skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"discriminating" is not in itself unlawful. There's a small list of things you can't discriminate for.

Unhealthy lifestyles like smoking or tabs instead of spaces isn't on that list.

Not sure how I feel about this. It does feel quite wrong. But it also has a practical, logical side to it. Ignore being human for a moment: smoking is proven to weaken physical ability. Why do I want to hitch my wagon to a team that's slowly crippling itself?
This is just “not even wrong.”

Yes, if you used a no fee broker to buy and sell (everyday...) the constituent 500-5000 stocks typically in a large index fund you could avoid the very low management fee.

In practice, that’s ridiculous. The management fee on a good ETF is less than pennies on the dollar. It’s the full time jobs of many people to do this. It takes a lot of time. If you tried to replicate it yourself on an individual basis there would be significant opportunity costs as well as far increased tracking error, as well as other things I’m probably not thinking about off the top of my head. There is a reason no one does that.
You were lucky that it was only the magic smoke that escaped, and not the pixie dust on the platters.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hard+drive+pixie+dust
Progressive Web Apps in 2020
For standard knots the Klutz book of knots is really excellent! https://www.amazon.com/Klutz-Book-Knots-John-Cassidy/dp/0932...

The article doesn't mention fishing knots; in case anyone's curious anglers care a lot about knot strength but strength changes based on whether you lubricated the knot when tying and what kind of line you used to tie it (braid vs smooth fluorocarbon for example).

My favorite fishing knot is the uni knot, which is a slip knot that can be used to join lines (double uni) or tie things to line. It's super strong but fishing knots aren't designed to be untied and always cinch down (vs climbing knots which can't collapse / strangle a person). Slipknots are very useful: I use a 3-wrap uni when I'm trussing thankgiving fowl for the oven!

There are some really cool fishing knot strength testing videos on YouTube. The line-to-line joining knots are my favorites -- people get heated debating the merits of the FG knot vs the alberto vs the double uni.
I wonder if RFID would be an effective solution here. They're cheap, small, and don't require batteries, so all you'd need to do is make a device that can generate a powerful, directional signal and you could quickly locate whatever you're looking for. I'm not an expert on RFID, but it should be a workable solution, and would work even if the device is off (e.g. ran out of battery).
Somewhat related, today flavored electronic cigarettes including mint flavor were prohibited in the US.
A Brief History of Dice
from their landing page: "Funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)."
I think it's because there are health risks associated with most if not all forms of it. Some forms may have small health risks though. Really, they don't want to pay out the money for high health insurance anymore. I don't blame them, I guess. But it does seem discriminatory.
People will start moving en masse to EV's.

There will be a spectacular fire because of an improper electrical install that will become a huge news media event with people asking whether or not EV's are actually safe (despite ICE vehicles having gas tanks)

There will be a major continent-wide power outage either because of a natural disaster or a highly sophisticated and coordinated attack against the poorly secured power stations that at least span NA.

Valve will beat the ever-living daylights out of everyone else in the cloud gaming space.
> Does anyone know what kind of tech is used for this

Imagination and lies.
Scott Adams did, but not quite 10 years in advance. Check out his blog about a year before the election.

Edit: here's just one example. It goes earlier than this. https://www.scottadamssays.com/2015/09/23/the-reason-for-tru...
Who said the house was not organised/clean? I don't think it's a fair assumption at all. Even ignoring the fact that this wasn't his house (so organising it was probably not an option), he found the kindle in a closet... meaning his mom (or someone else living in the same house) cleaned/organised it and then just forgot about it.
It’s not a drone feed it’s form the gun sight camera of an Apache attack helicopter.

Drone traffic is now predominantly encrypted it’s not the early 2000’s anymore when you could tune into drone feeds with a satellite dish and $30 worth of software.
The Bluetooth stack itself is an overcomplicated, terrible specification that leads to most Bluetooth chips have an _incomplete_ port of their own vital functionality.

It isn't shocking that the thing to talk to them isn't complete.
And the Pullman company famous for its luxury railroad cars, whose paternalistic policies in the “model town” established outside Chicago to house its workers led directly to one of the great industrial crises in American history, the Pullman strike of 1894: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike
Thanks for that - it was really fun to read.
It isn’t an EEOC violation, but possibly an ADA one. Discriminating against nicotine addicts might be illegal.
It's only 3:28 long. I think you meant 2:25 since he does a really good overtone at about 2:30. Thanks for this perfect example. Usually I'm the only one who knows wtf I'm talking about when I mention such obscure things.
Trump wins. World peace. Climate problems solved. Historical stock market highs. Various nations divided by globalist agenda reunify. Medicine and education cost problems on the road to recovery.

PS didn't vote for him.
You're all missing the point. Some statistician worked out that nicotine use likely correlates to age and this gives them a way to fire old people.
I vaguely remember that at the dawn of the deep learning (2013 to 2014), there were talks and hopes that Xeon Phi would smash the performance of Nvidia GPUs. However, the sample people got are too late (I believe it is at the end of 2014) and the performance figures are disappointing. It might be just the software was simply not there yet unfortunately. But then the wheels moved forward and everyone started to buy Nvidia chips in their datacenters.
I don't really understand these things. Wouldn't an RFID sticker work better since it doesn't need a battery? The next step is to make an RFID sensor that can aim a beam so you know precisely where the device is.

Those Tile devices are a little big for my taste and I'd much prefer a sticker I could hide somewhere.
> there are health risks associated with most if not all forms of it

Hey, nicotine protects against Parkinson’s - perhaps they should reconsider their actuarial models!

(Fun fact: so does methylphenidate, which apparently is generally neuroprotective according the latest on PubMed)
1. The "streaming games" concept crashes and burns when Google gives up on Stadia, probably around 2025 or thereabouts. People simply don't have the internet to support it, and Google's infamously short organizational attention span takes its toll. It might come back, but check back in ~30 years when everybody has gigabit or better.

2. One of the big public cloud companies either stops doing public cloud stuff or that business unit gets acquired, and I think the victim will be GCP. Microsoft seems safe with its government contracts and name recognition.

3. Some nasty new nasty, globally-agreed-upon legislation comes out that effectively cripples cryptocurrency for legitimate uses. Bitcoin burns as a result, but overall, it's about as effective as the war on drugs, and some privacy coin like Monero or GRIN has its price skyrocket as the new go-to for otherwise shady transactions.

4. Politicization of everything finally reaches a breaking point and most people check out. It once again becomes a faux pas to bang on about who you're voting for and why at the family dinner table.

5. One or two large social networking companies go belly up or are acquired and unsuccessfully restructured (think Tumblr). Probably Twitter or Reddit.

6. VR grows and becomes a stable "third platform" rather than a mere niche. Facebook/Oculus proved the market demand, and standalone headsets from various companies pushing their own walled gardens come and go. Oculus becomes the market leader in this category. Valve leads with the "cadillac" PC-connected enthusiast hardware. No major quantum leaps - quality slowly improves, but no full dive or anything like that. At least one AAA game is released VR-exclusive and posts good sales numbers.

7. Full legalization of cannabis for recreational uses finally happens. One or two states hold out and keep it illegal or greatly restricted within their borders, but most states notice the tax revenue being left on the table and finally relent, and as more and more states decriminalize or legalize, the federal ban is finally lifted with surprisingly little fanfare. It becomes common to see cannabis products in convenience stores right next to cigarettes.

8. Solar continues to improve and gets ridiculously cheap. Installing a grid-tied, or even non-grid-tied, system becomes a common home improvement. Tesla will either lead the way or exit this market.

9. Nothing crazy happens with quantum computing. Some niche use cases are found, but by 2030, RSA or other algorithms based on prime factorization remain safe ways to secure data.
This is an interesting point in the argument for universal public healthcare. I doubt companies work care much if they weren’t responsible for paying part of employee healthcare premiums. This was kinda already the case with the pre existing conditions nonsense before the ACA, but as costs skyrocket and companies are forced to make intrusive lifestyle demands from employees I wonder if it will finally tip the scales.

Universal healthcare already polls very well though... so maybe this won’t be significant.
I dont know about you but I really enjoyed this policy as a 22 year old with 10 years experience vs a 30 year old bootcamper.
"They have a family they need to support and you're more of a risk"
I'm glad we have really innovative policies that allow businesses to grow like this.
which is ok. we wouldn't have proliferation of software or arts if we didn't have desire to redo.
It's a rather large leap to go from discriminating against people who consume a thing by choice to discriminating against their DNA that they have no control over.
> I think it would take me more than a minute to get physical access to the ram of some modern computers.

RAM is still one of the most accessible parts for most laptops & desktops.

Tablets and phones on the other hand make it much much harder.
Sure, the large players stayed about the same in the last decade but we also found some new large players.

The entire app ecosystems was in the earliest infancy in 2010. AWS was in its infancy. Slack wasn’t released.
I think hardware limitations were a huge source of creativity in games. If you want to make an interesting game, tie a proverbial hand behind your back and see where it forces you to go.
I track homemade weblogs and pages - there's actually a lot still going if you know where to look. https://kickscondor.com

Thank you for your links, I'll cover them soon in my next 'href hunt'.
Existing workers are grandfathered in, the new policy applies only to new hires.
its interesting in that, you can happily guide drones to kill people at great distances while being unable to see what /who you're hitting and be perfectly safe, yet you might not (I know i dont) have an issue with it like you (and I) do with triggering self-replicating nanobots anonymously through the internet to target victims based on a secret set of metadata ruled by a secret set of laws...

its basically the same thing. just an upscale in precision, and really safe distance is safe distance... doesn't really change the situation when you add more dangerous technology to the mix.
As much as I am wary of being negative towards children's behaviours that don't match my own, focus related criticism is something that I feel is really valid. I've watched children below the age of 13 Snapchat and watched any number of children aged 2 and above using YouTube. The same behavior shows up where before a video has finished, the children are reaching out to tap to another one. I try not to judge but I do cringe when I see 2 year olds spending 1 minute on a baby rhymes video, then reaching forward, tapping to another one while the first still has 15 minutes to go, and then doing that again and again and again. The older children swiping without fully watching even a Snapchat video is equally bothersome for me. I'm seeing swipes and taps happen in the range of 2 to 3 seconds.

This behaviour is not unique to children though. I watch adults at the hospital using Facebook and it's the same. It's almost like they just want to swipe rather than look at the content for real.

I have no idea what the long term effects of this behaviour are. Perhaps it's nothing and I'm fretting over it needlessly. But I've experienced it myself and it took behaviour similar to rehab to come out of it and be able to slowly enjoy content again. And it always feels easy to slip back into. It's terrifying.
I prefer the granny knot because it rotates the shoelaces so they're less likely to get caught on things. I've never had any trouble with it coming untied. https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm discusses the difference in detail, but fails to acknowledge this benefit of granny knots.
if you take mushrooms you will abandon the simplistic view implied by your statement.
He was not head of IRGC. He was the head of Qods Forces.
Good managers are extremely valuable, and new blood is not necessarily talented.

Maybe a solution could be to make time-limited leadership positions. After you finish your time, you get another different position but you stay in the company, with the same or higher pay, so that it doesn't feel like a demotion. Permanent leadership positions will be given to those who did their best during their temporary stay. As a bonus, because these managers tried out different jobs, they will have a broader understanding of what people under them do.
Prohibiting employers from discriminating against workers under 40 would be not unlike prohibiting the NFL from refusing to employ fast 40-yard runners, or disallowing Hooters from refusing to hire buxom servers. If you'll please forgive the swell of double/triple negatives.
For now.

This is still basically being used to discriminate against older applicants.
The first genetically modified babies have already been born, but agree this will be more mainstream.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-third-gene-edited-baby-148002...
Licrosoft?
I think Electron's advantage is to shorten training time, not development time.
Dave Ramsey [in]famously fires people that cheat on their spouses. Opinions of his financial advice aside, his justification is nobody is making you cheat on your spouse and they are not a protected class. A lot of parallels here, health benefits are expensive for an employer to buy. Given these are recreational substances, it would be in everyone's best interest to avoid these hires.
> Right now I can't find something on reading keyboard vibrations with lasers, but here's one doing it acoustically and one doing it via acclerometer of a phone on the table:

And here's how to get the acoustics with a chip packet, or glass of water or pot plant: https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vib...

I'm not sure if that's high fidelity enough to match to a keyboard, but I'm sure that if MIT can do it, someone else can do it better.
Not from the 80's but I have an X1 Carbon, and I could give this to someone with only the default frame buffer and a POSIX shell, and that would work. Probably would need to install a firmware password at some point... but it's not completely trivial to learn how to install an OS.

If the user can figure out how to install chrome to get to Facebook (or whatever) from just that, well I think they're probably past this line of reasoning.

I can't do this what any mainstream smartphone however, ffs.
Care to take a gander at U-Haul's turnover rate?
Bad culture fit
I would have agreed with you in 2013. Now it's just seems so fractured and all over the place, like it's had it's peak and is on the way back down.
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Damn. That's a GREAT point and a concept I'll keep in mind from now on. Seems very similar to Nixon's drug war which was really a mechanism to continue legally discriminating against racial minorities.

However, I'm not sure it actually applies here given the surge of nicotine vaping in young people.
Sounds like a good way to hit the 10k usb-c lifespan
I’m concerned it’s creating unnecessary hardships. Quitting smoking is hard. If you’ve lost a job and need a new job then stressing over U-Haul’s no-nicotine policy - or losing out on a job that you’re otherwise qualified for only because of your nicotine habit - then I imagine the added stress and disappointment - and hit to one’s ego - might drive someone to smoke more - or adopt other unhealthy habits like drinking.

Also, I’d be very surprised if significant numbers of people give up not just smoking, but all forms of nicotine, just to get a job at U-Haul. They’re probably missing out on great talent this way.

...now, if they instead would hire a smoker on the condition they complete a company-funded stop-smoking treatment course, then that’s different. I admit I haven’t read the article so I don’t know if that was mentioned.
I believe the "taking the scalp" could also be a reference for its intended offensive power, not just the scandal of using it.

In that light, the answer is obvious: Hillary Clinton!

(And before someone complaints, which someone will definitely still do: Given the extremely close election, it is possible, even likely, that any single one of maybe a dozen issues had the potential to change the outcome: Just being a bit better as a candidate would have been enough. That e-mail "scandal" getting the same attention as the dozens of carbon copies of it since revealed in the Trump Cabinet, i. e. none, would have sufficed. Defences against Russian interference, or even just widespread knowledge of the attacks, could have been enough etc. etc.
Drinking can work as a proxy for belonging or not belonging to certain religions. There must be at least enough standing to challenge such a policy in court, if not win the case. Of course the correlation is not r=1, but it is high enough to question whether religion is being targeted by proxy.

Which reminds me that not consuming nicotine and caffeine could be a proxy for being Mormon. So those policies might find their way into courts as well.
They were sieging our embassy...
You can test for nicotine usage very easily, but you can’t catch someone smoking anywhere near as easily.
But that’s on top of whatever income taxes you didn’t already pay in some cases.
1. Electric cars will be 25-35% of new cars sold in the US by 2030.

2. "Advanced" Smart Grid will be rolled out in some significant areas. Smart Grid will have energy storage at every tier: Grid, Municipal, Home, and Appliance. Smart Grid will control appliances in the home. Opt out of Smart Grid will be very expensive.

3. Armed militias will be formed and shots fired over freshwater in the USA.

4. Reality as a Service will allow users to choose the facts of their reality.

5. Some company will partially deliver Theranos' vision of persistent implanted health monitoring devices.

6. In 2023 a Marvel film will flop.

7. The likeness of dead actors in film becomes commonplace. It never stops being creepy to me.

8. Monoclonal Antibody drugs become much cheaper.

9. A breakthrough is made in Auto-immune diseases.

10. Ford and GM join Chrysler in merging with international automaker conglomerates (not necessarily the same one), or go out of business.

11. Tesla continues to mystify analysts. Elon Musk actually transmogrifies his soul into a tree.
It doesn't work like that.
If a hiring requirement is not "reasonably related" to duties performed on the job (I think we can agree nicotine use qualifies), and if the selection rate is then less than 80% of a group with the highest selection rate, then it's an Adverse Impact and is illegal.

https://www.hirevue.com/blog/what-is-adverse-impact-and-why-...
Just wanted to say thanks for voicing this better than I could have. I constantly see people downplaying the censorship happening in places like the USA because "This is different!" Meanwhile they cheer for society at large slowly adopting the same authoritarian tendancies they villify when present in other nations purely because in their view it's acceptable as long as it's not the government itself acting in an authoritarian fashion.
IIRC there is a law specifically prohibiting DNA discrimination, so that law would have to be repealed first.
Redis pub/sub is simplistic and ephemeral. There's no persistence or really anything beyond sending some data to any listeners who may be active at that moment.

Redis Streams now offers a capable persistent message stream solution and if/when Yugabyte supports that then it might be a good competitor. Otherwise Kafka/Pulsar offer much for persistent streams.

There's also KeyDB which is a forked Redis that comes with multithreading and persistence to support larger-than-RAM workloads and active/active failover. https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB
sorry but how then should the fire department be run? both seem resource constrained at both the macro and micro level.

my understanding is that at a macro level firefighters routinely "trade" regions for sake of better defending bigger or more important regions. it will have to be the same for health care: not everyone can afford a legion of 24/7 ICU nurses and ER physicians on standby when the end comes, even if .gov is footing the bill.

IIRC dems got killed for "death panels" when ACA was getting played up. there will always be death panels - someone who decides whether or not an additional dollar is warranted for any particular individual - so what inputs should we use to make those decisions in your opinion?
> 9. Global carbon emissions are not reduced, mostly because of lack of initiative by China and 3rd world countries.

Wealthy nations have produced massive emissions during their industrialization, and continue to do so on a per-capita basis. The global north has the responsibility to cut back to a greater extent so poorer countries can develop.
There was one comment in the thread about what Steve Jobs will do at the end of the decade. As a ghost I suppose? (Another says he will step down due to his health, which is closer.)

My favorite is the joke that Zuck will buy Portugal.