skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it routine for Olympic host nations to appeal for an "Olympic Truce" for the duration of the olympics to various nations which are/may get involved in military combat at that time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Truce

From that article:

"2004 Athens Summer Games: The Olympic Truce was promoted through Olympic Flame Relay events. The UN supported the IOC in asking the nations of the world to stop all wars for 16 days during the Games."
State is a pretty loaded word, but what I meant more specifically is complex application state, and by that I mean the ephemeral state that manages a user's usage of the application.

For example, in the real estate use case, there may be, all on the same page:

- a table of listings and grid of listings that can be toggled between

- a map that can be displayed alongside the table with all the listings plotted

- dynamic updates on the map that highlight listing when it is hovered on the table

- a detail modal that displays whenever any listing on the table or map is clicked

- pagination that can controlled from either the modal or the table

- selection state for each row on the table and a bulk action bar that conditionally appears when the row is selected.

- filters and search that need to work quickly and not disrupt the user experience

None of these things are particularly unusual or groundbreaking, but trying to control all these stuff via server-rendering or jquery would be a huge mess and potentially a jarring UX.
A model that is common in open source but yet not in the corporate world is that of gatekeepers. It's essentially a form of strong code ownership combined with stewardship where a majority of contributions are not necessarily created by the owner/gatekeeper. Instead a gatekeeper works with a small group of others to accept, integrate, and coordinate change request from a larger group of people. Their job is to reject bad changes, and ensure integrity of the overall project is balanced with the needs and wants of those contributing code. For most contributors the repository they contribute to is read only. They have to fork it to even be able to modify it.

Linux is the classical example of this. But many open source git projects work like this now. Commit access on an open source project is reserved for people in a gate keeper role. Usually these people are also contributing significant amounts of code. But the whole point of being open is that others can look at your code and modify it. And of course there is no obligation to merge those changes. You have to ask for those changes to be merged. And that request can be denied for all sorts of reasons. To get changes in, you have to negotiate with the gatekeeper and work by their rules.

Somehow this model never really caught on in the corporate world. They'll use git of course and they do pull requests even. But it's quite common for all people to have commit rights and have just a soft rule that pull requests ought to be reviewed and merged by someone else. But most companies and teams end up cutting corners when they are under time pressure or when management throws its weight around. Once a pull request has work done on it, it just becomes hard to reject it without creating a lot of internal conflict. Unlike the open source community where you have to negotiate with the repository owners to get your change accepted, corporate gatekeepers, if they exist at all, typically lack the independence that e.g. Linus Torvalds would have to accept/reject changes. They'll bow to management pressures, arbitrary dead lines, etc.

Gatekeepers like that are essential to large scale software open source projects. The short term interests of contributors are balanced with the long term interests of the software product. Companies seem to have a much harder time doing that. I think that especially large companies should be adopting this model.
I think your point about women is in itself an oversimplification. Post war era's always see a boom, many men died in the war creating a need, the USA was able to rise because Europe was effectively in ruin, and lastly in the end what happened? Wage debasement and the destruction of the middle class.

What we see now is the result of decades of policy, not just a recent trend.
It's not peace talks. It is something like "agree to our demands, otherwise we keep bombing". It's trying to get the outcome they want without further military action. And a takeover by any means is not a peaceful action.
Yes, you can't buy a house because rich folks are buying all real estate in cities to rent out. It's the same everywhere, and it would need to be regulated imo. But it won't, because poor people vote like they're rich.

Unions can do so much. And the consumer can do the rest. We can choose to buy from companies that we trust. For example, in the clothing industry there are more and more companies that solely produce in EU countries. Same holds for electronics, food, etc.

If we, workers, consumers, voters, would work together and think a bit more before we work, buy, vote we could change a lot.
As for your question about persisted data, yeah it definitely needs to be modeled on the backend, right? How much modeling should be done on the FE is a good question. This question is sort of why GraphQL exists. GraphQL provides a contract between the backend and the frontend about what the data sent between the two needs to look like. Apollo provides a pretty good and easy-to-use GraphQL implementation in my experience.

As for real-time updates, this hasn't been a real concern in most of my professional work. If I needed to support this, I think what I would do is:

1.) Define a clear set of actions for everything that needs to be streamed to users real-time (IE, I wouldn't try to stream the full state tree itself, this is where conflicts would arise)

2.) Determine how each action mutates the graphql tree

3.) Add a process that watches for these actions at the top of the React tree and manipulate the GraphQL cache as necessary in response to the incoming actions, (coming from a WebSocket connection, for example).

If you stream the actions, you may be able to resolve simultaneous edits naturally. Or, if you really want to block simultaneous edits, I think you should 1.) definitely ensure the edit is really blocked on the backend, and 2.) stream on "disable" action to the user via webso
Man challenging anti-cycling trolls through direct messages
I am fully on board with more immigration. A LOT more. But I don't think it would solve those problems you rightly point out.

I do think it would solve issues like entitlement insolvency. And also just generally increase our tax base.

Immigrants are net positive on the economy.

The policies are firmly steeped in racism. Just look at Ukraine. People from below our border have also been facing hell. Not as large scale or with big booms. But more sadistic and vicious.
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I don’t think it’s that. I’ve been working remotely for nearly a decade now and the real problems were there before: competence and reachability.

Competence, or lack thereof is easier to hide or write off now. People aren’t always reactive or reachable.

As for being around other humans, I love that. But not colleagues. I have separate friends. You need the context switch away.
What a narrow minded way of looking at things. Just because a word doesn't fit 100%, doesn't mean we shouldn't use it if the main idea is there.

"You’re not compelled to offer your services to any particular employer."
But you are compelled to offer your services to an employer, whose ways of working are almost all similar to each other. And it's not like you have infinite choice.

Is it really a choice to move alone somewhere else just to find a decent employer, but sacrifice friends, family, and so on?

Is it really a choice not to work and become homeless, a social outcast?

Is it really a choice to be an entrepreneur, in such a competitive environment that most startups fail, and you need considerable savings to sustain yourself in case of bad times?

Is it really a choice to find such a unicorn of employer that fits a modern day humans needs for privacy, sense of autonomy, sense of progression, good work-life-balance, good compensation, good responsible manager who doesn't micromanage (...), when most employers (have to) follow the same corporativistic mindset to get as most profits as possible out of employees in order to survive in an extremely competitive enviornment?

Is there really a choice when you have children to take care of, a mortgage and are just too tired or barely have any time whatsoever to look for jobs or invest time into your own startup?

Should I continue?

Where is the choice? Where is it?

People are not bound by physical means with the threat of death. Sure. But if you can't see other more subtle and equally powerful binds, then you're blind.

So yes, this is the modern equivalent slavery, in short - modern slavery - and please you stop.
I know quite a few people who work at alphabet soup agencies and US based social media sites are strictly off limits. The exceptions are law enforcement (FBI, USSS, etc) actions where someone is dealing in child abuse material or terrorist recruiting.

Also ask yourself... why? Foreign intelligence resources are much better spent on foreign networks like VK, WeChat, and TikTok.
One party believes that if you are a certain race you should vote uniformly the same way "or you ain't black". At it's core, these are people who think other races are "too stupid" to be self-sufficient and would much rather have a steady stream of dependent people to use for support
No discussion of US psyops is complete without a link to Skippy’s list:

https://whyumai.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/skippy%E2%80%99s-li...
The problem here isn't safety concerns the problem is zoning. Look at Tokyo for example, they are able to build all the time at the highest safety level for earthquakes, etc. Berkley CA for example doesn't allow a lot of different types of buildings. Its not out of safety, its out of rich people not wanting to look at apartment buildings or having their quaint little town turned into high rise apartment complexes.
Western media has burned a lot of credibility in the West as well.
> You can argue that their existence ended up exapnding the labor market, but take a look at any silicon valley firm, very very few middle class americans working there.

Pointing to extreme outliers as examples (SV firms) doesn't help your case.

Most SW professionals in the US are middle class - easily. You can see this using the Dept of Labor's data.
I wonder if there would be more companies doing this
Unfortunately, for that view at least, brain scans and experiments by notable scientists have shown incredible effects when meditators/meditation are put under the spotlight.

For example, from[1]:

> From studies with thousands of people, Ekman knew that people who do better at recognizing these subtle emotions are more open to new experience, more interested and more curious about things in general. They are also conscientious—reliable and efficient. “So I had expected that many years of meditative experience”—which requires both openness and conscientiousness—“might make them do better on this ability,” Ekman explains. Thus he had wondered if Oser might be better able to identify these ultra-fast emotions than other people are.

> Then Ekman announced his results: both Oser and another advanced Western meditator Ekman had been able to test were two standard deviations above the norm in recognizing these super-quick facial signals of emotion, albeit the two subjects differed in the emotions they were best at perceiving. They both scored far higher than any of the five thousand other people tested. “They do better than policemen, lawyers, psychiatrists, customs officials, judges—even Secret Service agents,” the group that had previously distinguished itself as most accurate.

That's just one of the many effects noted in the article.

[1] https://www.lionsroar.com/the-lama-in-the-lab/
You need money to have demand. 5 billion broke people creates zero demand. You can't just dilute the labor pool and claim you're strengthening the mixture. You're just adding more options for the employer which means less positions for you
Russia faces several obstacles in turning to crypto to bypass historic sanctions
This isn't the only psyops person in that orbit, but probably one of the most influential. I do find it ironically amusing that his 38-slide powerpoint is not notably worse than many official military slide decks.
https://thedispatch.com/p/who-is-phil-waldron-and-why-did-th...
>Most states will want state income tax, so establish residence in a state with no income tax before going nomading.

Is this true? I thought that was only the case if they could prove you are an active resident. Of course, if you maintain a mailing address or residence in California/NY then you better believe they'll make sure you pay. If you cut ties completely, they don't have grounds to come after you.
I like those designs.
I hope so. It's honestly the coolest tech I've experienced in a while. It's invisible but a great UX.

From what I've read, today it's so expensive in terms of hardware that it's probably a money pit. But hardware gets cheaper, software gets more efficient, and eventually this stuff will just be in every store.
Everyone on-site works. Everyone remotely also works to some extent.

What is really hard, is being a remote newcomer to an otherwise mostly on-site company.
Hey,
thank you for the insight! Setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK to a fixed path and binding it with -a indeed solves some of the problems. I will add this to the blog post. But then you have still the problem that you have to enter your password during startup for every key, right (even though you dont need it)? The advantage I see with gpg-agent, is that it only asks for a password, the first time the key is needed. Also it solves two problems (gpg and ssh keys) at once. And well, you still have to check if it is not already running.
I am not sure this would only apply to WSL though, I use the same approach on my Linux machine.
I am curious how this compares to an older YC company OneSignal. https://onesignal.com ... Sounds quite similar on the surface. Does YC bet on multiple companies in the same space?
Excellent explanation! I came here thinking “why use ML for this?” and this is specifically addressed:

> You might ask at this point, if we can enumerate all possible solutions like this, why not just generate colors from first principles - why is machine learning even needed? The answer is basically that translation and rotation in colorspace might be contrast-invariant, but they're not preference invariant. Humans have subjective preferences for certain color combinations over others, so to generate pleasing color combinations we need to quantify which areas in the configuration space people generally prefer.

> To quantify which color combinations graphic designers prefer, I started by scraping design thumbnails from the web.

> At this point we have a decent sized dataset to train our ML model. The overall approach is to treat the problem as conditional image generation - the color contrast graph is the input and the corresponding color palette is the output.
> Its a simple fact, flood a labor market and watch wages and working conditions go down

Then ... simply add more without flooding. There's no point appealing to extremes.
Just recently finished the Three Body trilogy and there are some interesting connections to the described dilemma in there (alien objects hindering scientific progress of mankind by messing with particle colliders, n dimensional space and weapons that destroy whole dimensionalities)
Saying ~"don't take any direct action or he'll nuke us all" is also fear-mongering. He might. From what we've seen recently, we need to understand that he might anyway.

Sitting on the sidelines and expecting the tiny countries that surround Russia to individually win wars, or expecting the beaten and suppressed peoples of Russia, Belarus, etc to rise up is inhumane… because they will fight. And die.

And say we do sit it out. Do you think the restoration of the USSR is what's going to bring us nuclear peace? Or just another border, more tension, more of this?

We've played this game before. As a European, my life would be extraordinarily different if the world hadn't eventually come together 81 years ago. Just imagine if Europe and the US had drawn together two years earlier.

I don't want nuclear war but holding up the threat of that as a cause for inaction —heaping guns on Ukraine while they're outnumbered 20:1 doesn't count— is the rank cowardice that nuclear dictators count on to get away with murder. It's not good enough.
Isn’t the big difference between running some random rust from the internet, and a WASM file, the sandbox in which WASM runs. This has some security advantages. And as you also point out, it’s like an abstraction over various languages which also can generate WASM (Go, Swift, C#, etc).
I still have no idea.
Really interesting read - part of the challenge of proving a seed unwinnable is that there is a nightmarishly complex number of possible outcomes arising from small differences in plays, so as said in the article they needed to find a seed that relied on simple reasoning for why it's impossible.

I'm curious why cursed key was mentioned in several of these seeds as a Neow trade-in. It's one of the better energy relics, particularly since you won't have a curse from it by the time you fight Lagavulin.
VPNs are one of those items misunderstood (perhaps even by authors) in this memo.

People claim they are deprecated. I don’t think VPNs, proxies and bastions will be deprecated. I don’t think we will access so many random applications directly over internet without segmentation.
A20 early game you often need to take even sub-par cards in order to get sufficient damage for the elites and boss (or you may have to avoid the elites which hinders your scaling).

An other difficulty is the ability to “switch theme” and correctly pivot from a deck able to pass act 1 to a deck able to kill heart.
Yeah well, i don't want to be interrupted by a guy who thinks he can just come over tap me on the shoulder and I have to give him the attention he wants because he's too self-absorbed to understand other people might have a different way of working and have to accommodate to that guy's needs before their own.

"We've proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that's about it."

No, that's not about it. We've also proven they're able to have record profits. Whether they would have even higher profits if it was fully office, it's another story, but saying all that is proven is that they won't crash is false and just shows you're emotionally invested in having people back in the office because you want them to.
I like to think of it this way:

- Actions arise from thoughts

- We have an executive center in our prefrontal cortex which we use to create thoughts and compel the actions we want, it maps pretty closely to most people's ideas of consciousness, free will etc.

- We also have other parts of our brain which have their own agendas and are constantly creating thoughts of varying intensity

- Our executive center can mediate or override those impulses with some level of success, less than 100%. We can increase or decrease that success rate over time, but how to do so is only partially understood. Unfortunately, factors like psychiatric disorders can decrease this success rate dramatically.

- Meditation can influence the success rate too. Mostly for the better but it can go both ways. That's not always its purpose and it's perhaps less effective than more modern techniques like cognitive behavioral therapy.

I think this is probably a bit oversimplified but not too far from where the science is.
Agreed on the immigration: the Democrats had a great opportunity to go against the Republicans and solve our labor shortages at the same time (they aren’t the problem, they are the solution!). Whenever I see homeless camps and compare them to the people who used to line up in front of Home Depot looking for jobs, the latter was much more appealing than the former.
This the line of thinking I'm interested in. If the model holds true, could it be generally applicable elsewhere? Specifically programming.

Modeling/emulating others is a well known method of learning. I guess I may have answered my own question.
> It's trying to get the outcome they want without further military action.

That's peace talks. The end of military action is peace.
You are generally right. The data is a big difference. Managing it, it's too big for git etc is a massive problem.

ML also has a distinction between the system for training a model and the system that uses it, but that's just two projects to manage
Don't forget that traditional banks consume lots of energy as well. Their armies of employees and tellers are required to drive an hour or so every day, they maintain tons of physical buildings, truck around piles of physical currency etc. Traditional fiat is given legitimacy based on government's monopoly on violence inside their borders which often result in wars. Nothing is free and I'm fairly certain that crypto will end in less energy consumption, not more.
I got called into an onsite meeting today because supposedly the brainstorming would be more productive (even though this project has been launched successfully fully remote). But the meeting room they booked only seats 5 (strict seating restrictions) so a couple of people are going to Zoom in and will obviously be left out of the physical whiteboarding. So, not only onsite is not adding anything of value, it is excluding people that otherwise would have been fully involved.

Looking at the comments here, i forsee an Onion headline "Ex convicts want to go back to prison because they can't make friends in regular society or miss the "structure" set by Warden."
You can probably still go back to the office even if your colleagues work from home. And if not, there are probably coworking spaces, or similar. Why must there be a one-size-fits-all situation?

Also, if WfH spreads, many of the people who made the same choice, getting a small apartment in a dense city for living only, will probably make a different choice now and move somewhere else. I know many people who did just that. I expect this will lower the prices of housing in cities, which means you could live in a bigger apartment if you wanted.
Some example tweets from Russian troll farms around the time of the 2018 measles outbreak
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137759/

pro-vax:

#VaccinateUS You can’t fix stupidity. Let them die from measles, and I’m for #vaccination!

#vaccines cause autism—Bye, you are not my friend anymore. And try to think with your brain next #VaccinateUS

anti-vax:

Dont get #vaccines. Iluminati are behind it. #VaccinateUS

Did you know there was a secret government database of #vaccine-damaged children? #VaccinateUS

I wonder what sort of bad actors were behind the divisiveness we saw over COVID. It's absurd how quickly that became such a partisan political issue when it was so self-evident that making it a partisan issue would kill people. It seems you can make any issue into a partisan issue these days, you just need to convince some suckers to believe the other side made it a partisan issue, and they'll make it into a partisan issue.
There are plenty of cases where you can leave a country, but not with large amount of cash or gold. Like nowadays in Russia. Crypto allows you leave with your property in these cases.
I meant the razor thin margins due to centrally controlled food distribution and sales, and dealing with shit like computers on a tractor that have a tantrum if you replace an oil filter yourself.

Shit be physically hard and long hours, but the people responsible for it also being precarious, low income, and incredibly financially stressful are the same people that make the other stuff awful.