skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We definitely need to do something like this. Trying to set up vulnerability scanners in CI for my open source project, I realized that open source DevSecOps is a shitshow: hard to use tools, lots of focus on GUI tools that are harder to script, and proprietary tools and platforms.

To be honest it feels like vested interests are keeping it that way: professionals want to keep the tools manual so they can charge by the hour; and tool vendors obviously have no interest in open source tools
Making sure no one is strong arming or threatening, harassing, or bribing the ones who have to make that decision, nor thought leaders among them.
Open-source collaboration, or how we added merge-on-refresh to Apache Lucene
Shuttle is responsible for 100% of American launched in-flight space flight deaths. Ha!

Shuttle is also responsible for 100% of American launched flights after a certain point.

That’s like saying ICE cars are responsible for 100% of car deaths after the model T and before modern electric cars.

Also, you appear to have forgotten Russian casualties and ground rocket deaths.
I think big tech has egg on their face for quite some time from this one. I dont care about Parler but it was clearly a political ban to appease the new party in power. Theres a lot of evidence coordination took place on Facebook and Twitter to a higher extent, and it would be absurd to say this type of stuff is not on those platforms in general. People are not going to forget this from an anti-trust perspective and how much power these companies really have to ban competition and have total control over markets.
Louis XIV not Louis IV.
Average pay in 2005 would have been $9-14/hr - top end was journeyman - at least 4 years on the job)
Very informative paper, but very left-wing in its base assumptions. Another problem with the paper is that in many instances, it passes off speculation, that conforms with the left-wing world view, as established fact, which is quite disingenuous/propagandistic.
You don’t really need to worry about drawing the line between facts and lies just because you remove the 10% most blatant disinformation. It doesn’t make Facebook the final arbiter of truth.

There are things that are controversial or debated and Facebook and others stay away from that.

Advocating injecting bleach or eating albinos to cure Covid is one thing while arguing the amount of asymptotic transmission is another thing entirely.
Don't blame puzzle solvers for an old rotting and recurrent problem that the politicians could stop at any moment if they would really want it.
If you accept these postulates as true:
* on a long enough time horizon, companies must either adapt to their environment by changing their product, or they must cease to exist.
* a changing product means changing the abilities required to deliver that product at some level
* changing the abilities required to deliver that product means the humans must change as well

then you have to conclude:
On a long enough time horizon, the humans must change their own abilities to match the changing requirements of the product, or the company will go bankrupt.

Now, given that conclusion: you are correct, goal-setting is not required. And we have evidence that it is not required in companies that mostly outsource technical labor on an as-needed basis rather than set goals to continually realign employees with company objectives.

In some way, you have to choose an approach for calibrating changing employees and changing company objectives. Goal-setting is a low friction approach for calibration when the company prefers employees with internal domain knowledge over time. There are plenty of other approaches for aligning needs and available labor as well, but they are generally not preferred by both companies and individuals which is why you see the prevalence of this approach.
At least he still has his Mastodon account https://mastodon.social/@Nicolas_Maduro
I think the devil is in the details here. Is he saying that if people unionize they don't get stock options? Why is that? Is it a threat?
You would really save time though? It would be faster to just go for a few minutes walk down the hall than to start using extreme menouvers like trying to pee in bottle.
How do you fix this? Install bathrooms in trucks? I have peed in a bottle when driving just to save the 20mins it would take to pull off, look for a bathroom I’m allowed to use, maybe have to buy something, figure out how to get back on the freeway. You can pee in a bottle without even slowing down, if it was a common occurrence you could make it a very easy and efficient process.
I don’t think you can really compete right-wing leaders beholden to private industry like Bolsonaro & Trump to left-wing anti-imperialist leaders that advocate for workers like Maduro.
Everything from China needs to be boycotted. Chinese celebrities is like being propped up by the Chinese government to spread propaganda whereas the majority of the people languish in poverty
Sure. For example, in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting, the NYT and other news organizations frequently described him as "unarmed" (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/us/politics/trump-kenosha...). This description was false - the famous video shows police officers instructing him to "drop the knife", both local law enforcement and the DOJ said that he was holding a knife, and Blake himself has since acknowledged that he was.
Exokernels coming back would be so cool.

I wrote a prototype kernel/os [0] a few years back that ran wasm in kernel mode. I'd love to see that idea pursued further.

[0]: https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
Should be allowed to censor but we should still discuss if each particular instance is a good idea or not.
I used to say that about "scrubs" and no one would believe me.
Have to wonder how long before non-US alternatives pop up and the US loses control of this industry segment. There are already regional alternatives to many of the US's biggest tech companies, so international alternatives might be next. How long before there's a tiktok of Google, where US and western consumers go to a Chinese or Russian source without even considering what the US companies have to offer anymore. Obviously companies in those countries will have their own local biases, but mostly on matters internal to those countries that aren't typically relevant to US and western users.
Do you love reading about the bad side of unions [1] or is there only up side?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent
You're just exemplifying the point. Who says you have to announce something a specific way first time?

Back in the days it would be "you can't just publish trial papers, it has to go through the church"
Ask HN: Does HN still effectively serve Y Combinator?
The conversation here has undeniably lost its luster.

After watching for a decade, and admittedly becoming part of the problem, I now view HN as a more of a political punching bag, and on a good day, a microcosm for a crowd dunning kruger experiment(search Suez).

I once held HN in the highest regards in places on the public internet, but now I know there is no such thing.

So what's there to stop this community from devolving and earning a negative reputation like 4chan or even reddit?

Should YC separate from HN TO protect it's reputation?

Is my perspective foreign and unwarranted?
I was curious how Stackby stacked up against Airtable and found this comparison chart provided by Stackby: https://stackby.com/airtable-alternative

Caution: The very first "missing" feature I checked, built-in automation, is wrong on Stackby's chart: https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050974153-...
That's not a threat - that's called pointing out a fact, it's called reasoning, that employees would be doing themselves when balancing out the pros and cons; just because Elon's pointing out pros and cons doesn't make something a threat. The employees and union still have the ability to decide based on pros and cons.

This is being warped and a lack of reasoning at the same level of absurdity as changing master-slave language in programming to shallowly appeal/respond to racism issues.
Incubating the Haskell Foundation
Social media companies aren't really the proper vetters of science.
Look up the phrase "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism."

We live in a time when the economic power of the middle class is eroding rapidly, and being able to order cheaper goods from Amazon with fast free shipping was a huge benefit even before we started living through a global pandemic.

It would take a truly staggering percentage of people around the world to choose to boycott Amazon before they actually started feeling it—and that wouldn't even touch some of their other major sources of revenue, like AWS, which provides it with a lot of income these days.
My observation is that they use restrooms in office buildings on their route. Idk what they do on residential routes.
There is only one way to flag an article here. For a lot of people to click flag.

And given this happening 7:00 San Jose time, I doubt any of mods would be logging into their mod account first thing in the morning to manually flag it.

Still telling. Tech industry has a lot of communists.
The US military has a long history of toxicity. For example, there's an artificial island in the middle of SF Bay, where they stored ships after they were irradiated during nuclear testing, which had to be cleaned up as more housing was built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island,_San_Francisco...

and also Hunter's Point, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunters_Point_Naval_Shipyard#S... where the cleanup company lied and left a bunch of contaminated materials.

I shouldn't forget to mention the superfund sites around the golden gate bridge. And that's just the SF Bay.
Shut up and take my moo-ney!
Disclaimer: Work at AWS now. Opinion my own, and I have both good and bad things about my employer. I also have extreme reservations about capitalism.

1.) This is all competent PR. PR is there to cast the employer in a good light, and bait-and-switch is a tactic used since before there was a formalized PR industry. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon PR was going to next say 'most of our drivers aren't Amazon employees. We can't control how subcontractors act.' Which is a technically true statement, but misses the point.

2.) The context of this article is recent comments from Amazon's social media team and a director. In an incredibly large organization like Amazon, a director (and members of the social media team) is going to be far removed from the realities of package deliverers.

To give the director and social media team the benefit of the doubt, they could be speaking the truth as they believe it. Members of the social media team probably wouldn't work in a position wherein they're forced to urinate in bottles.

The director probably isn't aware of the 'leaked document'--which was really just an email sent to an unknown audience. But they typically won't send those types of emails to directors, because they don't want directors to know that stuff.

---

Amazon has a lot to atone for. It has some abhorrent practices. But let's not pretend that Amazon is the only company around where line workers don't have time to take adequate bathroom breaks. Or that Amazon's drivers are the only last mile delivery drivers who have issues finding time/places to go to the restroom.

Can Amazon do more? Yes. Should Amazon be a corporate leader? Yes. But this a larger problem than Amazon. This happens across industries with line workers and last mile delivery jobs.
In France, so "meuh" ;)

I think a few of the French animal onomatopoeia feel more correct to me than their English counterparts. For example, I can't unhear coin-coin with ducks any more than I can unsee The Moon Rabbit¹.

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit
Humans Likely Took COVID to Wuhan
Hey!

firsty - great work :). I love looking at my listening stats, and its a clean and easy-to-use interface. Few thoughts..

1) I'd love to be able to explore and get recommendations / browse for more music by genre - i find spotify generally bad at helping me do this, but find it the best way of dicovering new music I don't know
2) can you show the actual numbers associated with the stats - i.e. most played by me on a per track, per artist etc basis?
3) I'd love to see any graphical representation of overall listening habits - e.g. a time-series of plays per day, with the ability to filter / narrow down by artist, genre, whatever? Was I depressed in october and listening to lots of radiohead? Or pumped in February and listening to lots of Lizzo?!

keep up the great work!
Tecra Space: Building a Blockchain-Based Crowdfunding Platform
Double oh noes, the cows actually understood and slow down the production of milk!

This is a good story to read on the weekend :)
Facebook is acting on behalf of the US's long-term, bipartisan effort to undermine any Latin American government that doesn't grant its corporations access to that nation's resources. More specifically, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have undermined the Venezuelan government in many ways, including supporting coup attempts.[1]

I'm not arguing that I support what Maduro said. He has an awful record as a leader. I'm arguing that this is the natural result of social media censorship. It's censorship by the US government by proxy.

Here is a simple test to see if the above statement is true: would Facebook censor a world leader as swiftly and as severely if this were a leader of an allied state, or even a leader within our own government?

[1] https://theintercept.com/2020/05/09/venezuela-coup-regime-ch...
2000$ is a lot of traffic. way more than any side project would have.

I guess that if you are at a point where you are making decisions like you needed to you are out of the “easiest way to setup a static website” territory.

I would be curious what kind of content you were serving and how much traffic/what are the absolute $ numbers cloudfront vs cloudflare.
Probably the same. Why would it be any different?
> real heart of the question which is whether the press is a net positive source of information

Having read through most of the comments I get the feeling there is an underlying expectation that "the press" or "journalists" are independent and free by default.

They aren't. It's a democratic achievement that was decades in the making and comes at a premium of either paying journalists directly, or setting aside tax money to fund it. If a society decides it doesn't want to bear the cost, the media will reflect it.
Time to take up GOMAD :-)
Easy to solve by storing inter-chain links, signatures, immutable data structures and content addressing
Say you are successful tech Billionaire. Watching your other billionaire friend's hubris get the better of him, and decide to take up flying only to crash into the ground. You go through some phase of self reflection, and realize you won't live forever, and so decide you can make the world a better place. You consult some self help books, listen to some new age mysticism, and read some exciting woke ideas about gender and critical theory. You are now ready to do "good". You fund every fringe woke charity, you pay forward for the right candidates. But as hard as you try, there are still these every day common folk, simple minded kind, that don't agree with all the goodness you are trying to foist onto the world. They make rude comments in online forums, doubt your every move, and they even have candidates that plays up to their ignorance. You seeth with disgust, and a bit of despair. Finally you decide the best way forward, is to not to give these people a platform to speak their simple minds. So you censor the internet, kick of their political leaders, and decide that in order for the world to be a better place, you must control the narrative. To win, you must control their simple minds. Its you and your allies that must write the truth of what the simple minded folk should think.
I get a umatrix block just by even trying to click on this. It redirects to advertising.com?
A beta API is apparently available: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/7317658/SzmZbfQP?vers...
Obviously Maduro is a problematic despotic leader, but who are Facebook to be arbiters of thrush and falsehood?

We’ve gone down the path of good intentions that leads to hell.

Does this not interfere with self determination? Is there one true north now? Have Facebook found all truth?

This is getting ridiculous.
Trump spitballed about injecting disinfectants into people's lungs. He didn't say that individual people should do it, but he did say that doctors should test it out.

> And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you're going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds - it sounds interesting to me. So we'll see.

The specific disinfectants Trump was talking about were bleach and isopropyl alcohol. Trump's comments came right after a presentation by the undersecretary for Homeland Security about using these specific disinfectants to clean surfaces. Trump then genuinely appeared to think it might be a good idea to try these disinfectants out inside the human body. Anyone can watch the video and judge for themselves whether Trump was being sarcastic, as he later claimed - I think it's obvious that he was completely serious.

* C-SPAN: https://www.c-span.org/video/?471458-1/president-trump-coron...
MacBook Pro High CPU Caused by Siri
The percentage of humans living in poverty around the world has never been lower [0]. How is that just spin?

I also can’t relate to your “all we hear about” point at all. I feel like I really have to go out of my way to find any discussion about anything good in the world, the vast majority of what I hear is negative takes like yours about how everything is horrible and everyone is oppressed.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/topic/11
If he can get an offer from Google, he’ll find the money in other ways.
Especially since eventually the winds will change, as they always do, and the "but it's a private company" crowd will find little argument against these same companies as they press the censoring boot against their necks. Creating a monster just ends up with that monster running out of control destroying everyone but they naively believe they'll always have it on a tight leash.
I can try :)

> how being put in jail for transgressions and being free are interrelated?

Jail acts both as a deterrent, through fear of being punished, and it also incapacitates the offender to commit more crime to protect society.

> Who or what determines what is a severe enough transgression to lose your freedom?

It's the people, through laws, who determines what behavior is or is not acceptable in society.
Hey glad to see some more established airtable competition, however one thing you've copied from airtable which you should differentiate on is pricing of storing data. Like airtable, your most expensive self-service (non-enteprise) plan has a cap of 1 year of historic data storage. This is pathetic when compared to basically every other collaboration tool ranging from Google sheets to Trello.

Sure, charge users for gb of storage, or data transfer - but arbitrarily deleting (or hiding) data that is more than 52 weeks old from customers who are paying you $18/user/month feels very hostile.
Hard to get better advertising than an article like this, really.
Yes surely if these truckers were valued more Amazon would... install bathrooms in every van? Add a series of Amazon only toilets all over the country for drivers?
"JPMorgan has been offering fitness classes and Zoom lunches with senior bankers to give analysts more face time. Its investment bank is also using technology to reduce duplicate work on slide decks. Employees in the division are encouraged to take weekends off when no deals are looming, and to ask for one protected weekend off every month."

Banking newspeak. Technology to reduce work on slide decks, you mean like templates and spell checkers? Gasp. And take weekends off when no deals are looming. You mean don't work when there is no work which is like 2 weekends a year?

I ponder the fate of the junior analysts who dares to ask for a protected weekend off.
So as the commenter said, a mischaracterization.
Certainly. Such a mighty act of unselfishness would have me celebrating in the street.
The former - it’s a dig at “efficient markets”.
I've also heard legends about such stimulants but it would be quite surprising if this was a 'fairly high percentage'.
No, it's a fact - pros and cons. Tesla has no obligation to provide stock to employees - and so employees/unions get to decide what is the better potential option for them - and I suppose it's a risk for employees to unionize if they will no longer then be getting stock; unless a union somehow can force Tesla to give X stock to unionized employees, I don't know all nor have I thought through all possibilities - so there's possibly nuance missing but Elon's tweet itself isn't a threat.

Threat's the wrong word but purposefully misused, even if it causes fear or rather it will cause a fear of a sense of loss of value - because if employees value owning/gaining Tesla stock over whatever else they potentially could negotiate through a union, then there's certainly a fear of potential loss - but Elon pointing out that possibility isn't a threat itself.
For mac I had a paid FTP client called YummyFTP, the app was superb, however the developer passed away and the app stayed on 32 bits
I don't know, but it's very similar to reblochon, which is probably available.
You've got SFTP and rsync. There's no need for these kind of stuff if you're on Linux. Some DEs file manager are giving you the option to mount SFTP servers
I'm not going to lie but I imagined the same thing and couldn't stop laughing
Hanlon's razor.

As somebody who works at a software security company, I assure you it has a lot more to do with incompetence on behalf of everyone involved than any kind of shadowy collusion.
Yep. All the content is downloaded as it's designed to work in remote locations or with internet shut downs.
Is this some GPT-3 spam or does it just read like it?
I was not aware of this behavior prior to reading this article, but I can absolutely understand the difficulty in finding a parking spot with an available restroom nearby. At the same time, I am surprised that the problem exists in the way that it does on a personal-level: when nature calls me, it is very difficult for me to think of doing anything else.

I can see there being a need for legislation here as this example with Amazon shows that companies will ignore basic human needs if given the chance.

In addition, the problem is possible to solve provided the delivery drivers are given adequate time to do so. Technology can definitely assist the decision-making process: finding public restrooms with available parking along the path of a delivery route and maybe altering the route as required. However, I definitely see there being a need to build additional public restroom facilities and hire staff to maintain them.

Another argument that could be made is that these delivery companies are shifting/not bearing the full burden of hiring employees. An office worker will usually have access to a restroom that is paid for by employer paying rent for their place of business.
Conventional wisdom in the US is that Maduro is a ruthless, violent dictator, who has suppressed opposition, smuggled drugs, funded terrorism, violated human rights, etc.

But that doesn't get you kicked off Facebook. Facebook and Twitter happily provide platforms to violent, human rights abusing regimes.

...but recommend one snake oil cure for Covid-19, and suddenly the hammer drops, I guess? Interesting priorities.
This is why I never thought The Office was funny.