skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we don't reproduce by budding.

Also it would be 2.something not 2 exactly, because some number of people die from various causes before reproducing.
Unions are insurance against capitalist hubris.
IMO you have to consider there is an information war going on so to me the only rational thing to do is take everything you think you know with a grain of salt.

There probably is a tactical advantage from the Russian side to putting out the idea that Putin has gone crazy.

Or he really has gone crazy. We can't really know but the fog of war spreading to social media does not seem like a great development.
> a meltdown is a meltdown

I'd say that how much radioactive waste gets expelled or leaked and how much energy goes into it makes all the difference in the world and each meltdown is probably unique.
If a union formed when you have leverage doesn't deliver when you do, why would you expect it to deliver when you don't?
> How long did you take to 'rebuild your savings'?

It depends on the pay, current expenses, etc. For me, it would take 1-2 years on average (US tech job paying base close to $200k).

> Is there a target amount you computed? And how does it translate across living expenses, because I'm not living in Silicon Valley nor America.

This varies based on expenses and needs but generally, I would suggest at least 12 months of runway (for me this would be about $50-60k with some buffer, given that I support my family financially). This may take considerably longer for you if you're not in America.

> Is the prospect of not retiring in your 60s a possibility for you?

I am optimizing for financial security much sooner than 60. While I have an IRA account, it's not something I focus on or think about (or even actively invest into outside of when I have a tech job). I have a very high risk tolerance though, so take that with a grain of salt.
Why is Secure Erase never mentioned in these articles? Not every drive supports it but it is a more secure way to erase SSDs and a faster way to erase self-encrypting disks. Also, for disks that require a full overwrite, it puts the disk into a mode that will continue running to completion even after a power failure.

On spinning disks, it might be good to cover your deletions as you go with random data, but you can’t use dd to do that. You’d need a filesystem-aware tool. On SSDs, the TRIM function may help you approach that.

https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase
So what's the solution to this?
I've worn out multiple of them over many many years of using the Kinesis Advantage (and then Advantage 2) (before I went down the splergo rabbit hole).

One thing to note is that people with large hands and/or long finger lengths can find the fixed size hand wells too cramped.

Another thing to note is that they are loud.
Huge fan of my Kinesis Freestyle Mechanical. You can split it and customize it to no tomorrow.
Oh, I get the idea. We're just talking about a situation described by the commenter above where the union is already formed. It is apparently unable to provide any substantial benefit except the hope that it might be useful at a future date.

This leads me to wonder if it's really doing anything of value for the workers it's supposed to be defending, supporting, and empowering. Like the insurance policy that you suspect will be cancelled the first time you try to make a claim.
You don't do war crimes unless you expect to get away with it, which means either you're fighting a war that more powerful nations don't care about, or you expect to win it.

I think it's the later - Putin is not going to lose this war since he's racking up hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars of damage and compensation for injury/death that Russia would have a hard time paying for if he admits defeat.
It will almost certainly be a subject of the current International Criminal Court investigation, I would think.

But, there is no shortage of work for that investigation.
He is likely “rational” but so out of touch after so many years with the actual world that he can only reason about the distortion bubble that gets built up around people with so much power, wealth, and political influence.
I'm pretty sure going from "we can terminate your employment without cause" to "okay these are the reasons we will terminate your employment" is a HUGE stress relief for people.

Unions, even when they're not doing much, bring in stability.
Well, that's a fun political stunt which will never exit committee.*

*If it does actually become law, I'll donate my side project to open-source.

Edit: On another note, the bill has a lot of sponsors, but they all have the letter D next to their names. Not very bipartisan.
Bluff? Putin wants to live out his golden years in unabated luxury after anointing a loyal successor. If he nukes the entire world, he will live in squalor and misery while being hunted by the entire human race. He won't do it. Me hopes. Me also hopes someone in his inner circle gets a nice clean view of the back of his head and does the world a favor.
Washington Post: “The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog soon said the blaze had not affected ‘essential’ equipment and that Ukraine’s regulator reported no change in surrounding radiation levels.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/03/nuclear-powe...
Indeed. And the relative code base size of Google relative to say, the f35, space shuttle, OSs, etc is staggering. What does all that code do?

Source:
https://medium.com/free-code-camp/the-biggest-codebases-in-h...
Based on an advanced monte carlo simulation I had running for 3 weeks on the NVIDIA DGX Station™ A100 supercomputing cluster in my garage, I have estimated that the odds of this bill ever becoming law to be:

. . .

Approximately zero
> We just have to get rid of autocrats and authoritarianism

As if it were so easy!
Scott Bennett
There probably is a tactical advantage from the Russian side to putting out the idea that Putin has gone crazy.

What other explanation is there for invading a European country with close ties to the USA and NATO -- one claim for the invasion is that Putin was worried that Ukraine would join NATO, if they are that friendly to NATO, then he must have known that NATO would help fight.
I know it sounds farfetched but hear me out. Stranger things have happened.

Bitcoin is a speculative asset like housing and used cars currently are in 2022. But the similarities end there. All the other speculative asset classes have been triggered precisely due to quantitative easing policies. Their current prices have been derived from this fiscal policy. As ridiculous as it sounds, bitcoin’s price is quite literally a bet against the future performance of these world currencies. As the speculative asset classes have their foundation in current fiscal policy, Bitcoin is a bet against their performance too.

Bitcoin has minimal carrying costs as an asset. The same can’t be true of other speculative assets like homes which have become financial instruments due to investors pouring their wealth into anything besides currencies in a desperate attempt to hold value over time. In many countries now, and increasingly so, the only way to profit off housing is through appreciation. Rent will not cover the carrying costs of the mortgages taken out against these homes. These assets have entered bubble territory, decoupling from any rational metric like average incomes.

Holding Bitcoin costs essentially nothing. Sure, there are idiots who invested through leverage. But there are many more who haven’t who can afford to hold on through all sorts of adversity. That makes it quite unlike these other speculative assets.

As a backing store for central banks, it holds value because it’s auditable. Bretton Woods fell apart in no small part due to countries becoming sceptical that other countries actually held the gold they said they did. The amount of Bitcoin each central bank holds would easily be auditable by others and that makes it valuable.

It only sounds foolish because we are used to thinking of measuring Bitcoin against the dollar. Rather, view the amount of Bitcoin each central bank would hold as an auditable hash of all its assets. Then view the digital currencies these central banks would issue as denominated in fractional units of this.

In the world where we value Bitcoin against USD, it sounds foolish because we don’t have enough Bitcoin to act as a foundation for all of it. But what if we have too much money in the world? Bitcoin’s fixed 21 million limit provides a means of truly measuring the rate at which currencies are inflated. Some inflation is of course desirable and Bitcoin could be an inherent regulator ensuring a healthy amount of inflation.

Note, this perspective equally pisses off Bitcoin skeptics and libertarian die hard hodlers. I have a very good chance of being wrong of course. But it’s not as farfetched as we’d initially suspect either. The biggest reason against this scenario isn’t the financial aspect, but the incredible shift in power that would result.

Current Bitcoin investors would find themselves suddenly incredibly wealthy and powerful. We don’t typically see shifts in power like this. But it happened to Saudi Arabia and other people who struck it suddenly rich (and powerful) with oil. So it isn’t unprecedented.
Or some powerful group with slightly more sense or at least ambition in Russia will stage a coup.
USSR was a Protocol 1 signatory, but Putin withdrew from Protocol 1 in 2019.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-warcrimes-conventi...

This is either a plan for malice or it's incompetency, either way it's not good.
“the story has been confirmed to be legitimate”

You tell me what part of the story you think is true.

A laptop existing isn’t the whole story right?
Why are there so many bad bosses?
Giving the constant, if not exponential, growth in productivity, this have to happen eventually. Think it would have a better chance if they started with 36 hours however.
> I'm not aware of any company going under directly because of piracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Records#Bankruptcy
A centuries long project which has, without doubt, seen much success.
There are quite a few species that have lasted much longer than two million years.

e.g.:
https://www.oldest.org/animals/species/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/respect-sharks-are...

edit:
Just to be clear, I wasn't disputing the idea in essence. I do think that a large fraction of species (especially mammalian species) have the potential to gain sentience over that time-span, given the right selective pressures.
I don't see it ever happening, capitalists are too powerful and this goes directly against their wishes.
Does someone have feedback on having kids in a Montessori school?

Looking at the materials online, it looks like the overall idea makes sense, but somehow there is a _rumor_ that most Montessori childs struggle to adapt to a _normal_ curriculum after, and generally lean toward short studies and manual jobs.
As much as I'd love to dig into whatever conspiracy theory you're coming up with, I think it'd be more constructive to point out that you've (likely unintentionally) become one of the participants in a Suck/Rock dichotomy[1]. That is to say, I didn't particularly have an opinion on Brave before reading these comments, but now (especially having read this one) I am very much disinclined to try it.

The breathless praise for this browser that appears to add a handful of bells and whistles (and also ads and crypto that people apparently haven't realized they've opted themselves into) really just makes me want to stay away from whatever community has built up around this browser.

1: https://nealford.com/memeagora/2009/08/05/suck-rock-dichotom...
At the bare minimum: unions increase job security and provide a formal disinterested (or even positively interested) recourse mechanism against your employer. They also decrease your employer's ability to leverage the collective pressure of other employees against you.
> My hunch is that it's a consequence of greater mobility.

Most people nowadays just think it's creepy to be mummified. I think your point is also relevant, but less so.
For me, Serious Sam captured some of what I enjoyed about Doom 2.
Play Toribash fighting game by manipulating character’s joints
> Hardware is quite cheap.

Joe Armstrong (Erlang) always joked that if you wanted your program to run faster, just wait a few years and the computing power will increase. I found it to be a profound statement about shrugging about optimizing things needlessly unless it was absolutely necessary.
Isn't this the entire premise of using a virtual environment?

My virtual environments all live in a directory structure akin to

/hostname/{user}/venvs/{python_version}/{venv_name}

This lets me both segment environments by name (aka by project), but also to have distinct versions of these environments if I need to use different python versions for whatever reason.

This is _entirely_ separate from the source code of my projects, which might live somewhere like the following:

/hostname/{user}/src/{project_name}

Another fun trick is using python entry points (https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/entry-...) which wrap the actual execution of a python script with something akin to

sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])

This has the effect of always using that virtual environment's python version, even if I have not "activated" the environment or messed with my path in any way.
It's less a war than a temper tantrum by the world's only mafia-country trillionaire, facing his own guaranteed death soon turning 70

And he doesn't have to "win" via occupation, all he has to do is destroy the place setting it back decades.

If any country undoes all the sanctions and seized property while he's still alive, he's "won".

He doesn't care about the lives on either side and there will never be justice for that even if he ends up hung by his own people (impossible fantasy outcome).

Imagine how even more destructive he'd be if he had unlimited "free" power via fusion, I am really certain fusion will initially cause more war than stop them because the money saved will go into military spending and once you have that buildup, someone always wants to put it to use.
Yes but it is time to revisit that logic.

Software engineers are well compensated relative to the rest of the population but that should not be a factor at all. Its all about value delivered relative to that organization, in aggregate.

Wages have stagnated for 30 years. There is a lot of catching up to do:

Until a single earner can afford a family home outright, in 5 years of compensation, down the street from where the company office is, then we can comfortably ignore any annual compensation package no matter how fantastic the dollar amounts seem, and collectively push for more.
HATEOAS was and is implemented widely and effortlessly in hypermedia, since Fielding was describing the existing web architecture. It has failed fairly dramatically in JSON APIs, because JSON is not a native hypertext. Early API designers tried to shoehorn HATEOAS concepts into their APIs, which was somewhat plausible when APIs were XML, which, when squinted at, looked sort of like a hypermedia. Once we kicked over to JSON (and back to RPC as a network architecture) it became silly.
Copying it down isn't the problem. Falsely claiming that it is associated with a machine that belongs to you is.
The publications on drone bombings of civilians are just a few months old though.
> We just have to get rid of autocrats and authoritarianism

And why not criminals while we’re at it?

Sounds like utopia.

The desire for power might be baked into humanity at a deep level.
Oooh, me too. I have no idea why this is so appealing.
Simply standing out of frame in the background while Microsoft faceplants into the ground at 50mph does not make SteamOS a "resounding success", it just makes it a thing that existed, at best.
Every country has its propaganda and lies, but they're generally couched in half-truths. It's truly remarkable how the Russian flavor of misinformation sounds just like a pathological liar making up wild bullshit that nobody could possibly take seriously. That's been a tradition for decades, as far as I know.
Yeah, its normal now.
Whether or not Russia is a Protocol I party doesn't particularly matter here as the war crime at issue is viewed now as a matter of customary international law and is explicitly within the jurisdiction of the ICC; Rome Statute Article 8, 2.(b)(iv)
What do others currently do to measure the results?
The public-information question isn't even an issue that a court would consider in a fraud allegation. (We're not talking about theft of trade secrets here.) It's a red herring and isn't worth the effort to discuss.
I'd prefer lower taxes, then I could choose to work less hours.
I think it's at least partly that such institutions favor the appearance of doing the right thing over actually doing the right thing.
All it takes is a structural shift. Blockbuster had a 29-year run, most of which was after it wiped out the independent stores that predated it.
Yes that’s the point. gasification turns them into functional fuel’s. combusting them produces much “cleaner” gases than what burning plastic directly would produce.
Most if not all of the examples you mention, the conquering nation pacified the conquered essentially with genocide. Take, for example, Caesar conquering Gaul [1]:

> The term "Celtic Holocaust" was popularized by the podcaster Dan Carlin in a 2017 podcast, in which he made the case that the Roman Republic's actions during the Gallic Wars constituted a genocide. Of the 3,000,000 Celts who inhabited ancient Gaul, one million of them were massacred, while another million were enslaved; this signifies that Gaul lost two-thirds of its population in a case of bellum romanum ("war in the style of the Romans", or total war).

In fact pretty much any Roman conquest involved a lot of slaughter and enslaving a large portion of th eremaining able population.

Another example: the Mongols [2]:

> Ancient sources described Genghis Khan's conquests as wholesale destruction on an unprecedented scale in certain geographical regions, causing great demographic changes in Asia. According to the works of the Iranian historian Rashid al-Din (1247–1318), the Mongols killed more than 700,000 people in Merv and more than 1,000,000 in Nishapur. The total population of Persia may have dropped from 2,500,000 to 250,000 as a result of mass extermination and famine.

[1]: https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Celtic_genocide

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_E...
Maybe they have struggled to be part of the world (west) system, but the west is too greedy that now they're considering they have no other options.
Yes it's also easy way to get cheap new open box one.
I have a set, it is definitely worth every penny.
They would probably be against it for a different reason. The instinctual reaction would be that 32 hours of labor means businesses need to hire 1 new person for every 4 people currently employed, growing their business's headcount by 25%, to compensate. That's cheaper than paying more overtime.

In today's current labor shortage, that would be a disaster. If it was a world with enormous unemployment, then maybe there'd be an argument.
There are quite a few loyal or sympathetic to Russia in Ukraine, due to propaganda and history, how many is hard to say and colored by your opinions. Hard to think not significantly fewer now than in the recent past.

Putin thought he would win quickly, get troops to lay down arms and overthrow the government. For whatever reason he was wrong, it seems clear this is what was expected but pushback has been more effective. Probably in no small way because organizing the logistics of such a large operation is hard and has not gone smoothly.
Thanks!

Btw, you could also fit this into the conceptual framework of accrual accounting, if you modelled counterparty risk.
Most of what you said is irrelevant and deflects from the core point.

This scenario is why SWIFT's % of total international transactions has been declining for years. Sanction powers will be removed from western countries shortly by routing around them.

A large % of our economy is financial services, the market will inevitably crash when alternate routes are chosen.
That's an easy one: follow the money. Enterprise developers are not rewarded for making beautiful, fast, and user friendly software. Enterprise developers are rewarded for getting functionality needed by the business done NOW. Nobody making money decisions care about the actual users. The fact that it takes forever to do even simple things in the software is irrelevant. As long as the business gets done.
The actual text of the bill can been seen here

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4728...
Regarding the question:

“If you are lost in a city would you rather have the wrong map or no map at all?”

I’d talk to a local, because they have knowledge on the topic. They’re a bit like the experts who have spent years in the field here, whose opinions are being dismissed with straw man arguments.

Generally when a non-expert on a topic says “here is a glaringly obvious flaw with an entire field that has been overlooked by everyone working in that field, that I spotted after two minutes of deliberation” - it’s quite a big call. When they then support their argument with primarily straw man arguments and other bad faith tactics, it’s very weak and okay to just ignore it.
What I believe to be true is not my point, its that the story was credible enough to be discussed and should not have been censored. I would feel the same if these accusations had been levied at one of trumps family members as well.

The guardian goes more in depth on what aspects of hunter bidens business dealings are worth looking into(they discuss the laptop here as well): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/27/hunter-biden...
I don't think this works to get everyone instantly to a 4 day workweek. I'm guessing it's actually to change the number of hours you have to work to receive full time benefits, and other such bookkeeping.
If the government can print money and give it away as stimulus, why do they even need your taxes? ;)
Do you have an example of industry-wide, pervasive structural shift? Sincere question, as Blockbuster is a good example, but relatively isolated. By the time Blockbuster was done, viable replacements had already arisen.