skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a opposite view:

Some team members output has severely dropped. I've seen people playing video games during work hours for example. Also work and free time has mixed to a point where people just randomly take hour or two to go skiing or for a walk and routinely just quit at the normal time.

Commuting is different in different places. For me it is 15 minute drive to the office from a neighboring smaller city where property prices are 5x lower.

I've never eaten more takeout in my life than during past 2 years. At the office I had access to healthy "home style" cooking with variety of diet. Now I have access to pizza, poor quality Chinese, and decent Indian food. Of course I could cook for myself, but I don't like cooking and I don't want to spend the time.

I'd argue my Quality of Life has gotten significantly worse especially since they closed gyms. Yes, they are now open, but there is also like a meter of snow outside so I probably won't get to the gym until spring actually starts.

I live in an apartment complex so the super has the keys to do whatever work needs to be done without my presence. I could take my deliveries at the office (and I often did since I saw clear improvement on delivery dates when they delivered to a business instead of residential address). Doctor visits were never an issue, because remote work was always an option and many people did work a day or two every week remotely.

If past experience is anything to go by I will get flooded with people saying that I should just do better and be better remote worker (like I probably shouldn't be writting this on company time) instead of acknowledging that different people are different and working at the office fits me and my life style better and that I've optimized for that lifestyle long before the pandemic hit. I personally can't wait for life to go back to normal. I'm sure we will lose some people since they want to be 100% remote and that's fine.
Why enterprise software is bloated
Makes sense, and it definitely puts some pressure on ISPs for outgoing bandwidth. However, the bandwidth of a [put-your-favourite-videoconferencing-too-here] video upstream feed is rarely as high as a HQ video streamed from a video streaming service...
I think the argument is that before ResNets, the depth of the network was constrained and could not be scaled easily. With ResNets (and of course Highway Nets; hi Jürgen!) the depth is just another hyperparam.
For the Netherlands, https://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/index.php?taal=eng/ is a better source. It has an (IMO) better visualization and can compensate for population density. Invalshoek expect it to have better data.

(And for first names, there’s https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/english)
> StackOverflow
Does this include the entire StackExchange network, or only StackOverflow? Because some SE sites (in particular, UnixSE and ServerFault) also produce highly relevant results.
Russia’s credit rating cut to junk by Moody’s and Fitch
> On-boarding and knowledge sharing is worse

I wouldn't say it's worse, but different. It requires thinking through the onboarding process in a deliberate manner. I think a lot of companies used to get away with onboarding by having the new person spend a bit of time with HR and then throwing them in with their team and hope it works out.

My onboarding process now is scheduled out and takes 1-2 weeks depending on the position. I make sure the new person has their computer a couple days before they start. I ask the new person during and after the process what's working/not working and refine the process from their feedback. I keep an open block of time every day for the person as long as they need it, etc...

I should add that we were already remote pre-covid, but still had to deal with all the same issues when we went remote. One of the biggest challenges we had and I see is that remote magnifies already existing issues around communication and management. I remember one of my managers asking 'how will I know if someone is working if they are not in the office?' and my response was 'how do you know if they are working now?'.

I'm also not going to argue in absolute terms that in-person or remote is better/worse than the other. They are just different.
God does not exist
Can you use a stablecoin like USDC?
Well then I guess we're relying on the common decency and humanity of the Russia war planners not to start just killing civilians and destroying cities in pursuit of these "radicals".

There do seem to be an awful, awful lot of new radicals having been made in the last week. Lots and lots of ordinary Ukrainians, who last week wouldn't have dreamed of picking up a rifle and shooting at a Russian soldier, have been radicalised and are now prepared to do some pretty radical things. If the aim was to remove radicals, this has backfired horrifically.
They better hurry:

"Four Russian fighter jets violate Swedish airspace over Baltic Sea"

https://www.thelocal.se/20220302/four-russian-fighter-jets-v...
Not. If it happens it happens. It will change the landscape to such a degree that any preparation is likely to be utterly meaningless.
What do you need money for when you can dig everything you need out of the ground?

Aha: the article explains further down. It’s all very well being able to dig up thousands of tonnes of oil and iron but that’s no use when your citizens want TVs and jeans.
Can’t they map young Luke onto currrent-day Luke as they did Gollum? This would handle the acting and speaking part (possible voice mods also). That would, however, change the production schedule and possibly cost due to more Hamill involvement.

I recall recent bbc articles about video capture with ai enhancement to provide the “moving framework” on which to hang whatever is desired. Without all the mental images of Abba in capture suits.
Ask HN: Why is there no Bloomberg B-Unit app for iPhones?
Bloomberg Terminal is a widely used financial data provider. Logging in is secured with a password and a 2-FA device. The default option is a small hardware token with a fingerprint sensor. Alternatively, there is an App for Android versions 7.0 and greater. However, there is no such App for Apple devices, however new.

Given the size of Bloomberg and the considerable subscription fees, I imagine that this lack of iPhone support must be a consequence of security issues, rather than a lack of organizational "want".

However, every single bank supports 2FA using the iPhone, so there must be a secure way to accomplish that securely. What are the differences between iOS and Android, has something changed with Android v7, and are there implications to not use an iPhone as 2FA-device?
Difficult to produce that stuff while the whole world is against you. Hard to make a good profit from weapons when much of their other exports don't go up. Not a winning strategy.
Honestly, the argument you made in the first paragraph is a good argument against companies getting too big rather than against remote work: what part of Google's profit comes from work done in the last 5 years?

Most Google products and services were mature in 2017.
This would be the worst thing they can do right now. They don't stand any chance of winning against Russia if the Russians suddenly have a reason to hate them.

By playing only defense, they are a victim, even a martyr. Who doesn't empathize with someone having to pick up a weapon and fight for their country/survival. It's the stuff of songs and legends.
The human incentives are certainly there, it’s the copyright and IP industry that does not want this to come to pass. There was a time when you could find obscure things on torrents with seeders, but that was shut down by the IP rent seeking industry.
Same in German: "Weißwaren" also translates directly to white goods. I think it's amazing to see the similarities in languages.
As a counterpoint people with young children seem to spend at least some time each week during work hours taking care of their kids while their partner (whose on maternity leave) is doing something else. Also the constant background noise of kids crying or some kids show playing it pretty annoying.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30526022
Precedented Times
Why wouldn't Russia already have been doing that? What was stopping them from selling all the cheap weapons that the market could bear?
I love this idea.

This is mostly just raw data, it isn't that useful (yet).

The security issues with using curl directly to my terminal feel a bit dangerous. I'd rather use my browser and be able to see the results over a json tree. Providing raw access to ES has a high risk to reward.

The search results for https://dontbeevil.rip/search?q=python%20context%20manager%2... are non-topical hits on SO records. I even put the name of the python package (from stdlib no less) in the query string.

I was able to find what I needed on devdocs.io in less than 10 seconds.

https://devdocs.io/python~3.10/library/contextlib#contextlib...

In no way am I trying to discourage you, but until the basics are in place, search over arxiv abstracts is way less useful than just SO and docs (language and libraries).

I would recommend returning text/plain by default and .json if someone asks for it (in the url), no everyone can set headers. I'd also put an about page at the root of your site, plain text is fine.
It’s strange that Youtube is so entrenched that even Russia could not muster its own alternative.
Does Putin prevent Shell from ever mining the Ukranian shale gas deposits? Then he "wins".
Tangential : there is a Dutch saying Eerst mijn fiets terug [0], which roughly translates to First I want my bike back.

It is/was a meme which targets Germans as the Nazi occupiers confiscated some Dutch bikes during their bike sharing program at the time ( this is a bit trivialised ).

[0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eerst_mijn_fiets_terug, Dutch only, sorry.
Who on earth is putting covid tests in their eye?
I'm somewhere in the middle. I've lived through the Solidarnosc uprising in Poland so I know for a fact that it is possible to make a change, at the same time I'm sure that that could have ended in a completely different way as well. It all hinges on how afraid the people are of the dictator, once that fear is gone the dictator is gone. But to get there it can be very, very bloody. Cornered rats will have no other option but to fight.

So, while I think the Russian people could have a role I don't think that will materialize.
First, you have to collect a few thousand images of the same thing (maybe more or less depending on how complex your thing is or how good the results should be). Then, you train a generative adversarial neural network on those images to generate new images. https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2-ada-pytorch works quite well. https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan3 is supposedly even better, but I did not try it yet.
It virtually has but NATO doesn't universally want Ukraine. It's better strategy to have buffer states adjacent to major powers.
Amdgpu Linux Driver Preparing Gang Submission Interface
I appreciate your concern, but why would anyone take this seriously? In particular, why would crowdsourcing a foreign policy agreement be a good idea? Would you crowdsource the plan for your open heart surgery? Because this affects a lot more lives than that.
Thanks for the report. I'll get this fixed.

In the mean time you can use application/json:

curl -G -H 'Accept: application/json' https://dontbeevil.rip/search?q=zelda
"The second pillar of Russia’s power is, of course, its nuclear arsenal. Nuclear bombs do not win a conventional war, but one can destroy a country with them, in the blink of an eye. And here lies a great risk for the rest of the world. What will a dictator do when he realises that he cannot win the war by conventional means but by other means? That remains the most terrifying question today."

--

I do wonder how operational Russia's nuclear arms currently are, though. The US has spent many billions on the maintenance of its nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War. I'm highly skeptical that the Russians have been anywhere near as meticulous in keeping their own in good working order.
They do that all the time.
What query are you running?
They've already lost strategically. In very short time they've managed: German rearmament, unified all parts of Ukraine, permanent stationment of US troops in frontier countries, pushed Sweden and Finland to Nato membership, started the real process of energy diversification in Europe, unified EU countries and destroyed Russia economy.
Exactly, or drinking the binder
Sounds like another (anecdotal) data point for nominative determinism:

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180404-do-our-names-p...
>Interesting shift in US blob narrative, from Xi was embarassed and played by Putin because he's a foreign policy dummy, to now insinuating PRC endorsed invasion because superior US intelligence.

I dont think anyone is saying Xi is a foreign policy dummy. They have been pretty non-interventionist and Putin is KGB by his own words.

Immediately before the invasion Putin screamed to the world about their 'no limit alliance' and then immediately invaded a sovereign nation.

If China knew, then their words are lies. Xi Jinping lied to the entire world. Multiple other chinese officials lied to the world.

Worse yet, china's 'constructive' help coming soon is not going to be the help the world wants.

>s if PRC doesn't have recon sats and cyber abilities to make their own determination. NVM western OSINT of RU build up was sufficient to illustrate that invasion was probable. IMO politburo knew chance of build up turning kinetic but was under no illusion they can sway RU pursuing security interests.

That's just it... The idea I have is that China was aware of the new republics to be protected. The build up was to protect those. Not invade and annex all of ukraine.

>RU certainly can't disuade PRC from moving on TW if geopolitical situation dictates.

Nobody is dissuading anything against taiwan. If China wants it, and my pov is that they already own it... they could just take it. They aren't recognized as a country and have no military alliances. Not unlike ukraine.

> It seems US/NATO has failed to sway PRC (and India, UAE, ASEAN, Brazil) will continue to hedge / stay neutral because frankly they're not going to undermine self interest just because white people are now being shelled. So discord sowing continues to further entrench LIO block and shaming developing countries for buying wheat and fuel, which current sanctions explicitly allow.

This confuses me. The point of view that Putin embarrassed China is the neutral position. The China knew about this isn't the neutral position, it's the China is taking up and raising their army for various targets. Obviously Taiwan, but Japan, South Korea, India, and Vietnam.

Afterall, if there's no limits to China Russia alliance. There is no limit in terms of supporting the efforts in Ukraine. But at least so far... China has basically been sitting back. It implies there are limits.
This analysis is completely wrong. Street fights benefit Ukrainian military, if anything. What we learned from the first week of war is that Ukrainian military is becoming increasingly efficient at this. The vast majority of damage dealt by Russians is done by means of air strike targeted at regional centres and metropolia (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa.) and it usually doesn't impede Ukrainian military, but simply wrecks havoc upon civilian population. All the major battles are happening on the outskirts of regional centres (Bucha, Hostomel, Mariupol, etc.) with only but marginal number of Russian military reconnaissance-diversion groups puncturing deep into the cities themselves. In the street fight, Ukrainian military has the upper hand. Ukrainian territorial defence is already running at 30K+ assault rifles and plenty of ammo, this stuff is rapidly dispensing down to smaller towns in which fights will soon take place.

The top priority (and in fact where much of the damage comes from) for Ukrainian military is to contest the airspace efficiently, which it can only achieve by means of Buk/S-300 air defence systems and the limited fleet of MiG-/Su- fighters available to them, but you have to see that it might just prove enough. Russian officers (Air force) are reluctant to fight this war, after all. They wouldn't want to lose their head in this...

If anything, Ukraine is winning this war. And it _will_ win this war, unless Russia is able to achieve air superiority over the skies pronto, which is very, very unlikely.
>you're working on or something you're responsible for is blocking me and I have no way of making progress

Me more important then you right?
When Cryptoland or some other libertarian fantasy country actually exists and issues usable passports. Until that happens, most likely never, US citizenship is not terrible.

Renouncing citizenship requires finding another country that will give you citizenship, preferably a country with a strong passport and lower taxes than the US. That option really only makes sense for the wealthy.
NATO membership requires territorial integrity. A lot would have to change first.

And I think even with all the excitement, clear heads will seriously question how well this strategy has worked.
Unless it's effecting your performance review or whatever, who cares, honestly? The obsession with efficiency and Taylorism is what's wrong with the current state of affairs in business.

Not saying people shouldn't want to be productive just that understanding delays and simply pyschologically dealing with them would go a long way in modern culture. Not everything needs to happen 5 minutes ago, is late, or is so critical it can't wait a few hours.
> Peertube is the opposite of centralized video hosting; it's a federation of nodes.

Like a CDN? :)
I guess it is important to study everything that could go wrong, because kids will eat anything, etc.

But the main point here is... obviously don't eat the chemicals that come with a covid test. And don't use the chemical reagent dropper as eye drops.
I don't know which dataset you're using for the Netherlands, but it's way off:

https://www.surnamemap.eu/netherlands/index.php?sur=van+der+...

https://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_lcnaa...

EDIT: actually, it works if I use "vd Zwan", which is fine by itself, but that contradicts the instructions on top of the page:

https://www.surnamemap.eu/netherlands/nl/index.php?sur=vd+zw...
I don't disagree; I was just pointing out that the overall tone of the conversation, when bringing in 1939-1940, would logically imply that Western countries have to enter the fight directly. That would likely trigger nuclear war, which would be very different from the likes of the Battle of Britain - something that a lot of people tend to forget.
Already submitted and de-facto rejected. Nobody wants Article 5 triggered over the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
To be fair this type of border probing is something that's happened every now and then since the cold war.
To me, that book comes across pretty preachy and doesn't offer little in nuance between knowledge work and manual labor, a la starting a motorcycle repair business badly. It also had this "guy switches careers and needs to write a book to justify it" feel.

But I also consider Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance pretty mediocre, while others consider it life changing, so not sure how valid my opinion is.
If I decide not to resist an invasion of a stronger military force out of concern for my personal safety and that of my family and friends, and I do not really consider the interests of Moldova. That's just another foreign nation, like Russia. If the Russian army arrives in Moldova, they too can make the decision whether to fight or to surrender.

Incidentally, one million Ukranians have already voted with their feet on staying and fighting. The odds are that they will never see their home again. You have to pause and think about that. How is surrendering a worse outcome than abandoning your country to the invader?
I'm pretty sure Russia considers the price of Finland and Sweden joining NATO to be well worth the price of Ukraine never joining.

Ukraine's border is much more significant than Finland's.
This is made somewhat misleading by insane growth. Even if there is no churn your percent is still surprisingly high because of new hires that are coming from new headcount.
"Cover art specifications: A perfect square."

...which we will butcher by rounding the corners in all of our apps.
US withdraws from nuclear treaty with Russia (2019)
> it might be enough for Russia to have "ruined" Kyiv, etc., and to have significantly degraded Ukraine's military.

Well, that's more or less what Putin said he wanted to do, right? De-militarize and "de-nazify" (he actually means change the regime to one that, like the Ukrainian government prior to 2014, supports Russia) Ukraine.
Have you considered implementing the peace agreement as an NFT?

The blockchain can revolutionize peace or even armistice talks, allowing for traceability of signatures, terms and military positions.
You only need a handful of them to work to remain a threat. It’s not like a tank battalion.
Because people are dumb on average, and half are dumber than that.
It works quite well, but bear in mind that the dataset must be already quite old. Based on my ancestors extremely rare name (only family in Germany) I would say at least 15 years old – but accurate for that matter!
Putin killed your business, and I'm sympathetic to that and it sucks for you that your business has become a casualty of economic warfare.
A facts based explanation of Russia's perspective can be found here: https://www.fpri.org/article/2022/01/moscows-compellence-str...
I just wrote a sample of our onboarding process in another comment, and it sounds similar. And yes, we were remote pre-covid.

When a person signs in the first day, they already have a bunch of meetings scheduled (meet and greets, explainers, etc...), some work assigned (I like to have a bit of a goal when exploring a new code base, but this work isn't expected to get done right away), etc...

It can be done well, but takes some thinking through.
How do you live with yourself?

What possible ethical basis do you have as an individual have to mess with people (lots of them), lying, misleading, misinforming, etc in order to achieve a goal?

Who decides what is a 'good' goal? Does it matter, or do you just do what you are told?

I know the answers - you're just following orders, you believe you are working for the good, etc. These are not valid answers - you cannot pretend the actions you take against others are ok, because you were just following orders.

Order following and misleading others at scale, makes you part of the problem.
The recent behaviour from Russia is idiotic, but makes sense because they are in panic mode. It (Russia) will need to be seriously declawed and this only makes sense because of that.

You cannot have imperialistic ambitions of this scale in 2022 via warlike means, only possible are via US-like "export" of the Silicon Valley ethos all over the world.
And also lack of upload capacity for 90% of people due to the lack of symmetric fiber availability.
Ah, so this is the goalpost-shifting that will allow Putin to save face.
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