skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely this. This is where some other countries are going to when it comes to the digitisation of many currencies as CBDCs.

It is especially towards those part of the ISO 20022 [0] standard which the technologies will be based on some cryptocurrency technologies like Stellar [1][2], XRPL [3][4], Algorand, etc.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/iso-20022-cryptos-5-compliant...

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/12/14/ukraine-commercia...

[2] https://resources.stellar.org/stellar-for-cbdcs

[3] https://ripple.com/insights/bhutan-advances-financial-inclus...

[4] https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-joins-the-digital-pound-f...
One more thing: China keeps making noise about military intervention in Taiwan.

Based on what we see today, what would be the economic consequences for that kind of adventurism? Who wants to hold the currency of a nation that is one jingoistic decision away from receiving the Russia treatment?

That said, I do think the world's strong reaction to Russia - whether or not it ultimately makes a difference in Ukraine - has made the Taiwanese a lot safer. Unlike Putin, the CCP does seem to care about China's place in the world.
You mean, things like humanity? On a more serious note, I think it's kind of cool that archaeology has sometimes worked in kind of the opposite way; everyone assumed the Trojan War was just made up, and then they found Troy.
I excerpted and replied to something specific from your comment which read to me as essentially "even the cases that seem to need it probably don't" which matches both the tenor of (many of) the replies and the title of the article. But if I misread you my apologies.
Lithium Prices
Wait, what?

Are you suggesting that the number of developers does not place a maximum cap on the complexity of your infrastructure?

Because if what you are saying is that nobody should ever get near that cap, so it should be theoretical only, that still supports a correlation.
Another consideration a lot of people don't really have is that enterprise software needs to answer a ton of other requirements that Joe Rando's Cloud App doesn't really care about.

Employers in the US can face consequences if they use software that doesn't have accessibility features, thus not complying with the ADA.[1] Clients of theirs can also sue.[2]

Some countries have multilingual requirements[3], not to mention the markets an enterprise loses out on by not having translations in dozens of other languages.

Enterprise software often has to be built and sold with the idea of scalability ingrained. Flexibility in scale here is where you get a lot of sales, e.g.: "WidgetSys can scale to support 1 million concurrent users". Some customers legitimately need that. This can also help deal with demand spikes, such as tax season, school registration "season", etc.

Some places have strict compliance requirements that don't make sense for most businesses. Most businesses probably don't care about FIPS-140-2, but some do because of who their customers are. Because of this, many pieces of enterprise software require incredibly fine-grained control over audit data.

Some require the ability to connect to LDAP, AD, and OAuth sources (sometimes all three at the same place).

Just this list represents features that can impact "bloat" but a "lean" app often doesn't have. This can get a business in trouble.

Now, the next question is obviously: Doesn't it make sense to have a user-specific build of the software. For example, if I don't need AD/LDAP access, can't I just get an OAuth only version? This doesn't work for a few reasons but let's assume it could. Now you have X versions * Y features worth of SKUs for your software.

It's also worth noting that while a lot of this stuff is huge on disk (relatively speaking) it often doesn't actually need to load and run all of that code. A lot of well-designed enterprise software is designed to essentially enable/disable functionality in a modular way because of it. They also tend to have many SKUs but segment it out along lines that make sense, e.g.: SQL Server Express edition is pared down SQL Server Standard missing a bunch of these features.

An easy way to look at this from the American perspective is to preface every feature tick box with "will the company be sued if we don't support ..." -- at least that's been my experience.

[1]: https://www.ada.gov/civil_penalties_2014.htm

[2]: https://www.nad.org/2016/09/06/the-nad-and-hulu-reach-agreem...

[3]: https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=26164
Edge literally offers you loans when you are checking out on a website. How is that FUD or edginess? Sure, it can be better for battery life, but they still took a "clean slate" browser that started having a pretty good reputation after the chromium switch and began slowly filling it with cheap adware.

Plus, it's one of the browsers that has the most telemetry to the point where it sometimes can phone back everything you type to MS IIRC. So It's not "hate", they just don't like it for several good reasons
> Democracy is ideal, but I’d rather see Russia utterly dependent on China than autocratic and warmongering.

i would not be so sure - russia being subservient to china just means you have china pulling the strings but with more resources in play. And it's not as if china doesn't want to become a superpower.
I think the overall theme here shouldn't be "I'm sure we will lose ppl and that's fine".

Instead you should be an advocate for mixed teams. Why can't your remote coworker just zoom into the meeting with you onsite?

We can all be accommodating to each other.
> streamlined automatic updates

Sure, from the user's perspective. But from the provider's perspective, there is a lot of infrastructure needed to reliably and automatically update on various platforms.

Compiling files per-platform, hosting them securely, checking checksums, binary self-replacement, settings migration for many possible settings...

Compare with deploying the server code, migration only for one data set (the one on the server), and then hitting refresh in a web browser.
They've already told that:

>The globally agreed policies do not provide for ICANN to take unilateral action to disconnect these domains as you request.

Shouldn't be that hard to read a one-and-a-half page long document!
This is rather like blaming the host for the spread of a virus.
Please provide a simple checkbox/tool for all CloudFlare customers which turns on a page that show russian users how to get uncensored news.
I helped training for programming competitions at junior high to high school levels. I also TAed for CS students at a university level.

Admittedly both of these contexts correlate to more maturity and stronger motivation in the students, especially when CS wasn't so hot.

It's still hard for me to believe there's no way one can make a novice productive with templated Java compared to blank-slate Matlab. It's easy to get people off the ground with dynamic typing, I agree. But novices easily drown in the complexity they create, if they're ever allowed to go far without discipline, at which point it's also harder to grade and help them debug when things go wrong.

Templated exercises also provide more structure and predictability, and allow teachers to do more with the same amount of resources. That said, it wasn't necessarily my intention to advocate for using Java for pedagogy (I'd prefer something that's less verbose and has more novice-friendly I/O and GUI libraries), so I'll stop here.
Why did they stop using them?
>What does HN think?

I think Russia's opposition to a defensive alliance is that they have been planning the full invasion for quite some time. Ukraine never joined a military alliance because Russia guaranteed their independence and thusly kept NATO at bay and not 'on their front porch'. When Crimea happened... it made sense for crimea to be their own republic. But Russia's own actions and breaking of their diplomatic commitment is what brought the defensive alliance to the forefront.

As part of the plan to invade non-nato entities, they needed big allies to use as an umbrella. China's no limit alliance is giving them the breathing room to invade.

The expected cyber war never showed up, it seems all hackers turned on russia. Even conti melted down. This only leaves an infowar.

It seems to me, the attempt to crush Russia via sanctions is a primary goal. If a nuclear power can be crushed under sanctions and prevent war. It tells the entire world that war is no longer allowed. Borders are what they are, start building tall. Get free trade going.

The war in Ukraine isnt going well for Russia. They cant touch Romania or Finland. Georgia is rushing to get into the EU to avoid a similar fate. Yes Russia is threatening nuclear war over these but Russia probably cant touch it.

The big wildcard seems to be china. If they invade Japan, South Korea, Australia, India. Which is the fear... that will be World War 3. I can also tell you... that fight will be so broken... Nukes will fly.
Do you have a reason why lookup tables don't work here or are you regurgitating this quote without evidence that it makes sense in this context?
... And then they pull the rug on everyone.
My issue is not that they don't agree with me its that they don't agree with the concept of the internet, that people should have access to information and communication. Russia are actively trying to disrupt freedom of information, communication and the internet with their state sponsored cyber attacks.
My anecdata is I moved jobs several times because the problems we were solving became less technical and more political; I'll take a salary decrease to enjoy my work, thank you very much. As long as it covers regular life expenses, I'm personally much more attracted to an interesting problem to nibble on.
The aesthetic comes from severe limitations. How do you replicate that?
Funding models are important too.

If only “capabilities” or “functionality” gets engineering budget, then improvements without a business sponsor don’t get done. It’s also easier to find funding for a project that has a great dollar benefit to one payer than an improvement with a broader and fuzzier purview. Sometimes this happens under the guise of “turning tech spending from fixed cost to variable.” (The irony is this usually increases costs)

The best orgs get around this by putting a tax on technology budgets. “No matter what you spend, we need one dollar out of 5 more to pay for then sins and debt of our predecessors.” Or call it Kaizen or Continuous Improvement if you need. If they don’t trust you to spend that money wisely, they shouldn’t trust you to build anything new either.
It's fucked up that I kinda understand what you're talking about.
An off-grid communication solution capable of long distance transmission (10KM)
new security feature for Windows 11 that blocks untrusted or potentially dangerous applications

Every time Microsoft does this they make it harder for me to run what I want without making the whole system less secure than it was before their "upgrade".
Would you name some of these? I mean related to the subject...
While what happened in Texas is good for empathy, it’s not exactly the same. The power outages there were due to a poorly regulated electrical market where the power stations froze in predictable ways.

Notice that it was only Texas utilities that experienced the most major issues.
>That's great, but I don't want to work with you, because something you're working on or something you're responsible for is blocking me and I have no way of making progress.

I suggest you try to figure it out for yourself first. I can't count the number if times I sent a message, "hey, bla bla," then 5 minutes later I return "never mind." If you can't figure it out, have some respect for the other person's work and time and send an email or message. They will most likely get back to you by the end of the day if not sooner.
> Less clinging to ideas of good, bad...

> What starts to matter more and more is compassion for the situation of others and their suffering.

I can't understand this at all. What is good/bad if not defined by compassion for others?
It was a reply to:

> I agree that this was the right move by ICANN.

Which turned out not to be a "move", really.
What you consider a feature I consider a bug. Whatever was the predecessor of SWIFT was, was probably not intended to cut people off of international settlements, it was intended as a way to establish trust between otherwise untrustworthy parties. It's kinda to normal banks what the BIS(bank for international settlements) is to central banking.

The very fact that one party can bully others to completely shut off parties from international banking is probably not what a lot of countries thought when they joined the system.

The Chinese' CIPS actually uses the SWIFT messaging system underneath, although I imagine China to be as neutral as the US/SWIFT when their own interests are at risk.

As much as I dislike Crypto what it is today, in a way the idea behind it is supposed to decentralize the trust system that is at the core of SWIFT. Otherwise you should consider that the only way you can have a truely neutral settlement party(i.e. a neutral SWIFT), is if it is run in a country that is strong enough to have a fully independent economy(already unlikely) and has enough military power to support itself. But then the latters interest in global power would probably directly interfere with the concept of neutrality.
> pointers-as-explicit-references are far easier to comprehend than Java's esoterica.

What is esoteric about Java’s references? They are basically equivalent to C pointers without arithmetics and marketed as references. It is pretty much the same for most high level languages.
Vietnam is definitely neutral to both parties. They can't afford to pick sides at all. In fact they have a 3 N's policy: no foreign military bases, no alliances, no aligning with one country against another.

I'm not sure where you get this idea that they are US aligned. This is specifically against their policy. They play a very balanced game as they should given their big neighbour...

https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/vietnams-defense-policy-of-n...
One thing I've been doing with a lot of stuff is just keeping medications in the original packaging. A lot of stuff just looks the same because it's all from the same manufacturers.
I had a private tour of the Tyco Resolute about 12 years ago. I should dig out the photos. Absolutely amazing to see the technology implemented to lay, recover, and repair cables. Also the control room technologies that allow the ship to hold position in many differing conditions. Reading the article was so similar to the description of processes the captain provided.
Ok, that's enough. After years of trying to explain to you why posting like this is unacceptable on HN, I think we have to ban this account again for now.

Obviously emotions and tensions are super high right now, but (a) that's a reason not to post like this, and (b) this has been a problem for a long time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: here's what I mean - and this doesn't include the large number of emails:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470909 (Feb 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621256 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26896780 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892834 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630216 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630202 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843844 (Jan 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20072350 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18802969 (Jan 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658648 (Nov 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786407 (July 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511792 (Jan 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13464959 (Jan 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446598 (Jan 2017)
10000% Nuclear. France just announced a massive Nuclear project, meanwhile in the USA, the NRC bankrupts every project with non-stop delays instead of timely constructive work with designers, builders, and investors.
Not just a name, a version number. -_-
Starting in April, job posting for NYC will require posting compensation in the ad. The same law exists for Colorado.

Likely starting in April you’ll start to see more and more salaries being posted.
In between those, VGG was parameterized by layers, though severely limited in scope (16-19 layers).
My plumber has a personal agenda that is different from mine, yet I hire a plumber to do my plumbing. Sure, politicians have personal agendas. They also might have expertise. Do you know more than Biden and his team about Putin, Russia and the Ukraine?
Every situation is unique, but if you really want to compare the two, the Israel/Palestine situation is closer to the territory in eastern Ukraine that has been contested for 7-8 years at this point. No one was banning Russia for that ongoing conflict. Heck, even the Crimea sanctions had been mostly lifted.
> Even when doing it "right," these rapid at-home tests instill horror, social and mental problems, and all sorts of insane power hierarchies that confuse young, growing minds. The testing itself is toxic.

"We're off to visit grandma, I'm gonna q-tip your nostril for ten seconds" has not induced much horror in my children. In fact, they're significantly more upset when I tell them they have to go back and wash the soap out of their hair after showering when I can still see suds in it. That produces a full-on tantrum.

The only way kids are likely to see the occasional nose swab as toxic and horrifying is if the parents are priming them for that with their own histrionics.
Do you happen to remember how did you find Requestly? Was it google search and which query?
End-to-End Referring Video Object Segmentation with Multimodal Transformers
Overall I've had very good luck with the RF performance of external WiFi sticks. All too often the antennas inside laptops and phones are really an afterthought so the WiFi and (particularly) Bluetooth performance is awful.
That's only true in digital systems. In bureaucracies it's easy to do, you just have someone approve exceptions based on unspecified rules and label non-compliant accounts as compliant or ignore their non-compliance. There's a recurrent meme in the tech world to try to treat the law and governments like rigid rule bound computers but they're not, it's a system composed of people and people bend rules every day.
Aww man I feel terrible for the crabs. But I doubt the impact to them, no, I doubt the save-the-crabs-lobby will out influence the under-water-power lobby. RIP brown crabs.
Well, 2 and 4 are also the disadvantages of remote. I've seen multiple projects generating millions of dollars a year that were originally spawned by unplanned interactions without an agenda between engineers and sales guys. You're presuming a working model where your only role is accepting requirements in planning meetings and outputting code that meets them, and a lot of teams don't work that way.
> I suspect "Oh that's wonderful" is not meant to be literally interpreted as him thinking it's wonderful.

Yes he abso-fucking-lutely means it's "wonderful", only not in the way you apparently misinterpreted it.

> I also don't think he actually sees those military forces as true peacekeepers either.

No, of course not. Where on Earth do you even get such an idea from? You're literally the first person I've seen even entertaining that hypothesis.

> To me that sounds like he's mocking the idea that the force is actually for peacekeeping because it is the size and composition of an army.

Yes, of course he's mocking that -- in admiration of the sheer audacity of using such a transparent lie. That is what's so "wonderful" about it, in his world -- it's exactly his own MO, but on a scale he has never got close to himself. He's (possibly literally) pissing his pants with glee over Putler's chutzpah.

And that's why you can clearly hear from his voice that "We should do that on the Mexican border" was not sarcasm: It's a 100% serious recommendation that the USA should do the same, unilaterally declare some piece of Mexico "independent" and then go in and "peacekeep" it for themselves.
I will pay you $1 if you find and return my $100 bill
Community effort polyglot prints different value for each language (2016)
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You'd never reach this on a regular Ascension run, and it would probably still die against the Heart.
Say openly "I don't care about Ukraine"!
From the Chinese perspective, of the USA has their Saudi, why can't they have their Russia? For the Russian commoners it will be a bad deal, but if the deal can be made attractive enough for the Russian leadership there seems to little they can do.
A Simple 3-Step AzureML Pipeline (2020)
This is not about the US and you are misinterpreting the baker's Supreme Court case anyways
If you want to fill the map of France with red color then search for MARTIN.
Toki Pona: The 120-Word Language
Just guessing, but maybe is the natural consequence of asymmetric last-mile internet technologies like (ADSL/cable) where you _must_ allocate separate bands for up/down. This is even true for LTE I think.
Why Tournaments Support Better Communities Than Ladders
You don't need to invade, it's within artillery range
>My point is that "let's invest in great offices for those who want, but let people do what they want regardless" is not really an option, because you are paying the organisational and financial price, and not really getting the benefits of either.

Amazing how the realities of our financial system and transaction structure basically necessitates projection of a management groups will on others isn't it?

Couldn't have anything to do with the overrepresentation of psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies amongst corporate decisionmakers...