skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All comments to this post should be exactly twelve words long. Agreed?
The problems of Hong Kong started with colonization by the British. But of course only now the western journalists are worried.
None of the 9/11 terrorists were Yemeni, but if they had been then yes they're a terrorist. Hijacking a plane to kill 1000s of civilians is clearly terrorism.
The problem is that they used the XR aspect of it to argue (evidently without basis) that patients would not become addicted to it. There was loads of lobbying of the FDA/DEA, sending doctors to seminars in Hawaii, I even remember numerous op-eds in the NYT arguing that doctors were committing malpractice for undertreating pain. This led to the rise of the Pain Management Clinic, which primarily existed to prescribe opioids. Without the FDA/DEA lobbying by Purdue, these clinics would have been shut down by the DEA for prescribing too many opioids.

The message that this huge PR/Sales/Lobbying effort was sending was: XR opioids have a low addiction potential, and not prescribing them, or preventing them from being prescribed is malpractice and insensitive to patients that are in pain. I don't doubt that many fewer people are in significant pain now, but we also have something like 4% of the entire U.S. population addicted to opioids.
While crime rates have certainly changed, I'm not sure you can easily say that it's because we have more laws. If anything, it seems like a lot of laws are enforced with huge bias to race/class/wealth.

If it was proven that more laws = less crime, then I don't think we would have seen the expanse of crime in the 80's and 90's. Think of the war on drugs, the 3 strikes laws, etc. If anything, I think getting more people out of poverty reduces the crime rate (and also adds safety).

The Wild West I don't think so much was a lack of laws, but the lack of law enforcement.
A guess -- as an employer, if it's just a random pile of resumes without any screening, I can't be bothered to engage. I can have that any time I like by posting basically any public job ad.
1990: Soon all cars will have ultrasonic windshield wipers

Still waiting on that.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/10/business/patents-ultrason...

https://www.autoblog.com/2013/12/17/mclaren-ultrasonic-winds...
This article is full of breathless praise for an idea it's just seen sketched on paper. Calling it "like a maglev", oh except there is no levitation involved.

Saying this will give increased reliability, claiming stuff like "time and weather can lead to corrosion, making the traditional setup less effective over time" which is clearly nonsensical.

I've driven cars that are 30 years old with original wiper motor assemblies still in place. This is not uncommon. There is effectively zero room to improve reliability.
The bigger the budget the smaller the risk taken. This is pretty natural. AAA studios don't take risk because budgets have ballooned so much. The team that made Warcraft 3 would be considered a "medium sized AA team" roughly akin to Dauntless today.
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Citizens united was about people not losing their individual rights when they group together.

Do you have a problem with someone writing a book about a presidential candidate?

If not, why would you have a problem with a movie being released?

Do you think newspapers and tv shows should endorse candidates? Or choose which ones to cover and how much to cover?

Citizens united is incredibly misunderstood.

If anything, the problem is that there is so much money being spent by the federal government that it makes sense to try and and get it.
Yeah, that jump surprised me too.

I clearly remember the first online ads. And there was nothing ideological about it.
Even if I cared, that would depend on the union demands. Why would I care for "salary equity, diversity in hiring, and wanting a seat at the table when it comes to company decisions"? That list of goals is 2/3rds evil, 1/3rd the exact opposite of what a content creator wants of their platform.

(Edit: that quote is of a Slate article)
You’re right. The limit isn’t just FDA approval. OIT and SLIT have, to my understanding, no medical approval of any meaningful sort. It’s an extremely early treatment (relatively speaking) and considered experimental.
And open office plans.

Edit: Also, compile times. Get your C++ devs a goddamn build server or else even I'd join the union.
I actually don't think they're outsourced and they're typically designed in-house. I remember the reason being the windshield wipers are almost always engineered last after almost everything else in the engine compartment. So the wiper engineers are typically given very oddly shaped small spaces that they have to fit the wiper system into, and those differ between cars so it can't just be generically outsourced.

Here's a Hyundai engineer talking about wipers: https://www.digitalengineering247.com/article/the-back-and-f...
This was years ago.

> One of the biggest advantages of freelancing would seem to be the flexibility of working hours and the amount of work you take.

Agreed. You have to find the right shop. Basically you are looking for a smallish consultancy (probably 10 - 40 people) that has a steady stream of clients but variable workload and needs people that can come on and off projects on demand. San Francisco had a lot of these types of places in the 2000's. Probably rarer in other places, but I imagine a decade later with the improvement in remote work technologies there might be a lot of these globally now.
I'm sure a construction worker could write an unflattering paragraph like your second, observing isolated flashes of workdays at a software company from his perspective, and, with equally broad strokes, paint the software world in a (IMO not entirely undeserved) bad light.
I bet you work for ubisoft don't you?
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Saudi Arabia is shutting down half of its oil production after drone attack
Does the first one somewhat imply postmen work naked in France? Lol
Though of course at that point you might as well just use artillery.
I guess Amazon is maybe not as powerful as Facebook, yes. I was thinking about it also in terms of AWS and such, but I guess that Amazon can't really convert that into an evil master plan in any way.

I might also be biased towards underestimating Facebook since nobody in my social circle actually uses Facebook or Instagram. I guess Facebook is more powerful than I gave it credit for, though it still pales in comparison to Alphabet.
Pretty amusing. If you aren't familiar with Terraform, it is declarative. You provide the desired state of your system, and if the current state is different, TF does its best to heal components and their dependencies into that state.

"Having pizza" would be the state TF is trying to achieve here
Let's not pretend corporations are groups of people.
Unfortunately, we all know the answer. It is currently more acceptable to most journalists and to the media mobs to be friends with a billionaire pedophile and sympathetic to pedophilia than it is for a person to give money to an organization that doesn't turn its website into a rainbow for 1/12th of the year.
I worked remotely for 10 years, then for the last five have been on-site. Now my company may send me back to remote work because of space constraints.

I'm not sure how I feel about it. In some ways I'd love to go back to remoting because it offers a lot of freedoms that can't exist in an office with other people. But the last five years have taught me that there is a lot of value in structure, routine, and especially physical presence.

The thing that tips the scales in favor of remoting for me is the lack of a commute. Commuting sucks and I hate it and it's terrible. I think if my office was a walk away (right now it's 50 minutes by car or 2h30m by bus), I would probably stick with working in the office. At least the coffee is free.
He talking about any TD like famous Green TD:

https://www.epicwar.com/maps/159097/
What aspect of climate change are you focusing on, specifically?
I am in CO, ~30% is pretty standard for anything in tech.
It isn’t as black and white as you are portraying it. You can go too far in the microservices direction, and you can go too far towards a monolith. There’s a sweet spot. I currently think that this sweet spot is around one service per “team” (around no more than 10 people). This lets teams operate and deploy their services independently, while still retaining some of the cohesiveness of a monolith. It also lets the company “refactor” engineering teams by moving service ownership around. There are definitely legitimate reasons for a team to own multiple services though (organizational changes, differences in scale, security constraints, etc.).

Monoliths shared across dozens of people are operational nightmares because there’s not a strong sense of operational ownership, so you often end up with a bunch of process and bureaucratic overhead to compensate.

Your advice to start with a monolith is too simplistic. If you know how your service will scale and your engineering teams will grow, then you have enough information a priori to avoid the waste of attempting to split apart a monolith later.
My boss lets me set my own salary
>install vulnerable SMM handlers

How can an SMM handler be vulnerable? The biggest problem with SMM is that they run in ring -2. Nothing on the machine can see what they are doing. Well, they are using memory, if you can manipulate the memory they are using you can manipulate what the handler does, even if you cannot see it executing. But wasn't that the hole closed in 2011? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/11/memory_hole_roots_i...

This is fascinating to discuss or very worrying to use. That's why I wrote I'd prefer ARM over Intel any time. It just does not have such a horrible mess of BIOS, SMM, ME and whatnot taking control away from the programmer/machine owner.

But setting a simple Windows API like WPBT described in the article in relation to SMM is comparing apples and oranges. Linux has nothing comparable to WPBT, but of course it cannot be more trustworthy than the Intel/PC platform to begin with. For a dedicated 3 letter agency that's probably equivalent to not at all, but for the average PC vendor trying to force their idea of "user support" on you it's a sufficient hurdle, I'd hope.
The primary advantage of linear motors are acceleration and precision, neither of which are useful here.

Certainly it will work for this case but ...
I don't know the answer to your questions, but it is simply the law unless the employer voluntarily recognizes the union. Obviously employers don't have much incentive for doing so.

source: https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employees/i...
The chunk_vendors includes a list of dependencies:

+ Webpack

+ Vue.js

+ UAParser

+ vuex

+ An unnamed dependency created by Microsoft that I suspect has something to do with Typescript.
> Collective bargaining means that employers can no longer reduce negotiations by serially negotiating with one employee at the time, but have the negotiate with all employees at once.

Now I understand why my original comment is the most down voted comment I ever made on HN in about 5 years.

Based on what you wrote it sounds like union vs non-union seems very much related to a political topic of socialism vs capitalism which is usually a good idea to avoid talking about on public forums.

With that said, I'm bowing out on this conversation!
It shouldn't be hard to manually add some object permanence. Looks like that'd fix a lot of the nonsensical issues it has. Is it worthwhile to train a neutral net to realize, "no, you don't have a large bowl, butter, or sugar."

With a few crutches like that, it could be a funny storyteller!
This article is entirely FUD.

chroots are useful when running software which we don't necessarily know is secure. It reduces the impact of flaws in software we don't control.

The point is taken that proper permissions would effectively be no different from a chroot, but this is disingenuous, particularly if considered with the statement, "but note that setting up a chroot can be far more complex than configuring a system".

This is pure hyperbole and deserves to be called ridiculous. Compare configuring a chroot, which is easy, straightforward, common and well understood with configuring a user to exclude access to everything in a system except what the chroot would allow, and try to reasonably suggest that the chroot is more complex.

You can do lots with login.conf, but hang on - systemd does things differently. So instead of decades of well understood chroot history, now you have to figure out how login.conf works with systemd. Then you have to figure out what version of systemd it is, and whether behavior has changed, and whether documentation even matches your system's systemd...

In other words, this whole article has no purpose aside from trying to disparage chroot without any actual, meaningful information.

So how does Red Hat benefit? Of course Red Hat doesn't want people running lots of processes in a single installation. They want people to run a ton of system images in huge VM environments and have people become accustomed to needing lots of resources to do the simplest of things. This makes paying Red Hat for "support" easier to swallow. One instance with lots of tasks? Insecure, according to them. A separate VM for each program? Much better, if you believe them :P
>edit: to the downvoters -- is a discussion on whether a man who trafficked and raped dozens of underage girls is "technically not a pedophile" really a worthwhile conversation to have?

Apparently.

And don't bother complaining about downvotes in a thread like this. Any opinion besides a full-throated defense of RMS and denunciation of his detractors as a mob of pearl-clutching SJWs or shills out to destroy free software is probably going to get voted down. People will go through your history and downvote every comment they see. There's nothing you can do about that, it's Chinatown.
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Nestlé straight up murdered a worker for unionizing, but sure, the problem is that the flagrant lawbreaking is not representative of corporate conduct, because only unpopular laws are publically broken.
Most video games ask me to do everything, which makes doing nothing so fun
Let's not forget brute force electronic means (disrupt drones' control circuitry) and mechanical means (obstacles, nets, dust, corrosives, artificial wind). We have many options to defend against rogue drones if motivated to do so.
Obvious in what way? The protestors are not the same people who run these companies as far as I am aware so not sure what you're referring to.
I can vouch for upwork. The initial warmup phase can be a little rough, but if you use it consistently it's really good. I've probably billed 20-30k in work on there part-time.
"recently"?

That's how it was designed by Beijing. Every single Chief Exec since handover has been Beijing's choice, and the legislature balance has always been in Beijing's majority. That's because the proportion of votes to each trade and whether an industry gets a vote at all was decided in proportion of how Beijing sympathetic they were. There's more - Wikipedia has the full absurdity.

That is how you create a show democracy, with show elections, and give the impression there is democracy to subvert.
Time to roll up your sleeves huawei
> 28 people in the company publicly stated their support for a union (there's 42 needed to establish one).

It is not unreasonable to suspect that if 28 people are openly in support that there are 42 in total.

> Doesn't look like union busting at all to me, but thanks for putting words in my mouth.

You'd have to show that in the 'control' group of 120 other employees 12 or more got fired; not that 14 of the people in the group that supported unionization got a raise. They are - presumably - not the organizers, which is what matters here.

> My comment about the press was because the pro-union group is having a hard time getting those 14 additional people they needed to support them and in the meantime have created a ton of bad press for the company, which does impact the assets of the very employees they're supposed to be supporting the interests of.

And my point is that if you fire the organizers and get away with it that there won't be any union regardless of how many people would have supported it. If they took a vote and lost then that's that and business as usual, no need to fire anybody.
Disincentivizing short haul flights where less carbon intensive transport options exist is good policy, even if it disproportionately impacts the “unwashed masses” (which seems likely based on income and wealth distribution?). Physical systems don’t really take into account interpretations of fairness and inequality.
I don't know, but those in the know are still (allegedly) using them.

> PRISONERS INSIDE THE U.S. military's detention center at Guantanamo Bay were forcibly given "mind altering drugs," including being injected with a powerful anti-psychotic sedative used in psychiatric hospitals. Prisoners were often not told what medications they received, and were tricked into believing routine flu shots were truth serums. It's a serious violation of medical ethics, made worse by the fact that the military continued to interrogate prisoners while they were doped on psychoactive chemicals.

> BZ was invented by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffman-LaRoche in 1951.[5] The company was investigating anti-spasmodic agents, similar to tropine, for treating gastrointestinal ailments when the chemical was discovered.[5] It was then investigated for possible use in ulcer treatment, but was found unsuitable. At this time the United States military investigated it along with a wide range of possible nonlethal, psychoactive incapacitating agents including psychedelic drugs such as LSD and THC, dissociative drugs such as ketamine and phencyclidine, potent opioids such as fentanyl, as well as several glycolate anticholinergics.[6][7]
> By 1959, the United States Army showed significant interest in deploying it as a chemical warfare agent.[5] It was originally designated "TK", but when it was standardized by the Army in 1961, it received the NATO code name "BZ".[5] The agent commonly became known as "Buzz" because of this abbreviation and the effects it had on the mental state of the human volunteers intoxicated with it in research studies at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland.[5]

> As described in retired Army psychiatrist James Ketchum's autobiographical book Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten (2006), work proceeded in 1964 when a general envisioned a scheme to incapacitate an entire trawler with aerosolized BZ; this effort was dubbed Project DORK.[8] BZ was ultimately weaponized for delivery in the M44 generator cluster and the M43 cluster bomb, until all such stocks were destroyed in 1989 as part of a general downsizing of the US chemical warfare program.

> The U.S. Army tested BZ as well as other "psycho-chemical" agents on human subjects at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland from 1955 to 1975, according to declassified documents.
This seems like poor cloud architecture. What I really want is at least one pizza delivered from several kitchens and assurance that drivers will use different routes.

A good upgrade from the fax API xpizza had to rely on, though.
The Egg – A Short Story
But it results in a higher overall level of societal leverage despite consuming the same quantity of housing.
Eh my friends and I generally don’t have the time/patience to get good at a new RTS, so its hard to get everyone excited for one, but we have been thoroughly enjoying revisiting Starcraft 1 with the remaster, and it’s something we all know how to play. So this is one of the cases where I think it’s warranted (especially since it brings higher res and aspect ratio support in that case, unsure if WC3 needs it).
Lmao how is he a genius? Because he tries to turn software agreements into a religion, or because he has poor personal hygiene? Granting the fact that he were, this justifies prior pedophilic tendencies or current sympathies towards an underage sex trafficker?
Wipers are important, and underrated. Seatbelts are mostly muscle memory if not absolutely required, and you have to use the brakes basically to even start the car or get anywhere. But wipers you don't use on every trip.

One time I was taking a winter defensive driving course, and was the first person in the car to go. It wasn't my car, so it was unfamiliar. They had a number of skid pads, cones, etc. They were also pouring out water to make sheets of ice to help teach skid control.

Some of the water hadn't frozen yet, and the instructor told me to go through it. It put a full sheet of water on the windshield and I was fumbling looking for the wipers, because they weren't on the stick (it was a pull button for some reason). Of course, everyone else knew how to use the wipers by their turn. I didn't lose control of the car, and kept my cool, but it made me realize, ALWAYS check where the wipers are when driving an unfamiliar car. Even if it's not raining, if something gets on your windshield (mud, bugs, dirt), you need to know how to clean it, and fast.
Epstein's victims being sex slaves is not the unusual outcome but the expectation. His behavior was fairly known.

A better analogy would be participating in a fight organized by somebody who is known to coerce fighters into participating.
remotemore is a "palindrome" if we group the letters 2-by-2: re-mo-te-mo-re (I guess this is on purpose)
Why is a video needed?

Yeah, it seems like a liability in some jurisdictions, as it gives a potential employer a way to discriminate against people of a certain age, ethnicity, or other protected characteristic.

I know that photos are common on CV's in certain parts of the world. But there are very important legal reasons that they're anonymized in others.
I tried making a profile and noticed a few points of friction:

1) LinkedIn syncing does not seem to work, had to enter everything manually.

2) required entry of end date of your current employment in the experience section

3) Spelling and grammar errors (e.g. "Freelancng")
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I've been working remote for the past two years. It was a bit difficult starting but much of that was due to living in a studio size condo in the middle of a large city. I was surprised by the amount of distractions during work hours and since the amount of space was so small, it felt very cramped being in the same room for twenty or more hours a day. I had to get out after work even if just to walk down to the store and back.

I lived in the middle of the city because I hate commuting. Stop and go traffic sucks the life out of me and the stress of making connections on public transportation created terrible bookends to each day so I always tried to live as close to work as possible. Having a remote job allowed me to move out on the exurban edge where I have a much larger space, it's quieter, and I'm close to the mountains so in the summer I can get in a hike after work when I want. I would have gone further out but internet connectivity quickly goes from 1Gig down to unreliable 30Meg on DSL with a small band of 300Meg service in-between.

I do still make it a point to go out and socialize, which does get more challenging being in a less dense area where I haven't lived long enough to build up social connections. As far as work goes, most of the time it is better but being able to get a group together around a whiteboard can't be beat. Remote collaboration tools are constantly getting better and there are some pretty nice electronic whiteboard tools that would be great to have but the expense right now is too high. Hopefully in the years to come the price will go down. Overall I find working remotely to be one of the best benefits of my current job.