skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why not ban nuclear weapons all together?

Here's an existing worldwide ban that a bunch of countries already signed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_N...

But nuclear powers like United States, Russia, China, North Korea didn't sign it.

Now what? What's the game theory logic that would incentivize a country to disarm its nuclear weapons? Even if a country signs it, how do you monitor every underground missile silo or submarine in the ocean for compliance?
> Python does not do implicit type conversion except in arithmetic. You can't do, e.g., `4 + "hello"`

Interestingly, PHP uses separate operators for numerical addition (+) and string concatenation (.), so it's actually a bit more explicit than e.g. Javascript (where 'x + y' could result in normal numerical addition, or normal string concatenation, or implicit conversion to a numerical addition, or implicit conversion to a string concatenation!)
With eye-safe optical power, FSO is limited to very short range under 5 km.
I would definitely support stop buying Russian gas as well. I encourage folks to call their reps as I will. (for those in the states)
Ok idea for touch screens, like phones or tablets. Awful user experience when navigating with a mouse. Even on phones/tablets, there are better user abstractions for scrolling.

The scroll wheel was great when you had a dedicated hardware implementation with no touch screen. But for the web...meh.
Very cool but "not green correct".
There's also a similar American film that seems to get forgotten -- 1983's Testament, which is about a small American town distant enough from big cities and military bases to avoid actually being damaged in the actual nuclear war, but which suffers from radiation sickness due to fallout and dwindling supplies a few weeks later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_(1983_film)
> But teachers can still do their jobs remotely

Citation needed. There's a ton of evidence that learning has dropped dramatically with remote school. Especially for elementary students, I suspect it is near-zero.

> 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.

The purpose of a system is what it does. Whether teachers like it or not, a significant part of their job is childcare. Society would not fund schools at anywhere near their current rate if they didn't also provide childcare.
Coinbase has a standardized comp structure based on role, level and location. It's not negotiable (besides a potential signing bonus). You can see what the structure is like on https://www.levels.fyi/company/Coinbase/salaries/
Intelligence has known Russia would invade Ukraine since the Crimean invasion in 2014. Trump was impeached over threatening to withhold military aid to Ukraine. This isn't a surprise to anyone.
Would you say it's worth getting an ethernet card and fixing one with screen (likely leaky cap) issues?

I've got one that I've wondered might be a good connected-but-not-TOO-connected device.
different tiers of restaurants come with different implicit SLAs. you don't get to monopolize the attention of one out of three employees working at a pizza place just because you spent $3 on a slice of pizza. the restaurant simply can't afford to appease this kind of customer. if it's a fancy restaurant where you're paying $100+ per person, things are different.
How do you prevent cheating if everything is running on the client?
Watch an asteroid zoom safely by Earth in a live webcast today – DON'T LOOK UP
Attributes of developers always include Hubris and Laziness. There are lots of startup-born developers who are not perfectionist by any means.
Perhaps we can take this time to stop having competitors in international competitions play under a national flag, as if they are property of a nation. The place one is born frequently has no bearing on one's personal identity.

To always be associated with one's nationality (which we generally do not get to choose) seems exhausting and rude.
Yes, there are a bunch of different network statistics, which you can scrape for instance out of proc (see the "net" subdirectory, and, particularly, "net/snmp"; it's trivially parseable).

A more ordinary way to come at this would be to hook up a Prometheus node_exporter and just look at this stuff in Grafana.
I'm guessing that is just their distribution of CPython with the Intel MKL maths libraries built by them, but worth a look.
Neat. Some of us can't see things in our heads at all (aphantasia), so we definitely can't do things this way.

Although now that I think about it there is still some element of what's described in this article. There's no visual shape involved in the way I model numbers, but it resonates to think of 7 as "10 with a 3 missing", but also as "5 with a 2 on it". The concepts are built in reference to their closest multiple of 5, and slide between different equivalent forms as necessary in calculations.

By the way, the way I do mental math without images feels like it is using sounds and words for the short-term storage and recall. The language brain seems good at putting something aside for a minute and then bringing it back afterwards with a low chance of error, like repeating something someone just said back to them verbatim even though you weren't really listening.

The one method I am sure _doesn't_ work well for mental math is picturing the grade-school algorithms on an imaginary sheet of paper. For whatever reason it is very error-prone. I once did an informal (definitely unscientific) survey on this (30 or so people IRL plus like 100 reddit users) and iirc there was a strong correlation between "imagining the pen-and-paper algorithm", "being bad at mental math", and "not liking math". Wish I still had the data from that -- all I remember is roughly confirming my hunch that those were related. I also wrote a blog post about this a few years ago (https://alexkritchevsky.com/2019/09/15/mental-math.html) but I wish I had included the survey information in there, it would have been much more interesting.
We are same age and we were on similar trajectories, I just made the jump few years ago and got the job, quickly took a tech lead role and currently flirting with being mid level manager.

Well, the jump was easy. If you were able to survive two decades being indie you are going to survive having job and maybe even thrive in that environment.

Should you do it, or maybe even should I did it? I don't know. I do miss old days, but there is something in being paid each month without chasing next gig.

But you know what? You can try it for few months and see by yourself. I dit that and, hey, old punk is now climbing career ladder.
There are a lot of similarities between Nestle and Microsoft ( both have revolving doors with governments for example).
It's because USA knows the nuclear power of Russia that both countries doesn't go in conflict directly.

It seems strange, but because you can nuke me, and i can nuke you, we need to live peacefully for good or for worse.

I know that Ukraine is in a bad situation, but you think this would happen if Ukraine had nuclear power? Actually, the United States wanted Ukraine to give up on their nuclear weapons.

Actually because nations have the power to destroy humanity multiple times with their arsenal we live in a more peaceful world (although there are multiple wars, none of them compare to WW2 or WW1, there's a good video from Kurzgesagt on that topic.)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-sup...

> In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country. In 2012, Assange communicated directly with a leader of the hacking group LulzSec (who by then was cooperating with the FBI), and provided a list of targets for LulzSec to hack.

> Assange conspired with Army Intelligence Analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password hash to a classified U.S. Department of Defense computer.

If this is true then he is not a journalist.
It's very unlikely all these web services have fingerprinted your device. More likely it has something todo with your information. If the service is not willing to help you out I suggest using an alternative service, or if possible signup with fake information.
I read somewhere that this is EXACTLY why Russian encamped there: Ukraine would be crazy to attack them there: radioactive shields.
In case anyone is curious, it appears that ROI = "return on investment", Vlad = Vladimir Putin, and TFG = "the former guy" = Donald Trump. It appears to be the ~4th time the latter abbreviation has been used on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920739
Puberty blocking is not chemical castration.

By your argument chemotherapy is assassination by poison and setting a broken bone is assault.
We had The Oregon Trail as part of teaching materials in our school in the 1980s.

In the UK.

Most of us in my class didn't know where Oregon is, really did not care about a story of woefully unprepared people who chose to make a journey for reasons of absolutely no consequence to a British nine year old, and to this day likely bear a grudge against an entire US state.

I got into an awful lot of trouble for submitting the minimum possible homework on that. Other kids: fifteen pages of detailed drawings and stories. Me: two A5 sides of completely disinterested made-up diary.

It was my only real rebellion.
The author would have a much stronger point if they could point to some failure in these experiments. Historically all non-White children (and many, many poor children regardless of race) were simply barred from great public schools.

It took radical experiments like desegregation to open up those doors (admittedly, as a Black man, I’m on the fence about those policies because they led to a massive reduction of the Black teacher workforce).

I applaud her taking a stance, but when your best evidence requires you to characterize 8 dropouts as academically-unprepared, despite having zero knowledge on those students situation, then it just comes off as fear. The author suggests as much in the very last sentence.

Sadly, fear of what’s potentially lost has always and will continue to keep us from establishing any significant parity in our public education system.
Is this really a thing? I know that I'm much more likely to share a negative experience and completely forget a positive.. I'd always assumed we were all like that!
You write and enter treaties to gradually dismantle nuclear weapons, and you impose sanctions on nations the refuse to do so. This would be a huge undertaking, but I think we live in an era that is basically the pile up of huge undertakings systematically put off.
Also every instance of ‘usr’ has been autocorrected to ‘use’.

Autocorrect does make me laugh some days :D
Russia regarded NATO as an existential threat, rightly or wrongly. If the west wanted to show that NATO wasnt a threat, it could have stopped trying to capture ukraine -- this is what russians explicitly said they didnt want. The USA didnt listen, europe (france, germany) did -- but the USA overruled them.

That NATO is now conducting a proxy war in ukraine shows, after the fact, that russia's thinking here was actually just correct. Russia poses no existential threat to NATO, but NATO is now bent on destroying Russia. If NATO was not an enemy of Russia, why is it helping ukraine?

China is not sending arms to ukraine, NATO is --- because NATO is an existential threat to russia.
Actually, they're much better than "just" 95%.
98-99.5% is realistic with at least non-isolated converters for each end.

And yeah, a DC grid needs active converters at connections points anyways, and the small voltage changes needed for steering power flow across redundant paths is also relatively cheap.

A big issue is just that a constant-power SMPS with an input voltage range/tolerance inherently offers a negative differential (aka incremental) resistance: within the supported input voltage range, reducing the input voltage causes the current consumption to increase inverse-proportionally (typically even a tiny bit worse because internal losses in the SMPS increase with current, requiring even more current to make up for the slight drop in efficiency (think 98% to 97%, for a sense of scale)).

In AC grids phase is comparatively easy to stabilize, and constant-power loads already need PFC that (for single-phase rectifiers) has to emulate a normal resistor who's resistance slowly drifts to accommodate changes in output power consumption. The only real issue is that this method requires an intermediate stage with large capacitors to feed the output stage while the input stage stops feeding near the zero crossing (the capacitors get smaller if you do away with the zero crossing (DC grid using the emulated resistance for stabilizing the grid), but the stages remain, along with their ~1% inefficiency per stage).

The main issue with LEDs is that you need electrolytic capacitors to buffer the zero crossing of single-phase AC, and electrolytic capacitors dry out/corrode when operated at high temperatures.
So unless you want the LED PSU to have a fan, those capacitors will severely affect how tightly integrated you can build a non-low-power LED light bulb.

And yeah, especially at a local scale DC grids are very useful, because you can skip expensive inverters and conversion losses for both battery(-backup) sources and solar panels/fuel cells.
You would typically still want an MPPT for a string of solar cells, but that's a compact and rather inexpensive DC/DC converter. Batteries only need a way to accurately limit the charge voltage/current per-pack, to prevent the voltage drop along the grid cables from affecting the maximum charge voltage/state of the pack's cells. Also a deep-discharge protection, but beyond those, a (mostly) solar-fed local DC grid can just let the MPPTs feed as much as they can up to a target voltage, from where they start to gradually throttle output current to only produce as much as is being used (once the batteries are full). If the batteries start to reach sufficiently low charge state, load shedding or alternative power has to be used (say, via telling PCs to reduce/disable Turbo Boost and similar, or lights/screens to limit brightness).
This makes me chuckle. The Bad Orange Man played the "insane king" role really, really well. Everyone was on their best behaviour until he left office. Peace talks in the Middle East progressed. Russia stayed in their borders. North Korea huffed and puffed and ultimately did nothing. Trade with China became more favorable to the US. It's almost like his foreign policy was effective.

To your point: Putin isn't nuts. He's just a really good politician. He's pragmatic and knows the value of being seen as "crazy" and "he might actually launch a nuke".
the ultra-ghetto urban public schools here have money upon money, and yet the teachers do not get funds directly. I have seen piles of new computers in a locked room with my own eyes, assisting a well-meaning engineer who placed the equipment. Meanwhile, I heard two middle-aged men talking on the bus alone at night, one was the driver. They both gave up as public school teachers due to lack of effort and interest by the students, year after year. The level of complacent sloth within administration is not to be underestimated, and outright graft does occur from time to time.
swift is literally the TCP/IP of global finance
It seems to me that is only a card you want to play at the very end. There's also the possibility that when the tap closes the EU will adapt and then you've lost billions of revenue forever.
> If so, is that a problem that can actually be fixed except by changing your name?

It wouldn't shock me if even changing your name didn't do it, the name change records are surely data available to the algorithms.
I get it to some extent. People really hate Trump, and I understand that and largely agree. I think it can be threatening to people when their identity is wrapped up in really heated partisanship to have an attack on their enemies questioned. It's only human to want to rally around something and have a hated outsider. And Trump truly is a bag of shit, he just wasn't as bad on this one narrow thing as newspapers and cable news might want you to think.
Instagram and Google would not even have their SSN or credit card number (if OP is being honest about how little they used those accounts), so I don't see how you can conclude that one of those is the factor...
> Chromium doesn't have sync. That's enough right there that I wouldn't consider using it.

Personally I've never used the sync features of any browser. Can't that kind of thing be done with an extension?

> Firefox is usable-ish but they reject a lot of Google's tech, and seem to have no interest in the modern vision if the web. Even on some safe features they're years behind.

In my experience, Firefox works fine, despite Mozilla's long history of atrocious decisions. Its performance is competitive with Chromium (the winner depends on the benchmark/website). Compatibility issues do occur but are rare.

What do you mean by no interest in the modern vision if the web?
Please share for those uninitiated like me
UC Berkeley must withhold thousands of acceptance letters
My plan for nuclear war survival is to not.
"I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it."

This is the problem. As I was reading your situation, before I got to this point, I was asking myself "Is there a market for this?". I have no idea if there actually is, but I just can't imagine there being a market easy enough to crack into for what you're building. This would lead me to believe that it would be more prudent to go work for someone else, even if for a "short" time, so you can build up stability and savings for yourself and future family.

There is nothing stopping you from continuing to work on your project AND work for someone else AND be a father - many of us do this, albeit with varying success in each area.

Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers has a great talk about this and explains that so many wannabe founders make the mistake of thinking they have to focus 100% of time and effort on building their start up and there is no other way. He calls this the "runway of certain death" where your savings is the runway and your project is a plane needing to take off before the runway runs out.

Long story short: get a helicopter so you don't need to worry about the runway. What he means by this is don't put yourself up against impending failure when you could stretch your timeline to launch by earning an income and just working on your project less hours per day but for many more days.

The talk is much better and informative :)

I have a young family. I am an agency Web Developer. I quit my job in May 2021 to "focus" on my side project. My focus has not been great and I am not finished with my project yet. At the beginning of February I started looking for a FT job again because I'm burning through my savings and it's no longer fair to watch my wife work FT while I continue to code an unprofitable project. I secured a new job today and will be able to relieve some stress from myself and more from my wife. And I will go back to working on my project as a side project outside of work and family hours for a couple hours each day.

Also, I'd recommend taking a break on BUILDING the thing, and spending some time MARKETING the thing to try to get at least one person that doesn't know you to tell you that's thing is the thing they need to save their business and will pay you any amount so they can use it to save their business. If you can't find one person to honestly tell you this, you might have a failed project on your hands. If you find someone, ask them for money right then and commit to a launch date for an MVP for their own use. Now you have a customer, proved you concept, have $$, and a beta user.

If you can't find others who will pay you for your project, cut losses, work for someone else and start a new side project that DOES have a profitable niche.

Don't ever let people who "don't get it" tell you what you're doing is a failure and that you need to "grow up". Handle your responsibilities, of course, but keep your dream alive - it's the only way ANYTHING great was ever brought to the public.

Good luck.
Biotech from Bust to Boom
Ukraine does not have nuclear weapons because they gave them back to Russia in exchange for guarantees about their territorial sovereignty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
I'm going to add this to my to-do list.
This is how you step on a path of a genocide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide)
You can used ZoneMinder with various PoE cameras and put the system on it's own network/segment.
As a startup founder, I've realized that people who send very angry missives are usually people who can be very strong advocates. Although it can be tough to bite my tongue and not respond sharply to someone who sends a profanity-laced email, it's definitely the right thing to do.

Nearly everyone who curses in their first email will apologize upon receiving an email from the founder. They were probably just having a bad day and assumed that $Company was some corporate powerhouse trying to nickel and dime their customers.

There's about 5% of people who persist in nastiness.

But almost everyone ends up being happy about the interaction, many end up renewing their subscriptions, and some will even email other companies asking them to integrate our technology. Sometimes the root of the frustration was that our service didn't work better with other platforms, which is something we can't control on our own.

So having these very excitable folks sending emails on our behalf can be a powerful thing. It just requires biting your tongue instead of replying in the heat of the moment!
So many historical and significant album covers violate these rules.
> "new things"

Things that feel new

> innovation happens every day in software engineering

Who cares if innovation happens in ink pens if no good novels are written?
Hey, I’d love to hear more of your story if you’re willing to share.
He might not be rational, but surely nobody can argue that he is insane to that level – at least, I haven’t seen anything that suggests that.
The reference is to the artificial problems they create out of nowhere, especially the highly destructive ones, not the problems that cannot be helped.

Social media for example has created serious problems with mental health of users, which could be eased dramatically if engagement and exposure wasn't gamified and manipulated, and if there was less of a focus on engagement and closed content.

Many laptops and smartphones are now rendered obsolete quickly by software updates as new models are released every year by manufacturers, this creates a huge pile of waste that in turn pollutes the environment.

Most of the negative aspects that have made product reliability and quality decline, along with dramatic price inflation are market-driven...

The better way to counter market-driven innovation (in just one of many possible aspects mind you) is to create enduring and properly-priced products that don't get thrown away each year (at the expense of record profit) obviously.
It's probably just San Francisco. I have heard of something like that at the municipal level. I don't remember something like that when I visited family in Sacramento a couple months ago.

Seattle has something like that too, when I lived there seven years ago. We were provided bins for composting, and compost bins were in every resturant I went to.
, and therefore they will kill all the Armenians?

I mean that's means, not motive. "They have weapons, and therefore they will kill everybody" makes no sense to me.