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It's something I've always wondered, as I'd be interested. In the meantime, the "rationalist" sphere, who have similar intellectual interests spanning tech, policy, altruism, economics, etc., are mostly online but do actually have meetups spanning lots of global cities. I imagine you'd find 80% of what you'd want from an HN meetup. (caveat: I haven't been to any though)

https://www.lesswrong.com/community
This conference is absolutely stacked. It goes to show what a huge latent demand there is for non-corporate conferences in the data space.
Fascinating article, thank you. What it also says, is that he may be emotional, but he isn't a madman. So wouldn't the question then be: How likely does Putin think a nuke on Ukraine would trigger a NATO response. Since he must know, a nuclear exchange with NATO would mark his end. What do you think?
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Preface: I used to work in embedded control systems, now I shovel ads for a living.

nah fam, we've got it so much easier. You should kick up your feet and enjoy it, or you'll drive yourself crazy.
This is the NY Times article that Reuters cites: https://archive.ph/LOMqw
Since people here are often ESL. I'll put it this way: "English is a rich language."

Please try to think about how the context of what I said could be interpreted. If you take literally everything at face value - you're truly not thinking critically about anything.
Sputnik: A brief alarm heard around the world, followed by an infinitude of silence.
It's basic vocabulary in poli-sci or international relations studies or circles. Less obscure (in the context of those fields) than much of the engineering, math, and computer nerd jargon that gets thrown around on here regularly. Likely to be encountered in adjacent fields, notably history. It's about one small notch more obscure than the term "hegemony".
I'm guessing that they're talking about -Werror. (Which should never be specified in the build config you distribute, but is fine for tightly controlled environments like your DEV and CI environments.)
Interesting that you use Github as an example, when Github is not an SPA. So basically just admitting these problems aren't necessarily inherent to SPA's, but to the developers/teams building them. They may just be a bit harder to get right in SPA's.
I’ll quibble: paying teachers $200,000 an hour wouldn’t solve the problem. Doing well at math just takes memorization and practice, and Americans just think that’s beneath them.

And test prep is fine. For the most part, it’s teaching you intuition about numbers, vocabulary, and logical reasoning skills. I’d much rather my kid drill SAT questions than study half the stuff in the school curriculum these days.
If you have a theory to explain a set of facts, pointing to the set of facts as an implicit justification for your theory does not logically follow.

Maybe Westerners care more about the Ukrainian situation because Ukraine was by and large a peaceful, lawful country until the war started. Do you think the western response would have been a little different if there was a pre-existing civil war in Ukraine, and Russia stepped in to try to turn the tide for one of the factions?
Western media people fall into groupthink though. On the eve of the 2016 elections the liberal media were all certain that Hillary was going to take it, because all the liberal journalists only had liberal friends and they all hated Trump, so in their echo chamber, Trump was toast. On the reverse, in November 2012 Romney's loss came to a shock to his inner circle, because they were listening to their own echo chamber. Although to be honest, I don't remember now what Fox News was predicting in 2016.

We all have our biases, I wonder if journalists are so diligent to be thorough and re-evaluate things they assume to be X to make sure it's really X, but I doubt it.
I hardly ever saw this word used in English, but in Russian it is fairly common in historical texts.
I tend to doubt this narrative, dedollarization would generally not be in the interest of any US government entity.
Let me fix it for you:

> Yes. If you actually do read carefully, nothing he says is even slightly funny.

It is easy to confuse snark with humor if you don't like who the snark is about. There were other people at the time who actually were consistently funny. Put them side by side and the difference is stark.
How is it not a desktop app? Millions play it on their desktop.
>The first odd thing I experienced was the inexplicable feeling that there was someone else in the room during my meditation. Luckily this didn't disturb me too much, one of the books I had read at that time mentioned that this was something that could happen during zazen. I now know that it is called the sensed presence effect. Other sits were more pleasant - I often had a sensation of uncaused joy arise. Sometimes I would see intense and clear images inside my head. During one session I saw a bright blue humming sphere that I knew was God (or some kind of representation of) - I swear I could hear the harmonious hum of it. I had previously abandoned my Christian faith but that experience alone made me reconsider my stance.

I've been trying to meditate on and off for years, including daily 30 minute sessions for months at a time, and never experienced anything remotely as intense as this author. In fact despite all the time I've spent trying, I can't say I feel like I've gotten any better at it. At best I've developed a sensation I would describe as being extremely tall, as though my head were posted thousands of feet above my legs, but psychologically I don't feel like I'm doing any better today than when I started with respect to observing my thoughts or focusing on, say, breath.

I suspect some people are far more predisposed, be it nature or nurture, toward successful and deep meditation than others.
> When people talk about how a focal-length "compresses" or "exaggerates" an image, what they're really talking about is perspective. Each field of view carries with it its own perspective.

This is kind of a misconception because what creates perspective distortion is not a given field of view, but the distance to the subject. That's why short (50-100 mm) macro lenses have a lot of perspective despite a clearly tele angle of view; you get very close to the subject. Someone using a 55 mm macro lens for photography of small products tends to be pretty obvious because of the strong perspective, things look distorted and "bulging".

Of course subject size / angle of view => distance so it still kinda works.
I always sign up directly and store the information in 1password. With a custom domain I always use <website>@myDomain.com.

What if your twitter/fb/google account gets suspended for whatever reason? All of a sudden you can’t login to a plethora of sites.
> racist, or sexist —- though he was those things --

Those are pretty serious accusations and seems odd of you to so cavalierly throw them out.

I’m not super knowledgeable about O’Rourke, but I’ve seen him around on tv shows and opinion pieces for a few decades and don’t think he’s sexist or racist.

If you’re going to make such statements, back them up a big.
As I see it, Java succeeded where it was needed, and in the mid-late 90's, that was on the server. When the web emerged, there was no well established development environment for server based applications. The tools for doing much beyond static web pages were pretty limited. Java and a whole bunch of Java based tools emerged to fill this need, and satisfy the needs of corporate customer for intranet solutions.

On the desktop, Microsoft and C++ were already well established. In the browser, Sun did not offer a browser of their own, so Java depended on support from Netscape, Microsoft and eventually Google. Those companies all had their own technologies for browser development tools, and never tried very hard to support Java. Also Java was a little too much for many 90's era PC's connecting to the internet over dial-up connections, so it was slow.
i think all intelligence agencies trying to figure it out. yet..
on one side there been a bit softening with regards to what russia demands from Ukraine, according to russian media. For example that started to loudly demand today that Ukraine will declare to be non-nuclear country. They didn't demand it before so if Ukraine agrees to it (it never tried to do it anyway) it will be a win for internal consumption.

On the other side their economy is crumbling. They are in conflict with everybody. On 4th there is supposed to be joint session of parliament and there are assumption that will be announced either mobilization or martial law/state of war/something.
This is my theory (disclaimer: I have no clue what I’m talking about). They don’t want to show all their cards to the West.
> Why did they need an exit?

Because the people who like to start new companies and take lots of risks generally tend to not like running stable businesses and dealing with FP&A managers, lawyers, compliance and tax experts
I'd disagree on the "faith in the power of Moore’s law" part. It was closer to faith in Sun. There were big performance jumps each version from Java 1.3 to 1.6. Some apps became suddenly not terrible.
>You'd think the smarter people at some of these companies would realize how well they'd stand out by not writing that way, but that's surprisingly rare.

it's all about CYA. Better to be "smarm" than create any opening for a legal storm that ruins the entire acquisition, or tanks any public shares from the news.

I'm still not too sure if the "curiosity" rule applies to this new link, however. Half the article is just quoting the source and another 40% just quoting the CEO's on how happy and great the oppurtunity is. Not much real analysis or introspection unless the audience had no idea what a Bandcamp is.

That's unfortunately better than 80% of modern jounralism, but I digress.
At best, they start a negotiation and at worst, they continue their plan to invade. You can’t start a war without people talking, so it was probably an open secret within the spy circles and Russia wouldn’t have been surprised if the US knew.

The US played all their cards right. It would have been better if China helped but given the last presidency, you can’t really blame them for mistrusting the US.
Yes this is exactly right. What I’ve done in the past is use Django to return HTML with JSX mixed in, and have a super lightweight SPA frontend that just hydrates the react components on each load. You can also use form state to communicate back and forth with the server, where sending a response doesn’t refresh the entire page, just a react render diff.
With this you get the best of both worlds where your backend can do the heavy lifting where everything it needs to decide on the view is all in one place, and your frontend just comprises of really really generic JS components.

I have a library I’ve been playing around with for 2 years now, I should package it up
Thanks for your answer. I'm not American so not really familiar with your health system. Agreed that B2B will be easier to scale given acquisition cost. However scaling with corporate client limit you in your ability to do good risk selection as I believe you will have to accept all employees.
Yes, even after POST. Why not try it, right here, on Hacker News. The comment form uses POST. I post this comment and go back and my text is still in the input box.

In fact, browsers even have re-submit built-in: Just press F5 on a page that was retrieved using POST. That’s why so many sites use a redirect after POST.
It could also be more common for non-native English speakers, for example native speakers of Romance languages.

I'm reasonably sure we were taught about suzerainty ("suzeranitate" in Romanian) during high school history lessons.
Hi – Mark (Chief Actuary) here. Now we’re talking.... rolls up sleeves ...thanks for asking the fun question.

Medicare for All (MFA) is a proposal to provide the Medicare-based basic basket of medical services as a baseline for health coverage. The common assumption is the reference here is the scope of services covered by Medicare Part A and B (hospital and physician related services, respectively). This is a limited basket of services. For example, there are restrictions on how many nursing days or physical therapy sessions, and it does not cover drugs. There is no oversight in the form of quality in its current form. There are thousands of search results for the search terms “OIG” and “Medicare fraud”.

And cost - rolls eyes Funding is a political nightmare because of the need to increase taxes and likely a need to adjust physician fee schedules upwards (I.e. the inherent cost to CMS becomes higher). Most physicians look to charge commercial based business as much as 4 times what Medicare pays in order to offset what they believe to be as inadequate rates set by MedPac. That dynamic would not be sustainable in a system where Medicare was being used for everyone’s basic care needs.

We said MFA by itself may not be enough because it does not address clinical variation in care delivery or just quality of care in general, it does not address prevalence of fraud, and it does nothing to address the cost issue. We all would end up spending an extra $10,000 a year on taxes for what would likely be inadequate health benefits and still end up buying private insurance just like current seniors do with Medicare Supplemental Plans. BTW – the most popular MedSupp plans are Plan F, G and N, all of which cover the deductible of Part B and add pharmacy coverage.

Comparisons to other countries is tricky because most other countries work from an appropriations model, I.e. in United Kingdom the government sets the budget for the National Health System, and the NHS in turn sets the budget for each region, which in turn sets the budget for each hospital in that region. If you need a knee replacement inside the NHS, the hospital you live near may not have the budget to buy one or you do not meet the priority based guidelines, you will be put in queue to wait. Its not an approach we have patience for, but hopping (!?) on a plane to get one in another country is not covered. As you can see, comparing countries health systems is difficult at best, and even misleading.
Which answer makes more money flow around?

That's the one!
Ignoring "non-geometric" effects like depth of field, the only optical parameter that matters here is the visible angle (a function of focal length and crop factor).

Parameters like the size of the aperture are massively important in general, but not for determining the relative size of objects within the scene.
Vim is not for me, I unzip the epub/docx and then open the xml/html files in Kate, I had to do this to examine what is saved or how it saved or if my custom epub exported worked correctly. For epub I think you need to make sure the metadata file is the first one in the archive for it to work(so not sure if editing stuff directly in vim will preserve the order)
It’s been 80 years and 3 major ‘evolutions’.

When someone comes up with something falsifiable, I’ll change my mind.

I’m pretty sure though that when they do, it won’t be with what we currently call string theory, even if it is using the same name.

And I’m not saying ‘whatever you do, don’t allow anyone to work on it!’. Far from it.

But if my kids wanted to get into it, I’d try to talk them out of it.
Deal being negotiated in Vienna is dangerous to our national security
The main problems with Java on the desktop were:

- Obviously non-native look and feel. For many years Java apps didn't even use the system font. At a time when everything was on Windows and its UI was actually reasonably coherent, Java apps stood out as out of place and clunky.

- Deployment. Each user needed to first install the Java runtime from Sun. This was a deliberate strategy by Sun to get the runtime in place on as many desktops as possible, but it failed colossally. It would have been better to just bundle the whole thing with each app, as Electron does today.
"So sad" "I'm disappointed" Ok but everything like Bandcamp will always go away because it's not efficient enough. If it exists today, it's treading water! It is on borrowed time! Bandcamp was like a character in a video game with 1HP and a temporary shield called "Startup." Bandcamp is to the way capital works as life is to mortality. Nothing workable will ever exist at scale unless our species is completely overhauled.
I don't know what the solution is. But a "pay-to-win" scheme on an irreversible ledger isn't it.
Assignment: Compare and contrast juché vs sisu.
I mean, grid layout has existed in Tk (the one with the Motif look) since the earliest version I can quickly find documentation for, 8.2 from August 1999; Wikipedia tells me that 'table', apparently an early version of 'grid', was introduced in July 1993, that is to say around the time Windows NT (and with it Win32) was officially released. (And of course plain Win32 never got it, seemingly because Microsoft decided they weren’t in the business of selling toolkits despite USER being one.)

The hard idea from the programmer’s point of view is automatic layout, not grids; my impression was that Tk originated it (it certainly brought it to light), but now that I’m looking I’m not sure it wasn’t already in Motif to some extent, so the roots of the idea might go down into the primordial soup of Project Athena and similar places.
Never saw those in real life, but I don't get why a part of Amazon Retail is interested in having actual stores. Most (nearly all?) their customers use them because they can deliver 1-2 day shipping on a ton of items without having to go out to shop. Need some niche hydroponic nutrients, they have it. Need some precise book that your typical bookstore doesn't have, they have it.

I don't see why I'd want to go to an Amazon Shop instead of Wal-mart, Canadian Tire, Target, whatever else already exists. It's a market with razor-thin margins that's absolutely doesn't fit their current approach and growth focus.
His analogy was sound. When we’re talking about these elite schools, we’re talking about competition within the middle to upper middle class. The median income of every racial group in Fairfax County, for example, is $100,000-150,000. The most underrepresented group at TJ is actually white people, who have the highest median income.
The civilian casualties are obviously tragic, but they are not beyond the scale that we've seen in recent wars the US has fought.
Amazon also owns bookdepository.com (and goodreads.com)
They should teach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
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Slack, Salesforce, Tableau and MuleSoft Closing Russian Accounts
Bret just announced in all hands. Salesforce is bulk ending partnerships and relationships with all Russian entities.
No, the McDonald's machines heat up any leftover milkshake mixture every night to kill all the bacteria in it, then cool it all back down before the morning.

If it hasn't been run in the last 24 hours, the machine will refuse to dispense ice cream unless you run the process (which takes a few hours).

Non-McDonald's machines work how your imagining: you have to toss the leftover ice cream once it goes bad, disassemble the machine and clean it by hand, then load new ice cream into it.
Also 7 HDs which if I’m understanding things correctly means 5 times they pulled up a cable end and found out there was nothing at the other end, it was just a loose piece. That cable had been shredded.

And apparently they never found the missing repeater.
More generally, we also need to see at what keeps the "internet" a global network.

Many people have already been uneasy about the dominance of the US over key internet infrastructures. If ICANN decides to do what Ukraine has asked then IMHO they will lose all trust and legitimacy, resulting in global fragmentation because the reasonable course of action for every country will then be to control as much as they can themselves.

In the same way, what has happened with SWIFT will also precipitate the emergence of alternative systems and justifies that e.g. China has already developed its own.

There are several key infrastructures that are basically 'global utilities' these days and that should remain neutral otherwise everyone will go back to building its own stuff ringfenced from others. On the other hand it was expected that these key 'global utilities' would be weaponised since they are usually effectively controlled by "the West" (and that explains why China is trying to either change that control structure or build alternative systems).
In practice I'm not sure there would be much duplication. Even for tools using the same libraries they are very often using different versions.
I trust them for USB/HDMI/etc cables, but nothing else. But I’d rather order cables from Monoprice anyway.
> Say Ukraine survives or becomes an Afghanistan-like insurgency power. But now they are rife with guns, warlords, and no national institution or government to organize everything....

Nature abhors vacuums. Especially if those vacuums are easy to fill.

What do you think will happen if Russia backs down?

Ukraine already borders 4 EU members (Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland).
Among my friends I have talked to about this previously, they do not.
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Even if he dislikes Putin, this may be a virtue signal to avoid being the target of the recent growing anti-Russian sentiment in western countries. Some muslims did similar things to avoid the racism after 9/11 and during the Iraq war.
We are embedding several programs into the benefit plan and still charging a lower price. We think its the best solution to the employer demanding positive ROI on the disease management and telehealth based solutions
> There were plenty of reasons they would have hoped to be able to do this all on a modest budget.

Indeed NATO certainly expected Ukrainians to just surrender.

Which is probably why they didn't get a no-fly-zone, strategic ambiguity, or other things like that from the US and friends.
to me, this sounds ominously like Abramovich doesn't think he'll be spending much time in the UK over the next few years. In other words, the situation in Russia has spun out of control even for the oligarchs.
Maybe “single design principle” or “abstraction principle”?

(I have for a while felt that abstraction at the class level is very much overrated, while abstraction at the system level tends to be glossed over. This has lead me to enjoy building systems with microservices. Because the interfaces tend to be dictated by the external systems that use the service, but the guts of a service can and do change dramatically.)
I personally use an app called Smiling Mind. It has different paths you can go according to what problem you're trying to solve through meditation. It's an amazing app IMO.
Finally.

Now investigate the sources of income of all their relatives, and whether they used fraudulent information to obtain citizenship or residence permits.
May I suggest the utility Eee (http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/eee/index.html).... Combines multiple files into one executable. Works great!
Yes, especially random civilian jetliners.
MoneyDance was and is a very good Swing desktop application. I have used it for years and love it.