skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in Russia are human too. A lot of those who go into "national security" type jobs start out with their heart in the right place. I can't imagine what it is like to slowly realise that, actually, you're the bad ones.
Similar here. Resting Heart Rate at 100 for 2 weeks. Had all the Myocarditis symptoms after I took my third jap. About a month since, I hope with more resting things will be normal and my heart wont suffer from permanent damage, but right now things still aren't looking too good. Sigh.
And how are you supposed to buy crypto in this case? :-)
I wouldn’t even get an invite (other than Facebook 3 years after graduation). I am incredibly curious when it comes to American culture as I am on the English web all the time. It’s not that.

The issue is that FAANG has a narrative that FAANG hires graduate students if those students have done reasonably well at a good university. What they fail to say is that this only seems to he true for US students. And it is painful. I don’t get any feedback as to why I don’t get invited, all I can do is guess.

Master computer science

Bachelor information science

Being a TA in programming courses

Being an iOS developer

Being a coding bootcamp instructor

Side projects

I did all this while I while I was studying.

And I still I didn’t get invited.

I mean what more can I do? Tell me, I will do it. I like computing, I love tech. I’d love to see a FAANG and get the chance to experience it.

I didn’t even get a chance for an invite to a graduate position. Instead I got 3 years worth of struggle, a mild depression even. Because I believed the meritocracy narrative. But if it was about pure merit, then I would at least get an invite, judging by all the blog posts I read from people that did.

But I didn’t from any of them. And I hold them accountable. They don’t owe me anything but they lied at scale with their meritocratic narrative. I don’t think it’s intentional but it’s also a problem they are not seemingly fixing. And it then hurts to see that computer science is all about “problem solving” because they are not solving this problem, while they (especially Google) claim to be unbiased and meritocratic.

9 years of studies (6 years in computer science related degrees), 2 years of work experience, good grades. All done in the timespan of 8 years.

No invite.

More importantly, no feedback. Just me guessing in the dark why I don’t get a chance and others do.

It feels unfair and painful. It’s not the end of the world by any means, but it is a stark contrast to university, where I got every chance in the world and I aced it. I owned my education! You just need to show up and have the right qualifications. With FAANG I can say that’s not the case.

I am sorry for the rant. It’s the flip side of ambition. I am one of the examples that you don’t normally see due to survivorship bias, and I didn’t get there. I wanted to work for Google [1] and Facebook [2] in 2018 and they were the highest companies on my list and I didn’t want to settle because I wanted to work passionately.

[1] I liked that Google held empirical thinking in high regard

[2] Like Zuckerberg, I studied psychology and computer science. So I felt academically related to him (or anyone that has done that combination for that matter).
Unfortunately in the West I think this might be identity politics. There is very much a "us Vs them" attitude with the whole thing. To give an example I see a lot of LGBT "allies" with pin badges, flags, etc. To label oneself as being part of that group.

Without flying the flags you are seen as an outsider.
It's as easy as reading up a bit on an experimental drug and deciding you don't need it. Pretty darn easy.
In, for example, an enterprise setting you rarely want individually clever and creative solutions.

You generally want domain expertise shared in a team, and continuously molded to perfection over time.

Mobs and pairs can really shine here, but it all depends on the individuals.

In teams where it works well it’s an enormous value add, in my experience, and the hive mind you reach after a year or two within a team is fantastic.

As a dev manager I let the teams decide, but looking at team flow over time, it looks hard to beat a well functioning pair or mob team. IMHO & YMMV, and so on.
Speculating...every single time? Let's not pussy-foot around.
For Firefox at least, toggling layout.css.visited_links_enabled should fix this.

An earlier article about the visited CSS issue:

https://dbaron.org/mozilla/visited-privacy
>Mildly interesting; I don't think anyone is surprised.

I am surprised. I didn't expect to be Great Firewall'd without fanfare as an European and I haven't seen Google Search be quite that heavy handed before.

I also get a message that I can't access RT's Twitter from Germany nor can I search what they are saying in Russia directly in any of the usual places.
Yeah, but checking each line of code that uses the import is. Especially in big projects.
One definition of Fascism is "imperialism coming home" and for whatever weird reason, Fascists generally portray themselves as being patriotic/nationalist often in the sense of not treating other countries and their citizens as equals, so basically imperialism.
It's still less terrible than its predecessor from MS, which is the crtiical thing for the captive audience in enterprise world. So the bar is low.
Well yeah, it backed the people over Russia in Euromaidan. That was kind of the point of the thing.
You raise a good point. In times of emergency, desperation: nationalism can be beneficial.

For the most part however it seems to be destructive.
> The judges, lawyers, prosecutors and the police

I agree wholeheartedly, but the world seems to have a problem holding government employees responsible for their actions.

Ended up on Wikipedia reading about the history of jury trials, and found this lovely snippet:

One issue that has been raised is the ability of a jury to fully understand evidence. It has been said that the expectation of jury members as to the explanatory power of scientific evidence has been raised by TV police procedural and legal dramas, in what is known as the 'CSI effect'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_trial
This experiment has been conducted numerous times over the decades by many qualified investigators. Should we disregard their work?
Supreme Court Supports Government in Blocking Torture Evidence
As an interesting side, the site gulagu.net (mentioned in the article) is unreachable from where I am right now.
Ukraine is a large producer of wheat - they are the size of Afghanistan, but completely flat and covered with wheat fields.
Breakthrough in Cathode Chemistry Clears Path More-Sustainable Li-Sulfur Batt
It's a matter of priorities. An FSB official will see world hunger as an opportunity, and will think of this as "so these people completely unrelated to us don't want to go hungry, what can they give us in return?"

This is since during most of the contemporary history of Russia, other countries saw a lot of different opportunities here and very few people.
Personally I find your argument disingenuous at best.

> We find sites [...] that are not looking to get paid [...].

So basically what you are saying is that you are looking for free real estate for hidden advertising.

You get paid by your clients while the sites' audiences are the real product.

> [...] are always 100% relevant to the site's audience [...]

I worked in publishing. I worked with many content farms as well in my time. If I had gotten a dime for every piece of content written by an "expert" (but in reality some poor student in most, a general editor in best cases) I would probably have a nice vacation awaiting me.

"information written by an expert" is a nice claim as long as no one:
- needs to define what an expert is
- doesn't need the expert to be an expert in the relevant field

Additionally Google (and others) value recency and pushes good content down because it is "old".

As long as there is a valid business being made with the SEOfication of the long tail by pseudo expert advertising disguised as content with the goal of making readers believe it was genuinely written without conversion goals in mind by a neutral party there is very little chance of this situation improving.
Large-scale compatibility is exactly what semver was designed for.

> this whole idea of automatically updating dependencies is awful.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
As someone who has programmed for a very long time but only done pair-programming a lot last few years, the big things in my opinion is:

- If you're the driver (handles the typing), don't allow yourself to be stressed and just type things someone else tells you to type.

- Language is really bad at comunicating where to make a change on a gigantic screen of text, expect yourself and others to become a bit frustrated at times, but it's at the difficulty of communicating things, not that the other person is dumb. "And change the type to bool. No not that one. Go to the end of the line, then back to the last bracket. No, the line you were at. Yes. Now go to the last bracket. Change to bool." And then take a second to understand why, asking if necessary, becuase it might get more difficult to understand later.

- It's extremely difficult not to get lost when someone else is navigating between tabs, especially if you don't know the code well (and sometimes even if you do).
christo grozev says it's probably not according to his two fsb contacts (though they disagree with some of the author's conclusions): https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513
Tor Browser is not vulnerable.

I don't think you can defend against this by adding CSS rules, only removing them. Extensions would need to parse the entire CSS of a website and replace it, which would be cumbersome.
I remember watching it as a teenager back in 1997. I was the only one laughing in the cinema, it was just hilarious.

It immediately dawned on me after though: why was no one else laughing, really? In Austria of all places.

Hadn’t anyone else paid attention during history classes - at all?

Continuously chilling yet I’ve never been really surprised by the creeping normalcy of fascist thought since the 90s - in part because of Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers.
Does that go for the other 90% of countries that don't have nukes? Maybe Russia should take Canada as it's fairly close by and non nuclear?
christo grozev says it's probably not fake, according to his two fsb contacts (though they disagree with some of the author's conclusions): https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513

edit: missing word
So it's a faraday cage?
There’ll be a day when you’re labeled a member of another criminal regime. That’s how it ends.
Is Google the ultimate judge of good and bad now?
Of course that is reason to freeze the account, much like you would seize a gun from a gun owner who is suspected to have committed a crime with that gun.
I'm more concerned about the mechanism current memories being modified in actual developed cognition, regardless of age/location. Does it pass the "sniff test" if animals can't distinguish the difference?
This would be a massive improvement. It’s frustrating when an extremely obscure word is the same as a common misspelling but spell check is no use since technically it is a word.
You can buy a nice flat in some areas for less than 20k € so I'd say it's quite cheap, even for locals. There's a website that pairs local salaries to time it takes to buy property and in Spain is quite low.

Rent for a room in a city centre goes from 200€, nice flat 500€ big one 600€

Regarding salaries, it's smaller number of currency units but things are very cheap as well, really great place for investing. Infrastructure is better than in central Europe (was there recently for over a month) so it has everything to grow, and it most definitely will.
Which politicians are proposing the worst things, and which media are backing them up? This sounds like a too-broad generalisation. I think the most extreme calls have often come from citizens, and haven’t been taken up by those in authority.
What, by birth destiny or something?

That's like saying no American can escape their shared responsibility for Iraq, or Syria, or Trump. Doesn't matter how they voted, right. People vote in Russia too. Americans could have stormed the White House if they disagreed with the outcomes, or blockaded the city streets with trucks or something .... oh, wait.
Technically, 'nation' can have implications of ethnicity, coming from same etymological root as 'born', though that's kind of losing it's meaning these days if it ever was valid. People are generally a bit more mongrel than they portray themselves.

Worth bearing in mind when discussion abstract concepts like 'nationalism' and 'nationality' though.
Ukrainians describe Terror of living-under Russian Occupation
Yes, but part of the infrastructure of the building.
This may be by design: A certain dampness helps during ironing.

Just something my mom taught me. In typical tech nerd fashion, I don't iron.
If you think that way, then everything is incompatible, because the person using your lib could always do a hash of your lib file and create code that depends on it:

if hash(libpath) != predefinedHash {
log.Fatal("broken compatibility teehee")
}

In the context of semver, "API" means "public API". There is no other API but public API.
Orwell was very far from that. Read Burma Days.
IMO using python at all for this kinda setup with lots of workers is kinda crazy. As there is no usable threading, each worker need its own process. And as the article says, that's a couple of hundred mb of ram per worker. But in other languages, you could have hundreds of threads doing work with the same resources.
There are literally millions of web sites Google won’t index and not indexing this one makes them nasty? Bombing civilians and nuclear plants is nasty. Not making a copy of a web page? Not nasty. Google. has employees in Ukraine and Russia. Now one set is running for their lives and the other is hard to pay.
I posted this first with the link to the Twitter post saying that the source has been verified with two other FSB contacts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30574210

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513...

Of course we still can’t know for sure.
There are also many studies done in the past by qualified researchers and your average YouTuber gym Bro concerning this very subject. was the sample/control significant? Some would argue diet is actually more important than either the amount/intensity if exercise along with recovery time.
> They are also still fighting for their country even though their president is Jewish. Can't be that nazi if they do that can they?

They are fighting for their idea of their country, not for the Jewish president. I don't see how that makes them not neo-Nazi. The US Congress considered them enough of a problem to forbid any aid to them. Platforms like Facebook still ban Azov except for restricted instances where they are praised as defenders of Ukraine.

On a slight tangent, the Association of German National Jews vocally supported Hitler right up until 1933.

> In Palestine it's the government itself.

Hamas is not the recognised government of Palestine. It has been in control of the Gaza Strip only since 2007 while the dispossession of Palestinians is decades older. Not to mention the only reason Hamas found support is because the moderate Fatah was seen as ineffective in protecting Palestinians.

I don't think it has anything to do with an affinity for blond haired White people as TFA seems to suggest. Ashkenazi Jews only make up around 40% of Israel's Jewish population. And you can't really tell Palestinians from Israelis based on skin tone.

TFA doesn't address what I think is the actual reason why Palestinians are ignored. Jewish Americans and Evangelical Christians support the the State of Israel for religious and cultural reasons. Their influence shapes the public discourse. So, any acknowledgement of the Palestinian side is considered anti-Israel and anything anti-Israel is labelled anti-Semitic.

And of course there is the geopolitical aspect. As Netanyahu himself said, the State of Israel is like a "mighty aircraft carrier" of the US.
What difference does semver fail to communicate, exactly?
What is going on with those new accounts preaching against online privacy recently?

Edit: For the lurkers trying to educate themselves, I recommend those resources:

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

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

https://vimeo.com/nothingtohide
Yup.

And the soil is particularly fertile too: the somewhat well-known "black soil of Ukraine" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem
The last scene makes it pretty clear.

"They're scared"

Huge cheer.
Turkey has always had creative taxation schemes - as a British holidaymaker visiting in the 90s, everyone had to pop a fiver (sterling) into a hat at passport control.
The only time I ever see a visited style link is when links aren't styled at all. It's anachronistic and the feature should probably be dropped altogether. If some users want to see it, it could be done with an extension that has history access (or a coarse-grained version of history). Then they'd be able to see it for all sites, not just the tiny fraction of sites that don't style links.
When was the last time anyone in this thread saw an SF BART terminal of late?
> It is not pseudo security. A secure booted system that can only load signed software is the optimal solution for preventing unauthorized code from running. iOS on iPhone/iPad is a great example where you can be sure nobody can insert themselves into the OS unless it is signed by Apple.

Pegasus.
It reads like a lore-dump pickup in a video game. The sort of thing you would find in plain sight in Call of Duty or similar. Maybe COD is more realistic than i thought...
I'm talking about op-sec. Network design is but a single aspect of that, and often doesn't feature at all. I mean this more in the sense described by Wikipedia¹, and not the likes of SecurityStudio²/Fortinet³ (first two search results).

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_security
² https://securitystudio.com/operational-security/
³ https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/operational...
So completely useless fact but "Bagel" comes via Yiddish "beigel" from "Beugel" which means "little horn" (similar etymology to "bend"). In Austria and Germany there are still bread products call "Beugel" and they look like a horn (https://images.ichkoche.at/data/image/variations/620x434/4/b...).

So I suppose the original form might not have been closed yet into a ring.
Alga Biosciences: We stop cows from burping methane
Earth Engine Public Repository Stats
Well, better late than never. When you think about it, the notion of free press/media is just silly and childishly naive.

Not saying things are the same everywhere around the world. Absolutely not. However, there's no way big media, including the abomination called social media, are in any way independent.

RT is propaganda, CNN is propaganda, Al Jazeera, DW, BBC, etc. All are primarily mouthpieces and only speak truths when it suits whoever pays the bills.

If there ever was a time when Google, FB, Twitter and the rest of America's behemoths were not completely in line with whoever sets the tone in the US, it must have been a really long time ago.

It's not a very comfortable view of the world but it's easy to see once you take several steps back and ignore "the news" for a few years
Interesting that posting the translation link directly gets more traction than the link to the original source.

I posted this first with the link to the Twitter post saying that the source has been verified with two other FSB contacts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30574210

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513...

Of course we still can’t know for sure if it’s true, anyone can say anything.

But the whole situation reminds me of the HBO rendition of Chernobyl. It’s all based on lies.
Maybe using is as short form of Viola will speak it by the other parent....
You didn't consider the possibility that the lid is too heavy to blow off, and all you're doing is boiling innocent people with no outcome.
The entire guide just worth a read, even if you’re an experienced pair. Lots of great patterns.

We do full-time pair programming in my teams, and this guide is part of our “starter pack” for documentation.
My wife works as a junior accounting clerk in the finance department of a small-medium (500-ish person) company. She has to reconcile credit cards each month. Yes, it takes days when there are poorly documented charges (federal contractor so all of these charges have to be documented to bill to a contract).

Down to the penny. Two months ago my wife spent half a day tracking down a 2 cent discrepancy when somebody's handwritten 7 looked like a 9.
Sounds great - higher taxes are good.
Sure they can have their opinions. But they should stay in their home countries if they want to support those authoritarian politics.

Those people who agree with Putin may eventually start interfering with our politics. Either by enabling pro-Putin politics or pushing Putin-shaped local flavor. Why let in people who may turn society to worse?
> If there is one thing modern day arabs are known for is they cant do modern warfare.
> It's such a weird situation right now everybody went from virus and vaccine expert to geopolitical expert within 10 min.
> So it’s effective in those environments?

No. Those environments will happyly install the malware code because it is signed by Microsoft.
<script type='application/ld+json' class='yoast-schema-graph
...
"datePublished":"2017-07-17T01:31:05-05:00",
"dateModified":"2017-11-18T18:07:56-06:00"}]}
The article starts with

>When Dr. Frederic Whitehurst initially blew the whistle on the systemic forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab...

And then proceeds to discuss the fraud in no ambiguous terms.
The aircraft that will never fly on Earth
Youtube (ugh[0]) link of the fragment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omc-5zj70M0

[0] Youtube is designed to suck you in and force feed you advertisements. Sorry, I couldn't find the fragment somewhere else.
> The idea that foreign companies shouldn't submit to the laws, rule and regulations of another country is a retrograde colonial idea that reeks of both racism and greed.

More to the point, one cannot dictate the actions of another under pressure.

It's one thing to have a theoretical model of what others _should_ do when confronted with aggression.

It's quite another to stay on the theoretical course when confronted by state actors backed by guns.

Another dimension is those affected by our decisions. One might go down in a blaze of Leeroy Jenkins[1] glory if it's only oneself in the blaze.

If ones actions put others in harm's way, things tend to get far more cautious.

SUMMARY: it gets hard to be too harsh in these situations.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeroy_Jenkins
It’s just like an MOT in the UK, or the periodic checks in most countries for that matter.

The car is exempt for the first few years, then gets checked yearly. Most cars pass with few, if any, repairs.
I don’t need nor want corporations to do decide what is good vs. evil in this world. I can make an informed decision on my own. Censorship takes this agency away from me.
Well said.
Also do you think that Russia military is capable of achieving air superiority? And how this the status changes in case they manage to do so? Ie would NATO be "forced" to respond?
I find spelling correction systems interesting because I frequently seem to confuse them. There is something about the way I misspell that causes them issues. I am often only two letters out, but I get no suggestions. My misspelling tend to involve flipping vowels, a for o for example.

I should start taking notes to see if I can work out a pattern.