skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every few years a new company says you should use their special format. You have to pay them a monthly fee to use it — or keep all of your documents in their care. [...] When you store your writing in one company’s unique format, then you need that program to access it. Then the economy takes a turn, they go out of business, and your work is trapped in an unusable format.

This is something I've been dealing with lately. I have over a decade's worth of important personal and work files in proprietary formats, since I used Windows and Adobe's stuff for a long time. These days I'm using Linux exclusively, so my only option to read many of those formats is to hope that things like GIMP and Inkscape are able to open them somewhat accurately. All the documents I created in InDesign are as good as gone. I still have the files, but they're locked behind proprietary software that I couldn't use even if I wanted to. Oh, well...

For creating documents I've been learning LaTeX, and for note-taking I quite like Vimwiki[1]. I don't do nearly as much graphics work as I used to, though I appreciate things like the fact that Inkscape uses plain SVG by default. I'd rather not be locked out of my own files again in the future.

[1] https://vimwiki.github.io/
Everyone was talking about Roam for a while, I wonder what happened.
Is there a correct way to ask about your family background/ ethnicity/whatever? For context, I am a white English-seeming (but not actually) person in London.

I never ask, as I don't want to offend, however I am often quite curious. Not because I doubt anyone's claim to being British - most British Indians are likely more British than I am. Usually, I just want to talk about food, ask if you've been to India, hear your life experiences, reminisce about when I visited India, etc.

One of my favourite work relationships was with an older Indian man who, when he found out I was vegetarian and liked Indian food, he would bring me food his wife had made and give me recipes to cook myself. Sadly he died of Covid, but I still cook the recipes he gave me often - albeit with less ghee.

I feel like it's a little sad that racists have made it hard to talk about any issue touching on ethnicity without worrying that one may be coming from a place of hatred or aggression. My girlfriend is a Filipina so I can pick up the accent, and when I was making small talk with someone I asked if they were from the Philippines. They said yes, but instantly clammed up and didn't really talk to me for the rest of the interaction. But hey, I'm autistic so maybe I'm misunderstanding what I did wrong.
Sorry -- I misread your comment. Thought you were saying the tweet represented US policy.
In India the surname might indicate caste. Then easy to tell in States.
The impact of throwing Russia out of Swift
I think you're saying that Ukraine has lost the battle, but I'm saying they can still win the war. Virtually every country in Europe has had to undergo post-war reconstruction at some point in its history. I don't think that means they lost. They're still there, after all.
Chording keyboards have become significantly more popular among software engineers, although they're still not popular in an absolute sense. Check out https://www.openstenoproject.org/ and its Discord server for a vibrant community consisting primarily of student and professional stenographers and software engineers. (Note that the focus is on two-handed chording).

For me, a chording keyboard system is significantly more ergonomic than e.g. Dvorak. However, it doesn't improve productivity for coding itself; on the other hand, it's very useful for writing design documentation and messaging coworkers. But it's a large investment for what many people consider small gains.

I personally own a 3D-printed steno keyboard, which I bought some 3 or 4 years ago. You can find a list of hobbyist keyboards here: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Supported-Ha....
I think of it as "content and presentation should be as independent as possible". This is the content side: don't bother with fancy unreadable formats.

I've been thinking about this as I try to think about my own personal website. I'd like to have my content versioned, but, was really not loving the idea of tying myself to even a static website generator.

This is where I still ponder an approach more like antora (https://antora.org), where you can have a "doc repo" vs a "site repository". Thus, the concept of a version is really obvious.

I've also recently reorganized my professional notes into... a git repo that is only structured markdown files, one file per day, organized by year/month. And... it just works great.
Surprisingly, I think the West _is_ actually willing to risk nuclear war over this.

I would not be surprised if EU offers interim membership to Ukraine, and then offers air support / no fly zone - calling Putins bluff and widening the conflict.

I think Europe _should_ regard war on Ukraine as a declaration of war on Europe, and the rest of the west _should_ regard war on EU as war on all Western countries.

One reason for this is that if the West does not retaliate towards this aggression, then others will surely follow - perhaps Russia decides Lithuania is part of Russia after all, or Chinese leadership is emboldened to 'take back' Taiwan ?

Even if Russia withdraws tomorrow, can the West trust a madman with nuclear weapons ?

I think the West is at war with Russia today, even if we haven't admitted it to ourselves yet.
"Ze Germans" aren't "reliable" by western metrics because that's not something their engineering culture strives for.

You're comparing apples to oranges using a scale derived for grapefruit and acting like it's some big accomplishment that the orange wins.

If Toyota was trying to build better driving machines than Audi, build to the bottom dollar like Chrysler or cram in new tech gimmicks like Kia they would score similarly in those qualities and in reliability because the tradeoffs are necessarily similiar.

All engineers have the same technology and supply chains at their disposal and the same laws of physics to constrain them. The reason Toyota's vehicles are reliable is because they make cars for people who want to pay top dollar for reliable. The reason Audi makes cars that drive great is because they make cars for people who want to pay top dollar for great driving.

At the end of the day it's just going to boil down to you a value judgement about which qualities are important.
let us see how that is going to play out right

germanys tsystems has like 2k peoples in sankt petersburg
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I've been working on Data Science problems exclusively for the past 5 years, and gained a lot of supporting knowledge related to ML infrastructure during this time. I'm most proficient in GIS datasets, like locations of shipping vessels/flight tracking/road traffic tracking as I've spent the most time with trading houses correlating asset prices to these movements.

I've got 7 years of experience with Python in general, and I'm really proficient with PostgreSQL (for any back-end task) and establishing pipelines for Machine Learning (ML) tasks (using Prefect for the past year or so).

I also work on data science problems exclusively, without the adjoining back-end problems (e.g just give me the data set and you'll get back a model).
Just for reference... Mussolini did not keep the trains running on time, he made it dangerous to complain about the trains not running on time.

Not even close to the same.
Correct. "Installing" is more like creating a shortcut that looks like any other app, at least on Android and Windows.
I think Indians and Pakistanis quickly understand that outside their native countries they are probably the same and almost have similar culture/language/food.
Well I think it's reasonable to dump most of whatever isn't mentioned in conventional advice into the 'exceptional circumstances' bucket. They are anything that brings you off of the conventional happy path of normal income, normal job, normal career and life progression that isn't the result of your decisions after adulthood.

You seem intelligent - It looks like you've figured out how to compensate for the less than optimal hand that you were dealt. It's up to everyone else to figure it out as well. I have little sympathy for anyone who can't and I'd expect the same for anyone's opinion of my situation if something horrible and unforeseen were to happen to me.
Honestly I consider cryptos a trap even worse than actual "official fiat money": yes, formally they are able to operate peer to peer without a central bank/a banking system. Unfortunately they relay on an append-only "big file". No matter how efficient it can be in storage terms, no matter how much it can be tweaked, a day or another, after years of usage, it will grow too much to be used by essentially all people except those with big datacenters.

I see the same mechanic behind "free services" that start "gratis" and one took off start adding small fees, more small fees, not-so-small fees etc until they get classic commercial-only services and users now deeply tied with them can't escape.

Not counting the fact that without a network and relevant hw and sw we can't just exchange money, with cash we just need to have them and a third party with a hand.

It's a bit condensed but I think the point it's clear enough...
> The resultant lack of food and medicine to Cuba contributed to the worst epidemic of neurological disease this century.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8942780/

We didn't take up arms, we just starved Cuba to death and didn't give them access to modern medicine.
I believe the goal is for stdlib packages to be added with 1.19 once they have some real-world use. For now they're in x/exp to allow changes before that release.
Series C or later is what I've typically seen, and I'm not talking market rate for "Big Co CEO", i.e. I doubt any VC would be comfortable with a portfolio company CEO taking home over $600k/yr regardless of stage.
Just got back into OpenWRT after 10 years or so and it’s really grown up. Tell me, what package are you using for sending stats to influxdb? Thanks!
Boeing suspends parts, maintenance and technical support services for Russia
Since this thread is probably catnip for a certain kind of person...

Anyone have a term for "a CSS" that is distinct from the official CSS specs? I.e., a term that communicates something re-uses CSS-the-syntax, but with a different set of properties and functions.

For a silly example, imagine there's a CSS with properties and functions for describing tacos.
About those sanctions: SWIFT, correspondent banking, the GL 8 energy carve-out
Maybe, but there's no reason to use an ASCII-only text editor. (Almost) all modern text editors use UTF-8. And UTF-8 stores all the characters in the 7 bit ASCII table the same way ASCII does.

The result of that is, so long as you don't add any emoji or anything to your documents, a 2022 version of VS Code will store your text files in the same format as vi did in 1976.
Clicked catalog menu, some xns crash
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This is BS. You don't write your name at all, just your student id number.
It's always enjoyable for me to go through Norvig's python notebooks, because I always learn something new!
I'm in the same boat. I remind myself everyday, I called my parents at least once or twice a week for the last 20 years.

Every time I'm mad at my daughters in the morning before taking them to school, and I always have the thought what if I don't see them after that, then I forget about my anger, hug them tight, and would say I love them so much.

I can't imagine the pain losing a child. Every time reading again about the Sandy Hook, I tear up. One of the dads couldn't bear the emotional pain, he ended his own life.

Please be kind to others, we're all human and we happen to be on this same journey on earth.
The refresh grant is itself a long-lived, difficult-to-revoke token. TANSTAAFL.
Inversely, I'm concerned that it's strengthening relations among Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. In the worst case, this is barreling towards a Cold War 2.0 where nations throw humanity out the window for political leverage:

* Saudi Arabia has consistently rebuffed Biden's calls to pump more oil [1]. Even after releasing oil from our strategic reserves, oil futures have jumped over 10% in a single day [2]. As discussed in the article, high prices only aid the Russian kleptocracy.

* In an attempt to appease Saudi Arabia, the US added more sanctions on Yemen, undoubtedly worsening the humanitarian disaster there [3].

* Similarly, China is propping up the major Russian exports of Wheat [4] and natural gas [5]. Again, to our detriment, under the consideration that wheat futures went up today (8% I think?).

[1] - https://www.axios.com/biden-drill-oil-saudi-arabia-energy-co...

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-28/oil-stead...

[3] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/28/ukraine-russia-war-spil...

[4] - https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3168278/u...

[5] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-28/gazprom-p...
I moved from Australia to the US and I agree. It was small talk as a kid in Australia (where 30% of residents are born overseas), and it's a no-no in the US.

Possibly I was offending some folks in Australia.. in 2022, as a white man without Mediterranean roots, I'd probably not say your username out loud in either country :)
> had at least one troll reposting from the offical news
Look no further -- /u/5ESS have been "directing the narrative" here by posting the same youtube link 5 times already.
No, NATO didn't invite Ukraine to join. Ukraine wanted to join but NATO didn't reach unanimous decision to allow Ukraine to join. Back then Germany voted against Ukraine joining, out of consideration for Russias interests. Since then, there was no new movement for a NATO membership. And again, during the last minute diplomatic efforts, the German chancellor very clearly offered to Putin, that the question of an Ukrainian NATO membership would be decided quite far into the future. So there was no actual thread of a NATO membership - any claims of that were just a made-up reason by Putin.
Also, while a lot of former Warshaw Pact countries did join the NATO, the NATO didn't install a permanent military presence in those countries.
Very Jr role. Hiring manager had a very specific role that the recruiter got me on. Rejected, but during the interview pushed me to the next round of a lesser role in his team.
Recruiter was pretty amazed at the turn around since it closed so quickly.

It's a hard job and everyone at my level is a skill a notch or two up and much younger. But we do what we can to stay fit in the industry when peers are much more experienced and sharp. I got my foot in the door. It will take a lot of effort to shake off the sunk cost of training and replacement of me so I am here to get paid to learn and soak up what I can. Definitely high work load and high turnover either upwards or outwards for better opportunities

So if they have a budget, especially if they are a vendor with a paying client who needs a minimum level assigned consultant headcount type of metrics, I am good enough and my soft skills push me through.

Previous job (hired 5-6 years ago) I actually asked to be considered for the level above the one I originally applied to as they pulled me in for interviews. They hired me that week for the tech role as they likely had worse matches until I showed up.

You can't have a full strategy around it. But when you see a possible opportunity you snipe for it. Take the minimum amount of effort and just enough to set you apart and it might just be enough. It's a draw attention to yourself and make it feel like they won't find a better candidate. Play the fog of uncertainty every desperate employer has. Desperation can come from Recruiter delaying the first round because busy with a more important leadership fill, or low recruiter count in general, bad recruiter giving bad leads, etc.

Similar opportunities to me is sometimes just being the first result in a employer's search. engine.
Wow, that's a long time!
Interesting. Do you think Soviets soldiers had a lot in common with the Afghan mujahideen? What comparisons would you make with the Russians now fighting Ukrainians?
> I surmise Ukraine will go the way of HK/Belarus and demonstrate that shitpost supremacy is not a counter to disproportionate military force.

What does this even mean?

You also have no idea what you're talking about, because HK was part of China (just a "special administrative region"), and Belarus isn't democratic and wasn't invaded by another country to get taken over. The situation in Ukraine is dramatically different. You're talking like Ukraine has lost the war and Taiwan is next, but, besides that you're being hyperbolic and, again have no idea what you're talking about, you're disregarding the reality that Russia cannot sustain this war either economically or by force in Ukraine (they may be able to take control of the country but won't be able to occupy it forever, there is way too much resistance) and that Taiwan will likely have more direct military support.
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Is there any plans for some sort of Bridgewater-inspired "believability" score for members of the Enigma community that contribute sighting information, etc.? It would be amazing, perhaps, to be able to follow the folks at the bleeding edge of discovery who have the highest credibility. Totally understand if this presents more problems that solutions. But really cool vision and congrats on the introduction of the platform!
An offer package of $450k?! Dang.
I have been the token woman interviewing a woman and also joined teams where the only other woman interviewed me. It always struck me more as "look, we have one and she's not mouthing 'get out' so we're a good employer".

Usually once I join the one other woman leaves and the cycle repeats.
> They what, cosplay the Freedom Convoy?

Putin did say his troops will be fighting for "Freedom" of Ukraine.
It was in the early 2000s outside of the valley. A coworker was basically held in indentured servitude by a family of a higher caste. They dropped him off at work every day, berating him the whole way there. We hired a lawyer, got all of his contracts thrown out, and hired him directly.
That's the thing. I think they purposely make people a jack of all trades so it's more difficult to leave (everyone wants an expert). I don't really have any options to leave (put in a few resumes, had an interview, but my location sucks for decent IT jobs).
Is it HN policy to accept self-written posts? I don't remember it until maybe a few months ago. I thought you need to either post a link or Ask HN.
In some contexts, yes, but there was nothing in the OP's use of "privilege" that attempted to silence any further discussion.
The subject line is message text! It's message! That's literally what it is! It's baffling (and revealing) to see email encryption advocates downplay the fact that subjects are exposed in plaintext. The retcon here is that subjects are somehow intended as the unencrypted, public part of the message, as if that was a normal feature of a sealed letter. Go find the last letter you mailed someone (or try to remember; I know it's been awhile) and look on the envelope for the part where you wrote what the message was about.
I was planning to do this myself. Thanks for the article. I am ok with the code dump :D

Right now I am using nginx with the image_filter module + caching to do this.
Exactly this.

Anecdotally: Russian outdoor equipment has gotten seriously acceptable in the past few years, and that's not a bad proxy for their military gear. Laugh all you want, but ten years ago, I wouldn't have trusted Ivan to build a tent that didn't (a) weigh several tons; and (b) fall over in a light breeze.

Looking at the gear they're fielding, they're maybe a generation behind NATO on everything except NVOs (the US is 2-3 generations ahead there), and the Russian military has massively more inland combat experience than anybody else in Europe save the French, and likely as much UW/FID experience as the US. Difficult to assess where Russia lies in terms of training and tactics given all the noise, but they appear to be far more competent than I expected.

People are seriously underestimating what Russia can bring to the table, sort of like how folks laughed at the strides made by Chinese manufacturers.
It is not your data, it is data for google to mine.

Google "engineering" excuse everytime is it is for your safety
> If my fellow Indians are fostering this sort of hatred even after coming to US

Caste is like religion if you are brainwashed when you are kid, its almost impossible to let go even if you change countries. Hopefully the kids of these immigrants who grow up in the host country will not have the same hatred.
I wish I had the time and patience to come up with something like this.
It's trivial to prove that it's false. Have you never heard a white person talk about white privilege?

Ironically, some of the responses saying it's true that privilege invisible to those who have it are demonstrating otherwise. For instance, this [1] response who wrote that they weren't aware of their privilege "until I saw and lived it for myself". If privilege were invisible to those that have it, they wouldn't have been able to see it.

Actually ask around, and the overwhelming majority of people are cognizant that coming from a stable family is a privilege relative to coming from a dysfunctional family. Or coming from a wealthy family is a privilege relative to coming from an impoverished one.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30521552
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Is the new AWS status page just a new look with the same problems?