skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Trade-in amount is completely arbitrary and fictional

Which is exactly why it gives dealers a huge degree of freedom to work with for "bottom line" discounts, that manufacturers can't (yet) control/ influence.

Dealers now make very little margin on new sales, and rely on income from monthly/quarterly/yearly kickbacks from the manufacturers, which are based on targets that include sticking to manufacturer approved discounts.

Without a trade-in, they don't have a place on the reciept to pass some of that kickback on to you. If they discount the sale price, they lose the margin they had to give you the discount in the first place.

Technically, you're right, in that they can sell for whatever they want, with no trade-in. They're just not likely to do that if it costs them more on the backend.
Yes he knows one type of meditation really well. I went through his course, for me it was ok but I found the value of the Waking up app being exposed to other teachers from other traditions. It really opened up my eyes.
Speaking only for myself, if I had a company office in my city I would go to it three-four days a week — even if my colleagues were all working elsewhere. (Assuming I can define my hours and commute by public transit or cheap taxi.)

I was remote for 13 years and I definitely missed the option of the office, though not the mandate of it.

So in my biased opinion the hybrid model is to keep people like me happy. And my bet is these will eventually become the new senior management, comfortable with remote but happy in the office, just like the current managers who set up the hybrid thing for similar reasons for themselves.

Doesn’t help people like me who can’t do the jobs they want in the cities they want without being remote, but I think we’re a pretty small minority.
AltaML, haha
According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1994%E2%80... the Russian army started to destroy Grozny with heavy bombings only after the initial plan, which was to drive the tank columns straight to the presidential palace, badly failed.

Their stated objective in Ukraine is not to take Kyiv, let's hope it's true.
There are a lot of recommendations here to stop using SSO. Unfortunately, there are enough number of sites that accept only SSO to make it impractical. One could go the route of I-refuse-to-use-any-site-that-does-not-provide-email-auth . This is something I have personally tried and find annoying to see sites that have only SSO (sometimes, only one provider that I do not even use). OTOH, if it something I really need or find interesting I fold and use SSO :(
> The current troops incursion are mostly conscript based

Not sure if it is disinformation, but the Russians announced that there are no conscripts in this war. Time will tell, but maybe the Western media/intel got it wrong?
> I think we are now seeing a clearer picture of what happens when there is a conflict in an urban area

Now? Have you heard of Stalingrad?
Who is trying to make me afraid of nuclear war, when this situation so far does not seem like nuclear war is imminent?
I watched the Mearsheimer lecture. The first point is that he gave it in 2015, so it's pretty old. Second point is that his main idea about Putin's motives are largely falsified by the recent invasion. Mearsheimer says that Putin doesn't want to annex Ukraine, then Putin invades and from his rhetoric it's clear he plans to annex it. So Mearsheimer is probably wrong.

Also, his explanation of the divisions in Ukraine are out of date. Look at the map of the most recent elections. It doesn't follow the usual east-west divide the Mearsheimer suggested. The current government is genuinely popular amongst a wide swath of the population. That was a pro-EU candidate.

Another issue with Mearsheimer's analysis is that Putin's policies in the Donbas doesn't align with the idea that Putin wants a neutral Ukraine (or just wants to "reck" it.) His demands were that Ukraine give the rebel areas autonomy which would give him direct influence in Ukrainian politics.

But all of that is sort of irrelevant because the only reason to discuss Mearsheimer's theory now is to give Russia cover for its current invasion. An invasion which clearly had different motives based on Putin's own justifications ("de-nazification" among others). And, of course, none of this great power politics discussion takes into account what the Ukrainians themselves want. It's not the US's right to tell Ukraine to be a neutral border state and they can't make them a neutral border state if they want. Ukraine has a long history of being a border state--the word "Ukraine" literally means borderland--but that history is one of repeated subjugation by more powerful neighbors. The idea that Russia has more right to security than Ukraine is wild to me and the idea that we even can make Ukraine act according to Mearsheimer's neat little scheme is wrong.
Snowflake employee here, speaking on my own behalf.

It's no harder to get out of Snowflake than it is to get out of any other SQL based RDBMS. If we were relying on the fact that we manage the files in S3 instead of the customer to keep our customers on board, we wouldn't have a business.

I will grant that there's non-ANSI features in Snowflake that our competition don't offer, but it would be weird to describe "have awesome features" as being lock-in.
Japan to me (as an American) was an interesting study in contrasts. Technology was available, but not blindly chosen over historical alternatives.

If a thing worked, Japanese culture seemed to allow for and respect retaining it, even in the face of newer alternatives.

Text works.
I forgot that thank you
I'm still insisting that progressive enhancement was the way to go.
Do you think the Slack interruptions are going to stop when you return to the office? You must not be familiar with how people work.
Good insight. Seems to me people who doubt the usefulness of mindfulness are looking too close. It's obvious, the hard part is staying in that DUH moment, we are built to over-think :)
His family got Omicron at the same time that ~everyone with kids in Japan got Omicron. This is consistent with a hefty level of caution.
In the past (also Advent of Code 2021), I found the bitvec crate’s BitSlice pretty convenient for parsing bitstreams.
Thanks for asking; I was wanting someone to bring this up. It certainly does help.

All too often, great ideas are communicated poorly and end up going nowhere, I think. Knowing how to frame something for a particular audience, or helping people feel like they're heard / acknowledged / part of a team, or seeing through pervasive political fogs, and a bunch of other little skills that really boil down to "good communication" and "psychology" have undeniably helped.

Somewhat unfortunately, I'm working on convincing myself that not all persuasive communication is bad!
The blob of land from Guatemala to Tierra del Fuego is treated pretty amorphously in the US media too. I guess that's not as big a deal because there are mostly only two languages involved, and it doesn't have the elephant-in-the-room baggage that Africa does.
It’s like 10x worse than before the pandemic too. One side of the street is a permanent homeless encampment / shooting up spot and I get more second hand meth smoke than vape juice walking down it these days.
By spending your own time and doing the research, you can absolutely beat the market.
We can't guarantee that you will, but with StockFit you can greatly increase the odds.
The app can help you along the way by giving you the information you need to find excellent companies best positioned for the long term.
It's kinda crazy how different perspectives are... From what I hear:

Average employee: "I am just as productive (or even more productive) working from home than when I was at the office. This is totally sustainable."

Average Manager: "I've noticed a huge drop in productivity from my employees since they have been working from home. This is entirely unsustainable."

This is what I hear from friends in other occupations, not just software, but also from my friends in software too.

Of course, both can be true if just a small percentage of employees drop productivity immensely while everyone else's remains the same... But it's probably more likely that the employees are... not great at judging their personal productivity.

I just find the dichotomy fascinating. - I don't have a race in the horse as I never went remote.
Depends on your use case. I have an old Dell D830 that I kept around because it has an actual serial port on it and I use it to connect to my router console. Yes, I could have ordered a USB serial adapter but I like having that computer just sitting next the router anytime I needed to mess with it.

From experience I can tell you that if you need to browse the modern web, older machines will struggle a lot unless you do things like turn off JavaScript or use speciality browsers designed for low power machines.

If you just want a machine to run vim and write code, go for it.

So it really depends on what you need it to do.
Nah the lame thing is that Chinese and others can learn a ton from the dumps and the consumer benefits short/medium term but Nvidia margin to plow back into R&D is irreparably harmed and the consumer suffers. Top engineering talent at Nvidia takes bucks. Or that margin, after being cannabalized in 3-24 months takes a decade to rebuild.
Nonetheless, the intent was a violent US-sponsored regime change in response to a close proximity Russian influence and military deployment in a foreign country.

But Ukraine is Bay of Pigs x1000000, just to clarify. They’re not equivalent on any scale.
Great launch. Just curious, did you guys pivot, interesting to see a launch 3 years later.
I honestly wondered about this at the time. My biggest surprise is that China didn’t try to attack Taiwan while the world’s attention was divided.
No, I didn't change anything. It just started working again.
In general they do pay for your time outside of work and you agree by taking the job.

Let's say you work strict hours 9am to 5pm M-F. On Thursday at 8:47pm you happen to think of a solution to a problem you're having at work. Are you suggesting the company should pay you more because the idea occurred outside of your strict hours?

In general, companies pay white collar workers / knowledge workers, for their knowledge. That happens regardless of when that knowledge is acquired. It seems pretty common sense and there are also plenty of laws to it up. Any other arrangement would seem full of issues.
It can feel like that when you resist the painful memory or emotion. But if you stay with it, accepting it, neither rejecting nor holding it, you may notice that it dissolves. It's like the effect of exposure in behavioral therapy, phobias are treated with sustained exposure to the feared stimulus.
National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (2021) [pdf]
The best part of this memo is now you can use the memo's standards instead of the vendor's "stated" standards. And these standards are bleeding edge - very few products will actually pass muster.
Any non-trivial app will require some frontend state eventually.
Where i work it is not head of HR that choose the xmas gifts. It is the girls in the reception in HQ office that makes those decisions.
My immediate thought on this was that we could see in-engine asset stores promoting music from artists and potentially even having predefined contracts for easy of integration? Like, this could be a pretty good thing if it's handled properly
GraphQL is such a quality of life upgrade coming from this environment, especially at the scale where your frontend teams are potentially larger and shipping more than the teams closer to the SQL can provide.
The headline presumes Java ever actually went anywhere on the desktop in the first place.
In 2022 outrage does not influence policies. You have it reversed.
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances
First monday of April I guess? Our company went back to hybrid the first Monday of this month already
I like Scala a lot more than I feel like I should. It’s weird to say that it’s a language that feels too academic while also being heavily used by enterprises. I used it a lot while working at BigCo and there were a lot of times that the language got in the way of getting things done due to the design. But it is really elegant once you understand it. It’s no Lisp, of course, but it feels somehow both pragmatic and academic in getting things done. And for writing Spark, it’s quite expressive.
This should be voted back to the top, because it's hugely important and everyone should have eyes on the bad actors inside government called authorizing officials who are going to abuse the shit out of this by attacking their users. Fuck Citrix, fuck Menlo Security, fuck F5. Fuck these motherfuckers.
Google employees generally don't have much difficulty in finding other jobs.
Then who are the soldiers surrendering who claim to be french teachers, janitors, etc. who were forced into going?
Thank you, I will try this.
Defense in depth is just a design philosophy for security controls. It absolutely makes sense and doesn’t have to be implemented as “disjoint security software/vendors/contracting”

It can be the justification for things like database controls, OS level controls, or seemingly trivial things like log forging. I heard a million different versions of “it’s not a big deal because an attacker would have to breach our network already”
This is one of those posts where I found very little substance compared to its length. And I didn’t really come out of it with a better understanding of moving money either (as to how correspondent banks ultimately settle the debts, which in turn becomes how countries settle their debts, etc.). I would’ve appreciated more nuance and information on that, even though it’s a vast topic.

To simplify heavily, is SWIFT just an accepted and legal alternative to the hawala system?
Yeah the last time I checked happened to be today, mainly because I only look when I see obviously bad policy around it. I rounded way down because there’s no imaginable scenario where fewer than thousands of grandparents performing childcare have died, and it’s such an absurd challenge that giving it the most favorable interpretation of the facts still shows it’s absurd.
Tangental side note, I googled profitwell (mentioned in the gist) and the first result is an ad for another competing company (that I won't mention) which includes "profitwell" in the title tag. Super shady!
There’s a big difference between working with other teams in other places and having your own team be remote. Most companies already had offsites and all hands and such before COVID.
I fed it a picture of St Javelina of Ukraine, and the output was amazing.

Is there any way to save/load the Fourier coefficients?
> It's a miserable situation

Agreed.

> and because the reason for slacking is a protected one there's virtually nothing others can do about it.

Depends on who you mean by "others". When I was working and struggling, I was grateful to Google, my coworkers, and my managers for their patience with me at work. I was also angry with our society: voters and politicians who prioritized reopening @#!$@#ing bars over schools, even though my understanding was science was saying (still is saying, AFAIK) spread through the schools is relatively little and the difference to kids' learning is huge. And on parents, which is important but not as important as the impact on kids.

Our society as a whole doesn't care about young families, and it's never been so clear. There is someone to blame.

btw, I'm not sure the extent to which it is "protected". Being a parent is protected, but I'm not sure that extends to the ability to only put in half the work, even after society has failed. (And in my mind, it did fail.)
Cases. You can look at deaths if you want but those will lag cases by a few weeks.
Also consider that they're mass efficient, not energy efficient.

You want low exhaust velocity for energy efficiency. The opposite of an ion drive.
United 747 Farewell SFO Departure with Golden Gate Bridge Flyby (2017)
The past two years has not been real remote work. When you work remote for real you get together in the office every month or so and your relationships stay high bandwidth. The past two years has been forced separation. Forced virtual, and NOT remote work.

Any assessment looking at remote productivity during a pandemic vs. remote productivity with periodic in-person meetings and considerate, purposeful norms will get wildly different data.
Interesting - I thought she was into an issue here. Concern is that it would suppress activism and increase racism. Headlines are horrible though - we’ll see what actually happens - she is not mayor by chance
> Personally, in-group / out-group mentality is the easiest to manufacture and exploit, and serves as a fantastic emotional distraction from other areas.

Well somebody is running massive psyops on the American public then.
Check out US Navy patents by Salvatore Pais. Such engines work, powered by bleeding-edge power sources.
What the heck is NE of Appomattox, VA that deserves such a plastering?
It’s probably not much cash and mostly using equity that’s locked up for multiple years since snowflake is public.
Most of this is feasible today using Opportunistic IPSec. What's missing is the high-level (Redis, SQLite, MongoDB, etc) application interfaces you're hinting at. Opportunistic IPSec operates at the IP layer, below all of that. There are BSD socket API controls for IPSec, but Opportunistic IPSec was mostly intended to be passive except for an application (optionally) requesting or verifying that a data stream is protected.

Unfortunately, Opportunistic IPSec failed miserably at widespread adoption. The same fate is almost certainly waiting for any similar all-encompassing approach. Wireguard doesn't really help as the vast majority of the complexity and pain exists above the level of the basic stream encryption. (Supporting schemes like Opportunistic IPSec is one reason why IPSec permits direct IP-to-IP encryption without tunneling or layering. One of Wireguard's simplifying assumptions was that it would be used to create VPNs and tunnels; TLS had won the day as a solution for direct, end-to-end encryption.)
Use discipline (very hard)-this would probably solve a lot more of your problems tbh
You paid $1000s for a GTX 3080 but bought the game on PS5 and claim it is some low res, pop-in, shimmering graphics on console but yet its the best version although you never played it on other platforms.

You can differentiate texture resolutions and polygon counts across platforms. You claim everyone agrees that the PC version is horrible port and has some major performance problems and crashes, but strangely enough it's currently the most played game on Steam.

You say for many many people it's one of the most buggiest games they've experienced at release, yet it hasn't been taken down for sale like Cyberpunk or had its player base disappear like BF2042 or New World.

You continue to make generalised statements like 'many many people', 'all critics', 'everyone agrees' and name random social sites giving the misleadingly impression that everyone agrees with you.

I can tell you with absolute certainty that it looks better then Demon Souls remastered from a PS3 game with reused upscaled textures. Everyone agrees so it's true.

...Sorry but I don't think anything you say is genuine, so there is no point continuing the argument.
Maybe Putin waited until Biden removed the remaining US troops from Ukraine. Biden gave the green flag to Russia here: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/12/us-withdraws-nearl...

' The troops -- who Kirby said were being withdrawn "with the safety and security of our personnel foremost in mind" -- will be repositioned "elsewhere in Europe." '
The Ethiopian Airlines crew that crashed also turned off the stab trim[1]. The problem is that you couldn't turn off MCAS separately from the fly-by-wire trim control, so you could either have fly-by-wire with MCAS or manual trim control without it.

Unfortunately for the Ethiopian Airlines crew, they were too late. By the time they set the stabilizer trim to CUT OUT, MCAS already pushed the plane nose down too much and they couldn't manage them manual controls, which were pretty hard to use under extreme conditions[2].

I'm not an expert or even an amateur, but the engineering issue I see here is that Boeing really left no contingency plan for a catastrophically failing AoA sensor on take-off. You can't turn off MCAS directly, and the recommended indirect method for turning it off require skills that many (most?) commercial airline pilots are not trained for.

The worst thing, of course, is that the Lion Air crew that crashed wasn't even aware of MCAS. The 737 MAX manuals made no mention of it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302
[2]: https://www.cliffordlaw.com/boeing-faa-knew-manual-stab-trim...
Thanks for pointing out `--force-recreate`: I'm pretty sure that didn't exist when I started using `docker-compose`. That reduces my common usage from 3 commands to 2 :).

As a point of minor interest I also avoid `down` vs `stop` because `down` can remove volumes. Reading the `--help` now (I'm not about to actually try it for reasons that will be clear shortly), it appears that's not the default behavior, but I'm pretty sure it was at one point. I `docker-compose down`-ed once and wiped out my local databases and that was an unpleasant morning, and ever since I've avoided it.

That's a round-a-about way of explaining that a certain amount of my programming habits are certainly born of having stepped on numerous rakes in the past, but some of those rakes don't really exist anymore and I don't always notice when they go away. So I appreciate you prompting me to re-examine this particular habit as being out of date.
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I suspect there are liability concerns - admitting responsibility would be setting them up for damages.
That article makes me wonder if carbon nanomaterials are shaping up to be the next asbestos.
I found it weird they named it "4 star". I get that it's 4 stars and above rated items, but the name gives the impression of "mostly ok, but not perfect".
Do you have any suggestions on materials that might aid in critical or strategic thinking?

How closely related are PsyOp and Public relations/marketing/communications?

Is PsyOp analogous to strategic sophisticated trolling?
Depends heavily on team. Almost all of my teams have been quite social, with a lot of office banter and regular lunches and social activities together. I was in today, with about half of my team, and we had plenty of non-work conversations and a nice lunch break at Backyard Barbecue (now open as of this week!).

This may be because I'm a middling-social person; I'm an introvert by nature, and don't mind long stretches of alone time, but I can also hold a conversation about non-work topics. All it really takes is two extroverts (or at least reasonably friendly people) on the team to change the dynamic.
If the decision to colocated or remote is made at the team/org level, then enough teams should choose to be remote that there will be many options for you, just as there will be many options for people that want a colocated team. These days there's no shortage of remote roles so it's already happening. What's wrong with that model?

Just like you don't want to be forced to socialize, others may not want to be forced to work on a remote team, and a team that has a free-for-all remote policy is effectively a remote team (as others have noted). If the decision is made at a group level, most everyone can get what they want.