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TLDW:
Like most things, confidence has multiple exit ramps on the highway of life. Conventional confidence advice often says...

1. "To be confident you need to have competence" (Dan Lok)- but if you're reading Hacker News you're probably already playing in the big leagues. So competence isn't your problem.

2. "The world is filled with idiots so you should just be confident" (Alain de Botton). But I do not work with idiots and alot you don't either.

3. "If you're surrounded by people who take away your confidence find better people" (Mel Robbins). But if you've ever made or coded anything, you know that you need criticism.

4. "Confidence is an inside job, you fear the things that aren't real" (Sadhguru/ Brendon Burchard). The 'all in your head' school of thought is cute if you never leave your corporate job but making your own pay check is definitely real.
In Romania the gas prices are about 6.38$/gallon. I'm pretty sure average income in Romania is much lower than in the US.
I think because of this you'll continue to see outsized investment in not buying oil from Russia.

I think they may have had the opposite effect in almost every realm they wanted to play in.

They have shown they are not a military power other than nukes, they have pushed nations into fast tracking NATO and EU memberships, They have weakened the interest in turning the blind eye and buying their oil. There will certainly be countries that will buy out of necessity but I expect that to become increasingly unpopular as this goes on.

Even if they take Ukraine for oil, I do not expect them to make back even close to what it cost them, both politically and financially.
I remember when that thing came out. There was a certain population in Germany that would buy French cars in that era, against better judgment.
It most certainly does require root to install nix, as it needs the /nix directory on Linux to work
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I struggle to understand Putin's reasoning as well.

My best guess is that he wants to leave a legacy of expanding Russia's geographic influence. I.e., it was a gamble based on a successful invasion of Ukraine.

My Hollywood-style conspiracy theory (which I very much doubt) is that Russia and China are secretly collaborating. The plan would be for Russia to draw NATO / U.S. forces into eastern Europe, leaving Taiwan under-defended. And then China would invade Taiwan.
1. Sugar is a poison. This is overly-simplistic and reductionist, but it's not entirely untrue. Get rid of sugars, refined and otherwise. From diabetes to Alzheimer's, its negative effects cannot be overstated.

2. CICO is important, but those who say it's the only thing are simply wrong. If you replace the calories you get from sugars with the same amount of calories from fat/protein, you will lose weight.

3. Intermittent fasting is hard at first, but you can do it, and it works. It's much easier once you no longer have sugar withdrawals, so if you do try intermittent fasting then make sure you take a few days beforehand to let the moodiness/jitteryness/etc. pass. Sugar is a drug. It takes time to detox.
Russia creates its own TLS certificate authority to bypass sanctions
>Mac OSX temporarily disables your WiFi in to figure out your location

Uhh, this is not true...I've just confirmed that a livestream video call saw no effect when locating myself in Maps
Man I really hate the new HOV lanes, there are too many negligent drivers that drive below the speed limit, at least with a carpool lane you could overtake.
Id presume that there’s all sorts of constraints that come up when making sure an aircraft is safe for a live human that make all sorts of design choices way more complex. Otoh I have no idea what I’m talking about!
The price is similar to giving your pocket money to the school bully. It's not just a one time price.

Perhaps if the message is "I'm not a bully, I'm a school monitor with a badge to prove it" maybe it's different.

The best question to pose oneself is, if NATO was such a bully instead, where is the moral, good, international aid, charity, role model and respect that Putin has performed in times of peace? Where is his school monitor badge that he should have got?
In the current situation his main objective is not losing face.

Two weeks ago his goal was a land grab.
The pictures that are coming out of this are shocking, if Russians were allowed to view them they’d turn on Putin instantly. If the pictures of Ukrainian suffering didn’t do that then the ones of fallen russians would. Beyond senseless and horrific all because Putin bought his own lies.
The job market balancing act
Just out of curiosity, how do you know the die is designed with four cores? I would be interested to know which chips have cores disabled and which don't.
That seems to be mostly just a matter of taste, but is definitely off putting when coming from other languages. Interestingly other recent languages like rust, zig, and go follow a similar convention to type script. Go has a brief explanation of why they went with this approach [0] so I’d be curious if other langs have documented their decisions.

[0] https://go.dev/doc/faq#declarations_backwards
I haven't seriously tried any of them, but have a look a the list at:

http://lilypond.org/easier-editing.html

Maybe Denemo: http://denemo.org/
Ironically, China hasn't seemed to have this issue for the past decade. Especially at government funded universities.
That the Russians invaded Ukraine and not the other way 'round is pretty much black and white though.
Indeed, it is just a wrapper script, but I think the value is not in the `docker run` script, but in the preconfigured images.

With a premade list of cli tools, you won't have to figure out which image to use, write your own Dockerfile if there is no official docker image, how to mount the current directory (try that on windows), which extra volumes to mount (for persistence of npx packages, or .aws credentials, for example), and the 'aliases' will be compatible with unix and windows too.

This tool seemed handy to me, as it was basically a packaged version of what I was already doing with many separate bash scripts. I haven't seen those tools you mentioned, but I'll have a look.
Heard he's done pretty well at Y Combinator!
> About 1.7% are ...

According to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/ it is more like 0.018 % than 1.7 %.
> In case someone hasn't noticed, there is a war going on in Europe. That is a circumstance where some of these cases apply.

Indeed, there's a war going on and there's a tremendous amount of propaganda being circulated from both sides. The question is, why is DDG okay with amplifying Ukranian/NATO propaganda and not Russian propaganda? Is it because NATO is the "good" guy and Russia is the "bad" guy?

When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, they did so on completely fabricated pretenses. The amount of death and destruction the US inflicted on the people of Iraq was horrifying. If DDG had existed back then, which side should they have taken? The side of the violent invaders (the "good" guys) or the side of the Iraqis (the "bad" guys)?

> So why shouldn't DDG have the right to choose what search results to display?

Of course they have the right to choose whatever they want, however this move seems antithetical to their original mission. If I wanted US-centric state-approved search results, I could just use Google.
> but if you're hoping to hold up type comments until "strong mode" works, well, I just don't think it's gonna work.

I personally don’t want runtime type checking anyway[0]. Apart from my concerns[1], most of which are fairly navel gazey, I support the type comments proposal almost exactly as is.

My hope is that if others are successful asking for runtime type checking, they’re also asking for the corresponding performance problems to be addressed in tandem.

0: We already have runtime type checking: type guards. They have the advantage of being optional and explicit, which addresses performance concerns better than anything else I can think of.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30621120
All tech companies I’ve worked at happily hire anyone regardless of their national origin, as long as there aren’t specific sanctions banning them from being hired.
In a few weeks, there will be no more non-NATO countries on Russia's western border, and you will have nothing to be concerned about.

Anyone who thinks Russia can invade NATO is as mistaken as the Russians that currently believe NATO can, and wants to, invade Russia. There are, unfortunately, hundreds of millions of people who believe one or the other.
Drudge was literally the first link in my results. Haha.
You can start the string from here

http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2020/07/7883.pdf

The idea is that you can express the network as an integer program. Now having that you have two big capabilities:

1) Write explicit constraints that the nodes need to satisfy. Aka if you activate this node, this and that must be activated too but that needs to be inactive. These constraints will be guaranteed to be satisfied when you get your solution.

2) You can solve the network configuration to proven global optimality or at least have a bound of how far you are from the optimal solution. That is in contrast to the current approaches with stochastic gradient descends that find locally optimal solutions with no information about how far you are from the globally optimal solution.

That being said, these problems are combinatorial ones, so scaling them up to millions of nodes would be challenging.
Wegovy is a miracle drug IMO.

Sadly, I changed my employer and insurance no longer covers it... so its 1650/month and doesn't count toward my deductible

Working with a company called "Calibrate" who guarantees that they can get you the meds through their relationships... we will see. But the effect of Wegovy (for me) was very meaningful and I am/was seriously considering just paying out of pocket to continue it.
Here's a great Twitter thread that digs into how poor tires are an indicator of poor maintenance: https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1499164245250002944
It’s crazy isn’t? I’m not sure what’s worse that they continue to try it even though it’s so obvious as to be funny or that it actually works on a lot of social media.
Yes, because this move gives Russia all the bargaining power with China.
I think there is some placebo effect to it. I often see people saying "use f.lux for a while, then try to disable it to see how blinding your normal screen used to be"... but that's because it changes suddenly. If you enable f.lux suddenly without a smooth transition then the screen also looks reddish and weird.
It's not like a lack of sanctions would change their behavior either though, maybe nothing we do will change their behavior. In that case they can do less damage to the rest of the world if they are poor and cut off than if they are rich and able to trade freely.

And there is still a chance sanctions will change their behavior even if in some cases like with NK it hasn't worked.
I don't use Turo anymore, no point at all.

Back in the day Turo was mostly people with somewhat interesting cars who wanted to share them, and rental agencies had nothing interesting, and the pricing was reasonable.

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Now a $60 a day car can come out to more than a $100 a day car because of extended insurance for specific models, Turo fees, weird discount structures, massive deposits (One $70 a day car had an $700 deposit).

And there's no way to actually account for that in searching, the estimated price never includes any of this. So you're left to randomly click around and "guess" which cars don't all belong to the same guy tacking on a massive deposit, or asking for some money on the side.

It all just feels incredibly sleazy, and wreaks of Turo's model essentially failing since private owners care more about their cars than an agency, and they likely had to deal with a ton more claims.

There are also a ton of deeply unsafe cars on there now, especially older non-enthusiast cars. Rental agencies might not be the best about safety, but they also won't keep a 100k mile structurally rusted out econobox laying around...

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I just went through that last week and decided to go with Sixt. I got a rental "A5 or similar" (convertible 4 series was the option I took at the counter), and for 12 dollars a day I get unlimited tolls in CA.
A US bankruptcy judge approved Purdue Pharma and Sacklers' $6B settlement
> All you have to do is listen to him, he spent months spelling out his concerns and motivations.

Listening to Putin's justifications is quite literally swallowing his propaganda.

He also said he was going there to de-Nazify Ukraine. ~2500 Azov Battalion members is not his concern. There are more Nazis in Russia than Ukraine.

He wants Ukraine because they're the breadbasket of the Eastern Bloc. He wants to expand Russia's territory. Just look at Crimea.

Any "fear" or "self-defense" Putin convinces you he is acting on is nothing but falling for his anti-west propaganda.
Ask HN: What other tech roles are out there?
Apologies if this is a duplicate question.

I’m a senior software engineer with a little over five years of experience and I am starting to lose interest. I feel bored by the work I do. I’ve changed jobs twice in the last year and that hasn’t made a difference. Has anyone else experienced this and found a more fulfilling role?

I’ve worked with Rails, many JS frameworks, Docker, native and React Native mobile development, PHP, and some other random things scattered in over the years. All I can conclude is that I’m tired of writing code. What can I do with my skill set? I’d hate to start over from scratch.

Thanks for reading.
When people say stuff like this, I'm inclined to make the distinction between the Russian state and the Russian people. Russia isn't a democracy, so its actions don't necessarily represent the will of the Russian people. And indeed, tens of thousands risk imprisonment by protesting the war, and this gives me hope. However, I've been really bummed lurking on r/AskARussian where many Russians perspectives read like, "I don't like Putin and I don't support this war but the sanctions are worse and the evil West forced Putin's hand and actually Putin is a hero and I love him and support the war". Even still, I don't want Russia to be cut off from the rest of the world, but I also want Putin's murderous conquest to be stopped.
> I would love if we could use this crisis to get investment in renewables and EVs/batteries.

> IMHO we do need those high prices to discourage driving. It is after all probably closer to the true cost with externalities of global warming. Could spur more investment in renewables too if done right.

And you believe the right time to do this is when we have record inflation?

Also gas is hitting $6+ a gallon where I’m at.
i'm not a leader of any sort of country, but i fail to see how shelling and invading ukraine fixes that.

even if it were a quick and easy three day excursion to kyiv, congratulations! your newly annexed ukraine is now... right on the edge of nato poland. and other countries that were on the fence might be more likely to join, lest they be next in russia's sights.

granted, a lot of this analysis is from the standpoint that nato had no plans to be militarily aggressive with russia. if you assume nato was gearing up to use ukraine as a means to get invasion forces into russia, then that shifts things. but there's no evidence that was ever on the table.
If Hollywood's use of deepfake Luke Skywalkers gives "more truth-oriented" folks a good-enough awareness of the technology, and fact-free stuff like the Pizzagate conspiracy is good enough for the "less truth-oriented" folks...then deepfakes aren't much of a threat.
(1) Eat only once per day and (2) weigh yourself every day.

Advantages: easy to incorporate within an ordinary lifestyle because you can join friends for dinner or get togethers without worrying about what will be served, your single meal can be satisfying, each day you can look forward to your single meal, no need to count calories as long as you eat a reasonable meal.

Weighing in once per day is motivating because reasonably rapid weight loss is possible.
You did, though, it's right in your comment: "excuse to not change their behavior today."

And no, plant-based meat isn't there yet. It's something I often choose myself for environmental reasons, but it's still strictly worse than real beef. And non-ground meat substitutes aren't even in the ballpark.
If you’re throwing down the gauntlet, then formalize the description and measurement criteria of slug-related tasks and watch in awe as AlphaSlug slaughters bio slugs in competitive slugfare.
Everyone agrees sanctions will make Russia poorer. What is less clear, and none of your examples show, is if it will change Russia's geopolitical actions.
VPN Apps Save Millions from Censorship in Russia
I have that issue as well and end up using xBrowserSync to keep bookmarks synced between Chrome (Android) and Firefox (MacOS and Windows). Maybe worth a shot. I'm on the waitlist for Orion so I don't know if it works on Orion yet, fingers crossed!
While I can commiserate with the author's feelings and dispute some of his observations, as others already did, I want to make an orthogonal observation.

Software development differs from other engineering disciplines dramatically: a blueprint/spec for a car or a bridge or a building is not in the same ontological category as a car or a bridge or a building: you cannot drive it or live in it.

However, a spec for a computer program is a kind of a program. It just requires "a truly smart compiler" (an SDE). This conceptual connection might explain the shape of the learning curve for software vs other engineering disciplines.
Remember that the first victim of war is the truth. Putin deserves scorn for starting an unnecessary fight that will inflict unnecessary suffering on millions, but focusing on individual acts is basically meaningless, because they'll be spun to death on both sides.
I think we are in a situation where this is a clear mistake for everyone but Putin and certain close yes men.

They are just doubling down on this because they left themselves no out for failure.
I think he'd prefer to own it, but I think he'd prefer to destroy the country rather than see it become part of NATO.

Mariupol and Melitopol in particular are exceptionally strategic locations. This video does a good job of explaining why the land bridge to Crimea is so important to Russia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwzliJF0-SI
I kind of like how my BMW X3 looks like a spaceship, personally. Especially all the lights at night like in the door handles. Maybe someday we'll have the fairings of all cars 3D printed at the factory and customizable to taste when ordering, though, so we can make simpler looking ones too!
Except the genocide piece, he is pretty much Hitler though:

- no opposition parties at home

- few leaders that oppose him get killed

- all protests are quickly ended by the police (brown shirts)

- uses fascism to expand his country: outside threat, we must defend ourselves, focus is on the nation, not the individuals

- uses rich private businessmen to further his goals, when this fails he just nationalizes what he needs

- boosts military spending and might

- keep expanding territory and keeps expanding control

He is different than from the previous, communist dictators in that he is alone at the levers. The high ranking commies were able to remove insane autocrats (Khrushchev), nobody in Russia can remove Putin now.
> Our pricing is pay-as-you-go based on the volume of events we store and the revenue we help our customers generate. That means we get to dogfood our own software for usage-based billing!

So what is your pricing? The website says "starting at $200 / month", but before I go to sign up and try to integrate, I'd like to be able to estimate if it'd be $200/mo for my company or $2,000/mo.

P.S.: I signed up, even got to a notice that tells me I can't go live without entering credit card details - but still no details on pricing.

P.P.S.: Sorry that it reads like a negative comment. I think it's great and I might actually end up using it, but not before I know if it fits our budget (and if it's worth my time).
there's the deepfake visual representation that we're discussing, but what's to say there isn't work being done on the acting side of things? I think there are broad horizons to what can be automated - especially in the world of pure media.
Hardware brightness control for external displays (macOS)
Based on the questions

- company based in Germany
- less than 250 employees
- less than 50m EUR revenue
- no patent filed last 3 years

On the last page it asks for an email address, where GoodIP will send marketing to.
Ditto for my laptop, the software approach is just a bit untenable when I do work with graphics or design especially because you need consistency in these cases.

Personally, I just hit the brightness down button on my keyboard a few times around 8pm. I think windows has this as a built in feature now, too? I'm curious to know what f.lux offers over this:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/set-your-display...
There are too many "dogmatics" in Software Engineering. You want to unit test code that is worth while testing from a business point of view.

If a private method contains a lot of complex business logic, you do want to test it, however, not necessarily if this code can be easily tested by calling one of the public methods.
I would argue stuff like electric adjustable mirrors, seats, good AC, parking sensors, rear view cameras, even automatic transmissions are essential safety features these days. If you put a modern person in a car lacking modern features they're going to be a hazard on the road.
In some areas they're buying up entire subdivisions, raising market prices by buying up all of the supply and out-competing individuals who are looking to buy. That sounds more parasitic to me than filling any "vital need".
I see you haven’t watched The Book of Boba Fett. I can assure you the deepfake technology is now… fully operational.

Everyday misinformation techniques were already really bad, but things could stand to get a lot worse.
without paywall: https://archive.ph/mWWhJ

In today's news:

"I assure you, we will overcome adversity, and we will do everything to no longer depend on the West in any strategic sectors of our life that are of decisive importance for our people".

- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
I don’t know! With citric acid and it’s predecessors, they only dissolve iron atoms but don’t react with the chromium and nickel alloying elements, which is an important combo!
Yeah, thats the imperialist mentality. The west didnt care as much until recently due to being imperialists themselves, but this is no longer the guiding policy (though still a sentiment present in politics and societies).
> Yeah I think symbolically that would have good chance of triggering political action before the election.

Ah there we go, you’re trying for “progress” despite the economy limping along right now. Kick them while they’re down ey?
> NK is not Russia. Russia knows what western brands and luxuries are. There have been lines in Russia to McDonalds, Victoria's Secret and other stores.

Do you really think the Russian government will withdraw from Ukraine because people can't buy McDonald's in Moscow anymore?

China isn't sanctioning Russia. I bet the oligarchs and other elietes will continue to get whatever Western status goods they want through smuggling (just like North Korea!), and the Russia people will have sufficient Chinese-manufactured consumer goods (like everyone everywhere else), just equivalents with different logos.
That sounds pretty awful.

As much as the DC metro area is a hellscape their auction style access to HOV lanes is probably the most straightforward.

It’s nice in that you know how fucked you are based on the price. I remember passing through once and one section had like a $38 toll, I just got off the highway and grabbed a burger.