skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a company of ten thousand employees, I have no problem giving benefit of the doubt that two instances of wrongful termination could be done by mistake. It's not unreasonable to imagine that an HR department might screw up at least 0.02% of the time when having to manage ten thousand individuals making ten thousand individual decisions with regards to their response to a pandemic.

Besides, it just doesn't ring true to me. Had this been intentional, they would have been far more careful and not set themselves up for the most predictable made-for-media firing scandal you could possibly envisage. Companies deal with firings all the time, they know to avoid this sort of thing. That's basically the point of an HR department.
That's kind of sad... I'm really into bees and I totally understand the decision of euthanizing the hive but, still...

This is one of the reasons I love melipona so much, stingless bees depending on the species can be as productive as these nasty bees from the video (given eco-restrictions, local market etc). The reason these bees are used is because the market got so used to them over the centuries in Europe and it was built around its production rate of honey but if stingless bees were to have the same incentives they would be as much if not more productive.

I consider these western honey bees to be invasive species and many melipona can't fight them successfully. Besides, of course, the whole ecology reasoning behind it as stingless bees sometimes are the only ones who can polinate local species (at least here in Brazil they are super essential and I am glad their hives are growing in popularity honey-wise).

Poor bees...
There's an updated video from the same channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO5rXxJRmf4

I'd start at 4:50.
In fact, to perfectly mimic the HN experience, it should be

plural = "s" if comments > 1 else ""
"%d comment%s" % (comments, plural) if comments > 0 else "Discuss"

It feels really ugly doing this in Python, but oh well

I also miss seeing the clickable domain next to the submission's title rather than all the way down at the bottom
It was on Reddit at around the same time: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/he2za9/beekeeper_ma...
Why is Microsoft remote desktop asking to access my camera and microphone?
Yes, in 8-bit mode. The IIgs runs with the processor in 16-bit mode from everything I've read about it. It might be able to swap modes to run older Apple software, but the IIgs is a 16-bit machine.
Because for some time now SV has been more about money and business than innovation.

VCs for the most part want a massive return on investment to fit their business model and won't settle for niche businesses that promise only reasonable profits, no matter how technically innovative they may be or what they might lead to down the road. On the other side housing prices are through the roof, so good luck affording a garage/basement to bootstrap something in unless you're already indoctrinated into the VC/FAANG culture and successful within it, in which case you're naturally bias towards perpetuating more of the same.

For this reason SV is a software-to-software-integration (not software in general IMO) innovation hub. Software scales easily, requires no physical property to build things on and can return massive profits. SV excels at building software to accelerate other software. Building software to accelerate physical situations or specific communities that don't exist in the valley requires expertise that must be acquired outside of the valley and doesn't thrive in the valley.

In ag terms SV is a monoculture of software-to-software integration solutions that generally doesn't play well with other crops, with all the efficiencies and drawbacks therein.
Fully 100% H1B's in the US lie over 90% of the content in their resumes.
So what?
Wearing 3 layers of clothes and still getting stung. I can't even imagine trying to stay calm, even with the thought of protective clothing
I've had some experience at a corporate security team at a fairly large (non-tech) firm, including internal and external investigations, and I can confirm I never saw or heard of anything remotely like this. Any time we did any sort of research into a non-employee (which was very rare), it was because they were explicitly making threats, or because we received reports from employees that someone was directly harassing them.

And typically it was just to gather information to provide to law enforcement, when necessary, and to provide information to our physical security team when we thought there may be some increased risk of a belligerent person trying to come to our premises. Very definitely not to take matters into our own hands and act like a dystopian quasi-paramilitary cabal terrorizing random people with obsessive psychological warfare campaigns. It was the total opposite; we were constantly walking on eggshells to do as little as possible and to defer as much as possible to law enforcement, as we should've been.

Never once did I see the slightest inkling of a desire to go after critics of the company from anyone on our team or from management. We would get some visibility into that from dashboards showing mentions of the company on social media and stuff like that, but we'd just ignore or occasionally chuckle at (or agree with...) any criticism we saw.

I'd like to think this hyper-paranoid, authoritarian, power-tripping attitude (let alone the abject psychopathy and psychosis) isn't too common in corporate security teams, but I have no clue and only have my n = 1 sample to go off of. And maybe the distribution is different for tech companies dedicated to rapid growth/monopolization, compared to more traditional, "boring" companies.
I re-read his memo. I think it was wrong that he was fired, despite the fact that I can't actually agree that his memo was correct. He cherry picked much of his research and actually made a few over arching claims that are not well supported such as biological differences being represented in women vs men across cultures. He reached in a few places.

That being said, I don't know him personally, but I respect that he actually RESEARCHED and tried to have a dialogue, which unfortunately is lacking in today's society on both the left and right. I respect that he has an opinion, he shared it, he suggested changes and he actually seemed to be trying to reach the same goal that diversity programs are trying to reach but offered a critique.

I'm quite upset about how he was treated, and I wish that he took the lawsuit to it's natural conclusion in court rather than settling.

I think we can all agree, the main issue today is in our effort to create safe spaces and make the public forums safe for all, we've completely removed our ability to rationally think and listen to others viewpoints. What is offensive to the sensibilities of one person maybe completely rational and sane to another.

One of the reasons the legal system (supposedly) works is because it attempts to remove emotion from the process to provide a fair trial. I may not like the individual and think that they are guilty, but that doesn't matter. We need overwhelming evidence to determine that they are. We need to learn to put our differences aside and listen to the perspective of the other side and empathize. There is usually at least a grain of truth to what is being said. Without this, it's a pointless shouting match.
As someone not from the USA as well I have always chuckled at the "Land of the free" sentiment that is there (how Americans really believe it when it is the complete opposite).

Fortunately there are places like Germany where things like CCC.de can exist and the Chaos Communication Congress can happen.

From my time living in UK, Germany, Mexico (where I am from) and travelling every 3 months to the USA, my [subjective] appreciation is that Germany is "freer" that the USA can ever aspire to be.
In the video, the beekeeper says that the bees are acting very aggressively. As a layman, I can not tell the difference based on what I'm seeing. Would you please describe how these bees are acting visibly different from a 'normal' hive?

What did you think about his decision to first try to replace the queen, but ultimately destroy the colony?
IIRC https/tls consumes a lot of overhead back then, both on server side and client side. These days https is so fast no one think about its overhead over plain text connection anymore. Not sure if that's the reason for the prompt though.
Yeah the TL;DR: on this is “Bill Barr (or any AG) could read all of your emails without a warrant if you vote for this.”

I know they would legally require a warrant to read them, maybe, but he’d have the access without it. Not a fun thought to go back to Hoover-style DoJ practices.
>> Employees, like the broader public, are left to learn of Musk's mind-set through his sporadic 280-character posts on Twitter.

That's the real crux of the problem. That is not evidence of a mature corporate environment. Broad policy statements and occasional emergency directives can come directly from the top, but day-to-day HR policy should come in writing after being signed off by appropriate directors/managers.

I've seen this at small-but-getting-bigger tech companies. The "founders" still act like they are running a business out of a garage. Once you have hundreds of employees you need to stop barking orders over a phone and comit all important policy decisions to paper.
Debatable when the CEO publicly makes a statement to that effect that you “detrimentally relied on”.

Not to mention the CEO was actually breaking the law by reopening, in practice this worked out to violate the law by coming to work or get fired...
> Or by having the plight of the dwarves be what ultimately moves a member of the extremely comfortable hobbit gentry to direct action?

I curious what you think he was trying to say with this?

> Or even by the simple mixing of the unquestioned Norse "supreme contribution to Europe" with Jewish mythology, he wasn't hinting that, maybe, also, the Jewish people had contributed in the same way?

Jewish mythology was by far more well known than Norse, through the Old Testament and its influence on Christianity. So I don't see why Tolkien would want to make that a point of that.
For the curious, I think this article is referring to the LKML thread starting at https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200612105026.GA22660@zn.tnic/
UK was supposed to be such a place. At least UK's law was telling that.

Also, smearing shit on the face of prime ministers, presidents, all the highest ranking politicians you can imagine, is just the game of free press in a democracy. You are free to chose your government only because you are free to know what they did wrong (or right). The fact to retaliate violently against that is totally contrary to the fair game supposed by the establishment of democracy, and also it does not restore the lost face of the politician.

You are saying that was predictable. If you could do so, great, your guess was better than most people. Assange himself is quite paranoid yet he could not predict this trap.
Spotted a factual mistake immediately:

> There is a Chinese version of this. The Chinese cities on the map include the big Chinese cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Chengdu. Shenyang. A couple of cities in Mongolia, analogous to the appearance of Winnipeg on the U.S. map.

Baotou and Hohhot are both Inner Mongolian cities, i.e. Chinese cities.
CommunityX: Why this ex-Google employee built a better platform for protesting
Thank you for confirming. That was my assumption. There's certainly no lack of Arm Linux versions. In fact, the new supercomputer at the top of the TOP500 list uses Arm chips and runs a supported Linux (RHEL).
Maybe the protestors that riot and loot will burn Tesla down using Musk’s “not a flame thrower” the ultimate of ironies.
Google Chrome Fuzzing Conclusion
I’m sure someone will bring up “but the Shanghai factory”, the truth is that factory is operating under China COVID protocol.

If Tesla isn’t going to be held accountable or penalized for not enforcing strict COVID safety protocol they won’t.

I guarantee they wouldn’t get away with this in Shanghai.
It also abstracts out a ton of third party controllers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market

I am amused you don't know what it means but you made your mind it's wrong :)
Even 13 years ago when I made the move to OSX and Macs I was comfortable with the somewhat closed nature of Apple's platforms. I made an informed choice about what I was giving up and I have continued to make informed choices about what I have progressively given up over the years.

Because Apple mostly made really good computers this was an acceptable tradeoff.

Fast fordward to 2020, and I dread that my ageing Macbook Pro (2015-2016?) is going to kick the bucket because newer Macbooks have compromised hardware. If it kicks the bucket I have to make a choice. Do I stay on OSX or am I going to start migrating everything off OSX. (I have half a dozen Macs - iMacs, Mac Minis, Macbooks etc)

Apple no longer make laptops that you can buy without any thought. You have to wait and see what problems this iteration will have. And how much pain others go through to get them fixed. And while I used to own a Mac Pro and am definitively in the segment of users that looks for high power options, I would never risk buying a Mac Pro today. I simply can't afford to pay that kind of money and not know if it will cost me a fortune to fix if it breaks -- or if it will be fixed at all.

This in itself isn't a big dramatic change for me. I'm not happy about it, but I only run OSX anyway. It doesn't change anything for me. But it is another notch on the ratchet. And there have been numerous notches in the last decade. Slowly making the walls around the garden higher and higher, while the rent has been going up and the quality has been going down.

If Apple doesn't make a quality product and a product they will stand by and support unquestioningly when it fails, I think at least I will find myself where I was 13 years ago. With Windows as the platform for running applications, Linux to do software development and PC hardware to do it on.

Apple will have to nail the next MacBook Pro or I think developers will start leaving.
The race for a Covid-19 vaccine: What's ahead
Let's not forget that the Obama administration refused to prosecute Assange because they couldn't find a way to do it that wouldn't criminalize ordinary journalism (talking to sources, encouraging them to give you more info, telling them how to stay safe). The current administration is perusing this case precisely because they would like the power to criminalize investigative journalism, the only kind that's actually valuable. Without it, everything that appears in the news is just stenography of state propaganda.

"As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom" by Glenn Greenwald

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/16/as-the-obama-doj-conclud...
Like it a lot, because:

a) no need for more button;
b) optimized for big screens;
c) open-source;
I want to downvote this for having loaded controversial commentary, but I can't as it's a direct reply.

"who their friends are" is an uncharitable interpretation of the situation. You might not like that they didn't report on some information that was Russian, but to assume it's due to friendly relations and not fear of reprisal is spinning a narrative. Just as asserting the exact inverse is also spinning a narrative.

I don't claim to know everything and people seem really emotive about this so it's common to see people finding things that please their current mindset and presenting it as if its evidence of whatever they believe.

Please attempt removing your emotions and coldly look at the facts, try to consider an alternative theory for what happened or is happening, especially if you're American because Americans seem to be _especially_ heated when it comes to Assange.

Whatever your beliefs on the subject, a lot more has happened due to wikileaks stories; over something like NYT or bloomberg stories, which are highly regarded news outlets. So a charitable interpretation is that they're doing "real journalism" because they're digging in to things in the public interest.
Can we also ban speech/hate/discrimination towards short men? I mean, it is genetic and it is also known that short men get payed less, have less dating options, aren't represented in top management positions, top sports, modelling, etc.

It is even ok and funny for a good part of the population to insult them publicly and reject them.

If you see a tinder/online post 'black men aren't real men' everyone would jump on them and crucify them, but 'Manlets 6'0 under are just little boys' is even shared and laughed by many.

ps: I don't want any ban, but free speech is free speech, unless inciting violence, no amount of hurt feelings should mould what we are allowed to say, otherwise pretty much every race/religion/physical aspect/intelligence/etc will be somewhat offended at a point in time
I would still use my N9 except that there are apps that I use every day that simply don't exist for Meego.

I suppose I should try to sell it to some one who can use it but it is such a beautiful thing that I am loath to get rid of it even though I haven't even switched it on for ages.
You misspelled "WinX" and it was "leaked" fifteen years ago in Wired magazine.

https://www.wired.com/2005/02/microsoft-5/
> It had its own dialect of C++ which looks nothing like modern C++

Was this just a "using different elements of C++" kind of dialect, or was this an "early Win32 when you had to use pretend-C++ (ATL) together with your real C++, bridging the two with C" kind of dialect?

I feel like a lot of application frameworks developed in the 90s ended up in the latter style, as C++ was just becoming popular around then, and many frameworks chose to "merge into" C++ support from C support, rather than creating a ground-up C++ SDK.
When Bosses Shared Their Profits
You need a much higher standard standard of accuracy for facial recognition because it is applied indiscriminately to a large population. If it has 99.9% accuracy and you apply it to a population of 10,000 people, you will get on average 10 false positives.
But I think the effect is pronounced in agriculture because of the stereotype that rural = Trump voter = poor moron. I think that few people in SV have a true grasp of the amount of intelligence, electrical and mechanical domain knowledge, and vast wealth in agriculture. There are gobs of farmers worth $10m+, it’s just that in their communities, farmland is higher status than Ferraris or Arcteryx, so they stick with their F-250s and overalls and invest their money into more farmland, growing ever wealthier and more efficient.
Or AMD. One can argue about specific exploits but there are plenty of serious security folks who recommend turning off lots of performance features if you really want to be safe.
Or more - if you wanted new things like CD-ROM drives, good quality sound, etc. you were often well north of $3k - and when you adjust for inflation that’s like a $4500+ system today.
Please don't use shortened URL here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hablocompa...

Some more technical description can get more traction here. What are you using? An expert system or deep learning? Is the method calibrated for different ages of the baby?
For every choice he had to make on the approach, he made the wrong one. He literally did everything wrong, and ignored every warning.

It's almost inconceivable that someone could screw up as badly as he did.
Looks 'content-type' is wrong; it is displaying inline in Chrome
Yeah, as I recall he said something like that death is good because it keeps ideas fresh, by leaving room for future generations to do their thing instead of humanity comprising the same old individuals all the time.

I don't think it's too unusual or bad for someone to have a brush with cancer and start getting philosophical about it in this way.
I like the screenshot in this post about the permissions Android apps ask for. At least this matches my experience. Android apps by and large just ask for everything so it's a choice between giving them everything or not being able to use them.

Apple OTOH does two major things different:

1. Apple's approach is to ask for individual permissions it needs when it first needs them. I can't overstate how much better this is than the Android all-or-nothing permission dialog.

2. Apple's permissions make more sense to users. Things like:

- Your location

- Run in background

- Your contacts

- Your photos

- The camera

Android's permissions always struck me as what engineers would do if they designed a permission system.

> Because, as it turns out, a Libertarian free-for-all doesn’t work.

TRUE. Big true.

Honestly though I don't really see the author's point. I don't see iOS 14 and whatever the next Android version is to be back to what Symbian did.
I still have my nokia c2-01. It works fine, it stills takes picture, and it's 9 years old. The battery last for about 1 week or less. I do calls with a 2 euro/month plan.

I really wish I could have a smartphone with similar hardware that I could upload some executable on it written in C.

I still cannot believe there are no minimalist RPi-like smartphone that lets you easily do this. Smartphones today are overpriced supercomputers with asthmatic batteries with hardware that is possibly full of backdoors.

I know there's the pinephone, but I would rather have more limited, slower/cheaper hardware instead.
Good point, but only if you include the middle name (Alexander), and except for one of these links that is a bona fide doxing, most are matches for "Scott Alexander".
Larry Page will miss your money
Good point about Slack and Discord. It's interesting that even though participants are semi-private - in my experience - the standard of discourse is usually higher than the non-private places like Facebook.
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Baby_Translator
So why did they force everyone else to use the Javascript version instead of only Linux? Why didn't they just improve the Linux version.

I use Skype everyday for work and my quality of life is noticeably different in a bad way :(

Plus, my poor laptop is now forced to run Skype, Zoom, Slack, Google Docs, and Discord. Its turned into a cooktop...
Can anyone comment on the benefits to using Hey over Fastmail? I am switching off gmail next week and have been looking at using one of these.

Fastmail is $30 or 50/yr vs Hey $99/yr

Are the features of Hey worth the extra money?
Ask HN: Dev in a company reliant on international travel. Should I get out ASAP?
We already did drastic measures where we shutdown one site.

Management is positive that we have enough cash to survive for more than 2-3 years.

Despite that I am not really sure this business model is viable due to the current pandemic and rising nationalism / isolationism from people.Even with coronavirus contained there will be fear of travel etc.

Should I wait to get laid off and collect severance package or should I be looking to move out ASAP?