skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's good practice for an embassy to use a VPN to their home country for 100% of incoming and outgoing traffic (at least that's how I would do it).
No, the article has multiple arguments.

One is reporting on extremely unusual things (working next to corpses), which hopefully don't happen in amazon facilities more regularly than in any other facility but due to amazon's size even a low probability of such a thing happening on any particular day means it's eventually going to happen in one of their facilities.

Another is that the undercover reporters come from an environment where what's considered normal or even better-than-averagee in manual labor jobs would seem outrageous if someone demanded it from them in their regular jobs.

Combining unusual cherry-picked events with their own perception tinted with nightmare vision goggles leads to biased reporting that may not necessarily reflect the experience of most workers.
There are two problems with your analysis:

1) You’re comparing inflation adjusted income figures to housing prices that are not inflation adjusted.

2) You’re ignoring interest rates. Low interest rates allow people to buy more expensive houses without paying any more money per month.

Mortgage payments as a percentage of income have been quite flat across all income levels over the past 15 years: http://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/data-visualizations/infogra...
The title is misleading, as it wasn't really a "heist", which implies armed robbery. This guy stole information by taking it home from work over a period of many years.

Seems like a fairly light sentence considering he had amassed 50 terabytes of data by the time he was caught. According to Wikipedia he was caught when he contacted a Russian security firm, who in turn contacted the NSA (which is interesting in itself). [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_T._Martin_III
I saw a documentary once on a slum in Kampala, where they interviewed a guy living in the slum who's job it was to clean out the public toilets there. He claimed it was one of the 'best jobs', because he was paid on time, given a uniform/gloves to wear instead of having to buy one himself, set his own hours, and the labor was not back breaking agricultural labor in the open sun all day. He also remarked he was able to contribute to his community in a positive way by keeping it clean, something all the other residents rewarded him for with various tips as thanks for his service since they had to use those toilets everyday. Wasn't the response I expected.
By that standard, the space elevator was invented about twenty years ago by Robert Boyd and Dimitri Thomas. I don’t see this being a good way to determine inventorship (if that’s a word).
4gb does seem excessive. Win10 is using closer to 2gb right now on my system. Chrome and Firefox, both doing very little, are taking 1gb together by comparison.
Note that the publishing title of the article is “Tourist Journalism Versus the Working Class”, which should be an indication of the author’s bias. The story initially begins with comparing the personal, working experience of the author with what he has seen depicted in the media. I thought it was compelling, even if the author worked in a “sortation warehouse” instead of the “fulfillment center” frequently covered, and only represents one datapoint.

But then he interjects his argument with how working for Amazon has allowed him to interact with diverse colleagues? The story felt like it went from an appreciation of the working class to a defense of corporations and capitalism, with a bit of nationalistic pride sprinkled in. I don’t know what to think.
> Senior engineers are often living repositories for business logic and company knowledge.

I've definitely seen that. I agree that documentation can help with this, but you can't document everything (unless you're working for NASA. I have a friend who works for an aerospace company and they do a lot of documentation).

This also has an effect on your compensation. If you've been at a company for years and have deep knowledge of the domain and the software, you're more valuable than you might be on the open market. It's interesting to me that (typically) the company doesn't recognize this and compensate you appropriately.
My financial advisor says that poor people should start buying more houses so they can keep up with rising prices.
Juniors also generally do not understand how a piece fits in a larger system nor are they are expected to.
Heh I feel you, when a new Ubuntu comes out sometimes I just fresh install just cause you never know, though I have upgraded in the past. If you install Ubuntu and then want a new Desktop Environment, it doesn't feel quite right, because the original install defined defaults that the new DE isn't setting itself for / against.

On Windows I don't reformat anymore like I used to, and I used to reformat a lot because I would disable "useless" Windows services to save on RAM (back when I had 3GB of RAM, and then 8GB). When I stopped doing that, my OS was working fine for years and years.
If you’re going go to all this trouble to “debloat” Windows, why not just install Fedora/Ubuntu/PopOS/Debian/Manjaro or something?

I just don’t see the point with fiddling around with little hacks trying to disable telemetry and stuff when you can just install a Linux distro and be done with it.

I mean sure depending on your use case that may not be possible, but if you don’t have a certain software or hardware limitation holding you to Windows, I really don’t see why you wouldn’t just use a Linux distro.
Ah, I was thinking of "The Law of Truly Large Numbers"
Chrome, Firefox users warned of leaks of sensitive data to Nacho Analytics
There is similarly a great EconTalk episode from 2009 about what working at WalMart is like http://www.econtalk.org/platt-on-working-at-wal-mart/

One thing I took from that episode is how so many people yearn for the mom-and-pops to come back, even though their prices were awful, selection poor, service subpar, working for them had less protections, and on and on.

WalMart is actually a pretty good employer compared to many other low-wage industries and the benefits in terms of price and selection for rural areas should not be underestimated.
I was going to ask if you contacted The Times about this. It used to take such things very seriously.

Then after I did a search for the Times' ombudsman, I came across an article stating that it eliminated its Public Editor position in 2017.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/public-editor/liz-spayd-f...

While The Times is prolific in its corrections, all I can find now is this sentence: "Messages on news coverage can be e-mailed to nytnews@nytimes.com or left toll-free at 1-844-NYT-NEWS."
I've started embracing the defaults too. At least, when I can stand them. Having to spend all day configuring an OS is not great. I love the freedom of being able to settle into any workstation and feel comfortable with it.
This comment makes the classic mistake of citing flat real (inflation adjusted) income and increasing nominal (so not inflation adjusted) housing prices. If you take the Q1 2019 vs 2004 median house prices, they are 44.6% higher 15 years later. Said differently, the median house price has gone up by 2.5% annually. Basically by inflation.
Like most "Debloat" scripts and apps, it also disables some services that result in overall less secure installation.
I think the point is that if avoiding, or outsmarting the main sales channel is required, then it probably explains why all the old, sick, busy, distracted people are struggling financially, as this is only one industry out to con them.
> How do you reconcile lack of demand with the historically tight labor market?

Look at employment to population ratio, labor share of income, birth rates.

Not historically tight.
You're probably joking, but since "it's just survivor bias" is a popular take these days, I'll respond as though you're serious.

A bridge that stands for 2000 years without (much) maintenance isn't survivor bias, it's disruptive technology.

Yes, we only see the best of Roman architecture, and most Romans probably lived in wooden shacks or stone apartments that have long since crumbled or been demolished.

But Roman concrete is chemically different than the Portland cement that was invented in the 1800s, and although there's certainly a distribution of building quality and workmanship that will result in a wide spread of lifetimes, we don't have any reason to expect that any concrete building built from Portland cement and exposed to the elements like Roman seawalls were will last 2,000 years. The distribution just doesn't have that long of a tail to it.
The gist of this seems to be "take poor families and give them assistance to move to neighborhoods with statistically higher opportunities". Which to me seems a little bit weird if taken to a broader extent - would that not lower the opportunity rates of the moved-to neighborhoods and potentially make the moved-from areas even worse off?
It is true that Google will supposedly start making an effort to make Incognito mode non-detectable [0], but Incognito mode is still crippled compared to the way I use Chromium (through a simple shell script), mostly because of the option to use multiple "sessions" simultaneously and whitelisting of browser data that gets copied/used.

[0] https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-ini...
And after the drop-off, the courier retains half of the bill w/ a serial # as proof that the delivery did occur. This prevents the buyer from later claiming "the delivery never occurred, the courier must have stolen the drugs/contraband". If that claim is made, the courier can produce the note as proof of delivery.
Hmm, I wonder what happens when I combine this with other popular scripts like Make Windows 10 Great Again https://gist.github.com/IntergalacticApps/675339c2b805b4c9c6... and Reclaim-Windows10 https://github.com/alirobe/Reclaim-Windows10 is there much overlap between all three scripts or do they all work great in tandem?
Except for children and the infirm nobody is owed food prepared by others, but I find it hard to reconcile the need to live as frugally as people who went through the Great Depression with the idea that we're in an age of unmatched prosperity.

(I'm not American so I might be missing some nuance)
You would have to avoided a lot of media and news not to know what the FSB is
I rewrote an internal tool from scratch to replace an old one that was being used by a few thousand people. It turned out that fully half of the users only ever used it to see the auto-filled partial results that populated into one of the form elements. That particular requirement never made it into the specification for the new tool, and the rollout of the replacement did not go well, to put it mildly.

In fact, there was so much of a mismatch between what these users thought the tool was for and what it seemed to be for from an engineering perspective that it was extremely hard to get any more specific feedback other than “The new one is terrible; I can’t get it to do anything”.
Your claim is that because fusion doesn't have fission products and transuranics, it will be cheaper?

This doesn't make any sense to me.

For one thing, those isotopes are packaged up nicely in fuel elements. They don't get spread around the reactor. And disposal of spent fuel is not what makes fission expensive or uncompetitive.

Perhaps you are talking about decay heat from the isotopes leading to safety engineering costs. This has nothing to do with transuranics. Cooling does demand high reliability, which adds to expense, but it's not the only thing that leads to a need for high reliability. Another problem is that anything in the reactor proper is very difficult to repair if it breaks. This will push designers to try to make the reactor as reliable as possible, and designing complex systems that don't experience breakdowns is really expensive. This problem will be worse for fusion, not better, since the fusion reactor itself (which will be far too radioactive for hands on maintenance, even after prolonged shutdown) will be much more complex than a fission reactor, and under higher stress.
The logic applied in the article cuts both ways, however. I've seen my fair share of companies find one happy employee, and use that to try and sweep all of the bad shit going on in the background under the rug. Look at John Manson and how happy he is. All of the other stories are just workers looking for revenge, lazy good-for-nothings, etc.

So while it's true that the writer of this story might not be abused or experiencing disparate work conditions, there are many others that are.
This still leaves a lot of undesirable stuff on your system.

Here, I prefer something like this.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban/dban-2.3.0/...

Darik's Boot and Nuke — A hard drive disk wipe and data clearing utility

And then download and install KDE Neon User Edition from https://neon.kde.org/download

KDE Neon is a Linux distro based on Ubuntu.

Yes I am being a bit facetious, sorry.

But I am actually curious, how many people on HN run Windows on their computers vs the number of people that run macOS, Linux or one of the BSDs?
No. Kids going through game programs can barely program, except for a few outliers. The courses tend to be quite lightweight, and the programs tend to be very non-selective. They tend to be marketed to and attract poor students who couldn't get into / don't see the value in a real university.

Instructors may be aware of these techniques but would be hard-pressed to turn them into assignments that wouldn't fail all but a couple of people in the class.
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Your first paragraph changed the topic into psychologizing the other commenter in a patronizing way. Please don't do that on HN.
Well if we had native resources that had been protected for years and suddenly we had a President that had little concern for environmental issues we'd probably also be increasing the destruction of it in order for his political supporters to increase their profits.

Oh wait... Sigh.
Proprietary trading is trading your own money with no obligation to transact or do any business with others.

Market making is offering public liquidity as part of a market function. They are designated market participants with rules and responsibilities.

They are not the same.
> Adorno actually wrote to be hard to understand ON PURPOSE because he wanted you to have to WORK to understand, because some understanding is NOT EASY! You are not the center of the universe my friend.

What a bizarre perspective, to call people self-centered for not wanting to have their learning of some subject deliberately sabotaged through unclear writing.
This is incorrect. The impact of supply on housing prices has been shown over and over again in the real estate economics literature.

The concept of induced demand in real estate is quite different than in transportation. The theoretical mechanism involves increased amenities induced by higher density above and beyond normal supply and demand interactions. It is likely to be a much smaller effect if it even exists at all. There is no solid research showing it is a significant in practice.

Here’s a recent presentation on the issue:

https://appam.confex.com/appam/2018/webprogram/Paper25811.ht...
I understand what the GDPR _says_, but I'm saying that there's a vast difference between "what it asserts it can enforce" and "what can actually be enforced". A law that can't be enforced doesn't mean much.

Governments enforce their laws with the threat of depriving you of your assets or personal liberty. In order to do that, they have to first have the power (via unchallenged jurisdiction) to deprive you of assets or liberty. In this case, unless the EU can get the US to enforce EU law on US soil, or to extradite offenders to the EU, the GDPR has no teeth.
For me, it’s somewhere well short of regularly eating food that costs 5x (or more) what the equivalent, nutritious meal prepared at home is.
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Some people use Windows for games. Yes, I know you can run a lot of Windows games on Linux using Wine or PlayOnLinux, but some just prefer vanilla Windows. Scripts like these are great for freeing up memory and decluttering Windows 10 specifically for running games (typically offline) as connecting Windows to the Internet is generally not a good idea.
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I wish it were easier to get into this stuff.

Seems like a fun visual puzzle to do vlsi design, but fabricating the chips is hard, so I just stick with programming.
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> Apart from employing a lot of staff, Amazon does a number of things progressives ought to like. For instance, it employs a very diverse group of people. On my shift, I work with African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, white people, gay people, deaf people, ex-convicts, and people whose ethnicities and even genders are a mystery to me.

This is a warehouse job with a medium low salary. If the author worked as a programmer and could still repeat the above, that would really be commendable.
It's going to be interesting to see what the new AMD 'Rome' brings to the table when it gets into peoples hands.

upto 64 Cores/128 Threads and 128 PCI express lanes (that's on all of them irrespective of the core count) - 8 channel memory.

Given AMD's insanely aggressive pricing on the Zen 2 consumer line I'm expecting a proper knockdown drag out fight.
You don't have to sell anything. It's part of getting the job done.
There is indeed slavery today with rape, murder and physical control - so I don't think the term "modern day slavery" is accurate save for some explanation as to what the "modern day" part means. Language doesn't necessarily work in a linear way - it's entirely possible for "slavery", "modern slavery" and "modern day slavery" to all refer to different concepts. Someone else in this same comment thread even uses the term "old-school slavery". Nevertheless, the term "wage slavery" has gained increasing usage, and comparisons of the wage system to slavery go back a long time, even when the plight of slaves was evident at the time. Keep in mind that the author of this quote was an ardent abolitionist too:

>The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class.
Dual booting is something I used to do. It's not a fun work flow.

Having to reboot (even with an SSD) is a very destructive action because it means suddenly all of your work is shut down and unless you script a way to rebuild your environment (which never works flawlessly even with a lot of effort), you'll have to set everything up again when you come back. So even if it only took 2 seconds to dual boot, you'd still have to deal with that tear down / set up process.

But, it's also not just gaming that keeps people on Windows. For example I do screencast recording and editing where I record software dev related videos but the tools I use only run on Windows, and they can't be run in a VM because the thing I want to record is my dev environment (I use WSL in Windows).
> easier to just use Linux? need Windows to game

Exactly. I have one sole system running Win10 + Steam and Linux runs all the rest of my systems. Best setup.

I still ran a similar type of debloat on my Win10 system though... just because f*ck MS and their telemetry.
That is my set-up, but I find myself booting to Windows more often than I would like.

Some common reasons:

I need that Office document to look presentable when opened from Windows.

Skype for Business being the default, whenever there is a conference call I need Windows.

Even in 1-on-1 calls, if screen sharing is required, I need Windows.
You could discriminate based on the Blue Book value or some other agreed upon value for a car, combined with commonly agreed upon ratings for a car.

For example, under the current UberBlack rules for NYC, you couldn't drive a BMW 6 series, any Porsche, a Toyota Sequoia, a Nissan Armada, any Dodge, and this is just comparing cars listed on Blue Book with similar ratings and starting prices: https://www.kbb.com/car-finder/5/?pricerange=65000-max&inten...

If you need a whitelist because some of these cars under arbitrary rules won't meet your criteria even though they're comparable, that's less "contracting for the job" and more "specifying the terms of how you work."

When you ask for a plumber, you ask that they show up with tools, you don't tell them only Black&Decker, Craftsman, etc. are acceptable and any deviation from the list won't do. (I know nothing about tool brands and quality, this is just a hypothetical example.)
The average is not really that important. As long as your income is not at the lower end of the distribution it’s a just a matter of choice to live as if your income was lower than it is (except in the cases where you would have access to subsidies if your income was actually lower).
on the intent question, you said:

> Yep. Amazon (GCP, Azure) are making bank off the idea that you can just pay opex to run in multiple regions and lay off your SREs, but if you really wanted high availability (and not just some service credits when things go wrong) you would spend the engineering effort to go multi-provider.

That is not AWS's intent.

And its FUD to suggest that somehow cloud vendors want to make money out of reliability. For example, in AWS, a webapp with a single Region approach using multiple AZs will give you higher availablility, but similar costs to a single AZ approach.
The biggest WTF was Cortana . . . running by default on Windows Server.

I have no idea what they were thinking. Yes, you can disable it with a policy editing. For a server product, you shouldn't have to.
I'm having a hard time figuring out who would be buying this. Only thing I can think of is that the chip has some extra features not really advertised that the customer needed.
Curious, what is GGP in this context?
Interesting but an isolated environment. I'm sure you could wipe out most any disease or disease vector if that area was completely isolated from the rest of the world.
Other correlated risks include weather, birds, thrust, age, time since last maintenance...

In fact, I'm having trouble coming up with any common cause of engine failure which isn't correlated.
Can't speak for BB, but J2ME, Symbian, and PocketPC never had any centralized store that everything had to go through.

Well, I guess Symbian got N-Gage and the Ovi Store towards the end, but they never tried to lock it down against third party sources.