skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot speak for OP but as a working manager, COVID was hard to really keep forward progress.

I had people that were rockstars in the office that just didnt do work at home.

Maybe its the removal of distractions (no TV, I may walk by, etc). But even for things that were totally fine remote (ie: Ticket Queues) i noticed very quickly if my status showed "in" they were on it. If my status for any reason showed away, tickets would straight up get ignored. Mentioning this would enact change for a day or two, but ultimately it would return back to status quo. What did happen is that those that were self motivated were quicker/starting to burn out. I had to get with them and intervene and encourage them to take time off, encourage them to let the queue go for their teammates to pick it up etc.

I had other colleagues asking my ops teams to check in on their direct reports and I often had to have meetings telling them thats not a IT/Tech issue and they need to deal with it, just like I am having to..

Frankly i had a mouse shaker on a side box not for MY Managers, but for my direct reports...

As we transitioned back to the office a lot of these issues mostly disappeared. EXCEPT for those with weak/timid managers. A lot of those guys are still slacking, but they were slacking before and the manager just didnt want to handle it.

But my teams....most of them are mostly back to normal. We all have burnout to deal with, myself included and I have had to manage to balance pushing them and encouraging them to do things that dont cause burnout, front structuring your workday, to taking mental health days etc. But ultimately the return to the office was a relief for me, and a lot of that just went away.

I personally think its the removal of distractions coupled with the "threat" of someone walking up that doesnt exist at home. And its worth saying, I'm not one of those old school butts in chairs kinda guy. In fact im pretty laid back, and have been told so by peers and reports alike, and in many cases I have been asked how I am able to be so laid back and still have productivity like I do, but covid made it harder.

And thats beyond the fact that I have colleagues in other divisions that i KNOW are using their WFH days to be out fishing, playing golf, hiking whatever. Personally for me thats an ethics issue, i take days off for that. But I work in a small sector, im not going to tattle tail on someone i may cross paths with down the line, karma will catch them anyhow.
It doesn’t make sense to me to voluntarily donate money to politicians when you are complaining about taxes. You can write your members of Congress for free.

For a self-employed person Social Security is 12% on the first $147K of self-employment income, maxing out at $18,228/year. Medicare is 2.9% on the first $200K and 3.9% on income over $200K. So for a person making $200K+ the total of those is 12% + 3.9% = 15.9%.

For a person with a regular employer (you mentioned “paycheck” in your comment) the employer pays half of those taxes, so the employee portion is a little less than 8%.

That’s a significant chunk of income paid for Social Security and Medicare but I wouldn’t call it “the biggest part.”

Americans living abroad can collect Social Security, so that part is not necessarily utterly useless. Currently Medicare benefits only pay for treatment in the US, but in that case the percentage of income paying into that is no more than 2.35%.

If you have parents or relatives on Medicare you are actually funding them, think of it that way. Because of demographic changes America has a growing aged population and a shrinking population of young people. If you want to address that problem have more children.

If preparing and filing tazes is sucking out all your time come tax season maybe get a professional tax preparer to do it for you. I have been self-employed for over a decade, earning well over $150K/year, lived overseas more than half that time, and I never spent more than a couple of hours a year preparing and filing my taxes. Some people have more complex tax situations than others but most returns are not that complex if you keep your records and receipts organized.
this thread is full of hypotheticals and blaming irrational actors for fear of nukes.

the only country to drop nukes on enemies is the US.

our fear of enemies using nukes has set us back half a century in energy.

why do we focus on hypotheticals when there’s no evidence for 80 years?
Alternate take: all those participants played nice in the hopes that it'd lead to an autocratic take-over of the US, neatly getting rid of their major enemy. In that vein, Trump was just the "best moron" they'd seen in a long while.
Sorry to be blunt, but have you been trying to start a software business or have you been writing code hoping a business materializes?

> I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it

This tells me it's probably the latter. Building a software business is understanding business problems, validating the pricing, verifying there is a market, coming up with a marketing strategy, selling the software, running a support organization, making sure your expenses and profits are categorized correctly. Writing code is just a small piece of that.

It's ok to just be interested in the software part of a software business, but just because you like to cook doesn't mean that you want to own and run a restaurant. If coding is your passion, get a job coding and stop pretending to yourself that you want to run a business.
If you haven't already, you should open it up and remove the PRAM battery. I've seen what happens when the battery bursts and then sits for a few years... not pretty. The caps aren't as big of a deal in comparison, they just need to be replaced when you want to use it.
I am referring to the EUs plans to issue passports. I'm not informed beyond having heard this.
> if you work in a sufficiently toxic environment/culture for long enough, that very behavior that you try to fight against and change begins to seep into your everyday actions

It can carry through a person’s career, too.

I worked for a company that hired a lot of people out of a big tech company famous for being a grind, having a lot of PIPs, and generally keeping employees in constant fear of losing their jobs.

Some of the ex-employees of that company were wonderful to work with and appreciated working with us as a breath of fresh air.

However, a lot of them were clearly scarred by their experience at a toxic company. The worst of them were constantly in fear of being perceived as ranked lower than their peers (even though we didn’t rank!) and would make a lot of dumb moves to try to sabotage other people’s reputations. One guy went so far as to keep a long Google doc of what he saw as mistakes and missteps of his peers and managers, which he would then pull from as leverage whenever he thought someone might be a candidate for getting promoted past him. Another would have a emotional meltdown any time there was an issue with something he was accountable for and would rapidly write up a “post-mortem” that was really just a narrative that blamed someone else for the failure and demonstrated how he fixed it.

We didn’t have these problems with high performers we hired from anywhere else. It was something about this company that chewed people up and left some of them scarred and defensive.
The generation of Putin, Lukashenko and all Sovietic widow/Tyrant wannabe should die soon. We have to move away from that. Otherwise we are just the angry chimps that are able to lie and use smartphones.
Wow, so you believe people of color deserve discrimination because statistically they commit more violent crime?
It's embarrassing the amount of individuals/corporations that are deciding to screw over random Russian citizens, who have a fairly good chance of not even supporting the war.

The next time an Islamic terrorist attacks the US, let's use this as precedent for denying random Muslims access to civic culture across the globe. Lovely world we're building.
Artists can live stream on Bandcamp now: https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/01/27/bandcamp-live-is-now-op...
My intel based laptop performs like crap in Win 10.
There's a channel on YouTube called "The Hook Up" that has a lot of good videos about home automation. Here's his playlist of videos he's made on security cameras:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-51DG-VULPom8Ud6vdf5...

Most relevant to your question might be this video: Build The BEST Security Camera NVR: Free Locally Processed AI Computer Vision with Blue Iris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwoonl5JKgo
Russia's leverage over Europe comes from a European reliance on carbon energy.
He's the main force driving it forward while other entities are busy either divesting from it or just use it as a free API builder for their React app.

Yes there's lots of contributors and he doesn't do everything but his vision is what's driving basically all the innovation.

Also the MIT license does require attribution (if nothing else) and the copyright is his...
Does anyone know what kind of dev environment you can get on an SE? I guess assembly and Pascal are available.
AppleScript was one of my first programming languages, way back in the day. I still have an AppleScript I wrote that I use every day on my MacBook. I'll say it was nice for a beginner that it didn't use a lot of fiddly punctuation, like dollar signs to start variable names, or semicolons to end statements. But the language is only natural-ish. The syntax is just as formal as python or anything else in how you must put it together. It looks easy, and maybe that is a virtue, but a week into it you are looping over an array and de-referencing the dictionary in each element. It's still loops, conditionals, operators, functions, typing, etc.
Perhaps the key concern of our generation should be learning to avoid emotional overreaction to the media's business model of fear-porn and outrage-porn for clicks and shares.

Depending on where we are in the news cycle, you might have anything from a mass shooting, to treatment of economic migrants, to Covid, to climate change, to cops shooting black people, to war, to illegal immigration, to terrorism, to white supremacy, to drugs, etc labeled as THE CRITICAL ISSUE WE MUST TACKLE FOR HUMANITY NOW.

We went from mass societal panic about Covid to mass societal panic about Ukraine basically without skipping a beat and few people notice how their energy was redirected so seamlessly. How many people gave a shit about past Russian incursions into Ukraine or Georgia for land? The rest of the world basically never gave a shit about that only because the media never told them that they had to care about that. It's absurd how much influence the media has over people who are only overly concerned about whether they maintain acceptable public opinions or not.
And yet replacing it with something that sounds harmless will not change the underlying reality.
Sorry, but I didn't ask for anything upthread. You might have meant to reply to someone else. Trying not to get involved with a flamewar, but it should be noted that there are many possible explanations of a paper's editorial decisions that do not invoke censorship.
What is wrong with the kits in the UK? US kits don’t say anything like that. The swab only goes in about half an inch now.

Yeah, that sounds really shitty.
It works best if both are insane but fear death.

A reasonable actor wouldn't counter attack a first strike because annihilation of mankind is not an option.
I wonder why doesn't Google make a `https://google.` since they own that TLD.
It sounds like the problem you're grappling with is what to do with your life.

You stated you tried to start numerous "software businesses" over the last 20 years and you're currently implementing a programmable PostgreSQL proxy. Do you want to be an entrepreneur or an engineer? What is it about business that draws you to it? Is it the freedom and independence and not wanting to work for someone else? Or are you passionate about producing something that will improve the world and solve a problem that could benefit many other people?

As for "I'm 37 and we're looking to start a family" ... what do you value more, starting that family or whatever "not getting a job" represents.

The issue I think you're facing is that the value of "not getting a job" is undefined.

Keep in mind that "becoming entrepreneur" is not the only alternative to "not getting a job." If you're passionate about engineering but you want more flexibility and freedom than a 9-5 then maybe consider becoming an independent contractor? I haven't heard anything in your question that implies that you're passionate about business and being an entrepreneur or that there is any specific vision that you have for something that will improve the world that you can't wait to get to market.
I read it as a euphemism for "give other contributors a chance at presenting the opening keynote going forward, not you (DHH) every year by default". It is vaguely worded, so I suppose they could mean sharing in the sense of spreading this year's keynote across multiple presenters, but in the context of the past year it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was RailsConf's way of uninviting DHH.
Says who?

By all conventional measures it's impossible for them to hold it. Why would we assume thats what theyre trying to do? It makes no sense.
I too crave outright propaganda and am disappointed whenever I find out that something is not that
You’re only half right. Public school funding has not been cut over and over. We spend more and more to achieve less and less, while the curriculum is destroyed, and teaching methods degrade.

The goal has shifted to equality of outcomes, not equality in inputs / resources. The least capable are lavished with the greatest resources while the most capable are ignored and held back.

I think this is based on the fundamentally flawed assumption that every human is equally capable given the same opportunities and resources, and somehow the school district is the place to compensate for perceived “equity” gaps.

I’d expect the macro level effect is a dumbing down of society to the least common denominator. Or to put it another way, the bottom half of IQ adolescents may do marginally better in the next 30 years in terms of quantifiable contributions to society such as lifetime earnings or degrees obtained or patents filed, etc., whereas the top half of IQ adolescents will do dramatically worse.
What can I say? That shit doesn't block kids crying or TV shows, because I hear them at least weekly if not daily during meetings.
Interview on Donbass with French journalist (English subtitles available)
Hi Mr. Crumb, why beat the strawman? He didn't say that and the article didn't either. All he is saying is that Asians try really hard, not that Blacks or other groups are not trying.
This is the only approach that works and won the US the Cold War.
A credible threat that if the USSR dared to use nukes, NATO would use nukes against the USSR.

Do you think Putin is a genious and it didn't cross other USSR leaders minds the same idea -- "surely, the USA would not use nukes again us if we used just a few nukes against a weaker NATO member"?

The only sane answer is to absolutely make sure the other guy knows you're going to use nukes the second they use them.

Macron's retort to Putin needs to be shouted from the rooftops -- we also have nukes, you're not that special.
Anti-fraud systems at most companies are pretty simplistic. Most of these companies will have a bunch of 'indicators' of possible fraud (eg. account is <24 hours old, phone number country doesn't match IP country, email address isn't gmail/hotmail/yahoo/aol, customer does not have cookies from last login, customer name does not match credit card name, name and DOB not found on equifax, etc.)

If you trip too many indicators, your account will be banned.

'Privacy conscious' people tend to get caught up in these anti-fraud systems.
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Russians are complaining, that it is not "fair" to put economic and social sanctions on them. "After all, it is our government, not us, who started this war" they say.

Thats okay Russians. We didn't put on the sanctions. Our governments did -- so that argument is a two way street if you want to engage in bad faith arguments.
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I was soooo impressed with the "Bundle For Racial Justice and Equality," and I've been curious to see if something like that would happen again for Ukraine.

https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality
Yes, he's quite good. I like his air traffic control vs pilots videos, there's some nice details explained that you never think about.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

(do no further research before watching this movie, you will thank me)
I’ll confirm part of this. I have some means, and am seeing signs of my school district reducing investment in accelerated/gifted programs in favor of more “inclusion”. When it comes time to choose a school for my kids, I may opt to send them to private schools. Not everyone has this option. I’d much rather public schools provide this for everyone, but if they choose not to I will simply pay to get it just for my kids.
RealLifeLore has a great video on why Russia is initiating these attacks. Worth a watch: https://youtu.be/If61baWF4GE
I don’t know what state of the art is, but I ran chocolate doom on Linux and Mac to play my old doom levels.

https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Downloads

sudo apt install chocolate-doom
One thing that worries me particularly about the current situation is how calculating Putin is, and how little regard he has for the US. He expected us to just knuckle under and take it when he invaded Ukraine, like we have done in the past.

So, what does he think about our resolve to use nuclear weapons? MAD only works as a deterrent if everyone is convinced the other side will follow through. Nuclear weapons are such a terrible weapon, I personally believe some politicians would not have the courage (or insanity) to push the button when they must, if they think the game is already lost either way.

Maybe Putin thinks he can use nukes as long as they don't hit someone in NATO. I don't know what goes through his mind, but I do know that nuclear weapons are just about the one single thing humanity has ever created that is unambiguously evil. If they are ever used again (and I expect eventually they will be), I hope whomever lives through the experience has the courage to eliminate any remaining ones through whatever means necessary, and then institutes monitoring sufficient to prevent them ever being created again.
iam authenticated access to a cloudsql instance is exactly what I’m trying to do right now… and it’s not surprising why people give up and hard code credentials…
I'd argue this is why many kids are successful when home schooled.

The idea that you should interact so much with your peers is kind of strange to be honest. Is it really healthy for kids to interact regularly with their peers? I'd argue it's much better for children to interact with adults. Historically, kids would learn to work on the farm, attend church, etc and they'd see other children, but most of the time they'd be learning from adults how to act and strive for.
The reason the big 2 do it at the same time is also that there is a very significant payment risk for any counterparty of Aeroflot at the moment. The Ruble is falling and the Swift block is making payments even harder.

So I'm guessing that demand for Aeroflot in the GDS systems is tiny at the moment.
Cool but I think the following are safe assumptions: Most packets are dropped "elsewhere". Most packets are dropped due to misconfiguration, route loss (often due to power loss, link change or link integrity issues), or firewalling. Well written applications tend to survive regardless. IPv6 is nominally better than IPv4 in terms of surviving link state changes.

Also: The recent trend of putting everything down web sockets is bad, as it effectively regresses to circuit-switched networking with undefined QoS guarantees / failure types and crap tooling. Hopefully we've already passed 'peak websocket'.
For kids who are behind, they solve this by throwing a lot more personnel at the problem, to the point that some kids have one-on-one assistants/tutors follow them around all day. Good luck getting budgets increased enough to do the same for gifted kids, though.
Perhaps not a popular opinion, but the overwhelming majority of "gifted" kids seem to be near the middle of the bell curve with parents that are convinced little George is the next Einstein.

It is kind of fascinating since it does seem plausible that treating a child as gifted with high expectations and then providing focused, advanced instruction may be a self-fulfilling sort of situation.
> Even if they were under a neutral flag everyone would think of the person as Russian.

Yeah because they're from Russia. I just don't see how "people will think" is enough of a reason to ban them from playing an event.

(1) Some deranged person running Russia decided to invade Ukraine, kill innocent people and ruin millions of lives.

(2) A chess organization in Norway bans a player because they were born in the same country as the deranged person from above.

I don't get how (2) is an appropriate response to (1) or how it helps anyone. It's not a deterrent, it's not any kind of response - nobody in the Russian government will feel the tiniest bit of pressure because of it, it's such a token act that it's laughable to think about in the context of what's happening in Ukraine. At the same time it's a big deal to the handful of players it affects.

All this does is create publicity and make the careers of a few people significantly worse just because they happened to be born in the wrong country.
Establish cohorts in schools by academic ability. People want to be grouped with peers and they are more successful when doing so.

We shouldn't have children at vastly different ability levels in the same classroom. Struggling kids are made no better, and the exceptional are dragged down.
> People recommend to remove them altogether though, I guess they figure the machines will be sitting in a closet for another 15 years, best to remove the problem altogether.

This is the reason.

At the repair shop where I've worked we do recycling, and there's a lot of electronics that get destroyed by leaky batteries.

If you can do it without voiding warranty (and sometimes even if you do void the warranty), always take the batteries out of electronics when they go into storage.
That is simple logic! So why are Russians being banned, considering Ukrainians can play in the tournament?
Disarming and then getting rolled when your counterparty takes advantage isn't a civilized way to live. See: Ukraine.
Yelp specifically I check very in frequently, Google maps however shows the reviews upfront and center, so I take those fairly seriously