skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough if that was the point you wanted to make, though in that case I'd argue that the kind of disaster scenario you described isn't specific to big enterprises but to disastrously bad software development organisations. A lot of small organisations think they're operating at enterprise scale and make the same kinds of mistakes!
Who cares. I’m perfectly sorry that the New York Times would never publish something so sensible as this translation of an interview with the Stratfor head from a liberal Russian broadsheet, but I can assure you that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the translation.
> Most packets are dropped "elsewhere".

This is probably true, but elsewhere packet loss is often diffuse. If you're looking into packet loss, it's likely because something is overloaded on your machine resulting in a burst of loss that affects user experience or your stats. Surviving is great, but eliminating bottlenecks you can control is better.
Indeed you are right! A month ago or so I had a one on one talk with him and explained that i felt targeted by him. I also gave him some examples of why I felt like that. He acted as if he had no idea, and said I was mistaken and gave some explanation that did not fully convince me. But it helped for a while though... he was more friendly up until a few weeks ago when things got rough. People's true nature doesn't change. I'm now convinced he is not to be trusted and does not have the courage to stand up for his people towards higher management, who seem to be using him as a puppet. I have to thank you for your tips! Thing is, you might start out with a good boss but positions can change quickly within a company. Luckily the job market is on our side. At least all the hard work resulted in new knowledge and skills.
Code Review How To: Organization
What am I gonna do? Go snitch on the manager and then dudes are gonna get a warning and know that someone snitched. Next thing you know my reviews take extra week to be approved and my questions go unanswered. That ain't smart.
> Write Apple-Script to automate turning on 32-bit addressing automatically and setting the correct date every time I turn on the computer

Rob Mitchelmore wrote the Force32 extension which is made for Macs without a PRAM battery. It makes sure 32-bit addressing is enabled during startup. (Note that since a restart is required after enabling 32-bit addressing, it will automatically restart during the first cold boot).

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/force32

https://github.com/cheesestraws/Force32
Seems like DTube is decentralized too? I wasn't familiar with it before your post, but some search says so.
Looks nice. To scale this to large revenue I would highly recommend considering the real estate surveying market. This market is in the process of being disrupted by geolocating UAV-based photogrammetry point clouds. It has lots of bullshit inertia owing to regulatory significance, including a fully enshrined network of "approved surveyor" types who provide far less data than UAVs for far more money, far more slowly. There are multiple paid-for services that can be offered here. One is real estate sales, just showing the site in-situ in a local map and maybe emphasizing sun and aspect. One is real estate concept development as point clouds can provide local high-res trees/buildings even across the boundaries for shade mapping. Good shade mapping can mean the difference between a development being approved or not, so has huge monetary benefit. Generating reports for this depends upon the regional requirements, eg. which season. Often they pick a random peak-summer or peak-winter day and demand top-down shade maps of those. Currently architects pay for surveys and get back crap. Shade mapping is specialist. Every single day tens of thousands of real estate surveys are made. There has to be opportunity to push in this direction, just a suggestion.
So the opening scene of Wargames is not pure fiction?

I always thought if was fictional because a drill surely wouldn't require to actually shoot an uncooperative officer, and an unloaded/loaded with blanks gun would give the test away.
2.4Ghz was a ISM junk band long before domestic microwave ovens arrived.
In fact 2.4Ghz was used for microwave ovens specifically because it was an ISM band, and therefore was available.
They will take as long as its needed for said oligarchs to sell endangered properties.
Like any other threat:

1. Determine threat model

2. Model personal risk

3. Rank interventions

Some simple ones might be just having a good communication plan with your family, or keeping some extra food and water on hand.

If you are near an incident, your desired course of action is to evac as soon as possible outside the fallout area. That likely means conveyance and go bags. You don't need to "bug out" to the woods, but you need some food, documents, medications and other essentials in case you need to be in a shelter for a while.

If you do have to hunker down and are in a fallout zone, you need to limit fallout exposure by sealing your home, and have enough supplies for 14 days or so. Iodide tablets to protect your thyroid would be good.

You probably don't want to go full bunker. It's a lot of cost and probably not the right thing unless you are likely to be a direct target - but even then your chances aren't great. High cost low reward basically.

Note that if you end up on the cusp of fallout, you are probably going to have a reduced life expectancy even with gear. Not much you can do. Maybe pack basic NBC suits and gas masks but those are prone to not being fitted and need semi-regular replacement.
It was possible to predict the Ukraine war; such an operation requires planning, troop moves, etc. It's very clear US intelligence had a good handle on this.

Predicting the next war now prior to any such planning/moves is a silly expectation of people, even if they're experts.
To give an example where the expectations come from, note that when Russia annexed Crimea, they could retain some but not all, of the officers.
Now when the Russian forces march in, they have common relatives that live in Ukraine, and some defect. The expectation of a ‘common big brother’ from Russia coming in and taking over government has been consistently shared by Russian officials. It is through the resistance of the invasion that desire for independence is shown.
My critique assumes no such thing, it just claims it's likely. That's why I used the word "likely."

I certainly hope it's not controversial to suggest that VC-backed startups, especially thrifty ones like bandcamp allegedly is, very commonly offer lower salaries to extend runway and make up for it in the form of equity options. My last startup offer actually gave me a window of salary ranges and let me choose my salary based on how much equity I wanted. The more salary, the less equity.
The author describes thinking of 9 as floating around looking for a 1 to chomp off another number. This is very clearly designed to support good intuitions about adding in base 10, but it produces bad intuitions about binary numbers, multiplication, polynomials, etc. If faced with myriad other problems that involve 9, like, say: "which is bigger: 2^9 or 9^2?" or "how should we store words from an alphabet with 9 characters in memory?" or "how can we distribute 9 things equally?" or "for which n is 9^n + 2 prime?" or "how should we expect an atom to act if it has 9 electrons?", a completely different way of looking at the number 9 is warranted. In that last case, the exact opposite is true: 9 is desperately trying to rid itself of a 1, not find another 1 to grab.
Knowing the other sides best arguments is a benefit. Censorship is stupid. The pro government media would have love your oppressor. This is so bad in Canada where all the TV stations just parrot the current liberal government's narratives. If it wasn't for US coverage, most Canadians would even know about protesters getting trampled by horses or that trucker that had his ribs broken from repeated police kicks to the chest while he was down. A guy who literally escaped from a communist Romania.
They're talking about banning Fox news here. Because they had some pro protestor coverage.
I was the same as you until I started learning marketing and business instead of trying to build products no one wants to use or buy.

I recommend you to start reading "The one-page marketing plan" book, it's really good for absolute beginners.
My personal contingency is this: once the bombs start falling I’ll be running towards the blasts not away. When it comes to an “all out” nuclear war there are no outcomes that leave behind a world worth living in imo. Assuming the initial blasts spare me and I don’t live somewhere that gets peppered with fallout, I’ll have starvation and societal collapse to look forward to.
I had one with a 10baseT network card about 20 years ago. I ran NetBSD on it and punched a hole open so anyone could log in. I think I posted about it in the NetBSD IRC channel back in the EFNet days.

You started up System 7 at first and then clicked on the launcher and it would reboot into NetBSD. This was like 1.something ... might have been 1.5?

I had some external SCSI drives for it in the low GB range and I believe a CDRW. I think the ram was at 128MB (might have been 96)

I had compiled Mozilla 0.9 or so for it (whatever was current) and it actually ran (compiling took I think 4 days because I compiled it on the SE/30). You could see the elements of the interface render to the screen in human time.

I distinctly remember seeing each button come in to view and then slowly typed in "slashdot.org".

I used it as an X terminal as well, using the -broadcast option to log into an HP-UX 10.20 machine. I ran sam and CDE on that tiny monochrome screen. So ridiculous.

It was a glorious waste of time.

Just looked in my old email archives --- this was indeed from 2002. Right, 20 years it is then.
I can see that. The language choice is certainly distracting and inappropriate.

I would hope that people discussing the issues in education would be some evidence that they do care. Maybe misguided in some instances, but at least trying to identify root causes and solutions. If we don't talk about the problems, then they won't get fixed.
Right. Public schools are chartered to provide "Universal compulsory education" private schools only have to worry about the last word in that phrase. There's a patchwork of laws that try to ensure private schools provide some sort of equal-opportunity, but the success of that is very hit-or-miss.
According to MAD game theory, if a true doomsday style nuclear war were to happen, the initiator would need to deliver a crushing first strike to have any hope of surviving (by preventing a significant counterstrike).

The hypersonics that Russia and China have publicly tested recently do seem capable of doing that. So, the goal would be to live in a place unlikely to be in the top ~1000 target locations list. The difference between being 999 most likely to be hit vs. 1001 might be the enough.

If that logic is correct, maybe live somewhere with very low density of humans, away from the coasts, no critical infrastructure nearby, no remarkable geographic landmarks, and large amounts of undeveloped natural resources (which a future occupier may want to have).

Which sounds a bit like saying "live on a Native American reservation." Maybe destiny is for this content to be returned to its original owners...
Bug reported for escalation.

In the future, you may be able to use this content removal link; as I believe it will also provide for an internal escalation path:

https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905#ts=7...
Not entirely factious: why not? Life would go on. Not human life sure, but it’s not like we’re the ultimate shepherds of the planet and it would be a valueless rock without us.

If the options are: yield the planet over to some nuclear hardened species to chill out and recover for a few hundred thousand years while other novel (radiation hardened) lifeforms develop, or yield the planet over to the people who have demonstrated willingness to absolutely obliterate their enemies and will likely continue initiating mass extinction events far into the future… I certainly don’t think one option is 100% off the table.

Interestingly, those radiation hardened life forms might actually be better suited to be earth-seed than us — space is an unfriendly environment for human kind, making us ill suited to be the planet’s intergalactic ambassadors.

(Now I want to read some sci fi book where it turns out all the intergalactic species come from planets where the original intelligent inhabitants blew themselves to smithereens and created a nuclear winter, causing the next intelligence to develop a deep rooted desire for world peace and scientific exploration…)
Sometimes the HN algo will strip what it thinks is non-essential leading words from submissions. When it does that, the contributor can edit the title to replace it ... and the algo won't argue.
In general, Tech has no respect for people's personal time.

Leetcoding is a problem. we are forced to spend substantial parts of our lives preparing for these coding interviews, and that doesn't cover design, behavioral, and take homes. my brother is a doctor who makes 350k base, you know what an interview is like for him? "do you doctor" "yes I do doctoring" "great come aboard". its problematic that our gatekeepers for roles is guarded by skill sets that have very little to do with our day to day jobs, and that we have to spend our precious personal time prepping for it. this gets amplified by the fact that promotions are so little, the only way to get a real raise is through job hopping.

On call.
We should value our personal time, any company/manager that expects you to work during it without at least offering 2x pay for those hours, has no respect for your personal time. you are giving your life away here, so its no wonder why on call is so life draining.

There are more but dont want to go on further
Your first "thing" is begging the question. What is that blatant propaganda (your words) really going to achieve at this point ?
One of the West's key marks of distinction has always been freedom of the press. By allowing our governments to decide what's a lie / propaganda that's not allowed to be published, I feel we set ourselves well on the path to becoming exactly what we're criticising here.
Or serious problems do exist and for the most part we are shielded from them.
A useful metric - how often does a national leader willing to start a nuclear war come to power in a state with nuclear weapons? That's measureable from historical data.
> Except that I said that about swabbing the nostrils, did I not?

Sure, and I pointed out that's not a big deal, and then you said the UK tests require a throat swab and asserted that's a bigger deal, to which I pointed out switching to the nasal swabs might be appropriate. Pick one to discuss, please, so I can respond to the option you're currently thinking about.
Nit:

> Multiplying infinity by any number is defined to be a NaN for IEEE 754

No, multiplying infinity by any number other than zero or NaN produces an infinity. Multiplying infinity by zero produces a NaN.
I didn't say anything about a Mac. Though I accept I am taking it way off topic with my little grumble. Really I'm just still smarting at being told off :-)

It absolutely wouldn't have been an Apple II; I never saw an Apple II in the UK until they were retro. It would have been a port to the (similarly 6502-based) BBC Model B. We had loads of those in schools [0].

A bit of a google suggests that it was likely based on code from a 1978 computer listing, though it would have been 1983 when it was inflicted on us.

Funnily enough I don't think we spent more than half an hour with the computer. A week or so with the assignment.

[0] the Apple II would have been more expensive, and didn't provide the opportunity for schools-television-related content or a loan of the county's (truly groundbreaking) Domesday Book laser disk system:

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co83846...
Moderation Teams and Technology: Improving Customer Retention (2015)
Inherited wealth?
Just a note related to the SCSI2SD device mentioned in the article ...

I recently bought four of these for use with various SGI and ran into a minor difficulty and the maker of these devices went well beyond the call of duty to assist me and provide suggestions, etc.

On a Saturday.
The appropriate people in the Google Geo organization are aware of this and are investigating / taking action.
There's a site I use that checks for membership only on the client side and I use requestly to spoof premium status. Just had to write a simple script like this to modify the response body of the request that gets membership status:

function modifyResponse(args) {
const {method, url, response, responseType, requestHeaders, requestData} = args;
const responseDataParsed = JSON.parse(response);
responseDataParsed.result.user.vip_end = "2030-06-11T14:16:20.000Z";
responseDataParsed.result.user.expire_in = "3573 days, 3 hours";
responseDataParsed.result.user.is_premium = true;
return JSON.stringify(responseDataParsed);
}

Very nice software.
So much for decentralisatiom?
But the US is supporting Saudi Arabia in Yemen right now. It's just as much of an ongoing situation so there isn't even that excuse of "that was before and now is now".
Does this violate the original DOOM license, which prohibits selling modifications?
I think kids need to be kids but there should be accelerated classes at least a portion of the day to satisfy them intellectually (math, science, literature). They are (most likely) still mentally the same age and enjoy most of the same playtime activities as other kids. It's not likely that an 8year old is gonna have a good time hanging with a clique of 12 year olds and vice versa.
"just got their first major city". after not even a week

also, did you notice that they rarely kill civilians? i am by no means trying to defend them, but I have the feeling (!) that this is on purpose. and this might slow down operations. for instance today, they agreed for ceasefire and a refugee corridor. that will again take days probably. We should not forget that Ukraine is the birthplace of Russian culture. Ukraine is essential to the identity of Russia. They won't just carpet bomb it and call it a day. If anything of the stuff that Putin and his professors have written is what they truly believe, then we can assume that Russia doesn't want to annihilate the Ukrainians.

lastly, ukraine is HUGE. its bigger than France. And tanks roll slowly. Still, Russia will very soon circle Kiew and then its a siege until Ukraine gives up. No matter how many weapons they get. No stuff will get in and out. Civilians will hopefully have left already so women and kids don't have to starve.

all of this is my own opinion and I might be totally wrong.
Seems like a bad idea to put army buildings and hospitals in the same category
This is basically an argument against education in general.

No one learns anything useful. "Education" is just a set of credentials that prove your IQ test wasn't a fluke.

To me, that is just an absurd view of reality.
>Why not ban nuclear weapons all together?

Because you will become the slave of some country that does not ban those?

I mean, it does not require a tremendous amount of imagination after you can see it for yourself in Ukraine.

>I know it may look naive at first.
>If some country would try to develop one, we should know immediately.

I don't know what "we" means, the US of America? Certainly small countries have not such bast resources and intelligence as the US to control the rest of the world. But even the US is not omniscient, and if it were and could know everything it is not omnipotent to tell the other countries what to do.
The government is not deciding what can and cannot be published, as far as I'm aware.
Whataboutism. The answer to one problem isn't to say "but what about this other problem." The problem we're discussing here is the endless fear porn on the news and social media.
Runtime checks are what really differentiates PHP's approach from other languages. It gives the type signatures teeth (ensuring they don't lie) and keeps dynamic typing under control (types enforced at function boundaries), which is really important in a language where many operators and functions will return one type most of the time and a different type the rest of the time. It also means type information can be relied upon by the compiler to produce more optimal code. In this respect it has a particular edge over TypeScript, which throws away all the types when producing JavaScript and thus the JS engine has to try to reconstruct them if it wants to do optimisations.
We think developer experience is the factor that has been sorely lacking from the ML tooling space. I’m curious how your experience using Sagemaker has been?
I don't know what it is about the original DOOM games, but I just haven't felt the same joy playing any more modern shooters. Maybe it's the experience created by Doomguy's ridiculous running speed, or the sheer number of stupid monsters, or just nostalgia.
It's also worth pointing out that Russia's currency reserve lock is due to war. Only Iran and North Korea are in the same box for qualitatively the same reasons. China isn't Russia reckless. And as others have pointed out in comments the exempted economies are relatively small. This argument gives emphasis then to the why so that, hopefully, China would not separate, for example because it would never be in the Russia box.
Remember this is the same Google, that wanted to launch a censored search engine in China. A country whose Internet censorship is Russia to the googol....And only stopped at the urge of it's own employees...
Blamscamp: Create a Bandcamp-style audio player for selling albums on itch.io
Company has given out headsets to everyone, but people are impossible to please so most people (myself included) aren't using the official ones for variety of reasons. Plus a lot of it is about the MS Teams which has no software support for noise isolation or cancelling. I can see it clearly when I'm using Discord; if I don't talk, I don't broadcast. In Teams if I am quiet Teams will keep cranking up the volume until some sound AC hum, typing, whatever gets picked up and I am constantly broadcasting.
If you want them to socialize, then yeah they should be with their peers.
Yes.

Automated support doesn’t come close to the breadth and depth of support you can get just by talking to people. If a support document or link doesn’t exist for your concern, and you can’t talk to a person, then you are just SOL and subject to an algorithmic black box you can never understand nor reason with.
Recent and related:

Please, delete all new places since the start of war 23th of February - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30516996 - March 2022 (325 comments)
Personally, that's why I liked AP courses in high school. After my AP Chem class, most of my college courses were straight forward, because my AP Chem class established and pushed good study and work habits because you needed those to do well and my teacher designed our course to help build them. Maybe in this case acceleration should mean challenging and building up students without overwhelming them?
Pretty sure this is also not good news for the leasing companies and the airplane manufacturers (aside from many of them making it up on increased defense spending).

The European country most exposed to this risk is certainly Ireland. According to the Irish Times newspaper, the leasing company Aercap owns 149 aircraft operated in Russia and SMBC Aviation Capital has 34 jets leased to Russian operators. [0]

AerCap is the world's largest aircraft leasing company after acquiring International Lease Finance Corporation in 2014. As of June 2020, AerCap had 1,035 owned, managed aircraft in its portfolio. [1]

That's 14% of their business that got nuked.

0. https://airlinegeeks.com/2022/03/02/lessors-look-to-repatria...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AerCap
Unix environment variables (and the environment) are a fuzzy thing