skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a terribly scary drama called Threads depicting the outcome of a nuclear attack on the UK. I did not stand to see the full length of it. I don't think it is worthwhile to speculate about the survivability of the blast, there is no future to look forward to in case it happens.
I would bet the average American that says they 'cook' are actually just taking frozen meals like pizzas, chicken tenders, biscuits in a can, etc. and heating them in the oven. Households don't typically have even have flour, fresh milk, butter or other staples on hand here.
Chevy Bolt is a similar size. Or ID.3 (non-US). Or a used eGolf.
I'm not any kind of researcher or academic, but still like being able to read papers.
Taiwan, I don’t really know about now, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an overnight adoption of democracy in the 1940s. It took time, a small few generations, to get to that point.

It might be similar in Russia, though I’d imagine the heavily entrenched establishment, with massive reliance on various police forces, lends itself less to rapid democratisation-though you never know.
> GitHub makes FOSS no longer stone age.

Until GH or Microsoft does dislikes the project and kills it, with all the PRs, bug reports, etc.

Email makes things safer.
Nuclear being absurdly expensive feels a lot like rocket launches being expensive. We went from the Saturn V with a ballpark cost of 8,800 $/kg adjusted for inflation to the shuttle costing anywhere from 54,500 to 18,000 $/kg and if the SLS ever launches before it's inevitably canceled for being obsolete you could maybe get 14,300 $/kg and Delta, Atlas, Ariane, etc aren't dramatically cheaper either. It wasn't until SpaceX managed to get reusability working in a feasible way that cost to orbit dramatically fell and now you can use Falcon Heavy to get large quantities of mass to orbit for 1,410 $/kg. That lower price enables a breakthrough on the costs of satellites as well with SpaceX launching mass produced StarLink satellites that don't need the exponentially more expensive reliability, longevity, and much higher energy orbits of previous satellite communications constellations.

If nuclear energy has a similar breakthrough that could be revolutionary. LFTR could make a similar change in the economics of nuclear power so long as they can make the online chemical reprocessing work reliably. If you have a reactor running at higher temperatures and low pressure you no longer need such a massively heavy, thick, obscenely expensive reactor vessel and an even more massive and expensive containment building built to withstand a continuous overpressure on par with what would be experienced close to a nuclear bomb exploding. Fun fact, the wall thickness of a minuteman missile silo is supposedly 4ft thick reinforced concrete. Some nuclear reactors use 5ft thick reinforced concrete for their containment structures. Getting rid of all that expense for a GW scale reactor could be a game changer especially if an inherently safe design allows for graceful failure of many subsystems where any component breaking isn't substantially more severe than it would be for that to happen to a coal power plant.

Renewables may be cheaper than nuclear power, but renewables plus massively expanded energy storage plus nuclear power coming down in price would be an easy win for nuclear power.
Hackers mess with AIS, change destination of Putin's yacht to “hell”
That’s counting blockchain companies including NFT’s, actual crypto coin startups are down as people move onto NFT’s.

If you’re unclear, coins are supposed to be fungible where NFT’s shouldn’t be.
How long has AWS been selling compute by the second?
I totally agree with you. Some of the content there seems relevant to CS in general, but I hate the fact that you need to study content that you won't use on the job in order to pass an interview. It doesn't make sense to me. I've seen new grads perform as well as senior engineers with these Leetcode-style questions so I've stopped using them to assess engineers. Further, I know we're specifically trying to assess technical ability in an interview, but that's not the whole picture for an engineer. They need to be able to take feedback well and provide good mentorship also. I think we miss this.

Inspired by some realistic interviews that I did recently, I've been working on something[1] that aims to equip companies to hire engineers using realistic assessment methods. It scales like Hackerrank, but I think it's fairer.

[1] https://devscreen.io/
Nope, I feel this too. Dutchie here. I was looking at the map where there is the least likelihood of radio active fallout, assuming that at least Russia and Europe will be attacked.

While I think the chance is very slim, I simply don’t want to be here if it would happen at all.
It may be obvious, but since it wasn't stated, a planned destination and route options would be good to have, and maybe communicated to trusted family in safe locations.

You can always change them, but writing down your exit criteria may help in case you have trouble deciding, but I agree that it's most likely better to leave early and come back having not needed to leave than to decide to leave too late and not be able to leave.
I’m happy to see an explanation of why the backslash character exists at all: it’s so you can write logical and/or symbols as /\ and \/.
An interface with many methods is already a bad design. limiting it to a handful methods is way easier to maintain. it's fine to return an object has implement many interfaces, but you really don't need to use them all on the input side.
I'm hoping that Russia actually attacking Ukraine against the strong wishes of the world will cause a similar desire to reign in China and protect Taiwan and other small country democracies. Strategic ambiguity didn't work in Ukraine and it won't work in Taiwan either. Eventually China will attack. So let's get over our fear there and just sign a mutual defense treaty. Ideally we form a NATO of the Pacific with SK, Japan, Australia, NZ, and many other small countries. It would drive China bat shit insane with anger, but they are just going to do what they want eventually unless we get together and stop them.
As a senior dev who wants to work part-time for a moderate salary, I can tell you one reason is that recruiters do not want their applicants to end up with a lower salary!

This I think explains a large part of why it feels like there’s a status quo inertia in the job market.
They have enough nukes to nuke every city in NATO. Under no situation would they just nuke the US.
"Weather: famously indifferent to German wartime needs."

Ouch.
> I have never understood the hostility toward whiteboarding

Maybe you haven't been blown off and treated like an idiot by some interviewer when you couldn't answer their pet question? Even when you're more experienced and skilled than they were?
Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America
> without a commensurate investment of time on their part

Doesn't grinding LeetCode apply here as well?
This will be a big change in policy. I suspect that it is related to current war in Ukraine. Could be that finally Germany has seen the true face of Putin? I speculate but in relation to other big announcements today by the EU (providing fighter jets to Ukraine, promising Ukraine accession to the EU), it only makes sense.
Peter Norvig and Noam Chomsky ~famously clashed on this, and Norvig's argument shared a lot of similarities.
https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
> Also, at least in my memory around ~2000 it became clear that nuclear was not economically viable vs going green and that was also when the Atomausstieg was sealed by the new Schröder government which had the Greens in the coalition.

And yet, Germany has twice the emissions of France because it relies heavily on gas and coal. Very sad to see that global warming is considered more economically viable than nuclear energy.
Yes, you missed something.

https://machow2.com/run-ios-apps-mac/

Edit: In case you prefer a first-party source:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/runn...
U.S. banks prepare for cyber attacks after latest Russia sanctions
His home address and phone number are even in the phonebook, but I don't consider myself or the subject important enough to bother him with it. But maybe someone else here has insider information. That said, there's plenty of circumstantial evidence that he either didn't know Smalltalk in the nineties or didn't think it was worth mentioning. After all, Xerox themselves did not use Smalltalk in their products either, and even at PARC the other teams tended to work with BCPL or Mesa rather than Smalltalk. I read an interview with Larry Tesler where he describes that for a demonstration of a Smalltalk application they had to fast forward the movie so that the menus would pop up fast enough. Not surprisingly, Tesler then brought Object Pascal to life at Apple in collaboration with Wirth, instead of using Smalltalk as he had in his previous job (even though Apple had a license - that was used nota bene later for Squeak).
So, if I keep my word document open on my computer and start doing other things, I still get billed? Not sure end users will like this or think it's easier.
> A question: does Switzerland have any prior precedent of actions like this? I thought they were neutral?

They aren't that neutral.

> Close cooperation has also been established in the area of international sanctions. As of 2006, Switzerland has adopted five EU sanctions that were instituted outside of the United Nations. Those affected the former Republic of Yugoslavia (1998), Myanmar (2000), Zimbabwe (2002), Uzbekistan (2006) and Belarus (2006). [0]

There were many more since.

> de-dollarization in China

I'm not sure how you mean this (which side), but I think a de-dollarization in China would be terrible. Countries will still rely on their manufacturing etc, so sanctioning them out of SWIFT would probably just weaken SWIFT, since it'd encourage them to have their own system (since it must exist by necessity of the world's dependence on Chinese stuff). These sort of sanctions only work because there's just a small fraction/party being excluded, I think.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland%E2%80%93European_U...
Ukraine is not the west so Russia is not attacking the west. Joining NATO doesn't make a country a western country (I assume that is what you mean by joining the Western block). Do you think Turkey is a western country? Being in the west and taking your culture from Judeo-Christian / Greek philosophy means you are a part of the west.

China took over Hong Kong which was a colony of the UK. You could argue an attack against Hong Kong is more of an attack on the west than Ukraine.
Russia said don't join Nato or we'll destroy you, Ukraine. And then Russia attacks Ukraine anyway. So what would be different if Georgia, Ukraine, and the other smaller democratic survivors of the USSR join NATO? Russia will still want to attack them.

Edit - one more thing, Russia said it threatens us if NATO is right next door to us in Ukraine. So Russia wants to take over Ukraine, and they'll be right next door to NATO in Poland. They were already right next door to NATO.
Isn’t it the Saudi who did 9/11?
> Also, at least in my memory around ~2000 it became clear that nuclear was not economically viable vs going green

That would be surprising. I would have said that renewables (without comparing massively subsidised and unproven renewables costs with unsubsidised and well understood practical nuclear costs) would only be relatively recently even in the same ballpark as nuclear. And even then, only when the sun's shining/wind's blowing.
Increased school funding doesn’t improve test scores
I retold the history, not the motivations.

Also, Schröder and Merkel are from different parties, so it's hard to see how Schröders corruption influenced Merkel.
>If you got B’s in caltech CS I’d make you an offer for 200k+ without blinking or even asking you anything.

thanks, it means a lot you trust my ability so much :)

>All have PhDs and yet they’re all facing delays when landing a job. There is something definitely broken.

Everyone agrees it's the leetcode interview format. I agree to some extent, but I wouldn't throw it out completely. For me, I give four problems, and the candidate must solve two of the four with full internet access in an hour. It seriously reduces interview day variation for good candidates. If they can't do graphs but can do text formatting, they get a pass. I'm sure there's still some better way of doing this.
> Ukraine was getting armed to the teeth, and with good stuff from the West. Russia had to react before it’s too late.

You know why they were getting armed, don't you?

Because that fellow in Kreml kept financing terrorists in Donbas so they could shoot down airliners and shell kindergarten, right?
I really think you nailed it, will have to borrow this point in the future.

A lot of it is about gauging the candidates aptitude, and of course their willingness to put in the work.

It's like those kids in math class that say, "I'm never going to use this in real life."
>Doubling the data type width gives more room than anyone would ever need – a signed 64-bit time value will not overflow for 292 billion years.

This sentence reminds me of "The last question" by Asimov.
Well, it's good enough for us, but "humans" 292bi years from now will still have to deal with it.
We're not privy to the exact reasons for BP's decision, but one plausible explanation: if their internal risk analysis indicates that their share is going to become worthless, then it makes perfect sense for them to divest from it. The shareholders take a hit, but it's a small hit compared to having that money evaporate entirely.

Besides, given the soaring price of oil, I'm sure they'll find a way to make that money back. I'm not exactly worried about BP's financial security or that of its shareholders.
Do you have any insights on what kind of "integrity test" they used?
I was thinking of the lack of conjunctions in the sample, which increases the complexity IMO - like a variable for each operator result in an algebraic expression, or CFG without BNF. It's needlessly tedious, it doesn't map to the concepts in mind - and I can't believe non-English speakers lack these mental concepts (nor that their languages lack them).

And this line:

[non-cross-translatable words]. These include key words of Anglo culture, such as ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, ‘fair’ and ‘rude’, ‘fact’ and ‘evidence’.

Like apple-eaters, do only English-speakers know right and wrong?

I realize that that allusion itself imports the religous background of English; and I can believe that _precise_ definitions could vary between cultures - even legal systems differ in what "evidence" is permissible in court... but is the casual, non-technical meaning really that different between cultures?

Or... am I just so immersed in English that its assumptions are transparent to me, like a fish who can't understand "out of water"?

I guess I would like to see specifically how some of those 6 examples are non-cross-translatable...
I'm not seeing any difference if one was born and nurtured into autocracy, or just happened to have it land in their hands. I'd say in either case the pressures are such that the resulting behaviour can not even be named as selfishness. It's just survival, and society needs/development/etc/etc be damned.

Survival breeds sycophants, ...

Shit, why am I reciting stuff from 8th century BC here?
You missed what I think is the big one:

4. Continued access to the Black Sea. Russia needs a warm-water port, so their navy doesn't get stranded in the winter. Geographically, both Crimea and Ukraine are critical for that purpose. If those countries turned NATO, and NATO went aggro then Russia would lose that access. So it is critical for them that they secure it. And securing it after Ukraine joins NATO is an invitation for WW3.

You may be thinking "NATO is a defensive pact, they will never aggress." That may seem self-evident to you, but it's a lot harder to accept on faith for the country that happens to be NATO's raison detre.
Did sending weapons to Afghanistan amount to little, in the face of the overwhelming Russian military advantage? And Ukraine is a lot closer (physically and culturally), and the support a lot more open, than Afghanistan.

As for the Russian Oliagarchs, if their concern was eventual revolution in Russia it looks like they may have just brought that day closer rather than pushed it out. They clearly weren't expecting a response of this magnitude, the question is when they choose to cut their losses.
I use ProtonMail because of their good support for custom domains. Their higher focus on privacy and security is nice, but it has little to do with why I chose them vs competitors. The only downside is you have to use the ProtonMail app or website on mobile, because of the way they do mailbox encryption.
no. Neither did the coronavirus pandemic or the 2016 election or anything else.

I believe we should be helping others as much as possible, regardless of the situation. But in order to help others you need to be satisfied yourselves at least to some extent. Depressed, miserable people don’t help anyone. Maintaining good health and fitness, minimizing stress, and getting your work done ensures you have time and energy you can devote towards selflessness.
Is POWER10 usable *at all* without that blob?

Does the programmable processor itself enforce that signature?

Is there a way to modify the keyring for that verification?
"That assumes"

I don't know what are you referring to?

However, many European countries are pretty resolved to help defend Ukraine, because we all remember WW2. Whether that by itself will lead to nuclear escalation remains to be seen, if so, then God help us all...

Personally, I think World War has already started, and it was started by European people, not their governments. It is a bit different than the other two. The first was started by aristocrats, without hesitation. The second was started by democratic and hesitant elites, as a necessary reaction. This time, thanks to the Internet, the general public reacts much more quicker now and demands that government elites are involved, not so much with direct military action, but in the sense of economic sanctions and help towards Ukraine to defend itself against Russia.
Walkable communities are great. A bigger concern might be corporate ownership and its effects in the long term
Could be Australian. But we also use "Seppo", from a fairly tortured rhyming slang etymology: "Yank" -> "Septic Tank" -> "Seppo".
Not judging you, buddy. Just saying that his methods have always been relatively aggressive and crazy, in my opinion, even when they were on a smaller scale than this.
Yes, you are right. The petition however is in Russian and targeted to Russians.
Yes, the opportunities are possible, but exceptional.

For the most part, you will be wiring crud APIs or trying to figure out why your button is misaligned by 12 pixels. Those problems also pay better too, bc those are business problems. The hackerrank problems have mostly been solved.

Think about that - you think Ed Dijkstra or Tony Hoare ever made more than a facebook swe?
Sure, if the EU wants to field a million troops I’d fully support the US sending over a few thousand to staff some backlines bases, which would be the equivalent there.

Again, the EU needs to worry about their own backyard first.
That's just the food lab/serious eats stuff IMHO. Those things are purpose built to be "what if we turned everything up to 11 and made the best possible X/Y/Z?". If you read Modernist Cuisine it's exactly the same thing and you'll spend two days making a single cheeseburger (with from scratch bread, cheese, mayo, grinding your own beef, sous vide cooking the patty for hours, etc).

Watch his youtube channel and more recent stuff, it's a lot more toned down and accessible to everyone.
That would make for a good Chrome plugin- a super simple display of the published date and author and some other basic info.
My understanding was that Natural gas in Europe is used for house heat, and industrial processes that have never been electrified. I was not aware of using it (at a wide scale) for electricity generation. (definitely not an expert though)
I wish this was true, but if they wait a few more years and do it again but win in 1 or 2 days they could still get away with it. I don't see this as their last dangerous takeover, as long as Putin is around.
Please try not to misquote me.

I made no reference to good aggression, only justifiable aggression. Even then, while it would be fine to form an argument that no such thing exists, it's unrealistic to despise the man who returns a punch.

As for Russia's reasonable concerns about the West and the nigh-impossibility of objectively or thoroughly observing foreign points of view - both are true and important, yet neither serve in the least to justify attacking Ukraine's capital.
You mean Putin threatening the west with his nukes a few times a day is not a risk?
I've noticed that people here paint the whole industry with a broad brush that reflects what a handful of giant companies and companies imitating them do. I've been on both sides of the interviewing table at a few places and it's never been the whiteboarding dystopia that everyone talks about here. The last job I took had a long interview process, and at the end of the day someone spoke up and said "oh yeah, we probably should ask you some code question", which I blew since I was exhausted and it was an obscure C++ thing. They laughed it off and I still work there.

HN is a poor barometer for the broader tech industry - everything from hiring practices, tech choices, etc. HN has a tendency to make it sound like all the world acts and smells like a giant tech company or a startup. There are a TON of companies that are not like those.
The United States military is the most powerful military on the planet. Any suggestion that they will be defeated in Afghanistan is wishful thinking.
I agree on the downsides, but I believe licensing is a good forcing function to get others to 1) gain knowledge and 2) standardize training for a base level of competence.
Nuclear Weapons and the Stability-Instability Paradox
A 30-year-old document written by someone of a completely different era (and political party) to the current administration has nothing to do with anything.

I hate to break this to you but the neocons are still well in control of the US. Wolfowitz is a neocon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
It's not like there are no options for storage, pumped hydrostorage works well in Germany, and building pumped storage plus solar makes more financial sense than fission. Nuclear plants just take too long to plan and build, and are extremely expensive to build and tear down.
I don't think Ukraine will win a normal war against Russia, but will have to shift to more guerrilla warfare soon. But on the other hand, is Putin willing to occupy, likely for years, the second largest country of Europe with a population of 44 million to keep the established pro-Russian government actually in power? So far, it doesn't look like Ukrainians would just accept a puppet president, even if all the mayor cities would have been taken.
As far as I've seen the shortage as it relates to electric vehicles is due to a lack of power devices, such as high power MOSFETs, not logic ICs.
Ask HN: Advice on Phone/Messaging/etc.
Hi all,
If the russian government made efforts to thwart messaging/calling apps and also made it a crime to communicate with Ukraine.. what would be good strategies for people to stay in touch and avoid raising flags?
We also progressed from annihilating countries to financially "cancelling" countries. Financial war is still better than total war

You can also ask Cuba what they think about the "new" aspect of financial cancellation, or 1920s Germany