skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're making a huge mistake when we see mastery as an end goal.

I played band in grade school, pushed myself hard, burnt out, etc. Learning classical piano as an adult has been a MASSIVELY instructive experience.

Here's why: I'm never going to be a professional classical pianist. Ever. It's far too competitive, I'm probably not talented enough, and it's not worth the effort.

Therefore, the ONLY reason I'm doing it is to find enjoyment and engage in the process of discovery. So it's clear to me that if I find my ego seeping in, it means I'm missing the point and sabotaging my real goals.

Enjoying the process is such a better way to engage with a skill. I'm having a great time and still getting much better (because getting better is simply a matter of consistency and good practice).

But saying "I'm going to practice 10k hours and then I will be happy" is like saying "I am only going to enjoy this hike after I've completed it." Friends: there's nothing enjoyable about the end of a journey, beyond reminiscing on the fun you had along the way.
It took a second reading for me to understand but I get your point!
Most of SentinelHub's open access data comes from Sentinel-1 (radar) and 2 (optical) satellites constellations, which offer a 6-days or shorter revisit time over nearly any point on Earth (for S-1, this is currently longer, as one of the two S-1 sats making up the constellation is out of order).

This is not quite high resolution data however - in the 10 to 20 meters per pixel range, i.e. medium resolution. Sentinels are not reconnaissance satellites, but are rather tasked for mapping and collecting large amounts of data globally, for which the main use cases do not necessarily need high resolution imagery (agricultural monitoring, deforestation, natural catastrophes...).

Reconnaissance satellites have much finer ground resolution (sub-meter per pixel, down to a couple dozen centimeters... from what is publicly available), and some constellations feature daily revisit cycles.
Learning with Not Enough Data Part 2: Active Learning
Current hardware trends make C++ exceptions harder to justify
The person they are replying to identified themselves as a Canadian citizen living in Ukraine.

The person who described themselves as "Ukrainian-Ukrainian" is implying that their own assessment of the situation is likely to be more accurate since they are not just an expatriate.
Because human economics in the realm of energy and or resource extraction are easily predicted by simple equations in a spreadsheet.

So much so that this trivial exercise imparts real wisdom and is definitely not mental masturbation.
From Missouri, it is his standard MO
If the UK company leaks all user data to the US, the EU is going to revoke the Adequacy Decision in a couple of years.
Ask HN: How do I delete my HN account?
Could @dang or someone else please help me with this? I've read that all one needs to do is send an email to hn@ycombinator.com but my requests have been ignored up to this point. Thanks.
Those links have been usable again since I installed this extension (automatically redirects to Nitter, which is an alternative client for Twitter).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitter-redirect/mo...

Feels like déjà-vu with 'old twitter redirect', but it works wonderfully for me.
Yeah, c'mon. GP, it took 5 seconds to confirm the definition of the word. If you're going to be cynical at least be correct.
Passer by: "Oy mate! D'you know you've left your stable door open?"

Parsons: "You sire are a horse thief. You shall hang for this."
On the contrary, I find Slack threads to be very annoying for discovering/stumbling upon conversations.

Your whole team could be having a new discussion within a thread and you'd never know unless you participated in the thread previously or somebody @'s you. Compare that to more IRC-like discussion where each message is posted to the channel. Sure, you may end up with contextual issues reminiscent of the IRC days, but at least everything is discoverable.
Is there a list of promises, bugs, and fixes?

I recall that No Man's Sky had a community made list that showed the progress in its ambitions, and led to people being amazed at the turn around.
Russia had 48 938 billion cubic meters of proven gas reserves in 2020 ( https://asb.opec.org/data/ASB_Data.php Table 9.1: World proven natural gas reserves by country)

Those 567 billion cubic meters might be a big deal for Yatek, but they're a drop in the bucket for the country as a whole.
A brief summary of my experience:

1. I never had a TV

2. I've read print newspapers (local, international) every day for a decade

3. I've read online news (local, intl) every day for more than a decade

4. I've never was active (neither reading the feed nor posting something) on any social network except Tumblr for visual inspiration

5. Today I read just one single online hyperlocal news portal, beside tech news (Hacker News + newsletters)

The takeaways:

a. Less anxiety.

News are, well, inaccurate since Pulitzer / yellow journalism. Their major function is to keep you on a constant stress level. Which is good on tech news, hyperlocal news -- where you can act, but not good on national and international level -- where you are just a simple spectator.

b. Less biased. I know that I know nothing, so I'm listening everybody and trying to make sense what's happening around.
I think you mean humbled, not humiliated.
It already is a systems language and has been since the outset. Managed code is the preference, but you can certainly run unmanaged code with direct memory access if you want to.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...

https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp
Now you're just making up ever more absurd analogies by ignoring most of the context.

You don't have 10,000 companies all producing the same type of product. If you did, the value of most of them would go to zero really fast.

Also, you can't easily clone most listed companies at no cost. There are significant barriers to entry in the stock market --- which explains why you don't have 10,000 companies all doing the same thing.
That is not true, cities in Alberta have observed very stable housing prices since 2014, and there is plenty infrastructure and space to build.
> This Republican facing no consequences enables others to act the same, then when it is so widespread that it infects the entire party it becomes acceptable for all of the party.

I'm sure we could compile a list of elected officials across a spectrum of political parties where no consequences are faced (for an action, in-action, decision, cover-up, etc) when they may be warranted. I don't think this is a valid argument.
Because this isn't Risk. They don't care about capturing all territory within a state's borders, they care about a defensible border position. It's strategic.
This is how I'm going to do it. Check every box and get the "unprivileged advantage".
I sort of took your route but I do get an axios "news in 5 minutes" type of email every morning. I also get a similar one for local news which I do feel a need to stay on top of
> Putin did not go through this massive hoopla just to get a small strip of land.

He achieved his political objectives by just threatening invasion, without actually invading. An actual full-scale invasion is something nobody wants, least of all most ordinary Russians who have relatives in Ukraine.

> you won't have to wait very long to see why

I'd bet you on it if you set me a date. Westerners have been raising the alarm about a potential Russian invasion since time immemorial.
I think a lot of your points are good ones, but I wonder why you're so convinced it has to be fake emotions? It is not outlandish to think a person would have real gratitude for someone or three good things that happened in a day or strengths they can apply in new ways.

I share your sense that forcing employees to do these exercises is pretty gross, but these are not exercises that would be difficult or which I would balk at in my own private life. Not all emotion is fake...
I was with you until your last example. You appear to be suggesting that people who've lost statewide elections should never run for a statewide position again? History is full of examples of great legislators who didn't win their first elections.
Exactly. If you kill someone while driving drunk, you'll go to jail even though you didn't mean to. This is the exact same principle.
The Russia-Ukraine Conflict
The former states of the USSR agreed that Russia was the continuator state of the USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_of_states#Soviet_Un...
The "the Soviet Union ceased to exist" argument was also used to circumvent the agreement not to expand NATO towards the east.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16117-document-06-record-...
It sounds like you have had an amazing adventure so far, and it's really inspiring to see that you've been able to have such a fluid career. Could I contact you to learn more about your adventures? My email is Anthony at yesrobo dot net
No one is searching for the "ways", it's agreed on. "You can't do this anymore, because we need to win on the next elections, but we won't look here and here, see you in 2 years"
I'd wager these sentiments have more to do with performance/responsiveness than they do with whether or not UI elements and animations are system defaults. Pretty much every wildly popular application in the market has a totally custom UI.
Does that reasoning hold up in the face of states like South Dakota or Florida which barely had any covid measures? Would you expect that lightly-enforced, intermittent and barely-present covid measures would drop a state like Florida from millions of flu cases down to a couple hundred at most? And why do we already have 40k flu cases so far this year, when we had only 2k all of last year?
I think my code would become clunkier. I rely on the creativity of the masses when I use SO. I know I could solve a problem through a complicated routine, but SO helps filter for the right builtin function or syntax that helps to improve my code quality. I can read the manual all day, but these are the things I don't get from it.
For money, of course. Donetsk region is full of good quality coal and benefits coming from controlling the Black Sea are definitely very tempting.

> Why would Putin want to annex a country full of people who hate him?

Please change your optics. People never matter in Russia/Soviet Union. Even, if there will be 70-80% of people who are dreadful opponents to "new goverment" then what they would do? Take it to the street? Strike? Please remind yourself how it looked in the Kazakhstan in early January 2022 (you will get shot, just because you left your home to buy some food) and in Belarus 2021 (mass protests, thousands of people being thrown in jail for no reason, very often beaten, many found dead there). Coup d'état? Poor joke, especially if we look at the latest events in Africa (for example Mali), where armed Russia's Wagner forces helped to take over the whole country.

Edit: As a person who lives in Central Europe, your question made me sad, because it means western mass-media is crap these days - they cannot explain a very silly thing why this ongoing conflict for 8+ years takes place.
Russian-Ukrainians. And there are many.
The reality that I've seen and experienced is that advancing beyond that on an IC track means a lot more people/political work, rather than constant "hands on keyboard" coding as described in the article.

This is my struggle. After about five years of head down all day programming I started to get more of a tech lead role, and the hours spent on explaining the work instead of doing the work crept up. I managed to avoid the management track by actively pushing back when pushed that way, but I eventually got the architect title instead, and now I can go months writing nothing but emails and spec documents before I manage to find a good enough excuse to write code. The upside is that I decide a lot of things, which as a pure coder I did a lot less. The downside is that I really wish I spent more time writing code.

Sometimes I think about going indie and building and selling my own product, but anything I can think of seems to involve a lot of time spent doing other business activities than coding, and that just does not appeal.
> If you love what you're doing now and don't ever want to change jobs, great: you've reached the end of your career, even if it plays out over many decades.

This is me. I have zero inclination to be anything other than an individual contributor developer. I abhor meetings and don’t want to manage people. It actually took me a long time to convince the higher ups at my company that I have no interest in moving into management. I figure I have 15-20 years left in my career. If I can just keep learning new skills/technologies and getting better at what I do for the remainder of that time, I would be very happy.
Become a contractor. You’ll pretty much be coding all the time. Don’t get scared by the business-management side, you can pick it up pretty quickly and then it doesn’t take up all that much time
Very good point, done.
Being informed does not take a lot of time. But there are many wrong ways of doing it like reading what comes up on your twitter timeline or visiting a clickbaity site like CNN or reading any algorithmically-created newsfeed.

Here's what I suggest: subscribe to The Washington Post. Once a day, scan through the homepage and read through any articles that catch your interest. When you hit the bottom of the home page, you are done. Depending on how much you are interested in, this could take five minutes or twenty. You will get a reasonable overview of the most important topics primarily focused on the US.
It was only possible in the Victorian period for the wealthy elite. If you were born into a family that owned vast swaths of land or used to run slave plantations in the Caribbean you were set for life and could devote your life to less crude pursuits than the gain of capital. You would also have a ready built network of others with similar wealth and social expectations.
> You would blame the person neutrally shining the flashlight for the obscene response of others?

Absolutely not, you seem to have misread me there.

I'm saying I understand the bad results not being published to avoid the potential for the obscene response from others.

Publishing the good results is enough of a public service. More than required, in fact. The test results could have been kept to themselves as nothing is owed to the rest of us.
> The reporter in this case likely qualifies as an "involuntary public figure" due to the coverage of all this, and might be a public figure just by being a reporter.

Maybe. I actually can't find a ton of case law on print reporters as public figures: there's a great deal of case law for television journalists (nearly universally in their favor), but comparatively little for newspaper journalists.
Maps of the Russian-Ukraine Conflict in Real Time
Well, the difference between someone who is mentally healthy and someone who is depressed is this (and friends, I've been both):

Someone who is mentally healthy realizes the world is imperfect and what they're doing is isn't working, but then takes that knowledge and builds upon it. Maybe they change careers, or maybe they lower their expectations for their job and focus on other meaningful things.

Someone who is depressed never gets out of the "this is awful" rut.

Again, nothing but sympathy for the depressed, but if you're unhappy you should try to find a way to redirect that energy if you have the strength to do so.
I’m waiting for someone to jump in and shit on The Economist. However, I don’t think a person that doesn’t have any sort of social standing to uphold will have anything bad to say.
Is art meant to be min-maxed?

Perhaps a publisher might think so, but I would suggest the appeal is the unique POV and voice of the author and the choices they make.
The array processing and scientific computing & data engineering subculture in Clojure seems to be on the rise, https://scicloj.github.io/ is an entry point to get started with those things.
The problem is determining whether or not nobody is there.
They explicitly say (including in the tweet from the FM that I cited) that strong action now is important because Russia’s future action depends on what other countries do now.

Yes, they think an invasion already is ongoing, but that's explicitly not the only factor in their call for action. It is directly tied to impact on Russian escalation.
Same here, just scan news.google.com periodically, never watch anything unintentionally [0].

The incessant talking heads are such obvious brainwashers, whenever I get tricked into watching some in a clip or at a bar/taqueria it's utterly offensive and patronizing manipulative trash. I can't imagine how broken people are who constantly consume the stuff.

[0] youtube-dl is a godsend for maintaining this without totally disconnecting from contemporary culture
> There seems to be something about the business world that removes people from the jobs they're good at.

There's not much business value in just having one person be really good at something. It doesn't scale. The state of coding and information technology means you can't maintain exponential or even logarithmic scaling of your own abilities to produce business value. At some point, the only real thing left to do is to do your best to produce more people who can do what you do. 10 people that are 15% as good as you will outproduce you.
There are at least four kinds of Ukrainians. Russians with Ukrainian citizenship (a lot of these in Crimea and L/DNR), Russian-speaking Ukrainians, Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians and Western Ukrainians, who did not live in the Russian Empire or Soviet Ukraine before 1944, and have Roman Catholic-controlled faith based on Orthdox rituals.

The first three groups form a continuity and is not perfectly correlated with loyalty to Ukrainian state.

Plus hungarians and some tatars.

Caveat emptor: I'm not from Ukraine.
thank you for including examples of people - on both sides of that conflict - who will not stop fighting their neighbors, no matter what the century. We used to say long ago, "what is so funny about peace, love and understanding?"
Televisions didn't have a startup sound, nor did they boot up.
Metaverse Harassment Doesn’t Bode Well for Zuck’s Dreams
They already claim the entire oblasts.

This isn't about the humiliation of the west and the subjugation of Ukraine, this is about national defense strategy. The way the borders were set after the breakup of the USSR were based on certain assumptions that don't hold true today, and as a result Russia does not have a defensible border. With these annexations, they do. Additionally, it's a way to test what sort of response they'll get and prepare for similar responses in the future.
We have ansible playbooks that we wrote leveraging some of the ansible-galaxy stuff, and they do the same thing either on-prems or in cloud. I would say we're pretty cloud native, we follow best practices and deploying something to a cloud provider or internally is the same thing.

Our level of abstraction is containers, we don't use services that cloud providers sell, for example, Lambda, as they are very cloud provider specific. We prefer to use technologies like RabbitMQ which can be deployed on any cloud or on prems easily.
If you believe 'The currency is in collapse,' then I suggest you take out as much leverage as you can have to your name (Maybe even raise capital from institutions using your above diligence) and do a Soros-Style short.

Here's the playbook: https://theeconreview.com/2018/10/16/how-soros-broke-the-bri...

Good luck.
That's why I added (for the most part). But outside of recalls, it would have been very rare for any firmware to be updated.
Sony finally reveals the Playstation VR2’s design
Nord Stream 2: The $11BN Megaproject That's Dividing Europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzbxGYBY5M8
Yes, for you though tried to make it a bit more general.

It is all about learning edge control - how much pressure to apply and when. Beginners tend to put too much pressure on the edge and worse, lean back when they are scared. They also tend to look down too much - look where you want to go (it won't seem as fast that way either).

Gradually elongating your turns as you go down the slope builds your confidence/comfort level in going straighter at faster speeds - your mind/muscles learn to apply consistent gentle edge pressure. When it really flattens out, you'll ride mostly toe or heel with very, very slight edge, changing more because of tiredness than anything else.
Transnistria shouldn't be marked as it is a disputed part of Moldova, not of Ukraine.
Sounds like you really want to be a mid-career IC. I think you should do your best to change jobs until you find what you're looking for, even if it means a pay cut.

Not all changes have to be dramatic: you don't have to upend your life. Maybe just see what things are like at a new company?
IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool
To be fair, there are huge flat expanses in the Vancouver metro area that have nothing but single-storey, single-family homes on them. It's not really the most efficient use of the space.
It's hard to derive any more general insight from this one specific experience you have had.
> led to threats from the social media giant to pull its websites from Europe.

Please do. And also from the rest of the world, while you're at it.
I think the server is down, can't access, what did it look like when it was up?

(Edit: okay it's definitely up. It was my extremely democratic country blocking the access. Accessed throung VPN now)
Nope, I don't expect them to be 100% civil. I also don't go around telling people that point out that, in fact, they're not 100% civil are "making things up".
The English language seems to have a bad time with expressing the concept of the poorest result, without some sort of ambiguity.

Reading the headline and being unaware of all the features of Instagram, I tried the interpretation that IG was enforcing a minimum daily usage. "You must use Instagram for at least 6 minutes a day." After digesting all the available writing in this thread and in the Fine Article, it appears that Instagram has a feature to aid with self control of usage of Instagram. The bad news is that they have decided that they want to interfere with self control by requiring the maximum daily usage a user might impose on himself to be above some minimum. "If you control your usage of Instagram by setting a maximum daily usage, that maximum must be at least 23 hours."
Great article. Note to self: check out May Sinclair.

After wanting to read Ulysses my whole life and failing several times, I finally took an Extension course at Stanford in it, led by a teacher who'd been teaching it for 50 years. All the students were motivated, and I had several critical commentaries available to me. You could hardly ask for a better environment. (If it's not obvious, I'm not the type to dismiss the classics as irrelevant works of dead white men.)

I was mildly positive for most of the book, but I found the last two episodes (we don't call them "chapters") just plain unreadable. In the end, I hate to say it, I think Ulysses is past its sell-by date. Stream of consciousness has been done; multiple viewpoints have been done; sex, excretion, female desire, and other "forbidden" topics have all been done. Those were revolutionary in their time, but now? Meh.

The teacher often said about Joyce, "He can do whatever he wants with the English language!" And I say, "Who cares?"

Joyce himself said that it was just a really funny book. As Virginia Woolf said about it:

A first rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.
Not all languages/platforms get outdated after 6 months.