skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but if the whole country goes through enough unnecesary hardship (Russians have a tough life) and his manupulative PR apparatus stops functioning he could start fearing for his life. Any of his thugs he’s surrounded by could at some point initiate a mutiny and eventually after failed attempts it could end his reign. Putin is bluffing big time too, he knows it. At the same time he achieved so much power and wealth that he may want to go for a different glory, he seems to want to revive a broken empire, broken in the sense that at some point Russia was looked up and now he’d need to coerce friends into an involuntary hug. Russia is so broken (not defending US, which is on the verge of catastastrophe too) that nobody wants to be their friend beside getting cheap gas. Cheap gas has been one thing to keep Russia from collapsing altogether though, it’s a bargaining chip but not really the best hand in the game
Sounds like someone actually knows some basic history and political theory instead of just blabbering whatever the Western media is saying at any given moment.
Some statistics I read long ago:

1. English has about a million words

2. College educated people have about a 30,000 word vocabulary

3. High school graduates about 10,000 words

4. TV uses about 2,000 words

Learning 2,000 words doesn't seem so daunting. I was surprised that the article also brought up the 2,000 word vocabulary.
> It is green, it's just the production of it isn't.

Isn't that "just" kind of the crux of the issue though? It seems to be doing quite a bit of heavy-lifting. Otherwise it sounds a lot like, "quantum computing is very practical, we 'just' need to solve the decoherence problem."
Someone could allow users to change locale via an application's interface.
Also the video posted here is just an excerpt. The full version (1h20 something) is much more clear about how the KGB was considering the left according to him.
It’s pretty easy if you don’t think about it too much.
I would think Wikipedia is a particularly unreliable source for something that apparently inflames partisan feelings.
It doesn't. Was it supposed to?
You mean python? https://www.python.org/downloads/ still has 2.7

If you're looking for libraries that support 2.7 you're in for a lot more work, you'd have to go library by library and figure out when was the last version they produced that supported 2.7. Almost certainly it will be way out of date and depend on other out of date things.

There was no single moment where every library 'threw the switch' and moved off 2.7 to 3.x, it happened organically over about 10 years. A lot of libraries spent a significant amount of time (and code) supporting both 2.7 and 3.x from the same codebase.
same thing is happening in china
I would also really like some sort idea of just how easy or hard a material is to get odor out of.

For a while now now I’ve just had to have multiple backpacks and rotate through them when one becomes too fragrant.

If anyone has some guidance on how to get human ecology bacteria (i.e. that funky stank) out of synthetic materials that doesn’t result in smelling even worse of the cleaning agent, I’d love to hear it.
Unplug your ethernet cable.
Oh, people should be allowed to take it for free then?
It's unknown how rich Vladimir Putin is exactly. It's suspected he may be the richest person on Earth with a net worth in excess of $200 billion however.

Sanctions against Russia are completely ineffective because the US and the EU are unwilling to include things that would actually hurt Russia, namely access to the financial system (ie SWIFT), energy exports (because Germany in particular is dependent on Russian natural gas, the assets held by Russian kleptocrats).

On the security front, the EU woulld never accept Ukraine as a NATO member and the US won't put troops in Ukraine because that would put nuclear powers in direct conflict.

So given no effective sanction options and no military options, the US and the EU should've realized the only way to defuse this situation was to negotiate. Yet Biden categorically ruled out the possibility of formally refusing to admit Ukraine to NATO, something that was never going to happen anyway.

This situation bears some similarity to the US and Japan pre-WW2 actually. The US moved to block Japanese access to oil. That made war all but inevitable. I'm not saying the US was wrong there but it's just a consequence of that policy. LIkewise, leaving the door open to an anti-Russian military alliance expanding to the borders of Russia put Putin in a corner. Putin is still in the wrong here, straight up. But the options are to deescalate or World War Three. Given the invasion it's not much harder to negotiate out of this but what other option is there?

One thing I will say is that on the issue of seizing assets of Russian kleptocrats, real estate has long been a way of hiding money in developed countries. London real estate in particular is awash with Russian money. Maybe it's time we end anonymous ownership of property.
I think they are happy to watch and see how it goes. How the international community responds and plan accordingly.

China has a more difficult invasion if they choose to, but are likely not as impacted by sanctions. On the other hand the West sees Taiwan as of strategic importance, more so than Ukraine, and may respond accordingly. Military interference is likely not off the table.
It's just a transliteration of 'volodya'. Not many English-speaking people would understand if you used the proper diminutive form of the name.
4.1% for an already heavily optimized thing is huge.
I’m not sure if it makes sense to try to find a “scientifically proven” technique if all you want is something that works for you. What works for a large group of people in a controlled scientific study does not necessarily work for each individual in that study, let alone for you.

You could do a scientific study on yourself, though. Figure out some objective way to measure your own concentration, and then try various interventions one at a time to see which intervention correlates with the best concentration. You could also try combinations of interventions—having a beer while taking a shower?—to see if you can get an even stronger effect.

I’ve never done such an experiment on myself, as planning and implementing the experiment would distract me so much that I wouldn’t be able to concentrate. So I just exercise for a while every morning. That seems to work—for me.
Interesting, I think it's worth noting that PG seems to be describing "engineers who learned Python after already working in Java (or similar language)".

This is very different from the current bulk of engineering applicants, who know python and no other languages. Python is now the entry point for new developers and I wonder what languages have taken over Python's old role (I might guess Rust, Elixir, Nim).

The current "Python Paradox", in my opinion, is the opposite of what it used to be: Python roles attract a lower quality candidate than other languages. I wonder if the Google's tactic is still desirable for a different reason: screen for non-Python experience even when hiring for Python systems.
I’m sure this will have a significant impact on the person who choose to start a war for the hell of it.

A person who routinely murders or detains people who oppose him, even those in other countries.
Too cheap for short term storage, but lithium isn't cost competitive for long term storage. That's where pumped hydro and perhaps chemical storage can be more effective.
Putin has huge internal security apparatus backing him up. He does not give a flying fuck about what people think and will not hesitate to suppress any potentially threatening activity with overwhelming force.

If you think that you can sanction / starve Russia to the point that simple people will organize, revolt and depose Putin I think you live on a different planet.

The only force that can really depose him are some competing elites assuming they have backing from enforcement agencies / military. I am not sure how you can sanction / bribe those into action.

Personally I think the West had quite a few years to sort things out between Russia and Ukraine. I think it was possible. I do not have any real proof but I suspect that instead of trying to find some meaningful compromise they were playing hard ball and are now reaping a "reward". What to do now - I have no frigging clue as the situation is out of control.

As for the subject of "suffering" - purposely starving the whole nation and keeping people hostage I think is what scumbags do / advocate.
> How does the system guarantee that nobody's creating money without notifying everyone?

This is a comment that's not related to SWIFT in particular.

Every asset (including money) is generally someone else's liability. The money that we hold as an asset is the liability of a bank. Anyone can issue their own liabilities, but you can't create money that's a liability of someone else. For example, I can't go to my bank and tell them I have a million dollars more in my deposit account than I actually do. They're keeping track on their end.

Similarly, a bank can't pretend that it has more reserve deposits at the Fed than it really does. The Fed keeps track of everybody's reserve accounts on their end.

> Furthermore, does the system guarantee that the central banks of each country are correctly adjusting their books in consequence?

This isn't an issue. The books of central banks don't need to adjust when other banks issue money (i.e deposits).
Perhaps Kopia will work for your use case:

https://kopia.io/

https://kopia.io/docs/advanced/amazon-s3/
I would be surprised if new tech like this really sees meaningful adoption. This is the same industry that can't even get rid of MUMPS[1], the worst hybrid database/language atrocity ever.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
Wealthier than the Queen of England? Wealthier than the Saudi Royal Family?

Wealth stops making sense for heads of state because it's wrapped up in politics and tradition. Vladimir can't come to Austin Texas on a whim and buy himself a mess of grouper and bourbon. I can. I'm here now. I traveled here from Toronto on a whim. Is he is wealthier than I am?

The answer is still obviously yes, but it starts to get fuzzy vs people like Elon Musk who have functionally more freedom and massive amounts of assets.
OP is trying to pay Russian employees. I figured they already knew that in the current climate it would be illegal.
Well, I wanted to see this for years.

Not like I'm satisfied though, what's happening there is an unimaginable crime.
> US won't put troops in Ukraine because that would put nuclear powers in direct conflict.

That's the reason it won't put troops in now (and the reason anyone asking for that now is insane), but that wasn't the reason it couldn't put troops in 4 months ago.

Note that Russia is about to border NATO across its entire eastern border. This puts two nuclear powers directly staring eachother down at a border.

If Russia grows truculent over, say, Estonia, it's unlikely that the US response will be withdrawing troops from it.
This actually looks like it could be practical. Important differences from the Tokamak concept are:

1. No enormous magnets

2. No exposure of fragile equipment to hot neutrons

3. The reaction occurs in a bubble inside molten lead/lithium, compressed mechanically.

4. None of the pipes carrying hot metal (or anything else) are exposed to hot neutrons, so need not be replaced frequently.

5. The amount of molten metal is relatively small -- not thousands of tons, but just tons (much of it lead, why?)

Similarities are that the fusion energy is carried by kinetic neutrons absorbed in molten metal, and extracted by heat-exchange with another fluid, thence to steam; and the molten metal is processed continuously or periodically to extract tritium, which will serve as more fuel.

Big question is if the reaction rate is high enough. It seems to depend on how much plasma can be packed into the bubble before it is compressed, and how long you have to keep it compressed before releasing and exhausting the synthetic helium. It seems like if there is any tritium left over afterward, you would want to cool and reclaim that.

You get one hot neutron out per tritium in, which in a Li6/Li7 mixture might breed [0] two tritium out, plus some helium. With lead mixed in, wouldn't it steal slow neutrons you need to get above parity? I guess as long as the lead doesn't steal too many, it is OK? But what is the lead for?

[0] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/NucEne/fusion.htm...
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> Note that since our technical discussion is a conversation. I don’t expect a perfect answer from anyone. If I hear some right keywords, I know that the candidate knows the concept, and I try to push them in the right direction.

You seemed to have missed the most important point in this interview. I agree with you that rote memorization is useless, but the goal here is to have a technical discussion on topics like mobile design, accessibility and SEO. And if you're not willing to have this kind of discussion you're doing the interviewer a favor by walking away.

You also don't need to know how to code those by heart, but you need to view at a glance what their use is if you ever need to diagnose an issue, even if it's generated by a framework, because a framework may not generate the proper code for you.
I suppose we will see. I don’t know if the people of Ukraine are willing to put up that much of a fight over Russian occupation.
In the last 30 years I can’t recall a single time sanctions have worked.
The thing is, just because you can prove there’s a correlation, doesn’t mean you’ve figured out the actual cause. Like the Flying Spaghetti Monster doctrine of piracy and global warming. And this one they discussed elsewhere in the thread:

http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-j...

http://sparrowism.soc.srcf.net/home/graph.png
First off I'd go into my health insurance portal and change my password. Then use the forgot password, and see if they are still mailing your password in plain text. Do a bit of investigation to confirm that all passwords are still stored in plain text.

Once you can confirm that your password is sent in plain text, I'd contact the insurer to make sure they are aware of the security implications.

If you've read Troy Hunt at all, take a book out of his practice. They probably won't make any change, or understand, but you've tried to help.

Then, change insurance companies if you fear your data is at risk, which it probably is.
I do my own front end work but most of what this bit is about is boilerplate stuff I just edit as needed.

I think I'd have missed at least half what he's asking for because front-end work is not what I focus on primarily and I didn't get to see the entire line of code.

I spend most of my time designing logic flow and writing functions to perform it. Asking me to do front end work would be a waste of my skills. I'll never be as good as someone who specializes in that, and I don't know many who do that would be as good as I at what I do.

I'm sure there are many who are better than I at what I do. I learn from them everyday, but I doubt they spend a lot of time on front end stuff. They probably do what I do, copy and paste that stuff and get to work.
> The intention of questions like these aren’t to see if you know all the answers, it is to have a discussion and to learn about your experiences and see how you think.

I get that this might be the intention, but if you're being interviewed, and asked to explain the first 10 lines of some code, you'll rightfully feel nervous, and feel as if this is a pass or fail test. If the intention is to make this a discussion, perhaps change the question, and start the discussion yourself.
Yeah, and the particular associations with that name fit well into current madness.
In Europe bank transfers are free and the standard way of transferring money. Cheques are pretty much extinct.

If American banks charge for them it's most likely because they can. It's standard practice in retail banking to offer commonly used things cheaply and then earn back the cost by charging loads for anything unusual.

As for how it actually works, in the European Bank I worked at we debited the account and then put the transfer in a batch file and sent it to the central bank which processed them every few hours. If the transaction failed for unknown reasons, someone would, I think manually review it.
> Music. which type depends on the individual.

I listen to music all day. But when I really need to concentrate, the music has to go off.
Almost all of the lumber purchased in America is grown in China, and Chinese concrete and steel are increasingly more common, despite political half-measures intended to change that.
Lithium is not expended and recyclable. As long as EVs are a growth market, we'll need to mine more of it of course but at some point, the vast majority will come from recycled batteries.

The reason recycling lithium is so attractive is that 1) it is valuable because it is expensive to extract from the typically very low concentrations that exist in natural deposits. and 2) expended lithium batteries have orders of magnitude higher concentrations of it than exist in nature.

You'd be a fool to dump it in a landfill. For reference, lead, which is far less valuable is also typically recycled from the batteries in scrapped cars. Depleted lead batteries are valuable enough that they are not dumped in landfills. The current price is about 74$/kg, up lately by about 7x from 10$. A 73kwh Tesla battery would contain about 63 kilos of lithium. That's about 5000$ or more than a lot of second hand cars. Even at 10$, we're still talking well over 700$. A depleted lead battery would be closer to 5$. Those are recycled as well.

Regardless, there's a lot of lithium out there in nature. More than enough. There is no shortage just scaling challenges. Technical improvements like described in the article make it cheaper and less energy intensive to extract lithium. As you note, there's huge demand for EVs and that will keep prices for lithium high for some time to come. Companies working on extraction and recycling technology, have a lot of growth opportunities. They are super hot from an investor perspective and there are multiple very well funded companies working in this space already.

Long term, that makes lithium super sustainable. Short term, it just means we'll expend a lot of energy (increasingly of the renewable type) and water to get it. But compare that to extracting oil and turning it into petrol. That too is expensive and 100% of it is expended. Recycling burned gasoline/diesel is not a thing. That's not sustainable at all.
I sometimes market myself as a “true full-stack engineer” and I’d say I’m pretty darn familiar with everything from the machine code, lexer, parser, compiler, linker, language idioms in a few languages, frameworks, CSS, HTML, TCP/IP, an ever-hating-and-hope-will-die feeling towards GRPC, JSON quirks, YAML quirks, how file systems work, how email works (SMTP, DKIM, SPF, etc), k8s, the Linux kernel, custom drivers, video game engines and the maths behind them (like Quaternions, vectors, matrices, etc), and probably a few other things I can’t remember right now.

It takes a lot of time work to stay on top of these things but it’s a passion, and some things I know exist but don’t know the current incantation for (like getting full screen access for a game engine). It used to be quite long, but I think it’s much less LoC these days. Anyway… we do exist.

Like I said, for me it’s a passion. It probably won’t come up in an interview unless it’s a startup and the job sounds incredibly interesting. Even then I might keep my mouth shut just to not come across as over-qualified or “too expensive.”
Very likely a dumb question, but would the Russians be carrying depleted uranium ammunition? Could that be what's causing the detectors to see spikes?
> China is probably the only thing India and US agree on

India and the US work together on many things, including development in India. Why is it important to you to downplay India's good relationships?

The US's record certainly isn't perfect, but nor is the other extreme realistic. Democracy has spread to almost every corner of the globe - almost all of the Americas, for example, almost all of Europe - with the US being its strongest supporter and advocate, with money, expertise, political pressure, etc. One reason is pressure from the American public, which (for most of history) has strongly supported freedom and democracy. I know well that the US also opposed some democratic governments and, especially in the Cold War, supported right-wing dictatorships.
Yes, thanks for clarifying, that’s what I was referring to.
Well, for one Queen of England(queen of a lot of other nations as well) doesn't have any power like say what Saudi King or Putin has. She is a mere ceremonial head.

Also, from what I have read, the estimates of her wealth doesn't even make her a billionaire.
Ok, now that they’ve clearly stated they work for the Russian government (which we already knew), when will anyone in power acknowledge that Russia had started a war against the west already?
Right, and basing the supply of currency on the amount of two metal elements we can mine out of the ground is insane.
Is what it is... but in my opinion/worldview: if there are bounds to how much concentrated work you can get done per hour/day/week, then you shouldn't need to chemically enhance/alter that. You're free to choose to, but you make it sound like you feel obliged to for work.

Even if one can get exactly 2 hours of work per week done, well, some people just have a disability and not all disabilities are obvious or visible. Modern societies should make up the difference. If someone is simply unable to, I'd be happy to pay those extra 5% taxes to make it possible that they have a normal life by doing what they can and no more and no less.

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for such opinions as, from a European standard, the US has very little like this, but I guess there's no point only ever preaching to the choir / staying within the bubble. This is just how I see it.
I want to make a version of this that controls my neighbors smart light bulbs.
Strictly speaking, having passwords in plaintext is legal but not secure since the HIPAA Security Rule is about protecting PHI. It's also possible that the passwords in their system aren't in plaintext, but customer service has to change the password and they need some way to send you the password. It sucks.

So how do get the company to change this? Your best bet is to contact the executive(s) in charge of compliance and security about this (you'll likely need to do some Googling and/or LinkedIn stalking).

The argument that you want to present to them is that the HIPAA Security Rule requires that a covered entity
`Identify and protect against reasonably anticipated threats to the security or integrity of the information` and that in this day and age having passwords in plain text is a reasonably anticipated threat.

Reference: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/security/laws-re...
Since accessing the internet (and sometimes even the Web) is often a part of an IT job, the "one thing" approach is pretty helpful. Keep in mind what are you doing. If you're reviewing a pull request, you only need the Github page, and not the rest of the pages on the WWW.

Also, timeboxing things helps. It's hard to work on one thing indefinitely, it can even induce panic. But if you're using something like the pomodoro technique, you know that when you're feeling a craving to switch, you have, say, 27 minutes left until the next break. It's observable and manageable; you can concentrate during this time, knowing that a relief is nearing. But the relief (like going for more tea / coffee / etc) is also timeboxed, so you don't get distracted forever.