skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often think people don't have a problem with static types and instead would miss the implicit type conversion dynamic typing provides.
I feel like in the future, or maybe even now, there will be an opportunity to have something like a super nice, independent book store, but with the value proposition being more about the experience. Since people can always actually buy the book online, brick and mortar stores should shift to something that can't be replicated online. This would be particularly attractive for people who live in a city, where they may want somewhere warm and aesthetically pleasing to hang out, that's semi-social.

I think coffee shops demonstrate this in a way, but they don't go far enough, compared to what I'm thinking of. I imagine somewhere that has comfortable places to sit, read, and even some food, but primarily what you're paying for would be like a monthly membership.

When I travel, for example, I prefer now to stay in hostels over airbnb's, just because I like having an easy way to hangout and meet other people. I can still be online and do work, but at certain hours there's also more social activity and I appreciate both aspects.
It was! Honestly, my comment is pretty raw and it doesn't give the full picture. But you are absolutely right. Meditation changed me and gave me insights about myself and life that I perhaps would have never encountered otherwise.

And you're correct about turning back to a "stale" way of being. This is literally what happened, so kudos to you for noticing. As someone once told me, "You're still young. You have time.".

And I need that time.
I think it does.

By transforming file Foo.docx into file Bar.b64 you get a plain-text file (Bar.b64) but Foo.docx still isn't plain-text. That's actually how email attachments work (transforming any file into b64 plain-text file), so I think your counter-argument is pointless.
They could make it in C#; in fact a survival-focused clone VintageStory does just that.
changing the garbage collector to G1GC and / or not using JDK11 as the boot java improves matters. JetBrains seems refuse to admit there is a problem. Hopefully things get better when they move to JDK17.

But yes, for the past few years, the experience latency-wise is garbage.
Not sure. Status quo is usually pretty powerful.
I am indeed (rude). You can have 100 years of experience, it doesn't make you more credible at thinking that engineers who makes choices that are different than yours as incompetent, by deeming them as mistakes. I mean, if a company wants to choose a tech stack, there are so many things to consider for that choice. Your article is just generic ideas about the fact that SPA are mistakes and SSR apps are better. You're not taking into consideration any of each industry's and company's means, priorities, specificities.

In fact, your 100 years of experience are what's hindering your ability to see how useful SPAs are. And you're resorting to that same old narrative of "it was better before". It's also the niche you decided to position yourself in to sell courses and stuff. Which makes your ideas even more suspicious as they can't be unbiased. Like in politics, they'll dogmatically say that their opponents are wrong, just because they have a "market" to preserve.

So yes, I'm rude, as much as you're inconsiderate to the vast complexity of software engineering, just to preserve your niche market.

And as you say in your website: "Hate the complexity of modern front‑end web development? I send out a short email each weekday on how to build a simpler, more resilient web. Join 13k+ others."
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This is true but the causation is the other way round - meditation is an exercise and if you gain the capability to do that means your ADHD is getting better.
These are essentially winged versions of "lifters" which were first produced in the 1960's. Their power per watt ratio is very low, so they may not be very useful.

Also, they need the surrounding air to generate ions and therefore cannot reach high altitudes where the atmosphere is very thin.
Anything that gets you there is a way to meditate. There's nothing wrong with the method you learned if it works for you.
All the big boys run on Adyen.
If this is the result of going out "too little" (a stretch already IMO) I'd say: get out less!

It's the sort of display of curiosity and precision I'm here for - bonus points if it doesn't refer to everyday life.
What part of international law says that a country can't be sanctioned for waging war or that a company can't choose where they want to do business?
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I don't get divisibility argumebt. Why woukd anyonce care if their Bitcoin can be divided if they owe 0.0001 Bitcoin and Bitcoin suddenly doubled in value which doubled the amount of money they owe without giving consent to owe more money. It is kinda like someone used a technological defect to justify a non negotiated contract change. The person who promised a certain amount of debt obviously promised the earnings of a fragment of their talents. The volatility of the currency does not affect their talents.
In my experience, offices have simply been judgemental, time wasting, lacking in proper equipment/tooling, and quite frankly just uncomfortable. Granted, it's been a lot of mid-size enterprise/corporate places, but it's been backed up by a lot of middle/upper management that don't bother to think through why such criticism would come their way.

I'm all in favor of a GOOD office to come to, but until then I'm spending no more time on the property than required. Our white-collar culture and urban areas are too dysfunctional for hybrid and remote options to not be normalized. (In the US) If we're going to be "right-to-work", then give us the right to be remote.
Best President Ever, you always know what to expect from him.
NATO(but mostly france, UK and the US) bombed Libya so many times that NATO ran out and Germany had to restock them[1]. Germany is always "kind of" neutral.

The US dropped 27k missiles on 7 countries in 2016 alone.[2]

But that isn't really the point of my post. While Russia did in fact declare war on Ukraine and for whatever reasons or whatever your opinion on that is, the West has effectively declared global war on Russia and it will take a lot of restraint from Russia not respond in kind. And since they can't respond in the same way economically the only option would be actual real war.

This is what happens when you leave diplomacy to a bunch of lawyer bros from Oxford and Harvard who have never had to deal with someone saying no to them.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-libya-idUSTRE75Q5...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-bombed-iraq-syria-pak...
Without looking at miniboss code - is there a reason why services are defined as classes as opposed to instances? E.g.

# maybe even have the group as an instance
group = miniboss.Group(name="foobar")

group.database = miniboss.Service(
name="appdb",
image="postgres:10.6",
env={
"POSTGRES_PASSWORD": "dbpwd",
"POSTGRES_USER": "dbuser",
"POSTGRES_DB": "appdb"
},
ports={5432: 5433}
)

Edit: added the group instance
And that makes it ok for Russia to bomb innocent Ukranians? What is even the point of bringing up the US and the terrible things their government has done?
Quoting another comment to OP

"I am indeed (rude). You can have 100 years of experience, it doesn't make you more credible at thinking that engineers who makes choices that are different than yours as incompetent, by deeming them as mistakes. I mean, if a company wants to choose a tech stack, there are so many things to consider for that choice. Your article is just generic ideas about the fact that SPA are mistakes and SSR apps are better. You're not taking into consideration any of each industry's and company's means, priorities, specificities.

In fact, your 100 years of experience are what's hindering your ability to see how useful SPAs are. And you're resorting to that same old narrative of "it was better before". It's also the niche you decided to position yourself in to sell courses and stuff. Which makes your ideas even more suspicious as they can't be unbiased. Like in politics, they'll dogmatically say that their opponents are wrong, just because they have a "market" to preserve.

So yes, I'm rude, as much as you're inconsiderate to the vast complexity of software engineering, just to preserve your niche market.

And as you say in your website: "Hate the complexity of modern front‑end web development? I send out a short email each weekday on how to build a simpler, more resilient web. Join 13k+ others."
"
Next step?

International companies have been doing this for decades.

Until I retired at the end of 2017 I had worked for over twenty years in a team which had developers and domain experts in the following countries: Norway, UK, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Turkey, USA (several states), Canada, Poland.
Remote work has many upsides as well as downsides when compared to working in office.

What's interesting to me is, that many of the upsides of home office (which are also the downsides of going onsite) seem to be pretty much inherent and unavoidable.

Companies doing home office can hire from a larger pool, have less expenses for offices and onsite services, no commuting allowances, etc.

Employees working in home office have no commute, less car costs, more food options, are freed of open-plan office distractions, etc.

At the same time, most of the downsides of home office (and thus the upsides of onsite work) do mostly concern communication and organization and should be solvable.

Online Meetings suck, because all video/voice chats are crap.

You can't get in touch as quickly as tapping someone on the shoulder - because messengers are crap.

And so on, and so forth. So basically, all our tools for online-collaboration are not able to adequately replace in-person communication. Something is obviously getting lost.

It's kinda interesting, that Google does not seem interested in figuring out what the problem is, and improving upon their tools. It would seem to me that making Google's online collaboration tools better to overcome those problems and provide a remote work experience that doesn't suffer from all those drawbacks, would be a great business opportunity.

Instead they are basically throwing in the towel and admitting that they are unable to make it work well, right?
It wouldn’t make much sense to port Winforms any more, as it is CPU-renderer only. It would be disappointingly slow for anything more complex than, well, forms.
Only 500MM per day. Very affordable for a couple of weeks. After 6 months, though, that's a $90 billion accumulated bill. That's not including escalation of costs as everything gets more difficult. Unlike the United States with its US dollar, Russia does not own the reserve currency of the world, so it cannot really afford to wage war at this level of intensity for the next 10 to 20 years that it would need to, in order to hope to achieve its extreme political and military objectives. It's a clearly idiotic
an egregiously costly strategic error.
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The fact that they don't share those 1.78 trillion not even approximately equally.
I fully subscribe to this notion and hate it that our field is riddled with hyped technologies which everyone chases.

Just because something works for Google (Angular) or Facebook (React) doesn't mean it works for your SMB application.
>Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't see the ukranians giving in any time soon, they seem determined to fight for every inch. The cost of occupying them is going to be astronomical and tie up their military fighting a guerilla war.

I don't think your wrong, the "official" military will be gone away soon, but then the real struggle begins for russia.

Just look at Afghanistan in 1979, if the west continues to support the guerillas/mudschahidin/freedom-fighters etc.

If Ukrainians don't start to fight each others (like in Chechnya) this is going to be a nightmare for Russia.

Bit more info:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/02/24/c...
This effect can be very pronounced even in the naked eye. Stand behind a window and observe something large and distant. Then back away to the far side of the room; the same object now fills the window. I'm often reminded of this by a particular row of tower blocks.
I scrolled past the gif because I didn't realize that it was an informative gif. First few seconds looked like just an animated logo and I never stayed to watch it. Or it could've just started with an action instead of animating the logo.
But the article is talking about costs, not spending
No modern military would do a ww2 style beach landing. It's why we retired battleships.

You send in naval air forces to obliterate defenses on shore then send in marines.

This is probably why China is deeply invested in long range fighters (their modern fighter has significantly more range than US ones). And aircraft carriers as of late. That and enough surface warships to defend said carriers.
Geez, let's be realistic, no leader would be able to swallow their pride and agree to your points, they'd rather pretend to have some pride left and go to China.

If they agreed to those points, their destiny will be determined by "the West", which may look pure and good compared to Putin, but let's not pretend the US and EU are corruption-free, the rich and corporations also have outsized influence here.
I very much agree and I’m looking for another job because my company is forcing me back for 3/5 days because of this. I’m not going back to that.
> This figure is transparently nonsensical.

Think of consultancy more of a wellness program instead of substantial help.
If you want something barebones with the smallest possible transaction fees and a good API, Helcim was quite good at least a few years ago when I used it. This was for a project that did a lot of micro-charges and they were the only payment processor I could find where that would still be profitable because of their (then) low fees. Not sure what their fee structure is now, though.
>>> I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.

And that's what is wrong about being in office, especially as a software developer I hate having my focus interrupted because someone can't send an email
What should Europe have done differently in your eyes?
Can be put on IPFS without much hassle.
Anyone who thinks Russia will denuke is insane. It will use those weapons long before it will ever think of giving them up.
Google's search algorithm appears to be biased, or is it?
People must stop using west-based numbers for these calculations, the economy is totally different in the east

* lost equipment costs basically 0 - they are mostly old hand-me-downs, the factories are not producing them anymore, so all the costs are already sunk; also the supply is plenty, so abandoning them is nothing; but let's be generous and say $100k / piece of equipment lost

* airplanes are more expensive, but again, this is old stock, there is plenty of them, and not incurring costs of producing more - let's say 10M per craft

* $1000 / day / soldier - this is absurd. They left the poor blokes in the cold with no fuel, military rations that expired in 1997 for food, and they rob the houses and stores they encounter for necessities; I'd say max $20 / day / soldier, and this is a country that average salary is $500 / month, so paying your soldiers $600/month is above average !

So in total this gets you 14M / day. Let's double that for the upkeep and then round up to 50M / day and you'll get a closer look at what the costs truly are like for Russia.

Basically the military in this invasion costs them spare change. The really costly bit is sanctions - in this context the lost at least 300B so far, with no end in sight. No wonder Putin is pissed.
> I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site.

You stated your preferences. There are many (probably most in programming roles) who don't, so they'll go elsewhere.
If you don't see the difference between proprietatory format like docx and you argue that just because I add double-asterisk with a word in-between then suddenly it's not plain-text file (since it's markdown markup at this point) then yeah, this conversation is over.
(I'm biased, as I'm the CTO/co-founder of Efemarai)

Yes, there are usually several changes that need to be tracked - code/model changes (those usually happen early on and the stabalise), input/code changes (e.g. pre-processing the data with either new transformations or _other_ models), and data changes (both changes for training and testing). At Efemarai we are thinking about it as any changes to the above should automatically trigger a test suit of the model/process. And under test we're thinking not just the different forms of unit testing the input/output formats and sizes from the model, but also unit testing on the model performance of the data you've collected + stress testing the model with data the model is expected to see in production.

So in reality, it's indeed nothing new, but the standard DevOps pipeline needs to be extended to work with the ML assumptions.
Just to echo this, I’m currently using a crate called deku (for a toy project to learn rust). Deku is a wrapper on top of bitvec which lets you annotate structs and enums for decoding and encoding. The speed I was able to implement a binary TCPStream encoder/decoder was great. Both have been rock solid for me.

Highly recommend both libraries!
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My question is why would anyone agree to this if they have nuclear weapons? Like, the USA (and Israel) have spent an enormous of effort and money to stop a "rogue" state like Iran from acquiring nuclear capabilities, but it seems that in the last week Russia has seemingly transformed into said rogue state.
And yet there are species of animals that can live well over 500 years without aging much. If it just comes down to errors, perhaps we should focus on finding better error repair mechanisms. If half the money that went into building the ad platforms was put into senescence repair mechanisms, who knows where we would be. One sad thing about pointless high paying tech jobs is they often take brilliant minds and set them to work building a better bean counter in exchange for money. A good portion of work done every day by Silicon Valley will have no lasting benefit and will be completely thrown out. Humans are smart enough to understand this but not smart enough to break the meaningless cycle and work on goals that will benefit society over the next 1000 years.
I think Electron is neither here nor there. It is the "stroad" of software distribution: the sluggishness and poor performance of a web interface, coupled with the difficulty to upgrade of a desktop package.

Personally I push for either native apps or web apps, to regain at least one of the benefits lost by packaging web apps.
Quick naps are hugely underrated. 20 minutes of sleep in the afternoon and afterwards I could do my job while juggling knives (figuratively).

A manager I worked with once pre-pandemic had his idea of "business hammocks" for the office repeatedly shot down. He was a genius though.
note that what you say is the _lower_ limit, "business as usual" if you can use that phrase.

nothing was usual for the russian army in the first week. now that they're starting to reorganize, it might go back down, but that's assuming logistics will be functioning. this is not a given since the army seems to be corrupt in and out.
It's funny that, with the importance of tax to government revenue, why do governments not make a habit of funding/creating really high quality tax software for businesses/individuals to use? Increases in collection efficiency have historically been associated with growth of the state coffers (and state's whose bureacracies failed to adequately capture tax had to resort to funding themselves in other ways, frequently in the past through "expansionist tendencies", ie, war--for territory, resources etc...which then only works if you can pay for soldiers and equipment). Not that governments seem great at making software (in general), but with something so critical, a focus on this seems like a "sort of" low-hanging fruit...
On the Google Font side, is there a leading tool/project that lets you pick from the Google font list (and maybe more?) and quickly set up local hosting with roughly the same amount of hassle?
That was already achieved before the invasion, one of the NATO criterias for entry is not to have disputed borders.

https://www.rferl.org/a/1099020.html search for "territorial disputes".
As opposed to the Electron-based editors which modern web developers use and heat Starbucks with?
>>I'm as hopeful as anyone for Ukraine to survive this awful war with her sovereignty intact, but we must be realistic.

I am willing to bet 90% of people will believe that number when it is printed by the press or shared on social media.

It is so sad we live in a world where 99.9% of news are either factually incorrect or completely taken out of context.
> Only OSX has a reasonably decent solution for copying apps between machines.

Just as long as they're signed. Unsigned apps built on one machine will fail to start (pass audit) on another.
This is an important point, we have not cut off Russia completely because Europe is heavily dependent on it's oil and gas. What we have done is shut down almost everything except that critical oil and gas (and probably wheat).

Since 2014 Europe has invested a fair bit in diversifying it's potential energy sources by building gas shipping terminals and increasing integration between national pipeline infrastructure, and this will need to be put into overdrive.
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Turkey bought S-300 systems and were pummeled for it.

I find this puzzling since Greece, also a NATO member, also purchased Russian S-300 systems but weren't penalized for it.
> The whole country premise is based on war.

Oh please. I'm all on board with criticizing the war, criticizing the human rights abuses, criticizing the megalomaniac Putin.

But once you go into this kind of criticism, you start the same propaganda you are criticizing Putin of. Make a difference between a corrupt regime and the country, the people. If you really want to make the point of the "whole country" being based on war, you need to be fair and do that to every country. The U.S.? Based on genocide of the natives, slavery and oppression of Africans and now playing world police bullying everybody who does not want to play along. China? Thousands of years of history of basing their power on war or the threat of it. British Empire? India?

Please, let's just not go there.