skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not spent much time interviewing users but there’s a few niches:

Outdoor enthusiasts. Searching for hikes in sun or shade. Sun exposure also correlates with snow stability so mountaineers and backcountry skiers. Also hang gliders and pilots who rely on thermals.

Real-estate. I think this is at the high end where people are looking for things beyond price to inform their buying decisions. Also: apartment hunters or vacation renters.

OSINT. Investigators attempting to place where and when a photo was taken.

Academia. Sun exposure correlated with vegetation or glacier recession.

Government. Placing of solar parking meters or garbage cans and other sensors. Identifying icy roads in winter. Solar parking installations.

These are just a few people have mentioned in passing. I’m mostly focused on making the shading algorithm fast and accurate but took a few days to add this paid tier because I got burned with a few Mapbox bills in the $100’s of dollars.
Lithuania will be doing the exact same.
I think OP's point is that if you build something and then try to sell it, what you have might not be something anyone needs. If you sell something and then build it, you've already got customers so you know you've got something.
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> But I figure this is the price that I pay for not using Gmail or Outlook.

Fastmail doesn't seem to have this issue either.
> Cooler heads need to start prevailing.

..in Russia
> And if you think nobody in America wants to jail journalists and media CEOs, go look at any forum with a substantial amount of Republicans talking freely.

I'm a liberal and would like to point out that fellow liberals say the same about conservatives. We're wasting energy and making enemies fighting a narrative warfare, and it's frankly very stupid.

Jail the their protestors, but not our own. Deplatform their voices and curtail their free speech, but not our own. It's the exact same behavior in both sides, yet both parties rush in to say how they're different and morally correct.

We need to mend ties, not strain them further. We're becoming too polarized, and that's exactly what authoritarians that eye the end of Democracy and its influence want. We're focused on fighting our petty squabbles instead of positioning ourselves in the global sphere.

If you think any of our manufactured crises are even in the same order of magnitude as what Ukraine is facing right now, then they're already winning.

My worry isn't in owning or being owned by the other party. It's that Democracy is shown to be less effective, that free speech is put in a box, and that we end the century in shackles. No future under those pretenses is worth looking forward to.
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> I wish I knew what taught him that.

Probably work experience and experience with other people like himself. I've had newbies come into places I've worked absolutely convinced that they had all of the solutions to our issues. As if the simple solutions they propose simply hadn't occurred to anyone else. Nothing could convince them otherwise, and nothing prevented them from implying that the incumbents were simply incompetent.

Until they'd try to implement those solutions and discovered all the reasons why they had been dismissed as the answers to the problem. Of course, that didn't stop them from attempting to blame everyone else for their lack of success as they now had the gift of hindsight.
Well, he's clearly signing up for new services (which all require email verification) so he has another email account.
To be honest, the blue camp is different only in rhetoric: if the red wants control in the name of national security, the blue wants the same control in the name of grotesque moral rightnessess. Fake news is a good summary of our media today, it just applies to both camps.
Things contributing to my own (severe) burnout:

1 - Lack of variety, leading to boredom. After decades in the industry, I'm super bored with the things I know, and not in the least bit interested in learning more technical minutia of whatever flavor... pretty much all of it feels the same. The things I'm still interested in (like Scheme) are pretty obscure, so I'm unlikely to ever get to work with them. I hate all the mainstream tech stacks, but that's where the overwhelming majority of work is.

2 - I don't care about what the company does. 99.9% of the time, the real goal is to make some extremely rich people even richer. Couldn't care less. I'm not sure that even if I worked for a non-profit doing work I thought was important that it would translate to my own job being something I wanted to do.

3 - Chronic understaffing, crazy time pressure, and lack of resources. This is endemic in the tech field. Count yourself incredibly lucky if you don't have to face this day in and day out for years on end. It's even worse when you know the company you're working for is making money hand over fist and they could easily afford to hire more people, treat them better, and get more resources, but you know they'd rather funnel that money in to the pockets of those at the top.

4 - Lies and corporate BS. From bullshit cheerleading and pep talks from upper management that a child would be stupid to believe, to time wasting, useless policies, to outright lying and two-facedness that's super common in the industry. Who wants to deal with this?

5 - Depression. This doesn't help.

The best job I ever had was working part time in a tiny company where it was just me and the owner. He was a super nice guy, we got along great and just did what needed to be done. No corporate BS, no policies, no lies, and back then I wasn't burnt out yet, so working on tech stuff still seemed interesting.

After burning out on tech I really should have switched to another career (completely outside of tech)... or even tried management, but I never did, and my skills have atrophied so I'm super rusty and out of it regarding the newer buzzword technologies.. though I'd like to think that I still have good troubleshooting skills and can learn anything.. if I cared.. but I don't.
Yes. What the USA does to other countries is atrocious. It's likely the reason the USAs damage is worst is that we have far superior equipment to do damage. It's horrible and disgusting. But what does it have to do with what is happening in the Ukraine right now?
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No need to be sorry, but yes, Wikipedia articles can be a bit "vague" sometimes, it was just the first reference I found, maybe this one on investopedia is better, though it is also seemingly putting an accent on foreign currency/foreign banks, which I don't believe is the only use (I mean the concept applies to banks in a same country as well, AFAICR):

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/051815/what-differe...
Yes though the issue with many boafend radios is that they get banned in countries due to the bleed over other frequencies with the harmonics that break the rules. Covered better here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EdkdNqczk
Here’s a Catch-22 situation I’m facing as a result of these sanctions: My family emigrated to Canada a number of years ago, but we have an elderly relative living in Moscow with moderate dementia who we’ve been supporting remotely with live-in care.

We can’t bring them here because the dementia will be worsened by the change in environment (and the astronomical cost of health insurance until OHIP kicks in), but leaving them to live out their days in their apartment seems like it’s becoming a non-option as well, given the looming collapse of the economy and the likelihood that basic supplies won’t be available.

What’s one to do?
Be careful with that kind of reasoning. Appeal to authority is a fallacy that can bite you in the ass. Pretty sure many Russians trust Putin to make the right choices.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Azerbaijan expelled or downright massacred the Armenian population living in Baku in the 1988 and 1990 pogroms. Nagorno-Karabakh population also used to be a large majority of Armenians until the government promoted relocation of Azeri people in the region, causing the Armenian population to be heavily discriminated.
I am very much against Putin and think his attacks are wrong. I documented what I meant here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30543599
>While what happened in Texas is good for empathy, it’s not exactly the same. The power outages there were due to a poorly regulated electrical market where the power stations froze in predictable ways.

Situation in West Europe is also based in energy politics, a lack of energy security planning, and no impact studies from shutting down nuclear power plants.

There are parallels in my mind in that both are a product of short sighted ideological thinking.
If the assets seized so far by the international community (incl. most of Russias central bank assets) would be used for Ukraine reparations once this is over, this would amount to an immediate sum of more than 600bn USD as far as I know.

I wonder if Putin really is ready to leave all his other international assets behind for this.
Agree with the other comments here and would like to add that the OP may have the same name as a person on one of those government lists like OFAC and are getting identity confused with a "known terrorist". US Gov requires certain companies to check the list before doing business with people.
Do you want to build stuff or do you want to run a business? Or do you want to be rich? Or do you just want to work for yourself doing anything? What is your dream and what do you really want to be doing? Figure that out, and then be realistic about achieving that particular goal. Make sure not to set your sights so incredibly wide that your task is gargantuan. Consult other people who have achieved your goal to find out what is realistic and what common problems to avoid.
Moreover, have we decided that the concept of a "boarding pass" is acceptable?? You used to just show up, pay, and ride.
'My company is not my family'
Solar and wind are already far cheaper than gas or nuclear plants, and they’re still getting cheaper while gas and nuclear are getting more expensive (although to be fair, gas has only recently gotten more expensive). In so far that the economics in favor of renewables+storage don’t work out yet factoring in conversion losses, it is all but inevitable that they will.

See the LCOE graphs in this article for the trends: https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
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A lot of amazing technical advise, but I'm going to give the other type. Do you live with anyone or have someone in your life that you might not have parted on good terms with that had access to your devices? I've seen a "supportive spouse" sabotaging their significant other to take control. Security is often about a technical quirk, but you might need to look at the people around you. It sucks, but sometimes its the problem.
That is the point of the comment.
> That's not the fault of civilian

Yes, it is, in the specific case of Iraq. The debunkings of the propaganda (and even the internal documentation of the propaganda effort) were widely published in US/UK media prior to the war.

The war was able to be sold not because the truth was concealed, but because enough people didn't want to hear the truth, they wanted a story which provided an easy outlet for their racist bloodlust.

Was that average pro-war citizens as guilty as the people actively marketing the war? No. But they weren't innocent, either.

Citizenship comes with responsibility.
May I recommend a nice solitary walk in a park followed by a picnic lunch for you? Might help calm thinks down.
Yes. In the US, all of the FAA charts and descriptions expire after a few weeks and it is not legal to fly with them, in order to keep everyone current. I'm guessing other governments have similar rules.
Wrote a python pipe operator after falling in love with elixir just the other day:

https://gist.github.com/runekaagaard/5a172eccfa2fdbcd625a3a0...
We don't know enough about ourselves to know what the problems are anymore.
Problem 1: what are problem are people willing to pay me to solve for them?

Problem 2: can that problem be solved with a product?

Problem 3: can that product be built?

Reading up on product management has helped me a lot here. Empowered (Marty Cagan) is good.
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Georgia was in August 2008. You have the wrong quote. This quote is from from April 2008

>NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm
To be honest the first 5 to 6 minutes are very offputting: the presenter (some ex-military PhD guy) claims that we need to understand the Russians through the genetic lens of the Mongol invasion of Russia!

There may be other worthwhile points throughout the lecture but that is insanely racist and useless as any sort of analysis.

It does not bode well for the rest of the lecture and reflects very poorly on the speaker and on the university that is allowing the promotion of this race hatred; both on the grounds of the simple-minded racism and then the lack of intelligence at expressing this in public.
Bullshit false equivalence.

I notice that Democrats aren't forming white supremacist militias, plotting to kidnap state governors, attacking Congress specifically to overturn the results of a national election, etc.
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There's an argument here that this war is a step in the transition from wars over "oil" (read: energy supply) to wars over water. There's a little bit of both here, and it's made the war difficult for outsiders to read.
I looked over the example, but I had a hard time understanding what exactly it does and which data is persistent and not.
If your IPv4 is shared, it might be because of the other users doing bad things on the same IP.

If you have a compromised device on your network, it might be being used as a proxy to attempt logins, or for other uses as a "residential proxy": https://datadome.co/bot-detection/how-proxy-providers-get-re...
Because companies don't need to and scale eats everything. Unfortunately, we're in such a winner-take-all environment that anyone hoping to compete with YouTube is starting at a huge loss.

If Peertube takes off (and I hope it does) it would likely be on the back of something that's expressly anti-status-quo. (Which doesn't mean it couldn't be a company per se, but I feel like would have to wear "We are the anti-Youtube" on its sleeve.)
Your website pitches this product SO well. Kudos.
They varied as much as anywhere, depending mostly on the level of economic development. From what I've read and from what relatives have told me, in the "good" economic years in East Germany, it was almost like in capitalist societies today. Restaurants, grocery stores, shopping malls, albeit with less selection, quality and periodic shortages and rationing of imported and more scarce supplies. Bananas were common enough but more of a "wow isn't this nice?" food you felt lucky to find in stock, rather than a daily breakfast item. Fresh tropical fruits were one of the things people were crazy for in the West when the wall fell.

Despite the reputation, the government usually was very sensitive to the issue of keeping meat or at least a lot of bread on the table. When the DDR ran out of money to import coffee in the 70s, it was one of the more serious threats to their rule and it stimulated the development of the Vietnamese coffee industry in "socialist cooperation". (Fun fact: to this day Germany is still Vietnam's largest coffee buyer.). Prices were quite low in proportion to wages, effectively government subsidised. Hence shortages, though rarely for staples. Hunger was rare after 1950. Dietary boredom was not.

In the not so good economic years, or in many parts of the Soviet Union or less wealthy socialist countries, similar story, except meat shortages and too many turnips and your wages might not afford too many restaurant visits. Out in the country there was some subsistence agriculture in the poorer places like Vietnam. Some places never Stalin-style collectivised the farms, and there you saw small market or at least barter economies in small towns and rural areas consuming local product locally, farmer's markets basically.
I think there have been plenty of problem-solving innovations, but there's a sort of 'market efficiency' effect on innovations that require less complexity. Once the kitchen knife was invented, any sort of slicer-dicer tool is just a rehashing of the knife concept. However, when the problems get more complex (E.G., the automation arm that anneals metal is now utilizing neural networks to make sure the kitchen knife does not have deformities), actual solutions are harder to recognize. HVAC can make your building safer from the pandemic, but it usually comes down to whether your boss wants to pay for it. Remote work can be effective, but it needs healthy hours and employee trust to do well. Those are human issues that you can't necessarily innovate away.
With aluminum foil, toothpicks, and a total disregard for safety!
> No. It means that they just open up and clean the machine each day, just like every other appliance that touches food.

Maybe on paper, but having worked in jobs that required the routine cleaning of things, I can state with certainty that said things were often either 1) not actually cleaned or 2) not properly cleaned.
I agree. The US culture war helps dictators like Putin and Xi.
1. Take a shovel, dig a trench.
2. Throw a door over the trench.
3. Shovel dirt over the door.
4. Crawl into the trench and under the door.
5. Stay in the trench for two weeks. You'll be fine.
6. IRS and USPS have plans to resume services after a nuclear war... Look for Kevin Costner.
As a non-american, I can see how some actions of the left seem to be a bit over the top and as things escalated might really got a bit extreme too. But is a push against racism, for gender equality, LGBT rights really wrong? Do you notice, how much people, who stand for those issues, get attacked in the public discussion?
It takes a lot more effort to make tangible things that solve problems than it does to sell data to companies that will pay for it.
People spend over 1/3 of their day working. It's the only regular social interaction a lot of people get outside of their household. They get a lot more irregular social interaction from other things, but nothing quite as regular.
The Cold War, which was kind of a big deal, was 100% about Western citizens and politicians understanding and trying to counter the threat of Russia. Under Trump the US Republican Party pivoted from being the staunchly anti-Russian force it had been for more than 50 years to suddenly becoming an appallingly pro-Russian entity. As problematic as that shift was, it's extremely recent on the 100 year timescale you're discussing.
I wonder about that myself. I know my limits and can't stay in a sauna for too long, but I've heard that folks in Finland take it really far. But... reading up on the World Sauna Championships, it seems that even the most heat-adapted Finns tapped out after 16 minutes or so. That was in a ludicrous 110C with a steep humidity ramp, and they stopped running the competition after a contestant died and another one nearly died after about 6 minutes.

I've tried to look for better statistics about how much folks in Finland can actually tolerate, but all I found was this spectacular batshit: https://www.reddit.com/r/finlandConspiracy/comments/op97qm/t...
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I'd argue that most people shouldn't have 100 free hours to sink into a video game within a week to two week period. And with games like this they are best experienced within a time-frame like that.

If you do, you probably aren't prioritizing what's important in life. Such as, working on your own personal challenges/issues, advocating/lending a hand when and where needed, or spending time with family/building towards having a family.

Using vacation days for a video game release also seems extremely short-sighted as well. Traveling to Asia or Europe, going to a music festival, or experiencing what numerous cities have to offer sounds much more enriching. Old school video games were much more arcadey and packed full of fun gameplay with good story elements. At least, all my best experiences (Halo, SWTOR, Ratchet and Clank) in gaming were. They respected your time. Now, however, all of it just feels extremely grindy in the name of player retention.
I'm glad it worked out for you. It is a funny story, though, so don't be mad at me for chuckling a little bit. (I guess the guests at your wedding did so, too.)

A friend of my mother's has to twin sons who married two women who had not only the same first name but also worked at the same company. Both ladies took their husbands' names, so they both had the same names. I imagine it must have been both funny and confusing.

When I last worked as a sysadmin, our ERP software used the name as a primary key for employees, so the idea of having two employees with the same name drives me a little bit crazy. (Even worse, though, it did not use FOREIGN KEY constraints but TRIGGERs. I am not sure about performance implications, but from an aesthetical perspective, this is just wrong.)
We'll have to see that. For the short-medium term it will be a big pain. Europe I think can transition to some green (nuclear?) energy solutions in the next few years. Russia on the other hand -- if you exclude oil, gas, metals, there is not much left that the world buys from them.
Isn't this the animal that covers Christmas island with population numbers in the billions and we watch cars drive over thousands of them at a time every couple years?

Yeah sounds like a Darwinian problem to me.
No. This is not how things work. We need to get back the cold war mindset. Moral and righteousness will get us all killed. Screw that.

The "West" response need to be carefully thoughtout to not trigger an escalation while protecting our borders like a knife wielding psycho that somehow still tolerates "mistakes".

Todays western politicians are acting in an insane way. Look how India and China instinctively stay out of this.

Putin will be dead or out of power in 10 years. There is a tomorrow without him too.
43.33km line of sight though? How run-down is this city?
> especially their full name, which is never used in normal conversation

Well that's clearly nonsense. Of course full names are used in normal conversation.

If only we could get rid of all the opinions we didn't like things would be more decent!
This is a good comment. Much better than your previous one. Thanks.

> which is why you try to tackle the problem every day

Yes, every day I tackle some of my problems. Many days the effort I spend on a problem is to think about how I can develop habits using less executive function.

Today I plan to check out the gym around the corner, because it's closer than the one I've been going to downtown. So close that I could walk there in <5 minutes. This will be easier than any of a 25 minute walk, a 10 minute bike ride (on streets that people drive recklessly on), or a 5 minute drive (that has a lot of friction, especially parking).

None of these are excuses for not going to the gym, but rather than forcing myself through a high friction process, I'm spending those "discipline points" creatively acting to reduce the friction (while managing the rest of my life).
I understand that it is possible to physically isolate a region from the internet. But, how can one do this 'logically'? Is there an international organization that can do so? How?