skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, if you treat all the russian people as enemies, than they will in fact all become your enemies. If some oligarchs were (secretly) opposing Putin before - then this is the way to bind them to Putin.

"It is not possible to straddle the middle and try to apply the same sets of rules to every actor"

And this would be, how justice is supposed to work. Apply the same rules to every actor.
Otherwise it is not justice and you loose every credibility, when you claim to wage wars in the name of "justice". It becomes just a meaningless word and you no different from the bad guys.

"and celebrate our allies"

So hooray to the great rulers of Saudi Arabia and co. May they live long and prosper, bomb the shit out of their enemies in Yemen(370000+ deaths so far) and stone their own women to death, if they dare to speak up and disobey.
Agreed. I prefer:

"The salary and benefits package I'm given is a direct measure of how much I'm valued as an employee. This other company values me 25% higher".
Can we not still do this? Can someone reach out to the vanced team to discuss this?
It's likely most of those packages were created on the job and the person left the company (and package maintenance) after 1-2 years
With .NET it's been really interesting watching the journey to greater and greater performance - there's been so many performance optimizations that weren't implemented for 1-2 decades. So .. watch this space, possibly JIT performance will get improved more when they run out of lower hanging fruit.
Good points and the "tricks" of "user cases" is interesting. However the last sentence of the article is worth calling out -

"It seems possible that very soon, if not already, it will take less time to prototype a solution than it will to properly document the requirements."
You're somehow implying that eating meat is bad for human health, which considering how general a statement it is, is bound to be completely false.

Human beings have thrived eating meat for hundreds of thousands of years. And it's a lot harder to completely address all the nutritional requirements on a purely vegetarian diet, but not impossible.
Kids don't need tools for kids
Yeah I think we actually agree, that’s why I said it’s a valid approach “sometimes”.

Like any tool, Lean Startup MVPs aren’t the right tool for every situation. You need extreme uncertainty.

If you’re a FAANG and you’re releasing a new version of a well established type of product like an email client, what giant existential risks do you have? FAANG have existing customers, we all know people use email. There’s no questions to answer, no uncertainty, so MVPs are the wrong tool for the job.

Why bother running experiments if we have 20 years of data showing us that we have customers and they like using email…
> it leaves little room for corrective action

The entire idea of MVPs is to leave as much room for corrective action as possible.

It doesn't happen often, but when it happens it really annoying that society is so reluctant to embrace an idea that people won't even acknowledge that the idea exists. If you name it, they will change the word meaning to the opposite of the thing you named. If you show it by example, they will completely ignore your idea on the example, and only ever accept irrelevant details.

We are seeing an example here, with MVPs. People really dislike anything lean and anything scientific. Merge the two ideas and you have a sure mind-repellent.
A lot of whataboutism. Many people downvoting the ones reminding those who are sitting safe in their unthreatened homes talking about "both sides" and "due process" that this isn't a fair and honorable fight, this is a dictator expanding into Europe by killing civilians and using his wealth and power to bully politicians and other states.

If there are digital archives left over after all this, these are the conversations people in the future will be reading to understand why the fuck Russia was able to get so much implicit support.
Ever wonder "how germans let Hitler get away with it"? Future generations will look back at these to understand how Putin got away with so much.

Say hi, you're on a book. What year is this?
It seems like a lot of YC companies are just drinking the MVP kool-aid. And there are 400 companies per batch now because they can just play the numbers game: throw them all at the wall and see who sticks.

It's a very interesting and nuanced distinction between:

"just build something and launch it as soon as possible"

...vs...

"think really hard about how to solve a particular problem in a novel way, then build the simplest possible solution that lets you iterate, but no simpler"

The most apt analogy for me has been multivariate optimization of a nonconvex function: the MVP is the initialization conditions. If you start near a local maximum then there is no way that hill-climbing (SGD, L-BFGS) will get you to a global maximum. So you need to make sure your starting point (MVP) lets you actually iterate to the global maximum through small local optimizations.

A product pivot is basically a random jump in the objective function hoping to get closer to a point where the function's gradient can lead you to a global maximum.

We did that with our product and thankfully the new initialization conditions are way better, and we are at a point where we can iterate to PMF. But there was no way we could have done that with our old product. (Here's the story of that pivot: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/a-new-hope)
You absolutely don't need 100k in AWS credits to validate your idea and most web apps/SaaS APIs can be running on one or more Digital Ocean droplets at fairly low opex. AWS giving away cloud credits to startups is not unlike drug dealer handing out some free hits to new potential customers. They're not doing it out of goodness of their hearts.
I'm myself quite tired of this money rat race. But recently i've been literally heart broken.

I work at a small company that tried to do build their own Cloud product, but wasn't very successful at promoting it. So now it outstaffing me to one big name company that was previously tried to adopt our solution but now is building they own. Which i quite dissatisfied with as i completely lack any sense of ownership working on it. So i started to look into job market.

So i found cscareerquestionsEU sub on reddit. And literally the first post i saw from a fresh graduate who got offer at Amazon(in Germany) with base more than my base and first year bonus more than mine. On top of that he got RSU. And i have 7YoE, contributed to big projects in K8s eco and gave talks at conferences. Seeing this just destroyed my whole motivation to do anything at my job.
This one is funny, maybe it helps:

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe
I am very much in the valley of despair on this manner, but for me individually (and food is indeed very individual), meat consumption leads to a much greater quality of life, with perceived health benefits.

I went fully carnivore and it lead to various health improvements. While I moved away from it due to my foodie tendencies, I currently do consume mainly animal products.

I plan on doing a vegan experiment as well, but I am just not getting convinced by the vegans I listen to, so I need to do more research. As it stands, I believe eating meat that grew naturally (e.g grass fed beef as compared factory farming) is more healthy and sustainable than veganism.
Almost anything can be "terrible for your brain" as people can become addicted to almost anything. It's more about the individual taking the substance than it is about the addictive substance itself.

That said, thinking about porn as "a business" it seems like things don't add up. There are allegations about major providers being gargantuan money laundering operations. In the absence of actual facts I am inclined to believe that. It doesn't seem possible for them to grow to such scale solely on subscriptions and sex-advert related stuff.
In my experience, it's closer to the latter.
Ability to pivot and agility is what separates the losers from the winners. In evolution, it is not the strongest that survives, it is the one that can adapt to changes. Building an MVP is being agile.

I was leading engineering at a finance company that offered ways to invest in an ESG fund that the company managed. The product had no traction. We had 6 months of runway left in the bank and no investor would even touch us with near 0 growth. This was when Wells Fargo scandal hit and people were angry at their banks. We pivoted to online banking and released a banking app in 4 months. 10x our customer base and raised $40m in under a year. If we kept just building out the investment product, we would have failed.
I'm very sorry to hear that. Kids are very eager to single out some other kids for the dumbest of reasons and attack them. Any difference might be a pretense for attack under the right conditions. I'm afraid that's how our species works naturally and there's a huge role of upbringing and education to silence those innate impulses in young people.
> (2) freezing an asset like impounding/towing a car away and the owner can eventually get the car back later (e.g. after Russia stops the war) ?

At least in Europe AFAIK. The rationale is to prevent, at least temporarily, oligarchs from benefiting from their assets. And the possibility of getting them back could give these influencial oligarchs an incentive to push for a resolution of the war that might be less catastrophic than where it is headed now.
The project is using wgpu-rs (and has actually contributed quite a bit to it). Can highly recommend it for other projects, it really is the way to go if you want to be portable but don't want to sacrifice a ton of performance (as using OpenGL does nowadays). Using wgpu generally means you're getting a fast subset of most of the modern APIs, at the cost of some control and performance in certain cases (though not too much performance--we'd like to shrink that even further), so for us it's the way to go.

The other two choices people usually bring up are OpenGL and Vulkan. The project was originally using OpenGL and was quite limited as a result; theoretically, you can do better by abandoning portable versions of OpenGL, but many modern OpenGL drivers are incredibly poor (particularly on Windows), and a lot of machines support, e.g., DirectX 11 or Metal but not a version of OpenGL with the same feature set. Going with straight Vulkan means you're either going through a (slow) translation layer on many older machines (and Macs), or giving up on them entirely. Vulkan is also incredibly hard to use correctly if you're using it directly and want to be portable across GPUs; the spec has a lot of edge cases that are quite unclear even to experts, and often requires consulting with driver developers to figure out exactly how they were interpreted (to be fair, this has become less of a problem over time, but it's still an issue for corner cases in the spec).
India Is Mulling Rupee-Ruble Payments System for Trade with Russia
This may be some sort of elaborate trolling on his part.
While you can't control all costs, one of the most direct and impactful is food. Good food matters to the whole family, but you have to take a careful look at what defines "good," because in times like these where supply lines are changing rapidly, some foods will become much more expensive than others for reasons not related to their relative nutritional value. Where you can, stick to things that can be either grown locally or canned and stored for long periods, and try to make the home cooking process simple and repeatable, even if you have to sacrifice variety.

Likewise, durables can be hoarded before price hikes hit. Try to figure out all the incidental <$100 things you'll need for a few years. Invest in containers and shelving for them so that they aren't lost in a pile, but have a proper space where they can be put. Just having some cardboard or cafeteria trays around can be enough.

Regarding the financial investments, the model I would use for crises is migration. When people move their money around and put it in different assets, train for careers, etc they are migrating from one "place" to another to avoid impending disaster, just as people migrate seasonally to go where the food and good weather is. If you get this simple call of "stay or go" right, you avoid the majority of the impact from economic crises, and can even come out ahead.

For me, I've set crypto as the place, and privacy coins as a large part of the allocation. It's probably not the place for everyone, and I respect the people going with cash, but it's a call made specifically on the premise of migrating to something that governments have little influence over, since, as you've probably noticed, they're doing all sorts of things that upend investments lately. And if I got the call wrong, they'll ban it and render my assets illiquid, but I'm relying on a game theoretic analysis that says that some countries will embrace it in order to get ahead of those that ban it, and therefore I'll have a way out to fiat when I need it.
It's not just a platform, it's a producer too. They have many subsidiaries.
In the US, low earners already pay no income tax. In 2020, 61% of Americans paid no federal income tax.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/61percent-of-americans-paid-...
>However, if you’re trying to follow Agile principles, there are right ways, and there are less right ways.

What is this even supposed to mean? To me it seems like (6) indulged in by Agile proponents. At best the "Agile Manifesto" is a exhortation to cultivate a particular "mindset" but there is no Process nor Methodology defined anywhere. Hence there can be no "right" way; everything is made up each of which can be interpreted in many different ways.

My point is to expose the "hollowness" of Agile/Scrum/whatever.
> they push various coup like founding the Solidarność "syndicate" in Poland

If you think that Solidarność is some sort of criminal movement, I don't want to be on your side. Maybe they are not relevant now (outlived their purpose a little), but I live in Poland and DO NOT want to be back in Russia. Some old people say "under communism it was better", but when asked a little more they say things like "we had almost nothing and we were happy" while watching some recent news on flat screen in comfy home with all the kitchen appliances they want. Cool, now Russia will be like that old times, they can go there and compare how good it is.
> so I can only surmise that the cost savings to business by underpaying staff are even more enormous.

I think this is what is going on. "Switch jobs to increase income" _is_ the folk wisdom, but not enough people actually "walk the walk" for it to be worth it for companies to change their strategy. As I mentioned in replying to another comment, this way companies get to retain for very cheap talent that:

* finds job interviews exhausting

* hates negotiating

* has good relationships with colleagues they don't want to lose

* has a comfortable commute or WFH arrangement they don't want to change

* is proud of becoming an expert / go-to-person in some part of the business and doesn't want to lose that source of social capital

* is proud of product or service they have made a big contribution to and wants to "see it through to the end"

* is generally impresionable and does what management want without too much complaint
> if you treat all the russian people as enemies

Let's be extremely clear: Russian people are not the enemy. Very few people here in Europe think this, and those who do are mostly the xenophobic assholes who enjoy thinking anyone who isn't them is the enemy anyway.

Oligarchs are Putin's keys to power. Sanctioning them is a way to hurt Putin's power and influence, which has a chance to bring the war to an end. Not sanctioning them because "oh there's a chance maybe one of them actually doesn't like the guy" is an idiotic move.
Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
Now we just need envionmental sensors and the Tricorder is here!
This would be a tu quoque fallacy, and when speaking of "Russia vs America", you can also call it whataboutism[1]. America's invasion of Iraq was bad, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine is bad, but only one is happening right now.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I had a DEC PDP 11/4 which was amazingly reliable. It ran a CNC drill in a PCB manufacturing plant and, other than cleaning the extra filter boxes, it never shut down.
This is not a statement, but a question. And yes, I love SCRATCH and I admire its creators. I'm just saying that there can be another way, just as accessible, with minimalist tools, including the one I use, but not only. I am interested in your opinion.
I don’t think that’s completely correct - I think “written in rust” being bandied about as a feature is a somewhat unique feature of the Rust community
A mighty system in its time!

Chances are one of these controlled some service in you life, water, sewerage, transport, etc.

PDP: Programmed Data Processor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed_Data_Processor
In-depth analysis about Remix.run
That makes sense.
And the 91' bump should have triggered a bump around 2020, but that hasn't occurred.
I think the way MVP is usually quoted at people is confusing. It should be something like “maximize the amount of feedback you’re getting from customers”.
> The question was if they were available, not if they were available at MSRP (thanks downvoters, the comment even called out the price was inflated...).

I wasn’t a DVer, but they’ve always been available if you were willing to pay a scalper. The only thing that has changed is that more retailers find it appropriate to rip off their customers. It’s kinda like a liquor store I’ve done business with for years now wanting $3,800 for a bottle of 23yr PVW. MSRP is $299.99. Should the owner not be able to make extra profit on it, no, of course they should. But >12x MSRP is just predatory imho.
Windows after version 7 is essentially death by a thousand dark patterns, forced surprise updates, forgotten preferences, etc..
Microbes and minerals may have set off Earth's oxygenation
Any progress in establish whether the song is, in fact, language?
> you are extremely subject to the whims of people who want offices to be the primary mode of work.

The idea behind working for a boss is that they can tell you what to do and how and where to do it. And if you don’t like it, you can go work for yourself or for another boss.
hundreds of millions of indians are vegetarians just fine, people who talk like this have usually read too many anti-vegetarian memes
The real reason why the reactions are different this time is West Europe, not Ukraine. They are fueled more by pragmatic self-interest than by moral concerns.

For a long time, West Europe sought good relations with Russia and benefited from trade. That changed when Putin attacked Ukraine. The war hit too close to home, and West European countries could no longer trust Putin's intentions. The primary reaction was a sudden increase in military spending. As a secondary reaction, West Europe gave ok to stronger sanctions that were already supported by East Europe and the US.
Did Ukraine harbor terrorists that killed thousands of Russians? Comparing Ukraine to Afghanistan doesn’t work. Ukraine was a peaceful nation. Afghanistan was harboring terrorists and terrorists training camps and these terrorists had attacked US multiple times before. Osama Bin Laden wasn’t even a Afghanistan citizen, he was from Saudi Arabia.
By "vast majority" I mean that the standard repositories (which optionally includes extra repositories, like the Canonical Partner one) includes hundreds of thousands of programs, and GUIs are provided by the distro (e.g. the former Ubuntu Software Center).

I've checked several of the programs you've provided, and here's a report:

- Readarr: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub

- PhotoPrism: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub

- Prowlarr: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub

- Openbooks: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub

- Jackett: has native linux binary in the official Github releases

- FlareSolverr: has native linux binary in the official Github releases

- Transmission: it's commonly provided in the Linux distro repositories

Those who refuse to do such a minimal search and/or better look the Github releases page, they definitely deserve to stay on Windows, rather than spreading misinformation.

If a program doesn't to have a package for a given platform (no doubt about those cases), it's a developer's resources problem (and essentially, an O/S popularity one). It'd be ridiculous to say that having to manually install a certain program on Mac is inherent in Mac itself.
I have no desire to pay 15 for the ability to play videos with the screen off
Not really. It especially happens with currently "interesting" languages more than with others, but it's fairly standard to mention it in places like here. E.g. a few years ago you saw it most with Go or NodeJS, because at that time those were the "interesting" languages.
> Would Kyiv be prepared to relinquish Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea and establish a Finland-like declaration of neutrality to avoid the widespread demolition of the country? Not an inch on any of those right now but when the siege is in its third week and Kyiv has lost power, food and medicine he might change his mind.

I think I remember something in this direction coming from the Ukranian government already, though in the sense that Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea get an independent status from both Ukraine and Russia.

The most interesting question to me is how an agreement between Ukraine and Russia can be trusted by both sides.
The article separates 'Survey your Customers' and 'Know your Market' like they are two different things. Not sure how you can deprecate the customer input, and stress your own market knowledge without your head exploding.
I think you're throwing out an entire idea out based on a small semantic quibble.

Ok, so upvotes on HN and Reddit are unlimited, and therefore not valuable.

Why not limit accounts to X upvotes per day or week? Or only allow upvoting as many times as you've been upvoted yourself? Suddenly upvotes are now scarce.

These aren't impossible problems to solve. HN has implemented tons of "dark" features you don't even realize are here to prevent spamming, and is largely successful at it.

For example, if you post to "New" and send a link to your friends telling them to upvote it, those upvotes will not be counted. Similarly, there is also a wait limit on how soon after visiting HN your upvotes will be counted, without you knowing it. There's a ton of these unwritten tricks like this behind the scenes, and as you can see from the quality level here, they work!

I think ideally the search engine of the future has a combination of user feedback (with HN-style dark patterns behind the scenes to protect integrity), plus some level of human curation.

I'm amazed at how people can simultaneously think Google results are garbage, and yet, also think any attempt to try to solve the problem is futile and worthless. Cynicism is one hell of a drug.
And what you just did is called “stating the obvious”.

How was either this reply or yours actually helpful to the conversation?
If you buy a microwave and modify it, so it doesn't beep when it's done, and offer the modded version to your friends, do you deserve to be sued?
"Not sanctioning them because "oh there's a chance maybe one of them actually doesn't like the guy" is an idiotic move. "

Given recent russian history of fights between Putin and various oligarchs - I rather think it would be a idiotic move to target them all without due process - because the chances are actually quite high, that many of them oppose Putin.