skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiousity I looked up some rough numbers (which is clearly far beyond what either this article or this dirty dozen organization were willing to do). They name 7 deaths related to amazon, but 3 were in a plane crash and one was during construction on a warehouse, both of which Amazon would have very little to do with and were almost certainly not employees of AMazon. So really it's 3 deaths, out of a workforce of about 650,000 which is about 0.375% of the entire US workforce. The list highlights that there were 5,100 workplaces deaths total in 2018, so if they matched the averages then Amazon would have 19 deaths per year. Instead they have 3 deaths over the past 2 years (since November 2018).

Obviously any such deaths are a tragedy, but by the numbers there are clearly much more dangerous jobs in the US than being an Amazon worker.
"According to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, if low-wage workers have more money in their pockets, they will have more money to spend, potentially expanding the number of consumers who can afford to eat out."

^ This seems to me to be the most brain-dead obvious response to trickle-down economics, and income inequality. Like, More people getting money, means more money flowing. We should tax the rich for this reason alone. Otherwise money stagnates, and doesn't do anything. It's functionally useless. Jeff Bezos has admitted as much saying something to the effect of "I don't know what to do with all of my money".
I always thought one of the biggest plusses of the early web was that you didn’t have to hire a graphic artist and designers in order to publish. In fact best practice was just don’t worry about whether it’s pixel perfect.. just publish your data and organize it into headers and paragraphs. The browser will display it however the user wants it displayed. If that means turning your links orange, that’s fine. If it means displaying it as fixed width green text in a 40x25 terminal, that’s fine too. If the user wanted a textured brick wall background, fine, let them. If it would be read through a screen reader, great!

Later, the designers showed up and started abusing <table> and <img> and body background, thinking the web was a word processor or Photoshop, and everything started going to hell. Now we have JavaScript and <canvas> and I as a user have pretty much lost all control over my browser. It’s just been handed over to the web site publisher, who tries to get rid of my scroll bars and worries whether some element is rendered 3 or 6 pixels wide on different browsers.

In my view, we sacrificed a lot at the altar of “predictable layout”.
> The company also said its tax rate doubled to 18 percent from 9 percent a year ago.

The article should have expanded on this...why did their tax rate go up if R&D and CapEx increased?
Arab springs that mostly went nowhere - or worse. There was a lot of hope for the middle east a mere 7 or 8 years ago. And now? It worked out for Tunisia, but it didn't turn out well for most other countries in the region.
Airflow Is Overkill
Economist Mariana Mazzucato has a plan to fix capitalism
That is the main one but there is also time, stress, energy, potential family obligations reduction, etc. Is your job devoid of capitalism?
Good point, a flagpole with a single rope can be pretty noisy.
I agree that BICEP was the worst debacle of this kind that’s occurred in recent memory. But also see how the safeguards worked: their results were properly questioned, the hype was over in months, and they did not get a Nobel.
> Flash on Android was always an awful experience.

Flash on anything but Windows was an awful experience.
The example is .NET Core 2.1, but the actual library itself is .NET Standard 2.0.

It will depend on how the System.Console class is implemented in Linux and macOS. It might fair better to port the example to Mono or .NET Core 3.0 (which should just be a change of build settings).

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You are talking about a dev who pointed out most likely significant issue with Lee's design.

Lee instead of accepting and fixing mistake, attempted to get Francis fired over it.

Failing at that he managed to get one of his friend to deny Francis' deserved promotion. Then gloated about it so Francis found out.

I don't see a single reason for loyalty to a company, especially this one.
CERN and the LHC are to me prime examples of bad science. You build huge machines at incredible cost, wasting hundreds of thousands of man hours of brilliant young people’s time. They are paid almost nothing (a checkout clerk at a Swiss supermarket makes more than a PhD student at CERN). Then you string along a subset of those for years, exploiting them for further cheap labor, somehow making them believe they are “lucky” to get that opportunity (a postdoc at CERN pays a fraction of what you can make at Google Zurich). In the time between experiments people only ever see simulated data, leading to a rude awakening when actual experimental data comes in (c.f. ALICE’s desaster of a analysis Pipeline). Then there is literally decades of over promising on ground breaking discoveries right around the corner (super symmetry, extra dimensions, dark matter). Defunding the super collider in the 90s in the US was probably one of the best science policy decisions they made.
This is what caused me to totally dump nvidia. Their new cards require signed drivers to enable boosting behaviour, and they are unwilling to build and sign the nouveau driver. It's not like it's hard to set up a buildbot...
Is that going to run afoul of IP ownership? To my knowledge, Flash was never open-sourced, and Oracle v. Google casts shadows on API-compatible reverse engineering.
I hate to say it but social media's issues sound like related to other people and sick social dynamics which all too often establish themselves.

Keeping up with the Joneses and veblen goods are things which cause people to spend money on things they don't need and lead to negative thoughts about neighbors and friends over them being "too good" and provoking envy oe "not good enough" and provoking scorn.
> I’m sorry but this is a ridiculous, unactionable answer that is functionally equivalent to “well we should make things better”.

Your argument is that no one should have a conversation unless they have an action plan.

> I like seeing electric bicycle shares, I like seeing community-based, high density housing with shared kitchens and bathrooms, I like predictive diagnostics and telemedicine (although the FDA is fighting it).

These are all solutions for companies to make money from problems that could be solved by government-provided healthcare, better public transit, and subsidized housing (not just projects).
I hate Flash as much as the next guy who remembers web pages slowing to a crawl or crashing because of Flash.

But I also think this is a bad idea, just from an information retention scenario. What ever happened to "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful?"

What will Google decide the world doesn't need to know about next? HTML2? JPEGs? non-Google-hosted javascript?

This is what we get for allowing a private company to be the gatekeeper of our culture.
It would be cool if this could be extended to automatically clearing those junk sites off Google's results, maybe by querying for a few extra pages, deleting the garbage, and then re-assembling them into fewer pages. Google spam filters would be great, I could also put in a rule to eliminate any page title that starts with a number ("Ten great ways to...").
We did it to ourselves with this modern "glass walls and doors everywhere" design trend.
I've noticed a trend across many scientific fields where publications are basically irrelevant since nobody reads them. Status is conferred by high profile talks, which tend to be invited. The material discussed in high profile talks is eventually published in a journal or conference proceeding (in the case of CS) and will get citations, but ideas only spread if they are picked by the program committees. The academics who publish many low impact papers are not really relevant.
the tradeoff is insanely low interest rates. Without the federal backstop student loans would have the interest rates of credit cards because as soon as new graduates get into the workforce, can't find a job, they'll file for bankruptcy to get out of the loan. Managing that risk without a backstop means incredibly high interest rate to cover for the losses of loans lost in bankruptcy.
" you have to wonder what has become of ethics, of integrity in science"

When was there any more ethics or integrity in science than any other time? The AIDS crisis was a shitshow of choosing prestige and recognition over the lives of a generation. The discovery of DNA was off a woman who was hardly recognized. Henrietta Lacks' cells. The syphilis experiments.
> or file an issue about an open source product you use.

Are you kidding me? This is literally the mechanism to provide feedback to the contributors.
The solution was to wait for the software to get better, the hardware to get better, the batteries to get better - today the Flash IDE could run on Windows tablets not much bigger than the iPad Mini, authoring content where before it couldn't even play it back.
> compare road deaths to mass shootings

Well, if we are going to do that, we need to compare the utility of those mass shootings compared to the utility of a car.
Ask HN: How do you set up your ML Pipelines today?
What tools do you use / how do you set up back-end (model retraining/refreshing) and front-end for an ML Pipeline (say via API/microservice setup).

I've used some combination of flask/scikit-learn/docker/github/circleci/postgres, wondering if there are other setups out there that do a similar/better job.

Thanks!
A friend of mine was hooked on subprime loans (from what we call a 'doorstep lender' in the UK). Not great sums in principal but leaving him always cash-poor and in need of another loan as he cleared the preceding one.

I explained to him about 0% credit cards and how, since he'd never defaulted on a loan, he would be certain to get one.

He used his new card to clear his existing debts and has been paying off the balance over the past 12 months (he has 18 months and could move to another 0% easily enough, if need be).

He really didn't believe a bank would give him so much free credit since nobody had ever told him so.

The good news is that he has now filed a complaint against the original lender and is likely to be refunded most of the interest paid over the years plus statutory interest of 8% p/a while he waits. It's going to be around £9,000

Why? Because he was unemployed all that time and they shouldn't have been lending to him.
A better example may be nginx which does not provide an out of the box way to disable the “Server” header. It’s part of a non-core addon.
It doesn't: https://jsbin.com/quqibamivo/edit?html,css,output

There's no way of doing this with css selectors alone, to my knowledge, you need to wrap the elements in some container.
The direct link isn't working anymore but you can still see the post easily at the top of his blog.

https://avdi.codes/blog/
If anyone is interested in learning Prolog I can recommend two very good Prolog books: The Power of Prolog[1] and Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example[2]. I also recommend visiting the Awesome Prolog list[3]. Worth checking also a very interesting extension of the Prolog - Probabilistic Prolog, aka ProbLog[4]. And modern ISO-compatible implementation in Rust language - Scryer Prolog[5].

[1] https://www.metalevel.at/prolog

[2] https://book.simply-logical.space/

[3] https://github.com/klaussinani/awesome-prolog

[4] https://github.com/ML-KULeuven/problog

[5] https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog
Personally I use a TUI for Reddit. I prefer the clean interface and keyboard navigation
To be fair, the absolute bulk of browser-based Flash games weren't imaginitive or fun either (and I can assure you, would probably not have been free if drop-in-and-use ad plugins for Flash had been around, if the ads that framed those apps can be taken as any indication ;) ).
This seems to imply the finished product is somehow not a joke. I think the finished product is one of the best jokes I've experienced in years.
O(N + M) is not equivalent to O(N) if you make no assumptions about the relative growths of N and M, that's why it's actually meaningful to keep both terms around. You can only reduce it to O(N) when N dominates M (M = O(N)).
I wouldn't know, I don't own a car because I don't need one. If it's possible to live without a car in a society where cars are everywhere, it's highly probable that if cars were never a thing, the infrastructure would allow you to have the same amount of personal freedom, without the downsides of cars.
Some years ago i was working on a project to autocorrect text with high level written text recognition. I have used standard text editor. Man, i thought 1 day about rewriting text field. But angels stopped me from it. People dont know how hard it is!
You can open business credit cards directly under your name, no LLC required.
I don't see "outrage."

> the code is there for all to see and read whenever they can be bothered too.

This is exactly what this developer is doing.

> open source snobbery

I also don't read any snobbery in their PR. They found a genuine problem. They have actual security concerns with this behavior.
Large metro areas also include an incredibly large proportion of suburban homes where people absolutely continue to rely on cars.
This is where measurements by multiple groups come in. I would point out that in 2019 the basis for the SI base units were changed because of issues with the standards. The international community - lead primarialy by NIST and their counterpart agencies in other countries noted that, among other standards, that measurements of the "standard meter" bars were changing measureably and the replicates of the "official bars" differed from one another.

They proposed and agreed upon new "standards" based upon measurments with better precision and accuracy. See the Wikipedia summary [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...
So, don't live in Fremont if you can't afford to live there. Or find a roommate(s), live with family.
you need to install python (I realize you can do some stuff without python but it's not really ansible at that point)
Making a project open source does not excuse the author from ethical responsibilities. Asking for changes to an open source project is not snobbery.
I think that because I read the article. Secondly, I have worked as a software developer, security analyst, and network operations chief.
I suspect the surge of sales was due to broad publicity and pent up demand for a simpler approach to computing. If you look at the customer satisfaction numbers, they're almost unnaturally good, so I can' see any evidence of customer disappointment. I think the fallback was simply a return to a long term mean.
> Vast majority of people here owe their livelihood either directly or indirectly to the democratization of the internet.

Is it the democratization of the internet, or the commercialization? I think it's more the latter you're benefiting from.
Is there no money in financial education...? I feel like there's no controversy in suggesting that the state of personal finance in this country is a disaster, even for people who are highly educated (how many tech workers actually understand how their startup options work?)

I just wonder what a viable business model would be for quality personal financial education or resources.
Really for anyone going deeper it isn’t good. I know someone who works on patterns amongst celebs. Basically celeb news, but geekier. They have complained similarly about not being able to drill down for specific words. They already know the general celeb news so that doesn’t help.
It's one of those specs where the standard is "Whatever the engine does," right?

That runtime is likely to end up looking a lot more like a console hardware emulator than a data parser.
Biometric payment card will change the way you pay
I think I'm OK with that? If it doesn't increase my costs, and Hashicorp gets paid because I used their tools to deploy my services, and Azure is getting paid more because I probably deploy more services because it's easier thanks to Terraform, doesn't everyone win?
> Furthermore, even 99.99999% reliability is not good enough, and that's already incredibly hard to achieve. Five 9s of reliability still means 5 minutes of unreliable behaviour per year, which is unacceptable in the context of driving.

40,000 traffic accident deaths per year in the US.

< 400,000,000 drivers.

So more than 1 fatality per year per 10,000 drivers. There's a 99.99% change that you won't kill someone while driving in a given year.

That's just fatalities.

> In 2017, there were an estimated 2,775,608 police-reported motor vehicle crashes in which at least one passenger vehicle (i.e., a passenger car or a light truck) was towed from the crash scene in the United States, which resulted in an estimated 1,686,240 known passen-ger vehicle occupant injuries.[0]

So 0.6% per driver per year.

So far today I've seen one driver going the wrong way down a one-way road, and one run a red light. (Plenty entering the intersection on yellow and leaving on red, but at least one where it was blatant). I was on the road for maybe thirty minutes.

Do you think the average driver spends less than five minutes per year driving unsafely?

[0] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
Why Facebook employees are not worried of they customers privacy..? This fake worry talk is weird to me.
OP is referring to people who live in a rural area but commute to/from a city. Sounds like you are talking about farmers.
Golang (after mostly Python and some NodeJS and Java sprinkles).

Feels productive thanks to his no BS attitude (which can be sometimes limiting though).
> He has promised to provide full self driving on cars

I continue to be surprised he hasn't been taken to court yet for selling a $6K package that isn't anything but an empty promise.
Whats the percentage of the cost of the driver for airplanes, boats and long-haul trucking, compared to the cost of each trip? Maybe for the trucking it is significant, but I'm not sure airplane ticket prices would go down significantly if we automated them.

But with cars, the price of the driver is actually pretty big, at least 50% of the cost of each ride, when taking a cab or Uber. So that can be a lot of money people are saving.

Plus the whole part where we might get rid of parking spaces in urban centers. This might actually change the way we build cities in the future.
Using that to illustrate the point implies the exact opposite :)
Good news for you! Nobody with any power is taking them seriously! The activists have been ignored and derided for going on 25 years now, just like you hoped.

I'm sure that future generations (well, the fraction that don't die from climate-aggrivated famines, wars or diseases) will be pleased to know that wealthy software devs from the Era of 24/7 Electricity didn't ever have to feel uncomfortable about their choices.
Although I'd strongly suggest not doing that bazel works better if you have 1 library per header (or source file for non c langs). It helps to have tools to manage deps for your though.
Probably safer to tether yourself to the thing you're blowtorching...
> "glass walls that line motorways"

I've never heard of this, why is it done? For aesthetic reasons? It seems like it would be marginally less practical than solid barriers which would block out headlights at night.
> What made Flash AMAZING was its authoring environment.

Which hasn't gone anywhere, but has been renamed Adobe Animate.

https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
He didn't take it down. Just changed the Title a tiny bit which broke the link.

https://avdi.codes/blog/
Why would people need to pay money to file issues?
I think the statement is meant to be read as:

> You shouldn't need to contribute financially to [...] file an issue about an open source product you use.
In the very early days, before Flash, making a website was a difficult proposition. HTML was an esoteric structural markup language, and much of the effort of early browsers was focused on "correcting" mistakes made by individuals attempting to build websites.

<map> was the true monstrosity, <table> and <img> were improvements upon it, but were burdened by padding and margins added by early browsers that were difficult to modify and retain consistency.

The situation hasn't really improved much; creating a website nowadays is a matter of dedicating yourself to a custom content platform, like Blogger/Squarespace/Wordpress, or learning the arcane language of HTML+CSS+JS.

That's a far cry from the drag, drop, click, publish or share of Flash. Just how does an individual create a .EXE of their animation/game/document and send it via email, nowadays?
I was unable to find it funny :|
There's actually a project just for that. It aims to archive every single flash games on the internet in a playable format outside of the web browser. It can even simulate situations where the flash game needs to access asset files from the original server.
https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
Recession fears in cities as tax collections slow
> One thing companies overlook is employee loyalty.

Loyalty? Why would anyone have loyalty to a company unless the company has shown significant loyalty to them first? And how would a company show loyalty? I don't mean your team or manager covering for you when something comes up or things like that. That should engender loyalty to those people. That is different from loyalty to the company. I might go further and say that loyalty to a company is wrongheaded. Loyalty to mission or ideal, sure. Loyalty to people. Loyalty to the function in society that needs to be fulfilled in order for society to work (garbage has to be picked up, sewers have to function).

But a company? It's an exchange of my time acting in their interests for their money. A legal abstraction and corresponding rituals that we use in our society as a unit of organization. It's like being loyal to your filing system.

And after the nonsense Francis dealt with, it's hard to imagine why he would feel loyalty to anyone involved in the direction and management of the company. He probably should have chosen his coworkers that he used for references more carefully, too.
I would pay to use Emacs.
everywhere *that looked like a desktop PC, which is why Flash floundered badly in the mobile era.
> Doing everything in HTML/CS/JS keeps proving too clunky.

Clunky, sometimes sure. It has largely been fine in my experience.

> Even the big wealthy sites have odd rendering bugs that pop up.

This will always be the case.
That's cool, perhaps also link it from a centralized location like Kaggle? https://www.kaggle.com/datasets
When I look for datasets, I first go to a place like that.
We are a LOT further away from cars no longer being needed than we are full self-driving cars.
Hardly anyone learns finance in public schools today (not even in my time); its better to keep people ignorant than to teach them how taxes and interest and banking work so you can easily fool them into believing what you want them to believe and make do what you want them to do. Teaching financial literacy should start early and never let up.
I've been using SecureCRT for at least a decade? My only issue is that opening up a lot (100s) of sessions can take a bit of time.
Speed - RDRAND takes 100 nS, but reading from a device takes much longer. If you're using it to generate session IDs for a firewall, speed matters.
Is that really any worse than now, where one party consistently pushes the envelope on this and gets away with it because there's literally zero review? It would take some work to convince me of it.