skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that it's China vs west-aligned countries, as an individual country it's a huge percentage, but if 78% of your trade depends on dollars/wire transfers/etc that's going to dominate
seriously. If I'm not even messaging a manager for over 24 hours to say hi, it better be because I got hit by a bus and am in a coma. Participation is the bare bones minimum if someone is paying you to do work.
They produce graphene from burning stuff. Where do you live where most things that burn don't contain carbon?
Turn things to graphene that otherwise would just be garbage.

You have enough compost? Send it to countries where deserts destroy farmland.
> Water molecules block 2.4Ghz spectrum that WiFi uses.

This isnt really true to any significant degree that matters, unless you are literally under water.

Rain fade is a thing, but is really only meaningful above 10GHz.

edit: I should note, its not that water droplets dont attenuate radio signals, its just that losses on a typical radio path are already huge in perfectly clear weather - you might lose 99.99999999% (100dB) or more of your signal strength between transmitter and receiver anyways.
> no one has made highly comfortable yet very inexpensive N95 masks

Because faces have a huge range of variance so the only solution is custom make masks. Technologies like additive manufacturing could solve this but like all new technologies it will take time to bring the cost down. So really, why don't they make cheaper 3D printers? So simple!

> no one has invented a fool-proof vaccination that completely prevents infection

Literally impossible!

> No one has innovated a cost effective way to update office ventilation properly, and workspaces to prevent the spread of contaminants

I do think this hits a large point because I see it from the perspective of business. Much like FAANG, if a competitor came out with a better, cheaper product just buy them and destroy the product. Free market at it's finest.
I love him so much!
Another of those situations where I want to upvote your comment and downvote the world we live in, because it's terribly likely.
And how we use our cell phones has undergone a sea change since 2010, though their form factor hasn’t changed dramatically since then.
From what I've read the Russians said that they didn't use this type of vehicle in that location and it didn't carry their markings. But see my other comment to parent.
Russia's Attack on Japan During World War II Guaranteed U.S. Victory (2019)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/saudi-arabia-...
I was unaware we were scoping advice solely to high earning not yet wealthy ("HENRYs") employees. I give this same advice to everyone. Kids are a luxury good, not a necessity.
(Assuming this is sarcasm)

I am not saying that you can't take a break and do stuff that has nothing to do with problem solving. My point is that once you've built that mindset of system thinking and automating tasks, combined with skills that allow you to actually implement the routines needed for a given task, you will find it hard to not optimize daily toil.

I am not saying that this applies to everyone, but it most definitely applies to everyone I know that decided to "give up and live on a farm".
It's a puzzle:

"Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability."
> and they'd be concerned with people who try to strike up a "friendship" with an employee just so they can backdoor access to an account

They should be concerned about this enough to change that policy even without it being generally known
We don't need to go as far back as Iraq.

The Saudis have been waging an offensive war for years in Yemen. Yet there hasn't been a single peep about cutting them off SWIFT, sanctioning their royal oligarchs, freezing their western assets, etc, etc.

It seems to send a message that yes, repressive petrostate dictatorships can get away with waging offensive wars... Well, at least some of them can.
It did that for me too. I can't see why though when looking at the HTML.

<form name="Cerca" method="get" action="index.php">
<input type="text" name="sur" size="8">
<input type="submit" name="s" value="Search">
</form>

Maybe it is a bug in Chrome.
Sidenote: regardless of the merits of the book or its criticisms I thought this was a funny line: "This book is a weak one professionally. Factually, it is so bad as to be beyond criticism. "
"What is NATO’s purpose? What is its function?

Any minimally-honest answer would acknowledge that NATO exists as an antagonist to Russia."

NATO was created after World War II so that Soviet domination of Eastern Europe would not extend to Western Europe. Now it exists so that Russia will not reconquer the former Soviet republics and members of the Warsaw pact. The Soviet Union invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the Cold War to put down resistance. NATO never attacked anyone in Europe.

Ukraine shows what happens to countries near Russia that are not part of NATO.
That was the worst manager I've ever worked for. He also never pronounced my name right even after I told him, so he can go f** off. Still triggers me to this day :D

He pulled the SEO requirement at the last minute, since he would not invite the technical people to decision meetings.
Recently had a co-op who would argue with you about literally anything; even if they were literally just wrong.

Something went down, contact X.

Coop: X isn't the same company. It should be Y.

No seriously, same person. Contact either will be same person.

Coop: Same name, different people. I need contact information for X.

No seriously, same person.

Coop: I called some absolutely third party and they didnt know who I was talking about.

So what are you going to do now? You really need to contact X. The sooner the better.
Well, what about then cutting all supplies of Motorola radios and services/spares to the Russian police? https://ibb.co/K98JW3T
> No one has innovated a cost effective way to update office ventilation properly,

Ventilation is building infrastructure, and building infrastructure is difficult. To use a software analogy, it's sort of like saying, "Why hasn't someone found a cost effective way to update mainframe software to support Unicode?" Basically, there's a lot of it, most of it's custom, and you have to work around things on a case-by-case basis. And a greenfield replacement is expensive. There are buildings in New York where the central heating dates back a century, and most of the people with the expertise to maintain it are over 70. (And they're second-generation legacy maintainers in some cases.) There's no cheap or easy way to update these buildings with better ventilation. Your best bet might be window units, but that poses plenty of challenges, too.

EDIT: Another commenter suggested HEPA filters, which may work for central air (if circulation is already good enough), or if you place them in standalone room units. I think the science on the latter looker promising when last I looked?

> no one has made highly comfortable yet very inexpensive N95 masks,

I've been pretty happy with the KF-94s from South Korea. I bought 20 masks each from several brands, tried them on, and ordered a big box of my favorites. Depending on your goals, there are also good N95s and KN-95s.

One of the challenges here is that many people want masks that work, and that means some kind of certification or inspection. But this means that most countries tend to standardize on one basic mask design backed up by government enforcement.

> no one has invented a fool-proof vaccination that completely prevents infection

This is a genuinely hard problem. Immunology is super complex, and every disease works differently. The particular challenge with coronaviruses, as I understand it, is that they reproduce in the nose extremely soon after initial infection. Mucosal antibodies have certain limitations compared to other antibodies, and it's hard for the body to ramp up a defense inside of 24 to 36 hours.

But we have just seen the golden age of vaccine innovation.
That's the hope, but it also feels a lot like Germany after WWI. Sometimes cutting countries off from your sphere of influence and being overly harsh just ends up radicalizing people more. It's strange to me how little discussion this seems to warrant from people.
If true, this effect is underappreciated while everybody's focusing on whether it's an act with implications for NATO. According to that commentator it could impact 1.5 million barrels/day of Russian oil, since now only Russian state-owned vessels would be able to ship it.
Spanish site has a link to the Portuguese one - https://www.mapadeapellidos.eu/en/ - list of countries under the map
Could a mine have broken loose from its anchor and drifted into the ship?
Replace your router and buy the new router from a brick and mortar. Don’t trust any of your existing hardware.
> We start investigating based on presumptions

No, you start investigating based on available facts.
I think I'm just going to have to get rid of Samsung instead. They've been acting more and more user-hostile, and I think it's time to start looking for an alternative.
They do care that it works. That's the point being discussed.
In the same vein it's possible that the Russians decided that they don't want that ship to possibly resupply the Ukrainians and therefore decided to shoot it. We won't know for sure until the dust settles.
> Have we simply stopped the process of innovating new things that solve problems?

This is a great example of support for Betteridge's law of headlines.
This. Same scenario here, fondly remember 1080ti, that was the workhorse for us alongside cloud training (startup with ~100 nlp prod models, ner, siamese, count models, etc). ULMFiT and language transfer was the moment when upgrades felt necessary though 2080ti’s vram unfortunately stayed the same (never had access to Titans for instance so perspective may be limited).
> Only pay for what you use.
> Cartridges ship for free.

You pay for the device upfront, then a fee per drink. That’s it… all consumables are free, shipped and recycled by the company.
I did not read that same interpretation of the article. The first question was not the problem, but the sum of the incessant questions. Sure, the first question can be a good indicator for what is to follow, but I would politely suggest not letting this article stoke your confirmation bias.
If something is a pain in the ass to document, it is probably not very clear. Hugo has a bit too much implicit magic that feels unnecessary. It wouldn't have killed us users if things were a bit more explicit.

Every time I restructure how I do my personal website I get a strong urge to sit down and write a more disciplined static website generator. (Don't worry. I won't. I don't have that kind of spare time on my hands). Obviously one that has fewer degrees of freedom so as to make theming meaningfully possible. Because Hugo themes aren't really themes. They are more like applications where your website probably isn't going to work without a lot of hacking.
This is what peertube does. That's why you can watch videos normally despite most not being popular.
That sounds really nice!
> Seems like he's in a "only way out is through" situation.

He is but Russia isn't.
Same situation and attitude on my part. It doesn’t happen often, but when someone is not getting my email (usually hotmail or some other garbage provider) I tell them to complain to their email provider or get a new one. My mail is going out, my server logs show everything is OK, and I will not jump through hoops to prove that I am not a spammer (I already jumped through the DKIM, etc. hoops).
If this had happened to me I would be thinking the wifi/router had been hacked and someone was doing evil things with the connection/bandwidth.

BTW that google problem happens to every old account before they required phone number backup.
The Mueller report showed some involvement but did not say the election results were illegitimate and there were a large amount of democrats who continue to claim this election result is not legitimate.

(FWIW I don't like trump but I still believe he would have won 2016 with or without Russia, its a cop out to blame Russia for that)

We literally had Democrat senators saying "rioting is the voice of the streets"(AOC), and calling Kyle Rittenhouse a domestic terrorist, whole portions of cities in democrat run cities were given to anarchist militias like in CHAZ and were flippantly calling these groups "peaceful" while they engaged in looting, arson, and attacking police officers.
My implication was that Ukraine would damage it (but not officially to avoid pissing people off).
wow nice solution, saw this on 538 and couldn't think of any clever solution.
There's a tangent behavior where people are difficult because it gives them power/control. You add just enough interpersonal friction and people will do it your way. It's similar to the described scenario - nothing is good enough and there's always a justification.

I've found it an incredibly hard behavior to manage with no good outcomes. People acting in good faith just need to align on the allowed variance and the issue's done.
We tried to keep our testing workflow as flexible as possible. There's a couple of use-cases that we wanted to allow:

- User is working with a pre-trained model that already went through extensive testing during training. In this case our test utilities are useful as e2e tests. Once you integrate the model into your handler, you can specify a bunch of test cases to be sure your API is going to behave as expected (like a unit test).

- User wants to train the model on our platform - they can add error metrics directly in their training script and prevent the model from being saved if any error metric exceeds a certain threshold. They can then additionally use the test.py script to run tests against the model + handler.
Yup, i'm suggesting get a job, and drop the project for 6 months. It won't go anywhere.
I wonder if optical communications (with lasers or similar technology) would be a better choice in this situation, given that there is line of sight. With WiFi you are mostly limited by the legal requirements regarding transmit power.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communicati....
While this is a pretty cool project it's also a great way to ruin free message history.

(Not really blaming OP, this was inevitable)
That is a good post. Likewise the situation in Ukraine could have been avoided. Compromise was needed. Both parties weren’t willing. Now both are suffering.
This is complete nonsense. I can easily think of an example from the past week where a Republican controlled state is attacking transgender children and their parents to score political points with the Republican base. It is absurd to claim that equal rights in America is a settled topic or a non-issue.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-transgender-care-lawsuit-...
I suspect what the VCs say will have an impact too.
That's not even the worst part.

Another proposition is to send anti-war protesters to war “so that they can see what's actually going on”.
This sounds a lot like the difference between communicating with a subordinate and with a superior (and those “on your level” often behave as superiors).
Not even that. I am a German myself, and I can tell our heating habbits are on a luxurious level. It is very common in Germany to heat the full house/appartment 24/7 to a comfy level just so you can walk around in light/comfy closes. It is common to not wear thick closes at home and especially not in bed etc. Gas is also used for the water boiler, and it is considered "standard" to shower every day.

Now, if I go back to the generation of my grandparents and to some extend even my parents when they were in their childhood, that was unheard of. You would only heat the main living room during cold winters, and the family would gather. For sleeping you wore pyjamas plus socks etc, and you took a tin with hot potatoes to bed. Showering was not a thing, you would wash daily and maybe bathing on Sundays.

Now that annoys me a little about the whole "Germany needs gas from Russia urgently!" narrative. If you cut out gas for heating/boiling (not electricity), not a single german will die this winter, or next winter. We will lose a lot of comfort, and might have to change our habbits, but we do not have siberian grade winters where having no heating means having to freeze to death.
Live Vote Count of New York Times Tech Guild
So the comments that were disagreed with enough to be downvoted to obscurity or sometimes even moderated out of sight entirely represent the entire community?

This happens a lot with comments like "HN is toxic" or in a more mainstream sense "gamers are toxic", and it just makes me sad.
What? A coworker did these things? Saying that information is not clear, whatever you try? How 'bout if your project manager behaves like this. Because of a combination of being incompetent and trying to cover that up by shifting blame. Well that's the situation I'm currently in right now and it is very stressful, it feels there's nowhere out, apart from updating your LinkedIn profile...
With enough energy and access to sea water you can desalinate I guess
36 Cities in the world will be the first to sink underwater
People forget that stealing is a form of radical self-reliance
The surgeon general calls on Big Tech to turn over Covid-19 misinformation data
> “If Zoom were the default and someone just invented face to face, it would seem like an amazing step forward.”

That's a fairly biased way of phrasing it though...

How about:

If Zoom was the default and someone invented that you have to get up two hours earlier every day, get prepared, go sit in traffic for 90 minutes, then at the end of the day keep watching traffic info to see when you can leave which ends up being 8pm to avoid a 2 hour commute and then get home at 9pm, kids already sleep so you don't see them, crash in bed for that early,early start again tomorrow.

Yeah, not feeling like a step forward when the full picture is painted.
Maybe it’s just me, but I notice a difference in response from the author that I personally try to avoid. To me these two things:

> There are no docs for [this thing you're doing].

And:

> Coworker: I have (specific concern) about [thing you're doing]. I couldn't find anything about it in that group post or on the wiki.

Would receive a somewhat similar response. Sure it’s annoying when people can’t find something, or when they don’t bother looking, but we also work in a field where someone might ask you something in a very hostile sounding way simply because they aren’t very skilled socially.

Telling them “yes there is”, sort of escalates the conflict in my book and while it’s totally understandable (and I’ll do this myself on my less good days) it’s also just asking for things to go south. Which is something I have learned not to waste time on.

If they continue being hostile after you respond openly, helpful and defusing, then sure, they can go fuck themselves. Just be sure that you use the corporate-speak fuck you instead of what you actually want to say to keep your hands clean.
Covid mitigation doesn't have a market?

Improving social media without taxing content creators (and crediting and paying creators fairly) doesn't have a market?

Making music streaming fair to artists doesn't have a market?

Improving the quality of consumer goods on a wide-scale-basis doesn't have a market?

Not creating tons of toxic landfills filled with discarded lithium batteries from electric cars doesn't have a market?

Not wasting tons of resources, money, and not polluting the environment for space tourism in favor of improving education and living conditions of third world countries... Doesn't have a market?

These aren't just "individual personal" concerns.

We don't need gradual global transformation in my opinion. We need more drastic and game-changing innovation towards better goals.
Aside the medical misfortunes your story is absolutely typical. The
games industry has a tragic problem with churn. I see eager CS
graduates go off to "get into games". Within a few years they get out,
bitter and burned, and go into more regular jobs in medicine, defence,
finance or whatever.

It's called the 20:20:20 rule.

Only 20 percent of creative projects ever get to the production stage
Of those, only 20 percent complete production. And of those, 20
percent get through marketing and publishing to become "titles".

That means if you are put into a team on a new creative project it has
a roughly 0.8% chance of being sold online, and then you can tell all
your friends about it.

There are two further problems. One is that projects like games or
films take about 2 years to complete. That means it's likely your
first project will get canned. And your second. And your third. I
have spoken to devs in the game business 6 or more years into their
careers who have never seen a title release.

If you are lucky to have a successful title and get into the "pop"
stream, then it's more likely you'll get onto a team destined to have
another success, and a positive success loop can begin. Just like the
film or music business, that can take you 10 or 15 years.

The second is that creative people really need validation and
feedback. Each time a management team kill a project it's a
gut-wrenching experience for creative developers. Unlike music or the
theatre where you might play out a few bad nights before a show is
pulled you lose everything in a single stroke. Often for "intellectual
property" or "reputational" reasons they want to bury the entire
project assets and act like it never even happened. This leads
creatives to get depressed.

I've seen a lot of it and now warn students about "getting into games"
or any other industry that subsidises 99.2% of dead-end misery with
obscene profits it makes on 0.8% of mega-successes. But that's just
the Pareto mathematics of high-risk creative work.
İ also have experience building a CDN, tho not for video, and this sound right.

I wonder if this might be improved by an appointment system, to stream popular titles at pre-planned times so that people could benefit from others watching at the same time.

It would be like watching a broadcast television program during prime time.

I guess this has been tried before but also never heard of it
I don't know. Something like, throw Ukraine (yes I know it is a terrible thing ...) to the wolfs and maybe only field NATO infantry to the Baltic states (no armor or planes).

The important part is to give the Russian state a fake victory. They know it is fake. We know it. But it is still a victory.

Prepare for a post-Putin Russia and prevent chaos when he dies by economic support and a hug. We don't want those nukes in the hand of a regional warchief ...
It just seems like a chicken and egg thing. How can you identify activity that led to account bans on a new account that hasn't been banned yet?
Same here. I have a scaffold I use, with a tsconfig and some other common boilerplate.

Personally I avoid using big frameworks like nest, etc. and just use my simple boiler plate and add functionality I'll need.

Most of the boilerplate I've seen on github are (imo) awfully bloated.
Reminds me of http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
The world is burning, carbon emissions are increasing despite a global pandemic, democracy is in backslide, and I'm doing stupid shit that really doesn't matter. My children will grow up in a hotter, thirstier, more dangerous world. Nothing I'm doing is going to improve this.

My job is cush. I work remote. I make good money. But I stare blankly at the screen and just can't bring myself to care. I eye climatebase and naturetech a lot, though.
IIRC it looked like a BMP backing up into a roadway. If it was buttoned up then at best the vehicle commander might have a glimpse of a car. The driver never saw it, just felt a shift in vehicle level. If it was Ukrainian I don't see an excuse to fail to have a ground guide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_development