skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an environmentalist. Let me tell you about empty promises from the big-Ds...

Edit: to keep it in theme with PJ and the article, where PJ says that politicians always want wars on X because it's the only way to get people to move in a direction and they get to wield a baton... Of course such "wars" are only fought because someone makes money regardless of winner or loser, or they aren't really wars. Global Warming? Now THAT'S a war. You know it is, because it is ignored.

It's not generally what the parent means though, they probably meant essentially the powers of the Ds just virtue signal to get votes or rely on the comically evil other side to scare up votes, but never really work for a better welfare state, healthcare/benefits, equality, or the like.

The Biden administration is already a classic example. They could play hardball to get the votes, rein in Manchin, and other techniques. Instead, those minor hurdles are treated as unsolvable barriers and the status quo is maintained.

Because where is Biden from? Same place Obama was: the corporate arm / Democratic Leadership Council. Obama never prosecuted the mortgage crisis, never pursued breaking up the megabanks and monopolies, setup the internment camps for the refugees at our border, used drone assassinations, didn't get out of Iraq/Afghanistan, etc etc etc.

The only thing Obama did well IMO was spur investment in solar and wind, but that may have been an technological evolutionary inevitability. And maybe Obamacare, the right hated it so much it must have some good stuff in it.

"After I broke the news to him that his embedded Atlantic editor and good friend, Michael Kelly, perished on the charge to Baghdad when his Humvee was fired upon and crashed into a canal, I watched P.J. hunt-and-peck out an appreciation of Kelly on my borrowed laptop, tears in his eyes, scotch by his side, but never losing his cool. He peered in on the TV action – Iraqis looting their country like there was an all-you-can-steal fire sale – as he played the faux optimist, cracking, “This will eventually evolve into shopping.” " Goddamn is that funny.
Also, it strikes me that there are only 1000 tanks in the force. It seems like such a small number contrasted against 100,000 soldiers. That seems like a tractable number of tanks to destroy.
I'm wondering what's stopping a cottage industry popping up of 'synthetic residence' in high CoL areas.

E.g. I live in a low-CoL area, but I pay you, someone living a high-CoL area, $100 to nominally be your "flatmate".
It's not a strawman (can we retire that term? Just make your argument), the parent wrote:

> I would prefer to live in the city and quickly die with my friends rather than move 200 miles away from civilization and experience inevitable illness, famine, nuclear winter and painful death.

Some of those things are virtually guaranteed (inevitable sickness, painful death). Aging, culimating in death, is everyone's own personal apocalypse.

We don't know what a "nuclear winter wasteland" looks like. It has never happened. That aside, you and the parent are the wife in The Road (who kills herself rather than face life post civilization). To me it's very obvious that life stripped of almost everything is still worth living. People who don't understand that are, sorry, shallow.
If you read the article, it seems that bad weather is the most likely cause.

The helicopter that crashed was ordered to turn back due to the weather conditions.
> Despite not making any sense, cost of living adjustments based on your location seem to be the trend that we are heading toward

It's not a trend we're heading toward, but it's well established practice in the economy. People working in Asia or Eastern Europe, for USA companies, make less, and they do the same job.

Fact that it's going to be applied to people working remotely, not at the office, is just an implementation detail.
Apple Event Announced for March 8: 'Peek Performance'
In my experience, it's very easy to see how a software engineer works.

Just look at the commit logs.

Sheesh. I managed an SWE group for years. It was easy-peasy to unobtrusively keep an eye on things.
For those who don't get the Judith Miller reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...

"In the buildup to the 2003 war, the New York Times published a number of stories claiming to prove that Iraq possessed WMD. One story in particular, written by Judith Miller, helped persuade the American public that Iraq had WMD: in September 2002 she wrote about an intercepted shipment of aluminum tubes which the NYT said were to be used to develop nuclear material."
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Both engineers and managers at big tech companies can get by working 2 hours a day. And remote vs on-site doesn't affect that. This has been true since well before WFH.

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.
In an important sense, all photography is compatible with linear perspective. Most lenses aim to closely emulate rectilinear perspective, and those that don't are still constrained by the location of the lens in space.

A pinhole camera can see certain points in any scene, and not others. These points are the same points as a traditional linear perspective rendering with the same viewpoint would represent. Now, lenses do sometimes distort things, but they can't see areas of the scene that are occluded: light travels in straight lines. IMO there is something really straightforward about this situation. Any image is constrained by the lines of sight from the viewpoint, and linear perspective is just a projection in which to display this data, which is (to a very close approximation) the same, however you capture the image. So linear perspective, from this point of view, has little or nothing to do with lens-based media. It's a total commonplace of image formation and it doesn't have any consequences for how you use the camera to portray depth. Those decisions are unrelated to perspective. The fact that the lens can only see non-occluded points in the scene is the determining factor.

The article is about more creative problems that arise when an artist interprets a scene, unconstrained by geometry in a way cameras never are. "This paper points out that artists almost never use “correct” linear perspective"
Stop using SSO, and use email aliases for each site. Eg: myname+context _at gmail. (Gmail ignores everything right of the + but it will be treated as the myname mailbox). This keeps emails unique and helps detect when sites leak your email address (and pwd hashes).

Generate complex passwords in a password manager like 1password. Store usernames and passwords with the site to allow auto filling or search and copy/paste.
> Everybody should have an option

This is actually a major red flag if I'm an employee. There's no half way with remote work. Either everyone, including execs, works remote, or no one does. I've been in hybrid situations and it's complete hell. My suggestion is pick what works best for you, and then find a company that's committed all the way to either one.

For me, there's no amount of money that doesn't start with billion that could convince me to work in an office. I understand some other people are different, and they should find companies that support forced-commute co-located working.
NATO jet and heli disappear from radar over Black Sea
Citing the New York Times, which has admitted to working closely with the US Government on matters of "national security", citing an anonymous intelligence official.
I work for a large tech company based on the east coast. My partner works for another large tech company. We are both mid-level managers at companies that seem to be taking a pretty dramatically different approach.

My company:
- Started with a strong in-office culture
- Communicated to managers that all employees now have a choice between being fully remote, hybrid, or in-office; there’s never a mandate to be in person
- All new roles can be based anywhere in the country of the roles’ origin
- All salaries are being standardized to one city per country (NYC for the US.)

By contrast, my partner’s company:
- Mandated return to work date 3 days/week minimum unless you’ve transitioned to remote (and they don’t seem to be making that easy for existing employees)
- Significant, growing attrition problem causing serious concern among leadership
- Growing pushback from employees asking great questions… for example, why they should be required to sit on zoom at an office, conferencing with their remote colleagues

If I had to put money on which company will thrive and which one will seriously regret it’s decision a year from now… the answer seems very clear.
I have been fully remote my entire career (several decades), in fact in 30+ years have never been on site anywhere for more than 2 weeks total. Wouldn't have it any other way.

But as a counter-point, seeing a whole bunch of people who were never remote before, how little work they are actually doing, it is no surprise to me that a lot of employers are going to start forcing - to the extent possible - employees back into the office.

I think a small percentage of people are self-motivated, and more productively at home, but watching this all play out for the last 2 years makes me realize that an awful lot of people are going to try to get away with absolutely anything they can - including working as little as possible - when allowed to be on their own. I have had coworkers literally disappear for days at a time, miss meetings for weeks at a time, constantly miss deadlines etc - and as a manager, that is very hard to manage underperformers with a remote work force.

Remote work isn't for everyone, and unfortunately there is a non-trivial percentage of the workforce that actual does need someone watching over them to make sure they do what they are supposed to be doing each day.

Let's hope they don't ruin it for the rest of us.
Any chance you have a source or reference to the people who disagreed?

Not trying to snark, I’m genuinely interested in seeing the counter arguments. Thanks
Use your time with temporary remote work to find permanent remote work. Avoid places that pay based on where you live.

And frankly, given what people I know say about working at google, I don't think they could pay enough to put up with their organisational issues.
5 BLEU points more is massive with 4 times less params.

The fact that layers themselves are narrower means that training and evaluation of the NN is also much faster.
The company announcements are https://blog.streamlit.io/snowflake-to-acquire-streamlit/ and

https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2022/Snowf...

We changed the URL above to what seems to be the best third party article (for reasons I was explaining in a different thread earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30531133).
From what I’ve been told it’s been pretty easy for some to negotiate no salary adjustment when going remote. It’s against HR “policy” but I know deals happened when someone was deemed a crucial contributor.
I think it's obvious what he should do if he's smart. Focus troops in the southeast. Destroy the Azov Regiment. Take their uniforms, patch, flags, make a big show of it on all media. Claim mission accomplished. "We de-Nazified Ukraine!" Set up a base on the Azov, withdraw other forces to 2014 borders. Commit $x billion in rebuilding aid and payments to families in Ukraine, once sanctions are lifted and currency exchange returns to Feb 25th levels so they can afford it. Prosecute a few token scapegoats domestically for war crimes (anyone for whom the evidence would make it politically impossible not to).

Ukraine will never trust them. But it's enough to take the pressure off, and enough for him to remain in power.
“The smartest engineers I know are burned out and starting vegetable gardens”
I think people who don't get snow can't really picture how bad it gets. It does depend on the terrain, but coming from central Canada, a bit of snow on a thawed ground is ridiculous. Wet earth is bad enough. Totally frozen is ideal if you're equipped for snow/ice travel, but variable conditions are pretty untenable. That said, I've never been driving around in military equipment, so I figure that's gotta help a bit.
You decide in advance how to do it. You do it quickly because you've designed the system to do it automatically or to enable quick human decisions.

And yeah, you let a section fail if that prevents the entire system from failing.

The power in my neighborhood fails all the time, even though it is well within the city. Fed up, I finally installed a generator last year. Several failures since, including going out for the night 2 days ago, continues to justify it. I was probably the last holdout, one by one each of the neighbors had acquired a generator.
I would hesitate to make such sweeping statements. As work returns to the office my prediction is that you'll end up with pockets of high functioning teams that are physically colocated and distributed teams will inevitably be at a disadvantage which will lead to them being relegated to "tolerate" despite the talent on those teams.

It's not to say that distributed teams can't be high funtioning it just takes 3x the effort from a management perspective. Good management is in even higher demand than SWE skills. A good manager will gravitate towards teams that are colocated because they know they can be more effective for less effort.

To level the playing field it has to be all colocated or all remote. Talent currently holds the cards because of demand but talent+colocation will always win in a contest.
Yes. I try to opt for non-SSO login whenever possible, or alternatively manually make a dummy 1Password entry with a username like “GitHub login”. I would like if 1Password could track OAuth redirects automatically but I’m not sure if it’s possible.
It sucks in the Norcal office but if you're in any of the other offices the max distance is not too bad.
We've just done a survey at work to talk about about attitudes to returning to work. The results were basically that 95% of people are happy with work from home but want more social gatherings. Most people would be happy with visiting the office once every two weeks.

I expected a small fraction to be extremely pro return to office but actually these didn't appear at all in our survey. What we did have is a couple of people who said they'd resign before returning to the office on a regular basis.

I wonder how different attitudes are at Google or if this is more of a top down push?
> I think it’s interesting that China could dictate the timing to Russia.

It's not the 70s anymore. China is far stronger than Russia, and going forward Russia will be extremely dependent on them, because of sanctions for the Ukraine invasion.

IMHO, China's likely going to be able to turn Russia into a vassal.
Don't be daft. Many of these have crashed over the years all by themselves.
If any company Google should be able to create a compelling online employee culture and it does and did before covid.
Yeah but in an American city that walk is going to be awful.
"Source of truth"? What the heck does that mean? Truth for whom?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU

Dictionaries aren't for policing language.

They describe how people use language, not the best and only way to use language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLgn3geod9Q
The Economic and Interpersonal Consequences of Deflecting Direct Questions
By that definition, using literally any point of view to capture, measure or describe information is a lie.

I take issue with that. This is stripping the word "lie" from it's time-honoured meaning (~"distorting or fabricating truths to influence decision making or perception"), and dilutes it for when we actually need to call out lies.
Call it "Bong" because in "Pong" you control the [P]addles but in "Bong" you control the [B]all. Is that too close to the trademark, though?
Ask HN: Why doesn't Ukraine give attacking Russian troops access to Starlink?
Wouldn't this allow the Russian troops to find out what is really happening and make it more likely they will stop their advance and/or surrender?
If China didn't do this, "Go ahead and kill Ukrainians now. We don't give a shit as we have an Olympic game to attend to." Get off your moral high horse already.
Depends. If you live near the office and still live near the office, no. If you've moved to a different area, potentially.
> The mental benefits of in-person working can be significant

Just remember there are just as many, if not more, mental detriments to working in-person.
Well they can’t very well call them “Github users”. That’s off brand when building an identity-oriented community.

“Hubbers” are “people like us”, who hub the way we hub.
If anything people that work from home should get a raise since the company doesn't need to pay for their space in an office.
Romania is a kakistocracy and all branches of government and defense are affected by it. With the exception of troops sent to afghanistan and iraq the rest of the army is in a very poor shape. Despite spending 2% of its gdp on defense pilots dont get adequate flight hours.

Here is an article in romanian about a similar mig accident from 2018 (there was one in 2021 as well) and it will detail the lack of training (please use language tools to translate):
https://www.vice.com/amp/ro/article/kzyed9/mig-21-prabusit-b...

The helicopter sent on a rescue mission today also crashed. Also old tech and poor training. Similar crash happened in 2013.

The migs are called “flying coffins” in romania. A few years ago one lost an engine at or after take off (it literally fell off), cant find the article.

Since the army is not much in the public eye, i can only begin to imagine the state its in. Sad but true.

Edit: new f16s are available, but given there isnt sufficient training available they cant operate all of them.
> 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.

This is a bit weird to me, in that I'd say that cuts in the opposite direction. State can exist in at least three locations for most applications: db, app server, and client. Keeping state consistent across all of them can be difficult in the best of times, but thin clients by their very nature carry less state, lessening the burden. Sometimes client state is necessary, for richer user interactions, but for all but the most cosmetic of purposes you're going to have to replicate that state on the backend anyway, to enforce business and security requirements.
Chrome the browser is a desktop application, websites you visit in it are not.
Credit Suisse caught trying to shred evidence of loans to Russian oligarchs
> those prices are going to explode if they haven't already

That ship has sailed, and it’s got a nice tail wind as well.
Detachment is a tenet of Buddhism, not an effect of meditation.
"What would be an example of a joke that would have been career ending for an edgy American comedian or satirist 40 years ago, but not now? "

The SNL sketch between Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase is emblematic.
I'm curious about how you keep track of these, you just filtering titles with wired and Mc that hits the front page?

You're always on the ball dang!
If you don’t mind, let’s please refrain from name-calling, including and especially against nationalities and ethnicities.
And yet my 2.9 kg Dell Precision 7540 lasts 2 - 3 hours of office work. Didn't 3 kg laptops from 20 years back last about the same time? I don't think they lasted less than a hour. Or were they much heavier?
actually this is a significant probability in the near future with surgery robots
This is a good list. I've gone entirely to the Cloud9 Ergo, mostly because of the large space bars combined with split/tented design. I cannot type on a keyboard like the Ergodox and Kinesis models where I have to hit a space key that is only one key wide. I move around on the board too much, and I invariably hit one of the adjacent buttons.

https://cloudnineergo.com/
> least ideologically distant

Far more ideological distant then you might think.

The current Russia has nothing to do with communism, it's
all about oligarchs and authoritarian capitalism.

China's ideology "hates" oligarchs, but they are also authoritarian,
and have common opposition so working together makes sense. But that's it.
Besides "authoritarian" they share very little in common wrt. there ideology.
Republic of China (Aka Taiwan) is not the same thing as The People's Republic of China (Aka China). And pardon me for talking about Taiwan as being sovereign, which it actually is, but I recognise it's a little more complex than that: https://international.thenewslens.com/feature/taiwan-for-sal...

Anyway, you are more wrong that I am.
The negative externalities of working in an office are pretty major too.

Time and cost of commuting unpaid
Cost of work wardrobe
Requirement to wake earlier to make it in on time for people who aren't morning types
I think that's for Mig-29s specifically. To put it lightly, mig-21s are much older and wouldn't exactly be helpful to Ukraine.
> What way is that?

The Hitler 1945 option.
No, they haven't. Apart from the obvious "an invasion will probably happen" (which people like John Mearsheimer, outside the IC, have predicted since 2014), they have been rather inaccurate. No heads up about Putin's decree to recognize L/DPR.

Jake Sullivan and others even admitted that some of the "intelligence reports" were fabricated as "deterrence". That is, "If we shout loud enough about <negative outcome> before it happens, perhaps <negative outcome> perpetrators will get cold feet".
There's nothing particularly clever about that, it's just straight up textbook employee fraud.
There is no reason to use any of these SSO integrations if you have a password manager.

Sign up via e-mail, save your password, and you're done.

Now you know exactly what you used to sign up with and you can stop giving data mining companies ways to track you.
I can confirm as a romanian, it was news almost each year of a Mig21 crash. They are 50s technology, they are at their EOL.