skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US and the west seeded all these conflicts after WW2 when they arbritrarily divided up ex-Ottoman Empire land with no real interest in Japan or Germany esque Marshall Plan or establishing democracy.

The US funded the Mujahadeen (now the Taliban) to remove the Soviet aligned government

The US supported the Shah in Iran as an absolute monarch until a popular revolution removed him

The US funded Iraq to fight the newly formed republic of Iran, partly since Iran wanted to keep the oil for themselves

The US invaded Afghanistan to remove the extremists they propped up in the first place and spend trillions in taxpayer money to enrich US contractors

The US invaded Iraq later on because of their oil

US indiscriminately funded 'rebel' forces in Syria and Iraq, knowing many of them were extremists and would cause chaos in the region.

The US props up the Israeli state with funding and weapons, where they impose rule over Palestine despite the fact Israel do not allow them vote in Israeli elections

The US is currently stealing oil from Syrian oil-fields

The US is pumping weapons into Ukraine only to weaken Russia and force Ukraine into a deeply submissive vassal position where they owe the US hundreds of billions and must act only in the US's interests.

Does this sound like a military-industrial complex that is interested in peace or just in making money from chaos?
The stdlib is not always the best example of idiomatic Go; encoding/json is particularly infamous for having poor performance and awkward APIs. I'm fairly confident that it it was re-written today, it wouldn't use panic/recover.
I've never heard of MyRocks. I'm going to look into it some more, but if we're using MySQL as a regular ol' relational database, backing Django, is there anything to be gained from looking at MyRocks? We don't really do document stores, and only have a handful of JSON fields.
My understanding is that the “imperialism was good” take is less about the merits of whether imperialism itself and the treatment of the colonized is “GOOD” (they acknowledge it often is not throughout history) but that the spread of culture, norms, etc from the empire to the colonized was a Net Good for the colonized. It’s a glass half full take on the situation, otherwise we’re forced to think that nothing good having come from any imperial periods of history and that simply does not hold up to scrutiny.

It reminds me of when historians say “yes war is obviously bad, but war accelerated and progressed the infrastructure of X country by decades.”
"You wouldn't download a satellite uplink would you?"

Uh, yep thats exactly what I want to do :-)
Thank you for mentioning Grav CMS. It was particularly interesting to hear about the concept of "admin panel as a plugin". I like that idea very much, it's perfect for API-first design.

At work I've been trying to solve the question, how can we let the dev team continue to write documentation as Markdown files in Git repos, while not excluding others in the company who need/prefer GUI and rich text editor. I see now that it's possible to have the best of both worlds, with admin UI as a layer on top of the same underlying system, generating Markdown internally.

Still not sure how such an admin interface will integrate with Git though. I suppose "publish" can trigger a Git commit, but I wonder if it's feasible to ensure no Git push conflict when remote is ahead of local, i.e., someone else pushed a change before you did. Otherwise, I imagine the admin UI can get complex if it needs to provide a way to resolve such conflicting changes, with a side-by-side view of diffs.
Tough questions are the basis for accountability not demands. The media asks tough questions of the government all the time, no one things they are being demanded something of. If you can’t ask tough questions you can’t make progress. Twitter is a multi billion dollar compay with an army of lawyers, if there were no threats or no use of the word “must” or “demand” then there is a lot to interpret. I’m just being literal here. If you want to read between the lines ok, but it’s not what’s written in the image. The idea that this extremist blogger is infallible is equally "as tiresome as reading the twisted logic of sovereign citizens". I'm not saying assume best intent when it comes to the government but assuming worst intent is just as likely to take you away from the truth.
I was one of those developers who was always picked to start new projects. I started hundreds of them so far. I don't know why I was picked, but I can give you a list of things that I'd say differentiated me from my colleagues who'd never get the chance:

1. I have high-level knowledge about a lot of tech stuff. I'm that kind of idiot who isn't an expert on anything, but knows enough to be able to pick the right tools and work with them successfully (as in, finish the project).

2. I think I'm really good at communicating with other people in a work scenario.

3. I had a proven track record of finishing legacy tasks on time.

4. I don't usually go around seeking approval from others, especially on the things that I'm really confident about.

5. I'm independent, not only in the code I write but I can also make project decisions, initiate change, handle high pressure situations.
Uncanny Spaces: Visual Artists and the Machine
I've seen it more of a "this is the way that you should hire me." That's fine if there is only one candidate to be evaluated.

The difficulty with such is that these tend to be very time intensive on the employer side often requiring more time per candidate than the candidate spends with the prospective employer.

This can work for one candidate, but fails if one tries to scale it up to even 10 (much less 100) candidates. For that, a filter needs to be applied... and we're back at square 1 of a subset of people not wanting to do take homes (and so on).
Because there are still very rough edges to smooth out. So it works only for niches. Kinda like online shopping in the 90s
It will be interesting to see if we learn about the motivations of the attacker, the AP doesn't seem to be reporting on that yet.
> This is because they don’t like money that is independent from state control.

Who is “they”?
I think they’re referring to studies with telescopes, rather than math.
Excel is great. It is so good most business apps at some point ask you to replicate many of its popular features (though most of these features are not exclusive to Excel by any means).
People are definitely sleeping on k8s' capability in managing stateful workloads. We run various datastores on it all the time, and it's quite reliable for a lot of use cases (largely because the underlying cloud block stores it's orchestrating are incredibly robust).

That said there are warts that should be removed, but that's not surprising.
> Bronze age? No. Once gold leaves the sovereigns borders, it is a neutral money

"Neutral money" has no meaning in an era when information travels at the same speed as trade. (It arguably lacks any meaning today.)

Bronze Age civilizations didn't have the surplus labor to haul around gold. (Nor to test it.) Though they didn't have coins, they used token money--from engraved clay and stone markers to shells and beads. Commodity money was traded in representative form locally and physically over long distances. Commodities, not bullion, were used because they preserved value over distance--a Hittite trader couldn't know what a gold bullion would exchange for in Hispania or Egypt when they got there.
So in order to remain calm you should not work for Calm
There is no clear limit to that expanded definition though.
The article compares the Russian jamming of Viasat with the compromise of a Starlink UT. No, no, no... This is really wrong!

> As is typically the case with any technology, the increase in use and deployment of Starlink and other satellite constellations also means that threat actors have a greater interest in finding their security holes to attack them.

> Indeed, Russia saw an advantage in taking out a satellite providing internet communications across Europe by attacking its technology on the ground as Russian troops entered Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Viasat orbits at 22,000 miles, Starlink is in LEO. Precisely for this reason Starlink is naturally more resistant to jamming, and is used in Ukraine because of this.

Locally compromising a UT is a hack of an endpoint connection device, which has nothing to do with ELINT and electronic warfare activities (which is an entirely different kind of attacks for satellite networks).
> As abortion laws restart, states won't begin by arresting anyone who's ever donated to Planned Parenthood. But if left unchecked, some will eventually get there.

First thing, you can't arrest people for prior donations as postfacto laws are unconstitutional.

Second, if abortion is considered murder, why should it be legal to fund illegal abortions? We generally don't allow people to fund criminal activity for good reasons.

Do you think it should be legal to donate to criminal organizations?

What are your thoughts on donations to Al-Qaeda?
Worth mentioning that Emacs has org-jira if you want text mode jira.

https://github.com/ahungry/org-jira
It may be the greatest, most feature rich application ever written
In the past 100 years it has not happened that a borrower of stock has gone bankrupt?

Could be. I don't know. But I wouldn't expect that there is no risk that a certain thing will happen just because it has not happened for 100 years.
I'm in favor of privacy, but if you're profiting off designing and operating a system that you know is being used to facilitate large amounts of criminal money laundering (some going to known foreign government agents), you're more or less asking to be arrested.

You can pose an argument that your service has some positive impact in certain cases, but you can't flat deny any negative impact or responsibility for consequences of your service. This is true of any and all services, whether they relate to privacy or not.
Supergiant Betelgeuse had a never-before-seen eruption
Wow I had no idea Parse was still around and open source, I thought Facebook shut it down. It certainly was very popular back in the day!
Wrong. For example courts have consistently ruled that you can’t be compelled to unlock your phone or decrypt your hard disk if you’re invoking the 5th
> Instead of writing the formula =A1*B1, you can do =Width*Height like you should have been able to 30 years ago.

I don't have access to super old versions of Excel, but I just confirmed that it worked perfectly well in Office 2003. I believe it's been the case forever.

(I wrote whole apps in Excel4 super-weird macro language in 1992-93 and distinctly remember we had named zones.)
paywall-only
> speeds great enough

If you aren't wearing a seatbelt (admittedly, a bad idea), very close to 100% of them.
free of what?
In excel you can convert any range into a dedicated table object, which lets you give it a proper name, select rows/columns (with ctrl/shift+space), and use column names in formula (with `tablename[columnname]`). You can also load the table into powerquery to do things like decompositions or augmentations without modifying the original data.
People will yell about minmaxing in all competitive team-based games at skill levels far below where any of it matters (eg proper map awareness alone will probably shoot you into the top-90% of most competitive games, even with poor skill/choice in other aspects).

That has less to do with anything the game/community has specifically done and more to do with people always looking for “easy” answers to the problems they see — blame the loss on balance, on team members, on lack of minmaxing, on luck, on people not doing their jobs, etc.

And they yell those answers at you because you’re playing a team game where they depend on your success for their success.

In the end, you need a thick skin to play effectively and actually get better, to pierce through the noise and rabble
Previous discussion 5 month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30481053
([flagged] Reverse transcription of Pfizer's mRNA vaccine is happening in human cells [in Human Liver Cell Line]),

- there is a link to https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/worst-fears-realized-pfize... noticing "an anonymous 4chan post from Dec 2020, long before any of this became known. The date makes us all ask, did this person know too much?":

"I'm an industrial engineer at Moderna [..] I'm sure the same thing is happening with Pfizer-BioNTech [..] We've taken precautions but fear for our safety [..] avoiding taking vaccine makes us prime suspects for this leak.

[How we do:]

3. Make sure that while delivery system for (1) [mRNA coding for S protein] mostly ends up in liver, most of (2) [mRNA coding for mutant versions of CYP19A1 and CDKN1B] ends up in the gonads

4. Make sure form and quantity of additive upregulating LINE-1 reverse transcription activity makes it hard to detect among legit adjuvants.

5, 6. Effects from (2) integrated by (4) are recessive; mildly oncogenic effects in vaccine recipients unlikely to be noticed for many years. [..] in next generation female offspring have premature ovarian failure."

?
please don't make me ad the /s
One of the hypotheses to explain the Large low-shear-velocity provinces at the Earth Mantle-Core boundary is that they are remnants of the impactor that lead to the formation of the Moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_low-shear-velocity_provi...
Only if you presume that private deeds are illegitimate. That appears to reverse the presumption of innocence, without which the law becomes nothing more than a tool to destroy the enemies of the prosecutors.
Maybe you are better than your coworkers at maintaining code.
“Marketing shill” sounds better
Unless you find that abortion was never legal because the state statute on "murder" is vague. For instance, if the court re-interprets a murder statute then I believe that would apply to prior cases and then prior donations to any establishment assisting in abortion could be pursued as conspiracy.

There's a lot of room to re-interpret laws that were already on the books in ways that make prior "crimes" illegal today when they wouldn't have been interpreted that way when they happened.

There's other things that can be done as well, like searching their residence for every single code violation possible, daily police visits, civil asset forfeiture, fine-comb tax auditing, etc. It's a pretty well oiled machine for finding ways to convict people or make their life hell through the legal system if that's the goal.
Hey take it as a compliment, would you throw a Junior developer into a complex and already working legacy system? try to answer it from the business point of view; it takes a lot of experience and knowledge to do what you are already doing.

My recommendation is to apply the 80/20 rule, use around 20% of the time to do fun stuff like refactoring that annoying class or package, add tools to react quickly to errors or to understand sql queries like tracing and better logging, take the time to write test benchmarks specially for slow functionalities and add faster or more readable code, it's fun I promise it, this's exactly what I'm doing now :)
Is he the greatest living author to never have won the Nobel? I vote yes.
True as that may be, in a production app I don't think breadth of features trumps having paid support, SLA's, comprehensive documentation, resources, tutorials etc.

On top of that, funding like this gives a pretty optimistic outlook on the future of the project when compared to a fully community managed open-source project that could become abandonware.
And observers hoping to police ideas, speech and whether something is offensive, with the intention of shutting someone down. They don't call it censorship.

It's like some sort of revival of Puritanism, but without the warehousing of mentally ill people we did until the 1970s.
IANAL.

No, ex post facto laws aren't legal.

If the state law says so, yes, you could get an out-of-state charge for providing financial aid to an abortion operation after contributing to an organization that funds them. With Roe v Wade gone, I am not sure there is a federal precedent for how to handle crimes relating to committing a murder in one state that is not considered a murder in another state.
That inversion can happen, but it does make me wonder what's up with that company.

Seems like business is so solid they can print money with existing systems and use it to fund the future...

OR

Business is in shambles and they're trying to moonshot their way out of it before the money runs out.

Either way, I can't imagine that situation being sustainable.
Qt is LGPL, no need to pay for a license.
It might allow them to do things like connect to the Starlink network outside of their geofence. Or hacking a stationary antenna to work on a moving vehicle.
Or if not bliss, perhaps lesser vexation and sorrow.
How? I’m no fanboy but delivering working products pretty much negates all accusations of peddling vaporware.
> governments can print extra money

Aren't most coins doing exactly that constantly when people mine them?
> You're working on something that has stood the test of time

Like the janitor sweeping floors in NY grand central station.
After reading such things I have to make a statement so as to not get infected by such thinking. it's more for myself.
I love programming languages. But there's no reason everyone "should diversify".

If you're fine with your language, that's fine. OP didn't start a flame war. They just said they know C++.
> If you get degenerative chronic illness are you eventually just as happy as you were before it? No, we figured this out in the 70s.

No, but that's also not what the HT hypothesis says. The treadmill pushes you back, not forward.
Curio stores assets as files within the project by default. It's browsable and pretty readable. You can also configure it to leave the assets in place on the file system and just point to them so you can manage those yourself if you want. You can export the project as HTML if you want and walk through the project in a web browser with the underlying assets available.

If you have something better in mind in terms of exporting or data storage you can request that. I've emailed the main developer (George, george _at_ zengobi dot com) and he responds personally pretty quickly.
The assignment is an assessment though, it isn't actual business work. I've seen before this suggestion that companies are trying to get free work out of candidates, but I find that really hard to believe.

I don't know if you're suggesting that interviews should assign actual tickets in an interview, but that seems nearly impossible to do in practice. I've never got back work from an interview or assessment that was anything near production code - nor would I expect to. It's to get a sense of the level of their real world coding skills are since there is such a variance between developers.
I have had a number of systems reject protonmail as valid. I wasnt keeping track of which ones - but there have been several, and I think most of them were logging into state/government services.
I mean you can blame the US for many things, but if you want to blame large groups of people and institution in this case the US is not to blame. He had a fatwa over his head for 25 years. And Islamic people don't take insults of their prophet lightly, not even moderate ones. However there is only a subset, mostly young man, really willing to use violence over it.
What’s the solution here? How can people who embrace freedom of the press, freedom of opinion and people who violently disagree with such freedoms, live and thrive?
What a detailed answer, thank you for so many specifics. I bounced off Haskell last time I tried it but seeing all this is certainly exciting and I'll have to keep an eye on it.
And in some corners: Vuln Management.

I was initially so confused when I started at a security software company, because of this.
I'm not a betting person, but various sources suggest that he retained some classified nuclear material that was supposed to go to the Archives.

That makes it sort of both: a serious security breach but unlikely to result in any charges. He'll claim persecution no matter how blatant the mis-handling, and they won't find it worth the trouble to prosecute him over it once the materials are retrieved.
IIRC Salman Rushdie has been followed by a bodyguard for decades now due to his controversial book "Satanic Verses" (1988) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy
We're not (trending to etc.). These things are - thankfully - very rare. That is why when they do occur, they make it to the front page.
Continuing the Truework Mission: Series C
The real EV charging issue in general for owners is a way to talk to a p.v. plant to try maximizing charging from Sun. Domestic solar systems with lithium (or other tech) storage do that by default, with proprietary tools, cars so far do not.

It's a pity not much for mere EV charging but for EV usage at home in the broad sense: IF we will arrive to an open API all vendors agree we can use expensive batteries not only for the car but also to power the home in case of outages reducing a bit they obscene cost compared to their life expectancy...
New things require initiative, outside the box thinking, ability to test and think around the test for flaws. How to break, fix and document those things in regard to the existing current state of technology at your workplace.

Maintaining established things (no computer related stuff is truly old, only by our "standards"), whether hardware or software related, requires steadiness, and a predictable path. It requires a memory of past fixes and the results and pitfalls of changes made. It requires a knowledge of the complimentary interactions and competing goals of disparate systems on the same system (PC, network, domain, etc...).

There are two different skill sets involved. Perhaps management has evaluated you for one skill set over another. Honestly re-evaluate your ability and self-learn for the desired outcome but note that working with your natural ability is best.

Also note: It is possible you work for a bunch of screwballs that have bad management practices. You should at least consider this possibility but don't make it your primary consideration as it could destroy your career.

No matter what you find, Have Fun!
This totally misunderstands the motivation for statefull sets. The only thing they offer is the stable per-task names. They are a reimplantation of jobs in borg where you always have stable task numbers. It's really more for shared services then ones with persistent state.