skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the 90s, my father had a method of pre-vacation scheduling. He announced to all his colleagues that X day before he left was the last day he was accepting new work to finish before leaving.

Inevitably, someone would come by the day before he left, and ask him if he could do one more critical thing.

He reminded them what he said, explained he was finishing work others had asked of him, and didn't have the time for their work before he left, but he'd be happy to look at it when he got back.

Next vacation announcement, that person made their requests earlier.

Scheduling has its own cultural mores and Overton window, and there's no "right." If you're unhappy with its current coverage: push it in the direction you want. People will adjust.

You can say "No" nicely and without being an asshole.
Dataflow Matrix Machines and V-values: a Bridge between Programs and Neural Nets [pdf]
At Google, not only are many still worried about COVID, but we just finished the complete shitshow known as Perf, there is war in Ukraine, so they thought this was a brilliant time to announce this as if it's supposed to "cheer us up" or something.

I am really starting to question if my values align with Google's anymore.
Pragmatically, you can persuade indirectly by means of not allowing the opposing side to express itself. I’m not talking about persuading partisans, but rather the people who aren’t invested and aren’t engaged on the topic.

The dominant message they will see is the notion that the election was fully legitimate and had nothing substantial occur that would question its legitimacy. Any compelling or specific counter arguments are simply not visible. So that unengaged person is learning the accepted stance is correct, the unacceptable stance must have a disclaimer because it is so wrong/dangerous, and that if they take that stance they also risk being labeled as crazy or expelled from the platform.
*tries to make $937,500 per year

*looses $1,000,000,000

edit: one extra zero
"If you really want to wreck Russia, what you should do is to encourage it to try to conquer Ukraine. Putin is much too smart to try to do that." John Mearsheimer, 2015.

https://twitter.com/SKalyvas/status/1498073083197931529
Depends, maybe a perspective thing? You say propaganda. It could be PsyOps.
Self winding just means "needs to have the time reset after 2 days unworn". I wonder if an unworn Apple Watch would last longer?
So sneaky censorship instead then?

Or you could just present people with the data and let them make up their own minds. We have to stop thinking we're on the 'right' side and it's ok to silence the 'wrong.'

Think about this, if the controls or restrictions you discuss were available to the opposition tomorrow, would you still support them?
It's a Russian founded, owned, operated, and dependent corporation that happens to be registered in Schiphol. It's not Dutch except for the registration.
You speak with such authority on these matters. You clearly must have sources and relevant studies to back your claims. Especially given the subject matter; it’d be quite ironic otherwise. So please do share your sources…
Cool more recent notes here https://github.com/anhinga/JuliaCon2021-poster
> He's being subjected to a federal criminal investigation. There is a bit more there than "simply being on a board". It is a big story and deserves public investigation to find out what was going on.

It came out in December that his taxes were being investigated and it was widely reported. Easy to see from the wikipedia article where there are multiple citations from major news outlets.

> It is materially interesting what business connections the US president has with (famous for being corrupt I might add) Ukraine.

What is interesting? You're playing connect the dots and taking possible tax issues from business in China and connecting it to made up stories about Burisma and saying "now prove me wrong". Again, the impetus is on the person making the argument to make an actual concrete claim. The Senate republicans already have you covered on the Ukraine part, of course (nothing).

> otherwise the decisions don't make a lot of sense

Henry Kissinger got a bunch of people to heavily invest in Theranos. You're going to need more substance than "why do rich white people keep failing upwards?" for a story here.
> In principle, I agree, but I should point out that "No meetings outside regular daylight hours" and "My employer shouldn't care where in the world I do my job" are not compatible with each other.

Not if you're all in North America. I've worked for two large, distributed companies in the last several years, where I reside in Eastern time zone. There's enough overlap between me and teammates in the Pacific time zone that evening meetings are never necessary.
I mean then we can't really use that video to judge or corroborate the morality / atrocities of the sides. And even for economics and politics, there is no analysis of balance or tradeoffs, just an exposition of what Russia wants. The video is still good information for those unaware, but only in the realpolitik sense, not as a source of moral or value judgements about the situation.
Well now I'm extra confused. If you do that, what command would you type to get "the most recent v1" now? How would it find it?
The rule of thumb for an early stage company is $0.

To me, the read is to determine if the founders are the sort of people who see making you rich as a form of success at best or are at least ok with making you rich.

That’s what matters in the outlying case where the options wind up having significant value.
Hasn't influenza been around for like 1000+ years?
As soon as Russia raises their nuclear forces to “special combat readiness”, I’m fine with taking their propaganda off the air.
This is the business model I used before I got into high ticket work.

It's the lawyer business model, they pay you a retainer just to stay a client. Largely to ensure you are around when they do need you. This works well with software as moving companies is near impossible, you will have to retrain a whole new team.

It's hard to manage multiple clients and why I moved to high ticket stuff.

Your agency of one soon turns into a agency of N.
Roundcube has a sieve plugin and makes it very easy to manage Sieve rules.

I don't need webmail at all but it's useful just for this.
I highly recommend the Dell UltraSharp U4919, of which I currently have four (two at home and two at work). Almost my entire department switch to them as soon as they came out.

My other ultra-wide is an ASUS PG348Q. It's crazy how that monitor felt huge when I got it, but it just seems tiny now.
Agreed, I just want to sue them to oblivion for the user generated content they host :))

Nothing to do with youtube’s first amendment right, only Section 230 privileges

Lets strip them down to shreds in the public square for not censoring fast enough! Woohoo
Thats apart of the world behind the world. What people say and what people do are entirely different things. Do you know the kind of things Google execs had to do to get into the china market? It sure wasn't all in good fun. Business by human nature operates by drama, lies, deceit, and leverage.

The lies and dishonesty come from the highest authority in Google. The only real solution is to force the dissolution of big tech and create competition once again. The only thing that can change business behavior is effects to profit.
I’ll take the downvotes or whatever argumentation incoming but this is obviously (to me) Google being bad at technology and intentionally opaque about it, and just as mealy mouthed about the subject matter as always because they don’t give a fuck.
But that doesn't mean, for example, that I'm allowed to force myself on your house and shout at you because I have a right to you being my audience. You're not entitled to Youtube hosting your content, just as you're not entitled to NYT hosting your opinion, just as I'm not entitled to have my words on your private blog.
The relationship between employer and employee is simple. Employer pays money for some value the employee offers.

Negotiation is clearly in play before the arrangement starts, willing buyer and willing seller and so on.

After the "sale" the employer has most of the power, but the employee has a nuke - they can quit. Usually the employer doesn't want them to quit, so will make unilateral changes to the contract in the employ yes favor from time to time (ie raises etc).

Unfortunately if you are below a certain age, or of a specific skill set, the employer expects you to trigger the nuke anyway, and nothing they do can prevent that, so frankly they don't spend too much energy or money trying to make you stay.

While employees can negotiate after employment has started, they don't have much leverage other than "or I'll leave". And one can only play that card so many times before it's easier just to let you leave.

Employers have legitimate reasons for wanting non-remote workers, but those reasons don't matter to employees. Indeed most employees can't even imagine what those reasons are, or simply discount them as being meaningless. That's OK, there's a reason they are employees and not running businesses.

So to answer your question, employers decide WFH because they have all the power. They figure the upside is worth changing staff over - some will leave, for sure, but there are others out there waiting to fill that slot.

Of course other companies have different priorities and goals and are happy to employ WFH employees, so there's a home for folk who prefer that as well.

Or, if you want the autonomy, and power, (and risk) that being the employer brings you, then by all means start your own business and build a company and culture you'd like to work at.
Scott Locklin memorably declared Google to be in its "Fat Elvis" stage as early as 2011:
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/google-as-fat-...
I don't think it's damaging. I think it gives people a way to imagine the stories they will tell about themselves when they become successful someday in the best case. If not, well at least they had a nice fantasy for entertainment.
> perceived as censorship

keyword here being _perceived_
> More people are dying with Covid now than were dying most of the previous two years

Assuming you meant "from," not "with," this is clearly not the case in Santa Clara county, the location of Apple's HQ. The current daily average is 5 per day. It briefly peaked at 10, but the non-surge average is around 2. As others have said, deaths lag, so they'll likely be back to ~3 by April.
There was already evidence of that. Apparently Russian troops were selling diesel fuel to the locals while they were waiting at the border before the war had started.
Yes? Not everyone is into luxuries.
That kind of sum is still within reach of middle class parents
Holy cow that's awesome. Sorry I don't have anything constructive to add, just that I'll be watching your backlog of videologs. What an amazing trip!
Ask HN: Image Hosting Service Reccomended?
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I've had a rule about this since SMS caught on. Any time someone send a "call me" type message, my only response is "about what?" I try to enforce the same concept with meetings and slack and any other place where it makes sense. Naked pings feel like a trap and while they rarely are, it has happened before and by forcing context before agreeing to a discussion, I've avoided being caught off guard.
Of course they are different. But if you are going to battle strike early and strike hard.
Yep, just set boundaries. If your boundaries become a problem for someone higher up, they will raise it with you. Don't ask, just do.

Too many people assume they need to take meetings whenever and they'll put up with it quietly for years, never feeling confident enough to just assert themselves or set working hours in Google Calendar.
No shit. Russia just launched an unprovoked attack on another country. That's about the farthest from "just getting along" that you can get.

Is it any wonder that people who like peace get mad when countries start wars?
Yes. But in order for opponent to fear the gamble, you have to have a positive probability of going through and actually ordering the strike.

Which again puts you in the position of having to order a strike as a sane person.
Coursera’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
And that's perfectly fine. If anything, that's proof that there is no censorship, the fact that they can go and make their own platform. Also, the fact that you're not allowed to say anything bad about Trump on those platforms without getting banned.
> Your entire post sounds like paid misinformation.

I wish.
"conflict with"? Is that how they spell "invasion" in KC?
Okay, but the problem here is you're making a moral statement based on what YouTube is, making it an is-ought problem. Youtube ought to share the message of a president who incited a riot and tried to overthrow a democratic election, because it is blocking it.

You're not addressing why YouTube is blocking it or the state of it's own rights as a private platform, just making blanket moral statements about opinion.
Talking about the hammer swinging was more trying to illustrate how something simple can actually be a lot more complicated to carry out in actual practice. Not what I think was the likely limiting factor in learning this riveting process, not sure they would have been using an actual hammer, hopefully they had hydraulic hammers to do the physical part!

It was a unclear example for illustrating learning processes that require physical dexterity and manipulation of materials can actually be more complicated than initially appear.

I was more thinking I can see how you can arrange it so welding would require less of these skills before you can be 'productive'. Alignment tolerance, fitment etc. Getting good welds on the other hand that would pass modern inspection...

Without understanding the actual processes and the expectations of what was required of riveters vs. welders don't feel I can say anything. I think I was more commenting on the grandparents dismissive stance on riveting not being that hard to learn!

I have a similar experience to you also growing up on a farm, and also from watching others learn physical skills when I was working as a carpenter and a little bit of blacksmithing.
It's double taxation if two entirely-different entities lay claim to a percentage of pretax income. The same income is being taxed twice. To my thinking, it comes down to the basic division of responsibilities between the Federal, state, and local governments. Simply adding another layer should not require additional tax funding; the question should only be how the income tax an individual pays is distributed between the layers.

Fortunately, that's one advantage to the system we have -- if you don't feel that Sacramento and Washington, DC should both get a crack at your income, you can always move to a state with no income tax. I did.
There are several angles. Democrat, Republican, and Facebook.

Democrats want section 230 gone because it allows them to hold social media liable for disinformation.

Republicans want to amend section 230 to protect misinformation that they post.

Facebook doesn't want anything to change, but because Democrats policy would be more costly for Facebook and Democrats control the government, Facebook is for "strengthening" (keeping) section 230. Until Republicans are in charge, then Facebook will be against changing it again. Facebook just needs to placate all the Republicans and trick (buy) a few democrats to protect the status quo.
For me, this is not luck, your parents worked hard from generation to generation instead of watching sports. This desire to tinker also comes from a thrive to provide something of value to society, it’s an inner stress that they had all their life, “How do I discover or make something to embed myself into a society where I can’t compete on connections or assets.”
Interesting. How does running a mining operation help you front-run exchange trades?
I’ve driven in one. Felt like I was driving with a 16 year old driver. I’d never drive in the rain with it. Through intersection with faulty traffic lights, and police directing traffic? Nope. It never got onto the freeway, and it avoided complicated driving/merging decisions by driving through neighborhoods.
The Antonov 225 is featured in Episode 2 of a short documentary series called Exceptional Planes [1].

[1]: https://tubitv.com/series/300004925/aircraft-exceptional-pla...
If you are well off, it is comforting to believe that your wealth came from smartness and hard work, and that people who have less than you are dumb and/or lazy. That way you can ignore structural inequality and don't need to consider doing anything to correct it.

It is the same false moral back-patting of "I'm colorblind and don't see race," which usually really means "By pretending to not see race, I have an excuse for not recognizing race-based injustices."
Will you have a filesystem? If so, you can store them there.

If not, store it on your database as blobs.

Regardless on which one above you choose, if you implement something like Cloudflare, you can get a CDN for those images. If you don't want everything behind Cloudflare, you can have the images served under a different subdomain and have that under cloudflare.

If not, an alternative to S3 is Google Cloud Storage. Create a bucket. Set it as public (everything in the bucket is available) and then you just need to worry about upload.

Here's a quick example in python, https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-storage/

bucket = client.get_bucket('bucket-id')
new_blob = bucket.blob('remote/path/storage.txt')
new_blob.upload_from_filename(filename='/local/path.txt')
# or
blob.upload_from_string('New contents!')
Yeah but are you going to print out all their insane bs in gigantic lettering and put it on signs on your lawn and the exterior walls of your house? You going to print it on tshirts and wear them to work or out in public?

There’s a difference between letting people think and say what they want, vs letting them use you as a megaphone.
It's a good summary of the problems that exists in any sort of engineering, ultimately, they are actually people's problems
You can distrust both management and unions.
Hey that’s a valid point and one I agree with. The way the US has treated Cuba is also completely indefensible and based in no plausible threat scenario.
No, I try to be reasonable. And no, no status quo. I don't intend to be insulting, but I think we are failing too, holistically.
You are saying that unions don't actually help?
This already exists.

https://www.plum.io/
I don’t work more going into an office. I just fill the gaps in more satisfactory ways while working from home instead of shorter office hours with long walks around the campus.
Why would the midterms do this?
I feel like this is the case with 99% of YouTube takedowns.
I believe those are relatively recent developments. The Azov Battalion by contrast have been active members of Ukraine's national guard since at least 2014.
Seconding fdm. I have about 1,000 lines of rules to process when I fetch via POP3 and it has decent debugging facilities as well. Not to mention, it is fast and comes with a friendly – but powerful – syntax.
This is me. But my boss’s boss doesn’t want to go back to the office either and every meeting she is saying that she is working to make it so we are all remote. I’m waiting to see what happens before I jump ship.
Something you might find on https://www.flightradar24.com/FORTE10/2b053548

edit: not awacs but gives and idea of the monitoring they willing to have public
I've had customers ask and question me about it. I write the policies and reference the relevant NIST guidelines. It's a good way to end those conversations quickly. Even fed compliance generally won't argue.
Yep, popular != monopoly, especially given the number of easily accessible alternatives.

Given the state of cloud computing in 2022, there has never been a time that it has been easier to host your own video streaming, so it's not a natural monopoly either.
> IMO, India's next upper class is going to be incredibly technocratic.
It's interesting you say that. I think for the most part, this is actually a global phenomenon.

What are your thoughts on the extant caste system? How similar is it to the racial legacy that America deals with?

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Oh, I see you commented on it already from the caste system article that got popular a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30521888

Thanks for posting.
What it is really doing is checking if the length of a string is a prime number or not. And as coded, it is checking specifically if the length of a string consisting of some number of '1' characters is prime or not.
How did you go from reading a story about one of the richest men kindling a connection with a prolific child trafficker to twisting this into a reactionary incel narrative about the “oppression of the white man” and the “injustice of divorce court” for the poor billionaire with the best lawyers?
I don't know. If I was under heavy propaganda, I'd appreciate a text from a well-meaning citizen of another country.
> I would be furious if my ex-employer was giving me bad references just because I wanted to work-from-home or asked for a higher salary. And I would similarly not go around vilifying my ex-employer just because they wanted to offer me a lower salary or have me in the office regularly.

That's not similar at all. The employer has all the power and money, not the individual. If the individual did, they wouldn't need to work anymore.
> You can’t claim that a business is “the public square” and then force them.

Why not? We place some pretty serious obligations on a few industries - one example is electricity providers of last resort.
Which is a silly statement, because for all X, no X will ever be perfectly secure. That's why we have multiple layers available and containers and VMs are just one of them.
You have my sympathies. I just don't think unions are going to help on balance here.

If someone doesn't want to work with you anymore, they should be allowed to just fire you. Instead of having to come up with false pretenses.

See also how Orange in France ended up bullying their own employees in order to entice them to quit; mostly because they weren't allowed to just fire them. (Some of the victims were even driven into suicide.)
> 2020

That's a convenient time window. If you extend it even one month into 2021, you include the large winter surge.

> at any time in 2020

It looks like today's 7-day average deaths in CA (192) is below the Dec 31, 2020 number (250).
And takes space exponential to the number of bits in the input.
Fuck YouTube. If they're going to control what news I get, I'll choose other than YouTube. I do not need them. I have read from both hard left and hard right, and am intelligent enough to make my own decisions about what makes sense. Let them play their games, whether silly or dangerous. I form my own opinions. Losers!
> He predicted this crisis in 2014...

The article you linked was written after Russia had already invaded and annexed part of Ukraine, so it's not a very impressive prediction.
Yeah, and that's the idea behind the complaint. After getting their start thanks in part to HP's generosity, Apple's management tries to do everything possible to make sure the same thing doesn't happen at their company. It's hypocrisy in action.