skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going to assume that it is more the amount of time to gain enough proficiency to be productive. The amount of physical dexterity and coordination required can be quite high for tasks like this, especially when having to work quickly in non-ideal conditions.

It is one thing to be able to swing a hammer, but to do it with force and accuracy when what you are hitting it is not right in front of you and above your head, is quite another task entirely.

I always find infuriating how people under estimate the complexity of doing things professionally. Software developers seem terrible at this even though they really should know better. Everything looks easy under ideal conditions at an abstract level.
Fortunately, in the US, we have the first amendment as a shield against authoritarians who would dictate the content we see.
...and to bring this back to Russia - what other social media platforms remain in Russia to get the word out on what's going on in Ukraine.

I truly believe that if most Russians could SEE the death and destruction Putin is causing, he might actually get deposed.
What are your sources that elections are rigged in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, New Zealand, Austria, Ireland, Japan, Taiwan, Czech Republic?
Reverse Engineering North Korea's Gaming Economy
> But we also saw Kabul and Afghanistan fall to the Taliban in a day

Kabul might have fallen in a day but the process of the Taliban gaining control over Afghanistan took significantly longer than a day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_conflict_(1978%E2%...

This map shows dates on which various cities fell under the control of the Taliban and there are dates going back into June and July ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/2021_Tal...
I'm not convinced a random solo consultant can get away with the same contract negotiations as an established, well-known agency, even assuming it would rational for both parties to allow it. I'd love to be convinced (and I'm all on board with billing days).
English is a funny language, the words chosen mean different things in each country's way of speaking. I'll try to describe based on my own experience:

A tourist is a person who shows up, stays at a hotel, frequently via the air-port or cruise ship. They don't really embrace the local culture aside from sight-seeing tourist type activities.

A Digital Nomad (DN) is almost like a tourist who lives in a country on a tourist visa - they don't open bank accounts, get national identity cards etc. They might rent an AirBNB and "live" in a country for a month or three at a time. It's not a vacation, it's a work/life 'hack', so they're in a foreign country but working (usually) in their host country. They are working in their host country living in another country.

Expat (Expatriate) is a "tax status", it refers to the money transfer .. somebody who is working abroad BUT is .. in their life-planning horizon expecting to return to their home, - they are like an indefinite tourist, they live & work in a host country, so not on vacation (has a job, place to live, permission to stay & work) .. but it's not actually indefinite. The host country doesn't expect them to stay forever and might even require them to leave periodically. An expat is I think always working or earning income in the host country, but ultimately sending the money back home country.

An immigrant is somebody who has left a place, and is going to stay at the new country indefinitely, they do not make any plans to return home (except to visit family), and perhaps they might want to bring their family to the new country. Their work status is irrelevant, they may not even have permission to work. An immigrant should have long term permission to stay in a country or they are considered a refugee, and may be expected leave, which is why being a refugee sucks so much. (I used to say I was an intellectual refugee from the US, but now that I understand how fucked life is for actual refugees I don't make that joke anymore)

Immigrants by my definition, the new place is their home, refugees are 'forced immigrants' from circumstances. Immigrants want to stay embrace the culture, social behaviors, blabla whereas an Expat is probably going to maintain more social identity & long term concern over how things are going "back home", also maintaining some identity or property, whereas an immigrant frequently would (at least in my mind) sell property, move assets to the new country/currency. Refugees on the other hand, they are staying in a country because it's unsafe to return.

I started as a DN, and now on the expat => immigrant spectrum.
There's a huge advantage in Ukraine just having enough fighters to contest the skies, even if they don't actively use their planes; it keeps Russia from performing unprotected bombing runs.
It's all in the compensation.

FAANG and a few fintech operations pay the big USD. The lower bound on FAANG senior software engineers is apparently above or barely overlaps the upper bound for other massively profitable companies like Intel. So you can't even achieve FAANG comp most places unless you a department director.
Walmart enhances 'branches' by reviving US-Mexico fund transfers
Iff is not easy to hack. It is communication between radios/radars on two airborne aircraft. It is very hard to get in the middle of that conversation.
I made my own.

As of resources, I watched the vim course by ThePrimeagen at Frontend Masters.

There are also vim books from PragProg Bookshelf. Pretty short ones, too.
Would love to know which nation _we_ are ...
It’s amazing that someone thought it was smart to loan a Russian company $1.25 billion with 0.75%!!!

Talk about easy money and a massively distorted interest rates.
It has, but ultimately it’s just expending surplus equipment built up by the Soviet Union. It’s not a sustainable or even sensible approach.

Honestly, the Russians would be better off with 1950 Chinese style mass conscripted infantry formations with modern weapons, atgm, and manpads.
Even without air, can they even do that given the number of Man-portable air-defense systems that Ukraine has?
There was a firefight last night close to those reactors. The battle was over a museum nearby. Here's a twitter thread with the original live stream CCTV footage, clips, and just-in-time analysis in the thread and comments [0] [1]

[0]: https://twitter.com/NotWoofers/status/1499527941377732609

[1]: https://twitter.com/NotWoofers/status/1499545373744017424
Sad to hear this, but collateral damage is what happens in a war.

Just think about the huge amount of heritage buildings and art works that humanity lost in all countries during World War 2.
l is wrong, no go for me
> particularly in terms of the sophistication of precision-guided munitions, a shortage of targeting systems

I think they have weakness in engines as well. It is rumoured that the Chinese stealth fighter J20's biggest weakness is its engine

Another one of their customer country India apparently used American engines in their own fighter jet instead of Russian ones despite higher cost and having operational and maintenance experience with Russian engines.

Interestingly, the Indian variants of Russian fighter jets do integrate a lot of tech from West.
I find the not-old reddit link unusable on mobile as reddit frequently blocks mobile browsers from loading, demanding they use the app for data collection purposes.
To me this seems like using the Unix time convention but changing the epoch time from midnight UTC to midnight at UTC-12:00, the timezone of Baker Island: it's close enough to produce confusing ambiguity (is "2020" or "02020" intended to mean two years ago, or an estimated date when Jericho's pre-pottery Neolithic A wall fell out of use, suggesting an abandonment of the site?), and it makes it more likely that your software will have untested cases with bugs in them.

In the case of the Holocene Calendar the bugs would just be a question of negative dates; in the case of UTC-12:00 it would be a nonnegative epoch time that is nevertheless in 01969 instead of 01970, which will only happen if someone adopts a more westerly timezone like UTC-13:00, pretty much guaranteeing you won't test that case beforehand. (Samoa did something similar in 02011, but it was in the other direction.)

Of course, as other people have pointed out, you shouldn't use fixed-width date fields in your software.
Elon Musk, head of world’s largest EV company, now says we need more oil and gas
So are you against torrenting copyrighted digital goods then? Because people do exactly that. They steal intellectual property and distribute it for other people to use.

Stealing for personal use may be a more minor thing, but it still boggles me that people want to consume the fruits of others' labor without compensating them in anyway, as if creators are slaves who exist only to please.
Are there any YouTube sized cake shops monopolies?
When reached for comment, YouTube policy communications
manager Ivy Choi confirmed that the channel had been
suspended for posting content in violation of YouTube’s
policies. “We removed content from and issued a strike
to this channel for violating our election integrity
policy, and as a result, this channel is suspended from
publishing new videos or livestreams for seven days,”
Choi told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We do allow
for content with sufficient educational, documentary,
scientific or artistic context, which the removed content
did not contain.”

Wow. If you want another Trump elected, Ms. Choi, then by all means, proceed.
Still can't get my recent Thinkpad to use the NVIDIA graphics card.
It just means “fear and inertia”, mostly unfounded and even if not simply not worth it. It’s just that.

Suffered from it long. Then one day I did the opposite and never looked back.
If you can't have a chat in some messaging software turn into a quick call, and that quick call finishes the instance it should, then I don't know what you're doing.

Frankly I do this even when I'm in the same office, because I can keep working while on a call.

Scheduled? Just have a group chat with the participants, if one person misses the call, no big deal. You should be syncing often enough that it shouldn't matter.

As for the informal meet-ups, if there's a need, you go chat then call. If there isn't a need, then there's no value lost.
The Hill is a widely read DC newspaper. Its to government what the Wall Street Journal is to NYC. Ludicrous action by YouTube
A bit different considering the west has alternatives which are not blocked,

Yeah, right up until we don't. Wishful thinking doesn't scale.
gvisor is awesome and works for particularly untrusted applications, but it's not a performance hit we'd be willing to take across the board and effectively only protects you from security bugs rather than other kernel issues. We run thousands of production database workloads, hundreds of load balancers, thousands web apps, ML jobs, batch processing, etc in kubernetes, most of which require as much performance as possible.

When an EBS volume for a pod goes impaired, if it's using xfs you can basically count the whole server as dead no matter how many xfs + block io timeouts you set. xfs will stop being able to mount/unmount any other filesystems once hung in an unmount call for one. With a proper VM, you'd passthrough the nvme device with pcie passthrough and the host would be totally unimpacted.

Also, gvisor's better mode requires kvm, but it's cool that it effectively functions with ptrace when you can't use kvm.
That law was signed yesterday. Yandex has been operating for 25 years. Let's not pretend that they are the victim here. The Russian oligarchy has been fully complicit and even instrumental in getting the country to the state it is in today. Yandex itself has been an arm of Putin's government for many years (https://www.ft.com/content/dce2e23c-15c5-11ea-8d73-6303645ac...).
I hope you're honourably on your way to Ukraine then.

If you're willing to condemn them and their families to 15 years of prison for "honour", it's the least you could do.

My point is that it's extremely easy to condemn people online, but 99% of Westerners have never even had a contrarian position, let alone a contrarian position against an authoritarian government.

Canadians had a hint of it during the Trucker Protest if they donated and had their banking cancelled, but that's been about as close as the West has been to this sort of regime.
Because SALT deduction benefits only go to the top 5% to 10% income households.

That's not a reason. Double taxation of individuals is not OK.
If that is the height of his crimes, then it's no comparison to the extent US (or whomever) went to frame him for: sexual assault (coerced charges), fabricated hacking conspiracy (from a protected pedofile at that), or just about anything.

Note that even in the quoted allegations he pretty much didn't actually even do much at all. I don't know Assange, but I don't have doubts about who to side with.
That influenza virus didn't go anywhere, it's still with us, but people stopped caring after the worst of the pandemic.

COVID-19 will now do the same. That's a bad but predictable outcome of short term thinking.
Off topic I guess but I wish smart watches would shrink. Anyone else find them just too bulky for something you wear all the time? Especially in thickness with the protruding sensors.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, so why there are NO REPORTS on 225 while Ukrainians controlled it? They suddenly lost power on their phones? All of them?
It's funny that Russia's largest tech company is actually Dutch.

It seems very odd to me that (1) NASDAQ can halt trading on any stock for any reason and (2) Yandex has promised its bondholders large considerations – enough to bankrupt the company – should their stock be suspended for more than 5 consecutive days. Even if you disregard the current crisis, how does a provision like 2 make sense for any company, considering 1? Was it just overconfidence? Or negligence?
VR is gonna be big. If we say enough it will become a reality.
> Should Apple employees have quit when the iPhones they designed were being manufactured by labour working in inhumane conditions?

Yes, yes, they absolutely should have done this. They are in the best position to force a change.
Is this why NATO doesn’t want a no-fly zone?
The author may not have the best takes on other topics but this was a good book.
I think I was a bit lucky, but solved today's (#8) optimally in a minute or two.

Pretty cool puzzle, reminds me of this: https://blog.plover.com/math/24-puzzle.html
>"It’s unbelievable. They are on Putin’s side"

What is unbelievable is the level of ignorance, hypocrisy and general lack of awareness in people who have free access to information.
There's a very practical skill that doesn't appear to be taught in school. Someone, somewhere along the line needs to teach how to make back of the envelope estimates of answers to problems.

You should be able to leverage what you already know and get within an order of magnitude of the correct answer.

Ideally this would be something you could teach right after multiplication and division in grade school, then keep repeating through the rest of education.

Teaching it at University is better than never.

----

Example: One day on the way home from work, passing a large Digital Billboard in Chicago, my friend wondered how much an Ad on one of them would cost. I did this math:

Estimate the size of the billboard... 10x4 meters
It has to be as bright as the sun to be seen during the day, which is 1000 watts/meter^2
Power for the sign 40,000 watts
Losses for electronics, etc. 50%
Total power 40kw / 0.5 --> 80kw

Cost per kwh - $0.10
Cost per hour to run the sign $8.00
Cost of ownership factor x2
Cost of profit for owner x2
Cost per hour to rent (bulk) $32
Hours/month 730 (round up to 1000)
Cost per month $32,000 - retail

Fact - 6 to 8 ads usually rotate on a sign, costs are $1200 to $15,000 per month depending on site and market. Thus the revenue from a board ranges from $7200 to $120,000 per month.

It turned out that my estimate was in the ballpark. Everyone should be able to do something like that by the time they get to University.
I don't see why they wouldn't, it's one of their selling points and they offer about a half dozen different codecs and containers.
He predicted this crisis in 2014, and I think he has been quite consistent on saying Putin will act, just that Putin will not occupy Ukraine. Now there is the possibility of Russia taking the eastern part, but his main thesis is still valid: the west should leave Ukraine as a buffer state.

https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...
>” Please let me know if you know how to fix this unfortunate typo.”

You can click the edit button. But you’re probably trying to make a snarky point.

If we are going to say that censorship is justified because you want to prevent violence or insurrections, we open the floodgates to some seriously bad things. Here’s a scenario:

Claiming that people are being systematically discriminated against could lead to violence and death. Saying that police officers kill minorities could lead to another CHAZ/CHOP, which was also an insurrection where people died. As a result, we need to silence ACAB and anyone who delegitimizes our police.
I would recommend reading about people that have gone through revolutions/war conflicts. Especially worker-led movements that have toppled Tsars, Kings, and Militaries. I'd also recommend this for non-violent weapons against dictatorships(https://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FDTD.pd...)

The world is certainly dark but I find comfort in knowing that the majority of us simply want to live peaceful lives, and watch our families prosper.
SaaS’ future will be open sourced
There some open source SaaS products on GitHub, like Grafana, TimescaleDB, Rancher, etc. which one are you interested in?
> To have feelings isn't weak.

I compare it to kids having allergic reactions. If you grow up in a sterile environment your immune system reacts to minor environmental irritants. And that is maladaptive.

My parents were in their 20s during the Bangladesh independence war, when Pakistan engaged in genocide of Bangladeshis: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/genocide-us-cant-reme.... Even leaving aside the violence—when they were growing up, 1 out of 4 kids didn’t make it to age 5. They can talk about the war in, if not neutral, objective and unemotional terms. They would never suggest they’ve encountered any adversity in their life. But certainly nothing that happens in America gets them all that worked up.

And I can’t help but feel that this really does make them better, more capable, and more effective people. They’re able to grapple with reality in all its messiness in a detached unemotional way.
It's not just Russia. Planning air operations is far harder than it looks.

In the initial phases of the UK/French air attacks on Libya in 2011, the French Air Force plus a French carrier ended up only able to combined together sustain a rate of one to two supported ground attack missions per day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opération_Harmattan

If I recall correctly, the primary bottleneck was planning. Once the US joined in and provided planning support, the rate of French sorties per day went considerably up.
could be but not logistics
> Many of the FAANG companies are terrible to work for.

How’s F and G and N (Netflix right?)?

Friend works at G India. Sings paeans . He moved there after 6 months at Uber (where I resigned in a week).

I have always heard shitty things about AA though so I guess that kinda settles it.
The original Abrahamic religion includes a day where you are expressly prohibited from doing anything that even remotely looks like work _every week_.
Until there's a legally mandated dispute process that requires disclosure as to why an individual/org is blocked and whom or what system ordered it, and how to challenge it; your individual efforts will fall on deaf ears. Hell, until there's accountability, you might as well join in on the racket and take payola for hellbanning.

Most systems these days are automated blackboxes of hellbanning, whether you pay or not. It is the 1950's parodies of the USSR "You know what you did, and we cant tell you what you did because you already know". And here it is. Google is only one such.
Certainly. America is not a post-class society, and in some ways has a more subtle and pernicious class system than the UK’s. At least the British are aware of their class shackles!
This is kinda brilliant. Every SaaS has some % of customers who pay month over month even though they rarely or never use the service. If you can just get a few of those customers at a price point that is extremely meaningful to you as an individual but the customer is big enough that it’s not meantinful to them, you can fire all the actual customers and coast.
> The concern is not "how do I keep track of just devicePixelRatio?" It's "how do I fill this window with a canvas at native resolution?"

Not everyone's canvas is filling the window.
> Man, you people who when babies are being exploded and apartment buildings attacked with missiles, an entire nation being invaded, who ask these questions about inconveniencing citizens of the attacking nation, are you even real?

I dont understand the point of conflating a nation and its citizens here. There are Russians that live in the US, and americans that live in Russia. There are warmongers in all countries, as pacifists in all countries.

> The next time the USA invades someone I welcome for you to destroy my financial life and drive my family and I into subsistence farming if it helps to stop us. You have my permissions.

Can we put this into a contract? I'm more than willing to be the recipient of your funds if this came to pass.
> Ghost of Kyiv is western war propaganda

Let's call a spade a spade.
I think it's obviously inspired by that. Too bad you can't click the board directly like in the original (which was apparently made 11 years ago).
The Jodorowsky’s Dune crypto collective wants to make its own sci-fi epic
Ironically it’s an outgrowth of the very weakness in mindset that GP is talking about.
Can you name some more examples? I’m trying to understand…
actually Mearsheimer's view is the opposite of western centric.

It says that there are other big players in the world other than the US that will behave following the exact same set of game theory laws.
The point of sanctions is to make people like these Yandex employees discontented. Before they could shrug their shoulders, going along with it because there was little choice, and live their lives in stability and comfort, sheltered from the atrocities perpetrated by their government. But now they are harmed through economic retaliation. Ideally it drives down Russian support for the war and Putin's popularity, which right now are disgustingly high.

Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, it's drastic and heavily coercive, and it's arguably collateral damage. But it's not like these Russian programmers are having their apartments shelled. This is war through other means, and war is hell.
To provide more context, Nixon's government openly sent thousands of men to their deaths in Vietnam against their will, because of the draft. That of course doesn't justify violence against politicians, but it does suggest a very different motivation compared to "We think there might have been 40,000 fake ballots flown into Arizona from China".
Yandex for things censored in the west.

Google for things censored in Russia.
And the country that sells arms to authoritarian regimes, and press organizations that support said country?
It depends how you see "left" and "right". I see the left as promoting equality, and generally freedom, and the right justifying or increasing inequality. An authoritarian system by definition gives far more power to some people than others, which is an idea of the right. However, systems of government in practice are generally not strictly left or right, and you get the likes of the Soviet Union which gave some degree of economic equality but little equality in terms of power.