skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please quote the part of the article which says anything about "extensive evidence" or "evidence" of any kind. TFA actually says;

> As has been reported elsewhere, my results have been turned over to federal officials. ... Further, to respect officials pursuing this case, I won’t disclose details from our investigation.

"Results". "Details". Never "evidence".
What is the motivation of Saudis?
I’d invite you to read the section directly after the quote you cherrypicked. For all intents and purposes you are not able to unionize because you aren’t protected under the NLRA. That is just how it is at present in the US—I’m still surprised you’re trying to dispute this basic fact. Perhaps you live in a different country with saner laws.

Again, this is a complex subject, and I’m not sure why you are so confident about your lack of knowledge.

EDIT: I think I get it now—chriseaton is from the UK and is unfamiliar with US labor laws. In the US the primary purpose of unions is collective bargaining (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_S...). Independent contractors very much cannot join a union for the purpose of collective bargaining, which is confirmed in both my reference and their reference. The NLRA, which empowers employees to form unions and collectively bargain, explicitly excludes independent contractors (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act...). I should have noticed his misunderstanding earlier.
I feel like this thread is as good a place as any to gush about Sony's hardware design. I opened up my Z5 Compact recently to replace the camera flash and audio jack, and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to disassemble. Remove the glass back and there are just 10 standard Phillips screws holding everything in place. Remove those and the main board just pops out. Most of the components attach via ribbon cable, and are super modular. Easy to find inexpensive replacement parts on AliExpress. Of course, all this reparability isn't doing great things for Sony's bottom line.
The best alternatives to plastic cutlery, cups and plates are reusable items. Hopefully the benefit of reusable vs disposable from an environmental perspective is obvious to you. When that is not an option, then bamboo, wood, and numerous other plant based items are much, much better than plastic. Depending on the source, they mostly have lower embodied energy, and more importantly they are able to easily undergo aerobic digestion to create a full carbon cycle. Even in a sealed landfill where oxygen is not present, they can be used in a waste to energy cycle without incineration. All plastics - all of them, including polyethylene and polypropylene which are most commonly used for these items, are endocrine disruptors. They are wreaking havoc on every biological organism on our planet, impacting reproduction in vital ways. Marks my words that plastics will be seen in twenty years as coal and fossil fuels are seen now. This is an existential threat to life as currently evolved to the same order as climate change. If our forbears had been using materials in this way, our world would be unrecognizable compared to what we see now.
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And it only took 17 years for them to figure out a way to make it happen! Who says America can’t get things done anymore.
> I’m still surprised you’re trying to dispute this basic fact

The article goes on to give specific examples of contractors who are unionised, including in technology, so it cannot be a fact.
CT scanners? Can I get a lead apron to wear in the screening area please?
What? One is a marginal cost business and one is not. Not a great take.
But now TSA has started asking me to remove any food items from my bags for the scanner. Does anyone know why?
Surprised this is on the front page, when it's clearly not true. Markdown support for statuses is only available for Workplace accounts.
Because the people that pay your income so that you can afford to eat also make an income so that they can afford to eat.

As a developer who could "jump ship" to get a pay raise, I feel like I'm at a point where I understand too much is too much and there are a billion other people who need out attention. You don't need seven figures, no one does. We all want different things. So why not let people respectfully wish better for themselves?
If you look at the mass mailing options that the USPS markets on their website, they ask you to basically buy a whole delivery route at a time.

There's no routing and sorting they have to do. The carrier just picks up a stack of letters at the start of the shift, and drops one in every mailbox.

The labor cost that the USPS has to put in for a mass mailing is a fraction of what it has to do for normal mailing.
Been there.
Just a lot of work is what it takes and lucky connections with good people
The Dutch Police have trained eagles to take out drones
Please read up on the NLRA and the history of unions in the US before continuing to comment.

EDIT: I wonder now if the core of this misunderstanding is the difference between “to join a union” and “to unionize”? See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_S...
Yeh but so is loading 1000 packages into 4 or 5 trucks. Or 2500 packages into an 18 wheeler.
They're shielded. And the current machines also use X-rays; there's no change to the kind of radiation used.
Try asking them why they're not wearing dosimeters. They get really defensive!
Ideally I could charge anybody any amount to call me. Not a timed rate but cash just to get through. I could charge nothing for my friends, family, building doorbell service, and everyone else I approve, and $10k for everyone else. If robots fail to determine that charge that's on them.
I think the point is not necessarily what they are scanning now, but what they might scanning in the future for other purposes.
this could be the last person on the planet I want to hear from on the topic of the "internet needs new rules" justsayin....
Hi Dmitry!

First, thanks for making the platform. I find it interesting, because it mirrors how I use email with an email client, especially when traveling: retrieve messages - write responses later - send them whenever.

To that end, I have two considerations:

1)The defining features of your service (daily collection / sending) are easily client-side. I can already configure my desktop email client to behave like pony.gg with a couple of clicks.

So it would make a lot of sense, I think, for you to release an email app. Yes, there are many email apps, but for people who can't resist setting email retrieval interval to <5minutes, less is more.

Then the users will be able to keep their @bigcorp.com / @work.org address, while having the full benefit of your service.

2)On the other hand, you can also enforce these features server-side, allowing people to use their favorite IMAP clients. Just allow, say, one 1hr window in a 24hr time span for retrieval, and the same for sending (so people in different timezones can all get their email at 7am, but won't be able to get new messages after getting their email for the first time that day; same with sending).

Are there any plans to have 3rd part email client support?
There was also a suite of Windows games I played back in ~2003 that occupied maybe a 32x64 window each, and one of them was mini Tetris. As I recall, the developer was Israeli. Anyway it was awesome for playing casually in stealth mode; there were no window decorations and the games were well made. I think one of the other games was pool. I haven't been able to find them since.
Yes, UBI would likely contribute to some inflation -- a little bit of inflation is good, necessary, and unavoidable. It would also act as a massive stimulus to the economy, while also empowering economically-disenfranchised people to enter into the market, from which they are barred from participating in without money.

One way to fund a UBI would be through a value-added tax, which would be collected at every stage of production where money is exchanged.
Sadly it isn't even faster and requires more staff to operate.

While the CT pilot program didn’t show reduced wait times at participating airports, the agency is expecting the technology will speed up lines as passengers and staffers get used to the new processes. Pekoske said he expected more staff to be needed initially as the new machines are put in place.
> They're shedding expensive employee entitlements and liabilities.

If they paid those, they would just pay the person less. It doesn't actually change anything financially for the company.

>A person's ability to exercise their power is proportional to the their financial security. A hungry person will have to make decisions in desperation to secure their next meal. A person behind on their rent will take whatever opportunity they can to secure a roof over their head.

And? What does any of that have to do with Uber? They offered a job, either the person is better off with it, or they aren't.

It's not like there is a monopoly here. If Uber raised their rates there would be less trips taken, and less drivers would have jobs.

If the drivers feel they aren't making enough money, they would drive less, or not at all. Then rates would go up (if by no other means then by surge pricing).

I've talked to Uber drivers - by far, dwarfing all other issues, their #1 issue is there are not enough customers.

If they raised rates there would be even fewer customers - how does that help anyone?
Please add a correction to your original comment, to prevent readers from being misled. (If it's closed to edits, I'm sure HN staff will open it when you ask).

> I still defend that it was valid to raise questions

Of course, it's valid to question a measurement that looks strange but your comment went further than that -- your comment, without evidence, assumed a cause; and, without evidence, implied that assumed cause led to widespread problems with the analysis.

In other words -- innuendo.
Get an internship while you are in college. They are well paid these days. Just one recent entry on your resume doing dev work will set you free. Don't make a huge deal about your life story. If you get no interest then trim down your resume and remove dates. Someone will take you.
Presumably nobody saw fit to remind the House of Saud what year it is...
That's incredible, and extremely close to the hypothetical use case I was imagining, which I thought was impossible to solve.

Could you adapt that technology into a system for allowing a computer in one location to browse the web using the (relatively unrestricted) network connection of a computer in another location?

I'm thinking of times when you're away from home (where your PC is running) and stuck using a web browser on another PC that has an aggressive filtering and/or monitoring policy. That's why in my threat model I imagined that there was a MitM that effectively operates a trusted CA.

The difference between screen sharing and being a web proxy is presumably that the "sending" browser is also accepting navigation requests (from the "receiving" browser) which control the URL and scrolling/clicking of an iframe in the page that hosts the web app itself. I suppose that capturing the clicks on hyperlinks would be the hardest part, unless you could do some clever conversion between pixel locations and DOM elements.
Have you got any specific points? Is that article wrong? You're just repeatedly saying you think I'm wrong without saying why.
Have they ever actually ended up in court? I was on the receiving end of one of these letters many years back for a clone I was involved with, but we just kept distributing it for a long time and they just sent basically the same letter a few years later. The primary developer eventually stopped the project only because he moved on to other things.

I feel like back then we didn’t find any cases backing up TTC’s claims, but I haven’t kept up over the years.
In Chicago traffic I think that'd equate to maybe $3 an hour
> Why can't United Nations do anything about

What authority do you think the UN has? It's basically a social club.
Explosives usually look similar to organic matter on xrays
"I hold the future of Bregna in my hands. See it my friends and embrace it, embrace the new openness! Nothing is sacred. Nothing is secret."
dnsmasq's last CVE was in October 2017 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=dnsmasq

despite that "safety record", I am probably going to switch to https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns
If you are able to work on something else at the same time, it's free money.

More importantly, he probably has a vastly different opportunity cost than you. If all he was doing was watching the TV, why not make a little extra money for no additional effort?
> You're assuming that the people taking the job are fully informed, rational actors, not acting under financial duress. This is not a reasonable assumption for a near-permanent economic underclass.

Sorry-not-sorry, for assuming people are not idiots. Either they have money to pay bills or they don't. It's not that complicated, and people are not idiots.

> "Well, poor people have higher rates of obesity and cancer because of their poor life choices in eating fast food and smoking."

And your plan is to what? Micro-manage people's life and tell them what they can, and can't do?

> It's a convenient out for the exploiters to blame their victims.

It's only exploiting if you trick them, mislead them, lie to them, or force them.

Fine print no one reads? Sure, complain about it. Hidden fees and the like? Outlaw those.

But a straightforward transaction? What are you complaining for?
I get it. You guys don't like Israel. But to invent stories about that country because of some of their private companies that make cutting edge technology (which has been used to thwart terrorist attacks in the U.S.) is not the way adults discuss technology.

Saudi Arabia murders a reporter and it's Israel's fault according to the groupthink here. That makes no sense.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply. I understand your idea.

> It boils down to “tradition”

Yeah, I think you are 100% correct, but I don’t think everything can be justified for that reason. For some countries, say, Sodomy Law is still tradition. In the U.S., people still use weird unit system, refusing adopting Metric system. I know they are extreme examples.

Celebrating new era is wonderful, but I hope people reconsider the use of this peculiar year counting system. It is a good time, I guess. Everything boils down to “tradition”, like you said, but I don’t think we have to stick to the same tradition.
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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We've had to ask you this before, and eventually ban accounts that keep doing this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's ok to be irritated by this. I ended up reading it in links[0] initially, which is usually my go to. After reading your comment I decided to install Firefox 66 (which I've been meaning to do anyway), where NoScript is apparently still at thing. No Javascript, no annoying popovers.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)
Don't let yourself get hung up on doing anything fancy, it's just fun to do. Seriously, just implementing tetris in processing is a fun way to spend an hour, and a great way to remind yourself of why programming is fun. It doesn't involve anything crazy as far as algorithms, but is a fun challenge to do. It's definitely worth it to implement a version, it is just fun to do.
It's not. This is as wacky as people on the Left who blame everything on the Koch brothers, or people on the right who blame everything on Soros or the Clintons.
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Unfortunately, not having powerful macros that can redefine the language hasn't made D popular, so it doesn't really factor into the line of argumentation here.

In any case, this whole debate, starting with the submitted blog and on down from there, is a lot of nonsense that completely ignores the fact that humanity has produced thousands and thousands of programming languages, only a handful of which were ever popular at any given moment. The numbers are stacked against any language, regardless of its peculiarities and merits.

What is popular in this area is a combination of luck, promotion by some big company, or bundling with an operating system or application platform.
It been stated that it makes the X-Ray scan easier to read, because passengers have been stuffing their carry on items so full of stuff. Maybe there is some explosive item that has the density of some food.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2018/03/27/tsa-might-a...
Things will get even more interesting during an audit if you use that company owned car for personal use. Especially if you only own one car.
100% agree. Simplicity. Big picture focus.

The buzzwords & flashy libraries add incremental value over ES6 with large organizational migration costs. For example 90% of Redux code is useless and a liability. But, devs think it’s cool and devs get what they want. Businesses will let devs tinker instead of loosing them. Hence complexity, inefficiencies and egos.

Build something useful in the simplest way possible.

P.S. When I write Typescript I NEVER get caught by the compiler because I KNOW what fucking type my variables are. There’s only a of handful natives becau se this aint C and my object instances are always well named.
A classic big business strategy. If a company feels threaten with regulations then they work towards making the regulations benefitial to them. Also regulations make it harder for small comptitors to start so if you have favorable regulations then you forestall competition. Sounds to me that he'll be sounding like an advocate for the public from now on. We need to dought him more than ever.
Ok, I see now—I think I was talking past you because I assumed you were also from the US. See my explanation in the comment.
I went three or four months without checking my mail and eventually they gave up and stopped delivering my mail entirely, which was a welcome surprise. Unfortunately the 0.1% of mail that is useful forced me to rectify the issue.
> The project doesn’t talk about favorites or seem to want to make certain languages look good. Jumping to the conclusion that bias is involved isn’t the good faith interpretation

I didn't see anywhere that the comment in question called any project bias into question, but instead noted that in a situation where work is crowd sourced, people with their own intentions and motivations will put out bad benchmarks, either in the case of the benchmarks game, or a specific benchmark or comparison put forth in an article or blog. I've personally been witness to the latter multiple times just from HN submissions.

I just want to end with, as someone that's brought up viewing comments in an uncharitable light, you seem to have done a lot of that in this discussion. You've repeatedly taken your interpretation of a comment, rephrased it in a harsher way, and the stated it as what the other person was saying as fact, and then responded to that. I would think actually trying to find a charitable interpretation should at least include a question at the beginning to confirm whether what you think is being said is entirely correct. Note that I started with that when I thought you were attributing statements to me that I did not say. My first words were a solicitation "What are you talking about? Where did that happen?" to confirm what was going on. You've been doing this from your first response to my top level commend, when you stated "But you’re using that assumption to cast slippery-slope doubt on the whole project without knowing anything specific." That's a very uncharitable rephrasing of what you think I was doing, and it certainly wasn't my intention. I've already outlines in specific exactly what I was trying to do and why, and in doing so I also stated that I felt you were misinterpreting me. There's a clear trend here as I see it, and you repeatedly bringing up good faith assumptions just puts it into clear highlight.

I think we've covered about all there is to say on this (these) topics. I'll let you have to the last word if you wish. I'll read and promise to consider any points you raise, but I don't think me responding would be very fruitful, and this discussion has digressed far enough.
We absolutely can change Unicode (that happens all the time, unless you think we've had emoji since the 90's), and we absolutely can rename those files (as they should be anyway, regardless of whether the filesystem is case-insensitive). If you need to dig through the git history or work with a branch that does not have that fix, then you can always mount a case-sensitive FS specifically for that purpose.
People sometimes take a loan to purchase a restaurant, only to have regulations change and make the business non-profitable.

Life is full of disappointment.
So a typo.
> I find it interesting to ponder how it has come about that the Earth isn't just covered in, say, that pathogenic fungus¹ reported on recently, but rather something like 8.7 million species².

Existing inside an organism with a functioning immune system long enough to cause death requires completely different adaptations than existing outside of one. By their very nature, most pathogens spend too much energy on biochemistry that does diddly squat (without an immune system to fight) to help them compete against the innumerable species of garden variety bacteria floating around.
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Or just don't work for Instacart. The market will raise rates when they cannot find any runners for food.
Personal attacks will get you banned on HN. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

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They're planning on using "AI" (Machine learning/Computer Vision) to slowly automate identification. They already do this now, but are limited by the quality of images.

> For example, TSA is working to develop new algorithms that use machine learning approaches to discriminate between threats and benign objects, making the screening process more effective and efficient. Machine learning also offers a way to screen for all prohibited items (explosives, firearms, sharp objects, etc.) automatically. It is anticipated that machine learning algorithms not only will improve security effectiveness but also will support automation in future security systems, thereby enhancing operation efficiency and improving passenger experience through increased throughput and decreased false alarm rates. More broadly, machine learning algorithms can be applied to assess security performance and provide system-level improvements beyond performance enhancements realized at individual screening operations.

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/TSA%20-...

It is worth noting the limitations of such techniques: Familiarity. Back when Apple switched their Macbooks from HDDs to SSDs, a lot of early purchasers got flagged at TSA because their laptop didn't match a profile (i.e. looking for a spinning stack of platters).

With CT technology, we could see even more nuanced differences get flagged for unusual.
I wonder if unionization could be a solution here.
Yes; that area of the filesystem can be readable only to root. It could also have other avenues of entry: it could come from the boot firmware via the kernel command line, or be in a device tree blob or whatever.
..unless you're not, since you don't know the magic prefix of the country in question.

There is a lot of variety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number
Here is my setup in basement for the last 2 decades. https://imgur.com/a/REOqZIK. I lean over an old newspaper to catch clippings.