skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data science is an oversold profession. When studying it, you learn really cool things; Bayesian models, reinforcement learning, AI, all the trendy stuff. In reality, most of the data scientists end up spending almost all of their time interacting with horribly designed, decade(s) old databases and the analysis part of their job is mostly just plotting the mean as a function of time and doing logistic regression over and over again.
But, they are both scams.
> Can't we give the law a chance?

No because law makers have at every turn attempted to undermine encryption. What makes you think they'll suddenly fine and/or dismantle the assets of the NSA/GCHQ? These are the agencies that have been central to both countries' security in times of war. Times of war that seemingly has never ended.
All you need to look at is Finland. We seemingly had the best non-bound relationship as a borner nation with Russia a few weeks ago. We never relaxed our defense because we knew that the USSR is run by leaders who after years of climbing political ranks come out as revisionist as they can be.

Nowhere is it more evident than in the revisionism surrounding the cause of the war between USSR and Finland.

If USSR/Russia can be this hostile towards a small nation on its border that has zero ambitions for global domination then does anyone really stand a chance?

Pretty much the only reason Finland has not been on Russia’s list of enemies to subjugate is that there has been the credible threat of joining Nato since the 90s. Now Putin has shown he is even more out there than we even wanted to believe and ranted about correcting Lenin’s mistakes (one of them being granting the Grand Duchy of Finland independence in 1917 in the hopes that we go through a communist revolution and voluntarily join the USSR).
>plus the actions of a country’s leaders do not represent the entire will of the people

and what is the will of the Russian people?
I use an RG351V for this purpose, but lot of retro console are already able to play pico-8, either natively with the official binaries (like on the whole RG351 line) or with Fake-08 for Miyoo consoles and hacked 3DS/Switch/Vita.
I don't know about the job market in Russia, so my perspective may not dircetly apply to your situation.

In my experience, smaller companies might be more for you. The job positions are often more versatile and varied. I imagine you are more likely to find a job there where you can combine SWE with your DS knowledge and still like it. In such companys your tasks typically require you to solve real business problems all the way through, for example: "We have some sales data. Can you write us a tool that helps us decide where to focus our marketing efforts?"

But firstly, as others have pointed out, since you already invested a lot of time into DS, finish your degree as fast as possible, and then take the opportunity to build a portfolio (even if it is pure DS) and a professional network to help you find a better job. I do not think that it should be too difficult to transition into SWE with a DS degree; and after a few years of professional activity, no one is interested in what you have originally studied anyway.
It looks like a ripoff of the reMarkable 2 eInk pad. https://remarkable.com/ I’m surprised Apple or Microsoft hasn’t made an eInk display. Btw what happened to Amazon’s Kindle DX? That was literally the pioneer in the large eInk display space but it disappeared. I miss Kindle DX https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-DX-Wireless-Reader-3G-Global/
Yeah, don't google "rabbit papillomavirus"
Essentially trust. If your bank does not have relations with a foreign bank in a faraway country, both can use an intermediary bank that both trust and do have relations with.
What electronics can you buy that aren’t basically Chinese devices at this point? Raspberry pi has assembly in Wales but parts are sourced normally, from China. I understand the feeling but, just like it’s hard to participate in the modern economy and oppose climate change, it’s hard to boycott China.

Really, I’m honestly looking for alternatives, not saying you’re wrong. How do we get out from this situation?
You're drastically misinterpreting the Budapest Memorandum. All the signatories agree to assurances regarding Ukrainian territorial integrity, that's all. Nobody guarantees Ukrainian territorial integrity under threat of arms ( what you're claiming), just a bunch of countries saying "Sure, i won't violate your independence and occupy your lands". There's nothing there about consequences for reneging on that promise.
You have to define who is in the team and who is not. Maybe Stakeholders are not. But inside the (cross-functional) team I would advise against "submarines" (german name for a secret project).
If the team can't handle this, the problem is somewhere else.
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You prefer China (presumably here we mean the CCP) to any American corporation, because some American companies have done the moral wrong of sometimes folding to the CCP? Seems a bit inside out.
I don't trust Google but I would trust them more than this website. Who knows what they are going to install on the phone before shipping it.
There is a very good point about the difficult-to-impossibility of securing email.

BUT:

> Ordinary people don’t exchange email messages that any powerful adversary would bother to read,

This just one hundred percent incorrect and it completely misstates the problem.

The problem is not that Alice and Bob are the focus of intensely focused surveillance, in the sense that they are up against a powerful adversary themselves.

The problem is that Alice and Bob live in a society where those who can and want to make such decisions, are implementing drag-net surveillance at every possible corner of society that they can get away with.

There is a powerful adversary and it would very much like to to read any and all of our communication.

In almost all cases this is consequence-free for Alice and Bob - but this is not Freedom.

My communication is mine it's not there for google so scan for ways to sell me useless shit, and it's not there for Big Brother for training their precog-ML models on it.

The threat model is not "The CIA wants to rubberhose me into revealing information" it's "The NSA routinely opens all of my letters, just to make sure I am not a terrorist/commie/vagrant/etc".
> This pushed Russia against the wall and Putin started hitting back using everything he got culminating in the current Ukrainian invasion.

I always wonder how people with unfettered access to information are able to reach the most wildly inaccurate conclusions. Seriously: this is the way you see it?

Did you miss: Chechnya, Belarus, Georgia, 2014?

Even the Russian propaganda disagrees with your viewpoint, they are pretty clear that they want to unite the 'Big Russians' with the 'Little Russians (read 'vassals', to be ordered around and sacrificed to serve the masters)'.
I saw it as the beginning of the level of arrogance we see from Apple today.
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Your name must be more common than my name... i have first.last@gmail.com since the invite-only gmail beta. Not a single misdirected email to me.
Check this out, it adds really useful enhancements to <details> https://github.com/zachleat/details-utils
> it has 4

A freaking eInk tablet with microphones what the hell lol

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Counter-intuitive but…

You stop consuming it. You actually do not need to be informed on every topic at every moment. There are people who do this professionally - it’s a full time job and even they get misinformed.

You cannot voraciously consume this stuff while also being immune to propaganda. You’re actually more vulnerable to it the more you consume. Ignorance in this case can actually work in your favor.
I've been rocking a Nokia 7.2 for a few years. I bought it purely because it runs stock Android without bloatware (unlike my previous phone, aSamsung S8).

It's been pretty solid with good battery life and regular updates/upgrades, however it's not without trade offs:

* One update broke GPS. There was a workaround made available.

* The latest update broke the front-facing camera with no workaround, no ETA on a fix. Video calls now require standing in front of a mirror.

At least I have the option of downgrading if the camera issue becomes more than a minor annoyance or isn't fixed soon.

Overall, I'd recommend Nokia as an affordable Android device without all the bloatware of the major players.
I think it will help you get roles, I don't think it actually helps in doing the job, and in my personal experience has a negative correlation with being a good software engineer (not necessarily on skill, more on delivering what's actually needed).
There was no official Russian "social media" propaganda videos of the invasion until yesterday. The whole invasion was a limited operation, you know.

It was very obvoius. They released a video of helicopter hits, high res artsy photos of destroyed armor, some dude flying a drone over a disabled UA tank zooming out to the Russian tank column and the Snake Island POWs calling home.
> know that Russian people have nothing to do with high-level political decisions

True, but Putin can only be stopped internally. The whole point of sanctions is to make it so that Russian people do have something to do with "political" decisions.

I've seen Russians on HN saying this war has nothing to do with them. That's exactly the point of the sanctions: to change their minds.

Because however little it has to do with Russians, it has even less to do with Ukrainians and the stakes for them are much higher.
Aha! right, so the innovation here is the salt control in the heating area

Thank you, this makes it much more understandable. I was clearly missing the understanding of prior systems.
It’s sad that the best minds of this generation are working to harvest personal data and peddle ads. Whole lot of problems that are more worthwhile and also yield big bucks. But they’re harder, and taking the easy money tends to win out.
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Read multiple sources, especially if it comes down to you making a decision on something like voting and then you should read voting history and where a candidate stands on certain policies you care about.

If you are just trying to keep yourself informed, I like NPR or BBC news websites to scan headlines. Lately I feel like the goal of being updated on "current events" is a waste of time but I keep getting pulled in.

Now when reading anything in financial news, it is basically opinion unless there are numbers there. Things like sentiment about investors and headlines like "stocks tumbled today because of XYZ..." People don't know the intent of any action on the stock market because you don't know who is doing what, unless it comes out of SEC financial disclosures. There are a lot of quarterly and annual cycles that happen with large amounts of activity because of index fund re-balancing, options expiring, etc. [0] and it feels like financial news tries to dumb everything down for some reason.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/triplewitchinghour.asp
Time for russia to stop playing by the wests rules. This is a watershed moment for crypto and will be pointed to as a historical example of when the US started to lose influence over the world stage.

what russia is doing is terrible and should be stopped. But this incident is going to show that the US and the EU can no longer control the worlds trade. technology has evolved past these financial systems mared by corruption, false data and glacially slow payment transfers. Who needs swift, clearing houses and forex exchanges when you have Terra?

Side tangent, the first nationstate to adopt crypto will have the biggest benefits.
It's the same kind of pilpul you get from "fact checker" sites.
I’m American, but lived in Kyiv for years and was lucky to get out just before the war started.

I was hesitant at first about donating to this fund as well, but the reality is that this is an existential struggle for the Ukrainians. I’m not willing to join their international brigade and pull triggers myself, but I’m down for anything short of that to help kill and demoralize as many of their enemy (which is my enemy also) as possible in the shortest amount of time.

For as long as I’ve been alive there has been either no moral justification for wars America fought or at best a dubious justification. So the idea that one should be anti-war and pro-peace is deeply ingrained. But when an aggressor invades with the express goal of eliminating your sovereign nation and subjugating your people, ferocious violence against the enemy is a moral course of action, as is funding such violence. At least in my personal moral code.

In addition my company is doing all we can to support our team in Ukraine. I hope the combination is enough to help preserve a free Ukraine. If it’s not I don’t want to spend the rest of my life asking myself if I could have done more…
> It doesn’t matter whether or not these emails are safe, which is why they’re encrypted so shoddily.

Right now my bank, pension fund, utility supplier etc regularly e-mail me to inform me that a new statement is available. But they don't attach the statement to the e-mail... because "it isn't secure"

So there is real-world demand for a properly secured e-mail system. If we could jump in a time machine, go back 50 years and add end-to-end encryption to e-mail, I'd be getting my bank statements by e-mail.

(The chance of my bank deciding to deploy PGP is approximately one in a billion - which is why we'd need a time machine)
I don't need to know stuff that's happening just this minute. Mostly acting on yesterday's data is just fine and usually that's more reliable than the firehose of current events.

And if you start fighting against the tide of incorrect information, remember the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle[0]: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it."

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
Scores of IT workers in Russia sign public anti-war petition
They're not remotely the same product though. The person buying this /does not want/ those features, so those are actually downsides. They actively don't want emulation machines, because those machines never ship with any games they haven't played before (or could play other ways).

Also I held one in my hand early on in the pandemic (they did a small show where I was) and the thing /feels/ worth the asking price. It's really solid, and the SHARP "memory LCD" tech they're using is one of the clearest monochrome screens I've seen. OLED is more capable, but this is easier on the eyes and battery.

However, with price increase+shipping+tax, I can't afford one. I hope they become popular enough to either drop in price or do a mk2.

I would like GPIO though that'd be nice.
Wait, hardware keyboard!? Pray tell the model number of this marvel.
it's an interesting talking point but that's about it in most cases. If you can find a role where some domain knowledge is related to your PhD subject, or they need the skills a PhD requires (i.e: academic writing) then it'll be very valuable, but a PhD in most places wouldn't actually add much value in the day to day: most SWE work is nonacademic.

Thinking to my own experience, PhDs are pretty uncommon but of those I've worked with, some are brilliant, and some are terrible -- just like non-PhDs. I wouldn't consider a candidate with a PhD better than a non-PhD candidate, but then some people would love to hire someone with a PhD. I'd say on balance, it's a positive to have, but I would never recommend someone pursue a PhD as a route into a SWE role. A year of hobbyist programming experience is enough to get a SWE job.
I'm convinced that just like we'd stretch and warm up before exercise, we need to warm up our skepticism before consuming information.

You can start by reminding your self that what you're about to read was shown to you so someone else can get more money and power.
1) as others have said, get your degree.

2) look at data engineering

Either on specific jobs or systems (map/reduce, streaming, databases etc).

Three, you have been given a gift. You know what you don't want and some things about what you do. Nothing you did was a waste. Focus less on the specific goals and be in the moment. It is great that you have industry experience, even before graduation. That is where you will do/did a whole bunch of learning. Also, don't let this specific job color your whole view of DS.

Peace
Well you've obviously completely missed the point of JSX then. The "whole markup language" that they invented is literally a line for line transform. Optimisation aside, there's no reason why line 58 of a file with JSX in it won't be line 58 of the transpiled JS file, and read exactly the same. All JSX is is a custom function call syntax.

It's about as pure as you can get while having any sort of html-ish 'templating' whatsoever.

So, I'd say it's exactly in the right place to be making purity criticisms. They've taken the only approach that preserves the integrity of the code and doesn't involve build time magic.
The fact that it makes you feel sick is a good thing: it means that you haven't lost your humanity. And this is the really dangerous thing right now: the fact that many people are starting to see 'Russians' and not 'Russia/Putin' as the problem. Obviously Russians have some agency, but not to the degree that many think they do. They could do a lot more, but for people who have not lived under the jackboot of a dictator for the whole of their lives this may seem a bit simpler and less dangerous than it really is.

Even so: the only real change can come from within Russia.
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Your friend may have the technical part down, but the design needs a lot of work. A gaming machine should be fun.
It would be a start, and a decent one, for TLS to be required for all my email transmission. It seems like the providers can do the same thing that Chrome did, and put scary security warnings for emails that can't meet encrypted in transmission.

Encryption at rest is another problem, one that I'm not even sure most users want.
How do you get a software engineering job as a physicist? I'm one and I tried applying for a few (mostly with titles like "machine learning engineer", etc.) and mostly received no responses. For comparison, when applying for "data scienist" or "quantitative analyst" (in finance) jobs, I got many offers. Around here, the SWE people seem to assume that physicist can't write good code.
> with Crimea specifically called out, ironically, the United Kingdom and the United States have to immediately declare war on Russia and open hostilities.

It says no such thing (as the Wikipedia article you linked points out). The most it says is that they shall seek "immediate United Nations Security Council action" if "Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used."

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Securi...
My favorite thing to do with the kids while reading the book was to have them find the mouse on each page. Each time I read the book I discovered something else interesting--even after dozens of readings. I do wonder how many of those elements were devised by the author versus the illustrator. Bravo to both of them.
Firefox Developer also has a performance tab, can't remember if the normal FF build has.
... and probably £499 in UK which translates to $670.
Does it worth it?
It seems like some people really wanted a war with China, and are very upset that they got a war with Russia instead.
It's no bigee, don't take it too serious, your still figuring out what you want to do, that's normal. Be pleased you have learnt something, better now than in 10 years! And what you have learnt isn't going to be completely wasted, I'm sure it will help you as a SWE.
I Ignore anybody who tells me that a free press is the enemy. I also ignore news that comes packaged with a comment section (HN is the exception).
You dont need Javascript to add margin on a website, yet this website cuts off the text on mobile.
Agree, This is some Orwell Hate Week stuff.
Agree with other posters : finish your studies. Get the badge for your CV.

Have you considered ML Engineering? This involves integrating models into applications so that might satisfy your urge to create rather than analyze & model?
You can still buy Yandex Cloud credits, at least while your foreign credit cards still work there.
A more accurate question would be "what are the wills of the Russian people?".
I don’t understand; China is not taking part in the “events happening right now” (assuming you mean invasion of Ukraine); the global boycott focuses on Russia (and to a lesser extent on Belarus).
The more I feel I "have" to do something, the less I want to.
Ah, the letters CGI bring back fun memories. But no, this has very little to do with CGI.
I think its too late for that. Think Ukraine will push for Putin to have consequences, but I don't think they have enough leverage for that just yet.

The situation is incredibly complicated, but I see a few scenarios:

- Russia succeeds in their siege and installs puppet government, however with a lot of casualties. The west and NATO probably convey their disappointment, continue with sanctions and the diplomatic divide. Ukraine will be split. At least with LDR / DNR with Russian interpretation.

- Ukraine succeeds in holding off the pressure, NATO involves themselves more directly (already partially happening). Russia will unleash their anger - this is the worst case which comes with a lot of unpredictability in terms of destruction and casualties.

- Ukraine / Russia come to an agreement of neutrality. This is becoming highly unlikely as Ukraine will seek revenge for what has been happening till now, Russia will have to remove some of the officials and install theirs - this will never happen under current rule. So the above two scenarios are more likely :(

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I've held one in my hand and damn that screen is clear as hell (but reflective) I think it sits somewhere between IPS and OLED for me, and being reflective it's easier to look at.
Not strange if you can read a map, Moscow is directly north of Donetsk. It makes perfect sense that they would share a time zone.
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Most of the points are from local governments and people's opinions, nothing to do with the colors currently in charge. And don't forget that plenty of those people still voted CDU and SPD this time.
Meet people in person that are actually working on these issues. I met Jeffery Lewis and Scott LaFoy in DC and talked with both of them about arms control and got their read on Russia and who in the west is nuanced and trustworthy. I also pull information from multiple sources. Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC, NYT, etc and I mentally keep track which voices are later proven wrong and more importantly, I keep track of which voices issue corrections. The least trustworthy journalism has no corrections, which would be preposterous. Everyone makes mistakes.
You've already done that, and keep doing that by using services which rely on oil, electronics, food, etc.
> Anyone claiming the need for such a "demonstration" is clearly irrational

Some would say that interfering in a territorial conflict between a nuclear power and its neighbor is an irrational act by itself.
This hasn't been implied anywhere, please read again.
Essentially they are taking a neutral stance:

> It is crucial that the RIPE NCC remains neutral and does not take positions with regard to domestic political disputes, international conflicts or war.

> Failure to adhere to this approach would jeopardise the very model that has been key to the development of the Internet in our service region.
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