skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the primary argument against school choice/voucher systems is that it would implicitly recreate segregation across races and classes. there are counter arguments to this line of thinking, but that’s what i’ve heard as the primary argument against choice
In reality, 1,000 years in the epoch will be just arbitrary. By then they might as well pick a new epoch that isn't 128 bits. What would they need to preserve that they wouldn't be able to emulate or virtualize?
Although scalpers don't behave in a uniform way, I'm envisioning a reality where individual owners using them for their consumptive purpose would be creating greater scarcity.
Germany has not exported weapons to countries in war since WWII. They still insisted to not to do so last week, only changed yesterday.

Germany is one of the biggest buyers of Russian energy. You could also say one of the biggest payers for Putin's war. Not their intention, but still a fact.
They're not strawmen, especially the last. There were quite a few intelligent ppl who seriously thought there's no way he was going to war with Ukraine.
They took one more day to think about what to do than others.
Great chance for some Arbitrage there (buy rubles with USD, use to buy BTC there, cash straight back out to USD)

I would do it but I expect I'd be beaten to it with how long it would take to open an account at Binance
Solidarity with working class on both sides
At the start, I was scared, having grown up with nightmares of seeing a flash outside my window, and knowing death would come 10 seconds later. I can very much relate to your fear.

I've spent the past few days doomscrolling. I've watched the NATO flights of AWACS and StratoTankers. I know something is being refueled, but not what. I'm very sure the Russians know this as well. They know that it would be fatal to make any incursion into a NATO country, no matter how slight.

I'm now to the point of anxiety fatigue. I'm back into the land of logical thinking, now that the emotional edge is gone.

We've seen the Russian offensive getting bogged down. We've seen the unity that this invasion is causing in Europe. Germany stopped fence sitting, and is starting to make practical decisions, considering bringing it's Nuclear Power Plants back on line to make up for the lost source of energy from Russia. They've also decided to send weapons to Ukraine.

I'm quite hopeful, actually. The fence sitting is over in quite a few other places as well. No matter what happens, the world is uniting against this ill-conceived invasion. It also seems fairly certain that many of the people of Russia also oppose this act. It is reasonable to hope that enough sane people sit between Putin and any actual launching of those weapons to prevent their use, as was done during the cold war.

Plan for the worst, hope for the best. If you can, talk to friends and family who remember the cold war. They can relate to your fears, and give you comfort.
I do something similar, it's been fun journey of issues over the years.

One company gave me a free version of their paid offering because my email address was me@them.my.domain, which triggered their "is an employee?" check. (I reported it to a friend who worked there, but they didn't prioritize fixing it. Lasted a while.)

Uber tried to make me change my email address because:

> As much as we appreciate your enthusiasm, and value you as a loyal rider, I do need to ask if you could, please, update your email to something that doesn't use "Uber" in it, as that's technically a trademark violation.

> I apologize for any inconvenience that may cause and thank you for your cooperation. If I can help further with making that change to your email, please let me know.

They backed down, but it was pretty amusing to get this email in response to a totally unrelated one.
I won money at roulette. I think I got 5 out of 6 of my almost 50/50 bets.

How? Dumb luck.

I took my winnings and had a nice meal. The hardest part is stopping. It’s fun to play. Generally I loose when I gamble. The thing about gambling is most people only talk about it when they win.
> He sought refuge in a country run by a criminal syndicate that is presided over by a madman

Did he have any other countries that were willing to accept him (and massively piss off the US as a result)?
It’s the ordinary Russians who are hurt by this, not the elites.

I doubt the elites care what the Ruble is worth, because they operate in foreign currencies (namely USD and EUR). Most of their oil is sold in EUR, and other commodities in USD.
Private schools' enrollment got filled up in many places. It did around me.

Meanwhile so many parents have moved away or gone to private schools, we are worried our local elementary school will close due to the enrollment decline. My wife is on the PTA and has an inside scoop on some of this data.
There are a lot of funds that specialize in the opposite of ethical investment: tobacco companies, oil companies, weapons manufacturers, etc. More likely in countries where sanctions are unlikely to be imposed.

Just one example, the UAE abstained on the UNSC resolution condemning Russia (after all, they have their own war-criminal invasion of Yemen going on, it would be hypocritical of them to criticize Russia for what they themselves have done, just with two or three orders of magnitude higher civilian casualties). Investing in carbon-intensive industries is not good for diversifying their exposure to oil, however. China is another obvious example.
A successful engineer at well known shops will fail a pressured evaluation where a google engineer will pass the interview. It make sense because google's interview process is harder.

That says nothing to what happens after they get hired.

It also doesn't tell you tenured eng can't do two for-loops. It probably tells you that this person hasn't been interviewing for years. You are a part of their process and are a practice interview. Each time this candidate interviews they will get better and hired. If a person is really good at interviewing that probably means they do it a lot and are probably looking at moving more often. If you want to hire someone who will stay you need I would give tenured engineer a chance they will probably blow you away.
Autodefensas against the Knights Templar^W^Wpolice of Brookside, AL? Count me in!
If by "right there on the tin" you mean at the bottom of the article then sure.

I understand that all information probably has some intentional and unintentional ideological slant, but my feeling is that HN is a place for intentionally neutral - unadulterated - content. Right wing "think tank" articles don't belong here. It's not that the ideology is wrong necessarily, but the presentation is twisted and designed to mislead.
If you're up for some reading, I can highly recommend Wierzbicka's Imprisoned in English which addresses most of the examples you've mentioned https://www.amazon.com/Imprisoned-English-Hazards-Default-La...

It's not that speakers of other languages necessarily lack the concepts (we can think of things which we don't have words for), but that the concepts map differently in the language. Wierzbicka often uses the example that in Polish, there is no exact equivalent for the English 'and' - there are several words which can be used in the same contexts, but they have overlaps with other English concepts such as 'or', 'but', etc.
Sorry, but unless you got a deep bunker with years of supplies, you probably won't survive a large scale nuclear war.
Russian first strike capability with land + sea based missiles is at most 1000 warheads. Clearly not enough.
Oh please. Ya'll know its mostly backed by cartel cocaine money.
> It's distracting from the main discussion.

Maybe. But they have changed that behaviour so I’d like to think that my voice contributed to that decision.
It is, especially considering the typical Russian is not for a war in Ukraine and is also not a Putin supporter. Putin is a president by force, Russians cannot unseat him without any bloodshed.
We can thank Wikipedia for science arbitration.
The headline here doesn't match what the article is saying at all either
Maybe the crypto markets have already figured out that in order for sanctions to work, crypto needs to be banned, and the Fed is most likely already working on figuring out the parameters of the ban.
The Ukrainian representative to the UN actually threatened the safety of Indian students in a sneaky manner when India abstained during the UNSC vote.[1] Soon after, Ukrainian border guards beat them up.

Africans suffering a similar fate as well.[2]

Even the Chinese are worried about their citizens being attacked due to their nationality.[3]

[1] https://youtu.be/pGj7hg76Nbk?t=84

[2] Ukraine: Concerns mount as black people complain of racism while fleeing war zone (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukraine-concerns-mount-...)

[3] Backlash in China over vulgar social media mocking of Ukraine conflict (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3168587/ba...)
The problem is that unions are only empowered to point out problems but administration has to solve them. In both Union and non Union states the administrations have failed to take adequate measures to address covid safety concerns using the practical means available. instead focusing on things that provide the illusion of doing something or doing nothing at all.
In non Union states they can simply steamroll the teachers were as in Union states they can’t but in the end in none of the situations are administrators capable of providing meaningful safety measurements based on what’s known and available.
This is in a large part because the federal guidance on covid is shit and state guidance is only marginally better or also shit.
The guidance can’t really be anything but shit if e we don’t admit that covid is airborne.
Given how long it's existed, I'm surprised no one has RE'd and written a compatible 3rd-party implementation.
SIQ was eventually fixed but way too late for the fix to matter.
With the way that Apple prevents you from reusing Apple IDs, does it mean that if my Apple ID is blah@mydomainname.com and I migrate mydomainname.com (currently using G Suite free) over to iCloud that I can't set up blah@mydomainname.com?
If you torture data long enough, it will confess.
Yes, City Journal has no place here. Everything that's on there is not designed to be intellectually stimulating, it's oh-so-predictable and just tiring.
ComiCSS
Much of the US media spent the 2 weeks up to the invasion excoriating the German government for being reluctant to commit to certain sanctions if Russia invades as well as offering scant military aid to Ukraine.
Come on, you have to mention FoodWishes.

Chef John of Foodwishes pioneered the "food channel on youtube" and regularly referenced in recipes used by folks like Babish or Adam.

Chef John is the most no-nonsense cooking channel on YT, where you learn exactly what you need to to cook and nothing more. He has built a treasure trove of recipes over 14 years on youtube, and all of them are consistently great. To top it all off, he always has great suggestions for substitutions.

A few others:

Helen Rennie is also an excellent youtube channel in the same vein as Kenji. Very science oriented, incredibly detailed, a proper teacher and a little bit of the Adam Ragusea-esque snark.

Chinese food : Chinese cooking demystified (english) & Chef WangGang (mandarin)

Thai food : Pailin's kitchen

Indian food : VahChef (Indian Food channels are notoriously hit or miss when they step out of their regional specialties. Vah Chef's strength is in the consistency. For others, find the right kind of regional mom's youtube channel
By asking for evidence for your disinformation? Get a grip.
You missed my point about information asymmetry.

Talk to a Russian, then come back and let's talk about what's an invasion of a peaceful nation. They're going to tell you that 14K were killed due to a fascist regime. Now, I don't believe that, but you're proving my point. Maybe it's just the naive perspective of moral certainty speaking, or maybe it's the lack of international perspective -- something one unfortunately commonly finds among Americans.

We come back to the question of evil. Maybe we grew up on too many cartoons and Hollywood movies, but good and evil are symbolic fictions.
It's almost like they're sanctioning themselves!
> It’s about teachers, not students.

this is a false dichotomy and reeks of political rhetoric. it’s honestly both. teachers desire a safe working environment for themselves AND want to do the best they can to educate students under the circumstances.
Yeah, you should look at that chart again with less than a 1day view. The inflection is pretty easy to spot, and it’s only getting started. Yes, small sample size and small volume, but there was a clear shift over the past few days.

For all of the post-fiat arguments for crypto, this will have an effect in crypto markets as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if this causes a new round of regulation as well.
Ukraine Conflict Update 10 (Feb 27)
No. It is saying service providers that control the market are more intended to provide poor services, or even deny their duties, no matter how badly the service receivers need.
I'm curious as to why CTO's or companies spend time writing these types of blogs. They're clearly aimed at programmers but:

0 interesting/unique content.

Seems like it's copy pasted arguments from any discussion of Rust.

Also, the part about a CTO asking other CTOs to give him a rundown of Rust vs Go is just comical to me...

In total, as a programmer, I would be less likely to apply to work at a company like this.
Currently it only helps the Russians. The Ukrainians aren't banned from banking, and can receive contributions and move money. The Russians on the other hand can leverage crypto to evade sanctions, work around SWIFT bans and support the war effort. Once folks catch on, restrictions should follow, in a perfect world. This world is far from perfect, though, so time will tell.
I think France 24 (and most other major international news sources) see the inability of Russia, a permanent security council member, to veto the discussion of the Ukrainian war moving into the general assembly (and no doubt dominating all other UN proceedings through tomorrow and possibly longer) as newsworthy.
They should be standing on main squares of their cities or standing in territorial defense units inside Ukraine, not in front of ATMs. Zero empathy until the war is stopped, people are dying, we don’t give a single flying fuck that somebody is inconvenienced by atm queue.
Germany was reluctant about Nord Stream, reluctant on SWIFT, reluctant on providing military aid. They were reluctant the whole way through. They import a lot of Oil and sell a lot of 'stuff' to Putins Russia.
Any diff in that price vs spot presents an arbitrage opportunity, so price should still be close to accurate.
I had the luck of seeing this plane on approach to IAH airport while driving in Houston.

For the first few minutes, it looked like a normal size plane, but felt too low and too slow. Then for the next few minutes, it kept getting bigger and bigger. Then I saw it had 6 engines. And a tail wing that seemed as large as a normal plane’s wingspan. I was lucky that it crossed right in front of me as I was near the airport (about 2.5 miles from the runway). It looked so low, so slow, and just massive. I went home and figured out what it was by googling it. That time it was transporting part of an oil rig.

I tried to find it to go see again ever since, but I could never get a clear schedule and it didn’t line up with where I was in the world. I was telling my wife the other week that this was something I’d like to seek out. It’s something that anyone on this site, aviation enthusiast or not, would have appreciated seeing.

This war is useless. The loss of life and destruction of homes and materials is a waste.
I had no idea this was the case. Can you provide a reference?
And Zelenskyy being alive in 30 days?
Please, show me a war where the elite, political class suffered more than the commoners. I’ll wait.

I’m as sad as anyone that OnlyFans “content creators” in Russia aren’t getting paid ( https://news.yahoo.com/russia-blameless-onlyfans-stars-ve-12... ) but democracy is worth more in the long run.
My point wasn't to encourage 8051s in cars; it was to say that many, many types of fairly mundane MPUs can do the work needed for most of the car's subsystems. Yes, Cortex M0+ chips are just fine for this, and are (relatively) blazing fast.

I know Tesla was able to pivot to different MPUs during the shortage, because the code is pretty much decently layered; so only the Low Level code to wrap the peripherals needed to change.

It's true, it's hard to replace MOSFETs when you have 1KV / hundreds of amps needs --- however, it is possible to make MOSFET arrays using lower-capable parts.

Obviously, infotainment and AI-ish tasks are not what I'm talking about.
They're not. Propaganda machines are in overdrive.

For context, Germany with the help of the USSR took Poland in about 31 days, which was considered fast.

It's day 3, Russia is knocking on the capital and Ukraine is on its own. This is pretty one sided.
I haven't seen any calls for him to resign, just protests against the war. What's the breaking point for Russians against Putin?
Your info on how long it takes is out of date (edit: at least for companies not large enough to "optimize" the process; see comment below mine).

First, PERM currently takes about 16-18 months now. Processing times are way up: the PWD (Prevailing Wage Determination) phase alone is now 6 months; PERM certification itself is another 6 months (source: https://flag.dol.gov/processingtimes). To this you have add ~3 months for the recruitment phase, plus however many weeks/months it takes management and the lawyers to work out the job description. If you're audited (which I can tell from personal experience can happen for the most straightforward cases), that adds 4 months.

What's worse is that, as per our law firms briefing, due to a recent lawsuit that Facebook lost, companies now have to be more conservative with the recruitment phase (make a much stronger effort to find Americans). And with that, the recruitment phase should be expected to "fail" (from the perspective of the potential immigrant) more often, which can multiply the PWD and recruitment phase time.

This means that going forward, all in all it could take several years to get to PERM approved. If you switch jobs before you've filed I-140, gotten it approved and waited out 6 months (for portability under AC21), that resets the progress. Also note some companies like to delay starting the process until a few months after the employee starts working for them.

Now remember that the maximum duration of an H-1B (without an approved I-140) is 6 years (5 years for L-1B). So there's definitely a bit of time pressure which makes changing jobs somewhat risky. Possible, but not a decision made lightly.

You are correct that you only need to do it once... as long as your job duties stay within 50% of what your original job description was. If it was somewhat specialized, and the immigrant changes jobs, then they incur some amount of risk of an I-485 denial later.
You can. However, if you switch your Apple ID to a different address before you set up both the domain and the blah@mydomainname.com address to route to your account, you won't be able to set up blah@mydomainname.com for any account under your iCloud subscription for a year.
This is a unique situation. Spot is closed, you are looking at CME futures, which would not usually move since the underlying spot market is closed. So few people capable of doing this arbitrage would bother.
With $600bn of foreign reserves, they can easily prop up the Ruble, if they want to.
> ordinary Russian people will also suffer enormously

True. But who will remove Putin from power if not the Russian people? They won't do so without suffering a lot, they have been used to criminal leaders for more than a century.

I am not saying it's the fault of individual people. But all there governments have been incredibly inhuman basically for centuries. It certainly affects the society.
They aren't fighting releasing the data. They are fighting spending the massive amount of money it would take to release it quicker than normal. The requested data includes a lot of protected patient medical information that must be redacted and that isn't even needed to independently check on the government's evaluation and decision making in approving the vaccines.

Why would they have collected that information if it wasn't needed, you might wonder. Simple, it is information that is needed if something bad happens during the trial such as a lot of bad side effects.

If the requestors limited their request to what they actually need for what they are claiming they want to do it would go a lot faster. Instead they are making a massively over broad request in bad faith.
As far as fast food burgers it’s my favorite. Is it a crappy burger. Sure. Is it something I eat 2x a year when I’m in a pinch and it’s edible. Sure.
I was actually just planning on charging per four hour block for my Algorand Python IDE. Because the fees are tiny it is feasible.
i hear this argument a lot (see what i did there?) and it makes some sense. however, i’d like for people to step back and consider education as something more than a commodity. an educated society seems like a healthier society across all dimensions.
This list makes me feel terrible. It's like I always use the other ones.

I also have some weird relationship with beauty, if the product is more beautiful I get attracted to it, forgetting some of the technical differences.
This sounds like a choice made by the person who chose to get the 2M mortgage, which is broadly speaking an outlier rather than average outcome.
Al Cap had it right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Slobbovia

His parody of the USSR, where Russia was upper slobbovia and the East Bloc countries were Lower Slobbovia. Their monetary unit was the "Rasbucknik", of which one was worth nothing, and a large quantity was worth even less, due to the trouble of lugging them around. Conditions couldn't be worse, as tourists were readily assured by the miserable, highly vocal residents.

One day a US beggar washed up on the shores of Lower Slobbovia, he had almost nothing, just a Lincoln penny. Instantly he became the wealthiest man in the country, bought everything in sight, lived in a palace etc etc.
Al Capp did it well. Much of his stuff would be politically incorrect these days, so google him.

Of course, to him the Rouble was the Rasbucknik, of course, it may well go lower....
This perception that ordinary people should be immune to the actions of their governments is weird. Civilian opposition to their government is what prevents unnecessary wars. It's not other's duty to fix your country. Civil unrest is the only way to prevent war and a lot of bloodshed.
I see. Thanks for the response! Great article too.
Free speech is only free speech if it is "real news"?
Germany has historically been very pro-Russia. Both as a form of peace work and because of scepticism towards the US. It has also been very pacifist, refusing to supply (also indirectly) any country involved in a war with arms - even Ukraine until Saturday. This war has changed everything about German foreign politics. Germany is now supplying an active war participant with weapons. It is increasing its military budget and buying drones. Energy security, including nuclear(!), is back on the agenda. In short, Russia's invasion has (temporarily?) ended pacifist rhetoric and policy in Germany.
You're envisioning a world where people are using the product as intended, and simply because it's not available to richer people instead that is what you view as the problem?

It seems to me the problem is scarcity (I think we agree on this much), and people trying to profit off that aren't anything more than parasites (we seem to disagree on this).

Let's just agree to disagree.