skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least those games give you some exercise rather than grinding you into sedentary ill health.
After years of not playing a single game I picked up a Nintendo Switch a few months back and every title I have played is great. I’ve been playing Mario Odyssey for more than a month and it’s still a fantastic game to pickup and run around in for 15-30 minutes. Loved Link’s Awakening as well.
> I’ve never heard of an ex ICPC competitor go on to build a great piece of software

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Without warning and without contacting us first, Digital Ocean blocked public IP access to one of our critical production servers on a Friday evening on the basis of a third-party security firm reporting to them that we were hosting a phishing page. We were, in fact, not hosting a phishing page. If DO had done minimal due diligence before blocking us they could have confirmed this. However, it took until the next Monday before DO support responded to our explanations that the phishing report was a false positive and unblocked our IP.

We moved to AWS.
Tl;Dr: we don't know why visitors to India go nuts, but just enough do that some specialize in it.

The number who come to their attention is quite small, against the number who visit.
Here is an interesting lecture Vladimir Pozner (Russian journalist) gave at the Yale University about Putin, the Unites States and Ukraine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ

It's 3 years old, but relevant up until today, imho.
Are you arguing that if Europe stops using Google Analytics that is a bad thing?
They put our prime minister in jail once and got the last one to prosecution so yes.

I think the USA has a problem with the way police and guns are viewed. There's a sense of distrust in authority which is sometimes justified. But also breeds overly defensive and pretty bad officers.

The standards are low. The pay is low and everybody hates them. Who would want to be a police officer?

So the problem feeds itself, bad people become police officers. Good people look around and quit.
Similarly, Fiend by Stenson. Meth prevents zombification but introduces plenty of other disfunction.
Something that was confusing to me while reading the paper was that there were other compounds they talked about having high potential, but didn't actually test, such as THC-A. Am I misunderstanding this part of the paper?
> Skilled trades pay better than most bachelor's degree track jobs.

Is this a problem that needs fixing? We don't have enough plumbers & electricians (for example), many in those fields are retiring and until lately there haven't been enough people entering those trades to replace those retiring. Now we're probably going to start seeing people enter those trades at a higher rate than in the recent past. These are very good paying jobs and often it's hard to find a plumber or electrician when you need one.
When I hear this, I start thinking, are they getting called because of too much security?
I use vultr just because it's super easy... No idea if it's better or worse than DO or Linode or whatever but it does what I need it to do.
Well to be honest, I think it was a great thing that we got out of Afghanistan. If it was up to me, we'd get out of the whole middle east. It doesn't benefit me in the slightest to have troops halfway around the world, killing millions and pissing off entire nations of people.

That's my whole problem with this US Empire - it doesn't actually benefit regular people. It just helps rich execs of defense and oil companies. I think my life would be better off if the US was friends with Russia and nations in the MidEast. There's no reason for me to want enemies.

And moreover, from the geopolitical standpoint, why is it in the US's core interest to have Ukraine in NATO? We control our entire home continent, and the oceans, and multiple other continents, including basically all of Europe. Did we really need this additional country in the alliance? It seems to me we are less safe if Russia is really pissed off at us.
Dealing with abused children is unfortunately common in pediatric medicine and is a huge reason for burnout in the field, because a doctor will know about neglect happening that’s not “bad enough” to call someone about, or if they do, they know nothing will happen because even the services to get kids out of neglectful situations are themselves rife with abuse.
> Citing a blog post by the Brookings Institution is very funny to me

There is no shortage of sources on the ambiguity of this alleged promise [1][2]. More critically, there is a total absence of sources from Putin. Because he doesn't have any. Because when nations agree to things, they do so by issuing public declarations and/or signing treaties.

[1] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/us/politics/russia-ukrain...
This is a fascinating read.

If the Earth speeds up enough, we might find ourselves pondering over the possibility of a negative leap second. According to the Time and Date folks [0], a day in 2021 is averaging about 0.2ms faster than the 84600 atomic seconds per day, ~70ms/year, so at most 14 years of this would put us over the threshold (super unlikely). In reality, we don’t have to speed up a full 1000ms of rotation speed because there was always a fractional difference in UT1-UTC.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/earth-faster-rotation.html
It's not about loving company.

I'm traumatized from childhood abuse (but not sexual abuse), and knowing how many people are neglected/abused by their caregivers lets me know that:

a.) There is nothing about me that caused the situation. Since I'm a very strange human, that's good to know: They weren't abusing me because I was too hard to parent or because I didn't act like a normal child.

b.) "This too shall pass." Trauma has impacts on my life, but, with the example of others, I can move on and make decisions that help address the damage.
I am not sure if you are still monitoring these replies, but if you are I would just like to bring to your attention this development from today, which speaks directly to your assertion that DoJ does not view Jan 6 as an insurrection:

Stewart Rhodes — founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, whose members are accused of being key players in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress — has been indicted and arrested, people familiar with the matter said Thursday.
The 56-year-old, who was at the Capitol that day but has said he did not enter the building, is the most high-profile person charged in the investigation so far. He and 10 others were charged with seditious conspiracy, these people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

https://archive.is/lbETR

Jan 6 is an ongoing story, it’s developing in real time. DoJ is working up the chain of command. They’ve been working on the rubes and foot soldiers for the past year. Now they are going after lieutenants with seditious conspiracy charges. Once those charges start sticking (and they will) the DoJ will go after the generals of the Jan 6 insurrection.
Will the music industry sue the 1978 me, with the tape recorder right next to the radio, and me holding the "record" button to catch my favorite songs (along with the banter leading right up to the first lyrics)?
YouTube injecting unrelated suggested videos in search results
> many services that could be used by non-technical people and had a built in monetization system for information providers

There's still a Minitel today: it's the Apple ecosystem.

Minitel demonstrated regular people were willing to buy services on a machine (phone, phone-like terminal, computer) and use it as part of their normal lives.
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>It's one of the oldest tricks in the book.

I mean, isn't this also the tactic used in the late 1800s in the western U.S. to give a reason to pacify Native Americans? Promote U.S. citizens into frontier homesteads and then use the military to protect them/annex land?
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To be fair Crimea does have a majority ethnic Russian inhabitants. Wikipedia lists Crimea's demographics as 65% while others were lower at 58% or thereabout. Given many of those Russians were there from the Soviet era or direct descendants, it doesn't seem too crazy of a claim. The US and NATO countries have done worse for less. Now invading Ukraine? Thats another thing altogether.
Certification time varies greatly.

A pretty good set of AWS welding certs can be done in 6wk of night classes.

You can't get paid money to install a toilet in some states until you've started as the jobsite bitch, worked your way up and payed years of your life into the system to get in a position to even be eligible to take the test.

The latter tends to only happen after regulatory capture.
The whole premise of the workplace is to not treat people as humans, but as coworkers.

Sex is one of the most essentially human things. "Professional" behaviour excludes sex.

So "treat people as humans" is decisively not clear advice for cases like this.
I agree that many parties have seized on the opportunity presented, and I am just as apathetic to which institutions will cease to exist in any disruption to their finances. the concept will remain around.
> If they came back in tears and were removed from the jury, then the system worked.

Not true, since no abusers came back in tears and were removed from the jury.

Or do you consider abusers impartial but abuse victims biased?
Instead, the token (a text string) will be an "object" (a non fungible token) that you prove is in your wallet with zk proofs,

wallet being on whatever chain(s) decided upon as ubiquitous in the coming year.
If I got a job for a top tier firm and all I could afford was a 2 bedroom apartment, I'd suspect I was played.

What was the point then? "Come for the tech" sure and leave because of anything/everything else.

One of many reasons I will never set foot in the US with the intent to stay: Y'all are nuts
I completely agree, we need better compartmentalization/specialization and a better way to target specific skillsets and experiences. Not knowing how to hire the right people is a source of so many problems in the industry.

20 years ago, all you had to do was get a "certification" in some technology and you'd immediately be hired to work on it. That led to a lot of really bad people getting hired because all they did was learn how to pass a test. Today, hiring in tech doesn't require any piece of paper at all. But that means that instead of relying on some standard format to prove your baseline body of knowledge, the interview process now has to do it ad-hoc, and it never seems to fit the role's actual requirements.

And nowhere in the industry have we ever required training on how to actually do a job. Does the candidate know what an SDLC is? Do they write ADRs? Have they juggled multiple changes in flight on a team with large codebases? Do they have a solid grasp of the strange subtle quirks of their tech? Have they learned to be judicious in their decisions and weigh the many long-term pros and cons? Have they ever developed any project with a team?

Trades typically require an industry board to certify them, and then often require years of apprenticeship under journeymen or masters. I think these two would go a long way towards leveling the incredible amounts of variation in candidates and eliminate these ridiculously ill-suited interviews.
Can I just say that the "relationship" theme of this article comes off as a tad ... creepy? Completely detracts from the substantive content.

>many years ago when we both were young. It was love at first sight – The elegant UI, the ease of use, the dirt-cheap price was everything I was looking for in a partner.

>There was no downtime, highly reliable as a partner and supported me with every problem I faced in life.

>I understood how to work with her and things to expect from her. Never before had she let me down. It was smooth sailing until recently when problems in our relationship started to surface. She expected more from me and wanted to change me.
There's a lot of talk of compensation here, but I do think it's more connected to toxic work culture. I left my job in March after my company aimed to lay off 25% of its workforce after the pandemic hit. It was hard, because while our revenues dropped substantially, we had just made huge profits the previous year. I understood the reasons why they wanted to cut, but it just felt reactionary and not forward looking, especially when we had a couple big projects on the way. Add in a couple of years of feeling like I wasn't getting recognized for my performance and the realization that I was probably going to be put into an overworked code monkey position, I decided it was time to move on. I think this is much more like what people are feeling now than just a thirst for more money.
But at the same time, the non-AAA part of the industry is thriving. The amount of creative, original(!), quality games out there by 1-10 people teams is absolutely amazing. I'd go so far as to say that we're actually in the golden age of gaming. I for one blame nothing except my lack of time and energy.
Medicare in the US has negotiated rates they will pay for medical services. The "retail" price is very often extremely high but knocked down to what the government agrees to pay for Medicare patients. A similar system for college loans would allow the government to still offer loans but with caps on how much colleges could charge for tuition to students with government loans. The problem is uncapped tuition and loan terms that allow lenders to offer tremendously large sums of money to students in a low risk way because the students can't declare bankruptcy or discharge the loans in any easy way.
Since that was published, the earth has been slowing down gradually. I keep a casual eye on IERS Bulletin A, which has the latest earth rotation observations, predictions for the next year, and a simple formula for longer-term estimates. https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Publications/Bulletins/bulletin...

The line I look at is

UT1-UTC = -0.1204 + 0.00020 (MJD - 59593) - (UT2-UT1)

which gives the current value of UT1-UTC (if -0.1204 grows to more than about +0.5 then we need a negative leap second) and the estimated long-term difference between earth’s rotation and 24x60x60 seconds (0.20 ms fast was up to 0.26 ms fast a few months ago).

Actually, I have some code that looks at Bulletin A for me, https://github.com/fanf2/bulletin-a which until recently was estimating that the next leap second would be a negative leap second in about 2028/9. But now its guess is receding into the future past 2030.

I have a few tweet threads on this topic, which you can find via https://twitter.com/fanf/status/1478767806187552776 with some clicky-clicky to dig the older ones out of twitter’s delightful user interface.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25145870 for some previous discussion here on this topic.

So nothing dramatic is likely to happen any time soon, though the current situation is quite weird.
>I don't blame Russia's stance.

As a Russian I say you are completely wrong. The current crisis is entirely manufactured by Putin and his authoritarian needs, which are contrary to the actual needs of the Russian people. The Baltic states joined NATO in 2004, and there isn't much difference in nuke flight time between a launch from Latvia or from Kharkiv, so the entire premise that Ukraine potentially joining NATO somehow threatens Russia is a ruse. What's really going on is that Putin's popularity is falling, and he needs a) distractions b) to fullfill the imperialistic need that has been propagandized out of every hole for the last 15+ years (I.e the need Putin himself created), and through that increase his popularity. For some time the conflict in the eastern Ukraine served that purpose, but people's eyes and ears got tired of that, so he has to up the stakes. Also an endless conflict with a great adversary is a good justification to further limit the scraps of freedom that remain, and justify the poor state of the economy, arrest people for being "foreign agents" etc etc -- something that the North Korean monarchy has perfected.

>NATO should've been disbanded.

If that happened the Baltic states would have already been occupied by Russia, to protect the Russian minority of course. Nobody forced east European countries to join NATO, it's in their interest, it preserves their sovereignty.

America is imperialist too, but it's much more benign imperialism, focused on furthering globalism, democratic rule, and capitalists' profits. Russian imperialism only brings submission and authoritarianism -- the main narrative is sacrificing oneself for the imperialist rodina like the деды.
600 horsepower each. The whole turbine has tens of megawatts of mechanical power output.
Irony. I think the HN post took down the Slony website.
Do you have any recourse to sue the third-party security firm? Or Digital Ocean?
It is a crime that teachers are paid so poorly. No judgement was intended about career choices (I'm the GP).
I am the author here. Let me give you more context on this.

1. My Saas platform supports custom domains including naked domains and not just subdomains so it is important for me that the IP address remains the same when I add more capacity. I am running a single large droplet as of now and when I tried to add more instance + LB, DO wouldn't let me do that. Several people have asked this feature if you look in their forums. Unless I run and manage my own Haproxy/Nginx boxes, I cannot scale up.

2. This is currently a side project and I do not have additional time to maintain more resources which is why I am willing to spend more on a platform that provides me these features. This is not due to laziness as some people have commented.
It's for internal consumption. The average life quality is dropping both in Russia and the West, so the governments need to divert attention and redirect the frustration to external targets. The "NATO being a threat to the whole world" is the Russian version of "Climate Change will kill us all, so don't even think of starting a family (and wondering why your current salary makes it rather challenging)".
Kremlin File is an excellent podcast primarily about Russia's use of hybrid warfare to advance its agenda.

https://kremlinfile.com/
from the Russian point of view, offering NATO membership to Ukraine is an act of agression and they've been wrecking Ukraine for this ever since.
at ~1600 the ball started to spin too quickly for an intersection with that 10ms timer and there were 6 balls visible at the same time with my 144hz display. fun stuff.
>PRC already entertained WHO investigation. That's enough.

Entertained? Hardly. But if there is one thing China does well it's manipulating others to partake in or at least not dispute their highly effective propaganda machine.

The WHO is at the mercy of the PRC for access, and PRC knows that and has exploited it to their advantage from the very beginning, from changing long held naming conventions, to delaying access, to altering messaging so it falls in line with PRC's narrative.

>Now go validate PRC conspiracy theory that it was a leak from Fort Detrick, which is just as valid, knowing full well there's about zero chance US would open Fort Detrick to international scrutiny.

How is it just a valid? The virus was discovered in Wuhan, not near Fort Detrick.

China denied the outbreak was occurring and suppressed info on it for weeks and months, but now we're supposed to recognize their superb ability in identifying novel viruses? What good is early detection if it's a secret and only benefits locals? Why would they do that and keep international flights open if they suspected foreign origin and weren't taking actions consistent with containing an outbreak at its source?

That's either incompetence or suppression/censorship or both, but it in no way evidence of ability to identify early or respond quickly and effectively.
Oh Holy God, not another one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation
I don't know about mountain bikes or modern carbon fiber marvels, but older "steelie" road bikes are amazingly upgradeable.

The only thing that stops you from putting in a modern 11-speed compatible wheel is that the axle is 4mm longer, but that can be accommodated by "respacing" the frame. I've done it on one of my bikes, was a bit scary to do (you have to bend it out a lot more than 4mm to have it settle back to the right spacing) but in the end, easy.

You'll have to keep the rim brakes, obviously, and front derailers aren't very standardized. But the rest of the drivetrain, right up to modern outboard bearing crank sets, will fit your 35 year old frame just fine.

The cheap "MicroNew" shifters from Ali Express, while not as pretty as high end Shimano stuff, work fine - I've put a few thousand kilometers on the 7-speed and 8-speed version so far and they're comfortable and reliable if a bit "clicky".

Modern stems and handlebars can be fitted to your old fork by inserting one of those quill/threadless adapters.

All done with not much attention to weight, my modernized steel bikes weigh in around 12kg, which is heavy by carbon fiber standards, but not too bad.
"Why now?" is also a question I was wondering about.

But also, "What's the goal?". They obviously can't occupy the whole country (Ukraine is large and populous, that would be way too expensive). Do they want the eastern part (with a big Russian minority), land bridge to Crimea, or just extend Donbas/Luhansk or just reheat the conflict, destabilize the Ukraine?

It has to be something worthy. Ukrainian army is in a much better state than in 2014 and a full scale invasion could become very expensive and politically risky.

Or maybe it really is just sabre rattling and Putin wants something completely different (lifting of existing sanctions, NS2 completion...).
My guess is that they are blurring the lines between "results" and "recommendations" and optimizing for what people are most likely to click on.

Twitter must do something similar. I don't have an account, and every time I follow a link to a Twitter post, like from HN, all the posts shown below it are not about the original and are typically about polarizing political things.
Russia has always in been conflict with Western powers, and has been invaded on several occasions.
That's an optimistic take.

A more cynical take would be that content is expensive to create, and if players could just buy it, they wouldn't spend time playing the game. And if they stop playing the game, they stop paying for a subscription. Without something to "work" for, players would stop paying.

Which makes the title of this article ironic to me. As if game studios didn't invent grind decades ago. They turned "play into work" a long, long time ago. Gold sellers completed the cycle and enabled people to actually live off it.
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I was searching for comparison of kosher salt brands on youtube and noticed they are injecting suggested videos from my homepage feed into the search results. I can't wrap my head around how incredibly shady this is. I'd really like to slap whoever approved this 'feature'.