skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work "friendships" are almost always a facade. It's because we *have* to work with them on a day to day basis, to get the work done. Being nice to each other is easier than being indifferent or hostile.

I can't really disagree more with this comment.

Some of the people most important and amazing friendships I've ever made have been created in an office. So many people ex-colleagues are still great friends and over time, our friendships have even grown over the years, even after not working together anymore. Like seriously, I've made friends with incredible people living in cities and working in offices which I don't imagine will ever be replicated with online working.

I now work for a 100% remote, I love it and while I do make friends, there's no way the bonds are even sightly as strong as those I formed hanging out with people, in-person. Since working remote, I've had to make new friends to hang out with and what's funny is, those friendships seem way more lucid and difficult to maintain because it's usually just based around hobbies and the friendships can be soured by the slightest bit of annoyance / jealously or whatever because there's no real consequence to treating each other poorly.

When it comes to my peers that I've worked with face to face, we had to trust each other, share hardships and work through problems and that made us become closer.

What I believe will happen is there will be people who work in offices together, and they will have more leverage over the "remotes" because they'll be a core group of people who share closer ties. Eventually this socializing is what will bring people back to cities and offices, that's where the power will be.
you're right. They did not lose the war because they were facing a lousy enemy
I believe so, but you’d have to go through the immigration and naturalization process.
Yes, the documentation was lacking, the consequences were unexpected, the API design was not great to prevent this and the dashboard did not show the problem. They are all Stripe's faults.

But enabling an auto-magic feature for a business-critical operation (invoicing and taxes) and not even checking if it worked? Sorry to say that but it is utterly irresponsible. Heck, even the invoice numbers must not have matched. And the draft invoices piling up for months must have been visible too.
> none of this is really good news for artists trying to make money unless Bandcamp plans to pay the artists out of their own pocket for a royalty free side

I don't see why that's the case? Just give Bandcamp artists the tools to set their own royalty structure (In the same way they price their own songs) and integrate this marketplace into Unreal or wherever else. Self published artists get a source of revenue typically reserved for labels and Bandcamp gets the cut instead of someone else.
All that you see is also a representation in your mind formed by your brain. Is everything in your visual field similarly "you"? If not, what makes thoughts different?
I guess these numbers we see in the west are a matter of perspective eh [1]? Other estimates say it's a calculated low cost ($500M) war.

Has the world gone insane? People in the west are cheering on war escalations as if it's some fun weekend recreational activity. People on HN are posting suggestions to join the ukrainian forces, because I guess all those weapons they bought at walmart need to be put to use somehow.

The West thinks that China isn't on Russias side because they didn't Veto the UN resolution as well, but they're just smart enough to take note of everything that is happening to make sure that they have contingencies of everything that is happening. You'll probably see them further removing reserves from foreign countries, further pushing CIPS across the global south, etc.

Japan has joined the west in sanctioning Belarus. The EU has passed a resolution to ban Russian media outlets(and encryption, not in the same go). Apple Wallet kicked out russian banks, UK is freezing Russian assets, rating agencies have downgraded russia to junk status, all without UN mandate. All the semblance of international law has been thrown out the window. I can't help but ask, if this is what the West is willing to do for Ukraine without joining the EU or NATO what would have happened if it had joined either?

Best case, everyone in the global south will pull out of the wests financial systems over the next couple of the decades further embolstering China and we'll see more non google/apple choice in the smartphone/tech market and governments outside of the west returning to a more cash based society and this will blow over with some collateral damage. Worst case this doesn't just blow over and Russia is backed in such a corner that is in fact no option but full scale war with the west.

I think you guys(especially the europeans) ought to ask your grandparents(if they're still alive) how fun the last world war was, since asking Lybians is out of the question(they're stuck on boats). Iraq which was basically a massacre and destruction of Iraq left thousands in the west traumatized and millions decimated over there. And that's a country that has nowhere near the support nor the military capability russia had.

[1] https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/russias-low-cost-war-can-endur...
Your arguments seem to be assuming a particularly bad implementation of a traditional backend.

Whenever someone says "this particular architecture is bad!" they're talking about a bad implementation of it.

The point is whether or not you're more likely to succeed at making a good app with an SPA or a multi-page site. For pretty much all brochure-styles websites and many SaaS webapps you're more likely to achieve success (for every common understanding of success) by using a multi-page architecture because they're usually simpler to implement, they work the way browsers expect things to work, and you don't need to implement some hard things yourself. You can make a brilliant SPA website for any purpose, but often people try and fail. Saying "you shouldn't have used an SPA" is shorthand for "You didn't understand or implement an SPA well enough, and now your web thing is failing to serve users as well as it should, and using a multi-page architecture would have avoided the problems your website has now."
> Medicare

What a joke. I'm all for getting medical care to people in general, but you can't redeem Medicare abroad. There are no shared medical treaties. You can't get a voucher. You can't even get exemptions for living abroad. You just pay in, and if you want value for paying in your whole life, you have to expend greenhouse gases flying back to the US and pay their extortionate health care prices which are probably cheaper uninsured where you are (at least it has been for me).

That picture people have of retiring on a beach abroad, well, most of them stop once they realize they won't be covered for basically anything at their retirement age. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/08/retiring-overseas-how-medica...

More info: https://www.medicare.gov/Pubs/pdf/11037-Medicare-Coverage-Ou...
Unless they put a 15 day time limit to the operation:

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-revealed-secret-batt...
GraphQL is a protocol, as such it cannot take away the pain of creating a backend for your frontend.

There are tools which make the creation of the backend painless and utilize GraphQL for sure (i.e hasura), but claiming that GraphQL solved that issue is nonsensical, because writing the GraphQL API is generally way more annoying then the equivalent rest API is
California actually has a guide for this: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2019/2019-1031-publication.pdf
They also said "You are very welcome" and "Let me go ahead and dig into this for you" more than once.

So, yeah, it's absolutely nor clear why the heck the OP is so upset?
If there's a blockade on kinmen everyone could just live on the liquor. ;) Not sure if Matsu produces things, but surely they can still fish in the shallows...

But yes true that, Taiwan is agriculturally self sufficient. We had lots more local and lots less imported FMCG during pandemic, but nothing really changed.
Slaves can be bought and sold. Their children can be bought and sold. Slaves can be physically punished and even killed without legal recourse. They have no rights. They are property.

And it still exists, so the modern equivalent of slavery is still slavery.

What you are talking about is the social obligations of being part of civilization. Yes, there is no free lunch. We must all work to live unless someone else is willing to foot the bill for us. But if that is slavery, then literally everyone in the world with a job is a slave and the word loses its meaning.
Just an anecdote but I live in Taiwan (Taipei proper) and haven't noticed or been affected by any power issues today
Plenty of people that actually pay for Qt, use it in environments where beautiful C++17 CppCon like examples are not welcomed, or even possible.

Naturally they care most about the people that support their families.

Anyone that dislikes this is free to provide pull requests.
> His end game would be Ukraine getting leveled, the west being angry and remilitarizing, and he can sell a new cold war for the next decades to keep support.

Doubt that is Putin's desired end-game. His entire justification for the invasion was to re-unite what was formerly Great Russia... blasting Ukraine to the stone age runs completely counter to that. He's not Xi Jinping and the Ukrainians are not Tibetans or Uyghurs.

Unfortunately it may be what the future brings as an end-game - justified by "the Nazis of Ukraine forced me to do it" or similar bollocks.
It's curious the yacht is already in a shipyard so short after delivery. Guess that's the reason he couldn't have it moved to the Maldives as some other oligarchs.
There are two numbers - a) what is it worth, b) if Snowflake own it what is it worth to their shareholders.

Probably worth ~100mil (idk?) - however, probably adds a billion to snowflakes market cap, hence the pricetag.
If that's anything like 15 days to flatten the curve...
Ask HN: Are you a digital hoarder?
It's so easy to save digital files - documents, pictures, music, videos, programs, bookmarks - the list is endless. Do you hoard or collect digital files even though you might never revisit them?

Or have you ever done a "digital clearout" instead? Chucking away old programs, CDs, wiping old HDs, deleting files deemed obsolete?

Have you ever deleted files, and then later regretted deleting those files?

I wonder if we are all digital hoarders to some extent since it's so easy to keep digital files?
20 years ago Russia had term limits for the president of 8 years I think...
I can’t stand this 1984 English:

“The U.S. Embassy London is currently unable to accept appointments for Loss of Nationality applications.”

No, they are not “unable”, they are unwilling or refusing.
How would that be possible? I guess the article is vague enough that you can maybe take into account the total cost to Russia not inclusive of military costs but even then, this is incredibly dubious.

They do seem to specify at some point that this is about direct war expenses. Now keep in mind, the total russian military budget is only 60 billion $ per year (!!). At that rate, Russia would be not only be spending their yearly war budget every 3 days, but would also spend more money in a year than the USA did in 20 years in the notoriously expensive war in Afghanistan. Russia hasn't even deployed all of the forces it committed to the invasion, and those weren't a majority of it's armed forces to begin with. Yet they will be spending 5 years of military budget by the second week of war?

It just makes absolutely no sense even if we were to take all the ukrainian figures at face value (regardless of how extremely unreliable they have been, for example we don't have any proof for any of the 27 claimed downed russian aircrafts while we do have footage for pretty much everything else in the war). It's okay to trust the ukrainian side a lot more, but you still have to keep in mind that war propaganda is probably not a good source for a report. Nevermind that even the absolute best case scenario where all ukrainian claims end up being true still do not come even close to being enough to back up the article's claims

The report is so vague, the figures so outlandish and the sources are either terrible or absent that it's hard to even believe that actual researchers have ended up with these conclusions.
I'm sure these mythical people exist but I never run into them. Every coworker I've met that is more "effective" at home is really just trading team velocity for personal velocity. They feel more productive by getting more of "their stuff" done but it happens at the expense of the overall teams speed.
> my western liberal prejudice against Singapore

What is there to be prejudiced against for Singapore? It is a singularly good place to live by basically every metric an actual human being could care about. Low crime, clean, high resident satisfaction, good schools, etc.
Putin doubling down and still losing seems like a chance. Probably naively, I believe it is a chance for encompassing reforms. For the last Soviet remnants to be flushed out. I suspect almost all Russians below say 40 years of age are just done. They gaze west or onto their smartphones and see what live can be like. Not perfect either, but a huge step up. Yet the reigning elite is too entrenched still, which a decisive, including economical, defeat of Russia in Ukraine might change. Here is to hoping.

(Naturally, the West also has an 'entrenched elite'; it's always greener, yadda yadda. Yet average western life is objectively much better than current Russian)
OpenStack is dead? The numbers speak for themselves
When my mother died I went out that day to walk, eat lunch, and keep my head straight.

It was surreal. It was like everyone was walking around in a dreamstate, unaware they would die, of the mortality of life. I'll never forget that sensation, how everyday life and consumption and entertainment and routine lull you, distract you, from the inevitabilities of life.

COVID was a fundamental disruption to life. ALmost a million Americans are dead. Not a lot by historical standards of plague, but still... a threat. And now the cold war rears its head and nuclear armageddon.

As I offhanded remarked once in a bathroom in bar that for some reason had an attendant who was discussing moving apartments, "Ah, moving is a time for reflection".

And that has been what the last couple years has been: times for reflection. A collective illusion shattered, or at least disrupted.
Pressurized tanks, I assume.
Russian and Belarusian athletes banned from Winter Paralympics after U-turn
I'm going to assume they didn't know what they were talking about as my employer is US based. And by legal definition, the income I'm getting from them is foreign sourced income at least 330-365 days of the year. I'm taking the FEIE deduction yearly.

Source doesn't mean what it does to the layman for intl taxes.
>> “The change in activity levels also leads to changes in sugar metabolism - they store more sugar and produce less lactate, just like humans.”

Sounds like someone has just discovered a way to farm tastier brown crabs.
I moved from Virginia to Arkansas a few years ago, with my move-in date as January 1 to simplify taxes. After filing my previous year’s taxes (both VA and federal), the state of Arkansas sent me a letter demanding that I pay an estimated AR tax for the previous year because I had filed my federal taxes from an Arkansas address, but had not filed AR taxes.

I ended up having to go to court over it, twice so far. The first time was a “tax court”, and they deferred the judgement until I could obtain acceptable proof that I had held a driver’s license in another state for that year. The license itself wasn’t enough. The second time was after the judgement was issued anyways, and I had to file for it to be vacated.
Yes, improving your life situation requires sacrifices. And different outcomes require different sacrifices. Free people have the autonomy to choose which sacrifices they make. Enslaved people don't have that autonomy at all.

What I understand from your post, is that you want access to opportunities without making any sacrifices. It's an interesting discussion topic on its own. But the opposite of it is not slavery.
I saw another estimate as 500mil/day based on number of soldiers and published costs for iraq war. It could easily be even lower as their soldiers and everything are cheaper and their supply lines are shorter.

So, who knows.
Farmers want to claim they are engineers?
the official goals are "demilitarization" and "denazification",

As far as demilitarization goes, it seems the Ukrainian fleet, air defenses and bases have been mostly destroyed by stand-off weapons, and an encirclement maneuver is appearing (North and South prongs).

As for "denazification", it would appear most of what Putin calls nazis are concentrated on the border with the Donetsk and Lougansk sectors, in deep positions but with a no man's land behind them (flat and vulnerable to artillery).

The West is winning the media war, but Ukraine is definitely NOT winning the war for now (they mostly cannot counter-attack)
Get a new laptop if you need a new laptop.

Maintaining a Linux installation on old laptops gets old, and in the end, I stopped doing that and wiped the hard drives.
Something seemed off about your statement, so I went and looked up some data. Gross margins for Anthem Blue Cross [1] are about 15%; they take in $117B in premiums and pay out $102B in benefits. Gross margins for HCA healthcare are better at about 80% ($50B gross profit on $58B in revenue) [2], but net margins aren't much better at 11%. Half of that $50B goes into "selling, general, and administrative" salaries, with much of the rest in "other expenses". By contrast, Google has gross margins of about 50% and net margins of about 30% [3].

I think the real explanation is Baumol's cost disease [4], which does come from labor cost, albeit indirectly. The tech industry is extremely high productivity, which is why they can afford to pay their not-very-numerous employees $500K+/year. But that means that you have to pay people in other industries more to keep them from becoming tech employees. Probably not as much more - programming has pretty high barriers to entry - but more than a middle-class worker used to make. Housing, healthcare, education, and childcare are essential services, which gives them the negotiating leverage needed to pass these labor cost increases along to consumers. Things like manufacturing, food service, and retail are not, which is why those industries are just going bankrupt.

It's not really oversupply or undersupply of labor that matters here. It's productivity. To get prices of housing/healthcare/education/childcare down to reasonable levels, you need to invent ways that one nurse could take care of hundreds of patients, or one teacher could teach tens of thousands of students. This is why things like telemedicine, machine-learning based diagnostics, mRNA vaccines, immunotherapies, MOOCs, online learning, 4-over-1 condos, etc are so appealing to investors. The problem is that these innovations haven't yet proven attractive enough to win in the marketplace, so we're stuck with conventional labor-intensive ways of servicing these industries for the foreseeable future.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ANTM/financials?p=ANTM

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HCA/financials?p=HCA

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/financials?p=GOOG

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
Agree that those steps capture the process.

But whose job is it to run those steps? And note that most of what I think of as DevOps might have an analogy, but no direct equivalent.

Of course this is all solvable; the thing is that it is new. DevOps assumes that changes are to the code, and has processes and tools for managing code changes.

In ML, it is the DATA which changes.
No, still not the right word. Both those words have a meaninh vastly different from voluntary employment.

This reminds me of unvaxxed people pinning yellow stars to liken the situation that they cant visit cinema to holocaust
what's the relevance of vaxxing here? Can you leave that out?
But you're wrong.....
tangent --- it is interesting watching highly skilled players navigating draft in magic the gathering. quite different mechanics to how deck building operates in sts.

one idea is having a good working understanding of "the format", all the possible cards in that version of the game, which subset of those are potentially playable in draft, and an understanding of different styles of strong deck to steer for. breadth of experience and familiarity helps in both games.

another idea is not locking yourself in too early to a particular strategy that depends on cards you haven't got yet -- prefer taking cards that can be good in multiple possible future decks, rather than picking a card that is very strong but only works in a specific kind of deck that might not pan out.

there are some major differences to sts. in sts the drafting is interleaved with the rest of the game, so in some scenarios it would be necessary to balance short-term and long-term payoff --- optimising for the best long-term deck might leave you weak and get you killed you in the short run. whereas in mtg the draft is a phase that takes place before any battles, so there's no benefit or downside to having a good partial deck mid way through draft, beyond the ways it might be completed into good final decks.

another major difference is mtg's drafting being multiplayer, your draft choices are drawn from packs of cards where other players have already removed cards that they want for their own decks. part of the game is trying to infer what kinds of decks other players in your group are drafting -- so you can avoid drafting the same thing and instead position yourself to go after a style of deck that no one else is competing for.

another subtlety is if you are going to play against the other players in your draft group or not. if so, you are incentivized to "hate draft" strong cards you have no intention of playing just so the people you will be playing against cannot field them against you. but if you're not playing against your draft group, it's optimal to let the other players get strong cards you don't want that would be a good fit for their deck, as that encourages them to keep drafting their current style of deck, and not start intruding on your style. another facet of this is that in sts you have to play every card you draft (unless you can find an option to remove it) whereas in mtg you always draft more cards than the minimum deck size, then field a deck containing a subset of them.
Ukrainian nationalism is at legendary high levels now. Even in the best case scenario, I don’t see the Ukrainians working for a new puppet government.
I’ve always wondered why registration and checkout pages in Japan like to be 3-4 pages long with another confirmation page after each one. It’s like they don’t want you to finish filling it out.
I think I have already answered you regarding it, but Jetbrains IDE’s are not resource-hungry because of Java but because they index/cache the code base. You can’t draw meaningful conclusions from that.
I'm guessing at this point it's dominate Ukraine at any means necessary and ride out sanctions until they start to slacken after countries like Germany, etc need gas and are willing to accept that Ukraine is an extinct country to get it.

And, unfortunately, that just may be what happens. A lot of countries are too lazy with investing in renewables or nuclear and they're in for some very hard times if they need to rely on gas to be shipped in or piped around Ukraine/Russia, so I can imagine sanctions being loosened in under a year for many countries. At least France was smart enough to go for nuclear and can probably hold a moral high ground as long as they want and the US has shown they'll hold grudges for decades (see Cuba and Iran).
Taiwan already "belongs" to China, no?