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I work mostly on open source projects so perhaps that colors my view, but every project I work on uses 100% pull requests for everything. Pushing directly to the repo is disabled. It is interesting to hear there is a more diverse spectrum of opinions on this.
100% agreed. I'm not sure how big a problem this is, but it's been huge for me personally.

I write software because I like solving problems for people. It's gratifying to build clever things, but for me it has to end in making the world better somehow. Even if it's just one person, which has happened when I'm building in-house tools.

But there's so much out there that isn't about actually getting things done. E.g., the project that is touted as using the hot technology (e.g., ML) because people want to be seen as on the leading edge; actual results would be a hindrance to bragging. Or the executive who wants to respond to public criticism and so launches an initiative that will show a lot of motion and be something they can point to, but will not actually make a difference. Or the big-talking boss who gets promoted based on the size of his project and how tough he looks, so he drastically overstaffs something, causes a lot of chaos, and then makes everybody work stupid hours in crunch mode to hit an entirely artificial deadline. And so on, and so on.

These sorts of bullshit projects are way harder on me than actual hard work, because I experience constant dissonance between my goals (make things! help people!) and the day-to-day of the project.

And I think it's even worse for others, because it's easy to learn the lesson that the important thing at work is just to shut up and play pretend with whatever the bosses want. That's a lesson I absolutely refuse to learn. But many apparently do, and that can ruin a person for their whole career.
Fastmail also hosts mail on American and Australian servers, using encryption keys they control, making it unsafe for foreigners to use.
This is a massive over-simplification. The issue isn't that people are not innovating, it's that there are long routes to delivery for many things.

Medical changes take years to test and approve; AI takes ages to adapt; hundreds of companies already produce innovative products that are simply unknown and even air-conditioning companies can't exactly perform a 5 minute tweak to something to clean ventilation systems, any changes are likely to require training, availability of tradespeople, significant disruption and then ongoing maintenance costs.
This index seems to indicate that people across all of tech have a good chance of suffering from burnout. We have a 42.1% chance of burning out apparently, which is pretty huge. It would be interesting to see the breakdown by age as well, as life stage changes as people get older and can affect their rate of burnout.

That means even if we jump jobs to get out of a toxic work environment, there's still a good possibility to get burned out at the new job. And with the rate of exhaustion being over 55% for both men and women, that means we have slightly less than a 50-50 chance of finding a good job that won't overwork us. And that assumes your work environment doesn't change (ie, your boss leaving, re-orgs, etc).

Maybe it's time we get together and just stop putting up with toxic environments, because it's pretty much prevalent. The only way to do that is to form solidarity with one another, and push back against the toxicity through a collective group.
It is more profitable to convince consumers that a previously unrecognized thing is a problem that needs solving. Then your 'solution' can be the best and only one available. For previously recognized problems there is so much pesky competition.
>Unless it's effecting your performance review or whatever, who cares, honestly? The obsession with efficiency and Taylorism is what's wrong with the current state of affairs in business.

being blocked on a task due to missing knowledge isn't really "efficient". Especially when someone can point you to the right place in the span of a single slack message line instead of spending hours wandering through legacy code and still missing the full scope of the change I want to make.

Sure, if it's a one-off bug fix task someone internal discovered, it can wait a day. But these kinds of issues when highlihgted are never because "it happened once" One is coincidence, twice is happenstance. thrice is probably a habit and you learn that certain people aren't a reliable resource in terms of, well, co-working.
Nah should let them stay connected to the internet so they can see news from outside Russia. Should completely isolate them economically too.

Not a single Russian should be able to receive a single dollar from anywhere outside the country until Putin is overthrown and they're out of Ukraine completely.
It managed to mislead the purportedly wise readership of this forum.

Fake news doesn’t mean literally everything in the article is fake. It’s a metaphor
Yes the world (not just EU, UK and the "western" world, China and India are impacted as well) would suffer in general, russia's economy will be wiped.

And the prices of oil will normalise fairly quickly when ppl stop with the panic as supply is currently not affected. It might be in the future but there are mechanisms and levers the world can use.
It's funny though, you can't make people realize this. If I and to you a week prior and yelled "you're going to die, you're a mortal and life is fleeting!" you'd just look at me like I'm crazy and go back to work. It seems like people can't get to that point until they've worked themselves tired, and earned a bit of money.
Metals, wheat and some other stuff. All soon to be halted if not already.
Hiring then would have been outright punishment. America is more about everyone being self sufficient and most importantly, being a good trading partner. We think free trade is essential to prosperity.

Remember that America spent billions of dollars on Europe and Asia after WW2 on reconstruction. Now America has some great allies (Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, etc.) all backed by consistent and reliable trade.

When the USSR collapsed, America was kind of hoping they’d join the club. America literally thinks the club is really cool and everyone should be a part of it.

Buying engines from Russia was about showing how trade is awesome and how both parties could benefit.
> Azerbaijan expelled the Armenian population from Baku in the 90s pogroms

Armenians started assaulting and expelling Azerbaijanis back in 1987 (Kapan/Kafan). This happened before Sumgait/Baku pogroms.
Indeed we have, and a large part of what has happened is that the governments have drastically cut down on basic R&D in science.

Our best researchers are wasting half or more of their time chasing one tiny bit of research grant after another so that they can continue for a couple more months of work - how do you expect actual results to appear from that burst-like work? We need to fund scientific research in a more sustainable way, and that soon.

And of those brilliant minds who don't want to subject themselves to that kind of bull dung because they want to, say, start a family and want a stable life with a decent wage, most end up working for Facebook to sell ads or for financial traders. Neither of which is in any kind productive to the progress of society.

And the global mega-corporations that used to fund their own massive research institutions also seem to have lost their way, especially as R&D spending isn't received well by the stock markets...
What about them (us)?

It's not the rest of the world that keeps putting dictators in power in Russia, is it? It's the Russians.
It's unlikely he'd have the steam to handle a new baby, a full-time job, and building a product, so picking one or the other seems reasonable. Once the kid isn't waking up in the middle of the night and he can sleep more than 3 hours at a time, a side project is more manageable.
I kinda like it how we do where I am working now, and we're doing highly exploratory work. We have an ongoing call throughout the day where people kinda join up, and a lot of impromptuu discussion is done in this way. It's not mandatory, but most of us just chill there, mute and webcam on or off, depending on the mood, and kinda work.

It's super natural to just ping someone in chat and if it's the case, you can share the screen and if anyone else is interested they're already there and can just throw an eye. If the discussion is annoying you, you can just mute and focus, but most of the times if it's a longer discussion, we make a split conversation and rejoin main after we do the back and forth.

Really natural way of doing things and I can work from anywhere with people from anywhere, as long as we can get some overlap with the daily calendar group chat, which is very easy to do given its immovable nature.
Metamask/Infura is blocking countries like Venezuela by IP addresses
In all honesty, I disagree entirely. I see innovative stuff all the time. It strikes me that if you treat everything innovative with cynicism you can state it in that way:

- antibiotics: just better drugs

- GMO crops or the Green Revolution: just being more deliberate about what people did for thousands of years

- going to space: we can barely go under the sea, this is just that but up

- the Internet: phones, you've invented phones

- phones: talking to people, you've invented talking

- talking: just grunting with more sounds

There is a lot of wonderful stuff going on in the world, but if you filter to stuff you can dismiss, you're just going to see everything as worthless.

This is a common thing a lot of people find really hard to understand. A good critic isn't one who places the bar so high that nothing meets it. A good critic is one who can separate exceptional from mundane. If nothing is exceptional, it is likely the problem is that you're not good at determining whether something is. Just in a Bayesian sense, if your barometer says it's 1 atm literally everywhere, more likely the barometer is broken than that pressure has equalized everywhere in the universe.
A pice of trivia: in Polish it should also be Kowal (Koval). Land owners were taking the names of the places they owned, so if you owned a village called, called Paris, you took the name Pariski (adjective). This created a culture of adding a ski to your name. There was even a book of peasants that weren't upper class, but took that name.
Nearly all of recorded human history has been rule by gangsters - the liberal democracies of the rich world are an aberration, not the norm. I think about this almost daily and it terrifies me.
Ask HN: How do you embed social proof into email?
By "Social Proof" I mean some validation that the sender is a genuine human. Not spam, drip-campaign, mass marketing, etc.

Examples in social media:

- Twitter: When reaching out via twitter, you have followers. Which embeds a certain amount of social trust. i.e. "if other people like this person, they can't be that bad"

- LinkedIn: Similar to twitter. But less validation, since you can just request connections to reach that 500+ number.

- Discord/Slack: Invite system. At some point someone in the community invited the member. So there has been some level of validation.

- Keybase: Requires setting up a Public/Private key pair. Demonstrates basic level of competency.

Question inspired by spending the last 6 months doing email marketing. It's not great. But it's the one direct line of communication that everyone has.
Let me add my favorite, https://hamexam.org
Ask HN: How does HN keep spam free?
How do you keep spam posts, upvotes and comments away? Seems very effective.
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Are they going to ask the ITU to revoke the +7 dialing code next? And then ask the UPU stop mail delivery to Russia?
I wonder if you could boost output even farther using a colinear antenna in the reflector dish.
> the populace exerts sufficient pressure against leadership. That means protests, that means civil disobedience.

If this is what you want then cutting Russians out of the Internet is a terrible idea: consider that most are just now learning that they are actually at war and not in a freedom military operation (as the state media is making them believe).
Yes, I think the tracker also uses the sun as I remember reading.
How much would it cost to subsidize natural gas prices back to previous prices? Is this feasible? Would be very interested in an order of magnitude estimate.

Innocent people are dying as the result of an unprovoked war. Sanctions on Russia will inevitably have some negative economic consequences for the West - the question is, what is the total price of these consequences?
Adyen and bolt seem to be popular.
Depends what you're trying to extract from the data. For my rare surname, it's tiny circles corresponding to individual households, most of the UKs largest cities have no instances but there is a cluster of small circles in the towns near where my dad grew up. That's more interesting visually than the frequency being <1 per 100k population basically everywhere.
Troll troll trollety troll.
It was 90% Armenian in the 1920s; the Azerbaijan SSR promoted immigration of Azerbaijani in the region between then and the 1980s, but it never went below 75%.
Remote learning makes these gaps wider. Yes, they already exist. But making things worse for minorities isn't the solution imo.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/covid-19-has-left-milli...
> China really don’t care one bit about Russia

Better and bigger trade deals is definitely a benefit for China.
Well what makes you say that?
It's in the same class of cognitohazards as tvtropes.org.
It's substituting for the state, and the social organization it provides, not personal computers.
Interesting, I find lavagulin more annoying and often longer-taking because it requires you to play very safe (and get -str/dex) or take tons of damage in early turns. It's high variance, since if you have a strong suite of powers early you can set up for a while, but that's unusual.
> If this is what you want then cutting Russians out of the Internet is a terrible idea.

I agree. I don't think they should be cut off from the Internet. But I do wholeheartedly support economic sanctions.
The main problem with on-boarding people remotely isn't getting them equipment, it's the fact that lots of people don't develop good relationships with other people, and learning that would have historically happened by 'osmosis' sitting next to each other and casually chatting gets lost.
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It's a really recommendable channel [0]. For those who aren't aware of it, it's from a commercial airplane pilot who in his videos mostly focuses on crashes or other serious problems we may have heard of in the news and explains them in detail.

Kind of like Darknet Diaries for Aviation.

In a second channel [1] he talks about general topics related to aviation.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/MentourPilotaviation

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/MentourNow
Since you live in San Francisco, a number of companies (I know for sure Facebook and Google) have ways where you know somone who works at that company, and who can vouch for you, they can help you get control back to an account that has been lost or taken over by someone malicious. Maybe you know someone at those companies? The companies themselves generally don't advertise this, because it obviously doesn't scale, and they'd be concerned with people who try to strike up a "friendship" with an employee just so they can backdoor access to an account --- this is something that can be used as a security attack vector as well! (So it works best for, "I've known this person for the last X years, and last month they completely lost control over their account. I can say for sure they are who they say they are and not a conman or a state-sponsored intelligence agent." sort of thing.)

Other than that, what I try to tell everyone to use 2FA authentication, and not just SMS text messages or TOTP's, but FIDO Security Keys to protect your digital identity. Never reuse passwords and use a password manager, yadda, yadda, yadda.
What's the problem? I have beaten the heart with Defect on ascension 20 quite a few times. Mummified hand is the relic that turns an average run into an amazing run. Combine it with Storm and Heatsinks and you can start doing some serious damage.
It's more the wrong question because the "international community" as such broadly supported action in Afghanistan and (to a lesser extent) Iraq. Lots of individual groups had qualms, but none rose to the level of actual policymaking in democratic governments. Obviously in hindsight (informed by the results of the occupation and the exposure of the extremely spun intelligence that was used to justify the war) lots of people would claim to have "opposed" the Iraq war, but at the time it was mostly just shrugs and silence.
Learning through repetition is part and parcel of the roguelike world, it’s the core mechanic for things Binding of Isaac and Enter the Gungeon.

I think Slay the Spire is fairly accessible in spite of this, although “accessible” doesn’t necessarily mean one will win every run. I’ve never consulted a wiki or watched a stream and still have a grand old time playing.
How does this sound?

Get a job and switch to making it your hobby/side-hussle/itch-to-scratch project while $company pays your mortgage etc. Doing it that way would take a lot of the 'do I / Don't I' pressure off you.

If, after polishing it up a bit in your evenings/weeks-ends it still looks promising then yeah, that is the time to decide.

If you get good PR submitters, use them to help out and build up a relationship with them... you never know when you might need a good person like that as either a first-hire or a co-investor.

I read somewhere that the retention rate for SV IT techies tanks after about 3 years.... think about that and view the option of "taking a day job" not as a defeat but rather in the way of "hey, I've just got my own personal seed-funder for the next three years or so".

Best case - You get to hand your notice in after 6 months. Worst case? You polished your project and nurtured it for 3 years .... is it viable or not?
Sorry for the tone of my comment, I think I'm just tired of seeing Americans referencing that event everytime something bad happens as a benchmark for the worst thing ever (I'm exaggerating of course). But I can see that your comment didn't imply that, so again sorry for being rude.
Also, the majority of websites on the web are landing pages, blogs, news websites or e-commerce sites, all of which are inherently multipage.

SPAs should be used creating "applications" (as stated by the "A" in SPA), not websites.
Sorry, I don't know. But if Russia decides to "build a wall" and limit emigration, then there might not be any choice left.
> creating the software I hoped to turn into business

> I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it.

These two statements are incompatible. If they're true, this isn't a business, it's a hobby. That's not to say it's bad thing — I personally rewrote Redis on DynamoDB in Go over the course of the pandemic, and I learned a ton. But not a single person will ever pay for it.

I also wrote a scheduling system for the folks who run my gym as well, and they take me to lunch every chance they get to ask for new features and beg me to take more of their money.

The difference is classic YC startup lore, you make something people want. Not hope that people will want what you make. The former is a business, the latter is a hobby. Both are equally valid based on your life situation, but it doesn't work to confuse the two.
You are right. It doesn't excuse Stripe Tax, but a business can have both presence nexuses (ie we sell from there) and sales nexuses (ie we sell enough to there that the local laws say we need to register and collect taxes).

The details vary for the EU depending on whether the product is business-to-consumer or B2B and what kind of volume we're talking about. Some countries, such as the US, have a double taxation treaty with the EU that allows you to use a self-charge VAT structure when you do small amount of sales which has the effect of not needing the US seller to register for VAT, provided your tax authority (ie the IRS) authorizes you to participate under that treaty.

Correct handling of sales tax/VAT globally is complicated and I definitely had a "oh honey" moment when reading that sentence as well.
yes. market is too hot right now for jobs.
Just more rk3588. Pine64 and Radxa will have rk3588 boards too (presumably with more than just 8 GB, the rk3588 goes up to 32 GB AIUI).

I'm not sure I'm interested in an rk3588. For one, it is a Chinese company. Maybe you don't care but I do. Second, the core design is still old. Why? Mediatek is going to be shipping A78 cores around the same time, on a 6nm TSMC node instead of an 8nm Samsung node. Third, the rk356x has still not had its source code released for trustedfirmware-a. The new mediatek socs (mt8192 and mt8195) already have TF-A upstream.

Anyway here are some docs on the newer rockchip and mediatek SoCs, again the BPi board is using an rk3588 SoC.

RK3588: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/12/16/rockchip-rk3588-data...

RK3566 & RK3568: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/12/16/rockchip-rk3566-and-...

MT8195: https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/01/28/mediatek-kompanio-13...

MT8192: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/11/mediatek-unveils-dim...
Here's the original source: https://twitter.com/janedvidek/status/1498723248183382020
But NATO does require that there are no outstanding territorial disputes. So Russian occupation of part of Georgia is a tactic. Furthermore, to say that this NATO "requirement" was papered over when Greece and Turkey were admitted would be an understatement.
"Be trollish"?

I'm not the one spouting the Kremlin's talking points.
Raw supply is not affected but the supply chain on the finance side is, which can create artificial delivery shocks.
If this is the case, then at what point a coup/ground movement throws Putin away. A dictator can only stay as long in the power until he can keep people around him happy, even financially. There are young conscripts dying in a war in a state where many have brotherly relations with. At what point it is not just easy to turn those weapons on Putin.
>I feel like most people are in agreement - commuting really sucks but working in an office is generally better. I suspect if teleporters existed barely anyone would WFH.

depends on office space and potential home accommodations. Like, if you have a dedicated 8m^2 office room in your house, it still may not be worth teleporting into an open space office. But if everyone can get a small private room to some more open floor structure for collaboration, it sounds like the perfect solution.
Thank you. I defer to the ones actually doing the fighting! I hope the result goes your way and a stronger Ukraine emerges after the war.

edit: Btw, off topic but I'm curious if these reports about discrimination against people of color fleeing Ukraine are true:
https://time.com/6153276/ukraine-refugees-racism/