skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except in the US exempt position are subject to pretty harsh restrictions. Just because a technical position is OT Exempt in the US that does not translate to the employer being allowed to request they work "OT" for free (Like asking you to +5/10 every week). In fact many large companies had been slapped by the DOL and forced to move those technical positions and even managerial in some cases to hourly due to systemic abuses.

Dont ever let anyone tell you that you are defenseless as an OT exempt salary employee in a technical position. Contact a Lawyer if you feel you are being abused and your management refuses to fix the issues.
maybe not the best choice of name

https://www.google.com/search?q=post+hog
I know it'd be better to attack root causes - but is it possible to 'fertilize' the reefs with phosphorous? I don't honestly have a great sense for the scale of reefs, maybe they are impractically large
Found this blog from last year comparing Lambda to AppAcademy, confirms many of the details and adds some.. no involvement with them.
https://blog.appacademy.io/app-academy-versus-lambda-school-...
Exactly. If it made people mutually accountable, such that line employees could keep the execs in line, I'd at least be willing to listen. But micromanagement isn't transparency.
Respectfully, ( that's a cool name ) but I think you're missing the point here by reducing it to this bipolar conflict between politically insecure acting out and idiocy. I think it's a much cooler and bigger picture.

I think the case is actually very interesting, and not clear cut. It's going to be interesting to find out what the law means as applied to software in this way. I think it's fascinating. A real test between the 'old power' of the law, and the 'new power' of software, I think seeing this play out and considering the implications is incredibly interesting, and as tech people, we're the best placed to enjoy how interesting is.

All the shrill rhetoric of both sides and press aside, I think it's a very significant case even if they weren't massive companies (...tho maybe it couldn't have come this far if the companies hadn't been able to afford it).

In a similar, but less glamorous vein was the LinkedIn vs somebody data scraping case, the outcome of which was very interesting and meaningful. Anyway, I hope people can appreciate the significance of the case without dismissing or simplifying it in this shrill, childish way, and can think about the software implications, which are probably going to be very interesting.

I mean when it's all done we'll probably get to know where we all stand more clearly with software, licensing, re-use and so on, and probably new opportunities we don't see clearly now will become possible because of how the law is figured regarding this. I think that's fascinating, and has nothing to do with idiocy or politics.
Is there a hypothetical situation where I could broker a deal where some new investor with extremely deep pockets makes that loan go away and gives me extra money all in one transaction?

'default' means 'pay us back now or give us your collateral', right?
How is that the developer's fault?

You unlock the car with your phone over your data connection and not with a key. Losing the data connection is the equivalent of losing the key. You may not like it, I know I don't, but that's the downside of doing it this way (just like it's a downside to have a physical key because you can lose it too).

I have no doubt that the developers warned management of the risk of doing it this way, they accepted the risk.
Does Elm count?
When one of these banks inevitably gets hacked, we're talking billions stolen overnight.

Part of the appeal of Bitcoin was it's decentralized authority, giving people more confidence in a currency that was digital.
I guess I am speaking specifically of privacy-minded solutions that don't involve a third party provider.

You are correct, of course, but when your email is handled by one of the FANGs there is a wholly new, and different, kind of exposure happening.
Perhaps, but debt is real and you cannot be “profitable” if you are under a mountain of debt... in fact, you become insolvent if you can’t keep up with the interest payments and pay down the principal.
We're competitive creatures. [Cue: Blazing Saddles]
It still cool when people know we exist. Thanks for the shout out.

Git for data to us means a SQL database with Git semantics, backed by a content addressed graph of rows. That's what we built.

Plus, we own http://www.gitfordata.com, so we win.
There is a link in this article to this paper: http://wilsonweb.physics.harvard.edu/arsenic/UbiquitousPoiso...
And it's a fascinating history of the use of arsenic.

If you're curious about whether you're consuming any arsenic, this Consumer Reports analysis of rice may interest you: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-muc...
Larry Tesler has died (gizmodo.com)

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I agree... I upvoted your reply as you have a legitimate question there.
It got hit by a spam filter. Sorry about that; those are tuned more aggressively for new accounts. We've marked your account legit so it won't happen again. In the future, please email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting such questions here. That's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Since HN is an English-language site, we generally don't allow submissions in other languages (even la belle langue, I'm afraid). But a Show HN is a different case. You can post your site as a Show HN, where the intention is to gather feedback from the community, as long as the discussion is in English. But a bit more initial context will be needed. The way to do this is to add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to nudge discussion in a good direction to begin with, and in your case it will also make it clear to the readers that they can discuss the project with you in English.
This is so true. Fitting rows in the page was a big win for query times in my case.
Note that the questions presented were different in the earlier appeal, particularly, because the District Court had ruled against copyrightability, fair use was not a developed argument.
Everything we touch/eat is plastic/comes in contact with plastic to some degree, your shoes, clothes, bread sits in plastic for days, vegetables for months, etc.

I really doubt a bed wrapped in some form of cloth is any worse.

Unless you live on mars you are most likely getting ten times more pollution/plastic from other areas then your foam mattress.
You landed on the desktop page "/desktop-app".
Please visit https://walling.app, that's our landing page :)
It’s more the EU diverging from the status quo it shares with the UK if the CJEU rules inadequate US data protection guarantees (which under the laughable fig-leaf that is Privacy Shield, i.e. the honor system). The likelihood a UK desperate for a US free trade agreement would follow the EU in banning data transfers to the US is slim to none.
Mode and modeless are both sides of the same coin.
Given how much space Twitter seems to occupy in Trump's head, maybe this is the only possible channel of control... maybe lock his feed up in some sort of info bubble just like politicians want to do to us.
Another resource that might be useful is video recordings from the DjangoCon conferences. Here's the youtube channel for DjangoCon US: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0yY6a79pPY9J0ShIHRf6yw
Ask HN: Anyone Tried Cloudera CDP?
My company is considering Cloudera's CDP, and we're approaching a deadline. Cloudera's been hyping it up for a while now - I'm even getting ads for it on YouTube.

I'd just love to hear if anyone has tried it (particularly in Azure) and if it has met your expectations.
Twitter is testing new ways to fight misinformation
From a technical perspective, I agree with both of your points.

From the perspective of dealing with my bank, my desktop being compromised by malware that results in bad things on my bank account, is something that could happen to a large number of their other customers. There will be policies in place, and there is a stronger defence that the money was stolen, and not that I was negligent in my security practices.

In the event that I opted to break the end to end encryption between my browser and their server with my own middleware, it will be argued that I am technically competent to manage my IT security properly, and that the bank cannot be faulted for my failures. They could try this defence on the first instance too, but given that one scenario impacts everyone, and the other only impacts people who have declared that they know better, I don't expect much sympathy for the latter group.
Thanks. Great work!
That's why it might make more sense for a second or third place cloud provider to catch up. I would love for AWS to adopt the DO interface.
From your first link:

> collaborators have discovered that the problem of coral bleaching is not just due to a warming planet, but also a planet that is simultaneously being enriched with reactive nitrogen from multiple sources.

> Improperly treated sewage, fertilizers and top soil are elevating nitrogen levels, which are causing phosphorus starvation in the corals, reducing their temperature threshold for "bleaching."

From your second link:

> "What our study shows is that water quality and not just water temperature are important for coral survival,"

Meanwhile, the posted article says in its second paragraph:

> About 70-90% of all existing coral reefs are expected to disappear in the next 20 years due to warming oceans, acidic water and pollution

Seems to me like all of these sources agree: Climate change and pollution combine as culprits in coral reef die-offs, with in fact the latter exacerbating the effects of the former.

It does appear that the scientists disagree on the relative importance of these two issues:

> "Trying to clean up the beaches is great and trying to combat pollution is fantastic. We need to continue those efforts," Setter said in the release. "But at the end of the day, fighting climate change is really what we need to be advocating for in order to protect corals and avoid compounded stressors."

Does that mean this article is "junk science"? Personally, I don't think so...
Interesting bug on the demo page:

- Upload any image

- Now upload a transparent png

- It does not clear the previous image, layering them together

- It hashes the combination picture. Super neat!
Will? Where have you been since 2016? Too far down that path already.

I hesitate to mention the Dead Zone...
Got it! And how do you identify users of your open source version who you can upsell your paid version to, since there's no sign up needed to start using PostHog?

Or is this something you don't do?
Actually, one problem is that it doesn’t consistently classify them correctly. For instance, often classifying men with long hair as women.
Or does this simply show a cultural problem among upper-management types, where they exclusively use the stick over the carrot because it makes them feel powerful, important, and morally superior?
I rather doubt that miserable, downtrodden employees are more productive than happy, motivated ones are.
Zinus sleep - I have a king hybrid mattress from them and it's fantastic. https://www.zinus.com
The Green Tea mattress from Zinus is a popular choice, and well-regarded. It's right at your price point.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Q7EPSHI/
US courts have ruled sites are not even bound by their own privacy policies. They do not have to even pretend to seek consent.
> And yet here we are

A two sentence post on HN is "making a fuss"???
At least in the US I know a number of call centers that have been sued into bankruptcy for attempting to use phone agent login status as a timeclock. The worst of these were telling staff that they had to login to their computers and get everything ready on their own time... then they would be paid once they logged in... On another note, I feel that such abuses really need to start to incur jail time for management since abuses like this still seems to be pretty common in US Call centers.

To be honest (guessing from the 'UK' part of your username) I figured that the UK would have better call center protections than the US.... from your post it sounds like it may be just as bad as the US.
I'm interested to hear how the reasoning is behind thinking that Amazon would be hit by any anti-trust issues and not Google or Microsoft. As far as I know, all three of them are in the cloud/hosting business.
https://www.amazon.com/Zinus-Memory-Green-Mattress-Queen/dp/...

I've had several friends go out and buy it after a night on mine. I've had it for ~3 years and haven't noticed any degradation. After trying much more expensive (and heavily advertised) ones other people own, I can't really tell the difference.
You're largely just going to lose the people that are genuinely trying but just aren't as productive for whatever reason and give legitimacy to those who aren't as honest who will learn how to game the metrics to defend their jobs. The former can be mentored and made more efficient, even with 2 hour lunch and prayer breaks, while the latter will just dig themselves deeper and cost the company more and more. Meanwhile, your best people who can find another job anywhere will leave immediately because they don't have to deal with the changes.
> Dictionaries are descriptive of majority usage, Charles. So to put it bluntly, that's the average white person's definition of racism.

I didn't realize you were qualified to assess every non-white person's definition of racism. Do you not see how you're over-reaching in terms of speaking for other people?

> If you disagree with it, you should explain what books on racism you've read and which one you're getting your definition from

I understand that the consequences of racism have been messy, but the definition is not. The definition is simple and plain and I gave you my source but I'll repeat it: "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race".

I'm curious why you believe that white people can't experience racism, William. From the definition it would imply that you think no other race could claim "inherent superior[ity]". I see why you would reject this definition that the majority of society has agreed on because it would make you a dictionary racist.
Nah. It's only transparent like a one-way mirror is: it lets the powerful watch the people they can control without being watched in return.

True transparency would make everybody visible to everybody, while making it just as clear who is monitoring whom. Often the problem isn't information, it's information asymmetry. In the offline world, we have a whole vocabulary for peeping toms, nosey parkers, eavesdroppers, busybodies, creepy starers, and outright stalkers. That's because observation is in itself generally observable, and can often be countered with social pressure. It's when, as here, that one group can observe without being observed or criticized, things can very quickly get ugly.
Does everything has to be 100% reliable though? That has a cost and it may be not be worth it to pay that cost. A heart-lung machine does need to be 100% reliable though, which is as a matter of fact, is actually quite expensive, to be 100% reliable.
I made the mistake of putting the 3900X in the CS381, which, sadly has zero cooler clearance, and so the NH-L9a I had to use so it'd fit, has horrid cooling performance. I'd just suggest being careful with case choice to make sure you can put a big cooler or an AIO on the CPU.
They'll mean the 'Data Protection' Act:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents/enacte...

But I'm not familiar to cite a specific section on needing to 'prove that this is strictly necessary and proportionate'.

See also: https://www.gov.uk/personal-data-my-employer-can-keep-about-... - the implication might be that the burden is on the employer to prove that it's not 'sensitive' data or it has permission, and that 'time away from computer' has implications for health & habits and is therefore 'sensitive'.
Accessible Contrast Shades
What about synthetic data that is correct? Example: Using the output of a physics simulation to train... The output is synthetic (as in, its not from the real world) but it is governed by the equations of motion...
JVM is fair game; this case is about Java SDK interface.
Regarding point #2, many in the finance world (which I work in) consider cash flow positive a better representation of actual profitability than the actual net profit/loss reported on the P&L. In short, cash flow shows if the actual core business is bringing in money or losing money, while the net profit includes a lot of "noise" (probably not the best word to use but can't think of how to phrase this). For example, depreciation is an expense reported on the P&L but the company isn't actually moving money out of their accounts to pay someone for depreciation. This is known as a non-cash expense and effects the overall net profit reported on the P&L. Also, companies can be motivated to show 0 or negative profit on the P&L to avoid paying corporate tax. Amazon was notorious for this as any profit they had, they would re-invest back into the business.

Whenever I look at the profitability of the company, I don't look at the P&L number but jump to the cash flow statement and look at Net Cash Flows from Operating Activities (the first of three). First, I look if this positive, and second, if it is growing over time.

Hope this helps
Two Days into F1 and Mercedes Has a New Part That Definitely Looks Illegal
Already ahead of you: slanted toilet seat that causes leg cramps after a couple minutes.

https://www.today.com/health/new-toilet-design-aims-cut-your...
Stuff like this is common in the US. And newspapers are still amazed at why the socialist candidate is leading in the polls for one of the presidential election nominations.

Honestly, there is no fix for this sort of thing except through the political system. Corporations will keep pushing the boundaries on maximizing worker productivity because their CEOs get massive bonuses for squeezing 1% more work out of terrified employees like this. Even if the initiatives fail, they can always blame it on economic factors and get their golden parachute.
I bought one of these over a decade ago from Costco. It had a defect in it but I never really pursued returning it. I had no clue how I'd get it out of my house by myself. Use a chainsaw or machete to cut it into blocks and then toss it out the window and then take it to the dump? It was really heavy. Much heavier than normal mattresses. At least it seemed much more flexible to bend around corners.
Which might mean that we are going to demand a safety level that's unattainable without decreasing throughput. In other words, human driving might be risky, but it's familiar, which apparently makes it tolerable.
I know that wouldn't be a normal inclusion for 'assets'; I was trying to understand the massive discount.
I think the problem of determining whether a company is secure, given a particular attacker, is one that needs to be worked on.

Unfortunately I haven't made any progress in discovering a solution that would accurately determine if a company is secure or not.

Given that an org's security team, or even the world (in case of zero days), may not be aware of vulnerabilities that exist in a company's infrastructure, how do you solve this problem?

If anyone wants to chat about this, I'm at veeralpatel4@gmail.com
Discord, Reddit
Governments are using charges of cybercrime to silence journalists
I don't think Walling is competing with Notion. The two tools may look similar but they have different directions. Walling is more of visual boards to collect and organize ideas into bricks (blocks) and sections. You can also add tags to those bricks and be able to curate those bricks/ideas from different Walls using the tags filtering.
It wasn't satire; sharing and reporting on it removed the joke context, leading some people to infer satire and others to infer he actually held nazi beliefs.

The original video started with him saying something like "my girlfriend thinks her pug is the cutest thing in the world, so I'm going to turn it into the worst thing I can think of".
We thought long and hard about this. We spoke to founders of other big OS projects - we think if developers at big companies want to use it, they'll want to use some of the enterprise features and reach out. We’ve already seen that start happening :-)
Nice, I've used an image like this one as guide: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-378ba2572d2033b70ef10d... each note om my game is a sine wave with the hertz described in this picture (i randomly choose the rage between 500 - 700, but I don't know what that means).

On my other project, I'm planning on doing like a small "synthesizer" that can play a note "c, d, e f..." and the use it to try and create music, using procedural generation and machine learning.

Anyways, I'll look into what you told me and I'll watch the video. Thanks a lot.
Or, in the more optimistic case, SDV will come to areas where top speed is not a priority - think "bulk cargo".
We should advocate union reform rather than ditching them entirely then.
> now we have legitimate sleazeballs running the country and nobody believes it

I don't think "no one believes it", just enough ignorant partisans or malicious people to enable it. Either they get their news from Fox News, Breitbart and other highly biased sources, or they know exactly what they're doing, and want to loot the country for gain.
Which networks?
Not the best example, given google lets you toggle your ad segments when they get them wrong and isn't baisising that guess based on physical presentation; the ad segment "male" is just a comment on the things you search and click on.
Thanks! I just fixed that.
This is a disaster. Simply put, this change makes Stripe a nonviable option as an e-commerce payment
processor. The modern consumer expects easy, no questions asked refunds. How many people buy a few shirts/shoes of different sizes knowing that they will return the ones that do not fit? How can a retailer
provide that when there is now a 2.9% (in our case 3.5%) charge added on every item refunded?

This change directly hurts smaller retailers/e-commerce sites who are not big enough to negotiate smaller processing fees with Stripe.

I run a niche e-commerce site in Canada where the majority of my customers are located in the US.
This puts my processing rate at 3.5%. My products are priced anywhere from $1k to $6k.
So now with this change, I could pay up to $210 for when a customer simply changes their mind. I guess I could enact a strict NO REFUNDS policy but that will put me at a severe disadvantage vs the bigger retailers.

As things stand I would only recommend Stripe for recurring subscription billing.
“In California, a lot of charities can’t accept a used mattress,”

So those in need of mattresses don't get them and more likely to go to landfill... regardless of condition.

Are used mattresses really that risky? Are charities themselves not able to make a reasonable judgement call on what they accept?
If you're not using proof of work, blockchains start to look more like distributed storage with an audit trail and immutable row level db constraints

- if it's a Proof of Authority is like a way to deal with who has access to write to the db

- the distributed consensus part is well researched (Raft, Paxos etc)

The only advantage that I can think of is interoperability: you will be able to communicate with the public blockchain for point in time "backups". Also, building your internal smart contracts you can use an existing language like Solidity.
"You can't fire these people" is also the standard in France.

Also standard: a stagnant economy (~0.25% GDP growth on 0.18% population growth) and sky-high youth unemployment (20-25%).