skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is Not A Pipe That Exists, which returns some AI convolution of many pipes with some heavy weighting toward the Magritte pipe would be ideal for me.
Peace through weakness is overrated
The culture of Taiwan is heavily influenced by Japan as it was a colony of Japan for 50 years. Most of the major infrastructure originated during the Japanese colonial period. So Japanese culture is fairly well adopted. It's EVA that has a "Hello Kitty" plane, not any Japanese carrier. I know a lot of Taiwanese who grew up speaking Mandarin AND Japanese in the home and who are still fluent in Japanese. Also Taiwan fought WW2 on the side of the Japanese and was bombed by US forces.
Witch hunts. A concept as old as cave men.
Do you apply the same logic to all of the banking sanctions that effect regular Russian people? should we not enact any sanctions that could in any way effect the value of the rouble for instance? as the whole country relies on it to pay their bills.

People are dying, heavy handed measures are needed.
They don't have to represent Russia, the organisers could let them play without the Russian flag next to the players name.
Tired: Oh my gosh these rip-offs are so derivitave
Wired: The board game Mastermind is back BB, 1973 lives again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)
Sometimes people do this subconsciously. Like a manager who's been mostly made redundant by other managers, so they roam around doing random "managery" things like poking holes in people's work, redirecting work, refocusing work, planning pingpong championships, rearranging desks to improve the feng shui, etc.
I've personally encountered this quite a bit circling around tech, in most of the cases I've seen it was due to _deeply seated_ insecurity more than anything else. Usually it corresponds with folks who find themselves in a position that they're a poor fit for but for whatever reason can't move on. They bounced into a position they can't exit and their 'value add' is applying this sort of tactic under the guise of being helpful externally.
I think it had an effect on public mood in Vietnam, which is why press coverage was restricted in later wars. Who knows how it could have played out in a modern connected world.
Asian immigrants are privileged? They have high of poverty, this is a weird take just because some Asians are well to do
Yelp is the default restaurant rating display in Apple Maps. Between that and Google Maps, a lot of people are going to see those ratings and it does have some impact even if people don't trust them absolutely — otherwise businesses wouldn't feel that they needed to pay Yelp to hide bad reviews.
Please provide a single example of a media agency that is barred from publishing content because a "leftist" disagreed with it.
I like SPAs when they're done right.

Google Maps has some hiccups, but overall I like the way it works. Did you ever use MapQuest in the early '00s? Having to do a full page load to move your view was awful

I've considered running Windows only as a shell for running a Linux VM (that I would actually do my daily driving in) and Windows-only games, but I don't know how well that would work. How good is GPU acceleration in a VM is you're not using PCI-E pass-through? I'd also worry about the RAM requirements to make that work well, as I'd effectively be splitting my RAM in half, though I was planning on going to 64 GB on my next upgrade anyways.
Not all those watts are going into lighting. If spending is fixed on lighting but total expenditure is up that means energy is being bought for things other than lighting. Kirchoff's law applied to the grid in toto.

Adds up considering the proliferation of computing devices, particularly cryptomining.
> I've been working part-time to cover the bills while I work on creating the software I hoped to turn into business.

I would flip it around: get a full time job to secure your income and savings and work on your project part time. It might take a bit longer but with a lot less stress.
And that usually plays to the advantage of the elite. Now the working class has only one supporter, the Russian government. Their propaganda of "west hates you" feels very real to them now.

This is quite age old tactic that usually doesn't work, punishing civilians in the war usually does not demoralize them, but works against the aggressor. Same can be said about these sanctions. Why would they trust the west if we want to punish them and their only hope is their current administration?
clearly, yes
We did go to war with Mexico and took a bunch of their land. And if our military power wasn’t so overwhelmingly superior we absolutely would have border conflicts with Mexico.
Sorry, I don't have much time to reply but you have a good point.

That is correct and intentional. My core point is that everyone can benefit changing how we disagree and when we choose to disagree. In what you quoted, I was just trying to make the point less abstract with a concrete example. I wasn't trying to be persuasive or reach some sort of resolution. I could have been more effective, thank you.
"Nothing burns you out quite like realizing that you don't even want your boss's job."

As much as I hated my last job, I thought my boss' job was even worse because of all the corporate BS he had to constantly put up with. He seemed to love his job despite that, though.

Also, some of my colleagues (who'd been working for decades, just like me) seem to still love it and thrive on the stuff that made me want to quit and demotivated me. I'm fascinated with how some people like them are able to persevere and thrive in the same situations that make people like me quit and burn out.

I still don't know their secret.
Grischuk has already made public statements against the war. What else do you want him to do, blow up the Duma?
> What is happening here is discrimination and can't be justified

It is discrimination. And it's entirely justified. The same way when, if your friend stars a bar brawl, you all get kicked out. Only he should get e.g. arrested. But there's a big difference between not being able to compete for your country and getting shelled.
Yeah, Russia is definitely worse, but I wouldn't say 100% different. Trump loves Putin and the power he wields.
Thanks for checking us out! We sort of anticipated that — we just launched the unit test feature this week, and it’s not easily distinguished from the test panel. We’ll probably rename the test panel to something more descriptive, like API runner.
Interactive mode is a feature to set interactive breakpoints in your code, it’s really useful for iterating on individual blocks of code without having to run the entire app E2E.
> Avowed leftist here: Let's just agree that both the Dems and Repubs ban/seek to stifle opinions they don't agree with. Someone wants to ban Maus, someone else wants to ban Joe Rogan.

What kind of an argument is this? The only common thread between the two is the word "banning".

Banning Joe Rogan is because he spreads misinformation about vaccines. He is causing lots of people to die, and the pandemic is longer because of it.

Banning a book about the holocaust prevents people learning about the atrocities of the past.
As a foreigner, I can say that whatever it is you’re thinking of isn’t even newsworthy on the international stage.

What Putin has done to Russia is like if an American president had invaded a neighbour and the result was simultaneously $4 trillion central bank assets held abroad getting frozen, most of the billionaires becoming personae non grata in half the planet, a lot of smart people leaving the country as quickly as possible, the stock markets crashing about as hard as the Great Depression, direct refusal by major shipping companies to deal with the nation, and the currency halving relative to everything else, while also finding the hard way that all the military hardware had been “maintained” with cheap lookalike products and the cost difference pocketed by corruption at an unknown part of the chain.
It does nothing. It's a statement for the west audience. He can't say the same in Russian for the Russian audience loudly. Because in this case he will be put in jail for years. Wake up, Russia is a fascists state. Which is on the blood run.
In the context for this post, there is no comparable hiring process or trust factor. There is a certain level of aptitude and physical fitness required, but this job is plain and simple military service with some extra schooling on top (e.g. foreign language, parachuting, etc.)

Manipulation and influence can look very similar, and naturally skilled manipulators tend to go elsewhere (I think there's enough research about career preference and correlation of "dark triad" traits to substantiate this).

In my experience, most of the enlisted folks doing PsyOp had little idea of what it truly involved when they first began; however, the Army remains eager to redirect the passion of 20 year olds into counterinsurgency / foreign policy tactics.
I think pss refers to a pricing solution suite.
The solution is obviously to punish those causing the harm directly, no?

Obviously much easier said than done. Also not sure why you’re mentioning America here - the article is about Norway
I tend to think people like this are just looking for an excuse not to work. My approach is to either facilitate them or force them to do more work.

If I decide to facilitate their not doing work, I would say "Yeah, I think there are docs for this. I'm in the middle of something, but give me an hour or so and I'll email you the link." Then, I'll forget about it. If they really need to know they'll come back and ask again.

If I decide to disincentivize them by making it more work for them to ask me for work I'd go along the lines of - "That's great feedback. Why don't you take notes of all the issues you have with the wiki while you're working on your thing. When you're done, update the wiki so the next person to use it can benefit from what you find. Thanks."
I would simply start with: "You have to be more specific" and go from there.

And as a warning to your approach: don't take on the job to make dysfunctional people function for free. Either communicate that you are taking on a burden, or escalate to those whose job it is.
That is mostly correct and a big issue with crypto in its current state IMO. If government blocks your off-ramps, it's possible you could still sell via a bitcoin ATM or find someone to do an OTC trade but those are obviously not ideal.

If we are talking ETH, it's possible to use zero knowledge proofs to send money and make it impossible to trace back to the source (see https://tornado.cash/). This also has some limitations, like you wouldn't be able to tornado 8 figures worth of ETH but certainly better than an OTC deal. It's also possible that the off-ramp exchanges could block any ETH that was sent through tornado. This gets hairy pretty quickly though, as the tornado ETH could easily be wash traded or mixed. Or it could be used legitimately, swapped for stablecoins, etc.
I agree, intuitively that makes much more sense. At a minimum, you should get some portion of accessories vs replacement items in your recommendations.

I'd be blown away with surprise to learn that AMZN hasn't optimized for revenue in the calculation though, so it seems likely that we're wrong.

Of course we'd prefer AMZN to optimize for customer happiness/benefit instead. To me, the "smart" approach would be to recommend accessories until and unless the customer shows some signal indicating that they are looking for another TV. Then switch to full replacement strategy (or even return-minimization strategy) mode.

That or similar logical approach may have been abandoned after getting better results (by some metric) from the ML-optimized approach. Assuming there's a human involved at all.
I’ve never thought of that operation as shell pipes, but always as an “or” operator.
This would be really nice as a plugin for rclone.
Assuming all scam phone numbers are spoofed, isn't this putting innocent people in "digital jail"?
This is therapeutic to read - I've been on the receiving end of this a lot. Once I even had someone go about 5 levels deep.

"We should have a doc for this process."

"We do - here's the link."

"I couldn't find this - it should be linked more prominently."

"It's the first link when you go to the docs page."

"It didn't warn me about this tricky part."

"There's a warning at the top."

"It should be more prominent, bold and in red."

"It is bold and in red. [sends screenshot]"

"Oh okay, thank you..."
If that were actually the issue they’d be allowed to play, but not on behalf of Russia.

Though I’m curious - how much time in your opinion has to pass before Russians are allowed to participate again? If actions have to be taken, which ones?

If actions can be taken to allow them to participate then in a sense is that saying the actions are sufficient to compensate for the senseless killing of Ukrainians? If no time or actions can be taken then are we ok with indefinitely ostracizing a group of people? What of their children?

Earth has already been down that road, it’s not really great. Best to just punish those who directly contributed to the things with disagree with.
Right. EBay has locked me out, I need to call them. But they won't give me the number to call.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/t0av3a/this_may_not_...
>Chechnya

Even if the invasion had never happened boycotting Chechnya would have been acceptable given their previous actions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya#LGBT_rights
Oh, please. Ethically, they should have a justification to their actions.

If they get to kick people out for their nationality (when that person is not "representing" a nation) then I get to think they're foolish.
This is all imo. It sounds like you’re passionate about building infrastructure. It’s hard to sell pure infrastructure as a solo founder. Your best bet would be to either find a way to open source the code and support yourself with commercial support contracts, or find a job doing exactly this sort of work inside a larger organization.
I don't have any advice to add, I just wanted to say that I'm truly sorry this is happening to your family.
heck this is a bummer. My initial mortgage deal wasn't great, with me paying mortgage insurance every month. Now I won't be able to re-finance.
> If your argument is "ah but Saddam wasn't that bad" my guy, you've already lost. He really wasn't great.

We supported him when he did that. And during the 90s, we instituted sanctions that killed half a million Iraqi children. That's 100 children for every single person who died in Halabja. If the question is would you rather be a modern country ruled by the iron will of a belligerent despot, or bombed into medieval times with every cultural institution shattered and orders of magnitude more body count than your dictator ever generated, spawning ISIS...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2001/10/are-1-million-ch...
It is a sucky situation without any perfect solutions. Banning all Russian athletes is a clear decision. Judging everyone based on their individual reactions to the invasion is just not a scalable solution, and probably also puts those who speak out in greater danger.
My interpretation is that the author is Christian (he says this) and he is against meditation for reasons commonly given by many Christians to discourage people from meditating
Was Elizabeth Holmes brilliant for defrauding Silicon Valley for over a decade with Theranos? By your standards, yes.

If Solzhenitsyn writes a brilliant but mostly exaggerated and fictitious account of Communist Russia, do you really want to celebrate this achievement? I do not and that's why I posted.
> The customer is not always right.

One of my favorite daily visits, is a site called "Not Always Right," and it has many stories like this: https://notalwaysright.com/newest/
>> any developer who is paying taxes in russia pays for agression directly.

This is not a true statement. People do not have the option to stop paying taxes because they disagree with policies or actions of their government.
Which is why people who know people know that reviews are largely useless.
I've never been on a team of 20 leading experts in any field, sounds interesting..
Imagine if Americans were held to the same standard with respect to the American invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Do Work that sets You up for Future Success
> But just taking the yachts without true due process?

They're not. They're preventing the yacht from being moved or sold
or serviced. It remains his property, and he's free to spend time on it.
The first Great Information War began in 2014
>Now the working class has only one supporter, the Russian government.

They have only one enemy, the Russian government.
Which route will lead to fewer regrets? If you can identify it, do that one, even if it’s expensive/painful.
I see this pattern at every company I work at:

You're the new guy. You look for documentation, you find something outdated, untouched for 6 years with a note that the page was migrated from some other system and is "work in progress".

If that thing was untouched for 6 years, it is logical to conclude that it no longer contains correct information. You read a few lines, see dead links and wrong information, you conclude that it is no longer useful.

The person that wrote the original wiki, still works at the company, but they now work on a different system and have no responsibility for that legacy system.

See, the issue is always the same: transfer of knowledge deteriorates with every person that quits or gets promoted. The system is now maintained by someone else, who has their own "wiki" on their own machine. The original, now useless wiki, should have either been deleted or updated. This doesn't happen.

This creates such waste on a global scale, that it is beyond comprehension. Whoever solves this issue, will surely help the human kind.

In summary, when a transfer of ownership for a wiki occurs, there should be a mechanism to make sure that it gets either deleted or maintained. Having new hires hunt for information, benefits no one, especially not the organization. Get your documentation in order, and you will save a ton of hours and improve productivity!
Karpov and Karjakin support Putin.
What’s with all these cancellations of Russian citizens?

Surely this is not going to look good at the end of this war, and it’ll just be more propaganda for the Russian gov’t to use - “look, the west doesn’t care about you”.

Is this just “cancel culture” exposed in a different area?
I'm surprised by all the people here thinking your device is compromised. This is my experience with the Internet nowadays as well; a friend complained about it today also.

The emptier the account the quicker you are banned as well (work accounts used every now and then during work hours, like twitter, are banned quicker than a private account that you login to regularly and share more things on). Old accounts are usually unaffected for me. Probably removing cookies/localStorage/etc. on a schedule doesn't help either.

Every new account on a popular service where you can interact with others is like this. It's like everyone saw what google did to gmail, saw nobody cared about the collateral damage, and figured we can all fight spam without any human intervention. In the past we didn't have this problem because it was humans that looked at posts from new members. Innocent small Internet I guess.
>An exchange like this only increases toxicity - and, in fact, I think that “You” is the more toxic person in the exchange

The person acting like a helpless baby is clearly the more toxic person. This is someone if, they aren't spoonfed everything, will slow down the entire engineering team. Secondly, why is "coworker's" assumption that "you" isn't acting responsibly? You should start from there, if someone is going to treat me like a teenager, why am I the more toxic person for spoonfeeding them?
> the person is representing Russia

It's not a team sport. One would think chess players represent themselves.
Yep, I am going to need to start by using BISAC or THEMA which are a pretty standardized format used in the industry. I am testing both now to figure out which I want to use, or if I could use a combo (if that his helpful).

BISAC has 1 to 5 categories assigned to a book, pretty standard.

THEMA is similar, but has a qualifier which is a cool concept. So you can add a location, age group, or other qualifiers to help define who the books is for.

Ya, right now we use NLP to analyze a bunch of data to to determine what the book is about. It works pretty well but I am working to improve some of that :).

"Have you considered supporting Bookwyrm-flavoured ActivityPub, for (potentially curated) reviews?"

I am not familiar, can you tell me more or send me a URL? I don't know what that is :) (ben@shepherd.com I added it to my list to check out via google search as well)
Sanctions are often universal rather than person specific. Grischuk isn't being banned for his specific political beliefs. He is being banned as an action against his country. Some of the ways we punish that country are by punishing its people. It doesn't mean the people receiving that punishment are guilty of anything, it is just the method of putting pressure on that country's government to reverse course. This is true of basically all sanctions against Russia whether is is something symbolic like preventing athletes from competing under a Russian flag, something general like trade sanctions, or something very specific such as seizing a yacht of an oligarch. These all hurt specific people in varying ways that isn't proportional with those people's personal politics or guilt in the actions of the Russian government.
Seems like the environment is going to change massively one way or another.
>Punishing civilians for the actions of its government is absolutely insane and will backfire badly.

That isn't always true. Obviously, if the actions of the government are bad enough, it sometimes becomes necessary to kill many of its citizens. Since that's morally justifiable, lesser economic damage is morally justifiable.

It sucks. They're innocent. If damage can be avoided, great. But if it's necessary, the blame falls on the aggressor nation.
Or something else, which just happens to be - for some people - similar to witch hunt. If, for example, an action needed to be done for quite some time, and then suddenly is done, somebody can ask why it's done, since it wasn't done before. And the reason is - some other events triggered the action, not that the action suddenly became necessary while it wasn't before. It's just similar to witch hunt, but not the witch hunt by itself.

How would you distinguish witch hunt from a legitimate action?
I agree 100% with ICANN's position in this matter. I think their reply was level headed and correct.
I do not believe this can be classified as hatred.
And Russia is a country where high profile dissenters do risk their freedom if not their lives outright. The people comfortably making this decision from Norway aren't doing anything like that.

This tells to Russians that the world doesn't care about them, individually, risking their lives to stop the actions of their Government as they like to claim.
>Why doesn't my ISP's right to block access to parts of the Web end where my right to consume information begins?

For the same reason that a restaurant refusing service to you is not a violation of your right to food. You can still consume information without a contract under a specific ISP.

>Why do we place more importance on the 'rights' of an abstract non-living corporation above the rights of actual citizens?

We don't. The rights that protect corporations are actually protecting the people involved with and interacting with that corporation. Rights don't only exist exclusively for individuals, they can be expressed by groups and protect people in aggregate. The freedom of religion, for instance, would be meaningless if it only applied to the "abstract, non-living" concept of "religion," or could only be exercised by individuals, and not religious organizations.