skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just have to glance at their bio to get your answer: they have no idea what they are doing. The role is not compensated and clearly treated as a no-profit club.

The whole system of boards and execs is broken, generally speaking, but at MozCorp it looks more broken than average.
The ideas of John Bogle are good financial advice. I suggest starting with "Develop a workable plan" on the Bogleheads wiki [0]. When you have sound financial planning, your income should be higher than your expenses and you'll start saving.

Saving and having an emergency fund are crucial, in any time period, but especially during uncertain periods such as we're starting to see now. Make an honest list of your actual expenses of the last few months and question wether each one is worth it. House, car, Starbucks, gym, takeout, ... where can you save meaningfully?

If you've already saved some money, consider spreading it. Different accounts at different banks. ETF's with broad exposure and large capitalisation. Perhaps a little bit in alternative sources of value like gold or crypto, in case financial markets become unstable.

If it really goes to shit: oats are a cheap food with good caloric value. Easy to store for a long period of time. Actually look at the prices of the things you buy and compare it to the value of oats. That ~5$ latte at Starbucks could keep my family fed for a week on cheap oats from Costco [1]

[0] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads®_investment_philo...

[1] https://everydaythrifty.com/grocery-store-price-comparison/ 5$ * 0.06$/oz = 83 oz = 5.1 lb.
> How is that taking money from the creators?

Long term if no one buys the sponsorships will fall off.

> I'll never buy

Of course if you know with absolutely 100% certainty that you'll never buy or mention to others (you might not need/want a WidgitotronAsAService, but maybe someone you know asks about them later) anything ever mentioned in a sponsor spot, then no there is no loss (and I envy your clairvoyance).

I consider it a politeness to the content creators to not automatically skip the sponsor slots. I do manually ship the ones I've heard a few times already, but you never know if the next one might have some relevance. Unlike stalky ads, the sponsor slots have some chance of being relevant to what I'm thinking about while watching that particular clip.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you write, but how do you explain the Chinese Communist Party still being in power since 1949? It's anything but transparent or accountable.
Look very nice! Somehow I thought since it is Rust and not Java, it should be more fps than Minecraft (many other things seemingly comparable), but it's not, probably wrong assumptions on my end.
Most Linux distros have standardized on AppArmor which provides the same basic featureset as SELinux while being a lot easier to manage (e.g. no file system hacks required, everything is set up via standard configuration mechanisms!).
I'd be willing to bet that at least some of them would. Instinctively I would also guess that it would lead to a better outcome on average, but as I'm less certain about that which is why I would like to see it tested out.
it leaves little room for corrective action

Building an MVP means getting something in front of customers as soon as possible, in order to test your product works for customers and change it if you're wrong. The entire point of an MVP is to give you as much time to change things as possible.

Everything you do prior to putting your product in front of someone might be wrong. The only validation that counts is the customer handing you their money. The longer you spend building before getting something out there the more expensive any mistakes might be. Consequently, making an MVP and only building the absolute minimum viable solution to a problem, give you as much correction time as possible.

I'd much rather work within an organisation that has a clear vision about the problem they're trying to solve with flexibility around how it is to be solved

We all would. The question is about how the org goes about getting clarity about the problem. If they think they fully understand it without talking to customers or putting something in front of customers in order to give the customer something to talk about, run the hell away. Those discussions will happen as soon as the customer sees something. If you've built a full product that you think is ideal, and then the customer doesn't agree, then you either lose the customer or you have to do a ton of work to change the product. Those are expensive mistakes that kill a startup. Having those conversations as early as possible is how you avoid that cost.
You wouldn't ask Reddit about how to be a well adjusted adult.

You wouldn't ask 4Chan about white collar workplace social norms.

When it comes to making ends meet most of HN lives on easy mode. If your situation is anything other than easy mode then the usefulness of anything anyone here has to say will approach zero. You don't know what you don't know. This means that even when someone is an outlier and has great advice on a topic in which you wouldn't expect is you won't be able to identify it.

So hedge your bets by asking your questions in communities that have relevant experience in the topic.
Laptops and Their Developments
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Physics in Clojure: Elliptical Paths
US and Russia unites in cheering for Russian oligarchs being robbed (ordinary Russians, especially the war-supporting pseudo proletariat, never really valued wealth or private property and would happily watch oligarchs parting with their toys; and the US citizens think something productive is being done). The rich themselves would suffer next to no drop in their quality of life. They probably got rich by exploiting Russian resources, but most likely denounce Putin and the war anyway.

It is a weird development, but all things considered not the worst thing that's happening.
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Russia already announced they are doing so for any company that shuts down operations (even temporarily) in Russia that have 25% or more foreign control last week.

This talk now is in response to Russia acting in that manner first.
Why not? They are enemies, not friends. We should vilify our enemies and celebrate our allies. This is the nature of the world. Sometimes you must draw a line in the sand and pick a side. It is not possible to straddle the middle and try to apply the same sets of rules to every actor; each circumstance is different and should be treated with the nuance it requires.
No. I think I have always been more or less equally interested in both.
Comparing people who legitimately made their money instead of ripping off their nation during the transfer of government owned assets to privately owned.

Also Afghanistan wouldn’t wouldn’t have been invaded if they handed over the Osama.
I think the idea here is that if the debt is less than 10% APY you’re better off building a emergency fund and can pay off the debts in later steps. With the emergency fund you’re less likely to find yourself in a situation where you take on more debt.
Russia itself is adamant about not being at war. It's a "special operation", remember?

We're trying really hard to toe the line in order not to start a third world war. But we are at war. We're sending aid and weapons every day by the megatons to Ukraine.

Ukrainians are fighting on our behalf, so that nuclear escalation does not happen. But as far as Russia is concerned, we are at war, and in fact Putin himself said that the various sanctions and such are "acts of war", even if he hasn't acted on it (yet).
Cool! Just commenting to see what I've got xD
COVID-19 induced a recession all around the globe
A lobster!
Taxes should be doing this.

Progressive taxation should be uncapped, when you pass some threshold of "this is more than you need in the lifetimes of you, your partner, your next-of-kin to all live a life of unparalleled luxury" then it should escalate up to 99%, and if you pass some really obscene threshold equivalent to a small country's GDP then let it go to 100%.

Wealth taxation should be effective. No individual needs to own land area equivalent to a city, or housing and art assets of a disproportionate nature.

And on the flipside... income taxation can be lowered if we're more effectively taxing wealth and the obscene earnings. Instead we could encourage far more social mobility and the growing of a far larger middle-class. Tax low earners and those without wealth nothing at all, and tax the middle-class only a little.

This opinion won't resonate on HN, but modern society has become so effective at extracting money from people and enriching a few, and rent-seeking as a business model so prevalent that it does feel we're at risk of putting future generations in a serfdom role that had taken hundreds of years to get out of.

This is all distinct from what's happening in Ukraine and with sanctions, this is just an opinion about what's happening in the World at large.
>So now it's just OK to seize private property of individuals without any even pretend due process?

Just in case there's misunderstanding about what "seize" means...

Are governments actually taking ownership possession (nationalizing) of Russian yachts or are they removing the assets from the owner's control?

In other words, does "seize" mean:

(1) civil forfeiture like USA police confiscating cash without due process ?

or

(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) ?

The various reports I've read makes it seem like UK is treating Russian yachts as (2).

In contrast... with the fleets of airplanes leased from Europe sitting in Russian territory, it looks like Russia does literally want to take ownership of them in retaliation to sanctions.
> Nine minutes, 93 seconds, orgasm. This is the average visit duration of the world’s biggest porn site XVideos

Slightly sus from the get-go.
Actually yes, I'd prefer the browser to restore the page it had already loaded before instead of whatever is served there now.
Why crypto is unlikely to be useful for sanctions-dodgers
Pi Formulas, Algorithms and Computations (2009)
>3. Max out life insurance you can afford. Don’t combine life insurance with investment.

Why not combine them?
And there's a good chance that many of them think "Oh, the other 4 will catch it if I don't, so it's not a big deal." Adding a committee to something doesn't make it automatically smarter.
> 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.

In this case it's no different from any professional sport.
Pretty much. San Francisco much fired the SF Symphony Director because... he's from Russia.

This isn't a thing that happened.

Looks like a pretty good portion of HN would support that even now.

No, it doesn't. "It's okay to freeze the assets of the oligarch collective currently invading a friendly nation" is quite far away from "let's round up Russians and put them into camps" and your comparison is ridiculous.
I think it depends upon your threat model. If you are considering people scanning the Internet for servers vulnerable to the latest security bug then yes, if you're considering targeted attacks then slower fixes are worse.
Apparently the original title was more clickbaity and it's been changed to a more objective one.
Hey, why don't you work for me, you won't get money, but you'll get visibility.
Show me which western country and laws grants the government the right to seize property without due process. If that's really the case there's going to be a massive shift in capital allocation over the next decade.

In the USA this is specifically banned by the Constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
On the other hand, China could try and strongarm Russia into concessions (no idea which ones) while politely performing military exercises on the other side of an undefended border.

Similarly, if NATO starts politely performing military exercises near any of the other borders of Russia, Russia needs to be able to demonstrate that they have an army guarding said border.
>Pretty much. San Francisco fired the SF Symphony Director because... he's from Russia.

Who would this be? A casual googling shows an individual from Finland has been the director since 2020. What am I missing here?
The reality in today's world (at least for software developers in the US) is that government work pays so much less than private sector work that I don't imagine it pays to go into government work at any point of your career.
Yep. MFTF. Really frustrating stuff.

There is a statue of it in front of UW-Madison's Engineering Hall. It's a water display that, funnily, has not worked in many years.
From the NASA site:

"
The Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics. The telescope has a primary mirror that is 2.4 meters in diameter (7.9 feet), and is the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror. The Roman Space Telescope will have two instruments, the Wide Field Instrument, and the Coronagraph Instrument.

The Wide Field Instrument will have a field of view that is 100 times greater than the Hubble infrared instrument, capturing more of the sky with less observing time. As the primary instrument, the Wide Field Instrument will measure light from a billion galaxies over the course of the mission lifetime. It will perform a microlensing survey of the inner Milky Way to find ~2,600 exoplanets. The Coronagraph Instrument will perform high contrast imaging and spectroscopy of individual nearby exoplanets.
[...]
To make Roman’s sensitive measurements possible, the telescope will observe from a vantage point about 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) away from Earth in the direction opposite the Sun. At this special place in space, called the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2, gravitational forces balance to keep objects in steady orbits with very little assistance.
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Matrix network planning a distributed approach to online moderation
Obligatory “pirating Adobe software is always morally right”
Everything has always pointed to the economy being fucked up for the foreseeable future. Many careers have been made on exploiting that fear.

They only thing that really counts in the end is that you, personally, have enough revenue to cover your expenditures. If not, increase the former and decrease the latter until you do. You may need to adjust your expectations too.
The answers to all your "whys" is: because vendors don't support linux as a first class citizen. It's as simple as that. And why don't they? Because people don't use their wallets enough to support the ones that do.
This happens all over the world, even in the Western countries.
Anal, gangbangs, humiliation and other hardcore scenes pay extra. Significantly better money than normal scenes.

Take Lana Rhoades for example, an "outspoken critic of the adult industry" with numerous anal gangbangs and humiliation scenes under her belt:

"One of the worst... honestly, I feel like I'm in denial sometimes and I can't accept some of the things that I've done.

"There was one thing that, ya know, I tried talking to a therapist about before something that I had to do for a scene that was really rough for me.

"Basically, this guy had a bowl and he, like, gagged me until I threw up into it and he, like, pissed in the bowl, and during the scene he asked me to drink it, and I didn't know how to say no.

"It was one of the most disgusting, foul scenes."

It was so traumatic .... Lena decided to go back two more times to do more humiliation scenes with same producer. $$$$
How? The country doing the seizing is not at war with the government in question.

Even during the war you would expect the overseas property to be quarantined to use it as a lever during potential peace talks. As opposed to the unreversible confiscation such as giving it to somebody else to own. I'm not sure if that's what happening here.
Sponsorblock is still required with YT premium. And because uBlock has to be installed for other sites anyway, YT premium does not add any value..
Governments should be doing more to redistribute wealth, not perpetuate inequality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_ideologies

Not quite sure which part of punk idealogies you are aligned with, but imo seizing assets of bloated billionaires that support and profit from war is definitely a punk move that I would support.
1. This is not private property in any meaningful sense of the word. Russia is not governed by the rule of the law. Those people are more like semiofficial branches of the government than private billionaires working within the system. They made their fortunes by taking advantage of corruption rather than in legitimate business.

2. Wars of this scale are not fought between governments but between societies. Anyone who contributes to the economy of Russia (or Ukraine) is participating in the war. Third countries that favor one side of the war may seize the property of those who are contributing to the other side. Legally and legitimately.

3. Property rights are only as strong as the governments guaranteeing them. If no government is able and willing to guarantee them, they cease to exist in any meaningful sense. Once the war is over and the dust has settled, the victors and their friends will sort out who owns what.
The other big reason for an MVP is to get from 'customers told us they want this' to 'customers are actually paying for this' as quickly as possible. All to often potential customers say they want X, but really have no idea what they want. The only surefire way to know if a product is on the right path is to have customers using and paying for the product.
That's strange, I don't have a membership and can see "Human Effect Matrices" for individual supplements without a problem. Only the inverse search, i.e. the matrix for "what helps against depression" is limited to three supplements for me.
That's because the business doesn't define their system (business system, not technical system). Any large business should have documented business process maps/flows with procedures for what is to be done at each step. It really amazes me at how many large companies just fly by the seat of their pants with virtually no idea of what they're actually doing, no documentation, and little ability to explain their actions.
It'd make more sense if you said sized the assets of Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, the presidents of companies like Blackwater or Lockheed Martin and Halliburton, Kuwaiti and Afghani logistics companies...
formally, they aren't.

i'd google what mr. neville chamberlain did in 1938, though.
Nah it's a very common meme throughout telegram. Has been since the first couple of days of the war. Russians just cannot say it the same. They have the same word, but it means 'strawberries', and it's pronounced differently. It's a classic shibboleth.
There's some practical stuff, like mapping a room so that you can see wallpaper or paint choices on your own walls. Or getting clothing sizes more accurately, etc.
Why a, say, Portuguese pro, would go and work in some american meat grinder? He's also able to choose.

Here in Spain I know a handful of devs working remotely for american companies. It's true none of them get +100k but they are about 70-80k and say it's pretty pleasant experience, so I guess they also have the typical EU holidays package + some other niceties.

So I guess that while they're cheaper for those american companies, it's not everything about cost, otherwise they could go somewhere else and pay 20k. It has to be, because AFAIK for american companies the attitude towards work here in europe is prety alien.

Every time an american company has tried to set up in Europe and manage their operations as in america it has failed.
I think LeetCode premium is worth it. As well as the company-specific sections in Explore, I found the Learn sub-section to be very useful
How do you build a game engine from scratch these days? I mean, what is the underlying somewhat low-level graphics library? Is it wgpu or OpenGL?
Not I'm not American, nor do I live there. "Double the anger" about what's happening in the US still seems like still at least few times less anger than I think it would be fair to direct towards Saudi Arabia.
I feel for your situation and I'm sure as a parent, the treatment your daughter is getting is the most painful of all.

As they cliche goes "the veneer of civilization is thin".

Wishing you the best during these difficult times.
Be wise with the money you have, increase your ability to generate more cash flow, and don't waste more energy than necessary on worrying about things you can't control.
Like I said, it's not bad at all on an M1 (or other machines aimed at professional developers). A lot of the project's contributors are hobbyists or using less overpowered hardware, though, which is why the project has taken steps to try to make it better for the common cases (CI machines can also be an issue). But there's a huge difference between acknowledging it's a problem, and trying to somehow claim that it rules out Rust for game development (Veloren is an existence proof that this is not the case!).
It means 'lighter', like a cigarette lighter.
It has been my impression that most actors are American, followed by Russian. I couldn't find any numbers to corroborate that though.
Speaking of, do you know any good channel/educational video that goes deep into nuclear fusion and the challenges we're facing for a layman such as myself?
Funny ... I was born in 1964 (a year after the previous record year) and my first child was born in 1991. I never realized my life could be summed up with a graph ;)
If the illustration should show Constantinople in the period the book deals with, it is off by many centuries. Windmills were a development of the 12th century. It is like placing a knight on a motorbike instead of a horse.
What are all those lidocaine condoms for then?
> The only validation that counts is the customer handing you their money.

TLDR; of this whole thread.

I wrote something similar in a direct response to your first comment while you were writing this one :)
Endgame in Ukraine: how could the war play out?
Do you believe this is comparable? I'd be honestly interested why.