skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to give an idea of what horrific deductible would be. Probably less than $5k per year, and out of pocket maximum less than $10k even for a family. Healthcare expenses are not material to employees of tech companies…as long as they remain employees.
They have 2 million men under arms and the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
They did no such thing: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/7899/why-dont-s...

The leaders just signed a piece of paper which was never ratified by legislators and doesn't even guarantee what you claim:

> The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.

It was just a promise to have a meeting at the UNSC if something happens.
Agreed, anything is on the table. And that is what worries me, if you start assuming rational actors none of this makes sense but if you start assuming non-rational paranoid mafiosi with nukes it starts to all look a lot more plausible. Putin needs to succeed in subduing Ukraine or he will be thrown under a very large bus and then you have the next worry lined up: who will replace him, which could very well be worse.

People seem to make the mistake of thinking about this in some kind of game theoretic way where Russia would have something to gain or lose but that's the wrong perspective, Putin couldn't care less about Russia or the Russians, what he cares about is to cling to power until he's dying, if he can't do that then his lot could well be worse.
They are trillion+ companies spending billions. It isn't a big bet. It's a small bet.
Again why does china even bother to play ball with Apple? They could just have Xiaomi phones, not worry about apple holding up their own end of their bargain, and ensure they have total control entirely. The answer is because the Chinese consumer today might want to purchase an apple iphone over a xiaomi phone, and it would be unpopular for the regime to crack down on a freedom seen as established in the Chinese nation today.
Like my other reply to your comment, this is <<not>> about absolutes. Democracies are generally more peaceful and produce lower casualties than autocracies. There's a reason people like them more when they can vote with their feet.

> I think murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in seconds qualifies as evil. Don't you?

I do, but do you know why they did it? Honest question, why did the UK nuke Japan?
Ukrainian NGOs need tech support to build resilience
In case anyone wants to sniff around for some, there's some left in personal sites, often with an explicitly nostalgic vibe:
https://yesterweb.org/webring/members.html

https://www.kickscondor.com <- anything in the kicksverse

http://tetrageddon.com/ <-- nathalie lawhead has some wild net art projects
for more context - soybean is used to stuff nitrogen back into the soil, for the real cash crop (corn, etc).

So what you'll see is fields rotate between corn & soybean, or corn, corn, & soybean.

The US produces about 4 billion bushels of both corn and soybeans per year.
Almost certainly.

Modern “western” people spend a tremendous amount of time sitting - either in an office or a car - and are almost totally sedentary.

In fact, so sedentary that the mere act of walking is considered “exercise”.

Frankly, I’m surprised the mental and physical outcomes aren’t even worse.
Cool. Now you should try hard mode :)
According to the study we're talking about, America became a real democracy in the early 1900s once it let women vote. Before that, only a minority was allowed to vote so was it actually a representative democracy?
I see, it’s an important distinction. I would agree, Ukrainian military would face some deterrence.
That's a good question; I have no idea. Presumably it would cause some dissonance for the reasons you stated.
I think this list is pretty old and the post rate limiting is a pretty recent feature from late last year IIRC.
Maybe tiktok or Instagram would be a better place for this comment.
Intelligence alone doesn't cut it
You are right that the extraction method matters a lot for any oil.

Any method that uses high temperatures may cause various chemical reactions that degrade some of the oil components.

Some of the methods that use solvents for extraction may leave very small quantities of the solvents in the oils (e.g. hexane, i.e. a light fraction of gasoline), which are undesirable.

Nevertheless, cold-pressing is not necessarily the best method, even if it is preferable to most other old methods.

While the extraction using carbon dioxide at high pressure (supercritical CO2) is also classified as a solvent extraction method, it does not leave anything in the oil and it is able to extract any oil more completely and with less degradation than any other method.

However this modern method is encountered only in relatively recent oil production facilities, and unlike cold pressing it is not known by most people so it is not used in marketing.

Thus, except for cold pressing, the buyer cannot know whether the oil has been produced by a worse method like hexane extraction or by a better method, like CO2 extraction.
Why IT Projects Fail; How Can We Do Better? – Part 1
I'd be curious to see how many of those are actually safe code though, eh? I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of Rust. Can we estimate how much UB i've introduced?
The NYT are running interviews w/ Russian citizens; w/ the premise that a lot of them are perplexed as to why Putin ordered all of this, especially bc there are a lot of friends/relatives cross border.
US intelligence has been warning of this invasion for weeks though. There was plenty of time to make your way out. Now it is a bit too late.
The Didget system was designed to allow both a hierarchical folder tree as well as tags attached to individual files and folders. The tags do not replace the hierarchy unless you want them to.
If you have never ever seen a system that actually works, then maybe you should put Didgets to the test. I created 20 million files in it and attached an average of 100 tags to each one. Each tag had a value randomly picked among 1000 choices. Queries to find all files with a certain tag (e.g. Tag_134 = Value_875) each completed in less than a second.
Tankies. Tankies everywhere. Leave off Tankies. Imperialism is Imperialism, and it has nothing to do with NATO.
> And most importantly, economics assumes that the market is perfect, which it most certainly is not in practice.

do physicists assume frictionless surfaces and perfectly elastic collisions? yes when they're explaining the basics of Newton's Laws, but they also develop theories and models for friction, etc.

Same with economists, they study economies and do their best to come up with complete models. Are they perfect? no. Do they know more about economies than anybody else? yes.
You hated it back then
Only half of the Earth would be destroyed in that manner due to Earth Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere having opposite seasons.

Go back to the drawing board.
"Dad can I please play with my toys?"

"Not until you learn python you little shit"
So I’ve heard this rocket argument for a long time, never been presented with verifiable sources but I’ve also though that it seems plausible that the US would and indeed have done this. So if we take this as fact, which I’m not saying I do, but if – wouldn’t invading and annexing Ukraine basically inch Russia even closer to these missiles? I see Poland and Romania right there, and they are in fact NATO members are they not?

Also, what strategic value does Ukraine have, that for instance the Baltic countries (also NATO members) do not? I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I can’t shake the feeling that the “Russia doesn’t like NATO and Ukraine becoming a member is a bridge too far” argument feels more like a straw man than anything else.

I’m probably just too dumb to get it, so if someone more enlightened would like to clarify why invading Ukraine helps the Russian anti NATO effort I’d be much obliged!
Different for hardware vs. software
Liberalism and democracy are two conflicting tendencies. This is acknowledged in the literature. The most important liberty under liberalism is the liberty to pursue property, and (or as Aristotle claimed) democracy threatens that since democracy leans more towards egalitarianism.

The most important rights are the negative liberties of the rich. Which of course are universal on paper.

The democracy part is a concession to popular pressure and also to serve as a unifying slogan, since democracy is valued even higher than liberalism in polite discourse.

But it’s really just a thin veneer. All it takes is one vote for the “wrong candidate” or for someone to read the first three paragraphs on The Republic on Wikipedia for that high-minded ideal to go out the window. Then
the specter of populism looms.
Thanks.

In fairness to nojs, I tried to search for it to back up my claim, and couldn't find it again.
Generally anything that gets in the way of pure competition shifts the incentives that players have to make good products or services. When this happens, the consumer is usually the one that gets the bad end of the stick with faulty goods or services, while the producer still gets to keep the proceeds.
It's an internal Russian affair that just happened to spill over into the surrounding countries and that could engulf the world if not dealt with properly. Russia is practically bankrupt, infrastructure is failing they have another 5 to 10 years left and then the bill is due. This may buy them some time, or it may cost them everything.
I think what the parent is getting at is that, because the ATtiny85 has so few pins, programming it usually requires it to be removed from the target circuit.
Ask HN: As a long-time unofficial developer, how do I level set for SWE jobs?
While my job title is “Actuary”, software development and management have been my bread and butter for a number of years now. I had a hand in creating most of the systems and tools that my team uses today, but lately there have been some obstacles to building cool new things or making quality of life improvements in our existing tools. I also see some career limitations if I keep going down this hybrid path.

I’m considering a career change to focus on being a developer or an engineering manager. I think I can find positives to focus on and be happy in either role. I’m not sure which level of jobs I should be applying for though. Telling people that I have 5+ years of professional development experience feels iffy with a resume that isn’t very clean cut. I also assume that I might have some knowledge gaps, but I don’t think I’m a junior either.

In 2022, how would you level set for someone with experience but without the title to back it up? Would hobby projects or something like TripleByte help? It’s a much easier change for me to make if I don’t have to start at square one. Most of the advice out there seems tailored to new grads, so I really appreciate any thoughts you can share.
In addition to what other people have said, there's a lot of shared code between the various open source Linux drivers making things easier for everybody. Not just at the driver but I think stuff like Mesa[1] would be part of the driver on Windows?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics)
Among other things, those experimental first bombs were a totally different class of weapons from today's nuclear arsenal. There were conventional bombings in WWII that killed more people than the nuclear bombings.
We have a female stray dog on our street that had three pups[1] in one of its litters. One of the pups died one morning and we saw the mom and two siblings sitting near the dead body. While the body was disposed of that day, the family continued to visit and sit around the spot for the next couple of days.

This activity stopped after a while (don't know when). If this is not mourning, what is?

[1] The second one died when some idiot drove his vehicle over it. The third one disappeared a few months later.
That would mean a softening on Russia taking the Ukraine. It's not Russia driving the increase in prices
I do remember an anecdote from the time that when they were world-building, the sunsets looked so good, they made them last like an hour or two just for that extended twilight feeling. I remember it especially in that southern goblin port city.

WoW was the first (relatively) open world game that I played, and the first computer-based game that I got into heavily. I had been a console fan for years, but this running on my first Mac or two (‘04-‘06) made me want to upgrade RAM, tweak rendering settings, and all of that sort of stuff in order to get the fullest experience. It was just so immersive and fun and social. I’d also just play to wander the countryside, in a way I haven’t since other than Zelda BotW. Just a masterful achievement.
Look 200x more of something is 200x more, and 200x more for the same amount is a huge win for a service's users.

In the DB space though pricing per row or iop or this or that is tough. We're heavy users of BigQuery and the pricing per bytes consumed is tough, too, as you can't always rely on the estimator. But then if you go the fully pre-paid route like with something like Redshift you have high upfront fixed costs for an always on DB (that changed a bit with Redshift serverless -- currently in preview -- https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/redshift-serverless/) but I mean it's the same with BQ in that sense: don't run a query don't get charged except for stored data.

The point I am trying to make is that pricing of a DB is hard. If I had to choose I think I rather like the straight forward per second billing of serverless.
I've been rocking #b0b0b0 for a while. I like the gray.
It's also possible to team up with friends who do have a car, or use social media to find a stranger who is making the same trip (and pay them).
Their response was invading a country for 20 years, you can hardly count it as defensive. Invading afghanistan was always about more than 9/11, it was far more than that.
> Big meetings are often like everyone takes a turn to talk because they’re supposed to, and a few people argue poorly over some point derailing any plan.

Yes! The meetings where a small number of people are just having a debate with spectators are particularly awful for everybody concerned.

> You can definitely have useful big meetings but it gets harder with increasing size.

One of the most frustrating meeting dysfunctions I've seen is where large numbers of people are mentally checked out of discussions they're actually needed for - they keep needing stuff to be repeated, which results in others mentally checking out.

Eventually it's like a punishment from Hades in which your meeting can never achieve anything but will never end until it does.

In the past I've actually run a (somewhat) larger meeting by applying pretty tight time constraints. Actually saying "we're going to get this process fully done in X minutes" focuses minds and makes it become true.

> Rules are one defense, but having a room of people actually good at communicating is much better.

Back when we were in a physical office I also experimented with banning use of laptops in larger meetings - I think it did actually improve the quality (and speed) of communication in the meeting.

But, generally, building that habit of good communication in a team feels really hard. And the shift towards massively more remote working over the last few years has changed the landscape a bit - it seems much easier to stay silent or check out of a video conference.

Any suggestions from HN for good principles / reading materials on this?
Do the border controls there have a place for all the refugees to stay, or are you just expected to find a place yourself?
> if all goes well, the shift to C11 will happen in the next kernel release
Any equivalent for individual devs?
Have you ever seen a designer define all the different states with all the different input methods for a select element?
It has to do with security. OTA are an atacker's wet dream. And the potential to do harm is big. It's not that cars run obscure OSs. With the ARMification of devices you have a global platform opened to global threats.
I have two techniques for getting code reviews to feel less like drudge work. First, I have another junior do the first pass of the code review. Sure, it's not always good, but it catches basic errors, and seeing the interaction between the two makes the process more interesting for me.

Second, just approve things quickly for a bit. If things start breaking, you'll be much more motivated to pay attention next time!
Shadow muting isn't directly related to how fast you're posting, but how many of your comments are downvoted within a certain period of time. If your comments are well-received you can make much more of them in a given span than if most or all of them are downvoted.
Certainly, never start with the solution and work back to find the problem.

I'm going to play contrarian here and say I slightly disagree. OK, I mean, yes, as a general rule you don't want to start with a solution and work backwards. That I agree with. I just don't consider it an absolute. And I think that as an exercise done occasionally it can be worthwhile to look at some "solution" (that is, some bit of potentially usable technology) and work backwards and ask "What could I do with this?" I find that that can lead to some interesting ideas in its own right.

The danger, of course, is the possibility of getting overly enamored with the technology for its own sake, and wind up building something nobody needs or wants. But things like Steve Blank's "Customer Development" process can be used to help avoid situations like that, or at least before you invest very much in such an un-needed "solution".
This explanation seems rather plausible to me, but is getting downvotes. What am I not seeing?
Initially read this as Big Tech is bringing back private offices instead of open plan offices.
Yes. And we probably will.

He wants a warm water port.
I am not telling you to shut up, and I am telling you to take a deep breath, and think this over after reading up on topic a bit.

"We will betray our allies, and they will leave us alone" is a form of defeatism, and entertaining others into this way of thinking is not what a citizen of NATO country should do, let alone a public figure.
Entering the fab market as a new player seems very unlikely. To have any hope of competitiveness it would be incredibly expensive (much more than all their cash on hand, which is 1/8 of Intel's), and even then it wouldn't have much chance of success any time soon. AMD spun off GlobalFoundries for good reason.
As JetBrains we condemn the attacks taking place
This is all hypothetical, since we don't have access to the actual report referenced by the GP. However, it would be up to the CBC to support any such claim, not up to the rest of us to validate it.

You could verify that the extant Chinese population does not have trouble with estrogen and soybeans. However, thousands of years is long enough for evolution to work on soybean eating populations, so I'm not convinced that would be a meaningful claim in the first place. Best case scenario, you'd find some metric for measuring historical estrogen levels in Chinese men and look as far back as possible.
Wow, this is great!

May I ask how ya built this?
It really depends on the market...we have to weigh the risks or worst case scenarios. While economics can be pretty cut and dry, the real world is very messy.
We wrote a blog post comparing RDS vs PlanetScale from a pricing perspective back in January...kudos to PlanetScale on responding to feedback on that so quickly. HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29910812

We'll get the blog post updated but conceptually it seems like the "tipping point" of using PlanetScale vs RDS just got a lot easier at least from a read perspective - analysis is here: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/2022-01-12-rds-vs-planetscale-pr...
yeah fair enough should've read the rest of the article before my snide comment
>Glycerine, used as a cosmetic can also be used for bombmaking. I only found this out when I purchased a litre and then some internet forum started going on about how it can be used for bomb making.

It's the chief component in dynamite.

>Kind of explains why I also wasnt allowed an export licence for an app but also highlights who was behind it!

When do you need an export license for an app?
Again, please point out the word nuclear in that transcript.

It was an empty threat. And, sadly, the West fell for it and now the Ukrainians are paying the price.
I don't think that tracks with my experience, not as a manager.

Consider this: I hate hiring. Most managers I know do. Interviews are contrived; you are making decisions that will impact both your company and their lives; if you get it wrong, you're going to have your team impacted and letting someone go for performance or behavioral reasons are even worse.

For every person I've worked with at any given place, I can tell you within 15 seconds that, if they re-applied a few years after they left, if I would hire them back. I can tell you yes or no and the interview would only be for purposes of leveling. (How have they grown, for example?)

I can tell you based on how I felt when I found out they were leaving. If they were the wrong fit for a team or role, then you get them into a role that fits them!

Now, I have people that I would conditionally hire. There is one former coworker that comes to mind: he's brilliant in some cultures but will quickly grow frustrated in others. However, given the right culture, I would enthusiastically hire him. (And he is self-aware enough to know that he needs the right culture - if he's being called for a reference check, he's probably aligned with that culture.)
I've been rate limited since around 2018 to 5 posts per 3 hours. This was manually set by a mod.
> But why, when YouTube has chosen to provide the content ad-free?

Why pay for games when you can pirate them? Why pay for the New York Times when you can read all their articles on archive.is?
Are you saying you would prefer if YouTube locked everything down with DRM?

And I don't really buy the "I'll just support their Patreon" argument that a lot of people are using in this thread. Ignoring the obvious issue that you're depending on people to go out of their way to give the creator money, unless there's some kind of micropayment solution most creators just go from making some amount of money to making no money. A bigger cut of $0 is still $0.
That’s an eukaryotic alga, not a bacterium.
Context: JetBrains' founders are Russian. They have offices in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Free speech isn't really a thing in Russia. To openly condemn the actions of the Russian government could have serious repercussions for them, but they did it anyway.

Спаси́бо, JetBrains.

- Dylan Beattie
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Samsung Screwed Up Encryption on 100M Phones
No, BCH was founded by an imposter which affected its adoption and BTC mostly solved the problem with the Lightning Network.
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