skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Warsaw Pact military policy, planning and wargaming was defensive in nature against a presupposed NATO aggression. The Warsaw Pact itself was formed as a reaction against NATO, which was formed first.

The famous "Seven Days to the River Rhine" [1], a Soviet designed 7-day scenario of limited nuclear war between the Warsaw Pact and NATO presupposed a NATO nuclear first-strike.

It goes against Cold War era propaganda and of course Hollywood paranoid fiction like Red Dawn, but the Warsaw Pact -- as far as NATO was concerned -- was preparing for a defensive war against the West.

Satellite countries and "failing" communist allies are a different matter, and of course the Soviets steamrolled them when they thought it was needed.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine
> Most Soviet war plans that we know of where either defensive in nature

Soviet Union had an invasion plan of Western Europe. That's the end of the story.
Counterpoint: if you can avoid it keep FAANG off your resume.

I’ve always made sure to hit top-tier pay and a FAANG entry on your CV is an instant disqualification.
'early retirement' doesn't mean sit down and do nothing.

for me personally it mean getting the opportunity to not be shackled by money.

you can spend the rest of your life working on whatever project/idea you want without it ever needing to be perverted by money in order to sustain yourself.

a lot of problems/services solved by many business would be more effective for both sides if the business didn't have as a goal first generating profit and then solve stated problem second (or further down the list of priorities)
Have they? As far as I'm aware, sleep states are "supported" in hardware well enough, but doesn't prevent software/settings from not using them correctly.

Not that I blame them, there are many different sleep states from core/package level [0] that map onto system/platform level sleep states [1]. Fucking confusing, and I'm sure something is waking it up. Have you checked Windows Task Scheduler? My college laptop had a Norton Antivirus scan wakeup at 5am every day and would be re-enabled every Windows Update, similar pain to you

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
[1] https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/63346-sleep-states-avail...
Most of the servers are actually in newest DEAC data centre and not the one in the bunker. The biggest difference I can think of is sending limit. You get the same support even if you are free user (human phone support, support chat, contact form). IMAP access (with custom password) will be enabled only if you validate mobile phone number (Anti spam measure). Our files storage has limited parallel download limit for trial/free users. We also have native iOS/Android apps
This is the best cookie selector pop up ever. Seriously, we need that everywhere as long as we are subjected to the nonsense

Also.. $379? Jesus Christ
> it could be drastically simpler if you adopt a few SaaS products (using free-tier)

For some people (including me), the risk involved in any SaaS product suddenly either dropping or imposing unworkable restrictions on free tier is high enough to make the extra work involved in self-hosting worth it. (Granted, my current self-hosting setup is a lot simpler than the one described in this article, but even if mine were more complex I would still say the same thing.)
Looks like this article is just what you need. The electric jackets and blankets are available as well.
I make a partial living with cross-platform, native desktop software (C++) ( e.g., https://www.phototangler.com ). That one is sold primarily to individuals, sales vary greatly month to month, and in general seems to slow down a bit each year. Beyond my own web site, I've managed to get that one on Steam and the Microsoft store, but neither of those move too many units.

My personal experience with selling other desktop apps over the years (many of which are now discontinued) has been that either people would pay for it (at all) or they wouldn't, after which it's mostly a matter of marketing to get more eyes on it. That is, I've had several other apps that didn't sell a single copy no matter how much traffic they received. And for the ones that do sell, doing targeted ad campaigns can definitely drive sales up, but in turn can be pretty expensive.
thing is, it's really not that hard to get good at so whatever? (especially if you have a CS degree)
They are changing to annual this year.
Everyone in this thread is saying they’re happy it’s going to streaming and not theaters. Well, cool, but it was going to be streaming at some point but now we have less options. Some of us like going to the theaters.
Before I clicked I thought “man, a single config.nix for his whole system? this is going to be big…” But I’ve continually been surprised how little configuration you actually need to do in nixos. I’ve been planning on configuring Home assistant on an RPi myself, so this will help. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve had a few day trips up to Abhayagiri monastery near Ukaih, CA. It’s incredibly peaceful.

https://abhayagiri.org
Yes, the poor victim Soviets. Not expansionist at all. You can make up whatever rationalizations you want, but they did conquer other countries on a scale rarely seen in history. The rest, your claims about their motivations and poor victimhood, are baseless.
> Intel Edison: Coming soon!

wow, that site is old! Edison was discontinued back in 2017

> © 2012-2015 Aalto University and Spacetime Networks.

yep, probably needs [2015] in the title

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Re system itself: this is pretty low on details. One big problem in the gossip-based system like those is a selection of data by the intermediate nodes. For example, let's say there is a farmer at east end of the city who is publishing hundreds of pictures of their chickens non-stop, and there is someone else on the west end of the city who is interested in those pictures. What will happen? Will every phone in town have all of their storage full with picture of chickens? Or perhaps it will not work at all -- but in this case, who is going to be making this decision?
An ELI5 on what are the imputs and maximization criterium?
That usually only applies to the tiny fraction of people who can build new.
You don't actually want implementation defined behavior. There is no restriction on implementation defined behavior, it just needs to be documented. Suitable documentation includes "the optimizer assumes this never happens and optimizes accordingly.", or "Look at the source code."
Amazing video by Dan, as always. This should be recommended watching for anyone who ever tweets about crypto, NFTs or "Apes"
It’s an entirely rational decision. The kinds of people who take a fat salary from FAANG are the exact kinds of people I want to keep out of my companies at all costs.

They are negative value add employees and I’ve yet to find a better way to filter them.
There was a rather incompetent attempt that was quickly rolled up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pastorius
Surely if your business has such a strong moral stand on hiring former Facebook employees, you can name it?
>fragile people like yourselves

> a sad coward like yourself

Personal attacks are against HN rules
I would like to know this as well. Anyone willing to write off literally millions of engineers because they happened to work at some huge companies is someone worth avoiding.
True, my domain is also from Google domains (it's a .dev). I didn't think this feature was exclusive to that, but maybe it is.
This sounds wonderful. But one argument used against 50/50 and in favor of asymmetric time is "kids need continuity". This inevitably favors the mother. "60/40" means the father gets every other weekend and one night a week. Numerically this works out to 80/20 and even young children are quite aware of who their real parent is. It is horrible but it is also SOP for most jurisdictions in the US, and I am not being hyperbolic when I say it's a real, first-world humanitarian crisis. Children do not fair well without fathers, and yet our system degrades the very notion of fatherhood every chance it gets. Furthermore, the bad actors that populate family courts - judges, lawyers, police, therapists, mediators, visitation center workers - they all know the score and as a father you are truly a second-class citizen. You see the children at the whim of your wife, and literally no-one gives a single shit. Why the system is not 50/50 is beyond me, because the argument for continuity is absolutely ridiculous on its face. The real reason it continues is that in family court mothers have far more rights than fathers. Full stop. It's sexist, it's harmful to the children, and yes, I'll even say it's harmful for the father (although you're not supposed to say that, and if you do the system assumes you're lying to be manipulative).

This 60/40 aka 80/20 situation is the good outcome for most fathers. It really only gets worse from there. If you give the judge attitude, they will have no problem putting you on supervised visitation indefinitely.
What you are saying has no basis in fact (and then you bring in actual fiction!). How about some significant evidence? There is plenty of the Soviets conquering and taking away the freedom of dozens of countries.
As someone who worked remote at a large company and spent the last year or so doing this, I don’t think it’s a viable long term solution, at least for me. I’ve been traveling every month (7 times in other countries), spent countless hours gaming, got some certificates, etc, etc.. all the while still looked at as a “top performer” on my team. Due to the nature of bigger organizations (or at least mine), there isn’t an option for me to take on more responsibility or extra work (I can’t help but ask for these things too often and get general feedback of “slow your roll, that’s not how it works here”). I played around with the idea taking on a part time job or consulting or something, but I’ve come to the conclusion that I would find greater purpose/meaning spending my full headspace in a single job I was passionate about. This is definitely a first world problem, and I’m lucky to have the opportunity to be in this type of situation. It’s also not the same way everyone feels, since there are a lot of people that are at big organizations for long periods of time, but I share sentiment with the article and parent comment.
Commands you use every day in the CLI? In your editor?

I can trivially enter Emacs and modify Apache config when it breaks backwards compat between distribution upgrades, but when it's infrastructure as code...
The point is getting a few hours of productive work in some enviroments takes more and more and more effort that it seems impossible to even keep trying.
Not everyone wants to live in Arizona. Picking a location with natural greenery expands the labor pool.
Don't forget the Web 3 consortium, but that's just for the three Ws.

The concept of web 3 was introduced to me in ~'09 by a technologist friend saying the logical progression of web 2.0 is complete interconnectivity of websites. Site A is going to be able to communicate with site B to form meaningful experiences. This sounds a bit like the metaverse or at a basic level mass adoption of APIs in web development. It was a smart take but not what web 3.0 came to mean in the immediate future.

For a while, Web 3.0 was widely accepted as the semantic web, a new set of standards and ideas about how data should be structured on the internet. This sort of came to pass—interestingly, search engines pushed this hard, to the point where there's not much left to talk about. I think the semantic web concept fell out of the conversation because it's not very exciting and is/has been in continuous adoption without any disruption or substantial difference to end users.

The new Web3 is all about disruption. A meaningful change in what the internet is/how it is used is what marked the gradual shift from Web 1.0 to web 2.0. It would make sense if the change from 2 to 3 was more substantial than semantics...

That said, do I like any of the concepts being offered as the future of the internet? Not at all. I'll wait for the next definition of the 3, or at least the second service pack.
They're more or less of a requirement depending on where you live (or where your boat is). People have frozen to death both in houses and on boats.
>If you ask one person a coding question, you should probably do the same for everyone, otherwise you expose yourself to legal liability.

No! This does not mean you must interview Jr engineers and Sr engineers identically!

You can drop the leet coding requirements for experienced candidates and have no legal worries as long as all similarly experienced candidates are interviewed and judged similarly. It's actually extremely common for companies to have different interviews for different experience levels.
I read that as "if you're coming from a FAANG/MAGMA company, we'll compensate you extra for the RSUs you'll be giving up when leaving".
A volcanologist explains what we know about this once-in-a-lifetime eruption
Centrally planned economies are capable of interesting things!
What planet / company do you work at?
Hopefully this is a sign of things to come. I look forward to the day when my grandchildren ask me if there really used to be buildings that showed movies to the public.
It used to be kind of the norm. We just called it vernacular architecture back then and chalked it up to "local style" rather than fully grasping that it such regional styles were the product of using locally sourced materials and then designing to the best of our ability for human comfort given the local weather and climate.
Present Moment Awareness Guided Meditation
Which one? It's possible one existed, so I'd like the exact title so we can debate the aims of the plan.

For example, the "Seven Days to the River Rhine" plan was explicitly a reaction to an hypothetical NATO first strike, which the Soviets believed was a possibility.

> That's the end of the story.

No, discussion doesn't work like that.
> It’s not like america didn’t do the exact same thing in South America, but on the other side of the political spectrum.

What did America do in South America that you think is "the exact same thing" as the USSR's establishment — and four decades of control — of puppet communist governments across central and eastern Europe?
Congratulations. I look forward to watching where ScrapingBee will be in another few years. This is certainly a gap in the market which you can fill.

This new look for your website is also great. What front end framework + back end stack are you using?
Not going to dox myself.

> I haven't worked at FAANG

I doubt that.

> but I most definitely would not want to work for a company like yours.

You do you. But I make sure we pay way above average, I want the best people and the best people don’t work for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.
Whites would have reestablished empire and put whatever Romanov bolsheviks did not murder on the throne? Stalin would be dead.. Beria, Ezhov and co too. :)

It would be an amazing thing if bolsheviks could be strangled in the cradle. I think only Poles had a chance if they waged their offensive through Ukraine better, western powers had no real say in any of it after the ww1 bloodletting nobody was going to go invade Russia.
You can save in ordinary taxable accounts, too. The sky is the limit.
Sure, maybe it is "first world." That doesn't change anything. If I'm stuck at home making 80$ an hour and I hate it, then it doesn't matter how "first world" it is- I'm still going to figure out how to change the situation.

Are you saying that people who are dissatisfied with privileged situations shouldn't have opinions or write about them? Everything is relative.
On the flip side, the main downside I found was my travel router supports vanilla WireGuard but not Tailscale.
It used to be people just didn't live where it was too hot to live without AC. Now they do.
I'm curious what the source is as well. My growth these days amounts to growing wider and then thinner and I'm old enough to have clothes from both periods so there's no need to get more. So on one hand, 68 articles of is only imaginable if new socks are counted in the equation.

As someone with children, however, it actually seems low. Really young children will grow a couple sizes a year. Then you only cycle through an entire wardrobe (summer, fall, winter, spring, bathing suits etc) once every year or two. Eventually they get older but then there's activities, sports uniforms, girl scout uniforms, the latest sports star's jersey or ball cap, and otherwise start to care what they're wearing and want to be part of that decision making process.

So yes, while it's fun to paint Americans as waste engines who throw away clothes because they can't be bothered to wash them or wouldn't dare to be caught dead in something that's already been worn, I think the truth may be a little less sensational than that.
Yes, very stressful for both individual contributors and managers. IMO many of FB dysfunctions are attributable directly to PSC and its focus on impact. When promotions and even continued employment are on the line, short-term thinking takes over and every decision is optimized through the lens of the performance review. The great work life balance the author described is far and between in that company.
I like the Ergo Proxy references.
An important gotcha is buried at the end:

> The CAMELS collaboration cooks up its universes using two different recipes. A neural network trained on one of the recipes makes bad density guesses when given galaxies that were baked according to the other. The cross-prediction failure indicates that the neural network is finding solutions unique to the rules of each recipe. It certainly wouldn’t know what to do with the Milky Way, a galaxy shaped by the real laws of physics.
Well, then like with any other trade-off, we need to quantify and refine:

* How much does the vaccination status reduce the chance of death/hospitalization?

* How does it differ among age groups?

* How does it change over time (not 2 doses vs. booster, but by time since the last dose)?

* How does it affect the transmission rates? Given how many people are critical to masks/vaccines, you can easily find volunteers to do transmissibility tests in 2 buildings of comparable layout.

* What about comorbidities? How does the benefit of losing extra weight compare to an extra vaccine dose?

* What about suicides and the mental health in general?

* How often are new variants expected to appear and what is the estimated vaccine efficiency against them?

* What about the treatments? Can they be scaled up to be more affordable?

Considering and openly discussing these factors could help our society find a reasonable compromise, but we are not doing that. We are pushing a single solution that benefits a small economic group at the expense of everyone else, and are recruiting the general population to wage a holy war against the dissenters. I don't like this at all.
Tencent has been bogged down by CCP’s crack down. It’s valuation is likely higher than the market is putting it at, unless CCP continues their stuff even more. Money that Microsoft has doesn’t matter to a company that also pumps out billions in profit like Tencent. They have no reason to ever give up an inch of their 40% stake. Microsoft wouldn’t be able to own it or Unreal realistically. Tencent is a bigger gaming company than Microsoft.

Cool you’re seeing how much Tencent controls. However the linked site doesn’t give good data and info. Tencent has stakes in far more things and the stakes they have are known too. While the site lists only a fraction of them. Including not listing much, much bigger stakes they have. Or not listing the actual specific stakes they have in companies like Kakao which are known. Or not saying their Epic Games stake percentage.

I should get to posting content! My notes on Tencent are pretty detailed if I may put humbleness aside for a second lol. But I don’t publish anything. Seeing sites with such weak info, is motivating.

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Yeah there isn’t much choice in any thing. I don’t care about games, but Take Two (Grand Theft Auto, etc) are the 3rd biggest independent gaming developers and publishers. They have a market cap or $28B and are buying Zynga for $13B. Zynga themselves have swallowed dozens of companies amounting to a couple billion. EA, the 2nd largest, bought Popcap who make Bejeweled and Zombie vs Plant. Pokémon Go developer is valued in the billions and Google, Nintendo, among others have sizable stakes in it.

For all the positives HN and other geeks give Steam and Valve. They still charge a 30% cut. Only finally changing it up a bit because of Fortnite’s profits letting Epic Games compete with their 12% cut. So as much as saying Fortnite going away is no problem. At least they are the ones fighting the three headed modern gaming walled gardens of iOS App Store, Play Store, and Steam. Sure, it’s more like the enemy of my enemy situation, but that’s better than them not being around.

Edit: thanks for the reply! Most people don’t reply after the first 24 hours. Just set up a bot to get reply notifications. Was happy to geek out on this topic for a bit. Even though the bigger issues of monopolies and how screwed us normal people are, are not pleasant.

If you wanna get wilder if you’re an SO user. Prosus, who owned 40%, maybe 32% these days, of Tencent, bought Stackoverflow :P. They have also invested in many tech companies.
Definitely there, but author probably didn’t find those fulfilling. The rest are leisure activities, which might again not work when a problem solver is looking to apply themselves.
Candles can apparently output close to 100W of heat. Why do you say it wouldn’t make a difference in a small space such as a car?
Do note that bonus and promotion are tied to performance, which is huge at senior level. So if you're not motivated to perform, you may actually be better off taking a pay cut to follow your passions, both emotionally and financially.
> under the control of people who wish them ill

A bunch of victimhood to excuse their bad actions (and change the subject). So they are sacrificing assets and essential services to the American people for political revenge? They won't provide public goods to Democrats?
I tied that in to heating/cooling. Basically all energy in the home is spent making things hot or cold. Lighting, TVs, laptops, etc may as well be free for the power they consume.
being absolutely committed to someone, sharing your life with them, and raising a family.
What's PSC?
Thanks for the info. However, getting a 403 on the link?
That is a thing I was trying to say; I suppose I must have not said it very clearly if you thought it needed to be said again. Thank you for clarifying.
Some really nice ones of Bristol though that I went through. Damn, how many West Country folks are on here?
> vastly better search

I suppose, but I refuse to give it any credit for finally fixing the search that worked fine over a decade ago.

The rest is pretty marginal.
https://archive.is/YFKPR
I mean, if you've been brainwormed by the idea that FAANG (what, literally all of them?) are _strongly net negative_ compared to the most realistic counterfactual that would spring up in their absence, and not only that, but that engineers working there are therefore morally tainted, then sure.

But no, I don't work for FAANG. I could say the same about any of my previous places of employment, none of which were even tech companies (unlike the current place).

But let's put all that aside - how does refusing to hire someone _leaving_ one of those companies improve the situation? Are you trying to establish an equilibrium where it becomes more costly in expectation to join one of those companies, because it might be harder to find another job afterwards? Good luck, I guess! I don't expect you'll move the needle much, especially given that there'll be quite a few people actively working against efforts like that.