skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be interested in the Repugnant Conclusion [0]: At large-enough scale, every tiny movement of massive actors is consequential to those around them. This is not merely a utilitarian curiosity, but highly relevant to how states treat their subjects and how corporations treat their employees.

I will set a basic standard: Our employers ought not to knowingly violate human rights. Here's a list of some of Amazon's more notorious violations [1]; among the ones that concern us in today's thread are labor rights like the rights to organize, take breaks, be well- and fairly-paid, and work in safe environments.

The point of my comment is not to ask you to defend Amazon, but more to point out the flaw in your worldview to future readers. I admit that I could have dropped many more citations explaining Amazon's poor behavior, but again, that's not the point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_addition_paradox

[1] https://www.greenamerica.org/blog/10-ways-amazon-violates-hu...
Well, some of us emigrated. But after I became a parent I realized my boss suddenly had far more control over me because I had to fear homelessness for the kids, not just me.

Bought a house cash last year in an extremely low col area and honestly I think I might be _too_ uppity now. Find myself commenting how sad it is that people more senior than myself work on weekends (for the usual meaningless bs reasons). The freedom from having a roof over your head that is security for no loan, and affordable health insurance (about 200 eur a month for a family of 4), is amazing.
I disagree, this post applies to many, many discussions/dissections/etc about the current pandemic.

The skepticism in general applies even more widely. The point is to make you think harder next time you read an amateur post on COVID.
Yeah, the propaganda has been super effective.
I learned a lesson about opportunity costs while worked at an IT company. When I started, the company managed the IT for small companies, most being three to five people companies. We had full control of decisions so we kept them up-to-date with the latest best practices. I'm sure there was a bias of the types of companies who went with us as we charged more than competitors.

We started to gain larger clients. We thought that a 5,000 person company would be ahead of the 5 person company when it came to technology. Not so. Here is what we learned: there are political risks for changing technology. A CTO (these are not tech companies) would wait until people were complaining so extremely that people would have to feel that changes were good. It all arose from that bias most people have about change being bad unless it is ten times better.
I have a decent sized music collection consisting a lot of lossless vinyl rips that I've made from my record collection. It totals around 200gigs at the moment but is growing weekly. I've been looking for somewhere to back this all up in the cloud and backblaze is looking most promising at the moment. Anyone here have any thoughts on where I should go with this?
That's not an argument, just an assertion. All you've done is restate the position the GP was questioning the reasoning behind:

> Q: Why does it seem like big corps never get the benefit of the doubt?

> A: Big corps don't get the benefit of the doubt because they are big. Anyone who disagrees is a moral coward.
It's easy to get a patent on just about anything. I have a patent for a faster-than-light communications device:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7126691B2/en

I filed it as an exercise to see if you can get a patent on a device that violates the laws of physics. Turns out you can.
>the reason why open plan offices are a thing is that it drastically lowers the land cost per employee

This argument never made sense. How is open office cheaper than WFH? Answer, it's not.

It's just the cheaper option that also allows you to retain your illusion of control.
Great. How about rsync.net-compatible (i.e. bog-standard, vendor-neutral) "APIs"?
Why does anyone work there? What a nightmare.
>Huh, I thought it already had this!

Same since it seems to be on the new storage service launch checklist right after "buy hard drives".
I bought a pre-owned one a few years back for $425 on eBay. Except it was clear once I got it that no one had ever used it. If you look, there are a lot of business-class laptops on eBay that have minimal usage.

My Thinkpad is not as fast as the latest and greatest ones, but it's a pretty sweet device and I'm happy with the purchase.
In my headcanon Dilbert works at Oracle.
Is there anyway to see the videos publicly for the course?
That's not the case for old town Vilnius, at all!
Streets are fairly narrow and only a few open spaces are available.
> I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.

-- Blaise Pascal (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/)
It wouldn't matter. The current administration is from a party whose platform is as anti-labor as their opposition was under Woodrow Wilson. Even if we had a strong Federal government right now, it would be interested in aiding Amazon, not it's workforce.

As it is I fully expect to hear talking points that "responsible" workers wouldn't strike or try to organize, or that there should be a law against unionization during national emergencies.
Not to take away too much focus from this issue, but we gotta start talking about ticks in the same vein.
My buddy Tom has said for 30 years "Sure we could do that. But what should we do?"
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Apparently the newest Galaxy Gear watch has the ECG functionality but its not enabled. Last i've heard the waiting to be greenlighted by the FDA to enable it.

Would be great for those of us with an Android phone to have similar options to choose from
Yes, insofar as neither one of them actually works.
Are universities prepared for something like this though? Do they have some kind of pandemic insurance that will cover the costs of the entire student body if the government shuts the university down? Because I can see that being a very costly insurance.
Shoot meant to say US/Canada/Europe!
> I’ve found that the Touch Bar’s fundamental flaw is that it doesn’t handle unintended touches well (which sadly affects multiple Apple technologies, including my Watch and even the trackpad occasionally), and that is directly related to the fact that it has no raised elements.

It's the worst. I constantly hit mute instesd of backspace.

Changing the volume or brightness is a complete pain now. It used to be just tap the key a couple of times and that was it. I would do it as a reflex without interrupting the work I was doing. Now I have to look at where the 'button' is, and then tap and slide. Completely awful.
The point from this post that really resonated for me was pointing out that the author if the original paper, even while claiming that arguments should be based on merit and not on expertise or credentials, went out of their way to project that they had that expertise and those credentials. Its disingenuous.
I have a 9570 as well. I ordered the bare minimum memory and storage so I could swap in my own 16GB of RAM and 1 TB SSD. I also applied thermal pads to the VRMs and (less importantly) heatpipes so they conduct to the chassis. Lastly, I undervolted the CPU with Intel XTU. I have had no throttling issues and it has been a steadfast partner. I've never had a laptop I liked more. It took some upfront work, and that's not everyone's bag, but I honestly could not find a decent laptop that met my specs for under $3000. This one did it for $1600.
> The tone was authoritative and confident, the author didn’t prominently disclose their lack of expertise

If the author had said "I don't know what I'm talking about, but here's what I reckon" people would have spent a lot less time reading and debunking it.
> IF EXISTS for DDL operations

It's a super convenient operation but it has one big drawback which might be unexpected: `if exists` first acquires the relevant lock then checks.

This means a "ALTER TABLE table_name DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS column_name" will first acquire an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock, then check if the column exist.

Since DDL is transactional the lock will not be released until the transaction is committed or rollbacked, therefore even if the column doesn't exist it will prevent all concurrent operations on the table.
I wouldn't give two more seconds of thought to your English writing skills—most of my native English speaking friends can't write this well! I would never have been able to tell that it's not your native language.
Cost of public transport should be raised as lockdown ends – IFS
If only it had an AMD processor and Nvidia GPU, then we might see some actual improvement to user experience.
I'd be sad we weren't somewhere they could cycle or take transit to a presumably city centre courthouse.
So how did they manage to get rid of those hidden costs? Or is the new S3 compatible API more expensive?
I could believe it. Google in the Bay Area in particular had a lot of variance just based on if there was a space crunch or not. I know at times in the core Googleplex they had long periods where they had the smaller (4 foot?) desks although this was partly space crunch and partly PAs not wanting to move out into the boonies (like Charleston; this was even before Sunnyvale).

But it wouldn't surprise me. Scale is an issue. Even for as large as Twitter is, it's still a drop in the bucket compared to Google. And just like in computing, scale makes everything more difficult.

Like Google in NYC realistically over the next few years will require a total of ~10M square feet. I'm guessing they're 6-7M now. You just can't manufacture that kind of space in Manhattan. Even in South Bay it's already a sprawling mass over office parks, essentially. Applying the term "campus" is a stretch.

Even if you can get that much space, you have to consider efficiency. Like how far does each employee need to go internally to get to their meetings, to cafes, to the parking lot or subway or bus or whatever and so on.

Parking is a big waste of space in South Bay but (sadly) a necessary one. Even if you could solve that (eg by building over it and having underground parking) you're still essentially at the limit of what the I-101 ramps can support traffic-wise. I know Google is expanding into San Jose at this point. It's crazy.
I agree with you and would add loss of high level mission. When it becomes unclear to people what the broader goal of the company is and how they fit into it, or if they are only rewarded for achieving a local goal (eg hitting some artificial metric) even if their actions impede the broader goal, then you will only get optimization towards the local goals regardless of overall outcomes.
I've had ISPs insert ads/garbage into my pages.
> This makes companies take extreme policy measures...

Governing to the lowest denominator is just poor management.

> ...because the financial impact is so disproportionate...

For who? Bob "steals" an hour of overtime worth $25 but he's still in your facility at your disposal. God forbid...

> "If you pay me more I won't act like this"

This I agree with. You get what you pay for. Period.

> But depending on the business (e.g., a local pizza place) there is no affording that.

So why is it alright to allow a failing business who can't create value in the workforce is allowed (and enabled) to stay open so it can ruin more lives and create more misery? Surely there's a decent pizza place around the corner that's well managed, creates value for employees, and deserves the business. Instead we crutch along shitty businesses for no reason. Case in point, at a debate in 2016 a woman asked Bernie Sanders how she would continue to grow her business if she had to offer her employees health insurance. She would have to scrap plans to open a second location.

I'm sorry, but if your first location can't sustain itself and create a meaningful work environment maybe nobody needs that second location of yours. Get health coverage for your existing workforce before you go hiring more.
Does the top management at Amazon know this us ultimately a futile cause? What are they trying to do? Delay efforts until more on their delivery business is automated? If anyone has an idea please let me know.
Windows doesn't "hijack" the python executable either. This stub should be a low priority in your PATH and the official Python installers should take higher priority when they install. It's basic PATH management, with much the same environment variable management issues on Linux as it is on Windows.

It's unfortunate that so many machines that this poster is working with are getting malformed PATH variables with the priorities out of order, but it should be a simple fix to the PATH to correct.

It should also probably be noted that the Microsoft/Windows Store installed version of Python is the official Python.org release. (It's CIed, and CDed directly from Python.org just as with any other release binary.)
Does removing Google Analytics hurt your search engine ranking?
Australian researchers use phage therapy to treat drug-resistant Staph aureus
Trump hates Bezos enough to try to shut USPS to get to him. I'm sure he'd love to get the double whammy of screwing over Bezos and a boost from working class voters in swing states.
On the bright side, Trump is quite petty and may push support where someone deems feasible for him through government channels to these efforts, just because he doesn't like Bezos.
I've noticed the appeals to authority have ramped up since the authorities have been wrong over and over, again and again. At what point do we just stop calling them authorities?

At this point, the software engineer is more believable because he has fewer reasons to lie to you. The "expert" is going to be held up and crucified (in the style of this blog post) if he goes against the accepted narrative. And that's if he's not bought off right at the start.

This isn't the software engineer's credibility problem. It's yours.
I suspect it's because of the target thickness the lid -- and the camera is located in the part that tapers.
Actually excited by this. I was benchmarking S3 vs B2 vs others 2 years ago and I had to give up on B2 because its implementation for performance was so much more difficult. (88 lines vs 36 lines for all others in Ruby)
Amazon is interesting because there is a rift in the company; on one side you have upper middle class engineers, and on the other working class warehouse labourers.

It's easy to dismiss union organisation coming from the former side, but the real tragedy is the thousands of workers working in dangerous conditions. They won't get their union.
I used blackblaze for years (redundant DB backups) and never once had a problem with it or its API. It's just a great service.
I would absolutely love to replace my use of S3 with B2 as a backup for data stored elsewhere. Personally, I would much rather this storage to to a service that only does storage, rather than everything else that AWS does, so I don't have to worry about anything strange happening in a cloud service I don't use every day.

When they first launched B2, I inquired about ability to enter into a BAA (Business Associates Agreement) for HIPAA compliance and was told that it wasn't "on the roadmap". It sounds like B2 has come a long way on the compliance side. Would be great if they were open to this.
Are we opening up the nation too soon?
If you’re living with a 2015 13” Pro the MacBook Air is a huge upgrade if you opt for 16 RAM and the quad core CPU. I just upgraded and it can handle anything I throw at it (.NET Core, Angular, Docker, JetBrains IDEs)
Interesting - not quite what I expected from the article.

I think that lines like "So, we feel that we must say that the right to freedom of assembly (along with all of our other rights) are not luxuries that are graciously extended to us by the ruling class" and statements about the "WHO’s pattern of lying" make clear that this is a political opinion piece not a scientific paper.
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What do you use for version control? Do you version your data as well?
Hackernews is really brutal init mate
>IMHO I think the Touch Bar disappointment is probably over dramatized by developers, it's not too bad a couple years in

The touch bar still sucks, but eventually all design decisions Apple makes are justified by users.
I visited their Fort Hill compound in-person years ago. (It was in connection with a job I had at the time, we briefly had business with them). They're still a 'commune', when I entered the basement to speak with their office manager I could hear various residents shouting 'outsider in the building!' upstairs, I guess to alert others. It was spooky.

One thing the article doesn't note is that Lyman had a second branch of his Fort Hill commune in Hollywood, where they established a fairly successful construction company that's in business to this day, working on movie sets and such
It can be well written and organized without coming off as authoritative and putting on the airs of academic credentials. At the very least, they could say upfront that they are not an economist and have done the best they can in interpreting data etc, but acknowledging that there might be technical errors or misunderstandings that come from not having worked in the field.
Similar story for me (though unfortunately on a few years old i7, so the compile time was well over 2h).

I haven't had any stability issues with it, either, it just works.
More Apple than Google. But yes, general speaking, the best you can hope for is one day WFH.
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Do you name your blog posts in a way that people searching for what you wrote about can find it?

I get 5k views on my articles each week just from search traffic.
Ahem KNOWN laws of physics.
This post is essentially saying don't even try to comment in an intelligent formal tone, citing sources, etc, on things you don't have a credential for. A surprisingly large number of fields are just applied statistics/probability with some minor domain knowledge tossed in. So people who are familiar with statistical methods can comment on things like this very fast. Further, that guy was explicitly citing people from the field to make his argument, not making some outlandish claim without backing it up.

In this post there is literally nothing about the actual content of what the other person was saying. There is nothing here about what citations they maybe were using incorrectly or misunderstanding.

There is nothing here saying what statistical tools they might have been accidentally abusing. There is nothing here! I'll speak for myself and say I'll judge ideas on their own merits not some empty credentialist garbage.
I live in the terminal and just `open .` when I need Finder for some reason (very rare for dev purposes).
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Whenever I see comment making comparison between Oracle and Postgre, I cant help bug wonder why isn't it compared to Enterprise DB, which is sort of like the unofficially official Postgre for Enterprise products.
>super low pay

I changed careers from one where I was making 6 figures ... but tired of that line of work and decided to try my hand at coding and start over as a jr. developer.

I got paid very little when I joined but proved my worth and QUICKLY my pay rose.

The key as a Jr. is to get experience, get your foot in the door, do the work, and then evaluate your pay / options.

Really your first job doing a thing is less about up front pay, than it is experience, resume, and then deciding what to do next.
Yes but that model conflicts with the human notion of being “logged in” to a system.

And the current behavior is literally what you describe. It’s just the quirk of subreapers being implemented recently that daemonizing a process wasn’t local to your session.

It makes zero sense that a process that double forks is reparented by init instead of your session leader. If how things worked currently was proposed today it would sound crazy.
If it worked it would be classified.
To maintain "low-risk" levels (> 30 ng/mL), you need to either have a lot of sun exposure or supplement with 4000 IU daily, which is considered the "safe upper limit".

Getting there takes a while though, so if you are at a lower level, you can take a much larger dose for a few days - ask your doctor about that.
Perhaps you have overlooked that the distinction I drew was one not of size, but of power.
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I participated in those discussions first-hand, and recall them rather well. At no point was "we don't have a choice" taken seriously as an argument; even most of the pro-systemd folks didn't consider that a valid argument for systemd, and many of the most judicious and respected voices in the discussion called out such arguments as being unhelpful. Debian is large enough and stubborn enough that they're more than willing (occasionally entirely too willing) to do their own thing if they think they have a better path.

As for the rest, I consider https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062725 a good start. systemd was successful because it provided working code that people (including distribution maintainers) wanted to use, for a variety of reasons. This is the type of problem where no amount of architecture-in-a-vacuum discussions make up for actually doing the work and handling all the myriad cases that come up when people use it in practice. systemd did that; the next init system after systemd will need to do that as well.
This! Amazon is taking a huge risk in exposing themselves to the wrath of a personal feud between Bezos and Trump.
There are lots of tools you can use to back up to Backblaze, including their comsumer backup service.

If you want to sync to B2 specifically with a lightweight tool, check out https://rclone.org/
He had a BA from Harvard and a PhD in Mathematics.

He was the victim of 200 hours of brutal psychological experimentation by Henry Murray. It turns out you can torture people past their breaking point and they may not recover.

It also turns out that doing this to people with greater-than-average intelligence can have proportionally greater-than-average consequences.
It should also probably be noted that the Microsoft/Windows Store installed version of Python is the official Python.org release. (It's CIed, and CDed directly from Python.org just as with any other release binary.)
The longer you delay the efforts the more profits you make in the meantime.
Not an expert but re. your lovely image of wrapping them in foil, what I understand is that the long power lines pick up the huge surges and it's these that damage the transformers. So AFAIUI just disconnecting the transformers would protect them. But I repeat my disclaimer.
So it's specifically IMAP without OAuth?
Need no help, I'm doing better mentally now that I don't have to go another place and be surrounded by people to work.

I'm kind of annoyed how people are whining about the mental hardships of lock down (those of us who can work from home, I sympathise entirely with those unfortunate that cannot work and get issues from the pressure that brings with it).

People who prefer solitude have always been second rank in society, we have been the ones who had to "suck it up", or "find a job where you're alone", and listen to the "nobody is forcing you to blah blah" (which is entirely untrue if you want the same privileges as everybody else, without having to socialize to gain them).

But the second the tables turn, they having a breakdown. Not buying it.
That's not what this is. It's a post explaining why and how you should be skeptical of authoritative-sounding blogs about COVID.

It is more important than ever that people be able to understand what are reliable facts and what is merely opinion.