skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality is that's not happening today, the creditworthiness of borrowers in 2021 was higher than it's ever been. Demand is completely outstripping supply right now.
> banks giving mortgages to every stripper

Wh...what is this? Do strippers not deserve mortgages? What a weirdly specific example.
We switched from Slack to Teams for various reasons about two years ago. I'm still mad about it. Teams blows for chat. The video meetings are fine though.
This falls into a trap of preparing for every possible outcome when you have finite time and attention. If Cuomo runs for president, there will be plenty of time to make an informed opinion then.

The trap set by news is implying that something could possibly impact you when it probably wont.
The top entry for the list of cumulative non-disease or old age causes of death in the 20th century is "murdered by own government". Anything we can do to help prevent that is a good thing.
PBS Newshour is a gem for sure and one of the few sources I trust almost fully. NPR is also high on my list.
Another problematic area is RTTI and dynamic_cast. Chromium disables both that and exceptions. As a replacement in few places where dynamic_cast can be useful Chromium adds a virtual function to the base class to return the subclass or null.

Chromium code replaces exceptions with boolean flags and logging or code to kill the current process for bad cases like out-of-bound access.
Since exception handling in desktop runtime environments usually takes an unbounded amount of time, it’s not good practice to use them in your main loop since you have to guarantee a new frame at 60Hz.

You can definitely do it but you’d be conceptually allowing for frame skips in your codebase. It could be difficult to audit and remove this assumption if down the road you wanted to tighten up your main loop code.
> Which is still a large area, to be sure.

And includes the capital of Ukraine.
quite simply, meditation. But sure there are many types of it, and while putting it like this it seems 'simple' it's also very difficult.

more specifically, it all stems from the practice of self-observing how you react to something "virtually", without getting carried away by it.

Doing this for any stimuli, good, bad, scary, exciting, is what it's all about, that way you can notice yourself getting carried away, and instead of going with it, you observe it pass by you.

But this is a practical discipline, you gotta keep doing it until you get good at it and so on...
It’s right wing on many economic issues (free trade, globalization, etc) but don’t expect them to fall in with typical USA Republican Party lines on social issues (gay marriage, abortion, guns, etc)
Yes, but WHY?

I mean, I'm happy to pay my US taxes. Heck, I'm even happy to pay someone to pay my US taxes. But... neither of those options seem to work?

I mean, just to back to Rwanda: it's an east-African country that is pretty much a dictatorship and had a real-life genocide less than 20 years ago.

Yet, in Rwanda, I can just use my native cell phone number as my tax identifier, pay then what I need to pay, and be done with it.

In the US, I am probably known under a dozen ITINs, and literally none of that is my fault: it's just that the IRS agents that created those ITINs were unaware of, like, any spelling alphabet ever. Even ITINs created using a fax (that's a TIFF-over-POTS, for you millennials) got completely misspelled.

And now I'm supposed to spend tens of thousands of dollars to prove I've paid my taxes?

OK, now I now the answer to my initial question...
> makes for more interesting conversations

If "interesting" is talking about the latest outrage that everyone will forget in a week, sure. If on the other hand you find "interesting" to be debate on the philosophical principles of private ownership or the moral relativism of a state's relationship to vulnerable populations, ya ain't gettin that from the news.

> It means that you get to reflect on what you stand for, and grow as an individual with an opinion.

You can do that without the news. And having an opinion is like having an asshole: everyone has one, and you should probably keep it to yourself.

> Without following current events, how would you know what is an important topic to follow?

There is no objective importance other than what will directly affect your life. The news is mostly national and international information, which rarely ever directly impacts you (unless it is "impacting" your amygdala). Local and state actions are much more likely to impact you, but I doubt you follow local or state news, if it's even covered at all by journalists as more than "here's all the local crime to scare you and keep you tuning in".

> news makes you informed when it comes time to vote

The news rarely (if ever) lays out out all the positions, track records, or experience of candidates in local and state elections. But they do parrot talking points and promote the candidates with the most money and influence.
It seems like the popularity of Zoom is related to the singularity of the product's purpose. Zoom is a video conferencing service. Google is everything and the kitchen sink. So when the pandemic started, that worked in Zoom's favor, sadly.
Well, it doesn't work like this. Producers of goods and services have no obligation to sell a fixed amount of goods and services for a certain price in the future. You have a choice to consume now or to save and consume later, and there's an inherent risk to saving because the future is uncertain. And this is true regardless of the currency that you use, or the inflation rate. A crypto-currency is not going to make the future any less uncertain, sorry. You have been sold a lie. In fact, if you put your savings in a crypto-currency, saving is going to get a lot more risky for you personally, not less.
I used to find the Economist great, but with the corrosiveness of everything this last bit, they seem to sneak agenda into articles now days in a way I feel like this whole post is trying to move away from. Maybe as a lost Libertarian who can't stand the control everyone's lives progressives I feel that has crept quite a bit into the Economist. It's funny it bothers me as I have reached a point where I feel Libertarianism just isn't compatible with the realities of the modern world as much as this child of hippies wishes it was and am looking for new understanding, but I always leave the Economist feeling like their American reporting on subjects I'm informed on is very manipulating which then makes me doubt their reporting on subjects I don't have enough context for deep personal understanding.
I always avoid C++ exceptions, and also try to avoid dynamic memory allocations, smart pointers and RTTI etc whenever possible. This is pretty common in latency and (pseudo) real-time performance critical work, such as robotics control and 3d gaming.
Airbnb aims to house 40K Afghan refugees after reaching original goal
First impression. I like it. But some sources have 3 or 4 headlines and others have dozens. Perhaps the sources with few headlines could be on a row together (or the next source in a column moved up) to eliminate huge chunks of whitespace.

What if I want different sources, e.g. Babylon Bee instead of (or in addition to) The Onion? Would be great if this is doable without login, just give the custom feed its own URL. Yeah, it would become my own echo chamber but otherwise everyone is stuck with whatever echo chamber you choose.

OK this one isn't old web but it would be sweet if I could select a headline (or word/words within a headline) and see all articles matching that topic. e.g. volcano, or FCC.
Right, but then you miss out on the advantages of type-driven compilation. It would be hard to compete with Dart's AOT without that.
I think about nuclear physics and high performance aerospace as the distinction between hardware and software shrinking to zero.

You're effecting physical operations (movement, explosions) on such tight timescales that the software becomes part of the hardware. You can't just run the code on a different setup: the code is defined by the hardware it's running on, because it's orchestrating the physical properties of the hardware it's running on.

As an analogy, think about programming early video game systems or computers, where a single clock cycle was critical. Is the software just software? Or is it intertwined with the hardware it's running on? (See: emulators having to mimic actual hardware performance)
Illusion has a negative meaning.

If anything call it https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/hypnagogic-h... but not "illusion".
A lot of discussion is that Ukraine is going to lose its head too. It is getting louder that Russia is going after Kyiv. One option is that Ukraine make it expensive for Russia in terms of man and material with the flood of anti-tank equipment causing some internal strife for Putin. I agree that this isn't going to stop the direction being taken. It just makes it a bit more expensive.

As you've mentioned, I don't see NATO or Europe taking direct risks for Ukraine. But I expect that once Russia invades Ukraine proper and takes Kyiv, US and European sanctions will be the most severe we've seen. Russia has done a lot to prepare for this with limiting export dependency to just what the West needs (energy) and holding a lot of foreign currency. I will be interested to see what the UK does as they have been highly enriched by Putin's henchmen and acting as a playground for oligarchs.

Ukraine has been bumbling along since the Soviet Union collapsed and is in no position to do anything about it. There isn't enough pain to inflict on Russia to stop it from taking what it wants (which I believe is a infantile and subservient Ukraine). Immediately after the Soviet Union collapsed likely would have been a better time to prepare. The countries that took the reemergence of an aggressive Russia seriously right after the cold war have mostly fared better with stronger economies and ties to Europe to protect themselves. Even if all went well it would still be a very difficult challenge for Ukraine to get out of the sphere of Russia.

This is state craft so I wouldn't think along the lines of this year or this decade. I would look out decades to try and see where this is all going. I don't believe that Ukraine will be an EU or NATO member as long as Russia has its current military and economic capabilities. I speculate that Ukraine will be a vassal state for the rest of my lifetime. I would have to see some major fractures in the Russian political position and its economic and military capabilities for my opinion to change. Maybe post Putin the politics changes, I'm not clear on succession planning here. Maybe oil and gas prices go way down and Russia can't field an aggressive military. But I can't see anyone take back Ukraine once Russia invades and changes the political course in Ukraine.
I would have also recommended the Economist until I experienced a Gell-Mann amnesiac effect [1] with regards to an article they wrote about South Africa, a country where I lived much of my life in, in which they so horrifically butchered the coverage I simply canceled my subscription for fear of how inaccurate everything else might have been.

[1]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
are there some well known apps that are of medium complexity and in the play store that were coded up in flutter? i remember looking at the platform a few years ago and being intrigued, but also hard pressed to find actual shipped apps that i could install and play with. (other than the official "flutter playground" or whatever it was called that tied together all the sdk samples)

it's intriguing, but is it battle hardened?
Ah yes. Good to know that it’s not just the TSA i should dislike. I’m reminded of the line Logan Roy uses on Succession, something along the lines of “when i arrived in America there was nothing these people couldn’t do. Now they’ve pissed it all away”. Feels like it’ll be hard to see the US continue to be a major player unless it can get out of its own away at some point.
Another eclectic fractal not listed here is the novel Infinite Jest. David Foster Wallace specifically noted the plot structure as a Sierpinski Gasket. You could think of the tennis academy, the halfway house, and the international assassins plots as the three subcomponent triangles within the overall triangle of the novel.

Of course literature doesn't fit cleanly - IJ simultaneously has a cyclical plot structure, but fractals are interesting way of thinking about the aesthetics of the book.
Yep, I didn't shiver either. I did hug a couple of skiing people around 90 minutes in though for fun :D The looks on their faces were fun.

The effects of WHM and cold exposure have been scientifically documented. I think the YouTube video I linked to also says a thing or two about it.

But yea, we were with 12 people that day, none of us got it. The group before us (a month before), also 12 people, none of them got it. All of us were males between 18 and 25, I think... Can't fully recall, the paper I linked to states it more clearly (though it may mention only 18 of us since 6 of us were trained for the case when people would drop out but none of us did).
No doubt, meant to be self study notebook originally. Listed in the end couple of whole interesting reads.
We already need it. That's just the modern economy/world. So we get shitty ad-hoc solutions with bad security that waste tons of time and money, instead of a good one, because people are afraid of the good one. Not having a solution isn't an option.
Most Russians very much don't see Ukrainians as brothers after 2014. Russian propaganda works reasonably well.

As for angry citizens... for one thing, not all of those citizens will be angry, especially in central Ukraine. Not the majority, but enough to supply informants etc to keep the rest in check.

But also, why do you say that no-one in the modern era has attempted that? This exact thing happened during WW2 - or is that not sufficiently "modern"? And if not, then what makes the difference?
I think you’ve misunderstood the concern by several orders of magnitude here — mere tax bases and so on are about as far from the fundamental functioning of the ecosystem as “living in a dumpster under a bridge” is from “needing to borrow the use of your neighbour’s bathroom when you have a plumber in to fix your own”.
This was me a couple of years ago. You have asked for help - that’s a great first step here.

Talk to your doctor. Panic attacks aren’t something you have to just live with. They can often help with a “patch” in the form of anti-anxiety meds.

This will help give you headspace to figure out your next steps.

Moving forward, you need to go for the root cause. The long term “fix” here might be something you have suggested - or it might be something else. For myself, I found that a new company helped a bit (until it didn’t), but the long term fix has been working for myself.

The lifestyle + diet advice can also be helpful. No single person here will have all the answers for you - pick some bits from each and give them a try.

Talk to your friends and family. They can bring some outside perspective to the situation at work which might be helpful.

Tldr: Meds are a good patch that gives you the opportunity to go after the root cause on your own terms.
> It breaks the existing ABI, and all shared libraries would have to be compiled with the new model, as otherwise unwinding breaks.

I am convinced that maintaining ABI is a huge technical debt to C++. And that is largely occasioned by shared libraries.

Rust IMO made a fantastic decision to emphasize source distribution (and making it super easy via cargo and crates).
I work at Slack and have learned a lot from our Incident Response program. Brent Chapman helped put it together, and has a USENIX talk about it here:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon21/presentation/chap...

Response for this incident went by the book, as described in Brent's talk above. Incident Management programs like these ensure that incidents can be resolved while also minimizing stress and chaos for engineers and other responders.

PagerDuty has a good Incident Responder and Incident Commander training courses, if you are interested in setting up a program similar to Slack's:

- https://response.pagerduty.com/training/courses/incident_res...

- https://response.pagerduty.com/training/incident_commander/

Fun fact: Brent Chapman is also known for creating the `majordomo` mailing list manager from the early 90s
People who are starving will also often start having weird cravings for things like rocks and other substances likely to be high in certain minerals
That looks interesting, I sometimes do a small Google search on Tummo. But I can't find much useful/reliable stuff. The knowledge seems to be really arcane.
The crucial distinction is this: do you appreciate the rare object for its own attributes, or do you appreciate the rare object because you have it and other people do not?

If you loved the plants (or crystals, or antiques, or anything else) for their own sake, reducing scarcity would not harm your appreciation and enjoyment. If your goal is having what others cannot, the collection might as well just be numbers in a bank account: a proxy for power.
Depriving yourself of oxygen and increasing CO² does have a sedative effect, yes.

Might also be the focus on one's breathing that helps one detatch from the stressor.
I don't understand. US "agencies" can have dedicated access to run queries on "meta" data from the US, namely where that data is stored does not matter.

For instance when microsoft "teams" want some professional network of people information for a "prospect" (competition sabotage, ppl to flood with money to get "what" they want, etc, you know: "business"), they just need a dedicated access to "linkedin" data, whereever it is stored (and "linkedin" data servers are theirs). Ofc, if they "partener" with "meta" to cross-share their data, they could also get extra-professional network of people info to be more "effective", or have better corelation.
Let's push it a bit further: with "uber eat" (which they own) they could intercept some food delivery for "prospects"... ok, I am going too far now :)
>Raising interest rates wont be far off if it is in collapse.

All I can do is point to the failed mandate.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/inflation-cpi

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/interest-rate
Ukraine also probably had half the engineers and scientists that built the damn things in the first place considering how much of the Soviet nuclear industry was located in Ukraine at the time.

They ended up with the 3rd largest nuclear stockpile and whilst they would probably would get invaded by both sides if they didn’t surrender the nukes and attempted to assert operational control over them they surely had that capability.

Also back then the primary fear was that some of those nukes would end up on the open market, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, North Korea heck even South Africa back then were all likely buyers.
I realized the news doesn't matter to me at all when I left Bing.com up over a week by accident.

I came back and looked at the week old news stories they featured. I'd forgotten about all of them and they'd all had zero impact on my life in any way.

Which, outside of the weather forecast, is true for any given week since forever.
Noteable to me is that the only people with any power are consultants (sometimes) or managers. There are very few paths where the very good, wise, experienced techies get much self-determininacy, much power. You have to become a manager & fight your stake via politics to gain control.

Probably one of the key reasons SRE & devops roles are semi-popular. Your target is techies, and you have much more leeway about where you want to go. There used to be architect roles, but they feel- to me- fairly outmoded?
This is the best comment on this thread.

I've actually been surprised how State Department propaganda ("anonymous sources within the State Department / Pentagon / White House") is transmitted unfiltered on the media, particularly after so many incidents of it being wrong (WMDs anyone?). It's also so sad to see how pro-Imperialist the suppposed Left is. Worse is how easily so many seem to accept this narrative.

The US promised NATO wouldn't expand east in 1990 and then immediately reneged on it and has done so repeatedly since to the point where NATO is knocking on Russia's door. Russia absolutely does not want Ukraine in NATO. I guess that's the line in the sand.

This draws predictable "It's Ukraine's choice" calls but when you provide an analogy like "How would the US feel about China or Russia building military and forward operating bases in Mexico or China along the US border?" it gets dismissed like "that would never happen", which of course doesn't answer the question.

Yep, Russian troops have entered Ukraine and that's bad. But it's not a war... yet. And Putin isn't a madman. This is a high-stakes move to keep Ukraine out of NATO and the West really needs to reconsider our position on this because it's not unreasonable. More to the point, is it worth igniting a war over Ukraine? Really?
The “Herbceptions” proposal addressed this. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070...
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I prefer an RSS reader with a personally curated list of news outlets.
Insane! $110M towards yet another Postgres extension. Theoretical CS and hardware has advanced so much, but the people are using the same old boring approaches. Truly sad.
any youtube videos you would suggest?
The Balloon Learning Environment
Aah meetings. The bane of happiness all around the world. They can even be graded on how bad they suck.

Best are the ones with > 10 people. You know beforehand nothing gets done in it and no one cares. So you just nod along and drop a word here and there and work on something you anyway have to do in parallel.

Worst are the ones where your boss is present and may be 3-4 of your peers. You are supposed to look enthusiastic, offering opinions, ideas and all kinds of projections, d*ck measuring and mud slinging all in a non combative politically sly manner. And probably even nod approvingly at the silly ideas of the one above you.
> As illustrational example consider this small code fragment:

Consider this crap small code fragment. Any function that returns void is almost certainly wrong.
I'm in an organization with many thousands of people and find search to work very well.

Does the pricing plan influence the amount of resources your organization can use? e.g. slow search on the free plan, but much better on Enterprise Grid.
I would love to run a time-series benchmark against a good column store like Snowflake to see if purpose-built time series databases are actually faster. I have a sneaking suspicion the time scale databases are just reinventing the column store, and that an appropriate non-sabotaged benchmark would show this.
Similar to many others, I've been self-hosting for years (around 20, across multiple domains) and it's really been a non-issue. Having a dedicated IP probably helps, but it's been generally more reliable than Gmail (who have blocked me over the past few days because of logging in from unusual devices, thank you UK storms).
Historically, food. Ukraine has a good climate for agriculture and large flat areas with water, like the American midwest. Most of Russia is marginal for agriculture.
Antidepressants are proven as a treatment against depression. They're not without risk but the benefits far outweigh them.
Are you me?

I started doing this in elementary school, and ever since, I've been pretty much unbothered by the cold. Even if it drops well below freezing I'm comfortable in shorts and a T-shirt. I don't even get goosebumps.

Unless I'm very hungry at the same time. Then the cold can start to get to me.
I expected as much, the UK is still second to none when it comes to SW opportunities, especially for those without fancy degrees.
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