skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing the number of people who can't think just a little bit ahead and realize one of the major reasons for boarding passes and seat assignments is the possibility of a plane crash. Because there's two possibilities...

One, where the FAA investigators have a list of people's names and what seats they were assigned, the seats have numbers engraved on them, and if lap belts were in effect generally still contain at least a torso. Meaning getting everyone's various bits and pieces back to their loved ones is a gruesome jigsaw puzzle, but a solvable one.

The other possibility is that the FAA investigators get a list of names of people who were /probably/ on the plane, a large field strewn with "loose meat and offal", and absolutely no good starting point. Also, a gigantic lawsuit and a moon-sized chunk of bad press as loved ones get the wrong body parts, or too many body parts, or too few body parts.

(BTW, never explain this to anyone who is currently on a plane.)
> The solution is obviously to punish those causing the harm directly, no?

You mean direct war against Russia? That would certainly also cause collateral damage on innocents.
Not necessarily true. I know people who are like this when they are out because they just like attention and they are willing to pay for it.
Oil, and by proxy money, protect them from anything people might want to do to them. People want their money, want their oil, so they turn a blind eye.
Another big issue is Checkmark Driven Development.

I signed up to work on a microservice where we were supposed to be a small startup within a big company. We supposedly can make decisions which are good for our customers and work on interesting challenges.

Except security and compliance is top priority, and it doesn't matter how those security and compliance requirements fit our service. We need to get a checkmark. Everyone from security and compliance team is unable to have a technical discussion but they continue make technical decisions for us.

And in order to stay relevant, they change their checkmark requirements every few months. So we spend all our time, trying to keep our service compliant and don't really get anytime to work on real issues.

I get the feeling my job's main function is to keep these security and compliance people happy. They have no skin in our service, my manager doesn't want to bring up issues with her higher up.

All this leave me feeling extremely unsatisfied and burned out at the end of the day.
> That's a strawman.

Its a strawman that you are introducing by saying:

> I suspect what you mean by this is "outlets claiming to report 'news' but actually spreading misinformation".

> That's quite different from "disagreement".

I am pointing out that there is not a large difference between what you say is misinformation and disagreement. Many news outlets get things wrong and are guilty of allowing political bias to steer them towards saying things that are not true. You can't just call something misinformation because you disagree with it.

Nearly every news outlet in this country has gotten things wrong at some point and a tenuous definition of misinformation could be used to make them all look bad.

Citing something as "misinformation" is often a strawman argument and a word used to dismiss viewpoints people do not agree with on any issue that has some ambiguity, including the lab leak theory.
The inactivity is due to index creators having stopped updating one year ago, so what you saw were old blogs — while missing the new one from the last year.

There’s a new index that should be part of the default entry pages in the next release: USK@5ijbfKSJ4kPZTRDzq363CHteEUiSZjrO-E36vbHvnIU,ZEZqPXeuYiyokY2r0wkhJr5cy7KBH9omkuWDqSC6PLs,AQACAAE/clean-spider/37/

I wish that next release were already released, but the changes in Java 16 and 17 have thrown rocks into the path of getting Freenet 1493 released. Spending the weekends fighting with a Windows VM to get a tray app working you’ll never run yourself is pretty annoying … but necessary to make this easy for regular users.
If they were seizing real estate holding you'd see a massive drop in the prices for luxury London condos https://www.npr.org/2022/02/26/1083276850/us-sanctions-on-ru...
Netflix in 4K is up to 25 Mbps, which would put a 5 minute buffer at about 1 GB.

That's perfectly reasonable on any desktop/laptop, and likely fine on any decent phone or tablet.

Still doesn't solve the instant seeking problem, of course.
This times 100. Being a middle manager sucks even more, because you have no real ability to protect people. When the people under you are happy and doing well, you spend no real time with them... because you're constantly being pulled to deal with crises, often of executive cause... whatever problem the unluckiest or worst person on your team faces is your problem, every day.

It also confirmed my negative views of upper management and capitalism. Growing up, I had always felt that the left-wing view of corporate executives as worthless, evil parasites whom society would be better without was an exaggeration, or a negative depiction derived from a mix of envy and the "bad apple" effect. Nope. I've sat in enough meetings and heard how upper-level executives talk about their workers to realize that the "haters" were dead right all along. Half of these people in upper management deserve to be guillotined; the other half are not so severely awful, but are spineless or ineffective at doing anything to oppose the horrible culture.

As a middle manager you have the choice to parrot the upper management crap, or tell it like it is. Neither is great.

Yeah, this conflict of interest is the worst. Do what's right, and you're risking your livelihood, while not really helping the people beneath you. Lie for executives' benefit (i.e., be the face of their bad decisions, so the execs can be loved) and it corrodes your soul, but at least you stay employed.

The funny thing is that corporate capitalism is now indistinguishable from the Soviet system at its worst. We are in Kazakhstan 1987 right now. The only difference is that we pay two orders of magnitude more for these shithead bureaucrats than the most corrupt SSRs ever did.
Thank you for calling whole regions where a lot of people live and read HN from shit.
Hard disagree here, as this job is for enlisted soldiers. Ego and money are out on that alone. Revenge, maybe? But you really don't know where you'll deploy. Ideology... maybe as well? The Army understandably does a pretty good job of obtaining uniformity there.

Virtually all of the motivations of folks I knew could be abstracted to "things are truly bad for these people; how can we fix it?".
Ask HN: Do you use Percona Distribution of PostgreSQL? How's it working for you?
I am curious how the "free" Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL compares to the official community PostgreSQL distribution.

1. How long have you been using the Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL?

2. Do you use it in production? If not - why not?

3. What are the features you find valuable

4. Are there somethings to be aware of
I think parent comment is talking about cosmic radiation and not the one from RTG which most probably is properly shielded.
our ERP software used the name as a primary key for employees

As someone with a common first name and common surname, this drives me bananas.

I still get emails from my graduate university to email: first.last@uni.edu meant for some undergraduate in a sea of 50k students, and have to reply that I've had that email for 20 years and they have the wrong person with a very common name.
People who deal effectively and positively with difficult customers often find the best success in business, and endure best through bad economies.

If you understand human nature, you also understand that sometimes people are just having a bad day, or feeling ignored, or on their last leg.

Ignoring, or being dismissive to, any paying customer is simply bad business. If a company does that as a practice, they're probably in the wrong business.

An employee that thinks ignoring customers is a good practice likely ends up working in customer service at Comcast as the pinnacle of their career.

Those are not just my words, they're words from the bible of doing good business, and a lot of successful CEOs and business people would agree, except for the CEO of comcast perhaps.
Without a comparison to other careers / professions the statistics presented don’t mean much. How burnt out are teachers is my question. They’re paid a lot less.
Thank you, that is awesome to hear :)

Ya, I worked really hard in the early days to get a ton of lists and now I've built out a small PT team that helps me contact authors and shepherd them through the publishing process. We are adding ~400 lists a month, and it takes a TON of time to set it all up, vet it for quality, format, setup all the data, etc.

I've got some really great stuff coming, and I hope to leave beta toward this summer or fall.
Google accounts that haven't been logged into for years are basically dead at this point as far as I can tell. I lost access to a ~10 year old account that I didn't log into for years.

With good (if unfortunate) reason; the vast majority of old accounts are made by normal people as throwaways and likely have weak passwords that appear in existing password dumps. There is no other verifiable information attached to Google accounts with which attackers can be differentiated from the original user aside from any login cookies residing on a device that logged in before, and old accounts likely have access to other accounts as the recovery email address which would let attackers gain additional access to other systems by harvesting old Gmail accounts.

Your phone number may be associated with fraud in some way. Think about the only identifiers you give to these companies; IP (which changed without fixing the problem), name, phone number, email address. It's going to be one or more of those signals.
Do you not consider Stripe a "large institution?" If Stripe allows these payments to process, they are a large institution profiting on fees despite the sanctions.
I search on Yelp when looking for a restaurant to go to. I’m more likely to go to places that show up higher in the search ranking, and the rating seems to be a big component of that.

Other the other hand, I don’t actually read the reviews at all. I do sometimes look at the user-uploaded photos.
Everyone in Russia is going to be hurting from this. Most of them don't really deserve it, but you can't bring an entire economy to its knees without harming everyone.

It'd be kinda weird to single out chess masters to save from the pain, while a grandma on a fixed income is facing shortages and watching her already-meager buying power drop by the day, the low-level staff at various businesses are put on half-time or cut altogether and they'll be skipping meals to make rent, et c.
> if the general population just fights you

Big if.

99% of the people just want to live their lives. But media had a selection bias. You only hear about the 1% who go and pick up a Kalashnikov, and do some patrol duty around a hospital or a bomb shelter. But 99% just want this to be over with. They want to go home, sleep in their bed, eat some warm food, take a shower. They hate the Russians, but love their children, and know that being a hero can very easily translate into their children growing up without a parent (and maybe the other parent in jail).

My Mom had to live as a little kid with har father in jail for 2 years. Because he had been a police officer before the communists took over. Not fun. I can’t even begin to imagine what would’ve happened if he had been an active resistance fighter.
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In the UK, you can fly domestically without showing any ID (unless you check in luggage, where there's a cursory visual check against the ticket name).

No ID is checked at airport security. On airlines that aren't trying to use name change fees as a revenue stream, there's no ID check at the boarding gate either.
Ouch. I can't think of any other plausible explanation. If so, is that a problem that can actually be fixed except by changing your name? They're not going to strike the name from the list (and all its copies) just because it's a nuisance to someone.

It kinda makes one wonder if anyone getting into a bit of terrorism for a hobby wouldn't do well to change their name to that of someone in the US congress first: no way that name would stay on a blacklist for long.
Sure, and Nepo, Grischuk, Svidler etc. don't. Norway Chess treats these two groups the same.
Can we get the link updated to the official statement? https://norwaychess.no/en/2022/03/02/russian-participation/

The article is an opinion piece that's inaccurately framed in that it's not the specific canceling of an individual (and cats), but solidarity with sanctions placed on Russia.
Much of the complexity in the sandbox is in ensuring that the development environment behaves as it it would in production - but also that it loads as fast as possible. So we have to do a bit of stuff behind the scenes involving dynamically linking libraries, provisioning Kubernetes resources, etc. But generally that's about right.

We've haven't open-sourced any of it yet, but there are definitely a few components of our system that we'll open source once we feel they're stable enough.
Framing a rescinded invitation as discrimination is not a stretch at all, it very literally is discrimination. If you replace this definitely not discriminatory action against a Russian with a Black Man would you still support it?
Thank you, this is good, frank advice coming from a place of experience. I really appreciate it.
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. What you say is correct and ethical, in my view. Putin and the Russian government are to blame, not random Russian citizens.
It's probably also what the parents of dead children in Newtown, who were harassed out of town by Alex Jones listeners, would say.

You need to elaborate more if you want to use hyperbole to make a point, otherwise it's just hyperbole. It exists on both sides of an argument.
KNOX is pretty bad if you care about keeping your phone after 1-2 years. Then again the other Chinese brands are adware/malware infested so it's not like there are better options
This was definitely a part of why I left my previous job - after enough time that stuff really started to leak outside of the office too. After a day full of this type of "support" where nothing was enough ever the smallest request at home was a big challenge. I thought it was burnout (and it probably was a bit) and I needed to change careers, but after a few months at a new company things are going much better.
While that is correct, I would definetely prefer using the syntax used in Symfony ArrayCollection[1]:

$collection = new ArrayCollection([4,3,2,1]);
$collection->filter(fn($element) => $element % 2 == 0)
->map(fn($element) => $element+2)
->toArray();

It is pretty much like in JavaScript or C# with Linq, but with less features.

But you can implement this yourself using

- ArrayInterface, Traversable, Countable, etc.
- generators / iterators (yield)

It's not that hard. There is also YaLinqo[2]

[1] https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-collectio...
[2] https://github.com/Athari/YaLinqo
Maybe the US can sanction China over this.
Joe with all due respect your logic is flawed.

Parents who are interested in boosting their children scholastically are not necessarily privelidged.

They could be privelidged. But wouldn't it also make sense for the least privelidged parents to also want to boost their children scholastically?

Do you have to be privelidged to be a "helicopter parent?"
Is it really a formal requirement? I’ve only heard of Cyprus as an example, but this Cyprus is a flawed example, because NATO accession vote has to be unanimous, and Turkey is likely to veto it.

Also if that was the case, then Ukraine’s NATO aspirations were dead as soon as Russia took Crimea, making this entire ordeal completely pointless.
exactly, sometimes I think if somehow I could push our understanding of ourselves forward even a little bit further, I'd die with a smile.
Looks like Norway Chess could not distinguish between the individual's view vs the views of the Russian Government and did an over-reactionary blanket ban on any Russian which is beyond stupid, even though he condemned it.

Does that mean if say, Garry Kasparov was to play against another chess player, he should be banned even though he also condemned the invasion? Quite ridiculous tbh.

Even Russian cats are banned [0], they don't have a view of the Russian governments actions on the invasion either and have nothing to do with it, except 'being from Russia'.

Of course from them, there's no redemption. Anything Russian thrown into the lost and banned.

To Downvoters: You do realise you can be Russian and be against the Russian government and condemn the whole invasion right?

[0] https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499289953443930113
The is position that a person with Russian citizen cannot represent themselves and will always be representing the country is bankrupt.

Invitations are based on personal performance, not allocated based on national identity like the Olympics.

Should us companies fire workers with Russian citizenship or ties?
“ But is a push against racism, for gender equality, LGBT rights really wrong?”

Isn’t it an issue of framing? E.g. it appears that some think that the solution to racism appears to be implementing institutional racism indefinitely until racism is cured.

This is distracting from the real issue of class warfare which is what psyops relies on to divide prior arguing past each other.
What's a good way to handle people like this? I generally put them on my "shit list", and actively minimize interactions, but this doesn't seem ideal. Does anyone have a more positive approach?
Can you not see how this statement must be true at some point?
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What a dumpster fire of ads, how is this on the front page?
All threads on HN become closed to comments after some period of time (10 days?).

There's no way of directly contacting a HN user unless they post contact information in their profile.

In any case, the author of that post hasn't posted any stories or comments since then, so they may have left HN entirely.
Fighting the people directly who are holding the guns will do less “collateral damage” than uniform discrimination of all Russians.

I’m not a fan of violence in general, though. Ideally they’d find another way without killing anyone.
I thought this was pretty common knowledge. I have a couple 'pet' virtual environments that I use that are not particular to what I'm working on, and I just use whichever one I want as necessary. Either by direct calling the python binary in them, or (more often) just by activating the one I want.
1. Get a job, this will reduce your stress and anxiety. It's hard to think under such circumstances.

2. Jobs aren't great (sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't)

3. Starting a family is far greater a life event than building a software company

4. Working at a job you might hate the job so much that you can can really hone in on your start up.

5. Start ups aren't single person operations as much as the internet/TV/Media might portray as such. The only reason I'm not a millionaire is because I haven't found the right sales person.

6. I have gone thru all these painful experiences, successfully and unsuccessfully painfully learning from them.

7. Cheers
your comment sounds like Ukrainians have a choice here, and that means you don't understand the nature of genocidal conflict. I grew up in USSR where the history of WWII is everywhere. Hitler declared destruction of all Jews and 90% of Slavic. So in December 1941 with Hitler 30km from Moscow your comment would sound the same and would be totally wrong the same way. There wasn't a way to make peace agreement back then and stop the bloodshed. The same way today - there is just no way for Ukrainians to make peace agreement with Putin and stop the bloodshed. It isn't about justice, it is about existence. The only way for Ukrainians to continue to exist is to fight and win that war, and this is what they do.

>Ukrainians will live on, and the less destruction there is now, the better equipped they will be to react appropriately when the time comes, but the time just isn't now.

That was the logic of 2014, and it was right, it worked, it gave them time to unify and to build better army. Now though Putin is intended to finally solve the "Ukrainian question".
I meant mostly that MS managed to revive its brand on this front. It was a secondary name after Apple / Google became flagships. I consider that a very harduous task. A lot of company could have shriveled and die a slow death.
If you have access to all other country's news sources, and they're all contradicting your govt... what are the chances your govt is right and the rest of the world is wrong?
Not just America, in the EU right now:

In Czechia up to 1 year for publicly supporting Russia (two people already detained):
https://www.praguemorning.cz/expressing-support-for-russia-o...

In Slovakia, supporting [Russian] war propaganda 10 to 25 years:
https://spravy.rtvs.sk/2022/02/za-podporu-vojnovej-propagand...

EU banned RT and Sputnik:

"It shall be prohibited for operators to broadcast or to enable, facilitate or otherwise contribute to broadcast, any content by the legal persons, entities or bodies listed in Annex XV, including through transmission or distribution by any means such as cable, satellite, IP-TV, internet service providers, internet video-sharing platforms or applications, whether new or pre-installed"
It's not shelving your dreams, it's training for them. Learn business practices from the company you join, get exposed to new technologies and new sets of problems, learn from the senior and junior devs around you, and meet like-minded people who can help you start your company when you try again.
Yea what is the solution when the west throws sanctions but keeps buying Russian oil and gas? Basically bankrolling this invasion.

Like others have said the solution to this crisis might be “drill baby drill” but that’s unfortunately more toxic or an argument than a country getting bombed to the ground. I guess we can stomach the war but not domestic oil and gas production.
Your boss probably had to seem to love his job. Indeed, that's part of the job, as a middle manager.

What's amazing about corporate is that, when you get together years later and the truth comes out because everyone has moved on, you realize how much everyone really hated their jobs. There are some true-believing useful idiots out there, but I'd guess that 80% of people see corporate for what it is--they're just not allowed to make it known that they do. It's reminiscent of that time people applauded Stalin for 11 minutes because no one wanted to risk being the first one to stop clapping.

As a worker, you're at least allowed to grumble a little bit. As a middle manager, you're a full-time actor. You have to implement the will of some truly awful people and pretend to have no moral objections whatsoever.

Some middle managers truly are pricks and petty tyrants, but my observation is that most of them are just forced to pretend to be that way, becoming the face of horrible decisions so the execs can be loved by the masses. Your boss doesn't want to be a micromanaging cunt--he has to pretend to be one, because he's a rubber glove for executives.
It feels a little obvious in hindsight, but I agree with this. I wish I'd done things differently. I'm not too old to learn the lessons and try again one day, but I think it's time to regroup and do the responsible thing for a while to get things setup financially for my future family.