skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To call what is happening now the classic Russian style of warfare is a flanderization of Soviet Second World War tactics. The Soviets were indeed attacking en masse, but they were not voluntarily sending people to a meat grinder with no hope of success. They instead were using their sheer numbers to annihilate the ability of the enemy to mount a defence. The fact that the Soviets are renown for not retreating was also due to their enemy losing the initiative.
> They sell bonds.

To be clear, they are not selling bonds. They are simply not buying new bonds to replenish those that reach maturity.
I've been following this issue since the Maiden events of 2014 (trying to use neutral terms here) and much more closely since the onset of what the Russians call the special military operation.

It's been surreal to see the consensus opinion on this issues here in the west. As the old saying goes, the first casualty in war is the truth. I don't pretend to know what's going on from my vantage point, but I'm struck by the simplistic, moralistic, and confident view that I constantly hear from western sources.

Personally, I think this war has been very costly for Russia. Wars usually are, but that this has been extremely costly for Ukraine, orders of magnitude worse. Further, as bad as the economic sanctions are for Russia, the boomeranging economic harm of the sanctions on Europe will probably have severe consequences with unpredictable political repercussions. Further, I think western sources misunderstand Russian motives and goals and have an incomplete understanding of who is doing the actual fighting in Ukraine. Both sides of the war in Ukraine are largely fought by Ukrainian citizens (i.e., the "Russians" in the east are mostly Ukrainian separatists, to some extent Russia is fighting the war by proxy too).

Unmistakably, this is a massive tragedy for Ukrainians and I think it was avoidable. I wish we were more introspective about what role the west has played in this conflict and continues to play to minimize future catastrophes and hopefully bring this to a resolution more quickly. I don't and can't know who is "winning," but I'm pretty sure we're all losers in this conflict. In the end, Russia will probably control the regions of the DPR and LPR and its primary trading partners (particularly for energy) will be the east. China and India long term are probably the only winners--they will get subsidized energy and be economically more competitive compared to European industry. The American goal of weakening and isolating Russia may ultimately be a success; I don't think it will have been worth it. I sure wish the Minsk accords had just been followed and this all could have been avoided.
Can we have a link for these otters?
The point of carbon neutral fuels is that the CO2 used was captured.

Electric motors aren't going to be viable for long-haul flights in our lifetimes due to battery weight. Fuel cells aren't "charged", but they do need a supply of hydrogen. I'm skeptical whether that will work out due to safety, storage, and volume issues.
I’m going against the grain but we should also recognize that it takes real effort and time to professionally take stock photographs and Getty has a lot of consignments. They travel, they go to junkyards, they search for subjects to take photos of. Catalog them. All this isn’t free and these people would need to put food on the table.

This isn’t similar to “Elevator operators were obsolete after they had a control panel and elevators became reliable for people to feel safe. So their jobs must go”.

Here, it is more like “High quality stock photography would become scarce”. There are free stock photography resources but IMO Getty’s photos are on another level.

That said, Getty has a history of being ridiculously protective and litigation powerhouse. They have a lot of lawyers.
The edge cases of immigration/naturalisation rules seem to suck everywhere.

I'm extremely privileged that my experience with naturalisation in Sweden was very smooth. At the same time I lived 5 years with some anxiety due to numerous cases of mishaps with immigration processes from personal contacts.

It includes high-skilled immigrants being deported due to a past employer not paying worker insurance, something that as a worker you're never aware of in your payslip, contract, etc. Includes couples being separated for years, waits of weeks to months for getting a permission to leave the country to care for ill relatives without affecting their process. All of it just for the sake of applying rules, not empowering immigration case agents to take decisions pending further reviews, or a justice system that is rigid on the application of rules (as was the case of the missing worker insurance, which affected a few other people).

Living with those reports from others close to me always kept me on the edge of what could happen to me, and this is a great country as an immigrant, including in terms of bureaucracy.

I can't imagine other places with much more confusing and contradictory immigration systems...
trolling, trolling, trolling, keep them doggies rolling, rawhide!
Thank you. Would you suggest a specific course?

I am thinking about this one from UC Davis in Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/devops-culture-and-mindset (title feels a bit BS)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/continuous-integration
Makes sense, like banning electricity in candle stores.
The goal is equalize the demand with the supply. Keeping with the example, the hope is to see just as many iPhones sold, already limited by how many chips are available, but not with people fighting over them outbidding each other with higher and higher offers to obtain one.

A recession will occur if they overshoot, however.
> Why would they start QE? Fed rate is at 4% right now, there's more than enough room to drop rates if an issue occurs.

Right but that will also increase demand and induce more inflation, no? So Fed will be perpetually stuck, in theory at least, to find a balance in their dual mandates.
Citus 11.1 Released (Postgres Replication)
That's pretty silly. I know you're exaggerating a bit, but marketing is in the business of public perception. If google took steps to reverse the trend, and the marketing department could highlight that, that would kill the meme.
When doing validation, I find it will often be the same errors repeated again and again in a transcription. Like it will fail on someone or some thing's name (that is rare / unique) and map it onto a known similar sounding word.
I wish more people would actually read this kind of stuff before commenting what they think is happening.

Thank you.
As a viewer? I'm confused where it's not obvious.

1. Stop using Youtube
2. Wait for content creators to go to <your favorite video sharing platform>
What is your opinion on Starlink compared to the LTE connection? I have pretty good LTE here - but I can also get Starlink. The difference is about $40 a month.
Curious if you've test driven an Mx Mac?
But Hitler was extremely successful initially, which boosted his popular support, and pushed him to open a second front.

Russia hasn't had that kind of momentum, and calling up conscripts is only going to sow suspicion among the public about how things are actually going.
It's amazing that the USD is the strongest it's been in ~20 years; yet it's fighting inflation and has the largest national debt out of any country in the world ... is this simply a circumstance that the US is "less bad off" than the rest of the world?

Note: I'm no economist, so if I'm inaccurate in my statements - please forgive.
Thanks. The project I am working on is a bit chaotic... Like start-up increasing the Engineering Team... Not in the early days anymore, but documentation still feels like it is the early days.
That’s exactly why I’m watching the progressing “upgrade” of the West to cashless transactions with mounting horror. Financial censorship in real time.
> Does the nominal amount of money on the Fed's balance sheet matter/should we strive to bring it to $0

This speech by Chairman Powell is information about the Fed's current thinking on this question: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20190...

In short, the Fed will not aim to return its balance sheet to the same size, relative to GDP, that it was before 2008. One reason is that the 2008 crisis revealed the importance of requiring major banks to keep reserve balances (and these reserve balances are liabilities on the Fed's balance sheet). There are also other technical reasons commented on in that speech.
> But is even one of them asked what specific military goal is to be achieved? To bring Russia to its knees? That they should never be able to make territorial claims again?

The specific goal is set by the government of Ukraine, not by journalists. And these goals are: "return of all Ukrainian territory, comprehensive multilateral security guarantees, reparations, and war crimes charges." (https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-war-goals-demands-nato-russ...)

And Germany promised to support Ukraine as long as it takes: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germanys-scholz-we-will...

I think that is quite clear.
Accents change due to status and changing fashions. One such is the "Mid Atlantic" or "Transatlantic" accent. This accent was an attempt to be a neutral midpoint between English & American accents. You'll hear it in older movies from the 30s & 40s (it was dying out in the 50s).

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL2MJ8rQ12E
How do taxes cause money to exit the economy? The government spends every cent it takes in from taxes (and some more): what happens is just redistribution.

So (e.g.) it takes taxes from overpaid SV software engineers and makes Social Security payments, buys missiles from Lockheed Martin, pays interest on debt, etc.

No; the Federal Reserve has essentially complete control over the monetary base.
Netflix launch makes the game worth replaying? I was hoping for content.. It's a very linear game.
I'll check out `gpo`, thank you. To be honest the other reason for this was an exercise in Haskell a while ago, and an exercise in Python long, long ago before that. I'm beyond that interest these days so something that doesn't break constantly sounds like a good plan.
Any pointers to your setup?
Should’ve said, everywhere except the US. I’d point to classics like Luxembourg or Sweden?
Could you elaborate a bit on how this works? Am a longtime emacs user and very motivated to get this working!
Good to know!

https://www.bankruptcysoapbox.com/california-extends-protect...
No, I meant in the case of "meets most" being used in an extremely negative connotation.
Is it copyright infringement to experience copyrighted material and make new art based on those experiences? Of course not. The end here is inevitable. Even if some really backward thinking judgements go through, eventually it will wash out. In 20 years AI will be generating absurd amounts of original content.
Interested to listen to more composers/musicians in this area. Could you recommend any?
I think you may have missed what was being asked? I think they assume that an LVM PV is encrypted and could contain the block filesystem and swap volumes as LVs. There is already a boot-time process to unlock such an LVM setup. Why should the swap require a separate encryption key?

As a Fedora user, this is how my disks have been setup for many years, and I don't understand why Fedora have disabled hibernation. During wake from hibernation, the kernel and boot ramdisk would need user input to unlock the PV and to decode the LVs. Then, the hibernation state would be visible at the same time as the other filesystem state, and the kernel could decide whether to load the hibernation image or continue a normal boot sequence.

This seems to provide the protection of content needed for theft of a hibernated machine. I don't know whether there is some unhappy sequencing flaw in the dracut-generated ramdisk (between when the wake-versus-boot decision has to be made and the LVM decryption is done), or, whether someone at Fedora has decided that the threat model is different than we discuss above?
Would be nice to give more details about the provenance and construction of the training data.
I believe they mean jobs within Google for the folks whose entire team is being dissolved, but aren't being laid off directly. I recall something similar during my time there, when the Google Play team was merged with the YouTube Music team.
> This allows me to work with my head down on a weekend day without co-workers messaging me

I appreciate that this works for you but to me this comes across more as an issue with work boundaries more than the benefits of weekend work.

Advocate for 'no-meeting days' multiple times in the week. Advocate for blocks of half-days in the work week where the whole team goes radio silence. We implemented this in both the team I am working in now and in my previous gig.

Managers will absolutely defend the team's time like this if you pitch it constructively and the team delivers results to back it up.
At least retail/Alexa is on some sort of hiring freeze as I heard.

Problem is the same, lot of businesses get cut or deprioritized
A person who shops on amazon can shop using smile.amazon.com and have a percentage of their purchase payments go towards charities or other organizations. The Internet Archive is one of them.
Sure, I don't have to and I won't. But production, advertisement and hype is still there. Our sources are not infinite, right? Why aren't we focus more on quality?
Total US household assets are around $150 trillion.

If one rich uncle starts selling all his bonds it's not that big of a deal. It's not nothing, but it isn't some train wreck waiting to happen like some folks make out.
No, but taxing is a good way to pull dollars out of circulation and destroy demand. In fact, it's probably a better lever to pull than the Fed funds rate.

The spending problem in question is deliberately supported by voters, who oppose lowering spending or raising taxes. Running the government on a deficit lets you simulate the benefits of economic growth without all that pesky growing.
@dang Can we change the link to the github here[1]?

It seems to describe the project better for a technical audience.

[1]: https://github.com/openai/whisper
You can buy small stainless steel cylindrical gauges accurate to 0.0001" for not much more than that.
Would this product be aimed more at businesses and high-rises? Also this seems a bit more aesthetically pleasing than the alternatives and especially newspaper.
And UK visitors to the site don't even get any ads.
I refuse to donate to the Archive since the unpersoning of KiwiFarms.
9 years, and I'm exaggerating a bit for effect; it's actually five of them. (HP 11 G2 in 2013, bought because it was tiny and worked well. Replaced with a Toshiba something, because it had a better screen and was faster. Replaced with a Chromebook Pixel 2015 because it was the god tier amazing Chromebook of your dreams. Replaced with an HP X2 because it was a convertible tablet and I wanted a convertible tablet. Replaced with a Pixel Slate because it was a faster and better-screened convertible tablet and I like things that are better.)

None of them were replaced because I strictly speaking needed to replace them, and all got handed over to someone else who happily used them.
There's no contradiction. You're looking for the first chance to dismiss what I'm saying without considering it.

Again, the vast majority of what police do is unrelated to violent crime.
java might run at a decent speed... Might, but probably won't (jk, sorry, I couldn't help myself...) [edit Grammarly decided to remove some text when fixing spelling...]
it used to be documented publicly (internally). Last I checked (around a year ago) you could still find the doc somewhere in history. Ask on Blind, they'll send you a link.

EDIT: sorry I see you said "worked at". So I guess you won't be able to verify.

In this thread someone mentions it exactly how I remember the doc describing it: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Companies-With-Stacked-Rankin...
They'll still be staggeringly rich, their wealth level just won't be automatically accelerating any more. If they litigate over it I doubt jurors will feel much of their pain.
> which is NOT caused by monetary reasons

You simply cannot say that with any certainty. A rise in price level is always precipitated by too much money chasing too few goods. No one would argue that global energy and wheat prices are a supply side shock, but to say that a stimulus package of unprecedented size injected into a largely healthy economy has no effect on prices is ludicrous.
at least you can usually 'buy' them from libgen
> Is it copyright infringement to experience copyrighted material and make new art based on those experiences?

Yes, covered under "derivative work": https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf

> A derivative work is a work based on or derived from one or more already existing works. Common derivative works include translations, ..., art reproductions, abridgments, and condensations of preexisting works. Another common type of derivative work is a “new edition” of a preexisting work in which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work.

> In any case where a copyrighted work is used without the permission of the copyright owner, copyright protection will not extend to any part of the work in which such material has been used unlawfully. The unauthorized adaptation of a work may constitute copyright infringement.
>EDIT: thanks for the downvotes. I'm sorry that truth-seeking bothers you <shrug>

Conjecture is not truth, friend.
Maybe they mean "there's nothing I can't do by sshing to another computer when necessary"?
Here is another way that I thought of it.

1. To make ice cream, we need to cool milk/cream below the freezing point of water (because milk/cream contains water).

2. To cool things, liquids have good thermal conductivity properties, so we would prefer to use a liquid.

3. We need some substance which is still a liquid at slightly below freezing.

4. It happens that salted water has this property and is relatively cheap.
But it should be possible for the fed to react to states opening, paycheck protection infusions, unemployment boosts, and stimulus checks.

Imo, once us states began reopening the fed should have carefully moderated their equity and qe buys maybe even selling positions they opened in April 2020 as early as July 2020. Combine that with vaccine timing around May 2021 where a single 50bps change could have eased in.
While that's a nice ideal, it's often not practical. As an IC, you'll rarely be rewarded for pointing out inefficiencies like this publicly - especially if it makes your boss look bad. As a manager, it's often better to expend your social/political capital to advocate for your best employees, rather than to address your worst.

Relevant to the top-level topic here, that's why many managers welcome environments in which the barrier drops for cutting their worst employees. It's nice to be able to do that, when the whole company is going through it, without bringing scrutiny down on your team (and you, specifically, as someone who potentially made a bad hire).
Big fan of csvsql here. I use it often to look at log files.
This has been answered in the thread, but the tl;dr is that it compromises European rights.

Poor Google :'(
Gambling is impossible to win at and involves you slowly losing money to the house. Poker is a game with skill involved where you can make money off other players.
I do. Constantly. It doesn’t care.
The CLOUD act is one thing, but Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a far bigger problem. Allowing the FBI, CIA and NSA full access to all data regarding every non-American without a warrant required on every US internet service is a massive breach of privacy, and will always be a GDPR breach.
> So that's why we're getting 8-9% inflation rates? Because of the perfect absorption?

Not to mention the massive asset price inflation.
Academia is feudalism with an intellectual veneer.

Source: Academic for 5 years.
The key phrase is of course "all else equal". A lot was going on in that decade that could (and is) argued to have been an opposing deflationary force. Worldwide demographics and productivity improvements, in particular. (On a separate note, much of that is or will be slowing/reversing in the coming years.)

To argue that an increase in money supply wouldn't lead to price inflation (again, all else equal) implies that the difference would just be hoarded indefinitely rather than used to buy anything, which seems unlikely just on the face of it.
The inflation isn't due to war and chip shortages.
> Bank reserves haven't mattered for years as money, but that's pretty much the only lever the Fed holds.

The FED can make they matter again with a pen strike. It doesn't matter because they don't want it to matter.
> So your read queries should mostly be measured in microseconds.

You should check out the read latency for read-only requests over unix domain sockets with PostgreSQL. You tend to measure it in microseconds, and depending on circumstances it can be single-digit microseconds.

Regardless of whether your FUSE logic does nothing at all, It sure seems like there's intrinsic overhead to the FUSE model that is very similar to the intrinsic overhead of talking to another userspace database process... because you're talking to another userspace process (through the VFS layer).

When the application reads, those requests go from userspace to the FUSE driver & /dev/fuse, with the thread being put into a wait state; then the FUSE daemon needs to pull the request from /dev/fuse to service it; then your FUSE code does whatever minimal work it needs to do to process the read and passes it back through /dev/fuse and the FUSE driver, and from there back to your application. That gets you pretty much the same "block and context switch" overhead of an IPC call to Postgres (arguably more). FUSE uses splicing to minimize data copying (of course, unix domain sockets also minimize data copying), though looking at the LiteFS Go daemon, I'm not entirely sure there isn't a copy going on anyway. Memory copying issues aside, from a latency perspective, you're jumping through very similar hoops to talking to another user-space process... because that's how FUSE works.

There's a potential performance win if the data you're reading is already in the VFS cache, since that would bypass having to through the FUSE filesystem (and the /dev/fuse-to-userspace jump) entirely. The catch is, at that point you're bypassing SQLite transaction engine semantics entirely, giving you a dirty read that's really just a cached result from a previous read. That's not really a new trick, and you can get even better performance with client-side caching that can avoid a trip to kernel space.

I'm sure there's a win here somewhere, but I'm struggling to understand where.
I dont get why people think the assurance reports they make are phoney.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/2xJyKdUKicdRUWpC9b...

Its not like BDO are going to stick their neck out for tether here
Today sure. But remember you have to boil the frog slowly lest it jump away.
I see they are partners, that looks like a good solution. I think the RUT* series routers are the solution I was looking for with a good antenna.
What a beautiful little treat. For everyone curious, it took me less than ten minutes to play through. Well done!
Now that you've put it that way then yeah, I see how most Russian are absolved of guilt for this war.
The 10 year breakeven inflation rate is below 2.5%, showing the market does not agree with you on how one successfully fights inflation and expects inflation to plumit.
GA4 seems to be a big shot in the foot too. I’m sure it’s powerful, but by default it doesn’t show me what I need to know.

The old GA did.

And now I’ve moved to paid, but basic products (plausible) which do show me those important details, instantly. Traffic trends, sources, referrers, goals.