skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the best advice I would give anyone is spend your college years making friends because in my experience your ability to make and maintain friendships falls off a cliff after college.

The first issue is your friendships begin tracking your life stage. Using a normative example, single people will tend to be friends with single people and married people will tend to be friends with other married people. Likewise, people will children will tend to be friends with other people with children.

This acts as a shared experience just by proximity. If people aren't in the same life stage that friendship tends to be trasnactional or unstable. By "transactional" I mean you might be friends with people in your softball league or who play basketball with on the weekend but mostly those friendships will tend to revolve around that common interest or activity. maybe that'll develop into a deeper friendship but the odds are against it.

Likewise, you will develop "work friends" by virtue of spending so much of your time at work. For the most part however these aren't friends at all. If you leave that job, that shared shared experience ends and you will likely never see them again. Maybe you'll promise to catch up. Maybe it'll happen once or twice but again it's now in an unstable state and won't tend to last.

As time goes on your friends will be replaced by family.

The only way friendships in adulthood tend to survive (IME) is by scheduled activities. You set the expectation that that's what you'll be doing at a particular day and time. That's why you'll see sports so often here because a softball game needs to be played at a particular place and time. Pick-up basketball however is less the case for this so you'll likely see the same people less.

It's also why parenthood tends to spell the end for many such friendships. If you have 2 young children at home it makes it harder to maintain a scheduled activity long-term. There'll be times your children will be sick, you'll need to go to school or whatever.
> terrorist attack

A targeted attack against a strategic resource, during a war, with no [direct] civilian casualties. This doesn't meet the common definitions of terrorism. This is equivalent to bombing train yards, not city centers. The best argument for it being terrorism is the civilians who may freeze to death this winter, but even that is dubious.
The gas was already off, so what would’ve the US exactly achieved with it, accounting for the non-trivial risk of getting caught?
> "you should trust what it says and use to write papers"

They really said something like that?
I've mostly stopped caring about IDE capabilities. I'm good with having fast & precise text search, and a mostly working 'find definition'. A working source debugger is a plus, inserting prints & debug points is manageable. Even for git, I only use the IDE for 'resolve conflicts' because the JetBrains one is so good.
I'm curious, why do you think the US benefits the most from this? I would think Ukraine.
Yes it does. Russia's goals was to force Europe's hand (Germany mostly) to certify NS2.

First, in Aug. Russia cuts NS1 to 20% citing supposed repairs: "Gazprom in July cut gas deliveries via NS1 to 20% of maximum capacity, citing turbine repair delays that it blamed on Western sanctions against Russia because of the war."

There, they say "oh hey but look you have NS2 so why don't you certify it".

Then, they turned it off completely:

"The state-controlled firm disclosed Friday flows on NS1 would be closed from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 during scheduled maintenance on its only currently operating compressor at a key station, Portovaya CS."

Again, they say "well you can always use NS2". But when Europe didn't bite the bullet and surrender to their demands, they made it even more obvious that the only route for gas would be NS2, by blowing NS1.

If this was UK or US sabotage, they would have blown NS2 completely, while possibly leaving NS1 alone.

Links:

https://www.naturalgasintel.com/russias-gazprom-plans-3-day-...

https://www.naturalgasintel.com/russias-planned-shutdown-of-...
Keeping the gas off.
The ostensible motivation of a possible US/UK/Polish operation, as I understand it, was poisoning the well on peace negotiations. By removing the optionality of turning the lines back on, there is less for the Germans and Russians to work with, and therefore less to motivate diplomatic talks in the first place. The Germans may be committed to getting off Russian gas permanently, but they still have to get there from here without losing their economy.
Biden LITERALLY was quoted saying that we will take out the pipeline, when further asked about it, he said "I promise you, we will be able to do it".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbEoZXhCrM

You probably haven't seen this because the mainstream never shows it when talking about the pipeline sabotage.
> And are most of the people she‘s well-connected to not annoyed that she lost their money?

Ya admittedly one would have to assess that and also make some estimate about how much her notoriety will positively or negatively affect her offsprings' outcomes. I tend to lean toward it being a net positive, since fame seems valuable almost regardless of how it's acquired these days.

> And isn‘t attractive just stating the same as good genetics?

It also includes height, medical history, longevity, intelligence, ambition/drive, work ethic. I admittedly don't know much about medical history, but I might be willing to gamble.

> And is she really that smart,

No she's not really that smart, I'd estimate 1-2 stddevs from the mean. In my opinion that's smart enough for a potential spouse with other positive attributes, particularly if you think that you're smarter still.
You're not responding to the actual argument.

Can we agree that men and women are equally capable and intelligent? You have 40 male candidates and 10 female candidates. Let's say only the top 20% of all candidates are good enough. That would mean 40/5 =8 male candidates and 10/5=2 female candidates would be suitable hires.

If instead you hired 5 male and 5 female candidates under these conditions, then you would've been discriminating against male candidates in that you hired female candidates that didn't meet your "top 20% of total candidates" criteria.
https://archive.ph/ml9tY
Destroyed their economy? The ruble is doing just fine. And it was the West that TRIED to destroy their economy. Tell me how pressuring the market and Germany is somehow a plausible theory?? If the pipeline is gone there is nothing more to negotiate about, which is exactly why the US blew it up (coincidentally while Russia and Germany were negotiating).
https://fair.org/home/us-medias-intellectual-no-fly-zone-on-...
I've had some success converting spreadsheets to web calculators with Knockout.js, which is very old, probably not maintained anymore, but very easy (no build step) to use and reactive.

That said, to convert spreadsheet formulas (which often depend one from another) look for something reactive. Svelte might be a good choice if you can figure out its model of reactivity.
The problem with React & Angular is that junior devs can't see the line between the framework and the raw JS/HTML/CSS. You genuinely do need to understand the basics of the former to use the latter.

You do make a good point (perhaps accidentally) about libraries for output. As a backend dev, the opening poster should be able to understand the concept of magicLibrary.drawGraphyThingy(wowSuchValues);
Replace the word privacy with genitals in the statement "We care about your privacy." I don't want anybody caring about my privacy as it is none of their business.

These articles are starting to get out, but the problem is so out of hand and a long way from any resolution. Until data becomes a public good, try to poison every bit of data they can get. Use your creativity. It is fun.
If the cost of enabling some banking for a small subset of people in countries with terrible governments is also enabling absolutely massive fraud, rampant speculation, and a transfer of wealth from less-financially-literate people to wealthy hucksters, then I think we need to find a better way to help the people in those countries.

"Those people need help; this helps them; ergo, we must do this" is not sound logic.
Amid FTX Fallout, Crypto Custodian BitGo Looks to Raise Funds at $1.2B Valuation
Kids are learning how to build data driven and reactive forms, graphs, and tables, for calculating financial data?
Each pipeline consists of two strands that are some distance apart. So blowing them up separately is certainly possible. In the end those are 4 pipelines, they're just not all named separately.
Technology is not to blame. Capitalism is to blame. Ignorant to say otherwise.
I've worked on genomics, at the Broad. Can confirm there is a ton of toxicity. There's also a lot of smart and great people, if you can find a team specifically dedicated to software I would recommend it. Also the pay is good...for a non-profit.

More broadly...shortages like this aren't because SWEs just love ad-tracking and hate health improvements. People need to be willing to pay for these services (case in point; the jobs link for AWS has 3 links which appear unrelated to genomics, for Microsoft there are 2 for interns, and for Google its empty).

There are a lot of opportunities in biotech for SWEs, and many firms (though not all) really do respect the power of software. Worth looking around if you're interested in the area.
He’s pretty crazy low empathy when he doesn’t respect people, and unfortunate my impression is he thought all (or most) the twitter engineers were not worthy of his respect so he nuked them.
Every other day or so I encounter this dark-green-colored e-waste strewn all over sidewalks, foot and bicycle paths just standing in the way being annoying and a hazard to any passersby on said paths. In some places in my city the footpath is blocked ~50-100% in its width by these things forcing foot traffic to evade onto the bicycle path, endangering both types of traffic.

Seriously, one of the (seemingly) more popular "parking" spots for singular ones of these scooters I've found in my city is on an un-/dimly lit foot- and bicycle path at night, cosplaying as a tripping hazard.

Fuck these scooters and the dangerous morons who ride and just leave them everywhere.
Yes there is. Government is not supposed to be a self-serving entity. Government is there to serve the people. Democracy is meaningless without transparency.
I found some studies from OSHA (the United States gov't agency) about very high carbon dioxide levels in certain industry settings, such as where dry ice is used. Effects on cognition are significant at high levels.

But understanding the effects of CO2 in more every day situation seems more complicated. It is also hard to find good rules of thumb about guidelines about when to look more deeply and pay to get measurements.

But I haven't found high-quality studies that talk about residential settings. My Google results seem to be populated with companies trying to sell stuff. So based on maybe 30 minutes of research, I remain practically skeptical.

I'm interested in learning more, Starting with the chemistry and airflow (?) properties of CO2, and then working up to biology. Would you mind sharing high-quality resources you recommend?
a) When you're using Discord, IRC, or a forum, all the conversations happen in separate gardens, and you have to jump between them. Mastodon lets you look into each of those gardens, see who you like, follow them, and talk to them, all in one place. There are some great communities, but you don't have to pick one of them. You use them as starting points to make your follow list. And it's not just Mastodon, it's also the Fediverse, which has Diaspora (like Facebook), Lemmy (like reddit), personal blog software, spinoffs of Mastodon and the others, etc. And you can connect to all of them. So it's like if Discord, IRC, and whatever else also worked together.

b) If their your friend, you know their user@domain, because they tell you, same as they would their email address. Unless you're on an Antifa instance and your friend is on a Nazi instance, it is highly unlikely they will be disconnected from each other. If you join one of the instances on joinmastodon.org they have agreed to give 3 months notice for any shutdown. You can move to a different instance at any time, export your follow list and redirect to the new instance.

c) They're already joining and there's a list on fedified.com . Of your use cases, this is IMO the least important. Most of the celebrities will join Bluesky and that's fine. But not only does Mastodon allow you to verify using your personal website, fedified gives a list of important verified accounts, and a number of organization specific Mastodon instances have started up for people in those organizations.

Mastodon is not Twitter, it isn't supposed to be. But if the point is to have social media with interesting conversations with friends and people you'd like to discover, it does that. And it can't be destroyed by a single billionaire. If the point is an algorithm that makes you sad and sells you things, and brands that want to grow followings to sell things, either hope Twitter recovers or Bluesky works.
as far as I know, the gas was not off; massive quantities of gas were released. I recall reading about bubbles 1km in diameter
I have a degree in biochemistry. Would love to combine my passion in software and biology, but academic research is often funded by governments which means the salary is (super) low.

It's the same reason why there's a lack of qualified computer science teachers in schools.
https://playwright.dev/docs/cli#generate-pdf
Is the headline some weird example of “republicans pounce”? Is the story about the Koch brothers lawsuit or about the fact that the government installed spyware on citizen’s phones without their knowledge or consent?
Natural and formal sciences + resulting from them technology is indeed more advanced.

Everything else? Not so much; we are, after all, still just people.
> The role is actually just juggling various bioinformatics file formats.

I need an advanced degree for that?
Pressure the market in what way that isn't accomplished by just turning the pipeline off without blowing it up?

And pressure Germany into what exactly? Think this one through. How does removing the possibility of re-opening the pipeline pressure Germany into anything from the point of view of the Russians?

What Russia would want to pressure Germany into is "stop your sanctions and we will sell you gas". A possibility removed by blowing up the pipeline.

The "Russia blew up the pipeline" idea makes absolutely no sense. And if there was any evidence to support it, you know that the whole of Western media would be shouting it from every rooftop.

But instead we have silence, and concerns over "national security"
Because you’re young, the “right” way to invest is to automatically put a portion of your monthly paycheck into an stock market index fund such as VTSAX and ignore it for 25 years. Over time, you can expect an average return of at least 7.5% per year, which will double your money every 10 years. Some years will see big gains; some years will see big losses; but it will average out. You need to have the discipline to ignore the ups and downs.

Start by going to vanguard.com and opening a brokerage account. Use the website to set up automatic investments into VTSAX.

Then you can investigate @robcohen’s advice at your leisure. The important thing is to just get started.

(I’m not sure if you can use Vanguard from Europe. It’s a good place to start, at any rate.)
I hate this kind of takes. Any rational person will have doubts facing incomplete information, and saying "no one doubted" makes them look like crazies. Nope, it's the way of logic in the absence of data.

I don't think anyone rational ruled out sabotage, or was confident that it was sabotage, though.

There are/were valid reasons to suspect it wasn't: https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html
Tbh that is a very interesting model.
> it will have trouble surviving the winter.

Relax, they're going to be fine.
> Russia had the most to lose.

Russia has the most to gain because they'll simply sell the natural gas to Asia or through another pipeline, meanwhile they want to pressure Europe into not supporting Ukraine any longer.

The Ukraine war could literally end modern Russia as we know it, more defeats and the entire current government and structure could collapse. If somehow they survive the war, years of sanctions will. The Ukraine war is an existential threat for the Putin government...

And that's not even counting the fact they love false flags and blaming others...
LOL— shelling their own positions? Like the nuclear plant they’re occupying? Wow, the Russiagate brain rot is worse than I thought. And truly embarrassing that you’re still pushing the line that Russia launched the missiles into Poland.
Most of the discussion here seems to assume bioinformatics / genomics jobs are academic, but I work for a clinical testing lab where production-quality code is a must. We're probably a 10/12 on the Joel test.

If you're into bioinformatics or genomics, but aren't excited about an academic setting, take a peek:
https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/ARU1000ARUP/JobBoard/62cc791...

We hire fully remote positions and starting salaries are about US$100k.
Nice work!

How about Quake on Amazon Echo + Alexa? Build it like a Text Adventure but use NLP + Computer Vision to describe the scene and you shoot and move by describing what you want. Great for people with poor vision or has a nostalgia for the 80s.
> Also why identifying "misinformation" is a fool's errand

Seems easy enough: as long as the content is inoffensive and fits into the Overton Window then it's not misinformation.
I was one of those kids who was deeply affected by my parents' copy of "The Whole Earth Catalog" (in my case the "Next" WEC.) I learned about people like Bucky Fuller, Christopher Alexander, Gregory Bateson, Bill Mollison... I saw a vision of the world where we subordinated our extraordinary power ("We are as gods...") to our wisdom ("...and might as well get good at it.")

I carried that thing around in my backpack in lieu of textbooks. (It's a tome, like two feet high (more than half a meter)!)

Probably the single most important thing I learned from it is that we have all the tools and technology we need to live well together on the Earth without destroying the environment nor compromising on quality-of-life, we just have to learn to be nice to each other.
I think this is the right take. If you assemble a team around the vision to colonize Mars, you will get a bunch of amazing people that are (for a while) willing to put up with crazy work.

Trying to force this on an existing culture will be hard, and doing the “extreme pressure” bit with no vision beyond “more free speech” seems impossible.

Maybe he will get there and in a few months the remainder will have coalesced around the joy of shipping good features fast. But things like labor laws and the FCC consent decree will provide a strong legacy drag.
Thanks! I knew I had also looked at your article a few months ago but couldn’t find it! Been itching to mess with fly.io for something (don’t have a fly acct yet) so here’s my easyish chance!
If Charles Koch doesn't want state governments to secretly install surveillance apps on my cellphone, I don't even want any constitutional rights. That'll show him.
Yeah, I agree, I looked into this before, and the pay doesn’t come close to other swe jobs, as far as I have seen whenever I look. It is usually like 2x less, it’s hard to want to choose that just to work on something a bit more interesting. I even have a background in bioinformatics, but I never found anything that compensates it as much as pure swe roles.
The event in the article is pretty clearly a breakdown of already-known safety practices, so anything that gets learned is being re-learned. Ground vehicles are never to enter aircraft movement areas without tower clearance. In this case either the rescue vehicles did not have clearance or the tower cleared them improperly.
It's not worth changing, because you never experienced Symantec THINK C on System 7 in 1999, back before macs were cool :P
> just juggling various bioinformatics file formats

Your other points are spot on. This one I want to address specifically. The file formats. Academics love their incredibly over-engineered file formats. MARC. SGML. DICOM. HL7. RDF. Those are just the ones I know. Universally, they try to cover every corner case that anyone could ever imagine. Academics absolutely love their ontologies. Just implementing one of them is a nightmare. Going from one to another is an exercise in the philosophies of ontologies.
Easy to do when there's no oversight and the company "regulates" itself.
I always like to ask myself what the motive is.

- The US, bc they want to sell more LNG. However, that's very limited by LNG terminals atm.

- China, so that Russia is forced to sell to them and for a cheaper price (and China want to be less dependent on LNG via ships)

- Russia not so much. They want to sell gas to Europe and now that the pipelines are broken, they can't use it as leverage anymore

- UK and other European countries: To stop discussions about starting to purchase gas from Russia again

Edit: Formatting
it's just how I'm picturing this scheme could work, not necessarily in FTX scenario
You do in academia. Otherwise you might as well be washing dirty labware for all the respect you get.
Oh boy "dibs". Had the same nonsense in Boston. I would pick them up out of the street and put them on the side walk in spite so another lucky person who claim the spot.
Prediction: we'll see a lot of small issues that don't matter. Copy writing will go to shit, notification numbers won't show up, website may even go down for an hour. Everyone will claim that this is because the best engineers left.

The company will stay up and the app will work fine ultimately. Everyone will claim this is because the best engineers who left wrote unbreakable code.
PIs?
I don't know if aunt jemima and similar brands of syrup count as "fake Maple syrup". It doesn't say maple syrup on the bottle anymore. They usually say "maple-flavored syrup" at worst, or just "syrup". It's not maple syrup, but it's not labeled as maple syrup and not advertised as maple syrup.

Imitation vanilla is labeled imitation vanilla. Not a secret that it's not made from actual vanilla.

I'm surprised honey hasn't come up here more. The majority of honey in the US contains very little actual honey, but the ingredients list just says "pure filtered honey". If you've ever had real honey, it's night and day. If you want a cheaper honey substitute, that's fine. If a company is labeling a cheaper honey substitute as "pure filtered honey", that's not fine.
From what I understand, the pipe was full of mostly stationary gas - it wasn’t flowing at an economically significant rate. That is effectively “off”
The proposal is an alternative for quick delivery. I did read "What would be the path of least friction to produce a no-backend static website that can host these calculators? I believe that with the right intuitive UX and user-friendly features (i.e. persist the input in the URL query string, instant recomputation on input change, …) they could be valuable for someone."

If he/she doesn't want to learn front end, just dumping data to an API is a workable solution. If he/she really wants to go the quoted route - sure, learn everything. Again though, SPAs are NOT a substitute for learning HTML/CSS/JS basics. At the end of the day, he has to understand that || is raw Javascript, even though it's used to render or not render. That creating a <tr> from data is actually populating a <table> that needs a <th>, etc, etc.

So what we are recommending is "work around all that to your strengths". Your solution is pretty much "learn front end".