skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno how accurate this is, but back when protests against Yanukovich started, I saw people on reddit predicting his ouster and civil war, because of the history of Poland...

Seemly Poland in the run up to WW2 got parts of it conquered by URSS, and later when WW2 was over, some territory that was part of Germany became part of Poland to "restore" its territory, effectively shifting Poland westward, this means that eastern Ukraine had polish people inside it.

The guy then explained that Ukraine east side is full of ethnic Russians, even if they consider themselves Ukranians, while west side is filled with ethnic Polish and related groups.

He predicted then (the violent protests didn't had started yet when I read this) that the ethnic EU people would be pro-EU, and would oust Yanukovich in violent protests, and the ethnic Russians would retaliate in some form, either trying to retake the capital by force, or splitting away.
”The question is less about NATO deployments and more the will of NATO leadership to go to war with Russia over its more minor members.”

Not acting on this would completely destroy NATO and also permanently destroy US credibility on the world politics and in terms of military power.
Realistically speaking NATO and US could not afford not to go to a war or at least armed conflict with Russia.
>"The true reform is to limit the size and scope of the government and return it to being a neutral referee of the private sector."

In principle yes, but this really does seem like an impossibly idealistic goal. We would practically have to repeal the last 150 years of American government, probably more, to get back to semblance of this ideal. It would also require a fundamental cultural shift in how the citizenry views the role of government. From my perspective the younger generations yearn for more government intervention, not less. You would have to undo that mindset through multiple decades of influence.
Which countries would you consider being closest to free-market?
EUR (unlike say China's RMB, Cuban pesos or whatever they have in NK for money) is a freely convertible currency. Can you explain the mechanism by which settlements in Euros undermine anything, such that three (mutually confrontational) US administrations engage into conspiracy against Mother Russia?

(For the reference, the old pipeline gas was also paid for in Euros)

As to momentum for Ukraine ascension to NATO, I would love to live in that reality. Over here, Germany, France and several other NATO members strongly oppose even allowing Ukraine onto the roadmap.
How much money do you have? How much money do you need to live? Everything else is a waste according to you? You also partied when Zimbabwe starves.
> monolith was always supposed to be MODULAR from the start

Well, that certainly is sensible, but I wasn't aware that someone had to invent the monolith and define how far it should go.

Alas, my impression is that the term "monolith" doesn't really refer to a pattern or format someone is deliberately aiming for in most cases, but instead refers to one big execution of a lot of code that is doing far more than it should have the responsibility to handle or is reasonable for one repository to manage.

I wish these sorts of battles would just go away, though, because it's not like micro services are actually bad, or even monoliths depending on the situation. They're just different sides of the same coin. A monolith results from not a lot of care for the future of the code and how it's going to be scaled or reused, and micro services are often written because of too much premature optimization.

Most things should be a "modular monolith". In fact I think most things should start out as modular monoliths inside monorepos, and then anything that needs to be split out into its own separate library or microservice can be made so later on.
Yeah, this breaks down in this case. I've wasted so much time making small changes trying to figure out how to adapt a model in the right way for it to work in both real and test code, getting a weird injection to work, etc. on systems with agonizing build times.
By those criteria, no free market exists in any significant capacity, and you get into the sort of "Communism would work if people cooperated!" silliness territory.
> "not the GIS thing"

And now I'm imagining tons of people searching for "shx" and going "Well, a shapefile sounds like something that could be a font... How do I convert this?"
Nice let them eat cake moment.
I got around to trying https://render.com/ recently, it's also pretty easy and cheaper than Heroku, I think they support Phoenix/Elixir but I've never used it or tried. Also side note Heroku seems to have just stalled and atrophied as a product since the Salesforce acquisition, still one of the easiest hosts though.
As another commenter pointed out they are pretty adamant about not going open source [1].

But then later they walked it back a little and claimed they are "like open source" [2]. Funny there are 12 reasons for being closed source and only 6 for being "like" open source. And the reasons they're like open source are pretty weak. The first one (free use) has a lot of restrictions like the way their cloud product locks you out of your files 60 days after they're created.

It's cool what Wolfam has achieved, but it's hard to justify going with a closed tool these days with all the interest in open science and the capabilities that are now available in the open source world.

[1] https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op...
[2] https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/11/30/six-reasons-why-the-wolf...
Still, hope for the best, plan for the worst. You guys got any ideas how to protect your assets (no matter how little), how everything will move on the markets if the shit hits the fan?

I mean, sure, we can argue will they, won't they. I just don't want to be caught with my pants down if shit really hits the fan.
I remember when this came out in 2014! Actually, I kind of thought it was earlier than that...

I was working at a startup at the time, it was a Friday, and we were close to wrapping up a busy week. One of the other engineers who was a buddy of mine shared this article on Slack (or maybe it was HipChat back then) and we all thought it was a cool trick. We immediately went to the little grocery store near by and got one of those bottles of Fleischmann's yeast.

We came back and, in the company kitchen, ate a few big spoon fulls (raw, like...on to spoon in to mouth). Then we went to a local craft beer taproom which was a favorite post-work haunt of ours.

It didn't work.

Since then every now and then I think about this article and wonder if I did it wrong. I don't think I've ever really tried it again. Cool to see it show up again somehow.
"The 12.5 million white male business owners comprise about 41% of the 30.5 million total owners of small businesses in America. There are about 11.6 million women-owned businesses (about 65% of them are white-woman owned) and 6.5 million businesses are owned by men of color, based on a recent analysis venture capitalist Seth Levine and I conducted with the help of researchers from Stanford University using two sets of U.S. Census Bureau data from 2017, those for employer and non-employer businesses."

So...still the majority at 41%? I guess "the minority" in the title means less than half.
This would be less of a severe issue if congress-critter was merely something you did for one or two terms, rather than a permanent career.

The Roman cursus honorum had many flaws, but enforcing an up-or-out mentality that discouraged officials lurking in the same position for forty years was not one of them.
Meta joins CBSE to train 1 crore students, 10 lakh teachers in AR
The next financial apocalypse will definitely be caused by an errant VLookup without the appropriate ISERROR around it
It's like Venezuela where the connected-to-the-government people could exchange their bolivars for dollars at a much more favorable rate than everyone else.
This just doesn't ring true to me. Rails is very simple and fast to develop in.
Why not...

> branch from whatever branch is in prod

> implement change on that branch (in this case adding a column), test

> deploy to prod

I realize the build and deployment process may be more complex than that making it hard... but it doesn't have to be.

I agree that a microservice OR even another system (a collection of services) is a good solution if you need to make quick iterative changes, and you can't do so with your current system.
Andrew Kane wrote gems similar to popular ML libraries which are wrappers around C code: https://ankane.org/new-ml-gems

pytorch: https://github.com/ankane/torch.rb
Tensorflow: https://github.com/ankane/tensorflow-ruby
> Gorbachev had been assured in 1990 that the alliance would not expand

It's a myth perpetuated by Russia
The Philippines was part of the US back in the day too. Itd also provide a convenient base for countering China. Should the US invade and annex it?
Define family member. Also, everyone in the US is already subject to insider trading regulations.
USA was never pure free market, the whole principle of check and balances is at odds of free market ideology. If you dont regulate market you get raw sewage in your rivers the next day its allowed.

Anyway, just imagine if the thin line of law that is currently barely stopping rich at the moment, just stopped applying all of the sudden...

Count to ten... pooof...

And we all hail our beloved King Bezos the first, and the return of feudalism.
Having worked for a couple of publicly US-listed companies, when you have access to material data you had to adhere to strictly defined trade windows, among a load of other things. Being in Supply Chain, with obvious access to forecasts and inventories, I always fall under insider trading rules. Why law makers would be exempt is beyond me.
How I completed the Hacktoberfest 2021 challenge with a profiler
You have to live with that and the risk does not warrant blaming others. Because if they are under a certain age and therefore not in a risk group, the risk to you is marginal, completely independent from anyones vaccination status. You can reduce your risk by getting vaccinated yourself or by isolating.
They should have to report their positions well in advance.

If I want to buy/sell Boeing stock and I'm a Senator, I should have to publicly file that intention three months in advance, and not be able to undo it. Those filings should immediately be public in a data feed.

I'd expect to see a "Congressional stock purchases index fund" arise, and it'd be fascinating to see how it performed.

Stuff like https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/11/politics/rand-paul-wife-stock... - "oops, forgot to disclose my stock moves for over a year!" - should be punishable by loss of trading ability and confiscation of the assets (not just profits) involved.
Hmm, I thought you were at Google. Did you leave? Regardless of whether you're at Google I think you deserve fair compensation. But IMO the value of mold isn't limited by your opportunity cost of a salary. It's state of the art linker and someone like Apple/FB/etc can and should be willing to compensate you.
What I do not understand is why there is not more press on this..

They literally did not budge and shipped the product as presented from months prior, yet, no coverage
if Trump had said this the internet would have gone batshit
I'm responding to this because I think this comment misses the point of the exercise. Why give so great emphasis in translating this work? Because it is current. The subtlety of Japanese culture and importance in the language can often be hidden in the more modern culture. Should the works of Locke be looked to to understand the intricacies of the modern British dialect? Or should something like The Crown be a better work for foreigners to study?

The writer is specifically showing subtleties in the language used today which has nuance beyond a direct translation and why it works. I think that is highly important and commendable. And if we are to speak to something which would immortalize someone in history I believe if someone would write a companion guide to the brilliance of word play in the Monogatari series, that it would put them among the most famous translators of other foreign works. (Or even more impressively just managed to translate the word play directly.)
As much as I'd like to agree with you, the real reason this is happening is because humans wrote the code and humans make mistakes. And even if you rewrite all of the software in Rust, it'll still have exploitable bugs.

Does it matter if it's a buffer overflow or a rusty pan, if the end result is someone reading your device's memory?
> They do have to report their positions

Yeah... 45 days after the trade (per https://www.investopedia.com/tiktokers-track-lawmakers-perso...). Not to mention that both dominant parties don't take their responsibilities seriously (https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-staff-violated-stoc...), and that information can be filed on paper so sleuths have a much harder time digging through the data to spot suspicious trades (https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/04/action-alert-stock-...).

An effective law would require all elected representatives to identify themselves and their close relatives (i.e. parents, siblings and children) as such to their banks and brokers, with the banks and brokers having to maintain an instant feed exposing all trades executed on the accounts of these people.
I wish that I could really get into the Wolfram Language because in addition to symbolic programming I really like support for machine learning, semantic web, and data visualization.

I love using Lisp languages, I adapt to Python because I need it for my career in ML/DL, and Haskell for something different.

I have subscribed to the Desktop Edition (better interactivity that the cloud version) twice, so I have about four months of writing little bits of code and experimenting. I don’t mind the price (I happily pay for full up LispWorks with support). It is the language itself.

I have experimented with using WL from Common Lisp and Clojure, but there is some overhead for that.

Anyway, WL is an amazing ecosystem. I wish I could love the language.
Metformin may delay the onset of some chronic metabolic diseases but it won't extend maximum lifespan and there are significant negative side effects. It's certainly not a fountain of youth. Proper diet and exercise can deliver most of the same benefits with no medical drawbacks.

https://peterattiamd.com/joanmannick-nirbarzilai/
I give most US politicians the benefit of the doubt. They are usually loathed, but I believe do want to make things better as opposed to enrich themselves.

So they can start acting like it. Your job is bigger than yourself now. You are the highest of public servant. The cost of money-motivated grifters and immense distrust from the public is far greater than the cost of losing a few people who would be good politicians but need to live lavishly.

Financial transparency above and beyond regular citizens, middle income, middle housing. That's a fair shake. How can you stay in touch with the average citizen when you have three lavish estates?
> There is only way for country’s protection and it’s Israel’s way where whole country is also an army.

Significant chunks of the Israeli population are de facto exempted from conscription (and with a low rate of voluntary enlistment from those communities as well)-most Haredi Jews, and most Israeli Arabs. Those two minorities together make up over 30% of Israeli citizens, and both minorities have an above average population growth rate (due to having more children and starting families at a younger age). The long-term risk this situation poses to Israel’s military security is a perennial topic of concern in Israeli media and politics
A pentium 4 laptop hooked-up to a makita battery and a couple of PCMCIA serial ports of which a few were connected to 'thin client' serial terminals (axel branded?) and a variety of chemical sampling/testing machines connected to the rest, including the parallel port for a results printer (with tractor paper).
Just a point of clarification, POWER and z (mainframe) are different architectures, both of which IBM still develops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture
Would you consider leverage restrictions? A well placed SPY call option can still capture plenty of inside information at a congress level
It’s a crime for corporate insiders under certain circumstances. What she’s doing is perfectly legal, even if clearly immoral.
multiply that with the CPU ISA, like arm, x86 (and more if you are inclined to support power, sparc, ...)
That would still favor the companies in index funds (i.e. large ones who could go through an IPO) as opposed to small companies or self-employed people.
WWII was the result of Germany trying to take over the continent. That led to Eastern Europe being invaded/liberated by the USSR and Western Europe being invaded/liberated by the US.

It's not correct to say that all Western European countries were/are OK with US power and presence. The major powers were divided on that. Germany obviously did not really have any say, France did not want the US to stay, the UK thought that it'd help them look more important than they had become. But smaller countries may see the US as a guarantee against larger neighbours trying to invade again, as I mentioned, a bit like South Korea does.
Most of NATO equipment is not exactly sparkling new either, am not sure what that proves. Does it not count if the battletank that runs you over is from 1980s?
Fun fact: Nancy Pelosi beats the stock market. She does very well in options trading.

https://www.fineprintdata.com/post/pelosistocks

A recent example:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-buys-tesla-calls...
Maybe they want to protect people?
Your analysis is faulty, I've lived in Austria for 15 years and have extensive experience working professionally in the Balkan states - Kosovo, Serbia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic. I've also lived in the USA for many decades prior to moving to Europe, and I don't have a single nationalist bone in my body.

I can count the # of pro-NATO/pro-USA bootlickers in my professional circles on one hand, whereas the people who are categorically opposed to America's continued committing of crimes against humanity cannot be so simply counted. You seem to be aligned with the "might makes right" theory of geopolitics, but this is not the case among the people of the states I'm familiar with. Most of them want the criminal human rights violations to end - on all sides - but are not so stupid to ignore the American side, just because its shiny and plastic.
On the flip side, it would be nice if you would stop lynching negroes.
2b2t is the famous one.
Thanks for the one sensible take. You can bet that the USA would invade if say, Mexico or Canada decided to engage in a NATO-like alliance with China or Russia. In fact, you only have to look as far as Cuba, a mere 90 miles from the continental USA; a country the USA failed to invade in violation of international law during the Bay of Pigs invasion in the 1960s. It is pretty rich when Western countries whine about sovereignty when they would do exactly the same thing if the shoe was on the other foot.
OP is asking about how to avoid web dev but 3/4 of the comments are recommending different types of web dev.

I think they want to learn more about the world of mobile apps, desktop software, graphics, games, embedded systems, ai, audio processing, etc

In games, the pay sucks and you should avoid it. It can be lucrative for founders however, it’s just the employees who lose out
Wouldn't this mean that it is NOT a free market? If she is somehow privy to information that I'm not and laws don't seem to be able to touch politicians, then I just don't see how this can be a free market.
Maybe a solution is they have to notify the public a few days before a trade. Pelosi to sell X shares of XYZ company at a price $Z or above.
This all comes with a time limit however. Because of the demographics of Russia, they will not be able to keep this military industrial base up for more than a couple of decades. It is really a case that Russia are currently at their strongest militarily (unless something drastic changes).

With this in mind, the west's strategy of economic pressure makes some more sense. The economic pressure will help this strength window last for less time, and perhaps even cause some internal issues that will distract away from foreign adventures.
There is also:

"Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4706048/

The book 'Real Magic' is related:

https://www.deanradin.com
No, then you would just say you have an account.

If you subscribe to a YT channel, you would just say you subscribe to the channel or you are a subscriber. You wouldn't say you have a "subscription" with the channel. That makes no sense.
Has China invaded Taiwan yet?

From a more cynical, pragmatic "realpolitik" perspective one can view Russian actions in Ukraine as largely defensive. From the collapse of the Soviet Union Ukraine largely functioned as a semi-protectorate of Russia, even before 2014 Russian probably had significantly more troops stationed in Crimea than Ukrainians themselves since their black sea fleet is stationed there. After the events of 2014 Russia saw that long-term they are likely going to loose Ukraine anyway and basically decided to cut their losses and at least maintain the control of Crimea. It's not like Russia actually wants to fully annex the regions in eastern Ukraine their currently fighting over, they just want a semi permanent conflict which would destabilize Ukraine politically and to ensure that the Ukraine could never join NATO (and likely the EU), since NATO accepting Ukraine would be basically equivalent to them declaring war on Russia..
What is the `quote` command that example pipes to? Seems handy but unsurprisingly hard to search for.
Japanese property bubble was the late Eighties. Stock market tanked in 1990, real estate followed in 1991. Most of the Eighties I heard "The Japanese are taking over America. They're winning an economic war."
> I work for a publicly traded company. I am only allowed to purchase stock in the company during certain windows, and IIRC, only in certain amounts. I can't trade or play with options related to the stock at any other time.

I assume you are an officer at the company in question? I've never heard of a general restriction on employees buying stock in their own publicly traded company, aside from specific employees in certain positions.
What is the best place to learn Rails now ?
Yes, editable != globally editable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy

On top of this, bots such as ClueBot will most dong postings on even less trafficked locations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClueBot_NG
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...
This is why we've built security policies at Mantium. You can run the input and output through an offensive speech detector, and halt replies the prompt if "badness" is detected. This is, of course, an imperfect system because philosophies around what is offensive can be very diverse, but we find that security policies are helpful.
If you are using GPG keys and have the master key backed up somewhere you can fairly easily use that on an offline machine to add the new key to the full batch of password files without needing to perform a million button presses.