skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.3ds.com/products-services/catia/

https://www.ansys.com/

https://www.solidworks.com/

Comsole, Matlab, etc.

If you want to do complex product design competitively there is no substitute for software packages like these. Yes, there are open source alternatives, but they are not competitive, not tome efficient for the folks using it (it's cheaper to just buy the commercial packages because they save more than their cost in labor during the design process). If you can spend 10k to get your product to market 2 months quicker, that's a no brainer when your burn rate is millions a month.
There can certainly be frictions with hiring in different locales. 3,000 miles away can mean a 3-4 hr time difference.

But regardless, there are plenty of engineers in the mid-west willing (and happy!) to work for 50% of what a FAANG is paid in the Bay Area. So it's win-win, the employer gets a cheaper employee and the employee gets a better salary than before.
Google explicitly does a lot of computational photography. That what makes Pixel phones produce pretty decent images out of relatively humble hardware.
Top notch post. Personally, my experience is that intelligent people don’t get blocked. They just find a way to not be. Including optimizing for human relations to work well for them. “Hey, do you know where the docs are? I tried looking at A, B, and C”. “Ah they’re in Z, okay, I linked to that from A.”

When you find someone who is easily blocked, they are either unintelligent or antagonistic and in either case the best thing is to find a way to release any power that person has over you. Life is too short for the unproductive to hold you back.

The curse of big companies is that in order to scale they need to constrain the variance of engineers. So you end up with coworkers like this. Imho life is too short for that.
I always argue that if the docs would have been detailed enough to clearly express the properties of the implementation, they would be the implementation.
There's also FATCA, FBAR, and a bunch of other nonsense you still have to deal with. Lots of foreign banks won't do business with Americans. You're also paying for an unnecessary tax return preparation each year. Renouncing in light of all this stuff makes sense for a lot of people.
How is income vastly more fluid than a “racial identity” checkbox on a form? At least it’s sort of possible to verify.

It’s easy to lie and claim to be black, nobody will perform tests on you to verify this. You can be the whitest person in the world and get away with this (so many do).
Brainwashing people into spending is necessary because money is superior to goods and services. Any "sane" or rational person would never spend their money even though they know this is an insane position. It's kinda like those austrian economists claiming that deflation lets you spend your money on the things you really care about. Yeah... that is exactly how you get into the brainwashing game because they have to artificially induce a need that they can fulfill.

There is no "I work less or give away my excess money" to preemptively avoid the brainwashing game.
If companies are truly serious about inclusion and diversity, then embracing remote is a must! In just a few weeks of the initial pandemic lockdowns, I was really taken aback by how meeting dynamics changed - people less comfortable speaking up in crowded rooms or taking on challenging discussion suddenly found their voice. They were speaking up on video conferencing, in the meeting chats, raising hands and sending emoji reactions.

In person interactions literally stifled some of our team members. It’s going to be a challenge to keep this going, but we must - we owe all of our coworkers a voice. These interactions also drove meaningful productivity. I bet we more than offset losses from other lack of in person collaboration.
I'm genuely interested, what kind of test could that be? Some tests they have gave me in several interviews:

- Online shops.
- Hackerrank questions.
- Read from a big log file in an efficient manner with Python (did it but there was also a 3-4 hour on-site interview).
> unless you load from a separate domain

Which is the case...
app.element.io doesn't host a Matrix server.
Servers are completely independent of that.
In the past we had bit torrent... Which would also do the job?
Adyen seems to be a fair bit cheaper, no idea about if they are good or not
yup, seems the dominant voice on this on HN thinks the West has a moral advantage (it doesn't, Yemen Libya Guatemala, etc).

Most people don't seem to know the difference between what we are seeing in Ukraine and a real Total War (mass bombardments on cities, every night).

We bombed Serbia back to the stone age (infrastructures and civilians alike), so it must be hard to reconcile that with the current "limited" onslaught in Ukraine.
Haha! Engineers who have given up on engineering like to think they are “the smartest engineers”.
> Using Stripe Tax to only handle tax for customers in the home region of the company when the company also sells outside the home region seems like a strange goal.

It's a common goal. When becoming compliant with sales tax laws, it makes sense to prioritize the states/countries where the business has a physical presence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_tax#Enforcement_of_tax_o...
They own a minority share (40%)
If you have the data, either form of bookkeeping should be 'just' a shift in presentation?

(I don't know whether the software used makes this easy?)
Another estimate was a lot less based on the cost of previous operations.

"Firstly, Russian ordnance is generally less sophisticated and cheaper than US kit. Secondly, Russian military vehicles do not use petroleum, but diesel – a fuel that is cheaper and offers a better range.

He also estimated the cost of equipment losses in the first four days of fighting. Ten aircraft, at an average price tag of $30 million per airframe, would cost $300 million. One hundred armored fighting vehicles – troop carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, mobile artillery and tanks – which cost an average of $5 million each, would hit the Russian taxpayer with a $500 million bill.

The source then estimated the daily cost of keeping a Russian soldier – a cheaper fighting man than his US counterpart – in the field to be approximately $1,000. He multiplied that by the upper estimate of Russia’s force level in Ukraine – 200,000 troops.

For one day, that would be $200 million. Over four days, troop maintenance costs would total $800 million.

So the total cost for four days of combat operations in Ukraine would be in the region of $1.6 billion – the source added it could rise to $2 billion. But even that upper range would put daily costs to the Kremlin of its invasion at about $500 million."

https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/russias-low-cost-war-can-endur...
> They are also the first to complain if they perceive any slight or racism towards them.

Many know their beliefs are wrong and they use this to justify their animosity. There are hints of truth though. The west generally doesn't fight to ensure freedom, it fights for strategic interest. Any further romanticisation is inappropriate in my opinion. Not that other countries are better.
> The country would be a better, more affordable place with more people to help out

So in other words, a constantly growing population.

in a finite space with finite resources.

I see a problem here.

I'm pro immigration, "free movement of goods and labor" is a basic human right. I'm more pessimistic about our whole economic system which is built on the assumption of a growing population.
The report and your figures are in USD. But the rouble, the currency Russia actually uses to pay for salaries, equipment, etc., has crashed, and we don't even know what was the course when the report's estimations were made.

Furthermore, the losses they've suffered are significant, and most of that equipment is decades old, acquired under Soviet "budgets".
Also known regionally as Raurackl, Oibadrischl, Kreißl, Rasselbock, or Dilldapp.
The German species sometimes features wings and/or duck feet, as well.
> Ethereum is now estimated to consume energy equivalent to or greater than mid-sized countries like Greece[1].

While providing 1/700,000 of the computing power of a Raspberry Pi.
Naive diversification[0] is a noob-trap in many games.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_diversification
Your point is well received, and these numbers definitely deserve some scrutiny.

But it isn't particularly hard to imagine a higher spend rate during a large scale active conflict than during peace times.
So software is a "guarantee" thing already that people can trust in? I wonder how many software engineers will be out of their jobs if that actually happens, we will see
Counterpoint: having a US passport has made securing banking very difficult as a lot of places don't want to deal with the IRS. It's been impossible for me to get an account on a local currency crypto exchange well because they don't want to deal with the FTC rules. The last one I looked at, their FAQs included a special place to upload your US citizenship renunciation forms. A US passport puts you an a lot lists with Syria, Yemen, Iran, etc. (and one could easily argue the US as a terrorist country).
If you could ask all the leaders who have led a nation through a war and kept their position, I suspect nearly none would accept a win condition that means they did not win.
> Is true FOSS going to fade away one day?

There's no indication of this.

> Chromium no longer has sync, so we currently have no usable browsers that support Google's stuff.

I don't follow. Why do you consider Firefox and Chromium to be unusable?

> What's going to happen to the "Windows-like" side of FOSS?

KDE is doing well.
You're conveniently forgetting the fees and other transaction costs associated with purchasing the Ether and then selling it for fiat.
The choices and thoughts were set apart in the response. The ability to choose arises from recognising that the thoughts (which definitely just happen) are not necessarily you. That ability is what you get from observing your own thoughts for a long time (e.g. during meditation).
> 1. share screen with colleague 1 and colleague 2

Even better imho, anytime working together with more than 1 person you don't have to awkwardly huddle around the single 22" screen on your desk squinting at the code. Everyone has the shared screen in full view and can even draw on the screen (yay, no more finger smudge marks) to point at what they mean.
2004 referring to the victory of George W. Bush over John Kerry? Or something else?
Agreed. I'm also in Taipei (Shilin) and equally no power issues.

The cascading outage resulted in less than a 25% overall outage across the island and for most of those impacted lasted less than 2 hours.

That said, some areas, parts of Miaoli for example, are still without power.
Debian mirrors sync the built package archive.

I know Debian (and suse/arch) are striving for reproducible builds, but it hadn't reached 100% last time I checked due to the enormous coverage of packages. Maybe internally there is a stable subset of packages they can do comparative builds with? (particularly those that have the `required` and `important` apt priorities)

https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2022-01
What you're saying would make more sense if we were talking about a few years after the war, but the trend I'm referring to continued for decades after the war, well into baby boomers entering the workforce as a massive generational force.

And yes, I am literally saying that decades of policy has had an effect on this, and that it's not just a recent issue. Decades of anti-tax policy has created an environment where wage growth is difficult if not impossible for most people, immigrants or not, and decades of anti-immigration policy has helped create a situation where most immigrants aren't in a position to demand fair wages to begin with.
Compared to the over-crufted, over engineered, designed-for-phone, low-information-density, cr4p I get served on many "western" websites, where I am happily invited to download a gazilion MiB of adware and feel my phones battery running hot just to access a website, I prefer the asian design philosophy.
Great question.
First, I feel most of the integrations (aside from Slack) are really asked for by Enterprises. Smaller orgs don't really ask for those.
Roadmap is absolutely around context, even more context.
We want to get to the point where we're almost a cloud security lake (can't come up with a better word) where we know about everything that happens in the environment and allow you to make decisions almost on the spot based on what we show you. (Lateral movement possibilities by an attacker, what is actually running on those workloads and in what versions, who/what has access to them, etc)
We're also looking to make our remediation engine more intelligent (not AI), but potentially allow you to give us a script we should execute to remediate, or trigger some other SOAR engine even. Right now remediation is whatever we think is a good remediation (and rollback) for an issue, but that's not always what you might want.
Does that give you a view into my mind for a roadmap?
The answer is that it's a single-player game, and that user interfaces suck to write and model.

In a multiplayer game you are generally forced to separate game logic from the UI frontend, which is a good practice regardless. But in a single-player game there is nothing forcing you to do so, and it can be (at least in the short term) very convenient to tie in game logic with the user interface code, as seemingly they follow the same state machine. But then new requirements pop up, such as being able to go back to review your choice, or weird slowness/strangeness that allows you to quickly press a button twice, etc.
> As much as some think meditation is beneficial, the effective sample size is 1.

It's not - there are many such responses.
This only makes sense under the framework of "you're negotiating with a country that is overall similar to other (western) countries in thinking/functioning" or worst case with a "authoritarian but rational & calculating regime that has some of the interests of its own people as core driving force" (eg. China).

We might be wrong! Even if Putin fails his successor might be even worse, and there's a weird quasi-religion thing jumping from mind to mind across Russia and not only: https://youtu.be/IAVZ3XsqIL4 (the source is biased but can't think of a better one now).

We might be talking to something closer to a cult, and we are generally bad at dealing with these by applying western negotiation and de-escalation techniques (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege). We don't want the nuclear equivalent of the Waco massacre! (Also, historically, the last "nation level cult" we've dealt with resulted in a world war, so there's a grim track record here.

Something is weird here and both sides are playing mind-games - captured Russian soldiers look like they're on acid or something, military tactics seem weird and maybe they're targeted to induce reactions that can drive behaviors more than to secure military objectives... s's not right here, this feels like neither Kosovo nor Iraq nor Syria.

We shouldn't try to out-cult a cult, that's how you get WW3. We need to figure out how to DE-BRAINWASH people and get them to negotiate constructively and FAST!*
Quickbooks takes a stab to categorize my books for me. But you better believe, while I’m no CPA, I’m in the books at least once a week making a modicum of effort to understand and work on these things.

I’m far from perfect, and that’s why the CPA comes in after me to check. But if i wait for those quarterly checks to “check in” on quickbooks, that’s on me.
2005-2006 brought as generics and EJB3. Quite the opposite of stagnation.
Hindsight is 20/20. My impression is that they didn't use a state machine, just callback events that get confused if you click before the animation finishes.
While there is a possibility of a bug, I really doubt it. G1GC is just a beast and likely has just no problem with the allocation-rate your program uses while ZGC has quite a tradeoff for really low latency.
> If the nuclear command & control centre is destroyed by a pre-emptive strike, there will be no coordinated first strike, but uncoordinated launches by individual units, highly conditional on officers resolve to fight an now unwinnable war.

Except Russia maintains a separate, fully automated system on a dead man’s trigger, specifically for this case scenario. This system reinforces the mutually assured destruction approach.
The only country instigating war against Russian speaking ordinary people is Russia, since most Ukrainians speak Russian.
I guess I don't understand what you're trying to say.

All it takes for a 737 MAX to crash is one piece of equipment failure and 2/3 an instance of human error. I submit that if three crews were presenting with the same situation and two of them crashed with everyone onboard killed, it's not really the sort of thing that you can blame on human error.

All it takes for a catastrophic failure of the grid is literally over a dozen cascading equipment and human error instances.

I guess I don't understand -- you're saying that the grid, where over a dozen overlapping failures is required for catastrophic results, should learn from the airline industry where it takes 2-5 failures to bring down an airliner.

I think it's possible you're maybe getting confused about what the point of the interview was-- were they talking about a targeted attack on the power grid? An adversarial opponent, knowledgeable, determined, well funded, conducting a dedicated attack on the power grid? I think that yes, if a nation state or terrorist organization conducted a targeted attack on the power grid, it would likely do an outsized amount of damage on a regional portion of the nation compared to the resources expended. But in that case the comparison to airliners does not apply -- all the redundant safety systems in the world aren't going to save you from a Buk or SM-2MR surface to air missile.
There isn't a section in the book that covers IoT specifically. Most of the book is relevant to the topic because it provides a generic foundation that's necessary for more specific use cases.

I feel that in many situations the solution for IoT PKI is to find a good vendor who will support you, and there's plenty of those around to choose from.

If you have a moment, I would appreciate if you could share some more specific questions, and perhaps your use cases. That will help me understand if it's something I can cover in a future update. That said, the book is already quite big at 500 pages.
Maybe the taxes in my country are simple, but it’s never been particularly onerous to me.

The US just has a convoluted tax system.
Not to nitpick, but the "free" version of Doom is the shareware version, which contains only one episode (out of three in original game and four in ultimate doom). And the shareware version was always free, even during it's original launch in 1994.

I think these days a better example are free to play games such as League of Legends or Call of Duty Warzone, which can be played for years without paying a dollar.
The Dirty Demon-Etizing End of a Reserve Era
I can’t see the article because the server isn’t happy with all the attention, the headline makes me assume that this is total cost to Russia including e.g. sanctions.

The foreign reserves that were frozen (which I know is different from “seized”) were 2-4 months GDP depending on which estimate I use for how much was frozen.

I’ve not seen any estimate for the economic impact from reduction in trade.
I’m not experienced with best in class tooling (probably with worst) but seems very quick, easy and native to render html using js.
GrubHub's Boston office is also forcing employees to return to the office after 2 years of working from home. I think it's asinine.

One of the few good things to come from this pandemic was showing how much work could be done remotely. I assumed we were going to continue in that direction, but I guess these major tech corps want to go back to the way things were.
Don't forget that the source for that claim is still the ukrainian government. Not exactly the most reliable source when it comes to russian intentions.
Russia does not normally buy 5 advanced fighter jets every day, so their peace time military budget is not a relevant comparison. The numbers in the article also seem to include future costs that might be ammortized over 50 years or something. So in short: the numbers are just wild guesses, but not nonsensical.
> As far as demilitarization goes, it seems the Ukrainian fleet, air defenses and bases have been mostly destroyed by stand-off weapons, and an encirclement maneuver is appearing (North and South prongs).

But many former civilians were recruited and armed, some airbases are still operational, and drones are wrecking havoc on Russian logistics. The encirclement has been appearing since day one, and has only advanced from the south..

Ukraine cannot win in traditional terms ( counterattack and push back), but they can surely win by crippling enemy morale, dealing devastating and unsustainable losses, and in general making the war too expensive to continue ( let alone a possible occupation). And that's going splendidly!
Sorry, but the answer is still the same. Solve the land question and then solve the money question.

People losing their land through debt is as old as civilization itself. At some point people will start fighting over it because there is no place for them in their own country.
> In C or C++, it's more computing specific. Other languages will use different syntax, but I will be doing the same thing.

I think you’ve just internalised C-isms. The core Java language is as close to conventional OOP as it gets, and the model is not that different from most OOP languages. It certainly isn’t alien. We ended up conflating C and computing, but it is more an accident of history and because so many languages borrowed so heavily from it.
I don't think it's so much an issue of productivity, as company loyalty. Working from home you feel more autonomous - and more likely to consider your options.
Totally depends on what your other passport is.

If you can replace your American passport with a Canadian, Australian or Singaporean passport, it's not too bad: people from these countries have an easy time getting a visa to work in the US. [0] All while not being subject to American taxes while outside the US.

> Plus the way the world is shaping up, you will be better off with the country's Economic/Financial/Military Systems behind you.

Eh, it's a two-edged sword. On this aspect you are probably better off with the passport of a country that's clearly in the Western sphere, but also one that no-one actually hates. Think Canada or Switzerland.

[0] Though I don't know how well that works for former citizens?
The Ruble did crash, but not that hard that those numbers could be attributed to that. It's roughly at -36% when compared to EUR two weeks ago.
War in Ukraine – official UA foreign affairs ministry resource
"nothing more permanent than a temporary government policy"
You are describing slimming down on things that didn't seem important to you within the context of an entirely new way of living. What exactly is the problem here? That you'd make different decisions in a different context? This is true for literally every human being in every significantly changed context, it has nothing to do with what that context is (i.e. meditation or literally anything else).
What kind of good are you referring to, out of curiosity?
This is my experience as well. You gain self awareness and it helps your focus. I haven't experienced ghosts or orbs myself. The author should question his own sanity instead of being concerned with others.