skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if Viper is on Apple Music
It's ok, but it never takes any bold risks putting in any distinctive "this landmark does not exist" buildings. It would never generate a gaudy pile of lights like Time SQ nor an oversized oyster shell like the Sydney opera house. I'd be fairly impressed if it generated distinctive features that feel like deja vue.
It was to be expected. Slightly related, there's also this, from today's Financial Times [1]:

> Commodity prices soar to highest level since 2008 over Russia supply fears (...) With exports from Ukraine and Russia at a virtual halt, wheat soared, with Chicago futures at the highest levels since 2008, when a spike in grain prices triggered protests and riots in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

didn't see that many journalists and opinion pieces mentioning this side of the sanctions, i.e. what negative effects they will have on us.

[1] https://archive.ph/Z3RM9
Depends on the startup. The typical SV/consumer startups just don't know about it. More junior devs who don't have the corporate/enterprise experience or started learning with JS/frontend and haven't ventured out. Developers tend to choose what they know or what's popular, especially at a new organization, so the same tech stacks continue to dominate there.

I've built 3 adtech platforms with .NET and the productivity and performance has let us outcompete much bigger companies with a smaller team so it's fortunate for those who do know about it.
What security implications does running curl have that wouldn't be present in a browser?
Yeah I remember those. One I used to use had a donation scheme where if you couldn't seed or didn't want to you could donate 10 Euros and 100 GiB of seed traffic would be applied to your account (just a number in a database not actual seeding) to keep that ratio up.

These people were _the_ tracker for the content in question so they were seeding a lot of content themselves hence the donations were a proxy.
so bush can continue to falsely accuse iraq of WMDs, flatten that country down, murder gaddafi and put his country into a civil war because he refused to accept american hegemony of american dollars and wanted gold for his oil.

my point is, what russia is doing is simply to counter american advances against itself.

why does american "need" to bring ukraine or other russian neighbours into nato? why does america have military bases across the world?

why does america have to be the world police?
I'm not really sure what other people think the long term effect of shifts to remote work will do, but to me it seems like, long term, tech salaries will be lower. It doesn't really make sense to me to pay the same Silicon Valley wages when people can be working from anywhere. Why would I pay an extremely high wage to someone living in the Bay Area when I could instead pay a lower salary to someone in India who speaks perfect English and is willing to work CA timezone hours? In the short term, companies might keep salaries where they are to avoid disruption, but long term I'm not so sure.

Obviously, companies have to compete with other companies from all over the world for tech talent, but the ratio of tech money to tech talent is much higher in certain parts of the U.S. than pretty much anywhere else in the world. As a result, if that money gets to shop for talent around the entire world then the 'price' for that talent seems like it will go down. But maybe there is something I am missing.

And maybe all the people who want to go full time remote are ok with that, but depending on how big the pay cut is, maybe not. Presumably, if companies now see less benefit in having in-office engineers, then everyone including in-office workers will get pay cuts due to the globalized market for talent. So perhaps, selfishly, we should want companies to put a high value on being in person, but I guess we will have to wait and see.
> Okay? That has nothing to do with my point.

I disagree. The phrasing you used implied that you believed the United States did not already have a caste system and that foreigners were bringing it to the US. This is factually incorrect since the US always had a very strict caste system pretty much from the inception of the nation only repealed recently, and even then still functionally present.
Vaguely related amusing bit of trivia: the word for smith or blacksmith is one of the most common names about everywhere: Smith (England), Schmidt (Germany), Smit/Smet (Belgium, Netherlands), Fabre/Favre/Lefèvre/Lefèbvre (France), Ferrari/Fabri (Italy), Ferrero/Herrero (Spain), Ferreiro (Portugal), Kowalski (Poland), Haddad (Morocco), Demirci (Turkey), Demirdjian (Armenia), Gof/Goff/Le Goff (Brittany, Wales), Gowan/Gowen/Gow/Gough (Scotland), Kuznitz/Kuznetz/Kuznetzov (Russia), etc.
> The “Finlandization of Europe”.

Even Finland itself came out of Finlandization beginning thirty-plus years ago, so it's doubly ironic that Putler at least partly succededed in bending much of the rest of Europe to something similar since. The main culprit in falling for this is, AFAICS, Germany; from about the Schröder administration and onwards.
Thats right. USD never leave US banks, the dollars just change owners. Same for any other currency.
As a counterpoint, when I commuted to an office in NYC I relied on CitiBike for the last leg of my journey, as did several thousand other office workers.

I will admit there were a few days where I stood in a line outside of Penn Station to wait for a bike, and on those days biking was no faster than taking the subway. New York has a lot of commuters coming into the center which meant a shortage of bikes near train stations in the morning and a shortage of docks there at the end of the day. (They had workers in box trucks rebalancing, and eventually an scheme [1] akin to dynamic pricing to incentivize regular users to rebalance bikes themselves.)

I think a larger issue preventing the success of bike share is the fact that the US is an automobile-first culture so biking is unsafe in most parts of the US. The first thing I noticed when seeing bike commuters in other countries was the number of there were old folks, kids, and women biking for transportation in the city -- unlike the US where the majority of bike commuters are adult men with a high risk tolerance.

[1] https://citibikenyc.com/bike-angels
You are probably both correct, for your own situation and personality.

Please don't assume there is one universal truth that needs to be forced on others
That ruptured eyeball peninsula is prime real estate.
As they laid out, it's really not within their mandate nor the scope of their operations to do this anyways.

Responding and explaining that is really all they can do.
It's a "franglais" joke.
I think if western intelligence truly believed that Russias nuclear arsenal was all talk, they would be less hesitant to use NATO troops to defend Ukraine. Why hesitate otherwise?
> If we start from the principle that everything makes sense...
>
> So, what are we not seeing?

Not everything makes sense.

Humans are not rational creatures. We are complicated things that are far more driven by emotions than by dispassionate analysis.

Even when we do engage in dispassionate analysis, we get it wrong a whole lot. See the number of software bugs in the world.
Estonian cargo ship SINKS after 'hitting a MINE' off Ukraine coast near Odessa
Every media discussion of disease transmission on airplanes (that I've seen, at least) manages to miss or misrepresent the issues as presented in scientific studies.

I posted before a detailed article from Boeing[1] about cabin air quality, but the basic point is that air taken in while cruising undergoes high heat and pressure, so that fresh air input to the cabin is essentially sterile and has <1% relative humidity. The fresh air is mixed 50/50 with cabin air that has been HEPA filtered so that pathogen count is extremely low [2]. Because of this, many have taken the stance that there is no point in wearing a mask on a plane.

However, it is well documented that about 20% of passengers on any flight tend to catch a cold (rhinovirus). With the assumption that air dispersal is not the problem, health advice for many years has focused on surface transmission (fomites) and hand hygene. There is much anecdotal evidence to support this approach. For example, several years ago, a flight attendant told me that they used to catch colds extremely frequently, but since they started wearing gloves to collect trash the problem mostly stopped.

While that approach seems to be effective for rhinoviruses, influenza and coronaviruses are airborne and there have been documented cases of in-flight transmission, though they are relatively rare [3,4,5]. Since cases of transmission are so rare relative to numbers of infected passengers, it is suspected that faulty ventillation has been the cause [6].

However, even when the filtering system is working optimally, there is still a greatly increased risk of transmission due to low air humidity. When relative humidity drops below about 35%, two bad things happen. First, airborne viruses remain viable longer and travel much farther. Second, the mucous membranes in your eyes and nose lose their ability to block pathogens [7,8,9]. During a flight, cabin air RH is generally 5%-20%.

It has been understood at least since the 1970s that low humidity was a significant health risk factor on flights. There was some experimentation in the 1980s with humidifying systems for planes, but they were heavy, costly, hard to maintain, and higher humidity increased corrosion of the aircraft structure [10]. So they decided to just pretend the problem didn't exist.

To defend yourself from infection on a plane, you have to protect both your nose and eyes, both from pathogens on your hands and in the air. In addition to strict hand hygiene, I use eye/nose moisturizers and protect my eyes with Ziena moisture chamber glasses. That routine has kept me from catching colds on long flights for several years now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30332290

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8596601/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984860/

[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27253070/

[5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34480171/

[6] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15767002/

[7] https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publications/common-cold-tr...

[8] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17953482/

[9] https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-20-06-covid-0302

[10] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b12603
Thanks for sharing. What about private persons. Can’t they open accounts with Chinese banks?
I feel this. I pay $500 a month for insurance with a $6000 deductible.

I would have to have more than $12,000 in medical expenses every year before I would break even on this.
I think Europe has pretty clearly shown (by their actions) that they are mobilizing the machinery of war. They don't have (many) people currently in harms way, we are content letting Ukrainians fight it out for now, but the machine is humming.

The machine of war isn't monolithic, and what you're seeing is that certain parts of it (like shutting down opposing propaganda) can be started without other parts (like literal fighting) being needed.
> Our government friends at the NSA are equally guilty of that as well, I'm not seeing much outrage over that either.

Indeed, all those NSA ransomware attacks on hospitals have to stop!

Perhaps they’re not actually equally guilty and the NSA is far more careful with their approach than the Russians?

The NotPetya wiper worm was released by the Russian government, the NSA has never been accused of anything similar.

This kind of false equivalency is nothing but dishonest, you should be ashamed of yourself.
The vote of no confidence occured already after the war, if I am not mistaken. Or, rather, he resigned to enable new elections and confirm his legitimacy after the military disaster. The bet paid off, mostly because the other main candidate was a Russian-backed ex-president who is almost universally hated for the corruption during his tenure.

I do find that Pashinyan's drift towards France and the U.S. was quite pronounced, by the way.
But I am not saying that the phenomenon does not exist. I am saying that I am lacking evidence in the article. Evidence could be statistical (if we don't know how yet) or physical (if we do know how, like, a sense was identified). But for me, pointing to a bunch of crabs on a cable and making assumptions is not enough.
> People require a high degree of assurance, by means of lengthy descriptions and technical specifications, before making a purchasing decision

I'd say it's astounding that this is not considered normal and people put up with this extremely low standard of inconsistent product descriptions that apparently made multiple passes through translation software and are riddled with errors. I don't think it's unreasonable that I want to know what I'm buying.
Java was really the precursor of electron.

As someone who developed a few Java desktop apps and many more Qt + C++ ones, the difference in performance was huge (memory and startup time).
Kovač(Kovacs, Kovac, Kovach) in Croatia.
Reminds me of a scare I had when I was dating my now wife. We were discussing our families and turns out our mothers had the same first name... and their maiden surnames were the same. It's a fairly common Irish name and there was no traceable relation but talk about a potential freakout! Made for a great bit during my father-in-law's speech at our wedding.
The first point tracks with my experience building in-house software for a publicly traded Enterprise healthcare company. I think in our case it was a byproduct of having one person on the business side who "owned" every application. So anything they thought was important, they wanted as a feature in "their" app. It didn't matter if that feature existed in this other app, that they also used often. If it wasn't in "their" app, they would complain - usually to the VP or SVP level, and let it trickle down the multiple layers until it reached development. It got so bad when we were talking about what we were working on we'd say "today I'm working on the $NAME web app and tomorrow on the $OTHER_NAME mobile app."
> or ourselves from them

Russian media is purely State controlled and is preaching justifications for the invasion of Ukraine.

This is not a free speech situation.
As a parent who remembers all to vividly dressing uncooperative baby I've often wondered if designers of baby clothes have even seen live baby in person or are they just going off by random pictures on the internet.
Sadly, the person you're asking the question to seems to be either arguing in bad faith, or has internalized circular logic, and won't be able to see the point you're making

Thank you for highlighting it for everyone else reading the thread!
Ask HN: What companies hire with upfront salary ranges?
I'm trying to do a bit of research on compensation in software engineering, and I have seen some companies being open about their compensation. For example Monzo have their salary bands in their job descriptions (https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/2578108). Others seem to take the transparent salaries approach (see Buffer: https://buffer.com/salaries).

I'm curious to know what other companies are doing something similar, do people have more examples of this? Thanks!
"Why should we let Russia have air? I request that the United Nations of Air cancel Russia's air immediately. 30 million neutral to allied people deserve to suffocate rapidly for the decisions of a few powerful people."
Payment with a not-fully-convertible currency? Sounds a bit risky
Absolute Power
https://www.surnamemap.eu/unitedkingdom/index.php?sur=hitler...
just look at most of the mentioned websites now. Most of them resemble US counterparts now.
This new world order the Russians and Chinese are looking to create sounds like a much much worse deal for Russia and Putin and the Oligarchs, than being part of the world system, it makes zero sense. China really don’t care one bit about Russia, it’s like them buddying up with Holland and Belgium specially. What is the point? Such small fry for no reward to them. The Russians being stupid enough to think things will get better for them by being friends with China is beyond insane. Good for China and bad for Russia.
The blog post mentions it.
Dairy farmhand outside Buffalo NY in the early 1970s. Snow over the top of recently thawed ground was the worst. Particularly if there was still a frozen layer three or four inches down. Rendered tractors unusable.
The law doesn't care how you feel pal.
https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/index-old.shtml

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/
Free speech in the U.S. does include lying about politics. Republicans and Democrats are free to lie about the policies of the other party. You would not want to make adjudicating what political statements are lies a judicial matter. That is the job of the media and the voters.
No disagreement at all that ERPs are generally garbage, especially for how much they cost. But this comments makes me think you have never dealt with international taxes. The rules are insanely complex, there is no global standard for communicating the tax, multiple systems have to be in sync with each other, and some systems even use different rounding algorithms...

I'm all for blaming the software (which by the way in this case is made by a huge company I am 100% sure you know and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to operate)... but the real problem here is the complexities of tax (I used Canada as an example but the US is the absolute worst because each state makes their own lows) is not a software quality problem, it is a data and open standards (or lack their of) problem.

But since the lack of standards is not being fixed any time soon, sometimes it "is" the user's fault.
I'm not unsympathetic with that stance, as every Christian I've ever met is fast to claim "there are also tolerant ones" - the majority are simply not. That's what a reputation does: It informs someone about what to expect. In this case it colours what is also said, both parties need to acknowledge this.
I'm reminded of a book from
my childhood, "Don't Eat the Daisies". (And the infamous McDonalds "coffee might be hot" lawsuit.)
Congrats on launching. Looks awesome.
I really don't have time to go through every item in the biased article, but you can hide recipients, you can use Ed25519. Seriously, if I was influenced by every blog post I read then I would probably be using Windows 7 still and trusting everything Gartner says.
You're really stuck on assuming it's a latency concern, but that was never the issue - it's the fiction I mentioned earlier.

> Russia does not do this. That’d be a completely separate issue

Russia already does this. They literally made a law enabling it, a couple of years ago, and then ran a live test in the middle of 2021. Look up "sovereign internet bill". Aside from the great-firewall-wannabe provisions, it specifically enables a Kremlin-controlled fork of the DNS.

And yes, it's all there in Bill's remarks. I suggest reading them.
Here's another neutral perspective from 2 senior indian generals, who have trained with the Russian Army - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNHUDDqTgdI - explaining why NATO / EU is being very careful in engaging militarily with Russia in Ukraine.
C# is Java done right.

Nothing special really, it shines only when compared to other mediocre scripting language we use nowadays.

Performance wise it's still on the heavy side.

As a user I hate both Java e C# desktop app.
It has nothing to do with the technical problems (bandwidth, etc). It has everything to do with the legal problems of video hosting and the legal liabilities it sets up. This problem of p2p video streaming has been successfully technically solved a dozen different times. Whenever these solutions become popular enough they are attacked legally and decline.
Very neat. My ancestors are not European, they are Lebanese, but I was able to find their last name in the countries they emigrated to long ago in Europe, and the cities make sense, although there's more than I thought in certain countries!

For those interested, depending on where you live, you can access Ancestry.com through the Public Library for free. In Ottawa, that was case, although as of Jan. 1, 2022, you have to go in person. Through there, you can search by name or even place of origin, and you can see the immigration records. May of which even have the photos! I noted some people that went to Brazil and could see the entire person and his family. I'm sure many people don't know that.

I was able to see my Grandfather's record to Canada in 1925 New Brunswick, and my Great Uncle's record in 1911 to Omaha, Nebraska. I'm also told my Great Grandfather came to the US in 1901, but I have been unable to track his record, because after having manually reviewed 1000+ records, I can tell you with confidence that spelling errors are rampant.

You had names change from say Smith, to Sally, and you can see the scratches as the records were modified. It's hilarious! Also, they even misspell the names in the same record. So searching is very, very hard, and instead you have to put in a broad search, like city (which can also be misspelled), and then manually look through the records. The only thing that I can say that is pretty accurate is the year. So that should be your starting point.

Good luck!
Thank you! This is the best feedback I ever got on HN.
To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles had any formal training in music and they can’t (or at least couldn’t) read music. Yet they took their talent, did their 10k hours of practice and growth and generated a fair bit of music in various genres. And they were lucky with both timing and meeting George Martin and his engineers. Check out Starostin for his commentary on this.

It’s not that book learnin’, it’s practice and reading and interacting with like-minded individuals. As others have commented, CS != programming or even development. And Zuck and Gates profited more from timing and connections than sheer programming ability. Linus or the Bell Labs folks or the MIT family tree are way more learned in CS (they thought some of it up) and development but ya can’t call them famous.
There was a Gameboy original platformer of Ren & Stimpy in space that when I was a kid just never beat, despite the persistence of a kid with nothing else to do in the preinternet era.

More recently I tried it in an emulator and it really is just like harder than Cuphead. I used snapshotting to get through it and the whole game is only 3 levels, so I think they cranked the difficulty to try to give it some longevity but they really overshot it.
Which is why it really surprised me when I learned that Disney had decided to leave the Russian market a couple of days ago. For whomever lived East of the Well pre-1990 (I did grow up as a kid in Ceausescu's Romania) it is well known that things like Disney/Hollywood movies (that were still circulating in a sort of samizdat way) and mundane consumer products like Coca-Cola or Levi's did a lot more at bringing the Wall down than the entire US nuclear arsenal.
I wonder (from a technical and legal point of view) if Youtube is blocking RT content in the EU, especially videos which are reuploaded.
The software would have to work everywhere. The tax collections (review/enforcement, really) process only has to work in one place. Tax law in one place is usually clear enough; the complexity is in the aggregate.

My state doesn’t have to give a rip that NYC has a city surtax on this but not that, or that some other jurisdiction treats clothing items up to $100 as non-taxable while we put the limit at $175.
Thanks for the long and very informative answer! I recommend actually posting your full comment, so that it becomes longer-lived.

And I have to agree on the CSS part, I mostly meant the older times without flexbox et alia. Perhaps it is generally true of web technologies but they seem to have fixed many of their numerous mistakes in recent years (JS being quite okay as well nowadays).