skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear war is surprisingly survivable if you aren't unlucky and know what you're doing. See Nuclear War Survival Skills, a free PDF put out by Oak Ridge National Laboratory:

http://oism.org/nwss/nwss.pdf

Basically - you're only toast if you're within the fireball, radiation, and moderate blast damage radius. If you're inside the thermal radiation or light blast damage radius, you should immediately take shelter away from windows and face away from the flash, much as you would in an earthquake. Hiroshima is filled with anecdotes of people being vaporized and casting shadows on the wall behind them, while people in the next room over survived with only minor cuts and burns. You have about 5-20 seconds between seeing the flash and the blast wave getting to you; the thermal pulse itself can last for up to 40 seconds, so the less time you spend in it the less badly you'll be burned.

You can view the blast radius for common warheads on NukeMap:

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Topol ICBMs are 800kt and Bulava SLBMs are 100-150kt; you can expect Russia to use SLBMs on strategic military targets and ICBMs on cities. A hypothetical attack on the Bay Area that targets SFO, OAK, Moffett, Alameda NAS, and the Port of Oakland with Bulavas and downtown San Francisco and San Jose with Topols would leave basically all of the East Bay intact, along with the Sunset/Richmond, San Jose south of 280, and the Peninsula from Mountain View to Hillsborough. It's survivable at the Googleplex, despite being basically in sight of Moffett, as long as you're not near an east-facing window when the blast hits.

In NYC, assuming a Topol on Manhattan and Bulavas on JFK/LGA/EWR, it'd take out most of lower Manhattan but large portions of Queens and virtually all of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island would survive.

You do need to prep for an interruption of utilities, but you should do that anyway for hurricane/earthquake/etc preparedness. If you've got ~3 days of water and ~2 weeks of food and are outside a blast radius, there's a good chance of you being fine. Given the large amounts of suburbia that are not in the blast radius of a likely target, food supply chains likely wouldn't be more damaged than they were in the pandemic, and you could go to a local Walmart for food. Depending on how centralized your local water supply is and whether they have backup generators (the electrical grid is a likely casualty), you may keep municipal water as well.
You are talking about the nitty-gritty aspects of actual software engineering. I’m talking about doing away with the redundancy of having to retake the industry-wide Leetcode fizzbuzz portion instead of passing it once.
NoCode isn't dying. But it has problems
> He's bluffing with Crimea.

> Oh wait!

> He's bluffing with separatist regions.

> Oh wait!

> He's bluffing with invading Ukraine.

> Oh wait!

These are all straw men. I don't know any serious analysts who thought he was bluffing in any of those areas, primarily because they all understood the Western response would be muted.

He knows, as the rest of the world does, that launching nuclear war will require an all-out response from Western powers.
I took a glance at their website. Does it do all the things the original article mentioned? Like setup catchall email, route email to specific addresses (like I have 3 people in my family, Jane, Akbar, Jeff, jeff@mydomain.com goes to him, but everyone@mydomain.com goes to all of us, yet parents@mydomain.com goes to just the 2 parents). I want that, plus it's part of the current hodge podge of email verification standards so it won't be blocked as spam when I send from there.

That's the most valuable feature of goggle mail and domain hosting to me.
How to take credit for someone else's commits on GitHub
I could see Steam/Proton evolving into a sort of gaming specialized cross platform runtime.
This is a heartwarming comment.
It has been. The standard of admission is generally 'internationally recognised state', not 'good government'.
> Maybe the extra responsiveness under heavy loads is slowing it down?

Yes! Extra responsiveness is done by switching more often between tasks. This is not free, so throughput suffers. The linux kernel lists that as the downside of e.g. 1000Hz ticks (something the Liquorix kernel enables).
> How can they distinguish good from bad justifications for aggression?

On a case-by-case basis. As you note, the international community probably wouldn't have reacted against the US regarding Afghanistan (and probably should have regarding Iraq).
Short answer, no.

Personal opinion, Putin is looking to create a buffer zone between Russia and the rest of Europe by annexing parts of Ukraine.

As he's stated, he doesn't want Ukraine joining NATO, and it's likely, at least partly, due to Ukraine gov warming up to other western govs and likely allowing them to currently setup/operate listening posts for intel operations and the sorts within their territory.

To avoid this kind of activity happening there, Putin is looking to annex at least part of Ukraine and install a puppet gov there to handle managing things and keep western operations further away from Russia.

Best case outcome in this shitty situation, Russia annexes Donetsk + Luhansk. Mid case(?), Russian gov gets everything east of Kyiv. Worst case Russian gov takes all of Ukraine, but that doesn't seem very likely.

A compromise will probably come to fruition in the coming days/weeks. It's already being said that Putin also wants Ukraine to give up its military, but that's possibly a throw away demand in negotiations that he's open to taking off the table in order to get what he really wants, annexation/buffer zone.

It seems highly unlikely that the Russian gov would do this for resources (they've got enough), expanding an empire (that's just more shit to manage), or for ego sake (that's just stupid and Putin's too calculated for that being the reason). It's purely for political/strategic reasons, and it's ugly that lives civilian and military are the cost for something like this.
and Inuak is dual (in the Baffin Island dialect[0], if I extrapolate correctly - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing) for when you need to talk about 2 people, because why _wouldn't_ you need a dual case. Wonderful language. Wish I had more tuits.

[0] Inuit Languages and Dialects by Louis-Jacques Dorais, Nunavut Arctic College, 2003
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Galileo’s Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter by Roger G Newton

From Clockwork to Crapshoot: A History of Physics by Roger G Newton

Connections by James Burke

The Day The Universe Changed by James Burke

re Math:
Everything and More A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace
I doubt many desire to do bad things, but rather desire the spoils of bad things & find ways to self-justify.
I’m certainly not a US supporter but their intention wasn’t to annex Iraqi territory.
Exactly. Putin personally seems to only have bad choices right now. He is probably hoping that Russia will take Kiev quickly, which could alleviate some of the pressure.

If the losses mount, he might be facing the fate of the Romanoffs pretty soon.
You don't have to be old to be ignorant. "Mainnet," and "Chain," have non-arbitrary, universal meaning in the distributed ledger space. 'Beacon' is not arbitrary either as it fits the function it names. I'm not going to sit here and defend Ethereum - but to answer you question: most of that verbage has meaning independent of Ethereum's PR.
Facebook limits access to some Russian state-controlled media in Ukraine
Sounds like an USA issue, it's quite popular in Europe afaik.

Part time developers are generally a niche (mostly by choice, people want to get full time pay), but I know plenty of people who work 3 days per week and many more who work 4 days per week.

They mostly do it for work-life balance and to pay less taxes in some backward southern European countries where tax don't make sense (eg. in one country you can make the same money post tax whether you earn 65k or 90k, so contractors try to work up to the 65k limit and work less days).

Likewise you can find consultant roles for N days per week relatively easily.
People do get hired part-time. One of my friends recently got hired for approx $700k/yr 20h/wk.
> they might still be predictive of success in the job

Basing an assumption out of thin air like this, we can throw the opposite argument: 'they might be predictive of failure in the job'.

Writers of bad code and choices mentioned by OP were likely hired out of a fantastic hacker rank score, and yet failed to produce good output.
Very interested in the Nomad writeup.

I do ansible+handrolled systemd jobs for mine, and the mixing of all my apps into the ansible config isn't great.

On the other hand, it avoids most of the fuss of getting stuff working in containers.. unless i mistrust it, roll my own podman container, and again orchestrate with systemd, making a huge amount of work for myself and bloating my ansible config even more.
> China needs Russia's support

When Russia gets kicked out of UN, they won’t.
> By license I mean the current Leetcode interview process except you do it once and are good for at least five years

Some companies do seem to be offering something similar to this, see CodeSignal's general coding assessment or back when TripleByte was big a few years ago. I think the problem is that even within the specialized topic of LC style interviews, many companies don't agree on a similar strategy when it comes to types of questions and difficulty. There isn't one standard that every company agrees on, so most have their own flavor of it.
> Putin is also suggesting talks on the Belarus/Ukraine border.

The word is that the Russians will suggest that they unconditionally surrender or Kyiv will get the 'Grozny' treatment. I'm pretty sure of the outcome there, but of course anything could happen.
Biden is not war specialist, he depends on analytics, and he is political person, he may sometime exaggerate things, to save lives.

Analytics said, Russian have TECHNICAL resources for war, but unknown in which condition those resources.

This remember me old anecdote, in 1960th, American analytics count overall area of all Russian secret enterprises, than compare it with American rocket enterprises, and give to Senate defense comitee prediction, how many rockets USSR already build, to suggest huge increase of defense spending.

Members look on this prediction, and asked one simple question: how they could been sure, that all those enterprises made just rockets?
And where Soviets build cars, trains, other mechanics?
Analytics could not answer to this, and where got out with shame.

Returning for technical resources, we have not before invasion know, what will be used.

And sure Biden insured for worst possible case, he thought, and we also thought, that Russia will attack with modern high precision weapons, but fortunately, this does not happen.

Now we know exactly, that Russian army mostly have extremely old machines, approximately 1970th if account from Western technical level, not Russian.

Thanks for sanctions on Russia, they have not modernized much machines for modern level.

And 1970th machines, are totally depend on people, they are not automatic at all, and to be exact, they are just support for infantry, which is extremely vulnerable for Ukrainian weapons.

Second question where, if Ukrainians will resist, or like in 2014 will drop weapons and surrender - we have Great answer for this question.

If Ukrainians where not resist, Russians would be used Ukrainian medical infrastructure.

So, kremlin mistaken. To be honest, all mistaken, underestimated Ukrainian forces and Ukrainian people, and overestimated Russians.

Because of these mistakes, I could talk to you from Kiev, and we still resist, and I believe, we will win, all world will win, with independent Ukraine.
I think winning could be done by 2 ways:

- holding out long enough, if it depleets Russia of resources ( aided with sanctions)

- internal protests in Russia ( considering huge amount of relatives on both sides), that goes out of control - I don't know if this is realistic though. But I think the relative factor between those countries ( family members) can outwit the propaganda factor

Those Ukranians are though as hell though. I'm sure we are seeing a more 'positive' side of them ( if that's possible in a war), but they aren't backing down. Uttermost respect for their president too. He seems to have a deep understanding of how he can reach the world.
I understand your point, but i disagree with the conclusion. If anything, this shows that we need to use less energy overall and invest in durable infrastructure/lifestyles. There's no magical energy source that's going to make you fully self-sufficient (as a territory) without fucking up your local environment.

We have such an abundance of energy and it's wasted on such bullshit, it's incredible. And by this i don't just mean people who buy IoT or take the plane, i do mean that most of the waste comes from our industrial system favoring private competition and planned obsolescence instead of resource efficiency and a repair economy.
Read the comments. He did something wrong.
It is dark comedy indeed to see Russia’s apologists defend their actions with whataboutism about the US war in Iraq. Guess what, we think that one was illegitimate too. Good work throwing the Ukraine invasion on the pile of unjust wars. Bush and Putin can sing a Nuremberg duet together.
I read that study the opposite way around. That children will accept duplicates if an object is "desirable" but they have no particular attachment to it. However if there is a strong existing attachment to a specific object (e.g. security blanket) the copy is less valued.
My biggest problem with it is I cannot sign up to iCloud+ because I don't have an apple device or a windows pc I could install the iCloud app onto.
I suspect if I was to borrow one trying to use the mail on an android device would be fairly miserable making it not worth it but would be nice to have the option to try without needing to jump through hoops.
You mean the recent president that signed more peace deals in the Middle East in recent history and was the only president who also hasn’t started a war since probably I’ve been alive? That guy?
I’m an employee and I’m of breaking my NDA ;)
A lot of talent is wasted by young people doing their utmost best at uni only to find out that no one cared. I applied to FAANG after graduating CS and no one got back to me.

A friend of mine in the HFT world told me “I know how hard some of your courses were. But you can’t highlight them on your cv because no one will believe you that they were that hard. And even if they did, they wouldn’t believe that those skills are transferable.”

Going to yet another job interview, I spoke to my interviewer who had a similar CS specalization but from another uni. He told me “my master was of baaad quality.” I responded with: “mine wasn’t, and my classmates all feel the same because we’ve learned practical skills and our teachers prided themselves in giving difficult yet practical courses.” He looked at me with disbelief.
Bingo.

It should be telling that there are a number of, usually for-profit, resources for prepping for just the interview process:

* leetcode

* Cracking the Coding Interview

* Elements of Programing Interviews

* Interview Kickstart, which costs like $5500, is a bootcamp just for passing interviews

* educative.io

* algoexpert.io

That being said, I might just play along with the DS / Algo interview game. Having an interview process that is artificially arduous and way outside the expectations of the job duties means that the job market will stay artificially inflated on the demand side. Hiring leetcode monkeys who can barely deploy and manage k8s cluster on AWS means the demand for my skills will be more valuable than if the interview process actually worked. I can complain all day to my bosses about how hard it is to hire (its not that hard) and meanwhile rip their HR budget to shreds when I threaten to leave unless I get paid more (I've done that before, I recently got a promotion and 50% raise on base alone).

So yeah, I'll gatekeep as long as others play too. I hate the game, but I will play it to my advantage.
> Has anyone done a decent job explaining what the most likely outcomes actually are?

There is only one outcome here: Ukraine becomes a Russian client state.

Russia then decouples from the West. Other African and Asian countries start thinking in similar terms. You cannot have the US and Europe determine your national security interests by using the threat of sanctions as a Damocles sword all the time.

Russia controls the second most powerful military on the planet. Any suggestion that they will be defeated in Ukraine is wishful thinking.
Well, you could say that for sure it can be done, because we didn't really have democracies before 1776, excluding some super short and unstable versions, and democracies with universal suffrage are even newer, after about 1900.

According to the Democracy Index, ~75 countries are full or flawed democracies, so 75 countries made the leap.
That's normally my comment.

For those that still insist that Putin is rational, there's one way to model his current behaviour: his utility function prioritises "make Russia great again", or at the very least, geopolitical concerns. He's willing to take whatever hit he needs to take, whether economically or in the lives of soldiers and civilians, to achieve this goal.
The CMOS sensors have gotten much bigger (4-6x area plus there's multiple cameras) and the amplifiers are now almost thermal noise limited... but there's so much AI between you and the image that without using RAW it would be stomped out.

I'm not sure how well the phone cameras would deal with cooling... since you don't really need the mechanical AF or zoom to work. That would be the next step, if you deconstructed them.
Surely a better idea than building LNG terminals.
Stalin had a wife and kids, and there were times he appeared to care about them, such as his efforts to keep Beria away from his young daughter. But otherwise, Stalin clearly cared nothing for human life in general. He stopped the Great Purge of his own people in 1937 only after it became clear that it was starting to drag down the economy.

Putin has given no indication that he's any different from Stalin in this regard.
I think it has to do more with the size of the company.

Good luck negotiating that with a FANG, smaller companies won't give a damn (unless they have a dumb HR department who doesn't understand how hard hiring devs is)
Have you forgotten the global pandemic and impending climate disaster?
Might be a crazy idea - but what do people think of repository owners compiling from the source code? Like Valve / Canonical could do it and put out binaries. Obviously there would be agreements about the security/management of the source code. Maybe it could even be done cryptographically so that no source code needs to be visible outside some kind of building machine.
A pretty good book for abstract algebra is Pinter's "A Book of Abstract Algebra". It's rigorous but not overly terse and provides enough examples and applications as it goes to motivate the student. Chapters are fairly short and end with a large number of exercises, organized by topic, to give you plenty of opportunity to practice the material.

It's available in a Dover edition for under $16 so it is easy on the budget too [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Book-Abstract-Algebra-Second-Mathemat...
Meanwhile Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Visa, Mastercard, ... all continue to do business with them.

"Cool"
This may depend on childcare preferences. If you want daycare or nannies perhaps. There is also the healthcare wildcard. If your family remains relatively healthy you can do well with many kids in the US. Or get a job at FAANG with great coverage.
I doubt its on purpose.

My mum's work email address changed and we changed the email address associated with her apple ID. She had no end of tiny bugs pop up - especially in the first couple of weeks after the change.

Apple's systems in general don't seem to cope well with email addresses changing or being deleted. I think lots of software engineers use email addresses as if they're an immutable primary key. This just isn't the case.
The nuclear stuff is posturing on Putin's part. The biggest reason nobody's sending troops to help Ukraine is to avoid the risk of nuclear escalation in the first place. To my understanding, fighting on the ground or establishing a no-fly zone in eastern Ukraine would require strikes into Russian territory using weapons like cruise missiles that could be loaded with nuclear warheads. So we're not doing that.

Neither widening the war beyond Ukraine nor randomly launching nukes at NATO would benefit Putin. And this is not even close to the tensest moments of the Cold War. So I'm not worried about World War 3 starting. The most likely outcome right now is that Russia is able to conquer Ukraine and ends up fighting a bloody insurgency while suffering under heavy sanctions. I don't know where that goes, but the rest of Europe will survive to find out.

All that being said, I don't want to downplay the significance of a major power starting a war to effectively redraw borders in Europe. That is a huge and terrible step away from the post-WW2 norm.
South Korea and Taiwan currently have more functional democracies than the United States does. The Economist's Democracy Index classifies Taiwan and South Korea as full democracies, while the US is a flawed democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Americans in general are stubborn to a fault and full of ourselves internationally. It would be less altruism to save Taiwan and more "fuck China". The sanctions on Russia are predicted to make gasoline prices soar, especially on the West Coast, and it's anecdotal but the conversations I'm hearing are less polite versions of "fine, I'm willing to pay a little more at the pump to stick it to Putin". Although I'm not on the west coast I'd agree with the sentiment.

Then you have Republicans, right now they're deriding Biden for going soft on Putin and blaming him for this crisis (not sure how many are buying it outside of Trump's base, but that's the line). So going soft on a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would play right into that message. No way Biden could do it for that reason alone, let alone the myriad of other motivations.
cplusplusfellow if your contacts transition to the likes of Signal [0], you can then message from phone or computer. They have software for Windows, Mac and Linux.

[0] signal.org
Yes. Good experience here.
Obscure? I'm not sure about that. Some of the tags, like <meter> or <mark>, you can perhaps label as not frequently used.
Exactly. I suspect most of the IKEA hate comes from people living in a wealth bubble who've never had to rent and assume the broken bookshelf they see on the side of the road is a genuine IKEA Billy that has somehow been unscavenged.

For people in that bubble, with a few exceptions (Lack!) IKEA furniture is designed to be disassembled and reassembled multiple times while lasting decades. It's an absolute godsend for people who are moving houses every few years.

Most of the garbage flat-pack you see smashed to bits on the side of the road is a knock-off made by another brand with ridiculously shoddy materials. I've personally cracked open an Amart bookshelf before to find honeycombed cardboard providing most of the structural integrity.
I tried MIR infrared heated fabric and it penetrated my skin and centimeters below very nicely.

I wonder if it causes cancer cause it works so well I’m surprised no one talks about it.
Any distros following this philosophy? Apart from solving the constantly breaking packages problem it sounds like it would also have the fastest installs (at the cost of increased disk usage, though perhaps fs-level (block-level) deduplication could offset this?