skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because the pendulum has taken a noticeable swing in the reverse direction, with online mobs getting people fired because of opinions they've expressed. Extreme labels like "white supremacist" and "Nazi" are being put on people for views that deviate from approved ideology. This is creating a climate of fear in which each case of someone getting fired is enough to cow thousands if not millions of observers, who fear to lose their own jobs if they speak out or even slip up. Bogus arguments like "it doesn't count unless the government does it" are being used to dismiss free speech concerns about this. To me it seems obvious that from a free speech point of view it's fine for people to respond to each other with criticism, even if they're mean and mischaracterize each other, but getting people fired crosses an obvious line into non-speech and physical harm. It's not as harmful as physical violence or putting someone in prison for what they say, but it's on the same spectrum, and the psychology of the zealots who want to see people punished in this way is unmistakeable. That's where the comparisons to the Soviet Union, China, and so on, come in. Anyone who is familiar with the history knows the type, even if so far they are unable to do more than exert power over employment.

There's also deplatforming, which falls in between pure speech (such as criticism/debate) and physical harm (such as firing).
You can, but should you? $10 a day is better than the $5 they would get before. More is better of course, but your option isn't pay everyone the same it is pay some and not others.
My brother has the opposite problem. He ordered a pan and got a very expensive Samsung SSD — 3 times.
They don’t save me from having to go look at other files to learn things about the code I’m actually interested in; they can be misleading in ways that types aren’t—in particular, it’s very hard to know what sorts of things an all-green test suite guarantees versus a passing static type build, without a great deal more information; and they are, in practice, prone to rot and neglect in a way static types rarely are, and are harder to bring back into a useful state when that happens.

They serve very different purposes and generally are not first and foremost good communication tools the way static types are, for a bunch of reasons. That doesn’t mean tests aren’t very useful and welcome things to have, however.
BLM isn't specifically about white people killing black people, its about the systemic disadvantage of black people in the US. The US had segregationist senators until the 2000s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond], San Leandro California, a bay area suburb where lots of folks in on this board live, had an FBI injunction in the 80's because they still had segregationist housing policy. Our communities now are more segregated today than they were in 1890. Modern medicine has an insane mount of racial bias baked into it today [https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2021693]. Everything from illness diagnosis to painkiller prescription, to prenatal care is very much tilted against black people getting equivalent treatment to white people. This is due to the bias of caregivers at point of care. The whole point is that race matters, we need to respect that, and understand that.
Attorney here (tax and tech). Would love to help. How can I get involved?
Why allow yourself be tormented by something you have no control over?
>I'm biased, I admit, but it seems to me that aggressively conventional-minded people are responsible for a disproportionate amount of the trouble in the world

I agree with this statement. But I would also agree with the opposite:
Aggressively independent-minded are also responsible for a disproportionate amount of the trouble in the world.

Maybe, they are even more disproportionaterly responsible since they are a really small group?

My 5 cents.
Isnt this mass fraud being committed by amazon then?
Can you transfer your existing H-1B to your new company if the new company has a board/co-founders who have the authority to fire you?

Edit: This assumes that you did preliminary work on a company while on an H-1B.
Cost of multiple shifts at multiple locations + cost of implementing verification process + cost of security and oversight + cost of extra inventory loss due to employee theft

vs

Cost of negative image (deferred via simple returns) + cost of inventory loss duo to fraud + cost of inventory loss due to employees

It's simpler to simply eat the cost of abuse.
The whole point of Setting up a plant in India was to avoid / lower the high import tax.
I think what constitutes "antithetical to a free and equal society" varies dramatically. I believe that no speech is "antithetical to a free and equal society" because to do so is to assume one speech is greater than another. I think that’s how we got to this point. So long as the speech does not infringe on the rights of someone else, it should be absolutely allowed. A public discussion on overthrowing the government, yes. A public discussion on school segregation and how to achieve it, yes. But a discussion about how to violate someone’s rights, fire someone because of their race, gender, sexuality, any of that, or in anyway trying to Directly harm another person, that’s where it becomes bad speech.
Yes, flat-earthers would probably count as non-conformist. I think the point is that in order to have Galileo, you have to tolerate flat-earthers as well.

I do agree that calling most people "sheep" is uncharitable, and would add that calling aggressive conformists "stupid" is also not accurate or productive. They might be making stupid decisions, but they're not stupid people.
I just don't agree there is some objective standard of merit because there isn't, its a subjective concept. That leads to issues because not everyone's system is the same arguing otherwise would be blatantly false.
You sound like someone who needs to "grow up". Most of you at FAANG's are like overgrown children, who think that they are living their best lives in this infantilized environment.
That kind of move is always Apple's big failing---super-expensive, years ahead of its time but not enough years ahead (and quickly self-cannibalized by better yet cheaper products), marquee products. They did that with the Lisa, and arguably with the Newton too. Though I guess the Newton wasn't Jobs's fault, like the others were.

I really wanted a cube when it came out though.
I’m not sure I follow. These countries get back multiples of their membership fees, largely in infrastructure funds (i.e. there is no repayment). You can literally not take that money if you so wish.
Is there a way to speed up naturalization process? is 5 years after GC mandatory?
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My experience is that tests tend to be much harder to read, and take more effort to understand, than types. Types are a higher-level approximation for your program.
> If I search for Pixel 3 case on Amazon, it will also return Pixel 3 XL cases.

In reverse, someone looking for a Pixel 3 XL cases but only wrote Pixel 3 cases, would have been much more pissed than you were if it was has specific has you want.
It's disappointing that this scam is so pervasive they added UI to handle it.
Never mind third-party sellers, I've had Amazon themselves pull this on me with a book I pre-ordered directly from them.

On the day my order was supposed to be delivered, it mysteriously became "unavailable", only to reappear a couple of weeks later at a higher price.
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Does Amazon really maintain a database of products -> security seals and verify them when they come in?
MutationObserver cannot be trusted.
From [1]:

> There are a few reasons to be skeptical of this trend. Reporting might be a lot better in recent years, and reports in prior years (if they were made at all) may be increasingly difficult to find the further back you go. In addition, FE’s totals for the last three years — the years they consider most complete — are pretty flat.

> Like a puzzle missing most of the pieces, the data so far are interesting, but not illuminating.
To see the antisemitism of medieval bestiaries, look for the owl
> and the only way for an accompanying nanny to work in the U.S. is to apply for work authorization while in the U.S. in B-1 status.

My understanding is that we can get the B-1 visa for domestic employee outside the united states. Some counsel has told me that entering the US with the tourist /Business B1/B2 is could be risky.

Do you work on the B1 nanny cases or have a referral of a lawyer to work with such a case? I'm interested in hiring counsel to make it happen.
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There are two: Shanghai and Beijing. I would have guessed more too, but apparently not.
Somehow your comment reminds me of a pissing match I saw between a young aerospace engineer and an old retired one. The old guy was right in his argument that it doesn't matter what the constraints on materials and dimensions are, it that they come from somewhere and are documented.

His example was designing brackets for a Indonesian construction company that was using locally sourced tropical softwoods for constructing buildings. The brackets were designed to be made with 'steel' and the tolerances were compatible with a hungover guy running a drill press.
Yes. And places that deal with these types of tolerances will typically have a person who's job is to simply verify and replace gauging. If a gauge doesn't have a documented test verifying its accuracy, then it has to be assumed to be inaccurate and any parts or tests based on results provided by the instrument need to be redone or the part scrapped.
Outrage drives clicks... link has been up for 5 hours and is on the front page of HN, while other links with (probably) more worthwhile content stagnate and die. It's just how the internet works.
Hi Peter - My fiance currently works for a large tech company in the bay area, and is on a H1B visa currently. They would like to apply for their green card, but have been told by the HR that everything is on "pause", but they will continue to collect information in preparing the green card application. How true is this, and do we have any other options? To answer, no we do not plan to marry, though I know this can expedite things. Thanks.
I need to buy 15 16GB SD cards for a high school robotics team for Raspberry Pis that are guaranteed to be shutdown improperly and bumped around a lot.

I balked at Amazon. I just don’t know how to trust their stuff anymore. Left having no idea where to get a sensible price.
Hey Peter, thanks in advance.

I've been on an H1B for 4 years now and have had Greencard filed a few yrs ago. I've been working for almost 5 years and want to take a longer time off, two or three months sabbatical/unpaid leave.

I would still like to stay in US (my parents live here). Is this possible? Will I lose my visa or greencard status?
> These hundreds of passengers died when they couldn't swim the twenty feet to the shore.

Many of them were young children. Most of them were trapped below decks because the ship rolled over so quickly.

> It makes you question why they wanted to have their party on a boat.

Victim blaming here is not just disrespectful and mean but also factually wrong.
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And good handles.

The “cheese-grater” Power Mac G5/Mac Pro had handles. Which are great on a 42-pound chunk of aluminum…except they had sharp edges, and you sure felt that.

(I hauled my 2006 Mac Pro between 3 different apartments. I remember.)
10.4 was such a beautiful operating system. I really believe that Apple had the best operating system out there for the short window that 10.4 was around.
I wonder if switch emulation would be more efficient on ARM systems
Sure, context matters. But an important lesson I learned only after 10+ years in the industry is that senior execs slice their time and mind-share very thinly. As a very junior engineer I would send out paragraphs explaining the background of an issue, discussions so far, proposals, etc, and sometimes I wouldn't even have an actual request. And then wonder why I got no reply.
Less if you include sticker price then deduct VAT.
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Oh, it still happens that way.

And there are more types of war than just one country going against another. There’s te culture war and the war against drugs. Some say that business is war.
Lol. I worked there in college and someone had the great idea to put things like hard disks and video cards on the shelf instead of behind the counter to reduce labor costs.

People ran all sorts of scams, most commonly putting a $500 video card in a $20 box. I’d catch them all of the time, but if you reported it you had a chance of losing commissions when loss prevention people interviewed you.

Solution: avoid the aisle.

The other crazy one was what we called the crime bus. A charter bus of Asian people, usually Chinese, would pull up and flood the store with like 30 people on a weekday, pinning down every employee with stupid questions. Another group would loot the aisles of hard disks, various video/other cards and certain inks. I was there for one — it was absolutely insane.

They put that stuff back behind the counter a few months later.
One obvious need is other signature blocks that haven't yet been signed. When you sign a PDF, your name and the date end up in the signature block that's part of the PDF and, e.g., prints with it. If you had to sign the entire PDF, then a second person adding their signature would invalidate the first one.
I haven't seen any comments defending Hungary or Orban and such unanimous opinions make me wonder, especially when someone's enjoying popular support in their home country.

Doesn't Orban have any redeeming qualities? I seem to remember that he was one of the young hopes after Hungary turned its back to communism. How did he become an autocrat, as claimed here by some?

There's an interesting book called "Populism and the culture wars" by Frank Furedi. I have only managed to read a couple of chapters, but it paints quite a different picture of a fight between cosmopolitan elites and traditionalist Hungary. So far it has not addressed whether Orban is corrupt, but it does argue that it's legitimate to reject anti-national, anti-traditionalist values coming from Brussels.

Another short book that tries to explain the difference between Western and Eastern Europe is "After Europe" by Krastev. He's clearly writing from a liberal perspective, but identifies globalization, migration, economic insecurity and faceless Brussels politics as the main reasons behind the Eastern rejection of European values.
Ours is an imperfect copy.
> Apple pays taxes in every country it does business in.

It doesn’t in New Zealand - or at least it didn’t up until 2019.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/23/apple-paid-no-...
Check it out

Take a tour of HEY

https://youtu.be/UCeYTysLyGI
> The past is a pretty different place. These hundreds of passengers died when they couldn't swim the twenty feet to the shore. It makes you question why they wanted to have their party on a boat.

I’m not following this. Seems like a lot of people were trapped below decks, and a lot more were stuck in what amounts to a mosh pit in water while trying to look after vulnerable loved ones, which is a great way for even strong swimmers to drown in a hurry.
The battle of the glorified IRCs is on!
Sure, Microsoft is shady as usual (not all of it, but a good part), but once Teams get stable and everything actually works, it should smoke Slack.
At least Teams offers more than chat, and it has a justified need for running in a browser.
> the independent minded are good at figuring out solutions.

Ideally it wouldn't cost one their life, liberty or means of sustenance in the pursuit of figuring out these solutions
“Actions” typically refer to things as clicks/page navigation or button presses. The majority of people don’t expect (and don’t even know) that sites can record mouse movements and unsubmitted keyboard input.
This might be a strange question, but I'll give it a shot anyway.

Amongst myself and a number of friends (whom work in tech), we've observed a similar difficulty with meeting and employing lawyers for either personal- or business-related issues. We all seemed to arrive at the same conclusion that we don't know any lawyers personally, they don't seem to be part of our extended circle of acquaintances, and are difficult to find locally and evaluate their ability to handle whatever the need is, without shelling out a decent sum of money upfront.

Maybe this is unique to us, or maybe others here have experienced this too (please chime in). I suppose what I'm asking is what are good ways to find local lawyers with the right specialization (most of the half-decent recommendation services I've seen online are paid services). Also, where are y'all hiding? Can I buy one of you a beer?
Well, I read your entire comment!

Seems to work nicely.
Well, yeah. Or just having to look for a new job that may or may not pay as much. But I wasn't really going that far as saying people (myself, at one point, if you notice what I wrote) staying at a company they feel is acting unethically, but actually just noticing and accepting the company as doing unethical things instead of attributing it to an outlying situation that isn't indicative of how things are normally done.

Companies and people sometimes do shitty things. It isn't always on purpose (misunderstandings, one bad person, etc), and there isn't always a good way to fix it afterwards. I don't condemn people and companies because of this, and there's a tendency to assume this when you see something and work at the company. It can take a while before you start seeing a pattern and accept that it might just be how things are done sometimes and the management is fine with it. If you don't have a lot of options, I think there's a tendency for people to not look closer either on purpose or subconsciously because they might not like what they find, and then they've put themselves in a harder situation, where they must choose between what they believe is right and a hardship.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss, and the human mind is very complex. That's all I'm saying.
Learn sales.
I have only seen a few in person. They all had cracks from the heat.
I'd love for the study to include various types of static types. Testing against only C#/Java style type systems seems fairly narrow compared to the various kinda of static type systems available.
Are they actually selling the iPhone 11 in India? Last I read phone sales in India had a massive drop.
This was a big reason that I stopped buying stuff from best Buy.

I would buy some peripheral or appliance, get home, open the box, and see a dirty, stained, clearly broken device.

They were always very good about refunding, but they treated my wasted time as if it were nothing.

This has not [yet] happened to me with Amazon, for new devices, but it did happen once with a used "New condition" peripheral (what arrived was broken, dirty, and packed with toilet paper and rolled up newspapers). The third-party vendor jerked me around so much, I had to use Amazon's A-Z guarantee.

I tend to use Costco for home appliances, these days, and my expensive kit from manufacturers.
10% is a remarkable amount of time. I was astonished when I read that number. I would have expected it to be around 1% at max.
To be clear, this is a individual strategy not a group one. It's moving from a place with a curve that spikes late, to a place with a curve that spikes early, such that you dodge both spikes. This doesn't work for society as a whole (which can't just up and move to dodge the virus).

Nor am I claiming that California has yet achieved any substantial degree of herd immunity. Just that projecting current rates forward I think you will before I actually end up moving there (it helps that I have a lot of flexibility).

That said, the 70% figure in your article is too high. Research [1] and experience in Sweden [2] suggests that there are substantial benefits at just 40%.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/06/22/scie...

[2] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https%3...
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> It's not like the seller couldn't have fulfilled it; they would have just taken a loss to do so.

Contract law exists to enforce contracts that one party doesn't want to complete because they regret entering into the deal once they have more information, or the costs change, etc.

You could try to sue the vendor in small claims court to recover your damages, including the costs of the suit. The vendor is counting on you and other parties not actually doing that.
Yup. Traceable all the way back to the batch of material the part is made of. For every part in the plane. One of my customers makes parts for Rolls-Royce engines for the aviation industry and have to store certs and manufacturing records for even the smallest part. That includes certs on each step of manufacturing and material. Its pretty intense! During crash investigations they can be called upon to provide the full audit trail. Now imagine the amount of paperwork that is produced during an investigation when every nut and spring in a plane has the same amount of associated paperwork produced.
"Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer."
Depending on what brand you want, they're as cheap as $5 on B&H: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?q=sd%20card&filters=fc...
For me, HN counts too. Yes, the quality is different compared to classical news pages, but I think it serves the same desire to find something new.

From my perspective, giving in to this desire is part of the problem. When I start my day consuming content, the whole day becomes a lot less productive (concentrating becomes very hard). But if I start the day engaging my brain in a concentrated mode, the first few hours become very productive.

So my solution for avoiding to constantly visit HN in the search for something new, is that I have a new tab page in my browser, that lists, the top 3 HN news from the best list, if I haven't read them already. That way I fight the fear of missing out.

Maybe I should add that it always shows an empty list for the first 12 hours of the day ;-)
It is widely understood that public places use video surveillance, and in most cases you can see the cameras themselves.

It is not widely understood that websites can essentially point a camera at your browser tab and you can’t see that camera.
So the Rowling example is a good case here. She was defending a woman who was fired for personally, outside of work, saying there should be safe spaces for women off limits to trans people.

You can disagree with the original claim and there's a good debate to be had there.

But firing someone for a private opinion, and not one calling for violence, is not aligned with my values.

Yes, Bari Weiss did resign because she was harassed in her workplace and her employer refused to resolve the situation. It's one thing to disagree with a coworker, it's another to repeatedly harass and demean them. Bullying someone into quitting isn't a definition of Justice that I agree with.

If someone doesn't want to use a "master branch" than more power to them. On the other hand, if you're going to attack and insult me until I follow your request then it's not a request - it's a demand. My response will be to decline following your demand.

Yes, you should address people as they want to be addressed and not be a jerk. Someone not following that behavior.. should still be treated like a human being. You don't get to doxx them and send them death threats because you disagree with their behavior.