skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can do a clean detonation if they detonate high enough in the atmosphere for the blast to not kick up and irradiate any dust. For a while now I've been convinced that a show of force like this is part of his plan in order to force a change in the calculus of his adversaries and get them on the back foot.
Don't be a developer as a profession, and that'll pretty quickly resolve the need to be paid for software you create.

I guess you'd also not be allowed to value your time or effort, either.
Note that it's open-core. It's fine if it's not a problem for you.
I accept donations for mine, and make about $100 a month. Though, some of that pays for the servers and other ongoing project costs. But I make it very clear that it’s a donation, and doesn’t get you anything! Still though, it’s a great way to get a little extra from the users, and not have to worry about server costs and other minor costs.
I'm obviously absolutely pro-Ukraine, especially as I'm Western European, with Western European values and with a decided belief that Western European ideas are better than what's currently being offered - what Russia for example offers - as an alternative.

And while rooting for the Ukrainian side, I can't even find the Russian perspective within the sphere of information and data, other than what Russians tell me, which sounds so completely different information-wise, that I wonder if we live on the same planets. In fact I got off the phone with a Russian friend a few hours ago, and I asked their perspective but replied nothing in response. It was literally 100% inverted: that the country was fighting fascism and was conned by the U.S. due to weapons treaties in the past.

So the question is NOT about morals, whose are better - it's hard to find a villain in history with an army behind them, where each individual believed in their own evil.

So the question is about information asymmetry, at the very least, a foggy issue we have to get past before we talk about morals. Again, I'm about 90% confident that the Russian side aren't behaving in good faith, but I leave that 10%.

And most importantly I recognize my bias, in the superiority of Western European values, which means that I'm also biased with regards to those nations having the military upper hand. Which implies that even if the situation were much more ambiguous I would likely root for the Ukrainian side.

I hope that does the opposite of clear up the issue!

War is rarely a matter of good and evil purely. It's a muddled world we live in.
For the curious(nsfw if your user agent sends the referrer header)

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/02/robot-war-dogs-hunting-migr...
> and every roof would need solar panels

That's already coming to Germany, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solare_Baupflicht. Not legislated in the whole country yet, but that's just a matter of time now.
And lose >4000 soldiers in the process?
How is this patentable? There's decades of prior art.
That's not a mix problem, that a you problem. You can very easily customize and build on top of a solid base. Add fruits (berries, banana, etc), add chocolate chips, nuts, etc. Add cocoa powder, cinnamon, etc.

The powder is just a base.
Those kids are right. School math is mainly an attrition machine. Most students, including in STEM fields, look forward to forgetting all of their school math on graduation day. The math that engineers need is baked into their high level software. Most engineering teams have a "math person" who handles any higher math related problems that crop up. I'm one of those people at my workplace.

I was a college math major, but believe that the math curriculum is ripe for reform.
I was recently given something like this as a phone screen. I was provided an ip address and some credentials and I was expected to ssh in and get some python scripts working.

I was only given this after passing a difficult HackerRank though.
The Jeep Wrangler EV, while staying true to its traditional SUV characteristics, wouldn’t disappoint the modern customers who also take into consideration convenience and tech features. The off-road-focused electric SUV will boast several new-age features teased by Stellantis like Peer-to-Peer Charging, Remote Vehicle Tracking, Biometric Recognition, Jeep Drone Pairing, Jeep Trails, Group Ride, OTA Updates, and AR HUD.

No need for the snark. It is not official, and may not end up being accurate, but is what has been reported.

https://electricvehicleweb.com/jeep-wrangler-electric-new-de...

https://topelectricsuv.com/news/jeep/jeep-wrangler-electric-...
I have read that Putin's rumored $150bn wealth stash is in a Swiss Bank.
For now he's walking around in a flak jacket with an AK and I suspect that if they did a poll today the numbers would come out a bit different.
Super interesting! Can you share the name of the software?
Not invest, divest. They’re trying to stop Western funds from selling off their interest in Russian companies.
They want those assets for themself?
SF is latest city to consider tackling its housing crisis by taxing empty homes
I made a site to track Russian Military Radio Communications
The Russians have been broadcasting their movements and operations over open radio. Anyone with a HAM radio can listen to it, even online. I'm recording the most significant conversations broadcast over specific frequencies.

I hope this is useful for journalists or other people cataloging the war.

I made the site last night and I plan to improve it a bunch more too. Thanks for any feedback.
Seriously, who teaches this course, the "Cracking the Coding Interview" author?
Nothing stops Germany from building pumped hydrostorage rather than gas pipelines.

Every time nuclear get discussed people jump between either hydrostorage or green hydrogen, but when people start discussing turning off the gas from Russia, there seems to be very little interests to actually replace gas with storage. The few calculations I have read over hydrostorage is that the amount of damns and land needed to replace all the gas plant capacity is unrealistic, and green hydro is almost 100 times more expensive than natural gas. Nuclear is expensive, but its not that expensive.

There is a strange thing with hydrostorage. To my knowledge there does not exist a single example of a commercial operation that buys renewables to pump water and then generate energy to sell when the price goes up. There does exist one commercial operation that I know where an energy company uses storage to balance their fleet of (mostly) fossil fuel plants when they need to spin down/up. It keeps their operations more stable, and they said something to the point of "In the future we might use this to buy renewables when the price is low and sell when the energy is needed".
Oh, boy, now let me tell you about medical school.
"The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse. The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and the copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws.

Montag slid down the brass pole. He went out to look at the city and the clouds had cleared away completely, and he lit a cigarette and came back to bend down and look at the Hound. It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.

"Hello," whispered Montag, fascinated as always with the dead beast, the living beast.

At night when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the Hound and let loose rats in the firehouse area-way, and sometimes chickens, and sometimes cats that would have to be drowned anyway, and there would be betting to see which the Hound would seize first. The animals were turned loose. Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine. The pawn was then tossed in the incinerator. A new game began."

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
> The problem with 40 hour jobs is that you're anyways only
productive for like 50% of that and then the rest of the
day you're stuck in a prison. You can't go outside and do
any other things to relax, and you also can't fully focus.
I don't understand why not more people are rebelling against that.

I'll go outside and relax after or before work and on weekends. This is fine for me personally, but I can see how it might not be the same for everybody (I don't have a commute for example, which helps). I have not done part time work, but I expect I would just be unproductive 25% of the time and productive 25% of the time, at the same ratio as before. I've had many 4 week vacations and they didn't do much for my productivity (except maintaining it long-term I assume).
This would be great news for Crypto if true.
I know it's kinda cliche, but as a youngster (10 years old) I read "Mathematics for the Million" by Lancelot Hogben and life was never the same. At 14 I read "How to lie with Statistics" by Darrell Huff, and I learned that maths was not the certainty I had thought.

Everything after that was just detail.
In the same way that obituaries are often drafted by newspapers in advance of a person's demise, the same is true of reactions to world events.

In totalitarian regimes (and those strongly on the spectrum of totalitarian), sure -- you can bet this happens all the time.

Otherwise? It's basically unheard of. Yes, it has happened as in the case of the Apollo mission (and in niche areas like sporting events) - but by no means does it happen "often".
Tony Hoare works at Microsoft as a Principal Researcher, as well as having won over 5 million dollars just in awards. I'm quite sure he makes more than a Facebook SWE.

Dijkstra won a similar amount of money in prizes and worked at UT Austin which according to their 1985 docket paid 110k a year ($287,418.96 adjusted for inflation) and also worked in private industry in a research role, so once again... likely made more than a FB SWE.
So, this is a bit confusing. Yes you're right that sanctions are just orders not to do business with certain companies, but one thing that Britain has up its sleeve is that ingeniously it spent the last decade luring Russian business men into buying expensive property and asssets in London under the clearly false pretense that they were safe from reprisal since they paid millions to the tory party (to be clear, I'm not slandering anyone, because they weren't corrupt as fuck, they were simply laying a trap) and now that we have them right where we want them we can use unexplained wealth orders to seize those assets - for example, expensive london flats, or the entirity of Chelsea football club, or Lord Lebedev's (good strong british name) Lordship (which definitely wasn't also bestowed upon him by the british government). Unexplained wealth orders basically say "Prove you got the money legitimately or this is ours now" - which is brilliant because we know they didn't get the money legitimately, because no one innocent pays millions of pounds to the tory party to protect themselves if they're innocent. Ipso facto, our corruption, literally a good thing.

Edit: Oh unless we actually are corrupt, and we don't actually carry out the unexplained wealth orders. Notably, the British government hasn't carried out any.
Do what you gotta do.

Amounts this large though can reveal unexpected exposure for a lot of institutional banks and investors. Although Russian securities market is not that large, it can be just a big enough hole in balance sheets, I think governments will bail them out institutions experience stress over, good luck all!
Google should respond with an standard email: "We've detected suspicious activity from your account in Ukraine and had to temporarily suspend it. Please upload a copy of your driver license, your phone number and your vaccination card to verify your identity. We're sincerely sorry for the inconvenice."
By the way be warned. The communications are intense. I still need help transcribing and translating it, and I'm working on the frontend right now.

I'm pretty sure I have recordings of war crimes uploaded.
Are you sure about that? The general figures I see are that around 2% of land for wind energy should be very sufficient, which would not need displacing of existing housing and certainly no construction in city parks.
That’s a laugh. It’s already been proven that regular people in the west have literally no political say[1]. What we can infer is that western oligarchs are committed to Ukraine or at least are firmly anti-Russian.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
This simple 5m cake recipe changed my mind on mixes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sjv3LRVubo

Adam also goes into the science of cooking, and him breaking down why mixes are good has convinced me.
I think the results will be far less exciting that people envision: it will end with a diplomatic solution after some "peace talk" negotiations.

There are never any true "winners" of a war, it will costs millions, the Russian people have greatly suffered (and will continue to for years as a result of this), many Ukrainians have equally suffered and lost their lives.

It will also have an impact on the worlds economy (to what extent, I don't know, I'm not an expert).

What a waste.

My prayers goes out to all those suffering.
Yeah, it'll be as broken as things are in China..
This strikes me as a prelude to seizure of foreign-owned assets. In that light, locking trades seems obvious.
And every couple of years they will raid one of the neighboring towns.
I appreciated that about them. I Don't understand why they went the Mac way. Everyone doesn't need to do the same thing.
Many professionals, including actual browser implementers, have carefully specified, reviewed, and ratified the proposal. And you think they're incompetent, and you know better?

Has it crossed your mind that you are less informed about the trade-offs and limitations of browser media stacks 15 years ago, and the design is baffling to you, because your opinion comes from ignorance?
Metabase is so fantastic - the guys who wrote it (originally called Caravel) met us in the AirBnB building when we were an early user - easily among my top 5 “most impressed” moments in the industry so far. I highly recommend it for absolutely anyone using SQL as their source of truth. Set up a read slave, host metabase, spend a week making pretty charts, make the C-suite love you forever. I’m pretty impressed to see this list from a VC firm!

While we’ve pivoted to more consumer friendly tools and less dev-tools (for now), I’m still working my butt off to make a future where self-hosted software (open source or not) can at least survive and ideally compete. I see three viable options: make it easier to install/manage in a users cloud (ala ReplicateD), make it easier for open source devs to host a paying user’s instance (ala rolling your own Stripe + AWS setup) and/or make it easier to physically ship preloaded plug-n-play hardware (my startup!)

If you’re an author of self-hosted software or anything on this list, feel free to reach out if you’re interested!
States where teachers’ unions are strongest are slowest to get back to in-person
The book has a GitHub repo, but the author unfortunately hasn't decided on licensing yet and doesn't accept contributions. At least there's a place to suggest corrections and possibly have a discussion with the author.

https://github.com/StefanSalewski/NimProgrammingBook
Have you ever worked in the games industry? Anything that has to be done costs money and needs to be very well justified. Making working Linux builds and testing them is not just switching a compiler flag.

It's a multi-week project that needs to be funded and takes away developer resources from actually making the game good, for an absolutely miniscule userbase that could play your game just fine without any drawbacks in Proton, for free. Valve pays for it because developers can't/won't.

Even if you fund a Linux port, it basically ends up abandoned because there is no money to maintain it - updates will only go to Windows. There's even games that don't have working DLC in their Linux-native versions.
I’ve read it all. This is literally Putin’s speech mixed with all sorts of weird crap. That’s it. This forum has gone to shit.
I never heard of the cornstarch idea before. I'll have to try it.

My mom's comment that I think she heard from Julia Child: Anything tastes good with enough butter in it. ;-)
> I can't see a way out for him

Packed in six pieces of wood.

> and the people who surround him.

For once they can be heros.
if western investors are forced to own russian companies, it means they are forced to care about well being of russian companies.
maybe this is supposed to make western investors lobby against sanctions.
Well, there's really two ways it works at my company. The other way it works is managers making backroom deals and then it's just some conversation with the tech lead that counts as the interview for HR's sake. So sort of similar to what you described.
It's not entirely clear that that's Putin's intention either. It may well be to install a friendly pro-russian government. In which case the US in Iraq starts to look not-so-different. I don't think either is remotely justifiable.
Lower Bounds for Probably-Istic Polynomial Time [pdf]
Just commenting, Valve Index (open) and then something like Simula VR (VR desktop) gives you 360 sphere around you open applications eg. editor/browser.

I feel you about VRChat I felt the same (felt old/out of place). Recently tried Zenith bunch of kids. Nothing wrong with that but yeah.

I personally am avoiding meta because I hate that locked in, it's why I'm trying to get into Linux phones over Android (problems with privacy/built in bloat/adware).

As far as an environment for VR like the meta verse, my opinion I think it's a niche right now, guess depends who's around you/your circles. Maybe it's not as rare. Maybe in the future everyone will have a headset like everyone has a phone.

I'm not super against FB though, I found my family (separated long time ago) through their platform so I am grateful for that.
I'll happily buy them all for 1% of the face value last week.
I'm guessing that hump in the Russian yield curve is about to be more like the Burj khalifa than a camel
Are the trained pilots getting temporary Ukrainian commissions?
I mean that there is no such limitations for domestic, so some kind of bid/ask, granted skewed, will still be there.
Seriously the title is like saying that x86 is the only processor for computing we need to embrase it...

There are goods and bads to supporting the win32 abi/api with ALL of its quirks and bugs. But most of this (99%+) is trying to support dead projects that will get no support or maintenance even if the bugs turn out to be client side misuse of odd/undocumented errata behaviour.

This is a fundamental shift in culture between, release and maintain VS release fire the devs and cash a cheque. Very few closed sourced Windows projects will _ever_ get even the level of updates you get from VMware or Nvidia products during their lifecycle on Linux and these are companies betrated for being mere months behind mainline kernel developments...
I'd be OK with modern interviews if they reflected the job you will be doing to a reasonable degree. But knowing the state of the industry I feel that they fall somewhere between gatekeeping and a bait & switch scheme.

Yep,

Back in the 90s and early 2000s, the interview problems I got were often the actual problem I was meant to solve on the job. Which is to say that I don't think there's any barrier to coming up with questions like. Of course, if the job is as you describe, putting people through hoops is indeed a way to avoid actually telling people what they'll do.
The problem is that the revenues from those licenses would be so much lower than the margins on those x86 CPUs to make it almost impossible for Intel to switch. Apple moving Macs to Arm has given better performance __and__ lower prices.

I do think that Intel has executed badly on the ISA front too. Let’s not forget that x64 wasn’t an Intel design (how much did they spend on Itanium) and they’ve messed around with AVX-512 which just seems to eat die area and power.

By contrast Arm managed to get its customers switched over to 64 bit seamlessly and has left most of their awkward legacy behind.
Reuters is paywalled, but is getting dumped on HN by the metric ton. Can we find a more friendly news source?
This seems more like discriminating based on nationality.

So far no sanctions are seizing assets of ordinary Russians.. nobody is even talking about this.
Maybe, but I think that's pretty unlikely at this juncture: not only are there not a lot of assets they could seize punitively (I assume the Kremlin is not looking to make enemies out of hitherto neutral countries like India), but any seizure would take Russia's financial status from "pariah, but quantifiably risky" to "unquantifiably risky."
Two weeks ago Ukraine accused the US of being unnecessarily pessimistic, that US analysis of satellite imagery was no match for Ukraine's deeper understanding of Russia's true motivations, that movements of troops and matériel were merely the adversary's negotiating style, that there was little likelihood of an actual invasion.

There's a tendency for smart people to downplay and underestimate legitimate existential threats. Most of us recognize the clear signs of war, of fascism, of catastrophe only in hindsight.

Perhaps the optimists can sketch out how they think this plays out if Ukraine puts up a more effective and tenacious defense than expected.

If supply lines are cut, if fuel, food and ammunition can't reach the front lines, if Russia is globally isolated, if the ruble collapses, if the wealth of oligarchs held abroad is frozen and seized.

Do the optimists believe Russia will just back down and go home in humiliation, tail between their legs?
I'd point out Greece, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. I'm sure there's a no-true-scotsman argument to be had for each of them, but they're nominally considered democratic republics.
Hold on. Russia just invaded its neighbour, and you think the international response is due to _Twitter_?! Like, I'm not sure what else Russia would've expected.
Everything she touches is gold. Also: she would be the most fearsome cybercriminal I can imagine.
The issue is the Greencard sponsoring through EB-3. You have to wait till the process reaches i-140 or I-485 or otherwise you have to restart the process. This is worse for Indian and Chinese citizens due to their priority date from the 7% rule.
I’ve passed almost every interview loop I’ve had without ever studying leetcode. I have a (maybe uncharitable) suspicion that people who find they need to study are spending all their time at work gluing software together without actually writing any from scratch.
There will always be buyers. But the price might not be what the government wants to see...
Still in the research phase. A week ago, I knew nothing about nuclear weapons. Since today, I’ve realized I need to learn about it.

My initial guess is New Zealand.
Cool!

I use gitlab pages for my project, it works well enough. Nothing to worry about except to make sure the domains are paid.
Could anyone kindly provide the materials associated with the course? Thank you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64