines. And I also think it's nice to see the piece as the reader sees it while you write it, more or less. But hey, to each their own.
Indeed, I have thought about this "deeply". But not hysterically, which is why you seem to be so troubled about a calm assessment of risk that takes into account other risks we already accept and things like opportunity costs.
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I’m a web application developer(primarily php) that is beginning a new project that utilizes CodeIgniter and was interested in finding a good training course or something that might be a good resource to quickly learn more on how CodeIgniter is best utilized. Does anyone have a recommendation on training courses or resources for this? I am willing to pay for the courses/training.
Probably partially my fault, and my now flagged, formally most upvoted, comment below.

I often wondered what kind of outrageous and offensive comment might be hidden behind the portentous "[flagged]" marker. Well, now I know it can be something completely reasonable, inoffensive and civil.
I also started to get into game programming when I was 48 although I got distracted this year by programming language design
A lot has been written on it, and we've been told by many reputable people that it's not a big problem. If climate change really is a dire threat, nuclear waste is just a non-issue relatively speaking. Anyone promoting that we should block nuclear because of waste is some kind of bad faith actor.
Why do you think so? Berlin is cool. I like techno a lot. Obviously very German vibes. But stuff seems pretty far apart, transit kind of annoying.
> … the content is hosted by a third party. The third party can replace the supposedly original content with a non-original copy at any time.

Generally the content is hosted in IPFS and identified by a content hash which was recorded as part of the transaction which minted the NFT in a blockchain, which makes it somewhere between "difficult" and "impossible" for any third party (or first or second party, for that matter) to replace the content.
Big crimes make the news, small crimes are when people are getting mugged. Both types of crime are significant, but small crimes are vastly more common.
don't forget minimum 5.6 weeks paid holiday (~12% extra, and is tax free)
It’s the spatial factor. Imagine being in a room with 40 other people and then breaking up into groups of 5. My group of 5 will organize together spatially so that we can hear each other well but still being able to hear some background noise from others. If something from another group catches my eye, I can walk over there and see what’s up and interact.
This is not possible to do in a zoom meeting because it doesn’t even have a sense of 2D let alone 3D space.
Not flat wrong. The countries list is, however, quite inaccurate.

Croatia is not palatable for reasons other than geography, for example.
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I think not a bad faith actor, but an emotionally dominated actor. Most of the anti-nuclear opposition is about gut level emotion. This is why the bar is raised so much higher for nuclear than anything else. The reason boils down to "but this is nuclear!!
You're not the only one. Somehow games are worse than other forms of storytelling: netflix, tv, movies, reading. Maybe this always happens to the newest form of entertainment, maybe it's because unlike the other forms your playthrough won't be the same as my playthrough.

In the end all our learning, experience, and content consumption is wiped away. Only what we produce remains, and most of that remains only a little while longer. Still, that doesn't provoke a mass of memoirs from the majority of mankind, so it's okay to sit back, relax, and enjoy entertainment.
What type of office space are you looking for your company?
Jason (article writer) here on my normal ycombinator account.

> but the exact problem scenario this hire had should have been caught.

I think if people weren't taking courses specifically training for engineering interviews, and common interview challenges, maybe this wouldn't be a problem. The truth is gamified programming challenges (commonly used for interviews) do not have a strong relationship to actual day to day programming skills, like reading code, understanding documentation, and doing research.

I suppose I'm just reiterating your point, but I'm not sure why you come to a different conclusion regarding the person I hired being slow reading our code, doing research, and setting up basic tooling being something such an interview process would weed out.

It didn't, and hasn't like I said, any more than a coin flip, in my personal (anecdotal of course) experience.

> I'm not sure how having them write/debug some slightly more complex code in IDEA vs an online Vim approximation is going to suddenly catch people like this?

It won't, if that's all I was suggesting.

I was suggesting good engineers may be being filtered due to duress in the interview being caused by poor tooling.

The real focus was having them do a small semi-real project of some kind, and then having a solid engineer pair-program with them.

This has proven to be a successful strategy for us.
What nomdep said, but also the friends-of-friends problem. I cut a lot of people out of my life based on who else they associated with.
How much time do you spend looking for contracts vs working for Freelance?
That's how long it will take the Australian Government to arrive at the "Carbon Capture and Storage technology is too expensive and ineffective" party, which many other governments have already attended, had a good time, and left for the next phase.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-09/cefc-fund-investment-...
Automated messaging to ask for meetings sure sounds like sales spam to me - what are you doing that makes this approach not just spam?
Thanks Tim, I already was.

Keep on gatekeeping for my customers and I'll keep telling them why iphones and macs are cancer.
Hi Richard,

This is neat work. Regarding the extension requirement, you state that you believe that it's impossible to compete without the convenience of navbar search, aka against Google/Chrome. You may be right, but this thread should demonstrate how highly polarizing that choice is for your users.

Two notes:

* Your competition space is much bigger than just Google. As a privacy browser, you compete against DDG. They actively remove friction. Right now they are a better product. There are more competitors still.

* If your focus is on general search your product isn't as good as Google right now.

It sounds like there are some neat ideas here with summarization and "apps" targeted towards niches like developers, but it's simply not a drop in replacement people are going to use as their daily driver.

It's OK to moon-shot and becoming the next big general search engine certainly qualifies. If I were on your board, I'd tell you to compete against products, not the market positions. I'd tell you not to alienate potential users. Don't draw a box around yourself and say "I want to break the Google monopoly", innovate and you won't have to.

Or focus on your niche, land it and expand.
It's -u.

You can also prevent this by never using $VAR, and instead always using ${VAR:?} to exit with error if VAR is unset (or use one of the other options to provide a default).
This is the perfect cover to do whatever you want at all times.

I made an incorrect statement? Don't worry, I _meant_ to get that part wrong.

This part here that was insightful and you enjoyed? I meant that part 100%.
>I had a 401K and ROTH IRA that went down from the original $150,000 I had in it to $1000 now

Was your entire ROTH IRA put into Peloton call options?

The stock market is risky but it's not usually this risky.
Do you mind elaborating on what that is? Looking to learn as much about web 3 as possible. Thanks
America, especially the West Coast, has a very strong driving culture. If you want to get somewhere, you get in the car. That's the default. I did this on my first visit to Seattle.
Agreed. One big problem seems to be division. One camp will say it's only entertainment and it's serving a purpose, another camp will claim industries are wasting humanity's time and productivity. On the one hand media does not influence behavior (violence does not make people violence) on the other hand sexism, androgyny, misogyny, etc. are bad on film or TV. How can they simultaneously have no effect but also be bad?

It's like gambling vices. In moderation (small amounts) it can be entertaining, but the casinos' interest is to get people hooked consequences to society be damned. It's not too dissimilar from the Opium wars: profit at all costs.