skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, US is happy. I wonder if Germans would be. Germany and all EU countries are US puppets. I really don't know why EU needs US. To me, the one reason I don't like my own homeland, Bulgaria to be in EU (just like more than half of my compatriots don't according to polls) is the dependence on US. We were part of the Soviet Union, so, we replaced one dependence with yet another, even worse, I would say. Being in NATO, we have foreign troops on our land - it never happened during USSR! Just like with USSR, we have almost no say in EU politics! Today, Germany sacrificed the interest of its own people to please America! At the end, all this conflict is thanks to Biden who started the Euromaidan by pouring money into the opposition and media, and continued to press Ukraine knowing that Russia had to do something. I'm not a fan of Putin, but given the way America is doing its foreign politics, I feel he's needed to balance one evil with another type of evil. Unfortunately, the EU has no balls! And it's sad!
Yes, you can "login" as in "confirm this is the HN user they say they are", but not "Login as the HN user" as there is no actual connection to HN besides a token in the profile.

When someone implements "Login with Google", you get some sort of access to the Google account, the minimum being the email. But this service gives you nothing more than the public view of a HN profile. If someone told me I could "Login with HN", I'd expect things like the ability to post comments/submissions via that account when authenticated, but that's not what's happening here.
You can disable tracking account-wide at https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy - scroll down to the confusingly-named "History settings".

If you turn these off, particularly "Web & app history", your TV (and all other Google devices) will obey the settings if it is logged into that Google account.

It will still be contacting Google's servers, but it won't be recording anything.
It's not a test of whether it was "news" at the time - it's a test of its relevance to you.

If you look back at the news from a particular day and see now that reading it didn't convey information you've used since, then that is a good indication that the news you're reading now probably won't convey anything you find useful going forward.
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A counterpoint might be:

The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia (Czech: Rozdělení Československa, Slovak: Rozdelenie Česko-Slovenska) took effect on January 1, 1993, and was the self-determined split of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Both mirrored the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic, which had been created in 1969 as the constituent states of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia

Edit:

Also Catalonia:

The Catalan independence movement (Catalan: independentisme català;[a] Spanish: independentismo catalán) is a social and political movement (with roots in Catalan nationalism) which seeks the independence of Catalonia from Spain, along with in the movement supporting the independence of Northern Catalonia from France, and Alghero from Italy (among other Catalan-speaking areas, referred to as the Catalan Countries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_movement

Also Euskara:

The Basque conflict, also known as the Spain–ETA conflict, was an armed and political conflict from 1959 to 2011 between Spain and the Basque National Liberation Movement, a group of social and political Basque organizations which sought independence from Spain and France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_conflict
Can I use Clojure instead of Scheme when working through SICP?
EMF Detecting Wand (2015)
Pick nukes from a country that doesn't use PALs - like the UK.

Edit: Physically getting hold of a UK nuke might be a bit tricky....
yes but no.

you only have so much mental energy. i think it’s important to adopt a JIT attitude and be able to learn and filter things when you need them, not as a matter of day to day activities.

being informed most definitely does not make for more interesting conversations. everyone is biased + critical thinking is severely lacking. nowadays i feel like any conversation quickly devolves into a us-vs-them and “politics”
Couple of other maps:

NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/europe/ukrain...

Centre For Information Resilience: https://maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/russian-ukraine-monitor

from: https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-russian-inv...
> Learning to ski or snowboard requires falling thousands of times

This is not the case for skiing at least. My young kids (who are are not exceptional) have been skiing for the last few years. They rarely fall. It might happen once during the day or not at all. And they didn't fall much on their first few days of ski either. (I also don't remember falling much when learning how to ski as a kid.)

In fact I'd say the same for biking. There is a myth that you have to fall to learn how to bike. Yes, you might fall once or twice and learn a lesson but that's it. Most of the learning process doesn't require actually falling to the ground.

Now it could be different for snowboarding but I don't have experience with that. It could also be a little different for adults learning how to ski but even there I'd think it can be done quite safely.

Of course I agree that for adults (and especially older adults) falls will have worse outcomes than for kids on average.
Perhaps because op started with “this makes me laugh” and set the tone of the conversation to that level?
Depending on how large the company is, how it is structured, and how long they have been around, it might be the first time they've had to facilitate this exact transaction. It is possible that they are dealing with their lawyers to guide them on how to proceed. My mind wouldn't go straight to foul play.

My advice here would be to collect all of the documentation you can and make the clearest, most complete communication of your intention that you can through a channel that can be stored for later (email or registered mail including a dated letter with an indication that there is a copy).

Give the benefit of the doubt: "I realize that you are busy and may be trying to figure out how to proceed."

But super clear about concern, intention, and desired outcome: "I would like to exercise my option holdings at this time. I want to make sure that we are able to conduct this transaction in advance of the XYZ timeline detailed in the option plan. If, for whatever reason, it is easier for me to make this request of some other individual, group, or firm, please do let me know.

If you know the corporate law firm that represents the company, you can also reach out to them directly or indicate to management that you are going to reach out to them (not in a threatening way, but in a I'm-looking-for-a-response-and-am-not-going-away way). The law firm may actually be the option plan administrator, and they are duty-bound to administer it per contract.

Good luck!
I'm Canadian as well but I'm in Canada. I was led to believe the biden warnings of imminent russia invasion were war mongering and not true. Clearly not true anymore. Russia is an aggressor.

From my point of view, it seems Canadians are team Russia here, especially our prime minister.
This is demonstrably nonsense. People make investment decisions for one, based on events in the news. The news every day is not required to be relevant specifically to you alone, that's an absurd notion, but it will from time to time be relevant to you, as it will be for anyone who exists in a given polity.
I'm a firm believer in quality over quantity when it comes to news. Google News has gotten increasingly annoying though, forcing me harder toward the "personalized" results, the kind of filter bubble I'm intentionally trying to avoid.

What worked well for me was getting a print subscription to the Economist. They definitely have a bias (particularly in their editorials), but it's mostly of the "free trade" variety, which is pretty easy to account for. On the other hand, their world coverage, particularly Africa and Middle East, is leaps and bounds better than anything you'll get online for free.

Plus the print medium is well suited for the wind-down time before bed, when I'm trying to disengage from screens. As a bonus, there's an exactly 0% chance you get click-baited into reading something inflammatory when you're consuming news on a piece of paper. Sadly they recently force-bundled print with digital, so you're stuck paying ~$80/year if you sign up during one of the frequent sales. $1.50/week is still well worth the cost of admission for me.
Following the news media (not just and not only the tellie news…) has been very useful for me the last couple of years because of Covid. Or rather Covid has made it useful. In any case: Covid has made the news something that I need to be “informed” about since it impacts my humble life.

Most of the time, at least up until now, the news has not impacted me in any way that I would act on—I’m just an apathetic citizen like many others.

Truly curse these interesting times that we are living through.
If being exposed to ads or super stimulating content is unavoidable, then how do you build a defense mechanism against it?

Avoidance is good to the extent that you can engage in avoidance but not everything is avoidable. How do you actually build resistance to the stimuli?
I think of 'the news' as a form of mind control. Whether or not is intentionally engineered as such isn't immediately relevant; ultimately, I think it's the effect on people that matters.
There is no unbiased delivery of information anymore (was there ever?). It's an incredibly powerful system of information delivery that influences what people think about.
I think it's interesting, with this in mind, to consider the origin of my own thoughts and opinions.
The most interesting fact here is someone was still watching TV news as recently as 2016.
For birds when they are trapped and banded they are not tranquilized, typically they can be placed in a sock or otherwise wrapped up to restrain them and keep them calm, so the chances of them dying or getting hurt are very low. I’ve been involved in several bird banding outings and never saw a bird get hurt or die. The privacy thing is another issue I’ll leave to other experts.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of how right they are or feel they are. Perhaps you don't feel you owe "buttercups" better, but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I also think StackOverflow metrics are a lot less relevant today than they were 10 years ago. At one point SO seemed like a critical piece of social infrastructure but now my sense is the software development learning landscape is a lot more disperse.
Most data focused microservices for business applications devote most of their code to calling databases. The PoC microservices that I implemented in order to evaluate Clojure use Java libraries to communicate with Cassandra, MySql, Redis, and Elastic Search. Clojure is not currently at a point in adoption where it makes a lot of sense for these database vendors to support native Clojure libraries.

While it is true that not every method calls goes through Java reflection, it is also safe to say that every API call to this kind of service will end up making a lot of calls via Java reflection unless you use types hints all over the place in the DAOs.
Brother, I believe it is in their interest to stabilize the situation now that Donetsk and Luhansk are officially protected by Russia. Previously the shelling continued for 8 years because of the rebellion.
I think "extremely high" is quite an overstatement.
Yep, I do know what I missing. Loud noises, crowded streets, crappy air. I’ll take my rural life, with mountains, and woods, and right-to-farm property 100 times out of 100 over the high stress life in city any day.
What is SWIFT and what happens if the Russians are cut off from it?
Think Critically About Your Machine Learning Model Outputs
GitHub Opens Up Its Security Advisory Database
How much of nukes is even hardware vs software? I'd naively think that you'd probably just rip out the core of the device and wire up a new thing that can zap it to go boom.
go to the therapy
The regulation I was thinking of is MISRA[1], a very popular piece of convention that is used and referenced in, among other things, the JSF program (F-35 fighter airplane), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA), and AutoSar (another standard for embedded system in automotives).

From [2] (2012 version) (warning : annoying ads and misleading download button takes you to registration, but it's the only free source I could find with detailed rationale in each rule) :

Rule 15.5 : A function shall have a single point of exit at the end

Rule 21.3 : Memory allocation and deallocation functions of <stdlib.h> shall not be used.

From [3] (2004 version) (pdf) :

Rule 14.7 : [Same as Rule 15.5 of [2]]

Rule 20.4 : Dynamic heap allocations shall not be used

[3] is a pdf containing the 2004 version of the conventions, but no rationale is given for each rule.

>governments had neither insight nor competence to decide such matters.

On the contrary, things like banks, medical devices, aerospace and defense are heavily regulated by the government, source code is just another component in the whole system, why shouldn't it be regulated like hardware ?

As for competence, the government is not all bureaucrats and officials, they can hire specialists to do their inspections.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C

[2] https://www.academia.edu/40301277/MISRA_C_2_012_Guidelines_f...

[3]https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
A Tale of Two Pwnies (2012)
I think this looks great but "process-neutral" gives me pause. Process is important, and hard, and in practice "process-neutral" means "process by committee within each customers organisation" and naturally, that committee probably hasn't designed a great process before and so they're going to end up designing a subpar process... and for people subjected to that process, it'll reflect on your software.

For example, Jira isn't itself bad, Jira is quite nice in a vacuum, but Jira in the hands of an organisation is a nightmare because of the incoherent methods of working layered on top of it by well meaning but inexperienced process administrators who think configuring Jira is the solution to every delivery challenge faced in their org.

I've worked at half a dozen places I can think of off the top of my head where they've excitedly jumped into using a new (to them) issue tracking product, everyone loved it because it was new and exciting and empty and solved a problem... for a few months, and then people grew to hate it because it becomes an esoteric mess again. For example, Trello -> Notion -> Coda in the space of 18 months.

The decision to be process-neutral is a valid one and can be a very powerful foundation of a product, so my question is: do you have any specific thoughts around how you're going to be process-neutral while also stay loyal to the commitments you've made to being pleasant to use? If you can achieve that, a product that doesn't reflect the bad choices of administrators, I think you have incredible potential.
If you are of the persuasion that western currencies are collapsing, what would you pair the canadian dollar with for your trade?

Soros paired the GBP with USD because the bank of England was having a difficult time defending the pound. The USD was not also at risk. It was completely unrelated to the situation happening in England. But if both the GBP and USD fell, Soros would not have made a profit.
I agree, it's a great magazine. But don't forget that even the Economist is only providing a shallow overview of any given topic (despite the apparent depth); has a specific partisan viewpoint / world philosophy; and is frequently wrong.

Most people know that at an intellectual level, of course. But it's all too easy to read something like an Economist article and come away thinking "oh, I learned a lot / have a decent understanding of this issue". A lot of that comes down to the editorial style and self-assured tone of the writing. It helps to remember that even something like the Economist is largely written by people in their mid-20s with no particular expertise, and edited by people who may be older and wiser but also cover many different topics.
Indeed, being powerful (influential) can mitigate some factors. But then you got other factors that the common man doesn't have.
You've repeatedly crossed into personal attacks in this thread. Not cool. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of how right they are or feel they are. No more of this, please.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
It wouldn't be that bad, IMO. SO was really good in a time where:

1) There were no better alternatives.

2) The community was welcoming and willing to help.

Nowadays, 1) most open source projects put some time aside to write good technical documentation, when they don't, many of them make use of Github Issues, at least.

And 2), SO stopped working for people looking for answers. It is an extremely hostile community that was taken over by each of their sub-communities' pretentious mods. They expect you to know a lot of things before you ask, but don't have enough IQ to understand that if you knew how to do stuff, you wouldn't be at SO looking for answers.
Tip to the privileged[1]: find out how low you can drop your monthly spend – what are all the things you could still relatively comfortably live without? I'm now very happy living on my savings, spending super little per month, and it has opened up so many wildly different career paths. A bonus is that my ecological footprint is also very small (relative to my country at least), which has had a very positive effect mentally.

[1] Obviously if you already are at the limit, or living in a society without safety nets, this is not an option.
I used to mostly read on my commute and it's been a few years, but the most approachable is probably https://abovethelaw.com/. It has quite a bit of fluff and humor mixed in.

Popehat is usually quite good, especially when there's some kind of nonsense narrative going around. Good debunking explainers https://www.popehat.com/

Volokh conspiracy has very good analysis of current events as well: https://reason.com/volokh/ (was at WaPo, was independent before that. I haven't read it in a while)

There's a lot of other really great stuff around as well, like the lw blog collection: https://www.lw.com/blogs
you could but the more advanced part will not work.
For example for some chapter SICP assume you can use code as data.
They're not movie bombs where doing something wrong sets them off. PALs were very much the fail safe kind of device because if messing with them could set off the warhead then you've just discovered the way to detonate the warhead which a PAL was designed to prevent from happening. Nukes are also relatively safe in that it requires a very carefully timed sequence of explosion to properly implode the core so an accidental triggering is just a dirty bomb instead of a nuclear detonation.
> I watched Putin's speech

I've seen it as well. My guess is that Covid made a huge dent (Low gas prices and economic problems). Putin has to direct this anger somewhere.

This is the swan song of the Russian state. People living in the Soviet sphere see how other countries are developing. Ukraine had a higher GDP per capita than Poland - now it's 4x lower. It's true for every single place from Kaliningrad, Caucasus to Vladivostok. They are worse off than their neighbours for purely political reasons.

Only thing that holds everything together is the authoritarian regime with strong military and natural resources. The problem is the world will become less dependent on fossil fuels and mining in Siberia is more expensive than pretty much everywhere. Russia won't be able to pay for the army.

This is an existential threat to the Russian state. My prediction is that around 2030 there will a civil war, 2nd Chechnya.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, no matter how right you are or feel you are. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430906 and don't do this again.

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No thanks, I like walking places.
Send them a check for the total exercise price along with a letter (maybe a plus to have it drafted by a lawyer) and send it by certified mail.
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> Not being a "Republican" doesn't make you a "Democrat".

If only both sides of the fence understood that...
Housing prices did double in most mid tier cities during the pandemic. Just not the big ones like NYC, SF, Seattle which were already sky high.
So couple of things that stood out for me here:

* Constant pay hikes per level (~30k every 2-3 years)

* Any equity guidelines for level (especially since it is a startup) - I assume this is not a 9-5 job given it is a series B startup?

* No mention of what leadership team makes (VP of Eng is ultimately a managerial role - is it equal to L7? L8? YoE a consideration in this role?)

* Company is fully remote - Remote within the US? Any where in the world?

* How will (if at all) cost-of-living be adjusted (for remote)?

* What is the interview process like (Is leetcode grinding still required - effectively pushing for a "fresher" workforce?).

* If comp affects the "quality" of hire - what is the perf management (and appraisal) culture looking like in there?
That shouldn't be an issue unless you block session level same-server cookies, which is a bit OTT.

Or it is implemented with longer lived cookies and you block everything that won't expire with your current session.

(or you don't mean that you are blocking cookies but instead that the site is requesting you allow “strictly necessary cookies”, in which case the site is being overly cautious, no regulation requires requesting consent for a strictly necessary stored value and a value tracking a login session fits into any reasonable definition of that)

The concern I'd have with “login via email” implemented this way is that it could be faf to support if your sending mail server gets unexpectedly added to a blacklist somewhere so the messages stop getting through to a bunch of your users. That said, for a personal project I'd guess the risk is low if you are hosting on a reasonably good provider, don't have competitors who'd DoS you by making your service send out login tokens to a pile of random addresses. And even if it does become a problem it won't be an earth-shattering one for a toy project. I may have to try it in a future plaything.