skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of things are critical, but not core. I'd expect something outsourced to be defined as non-core, and also that is a very flexible category.

For instance, Google had egg on their face in a court case a while ago, because they accidentally produced documents that tended to undermine their case vs Oracle.

They didn't account for gmail autosaved drafts, didn't group them properly with the final email that was sent, and so they didn't claim lawyer-client privilege.

Unfortunately, as they say, "you can't unring a bell" and once Oracle and the court saw them, they didn't agree that they were in fact privileged.

Subsequently they outsourced legal IT to a greater extent, and I infer a connection.

I don't know from an insider's perspective what their reasoning was, but it seems to me that outsourcing forces people to be more explicit about information sharing and provides a buffer.

Like, the engineers must know about gmail, and the in-house legal staff must know about producing documents, and they assume too much common knowledge because they're under the same roof.

Whereas if you send documents elsewhere, then you know they know nothing about gmail, and they know they know nothing, etc. And if you send similar documents, grouping them together is a standard generic process that will be done on everything.

If this all seems rather far afield from aerospace engineering, well, it so happens that one of the companies (I haven't worked for them) that people outsource legal IT to is one of the largest and best known aerospace/defence companies (but not Boeing).

When I found that out, I was like "Ah...their core competency is...paperwork! Of course..."
That sounds great until you figure out that Putin has a reason for everything. The problem is not so much Putin, or even his viewpoint that Russia doesn’t feel safe (I can even see the merit of such a stance) , but the fact that is that he is not accountable to his people.

If he was a normal president and with a functioning democracy, I doubt we would even be at the current situation. I saw the videos of Putin with his advisor (the Spy chief) and that was an exercise in “tell me what I want to hear.”
That's not how sanctions work. They aren't seizures, the assets just can't be moved. Long term sanctions (like Iran and North Korea) might feel like seizures, but technically if they were ever lifted the assets have to be returned.

Banks of course can pad their balance sheets with this stuff, so I guess that side is seized.
Have you noticed patterns in TOTP tokens?
On one hand you're right, but on the other - that sort of thing isn't exactly unprecedented. Everyone was terrified of Beria until they weren't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Arrest,_trial_...
Would NATO helping a member country conflict with preserving humanity? Theoretically, and as we are seeing now, is that the aggressor may not be preserving humanity nor acting humanely.
It is a risky bet (and unlikely the next one after Putin would be any better). But it is also a deterrance. Anyone who would want to initiate a war in EU needs to think twice (if EU is successful this time) after this.
Source? Genuinely curious. Surprised EU membership doesnt mandate controls on economic dependency.
Can we remain rational in the presence of uncertainty?
Russia orders block on foreign clients' bids to sell Russian securities
Just because you've invoked some article amongst your buddies doesn't make a war justified. The hubris is astounding.
Sudetenland was deemed to be part of Germany. Parts of Poland were treated the same way. The comparison is valid, even if not a one-to-one parallel.
I’ve never worked at Amazon but this seems to be a common theme with interview candidates who work there. They talk about to burnout and stressful on-calls shifts. I’m not sure how this unfolds for Amazon in the long run.
This is a terrible take on the good people living there.

It is the type of thing I expect French aristocrats were saying to each other about peasants in the weeks / months leading up to them getting their heads chopped off:

>born in misery, live in misery, die in misery; don't look up their pensions - it's depressing. This has been their life since forever now. They are more cattle
The way I see the future of computing: You have what basically amounts to a keyboard, a screen, and a wifi chip, so that it can be sold at astonishingly low prices. No excess memory, no excess processing power, because all memory and storage will be rented out or extracted for data collection. Privacy will become a thing of the past since everything you do passes through a corporation that's doing the real computing. You will own absolutely none of your data or your programs, you are beholden to the whims of a corporation that can raise prices whenever they feel like, and it will become the norm because "wow cool $90 computer that can run any program".

People will absolutely buy inferior products if it's cheap enough and marketed well enough.
I would fear that Apple forgets about the feature after a few years and then just drops it. This is not central to their business and Apple trims such things very agressively.

I would always buy a domain-email from somebody who has this as their main business, and I would never couple my email to Apple which could lock me out of my account if they think I "behave suspiciously".
> I guess there are enough in existence for those that want them

I guess you are in North America, which is probably the only region in the world where this is the case. Here in Australia you can get a Hammond from the US but you have to pay close to 5 grands just for shipping. Back when I was in Europe it was similarly hard to get one.
The potential has been there to go way out crazy in the Republican party for a long time, remember Pat Buchanan? He was a legit threat, but didn't have the crazy wacko charisma that Trump has, that dictator tough guy thing down that appeals to so many conservatives apparently. The thing I suspect Russia did do was take advantage of facebook and q-anon type stuff.
I mean NATO is already involved with NATO countries supplying arms. The UK foreign secretary has even said that people have her full support if they want to go and fight for Ukraine (which is beyond irresponsible).
Ikea offers a choice of affordable furniture that is easily "good enough". The price point is great for young families: accidents with furniture are not a catastrophe, you can afford to replace it.

If you want design, go for that. If you want solid oak-levels of sturdiness, go for that. Me, if I need a chair/cupboard/wardrobe/..., I don't want to break the bank, but I do want choice of something that'll last long enough.

They're cheap enough so that i wasn't hesitant about trying modifications myself, yet sturdy enough that the furniture survived for over a decade and a half so far, and going strong.
More likely is that any company big enough to have a reputation is also big enough to have strong & weak departments, and it can be hard to tell which the candidate is from.
No, I didn't. The first link is a 3rd party software (iMazing) and the second is a developer guide how to develop an App in a way that it will also run on macOS without recompilation. Also note, that just because that software exists that checks if the the system is run outside of secure mode and then refuses to run, that doesn't make the system a "walled garden". There is a whole class of Software that has been doing this for ages, it's called Anti-Cheat Software and mostly home to Windows.
They will turn on him to lose the war and pay through the nose, and then continue to suffer all the consequences in hopes that it ends eventually?

It sounds like a semi-plausible option but a bad plan.
I dunno how impractical it would be. A few no bid contracts that overpay and you're pretty much good to go.
Russia-Ukraine Warning Update: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment February 27
If you mind elaborating. Why?

20M req/day is =~ $2000/month in API gateway fees alone. I can imagine it depends on the performance profile, but at a previous job, I replaced a service (lots of GETs, highly cacheable) with a similar number of daily requests with 2 ec2 instances and an elb, with automatic setup / blue green etc. in a matter of hours.
I know a thing well: smartphones do serve very well for deep and spread surveillance. They are almost substantially mandatory (many banks in many country mandate their own app for web auth, for instance) and they are macro-spy instead of micro ones, that instead of being payed bye the one who spy are payed by the one that get spied who also ensure proper power and connectivity.

Other side effects are far, far less relevant...
Perhaps we were talking past each other. You were saying left and right is useless because you can have left and right nazi's or left and right socialists. I was saying left and right is useful: Nazi and Socialist are the meaningless label.
In my opinion "infinitesimal" is too small. I think at this point a nuke strike is a bigger risk than covid, for most.
There is no neutral. Either you oppose evil or you are implicitly for it.
What complexity are you hitting? Are you trying to go all-in on roles and a full setup or just doing some simple scripts? The latter is a much easier jumping-in point. Also, you can ignore the yaml files entirely and use Ansible as a parallel SSH tool.
X/expressions – compose, serialize models from events. A ReactiveX alternative
Not really, the whole security apparatus was run be insanely paranoid men who were convinced that capitalist imperialist forces were secretly plotting to destroy the Soviet Union despite never finding real evidence of such a plot.
You mean for the same GPU? Or across GPU brands and stuff?
> General mental ability is general, that’s the point

I've seen PhDs melt under pressure at two different jobs. Which tells me that an exceptional IQ or work ethic doesn't necessarily equate with success in the industry. Those two people had something in common, and it was their poor communication skills, both input and output. If your brain cannot process some coworkers feedback efficiently and it cannot spit out feedback efficiently, the logical / mathematical side of your brain is not going to make up for it.
> Same happened in America with Trump and voters yearning for good ol days, disregarding the new world order.

I've heard this called the "Golden Age Fallacy". A belief in restoring the world to some past glory, usually of the subject's sentimental youth. E.g., Nigel Farage's love of pubs and public smoking, or Trump's love of coal and Playboy magazine.
Russian forces destroy Antonov AN-225 cargo plane, largest airplane ever built
This essay overlooks the most likely path to life extension, which is our ability to snapshot the brain's electrical/chemical storage. Always back up your data! The speed of progress in computing is fast outpacing medical research, and at the end of the day, the human brain is just a computer of sorts. Historically it's been orders of magnitude too complex to understand, but the gap is closing fast.

Obviously this raises a million different questions, such as what to do exactly with the data, and whether it can exist outside it's biological substrates.

But the concept of life as data is worth noting in any conversation about the human lifespan.
> over a month now

I'd argue this started with Corona - regardless of how dangerous you consider that virus to be that's where people's fear tolerance was raised to new heights and needs to be matched now or clicks go down.
> the sanctions against South African apartheid

This was done by UN. Not by some random company against some individuals.

>Oh and this whole business of "punishing people in Germany, Italy and Japan for the mistakes of their leaders", known otherwise as WW 2

No, that was WW1. And the sanctions led to WW2 after which US recognized the futility of sanctions and provided EU with economic package under Marshal Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

regardless the whole pom-pom tweeting and thumping chest of how you fired some random russian programmers reeks of cringe worthy maturity of a 5 year old, not a manager from the largest corporation in the world.
Based on historical trends it seems more likely to me that $90 computers of the future will simply be able to run the most advanced consumer software locally and thin clients will just be unnecessary complexity.
Not extra as in "not needed", but extra as in "more than in the alternative" (with the alternative coming from the post title).

The idea being that if everyone's part-time, you need more people to get the same work done relative to if everyone was full-time.
The curse of a field which is both competitive yet difficult to measure. A meritocracy where your true status is opaque.
It might be a bit hard to believe, but in reality many passionate employees don't really care about the pay - they genuinely want to build a great product - but they are still paid well because the company looks after the top talent in every possible way.
> Putin's speech[3] on NATO expansion in Munich in 2007

Ukraine would never had joined NATO because it was an active war zone anyways. Putin didn't have to do anything to avoid Ukraine joining NATO.

Listening to his current explanations for the invasion doesn't make him sound like a good guy no matter the language or the perspective.

> Putin really tried to be friend with the West

And relations were relatively good until he decided to invade Ukraine, he just severed every diplomatic bridges and every single chances of progress for the next decades(s).

Putin's not the Devil but he clearly is the aggressor here. Ukraine was a sovereign state with a democratically elected government. You'd be hard pressed to use the "b-bu-but it's both sides" rhetoric here.
You gotta remember that we've fought conventional wars before via proxy and it has never led to nukes. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc.

We've essentially been playing this game for the past 70 years or so where its acceptable to send arms to nations and lend them support in conventional wars against one of the superpowers, without suffering nuclear retaliation.

And there's a lot of powerful and wealthy people in Russia who don't want WWIII since nobody wins that and they want to preserve as much of their wealth as possible.

If Putin himself feels like he's at the end of his own timeline and goes nuts there is likely to be a lot of people around him who would prefer to throw him to the wolves to try to save themselves as much as possible.

Russian generals who would need to agree to glass the planet probably aren't on the same kinds of lists that Putin and his inner circle are on.

Having grown up during the actual cold war when we were pretty terrified that Reagan and the USSR would stumble into nuclear holocaust by not backing down, this doesn't look that concerning to me.

I'm worried about escalation and indiscriminate killing within Ukraine, but with conventional weapons, and even that will be restrained due to instant video being posted over the Internet. I don't think he can firebomb Kyiv. I can't imagine Putin survives that politically. If he starts trying to launch nukes at someone his own military has to depose him, they can't not act in that situation (maybe he could use tactical battlefield nukes against targets in Ukraine, but I probably can't fathom the levels of outrage that you'd see at that point, and I think his regime falls within hours).

And there's Russians with a lot of wealth and power right now like Roman Abramovich who have to be very unhappy with how this is happening. If it gets any worse, they will throw their weight behind deposing Putin (if they haven't started already). Because at some point Putin could do something so horrible that the rest of the world would go after all the people like him, freeze all their assets, take everything away from them, and throw them in jail until their connections to Putin were investigated. Billionaires with very comfortable lives outside Russia ultimately aren't going to sit by idle while Putin fucks up their lives, and there are Russian generals who will take their phone calls.
The trick is proving to an employer what you know. Hard to get a resume past HR when you've worked in other industries and learned all your coding online.
> Russia said don't join Nato or we'll destroy you, Ukraine. And then Russia attacks Ukraine anyway

They wanted some guarantee that Ukraine would remain a neutral country, and the response they got was that Ukraine was going to join NATO. Even more, NATO's secretary general said not only Ukraine can join NATO, but also, NATO's presence in eastern Europe was to be strengthened. If that was meant to avoid a military conflict, I think they were very wrong.
It’s nothing new, it was always like that. Ask Iran, Cuba or DPRK.

It makes all sense in the world, if you are not a cooperating entity you are cut off from the network and you are free to do your own thing.

Obviously, you can be bullied into things that might not be in your own interest but you are still free to asses the pro’s and con’s and break of if it’s better for you.

Unless you are benefiting too much from the arrangement, there’s no interest in bullying you because it’s actually a in a mutual interest to have you onboard.

It’s much, much better option to settling things down through killing each other.
There’s a bunch of reuploads on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHLU0Uej1WA
Ask HN: Is your team or work like a dysfunctional family?
How many of you work in an environment that sometimes feels like a dysfunctional family where managers and leadership tolerates non-social behaviors for far too long and thus creates a toxic climate that undermines productivity and ultimately leads to turnover?
The us attacking Iraq on false pretenses was clearly unlawful. Afghanistan is different, but would appreciate other views. Tthe country (and bin Laden and others) were clearly behind 9/11. Do you see it as possible for there to be a legal or lawful war between countries when one attacks the other?

Saudia Arabia attacking Houthis and Yemen seems like a clear illegal action. At least the ongoing attacks.
It will in fact most definitely not happen, as the article makes pretty clear.

Not that it would be a good idea, at all.
Another one for the No-code database category. My new favorite, heard about it on HN a few weeks ago - grist!

https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core
> Ansible is a lot of python

One more reason to stay away from it. The codebase is very complex and the issues labeled "bug" count more than 18 thousands!

The language is a kludge of yaml and jinja with custom chunks of Python that is much less expressive than pure Python.

Go ahead and downvote at will.
> including asking to join NATO.

Did he? All I could come up with this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-s...

According to this person he didn't ask to join, he asked why he wasn't asked to join, and wanted to skip the process that countries-that-don't-matter have to go through.
Why would germany worry about making nukes themselves although?
I would normally agree about the news thing; like Taleb recently said [1], the news is 99.9% noise, 0.1% signal. But these past few days it's been all signal. This is the kind of stuff you should be paying attention to.

[1] https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1497943606962839552
I think the only way we get “true” immortality is memory transfer to silicon (or whatever is in-vogue at the time) barring all the gibberish about “souls” and “what does consciousness mean”. People like me who are materialistic and think we are chemistry and sensations manifest as consciousness. Assuming tech ever actually reaches that point, and probably not in our lifetimes. It's one reason I read all the Warhammer 40k novels about the Necrons. I know it's pulp fiction but is fun to ponder while daydreaming.
"Being peaceful is a requirement" I mean, I think we can dissolve the Security Council at this point. What an idiotic article. Russia was internationally recognized as the successor of the former USSR.
It would be still worth doing even if it's only helping 2 years from now. One can't expect gas to flow smoothly maybe ever anymore. One can go with coal and LNG for a while.

Completely new nuclear plants take many years even for the permits and a decade to build.
> the ability to gather knowledge quickly, learn on the spot, so they can work on things they haven’t worked on before

That is perfect for a junior, not acceptable for a senior that is supposed to already have solid experience with that stuff; HTML tags should be something they worked before a lot.
Grinding your own bespoke mix of beef for a burger is a huge increase in time and complexity for a burger: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-burger-lab-the-worlds-best-b...

Will it make an amazingly tasty burger? Yes, when you also spend as much care with the prep and cooking.

Is it worth it when you want a burger on a late weeknight? It depends...
Corruption that you know about...

Probably a lot on the Merkel side that the public doesn't know. The people or groups who you don't think would ever be corrupt are some of the best to be corrupt in the first place.
There are remaining MiG operators in Central and Eastern Europe. These planes have been converted to use NATO armament and they're being phased out anyway. Ukrainian pilots are already accustomed to using them. The EU could use resilience funds to buy F16, F35 or Saab Gripens for the former MiG operators. Some of these are already F16 or Saab Gripen operators.
Kia/Hyundai (they're basically the same company since they own each other) have had a horrible track record in the last few years. They cannot build an engine to save their lives. They scrimped on the quality of the piston rings and other internal components and they ware out very quickly.

A Kia with 150k miles is end of life, but a Honda/Toyota with that mileage is basically still being broken in, yet the Honda only has a $2k premium over the Kia.
The structure of this article made me angry, so let me cut to the spoiler:

> AFTER A SERIES of tests, the doctor explained that my daughter had a febrile seizure. They’re fairly common in young children, don't affect development, and most often go away without intervention.
> Is actual Ukraine in independent nation? Did you try to see actual gov history? Hint: they are actors, their last work was a series about a new Ukrainian government (start from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People the actual real President as the main actor of the fictional president).

OK, we can stop repeating Kremlin propaganda now. No one cares about the previous job of the democratically elected president and it is no new information anyway. Apparently in this dark hour, he is doing a fine job. If you want another example for an actor getting to a high position in politics, take Schwarzenegger. Actors probably do have some skills and qualifications, which are of good use in politics. For example they are used to being in front of the camera. With sufficient popularity, they are also used to talking to many people. Being an actor furthermore does not mean, that for your whole life you must remain an actor.

You appeal to stereotypes, trying to downtalk the elected Ukrainian president. As if actors in general were incapable of ever entering politics or government. This is clearly wrong as shown by other examples.