skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kind of my point, this is a project management problem. Maybe they should be re-considering what needs to get done in the first place. Or how long it will take. The only projects I can think of needing "a lot of work" (ie. large dev team and many hours) would be AAA games and god damn operating systems.

How many part-time devs do you think I'm suggesting you need? Is hiring one person for 20-30 hours a week really so much more difficult?

Most web stuff can be done with a few devs, and by the time that becomes a problem you should be rolling in money anyway.

It's not like I'm saying it's wrong to hire full-time devs, most people are fine with that and if they want to let them at it. But a candidate doesn't need to be discounted just because they're only available part-time; they could be a huge boon to the team regardless.
Computers and Our Society: A Warning of 1973
Could sanctions get bad enough for Russia to retaliate?
Years in the making, Putin's bluff is finally called. He vastly underestimated the sanctions and overestimated the resilience of his "Fortress economy".

In particular, he did not expect the "toothless" EU to apply the most extreme of financial sanctions. And whilst NATO does not step in in any military way, they actually do, as many countries are shipping weapons to Ukraine.

Normally, you could consider that none of this is enough to withstand the military force of Russia, but Russia is about to fall apart...fast.

The currency will tank, there's already footage of a bank run. Several hundreds of billions of $ are frozen. Big scale business transactions blocked. Air travel blocked. The import of critical (technical) components blocked.

The ordinary Russian person, whom you'll usually never hear, was already very distrustful of government. Tomorrow they'll wake up in a dysfunctional "pariah" country to the likes of North Korea. Not only will the economy sink, they will also be culturally isolated. People laugh when Russia is banned from the meme-like "Eurovision song festival", but this does matter. They're also banned from sports, tournament hosting is cancelled, it all adds up into your nationality turning into a source of shame.

And for what? All of this suffering could have been sold and justified to the public by an actual threat, like Germany invading Russia. But no such thing is even remotely the case. The threat only exists in the warped mind of a KGB officer longing back to days...that were terrible to ordinary people.

Imagine being a Russian soldier. Asked to give your life to invade a country of people that look like you, talk like you, and never did anything to you or your country. For a shit pay and for no glory, rather for shame. Morale must be great.

Putin also just betrayed his very own insiders. Imagine being one of those oligarchs right now. A few days ago, all was just fine. Filthy rich and no limits in what you could do. Now they're put in a golden prison. The future is very insecure. Your assets at risk, your movement restricted, rather than a success story you're now a persona non grata, and your very own people may be sharpening guillotines.

Whatever the outcome, Putin accelerated it.

He's beyond saving his own face now, so somebody will have to step in. His inner circle or the Russian people themselves.

As for the nuke threat, it shows desperation. It's the only leverage left. You already lost when you use this as a threat. You never threaten with nukes, that's now how nukes work. It shows you shouldn't have them in the first place.

Anyway, they won't be used. It's bluff. The Russian administration are masters of deceit, denial and manipulation, it's all in the game. Every word is carefully chosen "put in a ready state" so that it can both be interpreted as a threat and fully denied afterwards.

That's how Russia plays its games and now it's about to win some very stupid prizes. Long overdue I'd say.
No, desktop Linux will be replaced by WSL running on top of Windows.
Can someone on Hacker News please just win a lottery and start a decent printer company? Call it "Ethical Printing Corporation" (EPiC) and make something that doesn't take a million drivers, have no replacement parts, break after two years, and require those darn proprietary cartridges in a million variations.
They learned from the whole "trusted computing" experiments in the late 90s and early 2000s that restrictions need to be introduced slowly. It's not hard to see where they're going though.

Related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859106
For Workers Who Are Never on Site, the ‘Off-Site’ Still Beckons
I mean, you could say that of quite a lot of two-party states. I'm not claiming that it's a particularly shining example of democracy, or anything, but it's clearly a democracy.
> Is POWER10 usable at all without that blob?

No.

You might be able to use the on-die cache as RAM (most bootloaders do this), but that's less than 128MB. For the amount that these things cost nobody is going to want to use them with that little memory.
Absolutely not. But his appears to be a last ditch effort by a man with waning influence. He has not made Russia better or stronger; he has only made a few people close to him ultra rich at the cost of the general population.

Even if he were to win and gain control of Ukraine, he will lose. He likely will have lost support at home, and he absolutely will have lost support in much of the rest of the world.
> Russia then decouples from the West.

Who are they going to sell their oil and gas to, then?
https://www.histo.cat/sabies/Bob-Bemer has tons of interesting information about Bob Bemer, the author of this article, who died in 2004.

(I found it while searching around for the year on this article. He seems to have updated it until 2003.)

A few interesting mentions of Bemer in the HN archives:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
IMO tonewheel organ simulation is a solved problem. Rhodes emulations often fall short.
Holy crap! I had no idea. That's crazy that someone just happened to filming something else and turned the camera around.
It's not. These plans have been in motion since way before that, as your link probably confirms. Merkel was going to delay the closing, but when Fukushima came along she couldn't do that anymore.
This might be relevant: https://twitter.com/RihoTerras/status/1497537193346220038
I do not understand the "nazi" qualifier. Isn't Zelenskyy a Jew? And also pro bilingual country? I guess Zelenskyy's election was a blow to Russian propaganda, but they didn't even try to change their narrative? Just added drug addict?

I wouldv'e said he is a drug addicted puppet with no political experience and money in UK's fiscal heaven. But nazi? That doesn't seems right.

Hopefully it doesn't end like Makhnov did. "History doesn't repeat itself, but sometime it rhyme" (Mark Twain i guess?)
> The reason this complaint never changes anything, despite being very popular, is that these interviews serve two purposes that it doesn’t address: 1) they’re an intelligence test; 2) they’re a perseverance/conscientiousness test.

No argument on perseverance, but I don't think it measures conscientiousness. At least, not how I understand the term, which has connotations of intrinsic motivation rather than extrinsic.

Now, if measuring how a person responds to extrinsic motivation is your goal, then this type of interview does just fine. It measures a person's ability to delay gratification for a later reward (because you can have perseverance without that, which you can also call being stubborn or determination, eg. "I'm going to figure this out even if it kills me" ).
> from what i read anti-war protesters in russia get arrested.

Not only arrested. Beaten up and treated with electro shocks. Putin's Russia is not about humanity.
Don't underestimate the reliance a dictator has on his cronies.

There's a really good video about this by CGP Grey that talks about dictatorships: https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

And then think about some of the latest updates:

- nuclear threat

- increasing embassy protests

- seemingly total reliance on a new actor with a yet unknown trust wordiness ( i don't think anyone wants to be associated with Russia currently)

- travel restrictions for the rich + family ( superyacht, flights, ... )

- real estate seizure

- money seizure

- reduced currency value

- halved bank reserves ( because of seizure)

- potential family issues ( a lot of Russians have Ukraine ties/origin)

- family protests on the streets, civilian unrest ( anti-war), as I think most Russians don't want to be related as an aggressor

- neglect of his cronies worries

- booting off Swift/Switzerland and large expansion of targetted individuals

Something really seems off internally: eg. https://youtu.be/ucEs0nBuowE
He had an approval rate of 28% and a disapproval rate of 57% in October.

The west is singing his praises right now, but this isnt necessarily reflective of what Ukrainians think.
Curious whether any modern programming languages use these sequences for that meaning, beside ALGOL which they were intended for. Only one I know of is TLA+ (which also uses standalone \ for set complement).
What does this mean, practically? Market paralysis -- 0 volume, but the "buy price" maintained?
It's a start. Being able to run their power grid without having to send large amounts of money to Gazprom would be good too.
I guess, except that the market for printers is beginning to show signs of swinging away from this, and not just at the pro level -- witness Epson's EcoTank range.

Personally I think this long bet is questionable, not least because computing power that can be sold by the second effectively already is (serverless functions, or cloud hosting, which is already sold in fractions of hours), but also because many of our computation requirements will be able to be satisfied by the dirt cheap microcontrollers of 2027, let alone the phones.

The specific software in his bet has a large enough setup and configuration burden that it seems unlikely to me there's much value in selling it in units of time shorter than a month.

Office applications in particular have an inevitable outright purchase or long term subscription model. You need them for all the things you do; this cost is baked into very ordinary overheads.

There are some narrow functions _in_ applications that you might want to pay for per use or per short burst of time. I can see the relevant app developers lowering the cost of their applications so they can sell CPU time for specific AI-driven or database-driven functions (advanced autotracers in Illustrator, advanced video processing calculations). But not the applications themselves.
Claim is limited to "essential enterprise software". Submission title would be more accurate if "enterprise" was added to it.
A cert provides formal evidence, but a license grants permission you wouldn’t otherwise have.
If the hardware has the capability of doing all my calculations locally, then why would I want to do it all remotely and just receive a rendered interface? So that I can have the "added convenience" of having my software unavailable during the occasional network outage? And the pleasure of network latency, even when there isn't an outage?
Need to also know the average lifespan of GPU in mining. If it is 1year, that would effectively increase capacity by 50%.
"why not one separator and the byte that follows"

That's an extra byte ... a whole extra byte! 20 odd years later my ZX80 had 1KB of RAM and a portion of even that was unavailable for the end user. My C-64 had a whopping err 50ish? KB usable RAM. My 80286 1MB. etc. This laptop has 32GB.
I think it's the inner circle that will be his doom. He is costing them all a lot of money and options. What's the point of being an oligarch if you can't jetset around the world, owning high value properties and demonstrating your wealth? He has essentially made what he gave them worth much less.

These wealthy people must have powerful connections that they can work with. It should be possible for them to organize some changes of office...
>"Guess what, we think that one was illegitimate too"

And this is why the offender is currently suffering under the heavy weight of sanctions having exterminated boatloads of people.

Oops. Sorry. Move along. Next.
There's a tradition going back at least to ww2 of waiting to see if the attacked country stands up and fights. If they demonstrate that, then we go all in.
Hello. Yes, I do have a contact page here: [0]

It is kinda hidden, sorry about that. It’s only linked on the ‘about’ page of the blog.

Email is preferable. Alternate email:

heror0484 [at] protonmail [dot] com

References

[0] https://trevcan.duckdns.org/blog/contact.html
It could just as easily be the other side of the coin. "Either divest or you'll be last in line". It's also possible, hard as it is to imagine, that the senior executives of BP are human beings who consider their investment to be ethically untenable.
Indeed! Ukranians mention Bayraktar drones in several of their videos. Many of the convoy hits were done with them, I read earlier.
I've seen plenty of folks replacing furniture within 20 years. Not necessarily all furniture, but most. 20ish years gets you from student housing (first major buying of furniture) to your kids being teenagers.
For plenty of furniture, that is sufficient.
When I got burned by the legacy G Suite announce, I had similar bad experience with Microsoft 365 for Families. They - for some reason - only support custom domains that were registered/moved to GoDaddy (there is unsupported 3rd party guides on how to bypass checks but anyone with the requirement of stable email reachability will obviously not rely on that). Too bad you find that out after you setup your account, billing, mailbox etc.
Surely .NET usage on AWS lambda is nowhere close to Node.js, and the Node.js 16 LTS has been out for almost a year and there's still no support for it.
I know, right?

Company policy. Devops team uses X so that's what we have to use. When you keep getting truckloads of cash from investors no one seems to really care much about costs.
I think you meant to reply in thread to me since I was the only commenter that said “inevitable” before your post. That being said, I said this was the inevitable state of full decentralization, not that full decentralization was an inevitability. I cannot speak to how the market will ultimately decide on this topic, but I can build towards it as I believe it to be an ideal state in that the computing power of the world is currently sub-optimally used and reaching an equilibrium would be beneficial overall.
Leetcode is the new fizzbuzz, I meant.
Pretty sure Merlin is built in California and Raptors may be built in Texas.

SpaceX wanted to buy Russian rockets/engines years ago and Russia told them to to screw off (paraphrased). Glad they did, this lead to SpaceX developing their own and bringing back US independence in the space market.
Thanks for that.

It seems like it all comes down to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_of_influence#Contempora...

Notably:

"Our state has given up its share of the Soviet nuclear arsenal - the third largest in the world - and in return has received assurances, including from Russia, that our borders and our security will be respected. All this did not happen. So it is strange to hear the Russian side asking for any guarantees when so many promises have already been broken by the Russian side itself," Zelensky said when asked about Ukraine's possible refusal to join NATO in exchange for a guaranteed withdrawal of Russian troops from the border.
It seems that this is a result of populist pressure, hence the qualifier 'society' and that part seems new. I think the politicians were hesitant to do this for good reasons, I assume that they didn't want to back Russia into a corner. Back Cuba or 1920s Germany into a corner fine... but Russia that is a whole different beast. There is a very Twitter mob feel about it.
https://archive.md/yMeJC
Come here to recommend this excellent networking book and it's much better than the Tanembaum's one. If you are in networking field you owe yourself to read this book and the latest 8th edition is the best version yet because the authors have removed the chapter on multimedia networking and focusing more on SDN. Heck, any aspiring textbook writer should read this book as a golden reference on how to write a proper textbook.
Ukraine was a threat to their natural gas sales not their existence. Russia already went after most of their off shore oil reserves, and made several companies pull out of internal development.
Funny Theoretical Computer Science Papers
Turkey IS one of the core, long-time NATO nations actually. Check the history, numbers, involvement and contribution.
I'm curious why that is. I've spent a bit of time benchmarking startup for plain old executables, and .NET does OK there (even without AOT compilation). Not sure what would make it slower than other languages on Lambda. https://twitter.com/reillywood/status/1459332721205936128
I've used this framework. The exceptions being deferred until runtime were really frustrating.

If you really want to use DI in golang, for some reason, wire[1] at least still gives you type safety and compile-time failures.

1. https://github.com/google/wire
The linked article is very informative; it includes things I'd not read elsewhere.

For instance, it talks about Putin's willingness to use "battlefield" nukes rather than "strategic" city-destroying nukes – betting that the West would immediately concede any war where a smaller nuke were deployed in the interest of avoiding escalation.
I do know that some ALGOL 68 implementations used \/ and /\. Not sure if there are any modern systems that do. Of course nowadays we can use the Unicode ∨ and ∧ symbols if we want to (though in the font I'm typing this in, the former can too easily be confused with v).
Can you explain the basis of your first sentence?

What makes the brand of discrimination that you don't like not a metric for "most qualified"?
~3,000 people died on 9/11 and it was planned in Afghanistan. If that's not justification then what is?
What can we, as developers, do to take back computing and move it to being more free and less commercial?
>But Zelenskyy was serious in cleaning up the Ukraine, he is not fleeing and he is uniting the nation.

So much BS... He literally done 180 on his election promises, done a lot of unconstitutional moves, and his public support was continuously dropping to the point of losing to Poroshenko on hypothetical elections.
Some people here are saying this is ineffective marketing, but while I have no earthly need for a Rhodes MK8, I almost drooled on my phone, and I would direct disposable income towards one if I had enough. Looks like a beautiful instrument, very covetable.
The Headless Frogman
I had a Bank of America token-card (the one with the LCD display and button) until they discontinued it. Those things are fine. It was no larger or heavier than their ATM card, and in fact some banks combined the two into a single card. There was no need for any FIDO-like standardization or certification authorities there because the same entity (the bank) had provided both ends of the authentication conversation (the token card and the bank's website).

If a bank feels the need to control the hardware I use, they must provide that hardware. Their needs absolutely do not entitle them to impose codesigning/bootloader-locking requirements on my other devices, such as my phone or my laptop.

> aren’t doing attestation checks, and it’s discouraged

That will change. If it weren't, they wouldn't have bothered putting it into the spec. Or they could have used symmetric cryptography for attestation, like the bank-issued token cards and the chip in your chip-and-PIN card do.
For me, what really revitalized my interest in cooking at home was discovering Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street:

https://www.177milkstreet.com

They have a bunch of free videos on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/c/ChristopherKimball%E2%80%99sMilkStreet

Kenji used to be part of Milk Street and occasionally is still a guest on their videos or podcasts.

I’ve had many cookbooks at home over the years but their recipes are far more practical for the home cook and are tailored to ingredients you can usually get at an American supermarket. Plus they have a lot of recipes that from start to finish are an hour or less including prep time.
Is it because of the deployment overhead or something else?

I've inherited a pretty big C# project at work and we've just started porting it from Framework to Core. Definitely feels like there are some opportunities for serverless in there.
I wonder what was the impact of Credit Suisse leaks on this.
A Different Kind of War
It would put Putin squarely in Kim Jong-Un territory, which seems like an odd choice on his part. Nobody doubts that he has functional nukes.
I'd be very interested in hearing about a more recent synthesis on the topic, if you know of one! A lot of the other suggestions in this thread seem to be more about science popularization than directly about philosophy of science.
I don't think there's a guarantee the price will be maintained.
It doesn't matter whether the West is going to attack or not. No country wants an adversary at on their boarder, let alone at the single weakest point of entry to the country
From the perspective of an individual, I have no qualms with it, but that doesn’t matter.

I haven’t had to report to a traditional manager for some years, but I can imagine the guffawing of bosses I’ve worked for in the past if I was pitching Nim for something and explaining the lay of the land. Especially since those big buy/sell decisions are often made by non-technical people.

How am I supposed to convince someone to take a ride on Nim when they could point me at Go, or Clojure, or Elixir, etc? I’m just pointing out there’s a lot of choices with very strong corporate third-party adopters.

I’m not an advocate for the way things are, but it’s just a fact of the world that ecosystems with strong corporate backing have a higher likelihood of survival and success.

I hope Nim succeeds, as I assume you do also. I hope you personally succeed. Crypto though, I kinda just hope it all goes away soon, and people look to change society in more pragmatic ways. I know a young fella in a PhD program, goes to my church, he’s getting a tooth pulled because he can’t afford dental coverage. It’s not the fiat currency that’s the problem. Crypto won’t fix these kinds of problems. Anyhow.

If the Status team ever comes around Indiana I’ll take you all out to dinner!
> But they're offering this course, and that makes me think that no, the worst student from these schools in the US, at least cannot nail any algorithm interview with minimal prep!

I think it's impossible to nail these interviews without minimal prep. It's very specific, and every candidates are well-prepared, many of them have done 500+ leetcode questions before interviewing.

Regarding the US universities, I'm not sure but I wonder if some students can somehow compensate a lack of academic mathematics excellence with extracurricular activities, or being rich or from a minority. Maybe companies want to filter those out?

As for creativity, leetcode interview questions is all about preparation. There's little creativity.
That's exactly what a Factory is for; you defer construction and pass around an object that knows how to create an instance. Then you're hunting at the root of your call tree to swap out a Factory instead of throughout your codebase to change a constructor call.

This is also what DI amounts to in practice. Frameworks abstract over it in the name of DRY, but at the same time introduce all the downsides of frameworks.
"Nuclear power in Europe benefits mainly from massive tax breaks, subsidies and other financial assistance for construction, maintenance and disposal (in Germany a total of about 187 billion euros over the past forty years)"
There's definetly talk of seizures but as you said I don't know what it means in real world. Maybe they use the word but it's long term sanctions on some assets instead.