skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article does touch on the answer to your question

> Chetty’s pitch to the nation is that our problems have technocratic solutions, but at times I sense that he is avoiding an argument. Surely our neighborhoods can be improved, and those improvements can help the next generation achieve better outcomes. But what of the larger forces driving the enormous disparities in American wealth? Poor people would be better off if their children had better prospects, but also if they had more money—if the fruits of our society were shared more broadly. “I can take money from you and give it to me, and maybe that is good and maybe it is not,” he said. “I feel like there are a lot of people working on redistribution, and it is hard to figure out the right answer there.” To focus on the question of who gets what is also, of course, politically incendiary.
PTO is a very strange concept for much of the world.

I'm in the UK and get work full time and get 25 days holiday to take, plus the national/bank holidays.

If I'm sick I take a sick day. If I take a significant number of sick days, I'll be asked to produce a note from my doctor confirming that I'm sick.

If I get really sick, then myself and my employer both contribute to insurance that (I think, not checked for a while) gives me 75% of my salary until I'm well.

It's not quite a socialist paradise - but the general idea is that if you're an employee, there is a collective system that doesn't punish you for being ill.

Vacation days are for vacation.

I do work for an international company, so was interested to note on my portal (where I can check my benefits) - a new metric of "15 unused sick-days" had appeared...
..maybe my hay-fever is more debilitating that I thought...
Perhaps I'm the only one, but I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking at. Does this relate to Wikipedia? I kind of feel like it might really too people using the internet and their coordinates being displayed on the map, but maybe I'm just slow.
Is there any way to tell it to use up less or more RAM? It would be very dumb if this weren't configurable
Now you are claiming that not only fission products make fission expensive, they do so in a way that is immune to engineering solution (unlike, you are saying, the problems of fusion.) I cannot understand how this makes any sense.

Fusion reactors will be regulated by the same regulators as fission reactors. The NRC has already said that fusion reactors fall under their purview. Tritium release alone would be sufficient to ensure they will be regulated -- the tritium burned by a 1GW(e) fusion reactor in a year would be enough (if all released) to raise 2 months of the flow of the entire Mississippi river above the legal limits for tritium contamination in drinking water. Fusion reactors will be regulated to contain even small amounts of tritium, and this will not be cheap.

I explained already why the redundancy and expensive reliability engineering of fission plants will also be necessary for fusion. It's not for the reason of safety, but because any breakdown in the hands-off part of a fusion plant will be catastrophic for the economics of the plant.

Fusion is starting way behind fission in the struggle to be sufficiently reliable, because fusion reactors are so much larger, under much higher stress, and are much more complex.
For these types of stories, I find it much more readable than a giant wall of text - the structure of the medium forces you into better storytelling. (Not everything is this type of story, though! I would hate reading a research paper in this format, where each two-sentence block was intended to be interesting enough to be retweeted on its own.)

This isn't unusual in human storytelling. Other forms with a history of constraint causing a better result than an unconstrained pile of text include poetry, songs, and presentation slides.
> This is not a balanced piece. It is a piece with a skillfully deployed pro-Amazon shareholder-friendly anti-organized-labor agenda.

I read the article twice. First time it felt balanced (or at least an alternative view). Then I asked myself what happened to all the crap we already knew Amazon was pulling and read it again. This time it felt more like a shill.
> being investigated, having your door kicked in, and/or your equipment seized.

True and good to be aware of (upvoted), but I think it is fair to note that this is a very small number of cases. It's not small odds like "win the lottery" odds, but it's also not likely that it'll happen to you. Definitely something to be aware of and plan for (e.g. don't also use that server for important stuff, say, your email and website).
Some of the issues are funny too:

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%...
The average person can find a pick-your-brand Japanese car or crossover that’s 5-8 years old, if possible pay cash and get liability insurance only and motor for half the typical costs and basically the same reliability.

We bought my wife’s 2005 CR-V in 2011 for $8500 cash. In 8 years, it’s needed less than $750 in parts and we farmed out only one job (a clutch job which involves a good half-day of labor with a lift or a strenuous weekend without one). Total maintenance expenses have been under $2000 over 8 years and if the clutch job hadn’t been needed would have been under $1000. (Was a bearing failure not clutch wear.)

We’re under $11K into this thing, excluding gas, so $110/mo or so and still totally reliable.

You’re right on the market; it’s great that not everyone wants them: makes them cheap for those who know how smoking a deal they tend to be.
The reminder that we have genitals is more unbearable than enduring excruciating pain in those genitals.

Genitals, the stuff genital-adjacent like sex or waste-release -- it's all viscerally disgusting, particularly in the context of family members, and unmoors us from the sanitized, half-reality we have to live in so that we can tolerate each other comfortably.

With strangers, though, it's mostly fine. It makes ironclad sense, just like everything else.
As MuffinFlavored wrote, not unless it is accrued.
The man likes his hardware:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html
Not sure about production workloads but its not just privileged containers you start that should be a concern.. anyone who can access /var/run/docker.sock can run a privileged container, so this can be a privilege escalation.

Because of this escape, giving access to /var/run/docker.sock to regular users is the same as giving them root access.

Also as the article says mounting /var/run/docker.sock is (now, because of this escape) the same as giving that container access to the host system.
This project had my favorite naming theme in all of computing.
A random selection from a set of in-series numbers is still random, it's just got a potentially known range.
That's a valid concern and I think there's no really great path forward, aside from broad structural changes that will blunt the negative consequences of automation: how do you balance good working conditions with the specter of automation? If human labor forever has to undercut the cost of automation, then we can't discount the human cost of doing so.
I'm willing to be corrected on best predictor of Brexit voting, but even if that's the case, as you say, education was a significant factor, and I think contributed hugely to the blindness of the political class.

Your analysis of the various classes (which has a whole other discussion attached to it) comes across as pretty patronising. The idea that the result was caused by "herding" C2s uses metaphors of cattle that are pretty demeaning, as if Bs aren't subject to similar forces with different aesthetics.

It also negates the idea that they have a real beef with the establishment, which I think they do. They may be voting against their own interests on the issue of Brexit, but in the service of a big, satisfying "f__k you" to the people who've shafted them in the name of "balancing the books" while bailing out their City mates. I'd feel pretty aggrieved if I saw City boys swanking around while my right to incapacity benefit was challenged again and again.

I agree wholeheartedly with your last sentence. But I can't think of many organisations who would meet that standard, and I have direct experience of white-collar jobs that are more soul-destroying than the work described in the linked article. Even Amnesty International was hemorrhaging staff because of a toxic work environment while they were running that "protect the human" campaign.

What I found useful about this article was that it gave a sense of perspective from someone who does this kind of work for a living. Did those journalists interview anyone like this? (Not a rhetorical question - I haven't read the book by Bloodworth, but I'm skeptical given the tone of the excerpts I've read that it would fit his narrative.)
Not only is this harder to read, and not only are you losing semantic information (line breaks within a tweet are different from tweet breaks), you're literally missing content, e.g., after "They did not."
Allegedly, there were just 15 flip-flops, which are reused a lot…
Right... Run this script to de-bloat your computer, but also here's a list of features which will stop working afterward and we don't know why!
I meant "great-grandparent", referring to your comment quoting the Supreme Court ruling, but I realize now that I miscounted and it's actually one level further than that :(
I have never developed anything on my own, as every-time I press the keyboard, so much development prior to the key press allowed for that to occur - as well as every software I use to develop, even the languages themselves.

Software development is an amazing thing and shows just how great we, the people, as a whole are.
I've seen and heard about many different sick pay schedules because of this. From ones that accrue like vacation and PTO from zero as hours are worked, ro ones where the days are all allocated on the first of the year to be used (I assume pro-rated for mid-year hires) to ones that are a hybrid where some portion of the yearly sick days are allocated at the beginning of the year and the rest are accrued. There are benefits and drawbacks to each, and probably a lot of interesting behavioral nudges in each scheme that affect different types of work in different ways.
Green Space Is Good for Mental Health
Yes. We use Logspout, a container that attaches to the stderr/out of other containers and forwards those stderr/outs to more centralized logging services, such as an ELK stack. The attach call requires the docker socket, and so it is effectively a --privileged container.

The idea, of course, is to minimize the surface area for attacks. That container has a need for it to run that way; the vast majority of our other containers do not.
I question why Windows continues to need increasingly demanding and intrusive anti-malware when Mac and Linux get along just fine without it. The architecture of Windows must be aging terribly if the only way one can keep it safe is by humongous and intrusive real time scanning. My experiences with Windows Defender's realtime protection has not been pleasant. Almost one core being used exclusively to check every network and filesystem operation. I recommend if users have any security common sense whatsoever they can safely disable Defender and manually run it once a month.
Found another example: Make, vol 3, p. 187 describes a way to make these (not form-factor compatible, but uses the same concept) with a hole punch, index cards, scissors, and a chopstick.

Edit: the url kk.org is not one that inspires a whole lot of confidence, either.
Wait until you try to use "sanction" (especially as a verb, where the different meanings are close to opposite). [1] The verb "table" is another one with opposite meanings. [2]

The English language appears designed to foil friend and foe alike.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sanction

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table
Climate change catastrophe has been exaggerated for over 30 yr now

UN predicted catastrophe in 1989

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
Is it really high capital intensive? I make websites and i m not rich. Network levels are strong and global, but they do come and go every few years, its unlikely that facebook will be as long lived as disney or mcdonalds.
Suspected Arson at Kyoto Animation Studio Kills 33, Shocking Japan
Great-grand-parent
I'm sorry to hear about your wife. What is she suffering from and what types of clinical trials are you trying to enlist her in?
Korean-American engineer claims discrimination by Indian managers at Intel
There are norms that already prevent (non-military) hired workers from e.g. working more than 168 h/no, or prescribe at least 2 weeks of paid leave a year.

I think these norms can be used / extended as needed.
I wonder if these sorts of places can provide the spaces needed to seed civil rights movements to demand societal changes in gender rights
Iron fertilization seems like a much more reasonable approach:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

Each kilogram of iron can fix 83000 kg of carbon dioxide and turn it into biomass.
I'm not really sure what you're finding inscrutable. I'll tear out the boilerplate that explains that this file is a function and returns a Python application (which is documented in the nixpkgs manual and can just be copy-pasted if you really don't want to figure out what it does):

rec {
name = "quicktill";

src = ./.;

doCheck = false;

propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [
dateutil pyyaml
sqlalchemy psycopg2
pycups reportlab
requests_oauthlib
pygobject3
];

nativeBuildInputs = [ wrapGAppsHook ];
buildInputs = [ gobjectIntrospection gtk3 ];
}

Is that any better? It looks an awful lot like some dialect of something JSON-like to me - there's some different symbols used and array values are separated with spaces rather than commas, but aside from that it's just a record of key-value pairs.

From there, the first line in the original example says "the following expression is a function that is called with this parameter", and the parameter is an object containing a key called "pkgs", which is defaulted to the result of "import <nixpkgs> {}". This is explained in more detail in a handful of lines in the language manual.

Functions are called just by referencing the function and then the arguments separated with spaces, like Ruby or Haskell - so python3Packages.buildPythonApplication is a function that is called with the object above.

Finally, "with foo;" just means "every key in foo can be accessed without typing foo. in the next expression".

The result is basically: this file defines a function which takes an object containing the package repository as the "pkgs" key, and returns the result of calling pkgs.python3Packages.buildPythonApplication with the object defined in the rest of the file.

It's a lot more derived from the syntax of functional languages than C-like ones, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Also: this is basically the entire language. There's a couple of different string syntaxes and some stuff for merging objects together, and also a mechanism for temporarily naming things that aren't part of an object, but in general... there's not a lot more to it. Most of the complexity is in the domain itself - what's the difference between a propagated, native and regular build input, how do you manage plugins and options for a package, etc.

What's your preferred packaging DSL?
It’s similar to why you used buy RISC vs Intel. Sometimes decisions like this are driven by by software licensing. $10-20k on a server may offset $200k in Oracle.

If you look at a longer time horizon, there are other dynamics. Your contract may not allow you to reduce license spend in three years, but you can shrink your hardware spend.
Good point, and not at all. This is a charged subject and I guess I was throwing in some facts to support my statement that he isn't a drug seeker. My point is that he doesnt deserve to be humiliated every month just to live a somewhat pain-free life. Something I feel very strongly about, but you are totally right.
I don't know, the point is that we would need statistics to judge better than with the anecdotes we have now.

Amazon might be an especially egregious case of soulcrushing manual labor and exploitation of poor people who don't have many options.
Or they might be a far less headline-worthy case of having an incident rate no worse than industry-average but with above-minimum wage pay (as TFA claims) and the reports we're seeing are mostly due to their size amplifying any tiny signal.

Anyway, your initial post about the mere existence of incidents at X being proof that working conditions at X are appalling. Which is incorrect because it doesn't tell us anything about whether the incident rate is above the base rate outside X or not.
Of course one can still find those incidents appalling, but if X is nothing special compared to its environment then we would have to improve things everywhere and can't uniquely blame X.
If you can't answer this question for yourself, why do you think you'd be capable of modifying the factory default? Memory management is one of the most complex pieces of a modern OS
Indeed.

As I can't find a reference, you can treat this as anecdotal - but there was a radio story about 2 fifteen year old siblings who'd both 'taken up sweatshop work'. One was stitching trainers, one was doing embroidery - for very low wages.

Initial 'outrage at child-labour' was confused slightly when they both said they were very happy, as they'd previously been working on their parents farm - and their sweatshop labour had allowed them to contribute towards a tractor for their village (replacing the labour of a whole load of children) - and for the first time they had some personal savings.
It's weird that the converse holds as well: I know someone who managed to save up $20K in 2 years on a grad student salary of $30K/year, in the Boston metro area. That's a third of his income on a salary well below the median.

It'd be interesting to see how savings rate correlates with income, both across groups and as one individual's income rises over time. I suspect that you'd find some correlation (though probably not as much as you'd expect) across the whole population, but when tracking an individual, their savings rate probably will remain largely constant whether they're making $30K/year or $300K/year.
That's my point. His well-off friends are burning through their money by spending it on luxuries. If somebody sits them down in January and tells them they need to have saved up $20k by December, it's a small adjustment in lifestyle and a change in a few habits.

For a family making $50k a year, that's very different.
Science Fiction Sent Man to the Moon
Mac has intrusive anti-malware that is almost a carbon copy of Windows Defender, or used to be anyways (perhaps one or the other have changed in the past few years!). See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20407233

Linux is a wasteland of terrible security practices that sysadmins excuse as "acceptable" for their own workstations and servers because they think that locking down SSH is sufficient defense against e.g. malicious infections or "curl | bash".

I'm sorry that Defender has harmed you, but that's no excuse to recommend others disable automated Defender scans on some sort of schedule.
SV & population
And if one were allowed to design a fission core with a power density as low as a fusion core, it could also be made highly resistant to meltdown, because it would have so much more thermal inertia.

One might ask why fission reactors are not designed that way.
The problem with this argument is that with a large enough company anything can be considered an anomaly and hence tolerable.

"Jeff Bezoes killed his secretary and buried the body in his backyard? I bet one CEO somewhere in Iceland also had done it."
Its extremely risky to use 0 days in an indiscriminate manner, especially against targets that are likely to be watching closely.
Wow, I didn't realize D went back that far. I thought C++ came in the early 90s and D naturally followed as a "better version" after that. Very cool.
What Are GANs?
Since they’ve lead the market so consistently for so long I think they’ve never been in a protracted situation where aggressive price cuts where required.

AMD to their credit have played everything blindingly well with nary a misstep in the last two years.

It must be hard to be intel and have your seeming invincibility in the x86 market challenged by a company that nearly went bust not that long ago.
Perhaps other countries can use the same vulnerability or point of entry. Either way that one country can tip allies with valuable data.
Managing 1000 units is way beyond full-time job, for this you need staff, which is additional expense.
Also, the author is the president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, a Hugo and Nebula award winner, an audiobook narrator, a podcaster, and a puppeteer, and a blogger. I'm pretty sure she has a good grasp of what medium is suitable for what content.

(I, too, thought it was fine and quite reasonable.)
Quantum interference in the service of information technology
Oliver’s researchers even uncovered an incident in which a worker had died on the job and her co-workers were told to carry on working in the presence of her corpse.

No, they didn't. This was about a different company.
Out of the model risks is what usually kills you.
Sure, but that's also not really the point.

When we see these structures standing, our reaction should be "wow! How did they do that? What can we learn?"

Not "well, I bet they also built a lot of bad buildings too; nothing to see here".

When you build something twice as good as the average, it's a fluke. When you build something 20x as good as average, it's worthy of study. Even if these are atypically good examples of Roman architecture[1], you can't pull off the moon landings by launching a ton of backyard fireworks and hoping for a long-tailed success distribution.

The best buildings represent the state of the art of the best architects and the best masons working with access to quality materials and an adequate budget and timeline. Not dumb luck and guesswork paying off.

[1] Which there are decent reasons to not expect. For example, we know that many Roman buildings were demolished deliberately by later generations because they weren't Christian enough, rather than because they collapsed.
For someone so obsessed with language, I never understood why his writing is so cryptic. I haven't read the original, but in translation, his writing seems almost purposefully ambiguous. To people here versed in philosophy, was there really a purpose for this? Could his ideas not have been expressed more clearly or explicitly?
Windows has gone from operating system to value-added-service driver. No wonder they yank shit like Microsoft Store from GPOs and move others into the Enterprise level only.
Funny, my Midwestern high school actually required me to take a consumer economics class where we learned about taxes, retirement accounts, credit scores, how to balance a checkbook, and other stuff.