skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Millions are already miserable on the slim chance that they'll overcome the people with all the guns and power and retain their sovereignty and freedom (i.e., Ukraine if that wasn't clear).
I think there may be a lot of hand washing because of dealing with sanctioned individuals before they were sanctioned. It leaves a bad taste to deal with someone who has ties to Kremlin but you don’t dare to ask due to greed element. Next thing you know, the person you took money from turns out to be sanctioned for being the custodian of a war criminal. What do you do next?

I’m speculating here now but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was so hard to trace Putin’s wealth to be sanctioned , because some of it could already be deeply embedded in the US financial sector. No need to look far. Take a look at Manhattan real estate.

The degree of separation via shell companies often provides some plausible deniability and moral licensing but in light of the Whitehouse creating a new task force to sniff those connections out , we may see some interesting stories come out.

Those are unpleasant and very difficult questions to ask that will have to be asked. I hope I’m wrong here, but my cynical side thinks otherwise.

If you think these theories are far fetched, and that people are beyond corruption look no further than former chancellor of Germany being a board member of Gazprom, or former ministers of Finland and Italy who also resigned from board of directors. Lots of British high society cutting ties with Rosneft and Gazprom too.

Money can be a powerful corrupting force.
None. Being able to make money using other people's software in any way you want is a fundamental part of freedom 0. People using the software for commercial purposes are just as much of a normal user as anyone else.

>“Free software” does not mean “noncommercial.” On the contrary, a free program must be available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial distribution. This policy is of fundamental importance—without this, free software could not achieve its aims.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
Hire senior level people part time. That don’t need to spend lots of time getting context. They can figure out how to solve problems matching your team’s coding style without extra meetings.
Something that I haven't seen discussed (on HN or elsewhere) is normalizing longer workweeks for more pay. I understand there are many life circumstances that would make a shorter workweek desirable but there are also some circumstances that would make a normal 50- or 60-hour workweek desirable too (early retirement is the big one that comes to mind for me).

Can anyone here speak to hiring or being hired with the explicit agreement of working longer weeks for more money? I realize that crunch weeks and overwork happen too but that's not really what I'm thinking of.
If you are dealing with outside organizations a lot you are probably doing it on email
They were incredibly agile two years (!) ago when deciding to stop working. Reversing that has been a lot harder.
As someone who uses a lot of Apple devices, I agree with you 100%
Star of the show on the Ukrainian side is the Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drone. It's already obliterated some Russian convoys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baykar_Bayraktar_TB2
> Controlling arctic energy resources will essentially make Europe less reliant on Russia if both the United States and Canada starts heavily investing in it.

So you're saying we should enact the plot of "Don't Look Up", but in real life.
The US may not care about Ukraine, but I assure you that Europe does.
Why would China buy Russian gold? They don't really need to. I doubt the Chinese government wants to get evolved in such a risky endeavor,possibly facing sanctions or losing goodwill, just to get some gold at a discount.
It's not a closed system.
Just listing those using these epoch:

Pre-NT Microsoft standards used a 7-bit integer, but only officially from 1980 (0) until 119 (2099). While DOS is officially discontinued, FAT32 is still in extensive use. If we go on the endurance of FAT (in compatibility), we need a new portable file system that must be implemented by 2050. Heck, exFAT suffers from the same problem. MICROSOFT, WHY?!

Most RTC chips tends to be centennial - this means current chips only support up to 2099 or 2100 depending on the implementation.
They're definitely competing with Azure on this front.

If you're somehow still running C# on-prem (last time for me was >5 years ago?) you're probably less likely to go AWS than Azure if anything.
It's hilarious that the replies in this thread are mostly people arguing bitterly about how to make pancakes
It's a bit crazy that to me that its only been a few days and everyone is judging russia in ukraine. How would they have judged the usa in afganistan after a couple days? Or iraq?
If this work as described in the press article, it breaks the second law of thermodynamics, in spite they claim it doesn't. It's based in a research article published in 2020, so if they didn't win the Nobel price 2021, it's pretty clear that it does not "generates clean limitless power".

The idea is that at room temperature, the Brownian motion moves the graphene, and that generates a small current in the circuit, so the circuits absorbs some energy from the environment. But there is electric noise in the circuit, and that noise makes the graphene move as a motor and release some energy to the environment. One of the consequence of the second law is that if all the circuit and environment are at the same temperature, the energy absorbed an the energy released are equal, so the net effect is zero.

Now if you look at the resistance, the noise in the circuit makes it release some energy as heat, but the Brownian motion of makes it generate some noise. Again, one of the consequence of the second law is that if all the circuit and environment are at the same temperature, the energy absorbed an the energy released are equal, so the net effect is zero.

And now, considering the diodes, ..., the second law ..., so the net effect is zero.

And now, considering the wires (wires are small resistances), ..., the second law ..., so the net effect is zero.

And now, considering the mechanical support of the circuit (small devices are weird), ..., the second law ..., so the net effect is zero.

The problem is that in spite what the article says, a consequence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics is that if all the device is at the same temperature it's not possible to "generates clean limitless power".
Then work on extending human lifespan. This is something the average HN contributor could be making progress towards. E.g. make a YC company working on capability advancement in biotech, or enabling technologies like atomically precise manufacturing.
do you really consider teachers unions to represent the aspect of teachers that cares for students? job security for the lowest common denominator, and 'caring for kids' somehow as well? how would the meetings go?
New York and European markets have not yet opened for the week. The futures are roughly a reliable indicator of where the market will open, low volume or not.
> It's important to realize that the concept of a "galaxy" is arbitrary. Specifcally, it's not like stars suddenly stop and that's where the edge is. It's gradual.

Eh, the concept isn't that arbitrary, it's the borders that would be more arbitrary. It's like asking where does a river end and the ocean begin. No one would argue the Atlantic isn't an ocean and the Amazon isn't a river, but exactly where you draw that border requires some discrimination.
What worries me is that there is a situation here where Russia benefits from launching nukes beyond just having no option / nothing to lose.

If Russia nukes the West and China remains neutral avoiding an attack, then they would almost certainly take the US's place as the global superpower. Russia would obviously be nuked in retaliation, but Putin himself likely wouldn't die in the attack and could probably strike a deal with Xi to rebuild Russia and Russia's empire with China's aid.

Obviously it wouldn't be good news for China if all their main trading partners suddenly got wiped of the face of the Earth, but they'd get through it after several years and would no longer need to worry about the West.

My concern is what if nuclear war actually benefits Xi & Putin at this moment in time? During the cold war the USSR was a super power -- they had everything to lose. Now they have very little and we have a lot... The calculation is completely different today. The cost of nuclear war for Russia is dramatically lower than it ever was for the USSR.
An excellent, thoughtful article. People often don't realize how easy it is to make inroads if you're humble and genuinely interested in the other person. The other day someone cold-emailed me to talk about some old blog post, we had a nice discussion, and then they asked for tips on applying to my employer. And I was happy to give a referral. (Was the person's interest in the blogpost secretly mercenary? Maybe, but it doesn't matter -- they were friendly and respectful, and like most tech companies, we _want_ people to apply.)
This a lot of discussion about how to design a programming language without a mention of why you're designing a programming language.

I mention why because different whys have different orderings of hows. (For example, if you're interested in some new semantics, working on a parser first is probably counter-productive.)
Did you actually bother to try before making such a comment? Turning off JavaScript on Reuters usually results in the entire page being a giant piece of the splash image.
It's possible his generals have bungled the logistics on purpose. Can't stage a coup but they can undermine authority with feigned incompetence.
I'm the Tom Buckley-Houston that made that leading image! It went viral from a Reddit post about 8 years ago. It's amazing to see it keep popping up.
Ask HN: How to add filtering to ANNS/vector similarity search?
I know we can filter data with certain conditions, pre, in, or post a query. However, each method has its own pros and cons. So i am just wondering is there an efficient way to add filter to ANNS?
When the sun is in its red giant phase its surface will be beyond the orbit of the Earth.

Not that it will matter to any humans living billion of years from now, who will have the capability to move old blue Earth a safe distance out.
Fastmail is not a good replacement for family needs because it’s quite expensive at one mailbox per person. Those who need multiple mailboxes should look at other options.
Russia defaulted in 1998 and it wasn't pretty for the population
Even autocrats have to rule largely with the consent (or at least the acquiescence) of the governed. Unless he goes full Kim Jong Un, the long-term economic damage will do to him what it did to the Soviet Union. He's miscalculated. I'm struggling to see an end-game in which he can save face and not come out diminished in the long term. To me this all smells of something born out of his will, and not something that's had the kind of in-system planning and support that these things tend to require. I suspect (hope) the long knives are being quietly sharpened in the darker corridors of the Kremlin.
> The EU will need to dramatically reduce energy dependence on Russia after this

This has been clear for quite some time now, but Germany chose to move in the opposite direction by shutting down its nuclear plants. As long as Russian energy remains cheap, I expect that that Central Europeans will continue to vote with their wallets after the current crisis blows over.
atm they say the street price is ~200 rub per dollar (~80 a week ago)
The Ukrainian people deserve our help and support. They're doing the best they can with a really shitty situation.

I just would not intentionally target the _common_ Russian people as much as it can be avoided. Hurt the oligarchs, Putin, anyone who is actually helping him, etc.

It won't be painless for the common Russian people, and we can't really help that. But targetting them is just hurtful for no benefit.
I’ve worked both in the EU and the US. Working in the US is 100% worth it, especially if you don’t have kids. It costs about 10k to move one’s belongings to Europe, including having people pack your stuff. If you don’t like living in the US, you can leave at any time for relatively little money. My experience is that the money is worth it given the relatively few strings attached.
>* the last remaining buffer country between him and NATO end up as part of the NATO/EU/US order.*

I have read this claim hundreds of times, but nobody ever mentions that the Baltic states joined in 2004[0]. Russia has had NATO on its border for over seventeen years, so why would this suddenly be a problem worth going to war over?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Adriatic_C...
I don't even have kids and don't intend to but I'll happily pay taxes to fund public schools.
Happy to see well coordinated effort from the 1st world to support Ukraine! Go Ukraine! Our hearts and minds are with you!
I don't think you get good leaders if financial compensation is all they care about to stay. I will bet Tim Cook loves what he does at Apple and would likely stay even for $1. He has more than enough money already.

A good example is this: Greece and Italy paid their politicians best in all of Europe, while Norway pays their politicians worst. Yet it seems Greece and Italy got stuck with the worst politicians.

I don't think that is an accident. With too much focus on compensation, you just attract greedy and corrupt people rather than people who want to make a difference.

I do think CEOs should get properly compensated, but the idea that at CEO magically performs 10x better because you pay him $10 million instead of $1 million is so absurd that you have to be a libertarian to believe it ;-)

Human motivation cannot be reduced to a simple question of monetary compensation. Research into this suggest that human motivation in relation to compensation works more in terms of inflection points. If your pay is so low you feel underappriciated, you will not perform well. Once salary gets high enough that you feel appreciated, further increases is not going to increase performance.

People don't hold back performance until they get paid a billion. There is a threshold at which point people will perform as well as you can expect from compensation alone. Beyond that other facts will matter: Joy of working with your co-workers, belief in the mission, interesting tasks etc.
The "system" is the circuit (including the graphene), a closed box around it and the gas that is inside the box.
Is Ukraine totally blameless on this though? It seems like they allowed themselves to be duped by the self-serving prodding of the west.

West: “dude, poke that bear. I promise we’ll be here to help you in case it attacks.”

Ukraine: “here, hold my beer”
The people make the culture, the culture produces the rotten government and Putin at the center. The people inevitably empower authoritarians like Putin (Lenin and Stalin didn't magically spring out of nowhere to hold the people hostage, the people made them possible, the culture made them possible, the people enabled them and joined in their revolution, militarism and statism). And certainly to the extent that there is a long-term persistence of terrible outcomes, it's absolutely clear it's the people and the related culture that are responsible. Russia isn't just unlucky to have centuries of repeated history of authoritarian leaders: it's their culture causing it, Putin represents that culture of empire and conquest (and Russia is the only major power in Europe still clinging to such ideology; the Germans, British and French for example have largely abandoned such cultural ideas). It's time for Russia to abandon that aspect of their culture, as the other great European powers have.

You'll see lots of headlines about how the West failed to curb Putin, failed to stop or confront his actions at various points. You know who overwhelmingly didn't do anything at all to try to stop him during his long dictatorship? The people of Russia. They are culpable, they are responsible (specifically those that haven't protested or made an effort against his regime, which judging by the small push-back he has faced overall throughout his dictatorship, is the extreme majority of the population). When he began shutting down free news reporting and media, and curbing human rights early into his dictatorship, did they all go into the streets and act against his regime? Did they try to stop him? No they did not, they rolled over promptly, and they didn't do anything much about him since then either. And they thoroughly enjoyed the good times during the oil price boom, no complaints about Putin then (quite the opposite). It is their fault. He has in fact been widely popular with the people of Russia for most of his time in office (not 90% popular, that's fake, but certainly majority positive typically). They liked the fake image he projected for them: power, empire, Russian strength, greatness - like the supposed old days of glory; it made them feel good again after what happened with the USSR.
Great analysis indeed.

Now the question is, what's Putin's next move? He doesn't know how to wage war, but as a former KGB guy, he certainly knows how to watch his back. It's quite unlikely he's going to be deposed.

But if he's not being deposed, and he's cornered, what's he going to do? My bet is that one way or another, he's going to use nukes. He has the choice to use them in such a way so people don't die (e.g. drop a nuke in Siberia somewhere, just to show your nukes still work). But considering that today there was a "referendum" in Belarus to allow nukes on their country, there's a chance he plans to outright use nukes in Ukraine. I really hope not a lot of people will die.
Incompetence can look like malice, but this isn't malice masquerading as incompetence. Putin gave the West - and in fact the rest of the world - time enough to get their act together, big mistake.
I am just describing a preference.
"Freedom" doesn't exist. Freedom to "do something" does.
Ukraine itself has massive oil and gas reserves that have not been developed.

I can see intense E.U. interest in these reserves when this is over.

https://hir.harvard.edu/ukraine-energy-reserves/
This sounds like good living. I’d take mine to house parties in college, mostly. Spinning house music. Stuff like Subliminal Records, whatever DJ Dan was into.

> Seems now crazy to think people used to smoke in pubs.

It was crazy and reckless but also interesting to have experienced if only for a relatively short period of time. (presuming no obvious personal long term impacts)

I presume we’ll feel the same about alcohol in a few decades. It’s a rather blunt instrument with which to alter consciousness. And it has a lot of unfortunate outcomes.
Many news outlets don’t hold headlines to editorial standards. They’re considered marketing, not journalism.
Arizona foundry being built by Taiwan's TSMC delayed by labor shortage
Having dabbled with Ansible and Saltstack -- and much preferring the latter -- it's very sad that Ansible has seemingly won most of the sentiment amongst the demographic of people who didn't want Ruby / DSL, but preferred Python / YAML / Jinja. RH's ownership and marketing was probably the compelling feature for many shops.

Less so with Ansible, and more so with Saltstack, I found it easy to slowly migrate my stack of bash scripts into the platform. As with any config management system you can always just wrap some config boilerplate around your scripts, and try to cater for idempotent requirements / shortfalls -- a bit like how learning PHP is relatively easy, as you can start safely by inject tiny fragments into your HTML.
Your evidence does not support your argument. These moves can also be considered as strengthening the globalization of CNYuan.
Your comments on this subject are strange.
Finally something I can answer! I've been doing tech consulting for over six years now.

- Straight up ask them if they're an MSP, lol. MSP isn't a bad business at all; I highly recommend it for juniors needing an in or people who want a lot of exposure to a lot of companies simultaneously. But you don't want MSP work.

- Avoid avoid AVOID WITCH companies (Wipro, Infosys, Tata/TCS, Cognizant, HCL). While they have _some_ A-team strategic work, the lion's share of their business is butts in seats labor arbitrage.

- Also avoid WITCH-adjacent companies (Teksystems et al). Same reason.

- Do a LinkedIn deep dive. If a majority of the company's employees work in an offshore location, they are more than likely butts in seats. This isn't always the case, but it's generally safe to assume so. If you're really interested in what they've got going on, bring it up in the interview and turn your bullshit meter to 11.

- This gets a little tricky for big tech shops, though (Red Hat, IBM, Accenture). They have a lot of butts-in-seats stuff, but they also have a lot of very interesting, very high-impact projects. There are ways to monitor what you're being considered for during the interview process; see below.

- Ask about some engagements they've done (client names don't matter), generally ones they are proud of. Ask about how those projects were structured, the number of people involved, and the objectives. Huge implementation projects usually have a high BIS factor, but some consulting companies charge through the roof for onshore consulting with an emphasis on high-quality software craftsmanship. This usually comes out in the interview; the interviewer mentioning xDD, hard 40 hour limits, and first principles is a good sign.

- Ask them "in your opinion, what's the ratio of staff augmentation to strategic work at this firm?" BIS work is called "staff augmentation" or "staff aug." Not all staff aug is BIS (some better firms take staff aug since it's much easier to sell than strategy but the consultants assigned to those still have autonomy, i.e. they can roll of when they've had enough/they can contest decisions with support of their engagement team/etc), but a high ratio of staff aug to strategy work smells like high BIS.

- The technical interview should be focused on your thought process and experience. "Tell me how you designed this system/explain this decision/if I changed x, what would happen" are some questions that should come up. If they are asking you very-specific trivia (what command would you run to do x/what is the name of y component that does z), then expect a high BIS factor.
If we define willingness to cram, cram, cram as "conscientiousness" - then sure.

The idea that this is a meaningful proxy for "ability to get things done" -- about that I'm not so sure.
> Do you think they could be prepared in advance for this kind of attack?

This is not a new attack in either type or scope. It's merely more visible.

> How are you helping?

Not at all. I don't benefit from YouTube's business model so why do you think that I have some obligation to help YouTube?

Of course, since you think that I have some obligation, you surely do. What are you doing besides attacking people who point out that this is a foreseeable consequences of YT's business decisions?
The Iraq war was way more costly in terms of lives lost. Despite killing so many people the US still couldn't hold it.

Iraq study estimates war-related deaths at 461,000

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24547256
I don't know, it seemed to protect this author's rights just fine.
One of the scenarios I keep thinking about is what if either side uses just one nuke. They let the other side know that they're going to use just one and do it. Do you respond to that with your full arsenal? Do you go tit-for-tat? Do you just let them get away with it?