skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This echoes my experience as well, but from a freelance perspective rather than as an employee. About 20 years of web development experience with hundreds of projects. Some were excellent, hopeful projects that legitimately helped people. Most were not. Regardless, there are maybe 3-5 of them left, and it's hard to say if _any_ of the code I've written on them is still there.

The majority of my last ten years have gone toward start-ups, and the timelines toward EOL are generally even shorter - at least until we hit something out of the park. At the very least the days are exciting, the problems are interesting, and the distance between myself and the end user is very short.
Going to a conference for a keynote or an individual seems like a bad way to make spending or time decisions.
What about +10 -7? Do you have a mental model for negative numbers?
I was in high school when the US invaded Iraq and around that time I went skiing in Quebec with a friend. We spent the weekend in the city and, while exploring, accidentally got caught up in what felt like a pretty big protest against the American invasion of Iraq. Looking back it was actually a fairly small and very tame protest but I was just a kid and it was totally unexpected so it was scary. And it really changed my worldview. It was my very first time ever leaving the country and I hadn’t expected Canadians, of all people, to be “anti-American” in any way. It was also the first time it had occurred to me that what the US was doing could even possibly be wrong. The thought had not even crossed my mind.

It’s important to have a friend who will tell you when you’re being an asshole.
In the Context of politics being preference:

“ He and his pals are flat-out pushing anti-trans agendas that accuse parents of children seeking gender-affirming treatment of child abuse.”

Isn’t this, by definition, a very debatable topic with pros and cons that have to be weighed. Where one comes down, I.e. their preference for policy on this, will be informed by their background and biases.

E.g. it isn’t entirely obvious that we should give minors, who legally can not consent to many activities, access to ethically untestable non-reversible treatments.

These issues are actually the purpose of politics. E.g. it is a feature of the system that there is debate on implementing the preferences of a democracy.
Made switch case with nesting for Python in Python
Is it legal to publish a range? Is it legal if that range is something like "between zero and infinity"?

A similar law exists in Slovakia, and most companies already shamelessly use this loophole. If everyone puts in small print that their salary is "€1 or more, depending on your skills", people soon learn to ignore it, and everything is just like it was before.
I just don't understand why you think this matters. Even if the relative permeability were as high as, say, 2, it would only move the 500 uT effect radius by some tens of centimetres. But just from common sense, it must be several orders of magnitude less than that, because otherwise your compass wouldn't work near the ocean. In practice, you need a very sensitive instrument to even measure the relative permeability of water, which already means that it's completely negligible for the purposes of this discussion. Wikipedia quotes water's permeability as 0.999992.

By that measure, an eighty-times stronger argument against the researchers' due diligence would be "how do they know the cable isn't actually carrying 1599 amps? Did they measure the current?"
From https://www.ontario.ca/page/apply-ohip-and-get-health-card

"There is no longer a waiting period for OHIP coverage. If you are eligible, you will have immediate health insurance coverage. Find out if you qualify."
It's a reference to a famous surrealist painting:

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

My artist girlfriend shared this with me once, and I'm happy to be able to pay it forward. haha
How much power can car cigarette lighters deliver? These are usually 12V, and what 5A or so? So 60W of power?
organizations have a very hard time keeping legitemacy/integrity. there's rarely real pressure to right wrongs, to get the workforce feeling invested in the org.

the Gervais principle is an all too often true framing but with organizations getting bigger and bigger, more massive conglomerates taking the lions share of business, the distance grows. and i personally think more people are awakening to the ridiculousness of the situation. Adam Curtis calls this having to accept & pretend while seeing the slow motion catastrophe "Hyper Normalization."

personally i want to think enabling smaller group empowerment is helpful, as is creating a more dynamic less static set of pairings for people. putting people on multiple groups may alao help. all this goea against the managerial desire for certainty, predictability, the push to de-risk. personally i'd like some orgs to show the bravery to try something, anything else.
Occam's razor they struck a mine
There's a relevant joke, you've probably heard it before:

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A guy walking along the beach finds a bottle. He pulls out the cork, and a genie appears and tells him he has three wishes. "But," the genie says, "I have to warn you, whatever you receive, your worst enemy will get twice as much as you."

"OK," says the guy, "first, I want ten million dollars." The genie grants the wish and reminds him that his worst enemy now has twenty million dollars.

"Next wish, I want a thirty-room mansion in the Bahamas." The genie builds the mansion for him, and lets him know that his worst enemy now has a home twice as big.

"Fine. For the last wish," the guy picks up a big stick and hands it to the genie, "beat me HALF to death."

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The countries that trade with China can survive 15-25% of their trade evaporating, albeit with some pain. Maybe less than we think - most of what China exports is available from other nations. On the other hand, China's economy cannot weather 80% of its trade market disappearing.

I certainly hope it never comes to this. Military adventurism in Taiwan could trigger it. Mass civilian casualties in Ukraine could trigger more severe "no trade with anyone that trades with Russia" sanctions. I'd like to think that the Chinese would be just as disgusted as we would be and join the coalition voluntarily, but who knows.
> Very fundamental rule number one: Only build something AFTER you sell it FIRST.

This usually applies to random apps but it does not generalize to every class of software, for a few different reasons. Strategies need to be appropriate for the specific market.

You'll always need to sell, but selling first is a poor move for some products.
That and a bunch of Syrian mercenaries who had a curiously easy time getting from Syria to Artsakh. Huh. Weird. Probably nothing.
Are you suggesting killing innocent people is somehow more righteous if a the area is not democratic?

Didn't the USA carpet bomb many places in the Middle East with drones?

Again, not to create a false equivalency but I believe the OPs point is that shouldn’t Americans be ostracized?
I think the plan now is precisely to develop that infrastructure.
tnat doesnt solve the problems it just makes the stakes higher.
I think so. I worked at a company that was building out a pretty complex system with a front end using React + typescript a few years back, I don't think typescript gave them 1% of the grief that they had with other parts of the system...
I've noticed this as a general pattern, when someone doesn't like plan X or doesn't want to do X, but the reason they give is bogus. And when you point out why it's bogus, they offer a series of other bogus reasons. Sometimes they are ultimately persuaded, and sometimes they land on a real reason, and sometimes they just wind up saying they just don't like it.

But no matter what, the series of bogus reasons (bogus German: vielenscheingründe) is a waste of everyone's time, and I wonder why people do it. Are they just doing it to stall while they wait for the hamster wheel in their head to offer up their real objection?
Maybe we can kick ICANN off of the internet and switch to another provider. Nerds, make it happen.
Chelsea Manning may be a better comparison since the US actually sentenced her, but even then that was about a leak with classified information rather than just punishing the press for being critical of the government. And she was arrested and served time (7 years?) and then got out, while coming out as transgendered (imagine going through that in Russian prison). It's not ideal, but it could be taken as an example of how much better it is in the US also.
I mean, ok. Sure. But I had a really bad vibe reading the article too. Maybe the tone of voice, maybe the "jump off the pier" valediction ... My gut feeling is I wouldn't want to work with either of the two.
To put it flippantly: Propagandists gonna propagandize.

Don't help propagandists.
The conversion is wrong. 12 Gf*3 =~ 1.2 Gm*3
I understand the intention, however, the majority of those broad-stroke sanctions hurt the most progressive and self-reliant citizens first, the current regime support is extremely low for those people already.

Putin's main support base will start to feel anything only in a few weeks, when the economy crashes and inflation starts reflecting on the base needs. Most of the "deep nation" have only internal passports (never travel abroad), work in a government-funded spheres of economy, use mostly state-sponsored sources of information. Sanctions will probably just reinforce the narrative of "the ruthless enemies are encircling the motherland and can't wait to rip it apart".
This is like telling an anxious person "not to worry" or a depressed person to "cheer up".

Yes, it would be grand if our minds worked in a rational, logical fashion. But that's not even remotely representative of reality.
Not what happened though. They removed all Russian players, out of solidarity with Ukraine. That includes Svidler and Nepo, who are both critical of Putin and the invasion. As was Chucky!
FYI; I think you meant: decimate -> disseminate
So, sure--there are people who will drill you down into an abyss of perceived inadequacy because of something totally unrelated. It may be that they don't like you. It could also be that they're just having difficulty communicating their values. I find it productive in these situations to take a step back and ask a question along the lines of, "What are we trying to solve here?" I.e. let's cut through the minutiae and call out what the actual problem is. Once we've done that, let's work on solving that.
>Parents who are interested in boosting their children scholastically are not necessarily privelidged.

Believing in the value of education and pushing your children to achieve educationally is an inherent demonstration of the possession of privilege.
I believe the goal of sanctions like this is to make the people mad at their leaders. So you sanction Russian citizens in the hope it'll help motivate them to create change. Not sure it could work with Russia, but maybe?
> I'm sick of seeing parents digitally drug their kids with iPads and NetFlix. I'm sick of seeing parents let their kids roleplay Lord of The Flies on the playground. And I'm sick of people talking about the pandemic like it's some insurmountable challenge.

IMO you should a) be aware that you have directed this rant at people who are responsibly testing their kids at home and b) consider whether all of this is therefore just rude, patronising assumptions about what has and hasn't happened to them.
don't apologize for using a great word. :)
Two weeks ago, I don't think anyone would have predicted the return of the iron curtain would be imminent.
Relevant:

https://workcompass.com/the-cia-guide-from-1944-on-how-to-sa...
I think asking him to share the keynote stage isn't hate. Rails doesn't belong to him, it belongs to the community, and is far bigger than him or his influence.
> Whether they "should" in any moral sense is not a useful way to think about things because geopolitics isn't a morality play

While I personally agree with this Realpolitik view, I don't believe it's actually universal among leaders. Many things that have happened historically did because leaders felt some grand moral imperative (national unification, stopping an atrocity, helping one's close ethnic allies in a defensive war, offensive "defences" when the momentum felt like it was being lost -- take your pick).

A moral imperative (although one rather out of place in the 21st century) seems to be behind Putin's actions, IMO. Restore the glory of the Russian empire, practical barriers to that will be ignored. It just must be done, for the sake of itself. Righteous causes eventually sort themselves out, right?

Which brings me to the sanctions. I've not actually seen much discussion on whether sanctions against Russia will achieve Western geopolitical goals. Much of the discussion is presently framed as a moral imperative. We must act to punish Putin.
The Hot Round Fallacy
That's ok, and happens frequently. "I don't have time to fully comprehend everything that's happening over there, but COWORKER is handling it and I don't see any obvious problems with their approach. :+1: and moving on".

Maybe some teams don't work this way, and require more direct participation and signing-off from members, which is fine too.
The question evoked exactly the points I wanted to evoke. Not bad for a rhetorical question.

Harvesting user data. Sell ad space. Sell user data to interested parties. This as a "strategy". Biggest "tech" companies.

Thank you.

Is this practice really best-described as "software". Is the (free) software merely a Trojan Horse for something else.

The commenter could have written "What do the most ambitious do in the US? Go into harvesting personal data from people's use of computers and online ad sales, or Wall Street."

This would have been more accurate in terms of describing the money-making aspect.
You can find military radars in publicly-available satellite data
The problem in Enterprise is that the environment is designed to fracture the Engineering team as much as possible so that it isn't capable of collective bartering. This is the point of most de facto Agile SCRUM applications: if I, a manager, can't get the estimate I want from you, I can get it from someone else or I can coerce you into the estimate I want indirectly by shoving the burndown chart, or any other weaponized metric, into your face to train you into providing the estimates and deliverables I so desire, which have nothing to do with efficiency.

Because of this leverage, technical debt quickly stacks up as everyone is policing themselves and others to not do the unanimously agreed upon 'right thing' to deliver a more cohesive software infrastructure; my god is cohesion the least likely property of enterprise stacks, at least in my experience, hence: all the local heroes, the mounds of manual testing and lack of automation, the 'everything-at-once-per-quarter' releases instead of CI, the distinct aggregation of 'flags' over parsing data structures, etc.

It is impossible that people are working in such circumstances and are just entirely unaware that things could be better; there is an immense amount of pressure from all sides to essentially 'shut up and dribble'. But that also facilities an environment where individuals or teams are just implementing whatever in their own little kingdom so long as it gets in before the sprint is done. My org alone has three different ways of doing the same exact thing amongst three different teams.

Engineering teams should be reviewing the product roadmap as an independent entity and deliberating on how to approach that collectively. A Director of Engineering is the tie breaker. Estimates come from the team, not individuals, or even individual teams.
"Rights, with no wiggle room for edge cases or accounting for conflicts between rights" is "wrong by design". So's a giant, ever-expanding defined list of edge cases; I've run a popular web forum and that one leads to "ah but I didn't do exactly the thing listed in Article 73 section 48 part ZY" nonsense.

Our legal systems permit the resolution of conflicting rights and responsibilities. I'm glad that exists, but I'm also glad the Europeans took the American Constitution's failings and made it clearer that it should exist.
On the office people to cut the side chat and pull their team members in, otherwise the dofusses are in the office.
A lot of Russians remember when their country collapsed in front of their eyes. It's probably fair to say that even Putin's harshest critics would be hesitant to go through that twice in 30 years. Not that I'm defending him by any means, just that (by design) getting rid of him will be very ugly and never easy.
white male christian is not an ideology. The first is a skin color, the second is a gender, the third is a religion. Pretending that you throw those three things together creates some coherent and common ideology is not logical thought
Killing people isn't righteous. It is, however, more acceptable or tolerable depending on the context and military force and tactics used. Blame what you want, but what percentage of the UN and UN security council denounced American actions? What percentage denounce Russia's current actions?
Humans are political animals. That's why most technical criticisms are basically just reflections of personal problems rather than anything truly rational.

For example, someone who keeps coming up with reasons your tool won't work for a particular application, when the real reason is that it makes their previous tool less important or replaces it.

I have a client who has a 'trusted partner' (programmer) who does not have the skills or time for the scope of the current project. Yesterday he was telling the client my new tool doesn't work and that there was only three weeks left, so I needed to create a new hook to bypass the tool entirely and run a script on my server that he writes. The problem is that was nonsense, so I demonstrated the whole thing working last night. They require my API so they need to use my tool which configures the API (the API has always been a way to trigger the tool with certain inputs). We discussed this long before.

But basically the guy has done nothing but say that my tools or approaches won't work, because they are supplanting his own.

But everything comes down to political BS in this world. That's the main thing holding back technology. Idiotic primate manipulations.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30533799
the real fun starts when you consider that everything is!

but in all seriousness, no. don't join the Army unless you truly want to dedicate a chunk of your life to an organization like that.

be a good neighbor, stay politically informed, vote, take care of your friends, help others in need, create art and support artists, etc.
Does changing jobs help with burnout, or are the people who plan on leaving their current work going to find themselves burned out again/still in a few months?
Russia is the new isis.
Stephen Crane’s Lifetime of Mystery
This video is the gift that keeps on giving¹.

"The notion of lie and truth works differently in Russia. Examples: The Terijoki government (Russian attempt to make puppet government to Finland in 1939) had a story that the working population of Finland was tired of the Mannerheim-Tanner (Marshal of the Finnish Defence Forces in the 1939) fascist junta and formed a government to liberate the Finnish people then when the Russians attacked they found out it wasn't quite the same as what the propaganda [had said]."

What is he insinuating here? This is in a section which does a "fifty words for snow in eskimo" attempt to claim that Russians are linguistically programmed to be liars. He has just discussed a picture which shows the "technological backwardness of Russia" in which the saviour is the German steamship coming up the the river in the far distance. Is he suggesting that all Finns were favour of the collaboration with the NAZIs². This is really weird.

Then he goes on to mix in the Russian poisoning of Skripal, some probably true information about Russian forces operating in Donbass and Crimea with some never-before-heard conspiracy theory about all the people on MH17 being dead already and the hotly disputed DNC and Clinton were hacked by the GRU. Basically a hodgepodge of whatever he wants to believe, all cherry picked with the intent of his stated aims of showing that the Russian leadership are genetic Mongols who have linguistically programmed their boyar and working classes to believe lies. This is poisonous, rock-bottom stuff.

1. https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw?t=2465
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_in_World_War_II#Finlan...
Working from Home Hardware
This is a weird split. Do you typically make coffee and then leave it sitting for 20 minutes before consuming? I make coffee and then drink it.

Also, no. Coffee is brewed higher than 185. The Specialty Coffee Association on their own page advocates for 195-205 for brewing temp.

https://sca.coffee/research/protocols-best-practices

Wikipedia claims that SCA advises up to 185 for serving and that Starbucks does exactly that. I don’t see citations for this specifically, though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Rest...

“Similarly, as of 2004, Starbucks sells coffee at 175–185 °F (79–85 °C), and the executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America reported that the standard serving temperature is 160–185 °F (71–85 °C).”
If you dig in a little more you realize control of the oil and contracts went to US and British firms after the war where previously other nations had those contracts.

Oil is sold at a global price. The US has an incentive to keeping prices low so Americans have cheap gas. Plus it strips away power from oil financed nations which is in the US interest.
This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve read online. When it comes to war, countries like Russia or the US do whatever they want whenever they want, no matter how the population feels about it.
"Fake News" comes in many forms. Hyperbole and playing fast and loose with words like "waged a war" plays into this. The media has NEVER been particularly friendly to the President. Even George Washington himself lamented how the press was slandering his administration with falsehoods.

What did this war look like? What actions did the government actually take to fight journalists covering POTUS unfavorably? Because I just remember an incredible amount of pearl clutching by journalists about how dangerous it is to say bad things about the press and how democracy would die in darkness if their credibility was questioned. It never actually stopped them from continuing act the same way.
>>How can you equate banning Maus with banning Joe Rogan? The only common thread between the two is the word "banning".

Because free speech is free speech, whether you agree with what was said or not.
> Another solution is “fire the bad customers”. You can’t do that in a literal restaurant while a party is eating

You can absolutely do that in a literal restaurant while a party is eating, though that's normally for customers who harass and disrupt other patrons, not karens.
I doubt that's the case with this particular author.
> Pakistan, who typically hates Russia, is supporting them

A rival for influence in Central Asia backing you committing to a fight in Europe that aligns the rest of the world strongly against you as long as it persists might not be doing it because they support you in any meaningful sense of the word.
It is undisputed that the British were using the Lusitania to transport war munitions and thus American passengers were effectively human shields. Whether the British allowed the Lusitania to remain at risk or not, they were putting neutral civilian lives in peril through that conduct.