skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yah, I think the Swiss screwed up a little.

The bigger issue is the celebration afterwards at home / giving a state office / medal for upholding law and order. These actions explicitly condone the murder.
You can strike if you're on a visa, but it does put you at enhanced risk of retaliation. You can strike even if it is illegal. The question is the balance of power.

For example, if the company retaliates against visa workers, and the other workers strike in protest, the company will probably not continue to try that. This is why solidarity between workers of different dispositions is so important.
News isn't critical political theory though.

If you wanted to become well versed in, say, Marx, you don't get there through watching the news, you just read Marx.

Go on eBay, buy a couple used books, read them instead. They'll have quite a bit more insight than a Twitter stream
Well, last year [0][1] consumers weren't able to have changes to the defaults. Well, some apps would change, but others wouldn't.

However, you can get the impression it happens more regularly because when individual default apps, like Photos, get updated (or if there is a problem in the registry) they may reset the association for the files they expect to handle.

[0] https://wccftech.com/windows-10-bug-unable-apps-defaults/

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4467682/windows-10-...
A formal proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis
> So it's more about having money to get reelected than a simple personal bribe.

I think that's a distinction without much of a difference.
Yeah, those two words imply a bunch of posture/style fixes. "Run tall" and "steady breathing" are the two simple reminders that I repeat to myself if I'm getting tired.
Or it would be a renaissance for urban restaurateurs and workers, who could afford the city again. Some of these tech areas are surrounded by dead zones.
I've come to accept that there is no good OS (maybe iOS, but not really). You're just picking your poison.

Want to be spied on and have your system slowly accumulate cruft and grind to a halt over the course of a few years? Use Windows.

Want to be constantly fiddling with your system just to keep it running on a day to day basis? Use Linux.

Want to be constantly spied on and probably also hacked? Use Android.

Want to pay a bunch of extra money and still deal with a decent number of bugs¹ and atrocious default settings/annoying user-protection features you have to turn off? Use macOS.

¹All of them are riddled with bugs
some people don't want to create a servant caste despite all the pressure from Sundar Pichai to recreate Indian society in Google HQ.
Mine was created 2,367 days ago. Do I win a prize?
Wow. I myself hail for your fabled "west", and I'm not suggesting that free association should be scrapped nor that violence be committed against its practitioners.
I don't have any. If something is truly important to my specific interests then my friends who share those interests will alert me to it. All news I get is word of mouth.
Even if calling out 'virtual signalling' is itself virtue signalling, it doesn't make the original statement less valid. And, if the original statement is valid, I don't see why it requires push back.

It's like saying: "You're stupid" "No, you're stupid!" Ok, you're both stupid!
Sure, but that didn't stop me from thinking "nanometer" whenever I saw it. Initially, I was wondering what font screwup could turn "km" into "nm".
Thanks. I looked into disabling Hyper-V but I think there is some IT installed spyware on this machine that squawked when I tried.
The A-10 needs to be retired regardless because the airframe cannot be upgraded to survive in a modern air defense environment.
Why Novartis CEO wants to 'unboss' companies
From the article: The addendum also expressly bars the companies from “engaging in any practice” that would exclude their Free File offerings “from an organic internet search.”

Note the term "organic" which suggests the page "naturally" ranks in the first few hits. The agreement doesn't seem to prevent Intuit and others from both buying ads to populate the top of search results and SEO'ing the crap out of it to make their stuff rank at the top "organically."

I see this as a good example of how policy makers write policy with good intentions but without a fundamental understanding of how gamed Internet search is in order to make it profitable.
Why? It seems to be from 2019
I love this, it resonates so much with what I think and do. Is it a quote or your own creation? If the former, can you share the source (DDG seems to fail me); if the latter, I'll attribute it to "antman" or who?
it is emphatically not an issue for the vast majority of windows users.

There is no way to know that unless they have been presented with a viable alternative that they understand.

I had a fascinating conversation a little while ago with some slightly younger friends who are very much of the digital native, smartphone-since-birth generation. They couldn't live without their social media and always-online everything. They still thought it was creepy that when they went travelling they started getting all sorts of ads about places they were going and so on because they realised it meant something on their phones was spying on them. They didn't like it, they would just tolerate it because they had no other way to stay connected to what is, for that generation, a normal life.
I use evernote. It's really useful once you get used to tagging your notes.

I have a broad notebook called "Books" and then tag each post with relevant topics. As you continue to add to evernote in other domains with similar tags you can aggregate all the information into one place.

You can even make a tag of the bookname and go from there.

Bear is a cheaper alternative but i personally didn't like it too much.
Yeah that hustle porn is all bullshit. I'd rather go back to bartending as I did in my 20s than be one of those losers.

Thank you for the encouragement. I'm giving this serious thought. One of my 2020 goals is currently vaguely defined as "invest into the professional growth of others".
>12 October 2017: Ireland announces changes to capital allowances for intangible assets

https://www.ey.com/gl/en/services/tax/international-tax/aler...
Or did dang just admit that HN redacts and changes old posts?

<dramatic music plays>
> A union is just the free market at work.

That's not the case. A union is an organization for extracting rents above those the market would ordinarily bear. Rent-seeking activity --- no matter who does it --- makes society as a whole worse off. Bastiat showed that a long time ago.

When corporations organize to extract rents, we call them cartels and apply strict penalties under the law. Why should employees have a right to use these same tactics? The market for thee, but not for me?
I just want to move to a system where the IRS sends me a bill, they know how much I owe them.
All I ever see from media and journalists is bitching and moaning about centralized services shutting down, yet none of them have taken the effort to implement their own decentralized systems. The protocols exist today. Smart media would do wise by adopting them.
Other than memeorandum (techmeme mentioned several times but not memeorandum??), there's The Weekly Sift (https://weeklysift.com/)
Management is the parasite sucking up the benefits produced by the masses of workers. If employees owned the corporations, things would be very different.
I've done similar things in the past. My two cents:

1) Sign up for a free Crunchbase trial.

2) Search for companies that fit your criteria (Crunchbase can do precise / granular searches)

3) Add names of promising companies to a spreadsheet

4) After the list has a few dozen names, cancel Crunchbase account

5) Google the CEO or CTO of each company

6) Find their email address (try https://hunter.io/ or just Google the person in depth and you'll often find a public email)

7) Write cold email explaining: your specific skills and 1-2 sentences on why you're passionate about their industry.

8) End email with a specific ask: if you're hiring, would you have 15 minutes to chat next week?
22. If you get injured - apply pressure. Have an elastic band aid in your training bag or pocket at all times. Applying pressure on an ankle tear will shorten healing time to 1-2 days vs weeks if you let it bleed and swell.

23. Running technique: you want to distribute forces on all 3 joints. Use elasticity from tendons and binding structures to capture breaking forces and bounce back.

24. Take it very easy when you start out, change ground, or shoes.
A high-altitude drone with extreme linger time and a battery of light missiles--backed by an Army artillery position or Navy missile destroyer for delivering the heavier firepower a few minutes later--seems like a better quality solution than humans piloting fighter jets that require carriers or ground runways.

But a human brain in the cockpit of a reusable munitions-delivery vehicle is probably cheaper and more resilient.
Government is way ahead of you there. The law may be flawed, but not for a lack of thinking about if children should get work experience.

For example, should you have always wanted your children to learn how to build gazebos, all they have to do is be excused from highschool

> FLSA Section 13(c)(7) creates a limited exemption from the youth employment provisions for certain minors 14 through 17 years of age who are excused from compulsory school attendance beyond the eighth grade. This exemption allows eligible youth to be employed inside and outside of businesses that use machinery to process wood products (such as sawmills, furniture manufacturers, garden shed and gazebo manufacturers, cabinet makers and pallet shops) with some restrictions, but does not allow them to operate or assist in the operation of power-driven woodworking machinery.

In addition to the working for parents exception

> The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides for certain exemptions. Minors under age 16 working in a business solely owned or operated by their parents or by persons standing in place of their parents, can work any time of day and for any number of hours. However, parents are prohibited from employing their child in manufacturing or mining or in any of the occupations declared hazardous by the Secretary of Labor. Other exemptions to the FLSA are detailed in the links listed below.

There are also many special cases for other traditional occupations of children

> Employment as motion picture, theater, radio, or television actors, working at home in the making of evergreen wreaths, and delivering newspapers are among the jobs exempted from FLSA child labor provisions.

Those do get oddly specific...

> - Youth employed as actors or performers in motion pictures, theatrical, radio, or television productions;

> - Youth engaged in the delivery of newspapers to consumers;

> - Youth working at home in the making of wreaths composed of natural holly, pine, cedar, or other evergreens (including the harvesting of the evergreens).

There are also exceptions to the exceptions...

> Limited exemptions from some of the hazardous occupations rules allow 16- and 17- year-old apprentices and student-learners to perform otherwise prohibited work (hazardous jobs) under certain conditions. The hazardous occupations in which youth may work if the those conditions are met are: HO #5 Power-driven woodworking machines; HO #8 Power-driven metal-forming, punching and shearing machines; ...

https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/whd/flsa/cl/exemptions.asp
Or it's physically plugged in, but the driver stopped working with the last OS update and it never bothered to tell you, it's just been using wifi and you never noticed, because there wasn't any indicators.
If you define "socialism" as "social services" that's true, but that's an incorrect definition of "socialism." Literally, socialism means government ownership and control of the means of production. Using a broad brush, you might expand that to include situations where the government micro-manages private markets, such as setting prices, so as to exercise control over production.

Defined as such, the United States, and most of Europe, is further back towards "capitalism" than they were in the 1960s. In 1960, government agencies dictated what routes airlines could fly, what prices they could charge, etc. The same was true of trucking, telecom, energy, etc. Almost all of that was eliminated in the 1980s and 1990s. State-owned enterprises were privatized, utilities were deregulated, etc. The EU has consistently kept moving in that direction. Even where the government intervenes, it adopts more market-oriented approaches. In the 1930s, governments promoted universal phone service through imposing mandates on sanctioned monopolies (or state owned telecom companies). Today, countries like Sweden rely on measures like giving individuals tax breaks to build fiber. In the US, we replaced “government cheese” with SNAP debit cards.

Obviously taxation creates deadweight losses too, but that’s different, and better than direct government control over production. That’s why Milton Friedman advocated a negative income tax. He sought to replace traditional social programs—and the bureaucrats that administer them—with cash payments to the needy: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/business/23scene.html

Even from the perspective of public spending for the welfare state, in the U.K. for example public expenditures as a percentage of GDP are below the levels from the late 1950s: https://www.economicshelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gov.... And the whole economy is much more liberal than it was back then--British Telecom is a private company, etc.
I haven't run afoul of the IRS, but my state tax collection agency didn't even bother notifying me of underpayment, they just sent my account straight to collections to have me hounded by debt collectors. After contracting with a lawyer we determined that not only had I paid my taxes that year, I had OVERPAYED and the state actually owed me $500. When I resubmitted a corrected form for the state tax assessor, they sent me a letter saying the time-limit for requesting a refund for that year had passed and I could go kick rocks.

Experiences like that aren't unique and are enough to put lots of people off trusting the government to be on their side for resolving disputes like this. Most people don't separate out their state or local authorities from the feds. It's all just "government" to them. And even the IRS can make life extremely stressful by auditing people who aren't all THAT rich to begin with (because people with real money have lawyers who make it expensive to go after them).

I, personally, think the solution is to make the federal (and state) bureaucracy more service oriented rather than treating everything like a punitive law enforcement role. But apparently not many people agree.
Yeah, obviously YMMV (quite literally, in this case), but I definitely relate to both of those (especially not listening to music).
Because apt upgrade, or pacman -Syyu is simply extracting files and using hooks to generate a new initramfs. Windows Updates has to do a lot of operations to ensure the registry is correct, and then batch upgrades to create and remove scripts to run after restart.
You literally started this thread by demanding that a policital association be banned. History tells us what that looks like in practice, and how much violence is involved in having the police break a strike.
Is this what you're talking about? It doesn't have the intelligence for the W2 reference, but it is fillable. This how I've done taxes. Fill it out, print it off and mail it to the right address.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf
A real package manager, a standard consumer os feature, would remove this dark pattern.
In the US, we've had decades of (largely GOP) messaging that the government can't do anything properly. A substantial portion of the population believes it.

As noted in a sibling comment, the IRS could pre-fill forms that would be correct for the vast majority of tax payers (who take the standard deduction/don't itemize, have a single job, and no other edge cases). These people should not be paying TurboTax either way - the forms they need to submit are relatively straight-forward. People who do need a CPA would have to hire one regardless. TurboTax is literally just ripping off average tax payers.
All workers can be abused regardless of their salary.

Examples for programmers that come to mind:

- Companies that require workers to enter arbitration and give up their right to sue.

- Companies that force workers to give up IP generated in their free time (not using company resources)

- Companies that require programmers to work 12 hour days, "crunch times", minimal paid leave (game dev industry, VFX industry comes to mind.)

Unions collectively negotiate with employers to reduce or eliminate these abuses. Some unions have poor leadership, which is to be expected. Some companies have poor leadership. Not everyone is good at negotiating, which can create power imbalances on either end of the table. But on the whole, unions are a Good Thing, even for IT folk.
> Cafeteria workers need unions. The maids who muck out hotel room toilets need unions. Coal miners who work in horrific conditions for little pay need unions.

aren't all those jobs ripe for automating? unions feel like an intermediary measure to the end goal: no more humans in shitty jobs.
When that happens, you should get a notification that says something like:

> An app default was reset

> An app caused a problem with the default setting for .png files, so it was rest to Photos.
I don't know, what I find shameful is the insistance on a 16:9 aspect ratio. I could care less for the dpi, but an efficient workspace is all I want.
I have gotten IRS penalties/interest due to my incorrectly reporting. I was confused about how to report RSU and Stock Option income, and then I was doubly confused about how to do quarterly filings.

I am REALLY trying to do this on my own without an accountant. I think I got it right with 2019, but I will find in a few week how far off I am when I try to file.

I'd say my interaction feels like the IRS is just painting by numbers - they are just running the numbers and checking if you filed correctly or not. If you did not and the number is significant, they send you a letter.
I'm opposed to throwing the proverbial baby with the bathwater.
I've had numerous unrecoverable blue screens after Windows Updates.
You could say that, but it would be fundamentally misunderstanding why the US Government needs TOR users.

There is no extra safe guards to encrypted email that lives on a server the more users you add. It doesn't matter. It was a point to point transfer once. All emails are SSL/TLS sent anyhow.

TOR is a different thing. It's active user browsing. If only US spies (example) used TOR, it would be pretty damn obvious what they were doing or at least show that this was vital traffic to inercept. But add in millions of normal users and it's much easier to keep your nefarious deeds hidden by just blending in with the crowd.
Yeah let's create fake talking points about unions using the million-dollar salaried talking heads of media owners.
The Credit Karma blurb is here:

https://www.creditkarma.com/tax

But -- the hard bits are state-specific support, and the supplementals K-1, 6250, et al. Anyone have first-hand experience with CreditKarma tax filing?

There's also TaxAct -- anyone tried it?

https://www.taxact.com/
Now if only I could file my expat taxes via some public service. The filing requirement in the Obama/Trump era for expats is literally insane, and I'd say even Kafkaesque in the truest sense. The way the government treats its expats w.r.t. tax is inhumane and makes me really dislike being an American.
Doing a database join with CSV files
Give them a lossy mechanism for replication and we can have ourselves a digital Shakespeare in 4 billion years :)
Regulations do in fact have a political component. San Francisco has laws on the books mandating "affordable housing". These laws have have made housing construction much more expensive and have reduced the overall stock of housing.

An unintended consequence.

A new ballot measure, sponsored by progressives on the board of supervisors this year, will further limit construction and tie commercial development to these affordable housing mandates. The result will be less overall development and increased cost of living. Sponsored by progressives.

What I see locally is progressives fighting development, and this hurts us all. Yes there is a NIMY component, but with a super majority in the state legislature - Democrats could easily overrule local laws. But they do not.

Japan is an example of a place with housing decisions made at the state level.
> It was written mainly for those who are in sales and need to learn how to persuade

One of my big revelations was ‘we are /all/ in sales’.
The IRS has a start at that. States can opt into the "Combined Federal/State Filing Program", which centralizes 1099 reporting, and lets states basically copy the IRS's data for those forms instead of collecting it themselves. I believe this program doesn't currently handle W-2s though for some reason.
Extremely basic design principles
How on earth are you avoiding things like #2 on Debian? The only OS I've found that properly handles arbitrary DPI since day 1 has been Android.

Also you skipped #3 in your list
It does get logged and is viewable with the Event Viewer. Useful for sysadmins, but not end users.
Professional organisations are middle class, while unions are working class.

(Per downthread, the dividing line is really "if your organisation comes into conflict with the state, does the fight happen in a courtroom or on the street?")
What do runners do when it's -15degC outside and roads are coated with slippery ice and snow? I don't get enough exercise during winter :( Running is nice because you can start at your front door, but most winter sports seem to require hauling gear to an appropriate venue (thinking about skiing and skating as the most obvious examples).
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The best advise I got was “it’s better to run 300 meters every day, than 5km once a month”.
Wine is okay, but for me it generates lots of errors and overall is much slower compared to a native app. I'd much prefer a native Qt app than a Wine app.
This was a really great Twitter thread about how capitalism isn't really about meritocracy but about bargaining power and by implication how necessary unions are for workers to be treated humanely and paid more than the bare minimum for survival:

https://twitter.com/ArashKolahi/status/1210332075787608065
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Strange I was able to right click -> uninstall the skype store app from the start menu no problem.
Both parties have been very much in charge of this tax situation in America. Both parties have had many, MANY, majority rule situations over the past decades they could have done anything else about it. Nobody would have been stopping either of them at different points in time if they ever wanted to cash in on their party rhetoric.
I think it's important in communication to understand the people you're meeting in your life. The people around us makes up the society we live in, and understanding how we disagree with them helps us see what we want to change and also where we're wrong. Whereas just trying to absorb one author's idea of how the world works ignores those pieces of society and knowledge that the author lacks.

To me it's more rewarding to know that I may not agree with everything everyone says all the time, but at least we can find our common ground and share our disagreements with each other to reach an understanding.
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