skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought my last name was a variation of an English last name. But apparently there's ~15000 hits on the map for my last name and only ~1000 for the name I thought was original spelling. I think this is to blame with a very famous musician having the other spelling.
Why is this shocking ? They are copying macOS where this feature is already present. When Apple does it, it's just perfectly fine and (in Apple fan voice) - this so significantly improves the UX experience.

But, when Microsoft does it, OMG the SUN is FALLING.
Japan has also joined in the sanctions, so I don't think that offer stands.
DC-to-AC losses used to be high (historically) because of inefficient inverter technology. These days we have 90-95% efficiency inverters (that are built to match their HVDC voltages).

It's interesting because the reasons why we built everything using AC in the past don't really apply anymore (well, most of the time). DC is more efficient for most domestic and industrial electricity utilization. Things like lighting, air conditioning/heating, refrigerators, etc are all more efficient if fed from DC. Think about it: How many "wall warts" have we got in our homes these days? All our LED light bulbs have built-in inverters and that decreases their efficiency. Our PCs use DC for literally everything internally. The list goes on and on.

I had also read a while back that grid-scale DC power transmission could be more resilient because the power transformers aren't as expensive. It's like $8 million for one of those giant high voltage AC transformers they have at power stations whereas with high voltage DC the equipment is cheaper but you have more of it (or something like that; I wish I could remember the details but this was an explanation given to me from a DC fanboy lineman over 10 years ago). The idea being: If bad weather breaks your giant $8 million AC transformer that's a real expensive pain in the ass but if it breaks a handful of small DC transformer components that's a quick (and cheap) fix.
Yes. One man's "propaganda" is another man's news. It's an assault on Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press.

I also note other news networks have been happily spouting anti-Russian propaganda as well (i.e. "Ghost of Kiev", "Miss Ukraine Fighting", and the "Snake Island Martyrs" to name but 3).

I also note none of the Western Media talk about shelling, murder, and rape of the ethnic Russian civilians in the Donbas since 2014. They call it "propaganda" now but 6 years ago these same western media outlets reported that "Fascist Azov Battalion Ukrainian Military were shelling and murdering Donbas "separatists" (now western media calls them terrorists).

News shouldn't have bias, full stop. news should just report the facts and let the viewer/listener decide. However, bar that both sides should have their voices herd in a democracy.
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Thats partially the reason for Russia wanting to "get the band together again" with the reformation of the USSR, or a Greater Russia. You do get the feeling that the Stans are the next set of nations to experience a post USSR anschluss. The only way they can get anywhere near the USSR in power and influence is to be bigger and with more people. That way it can threaten Western Europe more effectively and hold its own against China and the US.
No. You have misunderstood.

For starters, it'd be hard to argue that RT is "operating" within the EU if the only way to access their content was via TOR. It's not; you can still just view their website as far as my colleagues are telling me.

The thing that's being denied here is their ability to operating business and broadcast - already a very highly regulated thing in most (all?) countries, within EU borders. In practical terms this means having to access RT servers probably outside of the EU, broadcast signals can't be sent within it for that channel, etc.

The internet is not broadcasting.

Were this intended to stop people from viewing it online as well, it would specifically call out RT as Illegal content in some way, so as to invoke one of the possible reasons to actually block their website.[1]

EU rules on open internet give you the right as a user to access and/or distribute any online content and services you choose. Your internet provider cannot block, slow down or discriminate against any online content, applications or services, except in 3 specific cases:

- to comply with legal obligations, such as a court order blocking specific illegal content
- to preserve the security and integrity of the network, for example to combat viruses or malware
- to manage exceptional or temporary network congestion

Relevant bit is in [2] (13); I couldn't find the more up-to-date post-review regulation.

[1]: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/internet-tel...

[2]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
Canada slaps 35 percent tariffs on Russia, Belarus imports: deputy PM
Lol. If I put my last name into UK's map, the map basically turns red.
> I suspect that that doesn't generalize very well to being completely remote over the long term.

And when I say I am now working 11 years remote and was always more productive compared to be before (9 years in offices) you'll immediately say "anecdotal evidence", right?

Maybe look into your bias. It does look like you're trying to find scientific reasoning to support your subjective preference. That's not OK. Let's at least have an objective discussion.

Demeaning the positive results of remote work by pettily narrowing down their results to super specific borders, while at the same time implying that office work is the go-to thing to do is not being objective.
Poland for me. 1 result, almost smack dab in the middle.

Romania has none. The rest all seem to have some in them. Some more than others.

UK though. lol... map turn red.

Edit: I'm in Canada for context.
yeah, tough crowd. I thought it was a play on words, since the article mentions being pwned. :)
It's one of the most ancient and illustrious noble families in France. There's virtually no chance somebody would bear than name without an actual relationship to the familly. They'd risk litigation, for one.
Yes, the general rule for me is if I see something completely whack on the ticket I'm working on, I'll clean it up as long as I know there won't be collateral damage. The problem comes when these systems become so complex and so old and the people working on them don't really know what changes will affect other systems down the chain.
I think that's an attitude I can support.
Strangely, I see no ads, and I don't use any ad blockers. Maybe it only shows ads to people in certain regions?
For me the issue is rarely refactoring a single method, but trying to improve features given new tools and use cases. I'm always met with the same issue that it may cause regression and we would need to allocate more QA time. Really hampers improving old code.
I read that as “Russian gas flows via YML pipeline”
I was like How?!? Some crazy ansible run book dictating PLC config?!

No, just need another cup of coffee.
Yep, I probably had a brain fart. Should be fixed now.
Goblin Cock has been altered though!

https://music.apple.com/us/album/bagged-and-boarded/15816775...

https://goblincock.bandcamp.com/album/bagged-and-boarded
Ok so the difference is an ideological fantasy you've invented
Nah, I’ll tattoo an encrypted message on a messenger’s bald head, wait a bit, then send the messenger out. /facetious
> Are you seriously explaining litigation costs to a quite well-known attorney working in this space?

Yes, I am. The attorney's goals are not aligned with developer's goals because developer pays the attorney, not that the attorney pays the developer. Attorney makes money from developer(s) regardless of a developer(s) making money off the violation. It is bonkers that seemingly educated people do not understand this.

Fighting IP battles from a perspective of a little party that has IP against a giant that is violating little party's IP is a fool's errand. Rarely the fool wins. That's why there's no market for litigation financing in IP like it exists for litigation financing of ambulance chasing.
Psychological and Emotional War: Digital Transnational Repression in Canada
My wifes maiden name is unique, several generations ago (early 1900s or so) her ancestors took their German surname and added a French La to the beginning. Won't show up on any of these maps becuase they we are in the US.
I wanted to post the same comment but luckily remembered to use the search function!
Interesting. I don't read a lot of opinion pieces, but I can't recall an article that didn't point out that cutting SWIFT off to the Russians wouldn't have negative implications for the West. Those would be from sources such as Reuters, BBC, Axios, NYT, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc.
I always love fishing mini games. Especially in the Zelda series. I remember when my friend got links awakening on the original gameboy, we were all super excited about the fishing part. Fast forward to 2020 and my son and I spent a huge amount of time fishing in animal crossing. Fishing in video games is fun, but I have no desire to play an entire game about fishing.
I agree it is a good thing - but it happened too early to be painless to Europeans. Or, to put it in other words, we should have been prepared for it a long time ago.
> Does that ever work for a population?

Yes; in fact, on this specific population. The collapse of the Soviet Union was, in part, helped by increased access to information about conditions outside of it, and to external goods and services.
If there was direct democracy in EU, we'd have already invaded Russia at this point. Even those who used to support Putin now support intervention in Ukraine. In Czechia, more than 90% of people support going into. It's similar in the countries around.
Bigger than the peg are the problems with moving the yuan out of your bank accounts once it’s in China. Their currency controls are some of the tightest in the world and getting more so since COVID.
Thank you for the respectful interchange, much appreciated. I wonder at what level of the military hierarchy you will start to see a 'Western' Russian majority.
I read the exact same thing. Thought their pipeline was on Kubernetes.
Or throw it on the backlog to track it…
Have you tried looking into the Ellis Island records for your Great Grandfather? https://heritage.statueofliberty.org/

I was able to find some of my ancestors who came to the US from those records. People usually came by ship and New York City was one of the main points of entries to the US.
Russia is already sending same threat letters with "safety guarantees" to European countries. On March 4th they are planning a big gathering for another speech of Putin. Russia is making changes to ODKB rules (shitty version of NATO among the post-soviet countries), that introduces the definition of "coordinating member" of this military alliance. They are about to start a 3rd world war.
> Sir Tony Hoare famously said: “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”

Er, wasn't it Donald Knuth? https://wiki.c2.com/?PrematureOptimization
> Free speech does not include using speech to lie and defraud.

The social media is full of misinformation published by the Ukrainians, eg:

https://observers.france24.com/en/europe/20220301-video-debu...

https://www.bbc.com/news/60554910

https://www.bbc.com/news/60554910

So, should we cut off Ukraine's internet access?

And we barely see any information from the Russian side. Is it not better to see the propaganda and expose it? Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
I think that issue here is that manager is approving method refactoring in SuperFactory. And I mean, I work on dysfunctional enterprise company software. My point here is that this is not how things get bad, because this is not how things work, at least where I have seen.
While I agree with you, some managers micromanage and freak out for any change that isn't directly related to doing or fixing X. They will reject the change and it becomes painful to keep working like that because they hold it against you. Toxic workplaces exist.
> Cisco is a hell hole that attracts a particular type of employee without talent who indulge in this type of discrimination blatantly.

I work for Cisco. Best place to work for, best salary in the market, the smartest people I've ever come across. Best work life balance.

I'm not Indian though, so maybe I'm not aware of all the details.
If someone wants to watch Russian propaganda or RT, they should be free to do so. Just like you are free to browse western media sites.

This choice should be up to the individual and their beliefs.
The Idea of Decline in Western History (1997) [1hr]
Working in enterprise software: very curious how many entrenched enterprise solutions don’t have enterprise features (SSO, etc) and look/feel 20 years old. Spend a lot of time migrating to replacement platforms that do. Entrenched players do nothing to upgrade basic enterprise feature set. Rinse, repeat.

Every customer replacing the legacy solutions is doing the work that the legacy org won’t do. The purpose of a solution is to build once the thing all your customers need. This dynamic is the exact inverse of that.
Back when I was consulting it always surprised me how broadly similarly sized firms would have massive differences in the size of their IT departments. One company might have 100 developers then you would go down the road to their competitor to find they only needed 10.

Needless to say more staff seemed to correlate with more bloat.
We do apply the same standard. It just happens that BBC is not propaganda television
I have found Programming Pearls to remain inspiring and at times practical.
The area affected is infinitesimal compared to the total area of the sea floor. This is hardly an issue to get worked up about.
The problem isn't new symbols, it's that existing symbols can get the new version depending on what version you compile it against. On my glibc ~200 symbols have the newest version (2.34) but these are largely all methods that have been around forever. A binary built here won't run in most places.
A peace agreement is the outcome of a negotiation. Without the participation of the parties, there is no negotiation, and no agreement.
Russia-China ties were going to inevitably strengthen regardless of this war. There is no such thing as targeted sanctions against the Russian government, at least in practice. Targeted sanctions are trivial to evade for Russian oligarchs and government figures.

The aim of all-encompassing sanctions is to turn people against the government by making life difficult for the average person. Russian propaganda is going to blame NATO/the West - this also would have happened with or without sanctions. Sanctions are a tool to show the Russian people how much worse life can be as an isolated pariah state. Even if the Russian government pivots to China, that is a future promise that living conditions can be restored to their previous state. In return for that promise, China will make demands that amount to Russia becoming a vassal state.
I didn't. EU mutual defense is loosely defined by lawyers. If EU wants to declare war on Russia, they need NATO and most importantly, Americans. I don't want to knock on Western Europe on military, but without Americans' command and control, as well as logistic support, I don't think EU can mount any substantial military troop movements quickly in respond to an invasion.
I believe those propagandising on behalf of an enemy - ideological or armed - without fully understanding their goals are called "useful idiots". Watch and marvel at how this term gains meaning on this thread.
Feel no pain is a great one, too.

I do love how there is no guaranteed to help card, per se. If you get Nob instead of sentries, most of these cards are if dubious use.
It does not have to be painless. That's fine, it's a minimal price compared to what's happening to Ukrainians.
Simple fix is simple then? Remove the La and just use the original surname.

I've had to do something similar of sorts in tracking my family tree in the past. Long story short is this: Last names change, but bloodlines don't.
Those are implemented in pytorch which can use various backend including CPU-based ones.

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/backends.html

Whether or not it would be prohibitively slow is another question, however.
Where does it obtain data in countries without registries (such as France)?
Who are you to decide what’s propaganda for me?
You are an inspiration to me.
US is out because data caps.

You can in Europe, but it is worth the dev time? It doesn't matter when monetary costs are second to principles, but it be wrong to think that most companies are spending their time fancying P2P.
Not an ERROR, while not main clauses, they are clauses not essential to the meaning of the sentence. See #4 here:

https://www.iue.edu/student-success/coursework/commas.html
That sounds like a perfect match for internet content which is often viral and temporary peaks. Ideally in a P2P world creators would care to have at least 1 node running which would serve the long tail.
For those who prefer YouTube: https://youtu.be/Xqn81bVLB4g
> No parental advisory logo if the release is not explicit.

I worked in radio in the 1990's and remember a song called "Parental Advisory" which had a Parental Advisory logo as part of the album art. I think there was an actual album called Parental Advisory that had nothing but the PA logo on its cover.

I wonder if those are in Apple Music.
Just to lay out the Russian side.

There are two primary reasons we think the Russians did it.

Putin has gone full conspiracy theorist, nostalgic, delusions of grandeur, fear of dying. He has locked himself away with alternative history since the start of covid. If Russia wants to defend its borders, capturing Ukraine decrease the length of the borders significantly. In a 100 years who knows? NATO might try to expand.

Personally, i don't see how anybody under the age of 60 can be persuaded with this logic. But it does explain part of the failure so far. Putin beliefs it had to be far easier and cheaper than it turned out so far.

I think the economic reason to do it is far more plausible.
Ukraine as a sovereign nation is an existential threat to Gas/Oil Russia. Since 2012 it has become clear that they hold enough gas and shale oil that it would break Russia's monopoly to the EU. That's could half their state budget, in a time the social security for the baby boom needs to be paid out.

I personally think they could have figured it out, but Putin is obsessed with gas and oil. To him they are the foundation of a Great Russia.
This resonates. I am a die-hard full-time remote worker for life but it definitely has an impact on my mental health. I'm always a few steps away from my workspace and that leads to working longer hours. However, for me, the upsides outweighs the downsides (assuming I can retire early, per plan).

I've somewhat recently started socializing with folks outside of work. That's helped as it gets me away from my computer for a while. I can only do a few hours at a time and at most twice a week before I get stressed out, but it's something.

TBH my biggest issue with working in an office was the commute. If I could get to work in a reasonable amount of time (10 minutes, no more) then I would be pretty happy to work in an office again. I'd put up with the interruptions at my desk, kitchen stink, and more interruptions if it meant I could have lunch with my peers and leave my work at work.

Unfortunately, a reasonable commute isn't in the cards for me. I could get there if I switched careers, which I might do when I retire from this one.
This is more likely because Russia is going to start requiring online services to carry a few dozen government mandated channels, and Disney didn't want to associate their brands with that.
Riga

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/R%C4%ABg...
Correct, at least for whatever was measured in the those studies (i.e., perhaps not everything was measured and analyzed). And the parent comment didn't refernce humans.

That said, this report / study does show evidence of electro magnetic influence on living organisms. So perhaps it's worth asking "Have we missed something in humans?" That's a legit question, especially in the context of science.
I was thinking the same thing. Having payment info built into the os makes a lot of sense for my usage patterns. I like Apple Pay and I think that if ms does it well, this is a plus, not a minus, and I didn’t see any red flags in this article but maybe I missed something?
If we want to go down that road to its logical conclusion, anything could be written to justify anything.

But such argumentation is fruitless.
Funny, last time I saw a totalitarian government they would imprison you just for saying what you are saying. You know like the arrested people for protesting against the war in Moscow. Calling the banning of a foreign broadcasting company “totalitarism” seems a bit like overblowing it. Probably you have no idea what totalirism means on your skin.
Just spitballing, China could strike a deal to be the exclusive seller of Russian oil and gas to Europe, and then demand payment in their own cryptocurrency. Why would Russia do this? As a payback for China’s support, for one thing.
You could be a good developer with a manager who gets angry if it’s discovered you took that kind of initiative.
This article seems... confused at best. It makes a kind of half-hearted claim that sanctions in general don't work, but provides no real suggestion for what to do instead (nothing? Invasion?). It also doesn't seem to make any real distinction between government sanctions - which will cause a lot of hurt to average Russians, and the criticism that a private boycott of Russia will do the same. Just in general the argument that "Sanctions aren't going to save Ukraine" is a kind of facile view of what sanctions are and how they work.

For example

>Again, the link between the two goes woefully unexplained. Russian tanks have entered Ukraine, so Disney's films can't enter Moscow's cinemas?

Russia is breaking international law and killing people, so companies don't want to do business in Russia. It's not some incredible leap.

>That strategy is ethically problematic given that it requires harming millions of ordinary Russians in order to induce a policy change in a government they have no say over.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the logic behind sanctions. The sanctions are in place because Western nations have no choice but to find ways to harm Russia in response to the illegal invasion. The suffering of ordinary Russians is the direct result of Putin's actions, he's the one causing this to happen. In fact for months leading up to this the West made it perfectly clear this is what they'd be forced to. With no sanctions, the cost of Putin breaking international law would be basically 0 and therefore likely to precipitate much further suffering.

Frankly, I'm really tired of these incredibly self-satisfied sites like "reason.com" pumping out some rubbish. It's just such a staggering self-awareness that I would have thought most people grew out of in their early teens.
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Oof. This is definitely the right response. That would be a powerful, terrible precedent to set — one that could be catastrophic if turned toward a different country perhaps