skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SPD tried very hard doing what Putin wants.

"On February 27th, the German arms industry gave Chancellor Olaf Scholz a 48 page list of military equipment that they could send to Ukraine. Scholz waited until today to forward it to the Ukrainians but his office only sent the Ukrainians half the document)"

"While Ukraine was offered Marder IFV, Boxer APC and even Leopard-2 MBT as well as Panzerhaubitze 2000 by German companies, it is not allowed to buy any of these systems in Germany"

1) At the end of February Germany's defense industry sends Scholz a long list of all available weapons.

2) Scholz doesn't share the list with Ukraine.

3) Scholz says that there are no more weapons left in Germany to give to Ukraine.

4) Germany's defense industry leaks the list to Ukraine's ambassador.

5) Scholz says that the weapons on the list don't work.

6) The defense industry denies this and leaks the list to the press.

7) Scholz states Ukrainians can't master the weapons in the available time.

8) German defense experts tell the German press that Ukrainians can master the weapons in 2-3 weeks.

9) Scholz says the weapons are needed by NATO and NATO must approve their transfer.

10) NATO officials and German generals deny this.

11) Scholz says no other NATO/EU ally is delivering heavy weapons to Ukraine.

12) The US, UK, Australia, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Turkey, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Romania, Netherlands, etc. publish the lists of heavy weapon they deliver to Ukraine.

13) Under pressure Scholz announces €2 billion for Ukraine's military.

14) German parliamentarians find out that it's really just €1 billion, which won't be available for another 2-3 months, and then Scholz can veto or delay indefinitely every item Ukraine wants to buy.

15) The US, France, Poland, Romania, Japan, the UK and Italy, plus the heads of EU and NATO spend an afternoon trying to talk sense into Scholz.

16) Scholz makes a statement and says Ukraine can have the €1 billion now and order whatever it wants from the list.

17) Ukraine's ambassador says that Scholz removed all the items Ukraine actually wants from the list before giving it to Ukraine and what remains on the list is just a fraction of the €1 billion.

18) Scholz claims that there is no ammunition anymore for the Leopard tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles.

19) Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, the US, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Taiwan, Egypt respectively France are saying the produce these ammo types.

20) Scholz says countries delivering armored vehicles to Ukraine will be attacked by russia with nuclear weapons.

21) The US, UK, Australia, France, Poland, Spain, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Czechia, Netherlands, Denmark all report they were not hit by nuclear weapons.
Couldn’t manage cookie pop-up on iPhone. Bane of designers everywhere. Looks pretty but it doesn’t work right. Haha
Mods: I see the title got the purpose of the logo edited out, but I think at least adding "a logo for my Open Source project" would be a much better title.
I imagine she didn't go there just because she loves long plane rides.
Not really, the past two years have seen probably a order of magnitude increase in interest and articles about industrial-scale ventilation and air quality.
Why space debris keeps falling out of the sky–and will continue to do so
Maybe it is just 1 recipient. Which I think is still a fine display of the value of a decentralized payment option.
There are trade-offs when you scale horizontally even if a database is designed for it. For example, DataStax's Storage Attached Indexes or Cassandra's hidden-table secondary indexing allow for indexing on columns that aren't part of the clustering/partitioning, but when you're reading you're going to have to ask all the nodes to look for something if you aren't including a clustering/partitioning criteria to narrow it down.

You've now scaled out, but you now have to ask each node when searching by secondary index. If you're asking every node for your queries, you haven't really scaled horizontally. You've just increased complexity.

Now, maybe 95% of your queries can be handled with a clustering key and you just need secondary indexes to handle 5% of your stuff. In that case, Cassandra does offer an easy way to handle that last 5%. However, it can be problematic if people take shortcuts too much and you end up putting too much load on the cluster. You're also putting your latency for reads at the highest latency of all the machines in your cluster. For example, if you have 100 machines in your cluster with a mean response time of 2ms and a 99th percentile response time of 150ms, you're potentially going to be providing a bad experience to users waiting on that last box on secondary index queries.

This isn't to say that Cassandra isn't useful - Cassandra has been making some good decisions to balance the problems engineers face. However, it does come with trade-offs when you distribute the data. When you have a well-defined problem, it's a lot easier to design your data for efficient querying and partitioning. When you're trying to figure things out, the flexibility of a single machine and much cheaper secondary index queries can be important - and if you hit a massive scale, you figure out how you want to partition it then.
Uber receipt emails are crashing Microsoft Outlook
FB is still printing money so I'm not sure how it's not a stable business
Nice until your server gets hugged by HN.
Glad you liked it! It was definitely lots of fun (both the original process, as well as describing it).

And indeed, seeing what Dalle will draw when telling it to visualize stuff like "data streams" was very interesting.
>The vast majority of startups out there run out of a single AWS region with a CDN caching read-only content.

I wonder how many of them violate GDPR and similar laws in other countries in regards to personal data processing by processing everything in the US.
I am planning to launch our next product on Hetzner. Now I am super afraid. Any advice?
> For Marx, these crises ultimately culminate in the unavoidable collapse of capitalism.

But I mean that's exactly the whole difference, right? Both Marx and others identified this pattern, Marx believes this ultimately will explode, others don't, so it makes sense that others would want to label it in a way that indicates their view that the pattern is "normal" and sustainable.

I'm not even saying Marx is wrong, but just because Marx thought something about something he noticed doesn't mean he's right. Others that came after him are allowed to come to different conclusions about the things he noticed.
LOL no one uses Indeed for compensation - the information is all wrong. At minimum you should be looking at levels.fyi.

In my last job search which wasn't too long ago, I got several offers and not a single one was below $400k.
Great advice.

I sometimes use a similar technique to clean/organize my house, and prevent myself from going down the rabbit hole of "what do I do with this stuff?", "I need to list that on eBay", "Oh this is that card I got from so and so I need to write them back", "why do I own all these books??".

I pretend I'm a housecleaner and this isn't really my stuff, and just focus on getting the job done.

Then I can save the existential questions for later, after my house is clean.
In CA at least, there is a large gap:
Despite those changes and others, the proportion of freshmen from underrepresented racial groups, including Blacks, Latinos and women, attending the UC campuses, averaged 20% before Prop 209, then dropped to 15% in 1998, then slowly increased over the next 20 years, reaching a peak of 37% in 2016, according to the system. However, the percentage of underrepresented students graduating from high school had doubled to over 56% by 2016.
Source: https://edsource.org/2020/students-at-californias-top-tier-u...
> The us is generally decent when it comes to corruption

Honestly I think this is sadly untrue. The corruption is there, just hidden very very well and legalized in the form of political lobbying and wall st. hedge funds.
That is because investors don't see a good future for that company. It is basically failing on all fronts.
I fail to see how a currency that a) requires internet access, and b) can fluctuate so massively over the course of a few months, is any kind of solution to instability in developing countries. crypto is also arguably as or even more at the whim of national governments. look at what happened when China banned it. they're not gonna be banning dollars or gold anytime soon.

also, perhaps the cause of people not understanding you is not some kind of lack of mental faculties on their part, but your - what I would describe as - extremely obnoxious style of communication
By saying 'not a good fit' requires additional details to be valid you are actually acknowledging that 'not a good fit' is not a valid reason to not hire someone, those additional details are the valid reason to not hire someone.
Its still fairly easy to spoof APs. 802.11w aims to prevent this but support is spotty. And a spoofed AP means now the attacker has access to things that would normally gated behind NAT.

Although with use of social engineering, you can set up a gateway page that says something like "Log in to Facebook for free wifi", bypassing the need for any exploits.
> FGPAs or SOCs with Optane for instant on/low latency applications would've been amazing.

Looks like a company called Everspin is working on exactly that:

> "will provide FPGA system designers with extremely fast configuration, instant-on boot capability, and rapid updates of critical application parameters such as weighting tables in AI applications."

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/02/kioxia_everspin_persi...
Most of this article is pretty interesting and unusually insightful about quant firms. But I find this sentence to be utterly disgusting.

> Trading is a lottery operated by market makers, and like the lottery its social function is to convert mass innumeracy into funding for better causes.

It’s basically saying “we should have your money because we know better than you”. Maybe true, but I find it a very weak argument for the social function of a quant firm. Especially when lotteries are essentially a form of regressive taxation.
Not having a vector logo limits the places in which the same logo can be used.
Trees capture carbon, but they don't sequester it. You need additional steps to prevent the biomass from decomposing. This isn't too hard, generally just burying plant material below enough earth will do the trick, but it's a substantial expense at scale.

And scale is really the issue. All the world's forests combined currently absorb about 20% of CO2 humans currently emit. To go neutral, you're looking at planting around 12 trillion trees. Worse still, about 30% of Earth's land surface area are already covered by forests, so you can't simply expand the forests to get the required carbon capture.

The only realistic way to achieve 100% carbon capture by biological means would be to seed algae blooms in the ocean, which for short term carbon uptake would work pretty well, but when that algae dies it is way harder to prevent it from decomposing, meaning you don't get long term sequestration. Further, you are talking about terraforming-level changes to marine environments all over the world. Beyond the catastrophic effects that can have on other species, the full effects of what that might do to us are impossible to fully predict.

Artificial carbon capture might have higher capital costs since the equipment is not self replicating, but it can be orders of magnitude more efficient in terms of energy, CO2 capture rate, and land use requirement.
that would require a 33% decline in a single day for the Nasdaq, which has never happened in the history of the stock market.
Saruman :)
>> And when they're great they're GREAT! However I've also worked with people who can tell fantastic stories about punch cards and LISP machines, but also haven't picked up any new skills since the late 90s and have no idea what has happened in the industry in the past 10 years.

I guess I'm a greybeard now even if it's only got a little grey, and I can tell you I've been annoyed at stories of punch cards for 20 years now. They were cute stories in the 1990s, but now I cringe if someone tries to relate "the punch card story". And I mean "the" punch card story because I think they're all lying. Every one of them dropped a box of punch cards they spent a lot of time getting right and had to sort that mess out. I think it's just a meme and old people tell it like it actually happened to them because it used to be a good story. Sorry, it's not. It's more tired than me ;-)

When I was your age, we used to have these older guys telling us about the punch-card days... Shit.
> That’s one of the missing pieces to solving it

There is no missing piece. We all know we need to drastically cut carbon emissions, capture as much carbon as we can, and use energy sources that do not emit carbon into the atmosphere. That's pretty much it.
Related discussion from this past Saturday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32289979 (70 points, 16 comments)

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32287798

Both links include hot takes from a tech lead for CF Workers (@kentonv).
> Well, one day, my boss called me in, and said they couldn’t promote a white male because there was too much attention on the fact that there was no diversity in senior management.

Good find. He was telling the same story 15 years ago.

Absent some other evidence, it seems the main reason to be skeptical is simply that it's not a pleasing thing to hear.
The Startup Data Dilemma
This ^ I remember hiring being frozen for some time at the beginning of covid for FB
Just used your service to order from sainsburys based on this comment. Outstanding process, so simple. Put me in my partners good books! On the sign up I said I found you on hacker news. Thanks for posting here!
The recommendation of «you shouldn’t let your quieter coworkers speak unless they interrupt their way into the conversation in meetings because that will set them up for failure when their future coworkers talk right over them» is a pretty uncharitable and needlessly aggressive attitude toward those quieter coworkers.
I stopped reading after « with nary a mainstream use case to show for it other than drugs and ransomware »

Wether you like them or not, DEFI, ICOs and NFTs are all very valid use cases which attracted people with backgrounds different enough that we can call it mainstream. Yes you can do pretty much all of them without blockchain but so can you with drugs and ransomware.
I don’t know what is it with crypto that it generates so much extremism in both sides.
I think there are other ethical issues you should be worried about before this one.
Literally what qubes os does
I mean... with modern memory compression and SSD speeds, is this really neccesary? If you've got an NVMe SSD, you've most likely got enough bandwidth to never notice the swap kicking in (especially with a generous swappiness value). Sure there might be a couple workloads that could benefit from that kind of upgrade, but I think most people building memory-optimized rigs would rather just buy more memory, since it goes in the same DIMM anyways.
When I do gaming, I really can not stop. I do not run any games because minimum amount of time for me playing new interesting game or re-playing old good game is at least few hundreds. That's why I know if I install any video game, it means nothing good for me.
Tesla has massively raised its prices. Why does it matter if it’s a dealership raising prices or the manufacturer itself? The demand is greater than the supply and cars in the U.S. are essential for all but a few households. Prices are going to rise. It’s just a matter of who is getting the increased profit: the dealership, the manufacturer, or a third party.
Musk has been accused (emphasis on "accused"), yet his career is still intact. That shouldn't be surprising.
Yeah he takes a super rational view of it. Shows the power of emotions, social pressure, etc that so few people do.
Somebody pays for that bandwidth though?
I may be misunderstanding, but it looks like the micro-services comparison here is based on very high usage. Another use for micro-services, like lambda, is exactly the opposite. If you have very low usage, you aren't paying for cycles you don't use the way you would be if you either owned the machine, or rented it from AWS or DO and left it on all the time (which you'd have to do in order to serve that randomly-arriving one hit per day!)
True. The company benefits just compound this.
I used to think there were use cases but not anymore. Currency is the only possible one but since it is digital, it leads to the same but different centralization. The days of mining bitcoin in the background and "winning" a full bitcoin are gone.

There is no need for crypto for money laundering when it can be done at scale at Deutsche Bank.

The anonymous use cases are a chicken/egg problem because you still need on/off ramps. but the other issues make global crypto currency a no go.
Thanks for creating this site! As someone who has lead a programming club for high schoolers, it was an amazing resource to show budding programmers, let them play around with it, and then tell them how to build it themselves! It's a great little project to learn programming.
> Thousand year old industries get disrupted all the time.

They really don't. The fundamentals of banking as an industry haven't changed in hundreds if not thousands of years. Real estate, etc.
I know next to nothing about crypto, but I do know this is not the first time I've heard of a huge crypto hack involving security flaws in something called a "bridge".

People should look into those!
The blog post is out: https://go.dev/blog/go1.19
this is response to this comment:

> We're not in a recession. Yet. Google and Facebook are ahead of the curve and mostly using the headlines to shake things up internally right now.

which has nothing to do with investors
How many non-capitalist societies are out there? North Korea? Vietnam? Venezuela?

You do realize their impact is very small.
Right, doing illegal stuff is the killer app is my point. I don't know if it's a net positive either, but it's a positive for some users. I hope it's clear I wasn't advocating for any of these things just pointing to successful applications of the technology
Is this Starbucks coffee haunted?
What's going on with this Starbucks iced coffee?
There's an optional feature that you can put in selected message, and that seems to be the placeholder text they are using.

In some way, that illustrates the app very well, as I've had to adjust many thing along the way figuring out what works and not, rather than getting it perfect right away...
I don't imagine the image quality will stay at this level for long. It'll likely improve dramatically over the coming months/years.
Now imagine if Carzoo also did the rentals so you could try out various cars over a span of days or weeks (paying a decent rate), then choose the one that fit best into your lifestyle over several weeks.

That would be a complete game changer. I would pay a premium for that.
Canadian here, and this checks out.

I think the reason this isn't more popular is that our talent pool is small enough that unless you already have a Canadian presence it's not really worth opening up a business unit/office/whatever here. Obviously some big players have done it (MS, Amazon, EA) but if you're a medium sized company it may not be worth it.

I work for a US company but I'm a contractor for this reason. It works for me but if you don't have extended health through your partner or don't want to deal with the tax implications of being "self employed", it can be less attractive.
I also couldn't connect so I just searched "spar19 live" on YouTube and there were 5 livestreams so I watched that.
In fact, the world is preparing to eat software (companies). China's crackdown on tech companies, to make sure they know who's boss, is just happening a little earlier than it will in the West. The ongoing crackdown on cryptocompanies, more regulation concerning adtech privacy, and so on are part of a coming wave of government (and society) putting Software under the rule of law. Which someone as old as I am, can recall hearing Internet zealots in the early 90's say wouldn't happen. But, once software "ate" the world, it became part of the world, and the world paid a lot more attention to it. It's not a coincidence that most Big Tech companies now are not run by founders, they are run by people who are more savvy politically, because that's what will matter more to the future success of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.

Mark Zuckerberg, now would be a good time for you to take your check and head for the exit...
I hear this repeated so many times at my workplace, and it's so totally and completely uninformed.

Customers who have invested millions of dollars into making their stack multi-region, multi-cloud, or multi-datacenter aren't going to calmly accept the excuse that "AWS Went Down" when you can't deliver the services you contractually agreed to deliver. There are industries out there where having your service casually go down a few times a year is totally unacceptable (Healthcare, Government, Finance, etc). I worked adjacent to a department that did online retail a while ago and even an hour of outage would lose us $1M+ in business.
>> As psychedelic therapies for mental health go mainstream, companies are recruiting chemists to create patentable versions of hallucinogens.

Same old same old. Let's tweak this molecule to make it "novel" while retaining it's cool properties. Then we can patent it and own the market. In this case they also get the advantage that the existing molecule is illegal.
To me, at least, the difference between what Scott Adams is doing and a good-faith definition of "punching up" is that he's trivializing genuine issues faced by marginalized people, and trying to make it all about him (the way most things have been about well-off white men for so much of Western history).

I think that if you really wanted to make a workplace comic that skewers HR departments' often hamfisted attempts to promote diversity (which is often because they themselves don't really care about it, and have just been given a mandate), you need to center the people with the real issues, rather than the ones who are being mildly inconvenienced by it.

Have a trans employee complaining that HR is happy to jump down people's throats for accidental misgendering, but still hasn't actually processed their name change paperwork and informed IT, so the intranet is still deadnaming them.

Have an employee of color upset that they've plastered black, Hispanic, and Asian people all over the company's website, but he's just gotten passed up for promotion for the third time to a white guy who worked there less than a year and who does nothing but kibitz all day.

Have a Jewish employee angry that the company has branded kippahs that they give out alongside their other swag, but won't give the Jewish High Holidays off as paid holidays.

In general, play up the empty tokenism, while emphasizing what's really important. (Making it also funny is left as an exercise for the reader; I don't claim to be a comic.)
>How do you identify socioeconomic class?

How do you identify race? After all, it's just a social construct. We're not DNA testing and doing the one-drop rule are we? Its' self-reported. At least with socioeconomics we can look at household income and tax returns.
> The compiler now uses a jump table to implement large integer and string switch statements. Performance improvements for the switch statement vary but can be on the order of 20% faster. (GOARCH=amd64 and GOARCH=arm64 only)

Nice improvement to switch statements!