skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right the other way. It would be the perfect timing for China. Do you think the west can afford sanctioning the shit out of China now? They can't even sanction Russia properly. Do you think China prefer to wait that the west figured their shit out to depend less on other countries? Plus now Russia, Belarus, depends so much from China... and I bet many other countries are thinking of getting the fuck away from the west financial system, considering how weak that make them, especially now that there's real alternative market / system emerging independently from the west.

Most of all, Taiwan is a very strategic country, because of microchips production. Considering the sanctions (Apple, Intel, AMD, Samsung, Microsoft, Lenovo, Dell, probably more, are not selling in Russia anymore) Imagine the leverage that Taiwan would give to China, and the solution it would be for Russia.

I would be very surprised that Taiwan is not next. Everything is pushing in that direction.

Edit: As other mentioned, the outcome in Ukraine is certainly a big factor, but even if Russia fails somehow, I'm not sure that it wouldn't even make it more important for China to get Taiwan...
A lifetime ago, before the iphone, a friend and I wrote a bartender guide for the Danger Hiptop (aka Tmobile Sidekick). I hand-curated and rewrote most of the drink catalog, and that's where I learned about the Calimocho.

The app was amazing. Type a few letters of some ingredients in the search bar and it filtered the list of drinks down to a subset, eg "ora bour". It even showed you what kind of glass to drink it in. Unfortunately Tmobile balked at having a 21+ app in their app store and it was never released to the public.

To this day I still haven't tried a Calimocho.
I'm left with a similar bad taste every time I take a look at the community. It seems kind of angsty and egotistical, and this gist doesn't help with their image at all. It comes off to me as if he's coming back as some sort of savior to the Python bot developer community. The points made in the original "deprecation" gist were also, at least in my opinion, greatly exaggerated.

I can't really say I'm surprised, however. It seems like it's mostly always been this way with constant whining or drama from them when things didn't go their way.
I think if we’re comparing gas prices in different countries, a lot more parameters also needs to be considered. Like the quality and quantity of alternative transportation. Most of the US don’t have a good public transportation system that people could easily use as an alternative or that people prefer to use in general. Not being able to drive or afford gas could drastically lower your opportunities in a lot of the US.
None of those wars were about winning them, just acclimating an anesthetized public in to accepting the military industrial complex.
Second this, waking up in REM makes me groggy with brain fog all morning. I use a sleep cycle calculator every night.
You gotta go where the people are. I grew up in a suburb of New Jersey. Aging population, gotta drive half an hour to just meet someone for a date. I happen to be slim and 6'3" and I'm sure 5% of the female population would find me decent looking, but it was far from a cakewalk.

I moved a densely populated city in Europe. A student city with lots of grad students. Many of those students are female. Parks and coffee shops all in walking distance. Moved in with my second match on Tinder within two months of meeting. Now we are married.

Sometimes it's just logistics.
The problem with anecdotic insights like this is they don't give any information about the competitors, sure you have direct experience with GE (in a completely different dept) but how does that provide any information about any other manufacturer you didn't work at? they could be far worse, they could be far better. Also different divisions within GE could be managed in a vastly different way from your experience.
ELF: From the Programmer's Perspective
>Defense in depth means the network administrators do not get access to everything because if -they- are compromised then everything is compromised. So you should have multiple admins with limited power over their own subnets and turning off encryption should be like getting a warrant from a judge. This helps prevents stalking also. Network administrators are a centralized primary vulnerability that needs to be mitigated.

A reasonable point. There certainly need to be policies and controls around who can access decrypted network traffic, as well as under what circumstances access to such traffic should be granted.

However, that doesn't mean the capability to do so shouldn't be there.

That said, good policies/controls can significantly mitigate the risks you addressed. Those can (and should) include separation of duties, clearly defined roles and granular access controls.

What's more, you need to hire honest, decent people. Fortunately, most folks are.

If one or more of your employees violates policy (and potentially the law) and exfiltrates corporate data/information, depending on severity, that employee(s) should be disciplined, fired and/or prosecuted.

And "turning off encryption" isn't anything to which I described, or even alluded. Rather, I discussed using proxies to mediate connections between internal and external sides of encrypted (and unencrypted ones for that matter). connections is good security practice.

>turning off encryption should be like getting a warrant from a judge.

That's a ridiculous statement on its face.

Organizations (and by extension, those designated by the organization to do so) have the legal right to examine all data that traverses their networks. Full stop.

Edit: Correct awkward phrasing.
Seems a bit complicated and bandwidth heavy. I wonder if it really performs significantly better than just processing only the keyframes of the full HD stream?

Most activities people want to monitor last longer than a keyframe interval, and object detection is pretty good these days.

Plus, if you do your brief local cache with HLS segments, the HLS multiplexer makes sure that every segment is a valid independent block starting with a keyframe, so you can always reliably catch the activity that happens even a few seconds before the actual trigger event.

But I suppose the 2 stream model makes sense if you want to record 24/7 no matter what, or if you need to catch brief faraway events that might not be clear enough to trip the motion/object detector.
That's a bit debatable. Vlang is right there too. This would all be relative to what people are trying to do. Many people might really be looking for a C and C++ replacement, of which there are a number of viable alternatives (including good old Object Pascal), but then preferences and other factors makes things cloudy.
I don't get why this was downvoted. CBD, unlike THC is not even an illegal substance in The Netherlands. Weed needs to be sold via coffee shops, but CBD pills are simply findable in pharmacies.

There are quite a few studies about it (e.g. [1]). And while I haven't researched it enough to verify any claim at all, the fact that it has been research does mean it's not all that odd that some people suggest a link between CBD and sleep. So there is some merit to exo-pla-net's suggestion.

[1] https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpha0000285
You don’t say where you’re from, but pre-Covid, BART’s usage had gotten so high that planners were trying to figure out how to squeeze more trains into limited headways so that the downtown track platforms didn’t become unsafe from overcrowding at rush hours. Literally it was as many trains as they could fit on the tracks.

So, add SF to your list — it’s not just NYC.

At least, it wasn’t. BART ridership is still down 60+% from peak pre-Covid.
Yeah this notion that you wouldn't simply fork is perhaps indicative of that angst others are talking about
Wouldn't it be easier to just use a higher performance application server instead of rewriting Tomcat?
Can you give some ballpark absolute salary numbers here? It's a different story if we're talking about doubling from US$10k/year to US$20k/year or if we're talking about doubling from US$250k/year to US$500k/year.

The Twitter thread https://birdsite.xanny.family/Tennistetris/status/1473033790... suggests that maybe we're talking about US$80k-US$130k per year for senior developers in India. Presumably that's post-doubling.
I am also working as a contractor and 3-4 year old Angular projects usually are a total mess, there are tons of plugins for simple things and when you want to update npm packages, you basically break the project.

I have found that, using simple JS classes and a small library for example lit.js, makes the project much more understandable and agile after years of code.

Regular fetch and promises, no rx.js and other abstractions on top of it.
I admire that business model (Grinding Gear Games followed a similar approach with their ARPG Path of Exile initially, you could only buy cosmetics, and seemed to do okay with that, as opposed to games like War Thunder where money could buy you special planes/tanks/ships, although I think GGG's approach may have changed slightly after Tencent bought them).

I just hope it's viable when you're taking VC money.
I think the key value of doing all tracking and monitoring based on the low-res stream is that it takes a lot less CPU power to do that, and therefore if you're monitoring 20-30 cameras as once, you don't have to buy a whole stack of NVIDIA Jetson devices to do all the processing.
> Here we may take a break to consider the fact that Russian is not only the language of one country, Russia. It is also the native language for millions of Ukrainians and Belarusians. Therefore it is far from obvious that a Russian-language podcast initiative should be based in Russia.

The fact that some people speak Russian in Ukraine/Belarus does not mean that it’s better to do it there. This is like trying to make an English-language podcast initiative in Republic of Ireland just because English is also the language spoken there. Furthermore, as far as I know Ukraine try to promote Ukrainian language more to distant further from Russia. Hence I don’t think it’s that crazy that they opt for Russia-based office rather than elsewhere, also the fact that there are more Russians meaning that they have bigger target audience.
Can you give some ballpark absolute numbers here? It's a very different story if we're talking about a 2% raise at US$40k/year or a 2% raise at US$400k/year.
Try sleeping with a partner that ends up going diagonal and kicking you in the night haha have not solved this one yet…
I think this bug wouldn't happen in a statically typed language where the attacker couldn't pass a variable of a different type than expected. Dynamic typing makes it difficult to know every possible state your code can be in.
If you're Google and you sell GCP, you give away the tool that helps more customers use more of your product.
I’ve worked in demanding startups where I question my own competence and lethargic enterprises where I’ve never felt more under challenged. It’s hard to find a good job that strikes a nice balance.
Our kids went to Montessori schools and my daughter became a Montessori teacher, so I have a hundred stories about Montessori education.

I read the story and not sure I understand the point. Yes, Montessori teaching is nearly always a private school education. Just like church schools, the parents pay for it and it isn't cheap. We were lucky and went to a public school system that had a Montessori program as a magnet school. Our daughter did go to private Montessori for two years because she wasn't old enough to go to the public school. She did go to the public school version when she was old enough.

I say all this because both the private and public Montessori versions worked just fine. Much of it was the quality of the teacher - it means everything. The author of the article talks of how she bought the counting beads and blocks when she decided the Montessori program was unaffordable. The materials went unused. Well, they don't work in the hands of those that aren't trained as Montessori teachers. The materials are important, but the teaching methodologies to use those materials are more important.

The biggest problem with Montessori teaching is that it doesn't mix well with public school methods. Most Montessori schools are ages 3-11 (5th grade or so). Some go to eighth grade. Very few secondary schools. So, at some point, the Montessori student must become a traditional school student. There will be some period of adjustment because the approach is so different. It is manageable, but it will create some frustrations.

Is Montessori school worth it? I lean yes, but I'm not one of those that says traditional schools are trash. Montessori leverages the student to make their own education path with the guidance of the teacher. In the end, Montessori students are better at goal oriented learning and self-reliance through self teaching. I think most students in traditional schools are spoon-fed more because the learning standards are set up that way. To be fair, it is done that way to make sure there are no holes in the education. Montessori students can have some specific standards gaps.

I don't see the Montessori schools becoming more populist just because it is difficult to set up a broad-based education system for it except possibly in a very small school system (which, is actually, the best alternative for small town schools given how grouping age ranges in single classrooms is a normal part of the Montessori system.) But public systems tend to agglomerate. Large schools are done to maximize tax dollar efficiencies. A niche school system like Montessori schools just don't fit with the public realm.
This particular move does not affect people living in Russia, Mastercard will continue to work within Russia as before. It only punishes people who escaped Russia and foreigners in Russia.
It's for the alasitas where toys and miniatures of everything you can think of are sold. Even tiny bricks and cement bags! I have fond memories of going to them when I was younger.

I named my open source project ekeko based on the alasitas. I'm bolivian
Do you mean US$6000 per year, US$6000 per month, or US$6000 per two-week paycheck? (Presumably not per hour.)

Even US$6000 per two-week paycheck is only US$150k/year, which sounds like it's about 20% of what the same people will get if they can immigrate to the US.
SPELL AREA.

A tower, shaped as a square, a hexagon, or usually a circle, is a series of limited closed spaces, stacked upon themselves. Any area spell a wizard casts, centered on himself, will probably cover an entire floor. Making the structure easy to defend.
Besides, consider the scenario: attackers in the low floor, wizard can see them by a hole in the ceiling. Through the same hole, the wizard can cast a cone area spell that will hit everyone in the floor below.
This spell may not kill the entire party, but the wizard can rinse and repeat, going up the tower, wearing down the attackers, until he wins.
And that is just one strategy the wizard can use.
So, in towers, ONE wizard, can stop an army.
My first big CNC project: An organizer rack for parts
I don't know about that. Modern mirrorless cameras have far fewer moving parts than the SLRs of old.
Viral research is useful I'm sure it just annoys me when the media is framing the lab leak theory as some absurd and incredibly unlikely possibility. My point is that like a nuclear exchange a low probability times a lot of damage is high risk
Control doesn't have to be malicious. For example electric oven:

1) Oven or any other appliance can just list current price of electricity.

2) High power appliances can tell network to book energy (how much/how long) so usage is more predictable.

It is more likely we end up with camera taking photos of our food and sending it to mothership - but one can still wish it will go other way.
Raid and Dm-Integrity
One of the reasons CEO pay exploded over the last few decades is that every company wants to pay “above market average,” which of course is impossible by definition. But they find out what the market average is, then beat it, thus raise the new market average, which the next company then has to go and beat.

I’m sure something similar is going on for software engineers. To some degree, of course it is.
Healthcare is only the thing that people most quip about.

Don't get me wrong, there are many good things about the US (e.g. networking opportunities, better availability of new tech, VC for startups, freedom to do things that just aren't possible in Europe), but OTOH, it's much harder to find safe walkable neighborhoods, excellent public transport, solidly built houses, and in San Francisco apparently human feces are a problem because of a homelessness crisis.
Do we still have moderators here? See you guys later.
Pretty sure per month. That's too low for per annum, while nothing outside per month is common to measure salary, at least in Europe.
TWIV has some very smart, very biased people, who are entirely incapable of recognizing their own biases. A shame, really.
Commuting. Walk or bike to the office. Too far? Take the bus half way. Sweaty and no shower at the office? Bus to work, walk home. Need to pick up kids on the way? Park your car at kindie and bike to office from there.
Never deployed Celery as I got stuck at the docs - it seems way too complicated.

Ran beanstalkd in small deployments, rq in others, and nsq for real queueing but at a small scale.
The US healthcare system has very poor outcome measures across the board; even rich areas in the US have poorer health outcomes than many other parts of the world. If you're young this probably doesn't matter unless you have a chronic disease. Old people might prefer to be middle-class in a country with reasonable healthcare than superrich in a country where decent healthcare is unavailable at any price.
No Idea, but the the range is huge, on the one side you may have small consultancies which may be paying like 8k to 10k INR a month, which translates to 1.2k USD in annual compensation. At the other extreme, you have these unicorns and FAANGs where people are getting 100K USD in annual compensation.
It's less evidence than you think it is.
I’m sure it been said but what happens when the app is no longer supported?
> One popular contemporary analogy is between Russia’s actions vis-à-vis Ukraine and China’s approach to Taiwan.

Is this really a popular analogy?
I don't know the situation of the company, but very often the answer to "Wouldn't it be easier to just change platforms?" is just "no".
I live in Japan and want to give it a shot. Can you give me the step-by-step? Am I supposed to just contact anyone in the hotel industry with a "market manager" title on LinkedIn and tell them I can contact hotels for them?
HFT. Pet projects don’t happen here because we’re a prop trading shop. We can backtest, we can trial, we have immediate financial feedback. If your change doesn’t lead to improved PNL it’s not going to hold.

And, in any case, you’re not going to want it to hold. We all have failing hypotheses. The trick is to have lots of succeeding ones and for the failing ones to fail early.

Whether amazing or not isn’t the deal. The only question is whether it yields more money tomorrow. If it doesn’t, it’s not good.
I wonder if that's true. Most FAANG companies didn't even humor to interview me as a graduate, while I have a bachelor in information science and master in CS. My average grade as an A during my master (8 out 10 in The Netherlands [1]). 3 years later, Facebook humored me. I didn't pass it (poor sleep), but I did pass one coding interview.

So in this case, Facebook would've picked me up while other companies wouldn't even think I'd be worthwhile to even give an interview to. I have a hunch this happens quite often.

If anyone would have a chat with me (email in profile) and see if I'm referral worthy, I'd be grateful :) I'm happy where I am now, but I think I'd like to switch in a year or two. And unfortunately, I don't think I'll get there without referrals.

[1] Conversion guide: https://students.uu.nl/sites/default/files/geo-grading-syste...
Also it means you don't have as hard a time training new hires to think in Googly terms.
> How many 750k engineers are actually producing 7x a 100k engineer?

A huge part of the market is hilarious bad. It's insane. People graduate from school and can barely program, and even after years they don't get a whole lot better.

So yeah, absolutely there are people 7x better.
Well, the New York Times (for all it's numerous flaws) is the most prominent newspaper in the United States. Epoch Times is run by a Chinese dissident cult. Obviously there's going to be different treatment.

I'm not even arguing (although I could) that one is more correct. The New York Times prints an order of magnitude more physical newspapers (roughly 300,000 to the Epoch Time's 30,000), and is thus obviously more notable.

Edit: Those numbers are for the English language edition in the US
It traveled back in time then, must be a new beta feature :)
It's really weird how from my defence of peaceful protest you've totally pigeonholed me and are now diverging onto BLM and Jan 6. It's weird.

>their own tribe

This is the problem in your thinking. These 'tribes' you worry about aren't real. It's an artifact of twitter, of terrible reportage, of lazy journalism and muck-slinging that puts lots of different typs of people in one box because that makes it easy to pick out the craziest of them and and say that they're all like that.

By and large the protesters were/are just normal people who want to be able to get on with their lives and accept the risks they're comfortable with. They spend all their life in their trucks, alone. They interact with maybe 5 people per week, if that, but they're forced to get a vaccination whereas grocery clerks who interact with 5 people every 15 minutes aren't. Most of them already have the vaccination but it's the principle, dammit. And they're sick of journalists and twitterati calling them - and everyone else, for that matter - nazis because a few lunatics showed up to the protest with nazi flags and got kicked out. It's boring that the media keep falling for this shtick. Every single time. You have a group of normalish people with normalish goals and all of a sudden some crazy fucker pops up with a nazi flag. You eject them but then all you hear on the news for the next month is 'nazi truckers...' It's just shit reportage. Utterly shit lazy yellow journalism.

When you finally realise that people just want to be left alone and not slandered and tarred with labels they don't deserve so much of this pointless infighting will go away. But then the media would have nothing to report on.
I'm from Valencia, Spain, and something very interesting to note is that most software developers I've spoken with in here don't believe these numbers. Like, if you tell them that a software engineer in SF can make $500k/year, they'd think that you are either joking (most common), naive for believing that yourself, you are trying to con them, or that okay it might happen to one that was very lucky but as a total anomaly[1] and you misunderstood, like on a lucky exit.

Luckily in recent years (thank God) they've started to learn that they are underpaid, and that SWE is an occupation that ought to be paid more (for scalability reasons) than many other professions, so salaries are rising. Specially thanks to international companies in Barcelona. But in my hometown Valencia, I'm pretty sure I'd still sound like crazy, or like I'm trying to con someone, if I was talking about those "crazy American salaries".

Note: things in Barcelona are prob better, this is just my experience in more "rural" Valencia

[1] I do know it's not common, but also it's not "an statistical fluke" so to speak