skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How did we go from relatively peaceful in the 90's to a maelstrom of insanity in less than 30 years?

I would speculate some combination of these (plus some things I'm missing):

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

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-counterfactual/

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/heuristics

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2022/02/is-reality...

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

> I've read many anecdotes of people going off the deep end with political stuff over the last 6 years or so, people who refuse have a reasonable conversation about or seem to be unable to explain their convictions that bad thing was actually good thing even when shown evidence to the contrary.

And I've interacted with hundreds and observed tens/hundreds of thousands of "right thinking" people who suffer from the same inability to substantiate their "correct" beliefs, or the ability to address legitimate criticisms of their claims/logic without resorting to rhetorical wildcards like "that's pedantic".

> Is there a cure? I wouldn't know. Is there a defense against it? I don't know? Does it actually exist or is it a convenient cover story that I can blame all the woes of the world on? Once again, I don't know.

My intuition is that you just demonstrated a substantial portion of the cure: the ability to implement Unknown() - it is an amazingly rare ability these days. If you don't believe me, read internet discussions for one week deliberately looking for instances of people noting uncertainty in their beliefs, and the opposite: instances of people claiming to have knowledge of things that are unknowable (such as the contents of other people's minds, the future state of reality, etc), knowing the "correct" answer to subjective questions, and various other highly irrational behaviors that are typically excused as "you know what I meant" or "that's just people being people".
> The US rail grid is almost entirely unelectrified

Now the GP comment makes sense. I am certainly surprised but at least now it makes some sense.
I’m sure everyone has their reasons, I don’t really care, there is right and wrong. Someone’s justification doesn’t make it right or wrong.
depends on the video game. If you target what AAA was doing 5 or 10 years ago in term of graphical quality or even specific style like low polygon, pixel art, 2d art..., you don't really need the cutting edge in terms of graphic cards.
"... but make sure you get the paperback or hardcover version for readability purposes."

As opposed to... the ebook?
Offering a tip can even be considered offensive. Something along the lines of "You normally do a very poor job, can I bribe you to at least try this time?"
Because he's been posting reruns for approximately ever in internet time and the community has been the soul of the site for even longer. To be frank, it wasn't a webcomic you stuck with for either the art or the humor. Every now and then, there was a funny strip or storyline, but it's not something that needs to be endlessly rehashed.

It seems the community has moved to another forum, so there's no real reason to keep posting reruns on some more-or-less static hibernation mode site.

I hung out there sporadically for a few years and moved on. It was a small-ish community that was by and large friendly and supportive (I mean, like almost 20 years ago, can't speak for what it's like today). At that time, the regulars knew each other, at least digitally, and sometimes IRL.

People may have come for the comic, but those that stayed stayed for the forum.
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I completely get what you're saying. We've seen many candidates that have expressed the concern of "if I'm going to put X units of time into this, you should also put X units of time into this". A good approach of running a Litebulb interview is to offer to do it in a sit-down session over a call with the interviewer, or to do it asynchronously. When we did sit-down sessions, we offered candidates a choice to just go off and do it throughout the day, whenever they can find the time. 100% of candidates chose to do it async. As it turns out, trying to code something with an interviewer breathing down your neck wasn't a good experience and made them very nervous.

Note that it's an option, not mandatory, to do it async. If the candidate wanted to do it in a sit down session, then we prioritize making time for it to be there the entire session. The reason we offer this option is because devs that have busy lives often can't easily find a single consecutive multi-hour session to do an interview. They have full time jobs, and might have family obligations at home and over the weekends. Basically, the only way to actually do a full onsite interview is to take a day off work to go do the interview. We're giving the flexibility for the candidate to find a chunk of time here, a chunk of time there to complete the interview.

We tested this above approach, because just as you said, we did see a huge dropoff when we just emailed candidates the interview link. After we offered to hop on a call and to be available for support, we saw dropoff reduced to less than 15%.

Also, a good chunk of candidates that drop out of interview processes are senior engineers that can't be bothered with lengthy processes, which is fair. I wouldn't give a Litebulb interview to a senior engineer to begin with. Debatably I wouldn't give any kind of technical interview, actually. If they have decades of experience leading teams at big or high-growth tech companies, those achievements speak for itself. The interview process for seniors should be more geared towards finding a product-team-eng fit, rather than an evaluation.
> and a custom kernel boot parameter had to be set to improve battery life of the device when asleep.

Possibly this means yes?
That is the gotcha. Do you let peoples houses burn down while your fire truck charges? What happens when 50 fire trucks need to be charged at once? Or the giant battery is the thing on fire?

Liquid fuel (hydrogen, gasoline, etc) is essential. So as EVs take over and gas stations shut down, we either need to provide government subsidies to keep some gas stations operational, or invest in a clean alternative.
This sort of what virtual networking devices are trying to solve, no?

Going to a full on box also increases your attack surface by adding a lot of unnecessary stuff.

Plus even with something completely in software you still need the physical hardware in there at some point - and those individual pieces will be running their own firmware and microcontroller software.
Ah, thanks. That makes sense.

Now I have to go back and re-read that paper with an eye toward the statistical techniques used.
Pycon isn't for another 8 weeks though, at which point it will be the perfect time of year to go see a lot of these things.
Well I don't know if that's a good advice but I would say first create a proof of concept of your idea and see how people react to it before quitting your job. Then if you get some traction identify the weaknesses and put the money there ;)
Is this a smartphone? I'm on 3.18!
I wonder if the pamphlet's changed or I'm misremembering. I distinctly remember Math 123 and Math 114 both explicitly excluding Math 55 (It's also worth stating that Math 122 and Math 113 are definitely not freshman courses). But regardless I'd be very surprised to learn a Math 55 student took Math 114 or Math 123. I would also be surprised (although less so) to learn of a Math 55 student in the 130 series.

The Math 140 series have only become more serious courses in the last 10 - 15 years or so IIRC. The 240 series was generally where to go for serious mathematical logic courses (and generally is where you would go after e.g. a first 140 series course in set theory anyways).
I made and use https://hackerer.news which does show IMO, far too much Russia content. Maybe that's useful for you.

As for me, I should look into that 'flag' ranking and see if I can reign in the posts that show there.
I can pay my taxes with money backed by the state - I can't with Bitcoin.
... if you don't charge generation and transmission inefficiencies against it.

Well yes. Statement 'efficiency of X' generally means 'useful work of X / relevant energy input into X on X boundary', not including efficiency of whole supply chain from primary energy source.
There's something special about the picture of a pencil serving as the navigation bar for the comic.
What can this community do to help stop Putin?
Basically what the title says. I am wondering what can a Software Engineer (without any knowledge in how to get into systems) particularly do. Apart from things everyone can do.
It all depends on what kind of programming you do and what kind of math you're talking about. Some types of programming are highly dependent on math, such as 3D graphics programming, data science and machine learning. Others have less explicit dependence on what people usually think about when they talk about "math" in general yet mathematical ideas, such as formal logic, can still be applied to them, for example to prove correctness or calculate time complexity.
I thought of this today because a recent HN thread made me think about how much programming work, especially typical web development, is still drudgery that's begging to be automated away.
I like Wolfram Alpha a lot but google's calculator is faster and does a very good job with units analysis.
Trump surely didn’t think it was a negligible fraction.
The US did not leave Iraq when they were asked to. They simply called a few thousand of them "defence contractors" instead, and promptly returned them all in 2014.

Russia has already annexed territory.

By the way, the US is still occupying territory to this day in Cuba, so clearly the intent remains.
Another + for speedcrunch, a tool I didn't know I needed until I discovered it.
They had B52s circling over Warsaw when Russia first started this whole thing too. Just like any other military plane you see on these sites (adsbexchange.com is better because it does not remove military planes and instead makes it easy to filter for them so you see only military planes) you only see them when they want to be seen. Without the transponder switched on you won't see them there. Russia could still see them on radar though.

Usually only things like transporters, AWACS and the in air refuelers (Stratotankers and such) fly with transponders on. But ask yourself why there would be a Stratotanker circling all day if there were no fighter jets to refuel? Sometimes you can see a Eurofighter or some such turn on their transponders too when escorting a tanker back or during takeoff and landing.
Trucks have a higher duty cycle than cars so a battery pays for itself quicker.

Truckers have legally mandated breaks that largely mitigates charging time.

Charging infrastructure is cheaper than hydrogen infrastructure.
This set of slides specifically addresses an attack on ZFS performance with fragmentation tools.

"Btrfs, ext4, F2FS, XFS, ZFS all age - up to 22x on HDD, up to 2x on SSD."

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b743/7111bf04a803878ebacbc2...

The paper also mentions ZFS:

https://www.cs.unc.edu/~porter/pubs/fast17.pdf
Well, AP statistics covered the area under a probability distribution function and people seemed to understand that -- you look up the answer in a table (or use the TI-83 function). Presumably they'd do the same for a cumulative distribution function.
Rolling blackouts.
Pretty much all the classic Newtonian formulae you memorize in high school physics classes can be derived (relatively) easily once you bring calculus in. A general problem with high school classes in particular--still somewhat true in certain university classes but much fewer--is that there are dependencies across classes. So you end up with a lot of "Memorize this thing because you don't have an advanced enough background to understand why $XYZ is the case."
It’s a bit surreal that a recognition stripe that was probably intentionally meaningless somehow evolved into this especially since it’s not the only one.

Z, boxed Z, O, V, and a few others been used.

Recognition stripes are intended to be on one hand easily recognizable and on the other meaningless so to be not confused with symbols or markings used by any of the belligerents involved in the conflict.

The whole backstory behind them was most likely retconned by Russian propaganda simply because of the attention it drew.

If nothing else it’s a showcase of how lacking the Russian army is in comms, IFF and blue force tracking compared to western armies.

And by all accounts it doesn’t seem to even reduce friendly fire that much since the Russians have been firing on their forces too.
No, nuclear plants go offline very rarely. The have the highest capacity factor of any source [1]. And more importantly, this downtime is scheduled. Where's your source for your claim that "nuclear power plants go offline unexpectedly all the time"?

Nuclear power can be modulated by more aggressively cooling reactors. France has been able to operate a grid over 70% nuclear (over 80% at its peak) without issue, so these concerns about nuclear's inability to match shifting loads are demonstrably false.

Nuclear plants are geographically independent. Sure, uranium has to be shipped. But that's the point: uranium fuel can be shipped. Rivers and valleys cannot be put in shipping containers and moved to where they're needed. Geothermal vents cannot either.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183680/us-average-capaci...
Interesting, oryx has usually been very reliable in the past but there are a few glaring discrepancies in his list. I can see at least a few pictures of double counted losses, and there seems to be comments on that in the article too. For example they show the gear of a downed pilot as proof of a shutdown aircraft (which is true!) But also show the wreckage of the plane he ejected from as another air loss...

The AN transport plane loss is also contested from what ive seen elsewhere. They also don't seem to be listing most confirmed ukrainian losses but that does not necessarily discredit their russian list

But yes it seems my own figure was wrong and outdated by a few days, yet even in the best case scenario we are a very very far cry from the ukrainian figures. It's really not even close, considering they claimed 25 aircraft kills a week ago and most of those pictures are from the past 3 days
Why is it that every time any subject about mathematics comes up there is always a complaint about notation?

Your link doesn't even exactly talk about notation, but about pedagogy. Can you be more specific about which notation your consider "arcane"?
I love this, great idea! I don't need the majority of the fancy features but I can see the use case for them.

I built my own calculator app a while ago [0]. I've used an HP-41C as my main calculator for many years and I have not yet found a good RPN calculator app available on ALL platforms. I wanted a simple calculator that felt like an HP-41C that I can use on my phone + all desktop operating systems and get the same experience.

[0] https://github.com/shamus03/ralc (if you're on desktop, it looks much better if you install it as a PWA and resize to your preferred size)
Everything you are describing would still have an intended audience - the audience may be smaller, or niche, but they still exist.
No, that obviously doesn't follow.

Current scientific thinking is that ultra-processed, ultra-palatable food high in both sugar and fat is likely responsible for the obesity epidemic. Of course, the fat in those foods is, most of the time, vegetable oils (because they're cheap & most of them are healthier than their animal counterparts).

However, it absolutely doesn't follow that vegetable oil in particular is the driver here. If one switched all of the vegetable oil in ultra-processed, ultra-palatable food with animal fats the result will very likely be exactly the same, except for an increase in CVD due to the increased saturated fat content.
More likely than something nefarious, I think it's more likely that both kinds of fat have differing adverse health effects. Saturated fats, as this paper suggests, increase LDL, which is bad for heart health. Polyunsaturated fats, especially when used as cooking oils, introduce free radicals that may cause a host of modern health issues, such as Alzheimer's, type 2 diabetes, and general aging [0][1][2].

The nature of agriculture has changed so much in the past 100 years that it's clear we don't know most of the consequences. Studies like this one correlate saturated fat to adverse health effects, but as far as I can tell they don't control for the quality of saturated fat used, lumping them all into the same statistical category. However, there is a substantive difference on health effects, including cholesterol levels, from grass-fed vs grain-fed meat [3], as well as other animal products like eggs and butter. Even worse is the inclusion of plant derived saturated fats like palm oil, which besides raising LDL [4], is a third-world environmental disaster.

That being said, my recommendation is to avoid fried things as much as possible, especially when you don't know what it was fried in and how long that oil stayed hot. Buy grass-fed beef, milk, butter, etc at the store. Replace vegetable oil with olive oil and avocado oil. I could be wrong about this, but it aligns with the heuristic of eating as our ancestors did before the rise of industrial agriculture, and it tastes better.

[0] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Vegetable-Oil%3A-The-R...
[1] https://academic.oup.com/advances/article/11/6/1489/5867525?...
[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/10715762.2010.4...
[3] https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2...
[4] https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/145/7/1549/4616780?login...
The mechanism for war would be Russians killing American privateers
SoundCloud Removes RT Podcasts
Apple Search Ads Suspended in Russia
As far as I'm aware, all of those OEMs will ship Nvidia's proprietary drivers and not nouveau.
Googling "fully remote companies" brings up many lists of remote companies.

Was there a particular type/size/niche of companies you were interested in than these popular ones?
I tend to divide "monitoring" into two pieces: alerting ("tell me when XYZ is down or failed") and metrics ("tell me what's going on right now so I can look for patterns and bottlenecks"). Those are closely tied together, but they're not quite the same thing: there are plenty of products that are really good at one but not good at all at the other.

Looks like you're looking mostly for the latter, in which case Prometheus + Grafana would be the free-to-play option I'd reach for first. The new Grafana Alerts looks interesting for covering the "alerting" piece. Cloudwatch is the logical choice for AWS stuff and it does both pretty well (although I don't know whether you need a separate service like PagerDuty to really handle alerts), but it's not free (especially as you do more with it), and some of the other options like a managed provider (Datadog, e.g.) become more attractive as you put more and more money into it.
Maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/active?
> Democrats like to ignore history that shows that conservative presidents bring far more prosperity; leftist presidents destroy prosperity.

Oh man, this was my 8th grade understanding in a Republican household.

However it's not very hard to look at the US economy and debt under Clinton, then Bush, then Obama as recent, alternating, and stark differences. Clinton had one of the best US economies in history with a budget surplus, Bush squandered that on wars and the 08 recession. Obama picked up the pieces of a recession and brought us back to economic strength from the brink.

Then there's the crucial point in history where the three consecutive conservative presidencies, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover led us to the Great Depression vs. FDR's birth of the modern American middle class...

(Yes, I read and appreciate Sowell. And when I say the president's names, I mean their administration's policies.)
There were a number of early webcomics, with UF being among the more prominant.

Others I recall:

- "Cafe Hugo", I believe. Tagline included "vague enneui", possibly also "coffee, puns, ..." or something like that. Mostly college students / recent graduates and their life at a cafe. All traces seem lost.

- "Westward Ho!" was a very short-lived, and I think intentionally limited, comic about a young woman engaged in finding mutually-beneficial relationship and/or fighting for justice on the fronteir. Well executed and largely in good taste given the premise.

- "Help Desk", featuring Ubersoft (guilty of Unholy Business Practices). A mention here: https://comics.fandom.com/wiki/Help_Desk And apparently still online: https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2022/02/unprofessional-...

- Avalon High -- a very soap-opera-ish comic about students at a Candian high school. Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20110707193859/http://www.avalon...
That part I'm ok with. Upstream has treated security researchers with contempt for decades.
That little jig would often overshoot, again and again lol.

But yes the switching from scrolling by item to scrolling by first letter was pretty clever, but I found making small adjustments to go forward only one item, took many tries.

Maybe I was holding it wrong, but I don't think that the scroll wheel was as flawless as we're making it out to be.
I have exactly the opposite issue. The fact that Apollo fixes all my reddit annoyances means that I use it way more than I should. If I was forced to use the official reddit app with it's ads and nonsense or the atrocious web page, my reddit usage would drop exponentially.
Oh, the internet!

Following links at the bottom of the submitted page, there is a tonne of information on how this data was collected. There are animations of the different ways the rocks move due to the vibration.[0] I'm assuming the visuals are exaggerated, but that's just my uneducated on the subject mindset of rocks don't move like that.

The pure science/learning/hold my beer/etc aspect of this is pretty awesome.

[0] https://geohazards.earth.utah.edu/data/Rainbow/ms01.mp4
> While I blame Putin for most of this, I also think the collective West has gone mad too. The campaign to cancel, ban, boycott and belittle everything and everyone that has anything to do with Russia is out of control. People are not to blame for the actions their government.

It is small consolation in light of the enormity of everything that is going on, but I think the Russian public has earned some respect from the rest of the world in the last several days. We see that something like five thousand people were arrested during protests against the invasion in one day alone.

I have no idea how any of that will translate into action. Things are crazy right now.
Keep your 20k for now. Focus on honing and studying marketing and sales skills, seek out an audience for your app(s) and figure out how to reach them consistently. Maybe start with a very, very small app you can work on while keeping your day job, don’t outsource anything, do all the dev, design marketing yourself. You will learn a lot through that. Most importantly don’t start something like this without a clear strategy on how to sell it.