skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reality is that Russia is losing the economic war, just as it is losing the war on the battlefield. Real incomes in Russia are already estimated to be 10 per cent lower today than in 2014, when Putin first invaded Ukraine.

I imagine the average American is doing worse than that since then.

In 2014 USA, things for me and my peers were finally stabilizing after 5 years of financial crisis, housing busts, horrible job market, etc.

Inflation was low, I'd finally found a fair employer at a decent salary, had bought a late model car (3 year old Acura) for about $25K, and my investments had recovered and were now growing again in the stock market. Housing was still modestly priced after the bubble crash, interest rates were low for buyers, but rent prices were doable, with plenty of inventory, too, for those not yet ready to buy.

And there were dozens of 2nd and 3rd tier cities in which any standard worker would be able to move to and likely obtain the "American Dream" of home ownership, a couple cars, etc.

Let's compare that to now:

My salary has grown by about 25% in absolute dollars (2-3% corporate raises don't add up so quickly). Meanwhile, I still own my 2010 car, and it would cost about $40K today to replace it with a similarly low-miled used one, or $50K+ if new. That's if I could even get one since it seems there is now a perpetual "chip shortage."

The same apartment I rented in 2014 would cost at least 50% more now, though probably closer to double with all the extra fees. The same starter homes I looked at then are double in absolute dollars, and at current 7%+ interest rates, might be closer to 3x as expensive per monthly payment. And this isn't just in places like NYC or Bay Area or Miami Beach. Once "cheap" cities like Phoenix and Nashville are now just as expensive, relative to salaries, as the over-crowded and desirable coastal areas were last generation.

Everything else is way MORE expensive, especially food. I eat out less. Food quality is generally lower or smaller portioned.

I take less vacations as airfare seems to have doubled in price in the last 5 years. And let's not even get into health insurance, which has also doubled in price since 2014 (I now have a $3K deductible with the same premium costs as before, thanks to Obamacare).

My retirement savings have lost over 1/3 of their value in the last year.

So Russians should know that it's not just them suffering. Most of us in the west have taken a 10% hit to standard of living in just the last 3 years, IMO.
The tool you're referring to is called Crater: https://github.com/rust-lang/crater.
> Crackling noises or desynchronized video playback would instantly take it into "unacceptable" territory.

> Sounds like you have severe issues with both PA and PW. Maybe your hardware is the problem?

Seconding this! My experience with PA and PW has been basically identical to yours. If possible, GP, try some different hardware! You shouldn't have to put up with that crap.
Same experience here, although I only did one year of Montessori before my parents luckily realized its ineffectiveness. I would quickly find all materials "boring" and didn't want to do them anymore. I guess it could get me to hyperfocus occasionally, but definitely not enough.
The biggest issue with php is the developers. Many of whom are totally oblivious to engineering practices and just reinvent the wheel. 1 in 5 still debate setter and getters while the rest still argue over using spaces over tabs. All in all a very toxic culture.
Not sure it you know Terry Pratchett and his discworld series but this was his exact train of thought.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10...
Using Layouts for Personal Automation
As a result of our unprecedented sanctions, the ruble was almost immediately reduced to rubble.

The Russian economy is on track to be cut in half.

It was ranked the 11th biggest economy in the world before this invasion — and soon, it will not even rank among the top 20.

- President Biden, Mar 26, 2022

https://twitter.com/potus/status/1507842574865866763
> For me, personally, there's something very funny about the CIA turning one of the country's most recognisable symbols, the dollar, into a suicide pact.

An additional bit of funny is that the silver dollar in that photo is known as a Peace Dollar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dollar
It's the very first guideline regarding comments:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes."
Any supplier with locations outside of Asia ALSO has locations in Asia AFAICT. It’s unclear what manufacturing occurs outside of Asia and Apple doesn’t categorize what is getting manufactured. It could be things like assembly line equipment is manufactured outside Asia and the components themselves within Asia or prototypes are manufactured outside Asia with mass manufacturing inside Asia.

Do you have a concrete example of any mass manufactured electronics component coming from outside China? Heck, I’m not even convinced that Gorilla Glass is made outside Asia because Corning is listed as having 3 locations and 2 are in Asia so it would be supremely strange to be mass manufacturing some part of the iPhone in Corning.
I'd be willing to say electromagnetic waves and signals are the true invisible, magic infrastructure. But of course transistors and ICs do most of the magic.
I saw I was downvoted, with no reply to learn more about where I was wrong.
(I don't get this site, where ppl know you're wrong but are unable to post a better idea. Is this about discussing topics to learn more, or shooting ppl down ?)

Did I miss something ? Can someone give me some clue ?

Digital signatures are an interesting topic.
They don't usually employ people for a long time. They hire everyone quickly and let them go quickly. High turnover rate.
In other words, they "burn through" workers and just replace them.
If use of copyrighted images to train a neural network constitutes "stealing", then every artist in history is a thief.
People had pointed out how stupid his proposal was when he made it, and he ignored them completely. At that point, he was just a crank (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/jlockdowns/). The debate was never censored: he was allowed to communicate with policy makers if he had any evidence to support his proposal. What was censored (or rather, not promoted to people who weren't his followers) was his wild rants to fellow Christian libertarians who believe the invisible hand of the free market is the gentle hand of the baby Jesus himself, which we should not shackle with regulations.

Slowing some children's development (while drastically accelerating others' because they were tutored by their parents who had to stay at home with them) is not even on the same scale as mass deaths and people dying outside hospitals due to lack of capacity.
Venezuela makes sense for the top leaders because they would worry more so about extradition. Malaysia makes sense for the rest of the party apparatus.

I wouldn't be surprised if a number of the pro-regime Imams end up moving to India though - that was Khomeini's backup to Paris, is the 2nd largest Shia country in the world, and historically was the goto country of refuge for religious Iranian.
If you're going for a modern version of "Ages of Humanity" akin to Hesiod/Ovid, sure, if not Digital or Information.

But Stone/Copper/Bronze/Iron refer specifically to the dominant material for crafting weaponry. In that sense, maybe we're in the transition between Steel and Plastic, though maybe a case could be made for Lead.

Or we really are in the Nuclear Age, and it becomes the Final Age of Humanity.

Or war has gone digital, and we are in the Information Age, beyond terrestrial materials. In that case, true Space and then Atomic (universal assembler) Ages may follow.
> The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-...
I'm no audiophile but loved my Harmon Kardon SoundSticks when I had them. The design is pretty dated at this point however. Also, there didn't seem to be an easy path to repairing when one of the speakers got knocked on the floor and one of the drivers popped out of its clips.

The only reason I no longer have them, I lived upstairs from my landlord who was intolerant of any noise.
I've noticed this too at multiple locations, I guess keeping aisles clean isn't a requirement for a store's success.

People will go there anyway.
Yes, those numbers look fine, but have a closer look.

Check page 14, Monthly Active Users: They have slightly risen in the US, slightly decreased in Europe, strong growth in Asia and RoW.

Compare that to page 15, Average Revenue per User: US around $49, EU $14, Asia $4.4, RoW is $3.2. Those numbers are also decreasing for the US and EU.

So for each user you lose in the US or the EU, you'll need 3 to 10 new users in Asia, even more in the rest of the world, or you'll need to squeeze the existing users harder.

They're at best stalling.
You are way off here. It was Russia who was promising that Ukraine would fall in two weeks. The response was always going to be a hard defense. And Ukraine has been incredibly successful with their defense. That defense includes these sanctions and material support of Ukraine. Russia's invasion has been a resource sucking failure for Putin.
I am a big fan of Garmin watches, there is usually a good deal on something at

https://g.factoryoutletstore.com/

These sync reliably because they use a cable instead of the janky bluetooth sync of fitbit devices. It's true that they send your data to a cloud service but at least they aren't comingling your data with everything you watch on YouTube.
This seems like a double-edged sword. By going through this process I am confirming for Google my physical location so they can map it in a database. It may not be publicly accessible information but I would bet 500 star-bucks that it is available to some parties and they are probably paying for access to this hypothetical service.
Seconded, but keep in mind that, for the majority of boards, you need to avoid saying anything that implies even very loosely that you might be liberal (regardless of whether you are), to keep the noise down.

You also need to have a halfway decent bullshit/unfounded-confidence detector when reading replies. This was less necessary a decade ago (in terms of the nature of replies to questions, obviously not in terms of posts in general).
This is product management 101 (or product marketing 101). I in no way mean that as a criticism -- this article is fantastic and it's amazing how many sites get it wrong. On many of the sites the writer is criticizing, you can almost feel the tension between the marketing and product departments, even for well-established software.

Two tangents:
1. I wish this article contained examples of sites that do it great vs. sites that doo it terribly. It looks like that might be part of this writer's paid plan (or paid workshop), but it's unclear if this will be delivered in an easy-to-use table or delivered like shrapnel in multiple newsletters.

2. Probably not the scope of this article, but someone needs to do a deep dive on how opaque the pricing is on almost every site. "Contact Us" is not helpful. I get that the range of prices for enterprises is a massive spectrum, but maybe provide that spectrum without reveling which companies are on those plans.
Also quite a contrast to the handling of the Theranos CEO.

Could almost get the impression that white rich men get some kind of preferential treatment.
Nobody on either side with a brain and/or a knowledge of history believed the "it'll be over by Christmas" shit. It NEVER is.

I agree, people were lied to, but that's what politicians do. At some point people need to stop being angry at the politicians and be angry at the enablers.
This is really insightful and I'm going to try and do more of this!

Versus "I saw you really focused out there
in the outfield, I know getting distracted
between bats is easy and you've come a
long way."

A wise mentor told me a variation on this a long time ago. He mentioned that one of the most powerful things you can do is simply let somebody know that you recognize what they're doing or how they're struggling.

example: "I see you working on those reports! There are a million of them coming in every day, and you're cranking them all out yourself."

You don't even necessarily need to praise them, per se. (Although honest praise is of course very cool) Just the act of letting them know, and noticing is super powerful.
They have an involvement in the process/phenomenon, but it is the mind that is doing the majority of the work (the actual implementation of "shows"). And, as science has well demonstrated, the mind is a highly unreliable instrument, and is a particularly important one in that it renders "reality" itself.

I'm a big fan of this essay, mainly for this one line:

>> There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”

https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
It’s a poor term but one that simply refers to observable differences. It is unfortunate that there may be bigory or judgements accorded. I am inclined to suppose that those people are in the minority.
> But for education, I fear that students will be discouraged (or tempted to cheat) when they are learning to code with exercises that can be solved with a simple online query.

Is it cheating when kids learning to read have books read to them?

Is it cheating when teens learning guitar watch YouTube videos of people playing guitar? ...or use Spotify to play music?

Personally, I'm much more excited for how "learning to code" will change given these tools, than I am worried about cheating.
They have more than enough food to eat (except of course things that don't exactly grow there). They have surplus in energy and fertiliser.

What they would lack in the short and medium term are high tech products like chips, advanced medicine.

Given enough time and drive any energy and food surplus society can reinvent the high tech stuff.

Of course it doesn't mean they would, seeing how corrupt the whole ruling class is. But it is theoretically possible for them to be totally independent of the rest of the world. They are blessed with too many natural resources to not be able to do it.
America has horrible worker rights.

You are clearly anti-union and anti-worker but seem to have this idea in your head that you're on their side. Please stop.
Wait, are you saying worker's rights are pretty extravagant right now?
There was a high-profile theft of 13 works from this museum in 1990 that remains unsolved with no arrests made and no works recovered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museu...

There is also a Netflix documentary on the theft called "This is a Robbery"
I love those ideas for assignments. Humans will get boxed out of most programming tasks, but the questions that you raise will (probably?) be the last to go
You are vastly stretching the definition of shadowbanning if you're posting a public link that everyone (even people who aren't logged in to Twitter) can see, and then claiming that it's suppressed because it doesn't show up in the replies of a totally different account's Tweet.
I find https://gridwatch.co.uk/ a bit more readable. At the bottom of the page you can click on each energy source to see those metrics for that source only (worth doing to understand the volatility of wind in particular if you haven't seen those charts already)
YouTube Music Blocks RATM
Doesn't work in Chrome even after confirming age and accepting that it can contain 'topics related to self-harm'

Great new feature! Such impact! Happy perf!
A tool that calculates profits or losses if you used sentiment in your trades
This tool allows you to test investment strategies based on alternative data sources such as social media posts, Google trends, and many more.
Yep. I offer a yearly plan for $26. My customers are split almost exactly half and half with monthly and yearly subscribers
I work closely with Neo4j and Memgraph.

What is happening to Neo4j is not directly related to Memgraph. Neo4j raised a lot of cash and their investors have a lot of expectations now, this puts their sales under a lot of pressure and has pushed them to raise prices.

On the other hand, Memgraph is cheap and aims at being compatible with Neo4j from an API point of view (even though their don't share any tech background : Neo4js is Java, Memgraph is C++).

Memgraph can be a good replacement for Neo4j, but is not yet popular enough to be a menace for Neo4j in the short term.
Well you can do it in the EU. You can apply to become a CA for document signing and then give out signed documents.

https://www.zealid.com/en/ does it free of charge
We currently do in the company I am in. Looking at all the alternatives it was a decent idea. We went for the hosted version and it works well enough for both technical and non-technical staff.

In the hosted version they provide bots for doing the sort of auditing/logging things you are going to need and the support has been excellent.

Overall, better than Teams :)
I write a lot of verilog code, and most of its operators are the same a for C. Your first example doesn't highlight the real benefit of its style because all of your items are the same length. Here is a better example:

foo = here_is_some_logical_condition ||
and_another ||
(this_term && that_term) ||
exception_case;

vs

foo = here_is_some_logical_condition
|| and_another
|| (this_term && that_term)
|| exception_case;
Did google \ Alphabet officially do layoffs?
Why are so many things better in the EU?
Miri is not really meant for performance profiling; it runs on unoptimized MIR, which has very different performance from LLVM-optimized machine code.
No one said any such thing in any credible forum. Sanctions were the lever that was available. Quality of life in Europe was not thrown into a "dog shit trash fire", whatever that is supposed to be. Claims Germans would "freeze in the dark", expressed in less credible forums (e.g. here), proved false.
You missed the VC firms that missed the fraud with their “thorough” due diligence.
The NTSB preliminary report points strongly toward negligence, which I'm sure was not lost on the potential defendants, their insurance companies, and their counsel. If I were on the defendants' legal team, I would be very happy to see a video like this surface, regardless of where it came from. I'd be even happier to see it picked up by a major news outlet, which would generally require first that it pop up in popular online news sites, like say HN.
What did you find arrogant about the neovim developers?
Bar charts are the most useful - the visualization by circles is data malpractice.
No, actually I don't like that method! Infact, that's the one I was saying I don't like!

This weaponizes hedonism for education -- and it's good for children to learn that education can be gratifying. But there are many things in education that are not pleasing for some time.

If the child is not led to discipline themselves to learn things they don't necessarily enjoy... It's like trying to teach them to eat only things they enjoy.

To circle back, I really think these pop education methods are boiling down to fad diets. You can lose weight with the Paleo diet, or Jenny Craig, or avoiding carbs... But what do they all have in common? Caloric intake rules the day.
GM did that to us and sold the telemetry stream to Facebook (without an opt in/out opportunity).
“+Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software Is Now Free
You could have said the same about Mandela and the ANC. Or Lenin and the Communists. Or Robespierre and the Jacobians.

Happy to say that Mandela and Navalny seemed less likely to create violent revolutions and big terrors, than those other two guys.
> but it's odd the image has no caption.

Not at all. That's for improved privacy.
Whether it’s easily crackable or not doesn’t take away from the fact that it is 2FA.

If someone broke into your computer and found a file called 2fa_setup_codes.txt and uploaded it to the internet, you’re still using 2FA. Just because the setup code is available for yourself or someone else to use doesn’t impact the technology. It’s still 2FA/MFA.

This is exactly equivalent.

And, sure, Google could do that. They certainly have the computing power to likely do that across their users. But what, exactly, is their incentive to do so? What makes this in any way shape or form realistic as opposed to paranoid delusions?

And, I mean, just don’t sync your passkeys if you are concerned about this. It seems like entirely a manufactured problem.
A gun can override the difference, but the difference itself remains.
"vegan food"?! There are boat loads full of vegan cooking books teaching how to make delicious food. I wouldn't equate "fake meat" with vegetarianism or veganism. This is more of a problem of reliance on processed foods in general which is bad, vegetarian, vegan or not.
It's interesting how we have decades of knowledge and experience that sales people typically blow smoke up the execs you-know-what and fail to deliver to various degrees yet those execs are still gung-ho on implementing expensive 'solutions'. I've seen it where the people below them that have to do the day-to-day work on it have other ideas but are then forced to use these platforms and explain it to those execs, and why they may not be working.

I wonder if it's because some of those at the mid-to-level making these decisions are under the same market pressures as the rest of us to show they've actually 'done sometime' - so they can slap this on a resume and prepare it for an interview when they roll out of the org in a year or two after implementation. This seemed to be the history in the IT department at the hospital I worked out where they had a decade of zombie projects that sorta worked because they were implemented, barely supported, and the persons that made the decision had bounced to something else, leaving IT holding the bag.
Reports > Financial Reports > under "Fees" in the report.
Not to devil's advocate, but this sounds like an argument which might apply at least as well to the USA as it does to Russia.
DeepMind Dramatron: a new tool for writers to co-write theatre and film scripts
In case anyone else is wondering why the effects of being on the HN front page look small at first glance, notice the logarithmic scale being used for the y-axis.

At first I thought the increase in traffic, while noticeable, didn't look particularly impressive on those graphs, but then I noticed that those diurnal traffic patterns looked a bit strange, which is when I noticed the log scale!
This is what makes taking in Russian refugees complicated, many of them support the war they just didn't want to die themselves.
Drones, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future
Everyone is having a hard time finding workers, and Amazon has a bad reputation - deserved or not.

From the little I’ve seen I’d rather work there than a meat processing plant I’ve been inside of, and I’m guessing the pay is comparable. Those types of jobs suck, and there’s no way to make them not.
It was indeed.

But still I have to admire how it ramped up tech adoption in general population.