skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Put differently, Putin does not roll a dice every morning and launches a nuclear missile if a six shows up. Even he himself cannot meaningfully answer the question “What’s the probability that Russia will launch nuclear missiles 6 months from now” unless his answer is 100%. It depends on many factors, like how NATO reacts and how strong the Ukraine military is, none of which can be captured by probabilities.

There's a guy[0] who spent a career analyzing and writing about these things.

His most recent take is that by refusing to get directly involved in Ukraine, NATO creates an understanding in Putin's mind that it wouldn't get involved in, say, Latvia either. According to Piontkovsky, (to Putin,) there's no essential difference, and the (lack of) NATO membership reason provided by NATO is a lame excuse indicative of a lack of resolve to commit, NATO member or not. So Putin is willing to keep upping the ante until NATO folds and becomes irrelevant.

[0]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313258664_Putin's_R...
The debunkings were published, but major media was heavily pushing the official narrative.

To quote the New York Times' ombudsman (a position that doesn't exist any more) [0]:

> To anyone who read the paper between September 2002 and June 2003, the impression that Saddam Hussein possessed, or was acquiring, a frightening arsenal of W.M.D. seemed unmistakable.

This was the message that the US government, the New York Times, and countless other media organizations were pushing. People who objected were viewed as eccentric, naive, or possibly even cowards who were doing the bidding of a dictator.

0. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/weekinreview/the-public-ed...
If they're not disarming they're either willing to use them or bluffing.
protonmail is the @aol.com of this age?
I do what you do -- we are symbol manipulators.

OP does what they do in number blocks.

I guess with enough practice they are both fine for solving known problems. I think our way is better for programming, and his way is "better" for physical building.
You have no clue what is happening on the ground.

Nobody is pressing citizens to join territorial defense, they do auxiliary duties, they are not surrogate for proper army.

Ukrainian army uses artillery, attack drones extensively, so your point of people with rifles has no value.

Whatever, you don’t get what is happening in Ukraine.
The inventor of the screw-in coffin
I've seen this with people in my life. Generally, I think it's because people have an emotional reaction and cook up some reason to justify their feelings. They may have no idea why they feel the way they do. Even the people who pride themselves on being "logical" do it too.

Other than that, people can also do it because the real reason is objectionable and it would make them look or feel bad to reveal it.

I've come to the conclusion that there are lots of times you'll never get the real reason for someone's choices/behavior directly from them.
You are correct. The time demands of even highly experienced doctors is surprisingly true. I would argue that profession should also be reformed to require less hours.
I think it was this one:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmwa...

I had the same problem as you, updated my eeprom and the problem was fixed
"It took me some time to piece things together. The reality is that leadership wants senior leaders to stay disconnected. It makes it significantly easier to make decisions you wouldn’t make if you personally knew the people those decisions impact."

-This is something that me as a middle level developer never even thought or considered. Now things make a lot of sense especially the disconnect that leadership often has. This is priceless, thank you !
This resonates a lot with me. Early on, I had a good mentor when going into a leadership position who basically told me: "Screw the biblical saying about the sick who need the doctors. Try to spend 80% of your time with the good ones. You'll have more fun and be more productive"

It sounded very harsh and emotionally wrong at the time, but I've learned the hard way that at least for the purpose of building a working team and business, he was spot on.

As a lead, I've learned my most precious resource is my time and attention and one thing I didn't realize until very recently is that I'm rewarding the high performers by spending it on them.

But negative attention is attention as well, and if my team gets the impression I'm rewarding the ones who don't pull their own weight with excessive nurturing and pampering, they will get demotivated and eventually move on.

This is still distinct from abandoning, as I try my best to give everyone an equal chance to get started. But I've regretted more than once investing heavily into employees who ended up quitting anyway over their perceived complaints.

Wanters will always find a way. Not-wanters will always find a reason.
That was Asimov's deal with Campbell: he could write robot stories, but for any of it to be publishable his robots had to obey Campbell and not be able to rebel. Actually spelling laws out in the text was his way of needling Campbell. Having the robots end up confining humans to Earth and exterminating all aliens was his triumph over Campbell.

The whole Fred Saberhagen "Berserker" series can be thought of as the other side of that action, with Asimov's robots in the role of the berserkers.

No actual robot will ever be constrained by any such "law".
I'm not sure how you equate watching a movie (which many would consider a relatively safe activity) to riding a plane with hundreds of other people (which some might consider not necessarily risky, but riskier).

But sure, I guess I'll say "no, he doesn't". Now what?
I wonder if link shorteners will be used to get around this.
“Drug factory” beads implanted in mice take out tumors within a week
My guess is your email address is in a database of breached passwords and low-profile hackers are using this database to perform brute force attacks frequently triggering some kind of account banning to avoid performance impact on the platforms.

Try creating a new email and register again in the services you are banned and wait and see what happens.
>and spend those funds on beneficial projects at home?

What funds? The US is what it is because it forces the world to buy dollars.

If a European country wants to buy gas from Saudi Arabia, the deal must be done is dollars.

Why?
Because the US forces that to happen, by force.

The moment the US stops using military force outside their borders, the world does not need dollars anymore, and the US becomes way poorer, because they can not print dollars anymore.
Ideally, the basics ( reading, writing, arithmetic, etc ) should all be done at home with their stay at home moms ( or dads ). Once they reach a certain level, then schooling should start ( maybe 7th grade or high school even ). Not only would that be better for the kids, it would be better for family bonding and community building.

But the modern education system was created for the exact opposite. To limit family bonding in favor of allegiance to the state and teach them enough to be drones for the factory/work force/military. Children are resources to be processed by the state via their factory-like schools into products to be consumed by corporations, government, etc.
> the kid is going to most likely have stunted social and emotional intelligence

You're either ignoring history, or assume that people who lived >150 years ago were all emotionally damaged in some way... Sure kids can learn from each other, and in a healthy way, but the structures that we have in place to foster that (universal public school) are fairly new in the grand scheme of things...
Freedom of the press like any other freedom has limits and only makes sense if the entity in question actually has any interest in doing free and genuine journalistic work rather than being a glorified arm of a foreign government.

We also value freedom of movement, or commerce or the right to bear arms, doesn't mean we let foreign spies sell weapons to domestic insurgents or let them roam across the border. Democratic freedoms are a contract with a democratic population, or democratic partners, not autocratic adversaries who will use them to undermine the very foundation they're built on.
> just because you like to cook doesn't mean that you want to own and run a restaurant.

This is valid but many cooks do aspire to own and operate restaurants because it pays so much better
No one who pays attention would have predicted hundreds of thousands of Americans dying from influenza, because in the last decade, it has never happened.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

The high-end of yearly flu deaths is in the low 50,000s, while the low-end is just over 10,000. COVID has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans each year.

You're not just misinformed about vaccines, you're outright lying about numbers that can be easily Googled.
i have seen suggestion the wire between "dishy" and you can be fairly long; im sure if you went to a CAT5 or CAT6 cable network, right away , you could go IIRC 445 feet before its too long. so "dishy" may be outstanding in his field while your at distance.

I believe the danger is dishy transmits/emits/produces signals that may be included in the russian directives for engagement; as a undesireable RF device
Relative permeability is very close to 1 in non-metallic materials like water.
As an aside, my grown daughter recently told me that to her numbers have always been gendered. I ran through them quickly and she matter of factly told me their gender. She doesn't work in tech but healthcare. She said it's always been like that.
If you don't want to do any tweaking, my experience has been best in Fedora. out of the box it's highly usable, and unless I'm building a workstation I don't change anything. The things that I do tweak now are just settings in the "Settings" app and the gnome-tweak-tool.
Replying to my sibling: solar got cheap because China decided to be rid of pollution and started mass producing.

There have been also some improvements on the research side but China was the largest effect.
Apple desperately needs to kill AppleScript. Every year or so for the past decade, I run into a problem and think, "Oh, I'll try AppleScript" and as the saying goes, it rarely ends well. [1]

We NEED the functionality of desktop apps and services exposing scriptable objects and methods. We do NOT need a "human language based scripting language". Programming in Python, Java and JavaScript have been taught at all levels of school for many years now, with countless resources online. Anyone who would ever have an interest in scripting their computer - the so-called Power Users - already have been exposed to traditional programming languages at some point in their lives and don't need or want to use a "simplified" language.

So not only is AppleScript a bewildering, barely documented, Through-the-Looking-Glass version of a programming language ("‘How do you know that I’m mad?’ said Alice. ‘You must be,’ said the Cat, ‘or you wouldn’t have come here.’”), but the impetus for using such a language has totally disappeared, even if it wasn't an unusable mess designed by autists on LSD.

1. https://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/fun-with-the-os-x-finder...
Asking for docs, or where the docs are, is not the same as asserting that there are no docs (which implies the author has not done their job).
If it's a true concern, the answer is probably iodine tablets and a respirator. Increases your chances of survival (if you would survive the first wave).

But, what more can we do? It's an interesting question to think about. Nuclear war would probably be the result of a significant escalation, and in all likelihood will involve many nukes back-and-forth, rather than a single nuke hitting a single city. With that in mind, I'll give it a go. I'm assuming your goal is to survive the war, and be able to continue living afterwards.

Step 1: A location likely to survive the war. You need to pick a location that allows you to survive the initial wave of nukes, then provides sufficient shelter for the resulting radioactive fall-out, and then finally allows to you rebuild some resemblance of living, once you're able to go outside again. This probably eliminates all countries that have nukes, or are part of alliances that have nukes. You'll either get a direct hit, or will likely be close to the fall-out.

Maybe French Polynesia is a good place. It is in the southern hemisphere (vs US, Russia, EU in the north), very remote, has limited military value.

Step 2: Shelter. Although you've picked a location unlikely to get nuked, it's still good to be in a sturdy shelter, underground (maybe even under water), that also holds your supplies. Assuming no direct hits, I'd go for a concrete basement with an extra thick roof.

Step 3: Stocking up to survive the aftermath of the war. You'll need various supplies: (a) water (for days, assuming you have a way to get new fresh water, e.g. a well or small-scale desalination), (b) food (months, maybe years, assuming global supply chains no longer exist), (c) basic defensive weapons (when others find out you have supplies), (d) materials to survive the increased radiation outside (iodine tablets, respirators), (e) medicine (antibiotics, painkillers, etc.)

Step 4: Building a new life: seeds, fertiliser, building materials that are hard to get in the post-war world, fishing equipment, a boat, etc

Bonus items: Communication (FM/AM antenna on a weather balloon?), Transport (Sailing yachts with solar panels and desalination equipment can go a long way, might even be a good shelter if you find the right place to sail), pooling up with a group of people so that you can maintain a small 'society'.
I tend to agree with you; I was pointing out that the comment I replied to was painting a pretty simplistic picture of why the admissions numbers might look the way they do, when in reality it's probably a more complicated picture.
Sufficiently misbehaving kids, not being properly handled, will drive away paying customers when their peers want to transfer out - or if they stop short of transfering out, merely shit talk the institution and it's failures, driving down it's reputation and turning away future business.

If you think private schools won't act on those pressures - either by getting the kids the help they need, or by kicking them out - I have a tunnel to sell you.
Which industries are you referring? I feel like most industries that have job openings is suspect from a moral perspective.
3rd party rom can have a built in trojan horse that sends everything somewhere
my dad's old "Unofficial DOOM Strategy Guide" is on my bookshelf complete with a mail order for a CD-ROM with "666 new levels". like you said I think as long as you're just distributing WADs, they never really cared.
With this, would it finally be possible to test iOS apps without having to first buy into the Apple ecosystem? Seems super helpful for developers, security testing, etc.
Based and tedpilled
From Python to Rust: Some Key Differences and Takeaways
I hope, as with the original article author, that you find a way to
rediscover your childhood passion in a form that works for you today.

It's not hard to understand what happened to our generation as teenage
geeky culture turned into a multi-billion global business in less than
a decade. A ton of brilliant programmers got left behind and left out.
Not just because there's only room for a few John Carmacks or Tim
Sweenys, (there's a good deal of luck in navigating an unfolding
culture), but because rapid industrialisation changes the very nature
of what it touches.

Industrialisation of games had many unfortunate and unexpected
effects. It made creativity a liability. Gaming is one of the most
conservative industries on the planet, way, way ahead of music or film
production for having cast itself in stone.

Coincident with formulation and industrialisation came specialisation
and a great deal of deskilling. I knew guys in the late 90s who built
their own 3D engines, knew quaternion geometry, how to mix,
reverberate and filter multi-channel audio in C++. Now you just grab
and Unreal or Unity engine, plug in and go. In some tragic ways, the
smarter those hackers were the quicker they found themselves on the
margins, or out on the scrap heap.

Like the music business, in the past 20 years the industry has
functioned by burning through a lot of aspirational talent. It leaves
a trail of broken hearts and dreams. As educators we have been
complicit in overselling it, and feeding it with souls.

You can always tell an industry is a hustle when the marketing machine
harps-on about how to "break into" it. Young people are made to feel
that if they were privileged to get a job it would have little to do
with their merits and talents, but their guile and grit. If you wanted
a job you had to "break in to", become a burglar. The hours and the
pay are much better. Maybe that's why many of the kids I taught to
code switched from chasing that rainbow to being hackers.
It's politics driven by access journalism, constant press releases, and simple covert placement of deceptive news stories in tiny outlets to allow larger outlets to amplify those stories under the guise of metareporting.

We're currently on the tail end of en engineered media panic about an epidemic of shoplifting.

That's just how things are going to be now, people are so cynical about all media that they don't believe anything that comes from anywhere other than their own personal fandoms. But their own fandoms are just injecting the same propaganda directly into their veins.

The thing that's been most astounding to me is that the most militant about Ukraine in the US seem to completely overlap with the most Democratic/Republican hyperpartisan types, and each characterize extreme concern about the sovereignty of Ukraine as something that their respective parties own, and identify lack of appropriate concern about the sovereignty of Ukraine with the opposite party; the Republicans are traitorous Trumpian Soviet spies who deserve execution or exile, and the Democrats are peacenik anti-interventionist cowards who are holding back the military.

I suspect that's an incidental observation - because the main thing that hyperpartisans and Ukraine hysterics have in common is extreme consumption of television news.

Which is why they're so much less concerned about Yemen (which has been pointed out a ton), and why they have no historical background on the situation (because you had to read to know about the constant attempts of NATO expansion to Ukraine and the obvious problems with that, it wasn't something you could just pick up while changing channels.) The analogies between NATO expansion to Ukraine and the Cuban Missile Crisis are lost on people who don't know why NATO exists, and who don't actually know about the Cuban Missile Crisis other than it had something to do with Cuba, missiles, and the Soviet Union.

This world is still the same world where decisions are made by royalty, and normal people die to help oligarchs jockey for relative position, but the degree to which murderous nationalistic/partisan rage can be stirred up in a plurality of the populace is intense, and instant.
An alternative perspective is that the lower performing teachers will relate more to the lower performing students, and the higher performing teachers will relate more to the higher performing students.

And, from a pure efficiency standpoint, we should absolutely seek to give every possible opportunity to those gifted students. For the lower performing kids, focus on teaching values and ethics, along with realistic and practical goals, to make up for any issues in their upbringing. I think attitude is as important as aptitude for the middle and lower end spectrum kids.
> Iraq? Evil dictator. Libya? Evil dictator.

Look at what Iraq and Libya is right now. Libya has literal slaves right now, I'm sure US feels pretty good about themselves. Heck Obama won a noble peace price for it.

US supported Pakistan in 1971 when Pakistan was committing mass genocide in East Pakistan (Bangladesh now). They overthrew a government that people wanted in Iran because that govt. was going to nationalize oil and take it away from western oil companies. These things have been happening forever in the third world, but because it's brown people dying, people didn't care as much.

Anyways my enitre point is again, it's dumb to blame an average Russian person for the actions of Putin like how it would be equally dumb to blame american person for the actions of US govt. and military industrial complex.
I just wish python would switch float and Decimal.

Most of the time float is just an implementation detail when you really want a decimal. I think the literals should be a decimal, and you could explicitly cast float when you actually need to do floating point math, or as an optimization. But I know it's too late for that.
Nothing. Accept your fate as it is. Living after such an event would be a hell anyways. So let the big random number generator in the sky decide for you.
This is bullshit. Most American news (left and right) is Entertainment and in that sense it IS actually quite fake. And that's to say nothing of the times MSM is outright lying. Trump calling out the fake news as fake was probably one of the best things he did with his time as president. At least some people woke up as a result. Before Trump, people would view publications like NYT and WaPo as fundamentally different than Fox News. Now, thankfully, many more people realize they are exactly the same. If anything, Fox News presents itself more honestly as news entertainment and NYT is more deceptive.
How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased from 1990–2020
Sorry, but no. An inverter uses switch-mode technology to enable voltage conversion. Usually this allows using small high-frequency transformers, rather than large 50/60Hz iron cored units. Which is why so many wall-warts use Inverters to step the voltage down.
> too bad for them, they just lost a sale

I think it's delusional to think they care any more than you do.
Ooooh yeah, got it. We have lower per-message prices for customers sending at scale. We have our own hard costs to account for, but we work hard to make sure Courier can fit into most teams' budgets.
> By allowing our governments to decide what's a lie / propaganda that's not allowed to be published

The headline "RT turns to Peter Thiel's Rumble after Big Tech companies block the network" tells us that private companies blocked the network, not the government.
Wonder if he learned his numbers with math manipulatives. [1]

[1] https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Et6_8IvPOW0/VEPMsOiyVAI/AAAAAAAAP...
I'm in the same boat and was hoping to refinance down the road as well. This is disappointing, but at least we have a roof over our heads.
> I wonder what people with kids think though, I don't have that experience but I imagine as long as schools are open working at home might be better?

The worst part, when they're young, is that it's very difficult-to-impossible to succesfully fight through traffic at evening rush hour to get home early enough while they are still awake (young kids sleep very early).
I would say that probability is 100%, having a corrupted system, with corrupted people and madmen, on all sides, it is not question of "will" but rather "when"...
What exactly is the bikeshed here? Naturally Python doesn't use the newest standards the second they are released because that would be chaos. So they need to consider when they use newer standards. In this case they found bugs and had a discussion that ended in everyone supporting adopting a newer standard.

What exactly do you feel is the "which color should the shed be" point of this discussion?