skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets start with deaths of their own...

Lenin - 200k executions, 5 million deaths due to famines

Stalin - 800k executions, 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag, plus some famine and some miscellaneous brings to around 5million, some estimates upwards 20 million.

Everything after that sounds like a breeze.

Now for the involvement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_c...

Do I even need to bother looking how much communism had done around world?
I bought a few skins for my favorite character in Heroes of the Storm after I'd played the game for free over a hundred hours. I kinda felt like the developers had earned by money by that point.
I am referring here to Stripe Checkout.

https://stripe.com/payments/checkout

It's supposed to make payments easier with a Stripe-hosted payments page. However, creating a server-side Checkout session, and then getting line items from an order, is an unnecessarily convoluted series of requests.
You could potentially fit an entire song in there (apparently mp3 works out-of-the-metaphorical-box).
Highly unlikely, the best and most ambitious will move to get better jobs, as they always have
> It consisted of going to some Indian dude’s house for an hour every Saturday for a summer. Not private tutoring—six or eight kids crowded around a small dining room table doing practice problems.

Wow I resemble that remark, down to the part about the Indian dude's house. We didn't have a few thousand dollars to spend though, we just photocopied practice tests and worked on the same test together.
The oneplus 9 has a SD888 and a 4500mAh battery. Its websurfing test was 14 hours. Seven percent longer surfing than the OP6 with a 36% larger battery. The SD888 is a bad chip. All evidence points to the 8 gen 1 as also being a bad chip. Qualcomm's only saving grace is that the Exynos 2200 isn't a bad chip; it's an atrocious chip.
> With respect to inflation, that’s being directly addressed.

Please explain. I don’t understand how that’s true.

In last night’s SOTU President Biden said inflation was mostly due to car prices or something equally silly. I don’t see any nation seriously addressing inflation which is officially 7.5% but I believe to be much higher for most.
What is the use-case for computing dust?

Are there any non-dystopian ones?
From his email transcript in the article:

> I have functionally 1/3 of my customers that I am going to have to back-bill for months of subscription fees
I suspect, because I have been in a similar situation before, that the author is frustrated because the company first ignored/downplayed the significance of his concern, then blamed his issue on user error (without accepting responsibility), and then quietly modified their documentation and addressed the issue as if they had "just discovered it".

When companies behave this way it feels like you're being gaslit, which is extremely frustrating. The author may have gotten the result they initially wanted, but it would have felt like a huge, disrespectful, slap in the face.
Mid-terms are getting close and people are sick of COVID. Either that, or science changes as you cross the border between red and blue states. Nobody wants to admit it, but company policies directly reflect the chosen party of it's leaders/HR/location. They will follow whatever the politicians do.
The page currently 404's.
It's fundamentally running the guest OS as a process under a Windows Kernel/OS.

It's fundamentally not a *nix environment.
> The JVM is a beast, why do you think a good deal of all serious web applications run on top of it?

The JVM sacrifices latency for throughput, which is good for servers but not for desktops.
I personally am really happy to go back to the office, but people who have physically relocated have an easy option to simply apply for permanent remote work. It's really not a big argument that needs to be made—the process is very simple.
YouTube strike for uploading DeSantis video of hassling kids with masks
Algorand, Avalanche, Solana, Cardano and Terra are all cheap and safe, but like that other guy said. I have no idea what kinds of crypto are listed on foreign exchanges. I'd imagine anything sufficiently popular though.
Another thing I saw is that, for a subscription service, Japanese website tend to just put the pricing info first thing on the landing page, while English website tend to try to hide it.

Example: try comparing https://hulu.com to https://hulu.jp.
Sorry to hear that, it sounds stressful.

That’s not an issue of Slack, IM, or remote work, though.
Legitimacy is not a matter of opinion. Either they control the territory and the people in it, or they don't.

FARC, for example, never tried administering anything. But the Taliban has actual courts where they enforce actual written and published laws. We don't like the laws they enforce, but nobody says they are not doing it. (By all accounts, their enforcement is much less corrupt than what they supplanted.)

That doesn't make it good government, but it certainly is government.
Yes, it's in beta. The expectation of moving later this year has held for several years.

> BTC mining is creating new business models for renewable energy

It's also helping bring fossil-fuel power plants back online in the US, purely to service cryptocurrency - https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-58020010

AFAICT there are others in the works too.

> BTC uses less energy than many other activities

Pointing desperately at other things doesn't change the argument at all.

> Finally, if energy is one of your biggest expenses, you're economically incentivized to reduce those costs as much as possible.

So? This doesn't make bitcoin clean?

There is already huge demand for clean power in this world, adding to it with PoW systems doesn't actually help, and as we can see by the power plant and by the article linked above about a fall in renewable use in BTC, we're not in the "Bitcoin has incentivised green energy and helped the world get cleaner" stage, we're in the "Bitcoin is adding pressure to an already over-pressurised system and is making the problem worse at a critical time" phase.

Even your own linked article is sub-headed "Cryptocurrency mining has the potential to address the obstacles to more widely adopting renewable energy" - not that it has or is, but that it could.

These pseudo-intellectual economic arguments about "helping the world move to renewables" are tripe.
What's so special about April 4? Expedia Group has also mandated a start back at the office from this day... An email announced it to us about a month ago.
Don't don't do what I would do. The mistake is forgetting first principles. You don't do something good by focusing on what not to do (like don't be evil). Focus on what to do: KISS, YAGNI, etc.. even DRY is a far lower priority. Software, especially frontend and web are rampant with problems from operating as an echo chamber. Just consider what Ryan did with Deno and had to say criticizing his first project. Yet folks are still wildly supportive of the older technical decisions and go to great lengths to preserve those same mistakes.
One nuclear bomb would ruin my whole day
I do get these feelings of control, so I can't say I feel like a victim of my thoughts - "let them pass by", as you say, is mostly what I feel. But I think for some people, there's a question like:

"I thought I was the originator of many my out-of-the-blue thoughts, and I found out that's not true. Am I actually the originator of the thoughts at the next level up?".

I think some people who have never meditated, while they admit to having thoughts just hit them randomly sometimes, they'll nonetheless feel that many of their truly out-of-the-blue thoughts were conscious choices to switch gears or pull on an interesting thread. A meditator might label the same low-level thought as "random", but a non-meditator would say "I did that". Can a meditator similarly be fooled, on a different level?
> 33 feet to 66 feet across

I loled at this. It was so obviously 10 - 20 meters.

Should probably just say "About 50 feet in size"
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Show HN: Democratize Single Sign-On for B2B SaaS Vendors
I definitely only know this word from ancient Chinese history in undergrad. The lesser kindgoms were always having to send tribute to the Emperors.
L3 salary is $140k (from levels.fy). 30% of $140k allows for rent of $3.5k/m which is not actually all that generous. You're lucky to get a studio for that these days in Manhattan.
https://archive.ph/u3CFF
Yes, see these threads on HN about part time work. Startups can definitely hire such people, I personally know Gumroad does this.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Part+time
I cannot reach the page, copy on archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220302210608/https://www.joshc...
I know what a Google (engineering) salary is, and even if you're paying half of a tech salary to rent, the other half is still a hell of a lot to have leftover for your average American.
Coincidentally Mingyur Rinpoche just posted a talk about this as well [1]. I think the most important thing is to find a lineage to practice under, with texts that can support that practice. As much as people want to divorce it from it's historical context, meditation is part of a spiritual practice and communities of people have ways of teaching it in particular ways for a reason. No one should just go sit with zero context and no support.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VzeYD2VY5o
The problem with Ethereum comes down to its very definition. The fact that it's programable makes it insecure. Bitcoin on the other hand is constantly being harden to increase its security which makes it extremely secure and attractive to investors.

Both will survive and continue to be useful. It comes down to what problem they need to solve. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.

Yes, you can build application directly with Ethereum. But, with Bitcoin, there will be many businesses built around it so one will not be better than the other.
I found that Blazor to be a right mix between server rendered pages and SPAs. The programming model is good and adding interaction is easy.

The only issue is with scaling.
It'd be nice if someone on the Snowflake team actually maintained their JS adapter... (https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-nodejs/pu...)
Except you're also affecting the individual productivity of others.

The tap on the shoulder is the most annoying thing working on site. There's no respect for the urgent & critical tasks.

You would want others to spend 2 hours commuting, wasting time on parking, food & fuel just to be able to physically speak to them.

What a waste of our current technological advantages.

Why bother working in tech, when you don't use it to better yourself and others?
If you are not in for the maths, you might also like this:
https://github.com/fogleman/primitive

It redraws images with shape primitives and allows verctorization with a cool art style.
>I sincerely hope we soon enter a future where everyone has options that best suit them.

I'd like that too.

I am curious, why do you like going into the office? Does it give you something that you need, or does being remote too long make you uncomfortable because of something your mind is doing to you, which you have to escape?
A hint hint if there ever was one.
There's absolutely nothing stopping those people from choosing to go on daily walks.
Premack’s principle. Putting something you are less likely to do on its own (going to the gym, X%) before something that you are more likely (basically 100% for going home at some point) to do. Smart.
Everytime I see one of these binary "XYZ is good/bad" posts I come away thinking that either I don't know what I'm doing, or the author doesn't.

Having built relatively simple Django web applications, and having built and managed building complex SPAs with Angular/React and GraphQL backends, I have a hard time thinking of when I would ever willingly grab for serving up dynamic HTML ever again.

The mixing of concerns with something like Django vs just having a native JS application loaded and running in the browser pulling in data as needed once loaded is a world of difference.

Using straw man examples of people using a technology badly to claim the technology itself is a mistake is silly.

There's literal annals of examples of poor memory management in compiled software causing massive issues. Is allowing memory management to be handled directly by software engineers a mistake? In some cases, yes, people would be better off with garbage collection. But you'd have a revolt in embedded systems development if that was taken away.

SPAs create more surface area for inexperienced or poor developers to screw up the UX. But a talented team developing SPAs (which really is a misnomer as you're rarely not chunking and lazy loading things behind the scenes) will ALWAYS result in a better UX for users than dealing with the browsers loading individual pages, and very likely more manageable development too.

That said, as I've spent more time in development I've noticed there's a noticeable shortage of talented teams out there.
Golang Keyboard
Auditable and build-able from source

■ curl -O http://harmful.tool/all-source-code.gz

■ Audit ALL of the source code

■ Build the "reproducible build" in a sandbox

■ Test / Run in a sandbox

■ Delete!
Thanks, I'm not usually doing performance required stuff but when I write a function I always want to know the best way to feed the pipeline, I appreciate it. #snoverville
Blood monitoring. Storm modeling. Fluid dynamics modeling. Air quality monitoring. Just some ideas for things I would want to use it for.
I have no doubt that recovering a ship wreck is hard work, but I would think there is a more potential profit in skimming gold from the digs than becoming a permanent fugitive.
Why downvote this? What's the counter point?
Not just Java, there's been a decline of desktop apps in general.

It's kind of ironic, because most of our apps are now running in an even slower language with "Java" in the name (JavaScript)
Imo, recognizing that there are some uncontrollable thoughts is part of the general trend of acknowledging the close connection of mental health to physical health. The existence of "lizard" characteristics to the brain doesn't invalidate free will, but they're so rarely pointed out that it's useful to notice them.
I think the most likely explanation is that the founders just got bored with the project as they got older and aged out of their own primary target demographic. You have kids, you start getting regular colonoscopies...all the trials and tribulations of teen and twentysomething indie musicians start feeling less urgent and relevant.

That, and/or they were not interested in running a company that is finally getting too large to feel like a family / tight-knit community. The kind of person who likes running a 20 person outfit is very plausibly someone who gets no joy out of running a 200 person one or even actively hates the idea.

So they sold to someone they liked well enough, or in any case someone they distrust less than others to have the expertise and values to scale the business in a way that doesn't COMPLETELY destroy what made it special
is it just me or does this format incorrectly on Firefox?

I see more and more sites lately that just don't work on Firefox and force the use of Chrome or some other browser.

Perhaps it's time for the Firefox developers to implement Chrome compatibilty (very sadly).
That sounds amazing, I dearly wish for "library rules" on the floor. The office has plenty of social and collaborative spaces that aren't where my keyboard/monitor/charger are, and switching to one of those spaces when you're going to have a conversation is a good norm.
Official Russian Information Agency Newsfeed for past few days (translated)
From what I saw in recent discussions on ycombinator there is a bit of misunderstanding about informational blackout in Russia. This is newsfeed from RIA for past few day, google translated. It's closely correlates with TV news.

It's expected that on 2/4 there will be passed law about spreading disinformation about special military operation, punishable by 15years and maybe also martial law to further tighten access to information and suppress dissent
For those saying that crypto is useless, here is a great use case. Authoritarian governments are currently preventing individuals from moving their property across borders. Crypto fixes that.
> what is "manufactured" about this

There is no moral position of substance that you can argue from, where Patrick owes anyone an apology. Dead stop. He's been more than humble enough to publish an admission of error, one for which the original OP was too lazy to look for prior to impugning Patrick for it.

He's not Fauci. He created a bingo card creator and shared the experience and his personal perspective with this community. This does not oblige him to meet everyone's unrealistic expectations of how he should conduct himself.

It says far more about the people caught up in the orbit of his mistake, than he does about him.

> Again, your language is very telling of the media you consume

How do you imagine throwing an ad-hominem was going to help make for a more productive debate?
Ha, it's like Hume said. If your actions and thoughts depend on past events and biological and environmental stimulus, they are not free, they are conditioned, they are a reaction to past experience. And the alternative would be random actions, and random is not free, it's random.
Possible, but risky for China to do that. A dollar buying Chinese made goods, is a dollar China has to buy Russian oil products, is a dollar Russia has to pay soldiers and build more weapons to bomb whoever they're bombing. I'm in favor of global free trade, but not without limits. The U.N. Charter is more important. The non-violent multilateral institution of resolving disputes is too important. Anyone outside that arrangement is calling to past demons. And for what? What does China gain by being seen as funding Russia's war effort?
That is easily written but what does it mean and why should we believe it?
jump over here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30536790
Users do. I spent a whole summer A/B testing an app's landing page to get 10+% more conversions. Over 50 experiments, the biggest win was having a hero image. Its actual content didn't matter as long as it was a photo and featured humans. And the more screen space it took the better. Probably different for different markets and apps, but yeah from my experience users love em.
Still — charging 0.5% for a cron job?!

[edit] I’m willing to be educated, please tell me how this isn’t Invoices with stored payments (which I’ve now seen has an additional fee too)
And I prefer never going into a loud open office again where I am constantly interrupted. I traveled to my departments headquarters for an internal conference and I stayed two days after. The first half day I went into the office before the meeting, I could get nothing done because of all of the noise.

The second day I just worked from the hotel.

Switching cost from constant interruptions is a real phenomenon.
> pair programming... It was great. It beats code reviews...

this false dichotomy again, who said that pair programming was to replace code review, or vice versa?
indiehd.com mentioned elsewhere doesn't look like it is nonprofit but does have an at least mostly open source store:

https://indiehd.com

https://github.com/indiehd

They have 277 albums listed, almost nothing, and it doesn't sound like they are really ready to be a full Bandcamp replacement but maybe they will be able to turn into something artists want to use.
Ask HN: Should I tell hiring manager about a rude interviewer and future peer
I recently received an offer from a well known tech firm after multiple interviews with the team I will be joining. A senior developer in the interview was rude and abrasive leaving me with an icky feeling . I sensed that he viewed me as a threat to his seniority and influence and being a jerk. I do not want to work with someone like that and will be turning down the offer . Should I tell the hiring manager my reason ? I feel that he is not aware of some cliques and jerks in the team.

That was my initial impression and gut feeling from my interviews.
Possibly, but audits have also shown Git not correctly handling file system error reports. We also have file systems not correctly handling disk error reports. Last I saw, volume managers were not passing media error reports through to file systems. And, Intel has done its part to eliminate ECC from memory and buses.

I guess what I am saying is that there seems to be more than enough blame to tar everybody.
How do you define that "us", the self?
If the remainder of Ukraine is covered by NATO after the appeasement, that's the end of Russian aggression.

There is no "and then" with NATO member sovereign territory.

Ukraine is only being invaded by Russia because it isn't a NATO member.

Russia was willing to invade Ukraine, for some land. Russia isn't willing to invade 28 European countries + US + Canada, for some land.
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Tankers don't solve transit time for Atlantic and Pacific-magnitude distances.
The difference is when I work remotely, I can quit Slack, block my calendar and do “deep work”.