skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FElon friendly normally ends up meaning they know you have no other options and treat you about as good as you would imagine a company with complete knowledge that if you loose your job your PO could send you back to prison. Hello mandatory overtime, horrible pay, every shit task no one wants. It's way better to try and convince somewhere that isn't felon friendly to try and hire you.
> it was the way to push Chrome to dominance.

How did YT push Chrome?
How to Overthrow a Government (2016) [video]
> Employing that many people would likely cost in the region of Google's entire earnings.

It would cost 2.5% of their profits if they had an entire US workforce and every video needed to be viewed in its entirety.
The conversion of US society from an agricultural one to an industrial one to an information/services one probably the larger trend driving results here, especially if the quality of produce/soil is something you're thinking about. The role fiat currency played in that is debatable I'll grant.

RE: terrible art, the rise of that is the rise of art for lower classes in terms of more of it being produced and seen, which is a good thing I'd argue, as well as comparing art made in a 10 year period say with all of the best art western civilization has produced in the past 500 years.
It sounds like there's enough lithium in all identified lithium resources to produce the batteries for 10.6 billion[1] Nissan Leafs. Enough for every human to have 1 low range car if the population plateaus around there, but that would still require perfect recycling and would leave no lithium to put batteries in anything else. Unless we start mining lithium from asteroids or something.

[1]: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/eason2/
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Switzerland is imposing their own sanctions, and will make sure that Switzerland cannot be used to circumvent EU & US sanctions.
https://twitter.com/BorisBusslinger/status/14972053992290222...
> Decades of crippling sanctions have also taught China and Russia how to bypass altogether with certain countries.

What crippling sanctions have been imposed on China and Russia for decades? China's economy in particular has been very involved in international trade - probably more than any other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_therapy
Yes, mostly correct.
This could be on the money here.

Interestingly, I recently read an article regarding the gaming in China.

Most video games were accessed pirated, with hacks built into the install. Not saying this is the case with PUBG, but it can explain why there is a higher distribution of hackers in some video games (namely CS Source).
Think about the timescale that lithium has been a valuable resource. When the first oil wells were being drilled in Pennsylvania for lamp oil no one could fathom how oil exploration, extraction and processing techniques would evolve to mechanize an entire planet.
If my_program.sh runs forever - how will you obtain its output?

I think that's the problem here.
I remember an old win95 software called 'revelation' that could textplain password edit controls. Would it still work post winxp?
Look close to home first. I bet there are some small businesses near where you are now that need help - webdev, sysadmin, day-to-day IT kind of stuff. Is there a local chamber of commerce? Try that! Write them an email and tell them a bit about yourself. I'm sure they know someone who could use your help. I bet a small company near you would happily pay you an hourly rate to do sysadmin stuff for them.
I don't follow that line of reasoning. If a few Russian kids express "no hatred against Ukraine" and claim to actually feel powerless at the oligarchic structure of their country (Russia), in which way do you feel this could be manufactured psyops? What purpose could this serve as propaganda, "Russians kids don't like Putin or the ruling system"?

Wouldn't propaganda look more like "our country means Ukraine no harm, but in this case we are right because [reasons]"?
Kohlrabi are the skyscrapers of the vegetable kingdom
Ukraine is under general mobilization now. So no choice whatsoever. Even in volunteer armies one cannot ignore social economic pressure. Usualy the low grunt, those that do the killing and dying, are just poor bastards. On both sides. I read a comment not long ago: Simple soldiers on both sides have more in common with each other than their leadership. That very much true. Are aoldiers, and other combatants legitimate targets? Yes. Does it make their losses and casualties any less tragic? No.
I love ideas like this; radical flip-the-script concepts that you basically can't incrementally apply but I do believe it worked for the author, and can work for others.

Stuff we could never have done from the beginning, but can basically undo the patches we've applied to fix issues that no longer apply.
> Of course, they probably wouldn't be in this position if they hadn't taken energy strategy advice from Greta Thunberg, but that's neither here nor there.

What the fuck? I'm pretty positive that the energy strategy of major western powers was not radically revamped in two years on the advice of a teenager. If anything, they're in this position because they pursued an opposite strategy to what ecologists advocate: reduce dependency on fossil fuels including Russian natural gas, and invest massively in renewables + nuclear to bridge the gap.
Because the US is no longer the dominant economic force, nor the dominant military force (perhaps larger but spread too thin).

We watched the USSR waste itself in Afghanistan, and then the US did the same thing. And just as public opinion was the lowest on the war, after a botched exit, Putin attacks Europe.

The US should not have been in Afghanistan or Iraq, but oil companies said yes. It should be on the ground in Ukraine, but it can't because it is spent.

On the subject of military power, Arther C Clarke's Superiority [1] is a great short story. "It shows the side which is more technologically advanced being defeated, despite its apparent superiority, because of its willingness to discard old technology without having fully perfected the new. Meanwhile, the enemy steadily built up a far larger arsenal of weapons that while more primitive were also more reliable." Ironically, the "advanced" technology isn't advanced anymore: the weapons are out of date. But they still manage to be expensive.

The US knows this, and they can do nothing. All the screaming and howling in the media is just propaganda. They have already agreed to cede Ukraine.

Putin already won the war electronically. The US is hopelessly divided. The nation that once put a man on the moon, that dominated science, now has radicalized citizens call in bomb threats to hospitals because they wont treat a patient with ivermectin. 50% of the population believe that the election was rigged. No surprise that Trump supports Putin. The US can't agree on whether covid is real, how can it keep promises it made to Ukraine?

The US is a failed power. It is like the UK after it lost its empire: delusional.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)
In addition to what other people have said, I do want to make this point: Rust (more specifically the unsafe core) probably works slightly better as a "portable assembler" than C does. For example:

* Rust doesn't have volatile variables, you use volatile intrinsics on the loads and stores.

* C declares that arithmetic on 'char' and 'short'-sized variables gets promoted to 'int'; Rust actually has proper u8/u16 arithmetic support.

* Rust supports something akin to multiple return values via tuples, which means you can actually get operations like checked-overflow arithmetic supported in the core language, unlike C.
It's a matter of scale i think. In small communities, you're not really anonymous in the same way as on facebook. You might only be known as DataDog213 on some forum with a hundred members, but the people there know you and who you are as a person.

In facebook groups with thousands of members with no real bar or entry, you're really anonymous and no more distinctive than anyone else if you don't make yourself stand out. (By bar of entry, I mean things like even finding the site in the first place)
twitter thread - https://twitter.com/allenholub/status/1496326760719216643
Not my article and I don't even necessarily fully agree - but I thought this might spark some interesting discussion on HN.

Seems to be a difficult way to go once you're past the early stages of a project. I can't imagine a team at a say Series B/C startup pausing long enough to test their codebase thoroughly, if they were not already doing it to some reasonable degree.

Tweet below and the second below it, call out non-eng users and priority as two good reasons to have a tracker and I agree with that
https://twitter.com/mekkaokereke/status/1497267436315312128?...
Do you have any actual evidence or are we supposed to just trust all these right wing nationalist taking points? It's funny that I never hear actual swedes lamenting this, just foreigners that seem to think Sweden has become a war zone because they took in immigrants.
You mean like paying social benefits (pensions etc)? Possibly. After all, Ukraine was supposed to do that according to Minsk II but they violated the agreement in more than enough points. Personally, I see the NATO sending weapons and establishing bases...ah, they don't call them "bases" but "mission" instead to train military and the like as destabilizing factors.

(Then there is also the interesting issue of American biolabs in Ukraine (and other countries bordering Russia). There were reports of what the US does there but we will see whether the Russians can still find anything or whether it's too late.)

Anyway, it's pretty much already over and the West won. Putin/Russia got painted as the baddies + more sanctions (e.g. Nord Stream II suspended, so now the US can sell their shitty, overpriced fracking stuff to the EU). The Ukraine got screwed over/played by the West but they had already achieved a lot of goals (getting access to all the rich soil + controlling it for example as well as dividing brothers and sisters by supporting nationalists to the point where we now have those language/racial laws). But hey, apparently a lot of Western people support such a government. "Slava Ukraini/Heil Ukraine", as they say.
Did that actually happen? It very well could be true even if the framing is inappropriate (Russians could be stationed around schools, for example).
“Gangs, bombings, no-go areas, zero integration” describes my childhood experience as a Brit reading the news about Northern Ireland in the 90s.

And yet, I was raised Catholic, same as the very people I was — unreasonably, in retrospect — afraid of.

And also, I now live in Berlin, capital of a country which took in roughly one million refugees very quickly not too long ago. Just as my childhood news was wildly unrepresentative yet technically correct, if the stories you refer to had been representative one would have expected the literal disintegration of the country I now live in before I moved here.

(I now work with one of those refugees. I find him very impressive! Proper fluency in three languages).
> Putin has succeeded in undermining the international order. First, by getting someone like Trump elected

do you think can he hand pick the next US president or just sway the election towards one party?
I also felt like frustration in his recent writing on socials also the thing "I can still see Ukrainians fighting but no one around us", I can understand his frustration but I think he has a lot to ask, and am not sure that blaming/shaming people that are organising resistence and help and sanctions is the correct way to let others be motivated in that, but yeah still full support for Ukrainian sufference, and I can understand his frustration at the moment
Because it is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Who is this for? I never understood the idea of using notecards in subjects that are math heavy. Sure you can memorize some definitions or equations but the second you have to calculate yourself you will be hopelessly lost. I saw this time and time again teaching undergrad Physics. They study the textbook like its a History book, underlining and highlighting things and then can't do a single calculation come exam time. It just doesn't work to study certain subjects this way.

It's like trying to learn how to ride a bike by reading about it.
Human moderators probably wouldn't have to intervene in most of it.
> in 2022 sanctions are ... effectively meaningless as most capable, observant countries have managed to sidestep in part or in whole the once dominant US hegemony

This is only true to the extent that the US unilaterally imposes sanctions. The proposed sanctions involving SWIFT are multilateral, with the support of the entire EU. That's around double the economic power of the US alone, and roughly half of the entire world's GDP. Being sanctioned by half of the global economy (more, if Asian democracies participate) is very punishing indeed.
If you already use Steam then you already have a PC and according to the steam hardware survey you very likely have a more powerful GPU than what is in the steam deck.

Nearly everyone has a smartphone and video streaming box on a TV. So to get all the way there you need a controller.

Stadia vs. Switch is apt, except with negligible latency in the home (TV sharing is a common issue in couples/families today) and without needing to pay a subscription for things you own. Also, the graphics quality is going to be much better than what Stadia or Deck can deliver if you use Link with any decent gaming rig. Also I don't invite any google venture into my life because it's spyware and vaporware.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
It's being used right now to soften the perception of Russia ("See look, the Russian people don't approve of this!" as a way of implicitly arguing against sanctions) right now, that seems valuable.

Also "chaos" has value. It's a big thing in how PsyOps works (from my limited understanding); when you sew chaos, you can get away with more.
Deleting my Patreon account. Sorry to the creators but I can't support this evil company.
>Surely there’s not enough lithium for everything to be powered by battery.

There's a lot of misleading information out there on the Internet. Actually, searching led me to one of my old comments, which is still true ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15883035 ). The old link about ocean extraction died, so here's another one:

https://electrek.co/2021/06/04/scientists-have-cost-effectiv...

The bottom line is that both the raw quantity and the prospective capital expenditures on lithium are way, way smaller than what we were looking at in terms of oil extraction. We're not running out of lithium, and we're not destroying the environment to get it.

I suspect oil industry PR could be behind all of this run-out-of-lithium hokum, which inevitably comprises articles based on "[presently] economically viable" resources and does not consider the actual availability of lithium in Earth's crusts and waters, which is much higher if you include low-grade ores that are not presently viable. It's obvious who benefits from this widespread misconception.

The simple fact is that if the price of lithium were to jump by a factor of 10, it still wouldn't affect the price of a Tesla that much.

Now, when we talk about grid-storage batteries, we might want really huge amounts of storage, and then sodium-sulfur / zinc-bromide / etc becomes relevant. But currently, grid-storage batteries are LiFePO4 simply because they're really cheap. That seems like a pretty good problem to have.
> free money causing the gradual degradation of food, housing, standard of living, etc. is not without merit.

First, you have to establish that degradation has taken place. Considering that for most of civilizational history, the vast majority of people were wearing rags and eating grain porridge without spice or much salt and living in hovels, that doesn't seem obvious to me. Second, even if you do establish that, you have to specifically tie it to "fiat" currency and not some other factor. Those both seem like a tall order.
NASA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
#!/usr/bin/env bash and set -u are always good ideas.

There are cases where you don't want -e enabled, such as when you want to make sure your script makes the best attempt to continue operating even through unknown failures.

Using pipefail makes it more likely your script will fail unexpectedly and without a known cause. You have to check PIPELINE to see which command in a string of pipes failed and then report on it. This is often pointless, because usually just checking the output of the last pipe will tell you whether you got what you wanted.

When your script does fail unexpectedly, you'll want to re-run it with at least tracing enabled, so the third line should be something like

[ "${DEBUG:-0}" = "1" ] && set -x
This constant pandering to us-vs-them partisan narrative will only drive American policy makers to not weigh real geopolitical consequences in the long run but their own re-election prospects
Covid Stole Our Time and How We Can Get It Back
I am reading Rust for Rustaceans these days, and I highly recommend the book.

It contains a good amount of low level details, but is still pretty fast paced.
Honest question in good faith - Why should we hold true to some past ideals of technologists 20 or 30 years ago?

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that the notion of the web as a self protecting organism that naturally rejects misinformation and stops bad actors is completely wrong.

I don’t know that I’m 100% in favor of what is being proposed here (partly because I expect there are likely nefarious reasons why governments are pushing it so hard.)

But I also think you can’t ignore that misinformation from anonymous actors has pushed democracy to the brink of collapse, and “that wasn’t the original idea of the web” isn’t the best rebuttal.
I tried Tandem for a couple of months without success. It's basically a dating site. I find it much more efficient to learn by myself. My go-to resources for language learning are: LingQ[0], Youtube, and Wikipedia (in the target language, evidently).

You have to find what works for you, and what type of content you like, you don't want to be fighting the language, the content, and the platform.

Saludos.

[0] https://www.lingq.com/en/
I always loved Ram Dass’ occasional light-hearted remarks about this concept. Sometimes he would address his audience and say something like “I mean come on, there’s only three of us after all…”
I don't know what hens do what you say. The hens we have here, when we leave the eggs in their nest, the next day they've laid a few more. Once they have laid around ten eggs they'll incubate them until they hatch. That's how we end up with new hens. Some eggs we take and eat, some we let them hatch into chicks. I've never seen a hen eat an egg. What they do eat is the egg shells when the eggs have hatched. Appparently it helps them replenish the calcium needed to make new eggs. Is that what you have in mind, perhaps?

I don't think laying eggs puts strain on hens' system. Far as I can tell, that's what hens are made to do.

> Raising animals to kill them for food before the end of their natural life is something I refuse to partake in.

That's fine by me. Nobody's forcing you to partake in anything. I don't agree that raising animals for food is wrong or exploitative.

Edit: sorry for the Fisking. I wanted to address this too:

> But they’re still raised to be eaten.

Yes, absolutely! That's why we raise farm animals. We raise them for food. We breed them, we tend to them, we keep them safe from predators and disease, we feed them, we care for them and then we kill them and eat them. That's the deal.
not a whole line like that, but there are some situations where you'd want two of them spaced that way and it doesn't really make sense to put a belt or chest in between them. I'd assume the image was mostly just to illustrate that that layout could be disrupted with a ghost.
I'd be delighted if you'd correct whatever isn't!
It's still useless. How is it relevant that Norways %voters is higher than the US' if the US has 5x the number of people who can't vote because of age? (Numbers are made up) This says nothing about the health of a democracy and is completely to do with demographics.

To illustrate the point lets create 2 fictional countries each with 100M population. In their most recent elections they both had 30M vote. By your measure they have equivalent levels of democracy at 30%.

However if we say that in country 1 half of the country is under the age of 18 and is ineligible to vote and only calculate using eligible voters this becomes 60%.

If in country 2 1/10 of the population is under age 18 and ineligible to vote their number becomes 33%. So country 1 has nearly twice the democracy of country 2.
I think I'd enjoy this interview, as I don't really like people watching me code.

But to have a discussion about quirky html history would be a fun (I think less stressful) way to spend the time.
> I'm not sure why so many people are against it or think it's inhumane.

1) There are endless cases of it being implemented on innocent people:

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/technical-errors-can-ki... or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution

2) Ethical reasons believing its wrong to kill people

3) Its well documented the process of death penalty has regular mistakes causing slow and incredibly painful deaths.

E.g. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/botched-executions
> For unknown reasons Ukraine started to want to join EU and/or NATO.

The reason is simple and trivial: because EU and NATO are much better friends than Russia. This is why countries willingly join it.
Is it feasible to throttle swift transactions to/from a country? Wonder if that could be a middle ground between full throughput and complete disconnection..
The first website only puts ~500KBps of load, according to Task Manager. Is it even effective?
GCC Rust Monthly Report, February 2022
So, the Russian soldiers are all probably breathing this dust and their equipment will spread it to where ever they deploy in Ukraine? That doesn't sound good at all.
There's always Telegram. People share channels with friends and family.
I don't see "everyone talking about Russian security". Or that defense cooperation with Ukraine was "being frowned upon". At all.

On the contrary. What I'm seeing is that it is politically incorrect to even mention the idea that Putin might be not just crazy, or that someone else in his shoes might be tempted to do the same thing.

Make no mistake. I don't like what Russia is doing one bit. My investments are down by several hundred thousand dollars. And I consider myself lucky that this is the only impact that situation is having on me, so far. The idea of war in Europe scares me. I wish none of that craziness was happening.
I don't have anything specific for you, but I will tell you something I didn't understand when I was 18. the "requirements" on a job listing are not the real requirements. plenty of people will get those internships without fulfilling half of the "requirements".

when you see an interesting job, try to find the recruiter (or sometimes better, but harder to find, the actual hiring manager) and send them a brief message explaining why you're interested in the job and why you think you would do well. if nothing else, this will help you identify stuff to learn over the next few months.
You have never been to
western europe?

Berlin is famous for this.
Nuclear works well and economically in many countries around the world. You're just acting like everyone with a different opinion is an idiot.