skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Russia imports hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods each year."

They do, but do they need to do that or are they just nice to have.

And what that means is that the West is down by hundreds of billions of dollars of earnings. Where else are they going to sell that output now? There isn't a magic source of demand in the rest of the world, and unlike Russia, we don't have new jobs springing up supplying a war machine.

In real terms we lose, and Russia's export system frees up manpower that can be redirected to War.

""The dollar is the de facto global currency for cross border transactions and settlements. "

That isn't the case. Everybody pays in the currency they have, and receives the currency they need - particularly the one they need to settle taxes.

The US dollar is used only because it is convenient to do so. Once it stops being a convenient hop for getting from one currency to another, they will use some other method.

"If Russia refuses, said buyers will simply look to other producers."

Which other producers. Gas prices are going up. That means there is insufficient supply.

"Gas isn't the leverage you think Russia has."

Really. So why are gas prices going up then if there is an excess of supply?

Why is the UK's gas price cap looking at going up by 50%?

There is no magic porridge pot in the world. The world of excess supply ended with Covid - and the restrictions in place have crippled supply chains.

It's going to take time to replace the power supplies.

There is a wonderful pamphlet called "How to pay for the war" by JM Keynes. You may wish to read it.

Because I can guarantee Putin has.
> If you think the price of the service is too high, move on to a competitor.

It's a problem because it puts consumers at an even further disadvantage in a game that's already stacked against them. That you're still willing to pay makes no difference - you're still worse off than before.

Maybe it would be somewhat fair if consumers had their own well-funded departments, studying corporations to determine the lowest price they'd still be willing to sell a product for, and then collectively negotiating the price.

But we don't, and it would be a waste of humanity's limited time to play these zero-sum, when we can just make the behavior illegal.
"fairness" is an interesting concept in commerce of any kind, which seems to be more prevalent in the US than elsewhere.[1]

If one thinks of commerce as "willing buyer,willing seller" then a transaction occurs at the point where both sides are content with the money/product swap. What other people paid for the same product is only tangentially relevant - if I'm happy with the transaction today why should I be less happy tomorrow based on someone else's transaction?

Outside the US you see this in places where markets are more fluid, and in some places have no pricing at all. You are expected to haggle (I mean, negotiate) - failure to do so makes a fool of the vendor to offer first too low a price.

In other words, the world is unfair. Sometimes in your favour, sometimes against. The sooner one accepts that the easier life becomes..

Equally though unfairness creates a gap in the market. Girls toys cost more than boys toys (same toy, different package) suggests an opportunity.

[1] for the purposes of this discussion I'm not talking about protected classes, such as race. There are some unfairness that are considered to be unacceptable.
It isn't just "culture"

It is that the outsourcing is to people who incentivized to get the contract closed.

Same things with outsourcing in IT, the workers on the other side are generally economically incentivized to closing tickets. They don't get negative feedback about doing a bad job, so they just want green tests and their PRs getting merged.

Which is a reflection of the economic incentives in the arrangement between the two companies and how they are measured and how their bosses are measured.

You write the contract, and the workers wind up optimizing for the contract, not for the output of the work. It is sort of a machine that does exactly what you program it to, and the result is bad.

Calling it "culture" I think makes it feel more like its something ineffable that they're missing. Instead it is practically the result of an almost physical law. It isn't some kind of "esprit de corps" that they're missing, they're just acting like water flowing downhill following the gradient. The result shouldn't be a surprise.

And I've seen this at work with PRs submitted where the person clearly didn't test the code at all in reality since it was totally broken when you ran it, while the tests mocked things correctly so that they were green, sometimes tests being changed in ways that clearly show that the code is broken, but the person just charged again making it green rather than making it working. Just trying to get the code shipped to get the ticket closed to get the metric count bumped up by one, without any other care. Then you have to around and around with them on the right design because they always take the easiest route to green first, rather than the right fix.

The passage about sending the designs back 18 times until the people on the other side understood that they needed to hook up the smoke detectors to the electrical system sounds real familiar to me.

The whole lie about how American business uses scientific management principles where we measure metrics and make informed decisions is such a sad joke. The only measurement that mattered was $8/hr and the outcome wasn't measured because of McNamera's fallacy and the fact that the person who made that decision would get a bonus based on the short term sugar high it would give the financial numbers.

The end result of all this sociopathy though is that its becoming more and more flawed for workers to ever believe they should show any loyalty to any job. When managers are all looking for short term gain and workers are all job hopping to find that raise they can't get at their current job, we may find that our domestic production starts to look more like the quality that we get from outsourcing, along with the economy looking more and more like a third world scammy economy. Our incentives are getting very misaligned at home as well.
Ah I remember the Cybiko! Such a cool device with so much unrealized potential! The idea of local mesh networked gaming/messaging was the coolest thing, but it could only work if enough people owned one.
Of course he cannot explain. A two month old account only talking about the said conflict . You know what that means.
It seems that the lower price models are going out first if reports by reviewers are to be believed.

I managed to reserve the high-end model around minute 5 of release. My order is also lumped into the "After Q2" timeslot.

I expected to have to wait, but I can't help remember my luck eith the Valve Index which I managed to get within the first minute. The Index shipped and was delivered within four days (it got there that weekend).

Still excited for the Steam Deck, it looks quite promising.
GP is most certainly referencing the sugar daddy explosion
I may have a bit of a soft spot for English-y esolangs :)

Yeah, LOLCODE should fit right in but Piet is tricky. I don't think a proper Piet editor can be added, but a possibility is to map each color to a relevant character and set up the right background colors for Piet in the editor - let me know if that makes sense in usability. Some added functionality for exporting as PNG may be required too.
Yes, instead of writing a custom for-loop use map/filter/reduce. Also make other things like this that fit either under computer-programming or domain knowledge. The interface/contract/behaviour of these 'known' parts can usually be made clear without unexpected side-effects. From then on, treat them as black-boxes.

It's rare that I find mental capacity to be the limiting factor, rather than the unintentional obfuscation of the implementation. Perhaps this is just to say that the code itself is a source of incidental (aka accidental) complexity or confusion.
But, that's not what I'm saying. I'm in fact not willing to pay, and I'm moving on to a competitor that provides the same service for less.
"It's possible to almost entirely isolate Russia if we need to do it."

And how is that a problem for Russia. They are self-sufficient in everything they need.
Most country clubs in the US will have different initiation fees and monthly dues based on age. How do they get away with it?
> ICEs are too complicated.

The excessively (and negatively) complicated addons described in the thread are not inherent to ICE cars. Take any car from 80s or 90s and the behavior is predictable and simple. It's only into the 00s that manufacturers started making things too complex and as a consequence, fragile and unpredictable.
Gatekeeper – the first open source DoS protection system
I actually agree with you about him being intelligent and sincere. I am actually fascinated by people like him.

The fact that he believes those idiotic things while having a seemingly very reasonable belief system around the goals and functions of the institutions he serves, and what his role is in them, is something I find quite darkly comical. Actually I think his sincerity makes his one-off performances laugh-out-loud funny.

Watching the Errol Morris documentary with him is tragic and comic at the same time. I mean, take for instance his view on the Vietnam war. He goes from a very touching and thoughtful personal recollection of the evacuation to Saigon to telling us that his reflection over the entire decades-long US involvement in a conflict that murdered 4 million people as being "some things work out, some things don't." And this appears to be after quite a lot of prompting. It is profound, and inane in equal measure. Hannah Arendt would be slack-jawed.
BlackBerry's hang up was they couldn't figure out how Apple was able to power such a device and how could they be allowed to use so much bandwidth by AT&T when that was a such a point of contention.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250096067/losingthesignal
I'll put in a plug as well for Baalorlord who is extremely friendly and explains his moves very well. I've watched tooons of his videos
https://youtube.com/c/Baalorlord
Why do these packages insist on involving databases, web servers, etc.?

Just give me a CLI package that takes a PDF and gives me text file as output.
Same with how nearly every theatre in the country charges less for children and elderly patrons.
I'm ... questioning utility here, though if you want to pursue this, I guess that's OK.

I have a few general concerns:

For any human-oriented computing based on accessing remote or general-distribution content, I think you'll find that as compute power gets cheaper, the response will be for payloads and tasks to become ever more complex. What used to be communicated in plain-text email, talk(1), or write(1) payloads is now wrapped in apps or JSON or HTML+CSS+JS, where the package-to-payload ratios often run 100:1 or worse. PDF documents become ever more complex and heavy. Your ultra-low-power system simply won't keep up.

I'd resurrected a 2005-era system for general use over the past few years. It was great for pretty much anything except surfing the Web. Firefox + 2-3 tabs would routinely lock the system. Terminal-mode browsers were far more viable, though much of the Web is now inaccessible to those.

So that's the first problem.

The second was a realisation I'd had a few years back that with the falling cost of SoCs and the like, a period where a full computing system would be available at less than a $1/unit price point (and falling from there at the rate of an order of magnitude every 3 Moore's cycles or so, that is, about every 6--8 years), was close.

The major problems at that point are power and comms.

Current-generation logistics tracking, particularly for orientation, shock, and temperature excursions, are based on physical detectors. These tend to change state if tolerances are exceeded and require direct observation to detect that shipping violated spec, but now when.

With a $0.10 adhesive-affixed data logger having an integrated WiFi or SIM capability, days, weeks, or months of data logging at 1s -- 1m resolution are possible. A one second resolution costs you ~2 MB storage per data channel byte month, uncompressed. And it should compress fearsome well.

Surveillance devices don't need e-ink displays ... but might be all the more interesting if they offered these.

As for solar power: the Max Lumi has a surface area of roughly 1/16 m^2 (the size of a sheet of A4 paper). With a case that has an integrated solar cell, that ought to be good for 6 W power, or 48 WH given 8 hours of irradiance per day.

(Mind: you can't use the device whilst it's charging, but ... let's roll with that.)

At a power draw of 2000-9000 mW, or 2-9W, the cell by itself could ... mostly keep up with the draw of the device itself. And if you had a battery to store that energy ... The Max Lumi with battery masses at about 500g.

My thinking is that you're far better off having your power source off-device. An external solar panel can be much larger than the device, and pull in far more energy. Again, that can be stored in various systems, and yes, batteries are a mess, but they're a pretty decent mess. For the forseable future you're sacrificing a lot of capability by excluding them.
Yeah the narrative has really changed. It’s not that different from the lab leak theory
A better set of blankets is potentially a solution to the narrow problem of my toes freezing while I'm asleep. It doesn't do anything for me while I'm awake.

Note that I was living in a school dormitory with bedding provided by the dorm, so it met a local standard of reasonableness.
I don't think that's apples-to-apples though. Sugar dating is typically transactional and typically doesn't lead to genuine connection and relationships, whereas most datings apps are about something more than an occasional hookup, including Tinder (see the millions of "not here for a hookup" statements in womens' profiles that have been there for years).
I see it as "this is the official way that the project uses to host, and they have been kind enough to share it with you".

I don't think Zulip themselves use Helm charts or Kubernetes Operators to host their instances. If you think hosting an instance without these is such a pain, why not just pay them to manage it for you? At least you got the option to self-host, which is not something you'll ever get with Slack.
> "carry out" vs "you must do": the first form only implies who does what. The second form spells out exactly who does what.

It goes beyond that. "Carry out" is an idiom the reader may not be familiar with. It may confuse them because they don't know what is the concrete thing they are supposed to be carrying, and where the "out" is located in this context.

Verb + direction idioms are one of the most difficult parts of English as a foreign language. The direction often changes the meaning of the verb in an arbitrary way, and even the direction itself is often arbitrary.
I wrote the equivalent article 8 years ago:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b89.html
> Contrast this with so many blue ticks and Ukrainian media outlets spreading outright lies and going viral

What sort of lies are they spreading out of curiosity?
Thanks for the link. This is definitely helpful as someone who is not a designer, but disappointed that it didn't go in more depth about how you _could_ use a color palette in UI color schemes.
thank you
there’s been god knows how many wars and rebellions incited the last decade with ALL superpowers responsible. false morality indeed
Seems pretty marginal - you’d have to restart, on average, every 10 minutes.
That’s not an arbitrary pricing on how much they think you can afford, this is (excluding sleazy one) based on risk profile where age is one of the attributes that changes the risk profile
Millimeter-wave skin heating?
If it’s an IC engine, the convection heating is waste heat from the engine. So the electric heaters in the wheel and seats are massively less efficient.
Well theoretically they could land a Dragon capsule full of terminals anywhere on Earth ;)

(Dragon's return payload mass is 3000 kg, and the mass of the terminal kit is ~15 kg, so 200 tops - through probably couldn't fit that many inside)
I wonder what other opinions we aren’t allowed to have today that could end up being true?
Because it’s based on regulated actuarial science, not explicit bias.

Marketing methods are often a little more fuzzy and less ethical than the actual underwriting. Insurers and marketers know about all sort of stuff that affects insurability, from eating habits, to gun ownership, to participation in high risk activity.

I don’t necessarily understand what Tinder does precisely, but it’s pretty obvious that you can exploit the insecurity or desperation of people looking for dates. It’s gonna be easier to extract cash from a 45 year old divorced woman than a 25 year old single woman. And you may want to use tolls as a friction point to reduce the number of undesirable or less profitable men.

You can probably use willingness to pay as a factor to score matches that will generate more churn that keeps the subscription in place. Generally speaking, I expect the most evil imaginable from companies like this. Online dating is a real mill, especially when you pass the threshold where you’re not attached and most people in your cohort are.
The civil rights act, the ADA only apply to "public accommodations". Many country clubs are not open to the public, they won't provide services to non members and aren't covered by the laws that make discrimination based on age or other classes unlawful.
Ugh, yes. Didn't finish a 4 year degree, so auto insurance was higher price until I was 40.
I wasn't attempting to relitigate the events of the 2000's. I didn't support the war at the time.

It's important to understand the simple fact that a majority of Americans at the time believed the war was just[1], and that the government spent many months justifying and readying the nation and its soldiers for war. This is an important factor that helps explain the high morale of American troops at the start of the war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_in_the_United_S....
What about your lungs? There is a reason tropical animals die with respiratory diseases when using heat pads in their inclosure over warming the air.
Gee, let me remind you that the west can suffer from rise in oil prices than Russia can survive from Euros. They need the money more than the west needs oil.
If something doesn’t have an option to disable color, I simply pipe its output through `cat`.

This is also handy for `git` commands that insist on showing a pager for fewer than a full screen worth of lines of output.
I love google sheets and have a lot of non-essential, but nice to have data on drive.

Where should I back this up?
Elon Musk activates Starlink satellite internet for Ukraine
That one's easy; "age" is not a protected class. The protected class is "people over 40". Discriminating against young and youngish adults is fine.

You might try making an argument that theaters have to give you senior pricing as soon as you turn 40; I don't know what's going on there.
Breaking Research: Gender and Morph Tests from Snake Sheds [video]
> > Why did we think it would be a good idea to stick a computer between the brake pedal and the physics equation?

> I think it's a great idea for the driver behind me to have such a system. It makes them less likely to rear-end me.

Yes. But it's a scary idea for the driver in front of you to have such a system. If they (their car) suddenly goes into hard braking for no visible reason on the highway, you might be rear-ending them.
He's also a columnist for RT the Russian state controlled news organization. He literally being paid by the Russian government.
I sure hope this is long-term and not reversed in a year for convenience.

Next up, no more travel in and out of the country.

He wanted to decimate Ukraine? Decimate Russia instead.

Remember they already did this with Georgia and got away with it, this has to be the last time ever.

The only problem I see is what does Putin do when he has literally nothing else to lose, especially approaching his deathbed.
Thought Mozilla was making a Web browser
It varies based on state though. In California, insurers are legally prohibited from using race, sex or zip code in pricing. It's supposed to be strictly based on age, vehicle type and claims history, although I have no doubt that insurers do their best to get around that.

(Side note, in the lead up to the restriction on how insurers could base their premiums, there was a failed initiative in the 90s that would have made California a no-fault state and would handle funding insurance through a surcharge on gasoline prices.)
I mean if, hypothetically, they had raised their price to the maximum you were willing to pay, and hadn't gone too high.
> The cross-functional team confirms the plan for tackling their goals in the next quarter.

Your organization does not equally reward teams that do this in a transparent manner because it has a bias towards new and shiny projects. Teams that work on shiny new projects get way more leeway to propose unrealistic goals without actually achieving them.

> They then set up a meeting cadence to check in, and they make clear communication rules in a public channel so the rest of the team can keep up with each other when there are questions. Backchanneling is nonexistent, and there aren’t many questions because micromanagement is at a minimum.

Your organization does not equally reward teams that do this in a transparent manner because there is not enough cracking down on people that behave like assholes in public channels in the name of transparency. Team X's manager can be an asshole in Team Y's public channel, but Team Y's manager behaves quite nicely in Team X's public channel. Ironically, since you didn't fire Team X's manager, the organizational perception becomes that Team Y is the one with problems, since "there's always someone complaining about them".

> The group identifies problems as they come up, brings them to the attention of everyone on the team and discusses them publicly.

Your organization does not equally reward teams that do this in a transparent manner because teams that work on moonshots that fail miserably never have their problems discussed; but teams that do slow and steady work are often micromanaged to death about some 5% productivity drop this week.

See any commonalities here? Even if each team is managed perfectly by itself, organization-wide disparities can lead to these undesirable patterns appearing anyway. Your organizational leaders and management as a team need to work together to make things more equitable, and fight the natural emergence of these patterns.
Baykar Bayraktar TB2
That is an incredibly helpful resource, thanks.
I found watching and reading a couple of good videos to establish some 'framework' about the game really helped me out here. Before I learned about the game, I had a similar win rate to you.

After learning about the game, however, the non ascension runs almost felt too easy. This is because I had misconceptions on how the game should be played: I found that the cards I thought were valuable were actually bad. With this new knowledge I could easily pick out the 'right play' and come out ahead in situations where I would have normally perished.

I've lost interest around ascension 10. But this experience really made me realise how much we stand on shoulders of giants for thinking about literally everything, from programming to an indie card game. In the essay, the author says he'd rather say he has "extended" win streak records rather than "broke" the win streak records and I think this captures my feeling exactly.