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But what is really happening? According to Russia they have taken Kherson, yet western media is quoting it is still contested. Similarly for the Russian army casualties - figures ranging from 500 - 5000 - 20000. Ukrainians seem to believe they are winning this war, yet Russia seems to be making daily (slow) progress (while getting a bloody nose).

And as they used to say....the difference between Russians and westerners is that Russians know their media lies to them.
Maybe you are right, but that's a lot less obvious to me.
Not only that. More importantly, standing there for weeks made all subsequent explanations and provocations completely unbelievable. The troops tired and demotivated. Provisions (if they had any) depleted. And Ukrainians better prepared.

Frozen ground could have made it easier to move around but on the other hand, troops are generally much more miserable when it is cold outside. Don't think that just because they are Russians they don't get cold.

From what I am seeing Russian soldiers do not seem to be prepared well for cold. It seems they thought they will only go for some military maneuvers and then back home, not into full scale winter war.

And another thing I am seeing is that they seem to be trying to find pretext to abandon their equipment. Those tanks stuck in mud -- there are ways to extract them. Russians regularly train in muddy conditions so I can't imagine they are surprised by conditions in March.
A 50+ year old museum piece MIG, and the SAR chopper was asked to return due to bad icing conditions before it was lost. It's almost certain that this was just a freak accident.
Location is only not a personal choice because of the location-based pay!

It's funny, because that logic means that location-based-pay becomes its own justification. The city I live in is normally a personal choice. But by paying based on location, the city I live in no longer becomes a personal choice, which justifies the extra pay for living in that city.

But the moment that my company discriminates pay based on anything that has an associated cost, it suddenly stops being a personal choice, which justifies that pay differential.

If part of my pay was tied to wearing an expensive suit, then my clothes would no longer be a personal choice, thus justifying the extra pay for the suit.

If part of my pay was tied to me driving a fancy car, then my car would no longer be a personal choice, so it would make sense for them to pay extra for the fancy car.

If part of my pay was tied to enrolling my kids in a particular school, then enrolling in that school would no longer be a personal choice, so it would make sense for them to pay extra for that, and so on...
> 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)

The same pattern of confirming the success of a deception via Ultra/Colossus occurred with Operation Mincemeat:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat
Seems some people haven't read his stuff. I think these are representative of the comedy and viewpoint.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15142347/ferrari-rein...

https://heretical.com/miscella/reptile.html
> remote person has to work a set schedule based on arbitrary availability of in person workers

Not sure which schedule you are talking about you shouldn't all the employees be generally available between 9 am to 5 pm?
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Was Elden Ring's tutorial any different from what they've been doing? Except for being skippable, it felt basically like the DS1 tutorial.
> The idea of mechanized disinformation as a trend moving forward seems likely.

It think this is no longer a trend but reality. I often post on the Chinese propaganda Facebook page (CGTN), and the nationalists who answer usually use the country of origin to craft their response. America is a fascist state who invades countries. Canada is "America's lapdog". African countries "benefit from China". And so on. When I removed any reference to my country of origin the answers got fewer and weirder, to the point the sentences made no semantic sense. The profile of those answering were obviously fake and looked different but semantically similar. A few pictures of them with landmarks, private friends list, random interests, everything else private. To the untrained and non-careful mind these can more than convincing.
> 1. You aren't mixing state across server and client. Single Source of Truth is a thing for a good reason. If you have a stateful backend, and your front end naturally has the state of whatever the user has input, you now have to work to keep those two in sync.

If this were true, you wouldn't need a REST API. I don't understand what you're trying to say here. When you make a REST call to get data, you instantly have two different sets of state: the client and the server. It's no different from SSR, it's just transmitted in a different data format (json vs html).

> 2. You need a beefier backend. A SPA backed by REST APIs is super easy to scale. nginx can serve up static resources (the JS bundle of the site) LOLWTF fast, and stateless REST apis are easy peasy to scale up to whatever load you want. Now you just have to worry about backend DB, which you have to worry about with non SPAs anyway.

You do the exact same thing with SSR. Stateless shared nothing app tier instances. Been doing it for 15 years now.

> 3. Less languages to deal with. If you are making a modern site you likely have JS on the front end, so with SPA you have JS + HTML. With another backend framework you now have JS+HTML+(Ruby|Python|PHP|C#|...), and that back end code now needs to generate HTML+JS. That is just all around more work.

You can use JS on both the frontend and backend. Or ClojureScript. Or TypeScript. I'm sure there's others. But yes, for many languages this is a potential negative of SSR.
This is missing the real reason that people write SPAs, which is that React solved web components, which are hugely beneficial for almost 100% of web sites, and thus became the standard for building web sites, and with React it's easier to make an "SPA" than to make a "traditional" site and users don't know or care either way.
> ask me (almost!) anything

How well were you able to leverage automation and the internet to scale the effectiveness of your mission?
I've worked at a startup where everyone being there was essential in how we worked. (We were all pair programming.) It was great. It beats code reviews any day. I learned a lot.

But when I was at Google, we would schedule VC meetings with people in a different part of campus just to avoid the walk. Also, I worked on teams that had people worked out in many offices, mostly not Mountain View. I was surrounded by Googlers in an open-plan office, but it was often lonely. I ate alone sometimes. It was often not worth the commute.

I think Google having a company-wide policy on this is nuts. Teams vary a lot. They should probably be left to make their own decisions.
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Most of the time, it will be able to deduplicate them. For example, if you save this page https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio..., each different avatar will be embed only once. To achieve this, SingleFile stores the content of duplicate images in CSS custom properties, displays them as background images in the IMG tags and uses a (properly sized) transparent SVG image as SRC. Thus, stylesheets are not broken.
You need to be careful with calling things that are awkward "propaganda". Truth or falsity really should be the only criterion you apply, because some true things are inconvenient.

As in this case, where this very calm account details what sounds like organized, wide-spread racism shown by Ukranian authorities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBPKoqnsX0

I suppose I should not be surprised when there are neo-Nazis actually integrated in the Ukranian army: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right...
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Because making Putin uncomfortable would not do.
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As individuals, we're much more sensitive to the idea of breaking the law than a corporation well-protected by legal counsel and indemnity.
The above seems to put the lie to the argument I've often heard that the justification for these cost-of-living adjustments is that in-person employees deliver more value than remote employees.

If this were indeed the reason for the salary adjustment, it wouldn't matter whether an employee was moving to Santa Cruz, San Mateo, or San Salvador. Either way they're remote, and unless one city has markedly different internet bandwidth, the value that a given employee delivers from any remote location should be the same.

Next time I hear someone making this argument, I'm calling BS. It's a bald-faced attempt for the company to capture value which rightfully belongs to the employee.
I hate on-site because I'm unable to pee next to others. It's embarrassing, so I avoid office bathrooms.

Surely I'm not the only one? Guys don't talk about this.
This article doesn't seem to be thought out properly. I mean the name already suggests what Single Page _Applications_ are good for. They are useful when you want to build an application in a browser and not just a regular website.

State is probably the main factor why you would like to do this. I can agree on that SPAs are used in some places where they don't fit (mostly content heavy sites). But they are not a mistake.
Not in the same class as the Buk.

The Stinger is deadly against helicopters and fixed wing aircraft in a close air support role. It also is good for sniping at aircraft that are taking off and landing.

Against high altitude bombers and fighter aircraft though it does nothing. With modern precision weapons an aircraft like the B-52 can fly high and have individual munitions be targeted with GPS or laser so it can cause a lot of hurt to ground troops and be out of reach of the Stinger.
My personal experience is it's a mixed bag.

- I love my teammates and it is so unbelievably rewarding getting to see them in person and share a space with them. We're social primates and it's soothing at some deep primal level to get to be around my tribe.

- The food is excellent. Not having to cook and wash fucking dishes again is god-damned divine. After two years of eating almost every meal at home, I fantastize about burning my entire kitchen to the ground.

- Just getting out of the house and having a change of scenery is really nice. Being in an office with other people working helps me switch into "Google employee" mode.

- I don't dig open plan offices at all. The one we're in now is a big empty white fluorescent lit box. It has a lot of windows with an excellent view which is great. But otherwise, it feels like sitting in the middle of an empty grocery store and I find it very hard to focus. More often than not, I grab a laptop and hide away in one of the lounge areas to get actual work done, which feels sort of paradoxical. (I'm probably an outlier in that I prefer to work on a couch with a laptop on my lap instead of at a desk with a big monitor.)
Managers like it bc they don't do deep work, and do benefit from happenstance + zoom relief. A CEO manages managers, so even more extreme. (And I assume even more so in sales/marketing heavy orgs where folks aren't digital natives.)

We are tiny, and while actively hiring, no intention of getting an office again. Too much to do to waste on management, commute, etc.
Did you notice an increase of techniques or pattern usually related to PsyOps (no matter from which side) during the weeks leading to the Ukraine invasion?
There is already a huge google engineer hemorrhage. A number of principal engineers and other folks I thought would be google lifers moved to snowflake.
I don't expect this to affect Google's ability to continue to grow at 15-20%, though. There will be armies of younger people who still want to jumpstart their career there.
No, it's not tax fraud. Tax is between you and the government, not you and your employer. The U.S. even allows you to ask your employer not to deduct tax so you can deal with it personally.

If you follow whatever local and state laws apply to your situation, you're perfectly in your right.
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No, the assumption is that they are outgunned.
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>Mandated return to work date 3 days/week minimum unless you’ve transitioned to remote

This is what bugs me about the hybrid set up. If the company onboarded a lot of permanent remotes and also doesn't have people sync up the in office days, then there is no point of going into the office. It's the worst of both worlds.
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I don't care about the tactile aspect of a particular album (as opposed to the "feel"/"UX" of a particular format in general, which I do find fun) or piece of media.

I care about one thing, and one thing only: an irrevocable right to experience a particular piece of media where and when I please in the original form it was released, subject to natural degradation of the physical medium. Now that music is digital, I expect the "when" to be "at any point in my life, starting from when I purchased it", and the "where" to be "any device with the ability to play music".

Streaming is essentially asking for permission to re-experience a piece of media every time I want to do so, and Spotify's and YouTube's answer is often "no". My music library is simply a necessary evil that facilitates security against their whims.
Wasmer is considered a bad actor by many, and there are many in the WASM space who want nothing to do with them. It's no accident Wasmer isn't a part of the Bytecode Alliance [1].

A particularly damning incident was the time they tried and failed to trademark "WEBASSEMBLY", an open W3C standard [2] [3]. There are many choice words for companies trying these kinds of stunts.

Webassembly is growing despite Wasmer's existence. Not because of them. Be cautious.

[1]: https://bytecodealliance.org/

[2]: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn88703780&docI...

[3]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/3#issuecomment-71...
It is notable that they got only 2.5 extra BLEU while translating text to english, and 6.2 extra when translating text from english to another language.

Since the network will have seen far more english text than text of other languages, it suggests that performance on limited training data is more improved.
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An M2 Mini with a 10G port... I'd be really tempted to buy a few.
It does and it has lots of work-alikes on other platforms (though some are not nearly as good). For almost any app that is inherently useless when not connected to the server, its a pretty good fit.
> We've proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that's about it. Some people love the lack of commute and less semi-forced hanging out, some people hate onboarding on a new company as a remote person and so on and so on.

Well said. At these point, anyone who suggests one is superior to the other without discussing the pros and cons of each is probably too biased to have an honest discussion.

Some people prefer in person. Some people prefer remote. Some people can’t or won’t acknowledge that their preferred style isn’t best for everyone or every company.

One thing I’m certain about, though, is that a lot of people who want remote work don’t necessarily do better when remote. I recruited, hired, and managed remote teams for a long time. The number of people who insisted they focused better at home but then couldn’t get anything done without constant performance management or nagging was surprisingly high. This even included several people who later transitioned to our office and did substantially better. A lot of people struggle to stay focused and productive when left alone at home to themselves. Going into the office can be the context shift they need to get productive.
For me, I mostly work on applications, the UI just happens to be in a browser. This is different from server rendered sites that may make more sense in some scenarios.

I happen to really like, React, Redux, Material UI, etc... ymmv.
It's more an issue of what the students are retaining from calculus.
Not op, and I don’t know his answer, but…

The most interesting stuff falls into the “almost!” category.
Remote and in-office are both pretty inherently social decisions.

If you're remote, you don't want to be left out if other team members are in person.

If you're in-office, most of the benefits depend on other people also being in-office.
where I live, it's more commonly held that's it's no meat and fast on Friday during Lent. And with the idea that you're not feasting on Friday, even without meat (but feasting on Sunday is fine, especially as Sundays are supposed to breaks from Lent).
Unfortunately, almost every company expect "total control" [1] over your life during work hours. FAANG companies just pay more.

Also, tech workers probably have way more autonomy on their schedule than most other industries.

Btw, I am just responding to your comment that "FAANG companies own you life"; not making an argument for remote vs in-person. I personally think that a hybrid model is great, and strongly agree with the currently-top comment by librish[2].

[1] significant control, if not total control

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30534539
>To level the playing field it has to be all colocated or all remote.

Completely agreed. The way I see my situation playing out is that all of the employees who went remote during COVID will be tolerated, but that the company culture will revert to in-office first. That will eventually lead to the remote cohort slowly being relegated to irrelevance and passed for promotion until they disappear (including myself) through attrition. When that happens I will start looking for 100% remote companies. But for now I really don't care though, as long as they are paying me a Bay Area salary to live in the midwest.
Basically yes - I used HN Search to look for relevant titles, but the last link (which is by far the biggest thread) I ran into because someone posted it in one of the other threads.

Eventually I want to build software to support these 'related' lists so people can add links to them collaboratively.
I feel bad for this guy - he didn't choose his circumstances but I feel far worse for those in Ukraine.
Because you usually link it to a DataView and then the DataView updates when the underlying data changes. Same for QSqlTable, it links up with a QTableView.
Good find. Total hypocrites. We need a permanent archive of corporate hypocrisy somewhere, then we need a wallet that checks it before letting you pay. That will sort the bastards out.
Why would evaluation be faster with more narrow layers? If there were fewer tokens it would definitely be faster, because transformers scale by tokens^2, but here "narrow" means number of channels, for presumably the same number of tokens.
But Google let most people who asked to go remote, go remote. And said several times that if you haven’t asked to go remote yet, they’ll give you a 30 day notifications before you need to go back

I hate threads like these because people will circle around generic talking points while missing all the nuance and context behind this actual decision, like allowing almost any SWE to go remote that asks, giving a heads up, having a well-defined policy.
It is vastly different in the bay area where public transit is a horrible mess and the freeways are all at 300% capacity. A friend who is a Googler is looking at a 30 minute commute to a GBus stop for a 90 minute ride each way. Going to the office is cutting productivity basically in half.
I think you have to explain in more detail why they would surrender.
Assuming that happens, who replaces him?

Does someone pop down the local gulag and release Navalny? Or is there a cronie that potentially worse than Putin in the shadows?
No doubt the third party articles aren't usually very good either. But it's all relative!
If this is such a bad deal, why is the U.S. allowing it to be negotiated?
Give it about a year or two and everything will be as it was in 2019…
This is why the Google hybrid week seems to strike a good balance. It sets 3 days a week to be in the office and that gets set by your Project Area (Maps, Youtube, etc.). This way, EVERYONE is in the office on say Tu-Th and so work doesn't grind to a halt/get disrupted the same way.
Clogging my lungs is the least of my concerns.

This is a very achievable grey goo. I almost think we should have a minimum size of microprocessor, chip, robot, computer at 1 square centimeter. Not allowed to go under that.
Do you mean converting links so that they point to your local copy of other pages from the same site? Yeah it doesn't do that; it isn't a tool meant for archiving whole websites. It's just for archiving a single page, with all the content baked into it. Like a bookmark but doesn't linkrot.
No that's obviously not fraud. Words have meanings.
Amazon uses AI to make highly optimised storefronts.

Why don't they also use AI to make highly pleasing storefronts and target other markets?

Amazon is the everything store, but it presents like a big box store. Why not build mini Boutique stores or more of an IKEA experience?
> Finland, Estonia and Poland

That would be a hell of an escalation. Emphasis on hell. Estonia and Poland are NATO members, which means WW3. And attacking Finland, though not yet a NATO member, would probably invite the largest response from Europe in memory. World war indeed.
> Disclaimer: I probably spend too much time thinking about this from a 'long now' perspective.

That's great! What have you come up with?

AFAICT, PDF - or PDF/A - is currently the only good format for long-term text document (e.g., books) preservation. It's the only format that's stable over the long-term (at least PDF/A is), it's the only universally supported format, and it's the only option with stable annotations (which is essential to me).

The major downside is that the actual text is hard to extract and integrate with other functions. That's why I have hopes for epub.
I get a bit annoyed hearing about the 2 hour a day folks. They are probably forcing their peers or managers to take on more work than is their fair share.

Maybe not. In the corporate world, 90% of work is work that was generated by other work. Some people are really good at not causing work for other people.

Pls don't say FANG (or MANG or whatever). People I know at the senior level work really hard too (from my peers).

They spend a lot of hours but they don't really accomplish that much. The thing about FAANGs is that above the $250k line, it's all politics. If you're any good at the game, you figure out that you'll always do better using political position to take credit for someone else's work than taking the chance of your own labor (how much can one person do?) being appreciated.

Always get a team if you can: it diversifies your apparent contribution to the company.
> which has already led to all sorts of social ills.

Isnt that the govt's problem to tackle not a private corp?
Exactly. If someone who lives in say, Tracy, who has always commuted into the office, and continues to do so. Would they get their pay cut?
Which will lead to the remote workers changing companies. If there is no substantial advantage, those companies will become second class companies.