skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like ignoring minor typos in articles that are obviously published by non-native speaking sources is not too much to ask.
Diamond Age picks up $50M to lay foundation for the future of robot-built houses
What is Q?
PRC: China's (Mis)-Information Operations Regarding Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Buy house with few dozens of acres of land. Buy tools to cultivate the land. Buy few sacks of potatoes, learn how to grow them. Buy few sacks of salt, ensure it's stored safely. Learn how to weld with gas, buy enough gas to be stocked. Buy medicines. Buy guns. Buy bullets and vodkas. There are many thing to do to survive in harsh times. But first thing you need to ensure: your own home where you can live; defenses against strangers; preferably good community, you can't survive alone; ability to grow enough food; something that could be used as a currency: salt, bullets, vodka.

Also be ready to evacuate from the city when time will come. Move early, roads will be stuck very quickly. Keep your car tanks full, keep few cans of gasoline as well.
By the way, any suggested literature about corporate Kool-Aid?
Like Wordle, but for Chess
I recently had to create a power set in Excel and had to use this VBA monstrosity: http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/tips/powerset.html

I haven't used Google Sheets yet, but looks like I could just use their API and use a simple PIP package?
Offshoring has been happening for a while now. The results haven’t been so good that there will be an increase in the next decade.

Many people seem to forget that talent always comes at a cost.
Try this link from that page: http://www.sleepisdeath.net/slideShow/
Absolutely agree, the crash is coming since ten years.. Any moment.

I dont believe we will see a crash.

Stocks might go sideways for quit a while.

But companies will keep chugging along and employ people.

Companies which will do well, are companies, telling people the world will end...
Use Mobian. It ships Phosh and plenty of phone-friendly applications.
> Probably you're lucky to not speak Russian and thus not being familiar with their propaganda

Sounds like quote directly from Orwell, tbh.

One doesn't even need to interact with "Russian propaganda" to watch Zelensky's Munich speech and make up one's own opinion.
In 12 years working in the US I’ve never worked in a situation where the stakeholders get to set requirements like that; it’s always been us, the engineers, designing and implementing and deciding what needs designing. I suppose I’ve been lucky not to have had to deal with the more traditional model; my impression is it’s more common in Europe and away from SV-influenced US tech companies.
thanks, we're looking to get chewable necklace also but I worry he has a particular attraction for batteries. Part of the battery problem is he wants to put them in line with some magnets. So if the batteries aren't there but the magnets are he goes looking for batteries, no batteries found = meltdown, no special magnets found he likes putting in line = meltdown. So I think probably the bitterant and fake batteries is the best solution for short term results now, and talk his therapists to try to figure out a way to get him to stop interest in batteries long term.

Where the lack of empathy is concerned, obviously people just don't understand how difficult something can be on an extreme end of the spectrum, and that's why we often get the uninformed suggestions that some sort of discipline will help solve the problem. Which I can't be too upset about it, as I labored under similar misconceptions until I had direct experience.
That's a neat little snippet. Thank you for sharing it. :)
Not necessarily research with citations, but the UK.GOV design system is pretty great with recommendations especially around usability and lowering confusion.

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/

There's also the Nielsen Norman Group to read through:

https://www.nngroup.com/
The key is to find something that is really interesting to you and a community around it. This could be photography, for example. At the very least, you will have a good time, even if you don't make any deeper/meaningful relationships.

Statistically, the more people you know, the higher the chances of finding a person you can relate to are. So don't give up easily after a few "unsuccessful attempts".
> The Polish MiGs in particular would not add much to Ukrainian capabilities. Much more important is a continuing supply of Javelins, Stingers, TB2s, medical supplies, comms equipment, and intel sharing.

Yes, MiGs, like all manned fighters, are as relevant today in the age of the drone as battleships were during WWII (and arguably the Japanese did us a favor at Pearl Harbor by definitively discrediting the battleship die-hard dead wood in the Navy).
The biggest outgoing cost? Are you sure? I would like to see figures for that.

I haven't checked the statistics but here in Portugal at least for me the biggest outgoing costs are rents (by a large margin), followed by food. Gas prices and car maintenance costs are also high, whereas public transport is roughly on a par with monthly energy costs.

Are people in the UK all heating their homes with electricity?
ratio of energy_out/energy_in
This is a good point. My fear is that thing just keep compounding.

If tensions rise we could see China and the west getting less friendly. I live in the bottom of the Pacific and we rely heavily on Chinese trade.
While you raise a good point, one aspect to consider is that this conflict is still fresh.

For example, NATO bombings of Yugoslavia are estimated to have caused ~500 civilian deaths according to Human Rights Watch (Yugoslav estimates are higher) in the whole 2+ months.

By comparison, Russian attacks have caused ~600 civilian deaths according to UN (Ukrainian estimates are higher) in 2 weeks so far.

Originally I wrote it does not look like a directed murder of Ukrainian civilians by Russian military, i.e. the cases were true casualties of attacks on military targets. I am less certain it remains so clear-cut in recent days though, my impression through the fog of war is that civilian infrastructure destruction and by extension casualties have become more acceptable as a means to put pressure on Ukrainian government. If true, this would be a turn for the worse for ordinary people on the ground.
The problem is not the midterms. The problem is that the world has been thoroughly spooked by the West cutting off Russia from trade and payment systems. Countries like India, China and Saudi Arabia are already moving to other currencies for international trade. When that trickle becomes a flood, then the dollar will crash - because there's nothing holding it up apart from its reserve status. You already have $5 per gallon gas. Then it will be $10 and you'll have to find ways to buy food without getting in a car and driving the few miles to the grocery store. It's going to be nasty.
I just use en_DK which (while not perfectly named) is exactly there to solve this.
Not a book but you could start here: https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/
No war is perfectly surgical, but Russia itself recently fought successful wars with all objectives achieved with minimal casualties within days (certainly Western narratives around those Russian invasions weren't manufactured to praise them). It's also currently fighting a war in which the main advances stalled because they couldn't supply their troops, and as such has resorted to artillery bombardment of cities it can't seize or in some cases even surround despite incurring more casualties in two weeks than the famously messy US conquest and occupation of Afghanistan suffered in decades.
When nobody has money, the first thing governments will go after is land/houses, you can't move/hide them ;)

It is a mistake, gold is the only safe bet
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That is the right attitude. Spotify, YouTube, Netflix... it all adds up.
I followed a link from this to another article and Jesus Christ.

> I’ve been nursing a serious prolapse injury from one shoot for Legal Porno. It was supposed to be one of 4. I’ve been dealing with blood and shit since the scene. Can’t believe they can sell my pain online but they can

Then the bits about applying lidocaine to anuses to help them get through the shoot... I'm gobsmacked... if you need a local anaesthetic, it somewhat implies that you're doing dangerous stuff.

LegalPorno (now renamed AnalVids apparently) is also owned by the people who own XVideos.

https://denikn.cz/552186/i-was-bleeding-and-ended-up-in-hosp...
If you don't pay the minimum, that tends to make creditors unhappy. Paying the minimum balance stops them from "escalating" - which may mean anything from angry letters to court proceedings.
Tangential, there used to be a web service called Readlists which used to transform collection of articles into a kindle readable book and send it to the added kindle address. I found it very optimal to my needs due to its non technical nature and simplicity. That service shutdown a while back though. Is there any similar service?
Correction: paying off fixed rate debt is arguably the wrong thing to do. By all means, take a good, hard look at any variable or extremely high interest rate debt.
Last time I checked, archive.is required JS and was showing a page imitating Cloudflare's but using reCaptcha. I actually got downvoted after pointing out that archive.is requires JS when linked article can be read with no JS.
OP was asking about hard economic times, not doomsday.
I'd edited my post as you replied. Agree, food generally costs more.

Mortgage/rent, highly variable depending on where you live, house big enough etc and if a mortgage, how many years are you able to spread it over.

Most UK homes are heated by gas. My recent bill went up 50% to £1500/y. Is expected to increase by 50% again this year.
Please post useful information rather than blanket 'nope'. If there are so many, name the top 3 (say) or I can't learn anything.
System – A resource that aims to explain how everything in the world is related
System is a free, open, and living public resource that aims to explain how anything in the world is related to everything else.
Does the canvas need to be created and removed as it comes in and out of view? Using requestAnimationFrame() might also further improve responsiveness.
When the number of websites was so small a printed book could contain them all (and still be reasonably in-date for several months after printing).
It's been affiliated with mail.ru analytics for years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23316085 ("Ask HN: Who owns archive.is, and why are they trustworthy?") (2020)
ZDNet: Top programming languages: Java takes an unexpected leap forwards
> going to the gym

I know this is anecdata but for me going to the gym is great but is an antithesis of a place when you make new relationships. I was going to a gym and a swimming pool for a couple of years and I met zero new people - practically no any discussions except an occasional "Hi!".
A Russian win would be formal secession of Crimea and Donbas to Russia, secure water supply to the Crimea and a puppet government for the rest. The government doesn't need to be internationally recognised, just beholden to Russia and act as the buffer to the West that Putin wants.

If he takes Kyiv and deposes the current government, getting a treaty that achieves that probably won't be that hard. I don't know enough about Ukrainian demographics to know if a puppet government could be stable without a huge Russian military presence. If the latter is needed then it would probably count as a failure.
Read the IPCC reports for the scientific context. The on the ground situation changes all the time (keeps getting worse) and the reports are updated every few years. The IPCC is a UN panel of scientists studying climate change over decades and publishing their findings in a pretty easy to understand format. It's all open and free and the methodologies are documented.

Proposed solutions are pretty much nonexistent/irrelevant because it's not a scientific question anymore but a matter of political will, and the pendulum keeps going back and forth between the reds and the blues with essentially nothing getting done over the years. Various authors range from optimistic to doom and gloom but in the end they are just speculating on things that will not get implemented.
Mate they'll go after your gold before they go after your land.
Tagging/highlighting cross my mind but I did want to keep this project as simple as possible. Tagging could be possible if I include a sqlite database but I don't think highlighting is possible in the Kindle web browser.

Outside of this project you can get tagging with TagSpaces[1] desktop app and highlighting with the SingleFile[2] web-extension.

>I wonder if/how they'd work on a non-Amazon e-reader?

If the e-reader have a web browser it would work without problems, maybe adjusting css properties a bit.

[1]https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces
[2]https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
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The reports of them firing after fleeing civilians and more or less executing civilians in the streets makes it kind of hard to grant them that, even if one assumes not all of those are true.
No, and France does not have any laws whatsoever protecting its French character in this sense. The Jewish character of Israel does not refer to cultural character, but to ethno-relgious character. Israel very explicitly accepts democracy only insofar as it doesn't lead to Israel being led by people who are not ethnically and/or religiously Jewish.

The only other countries on Earth today that have anything similar to this type of language and laws are Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Russia (which both offer passports to foreign nationals of hungarian/russian ethnicity, for example).
Somewhat. This is true for the drag-and-drop interface and representation, but nodes here are an implementation detail IMO. Nodes are a subset of visual programming, and well-suited for representing functional and data-oriented processing pipelines.

In turn, these programming paradigms are well suited to hardware acceleration and distributed/multithreaded pipelines.

The underlying edition approach is called "non-destructive editing", as you can always remove some operations to find the original again.

When it comes to visual programming, the first example that comes to my mind is labview, which I find very unwieldy to work with. As a programmer, node editors are one of the very few visual programming methods I'm comfortable using (at least as long as the graphs stay relatively small).
The other mode of Blazor, server side, is where Blazor really shines. Performance is very fast on the client, and it's a much simpler experience for development that traditional SPA while having a very similar programming model. It's simpler partly because of the cohesive much simplified stack, and partly because for most simple one client apps you don't need to create a server API with all the extra work and issues that brings vs having your server side data in process.

Blazor WASM is still unfortunately slow on load, however the recent Steve Sanderson video on Blazor in .NET 6 showed impressive client runtime performance once loaded, by doing virtualized UI access to in process Sqlite for a truly native client performance much better than the current gen SPAs and getting back to how good software used to be, literally instant scrolling over tens of thousands of records.

But Blazor server is really excellent, recommend it.
Where do you live? Some of the replies seems to be thinking you are living next to a oncoming zombie apocalypse.

What is your threat model?

Is it losing your savings to inflation? Having it taken away by a corrupt government?

Is it an invasion of the Russians?

Is it losing your job? Or the downfall of society to the point where nobody needs a programmer anymore?
Prepare for a recession/market crash? Diversify assets - property, bonds, shares, foreign and local, cash under bed.

Prepare for failure of government/war? Go be a "prepper" - Ie. have a few months worth of food and water stored. (not that hard in tins/pasta/rice). Get small solar panels for phone charging and a gas/wood camping stove. Download wikipedia.

In both cases, prepare to move countries. Often it's better to just leave than try to survive in subpar conditions. Beware that millions of others may be trying to do the same, and lots of governments don't like millions of refugees. Get yourself a passport for another country and you'll be far more likely to be let in.
Excellent advice. Additionally, the house can be owned (and even built) by a housing coop. Most housing coops are meant to build a neighborly community.
Does that quote actually mean anything, though?
I have 30 days per year (plus another 12 days of public holidays). How does “unlimited paid leave” work? Can I just sign the contract and then never show up but still get paid? Or is it just a euphemism for “we expect you to never take a day off”?
The main proposal here for true problem is to normalize longer assembly instruction names. That seems reasonable.
Key point I agree with:

- hire people with domain and technical expertise; don't stumble through without expertise and having to reinvent things poorly and fail.

The author seems to be advising to wait till you have a fairly concrete business idea and the required technical and domain expertise for starting up – especially with your own money – because both time and money are in short supply.

This is great advice if you want to build a new business with you own savings or with debt etc, but without funding from VCs.

If it is VC funded, in the early rounds, you are basically an experimental bet for the VC – a small risk for a potential huge upside. For you too it should be the same – a small risk bet with a potential huge upside (you shouldn't starve yourself).

By the time you get to bigger funding rounds, you have figured out – product market fit and execution – that you and VCs believe this is scalable and hence the bigger round.

If you fail at the earlier rounds, that's an expected likely outcome. If you and VCs have a relationship of mutual admiration, then you continue to be funded to do something else – the pivot.

When this happens, VCs and you should consider the previous investment as mostly a write-off and think of this as a new start. After a few such pivots, the VCs may lose confidence and hence you run out of funding. You may also be burnt out (from the high-stakes decision fueled execution stress) and choose to return the money and take a break.

All this is perfectly normal and expected in VC land.
> Teams working together on a single priority ("swarming") seem to be more successful than teams where each person is doing 1-2 things on their own

It's an interesting one, same as e.g. pair programming; people (and I'm speaking for myself but I'm sure others will agree) prefer to work alone, because software engineering is difficult, brainy work, whereas swarming and pair programming are social activities. If you're like me - introverted, probably on the spectrum, etc - it's something that is well out of your comfort zone.
Diversify in as many areas as you can.

In income terms, diversify away from a single source by learning new skills, training up in areas you're a bit rusty in, learning totally new ones.

In savings or investments: diversify where you put them, spread them around so you're not dependent on any one scenario.

In eating: eat more interesting and cheaper things. Become vegetarian, if you aren't already.

In exercise: drop any gym memberships, use things like body weight to train. Run one day, do yoga the next.

In your media consumption: diversify in sources but don't take this as a cue to read more. Read less, much less, but read better. Ignore social media, it's all b&&&&&t. Find one or two sources of media that are reasonably middle line, and read around a topic in a diverse way. Don't get sucked in to anything, least of all the disaster scenario stuff you'll find.

Last but most important: spend all the time you possibly can with your family. Make them your focus, not your income and "future". Be in the now as much as you possibly can. You'll only have this time with your (small) kids for a very, very short period. They'll be flying off soon. Be there for them.

Best of luck.
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I guess OP meant it's the biggest outgoing cost after rent and food. (Depending on area, council tax is also pretty high). It has gone up 2-3x in the last few months and now costs as much as food for some people.

Gas heating is common in the UK but a) it's being phased out for eco reasons b) gas has increased in price as well
Something you should do, assuming that your salary is sufficient to allow you to do so, starting after month 3-6 of employment. Live on a budget one level below your means, and build that to two levels over time. Add some months of savings, again if your salary allows, and you should be save.
Does the canvas need to be created and removed as it comes in and out of view?

Not really. You could just create them and not bother removing them. You'd need to check if the user already had an avatar if you did that though, or you'd end up with lots of repeated avatars when you scroll up and down the page.
I don't know about you, but I really don't want an extension for every small change one might want to apply to one specific site.
> Until late last year, it probably didn’t take more than an email address to post photos and videos on XVideos. Accessible to a potential audience of millions. These were very low hurdles for people who wanted to distribute recordings of others without their consent, so-called voyeur recordings or „revenge porn.“

So what? Even if I'd require e.g. a phone number of every uploader it wouldn't change a thing. XVideos would still only be able to react, not preact. Content would still remain online, until someone reports it.
If someone uploads your porn tape and you're the original author, just send a DMCA and it gets taken down. No problemo.
Has there ever been a time in the last 100 years when this kind of model has been useful. I understand the attraction, but I can't imagine how we could end up in the kind of situation where what you describe would be useful, without say total nucular war, at which point what you describe isn't enough.
Yes. I was reluctant to buy a Kindle to read my already owned ebooks but using Calibre to sync to my Kindle it's really simple.