skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how much of Amazon's money or scale comes from their existing business/labor practice? Sometimes I feel people want the cake and eat it too... When was the last time a perfectly moral company with extremely friendly labor practices grew to the success and size of Amazon?
The higher paid thief and the lower paid thief both steal from their companies (both of which are owned by people). Yet the higher paid thief is afforded more privilege and trust and respect. Do you see the problem yet?
This is a false premise. There is plenty of horrific abuse happening in small businesses, and at the local level. There are murders, rapes, and an endless stream of violations by management of their underlings. Evil exists at all scales.

However, the codification of certain motives–such as the alienating profit motive–encourages the otherwise less abusively included to collude in the ultimately exploitative program of their institution. The whole institution, then, resonates with this taint in outsiders' minds.

So, it's not that big always becomes evil, it's that "the bigger it is, the more likely you, u/bawana, will have heard of it."

Don't hesitate to read up on the ubiquity of "evil". I can get you started:

0. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224552.Why_Does_He_Do_Th...

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17601.The_Will_to_Change
It is, but they cap out the file size they will cache on the free plan to be 512MB. So you would need to chunk up your videos to get free bandwidth.
Yup. SMS is woefully insecure.
Do mutt and git-send-email have support for OAuth2?
As a dev you would use Oracle only if your execs have cut a sweet licensing deal with the Oracle.
You're as silly as those people who claim that male and female refer exclusively to sex but not gender. Terms change in meaning and fake news is widely used to refer to false news stories, regardless of reason. You have to accept the way everybody else is using the word.
I'm partial to "MAGA" as the initialism for the top 4 tech companies by market cap (Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple). Facebook and Netflix are a tier below in market cap and size, and it also makes it clear who's really making America great again...
It's not a real problem though. We can give everyone a shot at everything simply because very few will take it and even fewer will be able to reach the point where their claims have to be evaluated by others or someone in a position of decision making. Having authorities on subjects can't do anything good, it only allows to silence and ignore uncomfortable questions and opinions.
JSON Parsing from Scratch in Haskell
" I write for myself, first."

Exactly. I do this on my unknown blog and I love it. If someone else reads it, sure np. For me, it is more of a personal journal/diary of things that I want to write about or remember.
"Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs" by Aaron Bieber is an interesting talk on switching from vim to emacs + org-mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc
No, you just take whatever action where you can, when you can, when it becomes clear that it is necessary.
>I've already been in a forest of bash scripts and I would not go back there again. I have no comment on systemd's implementation but the implementation you're talking about is also incorrect.

In certain cases I don't disagree, but systemd does not implement this feature correctly, so using functionality that's easily reviewable from decades past makes sense. If systemd could properly implement the feature, there would be no need for the scripting.

>It has never been safe to kill random processes using a bash script running in the background, on most Unixes (and Linux) it is 100% impossible to do that without race conditions due to the limitations of procfs.

This is hilariously wrong. Lots of UNIX OSes don't even implement the ps suite of tools by using procfs.

Even then, there were no race conditions in this use case anyway.

>You would need to implement this in C for it to have a chance of being safe at all, and even then, you would need to rely on system-specific functionality because there is no portable way in POSIX to actually do this.

It's already implemented this way on plenty of UNIXen. ps and kill is the POSIX portable way to approach this, so you're wrong about that as well.

Almost everything you said above is incorrect, or misunderstanding basic UNIX.
I couldn't help but think of this XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/1217/

This study, not to be minimized, works in a cell culture. That is a long way from being an effective treatment in actual humans.
It remains the case even if you’re only a few ms away.
That’s a political problem to solve with higher minimum wages/max work hours or universal basic income and universal healthcare.
What you are proposing is that if you see clear evidence that a company is behaving badly or counter to your beliefs you should take no action because other ones may also be?

Whether or not you feel it applies specifically to this case, that doesn't make sense to me.
“There is no evidence” & other science communication
Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings
Threat Spotlight: Malicious Use of ReCaptcha
It’s not a statement about fairness: it’s a statement about filtering / sampling bias.
Intentionally in order to point out that such an argument is a false dilemma. There are more options than [private office, open office]
The background detection works surprisingly well. I was able to select a figurine on my bookshelf with a busy, multicolored background
My touch bar freezes every hour or so when changing volume. I then have to close the laptop, wait for a second, and then open the laptop again. It's awful.
The word "signaling" necessarily implies the transfer of classical information (because of the no-cloning theorem) and that in turn implies some model of the transition between quantum and classical. Whether that transition is (meta)physically real (i.e. collapse) or just an arbitrary threshold applied to a continuous process (decoherence) doesn't matter. What matters is that FTL leads to a logical contradiction with respect to the characterization of the state with respect to whatever model you choose to apply. The underlying metaphysical reality is irrelevant.
A Turing Machine that halts iff ZFC is inconsistent
This assumes many employers will consider him a "man of moral" for doing this. I don't think that's cut and dry.

The business owners I know frequently complain about how difficult it is to fire underperforming employees. Trying to ensure they're legally protected from lawsuits requires keeping the inadequate employee on payroll for months in order to collect documentation that shows the employee is not fulfilling their contract. My guess is most business owners would be loathe to hire anybody with a history of making this process even more difficult for their employer.

Merely quitting would be one thing, but when you publicly excoriate your former employer like this (including allegations of racism and sexism without evidence), you become a massive liability to future employers. Quite frankly, I would never hire this man if I were a business owner. And the fact that the leadership of a left-leaning company like Amazon also seems to disagree with him makes me think I'm probably not alone.
<sarcasm>Those stories sound nothing like the stories you hear about highly compensated employees at tech companies. You never hear stories of them ignoring strict company policies, engaging in drug abuse on the job, or displaying behaviour that makes other employees fear for their own safety.</sarcasm>
> what is "far-right" that needs to be silenced, and why?

I'm not about to explain why I believe YouTube should officially oppose neo-Nazism. [0]

> Do you also want the "far-left" silenced?

If there are left-leaning life-threatening lies being spread, YouTube should treat them similarly. It's not the left/right spectrum that matters here.

I suspect anti-vaxxers tend to lean left, for instance (the natural=good branch of human folly), but it's less clear-cut on the left/right spectrum than Nazism.

On a related note, jihadist recruitment videos could be described as 'far right', but that's not normally how we think of them, and it's not especially relevant. YouTube should clearly ban those videos; the left/right question is of little concern.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism
You can grow or shoot food. I'm Appalachian, I know more than just how to code :)
The question where it asks for the list of unique download counts makes no sense.
I don't think that logically follows. Costco is well-known for generous compensation and are doing well.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say with this story. But the whole "work harder" is a business euphemism for "put in more hours". It probably wasn't the words that were used. Your dad was asking someone to put in more hours, maybe miss dinners with the family, maybe work some weekends, for an unknown "share of profits". But it seems like you're presenting a worker choosing better work/life balance over higher pay as proof of laziness.
Terrible HN comments in this thread...
The DNS resolver library of your client is allowed to cache the IP address for a given hostname for up to TTL. If it does so, the cost should be negligible.
Five hand-written pages and no scratch-outs or corrections. And maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure this wasn't the Nth draft. I don't doubt that he just sat down and wrote it out in one go.

(It's so impressive it's almost galling. He makes me feel just a little like Salieri, of Mozart.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_(film)
Sets a precedence for future behavior. Not every murder gets solved, but the threat of consequence can influence things in the right direction.
This is definitely not true.

Literally drive down the street and look at those little no-name shops and stores: each of them have owners who employ other people.

The lady who owns the salon and has 10 other ladies + receptionist working there is not wealthy, and is probably taking on a lot of risk.

'Small business owner' is one of the most precarious positions to be in - it's like all the low pay and crap of 'working class' life - but with all the risk and stress of capital class.

I don't know why people do it.

I wonder maybe if this class just 'gave up on it' it'd be interesting to see how we would all cope.
> Using the word "Sigh" online is a surefire way to start an argument. It is a passive aggressive put down and exceedingly rude.

Now's not the time. Hold your fire and stand-down.

> Anyway pointing out the insanity of this situation is not complaining.

Well you don't have to donate through there then. Donating and raising money for your local NHS trust goes further than just 'clapping' in appreciation.
Still on a early 2015 13" Mac Book Pro because I have hated everything they have done since then. I even bought one with a touch bar but found it so annoying and I hated the keyboard so I returned it and stuck with my old laptop. At least they fixed the keyboard now, but the touch bar I still don't want.
What's with the 8th gen processors on the first two models? also the Dota2 screenshot is cool hah
been going downhill since Jenna Lyons left
"Need to be outlawed" and "government does not enforce" are different things.

Example 1: California will not enforce non-compete covenants. What it means to enforce such covenants is that company A can have police physically prevent you from working for company B if company A requests such intervention. Refusing to grant that privilege to company A is not outlawing anything.

Example 2: There is a 300 year old legal doctrine called "the rule against perpetuities" whose history and rationale may answer some of your questions. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
tl;dr:

critiques of small business aim to reject the following dilemma as false,

> The alternative [to monopolists and global megacorporations]? Small business.

rather than to promote big business.

In the USA, the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls any business with 500 employees or fewer a ‘small business’, and it's usually something like that which gets translated into policy. Not all that small, imo.

But absolutely people valorize small businesses in a way that elides the fact that what makes businesses exploitative is (contra this former Amazon VP) inherent in wage relations, and smaller employers are still operating under those relations. Because small businesses are romanticized and valorized as they are in their culture, the language of ‘promoting small businesses’ is often used to give cover for massive corporate giveaways on the part of the government. These are [common](https://inthesetimes.com/article/22412/outrageous-corporate-...) [lines](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/07/can-business-of-any-s...) of [socialist (this piece has some of the exact language of the grandparent poster)](https://jacobinmag.com/2018/01/small-businesses-workers-wage...) [critique (see Morales on free trade here)](https://inthesetimes.com/article/22412/outrageous-corporate-...).

Generally, calls to treat ‘small business’ with greater scrutiny come from an anti-capitalist (or at least ‘capitalism-critical’, if you will) perspective, and are not motivated by some belief that monopolies or anti-competitive cabals are actually preferable to larger numbers of smaller, weaker, relatively competitive corporations. But there's a sense that the critique should go deeper than ‘big business bad, small business good’— which imo is pretty commonly distilled in a lot of mainstream political rhetoric— and raise questions of worker ownership, decommodification (e.g., of healthcare), the role of public enterprises, etc.

Advising skepticism toward the valor of small businesses also doesn't negate the fact that promoting small business _can_ be [beneficial or strategic for society as a whole](https://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/22385/coronavirus-wor...) in particular circumstances! But I sympathize with the grandparent poster's general sentiment; I feel like on the whole it's called for.
Minor, and doesn't seem worth emailing about. I got to the 4th one and 'seized' is spelled 'siezed'.
It sounds like a number of things p*ed you off, but what was your biggest gripe with the Apple stuff? Or perhaps it was everything (!).
You're totally right on the action-reaction bit. And it's the same way at much bigger scales. This American Life did a story on NUMMI, a Toyota/GM joint venture. Toyota took one of GM's worst plants and made it well run and productive, in large part by treating the workers like people. It's very moving: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015

The heartbreaking part is that even when GM saw it happen, they couldn't really get it. Manager-labor hostility was too baked in on the management side for them to really change.
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wi2hPnT...
Dead man gets stimulus check
Im pretty sure installing homebrew is a violation of the terms of your various apple agreements.

I dont think there are many python devs on Windows. Most of their stuff like Anaconda doesn't work it does really gnarly stuff with PATH that leads me to believe they just "port" it, slap a Windows badge on their website, and move on.
Near Protocol raises $21.6M from A16Z and launches its MainNet, beating Ethereum
I think the issue is that most of the companies on that list are re-shaping economies at planet scale. Maybe it's fair to object to participating in that.
Yev from Backblaze here -> That's correct. We're a founding member of the Bandwidth Alliance and you can find more info about that on our Blog (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-part...)
or FAQ (https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666928-Using...). May the 4th be with you ;-)
The Cloudflare ToS explicitly exclude that use-case.

2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content
The Service is offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as a part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Service solely for the purpose of serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other functionally equivalent applications and rendering Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other functional equivalents. Use of the Service for serving video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited.
Not at this scale. Not at the scale where the nobility lives in NYC/SF/Shanghai and the peasants live in a different state or even overseas.
Thanks for the support.
Yep even for me, now when I tell this story, the mistakes I made seem obvious.

Selling is hard, and becomes close to impossible if like me, you don't know your target, and on top of that, you're socially anxious to talk to strangers and get a "no" as answer.

Client prospection requires specific skills I don't have and I'll probably never get.

Sometimes we (solo-dev people) need to be more humble and accept we can not do everything well. Or as an alternative, we need to find project ideas that suit our skills better (B2C would probably have been easier for me than B2B).
Wait, so the complaint is that not enough people are getting stuck in your low-paid dead-end job? They're finding a better job and leaving?

Is it less expensive constantly hiring and training new people than it would be to pay enough to retain employees you already have?
Really surprising your username wasn't taken!
Traitors.io – Hunt your enemies through dense crowds
Some comments here really had me scratching my head. Remember, it's not just engineers, code monkeys and managers at Amazon.

The majority of their employees are unskilled labour. Warehouse workers and delivery drivers. An Amazon warehouse worker in Canada makes just a little more than minimum wage. Even if it might be a nice company to work for if you're in an office, it may be a very different reality for the majority of workers.
As an Amazon customer, I've gone from admiring the company to distrusting them. I can't trust products I buy from them; this lack of care is a problem with the very fabric of the organization.

One nit to pick: "Climate Change" groups, and the like should keep their focus narrow. I have trouble getting behind many groups because they seem to need to have a position on every "progressive" issue. The Climate Change group should have stuck to climate change, and another employee action group created to make sure the needs of all the Amazon employees across the company are being taken seriously.
Phrasing the question in terms of size makes it easy to ignore the power differential, and ignoring the power differential is the only way that question seems to make sense.

The first rule of firearms safety is that the gun is always loaded, because any other assumption will far too easily betray you into deadly error. The first rule of electrical safety is that you always keep one hand behind your back, because it only takes a few milliseconds for a cross-body current to stop your heart. Economic power, similarly concentrated, is differently risky, but not less so. Some things - no matter how useful they may be when properly handled - are simply too dangerous to ever be trusted.
I was trying to determine how to use a comma.
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In C++ you do have cross-platform tools like cargo. For instance, vcpkg.
> In Rust, you just need to write `cargo add unicode-segmentation` once in a project,

In C++ I can write `vcpkg install whatever`. Yet that does not mean my organization will allow the library.

So no, adding libraries is quite harder than installing them unless you are working in your own projects alone. And even then adding them is never a one line effort.

> If you prefer languages without a minimal standard library, then Rust isn't for you.

There is nothing minimal about Rust's std.
I'm saying that it could be wrong (as any and all things could be), not that it currently is.

Im also aware of Asimov's essay on the topic of how wrong something can be. That being said, his point about getting less wrong really addresses one thing: theories are largely formed on predictive power and we improve over time as we collect more observations and attempt to address the inconsistencies between our theories and our observations to the contrary. As a result, since newer theories should have greater predictive power, they should be less wrong, and thus should have a higher probability of being correct. None of that, however, necessitates that the current theories should have a 100% probability of being correct.

Keeping that in mind, it is worthwhile to realize that there are questions that can be asked today given our current level of understanding and observation that are simply nonsensical to ask in a prior time frame (easy example: asking "what is the band gap voltage of InGaAs?" in 1600 AD). This means that results that seem impossible at a given time frame (real time displays that render imagined worlds) become a simple question of how to in a different time frame.

Putting this all together: we could definitely be wrong about anything. Sure, theories that seem consistent and have consistently provided good predictive power across most of not all current observations are useful, but they don't preclude new discoveries that could be even more correct and allow for things that we couldn't have previously considered possible.
The press release lost me at 'physical escape key'. I remember I had the same feeling seeing the ads for iPhone 3g with 'copy/paste'. Not many companies in the world can get away with advertising a technology that existed for decades as top product features in current lineup.

Back to Mac laptops, hardware is really not that exciting. It feels as the one major thing Apple has over the competition is macOS. So the combination of hardware and software is still the best one on the market (like IBM P series laptops were in the decade before Lenovo took over).
On the new MacBook Pros?
Here are some other SQL Learning resources I have collected in my note taking TiddlyWiki (mostly from HN itself).

Interactive SQL Tutorials :

▪ Chartio Interactive PostgreSQL SQL Tutorial - https://chartio.com/learn/sql/

▪ Select STAR SQL - https://selectstarsql.com/

▪ SQL Bolt - Learn SQL with simple, interactive exercises - https://sqlbolt.com/

▪ SQL Window functions - https://www.windowfunctions.com/

▪ PostgreSQL Exercises - https://pgexercises.com/

▪ SQL Zoo - http://sqlzoo.net/

▪ SQL Teaching - https://www.sqlteaching.com/

▪ ByteScout SQL Trainer - Use live data to train - https://app.bytescout.com/sql-trainer/index.html

▪ Schemaverse - A space-based strategy game implemented entirely within a PostgreSQL database - https://schemaverse.com/

▪ Oracle Live SQL - Lerarn and share SQL - https://livesql.oracle.com/

▪ GalaXQL 3.0 - an intractive tutorial with exploring the galaxy - http://sol.gfxile.net/g3/

▪ SQL Exercises - http://sql-ex.ru/index.php
Home Mortgages – Credit Union Lending
If you consider employee and employer a resource exchange (time and abilities for money) then theft can also be tucked in as underemployment. If a task takes 10 minutes to complete an employee intentionally draws it out to 4 hours, is that theft? They were there, they were working, but didn't do it at maximum efficiency. If an employer can afford to pay an employee $20/hr and was even expecting to but was able to get labor at $10/he, is that theft?

Those in power define the rules and define things like 'theft.' Theft in the traditional sense is taking physical tangible resources that aren't yours. When we move to intangibles like time, businesses have defined all the rules around theft, not people.
Does this mean I can expand my thinkpad with one or more raspberry pi boards?
Wuhan government publicly stated they found a possible case of h2h from husband to wife, on 1/15

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/wireStory/china-virus-spre...
Meat is generally 1/4lbs - 1/3lbs serving per person, per meal. Venison is very comparable to chicken breast nutritionally. So lower in fat and lower calorie than beef.