skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience might be similar in a way, in that when I started meditating I became aware in a more direct way of how self-referential my mind was. It does things, but then it also does things that can observe it doing things. That is both interesting and liberating, in that there are processes I can't control (which I think aligns with your feeling of lack of free will), but also processes which I can can control. It is quite comforting to feel like I'm not trapped on a single level of thought, which is sometimes uncontrollable.
That's what interview processes are for.
And if the consensus goes for a stack you don't like, let's say for example for doing and SPA, then maybe it's not a mistake as stated in the article. Unless you guys think that any engineer that makes choices different than yours is incompetent.
It's not about the tech-companies, it's about their employees: many of them simply don't want to come back to the office!

What if many of them switch to companies that allow fully remote working? Google will lose out on a lot of talent and will eventually suffer in the quality of its products.

I personally believe there's no difference in the volume of work produced by people working remotely, providing they don't have small children at home. All these drawbacks are made-up by managers fearing to lose their jobs if workers keep working remotely.
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> Today, we see a much friendlier Microsoft. It's wonderful

> It's not like Microsoft was trying to create MAUI back in 2000

Today, in 2022, Microsoft still tries to uses the MAUI name even though it is directly the name of a pre-existing unrelated GUI toolkit (https://mauikit.org/). Much friendlier my arse.
> Half of that $50B goes into "selling, general, and administrative" salaries

And a lot of this overhead cost isn't necessary simply because the system is so horribly broken. And not just on the side of insurance expenses, but also on the benefits payout side. The US system has consistently shown to be more expensive for worse outcomes than other nations' systems.

> To get prices of housing/healthcare/education/childcare down to reasonable levels, you need to invent ways [...]

No you Americans don't need to invent anything new. Americans should just go and look how other countries operate, the typical American Exceptionalism attitude of "no one does anything better than the US" is the biggest problem the country has.

Housing cost is inflated because rural areas are getting depopulated because of rotting infrastructure (e.g. broadband Internet, adequately funded schools, public transport, access to healthcare) and because employers for modern jobs are located in urban areas. Fixing that requires investment in mentioned infrastructure and incentives for companies to provide remote work for people living outside of urban areas. In some areas, foreign dark money and speculation (cough AirBnB) add to the mix, the former can be confiscated (which the US is beginning to do, at least against Russian assets) and the latter banned or at least severely taxed.

Healthcare costs can be fixed by literally copying any of the other Western nations' healthcare model, and by providing access to more MD education to fix the supply side of doctors.

Education costs aren't that inflated (actually, they are often enough so horribly underfunded that schools only run for four days so teachers can go and run side gigs, or teachers having to pay for supplies out of their already poor wages), but if cost savings were to be made there, I'd start with professional school sports teams and by providing food not out of school budgets but out of social services budgets.

Childcare costs... well, there's supply and demand right there. When both parents have to work two or more jobs to barely make rent, they need childcare. A decent minimum wage that provides enough for a single income to live a decent life should fix the demand and knock out a whole lot of other poverty-related side effects in the process.
> ... Fischer–Tropsch-powered diesel trucks.

Fischer-Tropsch with which kind of carbon/hydrogen sources? Hydrogen from electrolysis?

Fischer-Tropsch diesel would allow continued use of existing trucks until their EOL.

> ... Maybe methanol-powered trucks or CNG-powered trucks ...

My guess is that it'll be the liquid (or liquefied; not hydrogen though) fuel that is most universally applicable (different regions of the world with different temperatures, different uses in industries) that will prevail.
Might even be Ammonia because it doesn't require a carbon source to be synthesized.

> For short-distance delivery, battery-powered electric trucks probably work fine ...

I kind of see the point that for short distances BEV have a strong position. But on the other hand my reasoning for that to be somewhat temporary would be: in the long rong, there needs to be some liquid fuel that gets used for long distance. As soon as this liquid fuel becomes cheap enough to be competitive, it will have a huge advantage over BEV that might then chew off even the short distance applications of BEV.
If some liquid fuel were to become cheap enough then it'd be dramatically more flexible to refuel than BEV. Just fill up the tank, it's quick and simple tech. No need to structure your day that's busy (managing work and private life) around charging a vehicle. Also compared to maintaining the charching infrastructure and balancing the load of an electric grid, it's soo much less complex because liquid fuels come with robust load buffering built in.
Aside from a Stripe rep estimating a response in 12-24 hours, and then taking 3 days to give out a canned response, it seems like Stripe hasn’t don’t anything wrong.

This potential issue was flagged in the documentation.

I don’t want to “blame the victim,” but I don’t see Stripe
As particularly culpable here.
Thank you for taking this "smell" in a positive direction bch. It constructively adds to the conversation.

Now I'm older, I am getting that "hit" of "whoa that is offensive" more than I expected, vs when I first contemplated Ageism as a young software engineer. I thought it wouldn't be something I'd see much of, back then. I've yet to quantify the negative impact, today.

Wasabigeek apologizes, here, for that perception as being unintentional, which is totally understandable ... and I believe bias is difficult to spot in oneself, from personal experience of having unintentional biases. Subjectivity vs Objectivity when it comes to oneself is ripe with tragedy. [Human condition.]
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I've just had to install several different VPNs until I've found one that offers a Russian endpoint, in order to get account statements from Russian banks. Which I need to comply with IRS regulation to disclose my foreign accounts as a part of U.S. yearly tax report.

Not all banks are affected, only the most popular ones, it seems (e.g. VTB, Open).

All of them, including the "unavailable" ones, still have USD and EUR transfer options open to use, not sure if they are SWIFT-based or using something else now.

I don't know what's going on, perhaps DDoS from Anonymous or an overreaction from the banks themselves, but I'm pretty sure Putin hasn't even noticed this unavailability. Are they sure they know what they're doing?
> Now with WfH:
Let me correct it for you:

1. Ask in Slack/chat if colleague 1 and 2 are avail

2. Colleague 1 is avail, colleague 2 no answer

3. Start call with C1, share the screen... something crash or C1 has network issues

4. C2 is still MIA

5. C2 joins, we work together for 5 minutes, than C1 doorbell rings, they have to leave

6. C1 is back, we work for 10 minutes but now C2 has to go to a meeting

7. you get it..

So, every rose has its thorns...
hmm, well there we can see I was wrong, I just went to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index I was sure Singapore was registered as a Hybrid regime but I can see it is listed as a flawed democracy, if that's correct and I guess I'll assume it is as I'm not planning to move there anyway then there isn't a reason to hold anything against them, given that very few countries are better than flawed Democracy.

on edit: still criminal system seems overly harsh.
rsync accepts pipes which means you can run end to end compression and decompression automatically during the transfer. Processes can also be parallelized. Most of the time when I see someone claiming rsync does not suit their purpose it ends up being that they aren’t confident in using it safely. Most of the time I never use anything else except the -av flag
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Yup, The Day After feels like willy nilly optimistic romantic comedy next to Threads, I have same feeling about extremely overrated romantic movie The Shawshank Redemption compared to much more realistic Das Experiment (judging by my military experience which was sort of prison).
Please think about this carefully before making such replies. You cannot "go back" in time and "verify" a weather station reading. It was what it was on a specific day at a specific place, and if the log books say it was X then it was X. You can't say, gee, I wonder what the temperature was in New York on April 1st 1940 if I use my super-duper new thermometer, because time travel is impossible.

"We should only trust people who never ever change their mind or attempt to correct their previous interpretations of data"

Look, I realize what I'm showing you is hard to accept. It was for me too. I did a lot of digging before coming to the conclusion that I couldn't refute what was happening. Nonetheless, please recognize that you're in denial here. These people are not changing their interpretations of the data. They are changing the data itself and I believe I made that extremely clear. It's very hard to get the raw, pre-editing historical datasets. Sometimes it's possible, sometimes it's not. It really depends on the temperature series, the organization that produces it, the time frame in question etc. That's why I'm forced to cite newspaper archives above, because they are one of the places where history is recorded that scientists can't easily rewrite.

"Thanks, random internet stranger, for showing that millions of scientists and dozens of government organizations are completely incompetent and/or malicious liars!"

Unfortunately facts aren't decided by how many people say them or who they work for. Facts are what they are and one person pointing out one fact, can - in fact - show that millions of scientists and dozens of government organizations are doing something highly unusual.

At any rate, there aren't millions of climatologists, lol. It's a tiny field. Even fewer of them produce temperature data sets. Probably fewer than 100 people do that work globally (I'm not counting the people who actually read the thermometers here because they aren't publishing combined temperature series).

With respect to being incompetent and malicious liars, I'm afraid they are something far worse - highly competent and badly incentivized liars. If there was no global warming them climatology would be dusty academic backwater that none of us would ever think about. They wouldn't be the center of a massive cultural industry that venerates them, instead their status and funding would be somewhere near the sort of people who categorize rare species of butterflies.
Sure, the problem is - Java apps did neither.

Looking good? The default Swing metal theme was truly awful. It was possible to switch to Windows-like theme, but it was even more awful - it had plenty of visual glitches and things misplaced by a few pixels it couldn't even use the native file selector window.

Working well? Startup times and performance was terrible compared to native apps, and memory usage is still abysmal. And you got occasional GC pauses even in well optimised apps. I still sometimes run into occasional lags in Idea, even though Jetbrains did a lot of great work to polish the user experience.

Doing what they want? That depends on the programmer, but, besides developer utilities like IDEs, I can't think of a Java app that didn't have a better looking and more polished native competition.
You really think so?

Sounds unlikely to me, Russia is an oligrarchy, even Putin said so.

The elite isn't that dumb to risk their wealth for some cult.
I'm on expensive machine and notice a lot, too!

I also use a lot of "classic" websites where they fall over because of bad server-side state.

An example, a train reservation site, where I choose dates + a destination. The next page, it shows me some results. I decide to change the date. I hit the back button, and it falls over, cuz the state management on the server is messed up.

This happens a lot for me (this is mainly on Japanese websites), and it's extremely frustrating.

I don't like a lot of SPAs, I also don't like a lot of "classic" apps, but I do feel like SPA-y stuff at least demands less of the developers so the failure cases are a bit less frustrating for me. In theory.

And to the connections, the terrible websites with many megs of JS were likely terrible websites with many megs of HTML and huge uncompressed images before that... I don't want to minimize it (thank god for React, but old Angular bundles were the worst), just think comparing like-for-like is important.

EDIT: thinking about it more though, it's definitely _easier_ to send giant bundles on certain websites.

Given how many times this discussion happens on HN, I feel like instead of the hypotheticals, people should make a list of actual websites in both domains so that comparisons and proper critiques could be made...
It's the same with mainframes, not everyone can and want to throw it's data onto a cloud that operates under the "cloud-act".

And there is not one cloud operator that has the security, reliability, bandwidth and uptime of a mainframe.
The US bombed Laos 1/2 million times. Yes, 1/2 million missions for at least 1000lbs of bombs per person.

This information was hidden from the public at the time.
If the west is willing to keep the economic sanctions on (and that's a big if). Russia as we knew it is over. There should be a few requirements for removal of sanctions. (in no order)

1) russian denuclearification (due to using the threat of nuclear weapons as an umbrella over a conventional war)

2) agree to remove themselves from UN Security Council as a permanent member (due to invading another sovereign state with basically complete worldwide condemnation, one can try to equate it to US moves, but none of them have been as universally condenmed, so yes, quantity matters in this regard).

3) complete pullback from Ukraine

4) reparations paid to Ukraine.

5) I've even argue to having to give up their european enclave.

if they refuse, they will cease to be effectively an independent state and will simple become a chinese vassal state.

so the Q is, what matters more to Russian pride. being an independent state that can mostly chart one's own destiny, but being a pale remnant of what they once were. Or having fake power but really simply being under the total control of china.
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> their argument is more nuanced than just thinking meditation is opening up to the dark side

Is it? Viewed through that lens, it doesn't seem like there is a lot of nuance.
That's what I did. I mean, my story is quite unique in that I never knew what meditation was (or religion, to be honest) and it just fell into my lap.

I think, looking back I can safely say that it did help me address a lot of emotional trauma. I didn't exactly have a gentle upbringing and I somehow entangled myself into all those memories.

Meditation helped me to clear the air, but as you say - it blindly became a somewhat of an addiction. So I stopped and started focusing on other things. And I still have a long way to go.
> Is the author’s experience common for other people?

Not at all.
Thanks for referring to Nitter. I didn't know about it, and Twitter's nags to log in got really annoying lately.

I do however prefer to do this kind of thing through bookmarklets, so here's one I found in a quick search: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/451#issuecomment-946...
Yes. Could be some solace that current events appear to more or less hand Russia over to Xi, who appeared reasonably rational so far. Of course, medium term this puts China at EU's doorstep, so I would say caution (army, etc.) is more than warranted. What a world.
Here's my anecdote.

When the team was still intact -- the people who were WFH were the same people who had been in the office together -- things were mostly fine.

Now there's been significant turnover and it feels like we're imploding. Management has no idea how to onboard people remotely; the team culture is completely gone. Communication is horrible. People who used to be dependable are now half-assing things. A 40 hr/wk job has become one where people are working 55, even 60, because the new people can't see us all physically leave the office after 8 hours to be able to trust that yes, really, it's just 40 hours. All of this is a huge personal tragedy for me; you can even see my profile where I've had a number of comments talking about how positive the working environment has been historically. It's all changing though.

It just feels like a disaster. Everything hummed along fine for the first several months, but as churn has happened something has been lost. We never spent time and effort looking at how to become a remote organization. We simply told everyone to WFH.

I've been reading about some of the downsides of fully remote work for over a decade, and I'm just seeing them in spades now. Even teams who were built to be remote from the ground up have (pre-pandemic) write-ups talking about the challenges of communication, team bonding, trust building, and so on.

What I see in my circles is a bunch of people who say how much they love not having to leave the home. What I don't see is a ton of people arguing that it makes their team better. Let me be clear I'm not discounting the value of being able to be at home; I know it's a huge benefit to many parents, for instance, and I know there are some who used to have a 2 hours commute. I'm just saying I haven't actually heard any arguments supporting the idea that it is a net improvement for the team -- and when the team becomes dysfunctional, people's mental well-being and happiness begin to suffer for other reasons.

These are all obviously just personal anecdotes. I would not be surprised, however, to see companies start walking this back slowly over the next few years, especially the non-tech companies. I think we will see increased inefficiencies show up as churn continues, as well as people with even moderate extroversion getting fed up of the isolation. Further, there is a strong tendency for people to want to work with other people "like them," and so I don't see local/regional companies being open to hiring nationwide for very long. Google hiring nationwide is one thing; Regional Health Insurance Corp, with business 100% focused within a half-state-sized region, is something completely different.

I could be completely wrong. I hope we can sort of collectively settle on some sort of moderate state, one where WFH days are liberal, but you don't have organizations of 1000+ people who never physically see each other. For instance, I feel somewhat stuck at my current position because the thought of trying to grow trust with an entire new team of people over calls and internet chat is horrifying to me.
> Clearly they are not blowing through an entire year's defense budget in three days (that would be over 100x the usual rate of spend!).

The figure in the article includes losses; indeed, it speaks of costs, not spending.

Of course losses can obliterate many years of budget, if you're losing permanent assets that took literal decades to build up! Armies don't get rebuilt from scratch every year.
If they’re practicing Buddhists they recognize that their own self doesn’t exist, so I think they’re winning compared to the average Westerner who believes in free will. Not to mention all those other unprovable beings like “Moses” and “George Washington” who like to hand down written commandments we follow.
I don't disagree with you, but Linux is an enormously complex piece of software.

I also never said all software was free. Of course some software is paid for. But how much of the software you use is free? My bet is quite a bit. Including HackerNews and browser you access it with.

Quite a bit of paid software is built by all free dev tools. This didn't use to be true - good compilers were very expensive. At least a couple grand in modern dollars.
Wait, so you're telling me that lobster actually does stick to magnet?

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Well that's been going on for a long time now, most big companies have multiple time zone teams.
Lombok is too much magic for me, record class and the annotation generators libraries are a bit less magic
As a researcher applying ML in my work the OP reads like me looking from the outside at web-frameworks: there's a LOT of noise but in practice, people run just the same 3 things.

For example, when I first got into ML the ADAM optimizer was the new big thing, since then hundreds of 'better' optimizers have been published. This paper from August '21 shows that most of that is overblown and no optimizer consistently outperforms ADAM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.01547.pdf

I'd even go so far and say that OP's big image of MLOps is misleading. 'Data Science Notebooks' shows Jupyter, binder, colab, I can't see the other logos; but binder and colab both run Jupyter notebooks? Under ML platforms there are a ton of companies in this picture which effectively do the same thing. Some of these logos are tools (Jupyter, R), some of these logos are companies using ML in some way or other (John Deere, Siemens) - and once you go down this path you might as well put any mid-sized company in the world onto this.
Devil's advocate here: can we — for the sake of the argument — assume for a sec that what Russia's been saying is true, and that their goal is: not having Nato in Ukraine?

Because if we can — for the sake of the argument — assume that, their winning condition is achieved. Ukraine, being in the middle of a military conflict, won't be admitted to Nato.
My take:

Russia will absorb Ukraine, and since there is nothing stopping them at the moment probably Moldova and Georgia as well. Lukashenko will give Belarus to Russia.

Once all of these places have been assimilated, they are now all Russia. You can no longer support the citizens of these areas because they will all be Russians.

Russia will continue to isolate themselves and attempt to turn everyone within their borders against the west.

They already practiced cutting themselves off from the entire internet last year, so they likely know how bad things will get.

Russia can sustain itself if it wants because it is so large, so it appears they are attempting to build some sort of enclave at any cost.
Just looking at the land mass is probably misleading too. Most of the population is in the western part of Russia. As soon as you get to the mountains and Siberia there is simply not much there.
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And now I notice that all my uses of static_cast are either with reference or pointer types or for primitive type conversions, but never in a manner that invokes a class's copy constructor.

I didn't realize that C-style casting would behave like static_cast, doing pointer offsets and null checks, if that was available. I had believed it was always reinterpret_cast for pointers.
But there must be some less arbitrary way to apply this discrimination? If there's no clear definition how are they falsifying their race? An Asian American could claim their ancestors came from Africa and they would not be wrong...

Other countries have official recognized minorities which you get from your parents, or use the birth nationality of your (grand)parents.