skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia scholar Stephen Kotkin, in a recent interview, explains the definition of 'win' may not be what we think it is.

https://www.hoover.org/research/5-questions-stephen-kotkin

He believes, and I agree, that it might be enough for Russia to have "ruined" Kyiv, etc., and to have significantly degraded Ukraine's military. And, militarily speaking, Russia lacks the precision weapons to do much else. Put another way, I think Russia has made its point, that perceived (or contrived) threats on its border will be addressed. One hopes, having made the point, they will withdraw; otherwise Putin is facing regime change or worse IMHO.

EDIT: I should probably add that Russia has a point-of-view on Eastern Europe that shouldn't be ignored. Not as a justification for its invasion, but as a legitimate security and *influence* concern. Much was imposed on Russia after WWI, after the Kosovo conflict, and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Again, not an invasion justification, but an important consideration for a lasting diplomatic resolution... that doesn't require further fighting, escalation or heaven forbid WMD use.
Out of curiosity, would be it be in the realm of possibility that Ukraine dispatches an offensive force into Russian territory? Maybe it could get the pressure off with a long needle.
> because only developers..

so, why does that matter? What has that got to do with discovered artefacts?

Developers would make a profit off the land if nothing was discovered there.

Farmers also make profit off the land without any building required.

> There are all sorts of..

I'm not sure where you are going with this, I wasn't questioning the role of the state or that it "hands out responsibilities with privileges" - so it's kind of weird that you'd argue in the abstract like this. I'm arguing that there's no privilege for developers - discovered items are national assets and cannot be owned in many places.
Ukraine is an ally which many Western countries were already arming. We are simply continuing to do so, that's not escalation. All the escalation is coming from one side in this conflict.
Apocalypses That (Obviously) Didn’t Happen
I'm sorry to hear this.

When I worked in manufacturing environments, especially defense related ones, we had policies in place to ensure the reliability of our supply chain, but we didn't have anything in place to verify the reliability of our clients (other than credit, obviously). For example, we would verify the country of origin for purchased materials, but we never tracked where the final products wound up.

It is an interesting problem for sure. At least you can be flattered knowing that your work is being used as incentive; a weapon... and that it's working.
Ask HN: As a Russian, What Are Your Options to Leave?
Political gamble. Like all gambles they can pay big or not. It’s not like the world situation for the last 5-10 years makes Ukraine a surprise. If you want to minimize risk, don’t buy junk bonds…
> So for me, working remotely has made me the most depressed, and physically unfit, I've ever been.

This was the state I was in and I tried medication for anxiety/depression for the first time in my life. It didn’t work well for me, but it gave me the impetus to change something.

I ended up going WeWork and it’s been great for me. Gives me people to talk to (all the staff there are friendly and some of the other people there like to chat) and a reason to get out of the house. I run/bike commute to get there so I’ve been much more active since I started going.

Good luck, and I hope you find something that makes it better for you. I know how rough it is!
I don’t know your situation. I pay around $250 for professional tax prep (CPA and IRS enrolled agent). TurboTax costs about half that. It takes me much less than a day every year, maybe two hours. People who have high incomes and complex tax situations can probably afford to have someone else deal with their taxes. Tax advice and preparation, either by a person or software, is deductible on your tax return.

Your mileage may vary, but for most people considering the digital nomad thing taxes are not complex or expensive. Very few nomads I met in six years traveling made a lot of money. Their main hassle was self-inflicted: not setting up a US address and keeping a US bank account before they went traveling.
> Who are Apple to say I can’t put another artists photo on my album?

Are you not able to purchase music and import to the Music app with whatever metadata you want?

I am not posing a rhetorical question, I do not have experience with the Music app outside of using the Apple Music subscription service so I would like to know if they do restrict these kinds of things.
> Also the bloat-free implementation.

Only if you have a blocker that deals with the interstitial ads…
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JavaScript Immutability Overhead, with profile sample of a NextJS app with Parca
The salary cuts depend on where you live. If you work remotely near your original office, there is no pay change.

Some people did have requests denied. In my org, every single person who applied was approved. It is easy to change teams at google, so people who really want to work remotely can make it happen.
I support the notion that Putin has to go, violently or not, but when I hear suggestions to start an uprising I can not help but ask: would you suggest the same to people who went on Tiananmen in 1989 and got reduced to a bloody mess? Considering it is A) not your nor your children's lives on the line, and B) your country, presumably, is now just fine transacting with the regime that did the above.

As you wrote, emotional appeals do not mix well with logic -- but maybe dry logic is possible only from afar.
I heard there is only 1 train to Finland ( packed ), and you would still need 'valid' reasons leave.
So distracting people who work on something that blocks you is "making progress"?
That's rich.
In Taiwan they required newborn infants to do 4 PCRs and 3 at home tests. These tests are administered in the mouth(Rapid Antigen tests are actually only rated for children above 2).

It was infuriating to watch the absurdity and sheer insanity of where the Taiwan CDC has gone. 7 Tests in 3 weeks for a less than 1 year old and then privately telling businesses that they only have to quarantine for 3 days if they have urgent business to attend to.

EDIT: I wrote something stupid. Obviously they don't ingest the reagent fluid. I conflated this issue with the fact that the fibers in the swabs damage the nasopharyngeal mucosa.
I would not jump to such conclusions - browsers are sometimes too clever for their own good.

Do you see any (visible or hidden) form input for card number, expiry date and CVV2?
It's kind of funny, my surname actually does have a huge cluster around my hometown, but my paternal grandfather I inherited that name from was from another part of Germany and only moved here in the 1940s.

One time someone from the USA contacted me on Facebook because he has the same surname, to see if we were related. We weren't, but his great-grandparents were from my hometown and emigrated to the USA around 1900 or so (before WW I, anyway).

Fun fact, in 1998, I did an internship at a local hi-fi shop and met a guy who actually had the exact same name as my father. But wait, there's more: He also was in the same line of work as my father. He did not look anything like my father, fortunately, that would have freaked my out in a big way.
In the same way you don't gain anything in the US if you change your last name from a 'black' or 'jewish' or 'slavic' last name to something 'american'. That is people treat you differently, even though legally nothing has changed.
I think this is largely a cultural thing. Where I work, if someone submits a pull request that doesn't improve the value of the product meaningfully, the reviewer just says so and the request gets closed and that's the end of that. No conflict. We're all trying to do the same thing: improve the product.

Of course, we also had to adjust the way we work to make this feasible. For example, we discuss design and strategy decisions early and often, so that bad designs or obviously wrong choices generally don't make it as far as becoming a pull request, but are rejected already at the idea stage.

Then when we are uncertain, we make the pull request from very rough draft code, and expect to have the big ideas reworked slightly in collaboration with the reviewer, so that once the final pull request is submitted, it's largely in the shape we want, with only minor comments remaining.

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The same thing goes for what you say about time pressure, really. We know why we have the review process in place, and we have hard evidence that it saves us a lot of time and effort in the end, so we don't circumvent it even under pressure.

And we, the software engineers, are the experts who understand this. Management might not always understand it, but that's their problem, not ours. If they start to throw their weight around, that's bad management. Also their problem, in the end.
I am all for being sceptical to corporate PR, but Nvidia and AMD have already proven that AI can be applied with excellent results.

How it's done is a business secret, I would be surprised if they told us much more.
Actually no. Each layer requires output from previous one, which means sequentially computation. While wider layers can utilize GPU parallel computation better. This is kind of trade-off between less memory (less parameters) vs longer time.
> Your daily standup ? can't do that quickly at your desk, you need to find a room and setup visio

Yeah that only works for very small teams the moment you are like ten or os, even in an office first setting will be away for whatever reason, tradespeople coming, feeling sick etc

> Going on lunch and discussing about your project ? Too bad.

> . Got an idea you ran by a colleague at the coffee machine ?

> . A state of the project on a whiteboard in the office ?

> No, you need to use Jira.

Too bad that you need to put that into writing so later it can be referenced or you end up headscratching at a git commit which doesn't refer a ticket three months down the road
I use Schwab and recommend them. Open an account before leaving the US. You don’t need an international account, use a US address. If Schwab ever asks if you live overseas tell them no, you just travel a lot. They asked me once in six years, accepted my answer. They refund ATM fees on the regular investor checking account too.
Go for bigger companies. Most of the actual startup-y startups figured out the release from big city rent and compensation expectations really helps them grow while staying lean.
Only a few are actually useful (or meta) being the problem.
As far as art projects go, this could be pretty interesting. How do you handle moderation?
As mentioned in a sibling thread, the real "dark night" is something that happens only after one is deep enough in the development of contemplation - both the Christian and Buddhist tradition are very clear about this. In fact, that's the reason it's so insidious: many inexperienced meditators get as far enough as reaching a stage of insight that subjectively feels a lot like the common folk trope of "sudden enlightenment". But the "dark night" comes right after that stage, and then they don't know that they're supposed to meditate more and look for the way out (through the insight of equanimity). It's a very understandable mistake, which is why it makes sense to warn about it.
Your Dad has 100 employees to delegate to, and therefore has time to go into detail on the things that matter to him, in this case sales and receipts.

This guy is working alone and likely has less time to go into detail like that.
"No misleading or generic cover art" <- I don't know how much black metal is on that service, but if they have to abide by this law, I'm guessing not a lot :D #everythingIsAForest
The day after which, Ukraine will submit its NATO membership application.
Fair enough - but I’d say the quality of construction was much higher as well.
I'd like to see this as a coloured heatmap, normalized to the proportion of people in an area with a given surname...

Currently it's just highlighting big cities for any surname I could think of.
> mindset incompatibility already within the EU with Poland and Hungary for example

I think this is more like incompatibility between the "central-continental European cultural area" (+ some "balkanic-European c.e." elements for Hungary) and "west-atlantic-postcolonialist-European c.e." and this is very mild and will go away when current politicians trade seats. Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian etc. people can cooperate well amongst themselves and with eg. Germans or Austrians, if nobody is deliberately stirring hate.

Maybe Poland and Hungary could serve as bridge to Russia to solve the worst incompatibility, that between the mindsets of west-atlantic-postcolonialist-europeans and mindsets of russian-europeans. But I would not have much hopes, these two groups are very incompatible... each would probably find it easier to get along with the Chinese or the Americans that with the other. And there's also eastern European countries like eg. Romania that have better closeness / similarity / affinity to west-atlantic-Europe and the US than to the central-European ones and would rather burn themselves than serve as a bridge to Russia... Europe is complicated...

German (continental) European de-facto-leadership + eastern Europe to be the bridge could work in theory though...
I think it’s more analogous to google cloud acquisition of Looker, rebranded as Google Data Studio
It’s literally loading the same image every time.
“Some historian” is a bad citation.

I’m very good friends with a medievalist professor. Something they said to me recently was interesting. Today, most medievalists don’t really like the term “feudalism” and instead see serfdom as an extension of Roman slave systems. Not chattel slavery, but definitely not a mutually agreed upon and beneficial economic relationship. I’m not so sure that “serfs didn’t actually work all that much” is aligned with current consensus.
"NATO" is not doing any of those things. Individual member states are making choices, but not under the auspices of the alliance agreement.

If Russia attacks one of the NATO member states, that will change and NATO will act.
Many people in comments write about difficulties with onboarding to remote-only companies, with establishing relationships with colleagues at work.

My close friend works remotely at a Finnish company (he is Fin himself), and every Friday at 14:00 they finish working, and have beer drinking session and casual chit-chat over teleconference. Every week. He likes the experience overall.

Of course, not everybody wants nor can drink, but it is some idea to get each other better.
It would seem that this subject is very subjective. However, I admit that I let myself go a bit on the intro and I can understand your point of view.
Short-medium term position of power generation in Europe is changing rapidly, so who makes money should change with it (particularly if governmental support appears).

And all of these posts from yet another site that wants a login are frustrating as hell. Can’t we have a “ad” flag keep them up but warn re paywall?
Which point did Russia make exactly, if this causes Finland and Sweden to join NATO?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]
True. But the increased use of video conferencing from home should add pressure to improve this situation.
Volt is not a unit of an electric field. Talking about '50 volts' is complete nonsense in a context of an electric field. Also, a magnetic field around a wire will establish if there is a moving charge inside the wire, which can be established with any voltage -- as long as there is current, which is measured in ampere. Electric charge is measured in coulomb and magnetic fields are given in tesla -- so there cannot be a connection if they talk about 'volt'.

I am not saying there isn't any link but I am saying that 'volt' is surely the wrong connection, so this should be taken with utmost caution.
Damaging a few buildings and killing some civilians and then leaving seems like the worst possible outcome for Russia, unless the goal is to appear so weak that Ukraine don’t join NATO because they believe they can beat Russia just with their citizens. I like your optimism but it seems unmoored from reality. I hope you’re right though.
Ukraine was never a threat to Russia's borders. Quite the opposite, Ukraine lost territory due to Russia's aggression.
> Why aren't we see many video hosting companies adopt peertube or P2P?

For the same reason we don't see many video hosting companies, period: YouTube. It eats the entire space for reasons that are entirely unrelated to the pros and cons of p2p. For hypothetical competitors that means solving their biggest issue – gaining users over YouTube – can also not be done by going p2p (but it might of course still be part of their hypothetical tech stack for other reasons).
Not really, Russia's previous aggressions in 2014 are the reason Ukraine even has a military in the first place and from the past few days it appears that said military's existence came as a shock to the invader. It is fair to say that Putin expected another special operation like in Chechenya, Syria, etc., where he would just bomb the terrorists for a while with no actual opposition showing up. There's a decent analysis thread outlining the background and doing a lot of historical legwork. [0]

This is a real problem and a cause for worry though since insane escalation may very well occur with the singular goal of saving faces of russian heads of state.

[0] https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1497993363076915204
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> peaks during US/EU common business hours

Wait, does that mean no more 4AM phone calls when the batch is failing?
Nom is a fantastic library. I have built a SIP library [1] on top of Nom, no way I would have built that without Nom's help, and even if I did, it would be a heck of a mess and under-optimized code.

[1]: https://github.com/vasilakisfil/rsip
Agreed, absolutely shameful of us to refuse to stop paying for russian gas immediately. That Russia not cut off the gas in response to the other sanctions shows how important that cash flow is to them, which is exactly why it must stop.
If you like bitvec, check out [deku](https://github.com/sharksforarms/deku)
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I'm not hearing any solutions.
Whilst this might (emphasis on the might) be a good idea in a purely military world, it would not be useful in the real world. Military action is an extension of politics. Ukraine is viewed as the good people being attacked by the bad. They get a lot of support, both home and abroad because of this. If they launch even a limited attack into Russian or Belarusian territory they will compromise this position, and potentially lose support now or in the future at home or abroad.

You can never forget that war is politics, and not the other way around.
Ask HN: How does one prepare for a possible nuclear threat?
The author underestimates the effects that increased military investment can have.

Russia is already selling a lot of weapons around the world - they are typically not as good as American counterparts (in most fields, at least), but they tend to be cheaper; further investment would see prices fall even further, effectively flooding all markets where the Russians play. A lot of African and Asian countries might well jump at the chance, resulting in profits for Russia and increased worldwide instability. Already the successful Russian intervention in Syria was meant to be a showcase of the latest Russian tech.

Putin's Russia might not be able to afford a 10- or 20-year conflict like the US could, but I fear it can afford more than enough to produce very bad outcomes for the world at large. And I still don't see how they'd fail to take Kyiv, at the very least, which might well be all they want.
Anyone can create a new agreement without logging in. Agreement link and negotiator links are all public but not guessable. Only "published" agreements show on the front page. To get the agreement published, submit it to either @PeaceAgreementO or peaceagreementorg@gmail.com .
Sounds a vaguely like depersonalisation, although I'm against this trend of pathologising every little thing that might be unusual about the human experience.
> those sanctions ARE helping to put an end to this madness

It's this part that seems not very well supported. From what I can tell, Russia thought about the probable sanctions quite a lot before starting this course of action, so it's not clear to me that sanctions are going to have much effect. Even if sanctions generally were accomplishing something, it's not clear to me that these particular sanctions are doing anything useful.

It kind of seems like more Great Reset stuff, i.e., claim that something useful is being done while being incredibly disruptive in ways that destroy small businesses.
> You have somebody else come over to cut your cat‘s claws?

I know a number of people that don't feel comfortable doing that, or have cats where you'd need multiple people, or to wrap them, in order to clip their nails.

I definitely don't clip as short as they do at the vet, but I have a great set of clippers, and learned that what works for our cats is to keep the clippers on my desk and clip one or two nails when they come for a midday sit on my lap.
Are there enough Russians that want to do that to Ukraine?

And then secondary to that, will the greater Russian population tolerate doing that to Ukraine?
Local vs. global optimization …

You sure your priorities are of so much more significance than what the person is working on that they justify destroying the concentration of intellectual property creation and forcing a preemption of this other person’s task or reorder of their stack?

If you’re blocked for lack of a task switch, what are you blocking in turn by causing a new interrupt and switch?

Instead of crashing the thread they’re on, why not go to the scheduler and reorder the queue or better re-weight the threading so priorities are worked more optimally?

If in attempting that, you find you run into contention, it could be the most effective overall output is if your task is the one in an occasional wait state.
"Only include relevant information such as artist name, release title as text, and the exact song title or album as released" seems to imply no other text is allowed.

"No dates" - would Pulp Disco 2000 be allowed? Who knows?

Maybe their machine learning was all getting confused.

edit: I will add - I really couldn't care if it were just Apple blocking some music from their store - appleid is too much of a hassle anyway! But it'll drag the whole music industry into having to work with the lowest common denominator bland cover art.