skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a great project, but there is nothing in it for grifters. There is not much hype or fervor for innovation these days that doesn't involve potential bagholders.
A math model to predict Covid-19 vaccine efficacy
Find a way to scope CSS to the current component?
It's an interesting question but it also show something about international relationships now. Russia seems to get stuck in military control of resources while other countries are more fluid and want threat-free negotiations.

Now I could be wrong and maybe there are a lot of strings being pulled in disguise.
You’re rewriting history. Huawei was blocked from Android access due to it being deemed an asset of the Chinese government. Not because it was leaking any data.
Folks, please seek actual medical advice rather than something on the internet. Fasts can hurt you, and are a backbone of some eating disorders. No matter how much you ease into it.
Nord Stream 2 owner considers insolvency after sanctions
The gaming peak caused by the pandemic is subsiding as nations open up
That's fine. If I saw how the sausage was made, I probably wouldn't eat it either.
Great domain.

What do you think of https://arrows.to/?
The state will have access to both anyway. Inconveniences like these are significant for individuals but trivial for organizations, especially those not bound by law.
I don't understand your issues here. I built a community app for a hockey league that manages around 120,000 players in the DB. I do tons of loading, sorting and various algorithms on the data. I've never once had React be my bottleneck.

Rendering a page server-side and delivering it to users is about as inefficient a process as you can get unless you have massive resources dedicated to an optimization almost no one needs anymore. The virtual DOM is extremely efficient, it just needs more memory and CPU cycles on the client which are resources readily available. Browsers are very good at managing this in 2022.

Btw, your code in that article is completely irrelevant... I would not be showing people that article in 2022.
I worked for a motorcycle dealership.

The loan partner invited my boss to CES in Las Vegas, from Europe.

You can figure out how much of a hefty fee they get from each loan they originate.
Graphy: Giving Everyone Data Superpowers
As others have said, lots of really good SWE people started out with degrees in other things. I’d normally say finish your degree because in the short term it’ll be easier than having to explain things in every interview and open doors to larger places that don’t care about explanations. Longer term it can matter less by making sure to build up a portfolio of successful projects and keep learning.

On the other hand, the situation right now changes things and I can’t in good conscious recommend that to someone in your position. It’s a weighty decision and you have to make it based on what you think is right for you.

If you’re interested in working on Cloudflare on R2 (which is my team), Workers (my org) or anything else, shoot me an email at my HN username without 123 (vlovich) at cloudflare.com.

Edit: also feel free to reach out and I can share my personal email if you want to just chat more generally. My family escaped Russia in the 90s.
> This is why I'm skeptical of the whole "writing forces you to be honest because it means you have to actually think things through well enough to put them into words that can be put into coherent sentences"

If you're making an earnest effort to think truthful thoughts, then trying to put your thoughts into writing is genuinely helpful.

Writing doesn't stop you from deceiving others, but it helps to stop you from deceiving yourself.
You don’t need to ban mining ether is so cheap it’s not worth it right now
The submission is a blog post announcing the launch/beta of Graphy[0] which is a data visualization / sharing platform. You can see it in action on this page[1] (currently one of the front-page stories).

Caught my eye because of the smooth UI. It kind of looks like the CodePen equivalent of sharing charts, but I'm not sure if that's what they are going for.

[0]: https://graphy.app/

[1]: https://sifted.eu/articles/startup-founders-salary/
Disagreement is actual violence.
Does that handle the huge torrent of ads well? Seemingly every website and brick and mortar I've shopped at ever sends me at least one email per day.
Many of the characteristics described in the reference are totally suitable to government bureaucrats in Homo Capitalisticus population I think.
Yeah, and for those that don't, app passwords are not hard to use. Slightly cumbersome, maybe, but I bet it'd take less time than GP took to write their comment.
Several thoughts

- would love to see distribution rather average, as average is easily skewed by outliers

- salary Vs exit (bust, acquisition or public)

- salary Vs employee. I was listening an episode of How I Built This by Guy Raz. The founder of Goodreads is paying himself about the same level as highest salary employee. I find it a good reference
Russia already has alternative network SPFS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPFS), blocking them from SWIFT will anger the ordinary people further and they will believe the narrative of west being against them even more.
Tripadvisor suspends reviews for Russian listings
I always assumed it was something like "I got so angry with a certain solution that I gave in and tried this other one".
I use 5 for the hamburger menu on one of my sites. It works really effectively too, means I could build the entire site without writing a single line of Javascript (I've got nothing against Javascript but given it's ostensibly just a collection of man pages I did question the worth of adding any Javascript)
This is possible to implement directly in Novo Cantico instead of a plugin purely because it's not a framework [1]

[1] https://www.novocantico.org/blog/2022-02-28-why-isnt-this-on...
their web email client continues to be ocular cancer for anyone who isn't already a daily Outlook user.
that's pretty genius. do you have a similar trick for getting over the revulsion at the thought of touching a fly?
What 'loud' tech did you see on the linked page? Everything was about reading and writing.
>I don't understand it

>I think they botched it.

How can you assert 'B' if 'A' is true?
> All of the virtual ink in this article, and honestly most of the complexity in the field overall... and it seems to really all just boil down to, 'I think this looks cooler.'

IMO there's significant complexity in building a feature-rich frontend client. The "thicker" the client, the worse it gets. There's definitely a lot of 'I think this looks cooler' going around, but also we shouldn't forget that the need to come up with something better is partially a response to very real, very-not-imagined, frontend complexity.
Russia - the country, not its president - had a chance to get out of this so far. If they start shelling or bombing Kyiv all bets are off. There are approximately 3.75 million people living there, and the Russians have cut off all exits so I'm not really sure how he wants them to leave. This starts to look like Grozny all over again.
Agree except possibly the 'good grades' part. I'm self-taught and work at a FAANG. I'm also a technical interviewer. I have never once asked for or looked at a candidate's GPA.

Looking at someone's GPA honestly wouldn't help me much at all. It's not like I know how rigorous <insert university here>'s math or economics departments are.

Unless you went to a college that's a household name in your geographical region (for example, Harvard in the United States), I'd leave off the GPA from the resume.

Try to learn as much as you can, but don't fret about getting the best grades. Very few people will honestly care about your grades; they care that you graduated and whether you have the technical and interpersonal skills to fit on the team. If a person won't hire you because your don't have a 4.0, trust me that's not someone you want to work for in the long run.
It's actually a terrible article that has no relevance in 2022, and it is even misleading for 2018 standards.
Off topic to this thread but we also have people in Kharkov. Anything you find in terms of what we can do practically that you can forward would be appreciated.
It sounds like you're doing a sarcastic thing, but, just to be clear for everybody else, those reports merely say that Lukashenko said he wouldn't join the war.
stay positive! all DS skills will be transferable to normal SWE, the best SWE are all multi-language and strong SQL never goes to waste, lastly - many of the best SWE would be even stronger with some DS competencies, so keep at it and I suspect you'll wind up in a pretty awesome place.
I have worked in this business for 20 years at some of the largest banks, so know something about this. In short, yes, at the big banks, most wire processing is automated. Straight through processing rates are > 90%.

An explanation of what happens is at initiating and receiving banks is beyond the scope of anything I want to type.

At banks with high volumes, more processing is automated (see above) for low volume banks, not so much. Payments may fall out of automated processing for several reasons like poor instructions quality (unknown account number), complex correspondent/routing requirements, sanctions screening (OFAC in the US). For high volume banks, even with high STP rates, this can mean 1,000's of payments per day.

As for why wires cost so much, the answer depends on who is paying. The most frequent users of wires often pay very little for them because bank's provide wire services as a package in exchange for holding balances with the bank. Only retail customers and small businesses pay full price ($25-40) for wire payments, and bank's charge this much because they can. Retail is such a small part of the wire payments business that if you take you business elsewhere the bank does not really care.

One last note on pricing. Most wire originate from the same set of bank customers on a regular basis, so their processing is highly automated and the bank's risk and fraud systems are trained to expect these payments. Occasional payments from retail customers probably do require manual processing more often, so a higher price is probably warranted to some extent.
How did you go about doing this? I'm most the way through a masters in Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics, and am going to be looking for jobs here in Ireland soon. My courses this term are pretty much all mathematical modelling over data science because they seemed more interesting, though I've also taken a module specifically on data programming with Python and one with Machine Learning with Python. Currently taking Advanced Computational Science, which is basically solving PDEs and models, as well as Climate & Weather Numerical Modelling course. I dropped Statistical Modelling and Maths of Machine Learning. My masters thesis is kinda a mixture between the two, making a model of how we can use statistical physics to predict collective behaviour and then testing it and validating it, etc. (though that latter might change given that it was supposed to be focused on Ukraine, where my supervisor had done it before after the 2014 annexation of Crimea).

I'd much rather do modelling than DS, even though I feel it'd be much harder to get a job with that. Or if I wanted to move into engineering. Basically, just looking for any advice for how you went about it.

I can work in Python and know enough JS to be dangerous. Built some stuff in the past for Irish-language learning, but it's all old and poorly implemented. Would also be willing to do other stuff for portfolio, etc.

Sorry for hijacking your comment, it's just what I'm struggling with now.
As others have mentioned it's probably privacy extensions blocking google's checks.

NoScript (or, not enabling javascript globally) is known to cause issues for me.

Things that hide or obfuscate user agents will break google too.

Anything that replaces common CDNs with privacy friendly ones also causes issues.
I imagine the idea being that without SWIFT, any bank will require the funds to have actually moved before they are made available.
Could it be that your rate is so low because you overpaid fro car? I heard stories like you go do car dealer and negotiate discount when you pay whole price on spot (EU)
If an email provider does not offer standard pop3 or imap it is not an email provider. It's just some web shit.
The website is totally broken for me on mobile safari. 1 and 2 don’t work, and the lack of overflow:hidden causes a huge horizontal scrollbar…

I’d recommend more testing before using. Though the details element is great.
> 150k+ Hungarian people do live in Ukraine

Sounds like a reason to support Ukraine.
Well, its impressive because London was supposed to monopolize this market.
A LaunchAgent for Automatic Proxy Configuration
As can be expected, founder salaries increase as their company goes on to raise more funding.

Raising takes you out of building the business and turns you into someone who spends all their time talking to investors instead, usually at precisely the time your business needs you to do founder things. By hitching your pay to when you land another round you're incentivizing raising rather than growing the business, and that's probably a bad thing.
I think about "The Noble Lie".

Is it okay to tell lies in order to maintain social harmony or advance an agenda? Your leaders do it. Your bosses do it. Social media does it. And if you're a parent, you probably do it.

Personally, I try to avoid the news, social media, and do everything within my control to create a "low information diet" where the only inputs are high quality and carefully curated. I value thought-out content. That means it takes many months or years to put together, not 240 characters of a hot take from something seen online.

Being a veteran of the internet, I don't trust any mainstream sources. Seeing first-hand how fast certain popular content can be censored, I no longer value any aggregate sites as of like 2012. Also they are scary in terms of groupthink.

Where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise.
Not a chance. Think it was either the reactos or wine project used to have processes in place to check people weren't submitting codes from the win2k leaks either.
This "homo sovieticus," has echoes in a few places, as it seems like problem that as always been with us. Most recently, it matches the (a bit vicious, imo) right wing "NPC" meme fairly closely, which refers to "non-player characters," a feature of role playing games and videogames whose dialogue and action are rote, and describes people whose ontology is defined by dominant narratives. Arendt talked about them as "Little Eichmanns," in reference to people who think in clichés to justify participation in atrocities and organized crimes against humanity. The existence of the middle class is a fairly modern development, where previously they would have been called the "mob," and mob rule, and the role they played in the French revolution was that of the "sans coulottes." It's a reocurring theme.

What's notable about the archetype is that it is independent of class because it is an identity that is the effect of an orientation and alignment to power without a guiding principle. The term I have used for this archetype has been "banal nihilist," but I've come to suspect the idea is conceptually closer to something that some evangelicals are talking about when they talk about "spiritual warfare" (big thing with many of them) where there is essentially a force that seeks to separate the individual from the basic human dignity provided by a belief in God, which elevates humans above animals because we can take moral instruction. This evil wants to spiritually enslave people. A similar evil force comes up in other world religions as well. The idea that we are just animals, and our ethical and moral systems are only material and immediate and accountable to other men is seductive and even liberating in a limited sense, but it deprives life of the possibility of meaning from beyond what we can materially percieve in the moment, as though our purpose could be no greater than that of a cow or a chicken. Whereas, to make anything new, necessarily, you need to believe in the possibility of something you can't yet see, and so a belief in a God as representing something greater than your material circumstances ensures this possibility is always in mind. Without it, you're just a cog, etc. There's probably an evolutionary reason for it, but it seems unreasonably effective.

This Homo Sovieticus seems to have analogies to the New Man, the Last Man, and other states of subjugation, and perhaps the lesson from the general theme is that we should be critical of people and ideas that attempt to moralize individual subjugation.
You are lucky. My parents went to buy a new car some years ago - with cash (they downsized their house and had the money leftover).

Some dealers refused outright, no matter the payment method. Even if they waited to have the car until the dealer knew the money was there and stuff. No loan = no car. Obviously, they went somewhere else.
> SciHub being one of my chief concerns

I am literally in the middle of making another backup of my copy of Scihub, this time to LTO tape.
It’s going to take a long time for international companies to get the yuan/cips/China bank corridor working, those relationships don’t get built quickly and most places that aren’t dealing directly with China don’t bank there (as opposed to the UK, Ireland or other countries that act as banking nexus’.

Those Chinese banks can’t even be used for traditional style fx management because you’ll have to double fx from local currency to yuan and yuan to ruble. The yuan fx scene is much less efficient and liquid as well.

What this more likely does is set Russian & Chinese firms to trade with each other. That looks a lot like the North Korea relationship.
The mean is a statistical measure which is very sensitive to outliers. Your weighting function should be more like an M-estimator.

The more extreme the source, the less weight it gets.

Also it means little to combine multiple sources of similar persuasion. Both Russia and China saying something is not worth 2x, since they are correlated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-estimator
We've got a pretty good method for determining what's true. It allowed homo sapiens, a species that has existed for about 300,000 years, to go from developing the first working airplane to the first spaceship capable of putting a human on the moon and successfully bringing them safely back to earth in just 66 years. This method is called "science" but the essence is just to be very observant of reality and [to corroborate observations by logically reasoning about what else would have to occur along with the original observation, then checking to see if those things happened]. Reality is consistent, so all of the artifacts of an event, if accurately recorded, will be consistent.

Often it's difficult to get good measurements on phenomena (eg on a specific battle in a war before the advent of freely searchable, practically real-time satellite imagery) which may mean you have to seek out reports from first-hand witnesses/participants/victims. In those cases, I advise searching for source documents from first-hand sources/legitimate researchers and available source footage, and if you can authenticate the material, you can use it to guide formation of an understanding. There's a lot of uncertainty in this and it takes time, but if you really want to know an answer you have to put the time in.

Obviously it isn't viable for you to dig into every single thing, so I'd say my shorthand method is to lean towards experts who have access to source data/data generating processes of interest and read their papers.

Regarding trusting news sources: all news sources misinterpret some things, but not to the same degree. The editors and journalists are the real QA mechanisms, so use the past accuracy of the company and the journalist in determining the baseline amount of uncertainty you should have in any specific piece of reporting.
In some cases yeah but not for mail. The GMail API is great but to use it you have to spend like $75k on a security review that Google has to approve.
That's exactly what they said about Russia invading Ukraine until 7 days ago. "It's just posturing." Look where we are now, the Russian defense minister just said that Kyiv residents should leave while they can. Do you think that is just posturing too?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30514339
It is your choice whether you use these services or not.

On the other hand, if I decided to use them, I would like rules to make my account safer.

It is not going to make it more difficult to get into your account -- companies that implemented insecure login method will basically have to adjust and that's it.
To a platform, sure. Limiting what other people can do can shape how a social platform works.

For a piece of hardware, not so much.
Perhaps it’s because Bill has actually read the entire request, not just the summary headline, and extrapolated the multifaceted consequences, of which “can’t resolve foo.ru” is just the tip of an iceberg.
I have a Pixel 3a and it has been working flawlessly. Best phone I've owned so far.

I've heard a lot of complains from Pixel 4a and 6 owners though, about bugs in the OS and drivers... Not sure if these issues are widespread or not.
You mean the Signal Messenger, and MobileCoin pump and dump hype scheme?
It's probably uBlock or some extension that blocks Google's tracking.
Having done this 5x times now. My advice is the same I got from one of my first VCs @FirstRound...

Pay yourself as much as you need to not be distracted by anything that would slow you down. It is different for different founders and for whatever stage they are at in life. But if you are a founder with a family, that is gonna be different from a founder fresh out of college.

Obviously you want to spend as little as possible, but not to the detriment of you lacking focus and dedication because you can't pay your rent.
I'm using Fastmail, and I've loved it so far. The biggest thing that landed me there was the built-in snooze feature, which works just like Gmail's. Everything else has worked perfectly, too.
why is google's font so damn tiny? It's like they don't want you to read this stuff.
What do you think about https://www.rocketlane.com?
Have you used Vue 3? There is fantastic TypeScript support in templates, including comprehensive intellisense for the templates in VS Code with the Volar extension. Surprisingly, _refreshingly,_ good.
The man's whole schtick is puffing up his chest. That's what he does (and it means he's unlikely to back down; very bad look for a bare-chested man of action).

But pronouncing psychiatric diagnoses on him isn't very enlightening. If he's a megalomaniac, then half the world's governments are headed by people who are similarly mentally ill. Discounting aggressive foreign leaders as "mad" is bound to lead to incorrect conclusions and bad decisions.

He seems to be motivated by some pseudo-mystical beliefs about Russian national history and destiny. I imagine that by now, there are few at senior levels in the Russian administration that don't share his views. Oligarchs are a different kettle of fish; they're not nationalists, they're egotists. But from what I've read, oligarchs have nowadays been largely supplanted in government by old buddies of Putin from the intelligence services.

I suspect his generals will be the first to crack. They will be worrying about mutinies in their largely-conscript army. Their soldiers didn't sign up for a civil war against their "brothers" (which is what this war is, according to Putin). And generals tend to be practical, rational people.