skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putin's claim is that he signed it with the legitimate government of Ukraine and that Ukraine is no longer legitimately governed since the Maidan "coup".

It's similar in nature to the UK's insistence that Venezuelan gold cant be sent back to Venezuela - since it is not legitimately governed. Or when revolutions take place and new governments decide that the debts of the "old" government dont apply to the new.

US also threatened sanctions against Ukraine in 2004 in violation of article 3, presumably under the same theory (& because they just didnt like yanukovych).

International law is mostly a matter might makes right and/or opinion it seems. There is no court, after all. One side's coup is another's spontaneous democratic uprising and one side's free and fair elections is another party's rigged ballot.
nor would that be a society you’d want to live in.

100% agreed. My first thought upon seeing the title of the article was "and we trust that you did read it?"

The term "zero trust" certainly has a very dystopian connotation to me. It reminds me of things like 1984.
It's up to the installed fonts really. I don't know if the combination of S + U is standardized as a Soviet Union flag emoji, but even if it is, your locally installed fonts may not contain every single flag emoji, so the browser would still fall back to rendering the two letters instead.
> If I notice stocks have gone down a lot recently, I'll hop into Vanguard, and swap anything that is underwater with another similar, but not identical fund.

How much effort do you have to put in to avoiding wash sales?
Count your blessings, my friend.
Why make it so complicated? Just assume everyone has a 2G connection (you don't see them because of a demographics problem, but 2G users are out there) and make sure all static information is accessible without JS. Don't think about web browser compat at all because that's a software problem which costs nothing to fix on the user end, while 2G and slow processors are hardware problems which cost a lot to fix.
For some reason, I just can't remember things for life.

Despite being fairly experienced and having a rather solid grasp of Python/Go/JS/etc I still have to look up basic things like file modes (with bash syntax being especially notorious for being forgettable to me).

What I'm good at, however, is keeping references in my head, i.e. I know precisely what to Google to get the exact answer that I want. This way I compensate for my bad memory.

And for the record, I'm in my 20s. Sometimes I worry if it's going to take a toll on my career in the long run but so far it hasn't been much of a problem (apart from being a source of insecurities).
> - Hard-coded waits in your code, like "Thread.sleep(1000)". A better alternative is to replace hard-coded waits with something that waits for an element or value to appear on the page.

We don't do any timed waits, all of our waits are for an element or value to appear, but these waits never complete sometimes, non-deterministically. We then added a long 5 min timeout on these waits because we know the test will never complete at that point. It's always fine in manual testing though, and if we don't run the browser in headless mode and watch it work. Very frustrating.

Sometimes the HTTP requests themselves timeout after a few minutes, but this never happens in manual testing either. That's actually the most common issue these days, and this happens non-deterministically too. This is what I meant by "flaky".
This is very outdated.

"Nuclear fuel reprocessing is performed routinely in Europe, Russia and Japan"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
Too many confounding variables, those measurements are useless.
There should not be any JS involved though, only a font able to render these grapheme clusters.

Do you see the US flag after "copy and paste this emoji" on https://emojipedia.org/flag-united-states/?
That's true of legacy VPNs like OpenVPN, and less true of modern VPNs. But either way: a VPN is a meaningful attack surface reduction for all internal apps that don't require individual apps to opt-in or stage changes for, and doesn't require point-by-point auditing of every app. Most organizations I've worked with would be hard-pressed to even generate an inventory of all their internal apps, let alone an assurance that they're properly employing web application security techniques to ensure that they're safe to expose on the Internet.

We're just going to disagree about this.
The most surprising chart was how large bundle sizes are when using React to build components.
Ok, feedback received. I was sharing my personal experience, as a counterpoint to the previous post. It seemed on topic and relevant based on the overall discussion.

I don't feel like my reply was nationalistic (I'm Canadian, we're the least patriotic people around!), inflammatory or nasty in any way, but I will skip these kinds of convos in the future.
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy suggests Joe Rogan should be censored
No, prices and wages are stickier and often don't move as fast as you think, even with digital communication. Menu and shoeleather costs remain serious harms of inflation even if you have some system where it is predictable. Anyway, it is not, look at how many macro people say for months "inflation is transitory" but no.
It could be.

I watch the FastAPI repos a lot and tones of people do not understand how async python works and put their models with sync code in an async context.
The 3M "Aura" N95s have a generous and durable nose pad that's basically eliminated this problem for me. They do get extremely humid on the inside though; I have to carry two and swap them every hour.
It's almost like a dogwhistle slips under the radar by design.

This isn't the own that you think it is; even if a lot of the people talking about CRT are the ones buying Bored Apes (which I am not conceding), this would just be evidence on how easy it is for racism to sneak into the common culture. It proves their point, not negate it.
There are plenty of country codes that when reversed become a different, valid country code: e.g. Israel (IL) when reversed is Lithuania (LI); Australia (AU) becomes Ukraine (UA).

Whether "reversing flag emojis" causes such transformations will depend on what is meant by "reversing", which is kind of the whole point here: there are a number of possible interpretations of "reverse".
I mean, I guess - or you can just use a private tab. Same difference, except way less complex.
Yep, same reasons Orthodox Christian countries are way behind. It's an uncomfortable topic, but Protestant dominant cultures are generally more equitable and less corrupt.
Your face hole is not virus spewing if you aren't sick.
To be fair, this was part of the NIST guidelines since Mar 2020. A whole appendix was added to justify it: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#appA
This comment is reasonable but the discussion lower in the thread devolved to something insane and infantilising.
An interesting take on this subject: https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/joe-rogan-podcast-covid-misin...

Their take is that censoring Rogan is not the answer. Having a clear, science and common sense based communication free of political meddling is the answer.
> Perhaps the particulars of the deal he signed still allows him to do this, in which case the investment company made a bad deal.

Or they factored that into the price. The dude is known for political activism as much as he is for his music.

Any investor who did their due diligence knows that Neil Young is very opinionated about how his music is used. So if he negotiated for continued control over his music, the investors should have known he was going to cost them money.
Galaxy brain image reversal: completely redraw it from scratch, with a viewpoint 180º from the original.
I recently read that most fume hoods aren’t powerful enough to remove the worst of it, but can’t find my source.
Yet another explanation: we have imperative languages, functional languages, and declarative languages. Ordered by level of abstraction. Prolog fits in the latter category, together with SQL and LINQ.
tilt is a local development tool for containerized apps that handles things like file watching, auto-rebuilds, etc. It can do k8s, multiple docker-compose setups, whatever. We've liked it so far: https://tilt.dev/
> For small projects, they get out of your way. For larger projects, their lack of defaults and structure slowly becomes their own undoing. Eventually you get a bad reimplementation of one framework or another with absolutely abysmal security.

The vast majority of projects I've worked on have been small projects, using big project technology.

Big frameworks (and here I'll speak more to enterprise react) make sense when you have at least one person it is whose fulltime job is be a sort of npm and tooling sysadmin. When you don't, and there's a small handful of you, it's heart-breaking when you all have to stop flying to perform arduous maintenance on your 747 you're ill-equipped to operate, instead of making progress in your cessna.
I had an opportunity to see it in action… well the guy took at least 20min to set up and event 100meters away i was hooked by the strong smell of unburnt kerozene…. in france you can barely put a sticker on your car legaly - forget any idea of even pseudo tuning - yet we are excited about gogo gadgeto burning flying man. it is so startup nation…
Interesting article. Written for beginners, conversationally. Has excessive amounts of whitespace, for "readability" I guess. But at the same time, it dives quite deep, which I don't think this "style" of presentation matches up with the amount of time a more novice reader is going to devote to a single long form article.

As to the content, for all the deep dive, a simple link to https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Flags and what an emoji is, would have saved so much exposition. I also wish he'd touched on normalization. With the amount of time he's demanding from readers he could have mentioned this important subject. Because then he could discuss why (starting from his emoji example) a-grave (à) might or might not be reversible, depending how the character is composed.

Also wish he'd pointed to some libraries that can do such reversals.
See the problem is that ukraine doesnt need to make chips to be important. Since the second world war the world has been split in half. West europe and america on one side and east europe and the soviets on the other side.

Africa, asia, the middle east, and latin america have been split between these two enormous social, economic and cultural blocks. Dictatorships and democracies in countries of these continents have one way or another been dismantled or assembled by one side or the other.

A weak response from nato to russia in ukraine means a weak west and a weak west means a strong china. The people of taiwan and pretty much anywhere outside europe and north america should pay attention to whats happening because the actions here will define their future. Just like in Georgia and Syria and now Ukraine Russia has proven that where it enters it can never be kicked out regardless of sanctions or military might.

China probably understands this and as such it took swift and decisive action in HK. Barely any response from the west.

If China is entering taiwan there will be zero reaponse as it has been proven that there is simply nothing short than total annihilation to stop Russia and China.
The Federal Reserve Is Popping the 'Everything Bubble'
Electrolyze the massive overproduction in the summer into gas, store it for the winter.
> How much would it cost to make things right and provide full unrestricted broadband to both counties?

That's such a weird way to see things.

Facebook is spending billions of dollars building broadband in developing countries, which isn't costing these countries anything except being able to use Facebook, and they should... apologize by spending more billions of dollars building broadband free of charge?

"Building infrastructure so you can have a dominant position in an emerging market" isn't remotely similar to "placing landmines".
> the reversal of the U.S. flag should result in having the Soviet Union flag.

Except it has been deleted from the ISO 3166-2 registry, so not having it is perfectly valid (arguably more so than having it).
I was thinking about this while watching a paraglider with propeller yesterday. I was thinking, maybe you could use tiny jets for this, but the question is why would you... this is already perfect [1]. Seems like jetpacks are a solution looking for a problem and at the same time highly impractical.

1. https://youtu.be/L1Z8YT6w7Rc
I would imagine that a product labeled as avocado oil which contains no avocado oil at all is illegal already even without a standard of identity. The food safety laws have general provisions for adulteration and misbranding, and products doing this are probably lying on the label and ingredient list.

Ones where there's half some other oil or something along those lines, maybe less clear-cut. Depending on the labeling that might or might not be illegal. And whether the FDA feels confident or interested in going after any of this is a whole other story.
> and the situation here is barely worse than places with prohibitive restrictions.

Are you sure about this?

I lived in a metro area in the middle of anti-COVID restriction land for a portion of the pandemic. Our hospitals were slammed during every surge, mostly with COVID cases from outlying counties.

Tiny rural hospitals didn't have case spikes, but really only because they functioned purely as funnels to the metro hospital systems. In one case, a county never had more than a single digit number of ICU admissions! Of course, the dashboard failed to mention that the sole hospital in that county only had a single digit number of ICU beds... guess where their overflow patients ended up?

At least in our case, if you looked at statistics on dashboards you got one story, but if you paid attention to the actual source of cases -- as opposed to which ICU the patient was sent to -- you got a very different story.
I think you might enjoy this video from Tom Nicholas, "The Myth of a Free Press: Media Bias Explained"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-8t0EfLzQo
He didn't threaten and wait until they blinked; he wasn't trying to bully them. It was simply "I do not want to do business with you while you support and provide a platform to that guy".

His letter -specifically asked his music be removed-, with that explanation as to why.

Your book is wrong. No one just boycotts something without also explaining why to the thing being boycotted; that -might- achieve in the business or whatever folding, if enough people do it, but it won't lead to them changing. -That- would be "cancel culture"; we won't tell you what you can do to fix things, we're just going to complain that you did a thing, take our ball, and go home.

If the goal is to have them change, not to kill them, you have to tell them what they need to change.
FIX is less ergonomic than JSON, that is not in question. FIX is much faster to generate and parse than JSON, and much easier to deal with than bespoke binary feeds.

I think FIX makes the right tradeoffs.

I don't understand what you mean regarding killing someone else's session. You can reset sequence numbers in the login message.
Watch an AI play the best game of Tetris
I've avoided applying to Google because I hear their work/life balance is terrible. I wonder if that has changed in the last 8 years? I'm curious what it's like to work for them lately.
I don't think that's about a JS library. Firefox bundles an emoji font that supports some things -- such as the flags -- that aren't supported by Segoe UI Emoji on Windows, so it has additional coverage for such character sequences.
Exactly.

Especially since having a kid (with the exception of adoption) is the slowest "bus" you can get hit by. You often get months of warning to work on a transition plan.
Probably not. Exaggerating but I could sell "Awesome Oil" without any actual awesome in it. Using Avocado in the name apparently is no different.
Messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on taxpayers locations
A hundred years should be enough time to make enough renewable energy to replace nuclear.

...or have Covid 2055 that wipes out 90% of the population.
"Without being dependent on countries that dont share the same view on the european security order, integrity of borders, sovereignty of countries and so on"

There are many such countries, but there is only one near Europe and its easier to just say "Russia" tbf.
https://archive.is/FtdBG
The problem is browsers. On desktop you can keep expanding a framework as much as you want, for decades. Even 30MB is nothing. When we have more transparent compression in filesystems it will natter even less.

Browsers are still stuck in the age of every kilobyte mattering, but we try to use them for 21st century things. Not a reuse friendly environment.

This should be ideally fixed on the browser end I think. React and Vue and all the rest could fly to Google and have a big meeting on what to add to browsers that would make it possible to implement all these frameworks in 1k of code.

With more core language support, maybe we could finally have things like Qt and GTK, mature continually maintained libraries that have everything you need and are just there, without you having to worry about the code size.
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It's the best thing you can do with your clothes on, lol. And extremely safe. I've been flying for 4+ years and I never even twisted an ankle.

Actually, if you like adrenalin, I'd suggest looking elsewhere. I did skydiving for many years before discovering paramotoring, and they are completely unrelated activities.

Yes, you can do high speed flying and "slalom" with your paramotor, but 98% of us don't. It's a contemplation sport. Like going on a bike ride or jetski ride with your friends, but in 3 dimensions. It's all about the views, soaking up the scenery, and having a good time in the sunset or in the sunrise. If you live near the beach, you can fly all day; if you live in the countryside, you'll probably fly early in the mornings or in the sunset, due to the lower thermal activity (it gets bumpy otherwise).

If your engine fails ... you have a huge "parachute" that sails 6 meters forward for ever meter down. Actually, every single landing we do, we are either with our engine completely shutdown or idling. I've had 3 malfuctions in these 4 years; as long as you're flying watching your "safety cone", you'll slowly glide to a pleasant landing.

If your main glider fails (they don't, but our main enemies are kites; their lines can cut through our lines like butter), you still have a reserve chute that you can throw as a last resort.

If you fly over water, equip yourself with flotation devices. There are many specific to paramotors that inflate automatically.

What defines the sport is the wing you choose. You'll get trained by an instructor, and he'll guide you to the best wing according to your weight and desires in the sport.

Basically:

- Get professional training;
- Get a good equipment and a wing suited to your weight;
- Don't fly over water without flotation;
- Always watch your "safety cone" in the event of an engine out;
- Don't fly spirals near the ground (don't be a showoff);
- Beware of your weather forecast and land if winds go over your comfort speed;

You literally become a drone (mine is getting dust and never flies anymore). It's incredible. If you have the chance, get yourself trained, you'll add a whole other dimension to your life.
I think the depression we hit due to austerity could also severely threaten the global reserve currency status.

Although that's another good argument as to why policymakers are going to panic over inflation.
There is an old story about chewing gum in China. Back in the 90s they banned shewing gum in Tiananmen square, but the law was of course difficult to enforce. So they made the police scrape up any dropped gum. Enforcement then happened easily enough.
Seat belts.
Very cool, excited to see this launch! Similar ethos to ink&switch[0] local-first apps, but taken to their logical conclusion

[0] https://www.inkandswitch.com/
Yes people in all parts of the world have different levels of data literacy. Understanding what one is giving up by allowing someone else to own so much data about one's self and community is not common anywhere but particularly uncommon among less privileged.
How these decisions are made:

1. pick a metric

2. run A/B test

3. if metric moves significantly, implement change

They don't really care if anyone finds it more useful or convenient.
It is very useful in engineering to do things that are mathematically impossible, by simply ignoring or rejecting the last 1%.

Sometimes that's unacceptable, because you really do care about 100% of cases. When it isn't, you get really cool "impossible" tools out of it :)
It's not all numerology, I'm just saying that's included (in the very first piece of "evidence" mind you) and should have set off alarm bells to anyone reading it.
I'm a Nevadan and would be totally fine with this (actually I'm an advocate) but it's politically more toxic than the waste for anyone of either party. You say it's already been irradiated like it's a pro, but for the locals there who feel lied to about the risks and that they didn't have a voice in whether nuke tests were done in the state, they'd say they've already done enough in service of the technology.
You assume too much on Internet. Dolphin isn't really known by their fine work with their "mouth". I'm wondering how it would place a buoy with their mouth on somebody's back..
No you don’t, simply having the wrong opinion at the wrong time is enough to seal your fate.
I highly recommend codeceptjs. After 4 years of using test cafe for e2e testing, codecept has proven to be much more pleasant to use.
Ha! Well there you go.

I worked for a large company that was perpetually being (and being prepared to be) sold. Three acquisitions in three years, each preceded by a company-wide dictate to increase the company's cash value by lowering costs.

My director told me their most powerful cost-cutting lever by far was to lower headcount. So that's what they did. Then after the sale they'd be desperate to hire and train new engineers. The churn killed productivity for years afterward, due to the technical nature of the work. After a year there I still wasn't up to speed.

Sometimes the folks in charge are just shortsighted and incompetent.
Resistance heating is 100% efficient at heating the element, but to heat the pan, it has to transfer through the pan/element interface.

100% isn't the highest efficiency you can get though. It's even more efficient to use the electrical energy to concentrate existing heat than it is to create new heat
Duh, thank you, that is completely obvious and why I didn't get that reading it is beyond me!
> But then again, flags seem to be not only Unicode-hard but post-Unicode-hard.

Flags are not that hard, they're a very specific block combining in very predictable way. They're little more than ligatures. Family emoji are much harder.

And this is not "post-Unicode" in any way.
I always thought it was interesting that ASCII is transparently just a bunch of control codes for a typewriter (where "strike an 'a'" is a mechanical instruction no different from "reset the carriage position"), but when we wanted to represent symbolic data we copied it and included all of the nonsensical mechanical instructions.