skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those riches were made by being the captain of a plane which had an incredible luck to have a once in a lifetime 250mph tailwind

Oh, so everyone that gets rich is like this? I see. Curious that you generalize like this. There are many kinds of rich people. I can think of at least 3 or 4 of them that for me have been mostly talent. But our opinions might differ. I do not see as a good thing to extract people what they earnt bc other people wanted to pay for their services in the absence of collusion. Because if they use their services they must have value in the first place.

> If you had any other person piloting the plane it would have been the same.

No way. Many people start with no plane. When they have a plane or two they face the systematic attack of people like you. I am still to see why that happens. Not all rich are good. But not all rich are bad. Same for normal people.

> If you took all the stock owned by billionaires and transfered them to Pension funds nothing will change. Apple would still make iPhones and Microsoft would still make Windows, Google would still make Android etc

So yes, you are right. You are telling me they are capable of creating value and things people are willing to pay for even if they were stolen and you use this sad argument of "they have too much" as an argument for stealing the earnings of people who create value in some way or another, like it or not.

You also say they would get rich again (a proof that what they do is useful to others, they get transfer towards their business bc ppl want to pay!) and what you propose is to keep punishing them bc they created value.

Regarding that you can transfer all <to a cause you see fair> and does not make a difference does not mean it is fair to steal the money to who is making it in absence of coercion, violence or collusion, which are the ways to cheat, as an example, when the state raises you taxes 10% or puts a new tax and you can do nothing.

By that measure of stealing bc some have too much and others too little a homeless could go get your home on the basis that you have one but the homeless does not, to give just an example of inequality and wealth transfer. It is not about the amount but about what you are proposing.
It's not really about "measurement" but "interaction with the broader reality".
Of course we can rule out people by past cheating. Technology changes, it makes it easier to cheat but harder to hide cheating history (as most of the games between people at this time are online). Rules have to adapt to technology.
In our case, Apple actively destroys user experience with this kind of stuff.

We have an old iOS app for our products that runs fine even on the latest version and while there is a next gen app available that most users have switched to, some prefer the old one. For some use-cases, even for new users, the old app just fits a lot better.

We cannot rebuild and republish that app, because it depended on third party software that we no longer have access to. The app will continue to work fine for users that own a correspinding device but will most likely be removed from the app store for no real reason in a few months.

This will force all userd that want to actively use it to switch to the next gen app that they maybe don't want as soon as they add someone new to their device.
Idk what "novelty shop" is.
I had a CTO like you once.

Totally destroyed morale, made the best people leave, and created a toxic work environment where there was no trust in management at all.

If that’s your goal, good work I guess.
There's "can write decent C++" technical and "being able to choose between Sybase and mongodb" technical - the latter is probably more appropriate for a CTO. It depends a lot on the product, the size of the company and the technology being used.

If a person who isn't coding all the time can pass your coding interview its too easy. A CTO should have been able to pass it in the past and possibly pass it with a little revision and practice, but for most CTOs coding ability isn't that relevant.
> Russian propaganda says that Nord Stream 1 is closed due to repairs. It obviously is not. It is closed because Russia wages economic warfare against Europe. You won't find a peer-reviewed double-blind study saying this, signed by foreign minister Lavrov with an interview in the appendix where he states that this is in fact Russia's deliberate policy choice, but one can use some basic reasoning.

I don't need peer-reviewed double-blinded study. I need something that has at least a bit more substance than "well known", "obvious" or other argumentum ad populum

> The desire for punishing Europe certainly stems from Europe's similarly uncompromising economic warfare against Russia, but let's at least try to focus on the ground truths and not get caught up in a bunch of transparent lies.

The ground truth is that the US and Europe (for however justified reason) had declared an economic war against Russia (sanctions), which has no means or strength to wage a real economic war of its own. And another ground truth is that they were not properly thought through as 2/4 pipelines are sanctioned and cannot be used, financial operations are sanctioned and cannot normally be performed, technology export and maintenance is sanctioned. All this to disrupt Russia's operations, while Europe STILL depends on it.

Replace Russia with any random variable and you would still get the same effect if you don't mind where you shoot and nuke half your own energy market.
It doesn't even have any real means to "punish poor Europeans with all it's economic might", otherwise there wouldn't be ANY gas flowing to Europe for months now. Instead Russia simply does absolutely nothing to mitigate Europe's own risks of continuing running operations restricted and sanctioned all around by itself, while still profiting from it.

Please stop defending incompetence and labeling every uncomfortable piece of reality as "Russian propaganda".
Yeah, tried it. Every move has to be given explicitly, just a little jump each time, again and again. It got mega frustrating if you had more than a few PCs so I got so far into it then gave up.

Edit: I think I misremember. You can set a waypoint and PCs will go there, but I there was still a lot of micromanagement that slowed things up too much for me.
Just a week ago, an underwater attack drone has been found [1] beaching near russian naval base. These could be used to damage the pipeline. This benefits the US trying to prevent the EU backing down from their own sanctions in face of crumbling Ukraine op.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/09/22/myster...
> After playing with rust, I really like it. However, I generally don't need to write the low level code that justifies the increased complexity of the borrow checker. I would rather just pay the small price for a garbage collector. What language is most like rust, but at a higher level?

I think you've mixed yourself up somewhere here. A garbage collector doesn't protect you from stale references, it just makes sure that it results in a program crash (or exception of some sort) rather than letting your program run off into fantasy lands where pigs fly and everyone casts magic spells. Rust still protects you by turning these errors into compile time errors, saving debugging time.
I have been an Ocaml user for a decade at this point and using Ocaml in the tech stack for the business I'm building. In my opinion:

- Dependency management is not great in opam. I find it especially frustrating that the tried to be really clever with a SAT solver and it rarely does what I want it to do. That being said, I rarely run into issues with old builds of something failing. I only have a few projects on opam and I will get PRs for fixing my project to support later builds. The bigger issue, IMO, is there is no great way to mirror all the deps your project needs locally so you don't have to worry about them disappearing.

- I have never run into the issue you've described here. In general, a package on opam just builds. I rarely have to modify an existing package, but when I do it has not been an issue.

- Error messages aren't great, but I have never really hit this Syntax Error problem you run into (maybe you are one of those people that uses ";;"?). Error messages have also improved a lot over the last few versions, even around polymorphic variants, which has been a much welcomed improvement.

- Documentation of third party libraries is unequally distributed. I find the language and std lib well documented, but for a library it depends. There is lots of room for improvement here. But on the flip side: I've run into plenty of libraries in Rust with bad documentation as well.

- I think this comment on modules is a big unfair. Modules were never designed to solve the problem of typeclasses or traits. As you mentioned, module implicits might allow modules to be used as a solution, though. But on the flip side, type classes and traits struggle to express what modules can express, and I dearly miss modules when I work in any other language.

I agree: Ocaml is a very nice language.
> If I mistype something there is a close to 0 percent chance of the complier pointing me into the right direction.

Why do you say that? The first error points you to the bad line on your source code, with a short description of the error. I agree that the output is too cluttered and it's often difficult to find the first error. Many wrappers for latex (for example overleaf) show the errors in color boxes and then they are much easier to spot.
did you consider https://www.pgbouncer.org/ ?
If you want an SLA on support, then pay for support. It's literally that simple.
All of these things are better handled by good old exceptions (with optional checking, even). All in all, handling errors is often not possible locally -- there is no reasonable thing to do with a db connection error for example at its immediate caller.

The reasonable thing is perhaps to log it there at most, and bubble it up (possibly wrapped as you mentioned). It can be handled for example by a request handler, by returning a 50_ error.
Maybe process informatic is functional programming
Language is a class shibboleth even in the present days, even moreso in the Victorian era.
Java's checked exception's could be handled at a single place by a catch, or just marked as `throws`. It was never as verbose as go is.
It’s not strictly the same but ArchiveBox is very well maintained and recognised for personal archives

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
There’s no way holes are going to cool a building down like AC. The building is going to be similar to the outside it will just cut down on the greenhouse affect.
Newer digital pianos with gigabytes worth of round robin samples at different velocity levels, and sympathetic resonance modelling at really, really good.

But as far as they have come, for being immersed in always evolving sound and full expression I still prefer my early 80s Disklavier Yamaha U3 by a long margin. It’s a Japanese marvel of engineering - great acoustic sound, loads of solenoids inside it for self playing, early midi implementation and still looks brand new. I don’t know many electronic things I can buy today that will still be relevant and enjoyable 40 years from now. It wasn’t super expensive, around £4K, one of my most enjoyable purchases ever.

The kids are learning on it now too and I think it will still be playable and retain its value for a long time.

While it does take up some space it’s not huge like a grand, but If I moved to a larger house would love get a Yamaha grand.

Having said that, for production work I sometimes use sampled pianos - in a busy mix they sound the same and I don’t have to mic up the piano.
If there are no updates, then even forking should be light overhead.
It's almost impossible to detect cheating, but it's trivial to statistically find a cheater from many thousands of online games that he has to play online to get to this level.
Good excuse for exiting the market without latter being accused of rushing out in front of a policy induced crash?
They're all weakly typed languages but C is statically typed.
So you cherry pick facts from the time when they weren't even a formal group or cleaned up by the National Guard, you disingenuously then equate Azov battalion with a random ultra-right march from 2019 and refuse to acknowledge or educate yourself about the literal ethnofascist policies of russia. Well done.
Though I much prefer Leetcode to waterboarding (whoops I meant *whiteboarding), but I know more than one 10x developer who has failed at Leetcode/Hackerrank type exercises. Any system will have false negatives, and at least Leetcode is more fair than whiteboarding, but I wager that Leetcode will be gamed if it hasn't been already. Coding is being seen less as an intellectually stimulating career and more as a gold mine to be prospected by career transitioners and those who can't or won't get an education. Enough people will eventually figure out that all they have to do is memorize jargon, brute force their way through enough Leetcode, and fill out hundreds of applications to get a highly paid job. The Leetcode approach simply isn't sustainable for that reason. If we face a recession, you'll see tons more people who can Leetcode but are terrible programmers.
Spain to attract expats with a digital nomad visa
As a slightly sight-impaired user (no colors, and I never could learn/figure-out icons (fsck they bother me!)), I really enjoy "screen-shots" but I really wish there was a text alt-image that would render in lynx or emacs-w3m through emacspeak.

For the exact same reasons You are mentioning. Thanks.
Just use a script to swap "zero trust" with "big brother", and the article becomes legible!
But I don't want to help those people or their families. They wouldn't want to help me either and frankly they need that ex-imperial superiority beaten out of them at this point.
Oh no, the horror.

Let the user make the damn choice.
I am not insinuating anything. I am stating that tournaments have rules which include a format – determining which player another player encounters – and sportsman behaviours and terms of play. Most were put in place to avoid players throwing games to get more rest and avoid collusion.

For exemple, Carlsen had to play at least one move for the game not to be forfeited and I’m fairly sure he is running afoul a sportsman behaviour rules by resigning on move one but the tournament isn’t pressing because he is Magnus.
IANAP. The article says that as the Universe expands, "new space" gets created. is that correct? I thought it was space itself that expanded. I didn't get the reasoning, but the Paradox of the Irreversible Photon seems to be an implication of this creation of new space.

I find the article frustrating, because I can't follow the reasoning, because they've left out critical steps. I wonder where I can find an explanation of this stuff that I can understand.
"...inevitably a bunch of users blow out their speakers and it become a support/warranty issue"

I once worked in the prototype lab of a very well known company that designed audio and television equipment and I can assure you speaker/amplifier matching is well known and understood.

Designing speakers that would clip (bottom out) and not self destruct happens all the time, it's a non issue as it doesn't really cost much extra (essentially nothing with small speakers).

The real issue is that some manufacturers started to use second rate products then they all followed suit—even those with 'named' brands that one paid extra for (but who got little in return).

The real problem was that both users and equipment reviewers didn't complain (or they didn't do so with sufficient vigor) and manufacturers let it slip, which was easy given the highly competitive nature of laptops where manufacturing cost are important.

—

Edit: I should add that this was rarely an issue in the past when substabtial gain reserves were a normal feature in equipment. Although it was occasionally a problem in high powered HiFi equipment, it was essentially never so in domestic radio sets. The question remains — then why is it now a problem in laptops?
Surely banks are pretty boring. They've been around for quite a while.
In my view the USA has been wanting to escalate this whole situation for a while. The USA has known for years that expanding NATO into Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine, would be a war declaration towards Russia [0]. Many influential people in the USA have warned for this for many, many years.

In case the Warsaw Pact would still exist, US citizens should ask themselves if they'd be happy if Russia would have expanded the Warsaw Pact towards Mexico. It would mean Russia could easily move armaments close the the US border. Surely that'd be quite uncomfortable. Now the USA is doing the same through NATO.

Yet, through Victoria Nuland, the USA staged a coup in Ukraine [1]. Installed a puppet regime that bombarded the people in Crimea, Donbass. Prohibited teaching Russian in schools [2], etc...

The people that live in these areas are generally pro-Russia (often from Russian descent) and the Ukraine government made live hard for them. There's been referendums in Donbass in 2014 and the Ukraine government and many others didn't recognise it [3].

After years of bombardments from Ukraine the peoples living in this area feel safer under Russian governance than under Ukraine governance.

If Western governments were sensible and would really want to avoid war and hurting their own citizens (especially in EU with energy prices rising through the roofs), they would respect the results of the referendums last week and allow Crimea, eastern Ukraine to merge with Russia. Or at the very least split from Ukraine.

However Western governments, for one reason or another, are hellbent on inciting a possible World War 3. I am not sure why, but I am just glad I don't live in The Netherlands anymore - emigrated to Thailand 5 years ago.

Some people have predicted that was is inevitable [4].

Hopefully SEA will be mostly safe from whatever will happen in the near future. I do worry for my family in The Netherlands though.

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[0]: https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-follows-decades-of-w...

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

[2]: https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/schools-in-ukraine-s...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Donbas_status_referendums

[4]: https://twitter.com/WarriorPoet_72/status/157407791270137036...
If they're gonna make you do Leetcode anyway, I actually would want to do it as early as possible. An initial phone screening would be good, but as much as I don't like Leetcode, it's less exhausting than multiple rounds of interviews before getting a challenge that you mess up on. Fail fast, fail early, as they say.
Does your girl identify culturally with putinist russia and its values? Did she actively support the russian government since 2014?
I remember some old man page (su? sudo?) complaining quite bitterly about the wheel group not sharing its power or something, but can't seem to remember it.
And population of Switzerland is 8.6 million. What's your point?

It is an actual engineering challenge because it's not just Switzerland that will increase its power demands.

Total energy consumption of EU is on the order of thousands of petajoules: "Final energy consumption in the EU in 2020 amounted to 37 086 PJ" [1]

"Not an egineering challenge" is in reality "we need to increase energy supply by 6 thousand petajoules which amounts to sum total of all renewable energy currently available in the EU" (renewables account for 17% of EU's energy production). Plus add all the infrastructure needed to distribute it to charging stations.

Not a challenge at all.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
20,000 devices on an air-gapped procedure, is a security feature.

If it's easy for you, it's easier for whomever has backdoor access.
In space terms, barely. Competing military assets may, in the future, attempt to evade each other, or fight with submunitions or energy. The navigation tech is just chalkboard math. In Earth terms, ICBMs and UAVs can strike anything anywhere with better accuracy.
For those who are wondering: The Linux equivalent is “findsuper”, which is from the e2fsprogs package, but the “findsuper” command is not normally built and installed, so when you need it, you will have to download the e2fsprogs source and compile findsuper yourself. An unnecessary pain at the worst possible time, sadly.
The path data won't be readable to the uninitiated no matter how verbose you make it. The encoding is not the mental bottleneck for reading or writing, it's the math. You'll be familiar with that encoding long before you can actually make sense of the numbers.
My company makes mid five figures per month and doesn't need sales
Steinway is mentioned in the first paragraph of the article, for what it's worth.
Steinway is mentioned in the article as the second of the two surviving.
No, certain interpretations (such as Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI)) say that "measurement" is just "interactions with the broader reality". Copenhagen says that "measurement" is a primitive feature of the theory that cannot be explained via such interactions. I.e. Copenhagen interpretation says that Quantum Mechanics cannot describe the physics of the photodiode entirely, since it cannot describe the measurement process. MWI says that measurement occurs due to decohering interactions with the environment
Solving Non-Convex Quadratic Problems
There was a ton of different submissions, so each one ended up with not so many votes.
> the world is not made up by entities, but it's made up from dynamic transformations

Gosh, that reminds me of Wittgenstein's opening words in the TLP: "The world is the totality of facts, not of things".
Then you can sure list some differences between go's and JVM's runtime.
I've personally put my monitor on a thick book (about CS foundation, fittingly enough) so that most of the time, I'm naturally looking at the middle of the screen where, incredibly, most of the useful stuff actually is. In any case, for me the start bar is mostly useless.
Yeah you are right, I didn't think about that.
I don’t disagree with you but if your manager is the one who does your performance reviews, approves your time off, etc how are they not your boss?
Maybe. At least that's what they want you to think
If I could put on my amateur geo-political-analyst hat for a moment, who could be behind this and why?

Seems like a Putin move, since he dared using (probably) a sub in other nations' waters. Reason? To show Europe he means business? To show Europe he's not planning to rewind anything to the way things were in 2021?
> no mention of the fact that currencies elswhere are also under pressure

Apparently other currencies under pressure is a sign of

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1653931/eu-news-euro-cu...

Last month, the Euro fell to parity against the US dollar last month for the first time in more than 20 years. It has bounced back to €1.03 but is still massively short of the €1.18 hit nearly a year ago.

Eric Noirez, a prominent EU critic and member of the Generation Frexit campaign in France, told Express.co.uk: "The Euro is a system that has reached the end of its tether.

Their policy has consisted of massive monetary creation, and this in a totally unreasonable way ... it will lead to eurozone collapse ... The recession is obvious ... the biggest financial crisis in its history ... An absolute madness!

But when the UK currency is selling off ... https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1674629/Liz-Truss-cr...

Presumably all those woke traitor hedge fund managers are to blame.

'They don't believe in Britain!' Tory chairman says tax cut critics are like Remainers
New Conservative chairman Jake Berry has given his first interview since being appointed 20 days ago with a broadside at the people who "don't believe in Britain".