skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that this was considered an acceptable outcome: the U.S. and European governments certainly don't see eye to eye with China but China is more stable, less beholden to the whims of one person and tends to be somewhat more willing to consider the long-term ramifications of things like climate change. I think that a fair number of people would consider Russia falling into the Chinese orbit preferable to Putin's constant provocations.
Do they find it easier as well?
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If they had not been monitoring intelligence and something big happened then they did not do enough; if they do enough and nothing big happens then they are abusing their power. No matter which way it goes we all get to wiggle our finger and be outraged.
I disagree with the wording, but couldnt agree more with the bidet gang.
Do we do these steps while sitting or standing?
> Most of the greatest inventions come from immigrants.

Whether or not that's true, it doesn't answer "Are immigrants interchangable?" That leads to "Does it matter which immigrants?"

I ask because Pareto's law applies, which gets us to "Can we get all/most of the benefits with few of the costs by picking immigrants?" (The costs are an increasing function of the total number. Do the benefits depend on which immigrants?)
Good point, Feel No Pain is very handy for that fight.

Fire Breathing still great for Lagavulin if you can also get your hands on a Power Through in time, esp since you have three turns to draw it before it wakes up. Not as much for Nob....unless you can also get your hands on a Reckless Charge. But yeah I'd still prob rather have something like Bludgeon for that fight. Too bad Bludgeon scales like it's falling off a cliff
There were already all kinds of "supply interruptions" in 2021 and escalating prices. The fossil fuel people digging their own graves.
Maybe you are looking at the wrong number. % of trade is an abstract number. Not sure what it really means.

How about % of goods. How many % of our everyday goods are produced in China? Can we even live a normal life if China stop sending those products to us for a week, a month?
I can't wait for the bots to show up. Setting a rate limit was one of the first things I did :)
Get a toilet seat bidet. It's mechanical. Doesn't need electricity, only water... which is already present!
> The power outages there were due to a poorly regulated electrical market where the power stations froze in predictable ways.

There were plenty of issues with the electrical system, but the Texas Nat Gas infrastructure was also culpable. They had wells that froze up. Wells also often produce water that can freeze in cold conditions and block a well. There are mitigations for this that were often not in place in TX.

They had also failed to submit paperwork indicating their electrically pumping stations were critical infrastructure and should not be shut off as many of them were.
What i didn't realize until very recently was that natural gas can be liquefied and sold on an open market like a barrel of oil. With that in mind, these pipelines are not as critical. Additionally, pipelines operate by contracts which offer very generous discounts years in advance; Liquefied gas, on the other hand, is a commodity and is sold at market prices.
Seems logical to assume that Russian gas will still be sold, and that there will be buyers. Russia will be offering substantial discounts on it as well.
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The article says you’re supposed to be sitting.
Tooling issue is one thing. Choice of VoIP is MS Teams since it comes free with the IT package and Teams is complete shit to use.

Second it the actual logistics. It was always pain to accommedate the one or two remotees by having some kind of conference phone-thing. Over all it is just way more convenient and nicer to talk face to face. In my opinion even all online meeting is better than hybrid one.
>especially against those that China deemed to be problematic to them.

I don’t see how this is any different than what the US has already done. The US has now cut off Iran and Russia from SWIFT in political moves. Any nation state is likely already doing the calculus.
I swear one of the images that came up was New Jersey.
> the cost of change is so much lower at the idea and design stage

That's one of those software engineering facts that people spread as absolute truths that are far from absolute in practice.

It's mostly true, but requirements gathering can be a very expensive process too, and you can lower that cost with a working example. Also, UX designing can get off-track very easily if it's done in a vacuum.

Also related, for some problems, having your software tested before it's even written can bring a lot of productivity to the writing stage. (For some others, it will completely ruin everybody's productivity, so the idea that finding bugs at the "testing" stage is simply "more expensive" fails here too, you don't look at an unmitigated disaster and calls it "more expensive".) For some problems bugs in production are just consequence-free. And in way too many cases you simply can't design some valuable interaction without having people using your ideas on the wild.

TL.DR. that link is a very good rule of thumb, but beware of the exceptions.
> I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long.

My god just thinking that you typed all this in a text box and were one accidental mouse click/backspace away from losing it all is making me shudder.

That final link really resonated with me. thank you so much for sharing.
Just swear at your Alexa and wait for the tickets, if I recall.
I use the article from the Atlantic. And I did not say other areas didn’t have problems, only that it was Texas that suffered most: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/02/what-...
Might vary a lot based on the country and the name chosen.

Eg. Italy has only been a single state since the 1860s, and regional languages can surface a lot of differences. I entered my mom's southern Italian maiden name and got pretty high correlation to places where her dad's family had ties...
> News shouldn't have bias, full stop.

Sorry, but this sort of absolutist thinking is just naive. Nobody ever won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for "just reporting the facts, full stop". Good journalism requires context which is messy and, indeed, political.

That said, propaganda isn't good journalism – it doesn't provide context so much as manufacture it. That isn't to suggest that propaganda is necessarily obvious. Bias lies on a spectrum, with facts-only reporting on one end and propaganda on the other. But just because grey areas exist doesn't prevent us from identifying the black.

It would be illegal, for example, for a publication to knowingly engage in defamation. As a society, we recognize that a publication's right to freedom of expression does not outweigh the harm dealt to an individual subjected to baseless harassment. Similarly, if a "news" organization is so divorced from the facts as to make its audience more ignorant of the actual happenings, then we as a society should recognize the harm caused by that organization and sanction them appropriately.
> People have been saying this for more than 10 years.

double-digit growth is great until it ends in zero.
someone needs to hurry up and squat on the domain 'howtowashyourbutt.com'
> Certainly the author picked a beautiful region to do that kind of outdoor experiment in.

I don't mean to be argumentative, but I wonder what the ugliest 43.33km line of sight environment one could find would be? I imagine it's quite a good proxy for beauty, the maximum distance you can see.
State actors, at some point, have all been criminals waging wars to further their goals using taxpayers' money.

I hate all of them, but I wonder why wars in the middle east don't trigger sanctions and media attention and this invasion does.
This isn't really a nail in the publishing industry's coffin. The number of authors who can do this and even do okay let alone insane amounts of money is miniscule. If you don't already have a huge name, making people even aware a book exists is HARD. Some writers have managed indie only by being found by someone with a big enough audience to catapult them into making very very real money, but it isn't the norm.

The only thing this really means is Brandon could skip dealing with Tor/whoever else he publishes with after his current contracts are up, if he's willing to forgo being in bookstores. I would suspect he keeps Stormlight with Tor simply so you can find every book the same way, but any future books are much more up in the air.
ICANN has covered all their bases here as most/all rules for TLDs don't really apply to ccTLDs or the governments that run them since they "own" the ccTLD. This is why http://ai./ exists, and the only thing ICAAN has in terms of guarantees for .ru is this agreement letter[0]. ICAAN specifically states at the end that, even without this agreement letter, ICAAN will continue to perform their duties to maintain the DNS system.

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Somebody should make thiscityshouldexist.com
There are ways around it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_bonds
I use a bidet that relies on water pressure from the apartment’s plumbing. No electricity needed.

It does get cold during the winter, but it’s not bad at all and it’s so much better than using toilet paper for wiping. I still use some toilet paper for drying, but far less than I used in the pre-bidet era of my life.
Cuban Missile Crisis had nothing to do with NATO, that was a US problem. Most of NATO thinks the USA is treating Cuba unfairly and would like to see them stop all the sanctions.
Aggregating away the signal in your data
Any crowdfunding project that aims at Putins removal?
Did they seriously forget to mention Step 6? Check the toilet bowl after flushing. Did everything flush? If not, flush again. Is there any residue left on the porcelain? If so, use that toilet-brushy-thingy to clean that and flush again. Pro tip: lift the seat _before_ using the toilet-brushy-thingy to avoid droplets on the seat and then replace seat when done for marital reasons.
>his idea of "business hammocks" for the office repeatedly shot down. He was a genius though.

Sounds like nap pods lol
Yeah, I agree. I don't think a11y should go away even for open-source software, unless it's lightly used or just a toy project.
You are missing broader point here. If something is in production and burning cash, it can be replaced with optimised code if system are decoupled.
But forcing optimisation earlier will make your developers less impactful and loose interest in the project or job. Most business logic code is updated frequently due to change in requirements and spending 100s of hours for feature which will be used by just small set of users is bad investment. This strategy can help you release some feature faster, get it A/B tested and once you have scaled enough you can start focusing on the individual decoupled system to be optimised.
Kind a different to go out everyday and then hitting gym on the way to or from the office than sitting at home whole winter while snow piles on top of my car and freezes solid and then finally getting a permission to go to the gym.

And waking up early just to walk to the gym and back feels weird.
It's impressive from a business perspective that he's turned marketing from a cost centre to a revenue source in its own right.
actually, LoS over open water, is following physical laws. GSM (with a range limitation of 35km by timing) was very well recievable from ships.
Why wrapped in a class? Seems entirely redundant or am I missing something?
Maybe if the peg was not set, then those working under that currency regime would be "not working".

I don't think the Chinese are subsidizing the world for no reason; and I don't think they are the smartest person in the room either.
He got the Wifi network to show up, but did he get a connection?

A bit higher quality point-to-point can be obtained with a bit of specialized equipment, Mikrotik has a bunch: https://mikrotik.com/product/MTAD-5G-30D3-PA for example, can go 40+ km.
Of course it will vary per consumer.

Cases where this might happen:

- buying Office or having a personal/family Office 365 subscription

- XBox gaming / entertainment

- buying (other) software or devices from Microsoft

Less common might be using Microsoft for laptop movie purchases. And once upon a time the XBox Music / Groove was actually a really nice service for the price. Not sure if that still exists or what name it has now? (Edit: Looks like it's sort of still around, but evolving - https://www.windowscentral.com/goodbye-groove-music-new-medi... )

I also used to have a Windows Phone, but... that is NOT COMMON. Ha!
>>> That isn't to say the west hasn't done anything wrong. But by my account, we can pin the following on Russia:

>>> - Installing puppets in foreign governments

>>> - Schroeder

>>> - Trump / GOP

>>> - Pushing for Brexit

What .... Trump and GOP are russia plants? got proof?
Yeah we'll just have to make due with the first full flow staged combustion 3d printed reusable engine.
A simple analogy I use to explain to people why wiping with toilet paper makes zero sense. If you accidentally got poop on your clothes would you wipe it with a tissue paper or wash it thoroughly with water and soap? Of course you'd do the latter - so why do you treat your body any differently?
Awesome! Let's bring it up a notch - save every page automatically.

Then add a search engine over that, for 'what was that article about long term effects of DDT on ecosystems I was reading a long time ago?' queries.

And you get a memex - a way to outsource part of the brain to a computer :).
The thing with authoritarian regimes is that they all look stable, but there is a lot of hidden fragility. Eventually all authoritarian leaders will make catastrophic mistakes. Mainly due to the high amount of corruption, the lack of push back and barriers, and the lack of transparency.

I believe the war with Ukraine is Putins catastrophic mistake. The danger is that he will drag down his neighbours or maybe the world with him.
Comparing one group of people that live in a dense area, and can take a bus to/from work and other places, versus another group of people that each drive a separate car over a much longer distance to/from work and other places. Not to mention the efficiency of heating one large building over lots of small buildings and things like that. I don't think this is much of a contested thing.

https://www.acogok.org/why-transit-matters-environment/
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It is more expensive. The reason why Lithuania and Poland built LNG terminals is not because it is economical or fun compared to pipelines. It is a pure sunk cost. The reason is to secure their supply incase Russia wants to exert influence through the gas supply like it did with Ukraine until 2015 when Ukraina started buying all gas from the EU instead.

They therefore cap the price they pay to what is available on the open LNG market, if the regular supply does not come through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_dis...
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You're spot on regarding hygiene, especially men. I haven't seen what people do with toilet paper but I am shocked and appalled almost every time I see a co-worker use half a tree to wipe the hands they didn't even wash but only dip into water for a second or so.

I get not caring about hygiene but the waste is infuriating.
They do have free teleheath and I do appreciate that. If I don’t absolutely need to be seen in person, I use the telehealth option. No other features, tbh. It’s a bronze ACA plan in the NY State exchange.

The yearly out of pocket maximum is about $7000 so it’s essentially only for catastrophic situations. I just wish there were a cheaper option. At this point, I’d take a plan with a much higher deductible/ out of pocket limit if the premiums could be half of what they are.
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> Where does this lead? Strengthening CIPS with this move surely weakens the dollar's reserve status globally

This was an unstated policy goal. Russia as a regional power is provably dangerous. As a Chinese vassal, at least it’s contained.

Add to that the significant costs to the American economy dollar hegemony has brought [1], and this is broadly a win-win-win.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/how-the-reserve-dollar-harm...
It might. If your office is in your home you may have more flexibility to get things done on an ad hoc basis if that were necessary (like something takes down production or someone needs something urgently).

If that were the case when everyone was at the office it just couldn't get done.
thank you for informing this! Making the fix.
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Ugliest would be point-to-point in a some run-down city.
Funny thing is that something like half of Russian gas goes through Ukraine and some more is just across the border in Belarus. AFAIK that hasn't stopped. Just goes to show you the complexity of international relations.

Map:

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/europe-map/

It's a bit misleading since it doesn't show Nordstream 1 which runs under the Baltic sea to Germany.

EDIT: Here's a better map. The above is outdated

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Major_ru...
There's been UN resolutions against Armenia, but that didn't result in anything.
That was Shakespeare's Hamlet [1]. ;-)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsCVuO1yeJc
You can have a handshower mounted next to the toilet seat. Also: what bidets require electricity? (Except the Japanese toilet and bidet in one thing.)
This is why countries were originally reluctant to remove Russia from Swift. The US was afraid that it would reduce world trade in USD. Then it became a PR nightmare so they did it.
Loads of folk in the "west" are brainwashed too - like all the ones who insist Trump won election in USA as one example. That same group is now claiming this conflict never would have started because Putin was afraid of Trump.
Exactly. CCP, the most powerful opposition to democracy, gains foothold next to US and EU borders. Putin and the elite gets their bonuses and keeps living in their mansions. No one dares supporting a revolution in Russia, China's new buffer state, lest Xi gets angry. Cosmopolitan middle class Russians suffer for a bit, forget iPhones and learn Chinese. Brainwashed Russians are happy to unite with their communist comrades.
This is more or less exactly why Spotify dropped P2P from its platform back in 2014.

Good summary here:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/17/spotify-removes-peer-to-pe...

"This is when the company took advantage of cached songs. Before today’s change, if you streamed a popular song for the first time, the client would download the song from other users, using peer-to-peer. All of this happened in the background, but it greatly contributed to making the overall user experience snappier."

"Yet, now that the company has many servers, using peer-to-peer in addition to direct downloads actually adds a bit of overhead. Moreover, the company has to maintain the peer-to-peer code base, and update it with each new version."
It was not an ethnic Armenian majority before the first Karabakh war.
10 years ago I bought an unpowered toilet seat bidet just to try out the concept. Still haven't gotten around to upgrading to a powered version, because it turns out that cool water is nice. I even have a plugin next to the toilet that I had installed when the house was built, because I anticipated getting a Washlet.

I still intend to get a fancy one with warm water, heated seat, and a glowing bowl (for aiming in the middle of the night ;-)). Some day.
> North Korea-like Russia except actually militarily aggressive doesn't benefit the West

For all its bluster, North Korea isn’t invading anyone. China’s leash has kept the peace. Contrast that with Russia. It’s a fair bet that Putin (and his successors) will behave better under Beijing’s thumb.
LOL, it's true. The idea of the quick exit is also part of the HN culture and I think that would be very foreign to people like my dad. People who build small but profitable, businesses and run them for the long-term are underappreciated in the tech world. I don't know about you but if I was building a SaaS, I'd be looking for the tech equivalent of In-n-Out Burger: something you build and spend most of your time making sure that it does the same thing consistently for years on end, and just enjoy the profits and dependability.
Because cloth is porous and absorptive but skin is not.
My understanding is that we started buying them not because we necessarily needed Russian engines, but because there was worry that the collapse of the USSR would lead to a glut of unemployed Russian rocket engineers who would start offering their services to Iraq/Iran/N Korea/etc.
Dunno how well the program worked in practice, but it seems like a good concept.
It's in the list :)
None of your links say that the Ukrainian government or state-sponsored media engaged in misinformation. It's not even clear that it's of Ukrainian origin.

> Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I used to believe that, too, but there's evidence that silencing misinformation results in less misinformation overall.
My vote would be for over badlands. They're fairly flat on the median, but it looks like a pockmarked hellscape of dirt and rock with little greenery.
I guess that's a good way to make code very... unreadable and hard to set breakpoints on? What's wrong with:

function slug(string $s) {
$s = strtolower($s);
$s = str_replace(" ", "-", $s);

return $s;
}

And, if you need classes, aren't you better served with a Decorator implementation? I just don't see the point here.
Ability to wash my butt is one of the best perks of remote working. I'm not going back to the office.
With the help of electrolysis and a gas turbine, it can. The problem is that we don't have enough solar panels and not enough electrolyzers.
The lookup tables were made based off of power lines in air.

So much effort has been spent studying the effects but presumably no one has actually checked the magnitude of the magnetic fields around submarine power lines.
That's gonna be the title of the Ukraine reconstruction project.
That seems pretty valid. Not to make it overly analytical, but perhaps it's like meditation is a lab/training environment where you can press pause on the movie, look around in a 360 degree view, rewind a tad, press play again. But there's no urgent situation forcing you to be "very involved" as you say, and any goal-oriented processes can be paused. Kind of a mini-sabbatical - you know nobody is getting "paid" for the next 20 minutes, so it's not a big deal what happens.