skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd vote for everyone who has a reasonable plan of more scrutiny towards 40 hour work weeks.

This may reduce salaries but oh God most of us make too much money anyhow. Let's have a life now! When are you going to enjoy life, after retirement? Would you wait with sex till after retirement, too, if that offered a salary increase?
Instead of options ask for severance term next job interview
I'm seeing some warning signs in this article when I dig into the sources:

> University of Victoria economics professor Cornelis van Kooten warned of the threat to free speech on campus. “I think the climate change movement has done extreme harm to academic freedom,” he said, and the movement isn’t alone.

Why are we interviewing economics professors about suppression in the Climate science?

Then we get to Judith Curry[0]:

> Her Polar Bear Science blog came under fire in a 2017 study in the journal BioScience by 14 academics, including Penn State climatologist Michael E. Mann, decrying the influence of “denier blogs,” which Georgia Tech professor emeritus Judith Curry blasted as “absolutely the stupidest paper I have ever seen published.”

On whom Wikipedia says:

> In 2019 she stated that she would not “bother with” peer-reviewed journals, in favor of publishing her own papers so that she could editorialize and write what she wanted “without worrying about the norms and agendas of the ‘establishment.’”[1]

It's very hard for me to find a source here in support of her that isn't spending a lot of time using coded language for, "the establishment is corrupt, you can't trust mainstream scientists, you can only trust this fringe group and the reason no one agrees with us is because they hate us, not because we're wrong." It reminds me a lot of when I was growing up in a Creationist community, and I'd hear regular reports about the 'brave' scientists that would get fired because they rejected fossil record evidence.

I'm not going to outright say bias doesn't exist in climate science, but if a publication like the Washing Times wants to claim it does, I'd expect to see much more compelling evidence than this article provides.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Curry
> Tipping is 100% charity.

The IRS disagrees with you - https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc761
For those who haven't used it, it's hard to describe how amazing Org Mode is. In the same file format, you can create outlines for documents that collapse so you can see the big picture; generate PDFs/HTML; you can create a spreadsheet to understand whether you've done enough of Activity X for the past year; you can track your meeting notes organized by meeting theme.
In the case of a specialist with unique skills I would find this acceptable, but also something to be kept under close wraps. I am not against business doing what they have to do. Everything suggests this is not something that was found out by accident and not doubting his talent but his background suggests he is a junior level engineer. Meaning plenty of others can be found. Perhaps he was the most capable for the money in a high-wage area, but I find even that improbable. Taking a second-best candidate should be a relative no-brainer in that case. Usually companies have screenings to prevent taking someone morally compromised. What I see is a company that is doing this and having him give interviews to score points. It would be better if they don't get any, before others jump on the trend.
Who here actually gets excited about 5G? Everything I see about 5G is just full of business buzzwords. No one can explain why [a technical person outside of the mobile telecom industry] should care. Why the hell is there a new "G" if LTE was supposed to mean "Long Term Evolution" anyway?
> * SPIR-V is pretty close to being tokinized/SSAed GLSL*

SPIR-V is in SSA form; GLSL most definitely is not.
I think one reason it is controversial in the US is that many of the solutions are basically the policies the Democrats have been arguing for (taxes and regulations). It looks somewhat convenient that the solution lines up with existing policies pushed.
Thank you for asking. Corporations are effectively machines designed for one purpose: making money.

Now add in the fact that corporations are composed of people, and people typically put themselves first before others.

The point is: money comes first, and truth is somewhere down the line.

So if an accusation comes in that a corporation is doing something wrong and there is an obvious financial incentive for them to do so, and a "reasonable person" could construe such, then said corp should be rightfully compelled to prove otherwise.

After all, if they have nothing to hide, then it should be such a big deal.

tl;dr: Corporations aren't there for your health, but for theirs.
Observation: "comic book" movies today are largely not suitable for non-teenage children (practically all rated PG-13). What was literary version of "toy" is now 9-digit-budget blockbusters.
BofA has 205,000 employees and millions of accounts.
> the opex was close to £3mil in AWS bills alone

What was the opex before cloud?
I'm sorry, Im pretty sure the evidence is clear [1] This is just one example. "A top Uber executive, who obtained the medical records of a customer who was a rape victim, has been fired"

> according to the media...

Who else besides the media should we listen to?.. the employees? Like this one? " As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in my mind, so here we go" [2]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2017/6/7/15754316/uber-executive-india-a...

[2] https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
Sigh, yeah, that's actually a great point. Wonder how many great pairs of ears have been ruined by opening a random youtube tab while Spotify is playing with the quiet normalization mode enabled.

And just like the PS4 example, it's just insane to me that Spotify Connect doesn't mandate normalization.
Bonuses are something that’s easy to get outraged by, but look like an infinitesimal fraction of the business numbers. A judge approved a $235M bonus structure across 10,000 employees[1], while the wildfire liabilities are at least $18B [2], their 4-year infrastructure investment plan is $28B [3], and their top-line annual revenue is $17B. How many competent execs are going to want any part of that shitshow? $235M doesn’t sound like enough…

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Judge-approves-...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-09/pge-looks-...

[3] https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page...
The issue with all these systems is: you aren't measuring anything useful, you are just measuring what you can measure AND the people who use these reports are clueless.

More common sense about the real world is needed. In economics, you have people making huge top-down decisions who, often, have spent years studying how to become stupid. More and more of the world is going this way as the "specialists/self-appointed experts" take over.
> There are legit evil people in this world.

There's 8 billions people in the world. There's every kinds of them.

The commons one aren't interesting, they are commons, they aren't the one that we want to talk about. Thus what you see are only the best or the worst.

Please don't lose hope because of that.
IIRC somebody said during one of 2015 SIGGRAPH presentations when it was introduced that it's the fifth iteration if you count SPIR pre-1.0, 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 preceding it. They may have been joking.

Of course, the V in Vulkan also stems from 5. Vulkan was originally going to be OpenGL 5. That plan changed, but they chose a name starting with V as a nod to that history.
No vulcano in Germany? Strange
As a native Chinese speaker, I find several points in the article a bit awkward to comprehend, especially when you flip the table around. It might be likely less than sophisticated for Françoise Duchamps to call herself Fran Swazzy in English (I don’t think so), but I struggle to think she’d have trouble using simply “Frances” without a last name if she goes to a hypothetical English-speaking place where residents don’t understand much French.

I also don’t understand the author’s lack of love to just using the straight phonetic translation (either first-last or only first/last name).[1] Sure it’s nice to have a Chinese name that sounds familiar, but would you expect your (say) Indian immigrant colleague to adapt an English-sounding name when moving to Canada? Yeah, we don’t mind you using your native name either.

Oh and the semantics don’t matter either. Lietarally zero native Chinese speaker would read 希拉里 and think “huh, hope pull inside, wierd name”, we recognise immediately it’s foreign, just like you know Kazuhiko and Jinping don’t have Bible reference. Heck, we don’t even think too much about meanings of our own names that often. When’s the last time you see a guy named Chris and think how he bears Christ?

Anyway. I don’t dislike the article, especially the latter part where the author digs into actual examples. It is always a fun exercise to read Chinese names, I do that a lot as well. But it’s just that, fun exercise. That’s not how we read names in daily life, and as long as you’re happy with your Chinese-character-spelled names (be it Chinese-style or otherwise), we are happy to use it. Over-interpreting people’s names (especially non-native speakers’), now that’s unsophisticated.

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[1]: I am Taiwanese, so maybe there’s some cultral different to communities with China origin.
Do you happen to have a source for this? I've been avoiding turmeric after lifting for this very reason.
Toy vs Tool means novelty vs efficiency creator. A toy is fun to use it exists to be used for pleasure, a tool is useful and exists to make work easier. Toy should be used to mean superfluous bonus, unnecessary but enjoyable pastime.
I don't think the app even supported tips until a year or two ago. Part of their shtick was that you don't need to mess with cash, and the price in the app is all you need to pay.
I was a NordVPN customer 4 months ago and got no notification. I’m hearing about this now via this post on HN. Dropped them around July.
AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance
In a heartbeat.
> count Indian (and nearby)

... So, they count Asian as Asian?
I used to work at Bank of America as a level 2 app analyst back when they first started building Quartz. At the time, it was advertised internally as a system to be used for reporting, and so it had lots of built-in functionality to connect to databases, etc. Pretty neat.

That said.

The method of encoding production database credentials was rot-13. No joke. In the Quartz interface, you could double click on a starred-out set of credentials, and it would run rot-13 on it and display the password. This was for FX, rates, credit card, mortgage, etc etc etc. Having access to this cloud system gave effective access into all of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch.

They probably save a lot of their money by using very, very bad practices.

Still only the second worst security fail I've seen.
Why are so many people here trying to reinvent the wheel? We already invented the wheel that fixes this particular problem, it's called 2FA.

If users decide not to use it, then there's nobody to blame but them.

Thinking up ever more complex schemes, to offload all the responsibility on the services, won't solve any of this.

At the end of the day user error overrides it all and massive database breaches even affect those that should know how to properly secure their stuff [0].

2FA is not perfect, it's not convenient but it's one of the last remaining effective defenses when massive breaches have become so normalized that known pwned accounts outnumber people alive on the planet [1].

[0] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/10/briansclub-hack-rescues-...

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/
ExpressVPN - gets the job done, a bit expensive but rock solid reliable, breaches great firewall of china.
Not quite. It's impossible to move a question from Stack Overflow to Server Fault or Super User right now, you can only say that it might belong there.
Lots and lots of speed and traffic light cameras still use film rolls
I had the same experience with a few taxi rides in NYC. Uber drivers utterly reliant on sat nav, yet I give a yellow cabbie the destination address and they're able to get there with no problem.

Hailing took less time than waiting for the uber and the ride was nearly 30% cheaper than what uber was quoting me - so I gave the cabbie a fat tip in cash. Wins all around.
I'm game. What should the monthly price be though?

Considering that it needs to make actual money (and the streaming royalties for music are kinda expensive).
I see a LOT of product reviews that are really seller feedback, and I wish Amazon would fix this. They need to have it so that wherever the user happens to find themselves (product review page, order page, support page, etc.), they are guided toward leaving the right kind of feedback. Instead of relying on users to be really familiar with how Amazon works and find the right place on their own.

For example, on the product review page, right now they have a blank called "Write your review". Instead, they could require you to indicate what kind of feedback you're offering, giving choices like "review the product itself" and "review the performance of Joe Schmoe, the seller for order #1234 on date 456" and with no default selected. Or just give you two blanks labeled "product review" and "seller review".

You also raise another issue which is that there's baggage associated with raising an official complaint. People don't necessarily want to deal with it, or they don't want to cause trouble and feel like filing a complaint is the nuclear option. I'm sure Amazon's attitude is that if something is wrong it should be made right, but that's not what every customer realistically wants.
:/ The bitmap fonts are rendered with anti-aliasing. That's too bad. The advantage of bitmap fonts is how crisp they look. Here, they're pretty hard to read at small sizes.
I got this blue pill I want to sell you :)
> Relevant detail that I'm sure most commenters have not read

If suggesting someone hasn't read the article is against the site rules. How the hell is suggesting everyone hasn't read the article not?
"Libertarian ideology" = "bootlicker" to you? I question the validity of your classification system.

Or did I misunderstand your comment?
The Washington Times vouched for them.
Yeah, RAID 4/5/6 are planned for the future. The plan is to offer all of them and let developers choose what is the best practice for their application. RAID 0/2/3 are not CPU efficient, but are great for privacy and security. No cloud provider has the full picture and can't spy on your data and if they have a data leak it won't be anything useful. RAID 1 gives great fault tolerance with no extra latency (except on failures) and prevents vendor lock-in.
Another vote for AirVPN. Good track record, happy customer for 6+ years.
>> I thought openness to modern/popular media would have knocked down a lot of misinformation about "the west".

Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation about Russia as well. Practically, 99% of all articles are negative in one way or another. The same happens with China. It used to be the same about Japan in the 80ies. People tend to think that they are able to properly assess inputs but they can't, they consume what is given and praise their masters in a highly predictable manner.
I’m not sure there is a ton of utility in complaining about societal stupidity, right? How does complaining that people don’t follow rules help us be safer? What would you propose as an alternative to “cater[ing] to the lowest common denominator” for public health and safety issues?
He doesn't need to change the culture. He needs to change the workings. The culture will adjust spontaneously to the workings.

If five downvotes are all it takes to cripple a question, and tens of thousands of people can cast them, then your site will work badly, no matter how successful your culture advocacy.

Downvoting has to cost something. Everything except providing useful answers should cost something.
Sure they look great if you're a Hollywood actor who gets paid to do three hours of abs a day. There's a reason Kirk first donned the green tunic...
This isn't a crime. It's extortion. It's a red-light camera, implemented in a way to take money from the citizenry and line the coffers of city government (though a % goes to the manufacturer of the camera).
Political affiliation and funding sources are wildly different.

One is a description of which tribe you belong to, the other is, "my salary depends on producing results these people like."
The money would go into something else, but it would probably be something stupid. A lot of the dumb startups we see now that are burning cash on obviously bad strategies exist because at a global financial scale, there’s not enough opportunities to invest all of the capital in. There’s obviously lots (LOTS) of work to be done that could use capital still but current financial system want to believe in a high rate of return so they look to things like Uber. Note, Uber’s of the world are a drop in the bucket still, but the symptom is growing in prevalence. This is also not to say that fast fashion is a good idea or an efficient use of resources. It’s not.

The people... well this hypothetical is extreme so it’s hard to say. But populations of workers have been abandoned in the past before and it varies. It’s fully believable that they would just not have anything to do and would... idk... protest.
It is a bit different when the bad apple is the CEO and founder: https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/25/uber-ceo-kalanick-self-d...
For context in where this is coming from: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times
A nitpick: don't use the apostrophe in the phrase "in the 1960s". It's not a possessive in that sentence.

See, e.g., https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/apostrophe.html
Totally agree. Entering on yellow should be a last resort, that is not driven by the hurry.

In Ukraine we have 4 seconds of blinking green light before yellow, that should be more then enough to notice and slow down for full stop. But I do like much more traffic lights with number of seconds till light change (in Kharkiv almost all trafic lights are replaced with numbered one). This is incredibly usefull, cause You can notice numbers from long distance and plan route accordingly.

It's pitty that not all cities and countries go for traffic lights with timers.
What is it that makes each fundamental?
Fake News. Washington Times specialty.
If you fully spec out your code, it's actually quite close. In a project we did that in, the only type errors we encountered were ones that a static system would not have caught either (due to their being caused by incoming data that did not conform to our type expectations; for instance, deserializing JSON to a specific type).

Without specs, it will assume every type is 'any()', unless it has information to infer something more stringent. For instance, if it sees you add 5 to it somewhere, it will instead assume it is a number. Etc. Even if in practice it actually is a list of some kind (and so that addition of 5 will fail). Which, yes, ain't great. Hence why I said it was a gradual transition; it will catch provable errors (i.e., if you call append on that same variable as above, it will note that there is no type that allows both append, and + an integer, and error), but leave plenty of things uncaught that could have been caught had it known the type in question (via a type spec).
or how about just don't re-use passwords accross accounts. If they had used a unique password they would've been fine right? I don't understand what users want google to do: it's the house equivalent of taking your key and leaving it at the grocery store.
This is the problem with most publications. It's get the news out first, rather than research and try to be unbiased. Bias is unfortunately what our news is today.
Your first link is blocked for me by the website owner.

The second in turn links to https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/climate-change-will-push-ca... . When they say "cars are an expensive toy for the rich" they're saying figuratively that cars aren't reliable nor efficient. I don't think anyone would disagree that [important, useful] new technologies tend to get cheaper and more efficient over time.

It's really not clear, if this is the sort of backing to the "toy" claim what it is hoped to prove?

The early users appeared to use cars for transportation, which the second link doesn't contradict, so not literal toys. The "toy" claim is just a perjorative that the link appears, implicitly, to say was used by those who were already profiting from horse related industry.
Or just that current users get a confirmation prompt to allow a new device ? (like on Authy)

Likely safer than SMS 2FA as well.
I found tanenbaums book to be incredible, personally
Mostly in S3 but
S3/EC2 to lightsail is free within the same region :)
That's a neat idea! But it seems risky from a security perspective. Can the other party make me submit a form with their chosen input? Why is that a good idea?
> plus the driver knew the area and didn't need nav

You really don't want that. Having the passengers be able to see the nav is a way to ensure transparency and make sure you aren't getting shafted by the driver. You want your driver to use the nav, even if they know the area like the back of their hand.

When i was driving even if it was a route I had done hundreds of times before, I made sure the nav was on and in full view of the passengers.
There's more to software than just putting devs behind a computer
The "Analysis/Bias" section of Washington Times basically boils down to: founded by religious people, uses language and SEO that they don't like, and publishes articles from scientists they don't like. I don't consider Washington Times as a paper of record necessarily, but I do think fact-checking is a much harder problem than people are willing to grant and the evidence listed in that section wasn't very edifying.
It's part of the authoritarian bend.

"She needs to be protected. She's not a real adult like I am. I, as a real adult, will decide for those who I consider aren't real adults."

It's dripping with patronizing authoritarianism. And they just don't see it.

I will say, people who have IQs below 80-70 are in a terrible place. Our modern world assumes the ability to understand concepts at a certain level. Some people at some IQ levels just will never be able to do so. How to classify such people and what to do about it is something we need to recon with as a society.

But a discussion of a CEO who is lazy and can't be bothered to engage in minimum cyber security (the FA) that even clerks are required to do and thus got hacked... is probably not the place.
There's incentive to always tip well because you also get rated as a rider, and I suspect that drivers also can see your average tip.
Just last week I stumbled upon this gallery of photos of Norilsk

http://www.bbc.com/culture/gallery/20190321-norilsk-the-city...

Taken over seven months in 2012 to 2013 as part of her Days of Night/Nights of Day project, Russian photographer Elena Chernyshova’s images reveal what it’s like to live in one of the world’s most isolated cities. In Norilsk, winter lasts nine months – and during the polar night the sun doesn’t rise for two months.

One of the roads in the city is on Google Street View

https://goo.gl/maps/LrzbFMFLuUvY7sdJ8

edit: And all the way along the street, you see 4 people in Google-coloured red/green/yellow/blue snowsuits. haha https://goo.gl/maps/Z1dFVZBF9fHV1enk7
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