skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Offsets can change. Turkey switched from GMT+2 with DTS to GMT+3 without DTS a couple of years ago. If you were to store +2, you wouldn't be able to reconstruct the current date from it, while having Europe/Istanbul would give you either +2 or +3 depending on the revision.

So a better option is to store UTC + timezone + revision (i.e. timezone as it was in 2014 to figure out the offset later)
Comparison of APIs in MiniApps, W3C Specs, and PWAs
passwords are not attacked with random noise, a 55 letter password of 7 common words has way less entropy that 256 random bits.

in my opinion password size should be oriented towards preventing DoS attacks, little more

(also you can prehash the password on the client with a quick non-password specific but still cryptographically strong hash and then use a proper hash server side, so that on the network all passwords are 256 bits
I recommend search.brave.com... though the privacy stuff is great, Brave is great for developers because they provide code snippets right in the search. HUGE time saver
> So we must trust that money printing is better, yet I have not seen any evidence of such a system being any better for average people than a gold-based system.

Do you trust the historical record?

> What about economic growth? Again, the gold standard was associated with greater volatility, not less. The following chart plots annual growth as measured by gross national product (gross domestic product only came into common use in the 1991.) The pattern looks quite a bit like that of inflation: the standard deviation of economic growth during the gold-standard era was more than twice that of the period since 1973. And, despite the Great Recession, the past quarter century has been even more stable. To use another, simpler, measure, in the period from 1880 to 1933 there were 15 business cycles identified by the National Bureau of Economic Research. That is, on average there was a recession once every 3½ years. By contrast, since 1972, there have been 7 recessions; one every 6 years.

* https://www.moneyandbanking.com/commentary/2016/12/14/why-a-...

Do you trust economic historians (like Bernstein)? Have you read much economic history?

> 1. Group A has tons of gold because it's the ultimate (physical) store of value. Group B has nothing.

It is debatable whether gold (or sea shell or giant stones (like in Micronesia)) are a useful or "ultimate" stores of value given they're completely arbitrary and a social constructs. Pre-Columbian societies (e.g., Actecs) were quite fond of gold for jewelry, but were puzzled by the Spanish fetish for it. The Chinese used silver as money because gold was for ceremonial purposes; see Goldstein:

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50358103-money

The Chinese used paper currency successfully for many years/decades until it was stopped because the Imperial Court wanted to exert more control over people.

> 6. Group B ends up with tons of paper, zero assets and zero gold.

So Group B has absolutely no possessions? No clothes? No consumer goods (computers, cars)? No homes?

The easy availability of credit allows for economic activity, and when folks gets "money" (however defined) for their labour, they can trade it for goods and services. A non-fixed money supply allows for greater monetary and fiscal flexibility so that people can prosper and be happy (which is the point of society; see Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics).

What you want in life is not money (however defined) in itself, but the things money can get you; see Housel:

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41881472-the-psycholo...

I would hazard to say that the modern monetary system has helped to create more material prosperity for more people than any other period of time. By allowing private banks (née central banks or governments) to create money on an as-needed basis it has allowed for more economic activity by more people to create wealth for a larger portion of the population:

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625

All that even with the wealth equality levels being what they are (i.e., roughly the same as in the Gilded Age).
Yes, we have not correctly priced (taxed) empty property yet. If municipal government would charge say 100% value as property tax when mostly empty (as a starting point, say it is the primary residence of nobody for 180 days in the last 360), then it would be treated very differently.
Everything in their complaint is precisely the reason why their customers want to use Private Relay! We don't want our browsing data observed and analysed by network operators, we want a dumb pipe that gets out of our way.
"For the sake of God" should be "For the love of God" or maybe "For God's sake", I think; that's the analogy he was probably trying to use since I don't think English is his first language.
Yeah I don't think this is right. Not being able to do bank transfers temporarily doesn't mean you can seize the contents of accounts.
Fair enough. But one big feature of Kubernetes is that you can scale it to multiple (thousands or more) physical machines (that are physically or even geographically separated). Can you do the same with System 360?
No it just creates alert blindness. Most people barely understand what a cookie is. I was part of a team implementing cookie banners, and we were looking really hard for the best wording. But it didn’t matter because in user tests 75% of users were unable to tell us what was in the box. Most assumed it was an ad before reflexively closing it.
Well, they are still wrong and there isn't anything new here.

They just waited for a while and just needed a wink and a nod from the US regulators.

The only thing that has changed is the number of people willing to pour their money into worthless tokens.
I have to imagine that if your search and/or use of keywords is specific enough, you will find exactly what you are looking for regardless of the search engine you are currently using. In the end, everyone has an agenda, from both ends and everything in-between.
"...In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a
single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety
of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the
Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and
which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so
fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map
was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the
Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are
Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is
no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography."

Jorge Luis Borges
Syncthing! Has Windows/Linux/Android/iOS clients. Works perfectly.
> That’s the thing: they’re already selling the service parts at a reasonable cost

What is the basis for this assetion? What data or information have you used to come to this conclusion?
Interesting, but that makes me wonder how a vision-impaired person could even shop at a grocery store? None of the products have braille on them.
Why would a dishwasher need two people to deliver it in UK? Just one dude and a couple wheels is all I’ve seen needed in US.
Normally. This is not a normal situation though. A future russian government will likely have to offer something to rebuild trust and make the western nations comfortable with dropping the sanctions. Making a radical break with the current system, including dropping commitments seems like it could be expected.

That is, if Russia survives this as a state. There was already a map floating around on social media of Russia's various (semi-)autonomous provinces that could use this opportunity to lobby for independence.

(Disclaimer: not a geostrategist)
I can only assume you searched online for help and got sent down a rabbit hole by some random misinformation. Either that or whoever handed you the stuff to deploy did not know what they were doing.

A deployable Linux build of a .Net app (if produced with the proper [and simple] commands) can usually even be deployed onto a bare-bones default server using `scp` and `systemd` for example. I would struggle to think of inventive ways to break an app's codebase in such a way as to make it require what you've described.
I was given the staff title at 8YOE at a startup because one of the less experienced engineers was given senior through title inflation before I was hired, so they felt I should be a tier above.
The distinction being that laissez-faire publications are generally flagged and removed here. If we are generally curious about these issues and wish to have a robust discussion, then it would make sense to have both sides.

If it is too inflammatory to hear the opposition, then perhaps the premise shouldn't be advanced.
Those drivers are either unusual examples or they're lying about how much they make.

I've done gig driving work in the past and still pop in on driver forums once in a while. The majority of these people are lucky to make $10-15 an hour after expenses (less now with rising gas prices, which they don't get compensated for), and a large percentage of them are operating below that. The ones making actually decent money have either figured out how to game the system - which is a transitory phenomenon as operators figure out ways to claw that profit margin back - or found some kind of luxury niche which requires having an upfront advantage like an expensive vehicle.

The perks of 'setting your own hours' (which is basically a lie, if you're relying on this income you have to drive when there's demand) or 'not dealing with a boss/co-workers' (your clients are your bosses and plenty of them are horrible) really pale when you look at the overall reality. Such so-called perks are how they keep suckering math challenged drivers into a crap job with abysmal pay and no benefits, though, and despite the fact that they're an illusion it keeps working. There are huge numbers of drivers whose actual compensation is so low it would nauseate you.
This is generally because USPS effectively subsidizes international shipment. The same $2 LED shipment might be $10 DHL (and free shipping isn’t free, the seller is making their margins with shipping costs included).
I think I need more than 5 quick bullet points for the “why”.

> Resource efficiency

What does this mean? More efficient than what?

> Seamless scalability on containers or nodes

Not sure what “on containers” means. “On nodes”, sure. Do other platforms not solve this as easily? (Running multiple workloads per host)

> Built-in scheduler

I guess same question as above, there aren’t other solutions where you give something a fleet of hosts and it runs things on them?

> Cloud flexibility

Again compared to what I guess?

> Pushing to apply engineering best practices

Such as?
I think the issue is many people feel no single person or group should be deciding for others what the truth is or what is(n't) "misinformation", especially based on politics. Covid showed us that many times these authorities of truth could get it wrong and suppress information that was at least worthy of discussion.
Re: sacrificial parts, I recently had to rebuild a two-car wood (read: heavy) torsion spring garage door system.

The cleverest part was the plastic coupler [0] between the door-connected shaft and motor.

When the system originally locked up, the coupler broke. Consequently after restoring the system, I needed a $9 piece of plastic, rather than a $xxx new motor.

Made me sad that more modern things aren't designed with such value-protective degradation modes.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/LiftMaster-Coupler-Chamberlain-Crafts...
From $2B to Nothing – The Rise and Fall of Atari [video]
The issue comes in with propaganda itself not being black and white. There's inherently a estimation of whether something is propaganda or not, and it's often changing and based on limited information or a "sniff test".
The level of control of people in China is only made possible by their huge use of AI.

George Soros complained about AI in China and it's political ramifications there in a recent speech at Stanford in January that went over this and other topics in U.S China relations. Below is an excerpt. Btw, this is his official site with the whole speech transcript.

https://www.georgesoros.com/2022/01/31/george-soros-on-china...

"
In theory, AI is morally and ethically neutral; it can be used for good or bad. But in practice, its effect is asymmetric.

AI is particularly good at producing instruments of control that help repressive regimes and endanger open societies. Interestingly, the Coronavirus reinforced the advantage repressive regimes enjoy by legitimizing the use of personal data for public control purposes.

With these advantages, one might think that Xi Jinping, who collects personal data for the surveillance of his citizens more aggressively than any other ruler in history, is bound to be successful. He certainly thinks so, and many people believe him. "

Anyway, it's a good one to read in full when thinking about the future of AI and how it will interact with society and government.
Of course Kubernetes might itself evolve to orchestrate WASM workloads.

Already been done:

https://krustlet.dev/
Many years ago, I believe late eighties, a documentary was made in Italy, sponsored by FIAT (basically to show how good was their new automated warehouse) when a group of people, members of an automobile club, built a Fiat 131 completely from the body buying everything through the "normal" spare parts channels, ordering parts as the rebuilding went on.

It came out that the built car costed more than 500% without counting any of the man work/hours.

And FIAT (at least here in Italy) was famous for having rather cheap spare parts (when compared to - say - Volkswagen).

Most probably the 500% is nowadays not enough, at least for cars.
But I love my MacBook Pro swelling up really thick! It's like getting a free upgrade to a bigger computer!
"Almost everyone" always does a lot of work in statements like that.

It's bizarre to call out the "decision to get vaccinated", as if it is something people should be uncomfortable with, having spent a bit of time getting a vaccine that is clearly safer than the illness it protects against.
Comparisons are a bit hard because (perhaps outside of some specialty--and more expensive--gaming systems) what you build yourself is arguably "better"/more optimized than a random HP or Dell box. At the same time, the percentage of people who care about optimization at that level is pretty small. I built/upgraded PCs for years and now I pretty much have zero interest.

But again to the basic point, it's certainly close to a wash which wouldn't be true with most things.
Also, do they also use Gallileo, Glonass..? is the Chinese GPS up yet ?
I think it's even more complicated than that. Human time is much richer even than wall-clock time. E.g., if I go out for a dawn run every day, to me that's the same time. Or think of the Jewish Sabbath, which runs from sundown Friday to after dark on Saturday. Lunchtime. Teatime. Lunar calendars. Whatever people will do when they live on Mars. Or the way wall-clock time existed before railroads changed it.

It's often our job to cram human concepts into a small number of bits, so I get why we do what we do. But I think it's sometimes worth being explicit that the anthropological concepts we are dealing with are very complex, and we may leave a lot out when we simplify them enough to make sense to the sort of machine that can be cheaply built in its era.
Loads fine on my iPhone. What mobile device are you using?
> Finland: 22.5% comes from hydropower. I suppose I'm stuck associating Tampere, Finland (Nokia) with hydropower

Simply put, Sweden and Norway share the Scandinavian mountain ridge which gives a lot of rain at altitude and dammable valleys; Finland is on the whole much flatter, so has less favourable conditions for hydro power.

> I have to do some reading, but my understanding was that the Finnish plant is using an alternate funding structure from many of the existing nuclear installations. Less direct subsidies or more risk directly on the commercial entities?

Haven't checked recently, but at a guess / from vague memory: Probably shoving off as much as possible of the financing onto the builder / owner, Rosatom (mainly via its Finnish "partners" / subsidiaries), but in the end backed up by State guarantees because who else would voluntarily/ is big enough. All of course dressed up in more or less convoluted arrangements as suitable to make it look a little better / less bad.

(What, me cynical?)
It has examples of active, specific, targeted anti-Black racial animus in zoning laws going into (iirc) the 1980s.
It's definitely true for PCs. At best you can get the same price for pre-assembled but usually it's more expensive.

Not sure about laptops though.
Neither Samsung nor Xiaomi need Google to ship android devices.

Play Store/Google Services presence is a big plus, but if the choice is between not shipping the phones or shipping without Play Store, I’m sure the decision will be simple (at least for Xiaomi, I’d see Samsung more open to take a stand against Russia)
I keep wishing everywhere would allow a length of 256,and the extended ascii set. I know it's overkill, but it makes no practical sense to restrict passwords to a particularly low length, let alone the trend of excluding all but a few special characters.

You'd think this is truly the one thing the industry could agree on, but instead you have sites that restrict you to 12 characters, alphanumeric only.
That's the key point. Since earth will not start charging directly for any environmental costs occured by its exploitation we need other rules for dealing with this. Market forces alone do not account for the price generations after us will have to pay for it.
MiniApp Manifest
It’s your friends who break your heart
Propaganda with regards to DGG's reasoning is actually black and white.
My understanding is they’re demoting Russian propaganda, not filtering it. It’ll still be there just not at the top of the results. That’s kind of what you want from a search engine, to return the more relevant and factual results at the top.
To be fair, the other bank I use, Handelsbanken, is also sane: displays all the info you need, gives you quick access to functionality etc. Not without its issues, but Klarna takes the cake :))
>They want to implement discriminated unions on the heap. I'm excited for the code clarity, but it falls very short of the performance concern raised by an ancestor comment. That's the OOP trade-off.

That isn't also the case with Haskell, OCaml and F#?

IMO, if you care about performance you go procedural and watch how your data is aligned and how many allocations you do. Functional programming kind of requires to use immutable data structures, so you end up making copies and that will impact performance.

I don't think you can have both highly performant and expressive code.
There is no cost savings associated with the size of tabs, for example. It's an assembly thing. Usually you want the easiest to assemble as labor and QA is expensive. Ease of disassembly has by comparison very little upfront value.
you said profit seeking but I believe you meant rent seeking. All businesses profit seek, it's how you fund innovation after paying your bills.
Hey, I didn't say I agreed with that statement - I was just pointing out what I thought they were trying to say.
Backwards compatibility is holding the evolution of C and C++ back. Design improvements can't get approved if they affect ABI. Many of those improvements affect performance. The ecosystem needs a way to move forward without breaking ABI.
If you search appliance parts you’ll discover that’s already being done - the part for your dishwasher will fit fifty other dishwashers from a very surprising cross section of brands.
My question is how come Finland, with their history with Russia, isn't already in NATO ?
Why have any rules about what the manufacturers must do at all?

Let them sell us autonomous cars for $1,000 which need a $5,000 subscribtion to drive. Oh, you want to put child i a car, the car won't start unless you add a child add-on.

Oh, you need to go to the hospital, because your wife is giving birth, that will be extra $5,000 one-time fee.
Executives are in the business of buying labor for money and as any purchaser they would prefer to get the best deal possible. Why wouldn't they try to get potential sellers to sell their labor to them for less than it's worth? Best case they get valuable labor for less than market price, worst case someone rejects their offer and may be mildly offended for a while. If they find no takers, they'll slowly raise offers until they find someone.

Of course this stops working when there is a genuine shortage of labor, or when a company gets a sufficiently bad reputation that nobody wants to work for them anymore. Both of those cases are not a problem for 99% of companies though.
The point is, if you don't want to support spares for your device, you have the option of using standard parts.

If you want your own part, you have to either make it available, or you have to make it reliable enough that you don't need to.

That would remind the incentive to have parts that fail be profitable. Making unreliable and unserviceable devices should cost you more.
or "there is no free lunch" but I like the Russian one better. It's really fascinating to see the differences in how two cultures express essentially the same idea.
This is delusional, bordering on being a troll take.

Would you apply the same logic to starting a new country? Don't like your government, go start your own country!

Corporations are and have been for some time, larger and more powerful than many countries, because, you know, globalization?

So, you know, please spare us your 'don't like it, do it yourself' takes.
Indeed, but this was an entire family of mean people, so the prejudice has been justified!
>Yeah I don’t really get why some people in the community have decided that their staff titles mean they’re some kind of warrior monk caste,

I've never been promoted, nor have I ever promoted anyone to "staff plus" because of warrior-monk like engineering skills. Most often it is a combination of good soft skills and proven decision making around people and organization objectives. Usually it is because the person being promoted had the ability to make the business unit better in some way that is needed. And yes, that does mean that every promotion is really done to make the person a step above the newly promoted person even more effective.

> It’s just another regular step on the ladder you make by doing a reasonably good job

This is the secret. A reasonably good job means you are learning not just how to make software, but also how to lead others that are making software. There's nothing mythic about it. But for many it requires going outside of the comfort of the purely technical.
Geo fence them. There is no ROI to providing value to Russia or their partners. They only serve as launchpads for cyber attacks and recon anyway. Chances are any organic Russian would be forbidden from directly viewing your page anyway, so it's literally all bots. Organic Russians come from proxys and VPNs.

Russia doesn't reciprocate knowledge or technology or philosophy or anything with value. Primary Russian digital exports are bullet proof hosting, botnet-for-hire services, and low quality malware. Click spam, domain squatting... it's basically the red light district of the internet.