skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
with the emphasis on Capital (his millions)

The joke being "ally" is a term used by those fighting against the injustices of capitalism, and this dude has millions from literally being the Boss and accrued from exploitation. Of course that doesn't matter as he's now a good guy speaking up for the oppressed. It's quite amusing if you believe in anti-capitalism.
I don't think they're saying IT/computers are a root cause, but rather that they might be modern enablers of these power hierarchies.
What about LibrePCB?
Lessons Learnt Failing to Monetize My Ruby Gem
3. Cloth masks are filters. And filters are were stuff aggregates. So masks could reach high concentrations of other viruses and bactery, which everybody always have in their mouth and nose. But higher concentrations might become a problem when handled improperly.
Business data providers as alternatives to third party cookies
Wow that is the biggest leap in logic I've seen in a long while. You should try pole vaulting.
"controversial"

Controversial for what? The lab should be backed, and has been backed, and was funded by many governments around the world. Funding should be tripled so we can find these viruses before they become pandemics (the reason for their research).
Looking forward to what tbray is on to next. He has co-authored W3C's original XML spec and the RFC spec for JSON while at Google. Now leaving AWS on matters of principle, he could just be the kind of person who can turn things around and being trusted by enough people to get behind new "digital humanism" initiatives in a post-cloud era, like cross-cloud computing/service standards, and digital media/privacy/advertising rights and standards in an increasingly monopolistic market.
CareHumans: Coronavirus Patients Recovery Stories
i worked in a warehouse carrying boxes around right after high school.

the amount of brain effort to do this kind of job is close to 0. you need a bit of physical prowess, but this is easily attainable in a couple of week. since the job was basically the least complex job one can ever have, the pay was low. and it made sense back then: you want to move on to a better job/better pay/better conditions? get better qualifications, learn to do a different job etc. of course i can't comment on what happens at amazon, but these kinds of jobs are so easy to do that it's ridiculous they haven't been completely automated till now. i do wonder what will happen to all these people once automation is 100%.
Var vs. Let vs. Const
How do you choose where you live? How often do you move? Tell us more, that sounds interesting!
Software Distributions and Their Roles Today
The question remains, what do home directories have to do with init, at all? Okay so Poettering wants to "fix" home directories - is there any reason to couple that with systemd, beyond the fact that systemd is his baby (and point of leverage over the rest of the system)? There are dozens of other examples - network configuration? syslog? cron? This is what I mean by 'OS middleware' - systemd is basically a distro, and a radical one at that. It is aiming to replace huge swathes of stuff that no one except seemingly Poettering believes is broken in the first place. I think distros would have been more hesitant to adopt systemd as an "init system" if this roadmap had been clear upfront.

<conspiracy>

I have heard the opinion ventured that systemd is actually a power play by Red Hat to introduce an API layer between userland and the kernel - one controlled by Red Hat. It's not implausible - as Red Hat is funded by selling consultancy services, they have a financial incentive to convert as much of Linux as possible into Red Hat Linux.

</conspiracy>
Understanding Screenplay
Blog post series on the Screenplay pattern for organising test automation code.
> Unless those 9 million people happened to all be of the Republican party (extremely unlikely), it wouldn't have made any difference had they voted or not.

Perhaps if more people voted in places like CA, the discrepancy between the popular vote and the actual winning candidate would be shown to be so absurd that we could actually get a movement going to successfully change how we elect our leaders.

Then again, it's possible (likely?) that would be matched by more people in red states voting such that the margins would end up the same.
JavaScript Arrow Functions
If anyone is curious, the source code of the now shutdown app is available on GitHub ( https://github.com/PigCI/App ).
It's strange that some of my peers did not mind the lockdown at all, some even enjoy it and find it relaxing. I on the other hand completely faltered.

I always saw myself as an introvert which rather reads books, codes and figures out stuff, than mingling at networking events. So it took me by surprise how big the psychological impact of the lockdown was/is one me. I tried to analyze myself here https://medium.com/@franz.enzenhofer/supporting-and-hating-t...

In short and as strange as it sounds: As an introvert I need meaningful interactions with people to challenge myself. And without challenge I sucumb to depression. Hard times.
I doubt it's an in depth criticism of capitalism, rather the specific sub-branch of worker-exploitative practices that the company does.

He'd be quite happy (as are we all here, if we are truthful) making more millions in other more worker-friendlier ways.
I loved the questioning! It's more like five whys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys
A fully open-source SwiftUI Animal Crossing application
Syncthing is really nice. It does a thing, and does it well. Once it's set up on the devices that share some stuff it just works.

Another combination that works really well for me is the pass Password store¹ and Syncthing to share some passwords with another user.

I have pass set up to have a subdirectory shared with my partner (by registering both our GPG-keys in a .gpg-id file in that directory), and that subdirectory is synched by Syncthing to our devices.

So now we can store shared accounts there, and have them available in our respective password managers.

1: https://www.passwordstore.org/
In order to help the fight against the pandemic, it would be best if the general public was not aware of certain information.
I doubt the tech office perks are taking employee money from other companies. Warehouse work wasn’t likely to ever be awash in cash to lavish on the workers because that’s coming straight out of the customers’ pockets; every other logistics company is competing on that basis and consumers are generally price-sensitive.
Survey about Continuous Experimentation in mobile development
Ask HN: World-class speakers who would do corporate speaking engagements?
Hi all,
I'm trying to get my company to sponsor a talk with some world-class speaker (probably via Zoom) for our annual leadership "retreat".
Did anyone attend or heard about a good speaking session in a corporate setting and can recommend?
Something around leadership ..

Thanks!
Would also be cool to be able to cut items out of the augmented reality, though that's a whole different ability. Removing them from actual reality may indeed be difficult in some cases.
Industrial production and capitalism are not the same thing. I don't know about the ethics nor the day-to-day, but Mondragon is a largecorporation and worker owned.
Coronavirus recovered patients share their stories
> Probably this? https://themoth.org/stories/data-mining-for-dates

That's it, I was really hoping to hear this in its entirety but could never find it: thanks!
> Explain why they're wrong in a reasonable conversation. You'll actually have a shot at changing people's minds this way.

This seems to be expecting the opponent/interlocutor to be open to having their mind changed, while not being open yourself.

Also, when it comes to values (as opposed to questions of fact), you can't really argue the point, you can just understand the differences between the positions. If someone values sovereignty so highly that it outweighs any possible cost of Brexit, for instance, then they're not likely to change their mind after a discussion.
Sure, right after they keep all operations transparent and data public.
> had a 10mb hard drive in 1983

Even though it was a Tandy, I appear to be mistaken about the HD capacity.
Ag-gag
A Statistical Analysis of Coughing Patterns on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’
> Maybe it's due to the increasing cost of hiring people

... perhaps put another way, the 'professionalization' of HR?
Did you read the full article? They give a detailed explanation of why the project is controversial.

You might agree, you might disagree, you might want to sit on either side of the controversy, but the article substantiates quite well the usage of the adjective "controversial" in the title.
maybe you can try something thats not a developer proper

i have absolute zero of formal software education, and i'm pretty senior devops
i bet there are other near-software fields that could be relevant and hiring managers are more flexible
You mean the taxpayer? The people who make labs and research financially possible?
> Disclaimer that I use similar remarks to the quote you disagree with. This is with the understanding that the price that needs to be paid will literally take lives at times

I guess it's easy to make those kinds of remarks when you know you won't be the one paying that price, huh?
I don't think GP meant that everyone who works in a warehouse should be joining 'coding bootcamps' and striving to become '10x ninja devs' instead.

I took it as referring to people working hard (or to varying degrees) through compulsory education, and sometimes choosing to continue it. We need people working in warehouses too!
It is. You can view their research papers and their data online. They sequenced SARS-CoV-2 even, I believe.
If something is more valuable than the opportunity costs it is stupidity not to pursue it .If something is less valuable than the opportunity cost it is stupid to mention.
This kind of research seems to be a rather normal and reasonable thing to do.

That being said, I have two issues with this article:

- it makes the Wuhan lab story sound credible, while it is just another conspiracy theory

- it paints Dr. Fauci in a bad light by linking him to that lab and the theory

The factually true info is the kind of research and the fact that it was cofunded by the Fauci org. Everything else is just spin.
How does resigning better serve the cause than conscientious refusal to take part in despisable activities and get fired instead?
That's what I gather. Colleges in the US have always been a bit of a gatekeeper. If its too easily accessible to students (e.g. lower costs, distance learning, ability to work while attending, etc), then the signal is weaker since more people finish college. It's kind of like an expensive bar charging a lot for drinks. The high price ensures a certain clientele.

I think that ties in to the proliferation of higher degrees, where college is not a strong enough signal so students go on to receive higher degrees that signal more time, money and investment has been spent
This is such an important concept. I was just explaining this to product/leadership the other week:

"It's not a matter of convincing me we should do this. Obviously, we should. But we also have a hundred other things that we should do, and a few dozen things that we need to do. So it's not a discussion of 'should we'; it's a discussion of understanding how important this thing is in relation to all of the other things."

Triage and prioritization is hard.
Which is the easiest to start with?
Those are creative activities and fun things to talk about. They can also be used as illustrative analogies for software.
> You got the leader you deserve.

Repeating it over and over in every post you make doesn't make it true. It just shows your callous disregard for humanity, which isn't likely to win you much agreement.
The distro has historically always been the place that gets pointed at because they are the ones who distribute to end users. No system-level component is going to change this, ever.

I am also confused why you're complaining about the job model and all its churn and conceptual problems when the whole point is that systemd was offering to handle that for the distros, which is exactly what they did and are continuing to do now. You can claim they are doing a bad job (which is probably true in some sense because of the impossibly large scope of the task) but the previous alternative was that nothing was being done about it at all. Which you did acknowledge, but then you went back to the same criticism as before. Why? It seems obvious to me that the gritty technical aspects and/or perceptions and fears about some kind of false dichotomy are not what could have ever influenced this kind of decision. Nobody else is invested enough in it for that to have happened.

The other reality I've seen is that there is no standard way to actually implement a daemon. Nobody does it in quite the same way and using things like daemon(3) don't help. So you can choose to A. patch all your daemons, or B. you can attempt to simplify the task by writing more tooling. Every single Linux distro I've seen, when given the choice, has chosen option B. So really, I don't see anything here that is surprising or farcical at all.
Can I watch some CCTV footage? See the background and qualifications and assignments of every worker there? Get a spreadsheet of the budgeting?
This, exactly this - I remember one of the most bandied about reasons for the binary log format was that it made replication over the network easier, or something.

Fast forward 10 years and I still cannot find a reliable way to do this with journald, apart from forcing it to output to syslogd and then shipping the syslog logs.
This is what you get in a litigious society where the "free market" sets tuition prices. Of course students are pissed off at not getting the college experience anymore, given how expensive some of those schools are.

What will be even more fun is watching the house of cards fall apart once the lockdowns extend into the new year and international students stay home. Now there's a cash drain no university can cope with.
He has a few reasons to retire -- and a few reasons not to retire. And he laid them out for us about a year and a half ago: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/10/25/On-Retire...

> Progressive friends, people whose opinions I respect, give me shit about working for Amazon. I claim that the problem is capitalism, flaccid labor laws, and lame antitrust enforcement, not any particular company; maybe I’m right.

And now he's basically admitting he was wrong. Impressive.
this is very naive.

freedom of speech gives adversaries a way of saturating the information channel to capacity with at best noise, at worst actively incorrect but otherwise coherent data (see conspiracy theories). end result is people either believing the misinformation (because truth is impossible to discern) or stopping the use of the channel at all (same cause, different rationale). it's a losing proposition in the age of information. it was a great idea before while technology didn't allow capture of the channel at such a low cost.

freedom of speech is now a tool used against democracy with great success. yes, i'm super pissed about it and no, i don't have a solution. i believe we're witness to a crawling fall of rome scenario which is carefully helped by nation states outside of the west.
"Distinguished Engineer" is kind of a big deal, title-wise. It's not something that is just handed out.
The high and mighty freedom argument is tired. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean an inalienable right to broadcast or use someone else’s property in a way that is against their wishes.

A newspaper had no obligation to publish some crazy letter to the editor. Nor does YouTube have an obligation to publish some crazy video.
>humans in the warehouses as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential. Only that’s not just Amazon, it’s how 21st-century capitalism is done.

That's the part that scares me - it's not just Amazon. Automation hasn't even kicked off properly and we've already got humans being replaceable at best
Yeah, we will survive, while our enemy will die. Moreover, if we will supply our enemy with false information, it will work even better.
https://miro.com/ or even better: https://excalidraw.com/
There are enough of them, to be honest I passed my degree by the skin of my teeth because I'd spent a year out in industry and found some of it a bit too academic.

I do still however fondly remember my CS101 course with Richard Bornat (who I thought was an excellent lecturer) and wish I'd taken more interest in the lambda calculus elements of the curriculum (we had Peter Landin as head of department) but at the point in time I was heading more down a C / embedded systems / ASIC path.
Because the way these people are treated relies entirely on the fact that their social status and education is so bad that they cannot effectively put demands on their working conditions, it's not like if they quit there is magically a different job on offer they can get to; none of them are doing it out of authentic volition. You're also completely disregarding the fact that people working in amazon warehouses are tracked the entire time, put under a lot of unnecessary stress and denied basic needs.
In three vessel disease, PCI is decidedly worse than CABG [1], but the latest evidence is, AFAIK, equivocal for CABG over PCI in one and two vessel disease [2].

I've personally often thought that this is due to the degree of collatoralisation that goes on in the ischaemic myocardium, even when we are convinced that the reduced FFR is all the story: stenosis does not happen overnight and metabolic adaption to, e.g., decreased O2 starts to begin. In three vessel disease you've burnt your reserves and are desperate for O2. In two vessel disease you're (mal)adapted.

Incidentally, this is why my scientific research is focused on using a slightly crazy CMR technique to directly image glycolysis and beta-oxidation in the ischaemic myocardium. We can make PCI kill fewer people if the interventionalists can be told "This region is ischaemic and has shifted towards anaerobic glycolysis due to this branch of (LCx/whatever) artery. Go revascularise".

[1] https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/35/40/2821/229322...
[2] https://openheart.bmj.com/content/3/2/e000489?utm_term=usage...
"(At this point most scientists say it's possible—but not likely—that the pandemic virus was engineered or manipulated.)"

It seems as if they're confusing the 'possibility' of the manipulation theory with the 'possibility' of the lab escape theory (which is technically possible, but very, very unlikely).
The amount of times I have managed to slightly misconfigure Syncthing and as a result it _deletes all my files_ is incredible.

Last time, I configured a Receive only folder in device Y, but forgot to mark it as "shared to device Y" in device X's settings.

Net result: directory erased in device Y.

Sure, I still had the copy in device X, but that was gigabytes that needed copying around, a couple hours of wasted time. It's just mind boggling that Syncthing would happily go around deleting thousands of files without warning specially with a minor config error .
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. It often takes a while for us to internalize and accept how some hard things and maybe he spent years trying to make sense of this problem and finally reached a breaking point.
Fundamentally attending college has an implied understanding of completing college. That almost completely explains the non linear gains from graduating.

It’s similar to closing a house sale. The money earned by brokers who get the buyer to sign the contract is exponentially more than the money earned by the brokers who only get 90% of the way there.

That doesn’t mean that the value of the initial 90% of the work is 0.

Of course, this is an extreme example for illustration purposes, because real estate is a step function where the returns go from 0 to 100 at a single point.

The exponentially higher earnings of grads can similarly be explained as a step function where earnings go from 50 to 100 after a certain event. And it’s not even that surprising, because the event in question is completing the thing that you actually stepped out to do.
To me, toxic work culture is having a boss that's an arsehole - it doesn't begin to cover the amazon warehouses where people are pissing in bottles to maintain the targets they need to keep their jobs.
Now they even accept request by WhatsApp. You can go to the nearest big town, but it’s much more convenient when they bring it to your door, and a van can serve 10-15 small towns each day.
Thanks a lot! It indeed seems complicated...

I understand standards evolve and that they want to modularize stuff, but in the case of C the majority programs will only use the basics of the C library.
They still have a courier service:

https://www.bahn.de/p/view/angebot/zusatzticket/ic_kurier.sh...

Delivery can also be done to Paris, Vienna, Basel and Amsterdam along with the ICE trains travelling there.

Prices I'm shown ~0,22 EUR/km, 33€ to and from the station each and a surcharge of 33€ for night or holiday transport, so ~300€ for crossing the country, and it takes less than a day. Maybe there are rich people out there paying that much for takeout?
Looking at nationwide statistics can be misleading, often you'll find that while on average you get a figure like that, almost all of it is centred on a few large cities with anything outside those cities consisting of scattered small villages a few hundred people living in them.
>Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release.
He wasn’t directly involved with the response to the whistleblowers, people higher up at Amazon were (it sounds like he wasn’t VP of the entire company but of the web services section specifically).
> I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way. Instead, the root cause is probably just that they didn't have time yet.

Ok, let's leave security for later!
I've thought hard about saying anything here, but what the hey, let me make an observation.

HN is a pretty good community. It's got a lot of smart, knowledgeable people who share freely. They are generally curious, inquisitive, and interested in a wide range of things.

And yet, I've been watching this item. It did well to start with, and even now the number of upvotes it's had should have it on the front page. Why is it not there?

My guess (as someone who's been around for a while and watched the dynamics, but with no insider knowledge) is that people are flagging it.

I've seen similar submissions about people thrive and stay on the front page for hours, but this one is being flagged. The primary differentiators are that (a) this is a woman in tech, and (b) she was harassed by the tech community. This is all hypothetical, hand-waving, "You Have No Proof!" territory, but I've seen this played out before.

What happened to Kathy is vile, horrendous, and all-too-believable.
He's just somebody with FY money in the bank so he can do whatever he wants in a larger scope than others. I'll keep my hat on; this is nothing special in his position.
Looks really cool I downloaded thanks a lot for sharing. How long are you using? And are you using for programming if so how does it look like your cards?
The Pandemic Has Made Industrial Policy Palatable
Both his friends and him could be right. If you attempt to survive in a caustic environment, you will become caustic yourself.

Show me one corporation that doesn't have some scandal in it. Or even better a multinational corporation.

If you play by the "rules" and don't anger anyone, you're going to lose to everyone not playing by them.