skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who's saying otherwise? I'm assuming childcare workers moved on or stuck it out since you can't remotely take care of a kid. But teachers can still do their jobs remotely (as painful as it is to wrange a few dozen kids on a screen where the internet is 2 clicks away).

We should keep in mind that teachers are NOT babysitters. They are educators first, moral compasses second, and a distant 10th a pseudo-guardian. if the complaints here are on the latter, that's not what they are paid for.
Depends on where you live and who your teachers are. Texas textbooks promote revisionist history where California textbooks put more effort into inclusion and critical thinking. Most states piggy on the CA or TX version, it depends on who makes the purchasing decisions at the state level but Americans based on location are typically subjected to one or the other.
> And - speaking as an American - of course the American people are morally responsible if their government does something similarly horrible as what Russia is doing in Ukraine. That very obviously also goes for what happened in Vietnam. The US Government and its presidents are the product of the American culture, which the American people are responsible for.

It's not an 'if'. The US did a lot of stuff on par with what Putin is doing now in Ukraine. The people and government of the US never were held responsible. Yes, they went through the motions of getting the UN approval, etc., but that does not make the actions morally justifiable. And this is what Russian propaganda uses to justify its actions.

I don't like pinning Putins actions on ordinary citizens. Putin is a dictator. In 2012 there was a big rally against him, and it was suppressed pretty violently, and since then there were no attempts on the same scale. Look at how Belorussians tried to topple Lukashenko. They made a much stronger attempt, but sill it did not work out. Are they morally responsible for the Belarus participation in this war? Are the people like me who moved out are responsible? When does that moral responsibility start? 2000s or 2010s?

Sure, there is a large chunk of population that supports Putin. They maybe are morally responsible for supporting the war. But I don't think they will actually be swayed by economic sanctions. Their culture won't change. They will be happy to severe ties with 'rotten West' -- they will feel like they are soldiers of the economic war. What will happen, I am afraid, is Russia turning into a second North Korea (or Venezuela).

> If the other empires of Europe changed (Germany, Spain, Britain, France, etc) - their people changed those empire, conquest obsessed cultures - then Russia too can and must change. Russia is the last major power in Europe still clinging to those decrepit, backwards ways. Russia must give up the notion of empire culturally and that means its people must fully abandon all the related ideas that propel and sustain that ideology (which endlessly spawns monsters like Putin (who is just another Russian Tsar type)). Until the people of Russia change their beliefs, the authoritarianism will just keep repeating.

In my rather uneducated opinion, the culture did not go away. The US is an empire. It is built differently, but it effectively is. China is or is becoming one. European culture is dominating the world in many subtile and not so subtile ways. Russia wants to be an empire, but it fails to recognize that empires are being built differently now, and tries to build a 19-th/20-th century one.

Disclaimer: I am from Russia, and live in the US. Have extended family in Russia. Unfortunately, some of them are brainwashed by the propaganda. Some are unable to leave as their whole life is to work in government-funded research (thankfully not military in any way). Fuck Putin and fuck the war. My best wishes to Ukrain and its people -- you will will regardless of how this war turns out.

PS. Apologies for the long rant...
Scientists Support Ukraine
Be careful with AIS data right now, it's easy to spoof and has been spoofed on the black sea very recently.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/hackers-deface-ai...

edit: Website seems down on my side, archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220303180437/https://www.marit...
Kasparov on Putin
My theory is that Russians forced the ship to go to Odessa to check if the passage is mined.

They got their answer and it cost them nothing.
>I enjoy my co-workers' company and our little chats and social interactions provide a lot of value to me personally

You can get all of that in a cowork space while others work remotely.
I mean, let's not pretend that in Facebook's ideal world where they own the market, there _wouldn't_ be somewhere else to go to. Obviously that's not the case today, but I'm concerned that it'll get there eventually just based on how network effects seem to be trending.
Thanks, this explains a lot; Do you think it's reasonable to assume that due to pipeline closures and Russian isolation, gas prices will keep rising? I'm reading up on this selfishly - as i purchased some natural gas stocks like $OVV and $AR as the conflict was unwinding.
Is LNG route open for Russia? Seems like it's their only option at this point. And Pipelines are simply not safe as it should be easy to sabotage them for the enemy combatants.
I also noticed that in EU there are rumblings about legislation that would force Gas companies to be taxed at a higher rate to continue to pave the way for green energy. Not sure what are the prospects of this in the US.
Few providers will tell you why you are blocked even if it is legal to do so, because that effectively constitutes evasion instructions for scammers.
There's an argument to be made both ways.

I've been quite shocked when I moved to Europe and noticed that very strong Anti-Russia stance that's openly spoused here... if I were Russian, I would be genuinely worried about them having facilities to hold nuclear weapons, which is what happens when you join NATO [1]. NATO already borders Russia directly in the Baltic states, nearly touches it with Poland (the historic gateway of Western armies into Russia), and if Ukraine joined NATO, the Russian heartland would become vulnerable not only to nukes but to large-scale ground invasion, as the border with Ukraine is very long and completely devoid of geographical obstacles... so even though I despise Putin for starting this war (I despise anyone who starts a war... war is a remnant of our primitive, violent past where force was accepted as a viable solution to problems), I definitely don't hold the West as being blame-free in this story. Everyone involved knew there was no bigger provocation to Russian than installing nukes on its closer, until very recently friendly, neighbours.

John Pilger has been warning us that NATO/USA expansion even into the Chinese sphere [2] is making the world incredibly more dangerous, not less.

“American bases form a giant noose encircling China with missiles, bombers, warships – all the way from Australia through the Pacific to Asia and beyond,” Pilger says.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/12/6/john-pilger-qa-...
Look at some of my earlier posts around the thread.

For a past example - The Romans typically considered it on the order of 100-150 yrs for an area (once conquerered) to ‘stabilize’, be functional , and ‘roman’ largely due to the same problems and effects.

Going in and crushing a country (or a segment of a population, like has been happening for awhile) causes problems that take time to work out, requires lots of work on everyone’s part (including education, jobs, cultural factors, working up the economic ladder), policing/removing folks in various places that are making it worse, and it is individual by individual and family by family.

For past examples just look at immigrants who were Norwegians, Irish, Germans, Catholics, Chinese, Japanese. Depending on the minority group we’re talking about depends on the specifics of the transition and amalgamation, but the trends are roughly similar.

We seem as a nation to be trying to do a urgent rush job and then getting so impatient that it isn’t fixed NOW! we’re just screwing everyone over. We’re more likely to get enough backlash to slide into racial/nationalist fascism than succeed if we continue on this path, and that’s far worse for everyone.

Especially the last decade plus.

And it’s mostly because we seem to have lost track of actual reality here. Until people mix, they have very different cultural norms, interests, and priorities. Some won’t want to mix.

Even if they want to do a specific job because of pay but it’s outside of a ‘normal job’ culturally, there will be friction - from their own culture, and from whatever other culture/subculture is dominant there.

This happens even if everyone is the same color, and relatively homogenous. Having been an EMT, good luck being a straight male nurse for instance. Good luck being a stay at home dad in Japan.

So what you see is the higher achievers and the ones less held to a standard are forerunners, kids start to accept/understand it’s possible, older generation dies out, younger generation who sees more possibilities comes in, rinse repeat. 4-5 generations later, it’s done.

It works because the folks earned it, there was policing and removal of the bad actors (critical), who are shitty, etc.

If someone starts getting roles without being able to do the job as well, it undermines this progress, as it builds resentment across a wider range of the population, quality decreases which impacts everyone (and removes popular support), and the in and out group fighting leads to social fragmentation into hard groups instead of mixing.

If you want to see what that looks like, check out Lebanon.

It’s like a form of toxic equality going on - everyone MUST have the same interests, aptitudes, outcomes, and support the same things - even if they don’t want it, don’t support it, or aren’t interested in making the trade offs to get it.

It’s dumb.
Can’t remember who originally said this: ‘Computers are great at solving problems. Mostly the problems that they created.’ Kind of like the Simpsons quote about booze.
First time I loaded the page, a giant scroll-locked ad took up more than half the page, and music started blaring. I go back again and no music. Scroll too far and you have a new URL, which if you refresh the page on, now you can't go back to the old article.

I feel like this is all an artifact of web browser design. No stand-alone application would work like this.
I'd go get a job, you can always work on your dev tool in the evenings. I was in a similar situation, trying to build a freelance business because the last place I worked had soured me of working for anyone else again. Eventually after a couple of years I decided it wasn't working out and got a permanent role as a developer. Turns out not all companies are toxic or work you to the bone for a pittance. I work remotely, average a 37.5 hour week and there's flexitime. Also don't consider making a change such as this as giving up or as a failure, along the way you'll have learned some valuable insights one way or another.
I will say it. FANG/MANG is as easy as it gets. These companies hire people so their competitors don't, not that the people hired are expected to generate tons and tons of value. It is easy to put these companies on a pedestal, but the more you look into it the more you learn that these companies are HUGE and that finding a team that only requires you to work 2 hours a day is pretty normal. This at least has been my experience and the experience of many friends as senior+ in FANGMA
Let me just add some emphasis...

> No one has innovated a cost effective way to update office ventilation properly

This isn't an easy problem but we definitely have a plethora of ways to solve office ventilation, it's just that most of them require air ducts which are expensive as all heck to boot strap to existing buildings that lack them - and most of the economic designs for central air involve air recycling (because that's good for the environment) while, during a pandemic, we probably want to focus more on air evacuation. The one area we've realized a highly effective ventilation system that is designed to operate in a closed loop is on airplanes but that system is pretty radically different than what we run in offices because, again, it's not super cost effective.

When it comes to N95 masks I've worn extremely comfortable disposable and effective masks - but they have been pricey like most disposable things - and N95 masks (from what I've seen) simply can't be sterilized properly after use and continue to be N95 masks - you might be able to make pandemic specific masks that are effectively N95 masks by forcefully sterilizing the outer surface with UV occasionally but they'll fail to be conventional N95 masks that block harmful particulates - so a cheap, comfortable, universal solution is out of reach... a cheap comfortable specialized solution is probably accomplishable, but then, after all that innovation, you'd need to handle the real uphill battle - making your mask an acceptable alternative to all the politicians everywhere who are hesitant to embrace new things in the middle of a pandemic.

Regarding the fool-proof vaccination - you know how immortality is that dream we keep futilely pursuing? Human bodies are hard to understand, we're no where near the point of having a needle full of a liquid-x that can regrow limbs and cure cancer - bodies are highly variable and we've come up with some absolutely amazing vaccines. Just because the efficacy isn't 100% doesn't mean you can sit there saying "Welp, that was a total failure".

In all of these areas we're currently making advances - but new ground breaking once a century discoveries don't happen every year.
Do you think bandcamp leadership will live forever if it remains a “lifestyle business”?
The fantasy premise, with "probably" along with the "..." at the end, strongly suggests sarcasm with an obvious negative tone and negative being implied about Russia generally.

It's exceptionally clear they were not spreading misinformation, they did not structure the comment as a factual statement.
It seems also a bit like the author is heavily relying on popular media to tell him what/where innovation is happening. Popular media - even science coverage - trends towards fast and immediate - so internet speed startups get the most attention.

Real science R&D innovation is relatively slow and full of failures and false starts. Peter Thiel made a big stink about where are flying cars but then proceeded to invest in a bunch of normal incremental improvement type startups (DTC, finch etc.). Even where Founders Fund did invest in true science - there's not much to talk about since real R&D is a slog.

If the author took the time to do actual research into innovation and took a long view - there's a lot more happening.
GLOBathy, the global lakes bathymetry dataset
Looks like the cancellation is now officially Official:

https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/33411099/formula-one-term...
Russia Blocks Its Last Independent Television Channel
Their offers are a bit expensive but the live tracking is great:

https://www.fleetmon.com/services/live-tracking/fleetmon-exp...
> For instance, Ukrainian military claimed that tank that drove over civilian car in Kyiv was Russian, but it was Ukrainian.

IIRC, they claimed that it was an Ukrainian Strela-10 that was captured by an illegal combatant. Regardless, I just wanted to point at that piece of information without claiming that it was true.
During the BLM protests, there were hundreds of assaults and detentions of members of the press, along with an enhanced surveillance apparatus. That these actions didn't go through the strictest official channels doesn't mean that they didn't happen.

Trump's commentary on the violence against the press: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/media/trump-velshi-msnbc-shot...
>IRS and USPS have plans to resume services after a nuclear war

Not only that, the IRS has plans to resume operations no more than 12 hours after such a war:

>The IRS must have the capability to be fully operational at its continuity facilities as soon as possible after the occurrence of an emergency, but not later than 12 hours after continuity operations activation.

https://www.irs.gov/irm/part10/irm_10-006-001
> Look how India and China instinctively stay out of this.

Because money, not cooler heads.
Are you contending that because the device is not part of their body —- or forces a non-functioning part of their body to work —- that they then are not _really_ speaking by having their throat movements synthetically vocalised?

Does this mean someone with a prosthetic hand isn’t _really_ holding something when they use that hand to hold a cup of water? Afterall, the prosthesis isn’t part of their body in the same way this device is, no?

This thing, while basic now, allows mutes to synthesise their speech by analysing the movements in their throat. Movements that happen when a non-mute is speaking. Thats very different than say text-to-speech where I’d be more inclined to agree.
Is there some universe where he gets it all back if he pulls out now?

Seems like he's in a "only way out is through" situation.
The data sets are the phonebooks from the 1990s - see https://www.kartezumnamen.eu/info.php
Yeah even Wall-E’s trash piles get decent from far away.
That's the exact opposite conclusion. All of the innovations happened for the profitable things. The conclusion is that we need to make solving problems, that we want to be solved, profitable.
So this is what, the 4th ship in a week?

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1497495556683411457

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1497247647597486088
So true. Innovations used to be highly visible in our streets, cities, and skies. Now the innovations are in our homes and pockets.
I found this article very enlightening : https://www.csis.org/features/kremlin-playbook-3

From the center of strategic and international studies. It describes how the same ideology (white male christian) worldview is connected to Putin and Trump, and how the West is viewed as decadent through the moral lens of the fundamentalist churches in both the US and the Russian orthodox church.
TLDR: The era of Chinese aviation has begun.
I'm curious about what makes you trust the process so much. Is it a perfect track record ? or is it a particularly transparent or innovative process ?
I mostly agree, but I do dispute one thing. While technologically there’s no difference between the Russian government disabling their Internet routing and ICANN doing it, politically it’s wildly different.
Right? I really appreciate OPs work ethic, but he/she should not project their inability to manage their time or their team onto others.
>You get around that with long buffers. Like...several minutes long, rather than several seconds.

That sounds horrible - now you've got to have something buffering [potentially] 100s of MBs (depending on quality) over lousy residential upload speeds?
Covid-19 Has Left Millions of Students Behind. Now What?
>In particular, why aren’t these problems solved?

I think the poster already addressed this.

>> The author makes innovation out to be something akin to "if we focus on this, then it will change", but that's not how this typically works.

This is correct. It's not like money and focus don't help, but you can't construct innovation where you want it, when you want it.

Particularly the idea that we haven't been "innovating hard enough" on vaccines is just silly. It was a innovation that let us have anything at all on the timelines we experienced.
The tank was maneuvering at high speed because it was engaged in a firefight and briefly lost control. Nobody was seriously injured.
Breach of NATO article 5 would be if a NATO country or countries refused to assist after NATO members agreed that a collective response should be invoked after an armed attack on a NATO member.
The other part is that CDNs result in less total network utilization. They limit most bulky traffic to the last miles.
It's fairly disingenuous to put those problems as examples.

> No one has innovated a cost effective way to update office ventilation properly,

I can find HEPA air filters in Amazon for less than $100.

> no one has made highly comfortable yet very inexpensive N95 masks,

The N95 masks I use are fairly comfortable. However, a N95 mask must be well fitted to provide protection, which means it has to be tight, which means it won't be highly comfortable. This is a physical limitation of the problem, no amount of innovation can avoid the fact that you need a tight seal.

> no one has invented a fool-proof vaccination that completely prevents infection

The mRNA vaccines are a great example of a pretty cool innovation. It doesn't completely prevent infection, yeah, but no vaccine does that. Having a vaccine in a year and a half, widely available, when the initial estimates were of two years if we were lucky...
Furthermore, gas is considered "Green" by EU and would have provided a steady source of income to Russia [1-2].

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/european-commission-declares-nuclear-a...

[2] https://time.com/6139049/europe-natural-gas-green-energy
They're bringing the amazon go tech to Whole Foods. Just started rolling out this week, I've got a feeling the timing here is not coincidental.
> Permissions in GCP seem like a mess, I’m trying to use python to get credentials and there is a whole python library for authentication and getting credentials (google-auth).

I feel you, but I gotta agree with the other commenters that it's really just about time and experience. Anyone long-experienced on one public cloud will really struggle switching clouds. Your experience is low but your expectations are high. You're not just poking into a dashboard trying to spin up a single VM, you want to do all the stuff you're used to doing on AWS.

While IAM does feel easy once you know it, as someone who's run hackathons and bootcamps I can say it's not easy for everyone to just pick up. It's as complicated as it needs to be, but yeah it can be a steep learning curve.
The Cuban Missile Crisis is over 50 years old and the world was in a much different state then. The US and the Soviets were fighting proxy wars with a good chance that a direct confrontation could erupt at any moment. The Soviets were placing nuclear equipped ICBMs within close proximity of the US which would have been a dramatic change in the balance of power had a conflict occurred. The Soviets no longer exist and the US/NATO was not, prior to Russia assaulting Ukraine, remotely close to a direct confrontation with Russia.

Putin can win by keeping Ukraine in a state where it is not stable enough to supply resources to the west. Oil extraction requires a certain level of political and physical security and if he can fight a drawn out war by sending his undesirable young men to die in a Ukrainian meat grinder for the next decade he may, depending on the lack of will and perseverance of the rest of the world, "win".

> it would require occupying the whole country.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/03/ukraine-war-re...

"Moscow aims to take ‘full control’ of Ukraine capital by diplomatic or military means, according to Elysée"

> NATO is a defensive alliance (which it isn't)

Going to need some evidence before I can believe that claim. Can you point to offensive action by NATO in recent history?

> Imagine a Ukraine in NATO that decides they need to protect persecuted Ukrainians in Belarus and carve off a piece.

This is a fantasy and not really worth discussing.

> Whose to say that Ukraine emboldened by NATO membership doesn't take military action to reclaim Crimea?

Outside of paranoid Russian fantasy land I don't think anyone is even suggesting this is likely.
One little step towards fascism does not justify the massive leap towards fascism that is entailed by an autocratic regime like Putin's invading their neighbors.