skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this doesn't remove the option for people to socialize or interact with humans. If not for COVID there'd be no reason that WFH people living alone couldn't have seen other people over the last two years. In fact, without a commute people now have more time to be able to socialize if they so choose with the people they want to socialize with.

You can't really get time with your kids when you work from the office, but you can get socialization when you're not working.
TikTok Clone Built on Bubble No Code in 2 Days
I recently built a TikTok clone in Bubble. It took 2 days to build this basic clone but with some good features.

I built some of the main features with some changes and custom ui design to give it my own touch, but it's features that you can find in this TikTok clone, including creating video posts, scrolling play and pause feature, likes/comments, profiles etc.

You can check it out here - https://vibes-video.bubbleapps.io/ . Let me know what you think if you do test it out :). Its also made as template on bubble if you want to use this template and build on it or even check out how it was made.
China also doesn't actively hate Russia unlike the Western establishment apparently does.
These links might be helpful:

- https://github.com/sizovs/open-salaries

- https://www.jobadsnow.com *

* this is my own jobs search engine. You can filter by [compensation => jobs with salary]
A quick death may not be the worst outcome.
Thanks for that explanation, clearly separates the action of disconnecting from SWIFT, from the act of the Fed freezing the accounts of the CBR.

I take it that it means there's an account in the Fed that says the CBR has a credit of $650B with it, but it refuses to accept any transactions against that account. So the money is still "there", just can't move.
I just keep a simple collection of tags, which I apply as I see fit to every bookmark I make. Everynow and then I have to flush a few. No big deal. Main browser is Firefox.
You just have answered your own question :)
Europe's different approach to Ukrainian and Syrian refugees draws accusation
The model I leased for 2 years certainly had auto steering.
Honestly, at my age -- the last thing I want to know is that I've been doing it wrong
It's very likely that Russia would cease to exist shortly after launching the first nuke after after a US retaliation strike.

Now, what I do believe is that the Russian boomer subs have working nuclear weapons and represent the largest danger of all.
As a person with small children who does have to do this, it actually is easy. We need to stop normalizing "frazzled parents can't handle their kids", because I see a lot of parents around in my neighborhood who do use it as an excuse to not handle their kids.
And this is a dig or a bad thing why?
The low hanging fruit answer is "admin." It's easy to fall into this trap of "only I know how the whole business runs; so I should just keep doing admin stuff." But you'd be shocked at how quickly a competent administrative assistance can handle some of this stuff (including pre-drafting email responses in your "voice").

Next step up is stuff outside of your core-competency. So that's where the CPA comes in to take some financial stuff off your plate. This can be hybrid with an admin assistance.

Then you get into the "core" functions. For a media creator, that might mean editing. Again, it's easy to fall into a trap of thinking some other editor won't be able to match your style or voice. But when you hire someone who sees themself as primarily an editor, and they're good at their job, they're really good at adapting and adopting voice.

With all of these things, often the person you're offloading to can't match your output 1:1. But if they can get you 90% completed rough drafts of the final deliverable, there's immense value there all the same.
I agree with your assessment, and it's just the younger generation catching up to older established wisdom.

The tragic irony is how hard many of that generation badmouthed the old ways of doing things. For instance ADO.NET with datatables/dataviews was often looked down upon, but through working more with people who did so it turned out that they just didn't understand it, so often that it's basically ten times out of ten.
Check out https://mlops.community/ as well. The slack community is pretty active too.
Great. Now the Do Your Own Research people won't test because of the toxic chemicals. Nice work. Can't the ivory tower just sit on these a little while? Don't they know the depths of stupidity out there?
Anesthesia costs rise with corporate outsourcing
This is probably your browser's autocomplete and nothing to do with Stripe.
You know what disturbs me? Invading a sovereign country and murdering 2000 civilians. That really disturbs me.

Banning a news channel dedicated to defending the murder of 2000 civilians? Not so much.
> Free speech does not include using speech to lie and defraud.
> If you meet a man lying through his teeth to sell you fake insurance, you do not protect his actions on the basis of freedom of speech.

The same rhetorics is used by Russian government when it tries restricting pro-western sources.

And it's not like they don't have a rather solid ground for it. Anyone living in Russia and reading western reports on it knows how much the real life is different from and image painted by journalists in some captivating (almost mythological) narrative way.

Does this mean that Russian government does good when it restricts access to information? Or does it rather teach us that universal unrestricted accees to information is imperative, and people should be able to make their own decisions, rather then consume what was provided by a local journalist?
On the other hand, I do feel worried about two large superpowers run by dictators teaming up. It’s been good seeing the west somewhat united over this Russia thing, but maybe we should think about the need for western unity more broadly than the Ukraine crisis.
I certainly like being able to roll out of bed and put on a coffee 10 minutes before starting work, but if I'm being honest with myself, the idea of receiving all my regular human interaction through a badly made Electron app from Microsoft for the rest of my life is just not a good idea in the long run.

And maybe I'm just crazy but it seems like software even from the big companies has gotten worse through the pandemic. Which wouldn't surprise me that it's hard to keep everyone working together and on the same page through online calls and chats. I personally feel like I'm not quite as engaged being at home, surrounded by distractions compared to being in an office where my brain goes into work mode.
The Russian government with its propaganda has caused a few millions of covid deaths worldwide, supported fringe groups and conspiracy theorists that lead to an insurrection, stole from foreign countries by installing puppets (Schroeder/Trump/GOP), supported Brexit, and has caused so much damage to humanity, sent thousands of kids to their death, is actively killing civilians and levelling cities.

It is a plague that needs to be eradicated. That isn't silencing a nation though, that is silencing a cancerous government that is infecting every nation it can.
China still has a lot of ressentiment from Russia's imperial times AFAIK, and some territorial claims to Russia.
OK, so we've found one case.

How about the non-genocidal Afghan war, where it's probably better being a resettled refugee in the West than having to sell your kidneys? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/world/asia/selling-buying...
I do feel like sanctions should better target large institutions. So you won’t cut off Gazprom but you’ll stop some average citizen from running their business, or in the case of Namecheap, stop them from registering a domain name? It’s like, we just don’t get it.
Also Putin is nearly 70. Perhaps with undeclared health conditions. Time could be running out to complete his ambitions.
McD would like this to continue being a cliche example of frivolous litigation, but the opposite is true. https://negrettilaw.com/news/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit-facts/ or any other search result will tell you:

- She was hospitalised for 8 days, suffered burns to her pelvic /bones/, was disabled for 2 years.

- She offered to settle for the cost of her hospital bill, McD refused.

- McD were keeping the coffee at 190°F
There are some non-trivial technical problems:

1. You need to have a complete copy of the collection _somewhere_ but P2P only benefits you if most requests can be served from copies close to the viewer. That's a problem if you have a large collection with a long tail (which is true in most cases).

2. P2P requires a fair amount of over-provisioning because most users don't have high uplink capacity, especially if you're avoiding the congestion which will cause people to stop using the service.

3. P2P nodes are unreliable & have limited capacity so you maintain a large list and update it frequently. For a popular movie, that's probably going to work out okay since most people will leave the player open for a couple of hours but for shorter or less popular content that's likely to mean that a lot of traffic is going back to the seed servers or ends up being slower going to that one guy in Moldova hosting some obscure video.

Consider how the open-source community has no legal considerations but most downloads of Linux ISOs, packages, etc. use HTTP from CDNs or mirrors because it's faster and more reliable. This problem is not impossible to solve but there's more to it than copyright and other legal considerations.
Bill Gates was writing and selling software (with Paul Allen) while in high school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traf-O-Data

The selling part is what sets him apart from almost everyone. Writing lots of code sets him apart from most programmers.

Gates was able to learn CS by working alongside experts who he hired to work at Microsoft and self study over decades.
Searching for "Smith" in Italy turns up NATO base areas along with larger cities.

It's really interesting to see how regional some names are.
Thank you @dang, I've taken your advice into account.
Back in the day, ~1995'ish I was a tech supporting Windows NT4 (amongst many other things) and I had a customer with a beefy dual processor server living on premises in a closet. For some unknown reason NT would slow down and overall performance was a bit rubbish. It turns out that the customer had turned on the pipes screensaver and it basically soaked up all of the CPU time. Fortunately my customer was more agreeable to disabling this compared to this similar story from those days of yore:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A-Fat-Pipe
My experience is that the manager seldom knows enough to judge usability - vs. merely not giving a crap. Especially not usability when in production - on well-loaded servers, via the lower-end workstations and network connections given to the day-to-day workers, etc.

And generally the most important feature for a manager to check off is the one never mentioned (at least on the customer-organization end) - "How does the Shiny Newness, Dog & Pony Show, and Buzzword Parade offered by this software make me feel about myself?"
"Wait a minute...my dad's name is Leo Varadkar too...Mom!?!?!?"
You can't tease us with a chain like that and not post it!
Very fun; my grandfather came from the Isle of Jersey. The surname clusters around the Normandy area which makes sense.
> and the effects of Russian disinformation campaigns on our society are real

is this not a failure of czech/european society at large instead of RT?
A large number of people, particularly men, were never taught some basic hygiene — given the demographics of hacker news, i figured this would be worth sharing.

Edit: as some comments have mentioned, the bidet is the better way to go. Much of the world doesn't use toilet paper. But, you may not have access to a bidet!
@jwong_ We are about to do a public release of Android SDK. Here are a couple of things which we did for internal purpose only (& WIP) but still sharing to give you an idea

https://youtu.be/gs02m2pZJlQ (Demo Video)

https://requestly.io/android-interceptor/ (WIP - Landing Page)

I'd be really happy to discuss further on this approach. I believe this is going to make things really easy for developers.
> Do your research

Ukranians are not nazis. There.
Unfortunately what is good or bad to Russia doesn't seem to matter any more. The special forces and military are in charge of Russia now, as soon as Russia can sustain basic food and fuel production they are good.
Analysing the AI of Super Mario 64
> A lot of variation in business processes doesn't have any real justification it's often just "that's how we've always done it".

Far too often.

Sometimes we fight a bit to convince our clients to actually take advantage of what a modern system can do for them.

Sometimes we have to give in watch the horror unfold as they use our services to hackily re-implement something that is basically a copy of an old desktop app that was a copy of an old mainframe app that was just an automated version of a paper-based system…
As one of them, I 100% agree.
A popular HN submission not long ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29549173
"Pay anything from Russia through China" as a service
Or... there aren't better troops and weapons?

Hear me out. Russia is corrupt to the core with leadership that's only focused on enriching themselves.

It wouldn't surprise me if their conventional military proved to be way less capable then they're presenting it to be.

Sure, they have enough smart people that are able to design advanced weaponry, but do they have the industrial capacity to actually build? And do they have the capability to maintain it? How about troop training?
More importantly, it would have set a precedent that nobody could want.
In a lot of companies, feature development trumps optimizing, refactoring or removal of legacy code.

Dev: Hey Steve, I'm working on issue #4546, but it just occured to me that that if I could just refactor that one method in SuperFactory it'd make code much cleaner and easier to reuse. Just a quick fix!

Manager: No. Work on #4546.

Dev: Sure, #4546 will be done soon, but it'd be really easy fix, it just occurred to me yesterday that there's a better way to build things with SuperFactory.

Manager: No! We already closed that issue!

Dev: No problems. But I thought that now that I have some extra time until...

Manager: Look, Dave, it's working as intended, the solution was reviewed and accepted. I will not create another task. You'll take #7839 next!

[...]

Manager: Hey, Dave, I recall you had some ideas about SuperFactory. It's been acting up lately, they keep creating tickets.

Dev: Nope. None. All gone now.

Manager: But you had, right?

Dev: Yes, but I'd have to start digging in again and I don't have time for that.

Manager: Oh, ok, you're right.
>I've seen people playing video games during work hours for example.

as long as their tasks are done, who cares? i take a 30min nap after lunch almost every day but i could also do a FFXIV dungeon instead.
The only valuable code in TikTok is the algorithm. It's easy to replicate the UI because there isn't much of one. Replicating the algorithm is a multimillion dollar project.
This is so primitive. A bidet is the way to ‘go’.
And Hungarian (Kovács)
I mostly agree. However "out-of-box solutions" often ALSO means "one-size-fits-all".

There's flexibility in ERP's, for sure, but it's not necessarily accessible to the people that use it.

I once had to implement a "screen" to physically divert a list of devices with certain serial numbers. Basically: send a notification whenever one of these devices showed up at a loading dock.

The most logical way to do it, which I naively considered first, was to set-up something in one of the ERP modules which is specifically focused on "material movement". After some tedious email exchanges and a phone call it turned out that it was, in fact, "possible". The catch was that it would take WEEKS and involve an expensive Oracle consultant requisition.

I put an end to that and instead had a junior implement the solution in a downstream application (which we actually develop, own and control), in about an hour. It was worth it even though it meant the stuff left the loading dock and ingressed into the building, requiring some additional physical "moving-around" hassles.
There is also an obsession in that part of the world with Geopolitics. It's no coincidence that some of the most popular youtube geopolitics channels are from that region. I think it's more a remnant of soviet mentality and the fact that (absent the ideology of communism) territorial gains/losses seems to be the only motivator. China for all its rhetoric has not changed its borders in many decades, yet russia/ turkey are using militarism and territorial conquest as an end rather as means to prosperity.
> The proper motion, orbital parameters and parallax of alpha Cen will be measurable with an extreme accuracy from differential astrometry with the S stars. This will be valuable, for example to prepare the Breakthrough Starshot initiative to send interstellar nanocrafts to alpha Centauri.

I’ve never heard of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative. Can someone here please point me to some more details about this?
> This will be followed by Putin having to spend the next 40% of its military on keeping order within Russia. If he will use nukes, he will obviously not be able to do so.

Initiating a nuclear launch is not a high-manpower operation.
There's a nice article by Martin Fowler about this topic: https://martinfowler.com/articles/cd4ml.html
Or you just remote in to your work machine.

Well, at least those of us who work in Windows can have a pretty great experience because RDP is the shit. Leave a session running at work with a bunch of shit open, connect to it from home and everything resizes and rearranges to fit however many monitors and at whatever resolutions you decided to pass to it, disconnect the session and login locally at work again...
Regulation:

> it is necessary, consistent with the fundamental rights and freedoms recognised in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, in particular with the right to freedom of expression and information as recognised in Article 11 thereof, to introduce further restrictive measures to urgently suspend the broadcasting activities of such media outlets in the Union

What. Don't gaslight me with sentences like this in a official document from the EU. They are saying x and !x at the same time in one paragraph. Freedom of expression, and information?!

I suppose we should remember that it's not censorship if a private company does it. Private companies are free to conduct business with whoever they want, and the EU is not a government institution and as such is not capable of performing censorship. /s
The existence of audit & compliance responsibilities does not abolish the responsibility of the software to reduce foot-guns. The number of people here arguing the opposite is completely insane.
> The left made immigration all about race

This is some weird gaslighting.
In the part of Scotland I come from there was a distinct lack of variation in surnames - so much so that people would use so-called "tee-names" to identify different families

e.g. My ancestor David Wood had the family tee-name "King":

http://www.pirieonline.uk/history/PFWv1-o/p1444.htm
The West doesn’t really care about Russia or Ukraine, in fact I wonder if the US even cares about Europe at all at this point. Leave a mess in Europe while they pivot to Asia.
I always find it amusing when people talk shit about SAP and brag about giving them the boot. SAP already got your money... big deal, you cut off a few years of support fees. SAP grows and grows despite seemingly everybody saying how terrible the product is. My hat is off to them for finding (and heavily compensating) some truly talented salespeople who can consistently resell their turd to CEOs.
China will create a digital currency, and it may use something like blockchain, but it probably will not have a public ledger.
Consider always the ramifications of defeat. If Russia shows nothing truly matters against them. If nuclear weapons are all anyone makes a decision based on then only nuclear weapons matter. Do you think China is watching this? Duh. Do you think that translates to further invasions? Duh.

The barrel of options against Russia needs to be exhausted. The only way to stop a bully such as this is to hit them the hardest, most brutal way, earliest. Putin and anyone supporting him should have been routed in the early 2000s. This decision here is nothing short of appeasement.
Personal anecdote: I was the manager of a small investment fund that invested in a YC company that was acquired by an Australian company. As a result we ended up owning some stock in this Australian company. In order to sell this stock and cash out, I had to open up a brokerage account for the fund (which was an LLC) in Australia. Very long story short: it was a freakin' nightmare. It took six months. All to sell some shares in a public company.
And the non-Soviet states behind the Iron curtain had Coca Cola in Tuzex and similar.
If anyone is based in Houston and looking for an optional in-person environment, my startup apmhelp.com (we help property managers scale their business) has space and will continue to grow at the Ion office in midtown.

We're hiring accountants, folks with consulting exp, engineers, and RE/Property management exp.
You can vouch for comments you don't think should be flagged. Copying them over to a new comment kinda defeats the purpose of the flagging system.

I personally think that the comment makes a false analogy, e.g. it does not consider the effects the punishment will have on other neighbours or if the punishment is suitable to the crime. In this analogy the "actions" taken against the criminal would be vigilante justice that affects others.

Finally, if we start removing countries that invade other countries from the internet we would end up with quite a few countries banned from the internet.

edit: s/effects/affects
Russian Army is using ambulances to transport ammunition in Ukraine
>This idea that's going around that all sources need to be cited is ridiculous.

No it isn't. People lie and cheat all the time for all kinds of reasons. If there's no source cited it's effectively an opinion piece. Letting someone write articles from home all day long with the option to use an anonymous source is working out about as well as anyone with half a brain would expect. Journalists are not some pure beacons of morality and honesty and they shouldn't be trusted at all. They're strangers on the internet.
Most folks will tell you to do pair/mob programming, or simply trunk-based development without any peer review whatsoever. I've found from the teams I've been in touch with that, unless you do 100.00% pair/mob programming or 100.00% feature flagging (which both have their own fair share of downsides), you'll probably have to use pull requests strategically, with a clear purpose, and that's great because they're there for a reason.

The problem arises when team use pull requests by default, dragging everybody down even when the changes are quite simple, and disincentivizing small, unrelated changes that would require yet another pull request to submit them.
> why software built in-house is often just as bad, or worse

In my experience this is largely due to PoC (or otherwise “temporary”) tools getting used long-term without refactoring, and growing further PoC features over time that compound the problem.

This also affects production services, if management let (or demand!) PoC code gets released before it is really ready.