skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are rather strong words, but it's true: HR is most of the time can be seen as criminal organization.

If someone tries to form a union, they will ignore the law and try to shut it down. If someone reports harassment or any equal employment opportunity violation, they will try to cover it up.

Susan Fowler's Uber story is the perfect embodiment of how HR operates.

Never trust HR.
I don't live in NY so I am curious. NY is one of the worst hit states in the country and had 8 months to prepare for this. What do you think went wrong?

Is it local/state officials' colossal incompetence, something that they are quite known for? For a state with one of the highest tax rates, you would expect better from them.
> Lol, I love that quote ("your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches"). It's very true, and not the least bit surprising.

It's not quite true though.

It's what happens when you're the new kid on the block and the incumbents are appointing Witchfinders General to burn the heretics, because then rather than languishing in obscurity as you would otherwise, you get a huge influx of refugees and thousands of them are witches. Then if you let the witches chase off all the other refugees, you reach the undesired end state.

The way around this is to get big enough that most of your users are not witches. So the incumbents can do it already. Just stop having witch hunts. The witches can't take over when all the witches in the whole world are 0.5% of your user base, and other people only leave once the witches take over. It's a stable equilibrium.

But you can also get there another way, which is when the incumbents are hunting witches so hard that 95% of their refugees are innocent people. Then you just sit there and let everybody in, and your percentage of actual witches isn't so high that you're in trouble.

Unless anybody who tries to do that gets canceled before they can get a large enough user base to outnumber the witches.
This video is one of my favourites, I downloaded it many years ago because I knew one day it will disappear.
The U.S. government was purposefully designed to be inefficient. Checks and balances, multiple branches of government, rotating people out every so often, pesky votes and confirmations to decide anything. “Getting things done” was never the goal. The fact that everyone wants the government to be the one to get things done, and then acts surprised and frustrated when it can’t just shows...I don’t know, that we didn’t pay attention in school when the basics of the constitution were taught?

I mean, can you imagine if Trump (or whichever president you hate) had been in charge of some well oiled “gets things done” government for the last 4 years? The founders knew exactly what they were doing.
And what an artful response.
Very low heat, many duck eggs. Takes a while :)

The goal is for max runny yolk with juuuuust solid whites and no crispy brown on bottom.
American people have reduced longevity by eating fast food
> The owner reportedly is not far off

can you link the report? It seems like they just don't connect their moral values/opinion with their business, which I kinda like
In this circumstance, I think "bare metal" is probably the idea they're trying to get across.
For billing/invoicing purposes? Google spreadsheet I can create an invoice from. Billable activity tracked in 15-minute increments. I freelance for multiple customers.

I don’t track non-billable time, not sure what purpose that would serve.
What do you know about me to make such a specific and personal attack?
>Yeah but there's nothing that says the Xcode experience has to be so painful

Well, who says it is objectively painful (as opposed to just not what the grandparent is used to or prefers)?
Soma can be augmented, there is no need to use a pill.
Just play a game, watch meaningless film or tv series, watch sports. Be part of a fandom or echo chamber. Actually virtual pills are more powerful and more easy to distribute:)
Just because two people say two different things doesn't mean there isn't an objective answer most of the time. He lied about his tax returns repeatedly and consistently, despite it being either obviously false (can't release them under audit bs) or disproven later when they were eventually made public.
I attribute a large part of my accelerated development in logical thinking and problem solving to link n logs, tinkertoys, legos, and knex.
And if you are willing to buck the system completely, which as you point out is not compulsory as it was before, you can leave and go live off the land. Unfortunately almost everyone has lost the skill to do this.
Only trust your fists, HR will never help you.
The Commodore 64 has a successor, yes. The Commodore 128, released in 1985, three years after the C64.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_128
>You can't beat Hyrum's law by simply "forcing more people to use official API", with enough code people still depends on every implementation details in your code.

That's neither here, nor there though. You can still beat the biggest part of fragmentation by "forcing more people to use official API".

Doesn't have to be perfect, just good enough to make moving forward, porting to your new architectures and APIs, etc, easier.

In fact, Apple just showcased it works with the move to M1 (and to a lesser degree earlier with the move to x64 and the move to 64bits).
Designer protein helps paralyzed mice walk again in breakthrough study
Here's another thing to note: At least a few people here have probably heard the words "culture fit" uttered when a decision is being made to bring a new employee onboard. That's basically just a socially acceptable way of validating discrimination in hiring (with ageism being a typical example).
AvE is fun to watch, and full of cool insights into the underappreciated details of tools. but you've got to take his reviews with a few grains of salt. He's coming at it from the perspective of somebody who buys tools to use in heavy industry. If you're buying a cordless drill to hang pictures or maybe build a desk or a fence once a decade, the things he derides as being "not very skookum" will likely last you a lifetime.

Maybe you actually do need an angle grinder rated for an 8-hour duty cycle. But don't buy one just because a YouTuber told you you do. That DeWalt is probably fine.
There’s a great interview of Fauci explaining exactly how we got it done so fast. But basically - years of precursor work had been done on both other coronaviruses and mRNA vaccines. So they were in phase 1 trials in 6 weeks.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-bubble-with-and...
1984 is so often cited in reference to modern dystopian happenings but Brave New World got it right in so many more ways! The Audible version is great, I highly recommend everyone reading or listening to this sometime in 2021.
While HR can be helpful, and in some organizations do great things for you as an employee, it's best to treat them like a domesticated lion...the lion might be friendly most of the time, but still need to stay on your toes because it could turn on you, revert back to instinct and maul to to death.
Well, glad harper is former PM in that case.

Seriously, not sure why you would want bitcoin for this. Even going back to the gold standard sounds better relatively speaking.
> Right now, it is not in the interest of companies to pay because that would be an advantage to their competitors.

This is illogical. This would mean companies would never pay for any software - proprietary or FOSS - because either way, whoever is getting that money is turning around and also giving/selling the software to your competitor.

Literally the only reason companies don't pay for FOSS is they are pathologically disinclined to buy things if they don't have to. They're perfectly happy to spend money to make products, however, which is why they'll spend $500K on development of some half-baked internal tool rather than spend $200K on a license. (they also have no control over their bloated tech departments, who are full of engineers who'd rather churn out new backend tech shit than build good products for end users)

Forcing them to pay for FOSS will just result in them building more crappy things. They don't care that the result will suck or be a waste, they just don't want to buy things.
yep amazing that he didn't know what form they would take but he knew what the effects would be
New microcapsule method boosts CBD absorption in the brain by 300%
Seems like there are extensions for threaded discussions.

For example, the following XEP (XMPP Extension) talks about best practices for message threads:

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0201.html

And XEP-0085 about chat state notifications has a section about threads.

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0085.html#bizrules-threads

So probably your best bet is to look at the list of supported features of all XMPP clients and see which ones support XEP-0085, and then between any clients that support that see if they support threading.
Does getting a leftover dose grant you the right to the second dose within the window?
I have a habit to download all forms of critical thinking.
Just in case if someone in the near future will ask what is it?
"Google Signals," huh.

That sure doesn't sound insidious...kind of like a large Internet ad company trying to make sure that they're the only one who can track your activity online.

Don't worry, though. If you were using any of the now-dead competing advertiser networks, you can target using this information for a small fee! They sure know how to benevolently push forward the wheel of progress to fight to ensure your absolute privacy from everyone but them.

Not that I'm a fan of these 'Signals'--or even cookies for that matter.
Reflections on 2020 as an Independent Researcher
Luckily we do have freedom to quit and change our jobs, whereas feudal serfdom was essentially trapped by debt and servitude. The history of the ever-evolving common worker is fascinating! How far we've come!
Roden Crater
Your website doesn't have https. Please fix.
The Germans are lucky to still exist after what they did out East. Any other people, having suffered what the Slavs did under the Nazis would have cancelled them.

Yes, I know the Soviet were mean to the poor conquered Germans. Freda Utley even wrote a book about it.

Too bad. Perhaps after 1000 years of trying to invade Russia they've finally learned not to. Belarus alone lost 20% of its civilian population.

Consider that the Americans (who by comparison didn't suffer at all in WW2) wanted to starve the German people to extinction after WW2 [1]. Imagine, then, the self control the Soviets, who actually did suffer in WW2, not to annihilate them.

You talk of rape and speak of the Russians as being "undeserving of the gentleman's rules of war". What do you think the Germans did in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia? hand out chocolates to win the hearts and minds of the locals?

[1] Morgenthau Plan
Thank for the introduction to vimium. This will change my life
Fair point, Maxwell was one of the most brilliant scientists ever. Definitely on par with Einstein, Newton, and Galileo. It's a shame he died so young, who knows what else he could have discovered during his lifetime.

I suppose if you ask a random sample, however, many people will have heard of Einstein but not Maxwell.
> Service Mesh == Dynamic Linker For Cloud

TMYK: Linkerd was actually named for the dynamic linker ("linker daemon"). It's also the service mesh most focused on transparency--in the vast majority of cases you can add Linkerd to an existing application without config and the application will continue functioning. https://linkerd.io/2/design-principles/
Yup, they tried. It's not something to blame them for but I don't think it was a good idea to have a dynamic touch screen at your fingers when you're supposed to be watching your screen to interface. The TouchBar breaks everything about Typing that has existed for decades now.
>Apple cannot justify their transgressions against the modern development workforce as "a matter of platforms".

Sure they can, and I for one, am fine with their justification. I don't want everything to be "secure web apps", I want to have native apps, and I want to have a choice of different platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux, etc.) each doing its own thing their way.

I don't want to use Linux as my desktop because I don't like their choices, the same way I don't want to use Windows or macOS as my server, because I don't like their choices.

>The future cannot be segregated by platforms

That's a monoculture dystopia then, not a future where many competing ideas about what platforms can be, what OSes offer, what their core tenets are, etc. flourish.
I was taught in school: "the job of an operating system is to share resources"

But in the spectrum of things, k8s is much more than a clever hack, but not quite a designed operating system.
Here we go. Now that app stores and services have voluntarily collaborated in restricting speech, we can see more pressure campaigns to curb speech. First it’s violence, next it’s favorite targets then it’s non proscribed speech.

Stop going down this slope while you still can push back. If you give in, everyone who has an axe to grind will come with theirs.
What if we tried to make it so there were no lords? Just a thought.
The problem with browsers is that it is hard to monetize unless you go down some shady rabbithole. So exactly how are you going to make money and make your first million dollars?
> There's zero evidence that they intended to do anything to legislators.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/11/capitol-assault-a-mor...

« “Hang Mike Pence!” the insurrectionists chanted as they pressed inside, beating police with pipes. »

I dunno, it certainly sounds like they were interested in doing something to Mike Pence.
No doubt that's true on the level of the average user like you and me. What we see for prominent conservatives, however, feels very unfair to me. Perhaps prominent members of other groups are targeted similarly--it wouldn't surprise me.
So, why not start with building a search engine? Why browser first?
HR is definitely not your friend. I’ve had exactly one good “real” HR person in my career, and she was forced out after our company was acquired, and we didn’t even get a replacement for months on end, despite our acquirer being a multi-billion dollar company. There are some people in HR that I know and like, but I’m acutely aware that I am merely a cog in the system and that HR works for the company, not for me.

As a general rule, I record all conversations with HR. I’ve never had to use the recordings, but if a third-party isn’t there, I'm protecting myself, period. I no longer live in a one-party consent state, so that means informing HR in advance that I’ll be recording, so if you’re in the US, check your local laws before proceeding.

HR has an important role and I don’t discount what that role is, but it exists to protect the company, not the employee. And knowing that is crucial to getting the best experience out of HR.
I'm accidentally hitting something on the touch bar all the time, which for me far outweighs anything useful it might do (which is never).
> Why can’t they make visible light with an antenna?

Why can't an oscillator and antenna emit matter? Is some matter transparent to other matter in the same way that some matter is transparent to light? This idea that matter and energy are equivalent and that the same wave physics underlies it all doesn't seem to be true in reality. Instead it seems that phenomena are divided into regimes and in each regime behavior is very different. Sure it's tough to build an oscillator at the frequency of matter, but is it really impossible to build a matter emitter? I only have a BA in physics but I remember while learning (and in later reviews of physics) that it seems like theory doesn't always scale and there are a lot of very weird assumptions and "explanations".
Not knowingly. That’s the difference. Facebook had zero hesitation to remove that stuff once they knew about it.
It's not a competitor to the Economist, but for general scientific topics including some health information Scientific American would be a step up in depth and coverage, while not being as dense as real journals or Science, Nature, etc.
Precessional kitchens needing enough throughout (e.g. Inn and Out) often have an assembly line because switching is still inefficient.
If all your experience is with Istio and "layers on top of Istio", I'm not surprised you think service meshes need lots of config. Sounds like you need to try Linkerd!
reading gulag archipelago so i go that reference
There's a lot to your comment. Could you be more specific about how Neswom is being autocratic? Is he overstepping the powers of his office? Is he not listening to Californians?
About you specifically, nothing. Based on pattern recognition pertaining to news reports and analysis of various events over the last 25 or so years, many analysts who are now excusing and making distinctions between various types of people were the ones who were pointing fingers towards Islamic terrorists as the instigators. This was most evident in the immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing.
How do you make 2) happen practically? I’ve done as the sibling poster suggested and just not tell people how much something cost and ask them for a smaller % for their share. But it feels a bit icky sometimes.
This jibes with my understanding as well. I believe that research into mRNA vaccines began somewhere around the very early 1990's or very late 1980's, so the idea itself is not new. And vaccines (or candidate vaccines) were developed for earlier illnesses like MERS, but none ever made it as far as approval for widespread human use, for various reasons. Mostly, AIUI, because the outbreaks ended before they got that far and so it was no longer economically justifiable to continue the process.

So yeah, basically, COVID came along and suddenly there was money and impetus to push the thing over the finish line, and so here we are. That's my lay-person's understanding anyway.
That was 1997 at a conference. There was no social media or cancel culture.

My point is that you can be fired for insulting the wrong rich or the wrong anybody if it’s caught on camera and gets enough views and it brings shame to your lord. You’re not free when you clock out or leave the office. As an employee, you’re a representative of your company 24/7 whether you like it or not.
I dunno https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=obese+adults+vs+life+e... doesn't look to have much of a trend line.
Not only 3-space. An example of a slice knot would be a normal 1-dimensional knot suspended in 3-space which turns out to be the 3-dimensional slice/cross-section of a 2-dimensional sphere suspended and knotted in 4-space.
I am not sure if I understand your point.
Others in recent history have tried this. Do we know how it went for them?
For what it's worth, Asian-Americans in New Jersey (and several other wealthy states) have a higher life expectancy than Japanese people in Japan.

Source: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/08/asian-americans-men-in...
Democracy exists or should exist outside the companies, creating the laws that constrain contract law.

Companies are basically one person (at the top) trading money for work with the people doing what they are paid for. The person doing the work could of course say hey I don't want to do this job I want to do something else instead but I want you to still pay me the same amount, or more. That wouldn't really be about democracy would it?

Employee protection laws are a different matter and are possible because we live in a democratic society, if we do.

One huge step towards democracy would be universal healthcare, which would make it easier for people to quit the job they don't think they should be doing.
Asus ROG 5 leak suggests 64MP camera and more
Playing back the midi tune reminds me on Monkey Island
Is someone really your "lord" if you can just choose for them not to be your "lord" and freely choose for them to be your "lord" if they compensate you well enough for your liking? I'd suggest we already don't have lords and the analogy doesn't really hold.
> This reminds me of a personal policy I have with friends and acquaintances. Nobody ever “owes” me a beer. If I buy them one that’s the end of it. We are always “even”.

I am the same, with the addition that if someone says something like "your shout I think?" they might be having trouble so I will usually go along with it. Better to potentially help a friend in need than be petty.

It goes along with a mindset that I have always had, which is that it shows more strength to give than it does to take. I think most decent people have that internalized in various ways.
Can you give me an example where a system that isn't a government did a better job than a government could do, while maintaining a similar scale and level of inclusion?

It's easy to be successful when you reduce your goals from something like "vaccinate all long-term care residents in the state" to "vaccinate all the people who we have accepted into our long-term care facility which has a strict capacity limit and we turn away people when it's full or they don't pay us enough"
Some observations...

1) Japan is not built around cars. There are more trains. You get to walk more.

2) Food portions are smaller, making it harder to overeat.

3) Fish is more popular than meat. Fish section in supermarkets is larger. Most kitchens have fish cooking equipment.

4) They do not put cheese in goddamn everything.

I guess they get to eat more mercury (from fish) and arsenic (from rice).
Just need to own your servers, network up to a backbone peer, CDN, DNS registrar, credit card processor, and bank.
The constant infighting between de Blasio and Cuomo certainly isn't helping things. Cuomo has a very "my way or the highway" style of management but then doesn't release details fast enough for there to be an effective ground game, so individual institutions or counties are stuck to do their own planning.

At least there's a somewhat-coherent PR response, but that doesn't help get jabs in arms.
It's more than restaurants choosing to limit it, a straight up ban has gone into effect for the last 9 months now [1] - hence it's much better than before. Not sure how or if it's legal, but some divey spots have managed to get exemptions or are just risking it though - a friend of mine who runs a cafe says that the cafe is classed as some kind of social club so it's not subject to the same ban, but that sounds pretty shakey lol.

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/01/national/japan-...
The Economist is quite simply the best news magazine in existence. Imperfect but the least bad. Foreign Affairs is entirely an entirely different publication made of collections of topical essays on foreign policy
Just full disk encryption does not solve the problem fundamentally. Malicious user with physical access could just install keylogger into bootloader which would log the password on the next boot.

To protect from that threat you need secure boot which verifies checksums from BIOS to kernel.
Does anyone else notice how slow the UI is to render in the demos or was that marketing effects?
I'll agree that edge cases can prevent anything from being reasonable or fair, but we can't let perfect be the enemy of good here. I think we're making progress every day towards enabling everyone to have more choice (on average, obviously some days have major setbacks for humanity).
In Wellington (I live there) there's a QR code on every shop you're supposed to scan with your phone for contact tracing. Most people don't but they still see them - so yes it's still on our minds.
Don't forget about the folks with comorbidities though. So much of society is obese so they are all at risk.
Economic growth doesn’t imply increased resource use. Actually it’s more likely to be the opposite - growth is more likely to be in services and moving to electricity, which is renewable. Our use of many nonrenewable resources has peaked and gone down as population has gone up.