skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do so many assume that there are only 3 options:

- 100% remote.

- 100% office.

- Some rigid hybrid scheme of n days per week in the office every week where n = 3 +/-1.

Why not "mainly remote but be in the office when it makes sense to be in the office"? This is how my team has been operating since last July - remote first but every 1-2 months we'll do a week onsite somewhere. Now we're getting pressure to start being in the office a few days per week every week starting later this month (and since we're dispersed that means going to the office to be on video calls all day).
Didn't work for my android firefox. Would have appreciated some sample results, at least in github readme.
My problem with remote work is that it exacerbates a divide between blue and white collar workers that breeds further resentment, which has already led to all sorts of social ills. I’m not sure the individual benefits outweigh the collective rage.
The "IHM" is reported as "inventory health management," but I'm not sure about the "J." Bloomberg reported it as being an intentionally boring acronym/expansion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-18/amazon-s-...
Maybe. There's also reporting saying that Poland might still transfer some of their fleet if the details can be figured out: https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/is-poland-sending-fighter-...

(I'm not sure of the relative timing of this article and the Polish government's statements)
Location is one factor in cost of living, but there are a lot of others too: the type of car you drive (if you drive a car), the quality of food you buy/coffee you drink/restaurants you frequent, the number of kids you have, the schools they go to, etc.

Should companies adjust compensation according to these variables too, or just city?
> but I haven't seen convincing evidence that meditation works.

"works" to what end?
My understanding is that Europe has several months of gas reserves. Even if Russia cut it off completely, the real pain would come next winter rather than immediately.
They would be correctly identified as their middle eastern ethnicities that they think themselves to be.

> OK, so define to me then the algorithm

Lol, like I'm going to waste my time doing that. Trace back ancestry until the family trees circle in on themselves. Identify and pick out the clusters and subclusters as finely as you think appropriate.

> Your comment about 'college' 'indoctrination' is purely ad hominem fallacy,

Are you not regurgitating something you learned in college? Then where are you regurgitating it from?

It's fair to say you're regurgitating indoctrination because virtually everybody else, unlike you, knows their racial background in an objective sense.
You are absolutely right, thanks for the suggestion! I had totally forgotten about this feature.
Super interesting, really awesome stuff. Congratulations and looking forward to some much needed disruption!
> cost of living adjustments based on your location seem to be the trend that we are heading toward.

I disagree. Buyers of labor (or buyers of anything) will continue doing what they always have, offer the least amount of money that they think sellers of labor will accept.

“Cost of living adjustment” is just fluffy language to hide the underlying bet by the buyer of labor that the seller of labor residing in a particular area will not be able to find a buyer offering a higher price.
~80% of assembled combat force, from the sources I've read [0]

[0] http://www.iswresearch.org/2022/03/russian-offensive-campaig...
Do you literally want to be tapped on the shoulder? Because this seems to be an extremely common figure of speech, but literally, I would not enjoy that.
Yeah a lot of places are doing this. My old company calls it "ad hoc" office attendance.
Those aren’t the only two options.

“Don’t do it at all” is a nice one.
That’s wack.
I'm not trying to suggest they'd knowingly set out to shoot down a civilian airplane. It was an error.

But Russia knowingly supplied terrorists with the weapons system.

The terrorists knew they were attacking a plane, they just thought it was a different (and hostile) plane.

And through panicked incompetence those terrorists obliterated a Malaysia Airlines 777 with nearly three hundred people on it.

Then Russia took the weapons system back and lied about it.
"Schloss" can mean both castle or lock, and here Google translate picked the wrong one.

There's this apocryphal story that they ran Matthew 26:41 "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." through an English-Russian translation AI and back, and the result was "The vodka is good, but the steak is bad."
I've also been building these things for a number of decades now. That said, I thoroughly enjoy using the various, modern APIs and standards that have come together to enable single page apps. I'm all for first principles, but which stack are you talking about? The "backend" of the web has been about abstraction for a long time now. Building "these kind of features" has become easier and cheaper on any number of fronts.
I meant that it was 45 minutes in light traffic. It only got worse if traffic was not light, which it was not more often than it was. I didn't mean for it to be that ambiguous.
Update: the BBC has released an official statement [0] confirming the launch of the two shortwave broadcasts.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/millions-of-russians-...
Elon Musk and the Midwit Meme – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel
So, is defaulting to "What would an idiot do in this scenario" the right approach to startup and life?
Former Xamarin co-founder Miguel de Icaza is leaving Microsoft
China has nuclear weapons, rockets big enough to carry them anywhere, and they work reliably. And, they have trillions of US dollars' worth of treasury bonds. That last does not make them a threat to the US, but it does to anybody else. For the US, they can threaten not to buy more treasury bonds. Who else can?
They've been successfully telling us everything Russia is doing a week ahead of time for months now.
No because everything you listed is a personal choice.
So you'd rather trust a complete blank than book a maybe in your mind? Just don't trust shit you read on the news, this has been true since the inception of print media.

If you want to stay informed and intellectual, a lot of maybes will have to compete for space in your brain.
It seems like this would be a question of what it also does: Enable use of other services by Russian forces, in accessing or compiling tactical data helping to kill civilians. There were already calls to disable Google Maps in the vicinity.
This is getting ridiculous (and pretty ironic, based on my understanding of the spirit of jacquesm comments).

Over the last couple of weeks, I've noted jacquesm as one the few really valuable people on HN. I don't agree with all of the opinions he expresses, but I like to dwell on them. Although he might say some uncomfortable things, he tends to ask you to think, really THINK. This reduction of more or less objective opinion to "Russian disinfo" just seems to go against that so much that I find it ironic.

No point beyond the above.
This kind of work is a major step. The big disadvantage of a graph database is arbitrary graph modeling of data/shoehorning data into a graph model, and an inability to derive information that isn’t itself a graph.
In late 00s I've worked on a pretty big system using C++ and Qt3 for desktop ui.

For various reasons we moved to Java SWT. It was so much worse it's not even funny.

Part of it was the absurdly overengineered architecture we used. We moved from 2-layer PL/SQL + C++ app to 3-layer PL/SQL + J2EE + SWT but on SWT there were like 5 additional layers and most of the code was XML configuration on the UI side. That's not Java fault.

But part of it was just SWT API being so much worse than Qt. Signals and slots make observers and listeners look like ancient technology. The graphical design tools were so much better in Qt. The layouts in SWT sucked. Everything was worse and took more work.
Yes, it works for an attorney. It does not work for a solo developer/small developers that hire the attorney.
I do not view dictionaries as a source of truth, and generally I don't accept a prescriptivist view onlanguage. Dictionaries are for referencing. Reading Xah Lee's reviews of dictionaries made me understand that different ones have different purposes.

http://xahlee.org/wordy/musing/dict_AHD_vs_NOAD.html

http://xahlee.org/wordy/musing/dict_review.html

http://xahlee.org/wordy/words/dictionary_tools.html
Former PsyOp guy here with OEF experience, now working in cybersecurity. Please feel welcome to ask me (almost!) anything, and I'll do my best to respond.

edit - this TTP FM [0] (warning, PDF ahead) seems to be freely available, and gives a comprehensive overview of what PsyOp actually does in the modern US Army. Perhaps most relevant for today is propaganda analysis and the SCAME method, a multi-faceted approach to determining information about enemy capabilities and intentions.

[0] - https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/fm3-05-301.pdf
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To deceive your enemy is a valuable thing. I just watched this excellent lecture on the Colossus machine [0] and learned that our invasion of Normandy was successful in part thanks to US communications being able to "leak" plans to Nazi code breakers and fool them into thinking we would land in an entirely different beach. (The colossus decoding high command communications allowed us to confirm the deception was successful)

OTOH, mass deception of a population is a little newer, and anytime Russian PSYOPS are brought up I like to drop this link [1] about US Army developing social media "sockpuppets" back in 2011, years before we ever heard of the Internet Research Agency (founded in 2013 if wiki is credible)

Now that the disinformation cat is out of the bag, I wonder what kind of internal fact checking tools the Army uses to separate fresh SIGINT from trash. The videos purportedly coming out of Ukraine are impossible to sort through, the strangest thing to me was seeing hundreds of accounts post the same video, instead of quote tweeting or retweeting or linking to a source, just, 'I've never mentioned Ukraine before but here's a video of what's happening right now!'

[0] https://youtu.be/g2tMcMQqSbA

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...
Apparently there are a number of technical challenges, mostly related to the pilots not being up to speed with the weapons conversions, ensuring they are not identified as NATO planes and the time required for training. Someone else pointed out that it may also be the case that through channels Russia gave some kind of ultimatum about this, but that is pure speculation.
People who don’t work remotely don’t work at the office either. They’re just gonna find other things to waste time on.

life since 2016 has been one shit show after another in America and going back to work as if nothing happened just seems stupid.
These types of posts always miss a common reason why an SPA might be desirable in the real world: cross-company collaboration.

The assumption made in these posts is that you have total control over your entire application stack. Infra, Backend, Frontend, Ops, etc. In the real world, often times different companies are collaborating to build a final product for a client.

I worked at an agency that built an SPA because the frontend and backend were built by two separate companies at the same time. We’d meet to agree on what the APIs would look like and what shape to expect in the data payloads. Once we had some sample data, we could build a UI against that data.

When the real API was ready, we just switched the URL in the app config and everything started working.

If we didn’t build that as an SPA, we wouldn’t have been able to make the deadline the client was aiming for.

In a perfect world, would this have made sense to build as a MPA? Probably. But in the real world, you sometimes have to build things given some non-ideal constraints.
I think part of the job of an "archivist" archivist (as opposed to an amateur archivist), is making information accessible to others. For that, you need derivations, because nobody will necessarily know how to deploy a Mac OS 7 virtual machine, install Claris Works (or whatever it is), load the original file onto the machine, and then navigate the contemporary UI (with it's unusual conventions) to get at the information they wanted. For personal data, I already know how to get an old environment up and running, so I'm happy enough to keep multiple copies of the original and of any software I need to open it.
Better source, but paywalled: https://www.ft.com/content/bfea0069-4143-4e4b-accb-9712ce95a...
There is something weird going on with that convoy. It's not moving forward for some reason (claims of fuel shortages)

Maybe they didn't bomb the convoy, but just the supply, like they did before.

Once those soldiers go searching for food, the Ukrainians can take some extra tanks for their army ;).
We lost both Iraq and Afganistan, I dont know why you think we won either of those wars?
There were two things that had a major impact. One was the vaccine. The other one was the massive improvement in care and containment practices between March and May 2020. The case fatality rate dropped substantially; infections of care personnel became much less common. (Masks had a controversial-relevance impact, but seeing as the international community at large didn't get to masking any faster than the US, it's unlikely Clinton would have changed anything here.)

On that second point, Clinton absolutely would have made a difference, because we know that the administration was aware of the pandemic well before the cases started spiking in New York, and we know [1] that Trump autonomously decided not to publicly release that information or tell the CDC to prepare for a major epidemic. That was a major, avoidable mistake. I doubt it would have prevented 100k deaths; rather somewhere in the range of 10k-50k.

Also, Trump really energized vaccine denialists; he was already catering to them in 2016 [2], and a loss in 2016 would likely have significantly reduced his audience on this point. It's not clear how many more people would have gotten vaccinated in a world where Clinton won in 2016, but it might be significant. Densely urbanized blue states led in deaths per capita before the vaccine came out, but now only New York and New Jersey are in the top 10, and my state of Rhode Island dropped from 4th-most DPC to 18th [3] -- I don't recall there being a strong correlation between Republicans and vaccine denialism before Trump, and in fact, the correlation may have reversed since 2011 [4].

1: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-told-bob...

2: https://www.historyofvaccines.org/trump-and-vaccines

3: https://worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us

4: https://reason.com/2011/10/04/more-anti-science-democrats-or...
It does seem like if he's just invaded donbas he could have gotten away with it.

Having watched the previous fall of the soviet union eventually enough people in moscow get pissed off and there is a regime change, although I suspect putin has control of the apparatus and security forces. So, we might just see a Russia civil war.
There may be some highly specific scheme that could make hybrid work, but in every situation where I've encountered hybrid it's been riddled with problems:

- Decisions made in the office, remote employees input ignored

- Manager sees others in the office, remote employees ignored for promotions

- Remote employees given the green light to work remote, others who don't work remote resent the remote employee for having that privilege

- In-person workers dictate working schedules, remote person's preference for async is ignored, remote person has to work a set schedule based on arbitrary availability of in person workers
There are plenty of good, honest journalists out there. However, journalists don't decide what their assignments are, much less what gets published.

Managing/selecting a few dozen foreign editors at mainstream outlets, conveniently co-located around DC/NYC, is absolutely within the capabilities of a powerful NatSec apparatus.
Give them Crimea in exchange for an agreement that Ukraine be allowed to apply to join NATO.
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Neat map. It's easy to think "NYC, DC, SF will get hit, stick to a smaller city to improve your odds", but there are tons of worthwhile targets. However, this map is also very US-centric, and if Putin loses his mind, might he attack many NATO countries? Or would e.g. Spain and Greece be largely unscathed? Or maybe South America and Africa and Asia would mostly be intact.

Now, ~5k warheads is certainly enough to hit the top 10 cities in every country, which might cause chaos that we can't recover from, but I doubt they would be distributed that way.
And made famous during the Vietnam War.
It looks like this is focused on primarily on executables, but there is a mention of libraries.

I was looking into WASM libraries recently, specifically WebAssembly Interface Types (WIT), and my conclusion is that WASM libraries are experimental and poorly supported right now (unless you only have i32/i64/f32/f64 as parameters and returns).

I couldn't find any elaboration in the documentation on libraries, what level of supported does this have? Is interface type implemented?
Yes, I have considered the substring option but Search and Random come from different sources which is why it is very fast.

Searches are returned using DNS Queries which is very fast as long as it is limited to 60-80 results. Random is database driven and updated daily which makes larger returns very fast.

And yes, I have been developing and coding for quite some time, but I finally got around to learning python about 8 months ago (I have wanted to learn Python for about 10 years but business demands didn't allow for it). TD is my first public Python app :)
Also, the romanian Mig-21 are converted to NATO specs, the ukrainean are not able to use them without training. Maybe it is the same issue with the Polish/Bulgarian Mig-29.
I know people don’t like having people in landscape photos, but it mitigates this problem a lot.
Yeah, I got that!
Paying employees more or less depending on where they live is an instance of price discrimination, in a sense. This isn’t necessarily good or bad, but it does mean that it’s not inevitable. Laws against certain forms of price discrimination already exist.
Why should cost of living be a factor in pay determination?
> As for the location-based pay part, I bet none of the people who were furious about getting "adjusted" after moving out of the Bay Area ever complained about their colleagues in Bangalore working the same amount as them and making 1/5 as much.

That's not just either, even if people didn't complain about it. Sometimes it takes a bad thing happening to someone for them to realize injustice that existed before. I would hope anyone against location-based paycuts within the US is also now against international location-based paycuts.
We've lost every war since Korea. The first Gulf war could be considered a win except for the fact we went back 12 years later and lost.
> disappear for days at a time, miss meetings for weeks at a time

How is this not an immediately fireable offense? At least at the point of reestablishing contact where a doctor’s note or equivalent excuse can’t be furnished…
And some conversion lest Russia thinks that NATO planes are in the theater.
Using the stock price of a technology company to judge the productivity of it's workers? Surely that's a component of stock price, but man this seems like a huge leap to make such a claim
At my first fulltime job my boss and a colleague constantly made jokes that I work too much. Really depends on the company but if it's a corporate it's kind of normal and you might not get any upside unless you work significantly more than on the contract
Prices for a lot of things are regional dependent though, not just salaries. Produce and dinners out costs more in the bay area than Omaha too. Same for salaries in Vietnam vs Omaha. I get that in a sense it doesn't seem fair for the same work and person to get paid differently solely based on where they live, but the market and costs are different too so if you pay everyone the same that also has issues. Besides, if everyone is paid the same why would it be valley salaries not Omaha salaries for everyone?
has a population ever been convinced they were being liberated? seems to me that's more of a lie to tell the invading soldiers to give them high morale until the truth sinks in
Just speculating but I would guess that's a reason for asking people back in the office. If you're getting paid the same amount as an engineer in the Bay Area but living South Dakota, I'm sure this causes some alarm for the company. We can't force a pay cut but what if we require physical presence a few times a week.

I'm still living in the Bay Area due to family but that's one of the reasons why we haven't looked seriously about moving. I felt like the WFH train was going to stop eventually.
There was an internal tool that simulated your pay change when you move. For example, if your office is in Santa Clara county but you move to Santa Cruz county the pay will drop by a lot. But if you move from Santa Clara county to San Mateo county there's no change at all.
> 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

That works for companies with less than 100 engineers. Everyone seems to have forgotten the good ol days where you had in person meetings and had to dial in half the team from Europe or include Fred who is working from home.
> From Ancient Greek κάκιστος (kákistos, “worst”), superlative of κακός (kakós, “bad”) +‎ -κρατία (-kratía, “power, rule, government”).

What a lovely word I learned today, thank you.
54 down, still a ways to go:

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...

Note that that is a lower bound.
Being anti-gay-marriage in the 1980s would make you wrong, but it wouldn't make you a Republican. Don't-ask-don't-tell and DOMA were both implemented by Bill Clinton, after all.

On the other hand, inventing the term "Republican Party Reptile" probably makes you a Republican. Because, like, you know.
Having worked at Google (albeit at a satellite office), those perks are nice, but working from home (my current situation) is a much much nicer perk.
That seems like a high number. Different external surveys I've seen tend to show about 20% wanting to come in five days with a permanent desk, about the same (or a bit more) fully remote, and the rest 2 or 3 days. That's not just developers though.
The people from Bangalore only got the job because they are willing to work for that wage and be a cost cutting center. You think executives offshore to the 3rd world because that's where the quality is?
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There's a reason why it's said that a picture is worth a thousand words. There are trade-offs, and at the end of the day some things are more efficiently described in text, and some visually.
That’s not even the full picture. Often the app will let you order only for them to tell you at pickup that their machine is down. The site relies on the restaurants keeping up with availability in app.
No, the large difference is the incredible amount of information we have available today. People back in the 90s or before had to rely on journalists to get any information. You simply did not get any information outside of your country bubble unless you actively travelled the world.

Today this deception of journalists being generally competent is just not viable anymore, since people have way too many sources to fact check, and way too many bubbled to blop in.
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