skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern is that with this, you're not just segregating Russia from the world, you're segregating the EU from the world. You're going to get a new Iron Curtain, only this time, the restrictions are going to be on both sides.
It does bother me and frankly I'm surprised by the lack of backlash.

That said, RT alone surely must have caused many Covid deaths due to the doubts about the vaccinations and other measures they have been spreading in the past years.
Isn't this just a repeat of the cold war where one side didn't trade with another? All while pointing enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 4 times over.

Not sure if this strategy is the safest option globally. Russia wants a buffer from nato give them some assurance.
I would assume the stats are basically the same, regardless of content, from experience with UX design and A/B testing these sorts of things.

I love hero images, but I get that on many sites it pushes the actual content below the fold, which isn't ideal.
https://youtu.be/nPM-QSCnNas
It's par for the course of snowflake really not understanding data visualization or how their end users need a UI to be (no find replace still for example!)
> I do think it's great to meet your coworkers so they're more than faces in Zoom, but I am absolutely never going back to rotting away in a car and office most of my waking week.

I feel the same way.

I have been remote for over 10 years but prior to that, it was another 10 in an office.

That included an hour commute each way, random downtime and interruptions.

I honestly have no doubt I am more productive now, given that was "leave at 7 AM get home at 7 PM".

There is no way in any given day I am getting less work done in 12 hours than I was then.

I will never again go back to bumper-to-bumper traffic on the expressway again, even if we end up in a race-to-the-bottom on salaries. QoL is more important to me now.
I've sent 10s of thousands of notifications to people on discord which at that rate is hundreds of dollars for a free user. At that price a lot of use cases are eliminated.
The previous regulation didn't ban broadcasting, or anything relating to it.

Re: "knowingly and intentionally," I will repost my comment <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30537459>:

> "Knowingly and intentionally" seems to apply to the operation (e.g. "you know that you're running a Tor node") - "circumvention" is on the basis of "object or effect". (For ESL speakers: "object" means "goal", "effect" means "result", and Tor obviously has a final, de-facto result of unblocking RT)
At Microsoft there were a lot of discussion lists for niche passions like paintballing (we drove out to the boonies and just pulled into the woods where some people had built bunkers). It was also my first job out of college, so my cohorts were all looking for friendships.

At Facebook I was part of a startup acquisition. Those members were battle buddies. Facebook also had a cultural value that you should bring your authentic self to work, which I think led to people bonding better. That or it’s because Facebook threw lots of parties with inappropriate amounts of alcohol
Upvote you and more!

I'm not going back to the office ever there's no need to.. the company I work for has experienced explosive growth since we went remote ..brought on and maintained 100 new hires.

If they try to force me I'll find something else!!

Cities are dying some cause of remote work but aren't we tired of the govt controlling our lives (Biden's remark of all remote workers must go back..ha lmao). Umm the solution is to innovate cities and offer programs for remote workers to come live there for three to six to 12 months ..have a startup that owns buildings in all cities for remote workers to live in and congregate as well let's them jump from town to town every many months. City living Innovation not more govt control/lame ideas is what is needed to spur the economies of cities and their future prosperity.
Where will you go when they block the VPNs?
> compare https://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/ytc/customer/ with the same company's same page in English https://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/ytc/en/

Interesting to see the english version has a stereotypical animated background image / hero banner, and the japanese version foregoes it.
Why it's called Ukraine, not Russia then? ZSSR stopped exsisting in 1990, thanks good as Im from Poland and ZSSR times were dark here.

Putin first shhould rename their country to ZSSR before trying to capture Ukraine. Otherwise the order doesnt make sense to invide Ukraine as this is independent country for last 30 years, same as Poland.

How people im Russia want old times back?
I have no desire whatsoever for any of those things - the world is interesting and any individual place for more than 6-12 months is boring. I do not understand how people can be satisfied with doing the same thing over and over again, and not lose the will to live. So this misunderstanding goes both ways.

If you want familiarity, “roots” and simplicity, knock yourself out. I don’t want that, and I want you to accept that I don’t want that, nor will I accept it for your convenience.
I know they turned off the trim. They turned it off when the airplane was too far nose down.

They had successfully brought it back to normal trim with the electric trim switches, which had overridden MCAS. Then, the trim gets turned off.

The 3rd crew that survived had no idea MCAS existed. All they knew was misbehaving trim => turn it off. They also had repeatedly used the electric trim switches to return trim to normal. Then they turned it off.

This procedure was documented in an Emergency Airworthiness Directive sent to all MAX pilots, including the EA crew.

The only skill required was to use the electric trim switches to restore normal trim, which all three crews did, and then turn it off.

The point is, it is not necessary to know why the trim is misbehaving, it was only necessary to know how to turn it off. Emergency procedures are like this - they're not debugging procedures, they're about regaining control. Save the debugging for the mechanics on the ground.

P.S. the LA crew restored normal trim 25 times, and never did turn it off.
I find it worrying. Even if Russia is in the wrong here, I do see an RT ban in particular as a dangerous move. Even in wartime I do think it's important to be willing to listen to the other side. They may be wrong about the big picture, but there could still be an interesting tidbit or two to takeaway. All this talk made be go check RT out and one thing I learned is that the flight ban has left Russian tourists stranded. Allowing them safe passage home does not seem unreasonable.

I also see it as turning up the tension in a way that may be hard to dial back down later. When you are cutting your self of from information, you are also cutting yourself of from the information that lets you reevaluate that decision.
Most of the studies I've seen that evaluate productivity are based on surveys given directly to the employees. I imagine workers have a lot of bias when asked to evaluate their own productivity, especially when there are significant personal benefits from working at home.
Have sanctions ever worked for that? Iran has been under strict sanctions for years - they haven’t removed their regime, but the people there do burn American flags in the streets… Also in Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea it doesn’t seem to have helped… I don’t have any better ideas, just doesn’t seem like sanctions really work at all as either a deterrent or punishment…
Cross platform used to mean, windows, mac, and linux. These days it is web, ios, android, windows, mac, and linux. In that order. And that's before you consider TVs, cars, and other equipment where apps are also relevant.

These days web is the new cross platform technology. It works everywhere. And mobile is where people focus for native apps. Windows is an afterthought at best. Mac even more. And Linux oddly is now a main source of open source applications that also work on windows and mac. But it's not a big market.

Unless you consider Android a linux distribution. In that case it's absolutely huge. And Java/Kotlin are the languages of choice on that platform. But they are compiled to native ahead of time so don't require a JVM.

Otherwise, Applet support for browsers died a long time ago so that blocked Java from being useful on the web. The JVM as distributed by Oracle (and other openjdk packagers) only really covers the traditional three desktop platforms. And it's not really native there and kind of heavy weight. That limits the appeal. Java is not really that cross platform anymore. Sun failed to anticipate and survive the move to smartphones. Up until then J2ME was a thing. These days almost no phone comes with Java support. That's the real reason Java usage on the desktop declined. It did not cover new platforms from about 2007 onwards.

Despite this there's a new JVM framework on the block: compose desktop. It uses skia (like flutter) and there's a mobile variant supported by Google called jetpack compose. And a web variant called compose web. IOS support is missing. But that looks like it might be addressed at some point.
Most SaaS developers aren't serving APIs to their clients, they are serving websites and web applications.

Applications have state. In order to render and deliver the application, the server needs to have some concept of what that state is.
I always wondered if part of it was due to japanese smartphones.
Has an only SSO signup site ever been worth breaking that rule? It's usually the result of a quickly thrown together site.
^ Because if we don’t remove Russia from the world completely we are approving their invasion and keep the door open for further invasions. Only solution is to segregate whole country and all their allies from the world until they remove their leaders from positions of power

How can you even think about segregating Russia, if China and India aren't onboard? Yes, these two countries are not going to sanction Russia. Or do you want China and India sanctioned too, remember if you sanction everybody then you are sanctioning yourself.
On a more serious note though, my hunch is it's about the trajectory
This is an overly broad reading. The hypothetical Tor operator's object (i.e. intent) is to run a Tor node, the contents of which they are entirely agnostic to (and may be formally agnostic to, if the traffic is additionally encrypted).

To use some abductive reasoning, think about how this would apply generally: the law is clearly not written to ban encryption, even though your interpretation would suggest that any encryption amounts to intentional circumvention. If that sounds wrong to you, it's because you've confused the intent/object that the law is concerned with.
The big one in my experience is it doesn't play well at all with JavaScript. Single file to my knowledge (I experimented with it briefly) allows all js to load on page and can then embed loaded media as base64. I think it also has heuristics to embed relevant js as well. It still only gets you 90% of the way there, and I came to the conclusion that unless you are doing web archive type work or need audio / video a composite image works well
> how little work they are actually doing

Are you sure they were doing more work while in office?
BCH is essentially the same protocol as Bitcoin (BTC), but possibly safer (in that your transaction is never relegated to a 2nd-layer protocol like Lightning, with private nodes) and much cheaper, so if you are familiar with Bitcoin, you don't have to learn a new system or any funny quirks. And it's pretty universally accepted at every exchange and wallet.

Not saying it is better than the other options presented (and definitely not recommending it as an investment) but BCH does work quite well for transacting.
> And then... yeah, you can't directly apologize and take responsibility because that would cost you a fortune

The system is truly working when you can just play dumb and rest easy knowing everyone you screwed is too poor to do anything about the situation in court
What assurances do they need? Western world has had peace for decades and only Russians have been the aggressors in any form. They are not getting any kind of buffer in fact do to this invasion they have forced Finland and Sweden to join NATO or face the same fate as Ukraine within the next decade.
Funny you mention that. I co-wrote Swing Hacks for O’Reilly in 2005 and I still get about 50$ A year in royalties. So someone must still be writing Swing Apps.
If you ran a tor node and piped the content of RT to newpipetoRT.com you're in violation, but having a tor node might be comparable to operating a ham radio relay. If someone in Moscow transmitted RT encrypted over radio and decrypts it in Germany, the radio relay wouldn't necessarily be in violation.

We live in a networked world. There's an unbroken physical connection between your hardwired ISP connection and every device connected to Russia (less so with starlink and woman and 5g, but still. )

It's resilient by design, and damaging that, even for good reasons, has secondary consequences.

Going after tor nodes would be overreaching and shortsighted.
I think UIUX is culture & context & device dependent. For example, Japanese had smartphones long before iPhone/Android phones got any significant market share.
This is like telling someone to solve their engineering problems by being smarter.
The 7% inflation number is measured as an increase in prices in consumer goods. Used car prices are up >30% and are a significant piece of consumer spending.
Why is YouTube "fucking shitty"? And why then if it were so that this content could never be available anywhere else (since _any_ storage cloud service could host it)? I think your answers to the second will counteract the first
I'm a digital nomad. Should I renounce my US citizenship?
> You make it seem like the US no longer has an issue when there's an entire class of people who are not being educated, has high crime, and ending in mass incarceration.

It’s the fault of liberalism. It’s also the fault of conservatives pushing disadvantaged minorities into the arms of liberals (often against their own cultural inclinations) but the root cause is liberalism. History of course plays a role, but liberalism is what perpetuates the problem generation after generation.

A stark realization I had after having my own kids is that my democrat-voting immigrant parents were deeply conservative, from child discipline to staying in an unhappy marriage to avoid any disruption to their kids staying “on track.” The biggest advantage immigrants have is that even when they’re democrats they’re not raised with liberal American attitudes.
Wow, someone is still using Flying Saucer? That brings back such memories. I'm glad to know it helped some people.
Well, not as surprising as it would have been, if, as the title seemed to imply, that radioactive decay itself was affected by humidity.
We don’t need Russia. Even China has told Russia to stop the war. Only thing Russia has is gas and we shouldn’t be using fossil fuels anyway. Building of new green nuclear plants should have already been started. If you have fucked that up (like Germans) then that means you need to start hurrying
Having experience with these platforms, they wane in comparison to the gem that What was. It wasn't just a repository / archive, it was also a thriving community.

However, we need to move on. These are currently probably the best alternatives, so thank you for pointing these out. It's just What was too damned good.
Taiwan hit by widespread power outages
It seems to me that large parts of the world -are- at war with Russia. And, importantly, we manage to put a lot of pressure on the enemy without getting even more people killed.
Point reference - I try to block RT on YouTube but videos are being sprinkled into recommended list and I try to click to not show this channel anymore, but it persists. Real annoying, if I have autoplay their vids would jump on the list as well as I am preoccupied. Not sure how they are gaming YT algo.
I responded to the second part above, below your linked comment.

For the first: broadcasting is an intentional media activity. You're right that this new regulation adds a ban, but it's not clear that said ban undermines the intent required in Article 12.

To be clear: it's a form of government censorship. But, on my reading, it's not a particularly broad form or itself a stepping stone to banning Tor. The EU seems perfectly content to broach that problem with separate regulation.
Looks great! Congrats on building it! How long did it take ? And how big of a team ?
There's no evidence of "taking" major cities, even official propaganda is tentative about Kherson using words like "officials says". Kyiv is definitely not surrounded even 50%.
I hate that innocent Russians are suffering from this and will suffer for years to come. But even if the sanctions won't help overthrow the regime, they will certainly make it harder for Russia to keep funding their war.
Hundreds of Covid trials could provide a deluge of new drugs
Similarly, even if you work hard and believe in yourself, you will never find that ONE card you need to synergize your entire deck

Then again, forcing yourself to look for cards that adhere to an StS archtype is a beginners trap itself.
Glibc, libasound and other key libraries have poor compatibility history, which can be seen from their sonames:

libc.so.6
libasound.so.2
libfreetype.so.6
libX11.so.6

Each glibc/ALSA soname bump can spell death to entire generation of binary software.

In theory, you can link libX11, openssl and other important libraries statically, but many developers don't do it, because of weird concerns about "security", "compatibility" etc.

Compare it to Windows, where libraries like kernel32, user32 and gdi32 remained stable for decades and statically linking to them is unnecessary by design.
>“There was essentially a de facto ban on the domestic dissemination of materials originating from the State Department,” said Weston Sager, an attorney who published a paper on the change in law. Under the new law, it is still against the law for government-funded media to create programming and market their content to U.S. audiences.

>During consideration of the bill, critics voiced concern that lifting the restrictions could result in information designed to influence foreign audiences being used against American citizens. Proponents countered that the ban made it difficult for Americans to access and evaluate this content.

- Associated Press

https://apnews.com/article/archive-fact-checking-7064410002
Teen Who Tracked Elon Musk’s Jet Is Now Chasing Russian Tycoons
This is kinda required reading!

Also, while it's really talking about stuff going on at its own time, War with the Newts is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_with_the_Newts
> lce cream a McD is a loss-leader (soft serve) or minor line item (McFlurrys)

This is why the franchisee has little incentive to keep them functioning until there's a competitor next door? I don't know if it has to even do with the whole Kryst debaucle
Yep. I use the executive function capacity that I have and I work to increase that capacity over time. But pushing too far past that capacity leads to, you guessed it, burn out.

+1 to the preachiness. You have done zero to help me or anyone else with your comment, GP. But it probably made you feel good to sneer at me.

I hope you get to work 100% remote for the rest of your career though.

edit: for those interested in the empirical science available around discipline, willpower, executive function, I point you to Dr. Huberman who has an INCREDIBLE podcast about these subjects: https://youtu.be/vA50EK70whE
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So Canada and Mexico?
As a member of the Swing/JavaFX/Netbeans teams during the 2005-2010 period (I left the day before Oracle took over), I can tell you that this story is broadly correct, but with many missing subtleties. At the time we thought of Silverlight and Flash and Adobe Air as our mortal enemies. We were all wrong. After AJAX and HTML Canvas the web essentially killed desktop app development. All of those internal corporate apps (which were 95% of the desktop Java apps written) migrated to the web. We certainly all made mistakes and could have done some things differently (I begged to write the Applet plugin from scratch), but in the end none of those changes would have mattered. The future of desktop was the web.
So you have no idea how much it is actually used, and it's only been around a few years - and that means it's a viable replacement for central banks?
because customers drive in to purchase the loss leader, and even when unavailable will purchase alternate items
You always have to fight with incompetency in any large codebase.

Incompetency exists the most in whatever the first thing that coders learn is.

I'm old enough to remember when that was c++, then it was java, php, ruby, jquery, now it's react.

It's always a trade-off. You can build things in the "cheapest" language (whatever the first one currently is) but then you'll inevitably get the cheapest code

That's really what this conversation is about in the long arc of coding

Skills and people are a pyramid. The more competency you demand the harder the people are to find.

We have this tendency to taint the tool by the users.

Incidentally after a language or tool loses "first learned" status it generally slowly regains its prestige.

We don't assume a c++ shop is a bunch of morons any more or that using php means you write nothing but garbage. One day vue/react/whatever will lose its first language status as well and I'll be here reading about something that might not have been invented yet being a trashy bad no good idea

Ultimately the technical merits are mostly cover for a conjecture of economic efficiency. There's a reason why people aren't defending things like applications built with Go/wasm bridges - those people are expensive
Yes, it is my job as a software developer to distribute software to my users. Having distributions pick-up my software and distribute it themselves is a plus, but until my application has thousands of users that won't happen.

And in order to reach that "thousands of users" my users do need to be able to actually use my application (open source or not); this means either I or them has to do all that work...

So yes, one needs to "have experience in creating and maintaining packages for every distribution that exists"; or as I've proposed, just skip all this hassle and provide single binary executables for the platforms (not distributions) that one supports.
It's like the queen of hearts in the Tim Burton remake of Alice in Wonderland (seems unique to this particular interpretation?). Everyone in her court has some sort of exaggerated physical feature, because she requires it. They all therefore have fake noses, chins, etc. It's all this fake world where they keep sniffing eachothers farts all day saying its perfume, and somehow a constructive feedback loop forms that takes the whole thing off thr rails.
I don’t believe anyone wants to escalate things to nuclear conflict. I don’t believe Putin has a literal button, there are logical people in the chain that would prevent such an escalation.

However in the non-zero chance that I’m wrong if humanity self annihilates then that will have been the story of us in the progression of the universe and time will march on without us which is what it is. In such a future we won’t be around to ponder it so it doesn’t matter.

So I guess my coping mechanism is pragmatic realism about only worrying about things that are within my ability to influence.

I’d recommend for you though only reading the news once a day for 15 mins and absolutely no social media or 24 hour news tv (especially any 24 hour news in the US) as anxiety is a reinforcing spiral and you sound like you need a detox.