skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This plus I think legal requirements between various countries. Lots of logic to meet each country's requirements.

Then each customer wants their own specific crazy workflow in the product after they "rent" the software. An endless circle of bloat increasing. Just look at SAP (and Oracle).

Some of this is touched upon in the article.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/soci...

If Mr. X has no US-source income and earns income in a country with no totalization agreement with the US he can save the money he’s not paying for Social Security and Medicare in a savings account, IRA, etc. it’s not like the government-run programs are paying high interest.
I concur, my surname exists only twice in Germany. And this map shows the place where I live and where I used to live. The place where my mother lives is not on the map. I guess the map is rather detailed. I'd like to know where the data is from.
Show HN: Improve your Wordle game with a browser extension
I created a Chrome extension to make Wordle more interesting and test out new strategies.

It replaces the word "Wordle" with the total number of solutions remaining out of the original ~2,300 based on your currently guessed letters. If you open up the developer console, you can see the list of possible solutions left.

I usually use it after solving the day's word, to see how other openers may have done, or to see how close to the solution I could have gotten by a particular point.

I also made a video about my adventures (no spoilers) in poking under the hood of Wordle: https://youtu.be/AgharwWfh60
Oracle, SAP suspend business in Russia amid invasion
I mean, that’s not happening right though, is i? I presume if there were such an alliance, it would be because there are benefits to joining one.

Maybe that’s why there aren’t any as you described.

NATO isn’t the result of some hypothetical thought experiment. It exists because it offers tangible benefits to its members. So for your counter example to be valid the same would to have be true for such an alliance, in which case the world would probably be a very different place and probably not as bad at all as how you were arguing.
Getting caught near the blast:

https://www.ted.com/talks/irwin_redlener_how_to_survive_a_nu...
100%, the c++ style casts are huge and unwieldy to type. Also, for casting between integer types, you can actually reverse the bracketing so it looks like a nice clean conversion function. Eg, these two expressions are the same:

int32_t(x);

(int32_t)x;
> The West is quick to abandon their own ideals.

The response here would suggest the opposite.
And not just the managers, but in some industries(i.e. healthcare) it's also government and insurance requirements demanding constant changes and configurability.
It sounds like you don’t live in “the US” you live in one of the giant cities. People are surviving on much less income in the rest of the country, with land and space.
Appeasement worked out so well during WWII.
Nope. China and Russia share an oligarchic & mercantilistic ideology. They share a common adversary. They are economically interdependent. They conduct military exercises together. The countries support each other diplomatically. One even wonders if the West's preferred outcome is regime change in Moscow that weakens the Sino-Russian relationship.
> They have recognized Donetsk and Lugansk and will protect their borders but their stated intent with Ukraine

Any intent with Donetsk and Lugansk -- such as "protecting their borders"; which "borders", the ones with Ukraine? -- is an intent with Ukraine. Donetsk and Lugansk are "countries" only in the eyes of Russia and Belarus; in the world the rest of us live in, they're parts of Ukraine. (Like Crimea.)

> Putin has stated that he views Ukrainian membership in NATO and the presence of NATO forces on their border as an existential threat to Russia so that is at least the public reason that they are doing this. If we take that at face value...

Here's a better idea: Let's not.
Well, it’s also Fox News’ business model.
How does anyone learn anything?

I'm no Bill Gates, but I am a college drop-out who makes a living writing software.

I think there are a couple of things that came together for me: Access to computers for the purposes of programming (including in school settings from about age 8 onwards), interest in them, encouragement from family, and enough college level classwork in CS to get a good theoretical grounding. When I left college, it was half because I was too poor a student to buckle down and complete my coursework, and half because I'd found a job at a local software company that already paid pretty well.

Compare to Gates, whose wikipedia article states that he started programming at 13 in a prep school and soon formed a "programmers club" with the goal to make money; he "took leave from" Harvard to found Microsoft and never returned.

The other thing it's important to remember about whoever you think of as a 'big name' is that they are by definition extreme outliers. For each Gates, are there 100 people whose company failed, and they either returned to school or left the discipline entirely? Are there 1000? On the other hand, there are also a lot who took a similar road and arrived not at worldwide fame and extreme personal wealth but at contentment in their work and comfort in their lives.
You can't remove Russia from the internet unless you remove literally all their neighbours. Kazakhstan for example has how many links in and out of Russia? Do they not have the sovereign decision to make those connections? You can't just cut Russia off.

I think the 1 decision that could be made by the Sanctioning countries... At the big tier 1 peering exchanges you could blacklist all of Russia. Don't have to worry about cyber attacks coming from Russia directly anymore.
Which group do you think did receive a favorable treatment?

Almost every societal group suffered in one way or another, from school kids, single adults, the elder, small business owners and the list goes on.

There wasn't anything specifically targeted at young families. These last years sucked hard for a lot of people.
How do their rules exclude abstract images? If this is the one you're referring to:

> No blurry, pixelated, tilted, or cropped images unless intended.

Notice the 'unless intended.' I imagine they're trying to avoid hastily or poorly uploaded artwork.
I began programming my first year of high school, and in college ended up getting a Humanities BA. My first job was a computer operator/programmer position. I've been doing sweng and IT stuff for almost 50 years, using many different systems and languages.

And, I was almost famous. :)
I argue that the preservation and expansion of democratic societies and the diminution of autocracies is a vital interest to the US. A free Ukraine strengthens the power of people to rule themselves rather than be ruled by elites without jeopardizing the people of Russia. It does threaten those that wish to give autocracies more of a chance in the modern world.

Not invade with conventional troops vital but publish all the intel around the invasion and send money missiles and veterans.
Sorry, the "you" was not referred to yourself by any means, it was a generic "you".

My original claim was not an actual claim, it was just what not finishing something one starts tells me. A sensation. And by "not finishing" I do not mean trying for a bit and then quitting, that's of course OK.

What I meant is not finishing, after investing vigorous effort, because one gets "enchanted" with something else (e.g. "oh look I can code in javascript and build a website, who cares about finishing studying the basics, I don't need them anymore!").

By the term "finishing" I implicitly assumed to be near the finish line. If then this is not a symptom of poor commitment capability, I don't know what else it could be.

On another angle, the comment to which I responded originally basically said "University does not teach you anything valuable at all, just quit and go writing code" and here I strongly disagree and will always do.
By recent events, Mr John Mearscheimer joins the list of pundits who were hilariously, massively wrong.

> More importantly he said that the west actually needs Russia against China

But based on this, was also completely out of touch to start with.
I haven't been able to watch a single video on PeerTube without massive buffering issues. That's why (for me).
> I agree with his remarks. You are not arguing against them, but against some fictional re-imagining of what they might've been.

Please drop the unnecessary insults. I read what he wrote before my first reply, and this is specifically what I am objecting to:

> 2) Shut down the root nameservers inside Russia. That would make connectivity spotty for many users inside Russia, but mostly regular folks, not government or military users.

It is a downright lie, shutting down root nameservers inside Russia wouldn’t make connectivity inside Russia “spotty”.

Slight increase in latency to foreign root nameservers would have no noticeable impact as you can always query them in the background.

PS. Why do you need to be such an asshole about this? It’s completely unnecessary. You aren’t the only person in the world with networking experience, you aren’t special.
The most interesting aspect to this project, to me, is that if you try as hard as you can to come up with something, I am almost certain that there's no way an agreement can be even remotely reached given the known positions of Ukraine and Russia... I would be incredibly happy if someone actually proposed something that could be acceptable to both parties... failing to do so is like admitting that war was the only way (not saying was is justified, just that given the known positions of both parties, that if one of them was willing to sacrifice themselves by entering a war with the other party - and we knew Russia was willing - and even then, no agreement could be reached, that we couldn't have expected any other outcome).
CNN showed a pro-war protestor who said something to the effect of "Ukraine today, the rest of Europe tomorrow". There's definitely a faction that wants to see a new Soviet Union.
> Java Swing still lets you make native-looking-and-feeling apps (with some care). I don't know of any new GUI frameworks that let you do the same.

That's the whole raison d'être of the (C++) wxWidgets toolkit. [0] It fully commits to using native GUI widgets, rather than impersonating them. (That is, it wraps various other toolkits.)

As others have pointed out, the other major cross-platform toolkits (Qt, GTK) also do a pretty good job.

[0] https://wxwidgets.org/
I feel like there's an underserved market for something like that in America. Not a full-time home maid (which would be impractical for salary reasons here) but something more than a cleaning service and less than a fulltime PA.

We have cleaning services and it's a pretty popular independent "side gig" for a lot of married women; their husbands work full-time and then they clean a few houses each week for something to do + supplemental income.

But I've not heard of cleaning services that handle things beyond cleaning, like dealing with contractors and running errands and the like.
In my mind the main takeaway from this article is that these things are so nuanced we need to be very careful in passing judgment on these third parties that are tangentially related to the conflict.

It’s relatively easy for us in the West to call balls and strikes for some actors, but much more tricky when it comes to other third parties (like Armenia).
I, as I am sure is most of HN, is saddened to hear of your loss

However, as others have pointed-out, this isn't about YOU - this is about a nation-state unilaterally deciding that it should attempt to DESTROY a neighbor for the sake of a few natural resources and a slightly larger buffer between it and other [what its leader thinks are] "enemy"/"hostile" nations
Dutch as well. ‘Witgoed’
Ben this is pretty neat. I've lined up a couple of reads already.
>There are two types of baby outfits. The first is targeted at people buying gifts. It's irresistible on the rack. It has no fewer than 18 buttons. At least 3 people are needed to get a screaming baby into it. It's worn once, so you can send a photo to the gifter, then discarded.

>Other baby outfits are meant for parents. They’re marked "Easy On, Easy Off" or some such, and they really mean it. Zippers aren't easy enough so they fasten using MAGNETS. A busy parent (i.e. a parent) can change an outfit in 5 seconds, one handed, before rushing to work.

>The point is, some products are sold directly to the end user, and are forced to prioritize usability. Other products are sold to an intermediary whose concerns are typically different from the user's needs. Such products don't HAVE to end up as unusable garbage, but usually do.

https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1182635589604171776
Yes. I suppose that would technically have to have some "treaty" to ratify it, so in that sense there will be one.
The Russian State is and has been for a long time pushing a profoundly anti-Western agenda.

The Russian people are completely controlled. They have no way, even if they knew exactly what was going on and understood it for what it is, to rally, no one to lead them, no way to resist.

The Russian people are not a mechanism by which the Russian leadership can be affected.

> We can not allow Russia to run the narrative by cutting of the internet.

I may be wrong, but I understood the request was to remove ".ru" and two other related top levels. It was not to cut them off from Internet access.

I am in favour of both the removal of ".ru" and related domains, and also of cutting Russia off from the net, if such a thing were possible, which I think it is not.
You forget that these countries are in the EU which has it's own mutual defence clause.
Finland and Sweden are EU countries. Attacking them would invoke EU defense treaties. I really hope Putin isn't that stupid.
Threads (1984) – Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect
Every time Trump talked about illegal immigration, it was a nativist dog whistle.

Anti-immigration dog whistling has been a fairly standard tactic for right wing politicians since the 90s, where John Howard referred to asylum seekers as illegals, railed against "queue jumpers", and called for immigrants to respect the "Australian way of life" [1]. Like Trump, Howard also constantly went on about how he represented "ordinary Australians", unlike the "elites" with their "vested interests".

[1] https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12...
I think that the author is wrong in trying to estimate military force by economy size. What matters in the war is not how many dollars you have but how many soldiers, bullets, tanks, bombs you have.

And the costs to produce them might be different. In the West its high wages and strict safety requirements inflate the cost of production, but if in your country people are motivated to work for food for the victory then you can produce much more with the same expenses.
Much like business leaders only looking at the next quarter, politicians in the west increasingly look only at the next election. If something harms their country in the long-term but helps them win an election this year, they're going with the immediate benefit to them and long-term harm to the country.
> Usually only the minimal amount of work will be done to get an integration to work, skipping the refactoring or code changes to internal data structures or algorithms, so the “new” product will be the sum of its parts also from a resource consumption point of view.

This describes Atlassian stuff just perfectly.

> As the code base gets large, bugs will creep in and become harder to fix.

And this is why automated tests - even if it's "just" end-to-end functional tests - are so important. But most managers aren't willing to give developers the extra budget do set up proper testcases...
Generally no, for example a Japan sales focused position needs to be filled in Tokyo. But there may be some latitude for some kinds of positions depending on requirements and the hiring manager.
Finally, some Chinese oversight on Russian business!
WiMax* not woman, oops.
this is the standard at Stripe don't act like you don't know guys
Cyberattacks are not limited to borders or geolocation- it can be sent/executed from anywhere at all times. And, like the letter mentioned, the request wasn't to "remove" Russia from the internet but rather restricting access to the routing towards Russian sites.
> Also, java is a tiny language, I really don’t get your point. Sure, hello world requires 3 lines of boilerplate, but other than that you have pretty much listed every single java feature there is. How many languages’ feature list can you enumerate in a rant?

I wasn't enumerating all of the features of the language, but by saying so you basically proved my point. I was enumerating all of the features of the language present in the very first "Hello World" program. It's not about 3 lines, it's about the density of over a dozen concepts packed into those three lines. That's what people mean when they say to do anything in Java you have to know everything about Java.

> Write LOGO first, or scratch then.

Logo and scratch are great first languages, and they spark joy and imagination in children. Then they move to Java and it sucks the inspiration right out of them. Honestly I think students, teachers, and everyone except Java shops would be better off if students started with Logo turtle graphics in elementary school and used it throughout middle and high school as the capable Lisp that it is. Yes we won't graduate as many object oriented Java programmers, but... well I guess there is no but, I really can't see the downside in what I just said.
It takes far more effort to debunk than to generate, it also takes time, and the debunking doesn't spread virally

It's not a solution in the real world
To my understanding, Greg Wyler isn't involved anymore in OneWeb. He is working on E-space which is a cloud in orbit service (or something like that).
'Bikesharing' means 'often not having a bike (your bike!) when you need it'

That's a big obstacle to the idea. If you're an idealist student with no external repercussions to a screwed-up schedule, sure go right ahead and lose your bike. But anybody more embedded in a society is going to find bikesharing useless really fast.
Great at reinventing the wheel.
Russia blocked a lot of AWS back in 2018
Which territory has the US annexed recently?
Wow, I have a very uncommon Italian surname, and I was super surprised to see the results. The majority of my relatives were concentrated in where I know them to be, with a few outliers in the north and south.
> hastily or poorly uploaded

I would say that is often a good description of the artistic intent.
Prepare by not voting in a president who will dismantle a nuclear treaty.
And that Putin probably won’t try invading anything for a while now.
Ok, but what does Russia offer the rest of the internet besides badly written malware, WordPress comment spiders, untrue news articles, shady hosting providers, failed login attempts and honeypots full of fuzzing robots?

The Russian government actively promotes hacking against the west and refuses to prosecute anyone for it.
Ah but they do claim, that is the big different to the Java authors.

Something good like re-inventing EAR files.
s/on average/at median
1966 Timeline of Computer History
There’s also Argo CD in the cloud world
True. People only miss out on the fact that, especially ERP systems, are to a huge extend a colection of process best parctices. By sticking as much as possible to the out of the box solution, not only and release changes or integrations become easier, but you also get a busoness process benchmark and consulting on top, automatically. Benefiting from all that does require so more depth of thought than most upper managers I ever encoutered are willing, or capable of.
Because businesses, in order to match compliance rules for their business types, size of business etc. often have lots of rules and processes in place about buying things like software, thus it becomes really beneficial for a manager if they can buy all related functionality that is needed by their business (especially functionality that is required by law) in one place.

Furthermore considering that some things will often be very complicated to do because of legal burdens it makes sense that one piece of software for doing invoicing handles all your invoicing needs across all markets you operate in. And suddenly when that happens it might be that you get a more complicated piece of software than if you bought 10 different pieces of software each supporting the standard needed for a particular market.
This is a better view. It’s not just about what happens if it works but also about what of it does not. In both the scenarios though, Russia itself be facing an existential crisis since nuclear powers are dime a dozen at this point in the world and they will fight back.

Edit: As spywaregorillla corrected me, there are only a few countries with nuclear weapons. 8 in number other than Russia.
The US is more than capable of winning both and the Chinese know it.

In contrast to the Russians, the Chinese are completely dependent on international trade to keep people fed and the lights on.
Is that term used in Québec? Why not "tapis de souris"?
File under: Say what you're for, not what you're against.

> "fund social services and nonlethal interventions instead"

I've been racking my brains to divine a slogan or phrase or framing that captures this. Nadda.

I imagine Frank Luntz could do it. We need our own Frank Luntz.
Nah, feels more like some /r/im14andthisisdeep sh*t.
Let's see, we are working on a payload, onboard upper stage of the 1st Ariane6 launch.
I doubt it. Russia might go all in.

Because of the geopolitics and strategical requirements of missiles, Russia loses nuclear war (in terms of response time ) if Sweden and Finland joins to NATO. Russia might go very far to prevent that.

There is a little seed of truth in their security claims, that Ukraine should stay neutral.

Missiles around country in close positions means, that West has better likelihood to win nuclear war with first strike, eliminating the most nukes from Russia. Especially, since they think that US is the enemy. And they want to hit US which is very far.

Russia loses their nuclear threat advantage, if other countries can position their missiles better, to reach far better damage with first strike.

This is the core of Cuban crisis, and why there are so many bombs, in submarines as well. Russia needs to believe that there is a balance.

Stakes are high.
International trade is risky.

More so if you're trading with a rogue nation led by a criminal.
> drift towards the West

This is a little bit of overstatement.

As a result of mass protests prime minister resigned. Emergent leader of the protests won elections and became prime minister. At some point later after vote of no confidence he won elections again.

It's not drifting to the West, it's changing government by elections, what made Russia to put pressure to Armenia
Aren't UID's namespaced in modern Linux? It should be quite possible.
You are probably embarrassing the wrong people. Multiple layers of people before the engineers usually.
Ah yes, I wanted to link to the Meertens Familienamenbank too, which apparently has been taken over by the CBG several years ago.
I know, but the person who I first replied to talked about Diablo :)
Support has never solved any of the issues I have brought up either.

They will relay some unrelated bit of documentation and then immediately try to close the issue as solved.

It is like “Step 1: Understand the problem” and “Step X: Validate it solved the customers problem” isn’t even on the checklist.

Just “reply something technical, close ticket, repeat”.