skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to see these "ists and isms" and various X-punk movements,
because that means we are _thinking_ about this stuff and that popular
philosophy of science is alive.

"Futur-ism" has it's origins in 1920s/30s European design
aesthetics. It's a strange projection of the values of the wealthier
classes, mixed with some early fascist-industrial values, but also
influenced by the Grand Exhibitions (for example Crystal Palace, or
the World's Fair (Exposition Universelle where the Eiffel Tower was
built)). For America this kind of thing had enormous cultural
influence, for example [1] how General Motors/Chrysler projected a
future to the growth-hungry 1950s USA.

To a large degree this works. We imagine things we desire through
science-fiction and go on to create them. But Futurism has gotten
conflated with Futurology, by the likes of Kurzweil - the idea of
technological singularity - and the modern Cosmists for whom
quasi-religious ideas like "uploading your brain into the cloud" hold
huge appeal. This movement seems qualitatively different in its
departure from desirable "Earthly" goals, toward technological
determinism, cybernetic governance, a sense of "inevitability" and
"uniquity" to everything, and as Neil Postman put it, "abject
surrender to technology".

The counter-movement today is Humane Technology, see for example [2]
which resonates somewhat with the "cozy-punk" theme of the
article. Space travel is at the intersection. It's simultaneously
useful and useless at present - a Kierkegaardian state of man whose
feet are in the mud but head in the stars. We can integrate a very
optimistic view of space technology for peaceful purposes.

However, remember "the future" isn't cozy (by definition), because it's
an unknown we should rightfully have a respectful fear of. Every
technology will bring its benefits and dangers, pleasures and pains.

Leftists will project egalitarian values on to what we can
technologically achieve. Libertarians will uphold the (established in
the West/North) values of freedom, speed, individualism in their
technological vision. Some (evolutionary psychologists like Peterson)
will insist that a-priori we cannot escape the limitations of Pareto
dominance hierarchies, perhaps missing that all technologies are means
by which we escape limitations. However, the limits to growth (see
Meadows etc) will definitely put hard brakes on, because even with
fusion we are unlikely to become alchemists in this century or the
next.

The best we can hope for is to retain _human_ control of our direction
in science and technology. That's what seriously worries me today.
For all the talk of "Society's Will" we are teetering on the brink of
abdication of all human will, at least with respect to the digital
technologies before which we bow.

[1] https://www.formtrends.com/when-the-future-had-fins/

[2] https://www.humanetech.com/
I leveraged the 80/20 principle to rebuild wgtwo.com
> (For example, my recruiter strongly believed that candidates needed a minimum of 5 weeks to prepare for an interview.)

Your recruiter believes this for a reason and they have probably seen many candidates go through the process.

Not saying you're a liar, but if you got into G with that little prep, I have some follow up questions:

* Where did you level when you got your offer? L3 vs L4 vs L5 makes a big difference.

* How many LC questions were you given per round? I would expect 2 is the norm.

* Did you have optimal solutions or were you nudged to a solution by the interviewer?

* Did you pass any other FAANG / leetcode interviews?

* What's you educational background? Do you have computer science / STEM degree from MIT or similar?

* Did you crush the system design interview?

* How do you feel behavioral interviews went?
Would you really argue the Ruble is more stable than Bitcoin?
It's not a question of economics, it's about not purposefully wasting resources.

Perhaps you'll be surprised to hear that I also turn off the lights in rooms that I am not in, or that I don't keep cars running when I'm not using them to move around.

Counter-question: why would you ever keep the water running when you're not utilizing the water?
AllAdvantage, 2020s edition!
I mean what happens in Gaza is wtf. But how far is the NATO or Europe allowed to escalate this conflict to an end that it becomes solved?

Alone the issue what trump did showed that there is not that much of alignment.
How to know which computer vision deployment method to use
In practice there is every reason to believe it means m.d.s.policy, and thus anybody who cares.

In principle Apple, Google, and Microsoft can do whatever they want, but well, go back and see the history of such interventions for yourself and draw your own conclusions about where the crucial decision was made.
Ask HN: Would Ukraine joining NATO violate promise to have no nuclear weapons?
NATO wouldn't give Ukraine nuclear weapons but it would protect it using them.
We also have to consider they don't need to keep everything in crypto. Just use it to get out of the Ruble and later figure out what to do.
According to Wikipedia median Russian wealth is only a bit over 5 kUSD per person. Ukraine 2.5 kUSD. I haven't been able to find figures for actual savings in Russia but this page https://www.expertmarket.com/credit-card-processing/countrie... gives figures for the countries that save most. Russia is not on the list, but for comparison Norwegians mean annual savings are almost 5 kUSD per year.

So Russians might not be on the edge of starvation but I imagine that a substantial minority could find themselves close to that edge quite quickly.
Naive to assume they gave up all of them. If I was them I'd have a nice little dirty bomb stashed in some major Russian city right now.
Show HN: W3rdl3 – Wordle and Threes Combined
My app update was rejected because I accidentally had a duplication of a word in my description.
You have to supply Play with a working test account for the review process. They didn't.

Briar has more than 500k installs according to its Google Play page. Why do Google need to remove the app entirely if they've previously accepted and published it? I can understand not allowing an update without the proper review process using a working account, but what's the reasoning behind removing the old version that Google allowed just because they can't review an update? That makes no sense.
I don't follow. Do you see crypto as state-backed or allied to state-backed currencies?
This. Sure, in the micro, maybe crypto helps Russian citizens protect assets during a difficult period, but so can gold. And, in the macro, these fiat levers are much more punitive to the regime and the elites that support it.

Not to mention crypto can help the wealthy targets skirt sanctions.

On balance, given that we are dealing with a war of aggression and loss of life, I'm grateful for these tools. And, even to the extent it causes some pain for the Russian people, that further erodes support for the regime's unjust campaign and turns up the heat on them.
Yes NFT! I keep making the same typo everywhere.
Before answering, can you share what do you want to get out from your career?
Some starter questions:
Why do you want to get into software management?
Do you want to get into software management in general, or for the particular company you working for?
Is it a stepping stone to your goal, e.g. building your own product?

The books shared in other comments are all good, I personally vouch for the Mythical Man Month. I consider High Output Management a must read for management in general. The Elegant Puzzle is quite useful for team of certain scale, but I would say less useful for startup of a few engineers. Still useful, just less.
Wiring up the grid globally makes more sense than trying to store energy overnight.
Same for me, using Firefox on Android. The navigation is not visible. Quick workaround: Enable desktop mode in your browser.
I don't hate leetcode, but I'd really rather do interviews in one of these ways

1. Rely on referrals from people I trust. If somebody I've worked closely with and respect highly says that Person X is awesome, then just hire Person X. This obviously has massive problems with creating an insular culture and only works for people with a sufficient professional network, but it is incredibly high signal.

2. Have a long conversation with the candidate. Discuss their prior experience and war stories. This can be gamed, but I suspect is harder to game than leetcode.

Both of these options have a big problem as they scale, which is that interviews do not transfer. You need the hiring manager to do this interviewing. Making every hiring manager at a 100,000 person company do their own sourcing and interviewing is going to be a mess. Megacorps want to allow anybody to interview and then once somebody passes those interviews, they'd be able to join any team. I have mixed feelings about this approach.

So the best option IMO is two 2-3 hour pairing sessions. Refactor some code, develop a feature, and diagnose a bug. Have the person comment on the architecture of the code or system they used and describe large scale changes they'd make to improve it or prevent it from arriving at this state.

This requires more pre-work since you need to create an entirely working fake system and environment. And since there is a huge incentive to practice for these things, people would definitely sell knowledge about the fake system. It is also higher variance when there are new interviewers, since they represent a larger portion of the total interview panel.
And old-skool 4:3 is even better (unless you use the panel for a lot of video). :)

It's a shame we're been wandering for nearly a decade, still trying and get back to what we already had.
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortalit...
Traditional currencies are already 99% digital, I don't see a considerable downside to using crypto with regards to this.
When it comes to which CAs are trusted, Mozzila is generally in the lead.

Not an elected group, true. But a foundation with a public charitable goal, and an entity with much less interest in being able to intercept communications than states.

I think it's better of in the hands of an un-elected foundation than in the hands of an elected, but politicized entity with interests in intercepting communication.
Article was written when they thought this was coming at the end of this month… actually 25 months away.

Did the share price spike? If so who made money?
Yup, for Bitcoin it's pretty normal and expected to see double-digit changes in either direction.
Anatomy of a JWT
Nothing, so we keep the status quo?
Thanks for existing...Not that I need a gtk3 postman alternative right now but for caring about resource usage and performance.
No. The nuclear non-proliferation treaty is about countries making their own weapons; it doesn't stop allies using them on a country's behalf. Also, it wouldn't be NATO doing that. It'd be a nuclear nation that's a member of NATO (the US, UK, etc).
What do they have potassium permanganate for at the drug store? I didn't think they had it.
What's the problem they're trying to solve here? Is it just lobbying fortthe return of special EV certificates or is there actually some kind of government issue that these people are trying to solve?
What authority does the EU have to tell browsers what settings to use in their non-commercial product? The EU is always free to fork browsers or maintain a version tuned to EU standards and let users choose what they want.
Seems to me like putting my money in to metal and burying it in my yar... an undisclosed location... would still be better than crypto.
Take note web designers! I don't want to play the blame game, but if a page is designed in such a way that JS is required to implement it web devs (like me) can't do much about that!
How much are you willing to pay for your hour of usage per year? $1? $10? $100?

Is the amount of work it would take to implement a metered rate at a rate users would pay worth it to capture the people who don't use it as a regular part of their job?
OR was that the whole point?
>True, but if you're having two windows side by side, the wider 16:9 will give you more horizontal space to do so.

I don't know about you, but I don't read two pages of text at the same time.
Oh I see. I didn’t notice that claim, and I agree with you. Imagine thinking that you “bribe” media. You just become a stakeholder or advertiser and exert pressure!
Assange endorsed Briar, and urged people in Ukraine to install it when he learned of the invasion. It's about the only thing he's commented on the situation in the outside world for the last two years.
At the time of formation of the United Nations India was not an independent country. The acceptance of India as a permanent member has been raised on and off by several countries always with sympathetic tones. It's an historical accident.
The only thing worse the corporate control over CA's is government control over CA's...

There is alternative to both, the solution to corporations having too much power is NEVER giving that power to governments
It's cool; honestly, I didn't know Python 3.6 support ended two months ago while I was still using it.
Sounds like racism to me.
In most cases that I've seen, a 16:10 vs 16:9 display has the same pixel width (the 16 part) part and more vertical pixels. So you were never actually sacrificing width as you claim.

I've had 3 16:10 panels in the last 10 years and this was the case each time: 1920x1200 (vs 1920x1080), 2560x1600 (vs 2560x1440) and now a 3840x2400 (vs 3840x2160).

16:10 monitors were out of fashion for most of the last 10 years, but are making a comeback lately.. They were hard to find for a while but worth the effort imo.
HashiConf Europe returns to Amsterdam June 20-22 DevOps Terraform vault
> seizing

aka stealing, war profiteering
Seems it's back again. Probably some Human at Google realized the situation and moved fast?
Although... We're seeing serious financial ramifications for Russia here. The currency is worth nothing on the open market, its financial institutions have little ability to borrow externally, they can forcibly isolate themselves but any imports are only going to be available to Russians at massively inflated prices.

The hyperinflation caused by defeat and reparations from WW1, and the propaganda over the next two decades were key motivating factors to get the German (and Italian, and Japanese) people to want to go to war with the rich empires that surrounded it.

Eerily enough, we're almost exactly 100 years on from that point. History could repeat itself with America and the EU playing the parts of the British and French empires. I think supporting the people of Russia is going to be a critical part of the next decade's diplomacy. It's not their fault this dictator has power.
I'd separate that into two categories: consensus that "withholding content, breaking games up, or locking devices to stores to artificially create redundant sales" and "abusive monetization design where the game is mostly a flimsy pretext for their real product, a gambling addiction simulator" are reviled industry practices.

People like their stores and skins, they just don't want to have to gamble to get them or be tricked into pay-to-play.

I tried a popular mobile game for the first time recently and almost immediately uninstalled it. As a new player I was overwhelmed with freebies, but every action funneled me back to the store or demanded some kind of worthless interaction. I was horrified at the thought that I might ever allow myself to get used to it and just how many people already had.
Yeah, it makes sense, it's really indifferent to who you are and what you're doing.
Just curious, how many hours have you been working mostly? 32 or even less?

I'm also looking for a part-time dev role in the Netherlands and having some trouble finding anything under 32 hours. I could've signed several jobs already if I were willing to go full time.
Easy, use an stablecoin like DAI or MIM you can get also as much as 12% APY.

Edit: previously I used the example USDC which you can argue can be controlled by Coinbase.
You should put a warning around that link: it will start a lot of connections as soon as you open it.
Ah, I forgot about the character limit, sorry.
No this is not a 'normal' blocking of trading in securities due to turbulance in the market. It is still allowed to buy Russian securities. It is also allowed to Russians to sell Russian securities. The Russian exchange has specifically forbidden foreigners to sell Russian shares.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-central-bank-bans-sal...
A friend of mine today managed to evacuate by car from Odessa to Romania via the Orlivka crossing. That's the same way I got out. So, it's possible.
Why you’re not doing creative work
Cash Swiss francs remain a popular way for Eastern Europeans to save and hide wealth. This demand can impact the exchange rate even with sanctions in place.
Having government mandates on what end-user software can do is not uncharted territory. Some examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enfo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
They had their chance to join NATO. They made their choice to stand on their own. It sucks it russia goes after them but each nation has the right of self-determination and reslonsibility of forming alliances and and a military to defend its borders. "We won't join NATO because you will save us when the time comes anyways" is not a good stance but it is the stance these very democratic nations took.
In 1984, to get the amount of light put out by ~250-300 watts of LEDs in 2022 would have required the incandescent light array to come perilously close to the limit of what it is safe to pull from a single outlet continuously in the US, which is 1500 watts. (You can transiently pull 1800 from a standard wall outlet, which is used by hair dryers, but you're not supposed to pull it continuously for hours at a time.) It also would have functioned as a full-on space heater (that was on continuously, not on a thermostat as needed), and very careful attention would need to be paid to cooling this massive array.

So, I'm gonna read between some lines here, but: I imagine earlier efforts would then by necessity have produced less light, because it's actually a lot easier to deal with ~400-500 watts of incandescent light than 1500 watts of incandescent light. 400-500 I think you could just about get away with putting a diffusion screen in front of them and making sure the enclosure has a lot of passive air flow. At 1500, if you're going to enclose this into a reasonably-sized product you're going to need active cooling with fans.

And there is a little noticed and rarely talked about weakness I've seen in several science fields where I've dug into a history of papers, which is that once one investigator picks the parameters of an investigation, it tends to "stick". If the first scientist investigating "Light therapy for SAD" and picked a 500 watt incandescent setup, it is extremely likely that many further papers will try to match their lumens setup, in the interests of trying to keep the papers informing each other. The entire therapy may live and die on the contingent conditions the first couple of researchers happened to pick, even after the entire lighting landscape has changed and it's practical to blast 5 times the light per watt and have time-varying light temperature now, which would have been even more difficult in 1984. (Conceivable, with some sort of rotating filter screen in front of it, but now you're cutting in to your light output even more, unlike modern LEDs which give you more options in dealing with this.)
That would not be unusual for Russia, and they'd first threat to throw out your immediate family.

In the soviet era, there was a period of political persecution focused on people suspect of having gold or hard currencies. People would be held indefinitely, and subject to harsh torture, until they let go of their assets. Good if you have some, worse if you actually don't. See Aleksander Solzhenitzyn, somewhere near the end of the first volume. And of course, the people torturing were part of the same organization that brought up Vladimir Vladimirovich Putler.
Cairo Graphics Library Drops Many Old Back Ends
This is an excellent point. I think the point that the article is trying to make is that people's motivations are divided and we can't expect to change them. If we can find ways to harness the products of scientific or exploration pursuits to help with the socio-political tasks, then the motivations of those seeking to solve techno-economic tasks can also help solve socio-political tasks.
The bricks my house is made of are now 119 years old. They haven't received any updates or substantial maintenance. The guy who made them is dead. His company is gone.

Yet they are still functional and secure. They still work with the latest screws. If I had to switch out my bricks every 5 years, I don't think I'd have any time or money left for the rest of life.

Can we make software that's a little more like my bricks?
Does the EU government, or the US government, or any other government for that matter strike you as doing a particularly good job of legislating around the internet?

Personally, my impression is the legislation is at best hit-and-miss. You might get some great privacy protection. You might get mandatory encryption back doors. You might get free mobile data roaming. You might get cookie warning messages. You might get worldwide license-free spectrum, some of the most economically productive spectrum ever. You might get a patent system that lets people patent slide-to-unlock. You might get the state funding university research and giving the results away for free. You might get the DMCA giving youtube creators getting copyright strikes because someone's copyrighted silence. You might get cable rights of way and common carrier protections, which are vital to the communications industry working. You might get government ID checks for social media users.

Seems to me legislation is a coin flip - sometimes great, other times completely boneheaded.
I didn't hear one buzz word in that sentence @strzibny. We're going to have to let you go.
Strenuous exercise is exhausting too, but some people love working out so much they do it for hours a day, every day. Others dread going to the gym. That's the difference between extraversion and introversion.
Biden was not in office for years at the time. Trump withheld 400mil$ from ukraine until Ukraine announces a fake investigation into Biden's son.
Firechat was used in Hong Kong demostrations in 2014 and got janked out from the app stores by China

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/16/tech/mobile/tomorrow-tran...
No one has tried retaliating yet.

Set up a $100M 'assassinate Putin' fund and watch the fun.
The comment is primarily about other countries governments and their wide lenience toward Putin, not about the Russian people. Without such leniency and appeasement (usually in the name of the oh-so-important "good economic relations"), no autocratic system can exist for long in todays world.
The mobile version of this is unusable on Firefox for Android.
If your software cannot be used to kill people I think it is ok to sell (as long as you get paid in USD/EUR/etc. Just do not buy anything.
Here is an English source I could find:

https://digit.site36.net/2022/01/22/tracking-corona-infectio...

There are two prominent apps in Germany. The other one is indeed secure against such attempts because it is technically not possible to get the information. I wouldn't even accuse the investigators here, it just shows that if there is a possibility for tracking, that it will be used. For better or worse reasons.
And we've come full-circle back to the Atari ST family of computers!
That's not how 16:10 monitors work. Every one that I've seen has the same pixel width as a 16:9 screen but more vertical pixels. 2560x1600 vs 2560x1440 for example, or 1920x1200 vs 1920x1080.

These are standard panel sizes. No one is making a 1728x1080 panel to get to 16:10.