skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are several assumptions in your reaction.

- that they would have been able to find let alone retain a lawyer out of grad school

- that they knew enough about workers compensation law to event think of that option

- that they somehow understood the existence of recourses beyond HR in a highly secretive and litigious company

- that they weren't terrified that this could lead to long term stigma and stifle their career which is crucial to their ability to remain in the U.S.

I say this as a white European who was under an [OPT][1] and somehow managed to find a company willing to sponsor its renewal. Even for me the process was opaque and terrifying and I'm extremely lucky that no one tried to take advantage of the situation. Had I fallen into the kind of toxic nightmare described in the post, it would also would have felt insurmountable.

Most employers don't understand work visas and really don't care to but those who do surely understand the leverage they have. Even people on work visas often struggle to understand their rights since BY DESIGN they are dependent on employers for their ability to remain in the country. If you lose your job under most work visas, you need to find a new job immediately or pack up and go home regardless of the circumstances.

Initially, there are [safeguards][2] to prevent wage discrimination for visa workers, but eventually after receiving a work permit, before its renewal, or before an employer accepting to sponsor a green card application, the baseline level of fear you're under effectively reduces job mobility for visa workers. Not being able to "quit and just get a new job" like most U.S. residents because their current one is utterly toxic, visa workers have to interview, secure a new employer, initiate a work visa transfer, all with unpredictable delays in transfer processing from USCIS which routinely leads to companies rescinding job offers because the USCIS is too slow (we're talking months and years) to adjudicate requests.

The idea that someone under an OPT would launch a workers comp suit against Apple for emotional abuse is sadly very far-fetched to me. The OPT worker likely be quickly out of a job and their unemployment grace period (90 days for OPT, 60 days for H-1B) would quickly run out as interviewers for prospective jobs would ask "What made you want to leave Apple after such a short time?"

[1]: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/students-...

[2]: https://flag.dol.gov/programs/lca
I wish more people thought like Zapier too. Their pipe flow designer thing is pretty star trek.

The world is chock full of shit software that people have to use eight hours a day and absolutely hate. I mean, seriously, hate to the point of shaking and tears at the idiotic hoops they have to jump through all day long, every day, for years. Genuine mental health impact. They come home miserable and snap at their kids. Maybe he's channeling their frustration. And maybe we deserve it.
The usage here (stay awake with amphetamines) clearly refers to the recreational illegal application of using it to stay up.

Absolutely amphetamines have prescription medicinal applications including for chronic fatigue. Just like cocaine has applications such as a topical anaesthetic.

But it's completely disingenous to suggest that the app is using the name "Amphetamine" as if it were under the context of a doctor's prescription. It's obviously in the recreational context of healthy people staying awake. And exactly the same as with "cocaine", when most people hear "amphetamines" they think of illegal drugs, not prescription ones.
ICUs are by default expected to operate at a near-full occupancy rate, the average occupancy rate in the Western world is about 75%-80% and it's not unusual for them to be overrun during a bad flu season (especially in places like northern Italy, which has one of the worst air pollution problems in all of Europe and has undergone drastic cuts in health care spending in recent years).

[1]2018 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

[2]2015 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
I feel like both of our syllogisms tend to be invoked by the same people in the same political debates!
I'd like to talk to you about this, but you don't have any contact details in your profile. You can find me email address in my profile.
The article mentions thousands of these. Why would they all be moving away from us? Aside from the obvious of course.
I didn't. I commented on commenting on commenting on the voting on comments.

Edit: Funny. Usually I get downvoted for being skeptical of Tesla or Bitcoin. This is a new one for me. Downvote away HN trolls!!!

Edit 2: Lol. Picked up another downvote for mentioning Tesla and Bitcoin. I'm awesome.
Our neighbors at the fine journal of POC||GTFO are distinguished in PDF manipulation and polyglots.
https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
Depending on the state, essential workers are near the front of the list as well. Those would likely include a subset of your list, but probably not restaurant workers.
Paging through the book I enjoyed this quote:

> Assuming that you are not a Nazi in real life--and if you are, pal, then I've got a knife I'd like to introduce to your throat--it's probably a tough idea to empathize with such a character.
She was 15 in 1962. I can't seem to find anything relevant in the wiki page mentioned for the time before that.
I can't decide if this is comical or depressing. The EU realizes they need to own the ability to manufacture processors. Meanwhile here in the US we've got hedge fund managers trying to gut Intel, national security be damned:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/activist-hedge-fund-...
> All of a sudden it's not cool to shame people. WTF is that about?

I think it's because there are a lot of them proportionally, as responses to the pandemic have been rather divided even within close social groups.

Try shaming party-goers in your friendship circle on, say, social media, and you might find the blowback hard going as "they" in sufficient numbers shame you back for being too cautious or controlling, and you become the pariah. Even if you're confident you're right, you can feel the loss of social capital. And who wants to be known as the sourpuss who tries to ruin other people's happy times?

Maybe feeling like losing social capital is even an illusion, amplified by the way social media distorts social group feelings. It only takes a few people to point the shame back at you to induce a feeling that the larger group sees you that way, whether they do or not, because your other social connections tend not to speak up in your defence.
We roast Brussels sprouts in our air fryer (instant pot add on) and it takes much less time than using our convection oven. Perhaps a smaller convection oven would be faster, but it makes a huge difference for us. Cleanup is a little more burdensome though — the slits in the basket are tricky to clean thoroughly.
...and why would he do any of those?
> The fact that the economy grows every year is proof alone

stockholm
Looks like someone at Apple is having a "morality police" attack. :(
What would be the workflow when using such tools like this or Source Trail? I've used cscope once while I'm testing out vim as my main text editor a bit.

Nowadays I'm using the global search feature of vscode for code exploration. Combined with the available language server for each language, it seems to work well enough for me currently.
>I had very few resources and had nobody to ask if I got stuck

That's exactly the self-learning experience. You had simple foundations that demanded to be explored and conquered. My first programming book was a ~700 page Java tome because that was the hot thing. After I had read it start to finish I realized that I still don't know what programming is. Then I read K&R and the scales fell from my eyes. Programming is so simple and elegant! The OOP approach of Java teaches you to just put the things you think of into classes, which is like being handed a blank piece of paper. C has an internal logic and an emergent structure of possibility because it reveals limitations. This is even more so the case for BASIC. Nowadays getting into programming seems far worse than 2000's Java. Everything is a library, everything is answered on Google, all the languages are feature-rich and opaque, any computer is fast enough for the worst code. Why bother if there is nowhere to go?
What I imagine the world will be like in 20 years
This is the case in Sweden. Absolutely not impossible.
Show HN: Newsit 2.0 – Find comment sections without leaving the webpage
history is proving no such thing. you have no idea what the alternate history would have been
Don't you need to find some setting buried somewhere deep to enable installing dmgs now?
I bet a lot of people on this website will nod their head and think to themselves that they agree with your comment (because of the specific examples you gave), but in my experience fewer than 1% of the general population and probably fewer than 5% of people on HN today are capable of actually thinking in a utilitarian manner. Even my smartest and most numerate acquaintances (let’s say +2-4 stddev, mostly scientists and engineers) have to be pushed to thinking this way about specific issues unless they have a background in economics or something. The concept of making decisions as part of an explicit optimization strategy, rather than as a result of applying a set of heuristics, is completely foreign to most people. Giving specific examples almost invariably pisses people off, because they’re emotionally invested in the heuristics being accurate. They would probably be fine in a tribal group of ~100 people with no out-group communication, but they scale very poorly to billions of people with an internet connection.
AFAIK, US law actually has no provision for designating domestic terrorist organizations, so it’s not clear what that would entail.

In any case, your examples seem to have more to do with freedom of association than freedom of expression, which is also important but not what I was talking about.
Yeah there was that infamous study: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

> Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
By no means.
Amphetamine is used for treating narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_hypersomnia
Growth! More growth pleases shareholders and the board. Nothing else matters.
Some of them are fairly loud and obnoxious and get disowned by the rest of the left and smeared as alt-right, FWIW.
Handy, but not exactly easy on the eyes. I usually just us the -t flag to pass it seconds, like 'caffeinate -t 3600' to prevent sleep for the next hour.
I've considered hiring a front-end designer / programmer. To be frank, hiring a designer and then applying my halfwit front-end skills seems like a waste of $3-4k - if anyone has a better way to go about solving this with reputable freelancers I'm all ears!
Sell subscriptions you no longer use
Now you could sell all those paid in full subscriptions you no longer use and can't refund.
Yeah, the in-your-face advert right before the main text is very spammy too:

"Do you know if attacks like like Simjacker or other next
generation attacks are happening in your network?

Book a meeting [with us to find out]."

The website feels like a con/ad rather than something legit.
This worked exactly how it was supposed to in Japan.

Masks went up in price in April because supply was limited, by late May they were at clearance prices as supply out stripped demand.
No. Diesel, compared to petrol, is worst for short-term air pollution and better for CO2 emissions. And, ultimately, climate change is the biggest danger.
Get one of these https://www.solianiemc.com/en/cp/shielded-tent/ .

Otherwise, assume basically all software and hardware is vulnerable for a price if it's anywhere near anything that can connect to a wireless network or bluetooth device.
Too soon!
Less volume, less growth, so not good on paper...err shareholders charts.
To be frank, the people most likely to be super spreaders have mostly become infected by now and achieved natural immunity. 30+% of people in large portion of the country have likely been infected [0]. There are certainly some regions with much lower than average numbers that could theoretically still benefit from this strategy, but I agree that targeting would be very difficult and controversial.

[0]https://covid19-projections.com/infections/map_county_total_...
Thanks for posting that. I wonder if some people I've known who passed with kind of unknown cause dementia passed away had it. "Lewy body dementia" is a confusing term on its own, I was guessing that it meant some kind of body confusion thing, instead of growths (bodies) in the brain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewy_body_dementias
Push it further. Imagine movie and TV show castings being done through that platform.

You may have a serendipity graph with N edges and M vertices of actors/directors/musicians/producers/photographers who've always wanted to work with one another on some project some day, and then people get old or die.

What if you have a "Group Tinder", and then based on parameters such as affinities between these entities, the scripts fed into that platform, you automatically get recommended "teams" to carry out the project. These are recommendations and you could then experiment with these teams in reading sessions, but you at least get an initial state you can iterate through and tweak. People rarely get the role they read for anyway, but I think it would speed up the initial phase/reading/casting and help people converge towards the final casting.

Or why have a final casting, you could "fork" a script and do it with another team and have multiple "distributions". Not "remakes" but "forks".

Nobody said we cannot increase the probability of serendipity.

Now, imagine endeavors that share this workflow, where people with particular and complementary skills get together to collaborate on something. Not necessarily heists. But one abstraction above that is asking the question: is there an ontology for collaboration, and can it and its engine be built in order to allow to launch verticals like these almost effortlessly.

Why: if there is such a thing, you could launch a 100 experiments with almost zero cost for everything that requires rig-up/rig-down - band together/disband type of collaboration, as they would leverage the same ontology and API, and only the "front" would change.
My issues with tabs, even with extensions that organise them:

* sheer mental challenge of quickly relocating related tabs and the context for why they were kept and relationships between them

* inability to easily add WIP notes and commentary

* difficulty of sharing tabs and context with others

* possibility of losing them if power lost unexpectedly (during extended suspend for example) or accidentally close a single window instead of doing File > Quit

* moving between different devices and different browsers

* efficiency; affect on the browser and system of keeping tabs open for long periods of time (without quitting browser)

I don't use workspaces for the same reason I don't like tabbing between applications on the same monitor. I use multiple monitors so I only need to move my eyes to switch focus.
I am in my early forties, and have been starting companies since I was 16. I am well into my fifth serious company now (depending on how you count). But somehow, I keep repeating the same mistakes, and I am running out of ideas on how to fix it, to a degree that I have just stopped doing stuff two years ago. (Fortunately(?) I am well enough now to just give up...)

For some reason, I always end up with an unhappy team. Even if the company is successful on paper in terms of numbers, there is always the feeling you hurt feelings no matter what you do, there's always someone who will feel attacked by someone else's internal communication. To a point where that even leaks to customers.

This sounds easy to fix, but I am really conscious about it, and tried various strategies, with less involvement from my side, more involvement, having someone else do the hiring decisions, etc. - with my latest company, six years ago, I tried to stay out of it, hired CEOs, but now the company "works, barely" but there's nobody taking any initiative, nobody is passionate about it, everyone is just doing the minimal they can. I predict will not survive more than another few years.

It makes me sad sometimes because the ideas behind the companies/products/services seem to be fine, the market is there, the money flows work, even without VCs. I'm just getting tired of all the social problems. This is not something my CS degree and all the coding and later management books and training prepared me for.

(Throwaway account to protect the innocent.)
On the other hand, a lot of the "tough on crime" messaging comes from the unique context of the 70s and 80s, when crime was much higher than today and continually rising. I'm hopeful that prison reform is a much more politically palatable message now that crime has been trending down for decades.
I usually disagree with flick of the wrist legislation from CA but this is a win! Unfortunately, this will likely just lead to google and these delivery apps actively suppressing search / SEO for restaurants that refuse to use their platforms :(
Someone a year or two ahead of me in college put together something that calculated and printed a detailed Hilbert curve in PS - not that impressive now, but it took a hellaciously long time to run on the first LaserWriter with PS support.
West Coast wellness elites think an Amazonian frog poison helps purge “toxins”
See this is my point. "You have no idea what would have happened" is an opt-out of a conversation. You can't deny the negative effects of lockdown. The point is that other solutions should be tried because the current one clearly has disastrous consequences. For example, an alternate solution could be tried in a small microcosm as a sort of A/B test, but no one is really entertaining that possibility, and anyone who does is hit with contentless comments such as yours. Thinking is hard, but it's time for everyone to start.
It is almost enough just to go by number of floors. Two or less? It's a school (except for a couple examples).
Using a standard feature to embed data isn't steganography.

It's probably underutilized overall, but there's nothing hidden about it when most viewers show the data.
Cscope in vim to jump between caller and callee (examine relationship). See where symbols are used. Jump to global definition. Could not live without cscope!
As an example of something that expires quickly, concert tickets, and yet people do buy them only to resell them.
East coast finance bros are very bullish on the "energy boosting qualities" of near IR red led therapy. It's hilarious since someone figured out how to re-brand grow lights and sell them to finance bros for $1300. Mad props.
Ah! Perhaps if my English teacher had been more of a hardcore disciplinarian...
Even that is usually not an option. You can’t put a 1-2 year old in a room by themselves for a meeting
What’s the diff of features compared to VSCode’s language server interface?
If you takeout the actual tenant configurations of offices, the idea of "High-End office buildings" becomes pretty irrelevant in this conversation & context of the comment I replied to. Because at that point you're basically just talking about the lobby & the elevators, and the view out the windows.
Do I have to move back to SF?
(26 yo software engineer at a startup, aiming to launch my own startup in 2-4 years.)

I was in SF the past two years to kickstart my startup career. I was able to land my first two SWE contracts through people I met. I had a really good experience in a coliving space. Sitting around the dining room table with a crew working across the startup scene was a perfect environment for the type of serendipitous conversations we come to The Valley for. The environment was insanely inspirational.

Hacker News is great as a digital community, but finding startup and innovation minded peers in the real world is a lot harder.

Daniel Gross (https://dcgross.com/the-environment-diet/) and Paul Graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html) agree, even the most driven greatly benefit from the right environment.

I’m back in MD now with my family. As the end of covid creeps into sight, I’m thinking about where I’m going to move. I’d like to consider other cities to set up shop. Maybe DC or NYC or Miami. NYC has a significant tech scene but it is much less concentrated. DC and Miami are sparse, but it only takes a group of 10 to form that crucial inner circle.

Keith Rabois is moving to Miami (https://www.newcomer.co/p/taking-his-talents-to-miami-beach), but for those of us who are still climbing the ladder, can we justify not going back to SF if we’re serious about achieving our startup dreams?
I know more than one famous scientist who does this. Multiple postdocs working on the same project. Whomever gets there first gets a Cell-Science-Nature paper. The other(s) get nothing.

Probably a very common abusive management style at high levels in many industries.
Poverty rates fell in the 1960s, but crime rose.
Do you guys just share browser cookies or transfer accounts in full? I briefly started researching how to build a password manager that would allow seamless account "sharing" by transmitting and copying session tokens between "approved" people you'd share accounts with (without sending full credentials).
I have a hard time with tasks I don’t want to do or feel big and undefined.

The best thing I’ve done is break up the work into smaller milestones and get regular feedback from a stakeholder.

Feeling I’m making progress will be a reward in itself, but also the feedback will help steer the direction of future steps. It saves more face if it’s noticed earlier I'm not well suited for the task rather than letting it drag on.

This applies to any kind of work. Even if I’m taking on a home improvement project I can ask my wife what she thinks of my progress thus far and get a sense of how I should adjust course (up to giving up and calling an expert).
A combination of time, motivation, money and luck tbh.
Old apartment radiators designed to prevent spread of the 1918 pandemic (2020)
Somehow I am late to the party and never knew about this tool. I have been playing with it for the last 30 minutes and no end in sight =)
The way cashiers assume I'm a delivery driver makes me think I'm literally the only person who uses the app.
But Microsoft's servers are not on GFW's blocklist.