skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That is basically what they are doing now, sit back and do nothing.

Ukraine never joined any military alliances. They never took the risk of needing to defend someone else, but in so doing meant they never got us to back them. That was their decision.

>Just some economics sanctions...

You don't end a war by adding to it. These sanctions will destroy the russian people. The russian people are innocent in all of this. If the Russian people do not rise up and overthrow their government. Then the sanctions were not inconveniencing enough for them to do that. Through their actions proving their collaboration.

If we can end this war by sanctions, crushing a nuclear power. The fear of global sanctions will be a message to every single person on Earth that war is no longer possible. We will evolve as the human species to be warless. This will be amazing.

The Russian people have a decision in front of them.
What the hell is investigating a design?

Also, no company I've worked for ever bothered with proper documentation, and I've never seen anyone lower than tech lead ever do any of those kinds of things more than once or twice a month (besides meetings).

I'll concede these kinds of responsibilities might be more common in larger companies or different fields, but I'm thinking more about smaller startups.
Norway's sovereign wealth fund to vote against Apple management's pay plan
There is the CS's famed eletism and gate keeping. Just because its not Harvard or Stanford its not relevant?
I am a CS grad myself but there is so much toxicity in the community when looking at places like HN.
And I am not saying anything about your point. Maybe you are right, I just hate that you start off with 'b-school bad' argument.
Please see my other answer to a sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30490897
For whatever reason, I also hate being in the store. Something about it feels like I'm in some kind of evil villain's gauntlet fortress, like Bowser's levels.

I know this makes me look a lil crazy to others in the store, but if/ when I go to IKEA (for the prices, honestly), I have no qualms running through the store at my easy pace, to get what I need and get out as quickly as possible.
> I hate to imagine the bikeshedding that must have gone into this API.

I can't imagine any comprehensively bikeshedded API that wouldn't result in a number being returned here. And it's in the HTML5 spec., which has a reputation for being dictatorially authored by a single individual.
- reddit thread on that article, https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/szgeba/fed_up_w...

- link to tests of 13 search engines I added for sample search that was mentioned in thread, https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/szgeba/fed_up_w...
I've just gone down to 4 days pro-rata, and have enjoyed the additional time to work on my own projects, and get on top of any chores (and honestly sometimes just re-charge).

From this point forward I'm attempting to optimize for personal development and fulfillment through building more things that tickle my own intellectual itches, rather than a bigger job title.
Pedantically that's incorrect. Some Inuit communities live far below the arctic circle, which technically makes them non-arctic Inuit.
> Every single application I've worked on where DI (in practice, not theory) is in use has been fragile, hard to debug,..

From what I have learned working at various jobs it seems to be the feature and not bug in system design. When things break it is considered a problem worthy of attention of those numerous architecture astronauts. It would have just been college project if things work without any fuss.
Note that Ethereum is switching to proof of stake this year, almost surely before Q4.

Is there some way you can bet against that claim?
Ask HN: Has there been a change in the troll activity on the internet?
Just curious if anyone has seen a change in the trolling, memes, etc on the internet/twitter etc since the Russian actions in Ukraine? Are we seeing a drop in areas of US/Western politics as those resources are directed towards a different offensive front?
There are sanctions against them too. That said, I don’t know what to feel about these dudes - there are reports that Putin has taken the oligarchs with him to the Urals, to prevent them from escaping and leaving Russia.

It is amazing how much harm a psycho can cause…
A more recent example of that is Blackberry 10. The way they tried to get developers was to ship an Android runtime so you can run Android apps. They even offered payments of $100 for every app a developer ported.

That just led to the BB appstore getting flooded with low quality Android apps that looked out of place and had terrible performance.

Which is not to say that BB10 would’ve succeeded if it had better apps, but it certainly didn’t help.

But with Proton/Wine it’s different because the games actually run really well, sometimes even better than they do on Windows, and it’s completely transparent to end users (unlike BB10, where Android apps behaved/looked different)

Plus, it doesn’t make a difference to the Linux desktop’s success whether devs write native apps or not. If a new business makes a real effort to develop and sell a Linux desktop product, the only thing that will matter is if customers can adopt it without losing access to the software/workflow they’re familiar with.

If they can pull that off, then competing against Windows shouldn’t be that hard; just don’t have a seething hatred of your own customers, and you’ll have a head start on Microsoft.

The only issue I see with the Proton reliance is the risk that Microsoft will do Microsoft things, and start introducing subtle API changes designed to break Proton/Wine and sabotage the competition. That’s a legitimate concern, but maybe today’s antitrust climate will make them a little hesitant to do that kind of thing? (Probably not)
Putin is a rational actor. The western media will and does refuse to show any information that would even slightly justify Putin's actions, or even make his actions seem rationally evil, which is why so many people here are thinking he's a crazy power drunken fool. Did you see any of his speeches air in our media, even parts of it? Did you see any Russian press releases describing any amount of why or how? Did you see any explanation from China about why they support this and to what degree? Most likely you saw none of this, and therefore think Putin is a madman.

The war propaganda right now is incredibly dense from both sides, and each side sees only their side. But no, he's not a crazy person, he's the leader of Russia making a play.
Why Russia is Invading Ukraine [video]
I experienced this in the extreme recently. I'm a very experienced dev in a very in-demand field. Money is not a huge priority for me in my career. Flexibility is. I have a proven track record of success in part-time roles after converting to part time at my previous company (after 2 years of full-time, of course). I spent 3+ months trying to get part-time engagements, and was willing to consider both consulting and W-2 arrangements. I got interviewed and then ghosted by two companies, was offered a laughably low rate by a third, and a fourth showed interest but then basically told me that I'd need to work a 40-hour week. I know that a vocal minority has success in part-time consulting, but it's quite difficult to accomplish if you live outside of a tech hub (I'm based in Central Oregon) and don't have SV connections.

Contrast that with when I gave up and decided to make myself available for full-time (remote) work. In the span of about 5 weeks, I got over 200 recruiter emails, interviewed at 10 companies, and received 10 offers, mostly in the upper end of the $200k-400k range.

I firmly believe that this is a cultural block, rather than one that's rooted in rational/pragmatic concerns. Tech companies want to feel like they're getting your full intellectual output, even if that's demonstrably false in the status quo. There's also this issue that gets brought up of "if Bob is gone half the time, isn't that going to breed resentment with his full-time coworkers?" (answer: only if you have a shitty "butts in seats" management culture).

I honestly don't think we're going to see meaningful change in this area for a while. The 40-hour work week is something that's heavily ingrained in tech culture, to the point where certain companies' "perks" are heavily tuned towards incentivizing you to stay at the office longer and frequently turn that 40 hours into 60. I think it will take an external disruptive event on the scale of COVID-19 in order to change this aspect of tech culture.
Getting users is hard
Is it really that much different than the large amount of arms made by the US? The fact that China tends to be very price competitive on manufacturing costs I'm sure will have a massive effect here.

Now, more speculation on my part, it seems very likely that China could subsidize weapons manufacturing to bolster the manufacture of weapons in its own country, and to be part of the feedback loop on what is effective and what is not and not have to be directly involved in the battle itself.
FWIW, I would assume this is the language: https://github.com/lokedhs/array
Habitat was sold to the Ikano group after Ikano had been split off from Ikea.
That’s precisely why we never introduced a pacifier in the first place. I believe it is a crutch for emotional self-regulation. The peace it brings you now will be paid for tenfold in the future. That being said, I know that it is a hard thing to do as a parent to resist the temptation to use one. I’d just suggest keeping the above in mind. It might give you the strength not to do it in spite of the short and mid term rewards.
Virtual Circuit Board – a logic circuit simulator with an assembler
That's fair, what if another PoW coin gets really popular?

The good news here may be two-fold

1) the existing group of public chains have matured greatly and their network effects are quite strong now. It is no longer so easy to start a new chain

2) virtually all new chains are PoS because it's understood to be significantly more secure and less expensive vs. PoW

3) public chains take years to grow, and right now, there is no PoW public chain on my radar that has a chance of generating nearly as much mining demand as Ethereum (and Bitcoin but ASICs)

For those reasons, the idea of a new public chain appearing from nowhere and impacting GPU demand seems in practice unlikely to occur.
Verteporfin is super interesting stuff but this is extremely early research. Still no human trials yet.
Using America to refer to every country in North and South America is imprecise at best, if not outright disingenuous. Nobody thinks you're talking about Brazilians or Argentines or Canadian when you say "American."

That's us. It's our word. You can pry it from our cold dead lips.
I hear you man, but guess what, I'm not a supplier, so again: qui bono.

You're argument assumes we have anything close to a healthy economy now. And in another world, you'd be right. However, that not being the case, your argument is moot at best and disingenuous at worst.
The article doesn't mention that Putin threatened to nationalize Western property in Russia, which presumably would include BP's 19.75% stake in Rosneft. So it's not surprising they want to sell while they can.
You might want to re-read the thread again. Your comment was uncalled for.
Pluton will prevent running software modified without permission of developers
Can I get that gene...please? lol
Sales numbers on the PS5 seem to indicate demand is unprecedented. Even if supply can be ramped up the demand is still unmet. The world has never had so many people seeking in home entertainment simultaneously.

I guess I am also part of the problem. I hate the idea of a scalper but I bought one from a high school student who is scouting them out and buying them then reselling them at a $100 markup over MSRP to make money for college. They learned to code for this. I figured it was the right kind of entrepreneurship to support even if the entire supply chain issues we face are allowing less scrupulous people to profit akin to how this student is.
Absolutely! Please see this Polymarket prediction market on "When will Ethereum switch to proof of stake?"

https://polymarket.com/market-group/ethereum-merge-pos
This. I've been planning to buy a new gaming rig for two years, but wasn't so much a priority that I would pay exorbitant prices for even midrange hardware.

When normality is restored, I'll be happy to finally upgrade.
Yeah it's a pain for those in the business. Thankfully it's just a hobby for me, but I've talked to professionals who were on their fourth board revision due to substitutions... can't be fun.
When I looked at that I got the impression he was just wrong rather than evil i.e. it feels like a boomer-y "touch grass rather than go to therapy" ideal of social housing where people are "forced" to mingle.

That was my impression of the most recent design, maybe the older ones are more brazen.
Whelp, I never thought of it that way. Uh oh.
What was wrong with just offering multiple media types and letting the browser pick which one to use?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMi-eApVQAIp0Jk?format=jpg&name=...

This also seems to happen coincidentally.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ng_ukraine/status/149792461486500...

This happens to be the blue ticked Ukrainian national guard. The Russian propoganda is veeerryyy deeep gaiss.
I will be one of them :)
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson is a great book that taught me a lot. It covers the gradual discovery of computers from Babbage and comes to modern ages. I highly recommend it. This book is also very fun to read.

- Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli is a brief, enjoyable, and great read. This book is good for both layperson and experts.

- Albert Einstein is Einstein's biography by Walter Isaacson. Really nice book.

- The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick (author of Chaos and The Information) is another great biography. This biography shows the evolution of his science as well as evolution of his person and thoughts. Great book. Background in Physics will be very helpful if you want to read this one.

- The Mathematical Experience David, Hersh is a very succinct and pleasant book on the history of Maths. Will recommend.

- Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges is a good mathematician's biography. I have not finished it, but fully intend to.

- I have just read some of The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattyacharya is a biography of John von Neumann. It already seems very good and I plan to read through the end.

- The Annotated Turing deals a lot with history and is a read of a lifetime.

____

- I have not read A Mind at Work yet. It is a biography of Claude Shanon. I would recommend you to check it out.

- Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind is also recommended highly. I plan to read it.

____

I have recently watched a BBC Documentary that I thoroughly liked. One of its themes that had striken me was the change of science from fully deterministic to probabilistic. It's an extremely important paradigm shift for all of science.

The name is Dangerous Knowledge (2007).

The people covered are- Cantor, Boltzmann, Godel, and Turing.
>Saying we will have poor people >because< there's more funding for defence is a little off for me.

Not because there more funding but because more funding for one thing means less funding for another one.

Where does even the 2% come from?
Why only for the military and not education and health care?
Doesn't NATO need educated and healthy people?
Does it count towards the 2% if we fix infrastructure because military is mainly logistics?

How about health care workers.
More money for them is also part of military capability.

In the current form these 2% are just subsidies for weapon manufacturers.
I wonder who the biggest beneficiaries are.

Especially since armies don't win wars these days. In the end, it boils down to house fighting and guerrilla warfare. You don't need 100 billion for that
It doesn't really unless you welcome police overreach and MPAA/RIAA bullies. Fight the power and shit.
I get that anyway, plenty of people use pianojacq.com and they tell me about it and provide feedback on ways to improve it.
100% this. We have an L-shaped sofa from them that has lasted through 4 different apartments. One side of the L is longer, and we can easily change the orientation to fit the aspect of the apartment living room.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/02/25/ukrai...
I think that, some day, money might be good enough that there can be micro-economies around side projects without bringing in all of the bloat, complexity, and expectations around current software revenue models. In my imagination, it would be less than project developers "charge" and more than users are able to easily "give" something back - even if just a little bit.
We NEED russian gas and oil. They need to sell it to us. So no neither side CAN sanction it for now.

The best we can do is a huge, rapid expansion of import capacity from other countries.
Shaking Off the Rust
Can I run wine on windows then? Only semi joking!
I would love to transition to a Linux for most things but I can’t give up the ability to text via my mac desktop. It’s so much faster and I barely suffer a context switch.

Having to stop and pick up my phone to type with my thumb is just agonizing. And not everyone I deal with is on slack.
Why are posts supporting Russia banned on HN?
Fair enough, and yes, to have the brakes on this is in principle a good thing but for all the same money Ukraine would have been significantly worse off already because of the slow response. But you are right that this is a feature.
I am explaining that I see two options and I pick the second in good faith. I believe I am participating according to the rules, or at least I am attempting to do so in good faith.
Throw me similar, related, or unrelated documentary recommendations. I will be grateful.
I think what they actually said was "Just because it's business school it's not relevant"
Because I'm utterly, utterly selfish; allow me to explain:

A dollar, euro, naira, deutschmark, ruble, yuan or yen has an imprint of life and context based on its' cultural origins (and the minter who produced it).

My business project (still a side-project at the moment, effectively) is imprinted -- to the git commit-level -- with the authorship of myself (and hopefully other contributors in future).

Given the choice between offering that software DNA (including, admittedly, plenty of faults) to other people to use and remix as they like, or to trade it for monetary units that are relatively-characterless in compensation -- even a billion such monetary units -- well, it's not really a choice that requires much consideration.

(regardless of the choice, the two options are equivalent at a technology/runtime level; they're a series of compute instructions that run locally or over a network to achieve result(s))
>> Winamp

My hero
What is the impact of Russian military signal jamming on the starlink satellites and receivers? I assume the receivers transmit fairly narrow beam, can the satellites winnow out the signal from the jamming? Ditto the receivers.
100% this. There was a copyism movement a while back that basically believed humans should have the right to copy and share as they like.

Let's not pretend that free sharing leads to starving musicians. All but a very few are already starving now, and our culture is centralized into a bland nothingness because of it.

In a free to share world, value for value wins. Artists have experimented with donation requested but otherwise free music and won.

In this model there's also no need for distribution or streaming middleman.

And no need for Fed coffers and intervention.
Ukraine's government raises crypto worth $8M in crowdfunding appeal
UA forces have a very similar strategy. They are heavily decentralised. Which has a surprising side effect, apart from mentioned. Because enemy's command is decentralised it takes them up to 4 days to cease fire. It's better to start the negotiation sooner.

What is interesting about Hezbollah is that they use civilian drones. I haven't seen any reports of using civilians drones in this conflict. Army should buy thousands of civilian drones and just attached hand grenades. You can wreak a lot of chaos in the night. Antonov airport is a good target. Another idea is to use cars in self-driving capabilities as bombs.
yeah, have to remember that 'Q' and 'P' aren't used, which comes into play about once a week, as was likely the case for that Wordle, assume result was 'spill'

& definitely works for today to solve quickly
Taking it to first principles, I don't see part time as feasible until documentation has negligible marginal cost. It takes time to get people up to speed.

Another blocker is the inane requirement in employment agreements by many large corps in the US that they own your IP while you work for them, regardless how it was developed or what the topic is (one place I worked at owned children's books if you published them, despite being a software developer). Until that is unacceptable, either legally or culturally, working part-time presents a conflict of interest. Rather than valuing the breadth a part-timer might bring, it's viewed as a liability.
For any C++ / computer vision people who are in this position: Kitware pays hourly, and at least in the medical research department I was in, you pick how many hours you work per week, down to about 30 hours. I usually worked 32 hour weeks when I was there.
I don't think Windows has a nice GUI. It is incredibly bloated.. and Windows has been pushing UWP apps for some time. Please no.. Linux already has an influx of Electron apps, we don't need Windows UI.
I recall that the Japanese were the first to make waterproof mobile phones so that people could keep chatting while taking a shower.

On a personal observation: in the beginning I frequently forgot my phone. Now it is as standard to me as a wallet or keys. I can subconsciously feel its weight in my pocket.
> But a lot of piracy happens with publicly downloadable files, which MEGA can definitely decrypt and search for copyright violations.

This is straight up wrong. Mega cannot decrypt files and search for copyright files just like that. They need to have the key for that. I have shared a lot of copyrighted stuff on mega and the links are still available publicly but in closed forums( still active ). mega would've taken it down a long time back if they knew what was in it. They can only take down files when corpos notify them with the base links to the file. If they don't it stays up.
I felt the same. I was waiting for the punchline, the twist, or at least an "All that said it's totally worth it" at the end.
Kinda. Putin is ending up making Russia look more like a more powerful and unhinged version of North Korea than a legitimate world power. He might end up going way too far and alienating China.

Scary stuff, Putin seems like an "if I can't have it, nobody can" tyrant.
As with many such hobby projects it’s a “why not?”. Not every project must have some kind of serious “value”
If they subscribed to one of Google's premium services (e.g. Google Fi or Fiber) then they could at least get a human on the phone.
>In other words, aging research doesn't have a bad reputation because people are morally opposed to aging research, it has a bad reputation because it's just pretty dismal as science

The quality of the science has nothing to do with it. Being against aging has the same emotional reaction from people in general as pissing in public. That's not how people would react if their issue was with the science.