skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that if you get your advice from the internet, the one constant thing you'll see is everyone is always claiming the economy is about to collapse and there's about to be hyperinflation. (And yes, we are seeing inflation for the rest of this year. No gigantic Volcker rate hikes though.)

I don't know why they don't constantly predict deflationary spirals instead, which are even worse, but it's probably childhood memories of the 70s.
> I think that when you need a local anaesthetic

Many sexually active adults, even gubernatorial candidates and wealth businesspersons, enjoy "chemsex" - how is this any different?

Perhaps we shouldn't pre-judge others and kink shame before we've walked a mile in their heels.
I think those are no longer supported or something. Intel gave up on realsense AFAIK.
Resources for Ukrainian Scholars
This is actually a really useful feature. Makes it easy to see at a glance who is interacting with whom in a thread.
As a kid I watched VHS, then CD-ROMs, then DVDs, then internet .. then I grew up and saw sex/people differently. It pains me that porn is so prevalent. I'm no religious by culture nor personal views, but to me it's somehow stomping on the sacred (in the sense of very important emotions/bonds). It pains me twice to see how barbaric it goes.
So on a plant-based diet you can't save yourself?

Plant-based meals require far fewer resources and is cheaper, which means maintaining societal stability when resources are becoming low - as there is more to go around.

A lot of farm land is being used to grow foods for livestock. We could use that land to grow food for ourselves.
> many non-western nations are going to take a serious look at their overreliance on external sources. And take suitable steps for being self-reliant

When all your media is singing a different song than your government, and your culture, it certainly does seem like a good idea to worry about that.

This is a problem the Western nations and cultures feel too.

Babylon has risen, and it is so much more confusing than we feared.
He typed smugly on his smartphone before hitting Send with a flourish
The could even work together with the dominant smartphone OS maker to solve it there as well.
>and courts do not look kindly on it anymore

As anyone who's ever spent more than a few nanoseconds caring about things like civil liberties or government accountability knows, the courts tend to give people who are on the "same team" a lot more leeway.
Off Topic

I abhor this concept of "Passport Confiscation". In middle east countries, this practice is very much prevalent. They hire poor people from Asia to construct roads, Fifa stadium, etc. Also, the first thing these bloodsuckers do is confiscate their passport. How is this different than slavery in China? Shouldn't we sanction such a toxic place?
>Imagine if there was a multi-billion dollar industry focused on making fake accounts in order to increase vote counts for HN posts. I'd don't think dang would be very successful in fighting them off. So the claim that this is "immune to SEO" is debatable.

That's an easy one. Just ask for camera permission and record a video of the guy hitting the reply button. Have thousands of hamsters to analyze each one.
So now it's just OK to seize private property of individuals without any even pretend due process?

Of course these individuals have links to their government, you think you can find some rich Americans who aren't somehow linked to their government?

And now we have american media platforms saying 'yeah, it's fine to call for death to Russians'.

Our response to this is getting pretty fucking scary. We need to start dialing this back or we become what we're supposedly against.
Yeah, I don't think they're campaigns. Just your regular netizens with extremely strong opinions.

As much as people expect sockpuppetry, many innocent new accounts are wrongly classified as well. It's one reason I keep showdead on.
DJIA is calculated using some unusual math on only 30 stocks and you should probably ignore it. It doesn't work the same way any other index does.
Surely national ID cards will help against these porn videos. Like they did help against terrorism. And credit card fraud. Or cheating in Chinese video games.

IDs don't prove your real identity, especially online.
Why is seizing property without due process okay when we do it? Is it the same reason that dissenting opinions can’t be heard because they’re dangerous propaganda?
Is there are single instance in history where a country the size of Ukraine was overthrown in less than a month? It took the Nazi army 35 days to conquer the western part of Poland. Ukraine is twice the size of Poland. Huge landmasses just have... mass.
The word "seems" appears rather a lot in this essay. It's supposedly a strategic analysis but it reads more like a lazy New York Post op ed written by somebody who doesnt understand at all whats going on in Russia or North Korea and ascribes what he doesnt understand to "they be crazy".

Moreover, he outright ignores the brass tacks of what Putin actually he asks for in negotiations for he focuses on the flimsy pretext Putin came up with for justifying the war domestically.

Frankly, I dont think Putin is irrational. He's asked for three things in negotiations, the costs of which are minimal even compared to the cost of the war as it stands right now, and he'd probably be willing to give some ground even on those.

Would Kyiv be prepared to relinquish Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea and establish a Finland-like declaration of neutrality to avoid the complete 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. Notions of sovereignty and national pride can be galvanizing at the beginning but can seem awfully abstract when you start sufferint the true hell of war.

The most worrying part is that the west might try to force Zelensky's hand by threatening to withdraw help if he concedes to Russia. I can imagine that there are hawks in the pentagon right now who are excited that they now a way to collapse Russia from within if Ukraine can be convinced to sustain a half a million or so deaths in the coming onslaught.
They're not cold to the touch once they've been used: the induction process heats the pan, but heat from the pan will transfer back to the glass. If you use an induction cooker for 20 minutes, and then immediately place your hand on the glass, your hand will be burned.
Agreed, the versatility, as a mostly first class language across domains is awesome!

On the RoR comparison, while coding speed is similar, Blazor is an advancement, and then the runtime perf of .Net 6 vs RoR means having less servers, less cost, and less scaling challenges!

Techempower round 20 has ASP.NET at 309,458, compared to RoR at 8,260. That is 37 TIMES faster for .NET. Think of that as 37 times as much AWS bill for your RoR startup ..

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
The porn he is mentioning are toxic porn, not the normal porn, so you can't compare it like this.
Depending on the size of the office, I would argue against method like quarantine in the office

Alternative: let people go & quarantine them at home.

COVID infection is not an one-off event like 10 people get infected at once. They have overlapping incubation & infection periods. Possibly people will get keep getting infected during those 48 hours, and the whole office get quarantined again and again.

edit: on another thought, I don't think my argument holds any weight given how China has been very successful at this.
And a third one is more architectural in nature. Your domain has bounded context (even if you haven't defined these explicitely). Within those bounded contexts, you'll have atomicity-constraints: transaction boundaries. Those should typically align, but are hard to find in a new project and will grow and shift over time.

To take that User/Project example: the Project and User have different transaction boundaries: it matters not that a User.username is updated while a Project.projectname is updated differently. But it does matter when a username and password get updated simultanous. And -for the sake of the xample- it matters that the user + users-roles must be within one transaction boundary.

By allowing nested resources on mutations you essentially break the bounded contexts and the transaction boundaries.

By not allowing nested resources on mutations, but allowing them on-read, you introduce inconsistencies: the resources on-insert differ from the resources on-read. This becomes even more problematic when you do allow certain nested resources on mutations but not on others (because, behind the scenes you've determined a bounded context/transaction boundary). To an API consumer this is entirely arbitrary. Why can I "PUT user.roles[1]" but not "PUT user.projects[1]", yet have both included at wish on-read?

With nested resources, here too, you paint yourself in corners. They take away a lot of choices you likely want to make in future. Being a bit more restraining in what you allow clients to do, keeps those options open for you. In this case, keeps the option to move transaction boundaries when business needs require (and they will).
There's also the campaign for at-risk academics (https://www.cara.ngo/what-we-do/a-lifeline-to-academics-at-r...) – I know several european universities are going to announce affiliations shortly with it (i.e. hosting displaced academics).
A great side-effect of dog ownership is how often random people stop and talk to you when you're out and about. I'm quite a loner and perfectly happy on my own, but also recognised in recent years that random chats with strangers have a noticeably positive effect on my mental health. I moved city last year to somewhere where I barely know anyone, got a dog, and have talked to more people in this city in the first six months than I probably did in two years in the prior city where I'd lived for 20 odd years.
Tell me you never developed software in the 90s without telling me you never developed software in the 90s
Click on the posts trailing url > (some-rubbish-or-malware-site.suspect)

You will see all the posters-or-bots posting.

I've started collecting them, I'm thinking about how to remove some of the load on the Mods.
Love this.

Posting to see what I got.
~15 years before, we had Business Analysts (BAs), who were canonically in charge of what we were building. They will own and be accountable for what's being built. They verify and sign-off whether what was built meets expectations. Part of their job entails writing detailed specifications, but not only that.

When "Agile" happened, the BA role slowly transitioned to Product Manager (PM). For a short while, PMs from BA background still took ownership and care for the board, still took care of acceptance criteria for stories/tasks, still signed off on the deliverables.

Now, Product Management has become a cult of personas. The role doesn't feel obliged to be accountable for defining specifications, or having a work handover, or signing off, or coordination, or product documentation, or anything. The role assumes it's creative work on a blank canvas. But guess what, all modern roles are largely creative, but it doesn't mean everyone should have no working model. But for some reason, this role has gone beyond beyond a working model into "I'm special".

I'm seeing many other comments below still focusing purely on the personality aspect of it. Good product managers vs Bad product managers. NO! This is about Good product management vs Bad product management. The role should have a working model and clear cut responsibilities. And those practices shouldn't be undercut by saying "I'm special". But most PMs feel "boxed in" by any way of working. They prefer calling it "culture", because culture can be something abstract and disassociated from.

We should realize: The transition to Agile has good and ugly sides. The ugly side is the broken transition from BAs to PMs, and the lack of accountability for what's being built which has left teams and deliverables ambiguous and dangling.

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As a side addendum: I would partly blame Steve Jobs for it. For some weird reason, he has become a role model for PMs. He was a freaking CEO who did the selling and investment, you can't delegate anything to a CEO! He would have had armies of PMs dealing with the working model and details. But unfortunately, PMs seem to fetish the master salesman and personality cult angle of Steve Jobs, spending all the time in "Why", but forget about the details and start delegating their actual responsibilities to everyone else in the team. It should be made pretty clear that PMs are not CEOs like Steve Jobs. They are regular people who should have regular working models.
What are you going to do with the gold? That's called bagholding, not a productive asset.

Actually, have you tried figuring out WHFIT taxes on $GLD? I ended up invested in it once and had no clue how you do it.
>The result is people trying to now write 3000 word articles to "one up" the other already long posts dominating the first few results.

It's like youtube clips of type "10 Best XYZ for beginners" which take 30 minutes while 1 minute is more than enough. Content dilution at its best.
Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins Explains Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War
FidoNet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet) was an eye opener for me.

While probably not "internet" by definition, it was a global network that allowed people to exchange information relatively free, with a couple days latency.

It had discussion groups much like Usenet, and I vividly remember dialing my local BBS every 30-60 minutes when waiting for a reply to a discussion :)
> For the .com (American!) domain the default is English.

If only. The geolocation talked about here is taking place on the .com domain. Worse, even if you manage to switch it to english (they have been hiding that link more and more) it will still use geolocation to push search results in the "local" language.
I used to use it a lot. But it feels like a victim of feature bloat, like Evernote.

I just want a bookmarking app. It feels like a dodgy browser. It tedious to find articles I want to read, tedious to actually read them or even open them in a browser.

I think there's a subconscious hate for feature bloat because of the work many of us do.
> Their software was ripped and resold by a billion dollar corps and they could do nothing about it.

Yet, they still are able to employ people and give them a fair wage, making them good examples.
Those 5 different people don't understand the big picture and even if they do they likely don't care (and probably have been burned from caring in the past).

Getting comically insane stuff (like a 400k transfer to a scammer) to actually happen is way easier when everyone exists in "I just stamp the form if all the fields are filled out, checking what's in the fields is the next guy's job" type silos.
That's a question that lingered through my whole career so far (about 18 years).

I've been through so many cycles of: work 1-2 years on the same domain (or product), finally achieve mastery of all its components: infrastructure, dependencies, dependents, product vision, to the point where I can give detailed and relevant assessments on the future planning of whatever I'm working with.

Whenever I get to that point my salary stagnates, I need to change teams or domain, or company, to get a decent bump (10-20%), if not I will be stuck on the forever cycle of either aiming for a promotion or getting 2-5% raises/year.

It looks so stupid from the factory floor side, when I'm finally a master of what I'm working with I get devalued. When we hire a new senior+ engineer they will get a similar or higher salary than I have. That will naturally push me to search for something else.

I simply cannot understand on an organisational level how can not giving raises but paying premiums for new hires is sustainable or even in the best interests of said organisation... I have never got a good answer from CTOs (or other C-level executives).
> Which epoch? There are many, it’ll change depending on your system.

That's missing the point. That's like arguing if DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD is the format.

That's not where the hard part of programming with time is.

> Also what unit? Seconds, milliseconds, nanoseconds.

Just implementation details that don't affect anything.

> If you just store an offset, then you have no way of knowing which timezone the user meant

True. But it depends what you mean. If you scheduled a world wide meeting then you probably want offset. If the meeting is defined as "five minutes past noon in New York" then UTC and offset be damned.

So it depends. A cross-timezone event needs to live somewhere. It can live as offset from UTC, or physical location, but it all depends what the intention is.

> The entire article is describing why this approach isn’t enough.

Like I said, you still need to be careful.
Ah, that feels like inux 20 years ago, and it feels good, in a geeky, brave, new world kind of way.
Is that really incompatible with information being held in e-fields? It's just that these fields are generated by group of neurons, which can indeed be "stoped and started back"?
As others have noted, that's very outdated information.

The other thing is that for all ORMS, for the small amount of queries where it really matters, you should drop down to hand-written SQL anyway if the juice is worth the squeeeeze!
The lidar on the phones suck (I had one and was super disappointed). It has a range of like half a room, terrible resolution, was slow as heck, and the software was buggy and unstable and the algorithms often butchered all but the simplest scans. It's not like you put the phone on the tripod and you get a Ubisoft-like cave in a minute. It's like you get half the room at 20% fidelity after an hour of frustration.

Honestly the more mature photogrammetry techniques that stitch together multiple photos (from video or 360 shots taken successively) seemed much more impressive. Indeed, you can run most of the same apps with lidar off and still get similar results. There is a lot of depth info when you take pictures from different angles that a smart algorithm can figure out. The lidar adds more hinting but without professional grade equipment, the optical sensors (cameras) are much higher resolution and range.

The lidars on the i devices are cheap gimmicks.

Edit: just to add a bit more detail, lidar basically gets you a point cloud of depth data. The professional ones have big spinning mirrors that blanket the room in a matrix of powerful dots, like a Kinect on steroids. That takes a lot of power and, usually, moving parts.

The iPhone one uses more modern, smaller solid state technology but has a resolution of a few hundred dots and a range of 5m, vs the millions of pixels on the optical camera and a range of however much ambient light you have.

The lidar is an active emitter. It has to produce its own laser light, limited by its emitters and battery, and have a way to scan its emissions across 2d space (x and y axes) or else have a ton of micro lasers in a grid.

By comparison the optical camera is just a passive receiver, accepting reflected sunlight or light from the the weak LED flash. Those light sources are way stronger and more diffuse in terms of range and coverage.

Maybe in a few years the lidar will get better but for now it's just not useful for anything except face ID. Prosumer drones probably have better lidar and also better photogrammetry software.

More deets on i lidar: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/the-technology-behind-t...
An act is rational or irrational depends on whether you can convince yourself.

History is littered with examples where men have slaughtered other men just because their religion "allows" them by some divine right. These men will argue that they acted rationally.

Men will invent "rational" reasons to justify the end objective.
Raw, yes. But I use alot more seasoning with vegetables. I spend more time chopping and simmering. And the end result just isn't as enjoyable as a steak.
Without questioning if seizing the property of Russian billionaires is justified or not, if you believe in equity, the property of American billionaires should also be seized by the other countries for the nearly 200 000 civilian deaths in Iraq (which is much worse, but the US-led war lasted longer).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Ira...
Putin ending up like Gadaffi and Russia like Libya was never going to happen, because Russia has nukes. Just like the US hasn't taken out the Pakistani government despite them literally harbouring Osama Bin Laden.
> allows you to upload your list of tabs into a web page in order to share them with others

I understand, however sharing a link with someone specific (usually you need the specific url to access this) is not the same as publishing for the entire internet/search engines.

It's not a problem if they do this, but at least they should make people unaware of it.
Looking at some of the private bookmarks that are being shared, it seems people are unaware.
It's a meta study. There can be bias in selecting the studies, and the way they interpret the results. But it doesn't necessarily means there is, further review is needed.
> #5300
Magnets are highly shielded from neutrons in a fusion reactor. The real problem is the first wall, which necessarily is not shielded.

Materials are an ongoing problem, and it's not just dpa. Abdou at UCLA pretty convincingly argues that increasing dpa of wall materials isn't even the most pressing problem; reliability of the wall/blanket is.

http://www.fusion.ucla.edu/abdou/abdou%20presentations/2018/...

I should add that fusion neutrons add a problem beyond that experienced in fission reactors: the neutrons are sufficiently energetic that production of helium by (n,alpha) reactions in materials is a serious issue. The helium migrates to small very high pressure bubbles that break materials from the inside.
I have not understood the differences between [flagged] and [dead], sorry if I don't see something obvious. But this action revealed me the secret about why HN is so nice to read. Switching the option to 'no' for not seing that hell any more.
"links to their government" is doing a lot of work there
needed to add.

let c,x,X,Y,r,i,s;
There are brazen calls for literal assassination of Russian leaders with hundreds of upvotes on Reddit,

but when a veteran soldier confronts a former US president for pulling pretty much the same shit, he gets dragged and thrown out:

https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/td5wgj/ir...
None of them were considered competitors by the mainstream. In fact, the mainstream had blackberry and iOS and no one knew wtf the Sailfish was.
Let's not forget that Covid is still here, and new variants are worse.
Long Covid is looking to be a real problem, with all sorts of side effects. Even from a cold business perspective why take the risk of causing these problems to your workforce ?
Thats irrelevant.
They're not doing it because it's their kink, they're doing it because their employer has made them do it. Not every criticism of something in the sex industry has to be "kink shaming" and to reduce everything to that is harmful and detrimental to serious discourse.
True. Between continued pandemic, inflation, and Russia… well, call me an optimistic fool. One who still has a few decades to wait it out.
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>MAKE. THIS. PERMANENT!

I second this. (Also I wanted to see what my avatar looks like, sry)
But...by definition, if the product isn't viable it isn't a minimum viable product.
This is due process, per the laws of the countries their yachts are in.