skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. It’s also harder to speak to a human, exponentially so
What I find rather depressing about these kinds of things is that they will be utterly useless to learn anything from going forward in just a few more generations, after the atrocity of forced integration and so called "diversity" will permanently and irrevocably muddle and pollute all cultures and people and societies all throughout the world.

We will soon no longer need to fight over ethnicity and race, because we will all be the same muddled and meaningless mass where the Ministry of Truth tells us that today the Italians are equally Indians, as Nigerians are Swedes.

The process is already quite advanced in the USA, where unique cultures, dialects, histories, cuisine, traditions, etc. that existed until rather recently, have been utterly shattered and deracinated and polluted through homogenization and corporatization of society, not to mention both sent into the memory hole and been rewritten a few times by now.

To see an even more extreme example of what the outcome of all this "globalization" and fraudulent "diversity" will be is to look to the ancestors of blacks in America that have suffering from the effects of being captured in war in Africa, sold into slavery, mixed together and torn apart socially, and shipped across an ocean where they were then traded and mixed and muddled wantonly just like "diversity" intends to do. They suffer from an acute absence and intentional destruction of what little culture and society they had. That is what the oligarchs of today have in store for all of us regular folks just like the oligarch plantation owners of the past perpetrated on humanity.

And don't make the mistake if you think "white people" deserve the atrocity of "diversity" that has targeted them up to this point, it will invariably come for you and your culture and your society too, only there will be no one left and no moral argument to defend your culture then.
A decade, maybe more.
It's an oversimplification, but I'm glad its being said.

I think what's driving it is that

1. The internet brought a ton of actual amazing innovation.

2. Because people are correctly excited about it, this brought marketing opportunities.

3. Today, it is profitable to market stuff that superficially appears to be like that older, actual innovation, but is not innovative in the slightest. This is happening SO much, that it's crowding out (the marketing and spreading of) real innovation.
I've got the same problem. I've been somewhat successful with the following:

If I commit to reading anything long form (say more than 1 minute) I have to take notes.

The outcome is that I evaluate each article/post, asking myself, "Am I gonna learn anything reading this and am I willing to take notes?".

Sometimes the answer is no, but asking the question allows me to avoid FOMO.
I took one of the tests from the article and it merely required you to swab the inside of the nostril, NOT the thing where you shove a Q-tip into your brain stem. It was less uncomfortable than picking your nose.

As a huge nerd, it was also really cool to watch the reagent wick up the test strip and react.
> these rapid at-home tests instill horror, social and mental problems, and all sorts of insane power hierarchies that confuse young, growing minds.

Clipping my kids’ fingernails is far more dramatic than swizzling a swab in their nostrils for 10 seconds.

If your kids are experiencing horror and mental problems from an antigen test, you’re the one causing it.

The level of drama from people arguing against COVID prevention measures is absurd. “Kids are being tortured with these tests!” “Oh my god, I cannot breath with a mask on!” I’m sick of this stuff, too, but the teenage-level angst is not helpful. No one takes criticism seriously when it’s wrapped in so much dishonest hyperbole.
It's like it can't decide between a city on a grid or not, and instead ends up with a weird fusion of both - and like you said - looks like a woven fabric instead.
Looked cool. Then I got to the bottom:

> Pay-per-drink

Why do I have to pay $2.99 for craft cocktails, but can get a sparkling water for $0.29? It's my machine, I pay for the cartridges... am I missing something here?

As a side note, can we stop calling every automated machine a "printer"? This sodastream wannabe is no more of a "printer" than the soft drink machine at your local McDonalds.
> overloaded with adds

Overloaded? There's two ads per page, and occasionally one when I click a map, and they're not even in the way.
People put off making babies too long now. Especially at OP’s age, every year greatly increases the chances of things like autism. A pregnancy carried by a woman 35 or older is considered a geriatric pregnancy for a reason.

Plus everyone expects to pull the goalie and you’ll have instant luck. My wife and are were both healthy and in our late twenties when we started trying. 3+ years of that and a round of IVF later and I finally have my first baby at 33.
> the company has to maintain the peer-to-peer code base, and update it with each new version.

Really, that's (part of) their excuse? A bit lame, that. :|
Also search for City names which yields very suspicious results:
https://www.kartezumnamen.eu/en/index.php?sur=Hamburg&s=Sear...
https://www.kartezumnamen.eu/en/index.php?sur=Berlin&s=Searc...
https://www.kartezumnamen.eu/en/index.php?sur=M%FCnchen&s=Se...

I don't think there are that many people called like cities and also they don't all live in those cities.
Don't forget about TikTok
It's a fallacy to consider Russian people are "innocent" in this situation. The nation as a whole is complicit to choosing the same old dictator for 20+ years. Like Germans in 1930s.

Also, why should Ukrainian cities be bombed every day, while Russians just happily go about their daily lives?
It's morally inexcusable.

> they need to get driver's license online to be renewed but couldn't because their DMV website is inaccessible

Perhaps, they can go to the DMV office?
If Samsung pushes this via their internal update thingy, you really cannot get rid of it.
‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Developer Halts Sales in Russia
https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw?t=347

After he has already kicked off with the dubious statement that during the Mongol occupation "the only ways to survive were lying, corruption and violence" he follows up with the flat out bonkers statement:
"[...] as the Mongols who had previously ruled the country merged into the leading layers, which is still visible. When looking at genetic inheritance they are pretty, pretty dark eyes for example. There are not many flax heads in Russia."

I hope no one flags the OP. I want this post to stay up so that we can all be aware of the racist, Russophobe undercurrents to much of the criticism of Russia's violent, unjustifiable aggression against the people of Ukraine.
https://wikiless.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_Ukraine?lang=en

Look what happened in Ukraine. Among neonazis, they supported this:

Ukraine's 2017 education law will make Ukrainian the required language of study in state schools from the fifth grade on, although it allows instruction in other languages as a separate subject,[65][66][67] to be phased in in 2023.[68] Since 2017, the Hungary–Ukraine relations rapidly deteriorated over the issue of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine.[69] According to the New Europe:

The latest row between Kiev and Budapest comes on the heels of a bitter dispute over a decision by Ukraine's parliament – the Verkhovna Rada – to pass a legislative package on education that bars primary education to all students in any language but Ukrainian. The move has been widely condemned by the international community as needlessly provocative as it forces the historically bilingual population of 45 million people who use Russian and Ukrainian interchangeably as mother tongues to become monolingual. Furthermore, the large minorities of Hungarians, Jews, Poles, Tatars, Gypsies, Romanians, Caucasians, and Gagauz generally speak and receive some formal or informal education in their own national languages, all of which will be adversely affected by the new draconian language statute.

Also:

Lviv Oblast
Unian reported that "A ban on the use of cultural products, namely movies, books, songs, etc., in the Russian language in the public has been introduced" in the Lviv Oblast in September 2018.[71] Critics[who?] called the law ill-defined, illegal, and unconstitutional, and a successful January 2019 court challenge by the Chuhuiv Human Rights Group was dismissed on technical grounds in May, and could lead to a complaint before the European Court of Human Rights.[72]

They tried to ban the public usage of Russian in Ukraine.

That's a little step towards fascism.
The thing with subsidies is that you just increase the price people are willing to pay for the same amount which will make the problem even worse since there is a bottleneck on the supply side.
If Russian supply is cut how do you see prices normalize? Or you simply mean they'll be stable but high?
Thanks, that means a lot! We've spent a lot of time thinking about the pitch, given how many other ML tools are out there. We're hoping to strike a chord with simplicity and developer experience.
Didn't see your comment when I posted, but I have the same thoughts
Los Angeles is wider than that, and I'm sure you could get a high-rise to high-rise line of sight.
Also vice versa. Although war propaganda is in full swing … there is a bit of truth on the Russian side about NATO encroachment since 1997
Netflix Acquires Next Games
I think we agree. There are so many company topologies/contexts/situations that a one-size-fits-all answer does not exist.

That was really the point of my post. Some companies are happy to switch to 3-days in the office, and we should respect them as much as the ones that go full remote.
> What happens next?

Anything could happen.
The company BS is unbelievable. I would love to hear how the company justifies that BS. They never do and because of that, I have to add the fact that I don't understand why the BS exists. So it doubles the pain: it sounds BS and I can't explain what purpose it serves...
We all had the extra dollars and did spend them in places where these abuses were not happening when we had a robust economy that was not just centered on knowlage and service work.

When you can get cheap goods from somewhere, then you can buy more. We outsourced and promoted cheap products for the benifit of Wallstreet and busniess at the expense of our future wages and global human rights.
> - antibiotics: just better drugs

We haven't had a single new class of antibiotics discovered for well over 30 years [1]. And now, especially since humanity was dumb enough to use reserve antibiotics in farm animals, we're looking at a disaster.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02884-3
Experts know disaster upon disaster looms for US West Coast
The Sledges of Clovelly, England
I get some pretty bad burnout when I don't get along well with my team and/or the workload feel too large. The second one is even fine for sometime if the team is understanding.

Mostly its interacting with people who are just unhelpful/unkind/unfriendly/combative that makes me think, "Why am I spending so much of my life doing this?" which tends to cause me to spiral a bit.

If anyone is reading this and thinks oh maybe I should be nicer to my teammates... You should try. Being a little kinder might make your life a lot easier because your team wont dislike interacting with you.
... In a tweet, that was pretty clearly a troll[1]. It's important to clarify that he never seriously proposed the measure.

1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eric-swalwell-gun-owners-n...
Related XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/1138/

As the numbers are absolute, these maps are basically influenced by population densities.
ha! I don't use an adblocker, and when I first loaded this page, it looked great! and then I quickly quit out and came to the comments instead of using it. And then I saw this, and went back...

Oh. I just wasn't on the page long enough to see just how many ads were loaded, wow!!
Excellent point. I'm old and I forget that Tiktok is massively reworking what "video" means to the world in general.
Are you talking about the nasopharyngeal swabbing? I’m not aware of anyone doing that anymore for COVID. And for kids they stopped doing it pretty early on because, yeah, it’s fucking awful.

I’d wait out the 10 day quarantine rather than jam a 4” swab into the back of my kid’s nose. But I’ve given my kids tests a half dozen times each now and it’s a nonevent. Just swirl the swirl around the nostril about half an inch inside.
TBH- that sounds like a great open source project and would look great on a resume. Probably not a "business"
What, you don’t think code has maintenance costs associated with it, just because it’s cool?
Sounds like a SAR filing to me. You can look that up--they won't tell you about it if you ask. It's a Patriot Act thing.
> I'm quite sure my entire generation feels the same.

they may agree, but may not have the fortune of choice. Not everyone is being well compensated in a cushy office space. Google people certainly are, but that's a small slice of an industry that's a slice of an entire society.
> The MetaVerse is a rehash of the Sims (or any other networked RPG game you can pick with avatars) which has now been out for ages

I think the author meant Second Life. Sims is not networked (as far as I know) and it's not a RPG.
At this point, but this is my personal impression since I obviously don't have any data on the matter, I guess that there are enough zombies in Russia to keep this war going until their soldiers literally starve to death.
For a second I thought it was about hummus served on Aeroflot flights but quickly realized the confusion of Sabra with Sabre.
I think this is best answered by a moderator, but it probably boils down to:

1. Self selection bias. HN isn't a huge outlet, and doesn't attract quite as many spammers as other platforms.

2. Quality moderation. Just flip on the `showdead` flag on your account and scroll through the hundreds of [dead] threads.

3. Some level of auto policing. I know that HN validates some level of page history when counting upvotes.
(i.e. if you navigate directly to a page to upvote, that vote isn't counted)
On aspect (and there or others) is that industrial isomorphisms have now become really strong, for instance, from "best practices" or benchmarking, this means that generally copy & paste is often the preferred approach in business. Naturally, innovation is then not (so) high on the agenda.
10-Point Plan to Reduce the European Union’s Reliance on Russian Natural Gas
Well, it is a nice concept to contemplate for sure. I've found utility in all of them to various degrees. I'll have to look into the book you mentioned, thank you.
Easy questions:

What email provider are you using?

What telecom provider are you using for phone / internet?

Have you pickup up a new number in the last few years?

Is your internet shared with others?

Is your router a google wifi or similar updated router (or ISP provided)?

Any old computers on network?

When did you last run your credit?

Any changes in address overlap with this issue? In stone ages I used to have debt collectors literally coming to my door because of previous tenants. Also cops etc etc coming through. I only stayed there a few months, that address would have been trouble today I suspect.

Have you done any chargebacks in the last 2-3 years?

Something is almost certainly triggering a fraud detection system.

Check out datavisor for an example of how these things work.

https://www.datavisor.com/industry-solutions/marketplaces-ol...

False positive rates run 0.5% - 1% if folks are aggressive on these systems.

Fidelity might talk to you, but my guess is something backend is flagging, and no one on the front end will have a clue what its actually using to flag.
> I'm not sure that even if I worked for a non-profit doing work I thought was important that it would translate to my own job being something I wanted to do.

Hi! I've worked for a few non-profits over the years. They are no panacea! Many businesses at least have a clear success mode: do good things for people and they'll pay you so you can do more good things for them.

But the business model of many non-profits is something like, "Sell good feelings to rich people, and then use the surplus to Do Good." This is a much messier feedback loop, and it's very hard to build a precise enough agreement of what "Good" means to prioritize and focus. And big-dollar donations often come with strings attached, meaning it can end up feeling like the problems you get in early enterprise software companies, where the tail wags the dog.

All kinds of organization have problems with the sorts of people who really want to be in charge. It's true that non-profits have fewer very greedy people, but they have at least as many people who want to be famous. Or who enjoy exercising power in a hierarchy.

That said, I know people who have found the right circumstances and have had great jobs. And one of the benefits of every non-profit I've worked for is that the people are great. Smart, dedicated, caring, and mission driven. So although nobody should think of it as utopia, I'd encourage people to check it them out.
Invasion of Ukraine: Tracking Use of Cluster Munitions in Civilian Areas
I'm trying to say that houses that have been built over the last 30 years, that have been "too big" for a normal family in normal times, now feel "too small" now that everyone is at home 100% of the time. If you can work in an office, eat at a restaurant, and hang out with friends in a coffee shop, then yeah, you really only need space for a cot and a commode.
"Have I ever lied to you?"

Silverfish's brow furrowed. "Well," he said, "yesterday you said—"

"I mean metaphorically," said Dibbler quickly.

"Oh. Well. Metaphorically? I suppose not—"

"There you are, then."

— Terry Pratchett
Two questions:

- The video talks about a suspense account, basically locking your money prior to it being netted out against others and sent to the central bank. How often do these take place? How does that relate to my checking account having money as "available" as opposed to deposited? In general, which step is responsible for money transfer taking so long?

- What prevents me from going to two ATMs at exactly the same time and withdrawing my entire balance? Is there a single central location for instantaneous money transfers like ATMs?
Democrats have plenty of blood on their hands in demanding censorship.

Remember the accusations of racism that were used to shut down the lab leak theory? Or the demands to censor scientists with any dissenting viewpoints over Covid? The cover up of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal that resulted in journalists from the Post being banned?

The "war on disinformation" their obsessed with is not any different from a "war on fake news". Censorship is a tool of cowards and there are plenty of cowards in both parties that will use it to shut down any dissenting view points.
Here's my reaction:
If google wants me in the office, then fine, I'll just arrive an hour later and leave an hour earlier ~ the length of the average commute. It's obvious that the company values seat time in the office more than 25% extra productivity. Google chose to put their offices in the least accessible areas of the country and there is a price to pay for that. Either you pay higher salaries or put up with less producitivity.

It just reminds of those articles from the 99s when companies hired people to be in the office right before the dot com bust.
> 10 years of experience, I’ve mostly used aws services in the past so I kind of understand their authentication models pretty well.

I think it's mostly this. IAM in AWS isn't exactly a walk in the park, especially when you start getting into granting only explicitly needed permissions. There aren't great systems for doing that (that I know). Lots of stuff that half works and you sort of have to know how to glue the rest together yourself.

I think GCP's permissions are essentially the same way but GCP is also less popular. So you have even less tooling and documentation.
I think China is big enough that it can help ease the economic cost on Russia. There are a lot of natural resources, defence and research tech, that China would be glad to get in return as well.

India on the other hand has a far weaker hand as they don't have the economic muscle to challenge the Western sanctions and they are dependent on Russia for military hardware. It seems mind boggling that they are not self reliant on defence equipment, even smaller ones. They can't replace all of that hardware with stuff from West as well, as that will be too costly.
IME in SAFE® Agile™ world developers are fully empowered to not take decision on things which are domain of enterprise architects/ Product manager or leadership calls.
> You earn risk-free 0.9% if you hold them in CNY. You lose 7% if you hold them in USD.

This is false, you are exposed to risk in changes in foreign exchange rates.

The yuan is pegged to the dollar, so it has the same exposure to fluctuations in fx that the dollar has. (Not to mention the fact that the Chinese government periodically adjusts its exchange rates)
I find GCP to be easier to use, but that's just me. If you're already productive with AWS I don't think there's much point in trying to get ramped up on Google's PaaS
If you put solar panels on top of your nuclear power plant then yes it works 24/7.
I think jeopardising their market in the West will be problematic for their growth.
I would say most of the low hanging fruit is gone, but yea.
> as supply is currently not affected

As far as I have kept track, not a single barrel has disappeared from the market due to sanctions until now.
Generally Rectifier = AC to DC and Inverter = DC to AC
Mine too! Though mine was the other way ‘round: I had a frac T1 line (256kbps iirc) and shared it with two other locations via a central omni antenna. Breezecom radios that I think were frequency-hopping (pre-spread-spectrum).
It isn't a strawman argument - I was building evidence to support the position that China can probably be considered a superpower.
I loved when Reagan told Soviet jokes, that was one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3z3eSVG7A

The YT comment section actually has a few gems too.
I would do the exact same thing if I were her co-worker.

She clearly states that this is a project she came up with that no one else on the team wants. If no one wants it, or is engaging with it, why would you expecting your colleagues to get excited to work on this?

There is nothing more annoying in corporate that co-workers who start trying to give you projects and tasks you didn’t want, didn’t ask for and micro-managing you horizontally.

Some of my worst job experiences came from people like this. They come up with a dumb project, then “clear it with management” then come and try to make me do it for them.

Your co-workers are not your friends, especially not if you try to start assigning them work. Because who gets the credit?

You do, not them. Suddenly they have another layer of management.

I would both avoid and add friction to anyone doing what she is trying to do in this situation. I’m not paid to help my co-workers get promoted into management or do their pet projects for them.
The general advice is "do things that don't scale" so rather than trying to post about it and get some analytical data, just go talk to 20 people in your target market for an hour each and see what resonates with them, what problems they have etc -- all before building anything (except maybe a simple mockup if you feel it will get your point across better.)
This list has everything I face as well. Even the best working job was with a tiny company which was my own and my partner. I see almost everyone is forced to lie in the corp world. Corp world like people to lie.

The thought of switching career came to me a few times after my startup but quickly died because those careers can't never meet the decent salary to support my life and my family, and I've been living quite frugal already, nowhere near luxurious.