skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the fact that the CIA was recently exposed as running a mass domestic surveillance program is pretty good circumstantial evidence. Political/lobby/corporate interests are definitely doing it too. The commercial ones may even be selling it to the government.
This sounds like something good old fashioned double-entry bookkeeping would have caught immediately (hunky dory income from Stripe seemingly falling into a black hole). No need to scrutinize every transaction until you notice the ledger isn't adding up.
Yes, if crypto actually became popular for international money transfers, it seems almost inevitable that it would acquire the same kind of regulatory regime that already exists for Western currencies. The exchanges can be compelled either directly or by choking their banking relationships.
> I really do feel like I'm watching a pleasant movie filmed through my eyeballs.

I was curious about this. You mean it feels as if you are a little person sitting inside your skull, watching the "you" movie? Or you meant something different?
https://www.lula.is/careers doesnt mention Quality Engineers. How to apply
Yes seems like most Russians support this “operation” to “free” Ukrainian people from their nazi government :(
Some of their examples have changed since this was written in 2013, for example Niconico is effectively a bunch of flexbox now[0], the only remnant possibly being the search bar being separate from the navigation bar. Rakuten[1] is arguably less cluttered than Amazon's front page. Yomiuri[2] looks like msn.com but in Japanese.

0: https://www.nicovideo.jp/

1: https://www.rakuten.co.jp/

2: https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/
Wow, what a throwback!!

I adore this page where he says "There are more pictures of me, if you are interested. Maybe not.. (^_^;;)"

http://www.usagi.org/doi/doi.html

I came across this page back in 90s when I got hooked on Anime and "seiyuu"

This guy is a legend. I'm glad he has a wiki page dedicated to him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Doi
Damn, it sure would be terrible to keep the UI the same even when the users say it’s, you know, fine the way it is. Ugh.
>I'm working on convincing myself that not all persuasive communication is bad!

By a series of unfortunate events I've been victim to gaslighting from a lot of people in my personal and work lives, so I struggle with this too.
> you have a visual of apparently local people and an actual of 200+ms of delay, loss of sync, and a confusing outcome.

then how does a military use radio to communicate between platoons and companies properly?
I have been meditating for the last 28 years and I meditate 2-3 hours a day, every day, without fail. Still don’t consider myself an expert and I am not a teacher although when pushed, I will sit with someone sincere and meditate with them. If they ask.

The question is not whether everyone should meditate or not. The question is whether “I should meditate?” And if the answer to that is yes, try and find someone who knows what they are doing. If they charge you something, that’s fine, they need to make a living. If they charge you so much they make you weak—-run. If they in any way try to come between you and your friends or family—-run.

I cannot say if meditation is for everyone because I am not everyone. I am me, and meditation has had a mind-blowing effect on my life. And with it (because of it) I can work (I’m an engineer) and know I am not working, I can do, and know I am not doing, and perhaps best of all, be, without blaming anyone.
That makes sense. I also used Data URIs to generate distributable web pages.
Barbaric thugs and bandits all. Many such cases.
Interesting, as much as I admire Evernote, I want something that is open source and can be installed locally. Of course, Git integration is another plus point.
Hi Edwin, I appreciate you offering. I did message support about this but it pretty quickly hit the limit of the time I was willing to put in to try and retrieve the money we lost (which wasn't all that much). It is one of those things where the way Stripe charges is technically correct as you need to calculate tax for all transactions even if they aren't fulfilled. But the odd behavior of trying to charge at end of trial even if a user doesn't have a payment method combined with charging 0.5% of all transactions whether fulfilled or not results in a pretty unexpected outcome. Changing any one of these behaviors, or even making the documentation clearer would stop this happening to anyone else probably.
I got things completely wrong. The issue was that the wapm.wasm program was doing an HTTP request with a custom "User-Agent", and Firefox was blocking it because of that but showing the wrong message in the console.

Good news is... right now things work as they should in Firefox!
Apple Hardware Event Set for March 8
Thing is, there are, and will probably always be, enough purely criminal uses for money, where KYC is not a thing, that use of crypto for non-criminal purposes will be able to work too: criminals will function as "entry and exit nodes" between cash and fiat, and between them, legit users will just operate with crypto.

Fiat is based on people's trust with governments. Crypto is based on people's distrust with governments...
> Force projection is one of the main qualifiers for what makes a superpower

This sounds like a retcon to me: the USSR was unquestionably a superpower, but had limited force projection (euphemism for carrier groups).
it's easy and cost free to make white-collar workers' life worse, where as it costs a lot of capital and money to increase the minimum wage, etc, for the blue-collar workers.

The people who would have to make the sacrifice are the capital holders and high tax payers - they certainly don't want to do this (in aggregate of course - even if some individuals would choose such a sacrifice).
The issue should now be fixed in Firefox! :)
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Should we also dismiss the idea that longterm depression restructures the brain or suppresses the immune system just because it hasn't been found in other mental health issues?

Just because something hasn't been found elsewhere doesn't mean it should be casually linked. We need to see the underlying mechanism.
Cases have plummeted many times. It's been going in waves since the beginning.

What's really changed is that elections are coming up. Pretty obvious isn't it?
This is like when young Google bragged their receptionists had PhDs.
A power outage has knocked out internet across much of Taiwan including Taipei
> Of course, there must be brahmins amongst my friends where I don't know about their caste. But the only friends who have brought up their caste voluntarily were brahmins.

Yes, this is called selection bias. In what context did your friends talk about their caste?

I'm still not sure what you suggest about people's last names. This is not unique, it's also true for the last names of all sorts of people who have faced discrimination or discriminated against others - "white" people can be eg. Jewish, Irish, Italian, Anglo, German etc and there are names common to each of those groups.

Asking people to change their names is quite a heavy lift and impractical - I know some parts of India have historically made it easy for people to drop their last names and move to a system similar to Iceland where each generation uses the their parents' names as their last name.
>I mean, thats many of the comments about this news, despite Epic/Tencent historally ringing true to their words.

I can't meaningfully reply to this because I don't understand your misspelled malapropism (words ring true, not their speakers). You seem to be suggesting that Epic/Tencent tell the truth, which historically I see isn't true (Linux support, Rocket League, etc), so I must be misunderstanding you.

>It's just a middleman storefront, and there are trillionaire tech companies right now

I think you misunderstand Valve, which is currently in the process of releasing a revolutionary console/handheld PC, and its profit margins, which might be healthier than you anticipate.

>Maybe Gabe leverages Valve and jumps to a whole other industry when he tires of games. Maybe he just sells it all off and turns that into assets to will off (better than giving family a company they can't manage). Nothing is certain and much larger internet darlings have been turned agaisnt faster

Moreover, I think you misunderstand Newell himself. Steam Machines, Proton itself, and now the Steam Deck suggest a dedication to pro-consumer practices generally and videogames specifically that don't really map well to the typical bloodless VC calculus that you're trying to understand this situation with.
Wouldn't nuking a small city in Ukraine also affect Russia physically?
It sounds like a classic example of how accrual bookkeeping can be misleading due to timing issues (the sale has already been booked even though the cash hasn’t been collected). I know it has other advantages vs. cash bookkeeping, but cash is so much easier to understand that I have always chosen it whenever possible (i.e., for a service business).
Perhaps "economic liberalism" is a more precise term for what I meant.
> I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site.

You do understand that "I personally prefer" and "actually works better" and "better for everybody involved" are three different things, do you?

We were told for years that it's an established fact that remote work is inefficient and untenable. We have proven - with an experiment that we wouldn't rather go through, but we had no choice - that this is false. That doesn't mean it is for everybody - but it doesn't also mean that the thing you prefer is for everybody. So why it's ok to force one of these things onto everybody? That's what the managers should be able to answer.
In my earlier 20-something days of office work, the social interactions were important. After work drinks were incredibly good times, as were group lunches and office banter. Sometimes people meet their partners at work, or make good friends, or just have consistently good conversations. This stuff matters when you want it to matter.

Now I know that isn't always guaranteed wherever you work, or wanted at all stages of your life/career. But I understand if people do crave those things.
> Apple has maintained its focus on the customer and thrived, bucking the trend

They are arguably best in the industry doesn't mean they are as good as they once were. Apple Retail experience, App Store curation. Butterfly Keyboard? If if it trend we are talking about then Apple is no different to other company you mentioned.
"Java -- possible, but you'll need a startup script to just call java -jar some-tool.jar; (also not a good fit for short-lived tools, mainly due to startup times;)"

Technologies to look at:

* Warp Packer -- https://github.com/dgiagio/warp/

* Liberica Native Image Kit -- https://bell-sw.com/pages/liberica-native-image-kit/

Warp Packer bundles my JavaFX desktop application, KeenWrite, into single binary executable files:

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/releases/download/2.... (Linux)

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/releases/download/2.... (Windows)

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/releases/download/2.... (JVM)

The start-up time for the first launch of the .bin or .exe is slow because it unpacks to a user directory. Subsequent starts are fast enough, even when running from the command-line as a short-lived task. Here's the script that creates the self-contained executable files:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/installe...

To create a release for all three files, I run a single shell script from a build machine:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/release....

I could probably generate a binary for MacOS, but not enough people have asked.
> then quietly modified their documentation and addressed the issue as if they had "just discovered it"

As he points out in the article, they alerted him to the documentation updates in the course of their emails back and forth.

Fair point about being frustrated with the initial customer support experience, though. Definitely crappy.
Double entry booking would have shown a growing accounting accounts receivable and an undersized cash account. Sure, you might dig into why that is, but it wouldn't leap out.

Heck, in many ways, double entry bookkeeping on the accrual basis would be less likely to notice it.
I had a brief experience with what you're talking about induced by drugs. It's made me decide I have no appetite for either meditation (except for short, surface level sessions to help with anxiety) or mind altering drugs anymore. I had briefly waded into the depths of something I wasn't prepared for, and I don't want to go back.

> I have gained insights I was not supposed to have and I've preferred to mostly live in peaceful ignorance since then

Yes, one of my strongest emotions was "I just want to go back to the ignorance I had before. Being moderately unhappy and distracted all the time was much preferable to this." I'm mostly back there now, two years on. Something that helped me was an Alan Watts talk about those that are "far out" -- AKA, fully engaged in the part they are playing in this life, and not aware of the absurdity of existence. Trying to live life like that has actually helped me cope with that experience, but I do continue to see brief glimpses from time to time.
Crypto is infinitely divisible, and because of lack of physicality it does not really suffer from lack of liquidity on the same sense that you can't cut a 20usd bill in half to pay a 10usd item, you just swipe with your phone or wherever e-wallet you use

The deflationary bit, is sort of a problem on the centralization of wealth yeah, but that's a macro problem, not a barrier of entry to individuals

I think that your comment tries to take digs at Crypto in an overly contrarian way, Crypto is digital gold which can be easily hidden, I guess that you could buy a bunch of paper Swiss bonds hide them on a bag or whatever and take a flight with these, but that already has a higher barrier of entry than buying wherever amount you want on ether and put it on a thumb drive, I guess both methods could work, certainly both are easier and sneakier than carrying a brick of gold around on your flight luggage
Yes, Rakuten is its own adventure.

I think the site is a good reflection of the service itself, as in the end you're really going through the order with the individual shop, and not much with Rakuten itself in my experience.

Last time I ordered something I was on the phone with the guy preparing it, making sure everything was right and I didn't need any specific adjustments. There might be stuff that actually go through Rakuten, but I didn't come across any of them yet.
That would be quite horrible if that was true, your eternal suffering hypothesis. But fortunately I see no evidence to believe it.
Every round I start in StS is unwinnable :(
How does this complete silencing of a country not disturb anybody?
It's not the feature set people react to, it's the speculative bubble and the hordes of grifters.
(It sounds like you're saying you largely also view life as happening to you, but maybe I'm wrong). There's maybe no point in even making a distinction between life-as-movie and life-as-commander, especially if people aren't choosing the camp they fall in!

I would posit there are correlations like "people who view life as something that happens to them tend to enjoy it more, when their economic and political circumstances are good, and enjoy it less when their circumstances are bad". And "people who view themselves as controlling their life enjoy life in a wider variety of conditions". I think some call this internal/external locus of control (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control)

You could probably extend those correlations to things like "societies with an overall internal locus of control tend to support the death penalty more", or "societies with an external locus of control tend to believe in magic more". Whether or not these are useful correlations, I don't know ;)
MLOps is radically overhyped.

I've seen two companies in the last year start twisting themselves into circles to worry about 'productionizing' a data science project.

The intent is right to focus on end use case and business value, but it feels like the communication is exclusively in terms of overbuilding systems.
Are you implying that voters read past the headlines?
If I remember correctly the fully connected layers after the attention block are [?, a*h] * [a*h, b*h] (for some scalars a,b and hidden size h), which means that transformers also scale with h^2. I don't know what fraction of the total FLOPs that section of the model takes for practical model sizes, but it would indicate that making the model narrower for the same number of params would reduce compute.
There's still more nuance here - you can switch to remote, but will you get the same compensation?
Fair enough, I don't really use features like that as I manually explore artists. I use discogs credit lists + wikipedia entries to find albums based on a particular person or a rhythm section in a time frame.

In navidrome I view the random albums page until I find something I want to listen to. The only algo that I've found to bear fruit is youtube's recommendations, occasionally. I mostly just listen to music on there while working and occasionally it just drops great albums.
It doesn't sound like he reconciles the ERP system to the bank statements every night. That seems to be the appropriate analog. Meanwhile, the author was monitoring all the KPIs, so they were looking at what they should look at.
"Pilot" seems to me rather high status, so I would bet that the average Russian pilot comes from a wealthier / better connected demographic than the average citizen.

Could the potential fallout from high losses in this demographic lead to risk averse deployment of these assets?
Because every single transaction in USD must result in a credit and debit to an account at the US Federal Reserve (except for transactions entirely in paper money -- this is the reason drug dealers like paper money.) For a transaction denominated Yuan(Renminbi) that transaction must eventually result in a debit and credit entry at the People's Bank of China (the central bank of China). In the latter case no US entity need be involved. The problem with the second transaction is that fewer people are willing transact in Yuan than are willing transact in USD. That is changing though, and quite rapidly. Many countries have switched to trading with Russia in other currencies. For example the Indian government purchases military equipment from Russia using the INR currency and therefore, its payment for such equipment does not flow through any US-connected financial system. The US can still stop such transactions though, through other forms of economic pressure: CAATSA regulation for example. Which is why India is particularly concerned about the Russia/Ukraine conflict. IF the US sanctions India through CAATSA to block it from purchasing Russian military equipment, India will be severely hurt and unable to defend itself against China (one of its two primary security concerns.) So bottom line, one can transact outside of the US financial system, but that is significantly less useful, and also does not mean that the US cannot stop such transactions. In the end the thing that enables the US to affect what other countries do, is the absolutely massive size of its economy relative to others and the absolute dominance of its military relative to that of others. As long as it maintains those two advantages, it will be able cripple any other country -- either through war or economic sanctions.
yes please-- had debated building this -- trad utils so can do more client-side processing -- imagemagick, ffmpeg, come to mind -- think some may have FOSS ports
Indeed, they vary. The larger point is we still get a lot accomplished/communicated and done because of a common underlying methodology. I don't have an answer for what that means when adapted to the software field. Its going to be a soup of many things - coding guidelines, BDD, TDD, modular programming, etc, etc. I'm sure there are brains far bigger than mine already working on this, its not really an original idea in that sense.
It looks kinda funny how from their representation of the events Russia does absolutely nothing while the rest of the world suddenly started to harass it. It looks exactly like USSR 2.0.

Also "Benefits for IT-companies will slow down an outflow of personnel from Russia, an expert said". Mhm.
> Those that come from well off families tend to have all the extra-curriculars that white kids from wealthier families do. It's the ones from poor families.

Or even just middle class families. I send my kids to private school with family money WASPs where we have a second winter break in February for ski trips. My kids will know how to navigate a system that puts more emphasis on writing an essay about how her grandfather grew up in a Bangladeshi village than on her SAT scores. But when my parents and I were recent immigrants to the country I certainly didn’t have that kind of cultural capital.

And it’s not just an immigrant thing. My (American) wife was noting that her dad, who grew up objectively poor would never have suggested he suffered adversity growing up, because after all they lived in a “stick built house” (a framed house as opposed to a mobile home).
If you like laws, how about Cunningham's Law? :)

No, but I am aware of this, I even thought to mention it, and I sorely hope that I am proven wrong. However, my concern is that the ban explicitly does apply to the medium itself.

In particular, article 12 bans participation in "activities the object or effect of which is to circumvent prohibitions". Can you think of any reason for why Tor would not be considered to circumvent the ban?
Imo SWEs aren't on top of things like applying for remote work, and most who will, will do it on the last day they can
Just total moving of goal posts
Multi-page forms without some front end stuff ends up with the very clunky either "rerender previous form pages over and over again, except hidden", or "have some token to track partial form data", or "build up a DB to store a partially complete form".

With some frontend work you can have a multi-page form just work, with the data stored in the client up until final submission, and only sending in partial checks ahead of time. This is qualitatively easier to handle, in my opinion.

It also seems extremely uncontroversial that sending data for a single item is going to require less text generation than sending over that data + the entire page.

These are all gradients, but people make absolute claims that don't hold up in these arguments.
> I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack

If you mean this literally (i.e. walk over to someone's desk/office the moment you have an issue to resolve), this is highly disruptive and partially the reason why some people hate going into the office, particularly engineers.

I understand some people prefer to meet in person but it's not an absolute necessity.
Any supporting links to these claims?