skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In terms of worker's rights, I expect there would be more support for laws governing higher minimum conditions for workers of imported goods than there would be support for more expensive products that directly compete with cheaper products made by more exploited workers.

I think this is a good point, and is also likely why conservatives tend to prefer "minimal government" and "market forces."

As a society I think we need someone to keep us in check as individuals. Note: This doesn't mean totalitarianism, we can come to the same conclusions democratically.

This just means that socially we're more likely to vote for fair working conditions — but privately it's incredibly easy for us to be tempted into a choice that benefits us in the short-term and hurts someone else (or even ourselves) in the long-term.

I know I can buy more expensive meat from farms that treat animals ethically and supports local farms. When I look at my bank account as I'm grocery shopping on a Sunday... I'm not buying the more expensive meat. I'm capable of it, but I'm also financially risk-adverse.
Is this a joke or have you actually had sponsors in the past?
I think it's simple inertia.

Maybe I should try again with Telegram. It looks quite nice.
Yes, I use KeePass and Kee for Firefox.
Before WebExtensions it was perfect. Now, it has a dialog that tries to intercept basic/negotiate auth, but it never works.

Luckily, keepass has a very nice auto-type functionality that works perfectly with basic auth dialogs. Now if I could just disable the Kee dialog that doesn't actually do anything...
It's worth noting that there are qualitative differences to be considered, and people committing suicide at that rate (or any rate at all) should be investigated to address the conditions of these workers. To simply look at a comparison of the rates misses out that different factors and motivations drive these suicides.
I hope those future people think about backwards compatibility.
The way I've always thought of it is that my unit tests have to be a level of complexity simpler than the code under test. Otherwise the "bugs" are equally likely to be in my test code as the production code.

I think he makes a very strong point that if the code is too complicated to use in tests then the production code should change. Simply because if it's hard to set up for you in tests; then it's almost impossible for someone else to use in real code. When they should be reusing your component they will give up and write a 'better' version for themselves.
What are some text-editing features that you find IntelliJ lacking?
whoops, that's a major breakage.
Today I solve this on Write.as with a site called Read Write.as [0], which has a modest, but regular group of readers -- that's my model.

So for the WriteFreely project, I'm also building a federated reader app [1] that'll connect to your blog(s), interoperate with other ActivityPub platforms, and be a similar destination for people looking to read, rather than write. You could imagine people hosting the two platforms together to create mini-Mediums across the web, which also communicate with each other.

Otherwise, as things are today, enabling people to follow your blog from the fediverse means they can read your posts right in their social media streams and share them with their followers by clicking one button.

[0] https://read.write.as

[1] https://read.as
Because they can't get from under student debt. Also property values in the bigger cities have skyrocketed. Rents have also skyrocketed. Really hard to get ahead when things like this are a factor.

Notice I didn't even mention wages for non-stem workers.
Seriously? This is like the sixth post in the past 5 minutes.
Yes, I definitely don't want Netflix (or any other websites) sending me stuff through WhatsApp

I don't want, I don't care and while I don't find it "terrifying" I DO think it's an annoyance not asked for

If I want to see what's new there I go there. Period.
Yes, you're right; the distinction I was making is that it's about their presence in the EU, not their citizenship. In fact, an American citizen living in the EU is also covered, whereas an EU citizen living in the US is not.

An in fact, it's even less than that: the site only has to care if they target people in the EU (not necessarily exclusively) or if they're tracking behaviours. Simply being accessible online doesn't mean it has to comply, whereas e.g. accepting Euro payments probably does.
I really liked that one as well, but I don't like the fact that the translator translated "掉在地上" differently between the first and final lines, which are meant to mirror each other exactly in order to juxtapose the fate of a screw with the fate of a man. Neither were to receive any embellishments. They both simply fell or dropped.

Here's my take:

A screw fell to the ground

On a night of overtime

Straight down, a gentle clink

Nobody noticed

Just like last time

On a night not unlike this one

A person fell to the ground
I hope people would actually do some research before biting on the clickbait. Foxconn has a lower suicide rate than the national average, and compared to working conditions in most of China is virtually first world.

If you want to see REAL human suffering, look to something like the shipbreaking yards in India and Bangladesh.
Reading about what other people experienced and actually experiencing it is two very different things.

Most people didn't experience the front line, instead, they experienced poverty.

So it depends on what the purpose is. Many if not most wars are about territory which is about access to resources.
> Most people are too distracted to even pay attention, let alone do something about it.

This is by design. As long as it's profitable to exploit labor, nothing will change. It is far far easier to keep people distracted and blind to all of this than it is to make them 'wake up,' or make any changes to their lives.
https://www.twilio.com until the wheels fall off.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8561326

Similar discussion from about 2 years earlier. I think that we react and reflect similarly is a good thing, though I've no clue how conditions changed overall in this time.
When Shane was first starting out with FS (I picked it up around 2013, and I don't think he was around much before that.), it was great. He explained his intentions with the blog as a way of writing down what he was learning and then sharing it with others as an accountability type device. I really do miss the FS of old. It has devolved into exactly what you describe. Shane has turned it into a business. I don't blame him at all for doing so. There was obviously enough demand to do so, and I'm sure the time commitment was ever increasing.
Moving fast and breaking things!
That said, one can stop before they get to optical illusions. Simple camouflage works as a similar trick. Consider stick bugs. Unless you see them move, or are directly looking at the facial features, I expect even machines will have a hard time detecting them.
I never got an IDE to properly work with a C project.
Even vendor provided IDEs tend to break in many subtle ways.

There are just too many opaque things going on, everything is slow and if you don't sick to the workflow intended by the authors of the IDE, everything is lost.

I feel like if the language has not been designed with an IDE in mind, it's hard to get the integration right.
same. downdetector reporting 1200 plus reports of facebook down https://downdetector.com/status/facebook
errno is multithreaded.

It's just a macro for a function like:

#define errno (*__get_errno_location())

This is equivalent to having getter-setter functions, like in Microsoft's Win32 API, which has GetLastError and SetLastError.
> I think a lot of people would pay twice as much for their devices if they could guarantee the workers weren't being exploited.

It's interesting that we think in terms of what extra amount we would pay.

Apple commands the highest profit margins in the industry per device manufactured which is in part due to the negotiated labor costs it pays to companies like Foxconn.

Why not instead ask Apple to pay more for labor instead?

They already go out of their way to source recycled materials and conflict free materials. Is it so hard to expect them to pay or ask their ODMs to pay living wage labor costs with favorable working conditions?
I think the key is that showing progress early and often lets the customer start to get a feel for how long the entire process is going to take. This is one of the reasons for XP's idea of trying to do "vertical" but narrow slices of the application. Each story you work on should work through as many layers of the application as you can manage.

It's easy to write stories that are "do the UI for X", and then "do the back end for X". But often the UI (at least the first cut) is easy to code and comes out quickly, giving the customer the impression that everything will be quick. Then you work on the back end and it goes a lot more slowly, leading to mistrust. Alternatively, working on really complicated things up front (while generally a good idea) can give the customer the impression that the project is stalled and that it's never going to finish.

When you are doing iterative development, I think the real art is in choosing your stories. It's difficult, but when done well it removes most of the political friction in development.
Is down here
Where did you get this from? The blog you're reading this on is built and hosted on Repl.it (https://amasad.me/__repl) and it's source is 50 files and if you count node_modules that's thousands of files.
I like the first one because it's too easy to think someone just fell over instead of having committed suicide.

Thanks for the insight though, interesting to see.
If RoundUp and glyphosate-based herbicide studies funded by Monsanto are proven to be fraudulent how could you trust RoundUp Ready?
This was my thought too. Frequently, with liberal subjectivist-indvidualist ideology, we are guided into individualising problems to the highest degree, to the point where qualitatively existing and horrible structures of violence are not questioned at all. The onus is on the sufferer to stop suffering, rather than to change the system such that others don't have to suffer in their place. Mark Fisher wrote about this kind of issue especially in regards to mental health and depression, too.
Brian Lunduke does an updated version of this talk every year at Linux Fest NW. Essentially a "State of the Linux Desktop" talk. Always entertaining to watch.
The respect for the user here is huge. Every time I would get to the bottom of an article I would think, you know, I read that whole article, you're right, I should consider donating. Am a monthly donor now. The lack of a paywall or obnoxious popup went a long way towards getting my loyalty even though I historically haven't read it particularly regularly.
Or we could just sell them for the same price but lie about the exploitation.

High-quality lies are quite cheap. You can build whole worlds out of them for nothing.
Anonutopia, a Smart Contract Country, Announces Payout of Universal Basic Income
So much for the pivot to "move fast with stable infrastructure."
Ripoff Report and More Complaint Websites See Huge Ranking Drops
I used to work on an organic farm.

We used glysophate because it technically "doesn't touch the plants meant for consumption", therefore it doesn't matter if it's not organic.

Wind and soil leeching obviously make this untrue, but legally our product was still "organic" as long as we didn't directly spray our crops.
That's interesting, didn't know that about foreign citizen coverage.
same
as well as facebook.com
Ask HN: What did you do to get promoted as a SWE?
I have removed the file again.
That's true, especially for client-side based online IDEs. At Repl.it we have a hybrid approach where a lot of the IDE-like functions like code intellisense run on the server: https://repl.it/blog/intel
Build an MVP. Focus on the GTD approach rather than kanban (it's just my opinion). Before giving a functionality that Asana/Trello or similar tools don't have you ought to have the functionality that they do have.

People won't use your tool just because you do something that they don't. They'll use it if your tool does what they do plus it does what they don't.

I've been in the project management market for more than 3 years now and strongly feel there's still so much potential.

1) The biggest problem I have with Trello is it's outmoded UI and you literally have to use power-ups for every single functionality that other project management tool gives in-built. You can read my candid Trello review here.
https://productivityland.com/review/trello/

2. I know the potential of a tool as compared to the traditional pen and paper. It saves you loads of time and energy.

3. Start date and time, task estimates, dependencies, timeline, Gantt (may be). Personally I love the list views and ability to make changes on the go.

4. Mobile is the most untapped market in the productivity space at the moment. They must go hand in hand but if I'd one choice I'd select mobile but it needs to be more than just a checklist app.
Farmers can’t use glyphosate and be certified organic.

As a former organic farmer, I can tell you that's incorrect.
Tips: How AI Affects the Job Search Processes
Well, consider that in that case, the fact that advertising enabled you to view the site is a fluke that will probably be extinguished eventually.

If you have literally zero money, even to spend on activities with high expected future return, your value to an advertiser is zero, and eventually they'll figure out how to not waste resources on you.

The correct answer to poverty is not 'make the world a bit shittier for everyone and hope it balances out'.

(As an aside, I also used to have ~no money, and can't really say I required ad-based sites to learn. I just pirated it all, used sites without advertising, used IRC, etc. I think this idea that everything has to be ad-supported is quite a modern phenomenon.)
Selective enforcement even of an just law (or contract clause) is itself unjust. That's what the article's about - not that 7-11 is trying to enforce the rules, but that they are selectively enforcing against certain franchisees, and using taxpayer-funded muscle to do it.

Imagine if use of work computers for anything personal was a widely violated rule where you work, but the only people who ever seemed to get busted were the ones who had made complaints to HR, and they brought in the FBI to do it in the most intimidating and humiliating way possible. But hey, they did wrong, so the company's morally right? No.
Since the beginning of Chrome we have worked to provide a solid foundation for modern web applications.

Bullshit. Implement MathML, then come talk to me about how "we strongly believe that every developer should have access to the capabilities they need to make a great web experience, and we want to support them as they do".

And this?

Developer feedback is critical to help us ensure we’re shipping the right features

No, it isn't. If it were, you would have a working MathML implementation.
There are more than 400 hours of video uploaded every
minute to the platform, and putting the onus of
responsibility on platforms like YouTube to catch every
video isn’t fair, according to Wojcicki.

Sounds like they could solve this really easily by just hiring a lot of people, which is also very easy to do when you stashed over $100,000,000,000 and revenue is still growing and taxes are still diminishing and employees are still called contractors.
Being a Communist website does not mean they support the practices of these corporations, nor the practices of the Chinese Communist Party - you'll find, if you look closer, that the website is a place for Marxists and anarcho-Communists in general, much more so than Maoists (who are heavily suspicious of the pro-capital Dengist reforms) or Stalinists.

It's not ironic at all; it is only ironic when you conflate the CCP with what Badiou describes as the Communist hypothesis.
World Mercator Projection with True Country Size Added
broken image from static.facebook.com for the logo, too.
This should be an interesting postmortem, if they have one. I think Netflix never released a postmortem of their latest downtime.
In the honor of bikeshedding once a year someone writes an article on the www/non-www topic.

The truth is:
1. No one cares
2. Choose one of two and stick to it
3. Care to maintain a redirect from the second option to the chosen one.

Cheers!
Yeah I didn't interpret it as having committed suicide. But his other poems hinted at him falling asleep at the line. So it could be exhaustion. Or, it could be metaphorical -- that a person's spirit fell to the ground and nobody cared.
Down on latin america too
Turbocharging Python with Command Line Tools
No it doesn't. Not in mainland China. Who told you this?
Another perspective is this: China's extreme poverty rate (people living on less than $1.90/day) fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 6.5 percent in 2012. China is rapidly entering the global middle class, and their workers are rapidly demanding better conditions.

All of that was because China wanted to industrialize, and they did it. Should we avoid buying labor from countries that are pursuing rapid industrialization?

(This is a genuine question, actually, on my part. I'm still torn between "capitalism has brought tons of people out of poverty" and "real people are exploited every day.")
Doesn't look like it was all that helpful to Facebook (as of 1542038976). Facebook.com errors out currently.

> Facebook Platform Appears to be down

> A check of https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ returns an error and I'm unable to login with facebook to some of my mobile apps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18434262
I could never get into Farnam Street because it just seemed like appropriating Charlie Munger's mental models to sell self-help services.

I'm more intrigued by something like Online Great Books (https://onlinegreatbooks.com/) which seems like a lot of effort but would probably force me to widen my knowledge
- In reality, I wish something like Online Great Books included some first principles math/science books to round it out more beyond the philosophy/literature bent.
Yep but only through the Verizon connection. Phone works, Tor connection to FB works, so it's probably localized.
I'm curious how much it would cost to say double the worker's salaries (or halve their hours at the same pay).

How many Foxconn man-hours does it take to produce an iPhone, and what is the average hourly wage?
Can AIs Create True Art?
Follow me at https://twitter.com/8bitworkshop -- I'll be releasing a book soon that you might like.
I can see ignoring the needs of visually impaired users is a pattern with the parent poster
I think the Lisp community invented tools that, had they been successful, would've altered the course of history with regards to devtools. I wrote an essay on this: https://amasad.me/disintegrated
Yes, selectively enforcing laws to benefit one side in a business relationship is fascist.
I am reminded of the following Terry Pratchett bit:

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”
If you need to estimate then it's best to break work up in small parts and then estimate those. Because it's very tricky to estimate huge bulks of work.

There is however a lot of work you cannot estimate. If you still need to estimate the work you sometimes can set a max.
For example you estimate that a API integration will cost you 16 hours but there are a lot of uncertainties. Then you can tell the client that you bill by the hour with a max of 32 hours.
Looks like they had a blip [1]

[1] - https://downdetector.com/
Only between Apple devices
I don't really understand your question. Because you are comparing a chemical with a plant with a gene added to be resistant to that chemical, "trust" is not material.

I don't know - and won't debate, since I don't know - if there is any risk to GMOs.

I don't know what risks there are to persistent glyphosate or AMPA exposure.

But I do know that pesticide resistance is different that pesticide producing in very fundamental ways.
My point being, some points of view are more constructive than others.
Plugins make this somewhat usable, and they usually mean that it's easier to get some of the features for smaller languages. A lot of small languages only have plugins for Emacs, Vim, Atom, and VSCode. Sure, if you're doing Java, Eclipse is great. But if you're doing Nim or Idris or something else small...
This is actually another reason why advertising is bad. The reason why those hypothetical products would "fall flat due to a lack of or poor advertising" is because of the noise created by other advertisers. Cut that noise out, and suddenly very little would be needed to effectively communicate to people about new products.
Strange, I just logged into the website fine from Portland, OR via Comcast
Interestingly I VPN'd into a node in Dublin and it is still working there.

Iowa (direct) and SF (VPN) were both erroring out sitewide. Anecdotally it seemed to start in Analytics and spread to Facebook.com and finally to the platform over the course of ~15 minutes. But not sure if that's representative.
Where on earth do you live where things are this backwards?
It's going to be a long process. Mobile carriers, like mine (O2 UK) don't really stand to gain anything from RCS. Until companies begin to offer additional functionality for RCS users, like branding, rich media and bespoke action buttons[0] and normal people start moaning or switching to a network that does support it, I really can't see them budging on their stance.

[0] https://www.openmarket.com/blog/rcs-to-eclipse-apps/
Looks like they had a little blip [1]

[1] - https://downdetector.com/
Poorly and never
works in EU
It's not that "mastodon" is bad, it's that the others are so much worse.
Completion estimates may be dishonest but that's how things are done almost everywhere, yes, even shops that use Agile, complete with burn-down charts, stand-ups and sprints. I've seen "Agile" teams that go through all the motions of a modern sw development team BUT STILL have to give the completion date of the whole project! Before the work starts!

FWIW, it's not as bad as it sounds, it just means that the PM's see red in their charts and end up bugging people with "urgency attacks". Slippage is common and that's OK.

The vast majority of the time, an estimate is just an estimate. Passing a deadline isn't fatal, nor is it failure (regardless of whatever it says in the Project Management Book of Knowledge).
Flash Mob – Happy Sunday
Douglas Rain, Voice of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, Dead at 90
If you get your family on something like Diaspora (or other self-hosted social network platform of choice), though, Grandma doesn't need to check Facebook. All the photos and discussions she wants to see are on your Diaspora server.
I can confirm what you say about Tor. I get the login screen when hitting FB via Tor, but not otherwise.