skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We aren't talking about RPG-7 here, but ATGM (which, as the name imply, are guided missiles).
Yeah traffic (or lack thereof) makes a massive difference. 45 min in light traffic... sure. 45 min each way, every day, in heavy, stop and go traffic is soul crushing.
Despite not making any sense, cost of living adjustments based on your location seem to be the trend that we are heading toward. If you contribute the same work, it seems that it shouldn't matter where you are located, but companies are sociopathic by nature and will reduce costs anywhere they can get away with it. This opens the door to the next step of having salaries match the lowest common denominator - if you can get good enough devs at a quarter of the cost, the salary will be that rate no matter where you live.

Regarding not being able to tell whether someone is contributing if they aren't in person - this manager is just plain dumb, as they aren't measuring the right criteria.
I think anyone who's claiming that remote work has been "proven" to be better or worse is wrong. There are some studies but they use estimations and proxies, carrying the same flaws as doing performance reviews based on lines of code.

We've proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that's about it. Some people love the lack of commute and less semi-forced hanging out, some people hate onboarding on a new company as a remote person and so on and so on.

I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.
Curious if companies pay differently based on county of primary residence if you commute to the office.
If only the emphasis was on the security not on the vendoring.
>A gift to Meta recruiters, brought to you by Sundar.

I considered interviewing for Meta recently. Then I realized that these are the people who have access to my conversations with my girlfriend when I was 15 years old, and a complete chronological geotagged history of my exact whereabouts for the last 10 years.

No thanks.
History management in handled by the browser in SPAs / javascript land too. Apologies if I misread the insinuation here.
(Note: I'm Head of Developer Relations at Streamlit!)

Thanks, glad you found Streamlit useful! The plan (per the link) is that Streamlit will continue on as an open-source project.
Oracle says it has suspended all operations in Russia
It's an understandable confusion. The key components are Fulcio, a certificate authority, and Rekor, a transparency log. Fulcio generates short-lived public certificates for (approximately) each signature. Rekor stores the certificate and signature.

In the case of cosign, this is done for container images and the signature is then made available via the OCI registry API. But it needn't be; for RubyGems we envisage storing log extracts side-by-side with .gem files. We anticipate other package systems will do similarly. One of our discussions has been whether we can converge on a shared format for those extracts.

This section of the RubyGems signing RFC might help: https://github.com/Shopify/rfcs/blob/new-signing-mechanism/t...
True, but it's going to be bad some years. This year I expect an outright disaster, considering we've had the driest winter in 150+ years of recorded history. Probably it's going to be unbreathable at certain points.
The name "4-star" still confuses me so much. It signals to me "mediocre - not quite 5-star".

I realize they meant it as "everything 4 stars and above", but . . .
And as far as Google is concerned, that's always been true.

I knew someone who worked and lived in a houseboat. She showed up to the office for meetings, but her job was sales so she didn't have much use for a desk anyway.
> BRIDGE DEMOLITIONS

There were a few well-publicized incidents of this outside of Kiev, very early in the conflict: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/25/world/russia-ukraine...
Does that mean you would get paid less for living in Queens County instead of New York County?
All of our Eng was in the Portland (OR) office pre-pandemic but now people have started spreading. Seattle, Bend (which at 3+ hours is not commutable to Portland), and I even moved to Hawaii. No going back for us.
1/2 mile is like a 10 minute walk.
The context: https://nitter.net/M_S_Billingslea/status/149909790758418841...

> So while @POTUS refuses to put full blocking & secondary sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s Central Bank, he is simultaneously preparing to remove those exact sanctions from Ayatollah Khamenei’s Central Bank.
But if there is anywhere in the county that has escaped full IT gentrification because of poor commuter access, those prices are going to explode if they haven't already. Since median house price is a huge fraction of CoL calculations (and a frequent complaint among some economists), staying in county gets you a raise, if your friends do it too.
Have you ever walked between buildings to catch a meeting? I remember this from my Google days and I hated it. Ironically at some point they were cool with video calling in from another building!!
Also: "We are your best friend, you surly wouldn't ruin our very important show, right?"

And with "best friend" I mean only friend they couldn't afford to offend given that they already had been in a tensed situation with "the west".

Like in "the only nation which can still ship you chips and similar if you really mess with the West and the bite back".
Outside the Bay Area you could buy your own perks that are much better than what Google provides and still afford a place to live that's orders of magnitude nicer.
Russia may become like a bigger North Korea. North Korea doesn't listen to China but it doesn't go out of it's way to piss China off. China props it up because it doesn't want a bigger humanitarian crisis on it's borders.

China will probably prop Russia up
1) It will get Oil and Gas cheaper
2) A mean Russia keeps the West from picking on China.
3) Russia has a lot of nukes and making it crazy helps nobody.
Don’t see any comments mentioning inflation, but I’d assume that wavering consumer participation is a factor.
US can win 'wars' just fine. In mere days we wipe every piece of hardware a country has off the map. We cannot win occupations and the police actions we commit to because the win condition is not a military one.
I supplement my workflow with some judicious use of text-expander macros. I can type a total of three characters for the current date-stamp, or four for a date + timestamp. This makes it easy to reflexively date literally anything systemwide: from archive filenames, to code comments, to config file tweaks, to actual notes.
Anyone that can make Switzerland and Sweden take sides against you isn't a grand strategist.
I can't answer it in detail because I don't know how those systems work. But if I did, I bet I could find a way. After all, it's clear to me how Fukushima and Deep Water Horizon both had an easily fixed single point of failure that doomed them, and I ain't no expert on nuclear reactors nor drilling rigs.

When I got a job at Boeing, I thought it was impossible to design an airplane with full redundancy. They showed me how it was done.
Game engine toolkits usually don't have to support accessibility, right-to-left languages, full Unicode, and many other things that mature application UIs need.
Those, yes.
I think it's a key area snowflake have been lacking. Built in nice dashboards that are as easy to throw together as a streamlit app would be a killer feature. Their lack in this area was a key issue for me.
For everyone's convenience: Introduced: 1959
This argument might hold up better if Ada Lovelace were a more important or foundational figure. In reality, although undoubtedly bright and an intuitive 'computational thinker', as far as I know her contribution did not have a great influence on any later work and would probably be almost entirely obscure were it not for the significance of her being a woman.
I liked the homepage and the only reason I am not subscribing to the "Globetrotter prepaid 12 months" plan is that I don't have kids yet. This is such a good idea imo.
I look forward to your post April 4 rant on traffic.
It’s a common enough effect that it should be noted. Many spiritual people end up being detached from the world, for better or worse.
I find it interesting how well this tracks: From each according to [their] ability, to each according to [their] needs.
Saturation is represented by repeating harmonics through a spectrogram. Both hardware and software spectrograms are available for you to try out: you'll very quickly figure out the patterns it produces if you watch carefully.
Engineers have targets to meet, but management still has to trust estimates and scopes provided by engineers.
Don't forget the third ingredient: wide adoption by underground artists and listeners. Bandcamp is, in some circles, cool. A new service would need to work very hard to earn that kind of cachet.
For whatever it's worth, even with the salary cut remote employees are facing, the paybands for FAANG employees in (relatively) affordable cities are still top-of-market.

For example, remote GOOG employees in Atlanta take a 10-20% salary cut compared to the Bay Area salaries. But the net takehome is still higher (on average) than the takehome for the in-office Bay Area engineers. And the overall compensation is better than >80% of existing Atlanta metro SWE compensation.

That's part of the reason why there has been such a huge influx of people to metros like Atlanta, Charlotte, Detroit, etc.
All of your benefits seem to come from using only rest APIs to drive to site. That alone can be done with any site, but SPA usually implies more.
Thanks for the explanation.
I'm still puzzled.
I have an incredibly hard time imagining the busy city ever happening again. A huge number of these folks are never going back in office.

The comment about Google in NYC being a better work environment, more space ammenities & luxury rings true to me. But few will be able to match this environment. And enough have gone full remote already, in most cities, that I have such a hard time imagining vibrant commercial/office city life again. More mixed use zones will fair better.

Also werent we still in huge spike a month ago? How are we going to be ok, particularly post mask-mandates , all going back into the cities?
Though most of it's borders need very little defending.
Blame shift from nobody. I am of the opinion that this leak is probably true, but absent this leak Russia just determined when to begin their assault unilaterally. China isn't an active participant in this conflict from what we've seen - if this story is false then they're (sorta) an uninterested party - this story would paint them as someone who had political leverage who could have possibly defused the situation and instead used that political leverage to score a prestige hit before issuing tacit allowance for the attacks.
Sorry, I was wrong, you have to select "format the page" instead of "edit the page" (first item).
Yes, if I'm not colocated with my team then most of the advantages go away.
I don't think that's guaranteed. I work remotely and I just exclude companies that do cost-of-living adjustments. Those companies might end up paying less, but they also have fewer applicants to choose from. You tend to get what you pay for in life. Hiring is really difficult right now, it's not wise to make it more difficult by driving away applicants.
Is that turnover or did people move to a better-for-them location and they're waiting to see if anyone calls their bluff?

I recall someone pointing out that a Sun Microsystems office in Colorado existed because someone you might call a Staff or Principal Engineer today said, "I'm moving to Colorado. If you want to open an office there I'll keep working for you, but I'm moving to Colorado".
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> I'm pretty sure if Putin started peace talks

Didn't this happen two days ago?
I've been working remotely since I graduated college in 2013. It's a competitive advantage that Silicon Valley likes to ignore. If I'm another FAANG I'm frothing at the mouth now. I can poach all of these Google workers who have no interest in archaic working conditions.
I think it might be more useful to recommend that they consult a good meditation teacher, because you really need to know both about meditation and about yourself to make the decision—though, as you point out, identifying a good meditation teacher when you aren't one is a difficult problem.
This post is reuters though.
It’s not bad, but if you feel strongly against it, you’re not missing out on much. Overcoming the psychological resistance to meditate is probably not worth it.
> I think history will look back and see that Newt Gingrich shares a disproportionately large share of the blame for the tribal politics we are experiencing now.

Much as I loath Gingrich, I think that the blame for transformation of political culture that he has gotten really from day one of his speakership is overblown, and that the two main factors are:

(1) the reversion to the normal alignment of partisan and ideological divides as the long era of the overlapping realignments of the post-Depression era (New Deal and Civil Rights) and,

(2) Clinton’s political triangulation strategy reducing opportunity for partisan differentiation on a wide range of high-saliency policy issues, driving a focus on personal and culture war issues as well as a rightward policy shift to re-enable differentiation on those issues (which itself required relying on personal and cultural identity politics heavily.)

Gingrich, was a problem, to be sure, but there is always a Gingrich around (many of them), but he became successful when he did because both structural forces and choices by the other party created an environment in which his approach would be rewarded.
99% of people don't FRICKING care.

Most of the users I have to deal with still have problems with double clicking.

They don't understand basic browser features.

They don't understand that they can set preferred language in their browser.

History related features are not an argument in any way.
So you mean to provide Russia with a more stable platform from which to invade again in say, 5 years?

You don't change any of the context that led Russia to invade in the first place. You leave intact an aggressor who has repeatedly and consistently expanded. You gave them Crimea and hoped that would appease them. You tolerated their aggressions in eastern Ukraine. Now you will just give them Donbas and Luhansk and hope once again to appease them?

That strategy might be better accepted if the world hadn't seen 1938-1939.
Have you heard of supply and demand? Suppliers have a price point at which their willing to supply a good. That price point is dependent on the input costs of producing the good. For knowledge workers, the input cost is your cost of living. It’s not so much that it “makes sense” to lower the salary of people in low cost of living areas, but it’s very likely the supply curve has shifted.
Romania had about 400 Mig-21 bought during the cold war when it was an ally of USSR. In the begining of 2000s, they modernized about 70 Mig to NATO standards [1]. There were frequent issues with them with about 20 fallen in 30 years. The aircraft were modernized but it only included the avionics and elecronic+weapons to NATO standard, I think the engines remained original. After Romania left the Warsaw pact, the Russian didn't provide engines or parts anymore.

[1] https://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-defense-25405860-cate-avioane-v...
> I wouldn't be shocked if by next winter 60%+ of the gas supply for Western Europe will be covered from other vendors, more or less bankrupting Russia

you will be shocked to discover that Russia is going to fuel China's economy instead [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-28/gazprom-p...
Putin just was, and remains, in a desperate place. Strategy is fine at leisure. He had no choice but to do something to seem strong, to remain in power. If this doesn't work, he may move on to something desperate.
there is this idea of a ceasefire during the olympics , which i guess shows some kind of respect for the olympic idea or something.

Over the decades i ve grown to hate the olympics and other international sports competitions as they are important instruments of nationalism
russia wanted to deploy forces in the USA's borders.
USA wants to deploy forces on Russia's borders.

I don't see the difference.
Only 20% of Google staff even has that option, and not all of them get approved. The vast majority will not be able to work remotely.
And Romania got them starting in 1962.
On Chrome you can go into extension settings and adjust permissions so SingleFile only has permissions “on click”. Then it won’t/can't inject that little JS snippet into a page until you actually want to use the extension. The only downside is that after enabling you then have to refresh the page for the extension to do its work.

I wish this behavior was more well known and encouraged by Google.
Congrats to the Streamlit team. My every interaction with them has been positive. Add to that the great product and community they’ve built, and you get a company that’s deserving of this outcome.
The US can and does still win wars. It won the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan handily. What it’s not able to do is turn conquered countries into stable liberal democracies, but I doubt anyone can do that.
China also doesn't had to "know" about the plans, telling Russia "just in case" to postpone "potential" plans seems quite reasonable.
I would think this specialty would build skills that are well compensated in the private sector: public relations, marketing, political campaigns, journalism, SEO. Since gaslighting and enlightening aren't all that different in terms of PsyOps, also include teaching. Convincing a population that they are being liberated rather than invaded is good training for convincing another population to use chorizo flavored toothpaste.
With different goals. I try to minimize the number of required guesses, while he is trying to maximize the odds of a 2-guess win. To do that, he deliberately avoids guessing letters that would fit the more-common cases where a 2-guess win is extremely unlikely.

In other words, Norvig's approach requires you to guess letters that aren't that likely to appear at all. He will get more 2-guess wins, but I will do better in the long run.
If anyone books a 5pm meeting with me, home or not, it's getting declined.
Is it better to work at Google that has all your emails and search history?
Haha, or video calling from the same building but between floors because rooms are not big enough!
"We are not overpopulated: we are just Homo Sapienses."

Our nature could be what lead our to overpopulation.
Working fine with Edge.
To add: "Cuba is a sovereign nation. They should be allowed to store Russia's nuclear missiles." /s
I count 3 or 4 Canadian Solar projects. Most of the projects they are involved with are in other countries: https://www.canadiansolar.com/successful-projects/

As for hindsight, governments are supposed to have foresight in how they manage the country. The myopic vision is what I object to.
Given inflation, it's probably a thousand dollar word now.
Url changed from https://www.reuters.com/world/us-officials-say-china-asked-r..., which is reporting on this article but doesn't seem to link to it.
Obsidian looks interesting, but how do you sync between devices? Their sync service seems really expensive. On desktop I guess you can use git/Dropbox plugin, but what about mobile? I take a lot of notes on my Android phone.
> I'm puzzled why we haven't created something that can compete with S-300 / S-400 / S-500.

In my opinion it is because the American way of fighting a war doesn’t need it. Let say there is a troublesome country who would want to fly airplanes to shoot at American troops. The war plans against such a threat would start with two steps: 1st supress their air defences. 2nd gain full air dominance.

Supression of air defences is a polite way to say that they pulverize anything which can shoot US airplanes from the ground or even detect US airplanes using a radar.

Gaining full air dominance is a polite way to say that they aim to pulverize all enemy airplanes, runways, taxiways, fueling equipment and maintenance infrastructure.

If that is your method of operation why would you need mobile, survivable air defenses. People who routinely plan on destroying clouds (the source of rain) don’t need an umbrella.
Emulation can bring them back in a limited fashion. Though obviously un-marrying them from the original system environment and making them accessible outside of the VM can be a challenge.
> ...according to anonymous intelligence officials.

They've had a pretty good track record for stuff about this invasion.
Sorry, but I don't think there's an offramp.

I can't see the Russian leadership backing down from their stated goals. That means they have to subdue Ukraine, and probably Finland, Estonia and Poland too. If they don't win in at least Ukraine, then they have lost badly, and their economy is destroyed.

I don't think they'll settle now for a piece of Crimea or a piece of Donbas. The entire story is that the whole of Ukraine is a bogus state.