skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russian currency will eventually bounce back some as it trades into other asian currencies. Not to mention the currency is still backed effectively by natural resources. But nobody wants to rush to those exchanges because that currency is going to be wrecked. BUT there will be a firesale. Russian folks are going to be working for cheap and be dumping those resources to maintain.
I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it.

If you just want to build some awesome tech, then that's fine. If you want to build a business and make money, that's a very bad place to be starting from.

Generally speaking, you want to know as early as possible about the viability of your project from a financial perspective. And there are specific steps you can - and should - take to ascertain that in most cases. The exceptions would be the times when you're building something where there is ZERO doubt about the potential market, eg if you're creating a "cure for cancer."

My advice would be to read Stephen Blank's The Four Steps to the Epiphany and think hard about whether or not you (want to | are willing to | have time to) run through the Customer Development process with your idea(s). If the answer is "no" then I would say that giving up and taking a "day job" might well be the right answer. OTOH, you may find that @sgblank's approach can help you get something going with some better understanding of your prospects for success.
Intel to fuse off AVX512 on Alder Lake silicon going forward
But Saudi Arabia can bomb Yemen for years and Israel Palestine for decades without repercussions? I'm all for sanctions against Russia but the hypocrisy here is so thick you couldn't cut it with a knife.
There are a lot of intermediate options and smaller (& older) ISPs other than ProtonMail or Gmail. For some reason it's very tempting to go to the big names.
Sorry, I may not have been clear: I don't know why Russia would not have halted the pipelines as retribution for the financial sanctions as it seems like one of the few resources they have that Europe needs. I'm sure there's an element of Russia needing those funds to fund its invasion, but it also seems like they could try to use oil supply restrictions to get the other sanctions lifted.
Prime example of the effects of biased reporting ^

There's a difference between having LEGITIMATE business long BEFORE your dad has power vs. getting put on a board of a corrupt energy company WHILE your dad is overseeing the country relations as VP. One is capitalism, one is nepotism.

But all that being said, the statement "they get most all of their money from Russia" is wrong at face value. Their businesses do not get the majority of revenue from Russia. Back that statement up with a source so it can be torn apart.
The difference is in intent. Sometimes, the docs actually suck. Sometimes, the docs are fine and the person complaining is just trying to find something to complain about. It depends on the situation, and isn't necessarily possible to distinguish from a single interaction.
I know, I posted the same link elsewhere in the thread :-). Just trying to think of ways the domain name can work.
I'd expect more from an adam sandler fan
What about the Intel Distribution for Python https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/onea... ?
drop_mon (or whatever it's called) is one of the weirder things in the Linux kernel. It has only one implementation I've found, "dropwatch", which is, to put it gently, not a great example of a modern C CLI program --- for instance, the kernel subsystem gives you snapshots of packet contents themselves, and there is already a very flexible and easy-to-use library for filtering packets based on their contents with an enormous ecosystem, but all dropwatch will do is print dumps.

I threw together a half-assed POC alternative implementation in Go a couple months ago, using Matt Layher's fantastic netlink libraries:

https://github.com/superfly/dropspy

I have the impression that the drop_mon stuff isn't taken super seriously by anyone, but it's incredibly useful when you're debugging complicated networking stuff.
What's more amazing is how NASA's Deep Space Network continues to make communication with Voyager possible.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-contacts-voyager-2-usi...
How do we take them away from a country that has them already? How do you establish this level of power over all countries without establishing a de facto global tyranny? How do you back up that tyranny with adequate force when states that surely will not accept it already have so much force themselves?

I'm inclined to put this one on the "shrug and accept it" pile and focus on other things. It's not like we have a shortage of other problems to contend with.
He probably believes what most of my relatives (most of whom are Texans) do: this is all Biden’s fault for not letting petroleum producers drill and frack wherever and however they want; Putin never would have tried this if he knew the US could just overwhelm the oil market.

They can’t bear to consider that this is something of a last hurrah as Europe tries to wean themselves from the petro drug. There’s plenty of non-petroleum-related business going on in Texas, but the semi-rural power base relies on oil to stay rich.
Holy moly. Wow.

I am a successful software developer and I’m terrible at math. To me, 6+3 is not an interaction between two different anything, rather, it’s a key in a hash table where I’ve stored “9” as the value. All arithmetic is rote memory recall for me. I work with complex numbers by just breaking them down into multiple steps.

Now I’m wondering if I should challenge my brain to do this differently.
Ukraine was about to revive its space program. Then Russia invaded
Really? They were basically pre-cog on that front. Everything they said was going to happen happened when they said it was going to happen. At least from the layman's perspective of what intelligence they released to the public. Which there was a lot of. Who the heck is saying this? RT? Fox News?
Here, I’ll explain it.

Ukraine is not a vital interest to the West nor NATO, but it is to Russia, and short of WWIII which generates a very real risk of a nuclear exchange in Europe the situation in Ukraine is not changing. This is the same opinion Barack Obama held in 2014. People need to think about this on a timeline longer than their emotional attachment to this issue demands.

Recall when prominent American leaders, Hillary Clinton among them, demanded a NATO enforced no-fly zone over Syria as an addendum to arming Islamists in the country. This absolutely would’ve resulted in NATO and Russian direct combat, and with it war. Cooler heads prevailed then and I pray they do so now.
Despite the existential threat they pose, nukes have had a remarkably stabilizing effect on the world.
Polemics gonna polemic. Yes, we should invest in gifted students. But, ignoring the larger context of how public education is funded in the United States and the consequential giant gaps between school districts, where many poor ones don't even competently provide fundamental baseline services to their students, is not going to elevate the discourse.
I still have my old SE/30. It's still working. Has the Ethernet card installed, so it's even marginally useful.

I also picked up my old 512k "Fat" Mac from my aunt's house where I had it stored for 20 years. Powered it up. Bright white screen, perfectly sharp, works perfectly. Not bad for a machine that debuted in 1984.
if you live alone and has no one to care of, sure. Otherwise all that is irrelevant if your family was in the school, work, etc.
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If 911 was an event where a bunch of Saudis got together and said they wouldn't sell us more oil or trade with us further because Americans did bad things you might have a point.

Since it wasn't I see your response as pretty irrelevant.
One outcome here is “WFH” falls into the startup “Unlimited PTO” fallacy where it is a benefit that is socially unacceptable to exercise with the exception of a few roles.

I,e, It exists, in theory, but is elusive in actuality.
As an engineer, I would say this problem is already solved with connection pooling, but that's not why I'm reaching out.

I'm still at an early stage, but I made the same mistake of assuming I could overcome product fit, marketing, sales with technology. I made the assumption I could overwhelmingly overcome these things with great tech. This isn't the reality of the situation.

What you need to do is engage your potential customers and get feedback, then simplify or specialize, and pivot your idea or solution. Getting feedback is critical. After doing this my ideas went from highly specialized and hard to explain to flexible and easy to understand. Eventually I was able to find a fit, but I'm still operating under this feedback loop.

I would get a job just for a break and then double back.
Ukraine: Estonian cargo ship sinks after blast in Black Sea
> Of all the sports, I would have thought chess would be much less prone to politics because chess players are almost free agents.

Are you at all aware of the history of chess?!?
What a great book rec. I wish more hacker news comments recommended less technical but still highly analytical books like this.
The other glass half full aspect here is that you'll be able to establish a network of people who are or will be CIOs when it's time to launch.

Then you'll have the explaining problem partially solved. "I don't understand it either but I know to listen when ol' @eloff talks about Postgres performance."
While we're not there for programming, I think we're getting close with things like Alexa.

I'm always surprised when I'm at a friends house and they'll ask Alexa to do something in a completely different syntax than I use, and it works flawlessly.
Heavy rains in Australia flood towns in New South Wales, Queensland [video]
The flatness makes this not a workable line of sight environment without towers due to the Fresnel zone though, the topography is the only reason this 43km link worked. Need to find an ugly hilly region, a much harder task than an ugly flat region :)
Cool. Again, I find the drone war more than a little worrisome, so we're probably more-or-less on the same "side" here, but drones have not, as far as I know, been used for this sort of "destroy an entire large area kinda indiscriminately" attack—not because they couldn't be, but because that's not the usual tool the US happens to use for that at this time, so if they did it it'd be with traditional aircraft (as in the linked article), and also because the drone war has, as far as I can tell, mostly not involved those sorts of strikes. Iraq is a big exception, but that's not because of the drone war—it's because of the ordinary war that the US waged there.

The drone war has caused plenty of collateral damage regardless, of course. I'm just not sure characterizing it as carpet bombing is either accurate or helpful in pinpointing exactly what's uniquely bad about the drone war. In fact, I don't even think the people in charge of it are trying to cause widespread damage beyond their typically-very-limited targets—though lack of accountability ultimately is one of the bad things about it, along with normalizing that kind of extraterritorial violence in the first place, the everything-looks-like-a-nail factor (when all you've got is a Predator drone...), and so on.
One thing that helps at lot with programming is my tendency to visualize branches and dependencies as graphs/trees as I read/write code. This makes aberrations and code smells extremely obvious. A dirty hack makes you go from something that looks like a beautiful fine-toothed comb to a comb with a cancerous tumor on it.
Besides all of the software listed, that machine would also be a prime A/UX rig with that amount of RAM installed
Yeah but do YOU think you'd be work $360K or would your expectations for what you'd be obligated to scare you from even applying?

If you see range that's in a normal range, you'll apply.

Also for higher end salaries, the hiring is done differently and the expectations are generally different on both sides of the negotiation. You pretty much NEVER hire a $360K-$2M by putting out a req. You may do that as a formality but there's zero expectation of getting anything useful.

I once worked for a company that round-filed every Job Board and mailed resume application as a matter of SOP - they ONLY hired if an employee or trusted collaboration partner recommended the person. They created an EEOC-compliant process for legal appearances but they never hired through that.

Higher salary positions are more the same only more so.

Edit: the other factor - most jobs (I've seen claims of 80%) don't exist before the "right candidate" has already been found. I.e. the position is created for that person and not vice versa.
I don't know if we were reading the same media, but I was surprised by how _accurate_ the invasion predictions were.

Down to the day of the invasion, it was as if the western intelligence services were two steps ahead throughout the build up and actual invasion, dispelling the Russian misinformation campaign in real time.
Armenian is Darbinian/Tarpinian (Demirjian is the Turkish-Armenian hybrid form). There's also related Nalbandian (farrier / horseshoe blacksmith).

BTW, the theory I've heard is that this surname prevails due to survivorship bias, in countries that were constantly at war and the male population was being decimated, the smiths had to stay back home manufacturing weapons (same logic applies for "miller" and "tailor" and "mayor", all very common last names in large parts of Europe).
Agreements of this era also were that NATO wouldnt expand. It did so, twice, into former USSR countries.

Agreements are meaningless. If the west wanted russia not to invade Ukraine, the answer was trivial. It was to completely hault NATO expansion. Too late now.
It's already "out in the open" because tens of millions of college students around the world have access. You've shown zero domain knowledge here; just withdraw and apologise.
I don't think the main opposers of nuclear power are afraid of it because of weapons. The nuclear critics I have spoken to, or read, have mostly talked about:

1.) The very slim chance of a very devastating incident

2.) The difficulties of storing burnt out fuel modules (this could include protecting them from dangerous too, as used modules could be used to create a dirty bomb)

3.) The economic problems with highly centralized power grids.

I am definitely not an expert though, and also I am not necessarily against nuclear, I just don't think that weapons of mass destruction are the main concern around nuclear power plants (although they are a part of it).
Interesting. Firefox’s handles deleted nodes in ContentEditable quite differently from other browsers we tested, so I’m glad to see contentEditable at least on the “investigation list”. Here’s my pet issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1735608
Plus I'm sure the elites in Russia will find ways to access the public internet. It would depend on how the cutoff were implemented, but unscrupulous VPNs in nearby countries might work.
Here’s the litany of strategists predicting it:

https://mobile.twitter.com/rnaudbertrand/status/149849110790...
I'd be terrified I was some sort of US government list...
This reminds me of another old story I have bookmarked, but it's for a wireless keyboard:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061205205844/http://www.aftenp...
The logic is simple.

If Ukrainians can’t play, then neither should Russians.
The US/UK had been sounding the alarm for several weeks before it happened.
A 1Mbps stream (high quality 480p or potato quality 720p) would need a 10Mbps burst to fill a 10 second buffer or wait some time before playback. It would need somewhere north of 1Mbps to keep the buffer full accounting for dropped packets, jitter, and seeds dropping out. If the stream drops below 1Mbps for longer than ten seconds then playback stops.

It all makes for a shitty user experience.
It is in China's best interest that Russia is hostile to the US. I wonder what it would take for the US to form a military alliance with Russia?
What other things did you try to build?
Key Russia Oil Producer Lukoil Calls for Peace in Ukraine
Look at the banned weapons the Russians are using against Ukraine. Banning is nice in theory.
I definitely want to put the plastic into the carbon cycle, it is just that the carbon cycle I have in mind is not the same as the carbon cycle people are used to thinking.

There's a carbon cycle of plants -> oil -> plastics -> burn in air -> plants -> oil ... And that cycle takes a long time.

But the carbon cycle I am thinking of is one that makes the carbon in the plastics bio-available to plants directly. That means greater fertility, greater food abundance, food sovereignty, better land management.

Trying to stuff the carbon from plastics back into rock does not give us greater fertility, food abundance or food sovereignty. If anything, it will increase the wealth inequality gap, and makes it harder to feed everyone.

We're not quite there yet. The key is being able to safely composting plastics, and that means finding or breeding microorganisms that are capable of eating it. What we would have to give up are the properties of plastic that our modern society is addicted to ... something that _doesn't_ biodegrade, durable and cheap enough to be used ubiquitously.
And Russian wagner mercenaries and Russian troops in 1990 killing AZ who wanted independence from Soviets together with Baltics.
Trying to launch a startup and a family with young kids? Big big yikes. Do not recommend! You’ll have two reasons to never get any sleep. And that’s before your marriage starts to fall apart!
I've been thinking a lot about "Yes, and..."

For anyone not familiar, a guideline in improv is to avoid saying `Yes, but...` and instead say `Yes, and...`.

While maybe not using those exact words, I find that when I disagree with someone at work I can either set myself up in opposition with them or I can work with them to get to the desired state.

"Is this the doc you are looking for?"
"Yes, but why isn't this in the wiki?" vs "Yes, and let's add a link to it in the wiki".

It's a very simple shift, but it really makes a difference in collaboration.
The sanctions will be lifted. Gotta have that methane gas, companies gotta sell their stuff there. And this will happen in a few years again, but then with Macedonia or one of the other "unimportant" Baltic states (even if NATO).

I hate it.
As someone who was put in a reading class five grades above my actual grade, I disagree with the idea that acceleration should be the primary benefit of gifted education.

What I needed was not just higher level reading, but content catered to someone 5 years younger than the usual age group for that reading. I needed help writing fast enough to keep up.

Because grade school curriculum came easily and I could ‘figure out’ everything, I hit a wall when stuff got genuinely difficult or required significant work.
What I needed was to learn how to put forth effort to do things that were hard or required work for desired output. I needed help socializing because I didn’t relate to people my age and was too inexperienced to engage people who were on my intellectual level as peers.

I needed help creating because the standards for myself were so high. Not exceeding those standards always felt like failure
Can someone explain why removal (as opposed to replacement) of the PRAM battery is necessary? How is this different from any other CMOS motherboard battery? Is there a fault in the circuitry that causes the battery to fail catastrophically?
What a fascinating and delightful read. It's something that's totally alien to me, explained in a very satisfying way.
Depends on the factory. Most production processes are multi-stage. Most multi-stage processes have differing energy needs across individual unit operations. You could easily schedule low energy, slow processes (testing, drying, settling, cooling, etc.) to evenings to better match power availability. This has the secondary benefit that people prefer to sleep at night. Normally you'd have to redesign the whole factory to facilitate such a process change, however.
I think it's much more fair to compare EIRP to EIRP, I don't know the gain of this crazy foil dish but it's probably pretty high. FPV is way harder since you can't use a highly directional transmit antenna and you're weight and size constrained, so you usually have dinky <3dB transmit gain and have to make up for it with big radio amplifiers.
Assange should be let go, what's happened to him has been awful. But that's the result of the Obama administration's policy and is literally 1 person vs. the eradication of all independent press in an entire nation. We should free Assange and condemn Russia jailing at least 293 journalists right now.
I mean, it's kinda always been that way. There's this skill cliff you get to between power user and operator where you know enough to solve easy problems but getting all the information you need to put it together into something useful requires non-trivial effort. And you go through that cliff every time you take on a new project.

If you want to put together a self-hosted Spotify alternative, for instance, one of the first and most attractive things I found was mpd. I put a whole bunch of time into working out how to containerify it so I could run it on my cluster in order to find out why nobody else put in the work, mpd isn't designed to and has no functionality to serve music over a network. It's there to run a local music player. It was written in an era before Spotify and had no idea that was going to be something people would want to do.

And you can find online thread after thread of people asking how to do this with mpd and getting answers that aren't satisfying. It leads them to get on a forum themselves and ask themselves, in order to get the same unsatisfying answer.

It takes time and experience before you can figure out such things at a glance just by seeing other conversations about it. Time before you learn you need to read the available docs carefully because the answer you're seeking is very very probably in there already.

Nobody's born with this kind of patience but working on tech stuff long enough will eventually beat it into you.

It's just that more and more people are starting out and so online is simply dominated by these people.
I wholeheartedly agree this is the main issue. Being inundated with information, checking the Coronavirus worldometer multiple times daily and constantly reading about the doom & gloom of our world made me feel terrible.

Cutting out the news did wonders for my mental health and wellbeing.
> I have to think that the EU is eyeing Ukrainian NG in order to cut Russia out of it's economy.

That sounds like something that would take decades..

And a few decades from now the EU plans to be carbon neutral.