skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIVO has had the ability to skip ads for about 20 years now IIRC. I have a bandwidth cap on Comcast and don’t want ads to count, however insignificantly, against that. I also don’t trust JS and companies from ad networks to respect my privacy or keep data they collect about me safe. I’d rather (and I do) just black hole route all their junk from known ad networks on a DNS level and let ublock handle anything that does manage to sneak through. If they’re going to go through the trouble of making that not work, they’re probably not worth my time visiting.
Where are you thinking?

Iceland maybe, but that would be the exception to the rule.
There was a post today discussing the Nvidea breach (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30550028) where people were discussing the Nvidea driving making their linux machines unbootable. That kind of thing, where a normal user would have trouble recovering from, that's a pretty big deal.
Yes, but panfrost supported hardware doesn't.
The class system in India is presently under historic overhaul, but here is how it has been for the last 50 years or so.

Class is geographically concentrated and inherited. It isn't as simple as caste. This is primarily because the top class of India is not very Hindu. Inherited classmen are descendents of local kings, cultural empire builders (kapoor family), descendents of top civil servants in the British Empire and descendents of oxford-cambridge educated freedom fighters. Children of industrialists are let in, but it might take a generation or two. These communities are concentrated in the Mumbai and Delhi region. Ties to the Gandhi-Nehru family also helps.

As a normie, there are only a few ways to enter this class. Early schooling at international schools(Ambani), residential schools (Doon) and select Army schools is the easiest way. If you grow up in the right neighborhood in Mumbai or Delhi, you will find yourself sharing space with them. Eventually you'll make friends and be let in. Select professions such Western Liberal Arts academia, Economics, Architecture or Journalism/think-thanks are ways to get some access. But, it is important that the accolades be from western institutes. Sometimes, running an NGO with the right aesthetic gets you there.

The historic overhaul is happening because of 3 reasons. First, the elite have lost political power and their free patronage. Unlike the US, where until recently, the upper class pretty evenly split between 2 political parties. In India, the upper class exclusively operated under the blessings of the Congress party. The rise of the BJP has been disastrous for them, especially journalists and political insiders. Second, as the country sheds its socialist skin, credentials in the armed forces and civil service simply do not matter as much. The introduction of hard examinations to enter any of these institutions blocks off the lazy elites, which in-turn makes the institutions lose some of their 'elite' status. (this is why Harvard still keeps legacy admissions. The bar HAS TO BE low for the real elites to maintain eliteness of your institution) Lastly, new money is snatching away cultural power. STEM grads are taking over Netflix & Youtube. The new Billionaires are all Tech folks. There even have a new mecca in Bangalore.

However, the upper class still influences the messaging in elite American outlets, admission procedures at Ivies, western think tanks and Bollywood. The smart ones have been front of line to welcome the likes of Netflix or have used their massive wealth to buy into the tech revolution by turning into investors instead. Those who have stuck to old ways are dying a slow death.

IMO, India's next upper class is going to be incredibly technocratic. Top IITs (Engg.), AIIMS (Med.), IIMs (B.schools) are treated with a never seen before level of reverence. But this is my personal conjecture. We will see if it works out.
Why is hypothetical, flame-war sparking shit like this constantly spewed?
>There is also the fact that we all thought the Russian Army was a well oiled machine of war.

that's what you've been told at the time when it was required for you to think so, in particular during Trump's presidency due to his stance on NATO.

today you are required to think that Russia is getting its ass kicked, and tomorrow you'll be required to think that Russia must be nuked or else Europe will fall, and the expert opinion will once again change to reflect that.
And yet the censorship.... So it's somewhat moot what those employees are like if they don't control the content.
The reason they aren't as good at SEAD in Ukraine - in no way that ineffective - is simple. NATO is flying AWACS and warning Ukrainian air defences of possible threats.

In a serious peer-to-peer total conflict the AWACS would be shot down and the Ukrainians wouldn't be able to get away with much of anything.
Could you expand a bit on what you mean regarding memory-safe Rust not being the answer to "cannot corrupt the heap memory"?
You just used the open European Plains/Steppes to explain a supposedly incompetent Russian air force, specifically your spitball theory about incompetent VKS pilots. A more humble person might just go back about thirty years and use the post-Soviet oligarch looting in order to explain the corruption and in turn the VKS pilots... only relatively more humble, but still.

Are you sure that you don’t want to rein in the grand narration just a little bit?
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I completely agree with and get what you’re saying. It does feel like that. And if you think you won’t be getting another job you’d feel that way strongly.

But it takes just once. At the new starup I am working I simply pressed “Decline” for “all events” that were out of my timezone except the ones that happen 3-4 times a month total.

Blocked my calendar after 6pm with an automated message clearly mentioning that it was night for me and ask the person to reach out about it and that if it’s a recurring meeting I simply won’t be able to attend.

It’s been 6 months since and it has worked fine. Some other people started doing it in my country after that. Also US colleagues now ask us, earlier they assumed we will just be there.

And yes, I was ready to resign if someone even someone above me in hierarchy even so much as questioned the autonomy of my personal time that’s other than those 8 hours on weekday.

It’s not like I have too much financial cushion, I don’t. But I realised it’s not worth it and when you start saying yes to it, it keeps increasing, keeps piling up. Never stops, never comes down. Saying no sooner is better than saying no late.

Just like dictators and autocrats such companies feed on our fears. The moment we lose them they either run into the ground or they fall in line.
No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvJvLIXcuc0
Throw rug bombing, maybe, but carpet bombing? That would have multiple city blocks in ruble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_bombing
Yes, there are way less slackers in FAANG. In the regular marketplace, a slacker who gets on the wrong side of management or just stale can usually find a comparable gig. FAANG, given recent stock market gains, pays at least twice the US average and matching that can be a serious stretch, particularly outside Bay Area.
Hackerone should be an escrow that can arbitrate and overrule insipid behavior like that.

But they won’t, will they?

Maybe someone else will fill that void
Your argument seems to boil down to: “bad things have happened before, so bad things aren’t bad”.

1. In a close election, contesting it or demanding a recount is fine and sane. Step aside once the results of that process are in. Trying to discredit the entire system with a mountain of bullshit and overthrow an election when it is overwhelmingly clear that it did not go in your favor is an incredibly dangerous road for us to go down. The two practices are incomparable.

2. I can’t understand this argument. Are you saying that 1.6.21 must compose a minimum of 51% of all violence in the US over the past several years before it qualifies as an issue?

3. Presidents inciting their supporters to violently overthrow elections that did not go in their favor is not a thing that has happened plenty recently nor should it ever.
Far too few people are aware of the Brooks Brothers riot.
> They were just out shelling the nuclear facility when they could make some strategic strikes.

Were they? https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-usa-nuclear-e...
That does not appear to be the case.

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-still-has-significant-...
Russia could be a great friend of the west if it wanted and would be very helpful in countering China's influence. Unfortunately the Russian leadership is more interested in enriching themselves and trying to revive the the USSR.
Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642133
featuring the seminal paper by Stephan Rafler and Tim Hutton's video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29960390
featuring a more recent variant
In NYC, I fell in with a crowd who had quite a few extremely successful niche entrepreneurs. A kombucha maker, a boutique paper maker, some kind of avant-garde film editor, fine-art photographers, a fabric designer, this kind of thing. They were all so sought-after that they could spend only a few hours a week on their craft. Beautiful homes, expensive clothes, vacations. It took me some time to figure out that they were not successful entrepreneurs, but that these were fronts to cover for rich parents.

Personally, I don't care if someone has rich parents. Covering for it in this way felt a bit like unearned prestige, though.
Yes, but sadly I’m not convinced that “private companies can’t do what they like” would necessarily turn out different.
Not complying with the government can put them to prison for 15 years. https://news.yahoo.com/russia-blocks-twitter-and-facebook-as...
The country is largely silent on the war because the people are just scared. There is no free speech in Russia.
Youtube doesn’t have any kind of monopoly on posting videos to the internet.

What they do have is a brand and a social network that surfaces, promotes, and moderates video content to drive engagement and ad views.

They’ve grown large by moderating and curating content but now that they’ve done so they should no longer be allowed to moderate and curate content? Makes no sense whatsoever.

You’re pronouncing youtube a “public square”, which should therefore be seized by the government… But what is this extremely strong claim based on? youtube is just one of an endless series of options for posting videos on the internet.
Yeah, I’m under no illusion that they’re just there to get me to spend more. They’ve helped with disapprovals though.
Confession: I only just realized over the past few years. I had always thought that authoritarians were a right phenomenon.
I was not born in Russia, but in some Eastern European country. In my country, during the Communism, and the decade after (and maybe even to this day, but I haven't lived there since 2000), the competition to become a jet fighter pilot was absolutely insane. But that was because the kids just liked jet fighters, (some probably from watching Top Gun). However, it was known that lots of the pilots died in crashes (e.g. [1]). It was also rumored that the pilots ended up having reproductive problems because of radiation from its radar, or something. It's possible that this was an unsubstantiated urban legend, but the rumor existed, and that's what mattered. Given this, I doubt the sons of the well-connected big shots were really flocking to become pilots. Nowadays, those sons most likely prefer to go and study in Switzerland, or the UK or the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doru_Davidovici
This sounds very plausible. And not just against NATO I would guess. They've deployed almost their entire active land force to Ukraine leaving their enormously long borders unprotected.
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That exists but it's overrated, the numbers include people who have a cough a month later.

The more important point is we've just been ignoring every other "long X" condition, like multiple sclerosis.
Same in Belorussia.
https://twitter.com/AlinaLeonovaSF/status/149945950507103846...
But the OPs comment was that the west ended invested in SAMs, a laughably incorrect statement if you study the order of battle of any western military, US or otherwise.
Well, it comes from reading HN. :) That's clearly anecdotal, but if you're a regular reader you've surely come across the job-hopping advice here! I've seen "the way you get a raise is by switching companies" as advice over and over and over here, and I don't think it's just a small selection of malcontents I just keep running into.

Companies whose primary business is hardware seem to be more likely to keep people around for longer periods of time -- Apple, Intel, Cisco, National Semiconductor back when they were a going concern. Software companies, though, particularly ones in Silicon Valley (or following a Silicon Valley ethos)? As someone who's going to hit their four-year anniversary at their current workplace in a week, I feel like the oddball.
Generally speaking, if someone dies while you are committing a felony, you can be charged with their murder.
There is no districts or gerrymandering at the Presidential level. It’s State wide. You could argue that the electoral system gives an advantage to smaller States because that’s true. But that’s by design to force a consensus at multiple levels.

Large scale change is supposed to require multiple types of majority, not just a snap mob decision. That’s a feature, not a bug.
Handy as base for rotoscoping :)
HedgeDoc is a FLOSS self-hostable collaborative markdown editor in the browser: https://hedgedoc.org/
Why so?

There's a risk foreign currency held by Yandex might be sold to RUB per a Russian government order. I'd rather have shareholders cash out than have these assets fall into the hands of sanctioned entities.
Spoiler: He mentions the war.
> ” trying to take down our whole system of government like you know who.”

This is pure hyperbole and exaggeration. Emphasis on “our whole system of government”.
And all thoee buckets of cash they are bragging about mean nothing. No rational person would be sending money into Russia right now, let alone converting dollars into rubles. The money outside of Russia today will stay outside. The money still inside Russia will diminish in value, that is until it is siezed. Yandex's days as a going concern may be numbered. Thats what happens when a business is caught out straddling both sides of a new sanctions regime. Maybe they can buy a soccer team.
Whoa, how?! Everything I’ve read indicates that Apple MacOS does not support TB (or was it USB-C?) daisy chaining
Corruption is how Putin obtained and maintains order. It is regarded as a feature of Russian governance, but is likely to fail it in the case of actually providing the services a government is expected to. Why not the military as well?
> We need those folks to have information so they can push back.

They can't. And they won't. Nice in theory but it's 2022 and here we are. Nobody is pushing back at all, in any meaningful way over there.
You have to forgive his genius occasionally overwhelming the average human’s ability to comprehend speech.

> “Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
Thank you for that irrelevant reply.
I'm saying we don't do prior restraints on speech in the U.S. Law enforcement can take care of the rest.
> Authoritarianism is not a good thing, hard stop.

On a spectrum, where e.g. anarchy is on the other end, it is a good thing. Where to place the pin however is a challenge. Binary decisions such as that ("this thing can only be good or bad") is an extremely restricted way at seeing the world.

>The US is not a long way away from authoritarianism. It's one strongman with actual brains away from it.

I'd love to here why you think that.
The headline is really awful. The brief article walks it back a bit.

Sorta like saying, the burglar didn’t steal from mysecretaccount2’s house, just the garage.
I'd like to think that the need for advertising is just a bug in capitalism and eventually it'll go away.
By HN logic, attacking this guy for broadcasting Russian propaganda is a “slippery slope” towards censorship.
Hello, fellow traveller! I wonder if we should we be even commenting, as it messes with their timeline, but brilliantly put.
The novel Fuzzy Nation has cameras like that. Regular cameras are basically inadmissible in court.
No need to imagine: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/26/europe/ukraine-zelensky-e...
What monopoly???
How about the Ghost of Kyiv?
It is not that simple. They are on their families side. Not complying will put them to prison for 15 years
https://news.yahoo.com/russia-blocks-twitter-and-facebook-as...
One theory I came across recently was that the Russian IFF system ("Identify Friend or Foe") has been subverted by Ukraine, possibly due to captured vehicles, and that Russia doesn't trust their own IFF system. So, any attack involving air and ground units involves a lot more coordination than it would otherwise, to prevent Russian forces from attacking each other.

Apparently Russian forces are having some difficulty with IFF, if this is accurate: https://twitter.com/andersostlund/status/1499823866893512708
Thanks, I didn't realize I was using the wrong term!

I'm not sure why the parent post was downvoted. It was on-topic and taught me something relevant.
But Russia has thousands of nukes, and that's not a secret. Russia knows that nobody would dare attack them, ever. And the rest of the world knows that too.

The whole thing about Russia feeling "threatened" is just total BS. Putin just knows that in this day and age you need to play the victim, and lots of people instinctively would take your side. It doesn't matter how absurd the claim is.
I'm currently making a killing as a remote contractor for several places that won't allow their own developers to work remotely. These places are just making it easy to poach their own talent.
The idea of protests is grossly underestimating Putin and the regime.
Alphabet/YouTube should seek for government regulations that requires them to not delete the videos that are not explicitly illegal.

They keep removing videos to keep their advertisers or customers happy. If they are not allowed by the government to delete videos that are not illegal, they can just blame the government.

Of course, they should not be forced to keep every video. It has to be profitable for them.
No indication it's really a thing. (Probably several separate engagements by several separate planes/pilots, or even downings via MANPADs. War breeds myths quickly. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/02/ukraines-figh...)
That no office communication on personal phone has worked wonders for me as well. And my personal numbers is for emergencies only.

Not turning up last minute meetings have also worked well. I mean I was shocked but people actually need to be told you’re not available at one ping and then they mend their ways. Start saying yes, it gets worse.
> I think it's incredibly unlikely for the USA to become a dictatorship.

Yes but only until a violent event that strikes fear in the minds of the people. Then the government may convince people to give up their freedoms in the name of security.

I think the question is how dedicated are we to our values, not in good times, but in uncertain times.
Why not the military as well? Because an autocrat is directly served by having a strong military? This should not need to be explained. An autocrat doesn’t have to care about corruption in the school system or the Department of Motor Vehicles, but he has good reason to care about corruption and incompetence in his military, just from a purely self-serving perspective.
> - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court (not the legislature) changed their voting laws to accommodate widespread mail-in ballots and drop-boxes which was against the state constitution.

And yet no one challenged the law until after the third election it had taken effect. Until after the results had come out. There's a doctrine called laches: you have to complain about things that wrong you when you find about them, and if you wait too long, you don't get to complain anymore.

Furthermore, as for election challenges go, you're not going to invalidate any votes that had already been validly cast under the existing interpretation of law, even if the interpretation is incorrect per court rulings. For example, when there were last-minute challenges to absentee ballot procedures, any absentee ballots cast before the decision came out under the old procedures would still be valid, even if they didn't meet the new procedural requirements.

So anyone thinking that courts would invalidate election results via after-the-fact court challenges is either ignorant, lying to themselves, or is stuck somewhere in la-la land.
So they are choosing bankruptcy over jail. What an honorable way. Let them do it with glory.
Do you have equal contempt for the New York Times which knowingly sold us a War in Iraq by constantly repeating a lie about WMD, resulting in 500,000 dead Iraqis?

There are no 'good guys' in this war.

- Putin is a brutal dictator.

- America is pushing an amazing amount of propaganda in this war while simultaneously sending arms and funds to back a Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen targeting civilians.

- Ukraine has enlisted openly white supremacist neo-nazi's in their national guard to fight Russia in the east.

- Facebook even unbanned the Ukranian Azov Brigade [0] this week as long as they are fighting the Russians [1]

This is a war with no heroes and no winners, even though we have been taught to hate the 'others' to the point of targeting everyday Russian citizens, even those who oppose Putin's actions.

The truth is the first casualty in times of war. Propaganda works on all of us. The best thing we can do is realize that fact.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion

[1] https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-ba...
And how exactly is Google prohibited from censoring? By definition?

They're a private company. They can do whatever they want within the limits of the law. And the law doesn't say anything about not publishing something. Which can be done for purposes of censorship.